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The Naval Air Systems Command is bracing for $3.5 billion in cuts this fiscal year alone, according to a message released Wednesday by NAVAIR and sent via email to its employees.
Those reductions could mean revisiting the ways NAVAIR supports sailors and Marines, reducing its contractor workforce and furloughing its own civilian employees as early as mid-April, if Congress fails to identify 2013 spending levels for government agencies and address potentially debilitating budget cuts known as sequestration. Unpaid furloughs, if enacted, could amount to 20 percent of federal workers' salaries, putting them on a 32-hour work week for up to 22 weeks.
To reduce spending immediately, NAVAIR has issued a hiring freeze, postponed conferences, canceled non-mission-essential training, limited overtime and reduced supply purchases.
"We will have tough decisions to make in the coming weeks," Vice Adm. David Dunaway, NAVAIR's commander, said in his written statement. He promised to "do whatever I can within my authority to minimize impacts on our people, programs and customers."
Patuxent River Naval Air Station, home to NAVAIR employees and other civilian workers who would be affected by the budget crisis, employs about 22,400 civilian, contractor and military workers.
NAVAIR's decisions, Dunaway said, would be made "in close coordination" with its customers and all of its major departments, known as competencies, including engineering, test and evaluation and contracting. "This will enable us to provide Navy and [Department of Defense] leadership with a clear picture of impacts and risks to both readiness and personnel," he said.
If they take effect, the $3.5 billion in budget reductions would include $3 billion from critical areas, called "investment accounts," such as research, development and purchasing for major programs supporting naval aviation. Another $520 million could be taken from operations and maintenance efforts, including aircraft and fleet support, and NAVAIR headquarters, which shapes the direction of U.S. naval aviation globally.
Because Congress cannot agree on a current budget, government agencies are temporarily operating under a continuing resolution that has frozen spending at the fiscal year 2012 level, with limitations on transferring funds across budget areas. Meanwhile, NAVAIR has reported that expenses are rising, due to higher fuel costs, unexpected repairs and a presence in the Middle East.
"Like every other DoD entity, NAVAIR is working feverishly to continue planning for the many different scenarios that may unfold," said Glen Ives, president of the Southern Maryland Navy Alliance, an executive with a defense contracting company and a former commanding officer of Pax River.
Planning for the unknown with significantly fewer resources has possibly been the most difficult part of this budgetary crisis, Ives said. But, no matter what happens with sequestration, budget cuts are already in motion and the continuing resolution situation "will have very adverse impacts on all of our military," he said.
The Navy has said that ship and aircraft maintenance could be stopped several months this year, that some military deployments could be canceled and that a range of Navy base operations could suffer.
"This is the most serious, threatening situation we have faced in terms of our nation's security readiness, the Navy's mission here at Pax River, the future of government and industry jobs and the potential adverse impacts to our economy and community," Ives said.
Congressional Republicans and Democrats have been in high-stakes, long-term battles over whether to address the budget crisis through raising taxes or cutting program funding. Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-Md., 5th) has met with Dunaway and other local defense leaders.
"I will continue urging both parties to work together on a balanced solution to the deficit so that we can avoid these irrational cuts, and will continue working with Vice Admiral Dunaway and others to strengthen national security, provide certainty to our businesses, and protect local jobs," Hoyer said in a statement. People in his district, and all communities affected by defense spending, "cannot afford political games," Hoyer said.
Sequestration, which would bring deep, automatic spending cuts to military spending, will take effect March 1, unless Congress agrees on an alternate solution.
"I think it's the scariest part of my life since I've ever been here in St. Mary's County," said Keith Fairfax, who said his mother brought him to St. Mary's in 1957 so he could learn to be an engineer. He has worked for decades in defense, served as a Southern Maryland Navy Alliance president and has volunteered in the county 55 years as a firefighter.
"Steny Hoyer is usually really upbeat, pro-business, pro-Navy. You can see and feel the concern that he has," Fairfax said. "When you take somebody of his caliber and he's genuinely concerned, then we have to be concerned."
But all isn't lost, Fairfax said. "The contracting community, the civil service community, uniformed military, we all have to pull it together." If the country could survive the Great Depression and two world wars, "when the [Japanese] and the Germans were beating the crap out of us," it can survive this budget crisis, he said. "We just did what we had to do. This community will just have to do the same thing."


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Pepperidge Farm in Willlard hosted an expansion groundbreaking Thursday afternoon. In attendance were Ohio Governor John Kasich, Denise Morrison, CEO of Campbell Soup Company, Irene Britt, president of Pepperidge Farm as well as many guests and employees.
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I'm sure there's a story about this..... I guess I'll have to find it in another newspaper?
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And everybody got a brand new white T-shirt with no annatto stains on it for the groundbreaking. Yippee!
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I know of a few people that are employed and not one of them deserve the air they breathe let alone a job
Will we ever find out how much taxpayer money Jobsohio gave them?
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Will we ever find out how much taxpayer money Jobsohio gave them?
If Kasich was involved it had to be because of taxpayer money he gave away.
It sure smells like "Corporate Welfare".
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In 1998, EPA's Assessment Demonstration Pilot Program awarded Montachusett Regional Planning Commission $200,000 to establish an advisory committee, compile a brownfields inventory, prioritize sites, and perform site assessments within the 22 town area serviced by the commission. Two of the properties selected for assessment were 60 West Lynde Street and 30 Wickman Drive in Gardner, MA. As a result of the assessments, these properties are being redeveloped to host the new Gardner Public Library and affordable housing units.
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This property is located in the downtown area. Formerly the Conant-Ball furniture manufacturing facility, it went out of business in the mid-1980's. A Canadian company bought the property in 1995 and ran a storage and distribution facility out of it until the facility was demolished in 1997.
In the early 1990's, the city became interested in redeveloping the site for a more appropriate use. The wood frame and wood clapboard building needed to be demolished and there was concern for contamination in both the building and the surrounding property. In 2000, the city began a reuse study for the property. The plan evolved to include a parking lot and the new Gardner Public Library. The city purchased the property in April 1998 and the assessment was performed in December 1999. A final draft of the Phase II Comprehensive Site Assessment and Response Action Outcome Statement Report was submitted by the environmental contractor to the city in January 2002. The Library Trustees are conducting additional soil borings and testing of groundwater at the site.
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SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) – Thousands of people voted across South Dakota on Tuesday for president, U.S. House and various ballot initiatives. Here's what they said about why they cast their votes:
- "I think we need change," said Brian Sather, 63, a Sioux Falls dentist who voted for Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney.
- "There's nobody to vote for. I'd have voted for Mickey Mouse," said Russell Olson, 48, a Sioux Falls brewery owner who voted for Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson.
- "It's hard to lose a job, especially a job you loved," said Feras Derany, 30, a naturalized U.S. citizen from Syria and Sioux Falls resident who has been laid off. He said he voted for Romney because he thinks fewer jobs would be shipped overseas with Romney as president.
- "It's good to get them in the habit of voting," said Brendan Johnson, the U.S. attorney for South Dakota, who brought his 6-year-old and 9-year-old sons to the polling site he voted at and said his wife planned to take the boys with her when she voted later in the day.
- "He's smart. Obama wasn't handed anything great, but the country can't keep going like this," said Jan Fisher, 54, who works with the disabled in Sioux Falls and voted for Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney.
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- "Everything is gridlocked, and we need to break the gridlock," said Gary Hohn, 61, a retired sales manager from Sioux Falls who voted for Matt Varilek, the Democratic challenger to incumbent Republican U.S. Rep. Kristi Noem.
- "I'm a Republican at heart, and I like the policies they hold," said Kathy Tucker, 62, a teacher from Sioux Falls.
- "It don't matter who wins, it's not going to get any better," said Dan Olsen, 31, who works at Walmart in Sioux Falls. Olsen declined to say who he voted for but said he felt it was his duty to cast his ballot. "What are you going to complain about if you don't vote?"
- "You don't take the general out of the Army just because he hasn't accomplished everything," said Darrell Duplex, 57, a Sioux Falls truck driver and veteran of Desert Storm who said Obama needs four more years to get the job done.
- "The repeal of Obama-care is important," said Tim Rabb, 53, a Sioux Falls chiropractor who voted for Romney for president.
- "I do believe teachers' pay should be based on how good a teacher they are, rather than how many years they've been there," said Christy Burrows, a 35-year-old hospital worker from Tea, explaining why she supports a ballot proposal for teacher merit pay.
- "I think if you're elected to that office, it's a requirement for you to attend those meetings, to listen to the debate," said Ryan Keller, a 32, an unemployed banker from Tea, explaining that he voted against U.S. Rep. Kristi Noem because she skipped some congressional committee meetings.
- "When people are dishonest with men, it turns me off," said David Ballman, 51, an engineer from Tea who voted against the proposed sales tax increase because it was promoted mostly as a funding source for schools, with little mention in the campaign that half of the extra money would go to Medicaid.
- "It's a small price to pay for improving those programs," said Chad Hank, 39, an insurance manager from Tea who supported the sales tax increase for education and Medicaid.
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Can you kindly complete this? If you love me then you will never...
experiences, evaluations and expectations run with time...our references is a mix of our past experiences and they affect our present emotional and mental states which in turn influences our present evaluations thus, finally predicts to a large extent our future expectations...
This question would help you recall those values you have for love and would help in shaping your 3 'Es'
if you love me then you will never lie to me.
Beste Arslan
Jan 1 2012: If you love me..then you truly understand and trust me
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Jan 3 2012: Beste...many times i think loved ones understand us but don't just want to accept us for who we are...and this leads to the distrust, what do you think?
Jan 7 2012: Hi Hiwe,Sorry for the late reply i have been having my final exams for this term and was busy studying...Anyway:) I see your point,it seems like sometimes we ignore to understand our loved ones because we have created a somewhat 'ideal' image of them in our minds,so we refuse to see this person different than we pictured him/her,which does eventually lead to distrust.
Dec 30 2011: Wow, it's hard to finish this line. I want to say "If you love me, then you will never hate me".
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Oh how I wish your question would read: "If you love me then you will always..."
Although "always..." is really not that great either, because what we do and how it's perceived are two different things. We might do something that is in our opinion wonderful, but if the person we love perceives it as a lie, or a hurt, how do we control that??
Also, anybody that tells us "If you love me then you will never...." is, in my opinion, asking for the impossible. And that person doesn't really love us.
I hope I have made sense. This was a tough question.
Jan 3 2012: thanks for this immense contribution, the reason behind the scene for choosing the word "never" as the round character in that question is because by using the word, you hold yourself to a ever continuous high standard not to go back on your words and your loved one has a confident assurance to hold on to....thus, even though you ain't perfect and sometimes fall short of your commitment you still long to reach that standard...i hope can comprehend my total jargon Mary?
Jan 3 2012: yes, yes, I totally comprehend your total jargon :)
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Even though we are not perfect, and sometimes fall short of our commitment we still long to reach the standard of our devotion/vow.
I think that sincere people try ever continously to prove to others their unfailing love, commitment, devotion, loyalty......I just have never been in any relationship, family, friendship or marriage where any of the parties involved have spoken in such demanding terms. I personally feel it is a bit, well, at the risk of being harsh, I'll say "naive", to use "never" or "always" when it comes to emotions or actions. The reason is, like I stated before, you are not in control of how the other one perceives; then when one of the two involved is offended, the conversation usually goes like this: "I thought you said you'd never..........." and the other person will find themself defending their actions, which again should not happen in an honest, loving relationship.
Yours was a great question. I have loved reading everyone's take on it. Thank you for replying to my entry. Mary
Jan 3 2012: firstly i would have to say it has been a great pleasure for everyone reading these so far and i believe more human truths are yet to be unveiled...these truths although as "YOUnique" as they are, they are also universal and timeless inhabiting beneath our skins...
i sincerely believe that love in and of itself is more about the journey and less about the arrival. what do you think Mary? I would really love to know more opinion about this conversation get you friends to read all these comments and also have the chance for theirs to be read. thanks once again.
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Jan 3 2012: i do not understand...please be explicable.Jan 10 2012: Hiwe, I am well. A snow owl. It is beautiful. Do the signify more than just beauty?
Jan 11 2012: if you say so.Jan 4 2012: Hiwe, I thought of many things but this one seems to meet all of the requirements.
If you love me you will never .... have to say your sorry.
Is love is, or should be, unconditional violating that trust in any form is unacceptable. If you must say "I am sorry" it is to late to reconcile a act of betrayal.
Jan 5 2012: My God what line from what movie was that from?Or is it a song?
Of course you dont have to say you're sorry but it might help. But if the inference is that you will never hurt me and therefore never have tro say "Sorry" Well then Hello?. Stepping on toes just sometimes cannot be avoided.
Tell me Robert, have you dumped someone for betraying you or did you betray them or as is more likely the case both have happened, probably more than once?
The big loves hurt i know and betrayal (infidelity?) is the sharpest knife it seems particularly for men it would seem. Ouch! I feel an attack coming on. Not from you though Robert.Jan 2 2012: I have seen some terrible things happen between those that love themselves , so i think it is not love we should be talking about here.
Jan 4 2012: So what do you think is more important? kindly share...
Jan 5 2012: Hmmm. I'm certainly not vtalking Hollywood happy endings. I'm talking about a deep understanding of who we are and in particular how we behave. I'm talking forgiveness and understanding. Not high statements of commitment. I think we are only just beginning to reveal our natures through the work of evolutionary biologists and psychologists. I'm not sure we can make bold statements and believe that they will hold up for ever or until tomorrow.
Jan 5 2012: what an insight... well forgiveness and understanding are just parts of the matter i believe, the heart of it is ... i do not know now but i know before this conversation expires i would get an inkling to it.Jan 5 2012: Reveal yourself. Are you really a bird? Is that a wise old owl or a dove?
Look its just the 'never' I have problems with.
Never never.
Jan 10 2012: Phillip my Ted pal...come on that is a snow owl...how have you been?Jan 1 2012: If you love me you will never lie to me.......
Jan 3 2012: i really wish the world could live by this...but let me be direct: have you ever lied to someone you cared for before?
Jan 3 2012: No it is not in my nature and causes a lot of problems. The thing is we are all wired different.
Jan 3 2012: and i strongly agree with you on this.Jan 3 2012: Yeah, I have a hard time with friendships because of this,but my friends know I am honest.Dec 31 2011: If you love me you will never stop loving me.
"The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love". -- (W.Somerset Maugham)
Jan 3 2012: thanks a lot for that contribution...but are you saying that to love is a decision you make and not a feeling you have?
Jan 3 2012: Now we are going to need a definition of "love" hiwe.
I agree with the quote. But I think we use the word "love" when it is probably not justified.
I believe love endures all things, even crushing disappointment in the person we love. Love never quits. If my good affections for someone vaporize the first time they upset, or disappoint me then that was not love.
Good affections cease, like Maugham says, but if I truly love someone I will never stop loving them. Thanks hiwe.
Jan 3 2012: thank you too...what a deep insight
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Jan 3 2012: why don't you let these word known to the person in context...so what you say?
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Jan 3 2012: Never mind...Dec 30 2011: I will never hurt you nor let anybody hurt you.
For me that implies everything, no hurting fisically nor your feelings, not to lie, not to insult, not to cheat, not to look down on you...
The same way I expect the same from you.
Jan 3 2012: Thanks man...yes you won't hurt her but the power to protect her from the hurt inflicted or might likely be inflicted by others might not be within your jurisdiction...what do you think?
Jan 3 2012: I will do whatever I can to protect her, even risk my own live.Dec 30 2011: Well the cliche would be " leave me". But we know thats a lie. If you love me you will never " hurt me?" Sorry promises, promises. Though I'd hope i wouldnt. Perhaps the answer would be and indeed another cliche' "I will never say never."
With regard toyour line " if you love me then you will never lie to me" doesnt sit easily with me. Perhaps it is because i love you that i will lie to you.
More to the point would i ever betray you?
Dec 30 2011: Phillip are you telling me you have not experienced love before?
Jan 2 2012: Hiwe, I guess i've been in what you call love. Perhaps a couple of times. But love can be broken down into many parts. I'm all for honesty in relatiionships and that is not easy when many are formed with deceit. Not intentional, nonetheless deceit. Even self deceit. We know that love wears of over time and then other influences may keep together or drive apart "lovers".
I am well versed in the romantic notions put to us in Hollywood movies and the idealiseDnarratives we hold in our minds. I also know how quickly the tide can turn if evolutionary drives are not met or compromised.
I guess really i am a bit skeptical of the question and the answers that might follow.
Jan 3 2012: HONESTY...hmmm is an ambiguous word in the crux of this discussion love, because it's practically possible that someone's spouse colud be honestly telling a lie...honesty to me could be induced or pseudo-conviction.Jan 5 2012: Honesty is not ambiguous. Honestly. Its just one person's view. Now if we want to get into self deception and deception of others then i hardly think honesty is the right word. We dont honestly tell lies. But we might make things up to maintain some dignity. Those honest lies if looked at closely were not honest. There was motivation. How the hell does one pronounce your name? Is it Hugh?
Sorry Hiwe i have problems staying on topic sometimes.


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In a repeat of the same match they played in the first round in Zurich Open last year, Ana's first opponent in Zurich this year is Tatiana Golovin from France, currently ranked 23 on the WTA list.
Last year they played a very close match which Ana won 2:1, by sets 7-5, 6-7(2), 7-6(3). They played each other once again since then, this summer in Rome. Ana prevailed once again with a 2:0 win, by sets 6:3, 6:4.
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Cincinnati, OH (Sports Network) - Todd Frazier's three-run double highlighted an eight-run seventh inning that propelled the Cincinnati Reds to a 10-6 win over the Miami Marlins in the finale of a four-game set at Great American Ball Park.
The outburst broke up what had been a close game.
The first six Cincinnati batters reached base in the fateful frame, with Brandon Phillips' RBI single off Jon Rauch snapping a 2-2 tie. A second runner came home when right fielder Giancarlo Stanton bobbled the ball.
Rauch had replaced Alex Sanabia (2-2) after the Reds loaded the bases against the starting pitcher.
After Jay Bruce worked a walk to reload the bases, Devin Mesoraco singled home Joey Votto, who had opened the scoring with a two-out, solo homer in the first inning.
Frazier later cleared the bases with his two-out liner off the top of the right-field wall. Shin-Soo Choo and Xavier Paul followed with back-to-back RBI doubles to cap the barrage.
The Marlins put up a four-spot in the ninth against Manny Parra. Stanton knocked in his first run of the season with a single and a pinch-hitting Miguel Olivo launched a three-run homer.
The Reds won for the sixth time in their last seven games.
Cincinnati starter Homer Bailey struck out eight and walked three over six innings. He gave up seven hits, including a pair of RBI singles by Chris Valaika.
"That's what we expect out of these guys," Mesoraco said about the pitching staff. "They showed last year that they'll put up quality starts, bullpen will come in and do its job."
Miami tied the game in the second, but the Reds moved back in front in the third. Bailey and Choo each singled to begin the inning and Votto stroked a one-out base hit to center field. At first, Bailey held at third base, but a misplay by Justin Ruggiano allowed him to score the go-ahead run.
Bailey struggled to find the strike zone in the fourth as he walked the bases loaded. However, he escaped the jam by fanning Donovan Solano on three pitches.
The Marlins got to Bailey in the sixth when Valaika drove in Rob Brantly, who had led off with a double.
Logan Ondrusek (1-0) struck out the side in the top of the seventh for Cincinnati.
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The ruins of the ancient city of Aksum are found close to Ethiopia's northern border. They mark the location of the heart of ancient Ethiopia, when the Kingdom of Aksum was the most powerful state between the Eastern Roman Empire and Persia. The massive ruins, dating from between the 1st and the 13th century A.D., include monolithic obelisks, giant stelae, royal tombs and the ruins of ancient castles. Long after its political decline in the 10th century, Ethiopian emperors continued to be crowned in Aksum.
Près de la frontière nord de l'Éthiopie, les ruines de la ville ancienne d'Axoum marquent l'emplacement du cœur de l'Éthiopie antique, lorsque le royaume d'Axoum était l'État le plus puissant entre l'Empire romain d'Orient et la Perse. Les ruines massives, qui datent du Ier au XIIIe siècle, comprennent des obélisques monolithiques, des stèles géantes, des tombes royales et les ruines de châteaux anciens. Longtemps après son déclin politique vers le Xe siècle, les empereurs d'Éthiopie vinrent se faire couronner dans cette ville.
تقع آثار مدينة أكسوم القديمة على مقربةٍ من حدود إثيوبيا الشماليّة وفي قلب إثيوبيا القديمة يوم كانت مملكة أكسوم الدولة الأعظم بين الإمبراطوريّة الرومانيّة في الشرق وبلاد فارس. وتشمل الآثار الكثيرة، التي تعود إلى الحقبة الممتدة من القرن الأوّل إلى القرن الثالث عشر، نصباً عموديّة منحوتة من حجرٍ واحد ومسلاّت عملاقة وقبورا ملكيّة وآثار قصور قديمة. وبعد وقت طويلٍ على تآكل سلطة إثيوبيا السياسيّة قرابة القرن العاشر، استمر الأباطرة يتوافدون إلى أكسوم لتنصيبهم فيها.
source: UNESCO/ERI
阿克苏姆古城遗址位于埃塞俄比亚北部边境附近。这里曾是古代埃塞俄比亚的心脏地带,当时的阿克苏姆王国(the Kingdom of Aksum)是东罗马帝国和波斯帝国之间最强大的国家。大量的遗迹都可追溯到公元1世纪至13世纪之间,包括完整的方尖碑、大型石柱、皇家墓地和古代城堡遗迹。公元10世纪政治衰退很久以后,埃塞俄比亚皇帝的加冕仪式仍然在阿克苏姆举行。
source: UNESCO/ERI
Древний город Аксум
Руины древнего города Аксум найдены вблизи северной границы Эфиопии. Они отмечают местонахождение ядра древней Эфиопии, когда царство Аксум было сильнейшим государством древнего мира, наряду с Восточной Римской империей и Персией. Массивные руины, относящиеся к периоду I-XIII вв., включают монолитные обелиски, огромную стелу, царские гробницы и развалины древних замков. Долгое время после политического упадка в Х в. императоры Эфиопии продолжали короноваться в Аксуме.
source: UNESCO/ERI
Ubicadas cerca de la frontera septentrional de Etiopía, las ruinas de la ciudad de Axum señalan el emplazamiento del centro del poder etíope en la Antigüedad, cuando el reino del mismo nombre era el más poderoso de los estados situados entre el Imperio Romano de Oriente y Persia. Las ruinas colosales de Axum datan de los siglos I a XIII y comprenden obeliscos monolíticos, estelas gigantescas, sepulturas reales y vestigios de antiguos castillos. Mucho tiempo después de que se consumara la decadencia política de la ciudad (hacia el siglo X), las ceremonias de coronación de los emperadores etíopes se seguían celebrando en esta ciudad.
source: UNESCO/ERI
source: NFUAJ
Aksum ontstond enkele eeuwen voor de geboorte van Christus, als de hoofdstad van een staat die handel dreef met het oude Griekenland, Egypte en Azië. De ruïnes van de oude stad liggen dichtbij de noordelijke grens van Ethiopië. Ze markeren het hart van het oude Ethiopië, toen het Koninkrijk van Aksum de machtigste staat was tussen het Oost-Romeinse Rijk en Perzië. De massieve ruïnes dateren van tussen de 1e en 13e eeuw na Christus en bestaan uit monolithische obelisken, reusachtige stèles, koninklijke graven en ruïnes van oude kastelen. Lang na het politieke verval van Aksum in de 10e eeuw, werden er nog Ethiopische keizers gekroond.
Source: unesco.nl
Outstanding Universal Value
Brief Synthesis
Situated in the highlands of northern Ethiopia, Aksum symbolizes the wealth and importance of the civilization of the ancient Aksumite kingdom, which lasted from the 1st to the 8th centuries AD. The kingdom was at the crossroads of the three continents: Africa, Arabia and the Greco-Roman World, and was the most powerful state between the Eastern Roman Empire and Persia. In command of the ivory trade with Sudan, its fleets controlled the Red Sea trade through the port of Adulis and the inland routes of north eastern Africa.
The ruins of the ancient Aksumite Civilization covered a wide area in the Tigray Plateau. The most impressive monuments are the monolithic obelisks, royal tombs and the palace ruins dating to the 6th and 7th centuries AD.
Several stelae survive in the town of Aksum dating between the 3rd and 4th centuries AD. The largest standing obelisk rises to a height of over 23 meters and is exquisitely carved to represent a nine-storey building of the Aksumites. It stands at the entrance of the main stelae area. The largest obelisk of some 33 meters long lies where it fell, perhaps during the process of erection. It is possibly the largest monolithic stele that ancient human beings ever attempted to erect.
A series of inscription on stone tablets have proved to be of immense importance to historians of the ancient world. Some of them include trilingual text in Greek, Sabaean and Ge'ez (Classical Ethiopian), inscribed by King Ezana in the 4th century AD.
The introduction of Christianity in the 4th century AD resulted in the building of churches, such as Saint Mary of Zion, rebuilt in the Gondarian period, in the 17th century AD, which is believed to hold the Ark of the Covenant.
Criterion (i): The exquisitely carved monolithic stelae dating from the 3rd and 4th centuries AD are unique masterpieces of human creative genius.
Criterion (iv): The urban ensemble of obelisks, royal tombs and churches constitute a major development in the cultural domain reflecting the wealth and power of the Aksumite Civilization of the first millennium AD.
The boundaries of the property, which encompass the entire area of ancient Aksum town, need to be adequately delineated and approved by the Committee.
One obelisk, removed from the site and taken to Rome as a war trophy during the Italian occupation, was returned to Aksum in 2005 and re-erected in in 2008.
Furthermore, at the time of inscription, it was noted that small, modern houses were built over most of the site, obscuring the majority of the underground Aksumite structures. Some of them still remain covered by modern houses. In 2011, the construction of a new museum began in the main Stelae Field and, unless amended, the height of the museum will have a highly negative visual impact on the property. Flooding has also become a major problem in the 4th century AD Tomb of the Brick Arches and other monuments.
For the reasons mentioned above, the integrity of the property remains vulnerable.
The authenticity of the obelisks, tombs and other monuments remain intact, although they are vulnerable due to lack of conservation. However, the authenticity of the whole property in terms of its ability to convey the scope and extent of ancient Aksum and its value is still vulnerable to lack of documentation, delineation and lack of planning controls. The monuments need to be related to the overall city plan, in spatial terms.
Protection and Management Requirements
The city of Aksum was put under the jurisdiction and protection of the National Antiquities Authority in 1958. No special legal framework is provided to protect the Obelisks of Aksum, except the general law, Proclamation No. 209/2000, which also established the institution in charge, the Authority for Research and Conservation of Cultural Heritage (ARCCH).
The property is managed at three levels – the site; the region; and the Federal administration. ARCCH prepared a proclamation that mapped and identified the precise area to be protected with local site authorities. It is reviewing the components and may wish to suggest changes to the number and/or size of the property.
The boundary and the property's management plan are not yet established. There is a need to submit an up-dated map of the property to clearly indicate the boundary, to produce and submit a management plan and to delineate and submit a buffer zone. There is also a need for adequate legal protection to be put in place.
Long Description
The ruins of the ancient city of Aksum are located close to Ethiopia's northern border. They mark the location of the heart of ancient Ethiopia, when the Kingdom of Aksum was the most powerful state between the Eastern Roman Empire and Persia. The massive ruins, dating from between the 1st and 13th centuries, include monolithic obelisks, giant stelae, royal tombs and the ruins of ancient castles. Long after its political decline in the 10th century, Ethiopian emperors continued to be crowned in Aksum.
Beginning around the 2nd millennium BCE and continuing until the 4th century CE there was immigration into the Ethiopian region. The immigrants came mostly from a region of western Yemen associated with the Sabean culture. Conditions in their homelands were most probably so harsh that the only means of escape was by a direct route across the Red Sea into Eritrea. By the 4th century, Aksum was already at its peak in land sovereignty, which included most of southern Yemen.
The city of Aksum emerged several centuries before the birth of Christ, as the capital of a state that traded with ancient Greece, Egypt and Asia. With its fleets sailing as far afield as Ceylon, Aksum later became the most important power between the Roman Empire and Persia, and for a while controlled parts of South Arabia. Aksum, whose name first appears in the 1st century AD in the Periplus of the Eritrean Sea, is considered to be the heart of ancient Ethiopia. Indeed, the kingdom which held sway over this area at this time took its name from the city. The ruins of the site spread over a large area and are composed of tall, obelisk-like stelae of imposing height, an enormous table of stone, vestiges of columns and royal tombs inscribed with Aksumite legends and traditions. In the western sector of the city there are also the ruins of three castles from the 1st century AD.
The earliest records and legends suggest that it was from Aksum that Makeda, the fabled Queen of Sheba, journeyed to visit King Solomon in Jerusalem. A son was born to the queen from her union with Solomon. This son, Menelik I, grew up in Ethiopia but travelled to Jerusalem as a young man, where he spent several years before returning to his own country with the Ark of the Covenant. The Ark, according to Ethiopian belief, has remained in Aksum ever since (in an annex to the Church of St Mary of Zion).
In addition to the old St Mary of Zion church, there are many other remains in Aksum dating back to pre- and early Christian times. Among these, a series of inscriptions on stone tablets have proved to be of immense importance to historians of the ancient world. They include a trilingual text in Greek, Sabaean (the language of South Arabia) and Ge'ez (classical Ethiopian), ordered by King Ezana in the 4th century AD, along with the 3,000-year-old stelae and obelisks. The standing obelisk rises to a height of over 23 m and is exquisitely carved to represent a nine-storey building in the fashion of the 'tower-houses' of southern Arabia.
Aksum inherited a culture highly influenced by southern Arabia. The Aksumites' language, Ge'ez, was a modified version of the southern Arabian rudiments, with admixtures of Greek and perhaps Cushitic tongues already present in the region. Their architectural art was inherited from southern Arabian art; some Aksumite artwork contained combinations of Middle Eastern deities.
From its capital on the Tigray Plateau, Aksum was in command of the ivory trade with Sudan. It also dominated the trade route leading south and the port of Adulis on the Gulf of Zola. Its success depended on resourceful techniques, the production of coins, steady migrations of Graeco-Roman merchants and ships landing at the port of Adulis. In exchange for Aksum's goods, traders offered many kinds of cloth, jewellery and metals, especially steel for weapons.
At its peak, Aksum controlled territories as far as southern Egypt, east to the Gulf of Aden, south to the Omo River, and west to the Cushite Kingdom of Meroë. The South Arabian kingdom of the Himyarites was also under the control of Aksum. Unlike the nobility, the people used salt and iron bars as money and barter remained their main source of commerce.Source: UNESCO/CLT/WHC
News (12)
- Exhibition of Aksum Obelisk Re-installation opens in Rome Thursday, November 26, 2009
- Director-General inaugurates exhibition celebrating re-installation of the Aksum Obelisk Thursday, April 23, 2009
- Inauguration Ceremony for the Aksum Obelisk Friday, September 5, 2008
- Mission accomplished: Aksum Obelisk successfully reinstalled Friday, August 1, 2008
- Second block of Aksum Obelisk successfully re-installed Monday, July 28, 2008
Events (1)
- Aksum Rediscovered Nov 25, 2009-Dec 4, 2009


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I'm broke neck scooter tramp familiarizing my self with my new Millermatic 180 and could use some suggestions on where and how to aquire a large quantity of scrap metal, all types I can use to run beads, run beads, run beads, and then some more beads in order to get good at it and the numerous settings I'll have to learn to find for each of the different metals I hope to use. I'm just wondering because with the prices skyrocketing for everything used in production building and construction, I know metal has probably surpassed them all. Appreciate any good ideas anyone comes up with. As introduction, my name is William Hill, (Willy d.) currently residing in Phoenix, AZ and attending ASU West Campus, School of Global Business Management & Leadership. Really appreciate the assistance and information.
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Thread: Suggestions for scrounging scrap
09-24-2007, 04:34 PM #1Junior Member
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Suggestions for scrounging scrapFor God so loved the World that He gave His only begotten Son.:
Wiley, Welcome to the board
Are there any welding shops or fabrication shops around your area ? Check the yellow pages or ask around. This is where I would start. Most places save any useable pieces for future projects but all shops have scrap on a daily basis that they sell in bulk to a large company to melt down. Im sure any of them would give you some to practice with.Ken
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09-24-2007, 07:13 PM #3Senior Member
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Welcome. At our transfer station(we don't have a dump anymore) people dump scrap metal. Lots of times I see something that may(or may not) be useful. And it's free. Ride on, Bob.
09-24-2007, 08:50 PM #4Senior Member
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Hey neighbor - I am in Scottsdale. Have you been to Davis Salvage on Washington and about 36th street? I love that place! All sorts of things piled sky high. Or, I get my metal at Southwest Steel at Deer Valley and 23rd Ave-they have a remnants rack where you can pick up end pieces for reasonable. I'd offer you some of my scrap but I can't bear to part with a single piece of metal cuz I know I can make something out of it! Cat
p.s. Another place with tons of "junk" is Apache Reclaimation which is somewhere off I-10 and about 7th St. or 7th Ave. Make sure you get thru the building to the outside yard.
09-27-2007, 07:59 PM #5Junior Member
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Do you ever read Craigslist? If not, you should. It's a free internet want ad service. There is a "Free" section and a "Materials" section that often have various scrap available. I just picked up a slab of 1/2" steel, 10" x 75" that was free, leftover from a remodeling job.
09-29-2007, 02:45 AM #6Member
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Scrap sources
I lived & worked in the Phoenix/Scottsdale area in the mid-1970's, now I understand that there are gated communities out by the Scottsdale Airport where I used to hunt!
Back to the question at hand - all of the metal supply shops here sell their scrap metal by the pound vesus by linear or sq foot. I usually order what I want for a project - then shop their scrap shelves for stuff I can usually use.
Ca is an enviro-nazi state and the "transfer stations" don't allow you to pick up "recylable" metals...
welcome to the site, always good to have more idea's and questions, so feel free to ask any you may have. every one had to start at some point.
i pick up a lot on trash day, been a long time sense i saw a bed frame as a bed frame instead of usable steel. people throw out a lot of steel stuff, you just have to see past the object to the steel its made of, paint and some rust can be removed to allow for practice.
a 4.5" grinder and some flap disks and wire wheels will really help out there.thanks for the help
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09-29-2007, 06:29 PM #8Member
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One man's junk is another man's treasure. Keep an eye out for metal items people are throwing away-(bed frames, pipes, various metal frames, etc), take them home, cut them to pieces with your chop saw and weld away. There is a salvage yard that I go to and get more pieces of steel than I can weld, cheap too. Great for practicing, there is tons of metal items to practice welding out there, just gotta keep an eye out and grab it when you see it.
09-29-2007, 06:44 PM #9Member
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Untill last month there was a fab shop 4 blocks from me. I'd give the owner $10 and I could get drops and scrap,usually about 200#up to4' x8-15 ".
09-29-2007, 07:51 PM #10Senior Member
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I've picked up everything from broken bicycle, lawn mowers, and even just plain old 'scrap metal'. Most recently I got a free 60 gallon tank from an air compressor, spent $10 on fittings and put it in line as a down stream reservoir.
Most of the stuff we cut up and weld back together, when we are done with it we go at it with the O/A torch or Plasma Cutter depending on our mood.
We even picked up two go-cart frames ... but we aint chopping them up, we got plans that involve them and a couple of Kohler 2 cylinder motors we got.
I am cheap and Craigslist is a good source of all kinds of things.


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PYRAMID SCHEME: Lincoln's cheerleading team started the 2009 school year with high hopes. Image courtesy of Cardinal Cheer
Lincoln High's boys basketball season opened Nov. 30 with all the fanfare one would expect.
The bleachers were packed as the Lincoln Cardinals hosted Jefferson High. Students wore the school's red and white. The band played Gary Glitter's stadium anthem "Rock and Roll, Part 2."
Only one thing was missing: Lincoln's cheerleaders.
That night, 17-year-old Rachel Meyers was at home finishing her science homework.
A Lincoln senior, Meyers is petite and outgoing. Her vernacular is more Hannah Montana than Lindsay Lohan, sprinkled with "gosh" and "oh my."
For the past four years, Meyers devoted herself to cheerleading. On weekday evenings she and other members of the Lincoln varsity squad perfected their back handsprings, heel stretches and slingshots. Weekends were spent cheering at community events like the AIDS Walk and the Portland Marathon. In her spare time, she sold pies and washed cars to help raise the $1,230 each girl needed for her uniform, jacket, shoes, sweatshirt, pompoms and training.
The chant "We are L-H-S!" had become as much a part of Meyers' daily life as Facebook. "When the lights are on and the stands are packed and you know that you are leading the crowd in cheers for your team, that's really emotional," says Meyers, an honor student. "It means a lot more to me than just standing on a field and waving a pompom."
But Meyers put down her pompoms Oct. 27, when Lincoln's two cheerleading coaches resigned and 27 Cardinal cheerleaders then quit. The following month, Lincoln entered the 6A state football playoffs without a cheerleading squad.
Today, Meyers and her teammates have their afternoons off.
"[Cheerleading] is something that will never be replaced," Meyers says, her voice cracking. "It's just been, oh my gosh, my everything."
The reason for the cheerleading team's collapse is no secret in the Portland Public Schools system. Yet when people talk about it, it is in hushed conversations and carefully coded language.
The team dissolved because of one African-American student from the east side of the river—a cheerleader who used to be a boy.
Located just west of downtown, Lincoln High School and its 1,400 students have endured a tumultuous year.
A veritable factory of Ivy League-bound graduates and National Merit Scholar semifinalists, Lincoln is known for its academic achievement, the prosperity of its student body and the relative homogeneity of its population. Recently, parents at Lincoln raised $300,000 for their school foundation, the second-highest amount for any school foundation in the district after nearby Ainsworth Elementary. About 75 percent of Lincoln's students are white, compared with 54 percent districtwide. Seven percent of Lincoln students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, compared with 45 percent in the rest of the district.
"Drinkin' Lincoln" is also known for exhibiting the darker side of student privilege. Coping with the effects of binge drinking, drug use and eating disorders is as much a part of Lincoln's curriculum as advanced-placement calculus or International Baccalaureate-level environmental studies.
And although 2009 marks only the second year in at least five that Lincoln hasn't lost a student to suicide or a drug overdose, the hallways of Lincoln have not lacked for less-serious drama. If any public school in Portland came close to resembling the elite school on Gossip Girl in the public's imagination, it would be Lincoln.
The most explosive news came one weekend in February, when police arrested the boys varsity basketball coach, David Adelman, on suspicion of DUII. The angry father of a former player had hired a private investigator to follow Adelman, whose father, Rick, is a former Trail Blazers player and coach who now coaches the Houston Rockets. (David Adelman was sentenced Dec. 8 to five days in jail.)
In April, Lincoln baseball coach Michael Todd resigned after he took players to a strip club during a spring-break tournament in California.
Then, in September, the school district fired Lincoln's head football coach, Chad Carlson, following a dust-up with Portland police on a MAX platform. Two assistant coaches resigned and a third was suspended for several weeks.
Yet none of these incidents has been as heartbreaking for students and as confusing for adults as the collapse of the cheerleading team. In the other three cases, the teams carried on. The basketball coach kept coaching. New coaches came forward to supervise baseball and football.
The cheerleading team is different. At the moment, there isn't one.
About 2,500 girls participate in cheerleading in Oregon high schools, making it the fifth-most popular sport for girls in the state, according to the Oregon School Activities Association.
Although cheerleading started as a male activity over a century ago, it has evolved at the high-school level into an almost exclusively female pursuit, one that is exaggerated to great effect on popular television shows like Glee.
The team at Lincoln appears to reinforce certain female stereotypes associated with this all-American tradition. The team does cheer for girls sports, but only sporadically. During the fall and winter, much of cheerleaders' time is spent supporting football and boys basketball, cheering on the sidelines and making motivational banners for football players to run through. On game day, girls wear their uniforms to class.
However, cheerleading is not for the weak-spirited; Lincoln's team subverts the typical pompom-waving stereotype with a fierce dedication to competition. The state's best teams face off at tournaments that require extensive training in tumbling, jumping and stunting—the gravity-defying moves that propel cheerleaders known as "flyers" into the air. Some girls take private lessons to perfect their back tucks and basket tosses. Injury is a regular occurrence. Black eyes are as routine as back handsprings. And appointments at the chiropractor are as commonplace as trips to Starbucks.
This year, for the first time in recent memory, Lincoln's cheerleaders hoped to reach the top five at the state championship in February.
"I feel like even a lot of our peers don't realize some of the talent we have," says Kati VanLoo, a 17-year-old varsity cheerleader at Lincoln who has been cheering since the fourth grade. "It's kind of disappointing."
Above prettiness and popularity, uniformity is a cheerleader's most cherished value. It doesn't matter how high a girl can jump or how effortlessly she can perform the splits in midair. If her movements don't match those of her teammates, the group's performance is incomplete. In cheerleading, probably more so than in most aspects of American girlhood, sameness is a plus.
There are no numbers on cheerleaders' backs. "That would be very antithetical to the idea of being part of this team," says Kate Torgovnick, author of Cheer! Inside the Secret World of College Cheerleaders.
WE ARE L-H-S!: Alonza (right) cheering with teammates at the Portland Marathon. Image courtesy of Cardinal Cheer.
Into this tradition, a new cheerleader arrived at Lincoln's tryouts last spring. Even to the casual observer, there was something different about Alonza, a transfer student from North Portland whose oval glasses suggested a bookish personality and whose bright orange high heels revealed an edgier side. (WW has chosen not to publish Alonza's last name.)
A photo of Alonza on her MySpace page once showed the 17-year-old student lounging provocatively on a staircase. It carried this caption: "next top slut aka the sexy bitch you see in ya phone." In another photo, Alonza proclaimed she was, "DRUNK AND AT THE CLUB…MY TITS ARE FALLING OUT!!"
Whether she was wild or just a typical teen testing boundaries, one thing was clear at tryouts in April: Alonza was strong, and her jumps were impressive. Before school ended in June, coaches granted Alonza a spot on the varsity squad.
They did so even though it was abundantly clear Alonza used to be a boy. At her prior high school, Alonza was known as Alonzo.
In Oregon, boys may be high-school cheerleaders; last year close to 400 were. Yet Alonza was not on Lincoln's team as a boy. Alonza identified as a girl and, as such, wanted to wear a girl's uniform, with the fitted top, the short skirt and the red Spanx underneath.
And that was fine, according to the team's coaches, Cher Fuller and Tori Cotton, who welcomed Alonza as Lincoln's—and most likely Oregon's—first transgender cheerleader.
"It was really a non-issue," says Fuller.
The Oregon School Activities Association, the sanctioning body for all high-school sports in the state, has never before considered what it would do if a transgender student wanted to cheer competitively.
"We have never faced that situation," says Mike Wallmark, assistant executive director at OSAA, who's been with the group for 25 years. "We don't have regulations to address it. I think we'd be seeking some help in a hurry from transgender specialists to understand the situation."
While the OSAA may have been unprepared to accommodate a transgender cheerleader, Lincoln embraced Alonza.
The term "transgender" has broad meaning. It represents a spectrum of identities that aren't necessarily related to an individual's sexuality or anatomy. Children or adults who are transgender can be biological males who identify as females, or vice versa, regardless of whether they have undergone surgery or hormone therapy. They can be straight, gay or bisexual.
It is not at all clear where Alonza falls along this continuum. But it didn't much matter at Lincoln.
Favor Ellis, program director for Portland's Sexual and Minority Youth Resource Center, says Lincoln is a leader in adopting policies to protect students who don't fit the typical definition of boy or girl. In 2008, Lincoln created a "gender-neutral" restroom.
In keeping with that seemingly progressive attitude, Alonza was fitted in May for a girl's cheerleading uniform along with the rest of her team. And in July, all 28 members of Lincoln's cheerleading team traveled to the University of Oregon in Eugene for a weekend cheerleading camp. While the other girls shared rooms, Alonza was given a private one with her own bathroom.
When practice resumed in August, Lincoln's cheerleading coaches asked Lincoln administrators which restroom Alonza should use at home games when the girls changed clothes. Coaches and administrators seem to have agreed that Alonza would use the girls' restroom or, if that became a problem, the school's "gender-neutral" restroom.
Classes hadn't yet started when Lincoln's cheerleading team started wobbling like an unstable pyramid.
Lincoln's athletic code of conduct has strict rules against the use of alcohol and drugs. Alonza signed that agreement, as well as a second one tailored specifically for cheerleading.
By the end of August, Alonza had been reprimanded for a variety of infractions, according to documents WW has obtained. She was late several times to practices. She didn't show up at a fundraiser and didn't call to say she wouldn't be there. She rolled her eyes at teammates and coaches when practicing stunts. She posted photos on her MySpace page that appeared to show her drinking. Allegedly, she once said she would drop a flyer. At camp in Eugene she received an all-star award, but when she accepted the award she said, "Man, all I get is this stupid paper."
The team had a three-strikes policy, and on Aug. 26, when Alonza was an hour and 45 minutes late to practice at Lincoln, the coaches decided she had used all three; they asked her to leave the team.
The next day, Peyton Chapman, Lincoln's principal, asked the coaches to give Alonza another chance. They did. After drafting a new code of conduct agreement with Alonza, the coaches agreed to put her on the junior varsity team. "Eye-rolling or 'diva behavior' will not be tolerated," the agreement read.
The problems didn't end. On Oct. 7, Lincoln's JV football team played Hillsboro High and Alonza used the women's restroom. According to an email Coach Cotton sent to Principal Chapman later that evening, "the other cheerleaders felt uncomfortable changing in there with her. Now I have parents calling and complaining about the situation and threatening to leave the program because of it.…PLEASE HELP my program is in jeopardy because of all of the back-and-forth concerning this issue."
According to spectators, the drama also spilled onto Lincoln's track during the game, when one of the Lincoln cheerleaders accidentally cheered at the wrong moment. A few girls (including Alonza) giggled, prompting the first girl to cry. Then another teammate criticized Alonza, who apparently broke formation, went into the stands and protested. An anonymous emailer complained to the school about Alonza's behavior, and the principal forwarded the email to the coaches.
That, apparently, was the breaking point. Coach Cotton wrote to Alonza's mother the following week via email: "Alonza is no longer able to cheer with our program due to her violation of the contract where it states that 'representation of Lincoln High School will be made in a positive manner.'"
The response from Alonza's mother came the next morning. "[Y]ou guys are going to do what you want which is fine," she wrote, "but you also should know i think you and the coaches are RACISTS and some of the cheerleaders also."
That might have been the end of the story, were it not for Principal Chapman.
Although she has worked for Portland Public Schools for 14 years, Chapman defended indigent women in Washington, D.C., in her previous career as a lawyer. She remains attuned to social inequity.
"It seems really unjust sometimes, the haves and the have-nots," Chapman says. "And I want public education to offer the same opportunities for every kid. You shouldn't have to get a scholarship to a private school or be born into a privileged ZIP code."
Speaking about Alonza, Chapman chooses her words carefully, befitting her background in law. But it's apparent Chapman believes Alonza was unfairly targeted. "This was a kid who worked well with staff and administrators," Chapman says. "To my knowledge, this student was not a discipline problem."
On Oct. 23, Chapman emailed the cheerleading coaches and ordered them to reinstate Alonza to the varsity cheerleading team. "I wish this were a mutual decision but at this point it is not your decision to make," Chapman wrote. "I have made a decision and I feel comfortable."
Although Alonza's mother called the dispute a matter of racial discrimination, Chapman has said publicly she didn't consider race when making her decision. It's probably not a coincidence that Lincoln next month is hosting a "courageous conversation" about "support for students and parents of sexual minorities in our learning environment."
Four days after Chapman made her decision, the two coaches resigned, later writing in a joint statement, "The interferences in implementing disciplinary actions have taken away our authority as coaches and thus created an uncontrolled and unsafe environment for our athletes."
In support of their coaches, the cheerleaders quit, saying the coaches had done nothing wrong. Parents agreed. They said the coaches had removed Alonza from the team because she broke the rules. It had nothing to do with race or gender.
"Absolutely not," says 17-year-old Casey Alter Mink, a varsity cheerleader. "She didn't follow the code of conduct, and she wasn't respectful to her teammates or the coaches."
Other parents have said Chapman appears to think the cheerleaders are unkind. "The administration acts as though our girls are walking around the school with poison pompoms," Koni Perrin says.
But Chapman says she wants them to cheer. Within days of the coaches' resignation, Chapman had identified new coaches to lead the team.
Most of the cheerleaders, however, have rejected the new coaches, who have more extensive backgrounds in dance than cheerleading. None of them was certified to supervise stunts.
Portland news media treated the matter in a somewhat bizarre fashion.
KGW TV aired a story Oct. 29 reporting that the team had dissolved because of the reinstatement of one cheerleader. It broadcast an interview with Alonza, who said the coaches' decision to remove her from the team was "racially motivated." (Three other members of Lincoln's cheerleading squad were, like Alonza, African-American. Seven of the 28 cheerleaders were nonwhite, making the squad as diverse as Lincoln as a whole.)
KGW made no mention of Alonza's gender identity, but it did say Alonza's mother worked at KGW.
Three days later, Oregonian columnist Steve Duin weighed in with a column that raised far more questions than it answered. He also declined to identify a central element of the story.
"Given the recent headlines at the high school—the football coach fired after a beer-fueled encounter with police on a MAX platform, a second DUII by the boys basketball coach, the baseball coach resigning amid allegations he took players to a strip club—this adds to the impression that Lincoln is a grease fire," Duin wrote in the column that ran Nov. 1."But we might reserve judgment. This is a case where I can't tell you everything I know, because your right to know is superseded by the student's right to privacy."
Nine days later, Duin posted a link on his Oregonian blog to a New York Times story about transgender teenagers, with little explanation. "I'll let you connect the dots," he wrote.
Alonza's mother has spoken to WW, but she has asked the newspaper not to contact her child, who has since transferred to another Portland high school and is not cheerleading. "It is getting really nasty," she wrote. "If the Principle [sic] and admin are backing my child 100% [it] must say something. So at this time I don't know if I'm ready to talk. I'm under deep stress right now."
Jenn Burleton is executive director of TransActive, a Portland group that advocates for families with transgender children.
Burleton's group estimates one out of 250 children born today doesn't conform strictly to society's definitions of gender. One in 500 will identify as transgender.
She says the degree to which the local media have danced around this issue is a disservice to the community.
"To not cover this story continues to sweep under the rug the negative impact that gender policing has on our most precious treasure, which is our children," Burleton says. "There was an old phrase in the gay community...that is still very true: Invisibility equals death."
And while she is not intimately familiar with Alonza's story, she thinks she knows what the dispute is really about. "Cheerleading is one of the last bastions of traditional female culture in our high schools," Burleton says. "She sure wasn't like the other girls."
Cher Fuller and Tori Cotton, the coaches who resigned, both say that never mattered. They tried to enforce the rules consistently.
"We could have had a girl with three arms and purple skin, and if she followed the rules I would have coached her just the same as anyone else," Fuller says. "No decision that we ever made had anything to do with race or gender identity. We fought so hard for her. We stuck our necks out for her to treat her like all of the girls. The truth is, we asked someone to follow the rules, and the school asked us to give one person an exception."
Lincoln's cheerleading team has been a club sport overseen by a board comprising parents.
In 2008, the Washington Interscholastic Activities Association became the first sanctioning body for high-school sports to create a policy to accommodate transgender athletes.
The 2009 Oregon Legislature approved the Safe Schools Act, which requires schools to implement anti-bullying policies to protect minority students, including transgender students.
More information for families with transgender children is available at transactiveonline.org.


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On Dec. 5, a loaded handgun was discovered in a student locker at Robinson Secondary School after police received a tip shortly after 7 a.m. that morning, according to police spokesman Don Gotthardt. Police said they received a tip that the weapon reportedly was in the locker of a 13-year-old female student.
The president of the Robinson PTSA, Dee Haas, later told The Washington Post that the girl, who reportedly was being bullied outside of school, had been given the handgun by another girl, who gave it to her in a gesture of friendship. The weapon was confiscated, no one was injured and there was no disruption of school classes, according to FCPS spokesman John Torre. The girl was not taken into custody and no juvenile petitions were immediately sought against her.
Robinson Principal Dan Meier later sent an email to parents about the incident.
�The students involved have been identified and questioned. Appropriate disciplinary action will be taken in response to this very serious event,� he wrote. �We recognize the danger associated with any weapon in the school.�
Meier later wrote the following on the school�s website, �On occasion as a principal I have to deal with students who have made mistakes or exercised poor judgment. When doing so, I remind myself that I run an educational institution and not a penal institution. Like a parent, I use the consequences available to help our students learn from their mistakes and to grow as people.�
On Dec. 11, a juvenile male student at J.E.B. Stuart High School who allegedly was in possession of a BB gun was taken into custody for possessing it on school property.
Unlike the Robinson case, which involved an actual handgun loaded with live ammunition, police spokesman Bud Walker said petitions would be sought against the male juvenile for possessing the BB gun on school property.
�Although it was a BB gun, it was made to replicate a real firearm,� said Walker.
Walker said police were called to the Falls Church school at 11 a.m. after it had been locked down, or �sheltered in place,� meaning that students remained wherever they were, and were not permitted to leave or go to other classrooms until police gave the all-clear. A resource officer at the school called for the lockdown, according to Torre.
Walker said the teen was taken into custody and that no one was injured. Police left the school at 1:45 p.m. and classes were dismissed normally at 2:06 p.m.
�Fairfax Police did confiscate a BB gun that resembles an actual firearm in the possession of one of our students and that student was taken into police custody,� J.E.B Stuart Principal Prosperanta Calhoun later wrote in an email sent to parents.
Walker said the Stuart case still is under investigation and that other students still might be investigated. Police did not disclose why the boy was taken into custody, or if any threats had been made by him.
He eventually was released to the custody of his parents.
�Outside of any legal charges, the FCPS disciplinary policy treats both incidents the same way,� said Torre. �It calls for a 10-day suspension, and a recommendation for expulsion from the school for a year.�


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Comic 180
Link: Comic 180
Translations: http://www.beaverandsteve.com/wiki/images/8/8f/Finnishflag.png Finnish, http://www.beaverandsteve.com/wiki/images/5/52/Frenchflag.png French, http://www.beaverandsteve.com/wiki/images/5/57/Polishflag.png Polish, http://www.beaverandsteve.com/wiki/images/0/04/Danishflag.png Danish, http://www.beaverandsteve.com/wiki/images/7/79/Italianflag.gif Italian
Title: 20,000 leeks under the sea - part 3
Date: May 12, 2006
Summary: Tasty creatures of the depth do battle
Cast: Beaver, Steve, Potato Whale, Sausage Squid
Onomatopoeias used: "GLOWER!", "SQUIRT!"
Number of panels: 6
Panel 1
[Combining the enormous size and strength of the whale...]
Potato Whale GLOWER!'s
[...With the natural courage and tenacity of the potato the Potato Whale is truly the Ruler of the Deep...]
Panel 2
[But even this mighty creature is not without rivals...]
Squid shadow in background
[Another shadow looms out of the darkness. It is the Potato Whale's mortal enemy...]
Panel 3
[The Sausage Squid!]
Sausage Squid and Potato Whale see each other
[Brace yourself gentle reader, for we are about to witness one of nature's greatest conflicts: The Battle between sausage and potato!]
Panel 4
[The Squid strikes first, attacking with its secret weapon...]
The Squid SQUIRT!'s a cloud of gravy on the Potato Whale
[A jet of blinding onion gravy!]
Panel 5
[As the savoury cloud clears these mighty leviathans of the deep lock in a titanic, yet tasty struggle...]
Potato Whale locks its jaws around the Sausage squid whilst it ensnares the whale with its tentacles
Panel 6
[Blinded by rage, the two colossi spiral uncontrollable toward the surface, woe betide any creature in the path of this unstoppable melee]
Beaver: "Look, Steve, can't we talk about..."
Steve: "..Wait..Can you smell gravy?..."
Whale and squid fight, beneath the raft holding the turnip and Beaver and Steve
Fun Facts
- Sea creatures come from more than one food group.
- Sausage Squids squirt out onion gravy.
- The Potato Whale combines the best qualities of a whale and a potato.
- Sausage Squids and Potato Whales are mortal enemies.
- The Sausage Squids tenticales are made out of strings of sausages (which are very hard to draw).
- A early predecessor of the Lobster-bee appears in panel one
- Some sealife wearing hats can be seen in Panels 1 and 4 (which is the day's theme).
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James C. McReynolds
James Clark McReynolds was born in Kentucky and raised on a plantation there. He graduated from Vanderbilt and studied law at the University of Virginia. He returned to Tennessee to practice law except for a two-year break when he served as "secretary" to Supreme Court justice Howell Jackson.
McReynolds campaigned unsuccessfully for Congress on the Democratic ticket. He later held an appointment in the Justice Department under the administration of Theodore Roosevelt, where he concentrated on antitrust matters.
He returned to private practice, this time in New York. McReynolds was a strong Wilson supporter in the 1912 election. In return, Wilson appointed him attorney general. McReynolds had the gift of irritating those around him. Perhaps to rid his administration of his testy colleague, Wilson nominated McReynolds to the High Court. There he was a thorn to Progressive and New Deal legislation, earning a designation as one of the "Four Horsemen."
His manner affected his relationships on the Court. For example, he refused to converse with John Clarke (also appointed by Wilson) because Clarke was too liberal. And McReynolds made no secret of his anti-Semitism by refusing to speak to fellow justices Louis Brandeis and Benjamin Cardozo.
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Comic 194
Link: Comic 194
Translations: http://www.beaverandsteve.com/wiki/images/8/8f/Finnishflag.png Finnish, http://www.beaverandsteve.com/wiki/images/5/52/Frenchflag.png French, http://www.beaverandsteve.com/wiki/images/5/57/Polishflag.png Polish, http://www.beaverandsteve.com/wiki/images/0/04/Danishflag.png Danish, http://www.beaverandsteve.com/wiki/images/7/79/Italianflag.gif Italian
Title: GUEST STRIP! by Tom Brazelton
Date: June 22, 2006
Summary: Steve finds a new pet
Onomatopoeias used: None
Number of panels: 6
Panel 1
Steve holds a hamster as Beaver walks in.
Steve: "HEY, STEVE! Check out my new talking pet hamster!"
Panel 2
Steve stands holding the hamster, smiling while Beaver looks expectantly at the hamster.
Panel 3
Beaver and Steve look questioningly at the hamster.
Panel 4
Beaver and Steve look scoffingly at the hamster.
Panel 5
Beaver: "WELL? Is he ever going to say anything?"
Panel 6
Hamster: "Dude, I'm sorry. It's just that I've never seen a talking beaver before!"
Fun Facts
- Originally, in the first frame, Steve called Beaver, 'Steve'. It appears that has since been fixed.
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The plan to abolish the Allen County Board of Voters Registration and put the duties under the majority-party control of the county clerk has failed.
Linda Bloom should be commended and recognized for her stalwartness as she withstood the strong accusations of flip-flopping and standing in the way of progress by her fellow Allen County Commissioners, Nelson Peters and Therese Brown. The motion failed because of the unanimous vote required.
This action should forestall in Allen County the voter suppression movement that has surfaced in many other counties and states of our nation.
Our present bipartisan co-directors and employees of the Voters Registration Office have served voters well with a protective policy of balance and efficiency as they prepare for the countywide election of officers next year.
Jack Spindler