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Testimony :: Valerie Percival
Kosovo Field Representative / Author - International Crisis Group
It is an honor to appear before the Helsinki Commission this morning, and share the analysis of the International Crisis Group (ICG) on the situation in Kosovo. ICG recently released a report, entitled UNMIK's Albatross: Tackling Division in Mitrovica. This morning, I will provide you with some background information on how this city came to be divided and outline the recommendations in the report. These recommendations highlight the vital role of the international community in helping the United Nations to exercise its administrative control throughout the province.
Mitrovica, as I'm sure you are all aware, is a city in the north of Kosovo that is split in two by the Ibar River. Mitrovica municipality currently has a population of over 100,000 people. North of the river, the population is currently 12,000 Serbs, 3,000 Albanians, 2,000 Bosniaks, 600 Turks, and 500 Roma. Within the Serb population, there are approximately 5,000 IDPs. Approximately 9,000 Albanians and 3000 Serbs remain unable to return to their homes on both sides of the river.
In the summer of 1999, the river became a line of separation between the Albanian dominated south and the Serb dominated north. This division was the result of several factors including the attacks by Albanian extremists against the Serb population, the deliberate policy of Belgrade to establish a defacto partition of Kosovo, the failure of KFOR to take sufficient measures to control the city, and the inability of UNMIK to asset their authority in the north.
Political leaders in Mitrovica north formed the Bridgewatchers, a group of young men whose ostensible purpose was to "protect" the north from extremist attacks. While membership is fluid, estimates place the group at 150 to 250 people. The Bridgewatchers are financed through support from Belgrade, extortion of the local population, and the proceeds of extortion and organized crime. They hold the average citizen in the north hostage – by threatening those who wish to work or cooperate with the international community, preventing UNMIK from providing effective services, intimidating and extorting the average citizen, and creating a climate of criminality and impunity.
As a result of this division and the activities of the Bridgewatchers, Mitrovica has become a frequent flashpoint for confrontation and a source of instability. Early in February 2000, a rocket propelled grenade attack on a UNHCR bus carrying Serbs near Mitrovica killed three and wounded many more. In the revenge attacks that ensued in Mitrovica north, ten Albanians were killed. In February 2001, the murder of an Albanian youth in the north led to attacks on French KFOR by the Albanians. In April of this year, a routine traffic check escalated into an armed assault by the Bridgewatchers on UNMIK police officers, which wounded twenty-two. This was the worst act of violence against UNMIK personnel since the inception of the mission. Despite clear video evidence that identifies the perpetrators, no-one has been arrested for this attack which reinforces the impression that a climate of impunity exists in the north.
The situation in Mitrovica is not sustainable. It destabilizes Kosovo as it plays on Albanian fears of partition. It maintains a climate of fear and instability for the Serb population. It also undermines the success of the UN and KFOR missions in Kosovo, and the efforts of the international effort more generally. A safe and secure environment, the rule of law, and a meaningful civil administration have not been established in the north.
However, the situation is also not intractable – solutions can be found. In our report we advocate a multi-track approach, with four inter-related elements. No single initiative will be successful on its own. This approach is guided by the principles of full implementation of UNSCR 1244, the need to maintain unity of the Mitrovica municipality, and the importance of taking Serb concerns seriously.
1. International Pressure on Belgrade
The evidence presented in our paper shows that the actions of Belgrade work to destabilize the north. Among some political circles in Belgrade there is a deliberate strategy to partition Kosovo, with the northern three municipalities and north Mitrovica remaining part of Serbia. This strategy underlies Belgrade's demand that UNMIK create a separate municipality in the north of the city, and its maintenance of parallel structures in the north.
ICG has received evidence that the Bridgewatchers are employees of the Serbian interior ministry. Other illegal parallel institutions exist: the MUP arrests people and tries them in Serbian courts operating in Kosovo, and Kosovo Telecom was recently replaced by Serbian Telecom in the north. As a result of these activities, UNMIK is not able to fully implement its mandate to administer the north.
Nationalist polices advocated by Belgrade not only affect the ability of UNMIK to implement its mandate. These policies also damage the interests of Kosovo Serbs: they affect their ability to receive services from UNMIK, and they impact on the security situation of minorities in the rest of Kosovo.
The international community must take the problem of Mitrovica seriously, and should view Belgrade's contribution to destabilizing the city as a violation of UNSCR 1244. UNMIK and KFOR will only succeed in fulfilling their mandate when Belgrade cooperates and implements their commitments in good faith. This cooperation will not be forthcoming without serious international pressure. The international community should send a clear message to Belgrade that partition is not a final status option; that UNMIK will not accept a separate municipality; and that Belgrade must dissolve parallel structures, accept UNMIK's authority (including the Kosovo Police Service), and cease negative interference in Mitrovica.
Countries such as the United States can ensure that Belgrade implements its commitments in good faith by applying pressure equivalent to that used to secure cooperation with the Hague Tribunal. The FRY (or its successor) should be denied membership in the Council of Europe and NATO's partnership for peace; and a Stabilization and Association Agreement should not be signed, until Belgrade cuts support for parallel structures and cooperates with UNMIK's efforts to establish civil administration in the province. Moreover, direct international donor support for Serbia's budget should be conditioned on Belgrade cutting off its financial support for parallel structures.
2. Rule of Law and Safe and Secure Environment:
A safe and secure environment does not exist in the north of the city. The 8 April attack against UNMIK police shows that weapons are readily available. Security is impeded by the existence of the Bridgewatchers, the failure to secure the presence of the KPS within the city, and the continuing poor coordination with KFOR.
The role of KFOR in establishing a safe and secure environment is crucial. KFOR should oversee the dissolution of parallel structures, monitor the border between Serbia and Kosovo, and ensure security for UNMIK. French KFOR inherited the most difficult operating environment in all of Kosovo. As a result of this difficult environment, and because of accusations that they have not taken sufficiently robust measures in the north, we recommend that they should be rotated out of north Mitrovica with the upcoming force rationalisation process.
The police, with the assistance of KFOR, should arrest members of the Serb Bridgewatchers where sufficient evidence of criminal activity exists, and undertake a crackdown on general criminal activity in the north. UNMIK has doubled the number of international police officers operating in the north to eighty. However, a lack of surveillance equipment impedes their effort to get the intelligence information that they need to arrest individuals.
We also recommend that efforts be stepped up to introduce a multiethnic Kosovo Police Service in the north of the city. While Serbian members of the Kosovo Police Service patrol other municipalities in the north and enclaves in the south of the province, repeated efforts to introduce them in north Mitrovica has failed.
Administration in the North:
Serbs in the north currently lack good services. They are largely unable to access services from UNMIK and the municipality, and receive sporadic services from parallel structures. Serbs must be guaranteed that they will receive equitable services from the municipality and that they will have a say in how these services are provided through elected municipal representatives.
The effort by the United Nations to establish the Local Community Office – an UNMIK municipal level office charged with ensuring that the needs of minority communities are met - have largely failed. The office in the north remains a shell. Potential Serb employees have been threatened, and demonstrations against the office are a frequent occurrence.
The rhetoric of the Albanian controlled Mitrovica municipality is positive – they are encouraging Serb return to the confidence zone in the south. They have also outlined their preparedness to provide equitable services to the north, set aside positions in the municipality for Serbs, and attempted to establish reconciliation committees. However, their words have not been turned into action largely because the Serbs have not cooperated. Thus their rhetoric has not been tested.
Therefore, we recommend that a specially administered area be established in the north. A service agreement should be developed between north Mitrovica and the Municipality that outlines the services to be provided, the terms of that provision, and establishes a specially administered area in north Mitrovica. This would ensure that the rhetoric of the municipality can be turned into action, and monitor the delivery of services to ensure that Serbs are treated as equal citizens.
Transparency of UNMIK Role of UNMIK:
The United Nations Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) has made great progress in bringing order and stability, as well as forming autonomous institutions of self-government Kosovo. But Mitrovica north remains a black mark on UNMIK's progress. Parallel structures still exist. Few Bridgewatchers have been arrested. The foundation of the long-promised multiethnic market has been poured, but no stalls operate there. The Local Community office is not operational. Serbs still lack services, democratic institutions at the local level, and economic opportunities.
UNMIK has repeatedly stated that they have a plan for Mitrovica, but will not divulge the details of this plan. Officials cite concerns that if confidential elements of the plan are disclosed, its successful implementation will be affected. However, we argue that UNMIK needs to show that they have a vision for the north. Without disclosing the confidential aspects of their strategy, UNMIK needs to demonstrate leadership and commitment to its mandate.
In closing, we would like to emphasize that the real victims of the situation in north Mitrovica are the local Serb community. They have no elected representation. Most are unable to access services from UNMIK, receive sporadic and poor quality services from the parallel structures, and continue to live in a insecure environment, where a climate of impunity reigns. Belgrade officials use these individuals as a pawn in a political game for their own personal benefit.


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Eddie Murphy's Grown-Up Daughters Look Sexy at the BET Awards (PHOTO)
Eddie Murphy must have gone a bit nutty when seeing the sexy get-ups his daughters Bria and Shayne wore this weekend! The two ladies attended the BET Awards at the Nokia Theater in Los Angeles and they're not little girls any longer.
Twenty-four-year-old Bria, to the right, and 19-year-old Shayne, on the left, are two of Eddie's five children with ex-wife Nicole Mitchell. Their dad, 53, might be a famous funnyman but these two rising stars have been gaining fame in their own right with various modeling gigs, some of them more adult than others. Remember that nearly too hot to handle lingerie photoshoot we showed you back in February? Yep, looks like sexy's here to stay.
Since that shoot for iamEpic, Shayne appears to have dyed her hair a few shades darker while Bria opted to kept her sleek and steamy look. We personally love the pale pink and white toned dresses they picked out this year's BET Awards. The soft colors look great on them particularly with the neutral accessories each lady picked for her night on the red carpet. Nice work, you two!
Can you believe how grown-up Eddie's daughters are? What do you make of their BET Awards outfits? Sound off in the comments!

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It uses a 1" fork that is locked with a customized head set, that lets the fork stick out a bit on the top. This part of the fork has a slot that matches with a little nipple on the stem riser. The stem riser goes inside the fork and gets clamped by a quick-release.
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This setup works, but is kind of unfavorable: It doesn't allow clean locking of the headset. Also the locking of the stem riser is not really ideal.
Now I plan to build a custom stem riser that looks a little like the ones made by Bike Friday.
Still I do not really get how exactly those are locked with the fork.
Can anybody owning a BF make a picture of how this works and post it here?


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Movies | The GI Film Festival marks its fifth year of celebrating pro-military filmmakers
Major Laura Law-Millett did not set out to be a major film festival director. For years, the West Point graduate had served her country honorably in Bosnia, Korea, Turkey, Germany, and several other duty stations. But when she read about the latest salvo of anti-U.S. military films launching from Hollywood, she and her husband, communications professional Brandon Millett, decided to provide a venue where artists could present films that portrayed the U.S. military in a more sympathetic light.
Five years later, the co-founders of the nonprofit GI Film Festival have established, with help from sponsors ranging from Jack Daniels to American Airlines, what has become the national destination for military filmmakers, "Sundance for the troops" as Brandon Millett calls the annual festival.
Located primarily in the Naval Heritage Center's Arleigh Burke Theater in Washington, D.C., the fifth annual GI Film Festival showcased 31 narrative and documentary shorts and feature films May 9-15.
An eclectic mix of offerings from civilian film school attendees and first-time filmmakers with a military background, all of the films aspired to communicate something authentic about the experiences of American soldiers and their families. Some of the films were decidedly less than polished, particularly those by military veteran novices, yet the raw power of these veterans' experiences, from dealing with post-traumatic stress to comforting the family of a fallen comrade, shines through.
One of the festival's superior entries and the winner of its prize for best narrative feature was Flag of My Father, directed by Navy veteran Rodney Ray. Starring John Schneider (The Dukes of Hazzard, Smallville), GiGi Erneta (Friday Night Lights, Veronica Mars), and William Devane (24, Knots Landing), this film explores the deep connection between an Iraq veteran (Erneta) and her Vietnam veteran father (Devane), as well as the strained relationship between that same veteran and her four older civilian brothers, who are jealous of her special relationship with their father.
Though some early scenes are tedious, the film establishes a strong emotional, at times visceral, connection with its audience. The film also demonstrates, in a seamless way, the transformational power of Jesus Christ.
In a presentation accompanying the screening of Flag of My Father, William Devane received the festival's GI Choice Award, given to an actor who positively portrays a GI in a festival film. Earning the festival's GI Spirit Award for philanthropic and/or creative work by an actor embodying the spirit of a GI was Lou Diamond Phillips, who hosts the show An Officer and a Movie for the Military Channel.
Another festival favorite, one that warranted an encore showing, was the narrative short The Telegram Man, directed by James Khehtie. Set in Australia during World War II, this elegiac film delivers a snapshot of the titular character and the wary responses of those he comes into contact with, fearful that he might be bringing them tragic news of a loved one fighting overseas. The film's power resides in two exceptional performances: Jack Thompson's quietly pained telegram man and Gary Sweet's moving performance as a potential telegram recipient. (Audiences may recognize Sweet, who recently portrayed Captain Drinian in The Voyage of the Dawn Treader.)
Several other gems appeared in the festival's short film block, most notably director Arthur Fishel's James Warwick, the story of an aspiring ballplayer with major-league talent who is drafted into the military during World War II and handles a series of life's curveballs by building a quiet and noble life serving others.
Though the vast majority of these films will never make it to a commercial theater, Brandon Millett announced that content from the festival will soon be available to viewers everywhere through Netflix, Amazon, and iTunes. Interested viewers should note that some of these films, though gripping in their authenticity, also include "authentic" profanity and violence.


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In the 18th minute of the match, USAO scored off a goal by Perry Sansford and the assist went to Sean McLaughlian.
Baker responded in the second half with a goal from senior defender Donny George in the 70th minute with the assist coming from Ethan Bauer.
After the first overtime, USAO put the game away with a goal from Nicolas Alberto and assist by Niail Burley to take its season opener.
Baker keeper Matt Bickley had eight saves in 108 minutes of action and Cameron Zimmerman and Andy Griffin led the way with three shots. Odaine Sinclair took one shot and teammates Austin Shiney, Andrew Meinking and Amer Didic all added a shot taken.
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The Rosa Parks of the language movement in Wales was a polite but steel-willed housewife who, with her husband, refused to pay rates on their house in Llangennech, Carmarthenshire, while Llanelli Rural District Council issued demands in English only.
In this Eileen and Trefor Beasley had, at first, the support of nobody but themselves. They reasoned that as they lived their lives through the Welsh language, and their village was Welsh-speaking, as were the majority of Council members, it was reasonable that they should be able to use the language in their dealings with officialdom.
But the Council, like most others in Wales in the 1950s, had never thought of providing services in Welsh. They flatly refused to comply with the Beasleys' request, continuing to communicate with them in English only. In this they greatly underestimated the couple's strong wills.
Bailiffs began calling at their home and removing household goods such as chairs and tables, and then the family's piano, the carpets, the bookcases and even food from the larder, distraining goods to the value of the rates that remained unpaid.
Having bailiffs in the house was, for the law-abiding Beasleys, a distressing experience, especially as they would arrive without warning and, without consultation, take items of furniture that had been wedding presents.
Legal proceedings for the non-payment of rates were taken against the Beasleys on twelve occasions but still they would not accept demands in English. They could hardly afford to pay the fines, especially as they lived on a coal-miner's wage and had two small children, and they stoutly refused to do so as a matter of principle.
The campaign that had begun in 1952 came to an end in 1960 when the Council grudgingly issued a Welsh form and the Beasleys promptly paid their rates. In 1958 Eileen was elected as a Plaid Cymru member of the same District Council, where she continued to press for a degree of official status for the language.
In 1962 their determination proved a stimulus to the activities of Cymdeithas yr Iaith Gymraeg (the Welsh Language Society), especially as Saunders Lewis, in his famous radio broadcast of that year, Tynged yr Iaith (The Fate of the Language), singled out the Beasleys for praise and urged supporters to emulate their civil disobedience.
His aim was to persuade Plaid Cymru to adopt 'direct action' techniques which would win for Welsh the legal status it had enjoyed before the loss of political independence, a condition he considered essential if the language was to be saved from extinction. But Plaid Cymru felt unable to contemplate unconstitutional methods, preferring to use electoral methods only. Lewis's other aim was to make the governance of Wales impossible while the authorities, both local and central, refused to employ Welsh for public purposes.
The challenge was taken up instead by the Cymdeithas which, over the last half-century, has played a leading role in the achievement of many important goals in such areas as broadcasting, education, the law, and local government, while Plaid Cymru has been left free to concentrate on its political agenda. Today the language is much more visible and used in an ever-increasing variety of contexts.
The Beasleys' stand inspired a generation of young Welsh nationalists to challenge the law, for which many were fined and some imprisoned, and they remained heroes of the movement ever after. Trefor spent a week in prison for refusing to acknowledge an English-only fine for the non-payment of road-tax.
Like her husband, who was the very type of a cultured miner, widely read, politically aware and radically inclined, Eileen was highly literate; she published a selection of her short stories as Yr Eithin Pigog (The prickly gorse) in 1997.
At this year's National Eisteddfod in the Vale of Glamorgan there was an empty stall, representing the Beasleys' living-room stripped of its furniture, which was meant to be a tribute to the courage and dignity of a couple who were well-liked and generally admired. It was a poignant reminder of what sometimes has to be done to persuade officialdom on a point of principle whenever it is a question of the public use of the Welsh language.
Catherine Eileen James, teacher and Welsh language campaigner, born Henllan Amgoed, Carmarthenshire, 4 April 1921; married Trefor Beasley (died 1994; one son, one daughter); died Henllan Amgoed, Carmarthenshire, 12 August 2012.
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4 Responses to:"The Rosa Parks of the Welsh language movement"
Tim Saunders says:
A very necessary figure.
Geoff Horton-jones says:
An excellent article. Deserves to be read by all Welsh people everywhere.
As an aside is Yr Eithin Pigog in print?
Nigel Stapley says:
The usual suspects will no doubt be along shortly to blame everything from an inconvenient pimple on the left buttock to the Fall of the House of Usher on nasty nashies "forcin' the langwich down our kiddies' froats!", but the quiet, persistent dignity of the Beasleys in the face of the arrogance and cloddishness of the State apparatus should give even such nay-sayers pause for reflection.
The Beasleys' actions were the trigger for all of what followed, which has saved our cultural identity from being eradicated by what would at best have been a form of benign neglect. Whilst some might think the comparison with Rosa Parks a little far-fetched (after all, Welsh-speakers never were actually lynched, although the people who took part in the early Cymdeithas protests in and around Aberystwyth might have wondered if they would be the first), theirs was an act of consciousness raising which has always been – and will always be – an essential factor in any struggle for human rights, be they cultural, racial, sexual or social.
Mark Jones says:
Fine obituary Meic. The great problem is that the complacent Anglo historians who stalk the corridors of our universities, and the sycophantic Brits who control our media, deliberately ignore the cases of people like Eileen Beasley, who stood up for human rights, and basic provisions and respect. Like Hywel Dda, our ancient princes, Glyndwr, Tryweryn, and other seminal moments and characters, Eileen simply didn't tick the boxes of respectability that our educational curriculum demands. She didn't conform to type, and was therefore scratched from history. Remember, always, it is 'their' history not ours! If the Assembly has anything about it, it will celebrate Eileen's life through some form of commemoration. Somehow, however, I doubt this will happen, as it would 'upset' the conservative apple-cart, and we can't have that, can we?


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The owners of 88 dogs seized Wednesday in Jones County are back in jail after a court hearing this morning.
Glenn and Joyce Brown face 63 charges of animal cruelty after deputies and animal abuse experts say they found a puppy mill at their Highway 41 home.
The two were originally released on $10,000 bond, but prosecutors successfully got those changed to secured bonds. The two were handcuffed in the courtroom and taken away.
The Brown's have a court date of June 29th now set.
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The suspects in the case, Glen and Joyce Brown now face 63 charges of animal cruelty, and deputies say more charges may follow. Both suspects were booked under a $10,000 bond.
Today, the animals are at a facility in Wake County, where veterinarians are checking out the animals rescued Wednesday. It's not clear when the animals will be up for adoption or how that process will work.
The couple have their first court appearance Friday morning.
The Jones County Sheriff's Office says it is thankful for the assistance on this investigation by the Humane Society of the United States. Jones County officials say their animal cruelty investigator is not a funded position.
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Nearly 90 dogs were rescued in Jones County today at what authorities call a large-scale puppy mill.
The two suspects face 63 charges of animal cruelty and deputies say more charges may follow.
Deputies say no one was found at the home on Highway 41 outside of Trenton when they executed search warrants for the property. Those warrants say a woman who came to purchase one of the dogs noticed over 50 chihuahuas in cages, most without water and others standing in feces.
Authorities now say they have found dozens of french bull dogs and chihuahuas.
The Humane Society is assisting deputies at the scene and the dogs are being taken to the Wake County SPCA shelter.
One of those helping with today's rescue, Georgina Bloomberg, daughter of New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg. She made the trip and hopes legislation is enacted that prevent these things from happening. "Really for us it's about going back and spreading the word...especially being in New York, people tend to go to dog stores," Bloomberg told WITN.
So far there have been no charges brought against the property owners, Glen and Joyce Brown.
The dogs were transported to the Wake County SPCA holding center in Garner. They will be examined and treated by veterinarians before being eligible for adoption or foster care. The dogs in the worst shape were taken to an urgent care facility for medical care.
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Stop the presses (literally), Amber Rose isn't a fan of her own VIBE cover story. Sharing one half of the publication's "Sexy Issue" with Rick Ross, the former strip pole dancer/video vixen/Wiz Khalifa's wifey, is calling foul ball on the mag citing multiple infractions within the interview that was the subject of many Hip-Hop conversations for the past week.
After reading the interview for the first time, yesterday the blond bombshell aired out her grievances with the magazine on her Twitter page.
"Just read "my" interview in @VibeMagazine half of the story was untrue & ridiculous! F##K that Cover F##K @VibeMagazine yall wrote a bunch of negative bullshit that I never said or did" Rose blasted the mag. "Yall don't give a fuck that I have a Mom & Family thats gonna read that fake a– sh– I gave yall a truthful interview & Yall f##ked me."
Early last week previews of the interviews made it's round on the internet with saucy commentary that saw the beauty spilling juicy details about her past relationship with Kanye West and current beau Wiz Khalifa.
"People think me and Kanye are enemies, and we are not enemies. He wants the best for me, still," she said in the magazine. "Let me say this: I still love Kanye. I will always love him as a person. I will always love him for what he's done for me. I still always have that soft spot in my heart for him. I am not in love with him. I do not look at him in a sexual way anymore. I'm in love with someone else. I still love him as a person and want him to find happiness like I did. Everyone deserves that."
Apparently the usually tight-lipped Amber Rose will now resort back to her quiet ways after her words were allegedly taken out of context.
"I'm so sick of keeping my mouth shut I didn't ask for this life it was handed to me I was nothing but nice to everyone I spoke to @ Vibe."
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Rowena Montemayor Aguilar
April 16, 1976 - December 9, 2013
Rowena Montemayor Aguilar, 37, born April 16, 1976 in Jerez de la Frontera, España, passed away peacefully in her sleep on Monday December 9th. She graduated from Pensacola High School as a member of the International Baccalaureate Program. She attended the University of West Florida where she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in English and Literature. Rowena was a loyal, calm, and quiet individual with a huge heart and an infectious spirit. She touched everyone's heart that she met and always put others before herself. Rowena was a school teacher of all ages and an incredibly gifted artist. Most importantly, she was an amazing mother, a wonderful daughter, a loving sister, and a great friend to many. In life, Rowena is survived by Son, Javier Aguilar; Daughter, Esperanza Aguilar; Mother, Esperanza Montemayor; Sister, Veralyn Hardgrave; Brother, Daniel Montemayor; Brother-in-law, Drew Hardgrave; Nephew, Ty Phan; and Niece, Ava Montemayor. In death she is preceded by her Father, Rufino Montemayor. Rowena has now been reunited with her best friend Rufino in heaven and together they will watch over her family and protect them. A private Memorial Service will be held in Pensacola, FL. A memorial service will be held at Pensacola Memorial Gardens on Saturday, December 28th from 1-3 PM. In lieu of gifts, the family has requested that all gifts be made in the form of a donation in Rowena's name to the


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It's well-known that there's a severe gender imbalance in undergraduate college populations: About 57 percent of undergrads these days are female and just 43 percent male, the culmination of a trend in which significantly fewer young men than young women either graduate from high school or enroll in college.
It's also well-known - at least among college admissions officers - that many private institutions have tried to close the gender gap by quietly relaxing admissions standards for males, essentially practicing affirmative action for young men. What they're doing is perfectly legal, even under Title IX, the 1972 federal law that bans sex discrimination by institutions of higher learning receiving federal funds. Title IX contains an exemption that specifically allows private colleges that aren't professional or technical institutions to prefer one sex over the other in undergraduate admissions. Militant feminists and principled opponents of affirmative action might complain about the discrimination against women that Title IX permits, but for many second- and third-tier liberal arts colleges lacking male educational magnets such as engineering and business programs, the exemption may be a lifesaver, preventing those smaller and less prestigious schools from turning into de facto women's colleges that few young people of either sex might want to attend.
Now, however, the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights has decided to turn over this rock carefully set in place by admissions committees. The commission launched an investigation in the fall into the extent of male preferences in admissions decisions at 19 institutions of higher learning. These include public universities (where such preferences are illegal under Title IX); elite private institutions such as Georgetown and Johns Hopkins; smaller liberal arts schools (Gettysburg College, with 2,600 undergraduates, is on the list); religious schools (the University of Richmond and Messiah College in Grantham, Pa.); and historically black Virginia Union University, also in Richmond. On May 14, the commission's general counsel, David P. Blackwood, announced that four of the 19 schools - Georgetown, Johns Hopkins, Gettysburg and Messiah - had raised legal issues concerning compliance with the commission's subpoenas and that Virginia Union, while responding politely, had not complied in any way. Mr. Blackwood said the commission might have to ask the Justice Department for help in obtaining admissions data from Virginia Union.
The commission's investigation has triggered a variety of ideological conflicts and created some unusual ideological allies - and it ultimately may provide a forum for rethinking Title IX itself. Critics charge that the U.S. Education Department has interpreted the 1972 law so as to make it illegal for colleges to attract males by more palatable means such as men's sports teams, forcing them to resort to outright sex discrimination in admissions.
On one side of the current conflict are the opponents of affirmative action for any group, whether based on sex, ethnicity or religion. Typically, such opponents compare efforts to limit the number of women in a college population to the quotas for Jews that once prevailed in the Ivy League and the de facto quotas disfavoring high-achieving Asians that typically have arisen as a consequence of "diversity" measures favoring blacks and Hispanics. Squarely in the anti-affirmative-action camp is the instigator of the Civil Rights Commission's admissions probe, Gail Heriot, a law professor at the University of San Diego appointed to the commission by the Senate in 2007 and one of the backers of Proposition 209, the 1996 ballot measure that outlawed racial and other preferences by public institutions in California. "The exemption in Title IX was created to protect single-sex schools - to allow men's schools to remain men's schools and women's schools to remain women's schools," Ms. Heriot said in a telephone interview. "The admissions policies of coeducational schools weren't covered."
On the other side is a group that might be called "biological realists," a group that undoubtedly includes many admissions officers and alumni fundraisers. Their argument is simple: Call it sexist or call it simply hormonal, but most young people want to attend a coeducational school where the number of students of each sex is roughly equal. There are almost no all-men's colleges left in the United States, and only about 50 all-women's colleges (two longtime holdouts, Hood in Maryland and Randolph-Macon in Virginia, went fully co-educational in 2003 and 2007 respectively, and even the most academically prestigious of the survivors, such as Bryn Mawr and Mount Holyoke, draw a significant percentage of their student bodies from socially conservative populations in the Mideast and East Asia where single-sex education is the norm).
Furthermore, once any institution is perceived as predominantly female, whether it is a school noted for a profession such as kindergarten-to-grade-12 teaching or a college with a severe female-to-male gender imbalance, it loses prestige. Men shy away, and eventually, so do the most talented women, who want to be where the high-status men are. If high school seniors won't apply to a college because they don't like the sex mix, the college drops both in perceived selectivity - such as in the U.S. News & World Report rankings where the applications-to-acceptances ratio is paramount - and actual selectivity as it scrambles to fill seats with less able students. It's a rule of thumb that the less academic prestige a college has, the more likely it is to suffer from imbalance among applicants and also among those who choose to attend (there's no gender imbalance at Harvard or the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, for example). At community colleges that take all comers, for example, 62 percent of students are female, and the for-profit open-admissions University of Phoenix boasts on its website that it has a 67 percent female student body. "The lower the pecking order, the more women," Ms. Heriot said.
It's a potential death spiral of which most college administrators and governing boards are well aware. In 2005, trustees at the University of North Carolina's flagship campus at Chapel Hill were distressed to discover that the entering freshman class was 58 percent female. Some trustees openly suggested that the university create some sort of affirmative action for men.
There's a third interest group in the mix, the hard-line feminists who insist either that males as historical oppressors should never qualify for admissions preferences or that men's general lack of interest in institutions and activities that are "too female" is not a biological but a cultural phenomenon that can be reversed by role-modeling, mentoring and sensitivity sessions. In a forum this spring for Education Next, Susan McGee Bailey, executive director of the Wellesley Centers for Women and principal author of the American Association of University Women's 1992 report "How Schools Shortchange Girls," argued that male high school graduation rates and male college enrollments would increase if there were a national campaign to encourage fathers to read to their children and more boys in the kindergarten-to-grade-12 system had access to "men who hold other than traditionally male jobs."
The Civil Rights Commission has the power only to make recommendations, not rules, and Ms. Heriot would not say whether it would consider recommending statutory changes to the Title IX admissions exemption that would, say, apply it only to historically single-sex schools. "The first step is getting the records from these schools and finding out whether they're giving preferential treatment to men," she said. Ms. Heriot did say that the commission might suggest steps that colleges could take to attract more male applicants and thus reduce overtly sex-preferential admissions.
That may be tricky, however, because one obvious strategy for luring more men to a campus would be to offer more sports programs that appeal to them. (Men seem to gravitate toward competitive, team-based athletics.) That, however, would get the college into trouble with the Education Department, which enforces the Title IX rules that, practically speaking, require spending on athletics that reflects the campus male-female student population ratio, whether or not female students actually want the sports offered. Thanks in part to the gender imbalance, colleges have been cutting, not adding, men's sports in order to comply. The Civil Rights Commission recently recommended a modification to those rules that would allow colleges to survey their students to determine male and female interest in athletic programs and then spend accordingly, but the Obama administration's Education Department promptly rejected that proposal, foreclosing what could have been a way for colleges to increase their male student numbers without resorting to preferences.
The Education Department's swift rejection of the commission's recommendation reflected today's political realities in matters of sex policy. The Civil Rights Commission, now far more conservative than the Obama administration thanks to President George W. Bush's appointments, is likely to wield little influence over administration policy. The feminists who form an influential element of Obama's Democratic Party base are undoubtedly perfectly willing to align themselves with Ms. Heriot and other conservative opponents of affirmative action to denounce male preferences in college admissions. Nonetheless, wedded to their ideological view of females as a perpetual victim group, feminists are unlikely to approve of any non-preference-based effort to attract male students to college campuses. The Education Department's prompt rejection of the commission's moderate and realistic proposal to allow colleges to gauge their female students' interest in athletics before targeting 57 percent of their sports budgets to women's teams was a sign of this presidential administration's enslavement to a position that the interests, needs and desires of young men aren't worthy of even minimal consideration, let alone legal recognition.
It is not hard to sympathize with Ms. Heriot and other principled opponents of affirmative action on the Civil Rights Commission. (The commission's scholarly vice chairman, Abigail Thernstrom, comes to mind.) They have spent more than a decade arguing that racial and ethnic preferences and quotas not only violate the letter and spirit of civil rights laws that explicitly call for equal treatment but actually may harm members of the groups that supposedly benefit from preferred treatment but know full well that they are actually objects of condescension. Why, affirmative-action opponents may well ask, should gender be treated any differently from race, given that feminists themselves insist that women are societal victims, too, and demand the same sorts of special concessions that some racial and ethnic minorities have received?
It ought to be possible to argue that gender is different from race or ethnicity as a human category, the latter being a product of genetic drift, cultural isolation and religious differences and the former an essential element in every human being's identity. Sexual dimorphism, with the very real physical and psychological differences between the sexes that it entails, isn't a cultural construct but the very machine of human reproduction and the passing on of human civilization: mating, the making of families and the raising of children, which are arguably the most important of all human activities. The desire of many high school seniors to spend four years of their young adulthood in a setting like that in real life where neither sex outnumbers the other - and their willingness to vote with their feet if the setting proves otherwise - is different in kind from the discomfort that some might feel where there are "too many" Jews or blacks or Asians. Many college administrators are well aware of this and have quietly adjusted their admissions policies accordingly. It's hard to see what's wrong with that, especially when they're dealing with borderline applicants who can't be said to qualify for the freshman class strictly on their merits.
The Civil Rights Commission's investigation of male preferences in college admissions policies may not yield any regulatory or policy changes, given the ideological predilections of the current administration, but it is likely to accomplish one thing: a shedding of light on the biological and psychological realities of relations between the sexes that have in the admissions process so far defied both the dogma of the feminists and the best intentions of the principled opponents of affirmative action.
Charlotte Allen is a media fellow at the Manhattan Institute and author of "The Human Christ: The Search for the Historical Jesus" (Free Press, 1998). This is an edited version of an essay that originally appeared at MindingTheCampus.com.
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Have you ever been driving down a road and totally blind-sided by a biker? Or have you been that biker who feels unsafe peddling down certain streets? A new research study released this week by Portland Statue University is hoping to prevent either scenario from happening.
The study examines new protected bike lanes installed by PeopleforBikes and the Green Lane Project throughout each of five chosen locations: Austin, Chicago, Portland, OR, San Francisco, and Washington, DC. These bike lanes (often painted bright green!) are separated from the regular traffic by curbs, parked cars, posts, or planters in efforts to organize the street and make it safer for all. These protected bike lanes are new to the US, so little research has been done on their effectiveness. Until now.
The study targeted one or two lanes in each city and set up video surveillance primarily at intersections to evaluate their effectiveness and overall usage. They also surveyed bicyclists, drivers, and nearby residents to get personal and practical feedback on their implementation and affect on the community.
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13 Sep 2012 4:31 PM #1
Unanswered: Changing proxy leads to calling the wrong destroy method
I am writing a cash register application that uses a REST proxy to write the order data, which is all working fine. I want to add a "training" mode for new cashiers, so they can learn to use the application without affecting the real data.
My approach is to simply change the Model's proxy upon entering training mode. I want to change it to a Memory proxy, like so:
proxy = Ext.create('Ext.data.MemoryProxy', {reader: {type: 'json'}, writer: {type: 'json'}});
mdl.setProxy (proxy);
What happens is that the Model.js applyProxy method ends up calling the old proxy's destroy method, intending to free up the memory of the old object. Unfortunately, this method exists in server.js, but does a completely different thing (namely it sends a server request to delete the store data). Clearly this is not what was intended by the applyProxy method.
Any suggestions as to how to get around this bug?
25 Jan 2013 12:21 AM #2
I've just stumbled upon this bug too.
The code causing it is something like this
store = Ext.getStore(theStoreType); model = Ext.ModelManager.getModel("MyModel"); model.setProxy(store.getProxy());
Running model.setProxy() causes Ext.factory() to run instance.destroy() - trying to destroy the previous proxy instance, but instead ends up calling the destroy(operation, callback, scope) method that is intended to perform a destroy operation via the proxy!
Maybe the problem is in Model.applyProxy()? If currentProxy was to be removed from that call to Ext.factory() this might work?
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In my eyes that's an architectural oversight. Ext.data.Proxy#destroy(operation, callback, scope) and Ext.Base#destroy() clash and the latter should have been called Ext.Base#destructor(). When the destructor is called on an old proxy it is actually triggered to do a destroy operation w/o the required arguments. How could that have escaped the eyes of the ever so watchful Sencha folks ?
I extended the most used Proxy classes in my code and did override the destroy function so it would not do any damage. I guess one can assume if the parameters operation, callback, and scope are undefined, the destructor was meant, else the mighty destroyer of data.


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|Paul Pierce, SF 36 MIN | 5-17 FG | 5-6 FT | 6 REB | 6 AST | 15 PTS | -9
Paul Pierce played the first half like he had cement injected into his butt. Then, he got mad at the officials and started to force things. His end stat line may look like he has a well-rounded game (as will everyone else's) but playing the Warriors will do that to you. The real telling number is the field goal percentage. 5-for-17 shouldn't be acceptable to Pierce but in this shortened-hectic-trade-rumor-filled season, it somehow is.
Part of me wishes Pierce played with a bit more composure instead of trying to prove that he can still be king of the court with a young/athletic team. Another part of me is happy the C's have started off this road trip 2-1.
|Brandon Bass, PF 41 MIN | 8-18 FG | 6-6 FT | 9 REB | 0 AST | 22 PTS | -1
It's great when Bass scores a lot of points. Since he's been inserted into the starting lineup, I had some trepidation that his scoring would drop off and his touches would go down. Instead, the Celtics have let the game come to them and their opponents have been all too happy to let Bass beat them. That may change soon. Tonight, Bass had a great production both outside and inside. Part of Bass's success is explainable. The Warriors went small so Bass could get away with guarding a guy more his size. Which transitions nicely to why Bass, a guy who nearly ended up with a double-double, gets only a B for his troubles. It's true, Bass had a fantastic game when the Celtics had the ball. On the other side…not so much. Bass was completely abysmal on defense. He couldn't even begin to guard any one on the pick and roll tonight. Many of the Celtics bigs struggled on defending the Warrior P&R, so part of me thinks it was schematic. Another part is screaming at me about how Bass still struggles with the defensive rotations.
This begs the question: what grade should a player get if he has an unreal offensive night and a completely absent defensive one? I believe the answer lies in Nick Young's hair.
|Kevin Garnett, PF 34 MIN | 11-15 FG | 2-3 FT | 7 REB | 5 AST | 24 PTS | +2
A for the day. Garnett, like Bass, also struggled defending the P&R, albeit not as badly as his big man brethren. Luckily, he made up for it by an efficient 22 points including the biggest two with 5 seconds to go in regulation.
|Ray Allen, SG 32 MIN | 2-7 FG | 2-2 FT | 1 REB | 0 AST | 7 PTS | -7
It's games like these where Ray Allen's offensive limitations smack you in the face and don't even apologize. How many times did Ray get the ball on the wing/corner, hold it for a few seconds, realize he couldn't get by his defender and kick it back out/turn it over?
If Ray can't run his man off screens, he may as well be invisible.
|Rajon Rondo, PG 35 MIN | 4-9 FG | 0-0 FT | 6 REB | 14 AST | 8 PTS | -7
Rondo had 14 assists, which is nice, but also commonplace for him. What's not commonplace was the absolutely nothing he brought to the defense end. Usually, Rondo can frustrate you when he reaches around players who drive by him. Tonight, he just puzzled me. I had no idea why he continually let Nate Robinson get by him and to the rack. It almost seemed like he really expected the front line to mop him up but they were late on nearly every rotation.
|Keyon Dooling, PG 8 MIN | 1-1 FG | 0-0 FT | 0 REB | 1 AST | 2 PTS | +11
Hey Keyon! Nice jumper! Oh…there you go, bye Keyon!
|Mickael Pietrus, SF 25 MIN | 5-6 FG | 0-0 FT | 0 REB | 3 AST | 15 PTS | +3
He's alive! And he's not a horrible shot!
It was really nice to see Pietrus wake up from behind the arc. Many of his threes weren't necessarily due to poor closeouts from the Warriors, which was also nice to see. On the flip side, he made Klay Thompson look like an Allstar.
|Greg Stiemsma, C 17 MIN | 2-2 FG | 4-4 FT | 8 REB | 0 AST | 8 PTS | +9
If Stiemsma could do this every night, they wouldn't be completely freaking out about Chris Wilcox being out for the season. The Stiemcleanah was pretty bad in the first half, looking confused on where to be on the defensive end. As the game went on, he seemed to find a grove and definitely was a net positive.
|Avery Bradley, SG 13 MIN | 2-3 FG | 0-0 FT | 0 REB | 3 AST | 4 PTS | +9
It was strange to see Keyon Dooling come off the bench first instead of Bradley. That said, it is always nice to see Bradley guard guys from end to end. I think guarding rookies also only serves to build his confidence. Charles Jenkins? please!


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At Crossfit Scottsdale we carry our bottle of water with us at all times. This way it reminds us to consume H2O. Water rules – Make sure you are drinking enough!! Here are 9 Powerful reasons to drink more water during your workouts at CrossFit Scottsdale and everyday.
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Drinking a good amount of water could lower your risks of a heart attack. A six-year study published in the May 2002 American Journal of Epidemiology found that those who drink more than 8 glasses of water a day were 41% less likely to die from a heart attack during the study period than those who drank less than two glasses.
Being dehydrated can sap your energy and make you feel tired — even mild dehydration of as little as 1 or 2 percent of your body weight. If you're thirsty, you're already dehydrated — and this can lead to fatigue, muscle weakness, dizziness and other symptoms.
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A recent article in The Journal gives voice to a statement which is occasionally made, sometimes accepted and too often practiced; yet it should not go unchallenged lest it be assumed by others that the idea is approved by a wide circle of the author's pathologist colleagues. This letter is not a challenge to the author's main thesis on the value of heterologous tissue transplants (Greene, H. S. N.: Identification of Malignant Tissues, J. A. M. A. 137:1364-1365 [Aug. 14] 1948), but only to an introductory statement to the effect that the characterization of tissues as malignant or cancerous is based solely on morphologic considerations in most laboratories. The idea is a half truth as it stands. The diagnosis is not usually solely so based, but rather on morphologic considerations interpreted in the light of subsequent course in a large past experience with similar tumors. Such
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At first, the plan seemed flawless. After my husband's layoff in 2008, we agreed to the following: He would spend the mornings job hunting and working on an internet start-up while I homeschooled our six children and started dinner preparations. In the afternoons he would take over with the kids while I wrote.
Previous to this arrangement, I was the traditional stay-at-home mom, Ian the traditional breadwinner. The recession seemed the perfect petri dish in which to test a different lifestyle. Ian could bond with the kids and enjoy as best he could a bit of mid-career downtime. I could give legs to some writing dreams I'd carried since college. For once, we would be "equals," each of us providing part-time income, while spending equivalent time with our children.
According to the feministic ideal that purports-in effect, that women aren't equal with men unless they are making as much money as men are-such an arrangement should have been nirvana for a formerly oppressed housewife like me.
A recently released Pew Research Center study on marriage contains one section dealing with today's economic changes within marriage. According to the study, 62 percent of people think that a good marriage is one where the wife works outside the home. This is up from 1978 where less than 50 percent felt this way. Not surprisingly, the number of women working outside the home has also increased. A higher percentage of female college graduates is part of the reason. More men are marrying women who can support themselves. But women who are financially viable are less willing to stay in an unhappy marriage than they were back in the days where they depended on a man's income to survive. A Time magazine article about the Pew study illustrates this point with the following scenario: The doctor who used to marry his nurse is now marrying a fellow doctor. Economic equality is, according to Time, making "deft negotiation skills" imperative when it comes to splitting household chores.
Although the Pew survey reports the statistics, it doesn't tell much about the actual workings out of arrangements where both spouses are full-time breadwinners. There's no doubt some couples can make it work, like one husband-wife doctor team here in Wichita who equally split both their workdays and their childcare responsibilities.
But I can't help wondering if something gets lost in the shuffle in such situations. My experience in being an "equal" with my husband was, ahem, less than ideal. Perhaps one can argue that we never completely abandoned our traditional expectations of each other (he still expected dinner and I wanted the garage spiffy), which may be true, but I'm still not convinced both people in the marriage can work full time, even from home, without something having to give.
For us that something was-depending on the day-either our relationship or our sanity. The kids had their chores, but who makes dinner? The one who oversaw the kids' afternoon activities and ran the errands or the one who homeschooled them all morning and was supposed to be "working" in the afternoon? Most of what we do all day doesn't fit into a neat chore chart divided into eight equal sections. When both parents are home, who does the disciplining? Who mediates a fight between two boys, the mom on official duty or the dad who needs to knock some sense into them? Who tends to the crying 8-year-old girl, the father in charge or the mother who is working upstairs, but who knows the child needs her and her alone?
We may be, as a country, redefining marriage, but such a redefinition doesn't necessarily equate to more successful and fulfilling unions. I'm waiting for the 2020 Pew report to reveal that such experiments were, despite their initial blush of promise, unmitigated failures. I know ours was. When my husband started working a couple of months ago, the ballast of the family shifted for the better within the first hour he was on the job. Rules now came from one mouth, not two, making follow-through with disciplinary measures not only easier on the parent in charge, but also more predictable to the children, who for two years had both my husband and I thinking the other was in charge. A clear line of demarcation has been reestablished. Best of all, he can now work without the interruption of a house full of rambunctious kids. And I am, once again, queen of my castle and can load the dishwasher whichever way I want.
So, I'm sorry, feminists, but your version of equality just doesn't work for me. Our attempt at it felt more like slavery than anything I've ever experienced. Providentially, I'm married to a man who doesn't value me less just because I don't make as much money as he does. And when I am asked at Thanksgiving dinner what I am thankful for, that will probably top the list.


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Keen has been around since 1981, writing songs for himself as well as for artists such as Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash, Lyle Lovett, George Strait and many more. When Keen gets the chance to do his own songs his way, he does them with a bit more freedom and whimsy than when higher profile artists take on his work.
As a result, his concerts are upbeat and reflect his animated personality.
Keen, who has for years been a regular at such acclaimed festivals as Merlefest, released his most current full-length, Ready For Confetti, through the Lost Highway imprint in 2011. Despite gaining some creative ideas from experiencing life on the road, Keen was never one to actually write songs while traveling. But that changed with Confetti, as he wrote the majority of the cuts while on tour.For Friday's show in Covington, Keen will be backed up by Rich Brotherton on guitars, bassist Bill Whitbeck, former Dixie Chicks drummer Tom Van Shaik and steel guitar player Marty Muse.
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"Manila on four, well, small engines"
Magandang hapon, dear readers,
it´s just two weeks ago since I´ve disembarked a plane at STR airport.
Is this really true?.
Yes, it is!:
"Cancun, Just For The Weekend!" (by FLIEGER67 Feb 17 2013 in Trip Reports)
And as a starter today, I should fly the very same last route in the opposite direction:
Thanx to, as usual:
No question, the new departure airports rule is as strict as it was also in 2012.
Here is the actual example, MNL counts as no. 233:
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There are some earlier stations done:
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And the Tripreporter 2013 map is also updated:
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Well, let´s go, isn´t it?.
Saturday, 09.02.2013
Service AF 1709 operated by Air France
Scheduled: 13.20 // 14.40
These airfare calculations surprised me once again.
Flights to Asia and especially a bit further than the usual places like BKK or SIN, are very expensive ex Germany during the winter break vacation time.
To fly out of Paris is much cheaper this way.
How to reach Paris in time for my long haul leg?.
Ok, ok, there is no competition beside the train service
ex STR and therefore a ticket on AF is swiftly booked.
But wait, fly AF and secured the ticket by Flugladen.de,
there are some vouchers registered to calm the fare down.
Leg 1 and 6 around this trip are on the first confirmation.
45.00 Euro´s only per leg, real good from my point of view.
Well, the AF guy´s also noticed that there is no real need for the Saturday afternoon service and cancelled my originally scheduled 4.00 pm departure short thereafter.
Good or not, the 1.20 pm service is offered with no real other options.
That means much more connecting time in Paris, what is ok with the winter weather conditions and the flights booked on separate tickets. But also might be a little less interesting with CDG not the top notch public side airport.
Well, we will see.
Out of the homebase at 11.15 am, really?.
This is definitely not my standard time and it feels a bit surrealistic to me. But anyway also this time the car found the way for P0, OLCI works well in advance and soon thereafter I´am at the airport for a first view to the screen.
Gate 316 is not the standard AF one
Yes, winter is still here.
Lot´s of snow along the night, the first inbound ex Paris is more than two hours late but my flight looks like ok.
Leaving my bag at the Sky Priority counter is a quick affair, simply no one in front at T1 security and onwards for a shorty lounge stop.
Well you know, just to pick up some of these delicious AF cookies, well needed for every travel around the world!.
So, what´s up at the gate?
F-GUGF, let me check the destinations and planes file.
Is this really a new A318 like on schedule?.
It is!. New to the log and leg no. 18 on type
This one is in the air since 02.04.2004 with AF only.
18 examples are in the actual fleet
Not that much pax around the gate till a last view for the restroom facilities, like always with me prior to boarding a plane.
Boarding is good on the way when I´am back and where are all these people coming from?. Much more than expected.
Well, someone out there for the late boarding rule?.
It works once again.
21D/E/F is open for me. It seems there is someone checked-in but not showing up.
The load is 90%, no biz suits to see, also not in biz!.
3 partly cloudy degrees, 1.20 pm is a perfectly ontime departure from "Two-Five". 1 hour, 05 minutes for
"AirFrance" and me on the well known route to CDG.
The legroom is not that impressive here
Cabin crew is one middle aged male FA, one elder female, also nice and another middle aged french woman, black hair, not that really slim, but really nice!.
Inde, well, not till now
Cockpit crew is from France, the captain with a nice welcome, the crew is introduced by name. He´s later once more on the mike short prior to descent.
No route or flightlevel info.
Consignes de Securite
What about a view to the cabin with the dark blue clean so far fabric seats?
Looks like cold down there
Service a la francaise
Touchdown at the 2700 meters "Zero-Nine-Left". 2.30 pm, 10 minutes ahead to schedule. Zero cloudy degrees and arrival at T2F like it is usually today.
Some 20 minutes to wait for the bag and always interesting to see the few pax only at the belt. Lot´s of connecting flights for the STR people, so it seems also today.
Priority works, it´s the first one out and onwards for the trek to T2A.
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Fundamental to any underseas program is the platform used to carry the investigator beneath the sea. The fixed habitat offers long-term, continuous, in-situ observation and experimentation. Simmilar to a lockout submersible, it can deploy the best manipulation system to date: the human being. The saturation diving habitat, HYDROLAB, constructed in 1966 by Perry served as a shallow water underwater laboratory for science missions for fifteen years, beginning in 1970. The HYDROLAB was a cylindrical chamber 16 feet long by 8 feet in diameter, equipped with spartan accommodations, yet unmatched in its day in scientific support efficiency. Funded by the Perry Foundation and NOAA, the HYDROLAB was the basis of MUS&T's coral reef research program. In 1978, with the reorganization of the Diving Program, the habitat operations began being conducted through the NOAA Undersea Research Program. From 1977-85, HYDROLAB, situated in Salt River Canyon, St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands, hosted over 120 scientific groups, 352 aquanauts totaling 11,251 excursion man-hours of safe diving to depths of 150 feet during 55,056 total saturation hours. The 85 scientific missions produced a 90% publication per mission productivity level. The habitat was decommissioned in 1985 and placed on display at the Smithsonian Institution's National History Museum in Washington, D.C. The HYDROLAB legacy was maintained with the arrival of the undersea habitat AQUARIUS in 1987.
Two months ago an inventory checklist of items required for a complete NOAA/SEP Oxygen/First Aid Medic Kit was distributed. All vessels and units were to compare the equipment found in their issued kits with the required list and return the results to LT. Hoshlyk at NDC. Thus far only nine units have responded. NDC will order and distribute items requested once quantities are known. As the majority of units have not responded, this delays the ordering process. UDSs/Divemasters – if you have not completed this evaluation do so without any further delay. NDC fax is 206/526-6506. The inventory checklist is included in this month's mailing and is available on the UDS website. If there are questions, contact NDC.
Annual Safety Inspection checklists have been distributed to Line Office Diving Officers, who, in turn have distributed these checklists to their Units. Units/Vessels who have not responded and are overdue have a Safety Inspection included with this months mailing. Units and vessels are to complete this inspection and forward the results to NDC. Reports were due 30 days after the end of the calendar year or January 31, 2000.
Part of the recent Y2K Diver/SEP database problems have affected the output on the roster, such that the REG MAINT column may not indicate regulators issued and the respective due date. NDC is working to correct this problem and maintain the repair rotation. If you require immediate replacement contact Andrea at email@example.com. Also Divers in possession of more than one Scubapro 1st and 2nd stage regulator assembly must return those additional regulators currently being retained. In order for the SEP to perform efficiently regulator exchanges must proceed without delay. When replacement units are received, divers are to immediately turn around units due for annual service. Failure to return regulators promptly will result in additional SEP assessment.


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Navy gears up for CANES deployment
Production of a consolidated network infrastructure system for Navy ships will be subject to competitive bidding later this year, officials from the San Diego-based Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command told reporters in late December.
The system, Consolidated Afloat Networks & Enterprise Services, is a combination of hardware and software hosted locally onboard ships with some functionality delivered through the network. The Defense Department gave Dec. 14 its go-ahead for the Navy to start a low rate initial production of about 25 CANES systems. Northrop Grumman won in February 2012 a contract worth potentially $617 million for system design and initial installation. Defense owns the technical data, permitting it to potentially contract to other companies the full production.
The minimum threshold for CANES deployment is 192 ships over 5 years, said DJ LeGoff, system program manager. That number includes maritime operations centers, technically located ashore, but which the Navy classifies as afloat infrastructure that "just happens to be parked on a beach somewhere," said Rear. Adm. Jerry Burroughs, program executive officer of command, control, communications, computers and intelligence.
Installation onto the first Navy ship commenced in December, the USS Milius, a guided missile destroyer. So far, estimates are that installation of CANES on each ship will require about 18 weeks, but program officials say that could be shortened. Ships will receive CANES while in dock to receive other repairs. "It's not an 18 week tie-up just for CANES," Burroughs said.
According to slides (.pptx) posted online by SPAWAR Dec. 13, the Navy intends to award up to three contracts for CANES production with each contract lasting for 4 years with one 4 year option. A draft request for proposals is due this February, a final RFP this April, with contract award anticipated in December.
CANES is meant to replace the hardware and software of five major systems, including the main afloat networking system, the Integrated Shipboard Network System, and a system used for communicating with coalition partners, the Combined Enterprise Regional Information Exchange System - Maritime.
For more:
- go to a Dec. 31 Navy posting on future CANES competition
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Conservatives and the Common Core
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Though few Americans have ever heard of the "Common Core," it's causing a ruckus in education circles and turmoil in the Republican Party. Prompted by tea-party activists, a couple of talk-radio hosts and bloggers, a handful of disgruntled academics, and several conservative think tanks, the Republican National Committee recently adopted a resolution blasting the Common Core as "an inappropriate overreach to standardize and control the education of our children." Several red states that previously adopted it for their schools are on the verge of backing out. Indiana is struggling over exit strategies.
What, you ask, is this all about?
Thirty years after a blue-ribbon panel declared the United States to be "a nation at risk" due to the weak performance and shoddy results of our public education system, one of the two great reforms to have enveloped that system is the setting of explicit academic standards in core subjects, standards that make clear what math youngsters should know by the end of fifth grade, what reading-and-writing skills they must acquire by tenth grade, and so on. (The other great reform: widespread acceptance of school choice.)
Up to now, individual states have set their own academic standards. Some did this well, but according to reviews undertaken by Fordham and others, most stumbled badly, putting forth vague expectations that lack content and rigor and often promote left-wing dogma. And even the good ones differ so much from state to state that school and student performance cannot be compared around the country, much less with other lands.
Public education is indisputably the responsibility of states—embedded deeply in their constitutions—but preparing young Americans to succeed in a mobile society on a shrinking and more competitive planet calls for some commonality of education expectations across the land, expectations that, if met, truly prepare young people for college and good jobs.
Many state leaders understand this and, beginning five years ago, the National Governors Association and the Council of Chief State School Officers (to which most state superintendents belong) launched a foundation-funded project called the Common Core State Standards Initiative, which gave birth to a set of commendably strong standards for English language arts and math from Kindergarten through high school. Our reviewers found them superior to the academic expectations set by three-quarters of states—and essentially on par with the rest.
But would states actually embrace them in place of their own? This was—and remains—totally voluntary, but decisions grew more complicated when the Obama administration started pushing states toward such adoptions by jawboning, hectoring, and luring them with dollars and regulatory waivers.
Whether it was the standards' intrinsic merit, administration pressure, or the potential advantages of commonality—not just comparability but also cheaper textbooks and tests that need not be tailored to each state's specifications—forty-five states plus D.C., several territories, and the Pentagon's school network signed on. (Texas and Virginia are the big exceptions.) The top-priority education initiative in most of those places today is preparing teachers, parents, and others for these demanding standards—and for the likelihood that scores will plummet on the tougher tests now under development.
Then came the backlash. Some arose on the left from foes of testing and teacher groups wary of being evaluated against sterner criteria. Some arose from parents and educators fretful that heavier emphasis on English language arts and math will eclipse music, art, and the rest of a balanced curriculum.
The heavy artillery, however, came from the right. In true tea-party style, the Common Core was presented as a federal plot—worse, an Obama plot, in cahoots with the Gates Foundation, maybe even the United Nations—to take over American schools, end local control, undermine state sovereignty, and abolish school choice. Some decried the Common Core as a lowering of standards because, for example, it doesn't mandate algebra in eighth grade. (Never mind that few eighth graders study real algebra today.) Others prophesied that Jane Austen and Mark Twain would be replaced by close study of auto-repair manuals. (The list of recommended readings that accompanies the Common Core is excellent—but bad choices by teachers or curriculum directors can subvert any standards.)
Many respected conservatives back the Common Core, including such scarred veterans of the education-reform wars as Jeb Bush, Bill Bennett, Chris Christie, Rod Paige, and Mitch Daniels. They understand that academic standards are just the beginning, describing a destination but not how to get there. They understand, too, that a destination worth reaching beats aimless wandering—and that a big modern country is better off if it knows how all its kids and schools are doing against a rigorous set of common expectations. As good conservatives, they realize that the Common Core in the long run should save dollars, enhance accountability, hasten development of powerful instructional technologies, strengthen American competitiveness, give a boost to the country's shared civic culture, and (by supplying parents with better information about school performance) advance school choice.
They also recognize, however, that the Common Core is voluntary and that states unserious about implementing it are better off not pretending to embrace it.
Some day, we'll know whether schools and students in the Common Core states do better than those in places that opt to go it alone. It's hard to imagine that they'll do worse.
Education reform is hard. Admiral Rickover once compared it to "moving a graveyard." Standards-setting is just part of it—and common standards aren't inherently better. (Newly released standards for science appear to have serious shortcomings.) But when a group of state leaders, many of them Republicans, can come together to set expectations for the curricular core that surpass what most of them set on their own, conservatives ought to applaud, not lash out.
-Chester E. Finn, Jr.
This blog entry first appeared in the Fordham Institute's Education Gadfly Weekly.
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You casually dismiss the growth or the importance of Algebra taking in grade 8 ("Never mind that few eighth graders study real algebra today" in your words). Yet this is gross misrepresentation of what Tom Loveless actually found.
First,, Tom is careful to point out that that the results are mixed. Indeed, while many states may have rushed into placing unprepared students into Algebra classes, this has not been the dominant trend in California, which places the largest fraction in the country — about 66% — in algebra by grade 8. Not only has the enrollment more than quadrupled since 1999, but student success rate (proficient & above) has steadily grown despite the explosive growth in the number of takers.
Second, Tom raises a question of acceleration to which neither you, nor the Common Core, offer an answer: What to do with over 8% of students who today take Algebra 1 by grade 7? Their success rate is a stellar 86% for proficient & above, yet you both seem to be rather cavalier about their fate.
Just to translate those percentages to real numbers: More than 110,000 additional California students a year succeed in Algebra 1 by grade 8 today, than they did a decade ago (cohort size essentially unchanged). If more than a hundred thousand students every year is "few eighth graders" for you, one of us needs a reality check. And lest you think that those numbers didn't translate into more higher math course taking, the rate of *successful* taking Algebra 2 and Geometry in California HS more than doubled over the last decade.
Further, you say that "[s]ome day, we'll know whether schools and students in the Common Core states do better than those in places that opt to go it alone. It's hard to imagine that they'll do worse." I disagree. It is very easy to imagine they'll do worse. Just take the CC's implementers' focus on the three pages of its "Standards for Mathematical Practice" to the almost total exclusion of focus on the 75 pages of its content standards (including at least one of the federally-funded testing consortium, SBAC) and you have almost a guarantee(!) that California high-schoolers last-decade's success with advanced math courses and college preparation will vanish shortly.
Tom Loveless is actually quite nuanced in his study. Your pronouncements are not.
Chester, you write about what doesn't matter at the expense of what does. Looking at the EngageNY 2nd grade sample lesson, all that is important has been wrung out and all the noise that is schooling masked as education is left in.
For example, why was Sparta suspicious of democracy (because it can be as tyrannical as any other form of government-as Athens discovered). Or that Sparta educated women but Athens did not.
Or go to the 6-12 lessons where "evidence-based" learning trusts only the evidence provided by the writer of the sample.
While the samples are "voluntary," providing alternatives to misguided indoctrination is very expensive and few suspect that ELA will be used to inject "history" lessons as warped as those provided. CC offers much that is an improvement over current practice, but it can be used to inject a nasty subset of ideas as well.
You may know what you are talking about, but you don't appear to suspect that with which you are unfamiliar.
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Print a Test Page Once a Week to Avoid Clogged Ink Nozzles
Printer ink is expensive, y'all. More expensive per milliliter than champagne. The good champagne. And every time you have to run one of those head cleaning routines, you're wasting a ton of it. However, like in most things in life, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. Here's some easy ink nozzle maintenance for your inkjet printer.
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I lied. Besides stuffing myself at lunch and wasting the whole afternoon in bed yesterday, I did also nourish the part of my brain that loves pretty pictures.
On our walk home after dropping the boyfriend's company car off in the garage.
In one of my favourite back alleys in the neighbourhood.
New work by possibly the same artist who also did these.
Monday, 23 November 2009
In One of The Best-Looking Back Alleys In Sydney
This Lives In: The Art Shed
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- Top Bird @ Wee Birdy said...
Very cool - I want to find it! xx
- November 26, 2009 4:12 am
The moustachioed one (pic 1) is by Houl, probably the best paste-up artist around at the moment. He's easy to find on Flickr. Not sure about the other one but he'd know.
- November 26, 2009 5:25 am
- The Likkle Girl Who Wurves Pwetty Things said...
Hey Top Bird,
I will take you on a "tour" when you come home for a visit! xx
Hey Will!
Again, thank you for the education on the fine art of street art! x
- November 29, 2009 12:04 pm
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