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HE'LL GET IT RIGHT SOONER OR LATER: UTB-TSC PARTNERSHIP NOT OVER, YET
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuw5CLY0f4GKVwMHE7-3iEv_WVI44orH2lzUMJgjQE4e3grOxGMYB0Q6omnFvFdLwMRRl2yo3t9fdXLUpd686UgkPNmU0JZhzBth8PhkRnMmicPMW8bYrdX6dePL6HZaXPYWMoSgUTrHU/s1600/diplom.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuw5CLY0f4GKVwMHE7-3iEv_WVI44orH2lzUMJgjQE4e3grOxGMYB0Q6omnFvFdLwMRRl2yo3t9fdXLUpd686UgkPNmU0JZhzBth8PhkRnMmicPMW8bYrdX6dePL6HZaXPYWMoSgUTrHU/s640/diplom.JPG" width="283" /></a></div>By <b>Juan Montoya</b><br /><br /><b> </b><br /><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Even when they try to correct a screw-up, the crew at the University of Texas-Texas Southmost College "partnership" just seem to keep digging their hole deeper. </div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Take, for example, the email sent by <i>UTB-</i><i>T</i>SC Provost Alan Artibise Dec. 19 to the 1,400 <i>UTB-TSC</i> graduates apologizing for the badly-managed commencement ceremonies where graduates and their families could not find parking spaces and found chaos when they tried to find out where their class commencement would be held.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Artibise defends the mess that resulted by saying that this was only the second time that the ceremonies had been held indoors due to inclement weather. He also says that college and university personnel had been informed before hand on the proper procedures to follow.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">This, of course, is a small consolation to the students and families that had to put up with this amateurish performance on the past of the university administration.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">But perhaps the most glaring oversight is Artibise's premature tendency to call the students UTB graduates and to identify himself as the UTB Provost. </div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">After all, the "partnership" will not dissolve until 2015 and â€" like it or not â€" will remain <i>UTB-TSC</i> until then. We don't blame the man for trying to bolt early, but since we are still paying for his services, perhaps just a slight acknowledgement that he still works for the partnership would not be too much to ask. </div>Would it now?<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6016803033174468094-3391945834250679725?l=rrunrrun.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>
LINK: http://rrunrrun.blogspot.com/2011/12/hell-get-it-right-sooner-or-later-utb.html
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SOROLA CRIES FOUL, CASCOS FETES HIS DEMOCRATIC OPPONENT
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By <strong>Juan Montoya</strong><br />When Tony Garza, the first Republican county judge since Reconstruction, pulled off an upset of Ray Ramon in 1988, he did so with the endorsement of three Democrats sitting with him on the county commission. Garza went on to reelection before leaving office midway through his term to join then-Texas Governor George W. Bush as his Secretary of State.<br />When Garza left, he earned the scorn and disdain of die-hard Republicans like Frank Yturria and GOP chairman Frank Norris who though that he was putting his personal political aspirations above the task of solidifying a true two-party system in this traditional Democratic stronghold.<br />The lines between Democrats and Republicans have often been blurred in this county.<br />After all, after being appointed as a district judge two separate times by Republican Gov. Rick Perry, Rolando Olvera decided to join the Democrats and run for his current district judge position. He was welcomed by then Democratic chairman Gilberto Hinojosa and won office easily over other candidates who had been lifelong Democrats.<br />Likewise, there are candidates running for office this go-round in the Democratic primary who have identified themselves with the Republicans all their political lives.<br /><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgk2zO9Rga_lHCGX_G1COnJ61eFrYZRbwmYfpVb0DOW8-r9SVbDUzyQGFX4MttIiMq83XNXSwlK9BnOKLYXtc0drDi4Rk5zMpSJbX1t3wN-C6YB4HTlhzsJIl0aG543AZHrjvdvYMgg4QA/s1600/businessmen-knife-in-back-hg-wht.gif" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" oda="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgk2zO9Rga_lHCGX_G1COnJ61eFrYZRbwmYfpVb0DOW8-r9SVbDUzyQGFX4MttIiMq83XNXSwlK9BnOKLYXtc0drDi4Rk5zMpSJbX1t3wN-C6YB4HTlhzsJIl0aG543AZHrjvdvYMgg4QA/s320/businessmen-knife-in-back-hg-wht.gif" width="240" /></a>But where does the fraternizing between politicians of different parties end? Or does it? </div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Take, for example, the 2012 Annual Carnitas and Chicharrones "event" being hosted by Republican Cameron County Judge Carlos Cascos at his ranch at his Rancho De Mis Hijas off Leal Road in La Paloma. Carrying a $20 entry fee, the annual "Running of the Pigs" makes no mention of its decidedly political nature.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">The hosts are listed as Cascos and Cameron County Tax Assessor-Collector Tony Yzaguirre, an anchor Democrat who's held offie for more than two decades.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Normally, in an off-election year, this might not have created much of a stir. However, Yzaguirre does have a Republican opponent this year. Local bookkeeper Moses Sorola has signed on to be the Republican party banner carrier who, if successful, will face off Yzaguirre in the November general election.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Now, the ticket-invitation does not carry any notice of whether this will be a fundraiser for either man, or whether it is only a get together between friends. Yzaguirre often hosts parties such as this at his home on Honeydale Street and makes no bones about it that they are meant to buttress his considerable political campaign war chest.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">In the case of the "Running of the Pigs," shoobang, there is no notice that it is a fundraiser for anyone. Neither is there a political disclaimer on the ticket. We know that Cascos has just gone through a grueling election with John Wood, his political Democratic rival last year, which he barely survived by a 69-vote margin. In other words, it took all the Republicans plus not-few Democrats to push him over the top after a month-long drama over double-counted votes, uncounted ballots, missing boxes, and suspicious midnights counts at the courthouse by Hinojosa and Wood adherents.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Through it all, loyal Republicans like Sorola supported Cascos as he attempted to undo the vexing counts and recounts vis-a-vis Hinojosa and the courthouse crowd.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">"Wood came to ask me for his help and I told him I couldn't because I was going to help Cascos," fumed Sorola. "Now he's hosting the affair with my opponent. I expected more loyalty from him like we've shown him when he ran."</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Sorola said that he has made his displeasure known to everyone from Cascos, his brush-fire specialist Cris Valadez, and Republican county chairman Frank Norris. </div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">"Cascos is going to run for something else again," said Sorola. "If he's going to coddle up to my Democratic opponent, he shouldn't expect to get my support next time he runs. I'm not talking as his friend. I'm talking as a candidate."</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">The <em>revoltura</em> of parties is constant here. </div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Not long ago we heard that Valadez, Cascos' administrative assistant, former PUB board member, and a candidate for countywide office himslef, was beating the hustings for Cameron County District Attorney Artmando Villalobos in his bid for the new congressional district created for this year's elections. Many wonder how a Republican county judge's assistant can be supporting Villalobos against the eventual Republican candidate.</div>"It's getting to be so you can't tell what's what," said a courthouse coffee-shop regular Tuesday morning. "All you know is that if someone comes and pats you on the back, be careful because he might be holding a knife."<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6016803033174468094-7501423874731791581?l=rrunrrun.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>
LINK: http://rrunrrun.blogspot.com/2011/12/sorola-cried-foul-cassos-fetes-his.html
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A SENIOR MOMENT ADAPTED TO LA RAZA DEL VALLE
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<div>Submitted by: <b>Europe42@aol.com</b></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyU2vcUtfGQ7jO58xErFpm5rbuxaOySC9rcu4AzjEqgBw4-PtDuDQTDdhOZCI2BuypFP57pupBMC1u94KuKXN9GKz9sM_h6iUQXFPnCUJAmagKz506eMPmLHsw-93MGZqOYY49fCjFxFk/s1600/state-troopers-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="132" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyU2vcUtfGQ7jO58xErFpm5rbuxaOySC9rcu4AzjEqgBw4-PtDuDQTDdhOZCI2BuypFP57pupBMC1u94KuKXN9GKz9sM_h6iUQXFPnCUJAmagKz506eMPmLHsw-93MGZqOYY49fCjFxFk/s200/state-troopers-1.jpg" width="200" /></a>Sitting on the side of Highway 4 (Boca Chica) waiting to catch speeding drivers, a Texas state trooper sees a car puttering along at 4 mph. He thinks to himself, "This driver is as dangerous as a speeder!" So he turns on his lights and pulls the driver over. <br /> Approaching the car, he notices that there are five viejitas (ladies) - two in the front seat, and three in<br />the back, wide-eyed and white as ghosts. The driver, obviously confused, says to him, "Oficial, I don't understand. I was going the exact speed limit. What seems to be the problem?"<br /> The trooper, trying to contain a chuckle, explains to her that "4" was the Highway number, not the speed limit. A bit embarrassed, the woman grinned and thanked the officer for pointing out her error.<br /> "Señora, before you go, I have to ask, "is everyone in this car OK? These ladies seem awfully shaken."<br /> "Oh, they'll be all right in a minute, oficial. We just got off Military Highway 281."<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6016803033174468094-1435838634349139724?l=rrunrrun.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>
LINK: http://rrunrrun.blogspot.com/2011/12/senior-moment-adapted-to-la-raza-del.html
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GARCIA, OUR COMMUNITY, GET BLACK EYE ON COMMENCEMENT, TYPOS ON DIPLOMAS
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By <b>Juan Montoya</b><br />Poor University of Texas at Brownsville President Juliet Garcia is having a bad week.<br />On the week when she was set to boast about a record number of graduates from the soon to be extinct UTB-TSC hybrid, she instead get a black eye when the commencement ceremonies turn into a Chinese fire drill, or as most veterans call it a, a cluster____.<br />The, to add insult to injury, it turns out that the diplomas the graduates received had embarrassing misspellings (typos) that must now be reprinted and mailed off to the graduating students.<br />The explanation Garcia gave for the sanfu?<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnkn8CPiaJhrWUF911blpquOB0JXwNf8XHVFjMvTmvIzEDYCgitezg60XE_apmypxA7eDr-eIH0j1t0s73gtG6_astV5S0Igul_Fjq-On0OyhDm6reDnqQQa4X7E79VsY7aQ-RqFtqr4U/s1600/how-to-heal-a-black-eye.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="189" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnkn8CPiaJhrWUF911blpquOB0JXwNf8XHVFjMvTmvIzEDYCgitezg60XE_apmypxA7eDr-eIH0j1t0s73gtG6_astV5S0Igul_Fjq-On0OyhDm6reDnqQQa4X7E79VsY7aQ-RqFtqr4U/s320/how-to-heal-a-black-eye.jpg" width="320" /></a>"Everybody looked for their particular thing and I think nobody looked at the whole of it and read it. I'm not sure who finally didn't do it, but it was a typo and I'm glad it was discovered early enough...It would have been terrible to discover it five years from now."<br />Now, really, isn't that a lame excuse? <br />What are we supposed to think of that statement? Are we to think that it would take five years for the graduates of the "community university" five years before anyone read their diploma? And what about all those people in her inner circle and in the registrar's office who helped to prepare the diplomas? Can't they spot an error when they see one?<br />So now we have proofreaders, department heads with master's degrees, and PhDs who approved the work and these errors slipped though right under their noses?<br />These mistakes would be understandable from remedial college students who may have not passed their writing courses. But this is inexcusable from an institution representing the academic and scholarly sophistication of the University of Texas.<br />These type of stunts â€" like the massacre of the Scorpion baseball team without even telling the coach, TSC President Lili Tercero, or their TSC "partners" on the board of trustees â€" smack of provincialism and pettiness.<br />Having fallen victim to typos numerous times ourselves, we can commiserate with the president on this one. But the heavy-handedness that the Garcia administration has shown in the past to those who don't agree with it is a long-established pattern that leaves little room for forgiveness.<br />Lest someone think that we have something against the establishment of a stand-alone four-year university in Brownsville, perish the thought. We wish it the best and want the UT System success because upon its success is hinged the accessibility of a world-class education for our residents.<br />Our beef was with the UT System continuing its cannibalistic depredations of our community college district and the continued burden upon district taxpayers â€" some of the poorest in the nation â€" while raising its tuition rates and user fees to levels that surpassed any other in the entire state.<br />When an episode such as the mismanaged commencement and the embarrassing misspellings on graduates' diplomas surfaces, it not only is a black eye on Garcia and her administration, it is also <i>una</i> <i>verguenza</i> to all of us who live here and call this community home.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6016803033174468094-7083369385465020520?l=rrunrrun.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>
LINK: http://rrunrrun.blogspot.com/2011/12/garcia-our-community-get-black-eye-on.html
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Tutankhamun: Wonderful Things from the Pharaoh’s Tomb
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<style>@font-face { font-family: "ï¼ï¼³ 明æœ";}@font-face { font-family: "ï¼ï¼³ 明æœ";}@font-face { font-family: "Cambria";}p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal { margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria; }span.yshortcuts { }.MsoChpDefault { font-family: Cambria; }div.WordSection1 { page: WordSection1; }</style> <br /><div class="MsoNormal"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/-SFESYmtShU" width="560"></iframe></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">By Raul Garcia Jr. / <span style="color: red;">Dec. 10, 2011</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.valleywoodblog.com/">www.valleywoodblog.com</a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i>Special to El Rrun Rrun</i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"> In 1922 on November 4<sup>th </sup><span class="yshortcuts">George Herbert, 5<sup>th</sup> Earl of Carnarvon</span> and Howard Carter unearthed the first intact tomb in the Valley of the Kings in Upper Egypt. The find was that of King Tutankhamun, the boy pharaoh. The two archaeologists almost quit their expedition after eighteen years of excavation but months before their dig was set to expire they found the riches and royal splendor in King Tut’s tomb. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj84AiBKgFqiWShPNkk7oIKeaKeBErLroJd6dYoLxYbGn0rswRHTVFVpzoLVjsTmFMMd9sZWoaGI2sfQG0pkhPMkjMlFQk-_HW8bFPuASO8UQxTTZAnihXESrRSrGQU3sAF8rBhg_7tNiA/s1600/tut1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj84AiBKgFqiWShPNkk7oIKeaKeBErLroJd6dYoLxYbGn0rswRHTVFVpzoLVjsTmFMMd9sZWoaGI2sfQG0pkhPMkjMlFQk-_HW8bFPuASO8UQxTTZAnihXESrRSrGQU3sAF8rBhg_7tNiA/s400/tut1.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">Today and only for a few more weeks a traveling exhibit of reproduced ancient artifacts of King Tut and his royal possessions are on display in Edinburg, TX.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"> The exhibits title is, “Tutankhamun: Wonderful Things from the Pharaoh’s Tomb.â€</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">People in the Rio Grande Valley only have until January 4<sup>th</sup> to rediscover the same marvelous treasure at the University of Texas Pan American’s UTPA Visitors Center. The university has been hosting the free exhibit of King Tut’s artifacts since Sep. 26 when the it first went on display. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">The original artifacts are in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, Egypt and over thirty years had past since Tut and his things went on display in the United States in 2005 and 2007.<br /><br />King Tut was worshiped as a God and ruled Egypt during the 18th Dynasty (1333 BC â€" 1323 BC) for ten years from the age of nine to 19-years-old. The cause of his death in unknown. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7itKclzc4xAh-WPTqnGqBDiXE40QRiGn4cDIQ3gQkY7BDXcNQMWSinEwqBW8yvXhywQyyHZi5fJDNE-mLNfB-VAFFzu7yP7jgfPKkn3_1FNwZ86RS52FNV6WkaTBPoJp6LydIbwLcXRk/s1600/tut2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7itKclzc4xAh-WPTqnGqBDiXE40QRiGn4cDIQ3gQkY7BDXcNQMWSinEwqBW8yvXhywQyyHZi5fJDNE-mLNfB-VAFFzu7yP7jgfPKkn3_1FNwZ86RS52FNV6WkaTBPoJp6LydIbwLcXRk/s640/tut2.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />Tutankhamun: Wonderful Things from the Pharaoh's Tomb are recreations of the original finds. They are crafted in the same design and are a well representation of King Tut and the way he lived. In total the exhibit showcases 130 artifacts.<br /><br />Explore a rulers life and experience his marvelous treasure that was sought after for so many years in the Desert of the Tomb of the Valley of the Kings.<br /><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">Exhibit Hours:<br />Monday-Friday 9 a.m. â€" 5 p.m., Saturday: 9 a.m. â€" 2 p.m., Sunday: closed<br /><br />WHERE: University of Texas-Pan American, 1201 W. University Drive, Edinburg.<br /><br />Request a Tour:<br />Large groups and school tours must submit a tour request form to schedule a group tour.<b style="font-weight: normal;"> 1 (866) 441 UTPA</b> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6016803033174468094-6684561143579854090?l=rrunrrun.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>
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