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Mention the Munich Security Conference to all but diehard news geeks and European policy wonks, and you tend to draw blank stares.
Yet even if you've never heard of the event that insiders regard as the "Davos" of global security brainstorming, you're probably familiar with some of the headlines that have sprung from its freewheeling forums in recent years.
This is where, in 2007, Vladimir Putin sent a collective shudder down the spines of Western policymakers when he warned of a new Cold War between Russia and the West.
It's also where, a year later, in 2008, US Vice President Joe Biden launched one of Barack Obama's earliest foreign policy initiatives when he declared a "reset" in Washington's strained relationship with Moscow.
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The three-day conference opening this Friday has chosen a broad Asia-Pacific theme for its 48th edition - a nod to what many see as an inexorable shift in the global balance of power, from West to East.
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It comes at the end of a roller-coaster week that saw Leon Panetta suggest an earlier end to US troops' combat role in Afghanistan, setting off a flurry of speculation as to what that really means for troops on the ground. As well as for a potential Taliban comeback.
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As Obama reiterated in Canberra, Australia a couple of months back, the overall trend in American defense diplomacy is towards a lighter footprint in Europe, and a more muscular presence across the Asia/Pacific region.
It's perhaps no coincidence that the conference finale on Sunday will be a session devoted to cyber security.
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COOKEVILLE, Tenn. — After an encouraging preseason camp, the Tennessee Tech soccer team will find out how it stacks up against Division I competition in a season-opening homestand this weekend.
The Golden Eagles begin their quest to rebound from last season's four-win campaign when they host Chattanooga at 4 p.m. Friday and Belmont at 1 p.m. Sunday.
Both matches will serve as measuring sticks for second-year head coach Daniel Brizard, who says his team is still developing its style.
"We just want to see if we can play our style of play, see if we can control the game the way we want to and not worry about the other team so much," Brizard says. "The way we play is important, and going into these first couple of games, we're going to figure out what works for us and hopefully get a lineup and a rotation that will work."
Friday's home opener will also serve as an opportunity for the Golden Eagles to show off facility upgrades that include a new scoreboard and new bleacher seating on the west side of the field designed to enhance fan experience on sunny afternoons.
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"I think we are ahead of where we were this time last year," he said. "The girls have stepped it up in their offseason workouts and really come into camp prepared. I think they are realizing they are better than what they showed last year. They want to know they can compete and play against anybody in the country."
For Tech, which ranked near the bottom of the Ohio Valley Conference in offense last season, putting more goals on the board is a top priority, and something Brizard believes his team is equipped to do behind forwards Andrea Meloff and Ellie Iaciofano, as well as Sarah Gawthrop.
"Ellie and Andi have both stepped up and come into camp determined to score some goals," he said. "They made a commitment over the summer to get us on the scoreboard. Sarah is also going to help our offense, hopefully in the form of assists."
Others who made a particularly strong impression on the coaching staff over the course of camp include Kris Cambron, who played for a Women's Premier Soccer League club over the summer, and goalkeeper Becca Toler, who tried out for and made the USA Deaf Soccer Women's Team.
Several newcomers may make an immediate impact for the Golden Eagles, including Chelsea Ladd, who Brizard says is in line for a starting position as a holding midfielder. Freshman Brooklyn Kimball has also impressed the staff with her versatility during camp while Katie Phillips should also see time at a holding mid position.
Brizard also mentioned returning All-OVC second team selection Kerri Reid, midfielder Jacquie Watkins and the team's back line, which includes Taylor Hicks, Lindsey Reed, Leigh Heffner and Julie Thompson as integral parts to Tech's success.
Scouting Chattanooga
Similar to Tech, Chattanooga endured a trying 2010 season and is looking to rebound this year with an experienced roster that lost just two starters.
After finishing 4-13-2 last fall and coming in at 11th of 12 teams in the Southern Conference, the Mocs started their 2011 campaign with a 2-1 preseason victory over OVC opponent Murray State on Aug. 13 in Chattanooga.
Senior midfielder Donna-Kay Henry leads Chattanooga offensively, having scored nine goals and distributed two assists in 2010 to accumulate 20 points. Taylor Mangrum, who posted a 2.09 goals-against average and a .787 save percentage last season, returns as the Mocs' starting goalkeeper.
Chattanooga finished near the middle of the pack in the Southern Conference in most offensive statistical categories in 2010, but brought up the cellar in the league defensively, allowing 2.16 goals per game and a 2.08 goals-against average. The Mocs led their league in saves with 7.74 per game.
Tech is 4-9 all-time against Chattanooga with the most recent meeting between the two schools being a 3-0 Chattanooga victory at Tech Soccer Field in 2009.
Scouting Belmont
In Belmont, the Golden Eagles will get a preview of a squad that will become a league foe in 2012 as the Bruins join the OVC.
Belmont finished the 2010 season with a 5-11 record and went 4-6 in the Atlantic Sun Conference, placing ninth out of 11 teams. The Bruins have split two exhibition games so far this season, defeating Tennessee Wesleyan 5-0 before falling in their only encounter with another Division I squad, a 3-0 loss to Middle Tennessee State.
Junior forward Lauren Paynter is Belmont's leading returning point-scorer — she had three goals and four assists in 2010 — and the Bruins return two goalkeepers who saw time last season — sophomore Nicole Berner and senior Sari Lin. Berner started 11 of 16 games in 2010 and posted a 1.32 goals-against average.
Belmont ranked near the middle of their league in most defensive categories in 2010 while they came in toward the bottom of the pack offensively.
Tech is 4-5-2 all-time against Belmont with their latest meeting being a 0-0 tie in 2009 in Nashville.


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Posted: Fri Jul 27, 2012 5:37 am
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It's my opinion that the manufacturers stopped installing these in boards because the advantages they provided didn't justify the cost especially when boards started becoming shorter. What exactly were the advantages?
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On longboards, 12' more or less, for maximum pointing ability (upwind), one would move the track all the way forward, maximizing the water line on the leeward rail helping the board to point higher. With the dagger-board down, the windward rail would rise up so that the deck of the board would be on about a 30-40 degree angle so that the leeward rail (in the water) would have maximum resistance to keep it from sliding sideways, thus maximizing upwind pointing. Sometimes when racing in lighter winds, one would move the track back a few inches, which would allow the board to rail up in lighter winds where if left forward, the board would not rail up. Railing up = pointing high.
With enough wind for the board to plane and allow the sailor to get into the foot straps, one would move the track all the way back to reduce the wetted surface on the board and allowing it to plane faster. Dagger-board up.
These techniques benefited racers the most as well as advanced free riders. Beginners and novices, just put the track near middle and work on the basics without much need to move it around.
While racing in good winds on a upwind/downwind/reaching course, a racer would normally have the track all the way forward some of the time and all the way back some of the time, so adjustment while moving is/was important.
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Posted: Fri Jul 27, 2012 11:08 am
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There's one on my Mistral Energy which is 105 liters (LeeD says that it actually is 99) and not a long board. I sailed it with the mast track fully back to adjust for modern sails. The fancy track seems useless today, but I imagine with an old style sail there might be a purpose for all the settings.
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I don't think anyone in the last 15 years has put an "on the fly" adjustable mast base on a "short" board.
Once you have the attachment point figured out based on wind, sail, conditions, skill, and sailor weight, there is no need to move it. While trying to figure it out, having an "on the fly" adjustment makes a little sense, but the extra cost, weight and something else to break or wear out would turn most buyers away in today's market.
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Posted: Fri Jul 27, 2012 1:08 pm
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Adjustable mast track on old Mistral short boards like Screamer Energy Stinger, which they had for a while (I had Screamer) was not meant to be "on the fly." dhmark
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Posted: Fri Jul 27, 2012 2:10 pm
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dhmark wrote:
Adjustable mast track on old Mistral short boards like Screamer Energy Stinger, which they had for a while (I had Screamer) was not meant to be "on the fly." dhmark
If it was not meant to be "on-the-fly", why would the mast track be installed in the first place? In my collection of 15 boards, I also own an older Hi-Fly Curtis 320 that had an "on-the-fly" mast track. It broke, so I installed another mast track that was similar, but did not have the pedal necessary for "on-the-fly" capability. Step on the pedal and the mast base can slide through the track. Without the pedal, the alternative track remains similar but the mechanism to release the bus in the track can't be activated by foot pressure, it needs to be switched on with the fingers.
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Posted: Fri Jul 27, 2012 6:43 pm
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The mast track was installed so that the mast base position could be adjusted, but not to adjust on the fly. They had a pin system to attach base, needed to have some way to move the hole for the pin. It took a lot of effort to move the base-- no way no how was it meant to adjust on the fly. Other boards I had the mast track system was above the surface of the board, not buried in the board like the Mistral. On those boards, all the fittings were looser, the track would move easily. dhmark
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They break often. If you store them over the season they freeze up then you break them hitting on them. Mine came apart while I was sailing. There is a photo out there of me standing on water sheeting in like crazy with a surprised look on my face but no board visible.
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Posted: Fri Jul 27, 2012 10:01 pm
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AHD has an adjustable track that almost worked, but needed daily maintainance. Best used on their 9'4" slalom.
Track position, like footstrap position, is personal. Most people like it a different spot even on the same model boards.
Energy, since I worked the leading Mistral dealership in California, I might know a bit. The older Screamer was floatier.
BicERock was much floatier.
Ride277 was also around 99 liters, stated at 103.
F2Axxis 278 was also under 100 liters, stated at 102.
Nobody ever bothered to measure the floatation of a finished board. They only guessitmated the pre production PLUGS.
HaroldIggy, an old ws acquaintance from Backyards, told me the Germans ASKED him what volume to put on the early model Scrreamers and Stingers plugs. He just made up a number.
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The Energy mast track I have has been sitting on the same setting for a long time. When I checked it recently, it was hard to move. However, once I lubricated the track, it slid easily. Nevetheless, I won't be using it. I just think of the "resale" value of having a functional track. I did experiment with the Hi-Fly mast track on the fly, but it really was too difficult to be moving it a lot. So the Germans would emboss the board with a volume number and not actually measure it. That doesn't surprise me. Whatever, I bought a modern board to replace my Energy. Then I started to get nostalgic about using it. As LeeD stated, the reason it received bad reviews was because people were sailing it overpowered with too large of a fin i.e. going for top speed. I used a mistral fin that was not too large and avoided sailing it overpowered as much as I could. It was a very fast board when sailed as it was meant to be used i.e. off the fin. After one session in radical winds a guy came up to me and complimented my sailing. Given the narrow profile I did have trouble going upwind and was wondering if using the adjustable track might help a sailor with more skill than I.
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It shoots great groups with factory ammo, I have been whittling down the two cases of ammo I bought. Now its time to hit the bench, but before I do I need to pick up some dies. So... What dies are you guys using?
What do ya recommend and why? I use RCBS dies for the majority of my reloading, mainly handgun and a couple rifles (270,308,30-06).
I also have a couple of Lee Collet dies for 30-06 & 243 that I like to use.
For the most part my reloading of rifle ammo has been with FL dies and sometimes i partial neck size for my bolt guns. I know some may frown upon that type of practice, but hey my results have been very pleasing. I am trying to get into precision reloading like i know most of the LR guys do. So now I'm here for help.. Should I just go with FL RCBS and partial size like I have been with other cals or get some high dollar comp dies? Money isn't a factor here as I want what works the best. Any input is welcome. Thanks
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I don't load it, but I was pondering the same question last night. I'd love to hear more about the cartridge as I noticed that Ruger is chambering rifles for it as well as Savage. In any case, when it comes to dies, I look at REDDING first. They should have what you're looking for and Midway or Graf & Sons should stock them.
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I have the Hornaday full length set for my Creedmoore, but its a hunting rifle not a bench rest rifle. They work fine. No complaints. Not B.R. quality, but they did not cost $200+ so I don't expect them to be.
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Regarding dies, recently I bought and used several types of sizing dies for my 223 to see what gave me best accuracy. I went from least expensive (Lee Collet) to rather expensive (Redding FL bushing die). I got best accuracy using the Lee Collet die. That doesn't make my testing the final answer to what works best for you, but since the Lee die is the cheapest, you might as well start with that one. I loaded and shot enough ammo from that die and the others that when the smoke cloud drifted away, I was quite sure of the final result - Lee Collet Die won. I fired hundreds of reloads to get to that conclusion.
That said, pretty much any of the available dies will give you good ammo if you set it up and use it properly. For my rifle, in order, from most accurate to least accurate: Lee Collet Die, Redding FL Bushing Die, Redding FL Die (standard type), Redding Neck Sizing Die (standard type), Redding FL Die used for Partial Resizing. Partial resizing works best on cases with more body taper than the 223 case has. Partial resize a case with little taper and you will most likely cause the case shoulder to move forward, causing some degree of crush fit when you close the bolt. I believe, right or wrong, that when the shoulder is forced into the end of the chamber, you are negatively impacting accuracy.
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Lucky you. I bought a scope, brass, and Redding dies. I have 600 bullets on hand just waiting for my Ruger 77 Target in 6.5 Creedmore. Now I can't find a rifle anywhere.
BTW I had to pay full retail from Sinclair to get the dies. They were the only place with them in stock when I bought.
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The best dies?
I've reloaded using Lee, RCBS, Hornady, and even Herter's (I found a set of Herter's 6.5x55 dies used). Honestly you'll be able to make quality ammo with any set of dies.
Looking through Midway's offerings, I picked out three by price range.
Hornady's basic offering: http://www.midwayusa.com/product/543...t-65-creedmoor
Hornady's better offering: http://www.midwayusa.com/product/160...t-65-creedmoor
Although if money weren't an option, this would probably be the set I would buy. http://www.midwayusa.com/product/292...t-65-creedmoor.
The three hundred dollar Redding competition set of reloading dies is probably worth every penny, but I can't see paying 300 dollars for a set of dies at this point in my life.
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The Buffalo school district is going to use more carrots and fewer sticks to get its rule breakers to change their ways.
On Tuesday night, the Board of Education unanimously approved a new code of conduct under which students will no longer be suspended for disciplinary problems like truancy, cheating, cutting class, running in the halls, in-school cell phone use, smoking and dress code violations.
In these and many other cases, punishment is taking a back seat to intervention strategies like seating changes, writing letters of apology, notifying parents, peer mentoring and conflict resolution.
"Our primary obligation is to provide intervention so conduct doesn't repeat itself rather than primarily to impose consequences," said Will Keresztes, associate superintendent for student support.
This policy change is the final result of a years-long effort to get the district to stop kicking kids out of school for minor infractions.
Community outrage spiked three years ago when Jawaan Daniels was fatally shot one afternoon shortly after he was suspended from Lafayette High School for wandering the halls.
"Everyone agreed that for a very long time, the district was far too casual about student suspensions," Keresztes said. "Our purpose now is to be far more progressive, far less casual, and to be prepared to offer the kinds of interventions so that they don't have these challenges in the first place."
Beginning next school year, instead of a 30-page "Code of Conduct" that primarily outlines a long list of prohibited behavior and another long list of penalties, there will be a new 70-page "Standards for Community-wide Conduct and Intervention Supports" that devotes pages to prevention and intervention strategies to get children to change their behavior.
It is the first time in more than a decade that the district's code of conduct has been substantially rewritten, officials said. A briefer version of the new policy will be distributed to parents, Keresztes said.
The code was approved near the start of the board's agenda, following a press conference on the steps of City Hall at which about two dozen members of the advocacy groups Citizen Action and Alliance for Quality Education praised the new code. Members of the same groups burst into applause when the board unanimously approved the new policy.
"Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!" they cheered.
The district received help from Advancement Project, a racial justice civil rights organization based in Washington, D.C. that works with community groups in multiple states on education policy and other issues.
"I can confidently say with today's vote, Buffalo becomes a national model to end the school-to-prison pipeline," said Jason Sinocruz, a staff attorney with Advancement Project.
Sinocruz pointed to two other districts that Advancement Project worked with where the change in the disciplinary code had a dramatic impact.
In Baltimore City, he said, similar changes to the district's discipline code led to a 44 percent decrease in out-of-school suspensions and an increase in graduation rates across the board from 2006-07 to 2009-2010.
In Denver, he said, changes in the code led to a 26 percent decrease in suspensions, a 49 percent decrease in expulsions, and increase in graduation rates from 2007-08 to 2011-12
The adoption of the new code of conduct marks the latest change over a three-year period to move the district from a purely punitive model to a more preventative model.
In 2009-10, the district responded to community pressure by putting in place "Student Support Teams" in every building – a psychologist, social worker and coordinator and guidance counselor. In subsequent years, the board instituted a model that parent conferences in lieu of suspensions for minor offenses.
Between the two changes, Keresztes said, short-term suspensions have steadily fallen, from 12,369 in March 2009-10 to 7,480 as of this March, a decline of nearly 40 percent.
Even so, there has been a disparity from school to school as to how the district's current code of conduct is applied.
"For example," he said, "theoretically, for any act of misconduct, a short-term suspension could be issued."
The new policy is much more specific.
Unlike the old Code of Conduct, the new policy includes nine pages of charts that clearly and specifically outline the types of intervention and consequences for each type of student offense. It also rules out certain consequences for certain offenses.
"It was really principals who said our code of conduct really needs to reflect the expectations you have of us inside the schools," Keresztes said.
The interventions and consequences are categorized into one of four levels, with Level 1 being the mildest (written apology, verbal correction, seat change, parent conference, etc.) to Level 4, which includes long-term suspensions and expulsions.
Some offenses, like bus disruptions, lying to school staff, and threats against school personnel, can result in district responses that run the full range of levels, depending on the severity of the offense and the age of the offender.
Keresztes said the next step is to train principals, teachers and parents in the implementation of the new policy.
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NEPAL NEWS (CLOSING OF MISSION X)tor, 12/08/2016 - 23:56 – Anonymous
On 9th Dec 2016, the kids of Radha Krishna Organisation (RKO) and students of Joseph High School (JHS) organised the closing program of Misssion X.
All the committee member of RKO and of JHS were present and Inspector General of Police (Nepal) was called for chief guest of the program. All the students were fully dedicated for the program. Science exhibition was also organised including (water rocket, mechanical car, grass cutter, wind mill, etc.) The exhibition was awesome. Scout team showed their activity in a impressing way. Finally the team leaders of Mission X were given an appreciation certificate from the School's side.
This was our first program of Mission X in coordination of RKO, JHS and Mission X team. We are expecting to organize such a program in continuous way and are hoping to get this opportunity from Mission X.
NEPAL NEWStor, 12/08/2016 - 23:10 – Anonymous
On 23rd Oct 2016, we did a task of mission x 'Space Roll n Roll'. We did this task at Joseph High School. We used mat and chairs to carry out this task.
We did somersault over the mat touching the hula-hoop. We did somersault from a vertical head down position. We stood upside down with our feet on the wall. We put our hands very close to the wall and stand in a vertical position facing the wall and we let our shoulder touch the floor and did the somersault. Finally we collected the mission data and completed the mission.
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On 15th Nov 2016, we did a task of mission x 'Do a space walk'. We did this task on the field of Joseph High School.
We completed a 6m relay with other classmates. We traveled the measured distance doing the crab walk. We returned to the starting place doing the bear crawl and repeated for three times. We measured the distance for the student ahead of time or had the student's measure out the course ourselves, increased the above acceleration by completing an 18 m relay. We did this acceleration covering the area of 30 meters. We continued the above acceleration. Finally we collected the data and end the task.
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The Rededication of the Jake Inselmann Baseball Field originally scheduled for 7 p.m. Friday, March 6 has been rescheduled for Friday, March 20 at 7 p.m. due to forecast inclement weather this week.
The 46th annual NISD Special Olympics Track and Field Meet is rescheduled for March 16 through March 20 at Gustafson Stadium due to inclement weather.
Six people have filed for four places up for election on the Northside ISD Board of Trustees. NISD Trustees are elected to four-year terms.
The Northside Young Astronauts Stargazing Event scheduled for Friday, Feb. 27, at Ward Elementary School has been rescheduled to Thursday, April 23 due to a forecast of inclement weather.
Last night, Trustees discussed and took action on several items: held a public hearing on the District's Texas Academic Performance Report (TAPR), discussed processes for naming three new schools, and appointed four campus administrators and one Central Office position.
This year Holmes HS celebrated its 50th anniversary with a community-wide celebration that included testimonials from alumni, special performances by current students, and a reception catered by the Holmes HS culinary students. It was event worthy of a school that has served as a cornerstone in the community for five decades.
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Carol Ann Anderson, an elementary reading specialist at Aue ES, is a finalist for the prestigious H-E-B Excellence in Education Awards, recognizing her as one of the best educators in Texas.
Students at Burke ES have something to cheer about. They know that with a lot of work and perseverance they can go to college. That was a message during a recent pep rally at their school.
As every homeowner is aware, electricity and water costs are probably going to go up each year, so every kilowatt and gallon saved across the Northside School District becomes an investment in the future of our students.
Similar to the San Antonio Spurs chasing a sixth championship this year, the Northside Education Foundation (NEF) has a "Race for Seis" of its own.
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Northside ISD is holding a Custodial/Maintenance Job Fair to fill more than 60 fulltime positions with benefits for custodians, assistant head custodians, head custodians, and maintenance positions.
In a bold move to better prepare students for studies beyond high school, the Northside ISD Board of Trustees approved $308,000 to pay for the SAT college entrance exam to be offered to all of NISD's juniors. The test will be administered on Wednesday, April 15. A potential 7,000+ juniors would be tested.
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RIVERSIDE, Calif. (AP) — The soldiers were told it was a job for men: They were to bring the residents of a small Guatemalan village to a well where they would be killed and their bodies dumped inside.
Three decades later, two of the soldiers brought their horrific accounts of the killings in the village of Dos Erres to an American courtroom where Guatemalan army officer Jorge Sosa is on trial. He's charged with lying on his U.S. citizenship application about his military service and his role in the massacre.
A former sergeant, Cesar Franco Ibanez, recalled for jurors Thursday through an interpreter what one of the commanding officers of the special forces unit sent to Dos Erres yelled at him as he took a woman to her death.
The officer said the task "was only for men," Franco Ibanez, who is living outside Guatemala as a protected witness, said in Spanish.
The remarks echoed testimony a day earlier by another former sergeant, Gilberto Jordan. After soldiers were ordered to kill everyone in the village, Jordan took a boy who was about 3 years old, the same age as his son, and sobbed as he walked toward the well, Jordan recalled for the court.
A sergeant approached him and told him not to cry because he would also wind up in the well if he did, Jordan said. He said Sosa, who was a second lieutenant, told him it was "a job for a man" and he threw the child inside.
While Sosa is not on trial for war crimes, the testimony of the two former soldiers has brought Guatemala's civil war to the present for jurors in Riverside. Sosa, who previously lived in Riverside County, is charged with making false statements and obtaining citizenship unlawfully by allegedly omitting information about his army service and participation in the killings.
If convicted, he could face up to 15 years in prison and lose his citizenship.
But defense attorney Shashi Kewalramani said Sosa's military service was no secret to U.S. officials since he told them about his role in the army when he applied for asylum years before he became a citizen — information that was held in his immigration file.
He cautioned jurors that Sosa is only on trial for the way he answered questions on his immigration paperwork — not for the atrocities of war.
About 200,000 people were killed during the civil war that ended in Guatemala in 1996, mostly by state forces and paramilitary groups.
Prosecutors say Sosa's patrol went to Dos Erres in December 1982 to search for missing rifles believed stolen by guerrillas, then decided to kill the villagers after some of the soldiers began raping the women. At least 160 people were killed.
In 1985, Sosa left the country and sought asylum in the U.S., claiming that Guatemalan guerrillas were after him. His application was denied and he ended up moving to Canada, where he became a citizen. Sosa later returned to the U.S., married an American, got a green card and eventually U.S. citizenship after filing an application in 2007.
After authorities searched his Southern California home in 2010, Sosa headed to Mexico and boarded a flight to Canada. He was arrested there and extradited last year to the United States.
In the trial in Riverside, Jordan recalled for the court through a Spanish interpreter how Sosa fired his rifle and threw a grenade at villagers from Dos Erres who screamed from within the well.
"The people that were there, half-dead, were all screaming," said Jordan, who is serving time in a U.S. prison for lying on his naturalization papers about his role in the war. "When he threw the grenade the people that were there were quiet because they were killed."
Jordan also testified that he took a woman to the well and shot her in the back of the head before pushing her inside, and started taking a teenage girl to be killed when another soldier stopped him and asked if he was going to rape her. When he answered no, the soldier took the girl away and later brought her back, bleeding, to the well, he said.
Franco Ibanez testified that he raped a woman that day, and that he watched women being killed.
"They would blindfold their eyes and they would kneel them at the edge of the well," he said, adding that the women were asked if they knew where the missing rifles were. "When they would say no, they would hit them over the head with a sledgehammer. Then they would dump them into the well."
Sosa and Jordan are among four former members of the Guatemalan army arrested by U.S. homeland security officials in connection with the Dos Erres massacre.
Pedro Pimentel was deported from the U.S. and sentenced in Guatemala to 6,060 years in prison for the massacre. Santos Lopez is detained as a material witness in the government's case against Sosa.
Sosa's ex-wife, Maria Ortiz, testified she moved out upon learning about Sosa's alleged implication in the Dos Erres massacre by running an Internet search on his name after law enforcement officers searched the couple's Moreno Valley home.
Soon thereafter, she was supposed to meet with him one morning but he never showed up. Later that day, she went by the house and saw he had left a newspaper on the table, his car in the driveway and his wedding ring behind.
"I saw the wedding ring and then I realized he's gone," said Ortiz, who divorced him the following year.
She said the couple traveled to a host of Latin American destinations — but never Guatemala.


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UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Russia said Wednesday it opposes a new U.N. Security Council resolution on the humanitarian plight in Syria, an announcement that is likely to torpedo a Western and Arab-backed draft that would pressure the government and opposition to allow desperately needed aid into the country.
Russia's U.N. Ambassador Vitaly Churkin told a press briefing that "hard, pragmatic and purposeful work is necessary" to resolve specific humanitarian issues — not a council resolution which will almost certainly aim "to politicize the problem."
Council diplomats said they expect to circulate a draft humanitarian resolution this week, following the failure of peace talks between the Syrian government and opposition to achieve any concrete results, especially on possible humanitarian aid convoys to besieged parts of the city of Homs.
"We are against moving to a resolution now in the Security Council," Churkin told reporters at Russia's U.N. Mission. "We believe that it's a wrong move. It's not a good time to have any resolution discussed in the Security Council."
Russia and China, which support the Syrian government, have vetoed three previous Western-backed resolutions that would have pressured President Bashar Assad to end the violence. The deeply divided council did come together in October to approve a weaker presidential statement appealing for immediate access to all areas of the country to deliver aid to millions of civilians.
But Churkin made clear Wednesday that Moscow is not prepared to go further, saying what is needed is for both sides — and countries with influence on them — to address and resolve specific humanitarian situations.
He said the latest information he saw on Tuesday was that an agreement on who would be allowed to leave Homs, and when and how humanitarian assistance would be supplied to the city, "is about to happen."
Churkin called the first meeting between the government and opposition in Geneva "a good start of talks" after three years of bloody civil war that has killed more than 130,000 people, according to activists.
The talks are supposed to focus on implementing a plan adopted in Geneva in June 2012 calling for the establishment of a transitional governing body in Syria vested with full executive powers. But the Syrian government has rejected a transitional government and has pressed for the talks to focus on the terrorist threat in the country.
Churkin said terrorists "are to a large extent behind this tragic humanitarian situation" and fighting terrorism "should be one of the priorities in the discussions in Geneva."
But he said both sides also need to discuss what happens in the future, including elections and how to form a transitional body.
Churkin said Ahmad al-Jarba, head of the opposition delegation, held four hours of talks in Moscow Tuesday with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.
Al-Jarba assured the Russians "that they mean business, so we hope that is going to transpire during the second round of talks" scheduled to start on Feb. 10.
"But this is definitely something which requires a lot of patience and perserverance," Churkin said.
He said Al-Jarba told Lavrov the opposition delegation needs to be more representative.
"The more the opposition delegation is representative, the easier and more productive those discussions are going to be," Churkin said.
On other issues, Churkin said that despite the Syrian government's failure to meet another deadline Wednesday for destroying its chemical weapons, "we are confident that the project ultimately is going to be accomplished in a timely manner."
He noted that the American vessel on which the most dangerous chemicals are to be destroyed hasn't arrived in the Mediterranean yet, so if Syria had met its deadline the chemicals would have been languishing on Danish and Norwegian ships "maybe causing a lot of nervousness in some Mediterranean countries.
Churkin also said "nobody can be confident" that Syria and neighboring Lebanon will not disintegrate or fall apart. This would have "very dramatic consequences" and destabilize the region, he said, but one thing all Security Council members support is the territorial integrity of both countries.


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Bob Kallgren With the Lord
Robert "Bob" Carl Kallgren, 69, died at home May 21, 2011 after a courageous battle with cancer.
The funeral will be held (Monday May 23 at 7:00 pm) in Shortess Chapel on the campus of Columbia International University with viewing to be held one hour prior to the service.
Bob was born May 1, 1942 in New Haven, Connecticut to the late George Alfred and Maisie Mugford Kallgren. After completing high school, he enlisted in the US Army, serving from 1960-63 in the Corp of Engineers as a heavy construction machine operator. He was assigned to the 175th Heavy Equipment Company located in Germany, with job assignments in Germany and Libya.
He later earned a bachelor's degree from the University of New Haven (CT), his masters degree from Columbia International University and his doctorate from the University of South Carolina.
In 1972 Kallgren began what would be a 39 year career at CIU. He held several positions over the years, all in administrative roles. This led to professional opportunities in the field of biblical higher education. Foremost, he became a volunteer consultant for the Association for Biblical Higher Education, by consulting and reviewing member institutions in accreditation issues.
He invested effort in several community endeavors over the years. He was a charter member of Columbia Christian Fellowship, perhaps the first church in Columbia to be truly inter-racial, where he served as an elder for about 25 years. He served on the board of Bethel Bible Camp and was a member of Columbia Rotary Club for many years. Another long-term relationship involved service on the board of Providence Home, a ministry that has been greatly used to strengthen the lives of men desiring to recover from addictions. Kallgren also served for several years on the board of the Nehemiah Project, a community outreach program of Zion Temple Baptist Church.
He is survived by his wife, Judy Journigan Kallgren; his sons, Rob Kallgren, and Tim Kallgren (Rebecca); a sister, Sandra Fern Pelle, and two brothers, George Kallgren and Jonathan Kallgren.
Bob will best be remembered for his love for people, his heart of compassion, his sense of humor, his skills in diplomacy, and his desire to find and follow God's will. He wished to express his appreciation to the staff at SC Oncology Associates, especially to Dr. Anne Hutchison and to her infusion staff.
Instead of flowers, memorial may be made to the Columbia International University Library at PO Box 3122 Columbia, SC 29230.


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Sebastian writes: "After ages and ages of "real-soon-now" comments, we finally have our ZAP! Apache module ready for public release. ZAP! allows you to build WWW-based Z39.50 clients by filling in "templates" for each page in your interface. It is simple to do basic things, and yet it is possible to build quite advanced gateways. In the Apache mode, it can be extremely efficient, but it also runs as a conventional CGI script. It is freeware, but we have certain commercial options available." Nice... tried it on Yale's ORBIS using the demo page and it seems to work pretty clean.
Information Retrieval
Sebastian writes: "Index Data has just made its first release of a Z39.50 Server module for Perl. It provides a pretty simple API which hides most of the complexities of Z39.50 and network programming in general, so all you have to do is provide a bit of code to interface to your resource. You can draw on all the usual Perl tools to talk to back-end databases, create response records in XML, MARC, etc." Built using YAZ by the people who brought us YAZ to begin with... definitely worth a close look.
from freshmeat: "Significant API changes, involving provision of a unified settings system for passing parameters, and several small tweaks. Applications will need simple modifications and recompilation. Also features improved weighting, a forking network server, and a few bugfixes. Note that the Java, Perl and Python bindings do not function in this version - do not upgrade to this version if you require these." For more see open.muscat.com.
from freshmeat: "The purpose of mifluz is to provide a C++ library to build and query a full text inverted index. It is dynamically updatable, scalable (up to 1Tb indexes), uses a controlled amount of memory, shares index files and memory cache among processes or threads and compresses index files to 50% of the raw data. The structure of the index is configurable at runtime and allows inclusion of relevance ranking information. The query functions do not require to load all the occurences of a searched term. They consume very few resources and many searches can be run in parallel.
[changes include] Integration into the GNU project, complete re-architecture of the inverted index structure, major performance enhancements, and more." All this apparently from the principal author of Catalog...
Rob S. writes: "Cheshire is an OSS (Berkeley style licence) z39.50 search engine/server in active development. Also being developed is an extension
to Mozilla for the z39.50 protocol."
from freshmeat: "Distributed searching across several machines, improved writable databases, the ability to automatically select elite terms for performing queries, small API changes, and many bugfixes." see open.muscat.com for more.
DubMed 1.1.3 now up
DubMed has migrated to a better server. Its database is now mySql and php3 does the metadata linking instead of corba (now gone). see cvsweb for the code, and the project page for more info.
catalog and roads -- search engines for you and me
Both the Ecila (French) search engine codebase, catalog-1.0, and the U.K. eLib endproduct ROADS v2+ are open source and increasingly used tools for building web-based catalogs a la Yahoo. Some eLib folks have explicitly turned to open source as a way to keep formerly well-funded projects going (see the press release describing this decision). Open source as "exit strategy" isn't terrifically sustainable, but a step in the right direction nonetheless.
free Z39.50 implementations page -- who knows one?
the LOC Z39.50 Software page has been up a long time, but is probably ready for someone to do a comparison. can anyone recommend any of these tools (at least one is under GPL)? i'd love to be able to plug MARC.pm onto ZETA, for instance, and pull data out for Jake... anyone tried something similar?
Database Advisor from UCSD
from the DBA Sciences page: "Database Advisor (DBA) was created to aid database users in selecting the best database for their query. DBA spawns a search process for each database vendor, and returns the hits on the query to the user. It sorts these results so the user can see where each database stands relative to the others." DBA is GPL'd, and its components are all free according to one license or another. You can even take it for a test drive...


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Superintendent Nyland has signed a resolution recognizing the contributions of native peoples and proclaiming Oct. 9, 2017 to be Indigenous People's Day.
Indigenous People's Day promotes Native American culture and commemorates Native American history.
In Washington state there are 29 federally recognized Native American tribes. Thousands of people in Seattle Public Schools, including students and staff, identify as Native American. Seattle was named for Chief Sealth of the Duwamish Tribe.
Read the Indigenous People's Day Proclamation.
Students at Chief Sealth International High School recently celebrated Indigenous People's Day with an assembly.


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DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Following days of fighting in eastern Congo, conflicting versions of the death toll emerged, with rebel and government spokesmen giving drastically different accounts of which side suffered the heaviest losses.
Congolese military spokesman Col. Olivier Hamuli told The Associated Press on Tuesday that over 100 rebels had been killed and only 10 army soldiers. "There are at least 100 dead on the rebel side. At least. I can't be sure, because this is just the bodies we saw. There are forests all around where we're finding more," said Hamuli.
In contrast, Bertrand Bisimwa, the president of the M23 rebels, said only a dozen of the dead were from the M23 rebel movement. Reporters could not immediately approach the front line, making it impossible to verify their competing claims.


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LONDON (AP) — The mayor of London on Thursday urged a cash-strapped local government not to sell an iconic Henry Moore sculpture that once stood in one of the city's poorest areas.
Entering a dispute that pits the value of art against the cold realities of austerity Britain, Mayor Boris Johnson said it would be "a tragedy" if "Draped Seated Woman" was not on public display.
But authorities in Tower Hamlets — one of the poorest of London's 32 boroughs — say they have no choice but to sell the artwork to help make up for funding cuts.
Tower Hamlets Mayor Lutfur Rahman said the decision to sell was made reluctantly, "but I have a duty to ensure residents do not suffer from the brunt of the horrendous cuts being imposed on us."
All levels of government are facing cuts as Prime Minister David Cameron's administration slashes billions in spending in a bid to curb the national deficit. Tower Hamlets Council says it must make 100 million pounds ($160 million) in savings by 2015.
Estimates of the sculpture's value range from 5 million pounds to 20 million pounds ($8 million to $32 million).
Arts figures including Moore's daughter Mary and "Slumdog Millionaire" director Danny Boyle have led a campaign to keep the sculpture in public hands, and the Museum of London has offered to house it.
Moore, one of Britain's best-known 20th-century artists, sold the sculpture to the council's predecessor in 1960 for a token price in order to enrich the lives of the area's poorer residents.
The bronze sculpture, nicknamed "Old Flo," stood for years on a public housing complex in the borough. When the project was torn down it was moved in 1997 to a sculpture park in northern England.
Johnson said Moore had intended the sculpture "for the benefit of local people in Tower Hamlets."
"It will be a tragedy if nothing can be done to ensure it goes back on public display in the borough as originally intended," he said.


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Romney rivals make final New Hampshire appeals
Mon, 09 Jan 2012 13:22:51 GMT —
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MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) â?? Time is running short for Mitt Romney's Republican presidential rivals to derail him â?? at least in New Hampshire.
On the final full day of campaigning before Tuesday's first-in-the-nation primary, the GOP front-runner's opponents â?? and fiercest critics â?? were to make final appeals to Republican voters unenthused with the idea of the former Massachusetts governor as the party's nominee.
The candidates were all but tripping over each other Monday, concentrating their appearances in the southern half of the state known for holding town-hall style meetings in real town halls. Romney, Rick Santorum, Newt Gingrich and Jon Huntsman all planned to visit Nashua at some point during the day. Hudson, Bedford, Manchester, Dover, Salem and Concord also proved to be popular stops, with at least two candidates planning events in each.
Knocking Romney off his perch before Tuesday won't be easy.
He has spent the better part of two years essentially adopting the state as his own and now holds a comfortable lead in pre-primary polls as his rivals essentially battle for second place.
Roughly $5 million has been spent on TV ads in the state by candidates and political action committees aligned with them â?? called super PACS â?? with most of the money coming from a pro-Jon Huntsman group and Texas Rep. Ron Paul. Romney has spent roughly $1 million.
The former Massachusetts governor won the Iowa caucuses last week by a scant eight votes over Santorum.
Santorum was followed by Paul, with Gingrich fourth, Texas Gov. Rick Perry fifth and Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann in last place. She has since quit the race.
Huntsman, the former Utah governor, skipped Iowa in hopes of a breakout showing in New Hampshire.
South Carolina comes next, on Jan. 21, the first Southern state to hold a primary. Perry is skipping New Hampshire to campaign full-time in South Carolina in hopes of reviving his candidacy.
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