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Women's: Caroline Wozniacki
Although Wozniacki never has won a Grand Slam title, you would expect that the pride she took from finishing as the year-end No. 1 for two consecutive years would have impelled her to do something—anything—in 2012 to declare that she's not giving up her privileged place in the game. You know, trip Serena Williams on a changeover. Throw a cream pie into Agnieszka Radwanska's face. Beat someone besides that other Slam-less former No. 1, Jelena Jankovic (against whom Wozniacki was 2-0 in 2012).
But no, Wozniacki did nothing of the kind. Instead, she continued to cultivate and trade on her image as a fun-loving, easygoing, coach-firing, golfer-dating, publicity-seeking young lady of 22. She seems blithely unconcerned—or is it "unaware?"—that the game may be passing her by. But that's a mistake made easily enough when you consider how hard the WTA (as well as Wozniacki and her handlers) have worked to position her, and others like her, as glamorous celebrities who are far too special to be perceived as mere athletes, or judged on something as simple as their results.
Perhaps Wozniacki really does care, in the sense that a Rafael Nadal or a Serena or a Maria Sharapova really cares, about winning big tournaments. But the signal she sends in word and deed is that while it would be nice to do that, it isn't necessarily worth getting all worked up over.
The same goes for coaching. It's nice to have a coach, especially when you've come up against some hard realities that have put a cap on your up-side. In Wozniacki's case, those were bundled under the fact that in today's game, you can't win a Grand Slam title just by playing excellent defense, not with ball strikers like Serena, Sharapova, and Victoria Azarenka afoot.
But then, if you let your father continue to feed the balls, you can stay in your comfort zone and also save a lot of money. Hence the quick end to the Ricardo Sanchez experiment and the immediate reinstatement of Wozniacki's father, Piotr, as coach. Looking at it that way makes it easier to understand why Wozniacki blind-sided Sanchez by firing him in Februrary, just two months after taking him on as a coach. The poor guy barely had time to tell the world what a thrill and honor it was to get the job—and he was out the door.
Ironically, Sanchez was the coach-of-record for Wozniacki's best Grand Slam result this year, a quarterfinal at the Australian Open (where she lost to Kim Clijsters). But it was all downhill from there: A third-round appearance at the French Open, and successive first-round losses at the final two majors of the year.
Wozniacki's record for 2012 was a mediocre—certainly for her—50-21, and with a few exceptions her year was downright lousy until the late fall. In order to finish in the Top 10, Wozniacki had to win Moscow (only her second title of the year) and make the final of Sofia, the second-tier version of the WTA Championships, called the "Tournament of Champions" but more aptly described as the semi-invitational "Tournament of Also-Rans."
Wozniacki's 7-5 in-the-third win over Sam Stosur in the Moscow final was a praiseworthy accomplishment, one of the few from her year. But her loss to Nadia Petrova in the Sofia final by a dismal 6-2, 6-1 score was more emblematic of her season.
Some would say that given her natural limitations and inclinations as a conservative, defensive baseliner, Wozniacki is doing just great. She ought to be praised instead of criticized for her consistency. There's some truth to that; Wozniacki certainly earned that No. 1 ranking on the court, and even in this disappointing year she finished in the elite Top 10. But in tennis, we grade on a curve, and those players lucky and gifted enough to stand as Grand Slam title contenders are expected to show strength, determination, and a burning desire to improve and win. Perhaps Wozniacki has been thrown off her game by her well-publicized relationship with golfer Rory McIlroy; it wouldn't be the first time that romance has proved a deterrent to focus and success (and that's especially true for younger players).
But until Wozniacki herself addresses that issue, or gives some indication that she's actually troubled by the fall-off in her results, we can only go by the evidence of our eyes. Right now, they tell us that Wozniacki is loving life, and not overly concerned that she's has gone from world No. 1 to runner-up in the Tournament of Also-Rans.
Honorable Mention: Svetlana Kuznetsova
The two-time Grand Slam champion and former world No. 3 has always been a moody free-spirit, her ranking given to great fluctuations depending on whether or not she feels like working and playing. Her season was severely impacted by injuries—a right knee injury forced her to give up on the year after a first-round loss at Wimbledon—but she was already out of the Top 30 by then. She's just 27, but you have to wonder how much of a force she'll be in the future.
Men's: Bernard Tomic
It tells you something about the magnitude of Tomic's problems that out of all the 12 for '12 categories, this selection was the quickest and easiest to make. This was a year during which many pundits expected Tomic to build on his 2011 season, where he finished ranked No. 42, partly by virtue of a quarterfinal performance at Wimbledon.
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Instead, the 19-year-old (Tomic turned 20 in October) melted down so comprehensively after hitting a career-high ranking of No. 27 last June that some in the Australian tennis establishment fear that he's spinning out of control and unlikely to be stopped by anything or anyone.
Just yesterday, Tennis Australia's director Craig Tiley announced that Tomic will not be selected to represent his country in the Aussies' next Davis Cup tie against Taiwan, and it appears that the organization might also cut off the funding it has continued to provide for the former prodigy.
Tomic's ongoing off-court problems began early this year, when he had a series of run-ins with the police on Australia Day (among other things, he was illegally driving a powerful BMW M3 car). By the end of June, his tennis also was suffering from SICS, or Self-Important Celebrity Syndrome.
The downhill slide began in earnest at Wimbledon, where wild card David Goffin spotted Tomic a set, then swept away the No. 20 seed in four. In his press conference afterward, Tomic said: "I think the last few months. . .I have sort of slacked off a little bit and look what it's costing me. It's just strange. I mean, like on the way up I have been growing up playing and everything's got easy. I've gotten to where I have won very easily. It's amazing. Now you let the foot off the pedal and it's costing you. It's something I'll learn. . .I'll wake up and get back to the way I was playing. . .and get back to that training mode to get me to the Top 15, 20 at the end of the year even."
I guess his intentions were good, and while I'm not privy to the details of his practice and training schedule, it's obvious that Tomic's game never really recovered. He lost the next three matches he played (including an Olympic Games defeat to Kei Nishikori), and won just three more matches total heading into the U.S. Open. Tomic won a round at Flushing Meadows, but then seemed to give up in his battle with Andy Roddick—thereby earning the nickname "Tomic the Tank Engine."
Granted, Roddick had enormous crowd support, thanks partly to having announced that the tournament would be the last of his career. But Tomic's lack of effort as the three-set blowout progressed (Roddick won 6-3, 6-4, 6-0) was so conspicuous that even his own Davis Cup captain, Pat Rafter, described it as "disgraceful."
Tomic lost four of the next six tournament matches he played, and pulled the plug on his season after losing in the first round of Basel to Mikhail Youzhny, 6-0, 6-2. Then, just days later while back home, he was involved in a scuffle that ended with a visit by the police to an apartment house on the Gold Coast. Apparently, the altercation was just part of Tomic's celebration of his 20th birthday, which reportedly went on for days.
Given his youth, there's still hope for Tomic. But his father, John, is also his coach, and Bernie's supporters aren't expecting to get much help from that corner, with that relationship often appearing dysfunctional. During his match with David Ferrer in Miami, Bernard actually tried to get his father removed from the stadium:
Tomic clearly needs a wake-up call, but the one he got at Wimbledon only led him to hit the "snooze" button. And since then, it's only gone from bad to worse.
Honorable Mention: Fernando Verdasco
The world No. 24 is ranked exactly where he was 12 months ago. The big difference is that, in 2011, he was coming off his second straight year-end Top 10 ranking. At the time, it seemed like an understandable off-year for a guy who had experienced a long and not entirely expected period of success after a hard climb. But Verdasco's continuing inability to recapture his form now makes me wonder if he ever really belonged in that elite second tier.
Watching Rafa Nadal churn his way through the claycourt season over the past few weeks, it seems nothing much has changed since his French Open triumph a year ago despite a lengthy injury layoff.
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Sampson County Schools support services counselors were given a big thumbs up by the North Carolina Department of Instruction whose staff said counselors and their program model are way ahead of other systems.
Charlotte Murphy, assistant superintendent for Educational and Student Services, gave the news to members of the Board of Education earlier this week.
"This past Friday, I spent a full day with a representative from DPI going over the system counselor programs," Murphy said to the board, "She validated everything that we have been doing over the past three years. I was told that Sampson County Schools was well ahead of the curve and they indicated that our counselors were so far ahead that they could be doing presentations throughout the state."
But that vindication came courtesy of years of work from Murphy, her staff and the 18 counselors (one at each school).
Murphy explained that back in December 2008, DPI staff developed professional counseling standards that were aligned to the American School Counseling Association models, more commonly known as the ASCA National Model.
"A couple of years ago, we decided that we would go ahead and develop a comprehensive counseling program for each of the schools in Sampson County," she noted. "Not only did we need to organize a comprehensive counseling program, but we needed to ensure that it was aligned to the standards approved by our state Board of Education, as well as the ASCA Model nationwide and the North Carolina Future Ready Goals for the 21st Century."
Counselors worked diligently to develop those programs and, by 2009, a timeline was created for the organization and implementation of a comprehensive counseling program. "That tim-line supports all of the legislation as it applies to support services," Murphy added.
The only thing left in the timeline is for counselors to organize advisory committee or councils at every school.
"Everything we are doing with education, across the board, encourages us to get stakeholder input " Murphy said. "Having advisory councils at each school is needed because it will include internal and external members.
The advisory committees will be limited to 10 members that will include school board members, parents, administrators and parent and teachers.
"You will probably have counselors approach you and ask you to serve on their advisory boards," Murphy explained to the board. "People on those advisory boards can review the process of our counselors and make suggestions for improvement to make sure we are on target in serving all of our students with the support service that they need and certainly deserve."
The meetings will be held once during first semester and again during the second semester.
"We have already been validated and we know that we are on track and we are doing what is required," she added. "Not only are we in compliance, but it is in the best interest of our students and that makes us feel really good."
With the board asking only minimal questions, Murphy shared that since the system counselors were so ahead of other systems, the DPI official asked if she could send over materials from the past three years so it could be presented as a shining example to other LEAs as the proper way to create and follow a comprehensive counseling program.
"Needless to say, we were elated to hear that," she said. "We are just so happy we are so far ahead."
For more information on getting involved with your local advisory board call Murphy at 910-592-1401 or ask your school's councilor.
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Installed in 1996 MIK Tele. Fit within half a hair of perfect. In other words, it fit just fine. The plate is on the thin side but looks good. Well packed from SMac!
I was a little disappointed with this as it was about half the thickness of my original plate and flimsy.
Will use this plate again! Nice hardware!
The plate is too thin, half as much as the Gotoh Modern Bridge is. It makes a bit of discrepancy between the two of then. Bought this one since it was the only option.
Great accent for my build
fit my tele and that what matters !
Great quality product. Very pleased with stewmac as always
Great product, great quality
Good and acceptable material thickness, good gloss, compatible with standard telecaster .. Recommended
Great plate. Solid and heavy. I've used the chrome, black, and gold on various teles without a problem.
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Deester wrote:?ANYONE EXPERIANCED GETTING TATS ON THE EYELIDS OR INSIDE THE BOTTOM LIP?, DOES THAT mess HURT COMPARED TO NORMAL TATS ELSEWHERE?
WhiteBoy wrote:Deester wrote:?ANYONE EXPERIANCED GETTING TATS ON THE EYELIDS OR INSIDE THE BOTTOM LIP?, DOES THAT mess HURT COMPARED TO NORMAL TATS ELSEWHERE?
howbout you go get them tatted up and let us know,
or howbout the insides of your eye lids?
lemme know how it goes, aight?
NaTaS wrote:How could anybody be affraid to get a tatt,dont u see all these hoes walkin around with tatts? Check ya nutts homie
DC wrote:Anyone that says it doesnt hurt is a liar, I have a few tatts including a half sleeve and it hurts big time. But its all part of the experience, if you back out you are weak and the more you have shows you have got balls to commit to the pain and go through with it. This is another reason Yakuza have so many tatts, its to show wether you have balls to sit through hours of pain and if you back out you are not worthy to be a yakuza.
se11 wrote:i still cant imagine it being that bad. i mean my art teacher who cried when she slipped on some paint and bumped her elbow had a big ass tattoo on her lower back and stomach.
DC wrote:SE11 its a bearable pain but it still hurts, spend 4 hours at a time under the need and see how you feel.
Deester wrote:ITS COOL MAN. IM JUST TRYIN TO TELL MY HOMIE THAT WANTS TO GET HIS CLOSED EYELIDS TATTED THAT THAT mess IS GONNA BE PAINFUL PLUS I THINK IT WOULD LOOK NATSY ANYWAY. JUST SEEIN IF ANYBODY EXPERIANCED THAT BUT GUESS NOT. 1
SeriaKilla wrote:Deester wrote:
And re: a small chick and a big guy not being able to stand the same amounts of pain, I've seen a huge guy hit the floor after getting a tiny kanji piece on his shoulder. Pain is all an individual thing, it has nothing to do with size or gender.
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Comparison of Adolescent, Young Adult, and Adult Women's Maternity Experiences and Practices
Pediatrics, 05/11/2012
Kingston D et al. – Adolescents have unique needs during pregnancy and postpartum. Health care professionals should seek to provide care in a manner that acknowledges these needs.
Methods- This study used data from the Canadian Maternity Experiences Survey (N = 6421).
- The weighted proportions of each variable were calculated by using survey sample weights.
- Logistic regression was used to estimate odds ratios.
- Bootstrapping techniques were used to calculate variance estimates for prevalence and 95% confidence intervals.
- Adolescents and young adults were more likely to experience physical abuse in the previous 2 years, initiate prenatal care late, not take folic acid before or during pregnancy, have poor prenatal health behaviors, have a lower cesarean delivery rate, have lower breastfeeding initiation and duration rates, experience more stressful life events, experience postpartum depression symptoms, and rate their infant's health as suboptimal than adult women.
- Adolescents were more likely to rate their own health as suboptimal.


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Tricky hover problem [NEED HELP]
Hi everybody,
I'm trying to make the "unhoverable" <area> element hoverable, just with javascript but with that I thought it should be possible to do this but I wasn't able to do so yet, multiple attempts failed, maybe because of my insuffisant knowledge in javascript (I'm getting better but there's a lot to learn =D)...
The (not yet) living thing could be visited here: http://devcfm.031.be/ - it's the big red "PLAY" Button top right, because it's a round button, I wanted to limit the space the link-pointer is showed, so that it appears only when the user is really over the button and not as he/she enters the rectangle of the image...because of this I decided to use this nearly forgotten thing called imagemap, the problem there is, you don't have any  tags to work with...the link is an attribute of the inner <map> element <area> as shown in the code below.

<map id=\"webradio-imgmap\" name=\"webradio-imgmap\">
<area shape=\"circle\" rel=\"webradio-img\" alt=\"Webradio\" coords=\"79,80,68\" href=\"#\" />
I wanted to use javascript to change the src attribute of the imagemap -tag when the <area> is hovered with the mouse, I tried the following but there seems to be an error (maybe in something that is returned and not accepted by the next function? don't get that yet^^) in the script.
I can say it in words but obviously I can't it write down to code =/...: When the <area> is hovered, traverse the DOM up to the parent element with the id of #webradio-img, get it's attribute src, split away the -off. string and add the -on. string, on mouseout, reverse the same thing...sounds not that difficult or does it?
Appreciate every help!$(\"area\").hover(
function () {
$(\"#\" + $(this).parent(\"#webradio-img\").attr(\"src\")).split(\"-off.\").join(\"-on.\");
function () {
$(\"#\" + $(this).parent(\"#webradio-img\").attr(\"src\")).split(\"-on.\").join(\"-off.\");
thank you very much in advanceI could pretend I'm really smart and say I knew the answer to this, but the truth is my old mate google had the answer(s) as usual.
Here's a selection of your options:
or possibly the best
http://code.google.com/p/jquery-swapimage/Hm, these are all normal image hover plugins, this is nothing I need a plugin for, I had this with my image already, but the problem is, that not the image itself is hovered (if you do that, you have the hover effect from the beginning of the image rectangle until you reach the image map area and then the hover effect is gone, this is the reason I'm asking here, I need to traverse up the DOM out of the area tag to find the img src of the imagemap image^^...if you have a look at the code above you can see that the img tag is outside of the area element...Ok, I think you are seriously over complicating things.
You may want to look at the .remove and appendTo functions.=)...could be that I'm overcomplicating the whole thing but this is exactly the reason I'm asking for help out in the net, tried several hours and it was very frustrating to not get to a solution on such an easy thing =/ (I still think it can't be that complicated...)
could you maybe show, how you would select the img-src in here when I hover the area (green):

<map id="webradio-imgmap" name="webradio-imgmap">
<area shape="circle" rel="webradio-img" alt="Webradio" coords="79,80,68" href="#" />
$(\"area\").hover( // ok, I select the area-tag, could this also be §(\"div#webradio map#webradio-imgmap area\").hover, would jQuery accept this??
function () { // then, when the area is hovered
$(this) // I take the area-tag with $(this)
.parent() // then I search the parent element, there I have some doubt that it will work because the img-tag is not really a parent...the first parent would be the <map>-tag and then when I want to go up a level can I just add another .parent() function? Is this legal?*g* If this was ok then I'm now in the div#webradio
.find(\"img\") // then I would search the img-tag inside of the div#webradio
.attr(\"src\") // when jQuery found it, I'll look for that img's src attribute
.split(\"-off.\") // when it found the src, manipulate the filename
function () {
$(this).parent().parent().find(\"img\").attr(\"src\").split(\"-on.\").join(\"-off.\"); // the whole thing backwards...
I thought chaining was ok with jquery but it doesn't work, maybe I would have to combine some functions or something like that, what do you mean?
thx 4 your replys!
LuKIf I had a client that was so pedantic as to insist that a tiny fraction of an image would not react on hover, in spite of the fact that 99% of users would never even notice, then I would do it with flash.
I don't know how to do it with jQuery, but, if you were to put a gun to my head, I would try giving "area" its own id and doing something like this:$(\"#my_area\").bind(\"hover\", function() {
And if I couldn't get that working then I would look at removing the image with the .remove() function and replacing it using .append() or .appendTo.Yeah, you're right =), it's a really small thingthing and even my boss who had a look over the project sketch today said that it doesn't bother him (he even didn't regocnize to give you one more point =D) if there's no hover-status on that button, for the practical part of the whole thing I'm absolutly with your opinion, this is too small to bother with^^...
Ya, I'll finish soon =)...the whole point is: The play-button-hover-thing isn't about "uuuuh, it's so important that I can't finish the project without it", no, it's first and foremost the fact that I have done a hundred hover effects with JS and I couldn't get this to work, that's driving me crazy^^, seems so simple but didn't work...I'm learning jQuery and my learning-curve is steep, but when I'm stuck with something and can't find an answer on google or anywhere else I just have to know it, for the knowledge that it's possible =)...that's all^^...so I'll try your approach tomorrow and give you some feedback if it worked!
Thank you very much for your patience and your time!!
LuKActually if you embed flash properly you can specify alternative content for the 3% of computers worldwide that don't have flash installed.


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Bert DUNNEWOLD
DUNNEWOLD, E. "Bert"
Hardwood Hill, Pictou County, NS
With fond and loving memories, the family of Engelbertus Dunnewold release him into the arms of his Lord and Savior, to be surrounded by his loved ones in heaven. Born in Winterswijk, The Netherlands on January 12, 1921, Bert spent his youth yearning to be a farmer. He immigrated to Canada in 1953 with his young family, where he pursued this dream. Together with his children, Hank and Rika, they mourned the death of his wife, their mother, Janna in 1972. Soon after, when Hank took over the family farm, Bert would go on to drive school bus #1 for West Pictou. This was a job he enjoyed thoroughly, and one he was proud of, for nearly 15 years. After his retirement, Bert and his wife Annie enjoyed spending winter months in Florida, where Bert learned the craft of wood- carving. Bert had a love for animals and hobby farming, especially his horses. He was an avid gardener and he enjoyed being quite self-sufficient with his bountiful harvests. His grandchildren were also a highlight of his life and he was proud of each one. With his twinkling blue eyes and easy laughter, Bert was a good friend to many and he valued and respected each person he would meet. Bert had a special voice that he dedicated to various choirs and singing groups. A man of deep faith, Bert also served in many roles in the church. Bert was predeceased by his wife, Janna (Hillen); his second wife, Annie (Klein-Geltink); step-daughter, Jane; son, Hank; and siblings, Jan (in infancy), Jan, Gerrit, Truida, Grada, and Johan. He is survived by his daughter, Rika (Martin) Cheverie; step-sons, Ben (Christine), John (Mary Beth), Carl (Wilma), Gerald (Rita), and Bruce (Ida) Klein-Geltink; brother, Henk (Hanna); sister, Riek Reusink; grandchildren, Hilda (Scott), Sarah (Luciano), Albert (Shelly), Jackie (John), Kristin, and Kelsey; adored great grandchildren, Rebecca, Marissa, Mahalia, Noah, Marco, Jake, Anneka, Melody and Desirae; special loved ones, Ruth Wortman, Herma Binnema, Tony Prinsen, Anja (Joe), Gerard, Kathleen and Madeline; Sean, Barbie, Elizabeth, Aaron, Alicia, and Victoria. Visitation will be held 2-4, 7-9 PM today, Thursday in McLaren Funeral Home, Pictou. Memorial Service will be held 3:00 PM Friday from St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church, Pictou, with Rev. Gail Johnson-Murdock officiating. A reception will follow in the church hall. Family flowers only please. Donations in his memory may be made to the IWK Health Centre Foundation: Haematology-Oncology Department. online condolences: mclarenfuneral.ca


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Consultant Next Step in Start Time Discussion
Ad-hoc Fairfax County school board committee will present recommendations in July on what a firm should offer the system.
After 14 years of discussion and two formal attempts to address the issue on its own, the Fairfax County school board will look to a consultant to help it move forward on a resolution to start the system's high school schools after 8 a.m.
Chairman Janie Strauss (Dranesville) appointed a four-member ad-hoc committee Monday to better articulate the system's values in overhauling its schedule, defining what the board is comfortable exploring and which issues are non-negotiable.
Members Sandy Evans (Mason), Ryan McElveen (At-large), Patty Reed (Providence) and Ted Velkoff (At-large) will deliver recommendations to the board at a July work session, at which point the board will be able to develop a request for proposal to hire an outside consultant, Strauss said.
While officials and stakeholders have long run into disagreements on how best to implement later start times at Fairfax County high schools — suggestions on Monday alone ranged from public-private partnerships to a small pilot of later start times within the system — most school board members agreed they wanted to avoid ending in the same place they've often landed over the past 14 years: with limited options and no clear path on how to move forward.
"I don't think we can look at this and throw our hands up … It's not acceptable to me and I'm not going to rest on that," Dan Storck (Mt. Vernon) said.
The complexity of reworking the transportation system of a district so large has been attempted, and left on the table, by a firm before, said Dean Tistadt, the system's chief operating officer and head of facilities and transportation services. FCPS went to market last year for a bus system optimization, but the selected consultants "couldn't make it work. They walked away," he said.
After the board passed its most recent resolution in April, staff researched the 40 largest suburban school systems in the country, identifying 10 that were most comparable to Fairfax County, among them, neighboring Loudoun County.
It also studied, by the board's request, the Arlington and Minneapolis school districts.
A common theme of districts that successfully run or have switched to later start time models is a compressed morning bus schedule, Tistadt said.
The starting bells for the county's 194 schools span two hours, Tistadt said, from 7:20 to 9:20 a.m.; most other systems that have achieved later schedules have cut that span to an hour and 10 minutes — in the case of Loudoun, between 7:50 and 9 a.m., he said.
Shortening that span in Fairfax — which uses 1,081 buses to transport about 130,000 students each day — would likely raise costs and increase the number of schools affected, two of the biggest arguments critics have used against the switch in the past.
Still, working through the issue is more than just a transportation problem, Evans said.
"I think it's a mistake if we see it only as a transportation [issue]," Evans said. "We need to be doing this … for health reasons, for academic achievement, for graduation rates."
It's also about taking deep community concerns, which have blocked proposals before, and working through them to find better solutions.
"We've all gotten emails from people that aren't saying 'no,' they're saying 'hell no' to us and are just amazed that we would spend any money going down this route when we already had this dialogue and I think we need to respect that part of the community and hear what they have to say," Smith said.
Megan McLaughlin (Braddock) pointed to Arlington Public Schools, which presented three options for a schedule shift and used community input to create an "Option Four," which it implemented in 2000.
Board members offered a range of issues consultants could consider, including:
Transportation Costs, Schedule and Level of Disruption. Some suggested getting Board of Supervisors' support to help shoulder additional costs. But Ilryong Moon (At-large) recalled how the supervisors committeed to full-day kindergarten as a priority several years ago, but left the school board on its own to figure out how to implement and fund it.
Transportation Optimization, Efficiency and Public/Private Partnerships: Elizabeth Schultz (Springfield) suggested reaching out to a national organization — such as Fedex or UPS — which may have more technology available.
Change Management: How to better engage the public, work through solutions to their concerns and incorporate them into final options.
"How much change can people swallow and how do you help people through that process?" Superintendent Jack Dale said.
Core Values: Determine some board principles on transportation, including travel times, walking distances and how much of its budget should go toward transportation.
"Out of the Box" options: Exploring "8th period," distance and online learning and other "unusual solutions" to scheduling problems.
The ad-hoc committee will make recommendations on which of those paths, or offer others, a consultant should follow.
"This isn't about the fact that we can't achieve it or that some part of the community is going to lose out … you don't have winners and losers," McLaughlin (Braddock) said. "I think it's important we protect all of the different parties involved."
Stu Gibson
10:21 am on Tuesday, June 12, 2012
"There is nothing new under the sun." Ecclesiastes
Rob Jackson
11:07 am on Tuesday, June 12, 2012
My understanding is that there is more support for the time change from McLean HS parents & students than from Langley HS parents and students because of the terrible morning traffic on Georgetown Pike. Unlike most FCPS high schools, Langley has only one entrance road - the Pike.
12:39 pm on Tuesday, June 12, 2012
@Rob Jackson the elephant in the living room is rush our traffic which will be increased by later start times at our area high schools. This is a county wide issue.
Scott B
12:59 pm on Tuesday, June 12, 2012
YES great idea. lets study this some more and more.... pay some more money here or there to 'consultants' and then revisit this years down the road again once again doing nothing. Sounds like the 8 years of Route 1 widening talk and no action since BRAC was announced ---
COMPLETELY forgetting that kids can not function at 7:20 am and it severely impacts their helath and education! This is just common sense people. Most of you probably went to high school and should remember this.
Rob Jackson
1:49 pm on Tuesday, June 12, 2012
Scott B
The McLean Citizens Association's Education & Youth Committee worked with parents of local HS students and the PTAs. There was strong support among the McLean HS parents, but opposition from the Langley HS parents because of traffic. I agree wholeheartedly with you on your statement that kids don't function well at 7:20 am. My son is a junior at LHS and he is a bear to get up in the morning. My post was intended to indicate the issue is more complex than it looks at first blush.
T Ailshire
9:13 am on Tuesday, June 19, 2012
I went to high school (as did most readers here, I expect) and functioned perfectly well at 7:20.
Of course, I kept my after-school activities reasonable, didn't try to do everything, did homework when- and wherever I needed to, didn't spent 2 hours worrying about makeup and hairstyles, and was prepared for years and years of having to be to work at 7:30.
Dave Solomon
2:13 pm on Tuesday, June 12, 2012
Thank you, Erica, for trying to report both sides of this contentious issue. For years the discussion has been dominated by SLEEP, with the remaining 99% of the community only voicing their opinion when it appears that the SLEEP solution is about to be rammed down our throats. Two items receive very little press. First, the need for high school sports practices to end by 5:30 pm so that students can participate in neighborhood sports and the neighborhood sports can have access to the fields and gyms. Second, the school board needs to endorse "Period 0" where custodians would be required to open the schools two hours before the school day starts, to allow students who want to participate in activities before school to do so.
Julie Strandlie
2:43 pm on Tuesday, June 12, 2012
Missing from this discussion is the impact of late start/end times on elementary school children. This must be a comprehensive conversation, not one just focused on high school start times. Columbia Elementary's start time was pushed back from 8:40 am to 9:10 am a few years ago, and next year it's slated to start at 9:15. Our kids get out of school after 4pm. While HS students may not have their brain engaged at 7:20, elementary school children who ate lunch before noon have checked out by 3pm. Teachers cannot teach at that point. Late start/dismissal times also make our teachers' evening commute much more difficult. On top of this, parents need to get to work -- and when they can't find or afford before school care, it is common for them to leave their K-5 children home alone and expect them to get to the bus on their own. What happens when the bus comes early, or doesn't come at all? These little kids are wandering the neighborhood alone and only thanks to trusted and concerned parents of other children do they get to school. Next year, our daughter will start middle school at 7:45 am; our son will start elementary school at 9:15. This is not acceptable for learning, safety, or family work/life balance.
Scott B
2:45 pm on Tuesday, June 12, 2012
Why does high school sports practices 'need' to end by 5:30? Seems like if it is the schools facilities the schools can take precendent. I played 3 sports all through high school and we got out at 3, and practice went later than you are proposing. So that seems like nothing but an excuse....And why open the school 2 hours early? I am not sure I get that.
Kathy Keith
4:18 pm on Tuesday, June 12, 2012
Scott, It might surprise you to know that some high schools must use park facilities and the facilities of middle schools for practice. Some high schools have very limited practice space. They must share these with the youth leagues. Also, practices after 5:30 require lighting.
Mark Carolla
4:27 pm on Tuesday, June 12, 2012
More than transportation consulting needed here. Left out of this discussion is that FCPS may simply be too big and the logistics of getting students to and from schools are just too complicated and dysfunctional. "Back in the day" most school districts were centered on neighborhood schools where the majority of students could walk to school. The start time of every school that I attended was 8:40 AM...from grade K thru 12. This was true both in the small town in Upstate NY and the suburban community 20 miles from the Empire State Building I attended. Fairfax County needs to consider regionalizing or breaking down the schools into smaller units. When my kids were attending Oakton High Schol we lived south of Herndon and it was a 12 plus mile bus trip. Ludicrous. When I was attending Pearl River High School in crowded Rockland County, NY no student lived more than maybe 3 miles from the high school, and elementary schools were situated so we had time to WALK to school and to and from home at LUNCH. Of course, school districts were based not on the county but on the township or city. The situation is worsened by the tacit encouragement of students driving to school at the high school level by providing inadequate bus service to accommodate after school activities. I would suggest due to changing demographics and unconstrained development without proper "Green" urban planning we have a sprawling FCPS that doesn't have a correlation of school locations with students.
Mark Carolla
4:41 pm on Tuesday, June 12, 2012
By the way - with the disclaimer that I do transportation consulting and did things sort of kinda like this back in the day when I was a Transportation Officer - why the need to spend the taxpayers' money on an outside consultant? Do we not have a professional transportation staff on the school and county payroll? Do we not have regional and urban planners? Put them together on the clock in a task force to come up with solutions for each school. I know that I might sound like the big mouths that used to make my educator Dad cringe at open School Board Meetings but this should be something we could do "in house" if there is the mandate and courage to come up with politically unpopular solutions - and one size might not fit all for the entire FCPS.
Sonia Baker
6:17 am on Tuesday, June 19, 2012
Thank you!!! I am shocked that the media is not focused on the money that the board will be wasting on a repeat study. How can we in good conscience hire outside consultants.
Greg Brandon
5:09 pm on Tuesday, June 12, 2012
Tisdadt says he isn't adverse to changing the bell schedule but that he hasn't been able to figure it out. I think we should turn-over the challenge of finding the best way to accomplish this important goal to university professors and their students. This is an operations research routing problem. (See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Routing.)
The school board should create a competition open to undergraduate and graduate student groups to find the best way to achieve the desired outcome. Winning entry gets $10,000. This would certainly be cheaper than paying consultants and would be less susceptible to meddling from FCPS staff.
Sonia Baker
6:14 am on Tuesday, June 19, 2012
What will this consultant find that is different than before. This is ludicrous and I would like to know if they are hiring the same consultant. They are hiring a consultant to assuage the sleep coalition; so that when fairfax county votes it down they can still be re-elected. Make the decision already! We need this money and to get rid of a useless board members.
5:22 am on Sunday, July 15, 2012
I would like to echo what Marc Corolla has proposed. It has already been recognized that Fairfax County is large and diverse enough to have representatives elected from different areas so why not acknowledge that there are certain issues - facilities, traffic etc. that require different solutions for schools in different regions. No student should have to ride a bus 12 miles to get to school. I grew up outside of Fairfax County and have never understood why all the schools don't start at the same time. So it is time to think outside the box on this issue and get some fresh ideas from heads that don't have a vested interest. Consider that if schools were regionalized, more kids could walk to their neighbourhood schools at a reasonable hour cutting way back on the need for buses which would improve the health of the kids, boost our communities and save thousands of dollars. It is time to rethink some of the ideas that have us stuck on this issue.


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Posted by scary, a resident of the Menlo Park: Central Menlo Park neighborhood, on Nov 8, 2012 at 10:46 am
Are the police working on artist sketches of the perps? Very scary.
Posted by Seve, a resident of the Menlo Park: Downtown neighborhood, on Nov 8, 2012 at 3:27 pm
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The Mercury-News says the victim was walking home from work when he was robbed. Curious that the Almanac makes it sound like the victim was playing in the park.
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The tone of the last two posts is stunning. Does one have to be walking home from WORK to justify walking in a park at night? Even if he had been "playing," or enjoying the night sky, or chilling after a brutal 12-hour workday, so what? commuter's post smells of utilitarian thinking, and it makes me shudder.
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October 11, 2012
Organizing for Your Preschooler
One of my favorite things to do (seriously) is organize. I love having everything in an efficient place and I love when things in our home are accessible to everyone... including the preschooler.
Over the years, I've found some quick and easily solutions that help keep M's things not only organized, but stored and displayed in a way that is easy for her to maintain (meaning clean-up and getting ready become infinitely easier!).
M has a lot (and I mean a LOT) of hair bows. I like them to be displayed (and not in a jar) so that she can easily which one she wants to wear each day.
My hubby took an old frame (garage sale!) and staple-gunned chicken wire (from the hardware store) to the wood. We hung the frame and now the hair clips easily slide off and on.
In M's dresser, I placed some simple plastic baskets in to help separate the different items.
This drawer holds tights, socks, and undies. M is quickly able to select which ones she needs and also is able to put away clean clothes easily!
We are big hand washers over here so we pushed a stool right up to the sink in our hall bathroom. This is a sturdy wooden stool but in our other bathroom, we have THIS great Ikea stool. Making it easy for M to access means that hand washing is just a habit.
Another great solution we've installed is in the area of teeth. I picked up a utensil tray at The Dollar Tree and it keeps M and G's brushes and toothpaste separated and organized. Every few days, I just take the tray out and wipe it down.
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Our kiddos' rooms are fairly small so most of the toys are kept/concealed in the family room. We love our Ikea Expedit system to keep everything contained and hidden away. M can easily access the woven baskets and I filled some wire baskets (from The Container Store) with just a select few books that we swap out monthly. M really enjoys the changing selection of books and I've found that she's more interested in just a FEW books, rather than a bookcase stuffed with an overwhelming amount of books.
In my dream home, we'd have a mudroom. In my current home, we utilize the space behind the door. I hung up a curtain rod and added some S hooks, which make the perfect place for M to immediately hang up her backpack (and also sweaters and umbrellas) when we get home.
Each M and G have their own snack baskets, which I keep stocked and fresh. In M's basket, she has things like fruit snacks, boxes of raisins, individually bagged pretzels (as soon as I buy a bag of pretzels, I divide them into snack-size Ziplocs or reusable bags), and granola bars. It gives her so much freedom and choice when she gets to select her own snack!
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These are awesome ideas! I try to keep a couple of baskets of toys available, and most of our books are in a closet so they are out of sight...not that my kids don't look at books, but they have to ask me to get into the book closet, so it stays a bit more organized. As far as clothes/hair accessories, my kids share a closet, and my daughter has a basket in the bathroom that keeps all of her hair accessories. I really like the idea of displaying the bows though!
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Summer at Camp Abbey: Registration forms for campers are available now. All spaces for Girls Camp in July are full. If you would like to place your daughter's name on the waiting list, please call Camp Abbey. There are still space availability for boys camp at this time.
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Last updated at 12:19, Friday, 17 August 2012
An economic study into one of the Lake District's flagship outdoors events has shown it is delivering financially for local businesses with visitors spending hundreds of pounds.
The Keswick Mountain Festival, which happens every May, was taken over three years ago by a Cumbria-based event management company with London connections.
Under the guidance of Bluestone Events, it has been found to be delivering huge economic benefits for the Lakes town - not just in tourism outlets but spending in local shops, bars, restaurant and pubs.
Researchers polled visitors at this year's event to get a take on how it was faring. Their report suggests that the 2012 event increased visitor numbers by 20 per cent.
About 18,000 people attended this year – a jump of 6,000 on 2011, due in part to a marketing campaign said to have reached 40 million potential visitors.
Shows at the festival featuring Blue Peter presenter and Kirkby Thore star Helen Skelton and Caldbeck-based Sir Chris Bonington also sold out.
The study showed 62 per cent of visitors came from outside of Cumbria and 45 per cent travelled more than 90 miles to attend.
The statistics showed a total of 41 per cent stayed in Keswick for three or more nights and an additional 20 per cent stayed for two nights.
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Layne Littlepage is anything but small in her one woman show about some of Broadway's biggest female stars. She is accompanied by Rick Yramtegui who sits at the piano as Littlepage sings songs by divas like Barbara Streisand, Julie Andrews, and Carol Channing from some of the most popular musicals to have played on Broadway. Littlepage is no stranger to the stage, having performed internationally to positive reviews from the industries' persnickety critics, and returns to Carmel's Carl Cherry Center where she sets up shop from July 27-August 19. She performs Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30pm, and on Sundays at 3pm. [GS]
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