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HOUSTON – Chris Schwinden was at a rest stop, halfway through a six-hour bus trip that felt more like 10, when Buffalo manager Wally Backman first hinted that Schwinden's tenure on these buses was over.
Schwinden was thrilled. Here was his ticket, his chance, his opportunity. He picked up a baseball last Friday with every intention of proving Mets brass was not making a mistake.
And then he fell on his face.
Schwinden survived just four innings in that Rocky Mountain air, allowing six runs – five of them earned – in New York's 18-9 loss to Colorado last Friday.
But Mets manager Terry Collins is taking a patient look at Schwinden. With Mike Pelfrey lost for the season and the organization not quite ready to call on one of their kid studs (Matt Harvey, Jeurys Familia, Zack Wheeler), Schwinden will get a second look this afternoon when the Mets wrap their three-games series with the Astros.
"Pretty much can't really do any more damage than I have already," he joked before Tuesday night's game. "Yesterday we worked on some things in the bullpen, so that went over pretty well. I think I'm going to have a little bit more help trying to come up with stuff out of my own element rather than worrying about other things tomorrow."
Schwinden said pitching coach Dan Warthen and bullpen coach Ricky Bones examined his delivery and spotted a mechanical flaw.
"My body was fighting itself," Schwinden said. "I tweaked it a little bit and it felt really good and started seeing success out of the outcome."
He lit up minor league hitters last season, striking out 139 in 148 2/3 innings, before getting a call-up in September. He made four starts for the Mets, fanning 17 batters in 21 innings.
"I don't find myself as a strikeout pitcher, even though I tend to get strikeouts," Schwinden said. "I'm not a flamethrower. I'm a control pitcher and I've got to start acting like that."
He said he rarely focused on pitchers when he grew up watching games, but did take a liking toward former Red Sox ace Curt Schilling.
"He wasn't a power guy, but he had good stuff, he had good command and I really, really liked watching him whenever I could," Schwinden said.
Collins does not need to see strikeouts from Schwinden to judge how well he is pitching. "Outs," he said. "I don't care how he gets them."
"I think that he's more comfortable now that he's spent the week here and feels like he's part of the team instead of just a spot start," Collins said. "I know that if he pitches his game, he'll be fine."
Gnawing at Schwinden is the unspoken possibility that a few solid starts could make him a more permanent answer to the Pelfrey vacancy.
"Whenever you get an opportunity like this, you tend to say, 'Are you being looked at that role?'" Schwinden said. "But for right now, [I'm] just trying to help this team win, trying not to think about that."
And he is trying to sweep that Coors Field appearance from his memory banks.
"Everybody keeps telling me it's the ballpark," Schwinden said. "It's tough. It's one bad game and you can't base it off of one game, so I'm going tomorrow and [will] go after hitters and be aggressive and make the right pitches and execute them."


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We begin a new series focusing on things that you'll find only in Hawaii. Some of these may seen very obvious, others are likely to surprise you. Whichever the case, you'll have to visit Hawaii to see these in person, since that's the only place on Earth that you'll find them. From time to time we'll look at more things that you'll find only in Hawaii and which make Hawaii unique in the world.
Island State
Hawaii is the only state that is comprised totally of islands. How many islands are there in the Hawaiian Islands?
It depends who you ask. In what is officially the State of Hawaii, there are eight major islands, from east to west: Hawaii Island which is often called the Big Island, Kaho'olawe, Kaua'i, Lana'i, Maui, Moloka'i, Ni'ihau and O'ahu. These eight islands that comprise the State of Hawaii are, however, just a small part of a much larger chain of islands.
They are just the youngest islands in an immense, mostly submarine, mountain chain located on the Pacific Plate and consisting of more than 80 volcanoes and 132 islands, reefs, and shoals. All of these islands make up the Hawaiian Island Chain or Hawaiian Ridge.
The length of the Hawaiian Ridge, from the Big Island northwest to Midway Island, is over 1500 miles. All of the islands were formed by a hotspot in the earth's core. As the Pacific Plate continues to move west-northwest, the older islands move away from the hotspot. This hotspot is currently located beneath the Big Island of Hawaii. The Big Island was formed by five volcanoes: Kohala, Mauna Kea, Hualalai, Mauna Loa, and Kilauea. The later two are still active.
A new island has already begun to form about 15 miles off the southeast coast of the Big Island. Named Loihi, its seamount has already risen about 2 miles above the ocean floor, and within 1 mile of the ocean surface. In another thirty or forty thousand years, a new island will exist where the Big Island of Hawaii currently rests.
Most Isolated Land
The Hawaiian Islands are the most isolated, inhabited pieces of land in the world. They are located almost 2400 miles from California, 3800 miles from Japan, and 2400 miles from the Marquesas Islands - from which the first settlers arrived in Hawaii around 300-400 AD. This explains why Hawaii was one of the last inhabitable places on earth settled by man.
Hawaii was also one of the last places "discovered" by settlers from the New World. The English explorer Captain James Cook first arrived in Hawaii in 1778. Hawaii's isolation is also responsible for many of the things that you'll read about in this series - Only in Hawaii.
Hawaii's strategic location, in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, has also made it a highly sought after piece of real estate. Since 1778 the Americans, British, Japanese and Russians have all had their eye on Hawaii. Hawaii was once a kingdom, and for a brief period of time, an independent nation governed by American businessmen.
Most Continuously Active Volcano
We previously mentioned that the Hawaiian Islands were all formed by volcanoes. On the Big Island of Hawaii, in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, you'll find Kilauea Volcano.
Kilauea has been erupting continuously since 1983 - almost 30 years! You can view some photos taken over the years. This is not to say that Kilauea was quiet before 1983. It has erupted 34 times since 1952 and scores of other times since its eruptions were first tracked in 1750.
It is estimated that Kilauea began to form between 300,000-600,000 years ago. The volcano has been active ever since, with no prolonged periods of inactivity known. If you visit the Big Island of Hawaii there's an excellent chance that you'll be able to see nature at its most infant state.
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Clorox Bees, Cokewalla, and Tom's of Colgate Posted By Liz Paxton Sustainable Enterprise is one of the custom core classes. Students must take 3 out of the 6 custom cores offered in Mods 3 and 4 of their first year. The class is very interesting and last class in particular got me thinking about the acquisitions of small, sustainable brands. When the question came up in class about large corporations that buy small, sustainable companies, I had a quick reaction, "I don't like it." However, just after I voiced my opinion I began to question myself to justify my emotional reaction with business arguments. What does this type of acquisition mean for the larger parent corporation? Why should customers interested Read More
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Sunday was the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe. In our household, the day came and went without any special celebration. Honestly, I would have completely forgotten that it was her feast day except that it was also La Lupe's birthday. No church in our diocese was allowed to celebrate an Our Lady of Guadalupe Mass because this feast day is trumped by the celebration of the third Sunday in Advent.
On a typical feast day of Our Lady of Guadalupe there is a whole lot of hoopla and celebration. You wake up super early and go to church at 5am to hear mariachis sing Las Mañanitas. Then, later in the day, you arrive at church to see a crowd of children dressed up as San Juan Diego with his tilma carrying roses. There are matachines dancing and drumming. There are more mariachis. The church is usually wall to wall with people. Lots of colorful banners, lots of music, lots of movement. It is such a show of love for La Virgen.
The Mass that we went to was pretty much the opposite of this. Because of our schedule on Sunday, we ended up needing to go to Mass …
I'm 30 weeks pregnant now, 40 weeks is the due date, and I cannot ignore the inevitable. Up until this point I haven't really had to come to grips with giving birth to my second child. I've been able to avoid thinking about it because of how far off it seemed but now I have to face it. Physically, there is no way for me to avoid the fast-approaching day when this baby (God willing) will enter this world. I've been clipping corners in my house and hitting my belly with the refrigerator door because it is getting that much in the way now. I even have to take an extra step back when I open drawers and have to consciously position the seatbelt and seat when I'm driving.
I think that God purposefully made pregnancy last so long because by the end of it fear is replaced by the sheer readiness to no longer be pregnant. Replaced by almost exasperation to get this baby out just so your body doesn't have to bear the weight and waddling anymore. But I'm not there yet. I can't help but feel this looming fear. When I really think about it, I know, …
I don't know what possessed me to buy it. I was in a store and I saw this kind of rolodex that cataloged all the Native Americans of North America. It contained the Pima Indians which is a tribe that Brandon and I worked with for many years. I saw it and bought it thinking that it was a perfect Christmas gift for Brandon. Had I put more thought into it, I would have realized that he had absolutely no use for American Indian flashcards. We had just started dating at the time so he had to act really excited to receive the gift but, as the years have passed, we laugh about how off my gift-giving skills were with this purchase.
We're all guilty of it: buying gifts for others that we should probably have put more thought into.
I always find myself feeling a little irked when I receive a gift that is going to go directly to the give-away box. I just hate the thought of someone wasting their time and money buying something for me that I will never use. Like a candle or some flowery smelling body spray. I cannot appreciate gifts such as these. …
I love churches. I really do. Back before we had Olivia, Brandon and I would take regular trips around Austin and its surrounding cities to visit churches we had never been in before. I love the art, stained glass windows, smell, architecture, everything. Kinda dorky, but it's one of our favorite things to do together.
One time I visited this particular church and decided to stay for daily Mass. There was a small group of people there and one of them was a policeman in complete uniform: gun, walkie talkie, baton and all. This really struck me. I thought how much faith this man must have to still attend daily Mass when, I could only assume, he was on duty or about to go on duty. Mass continued and it was during the Lamb of God that the Eucharistic ministers (EMs) came forward. One of the EMs was this very same policeman. I am sure that my mouth dropped because of how shocked I was.
All sorts of questions were flying through my head. Was I going to feel uneasy receiving Communion from a policeman in full uniform? Should I? Is this man going to write me a ticket for …
Tithing used to be emphasized a lot more in the past as necessary to lead a good Christian life but has fallen out of favor.
I recently taught my students about stewardship which included a lesson on tithing. I thought it was an important lesson to teach because my experience is that people don't think that it is important to give money to the Church. Some people get extremely offended when they are told that the Church needs money. They don't think it is the Church's business what they do with their money and how dare the Church tell them that they have to give what they have worked so hard for and deserve. Some have actually walked out of the church when the priest has to give his once-a-year homily on the finances of the church.
In the Gospels, Jesus teaches so many lessons about money. Why? Because it is so hard to detach ourselves from money. It is so easy to justify keeping and using money.
Well, I could pledge to help this high school student go on a mission trip but we need to keep saving up for Suzy's college fund.
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Since I am a parent I am now a lot more observant of parenting methods I see around me. Sometimes I see really good parenting, like the mom that sees her child struggling to climb the slide at the playground but let's them struggle a little bit before stepping in. Sometimes kids just have to figure out stuff for themselves.
I also notice not-so-good-parenting. Like the mom that has grape soda in her baby's bottle when the kid isn't any older than 4 months. Note to self, don't do that.
But one parenting method that people may not label as harmful is the mom that loves her family too much.
I believe that a mother, if her love for her family is not ordered in the right way, can actually love her family so much that it is harmful. I've heard that argument that loving your family too much is better than being a negligent mother but I think both are extremes at either end of the spectrum and both harmful.
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This summer when we were visiting my family in El Paso I got to meet the boyfriend of one of my cousins. She's a younger cousin who just graduated from high school. When I met him I immediately noticed the bracelet that he had on that said "i love boobies". I rolled my eyes and thought how tacky. You're meeting your girlfriend's family and you wear something like that. Then after him hanging around all day he brought our attention to the bracelet. He took his arm out and waved it over the dinner table asking us if we had seen these bracelets. He informed us that the bracelet was to support breast cancer. In my head, my response was, "My a**." A guy in his late teens, early twenties is wearing something with the word boobies on it because he is truly committed to supporting breast cancer awareness. Sure.
We all kind of nodded and went on with dinner. I didn't think much of this event at the time but recently I have seen an onslaught of inappropriate breast cancer awareness things that I just have to say something about.
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We were lucky enough to attend the wedding of a good friend this past weekend. We had someone watch Olivia so we were able to be there for all of it: the rehearsal dinner, the Nuptial Mass, the whole reception. It was quite a treat.
It made us reminisce a lot about our wedding. The thing that I still chuckle about when I think of our wedding is what things people assumed happened at our wedding because I'm Latina and what things they didn't really seem to notice.
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Many people asked me if my wedding dress had been passed down from La Lupe. Nope, just happened to like a dress that had that old lace, traditional vibe. People asked me if the big flower I wore in my hair was so that I looked more Spanish (I guess it did look flamenco-y). Nope, I actually am not sure how much Spanish blood I have in me anyways. I know I'm mostly native Mexican, like Indian Mexican. I just found a $3 flower hairpin at H&M in New York when I was visiting and fell in love with it. People asked me if I was going to
I'm happy that the last post has really sparked some good dialogue about trying to balance spirituality and family and how to integrate the two.
I was remembering one of my professors back in college. We were discussing Advent and Christmas liturgy when he went off on a tangent about family life. He said, "You know, sometimes I think people make idols out of their family." He then went on to talk about this Christian church around his house that actually had no services on Christmas Eve or on Christmas because they believed that you should be at home with your family and not having to take time away from your family by having to come to a church service. I thought that story illustrated his point perfectly.
For the longest time we faithfully went to Mass every Sunday and all holy days of obligation except for Christmas Mass. Why? Because too much needed to be done at home to get ready for Christmas dinner with the family. Cleaning and prepping and decorating and cooking. No time for Mass.
I have found that it is very easy to make an idol out of family. To put family before even God …
Throughout my life I have worked with kids a lot. I started babysitting when I was twelve. I have about fifty cousins and at least half of them are younger than me. All throughout high school and college I've tutored, mentored, camp counseled, and run programs for kids. At the Catholic Worker I was basically a second mom to at least 8 kids at any one time. I helped moms load newborns into the car to ride home from the hospital and had to keep the peace when the kids would fight at dinnertime. Not that after all this experience I thought I was an expert on kids and discipline but I definitely thought I had a pretty good handle on what it meant to be a parent.
I could not have been more wrong.
I have quickly come to realize that kids are going to cry, scream, shout, kick, and fuss at exactly the wrong time regardless of how good your parenting is. Parents should still try to lovingly teach their children discipline, but even the most well-behaved kid will sometimes just totally breakdown in public.
Despite our best efforts to teach Olivia how to act respectfully, she is …
The latest story about the massacre of immigrants in Tamaulipas, Mexico by the drug cartels has me thinking about the issue of recreational drug use again. Of course it is not a good idea to do anything illegal but I think there is a distinct difference between drug addicts and people who just use drugs at parties or to wind down after a long week. I've known plenty of people in this second category. These are educated people, have stable jobs, and are generally aware of social justice issues. We all have skeletons in the closet and we all struggle with certain things but buying drugs, even if only occasionally, is directly supporting the violence that is perpetuated by drug trafficking. How is it justifiable to use illegal drugs?
LA to Santa Barbara. Austin to San Antonio. Chicago to South Bend, IN. Philadelphia to Baltimore. That is how close these immigrants were to the US border. They make the long journey from South/Central America to the US only to be murdered 100 miles from their destination. I can't stop thinking about how heart-wrenching that is.
Obviously immigration and drug trafficking are extremely complex issues with lots of different factors but …
We regularly receive the Houston Catholic Worker newspaper and the latest issue contained a big surprise. The couple that founded Casa Juan Diego, the Houston Catholic Worker, is having another book released in November.
If I tried to tell you about the myriad of services that Casa Juan Diego offers there is really no way of doing it justice. It is a house of hospitality for undocumented women, children, and men. They have an ever-growing huge ministry helping the undocumented sick and injured. They have food and clothing distributions several times a week for the community. They have clinics with a variety of doctors and dentists that donate their time. They have a big organic garden that provides food for all these different houses. They print a newspaper. And the list goes on and on. Somehow the couple that runs the place has found time to write another book. It's truly amazing. These people really work and live as if everything depended on it.
After Brandon and I read through this paper and pre-ordered their new book, we just sat in our living room staring at each other. When you hear about a life like this that is so clearly …
The dreaded email forwards. Pictures of puppies wearing hats, drawings of angels, images of sunsets. I don't get a lot of these emails except for the occasional prayer chain letter from my mom. But poor Brandon gets a lot of them. I think it's because he likes computers so people think he will like any email sent to him. Usually they are pretty harmless. The ones that I can't stand are the ones the spread ignorance and intolerance.
Brandon recently received an email forward from a person that he knows in a professional capacity. I won't repeat the exact email but it was a joke about Mexicans that insinuated that they are all lazy and should go back to Mexico.
Let's put aside for a moment that this man sent this email to my husband knowing full well that I'm Mexican-American.
What makes me mad is that the people who write things and forward things like this are not putting any thought into their opinion. They are not making logical arguments or good points or adding anything to the immigration debate except unfiltered xenophobia and prejudice. There are many opinions about immigration and many different solutions but calling immigrants lazy …
I recently had a conversation with an old friend who was thinking about making some major life decisions without telling her family about it. She knew they would disapprove and she didn't want to deal with them. She justified it by saying that she believed in what she was doing and just wanted to do it and tell everyone later.
This is a tough issue. There is great tension between wanting to be independent, to be your own person, to make your own decisions and your responsibility to your family.
After 25 years of having to figure out what to share and not share with my family, it's still a tough call each time. I know that I don't want to have to lie to my family so I try not hide things that I'll have to lie about to cover it up but at the same time I don't tell them every detail about my life. It's one thing to get a tattoo that you never tell mom about because hopefully she'll never see it. It's quite another thing to elope and move out of state saying adios to the family through your rear view mirror as your drive …
We've all heard that life is a great pilgrimage. But a pilgrimage to what? The pastor of a church here in Austin has in his email signature line "Working to beat hell". That's what I hope my pilgrimage is. To heaven. To God. To Infinite Love. Sometimes we have to make specific journeys to find this more deeply, though.
I've been lucky to find some great friends and to find love in these communities but there is something different about feeling the love of family. It's a different connection; a blood connection; a connection that is part of you. I know a lot of people probably don't feel this all the time and I am one of them. Family relationships can be complicated and messy sometimes.
I have a huge extended family with 14 aunts and uncles and countless cousins and everyone in everyone else's business. They aren't perfect by any stretch of the imagination but I love them dearly. I've always felt on the outside of them but have always really ached for their approval and affection.
Whenever we go back to El Paso to visit La Lupe and the fam I always feel like it is a pilgrimage. …
Being Mexican-American can mean a lot of different things to a lot of different people. Err on the side of Mexican and you're un-American. Err on the side of American and you're a sell-out. It reminds me of that scene in Selena when her dad completely freaks out, "We have to be more Mexican than the Mexicans and more American than the Americans, both at the same time! It's exhausting!" It's a little melodramatic but sometimes I feel the same way. I feel like I can never satisfy either side.
There are so many ways people live out their Mexican-ity. I have friends that are dark-skinned, have an accent when they speak English and yet don't speak Spanish at all. I have friends that were never taught Spanish or anything about their Mexican background but decided to take charge of it in college and learn Spanish and the culture and live as if they grew up in a Mexican household. I know people who go by Louis when their name is really Luis. I know people that have taken on an Aztec name in place of their name to be more true to their roots. I find all these differences …
Not that I base all my decisions on this, but I frequently find myself wondering if my choices make me more or less "Mexican". I think it stems from when I was 12 and my parents and I moved from El Paso to a suburb of Houston. We visited El Paso six months later for Christmas. My cousin told me I sounded weird when I spoke. I asked her why and she responded, "I dunno, you kinda sound like a white person." Silly but it was just one of those life events that stuck with me.
As I grew up and grew into my faith more, I didn't only wonder if my actions seemed "Mexican" but also if they seemed Catholic.
My latest dilemma has been looking to buy a house. My husband has started a job that requires him to work from home which has quickly turned our little apartment into a near-unbearable situation. A light-sleeper baby and a hubby that has to make phone calls all day is a bad combination. So, off we went to the ever-frustrating housing market.
We tried to narrow down the neighborhoods in Austin we would like to live in/are reasonably priced.
Gentrification …
Everything seemed to be going according to plan. La Lupe's plan for my life was chugging along without a hitch.
I got through high school without any problems. I started college. I graduated from college. I still went to Mass. I still spoke Spanish. After graduation I went to work at a Catholic Worker House. She was proud of me and was always very vocal about it.
I had taken a pretty different path from most of my cousins and she was happy about it. Most of my cousins graduated from high school, some went on to college, most left the Church. Children and marriage did not follow any particular order.
I think what makes La Lupe proudest of me, though, is that I am still Catholic and faithful. She can talk to me about homilies she heard and about La Virgencita. She can't do this with many people in my family. They either don't listen or tell her that she shouldn't worship Mary. We're able to connect on a deeper faith level.
Up to this point our relationship had carried on without any hiccups. I never worried about telling her anything and I never felt like I needed …
There may be a lot of things I would question about my husband: his taste in ties, his organizational skills, his ability to shoot a basketball. But I would never for a moment question his faithfulness to me. Socks making it to the hamper are one thing but when it comes to the "important stuff" Brandon is a rock solid husband. This is why it was strange to me that La Lupe — my grandmother — would doubt this.
When I was eight months pregnant, one of Brandon's college buddies was having his bachelor party in Las Vegas. It never crossed my mind to worry about them doing the whole "Sin City" thing. I knew they were just going to play blackjack, eat at cheap buffets, and drink beer as one last hurrah. Nevertheless, I thought it was a funny story to tell – me almost due and Brandon gallivanting off to Vegas – so I would bring it up in conversation often. It was good for a few laughs.
When I told my mom about it, instead of a laugh I got a puzzled look. "Why would they want to do that?" she asked. To my parents, spending time …


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The candy company disputes the museum's 7-foot, 85 pound snowman dispenser, which is not an official Pez product but was recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records as the largest Pez dispenser in the world in 2007, and fears that customers might mistake the museum to also be an official Pez property. In short, Pez wants Frosty dead. That's a pretty cruel and unusual potential fate for something so jolly (and harmless), no?


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In Tampa parents and some teachers tell Florida's education commissioner they want FCAT to go listen
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Outraged parents and teachers are telling Florida's top education officials the state's high stake tests are flawed. They told Florida's Education Commissioner Gerard Robinson in Tampa last night, the FCAT is a waste of time and needs to go.
"This is not what we do in real life. Nobody says, 'here's your prompt, you have 45 minutes, put it out there. In 45 minutes. And elaborate.â€
Plant City 4th grade teacher Faye Cook said the state's standardized testing system doesn't reflect real life situations.
"And you better have really specific details and they better be well elaborated and it better be spelled correctly and punctuated and every capital letter correct and, oh yeah, put those commas in a series of three. But it's only a draft.' But the problem is, nobody writes that way in the real world. In the real world we use a dictionary, we use a spell check, we ask the person next to us – I'm having trouble with this word, could you help me out with it?â€
She wants certain students – like those with learning disabilities – to be able to access things like dictionaries to double check their work. And she argued that tests like the FCAT are forcing teachers into a situation where they only teach what will be on the test. That leaves out things like history, art and music. Education Commissioner Robinson contended that may not be as big of a problem as people are making it out to be.
"Before the invention of FCAT, people didn't like teaching to whatever other assessment we had. People just simply don't like tests. Not all, but some. That's number one. Number two, I've run into a lot of teachers throughout the state who are getting great results with some of our more disadvantaged students who are not teaching to the test. So, there are teachers who aren't teaching who are getting results. I also realize there are teachers who said, 'Guess what? My job is on the line, I've got to teach for the test.'â€
State officials made the FCAT grading rubric a lot tougher this year. Because of that, only 27% of fourth graders passed their writing assessment. So now the state is lowering passing scores on a six point scale from four to three in order to bring that percentage back up to where it was last year. Maureen Peterkin is a parent looking for answers. Why did the FCAT standards change? And if it was so important to make passing harder, why the complete flip-flop?
"Well, the question is, what was the format of the test that they thought our children would achieve and they didn't to the point that they have to lower the standards again? So, it's still concerning. Are we meeting the goals or are we making our students look like their meeting the goals?â€
Robinson said the reason the state raised FCAT standards was so that Florida students can compete in a global economy. But he said the unexpected drop in passing grades can be a learning experience.
"While there was a problem with the process, the product that we received is still in place. Valid scores, something that students can use next year as a template to better help them with what we're going to do next year.â€
With so many young students being told they failed, one advocate asked how to restore children's confidence levels. State Board of Education Chair Kathleen Shanahan said parents and teachers need to explain that the higher stakes don't mean the student suddenly forgot how to write.
"So, people really need to understand what happened. It wasn't about the kids being dumber. It's about the standards being raised. It's about kids being taught something that they need to use in the business world.â€
But even though officials have said they are committed to ensuring students are receiving quality education, some parents aren't convinced. Sarah Robinson is the mother of a middle school student. With a pin on her shirt that read "Spay the FCAT†she reeled off a typed out speech about why she thinks the test is a waste of time.
"My own daughter, almost a month out of the school year she's taking tests. And so many things are being pushed aside because of it.â€
Robinson said her daughter has missed school events because of FCAT preparation and other required assessments. She's been opposed to the state's standardized testing methods for more than a decade. When this year's scores were reported, it reinvigorated her push to oppose process.
"Their own test results, in my opinion, prove that their whole testing agenda hasn't worked.â€
Robinson's nearly five minute harangue prompted a booming round of applause from other parents. But State Board of Education Chair Shanahan fired back arguing that FCAT is a necessary measure of student success.
"12 years ago when I came to the state of Florida, Florida was ranked 48th out of 50 states in terms of what their children were learning. 48 out of 50 12 years ago. We're now 5th. I don't make this up. This is all done by national standards I'm not going to get into. Graduation rate ten years ago was ten percent lower than it is today. Are we happy that it's only 80% of our kids graduating from high school? No. Is that an improvement over the last ten years? Yes. Those are the measurements that people need to know. Data reflects the facts.â€
The bottom line, Robinson said, is even though the drastic drop in passing rates on the writing assessment wasn't anticipated,
"We identified that there would be a drop in both the reading and mathematics because the standards were raised.â€
Board of Education chair Shanahan urged FCAT critics to keep in mind that increasing rigor is what is needed prepare students for real life situations.
"53% of Florida businesses are saying that the top three skills that students do not have – so we don't have a jobs crisis, when you read in the paper there's no jobs for graduating seniors, there's not the right skill sets for the jobs that are available.â€
The FCAT is administered to kids from third grade through high school. The writing assessment is done in 4th, 8th and 10th grades. Robinson will be in Boca Raton Friday and Jacksonville on Monday to answer parents' questions.


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HBASE-5616 Make compaction code standalone
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Introduces a standalone CompactionTool under src/test. Can call it from its main and have it run compactions on arbitrary storefiles. Compaction code is moved out of Store into a new Compactor class. CompactionTool needs a Store and a mocked up Region to run because compacting uses a StoreScanner (A StoreScanner needs a Store. A Store needs an HRegion). Rather than expect to be passed a coherent HRegion pointer, instead, we fake up one using Mockito. I tried to break out of HRegion a "Region" Interface. This Region Interface would have a basic subset of HRegion functionality and we'd pass this instead of HRegion to SplitTransaction, Store, CompactionRequest, etc. but the change would be massive. Everything expects to be able to do anything on an HRegion. This is work we need to do but I"m not doing it as part of this patch. M src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/regionserver/TestCompaction.java Use new CompactionTool instead of asking Store directly to compact. M src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/util/ChecksumType.java Formatting. M src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/util/FSUtils.java Format the log message so properly spaced. A src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/regionserver/CompactionTool.java New compactiontool. Runs all compactions. M src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/regionserver/HRegion.java Make getOpenAndCloseThreadPool static. M src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/regionserver/Store.java Move compaction code out to CompactionTool. Refactor so can override ttl and Store home directory so Store is more mockable; can now stand up a Store on its own w/o real HRegion context. M src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/io/hfile/LruBlockCache.java Formatting.
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I can't copy and paste the link from where I am, but look up Monty Pythons "The cheese shop sketch." A real classic
OK, I love cheese, but typically the normal ones...cheddar, mozz, etc. and don't fall for that hoity-toity crap that tastes like poo, but it's expensive...
However, there is one....and I could eat an S-ton of it:
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HATE milk, LOVE cheese.
Went to the Cheese Cave in Faribault, MN on a whim when heading back from the North Shore. Damn good cheese. cheesecave.net | Gourmet Cheese, Gift Baskets, Buy Blue Cheese, Restaurant, Hors D'oeuvres, Wine, Custom Gift Baskets
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My cheese preference depends on what I'm eating with it. Although 95% of my consumption is mozzarella or colby jack.
I could open a bag of shredded mozzarella and just eat the entire thing. If I'm eating off a block of cheese, I much prefer colby jack.
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I just had a mouth-watering flashback memory. Does anyone still get the FFA cheese spread anymore when the FFA members sell fruit, cheese, and summer sausage as a fundraiser. That cheese spread was the best!
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Midway International Airport is one step closer to becoming the nation's first privately operated major airport, following last month's vote by the Chicago city council to sell a 99-year operating lease for the airport. The plan was championed by Chicago mayor Richard Daley, who earned infamy in the aviation community in 2003 by ordering the stealthy destruction of lakeside Meigs Field in the middle of the night. Under the proposal, the buyer would make an upfront payment of $2.52 billion for the lease, a large portion of which will be used to pay off the airport's outstanding debt. Before the deal is finalized, however, it must be approved by the FAA and the TSA (which will continue to perform its current passenger screening and security duties), a process slated to take a minimum of 60 days following the submission of a final application.
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Well located near USF and Bush Gardens .
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Nice hotel near Busch Gardens.
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Dennis James Lane killed in Ellicott City domestic stabbing
Howard County police say an Ellicott City man was stabbed to death by a pair of teens, including his 14-year-old daughter.
The victim, Dennis James Lane, 58, was killed in his home Friday morning in the 8100 block of Winding Ross Way.
Jason Anthony Bulmer, 19, and Morgan Lane Arnold, 14, will be charged as adults with first- and second-degree murder and conspiracy to commit
Arnold is the victim's daughter.
Police say the couple plotted for two months to kill Lane. Arnold allegedly encouraged Bulmer to stab her father. The teens were found sitting in an upstairs bedroom when police arrived to the scene. Bulmer allegedly had blood on his hands and clothes.
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