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My Ubuntu 12.10 Computer running Gnome shell rather than unity, is now very slow to logout or reboot from desktop. It reverts to generic Ubuntu icon theme, and the screen goes dim. Programs can still be opened from Docky, but Gnome Shell is unresponsive. After 30 sec to 1 min, it will logout or reboot without warning. There is apparently nothing taking up the system. When I run sudo reboot
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1/6 Scale Scum & Villainy Figure
Original Retail: $119.99
Product Number:100006
Edition Size: 3,500
UPC Number: 7 47720 21397 5
Sideshow Collectibles' first Gamorrean Guard 1/6 scale figure was announced on June 17th, 2010. The pre-order went live on June 24th, 2010, and the figure began shipping February 2011.
Product Information
Year: 2011Original Retail: $119.99
Product Number:100006
Edition Size: 3,500
UPC Number: 7 47720 21397 5
Whats In The Box?
- Shirt
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- Fur Skirt
- Gauntlets
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- Vibro-Ax
- 2x Sets Of Hands
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- Technically speaking there isnt an exclusive version of this figure. That said, going by the item number system Sideshow uses, the number that should be designated to the exclusive is being used for the Gartogg Gamorrean Guard figure, which features a unique head sculpt and a Vibro-lance.
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When trying to run a .NET web-application, when a user posts back from a page the following error is generated in the browser:
Server Error in '/www' Application Maximum request length exceeded.
Also, in the event log the following error is generated:
Source: ASP.NET 2.0.50727.0 Category: Web Event Type: Warning Event ID: 1309 Event code: 3004 Event message: Post size exceeded allowed limits . . .
The server limits the size of post data - this is the data posted back from the browser when the visitor submits the form, and it includes the data on the form together with any viewstate information, cookies and a few other bits and bobs. The limit exists to hinder denial of service attacks which might otherwise use your bandwidth by posting infinite streams of data to your server.
The default limit for postback data is 4MB, which is sufficiently large that many developers are never aware of the limit.
For example, setting it to 8192KB (8MB):
<configuration> . . <system.web> <httpRuntime maxRequestLength="8192"/> . . </system.web> </configuration>
These notes have been tested within Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2008 running under Windows Vista, and on a target server running Windows 2003 Web Edition, and may apply to other versions as well.
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"Point of Purchase", an exhibition of painter Richard Phillips' collaborative works, opens this weekend at John McWhinnie @ Glenn Horowitz Bookseller in East Hampton. Phillips, who recently debuted his first film endeavor with videos featuring Lindsay Lohan and Sasha Grey, is no stranger to celebrity & pop culture. He has worked with brands such as Jimmy Choo, and MAC Cosmetics, while also filling the walls of the Van der Woodsen household in "Gossip Girl". Click on the slideshow below to see some of his work that will be on display:
July 16 - August 8 2011
Richard Phillips: Point of Purchase
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Belton man dies after early morning disturbance
A Belton man died early Sunday morning at an area hospital after he was taken away from a club where police had been called to investigate a "large disturbance."
The man was being driven out of the parking lot at the club in the 17000 block of an outer road on U.S. 49 shortly after 1 a.m. as police arrived. Police stopped the car and occupants of the car said the man was suffering medical problems. Police called an ambulance, which transported him to Belton Regional Medical Center where he later died.
Police do not know if the disturbance at the club caused the man's medical condition. The man's identity has not been released, and police are continuing to investigate.
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Mexican American War
Facts, information and articles about Mexican American War, an event of Westward Expansion from the Wild West
Mexican American War Facts
April 25, 1846 – February 2, 1848
Texas, New Mexico, California, Northern, Central and Eastern Mexico, Mexico City
United States: Zachary Taylor, Stephen W. Kearney and Winfield Scot
Mexico: Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, Mariano Arista, Pedro de Ampudia and Jose Maria Flores
Soldiers Engaged
United States: 32,000 Soldiers and 60,000 militia
Mexico: 35,000-60,000
United States: 13,000
Mexico: 16,000
American victory and acquisition of Texas, California, Nevada and Utah as well as parts of: Colorado, Arizona, Wyoming and New Mexico.
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Mexican American War summary: The Mexican-American war was caused by the unresolved border dispute between Texas and Mexico after the United States had annexed Texas. There were several major battles in it; one of the most famous was The Alamo. As to the commanders on the US side, it's interesting to know that many of them became Generals in the Civil War thirteen years later. Some of the famous names include: Robert E. Lee, William Tecumseh Sherman, P.G.T. Beauregard, Stonewall Jackson, Ulysses S. Grant, James Longstreet, George Meade, George McClellan and George Picket.
The American Army won almost all the battles in this war and it ended in 1848 with the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. After all the battle and warfare, Mexico sold more than half of its territory to the United States as a result. The peace treaty was approved by the US Senate on March 10, 1848 and the Mexican Congress ratified it on May 25. The war brought the territories of Texas, California, Nevada and Utah in addition to pieces of New Mexico, Wyoming, Arizona and Colorado.
Important Facts of The Mexican-American War
This was the first time in history that people were able to receive the latest news from the reporters on the front via telegraph. It made the general awareness of the war and what battles were lost or won known to a greater number of people. American troops used the new flying artillery: cannons and artillery soldiers that could move around the battlefield more quickly than ever before, starting to change the way battles were fought.
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Mexican-American War: Battle of Buena Vista
When Lieutenant John Richey was ambushed and killed by Mexican guerrillas in January 1847, the stage was set for a disaster unparalleled in American military history. The message Richey had been carrying provided information that could deliver an entire army of United States soldiers into the hands of the enemy.
The United States and the Republic of Mexico had been at war over territorial disputes since May of the previous year. Major General Zachary Taylor's Army of Occupation had won smashing victories over the Mexicans at Palo Alto and Resaca de la Palma. By early September, Taylor had overrun the province of Nueva Léon and captured the fortress city of Monterrey. Shortly afterward, he linked up with a smaller army under Brig. Gen. John E. Wool. It seemed as if nothing could stop Taylor from plunging south, into the very heart of Mexico.
A young officer wrote home, 'Taylor is short and very heavy, with pronounced face lines and gray hair, wears an old oilcloth cap, a dusty green coat, a frightful pair of trousers and on horseback looks like a frog.' Admiring journalists had dubbed Taylor 'Old Rough and Ready,' though his troops preferred to call him 'Old Zach.'
George G. Meade described the general as 'a plain, sensible old gentleman.' He usually lounged around camp in rumpled civilian clothes and bedroom slippers. Taylor's men loved to tell the story of a young lieutenant, newly arrived in camp, who mistook the general for somebody's servant. The lieutenant offered the 'old fatty' a dollar to clean his sword. Taylor duly sat down, polished the shavetail's sword and pocketed the dollar.
By late November, shortly after capturing Saltillo, Old Zach was fit to be tied. In far-off Washington, D.C., President James K. Polk and Maj. Gen. Winfield Scott had come up with a new campaign that involved an amphibious landing on the Gulf of Mexico at Vera Cruz followed by a quick thrust at Mexico City. Their plan effectively dealt Taylor and the Army of Occupation right out of the picture.
Worse was to come. Taylor wrote his son-in-law: 'I [have] been stripped of nearly the whole of the regular force and more than half of the volunteers, and ordered to act on the defensive.' The Army of Occupation was fast becoming the 'Army of Unemployment.' By January 23, Taylor was shorn of all but 500 of his regulars; the remainder of his 4,759 men were volunteers, 80 percent of whom had never heard a shot fired in anger.
No one had a greater interest in Taylor's misfortunes than the man who ultimately received Lieutenant Richey's lost dispatch. That was Division General Antonio López de Santa Anna, who had returned from exile in Cuba to take command of the armies of Mexico. Most Americans found Santa Anna a comic figure; they mocked his arrogance, his Napoleonic pretensions and the 15 pounds of gold embroidery bedecking his coat. Yet he was a soldier of genuine talent. He was an absolute genius at procuring men, horses and guns from the impoverished countryside of Mexico. And by the middle of January 1847, he had 22,000 troops at San Luis Potosi, ready to march.
But where were they to go? Richey's dispatch answered that, for it laid out the whole American plan in detail: Take Taylor's best soldiers, give them to Scott and gamble everything on an overpowering surprise lunge from the sea.
To Santa Anna, the solution was clear. He would make a fast march north to Saltillo, catch Taylor by surprise and annihilate his dwindling army, then return south before Scott could make headway against Veracruz. After that, the Mexican general reasoned, it should be easy to keep Scott's army confined near the coast, where yellow fever would surely erode the Americans faster than Mexican bullets.
On January 28, Santa Anna began his fateful march north. For three long weeks his army trudged through some of the worst terrain on the continent. Across miles of rain and ooze, along endless stretches of desert, it wound steadily north, scooping up small American patrols along the way. Reports of the advancing enemy army were rife in Taylor's ranks. The general, however, scoffed at the rumors and the panic they inspired among his unblooded volunteers. Santa Anna, said Taylor, could never march a force larger than a corporal's guard across the wastelands beyond San Luis Potosi. To demonstrate his disdain to the doubters, Taylor advanced his army south from Saltillo, to the sprawling Hacienda San Juan de la Buena Vista, where he set up a supply depot.
Taylor was seriously underestimating his determined adversary. On February 20, the self-styled 'Napoleon of the West' reviewed his forces. Thousands had perished or deserted in the hellish march, but he could still muster 15,142 of the finest soldiers of Mexico, including seven regiments of the line, the Hussars of the Guard, the Tulancingo Cuirassiers and nine cavalry regiments. Santa Anna also had 21 guns, hard to move and slow to fire, but of heavier metal than those of the Americans.
It was that same night–the 20th–when Ben McCulloch and his spy company of Texas Rangers reconnoitered the sprawling Mexican camp and started counting. By the time his report reached Zachary Taylor, it was clear that the American army faced not merely retreat but outright catastrophe. Old Rough and Ready was deep in enemy territory, facing forces fully three times the size of his own. It was impossible to run–the hordes of enemy horsemen would cut his columns to pieces. There was no choice for the tiny army but to fight for its life.
To General Wool was delegated the task of choosing a field of battle. A short distance south of Buena Vista the road entered a sharp bottleneck in the hills, where an effective barricade could be erected. To the west, a weird tangle of arroyos made the ground impassable; to the east, a series of plateaus rose sharply toward the Sierra Madre mountains, giving a small force fair opportunity to baffle a larger one. There, the outnumbered Americans would make their desperate stand.
The sun rose dazzling in a cloudless sky on the morning of February 22, 1847. To the south, dark clouds of dust heralded the approach of the Mexican army. Taylor, mounted on his horse Old Whitey, reviewed his tiny army as the regimental bands banged out 'Yankee Doodle' and 'Hail Columbia.' Taylor's 517 regulars included two companies of dragoons as well as three artillery batteries. The volunteers consisted of the Mississippi Rifles, the Arkansas Mounted, Brig. Gen. Joseph Lane's brigade of the 2nd and 3rd Indiana, the 1st and 2nd Illinois, the 1st Kentucky Mounted and the 2nd Kentucky Infantry.
Captain John W. Washington's 8-gun battery was posted to block the road; in support were the 1st and 2nd Illinois and the 2nd Kentucky. The extreme left, the most vulnerable point in the U.S. position, was guarded by dismounted Arkansas and Kentucky riflemen. The rest of Taylor's army was posted to the rear, ready to reinforce as needed. According to Taylor, 'The features of the ground were such as to nearly paralyze the artillery and cavalry of the enemy, while his infantry could not derive all the advantages of its numerical superiority.'
By 9 a.m., Santa Anna had arrived on the field after yet another of his agonizing forced marches and wheeled his men into position. He quickly formed a plan that was as simple as it was admirably suited to the circumstances. He would use his tremendous advantage in numbers to turn the American left wing. Then, with a quick thrust of his cavalry regiments, he would seize the depot at Buena Vista and cut the road of retreat for Taylor's army.
At 11 o'clock that morning, Pedro Vanderlinden, Mexico's surgeon general, formally presented Santa Anna's demand for surrender to Taylor. It was a long and formal document, beginning, 'You are surrounded by twenty thousand men and cannot in any human probability avoid suffering a rout and being cut to pieces with your troops; but as you deserve consideration and particular esteem, I wish to save you from catastrophe….' Taylor exploded in fury. Turning to his adjutant, Major William Bliss, he allegedly roared: 'Tell Santa Anna to go to hell! Major Bliss, put that in Spanish for this damned Dutchman to deliver!'
Whether or not that was Taylor's immediate reply, Bliss' translation to Santa Anna read: 'I beg leave to say that I decline acceding to your request.' Three hours later, the booming of a Mexican howitzer signaled the start of Santa Anna's attack. Four battalions of light infantry under General Pedro de Ampudia began a wide flanking movement designed to overlap the American left. The Arkansas and Kentucky rifle companies met the thrust in the foothills. What followed was a desperate race by both sides for higher and higher ground, with booming volleys of Mexican musketry pitted against the slow, steady fire of American rifles. Darkness finally brought an end to the struggle.
That night, Santa Anna stalked the battlefield like a man possessed. He shoved more and more units toward his right flank and personally surveyed emplacements for his artillery. Finally, he harangued each regiment of his army in turn, far into the night. The weary Americans bivouacked in the hills fell asleep hearing the echoes of 'Viva Santa Anna!' and 'Libertad o muerte!'
As darkness fell, Taylor left Wool in command of the army and rode north, accompanied by Colonel Jefferson Davis' Mississippi Rifles and a squadron of dragoons. He wanted to inspect the defenses of Saltillo against the possibility of an attack aimed at cutting his rear.
On the other side of the lines, Taylor's counterpart continued to breathe fire. At 2 in the morning, Santa Anna ordered his footsore infantry booted awake for a long night march designed to mass maximum punch against the beleaguered American left. This time, he would strike not at the extreme left, which at that point was securely anchored in the mountains, but rather at the vulnerable hinge where the left met the center. There, at a point held by the untried volunteers of the 2nd Indiana, a good, hard push could scatter Taylor's green soldiers like straw before the wind.
As dawn lightened the sky on the 23rd, a newly emplaced Mexican battery of five 8-pounders greeted the Americans. During the night, Wool had reinforced his left with companies of the 2nd Illinois and three artillery pieces under Lieutenant John Paul Jones O'Brien. One of those guns, a 12-pounder, was able to keep the first tentative enemy probes at bay with long-range shrapnel.
At 8 a.m. the storm broke. While Mexican bands played hymns and priests clad in red and gold robes swung smoking censers of incense, Santa Anna massed infantry and cavalry under Generals Francisco Pacheco and Manuel M. Lombardini and ordered them to the attack. Lombardini's infantry had managed to work its way forward at dawn to the shelter of a huge ravine, from which they suddenly emerged to confront the startled Yankees. Like the professionals they were, the 7,000 Mexican soldiers in gaudy coats and black leather shakos rapidly formed columns, wheeled and launched themselves at O'Brien and the 2nd Indiana with the force of a thunderbolt.
Keeping up steady volleys of musket fire, and supported by a scalding shower of grapeshot from the 8-pounders, Lombardini's and Pacheco's men came on so fiercely that O'Brien was obliged to pull his guns back. Colonel William Bowles of the 2nd Indiana, seeing the cannoneers rolling back their weapons, rashly assumed that the entire line was under orders to retire. He called out to his men, 'Cease firing and retreat.' At that moment, the 2nd Indiana simply dissolved. The men ran, and nothing could stop them. Fear spread like wildfire. A soldier recalled: 'Mexicans came out of the ravine in masses. Men left the ranks in all the regiments, and soon our rear was a confused mass of fugitives, making for Buena Vista Ranch and Saltillo.' The abandoned cannoneers blasted away at the advancing enemy with double charges of canister topped with handfuls of stones before they, too, were forced to limber their guns and flee.
On the extreme left, where the Arkansans had fought off General Ampudia's attacks the day before, matters were little better. The Americans clung desperately to their mountaintop, faced with the threat of being thrown off at any minute by attackers whose numbers were four or five times their own. The guns of Lieutenants George H. Thomas and Sam French were the lynchpin of the defense. Finally, the overwhelming numbers of Ampudia simply swept around the defenders and raced down the other side of the mountain to exploit the breech in the American lines. Many of the Arkansans remounted their horses and fled north, toward the imagined safety of Buena Vista.
Meanwhile, the 2nd Illinois, seemingly immune to the panic that had infected their comrades, fought a stubborn slow retreat, a few companies fighting a division–and gradually became separated from the units struggling on the far left. Captain Braxton Bragg's battery, together with Colonel William McKee's 2nd Kentucky and Colonel John J. Hardin's 1st Illinois, rushed to plug the widening gap.
In pushing forward so rapidly, Lombardini's men unwittingly exposed a flank to the guns of Bragg's and Captain Tom Sherman's batteries. The Mexican ranks staggered under a galling enfilade, while the Illinois infantry continuously peppered their front with pointblank volleys of 'buck and ball' rounds–three buckshot atop a .69 slug. The drive through the American lines slowed, then stalled.
But not before the Jalisco Lancers and 4th Cavalry Regiment, under Julián Juvera, seized their moment and swept forward, swirling through and around the beleaguered American left and riding hellbent for Buena Vista and Taylor's precious supplies. Once there, they would be the cork in the bottle that held the whole U.S. force.
It was only then, at the absolute crisis point of the battle, that General Zachary Taylor at last returned to the battlefield. He was followed by Davis' Mississippi Rifles, the 2nd Dragoons under Brevet Lt. Col. Charles May, and a squadron of mounted Arkansas riflemen.
Wool galloped up to Taylor in despair. 'General,' he cried, 'we are whipped!' 'I know it,' Taylor quietly replied, 'but the volunteers don't know it. Let them alone; we'll see what they do.'
There are several variants of Taylor's reply, but whatever he said, something akin to a miracle now had to be produced. Taylor's left and center had been swung back like a huge door on a hinge, with the eastern wing now stretched fully a mile and a quarter all the way back to Buena Vista, toward which a routed mob of bluecoat soldiers was fleeing in utter panic.
Luickly Taylor made his dispositions. The dragoons and volunteer cavalry would rush to defend the supplies at Buena Vista, while Davis' men would launch an immediate counterattack to in some measure restore the teetering left wing.
It was the hour of decision. The hapless Colonel Bowles, whose mistaken order had commenced the rout, snatched up a musket and fought in the ranks as a private for the remainder of the day.
The Mississippians made a proud sight as they formed ranks, wearing grand costumes more fit for 1812 than 1847. Each man wore a red shirt, a slouch hat and white duck pants; by their sides they carried 18-inch bowie knives. Far more important were their Model 1841 U.S. rifles and their well-earned reputation as 'the finest marksmen in the world.' The Mississippi Rifles now opened fire with murderous accuracy on Ampudia's infantrymen as they swept down in waves from the mountains. A swift succession of shattering volleys dissolved the Mexican attack into complete confusion. A countercharge by the Mississippians, supported by the 3rd Indiana, then sent the enemy soldiers reeling back to their own lines.
Abruptly, a new threat appeared in the form of 1,500 Mexican lancers. They wheeled their horses toward the Mississippi redshirts, lances lowered for the charge. 'Steady, boys!' shouted Zachary Taylor above the roar of the battle. 'Steady for the honor of old Mississippi!'
Davis, anxious to take full advantage of a cross-fire at short distance, formed his men on a plateau, the ranks taking the shape of a giant V with its open end toward the onrushing horsemen. 'The enemy came forward rapidly and in beautiful order,' Davis remembered, 'the files and ranks so closed as to look like a mass of men and horses.'
Closer and closer the troopers came, banners dancing, the noonday sun glittering on their lances, until they were within 80 yards of the Mississippi position. There, they halted. Perhaps the lancers expected to draw an ineffectual fire from American muskets before charging home. If so, they wholly underestimated their opponents, who carried rifles accurate up to 500 yards instead of muskets. At 80 yards the blue, green and scarlet jackets of the Mexicans were so many bright targets. A single tremendous volley rang out. 'It was appalling,' one observer recalled. 'The whole head of the column was prostrated.' The lancers did not wait for more; they wheeled their horses and fled the battlefield. Jubilant, Old Zach stood in his stirrups and twirled his hat over his head. 'Well done, Jeff! Hurrah for old Mississippi!'
While that was happening, Juvera's cavalry reached the depot at Buena Vista. Within the stout adobe walls, Captain Enoch Steen and Major John Munroe were trying to organize a ragtag collection of fugitives into something resembling a defense. A slashing attack by the 1st U.S. Dragoons brought Steen some precious time; the dragoons struck Juvera's ranks squarely in the middle, throwing his rear into irrevocable confusion. Some Mexicans raced back to their lines; others joined the attack on Davis. The rest of the Mexican force galloped madly around Buena Vista under a terrific fusillade from the American soldiers, who shot from roofs, windows, and from behind the shelter of ranch buildings. Unable to make any headway in his attack, Juvera led the remainder of his force west, ultimately riding completely around the American position and accomplishing nothing beyond pushing up the Mexican casualty lists.
A lull followed, albeit an all too brief one for the weary Americans. By 5 p.m., Santa Anna had patched together a collection of reserves from the remnants of Lombardini's and Pacheco's commands. Those men, several thousand strong, advanced against the American center. Facing them were the Illinois regiments of Colonels Hardin and William H. Bissell, together with McKee's Kentuckians and a battery under Lieutenant O'Brien.
Under overpowering pressure, the blue line slowly but inexorably fell back. O'Brien, reduced to having green infantry man his guns because all his artillerymen had been killed or wounded, lost two 6-pounders and only just managed to save the rest of his battery. Hardin was killed while trying to seize the colors of the Hidalgo Battalion; his command was pushed back into a deep ravine, where Mexican infantry lined the rim and fired down into the Americans. Colonel McKee was slain, along with many others. Lieutenant Colonel Henry Clay, Jr., whose famous father had bitterly opposed the Mexican War, died calling on his men to leave him and save themselves. As Taylor later understated it, 'The moment was most critical.'
The gallant O'Brien slowly rode his wounded, limping horse to the rear. He himself had been shot through the leg while trying to withdraw his battery. He left the field, however, with one abiding consolation: 'I was…delighted to find that I had maintained my ground sufficiently long to cause the victory to be secured, for, at this moment, the rest of our artillery arrived and came into action.'
These were the guns of Captain Bragg's light artillery, a company in which everyone, from captain to private, rode into battle. The little 6-pounders of the 'flying artillery' were considered among the most mobile cannons in the world, and now they came rattling across the battlefield at breakneck speed, the horses urged on by gunners who used the flats of their swords as whips.
Rapidly unlimbering into battery, Bragg's guns faced an onrushing horde of enemy infantry. Glancing nervously behind him, Bragg asked Taylor, 'Who is going to support me?' Taylor, his leg hooked over the pommel of his saddle, coolly replied, 'Major Bliss and I will support you.' In truth, more substantial reinforcements were at hand–the Mississippi Rifles and U.S. Dragoons were already well on their way at a dead run.
As Bragg's cannoneers bent to their work, Taylor reined in Old Whitey in order to take a closer look. 'What are you using, Captain, grape or canister?'
'Canister, General,' replied Bragg.
'Single or double?'
'Well, double shot your guns and give 'em hell, Bragg.'
And the good captain proceeded to do just that. Three separate salvos at 50 yards were enough to shatter the Mexican attack and send Santa Anna's proud regiments scurrying back across the field to safety.
A similar deliverance came for the Americans trapped in the ravine, with their exit from the gorge blocked by a squadron of Mexican lancers. From the road came the roar of Captain Washington's guns, and the lancers wheeled about to face that new threat. Spherical case shot began bursting over the heads of the Mexican horsemen, shrapnel ripping horses and riders alike. Lieutenant W.H.L. Wallace later wrote: 'I've heard many sweet sounds…but the whistling of that shell was the most grateful sound that ever greeted my ear. I turned, fatigued as I was, to see the effect. It was terrible. The main body of Lancers scampered back over the hill.'
Within the hour, a blinding torrent of rain swept the battlefield. The day's fighting was over.
That night, Santa Anna and his generals held a council of war. The Mexican commander had lost some 3,500 men killed, wounded or missing–almost one-quarter of the entire attacking force. Taylor's losses were 271 killed, 387 wounded and six missing. The American army remained in a precarious position, with one wing resting on little more than a prayer, and was still heavily outnumbered, but the Mexican army was a spent force. Too little sleep and too much hard marching, combined with that terrible butcher's bill, had plunged the morale of the soldados Mexicanos to the bottom.
For the Americans, the misty dawn of February 24 brought first amazement, then celebration. Upon seeing the Mexican army in retreat, Taylor and Wool embraced in the middle of the battlefield and wept like children. Said Captain Carleton: '…a sound went along our lines ever to be remembered. It was but a single cry at first, then a murmuring which rose and swelled upon the ear like the voice of a trumpet: then a prolonged and thrilling shout: 'Victory! Victory! The enemy has fled! The field is ours!"
The triumph was even sweeter for Old Zach than he could have realized on that glorious morning. By the next year, he would be elected president of the United States. Jefferson Davis, whose V formation had saved the day for the bluecoats, would later ride his reputation to the presidency of the Confederate States of America.
In the end, Santa Anna did what so many beaten men have done before and since. He went home and declared a victory. As proof of his achievement, the general displayed O'Brien's captured 6-pounders. To win that pair of guns, Santa Anna had wrecked his army from top to bottom; in the seven months left before the fall of Mexico City, his soldiers would never win another battle.
At Padierna on August 20, 1847, Captain Simon Drum of the 4th U.S. Artillery recaptured O'Brien's lost 6-pounders. The guns had one last, long journey before them, for they were to be taken to West Point and there displayed in the administration building beneath a plaque that read, 'Lost without dishonor, recovered with glory.' *
This article was written by Robert Benjamin Smith and originally published in the February 1997 issue of Military History magazine. For more great articles be sure to subscribe to Military History magazine today!


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Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman/The First Circle
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The First Circle is the twentieth episode of the second season of Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman, and the thirty-eighth episode overall.
Guest Stars: Barbara Babcock (Dorothy Jennings), William Shockley (Hank Lawson), Jonelle Allen (Grace), Frank Collison (Horace Bing), Jim Knobeloch (Jake Slicker), Henry G. Sanders (Robert E.), Orson Bean (Loren Bray), Andrea Bakkum (Alice), Melissa Flores (Missy), George Furth (Jedediah Bancroft), Eric Balfour (Benjamin)
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Stakeholder theory
The stakeholder theory is a theory of organizational management and business ethics that addresses morals and values in managing an organization. It was originally detailed by R. Edward Freeman in the book Strategic Management: A Stakeholder Approach identifies and models the groups which are stakeholders of a corporation, and both describes and recommends methods by which management can give due regard to the interests of those groups. In short, it attempts to address the "principle of who or what really counts".[1]
In the traditional view of a company, the shareholder view, only the owners or shareholders (= stockholders) of the company are important, and the company has a binding fiduciary duty to put their needs first, to increase value for them. Stakeholder theory instead argues that there are other parties involved, including employees, customers, suppliers, financiers, communities, governmental bodies, political groups, trade associations, and trade unions. Even competitors are sometimes counted as stakeholders – their status being derived from their capacity to affect the firm and its stakeholders. The nature of what is a stakeholder is highly contested (Miles, 2012),[2] with hundreds of definitions existing in the academic literature (Miles, 2011).[3]
The stakeholder view of strategy integrates both a resource-based view and a market-based view, and adds a socio-political level. One common version of stakeholder theory seeks to define the specific stakeholders of a company (the normative theory of stakeholder identification) and then examine the conditions under which managers treat these parties as stakeholders (the descriptive theory of stakeholder salience).[4]
Numerous articles and books written on stakeholder theory generally credit R. Edward Freeman as the "father of stakeholder theory."[5] Freeman's Strategic Management: A Stakeholder Approach is widely cited in the field as being the foundation of stakeholder theory, although Freeman himself credits several bodies of literature in the development of his approach, including strategic management, corporate planning, systems theory, organization theory, and corporate social responsibility. A related field of research examines the concept of stakeholders and stakeholder salience, or the importance of various stakeholder groups to a specific firm.
More recent scholarly works on the topic of stakeholder theory that exemplify research and theorizing in this area include Donaldson and Preston (1995),[6] Mitchell, Agle, and Wood (1997),[7] Friedman and Miles (2002),[8] and Phillips (2003).[9]
Donaldson and Preston argue that the theory has multiple distinct aspects that are mutually supportive: descriptive, instrumental, and normative.[10] The descriptive approach is used in research to describe and explain the characteristics and behaviors of firms, including how companies are managed, how the board of directors considers corporate constituencies, the way that managers think about managing, and the nature of the firm itself.[11] The instrumental approach uses empirical data to identify the connections that exist between the management of stakeholder groups and the achievement of corporate goals (most commonly profitability and efficiency goals).[12] The normative approach, identified as the core of the theory by Donaldson and Preston, examines the function of the corporation and identifies the "moral or philosophical guidelines for the operation and management of the corporation."[12] Since the publication of this article in 1995, it has served as a foundational reference for researchers in the field, having been cited over 1,100 times.[citation needed]
Mitchell, et al. derive a typology of stakeholders based on the attributes of power (the extent a party has means to impose its will in a relationship), legitimacy (socially accepted and expected structures or behaviors), and urgency (time sensitivity or criticality of the stakeholder's claims).[13] By examining the combination of these attributes in a binary manner, 8 types of stakeholders are derived along with their implications for the organization. Friedman and Miles explore the implications of contentious relationships between stakeholders and organizations by introducing compatible/incompatible interests and necessary/contingent connections as additional attributes with which to examine the configuration of these relationships.[14] Robert Allen Phillips distinguishes between normatively legitimate stakeholders (those to whom an organization holds a moral obligation) and derivatively legitimate stakeholders (those whose stakeholder status is derived from their ability to affect the organization or its normatively legitimate stakeholders).
The political philosopher Charles Blattberg has criticized stakeholder theory for assuming that the interests of the various stakeholders can be, at best, compromised or balanced against each other. Blattberg argues that this is a product of its emphasis on negotiation as the chief mode of dialogue for dealing with conflicts between stakeholder interests. He recommends conversation instead and this leads him to defend what he calls a 'patriotic' conception of the corporation as an alternative to that associated with stakeholder theory.[15] Stakeholder theory is defined by Rossouw et al. in Ethics for Accountants and Auditors and by Mintz et al. in Ethical Obligations and Decision Making in Accounting.
According to Mansell (2013), by applying the political concept of a 'social contract' to the corporation, stakeholder theory undermines the principles on which a market economy is based.[16]
Implementation in other fields[edit]
Stakeholder theory succeeds in becoming famous not only in the business ethics fields. It is used as one of the frameworks in corporate social responsibility methods. For example, ISO 26000 and GRI (Global Reporting Initiative) involve stakeholder analysis.[17]
In fields such as law, management, human resource, stakeholder theory succeeded in challenging the usual analysis frameworks, by suggesting to put stakeholders' needs at the beginning of any action.[18] Some authors, such as Geoffroy Murat, tried to apply stakeholder's theory to irregular warfare.[19]
Stakeholder theory has seen growing uptake in higher education in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.[20] One influential definition defines a stakeholder in the context of higher education as anyone with a legitimate interest in education who thereby acquires a right to intervene.[21] Studies of higher education first began to recognize students as stakeholders in 1975.[22] External stakeholders may include employers.[22] In Europe, the rise of stakeholder regimes has arisen from the shift of higher education from a government-run bureaucracy to modern system in which the government's role involves more monitoring than direct control.[23]
See also[edit]
- Stakeholder (corporate)
- Stakeholder analysis
- Stakeholder (law)
- Stakeholder management
- Agency cost
- Principal–agent problem
- Specific citations
- ^ Freeman, R. Edward (1984). Strategic Management: A stakeholder approach. Boston: Pitman. ISBN 0-273-01913-9.
- ^ Miles, Samantha (2012). "Stakeholders: essentially contested or just confused?". Journal of Business Ethics 108 (3): 285–298. doi:10.1007/s10551-011-1090-8.
- ^ Miles, Samantha (2011). "Stakeholder Definitions: Profusion and Confusion". EIASM 1st interdisciplinary conference on stakeholder, resources and value creation, IESE Business School, University of Navarra, Barcelona.
- ^ Phillips, Robert (2003). Stakeholder Theory and Organizational Ethics. p. 66. ISBN 1576752682.
- ^ Laplume, André; Karan Sonpar; Reginald Litz (Dec 2008). "Stakeholder Theory: Reviewing a Theory That Moves Us" (PDF). Journal of Management 34 (6): 1152–1189. doi:10.1177/0149206308324322.
- ^ Donaldson, Thomas; Preston, Lee E. (1995). "The Stakeholder Theory of the Corporation: Concepts, Evidence, and Implications". Academy of Management Review 20 (1): 65–91. doi:10.5465/amr.1995.9503271992. JSTOR 258887.
- ^ Mitchell, Ron; Agle, BR; Wood, DJ (1997). "Toward a Theory of Stakeholder Identification and Salience: Defining the Principle of Who and What Really Counts". Academy of Management Review 22 (4): 853–886. doi:10.2307/259247. JSTOR 259247.
- ^ Friedman, Andrew L.; Samantha Miles. Stakeholders: Theory and Practice. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0199269860.
- ^ Phillips, Robert (2003). Stakeholder Theory and Organizational Ethics. Berrett-Koehler Publishers. ISBN 1-57675-268-2.
- ^ Donaldson, Thomas; Preston, Lee E. (1995). "The Stakeholder Theory of the Corporation: Concepts, Evidence, and Implications". Academy of Management Review (Academy of Management) 20 (1): 70–71. doi:10.2307/258887. JSTOR 258887.
- ^ Donaldson, Thomas; Preston, Lee E. (1995). "The Stakeholder Theory of the Corporation: Concepts, Evidence, and Implications". Academy of Management Review (Academy of Management) 20 (1): 70. doi:10.2307/258887. JSTOR 258887.
- ^ a b Donaldson, Thomas; Preston, Lee E. (1995). "The Stakeholder Theory of the Corporation: Concepts, Evidence, and Implications". Academy of Management Review (Academy of Management) 20 (1): 71. doi:10.2307/258887. JSTOR 258887.
- ^ Mitchell, R. K.; Agle, B. R.; Wood, D. J. (1997). "Toward a Theory of Stakeholder Identification and Salience: Defining the Principle of Who and What Really Counts". Academy of Management Review (Academy of Management) 22 (4): 853–886. doi:10.2307/259247. JSTOR 259247.
- ^ Friedman, Andrew L.; Miles, Samantha (2002). "Developing Stakeholder Theory". Journal of Management Studies 39 (1): 1–21. doi:10.1111/1467-6486.00280.
- ^ Blattberg, Charles (2004). "Welfare: Towards the Patriotic Corporation". From Pluralist to Patriotic Politics: Putting Practice First. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 172–184. ISBN 0-19-829688-6.
- ^ Mansell, S. (2013) Capitalism, Corporations and the Social Contract: A Critique of Stakeholder Theory. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- ^ Duckworth, Holly Alison; Moore, Rosemond Ann (2010). Social Responsibility: Failure Mode Effects and Analysis. p. 10. ISBN 1439803749.
- ^ Harrison, Wicks, Parmar and De Colle, Stakeholder Theory, State of the Art, Cambridge University Press, 2010
- ^ Connelley and Tripodi, Aspects of leadership, Ethics, law and Spirituality, Marines Corps University Press, 2012, pp. 39–59
- ^ Leisyte, I.; Westerheijden, D.F. (2014). "Stakeholders and Quality Assurance in Education". In Eggins, Heather. Drivers and Barriers to Achieving Quality in Higher Education. p. 84. ISBN 9462094942.
- ^ Bjørkquist, Catharina. Stakeholder Regimes in Higher Education. p. 23. ISBN 383097440X.
- ^ a b Leisyte 2014, p. 86.
- ^ Neaves, Guy (2002). "The Stakeholder Perspective". In Enders, Ulrich; Fulton, Oliver. Higher Education in a Globalising World. p. 33. ISBN 1402008643.
in Editors list (help)
- General references
- R. Edward Freeman, Alexander Moutchnik (2013): Stakeholder management and CSR: questions and answers. In: UmweltWirtschaftsForum, Springer Verlag, Bd. 21, Nr. 1. http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00550-013-0266-3
- Hemmati, Minu et al. (2002). Multistakeholder Processes for Governance and Sustainability: Beyond Deadlock and Conflict. London: Earthscan. ISBN 1-85383-869-1.
- Kelly, Marjorie (2001). The Divine Right of Capital: Dethroning the Corporate Aristocracy. San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler. ISBN 1-57675-125-2.
External links[edit]
- "Project Relationships and the Stakeholder Circle" PDF (900 KiB) – Discussion on the role of stakeholders in project management
- Redefining the Corporation from the Clarkson Centre for Business Ethics and Board Effectiveness
- "Redefining the Corporation: Stakeholder Management and Organizational Wealth" by Post, Preston, and Sachs, Stanford University Press, 2002
- Stakeholderforum.org
- Multistakeholder Processes for Governance and Sustainability – Stakeholder Forum, Earthscan 2002
- Politics at stake: a critical note on stakeholder analysis (July 2008) from Abahlali baseMjondolo


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Well other than being fun as hell with crazy action sequences, there are many things I love about GOW and GOW2. The games have a very easy to pick up, but difficult to master gameplay. Mortal-Easy and Spartan-Normal are a cake walk, but God-Hard and Titan-Very Hard are something of a completely different level. Another great thing to me about GOW is the integration of puzzle solving; for the most part GOW is a puzzle game as much as an action-adventure. Finally, the last great thing is the mythos (story) that GOW presents. I'm a sucker for Greek, Roman, and Norse mythology among others and GOW presents an interesting and entertaining form of Greek mythology that just keeps me playing.
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You have a fair point, even though I think it's utter....
Not everyone likes a certain genre, but in saying that, it's a testament to GOW that it's received such widespread acclaim from both critics and the public (general and the "hardcore"). Especially if you compare it with other similar games - Ninja Gaiden, DMC etc.Be Together - Not the same.
08-05-2007 #28
Well, It's a great game, so many things to do, good to power you weapons up, fun to play.
Just a great game
08-05-2007 #29
I bought it last year, and I thought it was not bad.
But definately not something I'd usually play.
08-05-2007 #30
Some people have different tastes I personally am not a fan of the Hitman franchise but from your Avatar I can see that you are
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08-05-2007 #31phranctoastGuest
When people dont like this series it really discredits them as gamers in my opinion. I could watch someone play GOW and not get bored. I know people who really dont play or like games reverse their opinion because of this one game. I have friends that are such big xbots, get converted because of this game.
I cant see getting bored with it. The game is Epic. Everything is fresh. Every enviroment is different than the last. I cant say enough good things about it.
08-05-2007 #32
It just basically took the PS2 to its limits...
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08-05-2007 #34
Thats just like asking why people like GTA games so much. There are going to be games some like and some don't, but for me the story line, voice overs and graphics got my attention quick. The more i played the more the story got deeper and better, the fighting style was great as well. The different things and styles you can use while you fight, like magic, I liked. Only thing pissed me off about the game towards the end before you fight the final boss the second time, was fighting clones of yourself was hard. I found the boss at the to be easy to beat.
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08-05-2007 #35
God of war is no rip of rygar, yes i do believe it inspired god of way, if thats the case then halo is just Golden eye with aliens.
And what kind of question is, Why do people like god of war so much, ,maybe its a fun game, you ever though of that, why do people like final fantasy so much for that matter why do people like Mario, this is a stupid thread.
07-06-2008 #36Bin LadenGuest
I've played the game a little but whats so special about this game its like the rest of the combat killing games.
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it is just a all around great game the story told very well the game play is great (not perfect but pretty fun)
the characters as well thought out and the environments and graphics are amazing for a last gen game.George CarlinThink of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.Great spirits will always encounter violent opposition from mediocre minds.
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It should be a gamer crime not to like God of War. >_>
07-07-2008 #41
I liked it because its violent, its fun to play, fun to find new combos, the upgrading is a back breaking chore, though. I love Greek mythology, and my regards to GoW2 breaking alot of it, well, I'll let it pass for it being just a video game. but I liked walking up Cronos, going up against 2 seperate gods, and many ginormous beats from mythology.
plus, the interactive kill sequences are more enjoyable than jsut watching it happen. I like how they made a mini=game about that by keeping you guessing on what button to push.
07-07-2008 #42
i really never like the GOW franchise, it was never deep enough to catch my attention for more than 30min. yes their was weapons, magic an level, but each induvidual(sp) category seemed shallow
07-07-2008 #43
The thing about GoW is that it can only keep you interested for so long until you get tired of the repetitive hack-n-slash gameplay. It's fun until you play for long periods of time
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07-07-2008 #44bigbadbob113Guest
I love the story. Greek mythology is so interesting, and the game plays into it so well. Also, the gameplay itself is great. The combat system is awesome, and the enemies are awesome. The bosses tend to be gigantic monsters which are impressive to look at. All in all, its such a great game.
07-07-2008 #45
whats not to like???
one minute im getting powned by a certain boss in the game,the next minute im crushing his damn face with door over and over again while he screams in agony.now this is god of war for you
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That is the best thing about all of the choices that are out there in gaming world. If you like it play it; if not play something else. I loved God of War and GOW2. I really enjoyed the button animation sequences and the story is deep, gory and filled with betrayals. I would say this to the people who tried it and thought it was boring, start the game over again on Hard mode, and you will not have the chance to get bored, you really have to ramp up your game play to last even through the regular enimies let alone boss battles on hard.
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Personally I love the action genre, like PoP, and DMC. But the first GoW was simply lacking something for me. I didn't think it was BAD but I definitely thought it didn't live up to the hype. But the second one really did it for me. I loved that game immensely. I think it was the more grand storyline, and the addition of more bosses that really got me into it.
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Eyelashes are small hairs which are attached to the top and bottom eyelids and are very soft and very small. Here's some information about eyelashes which you might be interested in if you are interested in eyelashes being extended. The eyelids act as a shield with the eyelashes an extra barrier which is used to help keep out any dirt and other unwanted things from your eyes as we know the eyes are one of if not THE most delicate part of the body and one we want to keep intact.
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Now the Church must fight whole heartily for the unborn. I am thinking that we should have a more vivid showing that life begins at conception. I read at the feast of John the Baptist that he received the Baptism of the Holy Spirit in the womb of Elisabeth that is prior to his birth from his mother. So we know that from conception he was a person both, body and soul. So I think that if he was baptized prior to natural birth from the womb that we should baptize our children in the womb of their mother. This will be a strong statement of human life at conception. And why not give the armament of the Holy Spirit to that soul that is already in the physical body that is trapped in Original Sin? Then after the child is born from the mother and after the 7th day present and anoint that person before the Church and celebrate their full arrival in to the body of Christ? I believe this desire is good and that Baptism in the Mother will speak to the world the beauty of life and give the child a head start in the battle from sin to the full union with the Holy Trinity. |
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I checked a few tumbler sites on the web, and the old fashioned rock-tumbler seems cheaper in comparison to an equal size vibratory tumbler sold by the reloading companies. Any reason why a rock-tumbler wouldn't work for shining up brass?
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No real reason I can see for not using a rock tumbler as long as you use the right media.
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I know a couple people that use rock tumbler
They can last for ever and if something wears out all of the parts are replacable. Tony Z |
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I bought my tumbler from Berry's larger than Midways (1000 9mm cases) ,comes with a clear lid and quick release nut at no extra charge shipping included for $48
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If Dillon's tumbler ever breaks, they will send you a new one. Tough to beat that! Quantrill
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The Midway tumbler works just fine using corn and Dillon Rapid-Polish.
It, too, is warrantied...and quieter than the Dillon.
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It's also on sale for $42.99 this month. Too bad I'm still poor. I spent last night shaking hundreds of .357 and .45 auto cases in a bucket filled with corn media. Vinegar soaked 'em for 45 minutes, rinsed, dryed and hand tumbled.
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I bought the Midway tumbler package. It has the 1292 tumbler and a media separator for $85. Simple and effective. Save all of that messing around with the media by hand.
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The Berrys I bought for $48 has a lifetime warranty. To Separate the media I went to the pet store and bought a Cat box with a strainer so I dump my tumbler and strain the media and the cat box cost $10
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I'm thinking of getting a tumbler. Can't choose between the Midway and the Berry's. I figure I can get walnut blasting media locally.
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Howndawg; The BERRY's tumbler......you won't regret it. Quadcab
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When I was looking for a tumbler, I asked around TFL, and ArmySon just gave me his old one (a 1292 Midway). Yup, all I had to do was pay postage, and open the box when it came. That thing has run and run and run... Thanks Son!
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Too late. I bought the Midway. You know what? They look pretty much the same. Just different labels. I wonder if you can take a Berry's bowl and put it on a Midway?
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One other thing to consider:
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The parking lot of Disco Kroger at the corner of Montrose and Hawthorne has been an ideal vantage point from which to watch the two-month-long demolition of yet another curious piece of Houston history. While the ten-story building at 3400 Montrose is little more than twisted girders and concrete rubble now, in its day it was one of the swankiest business addresses in the city and a night-time hot spot for several generations of Houstonians. photos by William Michael Smith Early stage of the demolition of 3400 Montrose Boulevard
It will soon be replaced by a Hannover Group 30-story glass apartment tower with all the personality of a corporate headquarters, scheduled to open in 2016. But the building had in fact outlived its design and utility. One former renter of space in the building described it as "a dump."
But over the course of its history since the first two floors were built in 1952, the building served as home to Montrose National Bank, Southern States Life Insurance Company, and a plethora of insurance-related companies and other businesses. The Houston Blues Society even officed there for a few years.
The tenth-floor penthouse, which was operated as a club up until the building closed due to its dilapidated state in 2010, offered a spectacular view of downtown that made it a major social hotspot for decades. In various incarnations, it was Top of the Mark, the Palace Club, Cody's and finally Scott Gertner's popular jazz rendezvous, Sky Bar.
The building would never have existed except for Houston's strange aversion to zoning. Original developer J.W. Link and his Houston Land Corporation platted the subdivision and began offering lots for sale in 1911. Montrose was designed as a planned streetcar residential community with stately Montrose Boulevard as a main artery. The street quickly became lined with palatial modern homes such as Link's own property, the Link-Lee mansion, which is now part of the University of St. Thomas property.
But in 1936 in the midst of the Great Depression, the deed restrictions for the area lapsed. In the following year, a zoning ordinance that might have allowed Montrose Boulevard to continue as a residential avenue was put before the City Council, but it failed to pass.
Rice University architecture historian Dr. Stephen Fox notes that the effort to pass a zoning ordinance in 1937 was "fueled in part by the anxieties of Montrose residents fearful of what would happen once the restrictions were no longer in effect."
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