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03/08/2009, Tumon Bay
Our cousin Miki arrived today. Emi, Miki's twin, crewed for us last year in the Caribbean. It was nice to have family visiting. We are still kind of broken up over Roq but Miki is a great comfort. We are getting some sight seeing in now that Miki is here. Eric, his new crew Julie, and the three of us circumnavigated Guam today. Jeff's Pirate cove was a nice spot for lunch on the windward side of the island. We also watched a reenactment of the Magellan discovery of Guam, today was the anniversary of the event.
03/07/2009, Tumon Bay
Hideko and I ran a Bubble Maker intro to Scuba experience for kids from the yacht club today. The kids were awesome and everyone had a lot of fun.
We are still pretty broken up about losing Roq and have decided to shut down the blog for a while.
03/01/2009, Marianas Yacht Club
The saddest day.
Randy, Hideko-san, Roq had special happy life because of yours. He is smiling and keeping his eyes on yours and swinging on a star, I think.
For me, it was really shocked too. Actually I took care Roq pee and feed food every day in crossing South Pacific. Roq is one of the memory of swinging on a star's life.
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That's just crushing. I came up here to check in after a couple of weeks away and was floored to see this. Well I guess he was up there in dog years and at least he was with you and you had those experiences together in his last years.
I tip my hat to the most loyal, loved and loving dog to ever set sail.
May he have all the best fun in Dog Heaven.
Ramos family
Again, I am sorry for your loss, my wife sends her best as well.
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02/28/2009, Guam
We took Roq to visit Doctor "Smiles" today. We met his family here at the Marianas Yacht Club. Wonderful folks. Roq got cleared for shore duty and he also got a new Health Certificate. He has now received a new Rabies shot and will return on Monday for a shave, bath, and teeth cleaning. All set to woo the lady dogs and customs officials in Southeast Asia.
As I left the veterinarian's office I though to myself how opinionated some cruising guide books are. You may find comments like, "Leave your pets at home!" This is advice based on a very specific opinion. If you don't care much for pets, it is great advice. If your pet is part of the family, then perhaps you need a second opinion. If there is one thing that is true about cruising, it is that one size, most certainly, does not fit all.
Cruising with a pet has many unique benefits and challenges. That said, I believe that it is feasible anywhere in the world with enough energy put into the equation. The amount of energy depends on where you're going and what you want to do. This energy is also what you must weigh against how important it is for you to bring your pet.
I can only speak for dogs in particular, but where dogs are concerned I am fairly knowledgeable when it comes to Caribbean and the South Pacific customs. Much of what you hear about how hard it is to get pets through customs is similar to the hype about piracy.
There are some places that are fairly obsessive about animals importation, New Zealand and Australia in particular. In the Caribbean and tropical South Pacific you will find no place anywhere near as dog hostile as these two. The options are, skip these spots, or prepare well in advance. Do not listen to the advice of the many who will offer it, but have never been there before, nor the advice of those who went there in 1957. Call the officials in New Zealand and get the straight shot for the present day. If you fill out all of your forms, pay all of your fees and follow the rules, you can get Fido in. Whether you can stand the quarantine is another question, but even the quarantine clock can be started at sea, as soon as you leave Tonga, Fiji or wherever.
In the rest of the South Pacific we found no real hassles. Unfortunately in the tropical South Pacific, from the Galapagos (ok not really the South Pacific), to PNG you will need to keep the dog on board if you want a quick and easy clear in. If you have a Jack Russell this is probably fine. If you have a 2 year old Black Lab it may be impractical, or impossible given how well they swim. If you clear in the easy way (Spot stays onboard), and then dig into the officialdom after the fact, particularly by contacting a local vet to work with/through, you will generally find it easy to get your dog approved for shore access. This is worth the trouble in countries where you will stay for a while.
If you are not a stickler for the rules you will find many deserted, three palm tree islands and lonely beaches where no one will care, or know, if you walk your dog. I am not endorsing this behavior, but if you respect the concerns that are at the root of the dog laws then you are at least obeying the spirit of the law, which is the most important thing. The spirit of the law typically includes the following axioms:
1) Don't infect local dogs with disease. In most cases your dog is more at risk from the island dogs than they are from your dog. Island dogs are often nearly feral and rarely, if ever, have vet care. This is an easy rule to respect, simply don't go ashore in a place where there are dogs. You may be surprised how many places have dogs, man and dog seemed to travel together on those Polynesian canoes close to 100% of the time. Scout it out first, local dogs may attack new comers on sight or create other problems that you don't want to deal with.
2) Don't destroy local wildlife. Also easy to respect, simply stay with your dog and see that he doesn't bother wildlife, dig up ground nests, or hamper animals, plants or habitats in any other way. Again, the local, often feral, dogs are the real problem here.
3) Don't litter. Dog poo is biodegradable but no one wants to see it on that stretch of beautiful white sand beach. Leaving poo around is also a potential health risk. Pick up after your dog.
In the Caribbean you will have little problem with your dog and customs. Some places require onboard quarantine others don't. All of the islands that we ran across would allow the dog ashore after a vet check. The Bahamas were an exception and wanted a pet permit to be acquired in advance. The Bahamas are also a place that you could sail into and forget to mention your dog and never have a problem. We acquired the permit in advance without too much trouble when we visited, I'm just making an observation.
Many islands want to see a pet health certificate with proof of a rabies shot within the last year. A shot good for three years and only 1.5 years old may not be acceptable to the "one year only" countries. It is a good idea to get a health certificate and rabies shot each year from a good vet to keep onboard. The only place I can think of that actually looked at ours was Chuuk in the FSM. Many others asked if we had a heath certificate but never looked at it after we said we had one. If you keep the dog on the boat, the officials mostly seem to leave it at that.
We have visited the following countries/territories (in "just show up" with a health cert mode) with no problem: Turk and Caicos, Dominican Republic, USVI, British VI, Saint Martin, Saint Barts, Nevis, Montserrat, Guadalupe & the Saints, Dominica, Martinique, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Grenada, Trinidad and Tobago, Venezuela, Bonaire, Curacao, Aruba, Colombia, Panama, Ecuador, French Polynesia, The Cook Islands, Nuie, Tonga, Fiji, Vanuatu, The Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea, Guam.
The Federated States of Micronesia were no problem for the dog just the people, Puerto Rico was no problem for us but we are Americans on a US flagged boat, and the Bahamas was easy but wants $300 for a cruising permit and a dog permit in advance.
So the real truth is that you will have a lot of hurdles to clear with your pet in New Zealand and Australia, but everywhere else is pretty straight forward. The only other chores are keeping them in food, dealing with poo and pee issues (can be a big one), keeping them onboard and out of trouble (like a kid), keeping them from overheating (don't bring your poor Samoyed to the tropics without a shave monthly), and picking up the fur.
On the up side, a dog will bring many benefits. If you love your dog, there is nothing like going on an adventure and being able to bring Bowser along. Also, if your dog is at all imposing, or even just loud, you will likely never have a boarder.
Our dog Roq, is getting pretty old and tired. He sleeps a lot and has a hard time getting around after his cruciate ligament surgery and considerable years. Even so, everyone who looks at him decides to stay off of our boat until invited aboard. More importantly he has been my loyal companion for over 14 years and I would not travel at length without him. He gave me the best years of his life and I am trying to make sure that his last years are as happy as they can be.
I wrote to you once before and still following your travel. I enjoy your blog and your postings are most interesting. I could not help write on this one to express my joy at how you view your loyal friend roq. You are a giant of a person and my wife and I and two siamese cats wish we could be friends.
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Actually they are already here. If you go to the tourist areas of Guam you will find scads of Japanese (mostly younger folks). The place is virtually tailored for the Japanese tourist. Lots of high fashion outlets and big stores with little knick nacks for the friends back home (buying gifts for friends when you travel is a long standing Japanese tradition).
Many signs in Guam give equal time to English and Japanese. Lots of people speak Japanese as well. Every menu has Japanese on it and even Denny's serves Ramen and other surprising eastern additions. There are some Korean tourists about and a few Chinese but these get by with English.
You really don't see any American tourists, unless you count the US Navy servicemen, 25% of Guam's population. Half the folks on Guam are of Chamoro descent (the native people of the Marianas Islands) and the other 25% are Philippino.
I was waiting in the parking lot at Kmart for Hideko when a guy came up to me wanting to sell his band's CD. It turned out he was from Palau, I got some good cruising tips in exchange for the CD (not my style). Another guy we met was from Saipan. He was surprised no one on Guam spoke the Chamoro language that all of his family on Saipan used daily. So while it seems that the American influence has created a fairly material situation here on Guam with the Japanese Yen and the US dollar running the show, it is one of the cleanest and safest islands, with the best schools, in this part of the pacific. Many islanders from all around come here to work and raise their families. The Marshal Islanders, FSM folks and Palauans can all come and go just like US citizens.
The Japanese we were interested in arrived today. There are normally 7 or more, but this year the economy dictated only two Japanese arriving to take part in the Marianas Yacht Club good will regatta. This weekend the two Japanese guests and a host of locals (plus Eric) will be taking part in a set of Laser races in the harbor. We still have winds 20-25 knots here so it will be an exciting, and likely wet, time for the whole club. The Japanese are reported to take 1st and 2nd every year.
Hideko is a wonderful ambassador for the Japanese folks we meet all over the world. She made short order of introductions and we all enjoyed chatting with the new visitors. We also have a new friend in the anchorage, Masa San. Masa San is a single hander who has sailed all around the Pacific on his Yamaha production sailboat Nuk (who knew Yamaha made a Beneteau like 37 footer?!). We first met Masa San in Tahiti. He is a big HAM and does weather in Japanese on at least one net from his boat.
As Hideko and I cruised the Caribbean we saw few Asians and it was an exciting time if we actually met another Japanese person. Now we are moving into an area where we see few westerners and it will be exciting to see another American. It is a vast and interesting world.
02/26/2009, Guam
Guam gets our vote for #1 place to restock and buy gear in the Pacific (so far). You have to have a car to get around, but hey, what's new, it's America. Armed with a car (as little as $125 a week), a cell phone ($20 for a GSM sim) and a laptop (free wifi internet is everywhere) you can move mountains.
For food I would visit Cost-u-Less. Two to choose from located just down from the Premiere Outlets and a couple blocks past the Micronesian Mall, Cost-u-Less is like Costco with a great selection of food (boxed, canned, frozen and fresh). It is a perfect place for provisioning a yacht. There are many great US style grocery stores around as well. Payless is a US style grocery store a block behind Premiere Outlets (open 24 hours). California Mart is located next to the Premiere Outlets and has a lot of Asian stuff. Tokyo Mart is a Japanese grocery and is next to the Cost-u-Less, also just down from Premiere Outlets.
Electronics are not the islands strong point compared to a yachty type town in the US but you can get by. There is an ICOM dealer up by the airport with hand held VHFs, fixed mount VHFs and SSBs in stock. They will have or can get anything ICOM in about a week. They are also real radio professionals and can sort out problems and make cables, etceteras (I discovered that they work on island time though). They also do big solar and wind installations and have yacht suitable wind generators and solar panels.
For general chandlery there is the Coral Reef chandler. They are like a small West Marine. You can get most of what you need there and they can order anything you want (most shops lean on West Marine Port Supply pretty heavily). There's also a Mercury repair/dealer on the main drag (Marine Corp Drive) that has a fair stock of boat bits and they fix outboards for cheap ($35 for Eric's 8hp repair).
For general stuff there is a huge Home Depot and a big Kmart. This particular Kmart is also open 24 hours. There are two malls, the Micronesian Mall and the Primiere Outlet Mall, not to mention the huge tourist district shopping area. There are several well stocked Napa stores a big True Value Hardware and a larger Ace Hardware. You can easily get any kind of welding and other types of fabrication done here.
Several dive shops can supply your scuba and related gear needs. I found the perfect 1mm full suit that I had been looking for at Micronesia Divers Association (MDA) on Marine Corps Drive. MDA is a great place to get your gear serviced also.
You can get dinghies, surfer boards, and lots of beach wear in the tourist district. DNA is a great shop for beach cloths and water sports stuff. You can also eat to your heart's content at Tony Romas, various Sushi spots, Outback Steak House, Teppanyaki, Planet Holywood, Vietnamese, Hard Rock Café, Korean Barbeque, Steaks and Shakes, Mickey Ds, BK, California Pizza Kitchen, Taco Bell, or any number of fancy hotel restaurants or Mall food courts.
Tie all of this to the spectacular hospitality of the folks at the Marianas Yacht Club and you have a perfect setting. Guam is the US so you can ship anything that can go air here from the US for cheap, and with no customs! US Mail has been taking us about 2-3 days. You can ship to the yacht club's PO Box and then pick it up at the post office. This kind of cheap shipping means that products from the entire West Marine catalog, Harken catalog, and others, not to mention Amazon, are close at hand.
The down side is that there is no real cruiser friendly marina. There is a marina in Agat but they are pretty much locals only, full up and not interested in big boats (50' or more). There is a beautiful marina in the Navy base but you need a base pass for that one (I considered joining the Coast Guard Reserve for that one...). There is a small derelict marina in the harbor of refuge and a larger commercial marina in town but neither is a place that would welcome a cruising yacht. The Marianas Yacht Club is really the best spot for transient cruisers.
The island at large doesn't know what a sail boat is. This last point means that you will not find a rigger, sail loft or that bit of deck hardware you were looking for. Fiberglass work, engine repair or anything else needed to support the power boat world will be no problem. There is also no real haul out facility. You will read about hiring a crane in the old cruising snippets but this is a project you would need a fair amount of time to arrange and it could be very pricey (not to mention dangerous) unless you have the right contacts.


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I heard that 90% of unit 1 burned too. That is where we're trying to draw. Should get it next year or 2014.
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We've been having a very hard time getting imapsync to work reliably -- it'll just quit at random spots without any error message. We're not sure if it's our old server or Zimbra.
I did an experiment using the new 5.0 External IMAP feature and except for a few issues it worked a lot better.
After adding an external account the web client gives you an empty folder that you have to right click and say "Get External Mail." Once you've done this the browser will hang for awhile until it gives you the "would you like to cancel this request" window. You can click this and I've noticed the email still downloads in the background, but there is no indication of how long it's going to be before it's done. I suppose that should be a RFE.
The really cool thing, though, is once it is done, all you have to do is move the folders from the external account into your main Zimbra account. This happens instantaneously. Once you've moved the folders you can delete the external account and all is well.
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A federal judge has ordered police to stop ticketing Occupy Cincinnati protesters after the group filed a lawsuit against the city for banning people from Piatt Park when it closes. The city has already ticketed protesters approximately $25,000.
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As part of CityBeat's continuing election coverage, we've once again sent a questionnaire to the non-incumbent Cincinnati City Council candidates to get their reactions on a broad range of issues.
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During the next few weeks, we will print the responses from the non-incumbents to a different topic each time.
Today's question is, "Do you consider the operation of health clinics to be an acceptable function of municipal government?"
Occupy Cincinnati has changed the location of its first-scheduled occupation, which will take place 11 a.m. Saturday at Lytle Park rather than Sawyer Point, due to a previously scheduled event. (The Revolutionaries are respectful of other organizations' fundraising walks.) The occupation has no scheduled end time. Several unions in New York City have endorsed the protest and plan to join it today. Here's a live stream of Day 19 in NYC.


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Chocolate Affair is Sunday at museum
Community members are invited to sample oodles of chocolate goodies at the Phillips County Historical Society's annual Chocolate Affair this Sunday, Feb. 10 from 2-4 p.m. at the Phillips County Museum in Holyoke.
Holyoke's Re-1J Foundation to sponsor open house Monday
Re-1J Foundation, Inc. is hosting an open house Monday, Feb. 11 to show community members the exciting progress happening in the school district. The event begins at 7 p.m. in the HHS auditorium.
There will be presentations of the electronic white boards and mobile labs in a classroom setting. They will also show plans for the renovations to the science lab, give an update on the track project and answer questions.
Holyoke Enterprise February 7, 2013


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Hosmer excited about future in KC
Eric Hosmer entered his first Major League spring training last February as a non-roster invitee. There were varying expectations from baseball types and media members. Some pointed to a breakout 2010 season that included Hosmer's participation in the XM Futures All-Star Game, the Pan Am Qualifying Tournament for Team USA and the Arizona Fall League's Rising Stars Game. Baseball America listed Hosmer as the top prospect in a KC farm system that was ranked first among all 30 across baseball. Others pointed out that Hosmer had played just 50 games above Class-A prior to 2011 and was a year removed from batting a combined .241. The result was a season that beat all expectations, even those of Hosmer.
The first baseman's goal at the beginning of 2011 was to get a shot at the Major League level at some point. The shot came sooner rather than later as Hosmer batted a sizzling .439 in 26 games for Triple-A Omaha. His fast start resulted in a call to KC, where he made a much-anticipated debut on May 6. Hosmer compiled a .293 average with 19 home runs and 78 RBI in 128 games while making spectacular plays at first base. The performance earned him the Joe Burke Special Achievement Award from members of the Kansas City Baseball Writers Association of America and placed him firmly in the discussion for A.L. Rookie of the Year.
Hosmer has now had a month to reflect on the quick start to his Major League career. He watched the World Series with a different perspective this year as he now knew many of the umpires and players involved. He pointed out today on a conference call with the media that many of his teammates also exceeded personal expectations in 2011. Several top KC prospects were expected to play at Triple-A this year and fight for a Major League job out of spring training in 2012. Instead, those prospects made the Majors in 2011 and became familiar with the opponents and the surroundings.
Chances are that the Joe Burke Award is the first of many individual honors at the Major League level for the just-turned 22-year old (birthday was on October 24). However, his goals are all team-oriented. He wants to reach the playoffs and win as many championships as possible. He mentioned how fans around the city would stop him and say how excited they were about the Royals. Hopefully that excitement is the tip of the iceberg, just as 2011 was for Hosmer's career.


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During the production life cycle of biopharmaceuticals, the manufacturing processes always undergo technology transfer. In large biopharmaceutical companies, technology transfer usually takes place internally from the process development teams to the manufacturing teams. Technology transfers can also take place from one company to another when outsourcing manufacturing activities. There are several motives for outsourcing biopharmaceuticals production to a contract manufacturing organization (CMO). Numerous companies start up with product and process development, but lack a GMP infrastructure to produce their drug products for clinical studies. Technology transfer also takes place from one CMO to another, for example, when the infrastructure of the initial CMO does not support further scale-up of the process required for the next phase of clinical study or commercial production. Finally, some large biopharmaceutical companies with in-house GMP manufacturing capabilities sometimes outsource their production for clinical studies or even for commercial supply due to their own limitation in manufacturing capacity. In many cases, a CMO can supply the product cheaper and faster than in-house production (1, 2).
OBJECTIVES, CHALLENGES, AND SUCCESS FACTORSRegardless of the motive for technology transfer, the key objective of the transfer is to run the manufacturing process at the receiving site with no or minimal changes from the original process developed at the sending site. Therefore, most of the responsibilities lie with the technology receiving site, which is often a CMO. This makes the technology transfer of a biopharmaceutical manufacturing process challenging, particularly due to the following well known phenomena:
From a management perspective, the overall technology transfer program should offer a balance between budget, time, and risk management. Any inefficiency in technology transfer results in production delay, increased cost, and sometimes redevelopment of a part of the production process. From a technical perspective, the success of technology transfer mostly depends on the quality of the process itself, as well as on communication between both parties. The developed process must be feasible to scale-up at the desired level, and adaptable to equipment available at the receiving site. Otherwise, significant redevelopment would be unavoidable during the technology transfer. Therefore, it is wise to select the potential technology receiving site (e.g., the production site or the CMO) during the process-development stage, and consult the experts from the receiving site regarding transferability of the process being developed. The communication between both parties must be clear and open, which can be challenging when technology transfer takes place between one company and another. Any lack of clarity or secrecy of technical information is hazardous to the success and timeline of the technology transfer.


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For the first time in nearly thirty years, elephants have been sighted in the Central Kajido District, which is located in the Kilimanjaro Heartland. The Kilimanjaro Heartland straddles between the borders of Tanzania and Kenya. The Heartland supports exceptional biological and other values, such as the best known and studied population of African elephants in the world. It is also home to endangered species including cheetah and wild dogs, and contains an important system of wetlands welling up from Mt. Kilimanjaro.
by R. Michael Wright, President, AWF
Fifteen-foot crocodiles slithered across the sandbanks and plunged into the river as the vibrations of the South African National Park Service helicopter reached them. We seemed perilously close to the red rock walls of the canyons of the Olifants River, but the dexterity of the pilot was remarkable. Pulling up at the last minute, we swung over the lip of the gorge. To our right lay the wildlife-rich expanse of Kruger National Park, and to the left was the vast empty wilderness of Coutada 16 in Mozambique.
Annette Lanjouw, Director of the International Gorilla Conservation Program (IGCP), told the National Press Club Friday that mining for Coltan is presenting a new threat to conservation in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. This issue strikes close to home in the United States, because Coltan is a rare earth metal used in numerous consumer electronics products, computer components, and advanced aviation and aerospace industries.
The African Wildlife Foundation is pleased to announce that Eugene Rutagarama was awarded the prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize on April 23, 2001,in San Francisco. Rutagarama, a Rwandan, is a conservationist working for the AWF-supported International Gorilla Conservation Program (IGCP). He has put his life on the line to protect the world's dwindling mountain gorilla (Gorilla gorilla beringei) population from the ravages of civil war and human encroachment.
After many months of work and effort, AWF has signed two new agreements on the '4 corners' and 'Insaka' activities which will support AWF's new program in southern Africa.
The 4 corners agreement was signed in a ceremony Monday afternoon in Gaborone, Botswana. This long-awaited cooperative agreement with the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Regional Center for South Africa (RCSA) will fund AWF's program in the Victoria Falls area where Zimbabwe, Botswana, Zambia and Namibia meet.


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The time has come, I'm afraid, to end the tomatoes.
We've had a few frost warnings already, and I've been dutifully covering and uncovering my plants accordingly. But this is not my reason for giving up.
Someone else has discovered that tomatoes will actually grow in my yard. Someone with teeth and very bad manners.
They've been stealing the nicest, biggest fruit–red or green–eating half of it, and leaving the rest strewn about. Raccoon? Fox? Young deer, possibly? Anyway, I've decided that between the frost and the thief, I might as well bring what's left inside.
Which leaves me with a bunch of green tomatoes to ripen. Some are too small to mature of course (time to look for some green tomato recipes) but most of them should be perfectly happy to turn red over the next few weeks: they have a little tinge of colour and aren't rock hard. I've got them in a cardboard box in a quiet corner of the pantry. If I get impatient I might throw a banana in there–bananas are super-producers of ethylene gas, which encourages ripening.
I've heard you can actually pick your whole plant and hang it upside down, and the tomatoes will ripen nicely on the vine, but I don't really have anywhere to hang mine that won't bring me dirty looks from my husband or eye-rolling from my kids. So I went for the middle road: I've left pieces of vine attached to the tomatoes in my box, being sure to leave them enough space that nobody is getting poked.
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BALTIMORE (WUSA) -- A power outage on Tuesday morning caused problems for both MARC and AMTRAK trains.
All MARC Train service was suspended north of Martin Airport.
An Amtrak spokesperson said wires were down south of Aberdeen, impacting service between Washington, D.C. and Wilmington. Around 9:42 a.m. AMTRAK reopened one track for traffic between Washington and Wilmington both northbound and southbound. Trains were going at regular speed but delays were expected to continue as crews made repairs.
Then, shortly before 1 p.m., AMTRAK officials reported that service was restored from DC to Wilmington.
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Black History Month | Meet the woman whose civil-rights journey stretched from Little Rock to Washington, D.C.
WASHINGTON-The kids in low-income D.C. neighborhoods called her Grandma Virginia, and their parents gave her the respect of calling her Miss Virginia. For years Virginia Walden Ford, 60, had a refrigerator packed with food in case any of the kids came by her modest home-and when you met her, she'd find out anything you might need so she could check if she had it. No air conditioner at your house? Take this one.
Walden Ford was first and foremost a mother, not just to her own three children but also to the children (and their parents) who received D.C. Opportunity Scholarships. Recently she moved away from Washington after 34 years and returned to her native Little Rock, Ark., where she cares for her 89-year-old mother and lives with her twin sister Harrietta Fowler. Walden Ford's story of fighting against both racism and the intransigence of liberal politicians shows how the battle for black progress has changed over the decades.
Let's take the recent fight first. Although her own children are grown, Walden Ford has fought for federally funded scholarships for low-income children in D.C. for the last 15 years. The program took off in 2004, then shut down in 2009, but is now back in place with applications outpacing available scholarships, even though administrators only had a few months to get out word of the scholarships. This past fall 745 new students enrolled in the program after Congress reopened it, bringing the total enrollment from kindergarten to 12th grade to 1,615.
For Walden Ford, it's been a long, wearying fight against local African-American politicians, the first black president, and Democrats in Congress-a fight that perhaps only a single African-American mom like Walden Ford had the grit to handle. "The people we were fighting the most looked like us. That was tougher than anything," Walden Ford recalled as she poured a glass of juice for a guest at her house. "Not having African-American officials who supported this program was painful."
Now, the older battles: Walden Ford's family experience taught her about persistence in overcoming obstacles. Her grandmother was born into slavery, but both of her parents found ways to obtain college educations, and college is where they met. Walden Ford's father, William Harry Fowler, worked his way through school as a janitor, and eventually earned a master's degree. In 1967, when Walden Ford was 15, her dad gained appointment as the first African-American assistant superintendent of public schools in Arkansas. Her mother, Marion Virginia Fowler, was one of the first African-American teachers to teach at white elementary schools in the state.
One night, soon after Walden Ford's father started his job as assistant superintendent, the family awoke when a rock came crashing through a bedroom window, landing in the crib where Walden Ford's baby sister Renee usually slept: The baby was in bed with her parents that night. The family, rushing to see who had thrown the rock, saw a burning cross in the front yard. "I remember being so afraid that something was going to happen to my father," Walden Ford said.
At that time she was one of 130 African-Americans who had recently integrated a 900-person class at Central High in Little Rock, Ark. School clubs shut down when black students tried to join. Black and white students had separate proms. "I don't remember anything ever being happy in high school," Walden Ford said. She begged her father day after day to let her go back to the black high school. It was in her neighborhood. Her black teachers were neighbors who knew her parents personally. She had excelled at the black schools. But her father insisted that she stay at Central: Heroes had fought and sometimes died for her to have the opportunity to attend.
Walden Ford graduated, went on to get her college degree from Hampton University, and married a man with whom she had three children-but then, after a move to Washington, came divorce. As she worked two jobs at times to support the young family, one woman in her southeast D.C. neighborhood cared for the children of single moms for "next to nothing," Walden Ford remembered. Another neighbor picked up the children from school: "Everybody just looked out for each other."
Her oldest son, Michael, got straight A's and thrived, even though kids picked on him for wearing slacks and ties to school every day. Her youngest son, William, struggled much more. When he was in middle school, an honor roll student in the neighborhood received an almost-fatal beating, with the kids who beat him yelling that he thought he was so smart he was going to go to college. Walden Ford saw a change in her son after that beating: "I think it scared him. ... He decided that if he didn't act real smart ... that would somehow protect him."
William made bad friends and would run away for days at a time, with Walden Ford repeatedly filing missing person reports. He fell far behind in school and drug dealers courted him: "It was just a matter of time before I lost him." When William was 13 and playing basketball with a friend and the friend's older brother, a high-school senior about to graduate, the brother argued with another boy on the court. The boy went home, brought back a gun, and shot the older brother four times, killing him in front of William and his friend.
"William never played basketball again. He ran track in high school," Walden Ford said. "That's why we take this so seriously. We're losing kids. ... We need to have them in environments that teach them something else." When one of Walden Ford's neighbors offered to pay for William to attend a private school, William enrolled in Archbishop Carroll High School, a Catholic school near his home. He quit skipping classes. He stayed out of fights. When Walden Ford asked him what had changed, as they were walking home from a parent-teacher conference, he said he felt cared for-and safe.
After two years, William transferred to a charter school and graduated as the valedictorian of his class. He attended community college for a year, then enlisted in the military and went to Iraq. Now, at 28, he works for a real estate company in Washington, but one of his childhood friends is in and out of jail, one is homeless, and another is a drug addict who can't remember his own name-though he knew enough to knock on Walden Ford's door before she moved to Arkansas. "It's the saddest thing I ever saw in my life," she said. "Those are the kids I fought for."
A Republican Congress passed the first D.C. scholarship program in 1998, but President Clinton vetoed it, igniting the wrath of D.C. parents. Walden Ford, energized by William's experience receiving a scholarship, started the organization D.C. Parents for School Choice that year. She became the parents' voice in the debate: "I had wanted for years to repay a community that took care of me and mine." Her organization launched television ads in the states of opposing Democrats, accusing them of blocking the progress of poor, African-American children in Washington.
Democrats argued that the program siphoned money away from public schools, but the D.C. program strategically included additional funding for both public and charter schools as long as vouchers were in place. In 2003 Republicans tried again and passed the scholarship program by one vote. Democrats filibustered in the Senate, so Republicans rolled the program into the omnibus spending bill in 2004. It passed, and President George W. Bush signed it into law.
Happy ending? Not quite. In 2009, the U.S. Department of Education, backed by President Barack Obama, announced it was closing the program to new students, despite a newly released study (by the Department of Education) that showed voucher students improving their reading skills in the first three years of the program. The study's lead researcher, Patrick Wolf, said the program showed the "largest achievement" of any federal education experiment that has undergone similar studies.
Congress promised the 1,300 students remaining in the program that they could continue receiving scholarships until they graduated, but they would be the last voucher recipients. Parents doubted the Democratic Congress would continue funding the program for another 13 years, until the last student graduated, and city leaders steadfastly refused to use local funds to continue the program. "Politically, it's a dead issue," Rep. Buck McKeon, then the ranking Republican on the House Education and Labor Committee, told me at the time. "I'm a realist."
D.C. parents disagreed with such realism. The program was massively popular among them, and polls consistently showed a strong majority of D.C. residents supporting the program-and not just because of the academic opportunity. District parents worry about their children's physical safety: In 2007, 11 percent of D.C. public high-school students said they had been threatened or injured by a weapon at school in the previous school year, according to the Department of Education.
Virginia Walden Ford was not alone in refusing to give up. Six years ago Joe Kelley applied for D.C. vouchers for all four of his school-age children-and they all received them. He contrasts the quiet atmosphere of the private school his children attend with the crime and fights of public schools. He asked lawmakers he met if they had visited any of the schools to see how the voucher program was working: None of them had.
When some members of Congress tried to revive the program in 2010, Latasha Bennett, the single African-American mom of a voucher student, testified before congressional committees and "felt the empowerment inside of me as if it was the civil-rights movement. ... Had we not spoke up, this thing would have been washed under the bridge like a lot of things." But the effort seemed in vain: Only two Senate Democrats voted for the program, and the bill failed.
Then voters in November 2010 gave Republicans a House majority. New Speaker John Boehner insisted on the program's revival in the final spending deal that he worked out with Obama last spring. "God gave us a miracle," Walden Ford said several months later, as she sat at a table stacked with framed pictures of kids who received vouchers. A picture of Boehner and some of the voucher families is the background on her laptop's screen, and tears come to her eyes as she thinks of her parents' struggle years ago, and hers: "I don't think I had enough respect for what my parents went through, until I went through this."
Now Walden Ford is in Arkansas, after giving away much of her furniture to Washington voucher families, but the kids who call her "Grandma," and their parents, have not forgotten her: Kelley plans to drive his kids down to visit Grandma Virginia in Arkansas next summer. Nor has Walden Ford forgotten what she learned: Her new goal is to bring vouchers to the Arkansas education system.


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