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A weakened version of the City Council's hotly debated audits bill won preliminary approval Monday night, meaning it could go before voters in November after a final council vote next month.
City Council President Bernard C. "Jack" Young announced a special council session Aug. 13 to vote on the bill. The amended legislation would require 14 city agencies to be audited at least once every four years. The original bill, sponsored by City Councilman Carl Stokes, called for audits of all 55 agencies every two years.
A spokesman for Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake said she would need to review the legislation once it comes to her but said she was generally supportive of the movement to require the comptroller's office to conduct more audits.
"The mayor is hopeful that the council reconvenes in a special meeting to approve the measure in order to meet the deadline to get it before the voters in November," said mayoral spokesman Ryan O'Doherty. The council had planned to recess for the summer after Monday night.
Several council members lamented the fact that many city agencies haven't been audited in decades — or as 28-year-old freshman Councilman Brandon Scott put it, in his lifetime.
"We are a budget built on sand," said City Councilwoman Mary Pat Clarke.
Council members initially tied Monday in a vote, 6-6, to require audits every two years. An amended version of the bill advanced by a vote of 8-4. Stokes was among those voting no.
The council also rejected an amendment that would have required only performance audits of city agencies, not financial audits.
Council members who voted for the amended bill were heckled by audience members, one of whom loudly stated, "Sell out!" Another shouted, "Tell us what you're hiding!"
But those who supported the amended legislation called it a step in the right direction.
"We may not get the toughest bill through, but we will get a bill through," said City Councilman Robert Curran. "We will no longer have three decades of no audits. It may not be the best, but it's a start."
The Department of Audits, which has 37 auditor positions — 32 of which are filled — falls under Comptroller Joan M. Pratt's office. She has said conducting the increased audits would be possible if Rawlings-Blake provided the funding in her budget. The city has conducted between 10 and 20 audits each of the past three years.
The audits vote came after City Councilman Bill Henry introduced bills aimed at curbing the power of the mayor, reducing the council's size and instituting term limits. Henry's bills would reshape the City Council, leaving it with fewer members but more power.
"A 'strong mayor' system of government may be the appropriate one for Baltimore," Henry said, "but it is so ridiculously strong now, it makes it hard for the supposed check and balance between the executive branch and the legislative branch to function."
One of Henry's bills would reduce the number of council votes needed to override a mayoral veto of a council bill from three-fourths to two-thirds of the council. Another bill would allow the council to add funds to certain areas of the mayor's proposed budget, after cuts from other areas. O'Doherty issued a statement expressing concern about the proposals.
Last month, the council attempted to cut Rawlings-Blake's budget to add funding for recreation centers and fire companies, but could only ask the mayor to restore the funding, not order it. The effort failed after Rawlings-Blake lobbied several council members to vote against it.
A third bill of Henry's would impose term limits for all the city's elected officials: two terms for those elected citywide and three terms for council members. A final bill would reduce the number of council members from 15 to nine.
"My hope is to start a conversation about whether the status quo is serving us as well as it could," Henry said. "If we find that it's not, then we should be talking about some ways to do things differently."
A spokesman for Young said he supports three of Henry's proposals, disagreeing only with the plan to cut the number of council members. O'Doherty said Rawlings-Blake hasn't taken a stance yet.
Young also introduced a bill that would require the Fire Department to hold public hearings before it could close fire companies. Two were closed last week, and a third is scheduled to be closed in October.
Another Young bill seeks to tighten ethics laws by prohibiting city officials from accepting gifts from anyone who does business with the city. Current ethics rules prohibit agency officials from accepting gifts only from those who do business with their agency.


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Could Wave sink BaseCamp?
December 21st, 2009 | Industry
Conceptually I love Google Wave. It promises to revolutionize the way we collaborate on projects. It is branded as Email for the 21st Century. It's hailed as a huge time saver – yet I am beginning to think I'm the only one using it.
When I first heard rumors of what Wave could be I immediately thought of Basecamp; a leading project management tool. Over a year ago I decided not to bring this app into my development process as client adoption of another communication tool would be hard to swing. Wave made me reconsider; Google has a lot of clout, and with Google accounts being so amazingly handy and ubiquitous, a glimmer of hope built up in my little heart that this could be a game changer.
My Google fandom not withstanding, I was rabbidly anxious to get my invite like everyone else. Finally the day came that the invite graced my inbox. The "now what?" moment was not far behind it.
Building anticipation through an invitation system worked really well for Gmail, and makes lots of other sites (dribbble, fffound, etc.) seem very elite and hip. While the hype and mysteriousness is palpable, the experience is ultimately a let down.
Dare I say it? Did Google make a mistake?
Using Wave
My first experience with the app was probably the same as yours: you (or the person who invited you) created a wave and proceeded to write some inane drivel like "So what is this good for?" and threw in the obligatory Map and Yes/No/ Maybe extension. Did you get any further than this?
I have been trying desperately to get Wave to catch on. In addition to no less than five useless "test" waves with various collegues;
- I have created a wave for an upcoming client site I'm developing
- I am taking part in a wave for a site I help manage
- I recently wrote an entire article for SixRevisions.com solely in Wave.
In the six weeks or so since I've had my Wave account I have checked my account every single day. Only the Six Revisions wave has seen any action (because the Editor had no choice but to go to the wave to get his story!) The other two waves sit lonely and unused, gathering dust – they show no sign that they've been checked by the shared parties.
What's wrong?
Google's name carries the weight it does because their products have a high degree of polish. I get that tingly Google feeling when I see their brilliant attention to detail in action. Remember the first time you noticed Gmail was autosaving your draft? Or the first time the sidebar recommended you add an event to the calendar? I feel this love and care is missing from Wave.
Google made it clear that our Wave accounts are previews, and that this is in no way the final product. That said, I think they have taken the "release early, release often" principle too far this time. Here are some must have features I think were needed to make the initial splash more notable (yup, pun intended).
- The most crucial missing feature is Notifications. The only way to see if your wave has been updated is to go to the Google Wave site. We don't need new communication tools to monitor, we need them to work with existing tools. Comparable apps like Basecamp at least offer email notifications of updates. I desperately want Wave to be in the upper left navigation of Gmail – before the Calendar. I also need the "unread count" in brackets.Waves are supposed to be email reinvented; but they won't replace it anytime soon. Email notifications are a no-brainer and are sorely missed from the preview.
- Project Types – Currently a wave is a blank canvas of opportunity – maybe a little too blank. Blank paper is beautiful and perfect for its limitless potential, but sometimes we need lined paper and graph paper.Templates for different Project-types might be a nice touch. I love the way Basecamp does this; the project itself is tabbed with areas for Messages, To-Do lists, Milestones, Chats, and Files. I think currently with Wave you'd have to create multiple waves and label them. This is less intuitive, and is a surefire way to alienate less savvy users.
- Calendar Integration for the aforementioned paradigm of milestones could be an amazing feature to see integrated into the Google Cal. Google has gone out of their way to make the Calendar integrate with other popular calendar clients (This would also act as a handy reminder for people to check their waves more often). Suddenly, Wave becomes a much more dynamic and powerful tool; keeping people organized.The more this new workflow tool can integrate into people's existing workflow, the better its odds of survival are.
- Internet Rockstar buy-in – They say that 5% of Internet users make 75% of the noise. I have a feeling a lot of that noise comes from web designers and developers. We are creating content and sites for the Internet, by using the Internet. The medium is the message, and the message is the medium. Currently Wave isn't trending the best with these users. Win the hearts and minds of the industry's heroes, and you'll win in the long run.As bizarre as it seems, there are celebrity web designers out there whose words and blogs carry a lot of weight. I'm not suggesting that Google do anything unsavoury to woo them, but making an app for the people who create amazing apps (albeit on a much smaller scale), takes a little more finess and attention.
- Settings – Any settings would be better than this "Under Construction" page. It's an animated gif away from being classic 90′s facepalm worthy. Other Google properties have some incredibly handy settings. I am certain that a sad percentage of users looked at the settings wave, saw there was nothing there, and will never ever check it again.
There is a lot that could be suggested; a more traditional track-changes, wave Export, Android app, easier hide-comments, and letting my clients use their existing email address (I'm not sure I understand the @googlewave.com address). Still, I know this degree of care and attention is the norm with Google, and I expect Wave could be the game changer I've been hoping for.
It doesn't seem like Basecamp has much to worry about yet.
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I would love to hear your Google Wave suggestions as well as success or horror stories in the comments.
Incidentally, Wave keeps giving me more invites. If anyone else needs one please share your Gmail address in the comments and ask! I will remove this line when I'm out of invites.
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Wow, I keep reading mixed reviews about Wave (mostly on the let down side). If you have any invites, would you mind? I'd love to try it myself: spanishcarlos[at]gmail[dot]com
@Carlos – keep an eye on that inbox in the next couple days. Merry Christmas!
I've heard so much about this…if you have any more invites I would love to try it: [email protected]
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Hey Arley – long time no chat!
Wondering what your Basecamp workflow for invoicing is? We're considering adopting Freshbooks, but the Basecamp import leaves some things out (sub-"to do"'s in particular) and I'm not achieving billing Nirvana. Drop us a line and we'll catch up.
@BJ, not sure! I've only used Basecamp once, and didn't get into Freshbooks. I think my colleague uses it exclusively, I'll see if I can get hom to weigh in!
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It felt like any other day for Dodge City High forward Isaac Palma until he stepped onto the pitch before Thursday's game against the Wichita Trinity Knights.
It felt like any other day for Dodge City High forward Isaac Palma until he stepped onto the pitch before Thursday's game against the Wichita Trinity Knights.
The sophomore forward had taken some words to heart from DCHS coach Charles Johnson about finishing scoring chances and wanted to help the team improve and show they were a better team than their records showed.
Palma recorded a hat trick before halftime and finished with five goals by the end of the match as the Red Demons burned the Knights 6-2.
"We were executing our passing and finding the open player," Palma said. "That's how we're supposed to play."
Johnson also said that Palma was the beneficiary of a team playing as well as capable when they followed their game plan.
"Isaac gets the credit and the team helped him out," Johnson said. "It's a matter of relying on each other. The guys worked their butts off and this is a result of all the hard work they put in."
Palma scored his first goal for Dodge City (6-7-1) in the 16th minute after Preston Miller of Trinity scored the opening tally six minutes earlier. Palma's second goal came in the 38th minute as the Red Demons passed the ball to the open man from one side of the field to the other and the sophomore scored from 15 yards; and his third goal came with 10 seconds left before intermission when he streaked past the Knights' defense and received a pass from Leonel Lopes.
The first goal for Palma after intermission came in the 55th on a free kick, and the final goal scored by the sophomore cane in the 73rd minute. Dodge City's other goal came in the 66th minute by Stephan Bohling in front of the goal after receiving a pass from Mario Lopez.
Ryan Miller scored the final goal of the game for Trinity in the 74th minute.
Dodge City hosts Wichita Heights in a Saturday affair at Memorial Stadium. The kickoff of the varsity game is scheduled for 1 p.m.


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There are no winners or losers in youth soccer — at least there shouldn't be below the 12-year-old level.
In line with a directive from the Canadian Soccer Association, Coastal FC has eliminated the "public display of scores" for any U12 and under teams in its annual Umbro Challenge Cup, which took place in Surrey May 17 to 19 with nearly 150 teams — of which more than 100 were U12 and younger. So while each U12 and below team played four games over the three-day tournament, winners and losers were never declared, there were no trophies or medals, and instead, everyone walked away with a tournament T-shirt.
"We need to sort of retrain the soccer community on what the values and goals are, with respect to the younger age groups," said Coastal FC's executive director Chris Murphy. "Sometimes with tournaments there's points and goals and differentials and all kinds of different math formulas that can shift them away from the game itself and more on the results and the outcomes for the purpose of trying to find a medal, or a placement at the end of the tournament."
"For us, it's more of a focus on the actual games ... it all comes down to the long-term player-development model."
By eliminating the results aspect of youth tournaments, Murphy is aiming to move coaches, teams, players and parents away from the "win at all costs" mentality.
"The management of games can oftentimes shift its focus away from the kids and the competition and be more about, 'Did we score enough goals? Did we win by a big enough margin?'" said Murphy. "Which then of course may mean that you played your best players more, or you've run up the score."
According to Colin Elmes of TSS Academy, it's the adults in particular who are guilty of "chasing results."
"The temperature goes up on the touch line from the parents, coaches' expectations go up and essentially it puts a whole bunch of stress and pressure and expectations on these young kids and they don't thrive well in those situations," he said. "It ruins it, really.
"The quality of the soccer frankly goes down the tube because everybody's just smashing the ball up the park."
As of May 2013, B.C. Soccer also stopped posting scores and standings from U12 and under tournaments.
"We have to get away from the win at all costs mentality — especially at U12," said long-term player development liaison Luca Dalla Pace. "Winning trophies and medals — that doesn't make you a good player."
The new approach instead "allows players to play stress-free, experiment on the field ... and make mistakes," he added. "Fear-free playing, a stress-free environment allows for the focus to be on development rather than winning."
According to Elmes, the recent uptake of the scoreless jamboree approach allows coaches and instructors to better do their jobs, which is to teach kids how to play soccer — as opposed to teaching them how to win.
"It's given the players an opportunity to express themselves without fear of being measured by the outcome of a soccer game every time they play," he said.
"(We're) changing the focus away from the recognition of a select few while others feel like they haven't met the standard," added Murphy. "(Instead, it's) an experience for players on both teams to be competitive and to have fun and to showcase their abilities and not worry so much about the final outcome."


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The Lipscomb University men's soccer team has been nominated for the 2008 NCAA Sportsmanship Award by the Atlantic Sun Conference at the request of Bradley University, a private college located in Peoria, Ill. On August 12, 2007, tragedy struck the Bradley community with the death of men's soccer player Danny Dahlquist, who died in a fire at his residence. His father Craig is the university's senior associate athletic director for compliance and finance, while his mother Patricia is a member of the school's English department. Among the many friends and well-wishers who provided the family and university with much-needed support through the tragic loss, one specific incident continues to stand out in the memory of Danny's parents and teammates.
As the Bradley community, and specifically the Bradley soccer team, limped its way through two weeks of preseason training, it became apparent that many individuals were affected by Danny's death. Support was tremendous as the soccer team prepared for its opening game on August 31 against Lipscomb University.
Returning to the field was hard for Bradley team members who, that evening for the first time, were able to view a memorial in Danny's locker as well as have a chance to spend a brief moment with Danny's parents. During the introduction of the starting line-ups, the Lipscomb soccer team presented Bradley players with a customized Lipscomb soccer game jersey bearing the name "Dahlquist" and his number "29" on the back. The jersey was autographed by each player on the Lipscomb team. It was obvious that this group of young men and the Lipscomb coaches anticipated the needs of the Bradley soccer team and shared their emotions in a sincere, respectful and considerate way.
In the words of Bradley Head Coach Jim DeRose, "The special gift and gesture made by Lipscomb was so genuine and deeply rooted in faith. Prior to the match, their coaching staff approached me and told me of their intentions, yet wanted to make the presentation in a manner that we were comfortable with. They were more than happy to make it privately in the locker room, have me present the jersey on their behalf to my team, or save it for some other time. Lipscomb wanted no publicity, no recognition; it was just their way of saying that we are all young men, student-athletes, and we share the same trials and tribulations.
"They just wanted us to know they were thinking of us. The presentation from their captains to our team of the #29 signed Lipscomb jersey brought tears no doubt, but in a way more than sympathy cards and prayers can do; the prayers and cards now had a face, a name, and it was fellow college student-athletes. In a hard fought 2-1 Bradley win, the post-game handshakes were something I will always remember. Every member of the Lipscomb team and travel party that shook my hand and that of my players, didn't say 'good game' as is traditional. They said, 'We are praying for you,' and 'our deepest condolences and sympathies,' and 'Thanks for having us at the tournament.' The 'thank you' is from Bradley to Lipscomb. On the night we returned to play soccer and began the healing process, I genuinely believe that there was a reason the opponent we played was Lipscomb. They represented their team, coaching staff and the institution in a manner that epitomizes what we hope for in all our young men and student-athletes."
According to Danny's parents, this quiet demonstration of respect to him, his family, and the Bradley soccer team and community has stuck with all of them. In the words of Danny's father Craig, "Seeing the jersey in the Bradley clubhouse is a reminder of how genuine the Lipscomb University players and coaches feelings were. Beyond the sporting event, it reminds us of everyone who has written and called since August 12, 2007."
"Our team did not make this presentation for personal recognition, but I'm pleased that the people at Bradley felt that some recognition was deserved. I know we are all very proud of the way our team represented Lipscomb University," said Steve Potts, former athletic director for Lipscomb University.


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The purpose of this lesson is to introduce students to the causes and effects of the Seminole Wars.
The Americans fought a series of wars against the Seminoles in the first half of the 19th century over three issues: trade, land, and slavery.
By the early 1800s, American settlement encroached on Creek and Seminole communities along the southern frontier. The Creeks and Seminoles desired trade with the French to the west, the Spanish in Florida, the British in the Caribbean, and the Americans to the north and east. The United States wanted Native Americans in the South to trade only with them. The U.S. was afraid that the Creeks and Seminoles would become potential military allies for the European nations.
The Americans wanted land for cotton agriculture grown using slave labor. Many slaves that fled plantations in the South sought refuge among the Seminoles in Florida. The Americans considered this a major problem and a threat to the institution of slavery. The Americans pressured the Seminoles to return the escaped slaves living among them.
Escaped slaves, or "Black Seminoles," enjoyed greater freedom among the Seminoles than African-American slaves laboring on southern plantations. Black Seminoles lived primarily in their own, independent towns, but in many cases maintained close ties to the Seminoles and later served as military allies in wars against the United States.
Conflict increased near the Georgia-Florida border in 1816 and 1817. Secretary of War John C. Calhoun ordered General Andrew Jackson to invade Spanish Florida and pursue the Seminoles. This became known as the First Seminole War.
With Jackson's invasion, Spain recognized that they were losing control of Florida. In 1819, Spain agreed to sell the territory to the United States. The transfer became official in 1821.
The U.S. government felt they needed to separate American and Seminole towns in Florida. In 1823, Seminole and American leaders met at Camp Moultrie. Some Seminoles agreed to move to land in central Florida. Many opposed the terms of the treaty.
In 1830, Congress passed the Indian Removal Act. It required Native Americans to leave the southeast and migrate west of the Mississippi River. Each tribe negotiated a separate treaty. Most Seminoles strongly opposed removal.
The treaty for Seminole removal was known as the Treaty of Payne's Landing. The Seminoles did not intend to abide by the agreement forced upon them.
On December 28, 1835, Major Francis Dade led troops north from Fort Brooke along the Fort King road. Suddenly, Seminole warriors ambushed Dade and his men. Within a few hours, all but three of the 110 American troops lay dead. This event was known as the Dade Massacre, or Dade's Battle. It ignited the Second Seminole War—the longest and costliest Indian war in United States history.
The Seminoles staged a series of raids on plantations in East Florida. Warriors burned plantations and liberated enslaved Africans. This created panic along the Florida frontier. Many settlers fled to nearby forts for protection.
The Second Seminole War lasted seven years and cost the United States an estimated $40 million. In response to the initial success of Seminole war tactics, the U.S. Army changed strategy. They searched out Seminole towns. They burned villages, destroyed crops, and stole livestock. Men, women and children were captured and imprisoned at Fort Brooke. Later they were deported to Indian Territory. The United States Army dubiously captured several Seminole leaders under flags of truce. These leaders included Osceola, Micanopy, and Coacoochee.
The Army declared an end to the war in 1842. Only 500-600 Seminoles remained in Florida. Before the war, the Seminole population was about 5,000.
Tensions persisted and nearly resulted in another war in the late 1840s. The Third Seminole War broke out in 1855. After the third war, an additional 160 Seminoles left Florida for the Indian Territory. At the end of the Seminole Wars in 1858, only about 200 Seminoles remained in Florida. The Seminoles rebuilt their communities. They became part of the economic and cultural development of the Florida frontier.


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"Having an elected official who lives in a fantasy world where facts are ignored is not a good thing."
Haha, the atheists have been saying that for awhile.
Does that evidence include that the MPAA and the RIAA have spent billions of dollars trying to make new laws for themselves? IF you've got billions to spend you're not suffering, the end.
If we define the rules of the war on piracy as "provide a better product at a fair price" then the MPAA is actually WINNING the war on piracy. Just look at the "movies" that you might download from PTB, the few I've checked out are an excessively huge download with a crappy "taped by a two year old" movie in it. An actual DVD has a far superior viewing experience, a mess of extras and can be watched for as low as a dollar due to rentals. Unless you reaaaaly hate paying for things or you live in uzbekistan or china or some such place where a US dollar is enough to kill someone for, pirating movies isn't likely to be something you do often.
The problem with that theory is that bittorent, any site that contains torrents or links to torrents, and every single torrent program will be one of the first things to be blocked because some torrents are infringing. Part of the problem with PIPA is that it doesn't have any provisions for proving content is infringing, just an accusation of infringement is enough. And absolutely anyone can make that accusation. If microsoft were to make the accusation that ubuntu.com contained so much as a link to a site that may contain a link to pirate content, poof, no more ubuntu.


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Dear Friends,
I have hesitated in sharing my thoughts on this sensitive issue because I decided, if you'll remember, to write about things that were not so significant. But also because it is so sacred to me and because it is not my intent to create ill will or cause argument on a topic which is difficult to many. I hope that my words may comfort any who sorrow.
Recently we went to see Fiddler on the Roof at the Centerpoint Theater. I think it might be my favorite musical ever. Even more favorite than Joseph and the Technicolor Dreamcoat if that's possible. The actor who played Tevye was the finest I have seen. Remember the part where he is looking up to God, talking to him and he says, "I know, I know. We are your chosen people. But, once in a while... can't you choose someone else?"
That brings me to how I feel about holding the priesthood. You've heard the joke: "I hold the priesthood... every night when I go to bed." Ha ha. Very funny. And yet, hardly a Sunday goes by when I don't think, "Whew! I will never be called to be bishop (or stake president or... president of the church, hallelujah)!" It is true, however, that women do serve in the church in many callings that are both challenging and infinitely rewarding. If we needed to hold the priesthood to fulfill these callings, we would be given the priesthood. I'm also not promising that women won't be ordained to the priesthood in the future. I don't know because I'm not in charge, thank goodness.
I have also heard it said that the reason men hold the priesthood is because they need it in order to develop characteristics that women have naturally, such as compassion. That may or may not be true. It is an explanation some have used to explain the doctrine. Well, here is another idea along that vein: perhaps the reason women do not "hold" the priesthood is because there are traits that we need to develop which both men and women are entreated to have, such as meekness and humility.
The priesthood is defined as "The authority to act in the name of God." When I was baptized and confirmed a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, through the priesthood of God, I took upon myself the name of Christ. Likewise, all actions I take or words I say or write are done, said and written in the name of Jesus, the Son of the Living God--my Savior and my Redeemer. I may not have been given the assignment to lay my hands on heads and give "blessings" but I am able to bless and serve in the Kingdom of God in numberless ways. When I do, write or say things that he would not have me do, write or say, I have "taken his name in vain."
But if I accept the assignments I am invited to take and serve in the ways I am asked to serve, I will be blessed beyond my ability to comprehend.
Perhaps we feel we need a particular blessing of the priesthood. Sometimes, as I'm sure you've learned, priesthood leaders cannot read our minds and we must ask for that blessing.
God is not trying to withhold blessings from his daughters. He loves us--beyond measure.
When the Savior(who is about his father's business) lived on the Earth, he sought to comfort and serve
women. He was often surrounded by women. The women who loved him took
great pains to provide for his temporal needs so that he could do his
work. It was a great honor for them to serve him. It was the way they
could show their love for him.
The last thing Jesus did in his mortal life was to ask his friend to care for his Mother.
Likewise, God has given the priesthood to his worthy and willing sons on this Earth specifically so that they would have additional ability to bless his daughters. And if those men are not worthy and willing, or if they do not do his will, they no longer have any power from him unless they repent and come unto him.
I do not write these words because they have been taught me by priesthood leaders in my church. I write these words because were given me through the Holy Spirit of God and I know in my heart and in my mind that they are true. I hope that you will ask for the spirit to help you be at peace with what is. That's what he does for his children. You are his child and he will give you this blessing.
Thursday, August 29, 2013
Women and The Priesthood in the LDS Church
3 comments:
- Melissa Price said...
I just love you! Well written, and I concur. :)
- September 16, 2013 at 11:47 AM
- Chris and Heather Miller said...
Have you read Sheri Dew's book? I haven't yet, but she spoke on this subject last year at Time Out for Women, and I just loved what she had to say, it made so much sense to me. I was excited to see she had written a book on the subject, and I hope to read it and find many of the same things she said last year.
- January 7, 2014 at 7:39 AM
- Pat Beadle said...
I also loved your comments and insight - I have felt the same way and just because I don't "hold the Priesthood" like my husband does it doesn't stop me from praying for those I love and care for - knowing my prayers are just as powerful as his in the sight of the Lord.
- August 4, 2018 at 11:50 AM
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The Point Waterfront Restaurant
I am a longtime restaurant and ski boat owner in the California Delta. I love the Delta and the people here. I am in the restaurant business because I grew up in it, my parents built and operated the restaurant from 1964 to 1994 when my wife and I took over. I also wanted to give my kids the opportunity to grow up right here and have as much fun as I did growing up. My wife is now the Harbor Master of a delta marina and I run the restaurant. I love boating and the water and from the restaurant we have some of the most beautiful views of the Delta you'll ever see. We serve Fresh seafood daily along with steaks, burgers, fish and chips and a calamari steak that some say is the best around. You can pull your boat right up to the dock in front of the restaurant and come in for lunch, dinner, brunch, cocktails or just to take a walk uptown to look around.
The Point Restaurant is a Polished Casual Restaurant on the Sacramento River in the California Delta. In the winter we do a good local business but in the summer and on holidays is when we are the busiest. The servers at lunch have been wearing polo's with our logo but we are phasing out the polo's and we will be going to a black "T" shirt, which the servers all voted on. We are trying to lighten up the day shift and get a little more colorful. We get alot of boat traffic and vacationeers through in the summer time so it is casual during the day at night the servers wear shirt and tie. We would like to proudly display our "T" shirts and are hoping that the vacationeers/boaters will want to take one home as a gift, keepsake or reminder of a "GREAT" stop and we hope they are worn over and over. We used to carry the polo's, tanks, tees, sweatshirts-hooded zippered, hooded pullover and crewneck pullover but have decided to eliminate everything but the "T" shirt, eventually we will carry white and black.
I would like a design for the back of a "T" shirt preferably one that would go on both black and white background. I have in mind lots of color and I am especially enamored with the maui Jim tshirt design. There is lots of blue in the restaurant and our logo has lots of blue, some red and 2 shades of green, there is one palm tree and a pennant waving on top of the channel room which is a circular bar with awesome views of the river. I have envisioned a fast boat with the bow slightly elivated cutting through the water with possibly palms in the background and a small blue pennant waving from the stern with maybe some sun rays coming down, if the suns rays are too much its ok to leave them out. If you can somehow incorporate the channel room that would be great you can find a picture at http://www.pointrestaurant.com Maybe instead of the suns rays there could be some sunset color in the background, looking at the restaurant from the river side you are looking almost directly west.
Our tag line is
Get to The Point !!! and I"m thinking it would go best under the picture, the 3 exclamation marks have the pennants waving on top. Possibly under that you might put California Delta although that might be too much. When i say pennant I am refering to a small long triangular shaped flag. On the front of the tshirt upper left I would like in very readable script
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Note: The following website contains footage of alleged tests taking place at a Lenovo research facility. The producer of this site has no opinion pertaining to the authenticity of the media.
Earlier this year some very interesting tapes were handed to me from a long standing acquaintance of mine. The tapes originated at a Lenovo (the Chinese company that recently took over IBM Thinkpad) research facility and appear to feature test footage. When my acquaintance watched the tapes back, he found some footage that he just had to get it out into the public domain. I've watched the material myself and I've got to agree with him – it's pretty amazing stuff.
There are nine tapes in total, featuring hours of footage - most of which consists of an empty room with not much going on. I've sifted through most of the film and pulled off some of the most interesting sections I have found. Assuming Lenovo haven't freaked and threatened to sue me, I'll post some more soon.
I've read just about the entire Lenovo site and although they state that they are a global leader in the PC market who develops, manufactures and markets cutting-edge, reliable, high-quality PC products, blah, blah, blah… the tests that appear to have been recorded here are taking things to a whole new level.
Do Lenovo intend to release this technology on the market or are these concept laptops to show what they can do? I've done some internet research of my own and found some interesting stuff, have a look
at my links page.
To protect his identity, my acquaintance asked me not to mention where the test facility is or disclose any information about the company he works for, so please don't track me down and ask me, OK?
The first few minutes of footage on this tape are as dull as hell.
The engineers are just setting up the test. Then this happens…
This is special. I nearly spilled coffee over myself when I saw this.
This one will blow your socks off. I found it on the 3rd tape.
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US Drug Watchdog is incredibly focused on making certain all US victims of a transvaginal mesh, tape or sling failure get to the best possible attorneys-who will all be women. According to court records, "Transvaginal mesh, tape or bladder sling failure occurs when the mesh fails to bind to a woman's pelvic tissues. As a consequence of this, the body rejects the mesh that has been sewn into it. As a result, the transvaginal mesh may start to poke its way through the vaginal wall and protrude out of the vaginal tissue. This complication is more commonly referred to as "erosion." The US Drug Watchdog's initiative is designed to assist any women in the US, who is a victim of a transvaginal mesh, tape or bladder sling failure, and the group will provide all women victims with the specific contacts of national caliber attorneys-who are all women. No other group in the US offers this service. For more information women, who are now victims of a transvaginal mesh, tape, or sling failure are urged to call the US Drug Watchdog anytime at 866-714-6466. http://USDrugWatchdog.Com
According to the New York Times, "In 2010 185,000 US women had a surgical procedure involving a transvaginal mesh. That was 2010 alone."
The US Drug Watchdog is indicating symptoms of a transvaginal mesh, tape, or sling failure may include:
& Pain during sexual intercourse caused by erosion.
The US Drug Watchdog says, "One of the biggest problems we have with respect to our failed medical device or recalled drug initiative work is the average US consumer never hears about a drug recall or failures involving medical devices like a transvaginal mesh, tape, or sling failure. If you have a friend, or loved one who is a recipient of a transvaginal mesh, tape, or sling type product that has already failed or is showing symptoms of a failure, please have them call us at 866-714-6466. We want to make certain all women, who are transvaginal mesh failure victims get to the best possible attorneys, to ensure they get the best possible compensation for their ordeal, and we will do our absolute best to make certain all of the attorneys are women." http://USDrugWatchdog.Com
U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia Multidistrict litigation (MDL) consolidates all similar cases into one courtroom and will include the Defendants:
C.R. Bard, Inc., (MDL No. 2187);
American Medical Systems Inc., MDL No. 2325);
Boston Scientific Corp., (MDL No. 2326); and Johnson & Johnson's Ethicon, Inc. (MDL No. 2327)
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So my favorite place to go in Rochester is LUX. It's located at 666 south ave and two of the bartenders have pit's. In fact one of them technically introduced my significant other and I. His name is Havoc and he's the resident bar dog.
They have a nice backyard too where dogs of all shapes and sizes play during nice weather. I suggest Checking it out with out your dog first to see what's normally there on the night you're thinking about going. Think like you were going to a dog park when deciding if it's a place that you're dog will do well at.
They are big dog lovers, and pit supporters. Great place to support.


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It has specially designed entertainment areas, guest houses and restaurants where many conventions, such as the convention of mushroom lovers (the area has a great variety of mushrooms) have been hosted and is ideal for many activities such as mountaineering, 4x4 routes, mountain biking, trekking and horse riding. Also the scattered pathways are well maintained, formed and marked, therefore do not let the hikers to get lost. Through one of these pathways you can reach the imposing waterfall of Livaditis which is the largest in the Balkans and has 40m height. The waterfall of Livaditis is accessible from pathway "E6" and is of unique natural beauty all year long. The image of a frozen waterfall in winter doesn't leave visitors unaffected.
In Livaditis is Chaintous forest with Arkoudorema, an area of great beauty and ecological importance that has been proclaimed as museum of nature and has trees which are more than 200 years of old. If you visit the area by the end of June do not miss to go to the annual Sarakatsan reunion where you can see traditional customs which are in harmony with the nature and history of the area, as well as natural scenery.
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The common vision: Nimble Internet startups were destined to sweep through academia, the last walled garden, just as they had in the worldwide media markets years earlier.
In retrospect, the hyperbole and excitement around MOOCs was understandable. While "online education" -- broadly defined as a class delivered in part or whole across a computer network -- goes back decades, the scale of MOOCs, in which a single course can attract a quarter-million students, was new and breathtaking.
Most histories of MOOCs start with the 2008 course "Connectivism and Connective Knowledge," created by George Siemens, then an associate director for research and development with the Learning Technologies Center at the University of Manitoba, and Stephen Downes, an online learning and new media designer and commentator.
The course content was available through RSS feeds, and students could participate via threaded discussions in Moodle, blog posts, Second Life or synchronous online meetings. The course was taken by 25 tuition-paying students at the University of Manitoba; another 2,300 members of the general public registered for the course online, free of charge.
[ Incremental revolution: MOOCs Lead Duke To Reinvent On-Campus Courses. ]
The current surge in interest in MOOCs began in 2011 after Sebastian Thrun and Peter Norvig attracted 160,000 students to a free online course on artificial intelligence, based on a course they had taught together at Stanford. Norvig is Google's director of research, and Thrun until recently ran GoogleX, the innovation lab behind the self-driving car and the Google Glass wearable computer. Thrun went on to found Udacity, which along with rivals Coursera and EdX began offering large-scale courses in early 2012. Udacity produces its own courses, primarily on math and technology topics, while Coursera and EdX work with university partners and cover a broader range of subjects.
How the massive amounts of data pulled from these platforms can be used to iterate courses or inform pedagogy per se is an area of intense work by MOOC vendors and academic researchers alike.
As Coursera co-founder Andrew Ng is fond of pointing out, the MOOC has collected more educational data in one year than all the universities in the history of mankind. Coursera claims more than 4 million registered students.
Speaking at the KDD-2013 Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining in Chicago this August, Ng described an online machine learning course, in which 2,000 students submitted exactly the same wrong answer because they reversed the order of two steps.
Such errors can be found and addressed, Ng said, adding this wouldn't be feasible for a class with 100 students.
Even harsh critics of MOOCs like Kenneth C. Green, founding director of the Campus Computing Project, think the MOOC vendors are onto something here, if they can use their scale to garner important data about student activities and outcomes.
"They're doing the best research in technology-aided education," he said. "If you have 150 students, and 2% miss something, it's easy to say it's a student issue. But if you have 10,000 and 2% miss something, that can be a catalyst for discussion."
A second defining characteristic of MOOCs has been their "open" aspect.
Traditional online instruction has been aimed at enrolled, paying students and offered for credit. Take George Washington University's online MBA healthcare degree, which costs the same as the standard, on-campus program.
Likewise, Howard University announced plans this summer to dramatically expand its online education offerings in a partnership with Pearson. But Howard University Online (HU-Online) will be degree-bearing and paid. Howard has no interest in MOOCs.
MOOCs, by definition, are free and open to all comers. A single course may include high schoolers, retirees, faculty, enrolled students and working professionals. Designing a course for this diverse student population is a challenge, as is making these courses "sticky" to the end. It comes as no surprise that while initial registrations for a MOOC can be enormous -- tens of thousands of sign-ups are common -- they tend to have much lower completion rates (typically in the high single digits) than credit-bearing, paid courses for enrolled college students.


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LONDON (MarketWatch) — European stocks edged lower Monday, with shares of budget airline EasyJet PLC moving into the red, but the end of the second quarter marked a gain for the region's key equity index.
Closing the books on the second quarter, the Stoxx Europe 600 SXXP, +0.67% finished up by 2.3%,its fourth straight quarter of gains.
For the daily session, the Stoxx 600 fell less than a point to 341.86, but it had logged deeper losses in the wake of a Eurostat report that inflation in the euro zone remained stable at 0.5% in June from the same level in May. The reading missed forecasts of 0.6%.
The European Central Bank recently launched measures aimed at boosting inflation levels in the euro-zone area.
RBC Capital Markets said it was "hard to conceive" the June inflation data "as being anything other than (at very best) neutral, to slightly negative, for policy." The next monetary policy statement from the ECB will arrive on Thursday. Its staff has projected inflation in the euro zone reaching 0.7% in 2014.
"[B]arring any dramatic divergence from the ECB's baseline outlook, we think the Governing Council is on the sidelines for the next few months until such time as it is possible to form some kind of tentative judgments on the effects of the most recent package of measures," said RBC Capital's chief European economist James Ashley in a report.
The preliminary June data showed the weak inflation level largely was due to food, alcohol and tobacco prices, which fell 0.2% in June.
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Concept cars can be an early look at what will soon roll off a production line or a wild design focused purely on the bleeding edge of a brand's technology. Concepts falling into both of these categories were featured at this year's LA Auto Show in CA. Going even greener and sporty compact SUVs were the trend. While there were many concepts across the major brands we focused on the euro-minded offerings. See for yourself below.
Mercedes-Benz AMG Vision Gran Turismo
Holy smokes, Batman! Behind the wildly smooth lines of this AMG Vision GT showstopper is a video game heart. Created for Sony Playstation 4's Gran Turismo 6, this concept will live digitally in the much-anticipated racing simulator that features almost 1200 cars.
Kazunori Yamauchi, Polyphony Digital CEO and Gran Turismo 6 creator said, "All of the Mercedes design centers around the globe (Japan, China, Korea, Europe, North America) created over 100 different designs for the Vision Gran Turismo Concept."
Mercedes-Benz GLA45 AMG Concept
As more and more brands step into the compact SUV segment, Mercedes showed off a sportier variant in conjunction with AMG. An AMG 2.0L turbocharged engine with an output of 355hp and 332 lb-ft of torque equates to 0-60mph in less than five seconds. All-wheel drive and an AMG Speedshift DCT 7-speed sports transmission is icing on this concept cake.
Tobias Moers, Chairman of the Board of Management of Mercedes-AMG GmbH said, "With this concept, we are setting a stake firmly in the ground of the strongly growing market segment of compact SUVs. Our customers – a young target group who set great store by styling, dynamism and independence – can now start looking forward to a dynamic high-performance car. The most powerful four-cylinder engine in the world and the AMG Performance 4MATIC all-wheel drive system add up to make the Concept GLA45 AMG a unique proposition."
Volkswagen Design Vision GTI Concept
Is a 500hp powerplant with DSG transmission and AWD the future of a VW GTI R model? Performance and styling cues from this Design Vision GTI concept are said to be inspiration for future production generations. Christian Buhlmann, spokesperson for Volkswagen A.G., elaborated on this topic:
"What we envision is the single idea of what can carry over into the series or into the aftermarket and customization of the GTI. The GTI is the idea of making a hot hatch (beginning in 1976). This is the 7th generation and finally with this vehicle we have brought all of these ideas together. The strong C-pillar, for instance, is lifted out of the body. We have a 3.0L V6 TSI that has been double charged, so it has 500hp - those are ideas to be carried over. The engine is based on the modular toolkit MQB - 40 different models are based on the MQB. Everything is very tight, which makes you feel like you are sitting in a race car but it still has the abilities of an everyday car. This is not for serious production right away, but over time and for different purposes such as the race track."
Volkswagen CrossBlue Coupe Concept
This hybrid midsized SUV concept fits between the VW Tiguan and the Touareg in terms of positioning. The CrossBlue Concept showcases the brand's focus towards the midsize segment it currently does not hold stake in. Expect a similar type of production variant in the $30000 range for North America in the future.
Christian Buhlmann, spokesperson for Volkswagen A.G. said, "It is a parallel hybrid, which means you can run the components individually. You don't have to put the power into one system; actually you can decouple for instance the V6 engine and only have the electrical drivetrain or combine both together. This is more efficient than power split hybrids Japanese makes do. The same is true for the all-wheel drive, which functions electrically and therefore you save tunnel space for the battery."
BMW X4 Concept
Here is another powerful concept built for the compact SUV market. Combining the performance of a BMW Coupe with added versatility created a sleek look at the soon-to-come future production model. There is no denying the X4 Concept's aggressive stance, distinguished lines and captivating color.
Jaguar C-X17 Concept
The C-X17 is one more luxury crossover concept that has been making appearances across the globe's auto shows. Displayed in white for its North American unveil at the LA Auto Show, it has not been given the official green light just yet but count on something similar coming to market down the road. Jaguar does not currently offer a sport crossover vehicle and its competition is or will be so chances are very high that we will see something similar on the road.


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Fort Moultrie and the Battle of Sullivans Island
Fort Moultrie and the Battle of Sullivans Island
By the early 1770's, with a full century of settlement behind it, Charleston had come into its own as a thriving urban center. Its 12,000 residents-- the half of whom who were white--looked optimistically to the future. Henry Laurens, for instance, was a saddler's son who, through reasonably hard work as a merchant, amassed more than 20,000 acres. This was a young society, enthusiastic and on the move, a mixture of nationalities and cultural styles. "The people of Charleston," wrote a visitor to that colonial metropolis, "live rapidly, not willingly letting go untasted any of the pleasures of life."
"View of Charleston" c.1771, by Thomas Leitch. Courtesy Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts
Increasingly, Charleston's planters, merchants, and aristocrats chafed under the distant British domination. Needing funds to maintain its far-flung army and navy after the French and Indian War, Britain had heightened its mercantilistic policies of taxation on the colonies and restriction of American manufacturing. As the years went by, the Crown's directives accumulated-- the Sugar Act, the Stamp Act, the Quartering Act, the Townsend Duties, and the Tea Act. The city's large body of artisans, many of whom operated their own enterprises, took a dim view of these controls. Clothiers and carpenters, chandlers and coachmakers, bricklayers and gunsmiths, and a host of other artisans hated a system that jammed British products down their throats.
The antagonisms took on a momentum of their own. As early as 1768, Charlestonians had gathered under the Liberty Oak "in Mr. Mazyck's pasture" (near present-day 80 Alexander St.). In September 1774, five Charleston representatives journeyed north to Philadelphia and took part in the First Continental Congress. A month later Charleston threw a Boston-like Tea Party where, "with ominous dignity," patriots suggested that local importers of British East Indian Tea might want to dump that tea into the harbor-- and they did.
The lines were drawn. A Provincial Congress controlled by patriots met in January 1775 and assumed legislative authority in the Lowcountry. On May 8, Charleston received word of the confrontation in April at Lexington and Concord. Patriots and Loyalists, rich and poor, planter and journeyman, suddenly realized that for better or worse, the time for fighting was upon them. Throughout the Fall of 1775, Charlestonians worked to drive two British sloops from the harbor. Cannon appeared on the waterfront where old warehouses had been. Patriots seized Fort Johnson, located southeast of the city on James Island. A heavy battery went up across the water at Haddrell Point, and when a crew began to place guns at the mouth of the harbor on Sullivans Island, the British ships--with the last Royal Governor on board--sailed away.
Despite such initial rebuffs throughout the Colonies, the British devised a plan that they hoped would cripple resistance to the Crown. The bulk of the British forces in America, commanded by Sir William Howe, would march against the middle colonies. A smaller Southern force would consist of units dispatched from Howe's army, additional troops from England that would sail directly to the Carolinas, and a large number of Southern Loyalists who would help the cause on their own ground. Howe selected Maj. Gen Henry Clinton to lead the Southern Expedition. Sir Peter Parker was named to command the expedition's naval force gathering at Cork, Ireland. In late January, Clinton sailed from Boston with 1,500 men, bound for Cape Fear on the coast of North Carolina. When Clinton reached the Cape Fear River in March, he learned that a sizable body of North Carolina Loyalists had been soundly defeated at Moore's Creek Bridge on Feb. 27th. Clinton reviewed the British plan and waited for Parker, who arrived in early May. Their eyes now turned toward Charleston.
"General William Moultrie" by Rembrandt Peale. Courtesy The Gibbes Museum of Art/ Carolina Art Association
By February 1776, John Rutledge had returned to Charleston from a long session with the Continental Congress. He brought back warnings of a British move in the South. Rutledge was soon elected president of a newly formed General Assembly that became and remained the backbone of South Carolina's revolutionary government. Under his leadership, Charleston steadily strengthened its defenses. Rutledge placed the direction of the city's military preparations in the hands of 46-year-old Col. William Moultrie, former militiaman and Indian fighter. In early March 1776, Moultrie was ordered to Sullivans Island to supervise the building of a "large fort" there. From the beginning, the fortification was intended for seacoast defense. Its purpose was to make an invasion as costly as possible, or, better still, to prevent an invader from landing at all. Since such a fixed defensive position could not reasonably be expected to annihilate the enemy, the fort would have to be backed up by inland troops and a well-armed city.
Sullivans Island was thought to be the key to the geographically shielded harbor. A large vessel sailing into Charleston first had to cross the Charleston Bar, a series of submerged sand banks lying about 8 miles southeast of the city. A half-dozen channels penetrated the bar, but only the southern pair could be navigated by deep-draft ships. A broad anchorage called Five Fathom Hole lay between the bar and Morris Island. Although part of the sand bank would later provide the site for Ft. Sumter, it's main significance in the early years lay in its existence as an obstacle that influenced defensive strategy within the harbor. Just a thousand yards north of that shoal loomed the crucial southern end of Sullivans Island.
During the next weeks, Moultrie's work gangs cut thousands of spongy palmetto logs and rafted them over from the other sea islands and the mainland. As the fort took shape, its design was likened to "an immense pen 500 feet long, and 16 feet wide, filled with sand to stop the shot." The workers constructed gun platforms out of 2-inch planks and nailed them together with spikes. Moultrie himself concluded that "everyone was busy, and everything went on with great spirit."
By mid-May, Charlestonians received word of the formidable British fleet massing at Cape Fear. Late in May, the frigate Sphinx and the schooner Pensacola Packet sailed from Cape Fear to reconnoiter Charleston Harbor. When five of Moultrie's men went out to the frigate in one of his barges, the British hoisted the barge " with sails standing athwart the Bowsprit of the Man of War and hung it there for a whole day." This inglorious "hanging" was meant by the British to impress the townspeople as a "way of Bravado or perhaps as an innuendo of what they would do with the owner, if they could lay their hands on him." After this display, Sphinx and her tender confidently returned north. Patriots grimly realized that the main fleet would soon arrive.
On board the flagship Bristol, Clinton and Parker debated the fleet's future operations. New information concerning "the works erected by the Rebels of Sullivans Island" indicated that the fort was still in an imperfect and unfinished state." Parker proposed to "attempt the reduction of that Fortress by a coup de main." When Sphinx and Pensacola Packet returned from their reconnaissance, the British made their move. The fleet weighed anchor on May 30, crossed Cape Fear Bar, and stood to the south.
Patriot couriers brought word to Charleston on May 31 that British vessels were seen near Dewees Island, 20 miles away. On June 1, the fleet finally appeared and "displayed about fifty sail before the town, on the out side of the bar." The ships had been long expected, but their actual presence was, nevertheless, frightening. Moultrie described their effect on Charlestonians: "The sight of these vessels alarmed us very much, all was hurry and confusion, the president with his council busy in sending expresses to every part of the country, to hasten down the militia; men running about the town looking for horses, carriages and boats to send their families into the country; and as they were going out through the town gates to go into the country, they met the militia from the country marching into town..."
Among those marching in was Gen. Charles Lee and 2,000 soldiers from North Carolina and Virginia dispatched by George Washington to assist in Charleston's defense. Washington considered Lee "the first officer in military knowledge we have in the whole army." His appearance in Charleston boosted morale immensely, and Rutledge put him in command of all South Carolina troops. After viewing Charleston's defenses, however, Lee's private worries mounted. He found that Moultrie commanded only 31 cannon and a garrison of less than 400 men.
The square-shaped fort, completed only on the seaward front, presented no invincible image. Palmetto walls, 16 feet wide and filled with sand, rose 10 feet above wooden platforms for the soldiers and their guns. A hastily erected palisade of thick planks helped guard the powder magazine and the unfinished northern curtains. A motley assortment of hard-to-get cannon, ranging from 9- and 12-pounders to English 18-pounders and French 26-pounders, dotted the breastworks, the southeast and southwest walls, and the corner bastions.
Arrayed against Moultrie and Lee were the vessels of Sir Peter Parker's fleet, including transports, victuallers, service vessels, and nine Men of War-- Bristol, Experiment, Actaeon, Active, Solebay, Syren, Sphinx, Friendship, and the bomb-vessel Thunder-- together mounting nearly 300 heavy guns. When a visitor to the fort pointed to the British fleet, Moultrie replied, "We should beat them." "Sir," the visitor said, "when those ships come to lay aside your fort, they will knock it down in half an hour!" Moultrie answered coldly, "We will lay behind the ruins and prevent their men from landing." Lee did not share Moultrie's confidence. He privately referred to the fort as a "slaughter pen" of sand and logs, yet Rutledge refused to let him abandon it. Lee ordered Moultrie to build a breastwork of sand inside the works, in case the British stormed the fort. One day while inspecting it, Lee brusquely took Moultrie aside and asked him directly: "Do you think you can maintain this post?" "Yes, I think I can," came the reply.
On June 8, after most of the British fleet had crossed the bar and anchored in Five Fathom Hole, Clinton delivered a proclamation to the patriots. He wished "to entreat and exhort them, as they tender their own happiness and that of their posterity, to return to their duty to our common sovereign." Rutledge rejected this plea. A day later, Clinton and 500 soldiers landed on Long Island (today called Isle of Palms, just north of Sullivans Island), and on June 10 Parker's 50-gun flagship, Bristol, and the last of his deep-draft transports crossed Charleston Bar. Over the following days, Clinton increased his force on Long Island. His plan was to cross The Breach, an inlet between Long Island and Sullivans island, and attack the fort from its unfinished rear while Parker's ships assaulted it from the sea. On June 20, Clinton sent Maj. Gen. Charles Cornwallis' brigade-- Cornwallis' first large command of the war--to pitch camp within sight of The Breach. But now Clinton received disappointing news: the depth of The Breach at ebb tide, first reported to be only half-a-yard, was in reality seven feet. And to defend against an island-to-island crossing, Moultrie had already stationed an Advance Guard of 400 men on that end of Sullivans Island. So the British strategy changed: Clinton sent notice to Parker that he was considering using boats to land his troops inside the harbor, near Haddrell Point, or even on the southern end of Sullivans Island. Parker's ships would penetrate the harbor, level the fort, and try to support Clinton's amphibious assault.
The British and the patriots were as ready as they could reasonably hope to be. The 50-gun ship Experiment crossed Charleston Bar and joined Parker's fleet on the morning of June 27. Charles Lee kept a steady stream of advice flowing to Moultrie. That night, word circulated through the British fleet that "no quarter would be given the Americans, and that 5,000 pounds had been offered for General Lee." Events pointed toward the 28th as the fateful day.
At 9 a.m., June 28, Parker fired a signal gun. An hour later his warships advanced. The move caught Moultrie conferring with Thomson's Advance Guard, but when lookouts raised the cry that the men-of-war were coming, Moultrie galloped back to the fort. Lee was at that moment attempting to cross from the mainland to the island, but rough water forced his small boat back. Lee had spent the first half of the morning in Charleston where he had notified Rutledge that he would replace Moultrie with Col. Francis Nash unless Moultrie carried out his orders. Now, however, there remained no time for such dickering. From his vantage point across The Cove, Lee watched the British ships maneuver into firing position.
Thunder and Friendship anchored one and one-half miles from the fort. Four ships -- Active, Bristol, Experiment, and Solebay -- took positions about 400 yards out in a line west to east opposite most of the fort's cannon. The British moved slowly and confidently, fueling the fears of Charlestonians that Parker's looming men-of-war could "knock the town about our ears, notwithstanding our batteries." At 11:30, gunners aboard Thunder began to loft 13-inch mortar bombs toward the fort. Moultrie's men began firing on Active, the first ship within range, and hit her four or five times. Than came the British broadsides, loud and powerful. Lee called them "the most furious and incessant fires I ever saw or heard." Parker's frigates -- Sphinx, Syren, and Actaeon -- now sought to take advantage of this cover fire and sailed past the fort toward The Cove, planning to take up a position from whence they could both attack the fort from its weak side and isolate the island from the mainland. It was a momentous move, yet it failed. The ships' pilots, unfamiliar with the harbor, ran their ships aground on Charleston's infamous sand banks.
Inside the fort, gun crews labored furiously to return the British fire. Moultrie termed the situation "one continual blaze and roar," with clouds of smoke curling over...for hours together." The garrison had enough powder on hand for only 28 rounds per gun. Lieutenant Byrd was soon sent to inform Lee of this shortage. The patriots quickly abandoned three poorly-protected 12-pounders west of the fort, but the main walls of sand and spongy palmetto wood stood up well and smothered most of the British bombs before they could explode. Many of the American casualties came from direct hits through the embrasures. The first man killed, Cpl. Samuel Yarbury, was rolled off the platform amid epithets of revenge. About 3 pm, Moultrie received a dismaying report that Clinton had landed successfully on Sullivan's Island.
The information proved false. On the contrary, the Advance Guard troops had prevented Clinton from doing anything. Although Clinton had long since commenced bombardment of the patriots' position, he knew that the grounding of the three frigates limited his options. When Clinton finally began to move toward The Breach with armed schooners and infantry, the Americans halted their advance. American artillery raked the British decks, and most of Clinton's foot soldiers never made it to The Breach. A young North Carolinian named Morgan Brown described this engagement: "Our rifles were in prime order, well proved and well charged; every man took deliberate aim at his object...The fire taught the enemy to lie closer behind their bank of oyster shells, and only show themselves when they rose up to fire." Clinton judiciously held his position until nightfall, then canceled any further attacks. A British crewman onboard the schooner later wrote: " It was impossible for any set of men to sustain so destructive a fire as the Americans poured in... on this occasion."
On right & below left: "The Unsuccessful Attack on the Fort on Sullivan's Island" by Henry Gray. Courtesy The Gibbes Museum of Art/ Carolina Art Association
The battle at the fort was more closely drawn. By mid-afternoon the British had refloated Sphinx and Syren, although Actaeon remained aground. These two ships joined the general bombardment of the fort, which at one point "gave the merlons such a tremor" that Moultrie grew "apprehensive that a few more such would tumble them down." In the midst of the battle, when a British projectile broke the fort's flagstaff, Sgt. William Jasper "leapt over the ramparts" and , in the words of Captain Horry, "deliberately walked the whole length of the fort, until he came to the colors on the extremity of the left, when he cut off the same from the mast, and called to me for a sponge staff, and with a thick cord tied on the colors and stuck the staff on the rampart in the sand. The sergeant fortunately received no hurt, though exposed for a considerable time, to the enemy's fire."
Moultrie ordered his gun captains to concentrate their fire on Bristol and Experiment. Men all along the platform cried, "mind the Commodore, mind the two fifty gun ships." As American shot ploughed into these men-of-war, Moultrie grew more positive that Parker "was not at all obliged to us for our particular attention to him." Indeed, one round on the Bristol's quarterdeck rendered Sir Peter's "Britches...quite torn off, his backside laid bare, his thigh and knee wounded." In the afternoon's oppressive heat many of the fort's garrison shed their coats. When an exploding bomb slung one of the cast-off coats into a nearby tree, a rumor spread among the British fleet that it was an American deserter, hanged as an example to his fellow soldiers.
Lee visited the fort at 4 p.m. to "encourage the garrison by his presence." About this time another 700 pounds of powder reached the defenders. The powder was more necessary than Lee's presence, as the general soon recognized. Walking about the platform, Lee found the men "determined and cool to the last Degree, their behavior would in fact have done honors to the oldest troops." Lee redirected several of the guns, then said to Moultrie: "Colonel, I see you are doing very well here, and you have no occasion for me, so I will go up to town again."
With the extra powder, the patriots fired until sunset and even afterwards sent their shot into the British ships with deliberate regularity. By 9 p.m. Parker had had enough and withdrew to lick his wounds.The reports came in. Onboard Bristol, 40 were dead and 71 wounded. The ship itself was hit 70 times, with "much damage in her Hull, Yards, and Rigging"; Experiment also suffered: 23 dead, 56 wounded. There were 15 casualties on board Active and Solebay. Against such heavy losses the fort sustained 25 wounded and a dozen killed. The battle of Sullivans Island had required just a single day to play itself out. On the morning of June 29 the British set the grounded Actaeon afire and abandoned it. The Americans added insult to defeat by sailing out to the burning ship and briefly firing several of its guns at the departing Bristol. After the eager defenders returned to shore, Actaeon exploded, sending up an inferno which seemed to Moultrie "a grand pillar of smoke, which soon expanded itself at the top, and to appearance, formed the figure of a palmetto tree."
The British had used 32,000 pounds of powder, the Americans less than 5,000. Moultrie's men later searched Sullivans Island and "gathered up more shot, from 24-pounders down to the smallest size, than they had fired. The fort still stood, as squat and unimposing as ever, but British shot had destroyed almost all of the island's huts and trees. Parker and Clinton evacuated the area in late July and began to blame each other for their defeat. Lee blamed no one but himself for doubting: "The behavior of the Garrison, both men and officers, with Col. Moultrie at their head, I confess, astonished me." President Rutledge gave his sword to Sergeant Jasper; Moultrie was later promoted to general, and the fort was named in his honor.
The engagement at Sullivans Island assumed unquestioned importance. Within days of the battle came the signing of the Declaration of Independence. The June 28 victory stood as a kind of physical Declaration, an early sign of the American capacity to oppose the British at arms. As historian Edward C. Bearss has observed: "So far in 1776 General Washington had accomplished little beyond hurrying Howe's evacuation of Boston. The American army sent to overrun and occupy Canada had collapsed. Now came word of a victory from the south. Not only had the British been repulsed before Sullivans Island, but they had given up their initial attempt to carry the war to the southern colonies."
The upsetting of British plans in the South helped win uncommitted Americans to the struggle for independence. It also enabled the Southern colonies to support vital campaigns in the north. Most directly and significantly, the American triumph at Sullivans Island helped keep an important Southern port free from British occupation for more than three years.
Acknowledgements The text of this essay is adapted from Fort Moultrie: Constant Defender, Official National Park Handbook 136, by Jim Stokley. Used courtesy National Park Service. Map of Fort Moultrie and Sullivans Island used courtesy of the Library of Congress. Watercolor (details) by Lt. Henry Gray of the 2nd South Carolina Regiment. Gray witnessed the Battle of Sullivans Island and continued his military career until May 12, 1780 when he was captured
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