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Good morning, I'm Renee Montagne. A travel group in Britain is advertising a six-month job with an intriguing set of qualifications: comfortable in swimwear, happy to get wet at work. And this is key: mad about water parks. The job is water slide tester at the company's Splash World Resorts in places like Majorca and Turkey. It pays just okay, but the gig does promise plenty of thrills before the water slide tester retires that swimwear. It's MORNING EDITION. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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The Campbell House, an original 1935 Matanuska Colony farm house, is conveniently located in the heartland of Palmer, just 45 minutes from Anchorage and near the Alaska State Fairgrounds - home of the world famous giant vegetables!
Outstanding mountain views, small town friendliness, surrounded by beautiful farmlands - this is what Palmer is all about!
A stay at the Campbell House is a step back in time with all the comforts of today! Beautifully restored hardwood floors, staircase, columns, historical style windows and many antiques combined with contemporary comforts add up to an unforgettable stay! Relax the day away in the beautiful Master Bedroom upstairs with a luxurious king size bed and awesome mountain views!
Across the hall another delightful bedroom with beautiful hardwood floors and a pair of inviting comfortable twin beds.
A beautiful fully equipped, bright and shiny, new kitchen is ready for you! Whether you love to cook or just use the microwave and fridge ~ it's all there :)
Morning coffee in the dining room ~ sunshine and mountains are on the menu!
The living area is as comfy as can be with two leather loveseats and leather chair and ottoman, and upholstered occasional chair - lots of options for watching that 40 inch TV after a long day of exploring the magnificent state of Alaska!
The Campbell House in 1935, was without indoor plumbing, but never fear ~ No outhouse!! We had you in mind when we designed this bathroom! A large custom tile walk in shower, a beautiful antique vanity with contemporary glass vessel sink, modern privy and stacking washer and dryer will meet all your needs :)
A cozy bedroom with a twin sleigh bed on the main floor is a great option as a quiet space for exploring our many great Alaskan books you will find around the Campbell House!
So many options for getting out and about when you stay at the Campbell House! You can experience Hatchers Pass, the Reindeer Farm, the Musk Ox Farm, Matanuska Glacier, hike the Butte or Lazy Mountain for starters ~ and still have time to put your feet up at the end of the day and watch the sunset above Pioneer Peak at the Campbell House!
Alaska has beauty twelve months of the year ~ it's always a perfect time to visit!
Palmer and the Campbell House - two of the Must See's while in Alaska!!!
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We love living in the unique small town of Palmer Alaska! We have called Palmer home since moving to Alaska in the 1980's. Our first Palmer home was near the Matanuska Glacier. Now we currently reside closer to the townsite of Palmer.
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Our love of Palmer and its history led us to purchase an abandoned colony house. This little gem needed some tender loving care to restore her to her former glory and to continue telling her story. The Campbell House is located on the Springer system of roads ~ a most sought after location! Its a beautiful piece of property surrounded by farms that grow world famous Alaskan produce! It has glorious views of Pioneer Peak - our beloved Palmer mountain! It was a little house that needed alot of love! Just the right house for us - love Palmer, love its history, love the location - win, win, win! :)
The Campbell House has been accepted to the National Historic Register! So exciting to have restored and preserved ~ and to share the history of the 1935 Palmer Colony project!
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The Campbell House is a restored Colony House from 1935, located in the heartland of Palmer, in the shadows of magnificent Pioneer Peak and surrounding farmlands.
Palmer is a historic town which grew rapidly when the New Deal Act of 1935 was put into action by President Roosevelt. Colonists from Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin were selected to move to Alaska to develop the land thru farming and related industry.
The Colonists lived in a Tent City until the lottery drawing took place that determined their homesites.
George and Onabel Campbell from Mio, Michigan drew Quarter 54 in the lottery drawing and were assigned the property that the Campbell House is on. Also still standing is the original chicken brooder.
Palmer town square has many historic buildings and monuments teaching about this time in our history.
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biographical name(born Jan. 12, 1737, Braintree, Mass.died Oct. 8, 1793, Quincy, Mass., U.S.) American Revolutionary leader. He entered the mercantile business of his wealthy uncle in Boston in 1754. His adherence to the patriot cause dates from the Stamp Act, which, as a leading merchant, he protested. In 1769, soon after the British seized one of his ships, he was elected to the Massachusetts legislature, and he chaired the Boston town committee formed after the Boston Massacre. He became president of the provincial congress (1774–75), and he and Samuel Adams led the Massachusetts Patriots. In 1775 both were forced to flee from British troops sent to arrest them for treason. Hancock was a member of the Continental Congress (1775–80), serving as its president (1775–77); the bold flourish with which he signed the Declaration of Independence has made his name synonymous with signature. As governor of Massachusetts (1780–85, 1787–93), he presided over the state's ratification of the Constitution in 1788.
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Out of the Comic-Con presentation is a full-length preview for The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, director Francis Lawrence's follow-up to the hit young adult actioner from last year. While the main players — i.e. Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth, Lenny Kravitz, Elizabeth Banks, Stanley Tucci, Donald Sutherland, Toby Jones, Woody Harrelson; a lot of people! — have made their return, the second of four installments brings with it a further crop of talent: Philip Seymour Hoffman, (far and away) most notably, along with Jena Malone, Amanda Plummer, Sam Claflin, and Jeffrey Wright. I almost feel bad for not taking this enterprise a little more seriously.
Most of the talent is hidden in this full trailer, however, which shows Lionsgate as wise enough not to display much altogether — snatches of three full scenes, a few money shots in-between, and just about nothing else. The lack of huge material notwithstanding, one can still detect a change in structure and direction from the respectable-if-minor original, that eponymous competition not even (as far as I can tell) on display. (Much of that film's weaker bits came from such sections, so yours truly finds it appreciable.) Trailer-inspired dreams of a movie solely centered on Hoffman and Sutherland sharing a room and chewing the fat will need to wait, clearly, but this might be a decent way to bide time nevertheless.
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THE HUNGER GAMES: CATCHING FIRE begins as Katniss Everdeen has returned home safe after winning the 74th Annual Hunger Games along with fellow tribute Peeta Mellark. Winning means that they must turn around and leave their family and close friends, embarking on a "Victor's Tour" of the districts. Along the way Katniss senses that a rebellion is simmering, but the Capitol is still very much in control as President Snow prepares the 75th Annual Hunger Games (The Quarter Quell) – a competition that could change Panem forever.
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October 2000Keep in mind, dear computer specialists, that you are publishers first, foremost and always. You're technicians only incidentally. If the data doesn't lead to action, you've failed your prime obligation.
Let me tell you the stories I think I want to see on my personal browser home page. I want to know about the cash. Every day. What was our starting balance, total of checks written, collections deposited and our balance right now? What customers are past due on payments? What inventories are more than 60 days old?
I want flashing red, bold-faced numbers with noises to get my attention. If we're burning cash balance, give me flames and a siren. Assume I'm distracted. Seize me warmly by the throat and shake me until knowledge sets in.
When my laser printer is out of paper, it speaks to me. "Please check your paper," the nice lady says. Voice prompt. My phone answering machine says, "You have two messages." It's more difficult to ignore than a screen prompt. When someone hits "enter" to set a price for a job, I want a voice to say, "That account is 86 days past due. Please press '1' if you wish to quote to this customer." If company policy mandates no credit extension when a customer is in arrears, then a specific individual is accountable for credit policy deviation and must be prepared to defend the variance.
Pricing decisions are the most significant decisions being made by a "knowledge worker" in commercial printing. We want support for those decisions—support that goes beyond the virtual reality of job cost estimates. Also, we need accountability for each price decision. "Price lists" are a way out for some companies, but in commercial job shops start with those two pricing principles: support and accountability.
Demand system accommodation from your tech staff or software supplier for the two. Of course they'll fire back at you, "Specifically, what form do you wish this to take?" Reality check. Time to concentrate. Time to create. Develop a structure that supports the decision. Make it interactive.
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If it's interactive, then each slide pops up with a fact developed from policy and asks for a response. The responses are collected, dated, timed, filed with the name or ID of the knowledge worker. Want suggestions? Just list the questions that should be considered in setting a price. When you finish, you have a story that has some shape and continuity.
In the pricing database you have a book of stories that define the actual price policy of Fictitious Graphics Inc.—valid anecdotal wisdom.
Call this approach "storyboarding." You would be amazed if you learned how many decisions are based on storyboarded presentations. Books and movies are financed, venture capital is raised, candidates are elected to office, athletes are selected for teams, religions are formed, children are adopted, budgets are approved, new cars are designed. We construct our view of reality from stories.
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Here's a band that I couldn't find any info on. I'm guessing they were from NY, and this appears to have been self released.If anyone would like to shed some light on these guys, please feel free to comment. All That I've Got, is a great Powerpop tune, enjoy!
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Joseph Lisa - Bass, Synth, Vocals
Dave Rubens - Guitar, Vocals
Richard Barnes - Guitar
Dewey Ribustello - Drums
Self Released 1982
1. All That I've Got
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Classic early power pop 80s sound. Thank you very much for this single. Fantastic.
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5 Things We Are Looking Forward To In 2015
2014 was a big year for Jewish camping and 2015 will be even better! Check out this list of 5 great things we are looking forward to this year:
1. BunkConnect
This year, FJC launched BunkConnect, an affordability initiative designed to help more middle and lower income families attend Jewish camp for the first time. With special rates as much as 40-60% off, BunkConnect helps first time camp families find the best summer experience for their children at an affordable cost.
2. Disability Initiatives
Traditionally, attending overnight camp is difficult for many children with disabilities due to limitations on staff, accessibility, and programming. This year, Lisa Tobin joined the ranks of FJC as the Director of Disability Initiatives. Lisa has been working with camps to help them reach out to and provide camp experiences to children with a range of disabilities. Through webinars, training, and the creation of a database of camps, FJC is actively working to turn the dream of Jewish overnight camp into a reality for disabled children.
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The benefits of FJC's Incubator are not just limited to overnight camps! This year, four day camps were chosen to participate in FJC's Specialty Day Camp Incubator. Through mentor meetings and monthly workshops, the leaders at these day camps are learning to enhance their skills and programming to provide specialty day camp opportunities to new campers.
4. World Jewry Joint Initiative
Earlier this year, the government of Israel hosted a meeting on the relationship between Israel and the global Jewish population to create the World Jewry Joint Initiative. Our own CEO, Jeremy Fingerman, was invited to Israel to attend and contribute to this endeavor. With a mission of enabling Jewish youth and young adults as active participants in Jewish life with a strong engagement with Israel, the World Jewry Joint Initiative is a revolutionary leap forward in inspiring Jewish citizens around the world.
The Initiative has released a list of areas to explore in terms of content, programming, and advocacy. Where did Jewish camp fall on this list? It came in at #2, signifying the vital role that Jewish summer camps play in the promotion of Jewish engagement and identity!
5. The Magic of Jewish Camp
In 2014, more than 76,000 campers and 11,000 staff members had magical and unforgettable summer at Jewish camp! They ran, climbed, sang, cheered, prayed, laughed, danced, and swam their way through every Shabbat, color war, song session and evening program. They reconnected with old friends and made even more new ones. They learned a lot and gained important new skils. Their lives were changed in one short camp session. We can't wait to top all of that in 2015!
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Planning Ahead for a Special Summer
It's only November, but I am already hearing the buzz of kids at Kiddush lunch talking about their plans for the summer. One particular young lady spent about a half an hour with me asking all of her most pressing questions as she mentally prepares for her first summer at Jewish sleep away camp. She wants to know what she should pack, what she can wear, will the girls be open to having a new person in their bunk, do the boys have payos –Hebrew for sidelocks or sidecurls, and will there also be other kids at camp who attend public school. What she was really getting at was the following: Will I fit in? Will the other campers and counselors look like me? Will I be at a disadvantage? Will I have fun? Fortunately, this 6th grader is very articulate. She is aware of her feelings and can ask for help in preparing for this big step in her childhood. She has already asked for some time to sit down with me again in the spring to further prepare and she has asked me to speak to her mom to provide any information I think would be important for them to know.
On another Shabbat, I had a conversation with a parent who has never experienced Jewish camping at all. His child has never attended a Jewish day camp and the family has never visited a sleep away camp. What this parent does know, is that every summer almost all of the children over the age of eight disappear from the halls and the sanctuary of the synagogue. They all go away for four to eight weeks to Jewish summer camp. And he knows when they return they are taller, they are happy and they have stories to share about their summer at camp. This is the experience that he wants for his child as well, and there are many questions to be asked about the different options available that will meet the family's desires. What makes this conversation unique is that this parent has a child with a disability. That changes the nature of the conversation.
As the conversation progresses, the family expresses their desires (level of Judaism, types of activities, lake vs. pool, proximity to home) and the child also expresses their desires (activities that they like, food served at camp), but there are many more questions that are not expressed by the child. Unlike the girl I mentioned above, this child is not able to articulate her needs in the same way. For this family there is an awareness that they will need to make some compromises in order to find a place that will be the best place for their child. The non-negotiables: counselors who will know how to work with their child's particular disability, their child will have fun, and their child will make a friend. While these desires are no different from the desires of other parents they may not make the top three on the list on non-negotiables.
Yes, finding the right summer home for a Jewish child to spend the summer is not an easy feat. For families of campers with disabilities the search may be a bit more extensive. Where to start? The Foundation for Jewish camp has a Find a Camp feature which enables users to search for camps throughout the country. You can also speak to your synagogue rabbi or other parents in your community to learn about the camps their children attend. The number of camps offering programs for children with disability continues to increase. Parents now have options across every Jewish denomination and movement, including non-denominational camps. Options also include general or specialty camps that exist in many parts of the country.
There are Jewish camps that offer programs for children with disabilities including, but not limited to: Deafness, ADHD, Autism Spectrum Disorder, Intellectual and Developmental disabilities as well as physical disabilities. I want to share a few examples of such programs. The Foundation for Jewish Camp welcomed Aryeh Adventures, its newest summer program for teens with disabilities in 2014. It is a teen travel program where participants travel across the West Coast. In the summer of 2014, Camp L'man Achai opened a program for Deaf boys and has plans for an even larger group this summer. Round Lake Camp of NJY Camps offers specialty camps with a variety of options including fine arts, sports and the sciences. Camp Moshava Malibu opened its doors in the summer of 2014 and already experienced much success with its inclusion program. Camp Yavneh in partnership with Yachad will open an inclusion program in the summer of 2015 and Camp Ramah Darom which runs a family camp, Camp Yofi, at the end of each summer, will now offer summer sessions for children with disabilities. Camp HASC is another such program which is focused on serving the social, therapeutic, academic, recreational, and medical needs of campers with intellectual and physical disabilities.
As you prepare for summer camp, I encourage you to meet with a senior member of the camp staff so that you can get a better sense of whether a particular camp would be a good fit for your child. You should also feel comfortable sharing as much information as possible about your child with the staff at your camp so they can begin to prepare for a successful summer for your child. Feel free to share things that make your child happy, their interests, their fears, their favorite bedtime rituals, their triggers and strategies that work well for you at home or for the teachers at home. Let the staff know how they can support your child and what tools they can use to help to make for a meaningful and fun summer at Jewish camp.
The number and variety of options will continue to expand as the Foundation for Jewish Camp continues to work towards our goal of meeting the needs of a diverse community and ensuring that every Jewish child experiences the joy of Jewish camp.
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Please Consider My Case
"You'll see, he won't want to leave in the end," my wife, Cynthia, said. "He's going to have the time of his life."
"Not if his soon-to-be bunkmates see him crying?" I replied. Cynthia and I were in the process of putting our son, Jonah, on the bus to Camp B'nai Brith (CBB). CBB is a little more than an hour drive north of our home in Montreal and the plan was for Jonah to be there, if everything went according to plan, for three weeks. It would be, by far, the longest he'd ever been away. All we could do was speculate—and we figured to do a lot of speculating in the next twenty-one days—on how he would fare.
Incidentally, Jonah wasn't the crying boy. In fact, our son headed straight for a seat at the back of the bus as soon as we arrived at the drop-off point. I didn't even have a chance to hug him. I had to mouth my "have a great time!" through the tinted glass of the closed window. In return, I received the most cursory of acknowledgements. As if he was saying: "Let's get this show on the road."
Cynthia, however, boarded the bus in order to get a proper good-bye. She insisted Jonah hug her. I got on the bus, too, to watch and glimpsed something I don't think I've ever seen on my fifteen-year-old son's face—the hint of a blush. Jonah is on the autism spectrum and one of that complicated disorder's mixed blessings, in Jonah's case anyway, is obliviousness to embarrassment. This has served to make Jonah a uniquely sweet, open-hearted individual; it also means he can miss signals from others, emotional signals he'd be well-served to pick up on. In fact, this was one of the main reasons we were sending him to sleep-away camp. We hoped he'd learn to understand other people a little better, pick up on their cues.
Meanwhile, the crying boy, who was twelve or so, was also oblivious—to the pleading of others. And a lot of pleading was going on. You could barely make the poor kid out from behind a gesticulating crowd of relatives. Still, I could see his head shaking vehemently and hear his spluttering voice. He was repeating the words: "I'm not getting on the bus." The more he cried the more relatives seemed to gather around him, all trying out different, often conflicting strategies, to reassure him. Eventually, a SWAT-like team of CBB counselors appeared and did an impressive job of liberating the reluctant camper from all that overwhelming love and concern. Their mission was clear: they were going to get the show on the road.
We're "helicopter parents," research studies and thinky magazine articles are always reminding us. When it comes to the parents of special needs kids, like Cynthia and me, this is an especially tone deaf judgment, but it's kind of a slam at most parents when you think about it. In the case of summer camp, in particular, who can blame us for projecting onto our kids a little of our own childhood experiences? For Cynthia, this usually means remembering how "interesting" (the quotes are hers) summer camp was. For me, it means wondering how I would have fared at camp seeing as how I never went. My guess is I would have cried myself to sleep nightly. Then again, maybe not. Fortunately, the camp cliché persists, especially for worried parents, about how the kids who make the biggest fuss about going end up not wanting to leave. But that doesn't make those childhood complaints any less real or any less eloquent. I have a friend who came across an old letter she sent to her parents from summer camp when she was probably seven or eight. It began with a description of her day and proceeded to a detailed list of grievances. She signed off with this lawyerly appeal: "Please consider my case."
Camps nowadays are good at considering the concerns of parents, at least. CBB does a wonderful job with its daily online postings of dozens and dozens of photos. I search for Jonah, first, of course, relieved to find him hanging out with his fellow campers in the pool or playing basketball or out in a canoe with one of his counselors. But after I've assured myself that it looks like my son is having a good time, I can't help looking at all the photos. There are kids waving, hamming it up for the camera, others lost in play. The photos convey camaraderie and mischievousness and, most of all, a spirit of fun. So much so I wish I knew more about each of their personal stories.
"That's him?" Cynthia said the other day, glancing over my shoulder at the super-slow slide-show I was watching on my computer. I looked for the latest picture of Jonah but didn't see it. "No," Cynthia added, "the boy who refused to get on the bus."
She was right. It was him: in his floor hockey gear, smiling widely in one shot; with a wide circle of new friends surrounding him in another shot. He was the happy camp cliché personified: he looked like he never wanted to leave.
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Summer Camp, Life Skills and Confidence
In partnership with The Jewish Week's "The New Normal" blog, FJC is pleased to present a series of blog posts featuring a range of different voices sharing the power and benefits of Jewish camp for those in our community who have disabilities.
We have all heard that Jewish summer camp is one of the most valuable experiences a parent can give their child to ensure a strong Jewish foundation. If you think of it as a construction project, the footings beneath the foundation is community and together, this community builds the foundation they share. As each child grows into an adult, the shared experience of community-building in a Jewish context continues to strengthen his or her Jewish foundation.
But the Jewish child with disabilities who cannot have a summer camp experience is left with an unstable foundation or worse; no Jewish foundation. As the parent of a child on the autism spectrum, I live with the fear shared by all parents of children with disabilities: Who will be my child's community when I am no longer here to provide it?
At age 11, we began sending our son to overnight Jewish summer camp with his younger sister. A condition of his acceptance, we contracted with the camp for a one-on-one aide who slept in the cabin with our son and shadowed him as he moved with the mainstream campers. Each year it became more apparent that our son lacked the social and life skills his cabin-mates had developed and lacking these skills in a mainstream environment, our son would not be perceived as a full participant in this community.
Though we had resisted the model of separating campers with special needs from mainstream campers by cabin, at the urging of our rabbi, I contacted the director of Ramah Wisconsin's Tikvah program when our son was 14. In describing the program, the director explained that every year since his arrival, the Tikvah program had become more integrated with the greater Ramah community. To my surprise, he suggested we keep our son in his current camp for another 2-3 years, at which time he believed Ramah would be ready for him.
After much discussion that included Ramah staff traveling from Chicago to our home in Minneapolis, our son left for his first summer as a Tikvah camper when he was 17. Tikvah campers are connected to Machon (campers entering 10th grade) from which a select group are chosen by staff to be paired with each Tikvah participant as their chaver (friend). Four weeks later at visitor's day, I observed that the culture of the camp was one of acceptance, regardless of ability, with staff and campers embracing everyone in the Ramah community. With his chaver, our son participated in both typical camp activities and special programs for the Tikvah-Machon group.
After two years, our son moved into the Atzmayim (vocational) program where campers live in dormitory-style housing and focus on social skills and life skills development. Ramah staff trained our son for his job in town and also provided a job coach, ensuring he always felt like a productive member of a professional team. Five days a week, he had to prepare himself for his work day, beginning with prompt attendance at morning services, dressed for his job in town.
As a guest last summer on a non-visitors day, I witnessed my son as a full participant in the rhythm of Ramah, comfortably engaging with campers and staff and taking responsibility for his personal care with a conscientious focus on his summer job at the local grocery store. I also saw my son embracing Torah study and discussion about a myriad of Jewish topics, which made him feel so proud to be part of this Jewish community.
Now 21, our son is completing his final summer as a Tikvah/Atzmayim camper. Looking back, I can honestly say that each summer we witnessed significant social and emotional growth, along with life skills development; all of which has contributed greatly to his self-confidence. Through these programs, our son was given a safe, nurturing Jewish environment in which to grow and develop on all levels. Through Ramah and its culture of acceptance, our son was able to experience community-building in a Jewish context and after five years, he leaves with a solid Jewish foundation.
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Cold Feet
Later this month, my fifteen-year-old son, Jonah, is off to Camp B'Nai Brith (CBB) in the Laurentians, about an hour north of Montreal. He'll stay for a full session, three weeks, longer by far than he's stayed before. Naturally, I'm feeling some anxiety on his behalf. Or projecting, as my wife Cynthia calls it. She has a point. The idea of being in an isolated place for a prolonged period with strangers and nature (i.e. mosquitoes and a lack of air condition and Wi-Fi) has never been my idea of fun. That's why my case of cold feet will be getting colder as the day of Jonah's departure approaches. It's in my nature, as a person and a writer, to find inspirational quotes that may be appropriate to any given situation. Inevitably, though, the quotes end up being inadequately inspirational. Like this one from the British writer Julian Barnes: "Time… give us enough time and our best supported decisions will seem wobbly…"
I also find myself wondering how much Jonah really wants to go. Projecting again, no doubt. In any case this kind of information would probably be hard to pry out of any teenager. Still, I know kids must get cold feet about sleep-away camp, too. Cynthia enjoyed her time as a camper and later a counselor, but she also remembers her decades-old "Y" camp song word for word. The first couple of lines, alone, are a model of adolescent ambivalence: "I go to YCC, so pity me. There's not a boy in the vicinity."
Measuring Jonah's mixed feelings can be tricky. Jonah has autism and he can have a hard time making it clear how he's feeling. Cynthia and I know him well enough to read between the lines of his sometimes off-topic conversation. But we also look to his behavior for unspoken clues. The other day, for instance, my sister, Marilyn, and I took Jonah shopping to pick up some of the extra clothing he needs for camp. When he and I got home we showed everything we bought to his mother and then I put them on his bed so he could put them away as he does with all his clothing. We'd bought some pretty cool t-shirts and shorts so I figured he'd want to wear them till he left for camp in a few weeks. The next day though I couldn't find any of the things we'd bought. I looked for them in every drawer. I quizzed his mother. Finally, I did what I should have done in the first place. I asked Jonah where all his stuff had gone.
"In my bag," he said.
"What bag?" I asked.
"The one for CBB." And, indeed, there they were. All stuffed into one of the gym bags he will be taking with him to camp. It seems he can hardly wait.
His keenness is reassuring. Never more so than last weekend when Jonah, Cynthia, and I visited the CBB's pre-camp Open House. Jonah was happy to see everyone, including counselors and staff he didn't know. If my son has a philosophy, it's cornier than mine but a lot more, well, inspirational. Summed up, it's something like: "A stranger is a friend you haven't met yet." But he was really excited to see the counselors who were at CBB for his shorter stay last year. In fact, he seemed to have nicknames for all of them. "Hi, Quiet Wyatt," Jonah shouted to one young man, who shouted back, "Hey Jonah, great to see you back!" He hardly looked like the quiet type, which was what made the nickname funny, of course. "Max and the Yaks" was what Jonah told me he calls the fellow who runs the camp's circus program.
Jonah loves animals, especially unusual ones, so when he met his unit head, Mike, the two immediately hit it off, discussing animals from Mike's native Australia. I volunteered kangaroos and received a look of disappointment from both Jonah and Mike. Mike seems to have had his fill of kangaroos as the iconic but hopelessly clichéd symbol of his country. Instead, he provided Jonah with a great deal of information about the platypus. "You know it's one of the only mammals that lays eggs," Mike said. Then he told Jonah it was from the small family of animals known as monotremes. "Like horses are equines and cows are bovines?" Jonah asked. "That's right, mate." Mike seemed to know just how to talk to Jonah, which was reassuring. Cynthia also found out that in Australia he was a teacher and had a class of kids with autism. Driving home, I already felt my feet warming up. Jonah and I also brainstormed about nicknames for his newest stranger/friend. So far, though, we've only settled on what Jonah won't call him—Kangaroo Mike.
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Togetherness Squared
For the last four summers, whenever my wife, Cynthia, and I have put our son, Jonah, on the bus to sleepaway camp we have experienced one of those rare moments couples share: we not only find ourselves on the same page, we find ourselves on the exact same line on that page. We see in each other's expressions an identical mix of anxiety and relief. We are concerned about how our son will fare, of course, but we're also free. Yes, to turn this into a very bad joke, we are free at last!
Still, our particular sense of emancipation has to do with the fact that Jonah, who has autism, is a constant in our everyday life. As we are in his. (I'm sure Jonah, once he's on that bus, is equally relieved to be on his own and free of us.) Every member of a special needs family is well-acquainted with the joys and stresses of what is, after all, an extremely heightened kind of inseparability. Call it Togetherness Squared. All of which may explain why when I first talked to Sid Milech, director of Montreal's YM-YWHA Harry Bronfman Y Country Camp (YCC), about a new program he's inaugurating this summer called the Special Needs Family Camp, I had my doubts.
The program, one of the first of its kind in Canada, will make the facilities of the YCC, located in Quebec's scenic Laurentian Mountains, available to special needs families for a long weekend in mid-August, after the camp's regular summer sessions are done. Every family will have a cabin to themselves and be able to participate, as families, in the camp experience. That includes the special needs kids themselves, who will be accompanied by a "buddy" provided by YCC, the siblings of the special needs kid, who will participate with their peers in a wide range of camp activities, and, finally, their parents. Again I have to confess, this sounded to me, at first hearing, like a remake of The Shining—a family all alone in a cabin the woods. Still, the more Milech explained how the program works the better this kind of family togetherness started to sound.
For one thing, parents will have a lot of time to themselves during the long weekend, time to enjoy the camp's surrounding and time to spend not worrying, for a change, about what their kids are doing and how to structure their time. Milech is still assembling his staff for the session, hiring "buddies" and counselors. He also has a psychologist and a Montreal rabbi, with a background in special needs, on board. It's the best of both worlds, Milech explained when we talked. "This is meant to be a family holiday, a supervised holiday, true. But, most of all, it is intended to give everyone a break," he said.
Milech's Special Needs Family Camp is closely patterned after Tikvah Family Camp, a program run by Camp Ramah in New York's Poconos region. Tikvah Family Camp started six years ago and Adena Sternthal has been its director for the last five years. It also takes place in mid-August, after the regular camp session is done. That's when Sternthal makes room for 15 to 20 families, primarily families with kids, between four and 13, on the autism spectrum. Sternthal has come to appreciate how much Tikvah Family Camp means to its participants.
"Visiting theme parks and other more typical vacations aren't always easy for families with kids on the spectrum and for a lot of our families this is their only real vacation. The parents are always telling me this is what they talk about all year long," Sternthal pointed out. "They also tell me how amazed they are to have the chance to see their kids do things they never thought they could do, like being out on the rope course or enjoying the water. For our part, we want the special needs kids to experience things they haven't experienced before. We will take them out on the water, in a rowboat, for example, and if it takes two hours to do it, to make them comfortable, we'll wait. We're not going anywhere."
One of the unexpected consequences of Tikvah Family Camp, and Milech expects this to be the case in his Special Needs Family Camp too, is the way parents from these families bond, develop their own unique kind of togetherness. "We provide them with connections with other parents who are in the same boat," Sternthal added.
Then she related a recent anecdote that illustrates the impression Tikvah Family Camp made on one family, in particular. "Last year was their second summer with us and at the end of the weekend, after everyone had said goodbye, this family came to my office and asked if they could speak to me. I thought, 'Oh, my God, what happened that I didn't know about, am I in trouble? Instead, they handed me an envelope. Inside was cash and a lot of it. They said they wanted me to have this money so another family who can't afford the camp can come next year. I became a mess at that point. So when you ask me how the families feel about this camp, there's your answer.
For more information on Montreal's YCC Special Needs Family Camp, visit their website here.
For more information on the Tikvah Family Camp, visit their website here.
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Easy Money
For the last few days, I've been walking around the house singing and dancing more or less in tune and in time with the Pharrell Williams song "Happy." The reason is simple and seems, at first glance, rather materialistic.
You see, my wife, Cynthia, applied for a First-Time-Camper Grant for our son, Jonah, from a program called One Happy Camper and she got it. We received a $1,000 credit towards Jonah's stay at sleep-away camp this summer. His eligibility for the money hinged on four facts. First, he's Jewish and lives in Montreal where Federation CJA (Combined Jewish Appeal) partners with the Foundation for Jewish Camp in sponsoring the program. (Similar partnerships have been set up in close to 40 other communities across the U.S. and Canada.) Second, Jonah is going to a Jewish camp this summer. Third, he doesn't attend a Jewish Day School. And, fourth, he will be attending camp for longer than 19 days, or a full session, for the first time. Those are the questions Cynthia spent a few minutes answering the online the other morning at OneHappyCamper.org. By the afternoon, Jonah's camp had received the money on his behalf.
And while the $1,000 is great, it's not the money that has me smiling and singing off-key. It's the fact that it was so easy to get. I'm a writer who has both received government grants for projects and served on juries for other writers applying for those grants. I know how complicated most bureaucratic procedures can be. I know how much time and emotional energy it can devour. I'm also the father of a son with autism, as I've mentioned here before, which means my wife and I have spent a fair amount of time, spare and otherwise, jumping through hoops, filling out forms, and cutting through red tape just to get our son the services he requires. With One Happy Camper, the premium that was put on ease and simplicity was what my family appreciates most. Oh yes, my son's autism was not a factor one way or another in this funding, which was also nice for a change.
"We want to make this as easy as possible for families," Veronica Klein told me when we spoke the other day. Klein is a professional associate at the Generations Fund Jewish Camp Initiative, Federations CJA, and has been overseeing the One Happy Camper program in Montreal since 2008. "The idea behind the grant is to offer it as a kind of coupon, a spark or incentive for someone who does not attend Jewish Day School but who can still be able to experience that immersive quality of Jewish life at camp."
Klein describes herself as a product of the Jewish summer camp experience as well as the Montreal community. She started going to camp when she was 12. That led to working with the community and working with kids here in Montreal and in the U.S. Klein could also be the poster person for the proven long-term impact and influence Jewish summer camp appears to have on its participants. Research seems to show that Jewish overnight camp can turn kids like Klein "into spirited and engaged Jewish adults" and "lay the groundwork for strong Jewish communities."
"Camp is fun," Klein adds. "But it's not just flip-flops and canoes. Statistics bear this out. For example, kids who attend Jewish overnight camp are 10% more likely to marry inside their faith and 25% more likely to contribute to a Jewish charity. A program like ours is just another way to invest in the Jewish future."
For me, it's even simpler than that. I'm just pleased to know that there's a good idea out there being executed efficiently. And because it is, my family and I are all happier campers.
For more info on One Happy Camper, visit their website here.
Find out if this program is available in your area here.
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Chaos Theory
When you're the parent of a child with autism, you're always bracing yourself for the endless string of theories headed in your direction. They come from health care professionals, the media, family, friends and, my personal favourite, complete strangers. One woman we barely know keeps asking my wife, Cynthia, for a sample of my son Jonah's urine so she can run her own tests on it.
The good news about all this is it helps you develop a thick skin, though never quite thick enough. I figured out pretty soon on this journey through what is sometimes called Autismland that the reason theories about autism are so plentiful is directly related to the fact that no one really knows anything definitive about it. In my experience, that includes mental health professionals who are, when it comes to matters of the brain, only guessing.
And the guessing persists. As do the studies generating all those theories. The latest trend in studies has put the emphasis on the ability of parents to cope with the challenges of autism on a day-to-day basis. Researchers seem determined to prove, every few months or so by my count, that there is a connection between raising a child with autism or other special needs and higher levels of stress as well as greater financial and marital challenges. Of course, whenever Cynthia and I hear about the latest results of one of these so-called "well-being" studies we roll our eyes and say pretty much in unison: "No kidding."
"They could just ask any of us if we're stressed," Cynthia invariably adds. "They'd save all that money on research and they could use it to take us all out for dinner and drinks, lots of drinks."
Or, in our case, they could buy us time to be more organized. In last month's blog, I confessed we were behind in registering Jonah for summer camp. We're still behind. That's because chaos – missed deadlines, unmet obligations, double-booked appointments – has become the rule in our house. I would write a to-do list of all the things yet to be done, but frankly who has the time? or the confidence that it won't get lost in the clutter?
As defined by WhatIs.com, chaos, with reference to chaos theory is, "an apparent lack of order in a system that nevertheless obeys particular laws or rules." In other words, laws or rules you'll never predict or figure out. But parents of special needs kids know that already. We have learned to expect the unexpected. Feeling stressed and overwhelmed every day is just part of that. Of course, there's an advantage to living in a state of chaos. You're hardly ever bored. Now, if I could just remember where I put that summer camp registration form.
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Inclusion at Jewish Camp
Last week, the Foundation for Jewish Camp hosted our biennial conference, Leaders Assembly, in New Jersey. The topic of inclusion was high on the agenda and I engaged in so many invigorating conversations with colleagues about the topic and what each camp hopes to achieve within their own camp communities. Alexis Kashar, a civil rights and special education attorney, spoke to attendees about how growing up deaf impacted her access to the Jewish community. I was particularly struck by Alexis' description of the effect that living in a home with a family with two parents and a sibling who were all deaf had on her sister who is hearing. Because synagogue life and supplemental school were inaccessible to the family, her sister was never introduced into it. Alexis stressed to us how inclusion has a "ripple effect" and can profoundly affect the lives of the family of the person with disability.
Just one day after the close of the conference, I read the report that had just been released from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announcing that the escalating numbers of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) diagnosis continued to rise. According to the report, one in 68 children are now believed to be diagnosed with ASD, a group of developmental disabilities that can cause significant social, communication and behavioral challenges. It reaffirmed for me the important work that our camps can do to engage children with disabilities and their families and continuing to evolve in order to embrace them in the best way possible.
People with ASD are common and prevalent members of any group of youth or adults. The drive towards inclusion is recognition of the new normal in our lives. In the past, specialists were sought to address the particular needs of individuals who "didn't fit," in a hope to "help them succeed." But the numbers tell us that this is not a fringe issue. As camps continue to accept more and more children with a variety of disabilities, I hope that staff training focused on caring for children with disabilities will be offered to all staff so that everyone can better understand and interact seamlessly with a variety of capabilities and needs. Sports specialists, swim instructors, and other recreational specialists will likely be challenged to use techniques that will engage children who are not naturally drawn to activities such as sports and who need to be coached differently in order to acquire certain skills. Visual directions, visual schedules, sensory considerations and flexibility in choice of activities will likely become a part of necessary accommodations so that camp programs can become naturally inclusive. I can say that in all of the conversations and sessions in which I participated in at Leaders Assembly last week, I was happy to see that the field of Jewish camping is moving toward a more inclusive society where all campers will be able to experience success.
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"Would Life Have Been Better Without Your Son?"
The call came the other day from our son Jonah's sleep-away summer camp. Registration was almost completed and we hadn't signed him up yet. Was there a problem? I explained the delay was because our son was on the autism spectrum and there were additional details that had to be worked out – about how long he would be staying, about the availability of a shadow for that time period, about the cost. I was tempted to go on from there to my usual rant about how much more complicated things were when you're dealing with a child with special needs, but I refrained. You see, after my last blog post called the "The What-if Moment," about how I sometimes imagine how much easier our lives would be if my son did not have autism, my wife, Cynthia, strongly suggested I might want to be a little less of a grouch in future.
Her request reminded me of an interview I did some years ago with the novelist Richard Ford. He told me that his wife challenged him to write about a happy character for once. The result was Frank Bascombe, the narrator of Ford's three wonderful but hardly cheery novels, The Sportswriter, Independence Day, and Lay of the Land. I'm guessing the Bascombe trilogy just left his wife shaking her head. "This guy is supposed to be happy?" she was undoubtedly thinking. Even so, Ford tried. And so will I.
In fact, after last month's blog, I was reminded of an event I did in a library a few years ago. I was discussing my book about Jonah and during the Q&A, an older woman prefaced her question by saying she didn't mean to be cruel, a sure sign she was going to be. I braced myself, but still her remarks stunned me. Do you ever wonder, she wanted to know, if you would have been better off if your son had not been born? For example, she added, your wife and you would have had more time for each other. Or maybe, she went on, you could have written more books. Like I said, I was stunned and speechless. Which is when the audience, bless them, came to the rescue. After the woman had gone on for a while longer, they basically shouted her down. I never really got to give her a good answer, but I thought about her question later and I wished I'd had the chance to respond.
I could have told her about the little things I'd miss – the fun I have making up crossword puzzles with Jonah, one of our new pastimes, or listening to music with him in the car. Or the way he chooses bedtime to conduct his own Q&A, asking his most profound and challenging questions like this recent one: "Daddy, why does there have to be yuck in real life?"
I could have also mentioned the lessons I've learned from Jonah – about being different, about working hard, about living in the moment. Even so, the cliché about my son making me a better person hasn't turned out to be true. The fact is he's a role model I will never quite live up to. He constantly amazes me with his imperviousness to embarrassment and the judgment of others, with the sheer delight he takes in everything from meeting a new person to dancing to eating a brownie. And, of course, there's the big thing I would have missed if Jonah was not my son – fatherhood. I was over forty when Jonah was born and I never expected to have a family of my own. Before Cynthia and Jonah, I was lonely for a lot of my adult life. Since I became a husband and father, I can't recall what loneliness feels like. There's no way to say this without sounding utterly sappy – and without being utterly honest – but Jonah gave purpose to my life.
After the recent death of the actor and filmmaker Harold Ramis (Caddyshack, Groundhog Day), I came across a small scene he did in Judd Apatow's movie Knocked Up. Ramis's work was an early influence on Apatow and Apatow cast him as Seth Rogen's father, letting Ramis improvise most of his dialogue. While Rogen, who has just gotten a woman he hardly knows pregnant, is practically pleading for his father's scorn, Ramis can't contain his delight. "You are the best thing that ever happened to me," he eventually announces to his slacker son. "Now, I just feel bad for you," Rogen says, giving the scene its punch line. But it's Ramis's unequivocal, automatic declaration that still stays with me. In fact, I wish I could meet that woman from the library again so I could tell her I feel the exact same way about my son.
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The connected car and congested traffic
Recently there has been a great deal of hype about how connected cars will revolutionize driving and improve safety and comfort for all. While I agree that some of these technologies will provide positive benefits, they are not going to address and solve some fundamental highway and roadway issues.
Recently I took a road trip from the SF Bay Area to San Diego. The drive was fine and would have been able to utilize adaptive cruise control, lane change warnings, streaming media to the vehicle, live traffic updates, and real-time GPS. Unfortunately there was a hiccup in the flow, and - consequently - the advantages these technologies bring.
There was a single-vehicle car fire that started a small fire on the side of the road and hills. The result was the five-lane freeway was down to one lane. Needless to say, the traffic went from 75 mph in five lanes to one lane at five to ten miles per hour and resting at a dead stop. The traffic also "closed up" to minimum distance between cars on the order of inches versus feet. In this mode the object warning systems kind of shut down, as they would be in constant warning mode with objects being too close.
In this stalled condition on the roads - a number of these kinds of events happened. First there was interruption in the smooth streaming of data and content due to the network congestion on the single cell tower. This interrupted the music being played, sending and receiving route option information, sending and receiving SMS messages, surfing the web, and even getting phone lines out. For connected vehicles that rely on the connectivity for operation and reporting, such as an autonomous vehicle might, this can be an issue.
In this scenario, the traffic mess was aggravated by a couple of minor fender benders in the close traffic due to merging. As these took place at below 10 mph and in very close quarters, it is doubtful that a collision avoidance system and lane change warning system would have prevented these events. The condition was such the driver would most likely override the automatic system in favor of "doing it himself" as it would seem a manageable task.
The reality is these situations do not have traffic control and direction in place for the lane merge, and there are no formal algorithmic rules for how the merge should work, just de facto methods. As a result this makes this complicated to automate. Vehicle to Vehicle (V2V) communication may help in this situation, but it still has to have the warnings observed by the drivers.
The second complication to the mess was the stoppage of operation of several all-electric vehicles in the course of a two-hour traffic delay. While planned with a charge to make their standard sub 50-mile run, the one-hour-plus of creeping in below 10-mph traffic did not allow the systems to regenerate any power from motion, and they burned a lot of power conditioning the cabin in the 100°F+ temperatures for the occupants.
In this small traffic mess there were at least four all-electric vehicles (multiple makes and models) that were being pushed to the side of the road, in the middle of the congested cars, to allow traffic to try and move past. A CHP officer said that they are a problem as they can really only be towed away after all the traffic returns to normal, as there is no "quick fix" - such as a gallon of gas - to get them going. The expectation was about a four to six-hour for those drivers.
While the car fire and multi-lane closure was not an everyday experience, the delay put us in the standard 10 to 15-mph multi-lane parking lot known as Hwy 405 at 4:30 PM on a weekday. This is six lanes of packed cars and trucks that occur about six days a week, even with a 24-hour commuter lane.
For autonomous cars to take hold and be responsible vehicles, their use in high-density traffic situations that exist near every major city in the world needs to be evaluated, along with residential and in-city conditions. The re-education of the driver to be able to use these vehicles in these conditions is going to be a big part of their introduction to the mainstream.
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Mystery writer Griffin gets a novel prize
Date: October 21, 2009
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Longboat Key mystery novelist H. Terrell Griffin was a finalist for three awards and a runner-up for a fourth with last year's "Blood Island."
But yesterday, when Griffin checked his e-mail, he saw a press release from his publisher announcing the USA Book News winners and finalists for the national "Best Books 2009" awards.
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"'Wyatt's Revenge'" by H. Terrell Griffin (Oceanview Publishing) took home the Best Mystery/Suspense prize."
Griffin says he's always surprised he hears his books have been named award finalists — but actually winning was an even greater surprise.
And, while the book's official release date is Monday, Nov. 16, readers can get a sneak peak. Circle Books, 478 John Ringling Blvd., already has copies of the caper.
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We look forward to welcome the future stars of eventing this summer! Malmö City Horse Show returns for the twelfth consecutive year with many exciting news on the agenda, as usual the program is designed to attract curious spectators of all ages. All this while we follow the thrill of young talents in the sport come together in action-packed races.
This year we will also start Malmö City Horse Show with national show jumping and summer holiday activities — we surely can promise a week filled with entertainment and excitement!
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