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Code 42
I was driving home today on the freeway and my impala was stumbling today and i am not sure why. I have no MIL on and i was looking through it on my snap on brick and it said EST grounded any idea. I looked through my book today and it said wiring issue i wonder if anything is touching my headers it has started apparently after so. I will look under the car and inspect the wiring underneath perhaps a knock sensor wire is loose. Hit me up with any info please.
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This is a good read by Ken Hughes that I have bookmarked. It is LONG so I apologize to everyone in advance.
That Annoying GM Code 42
Posted 5/17/1997
By Ken Hughes
This is a common code that is often difficult to diagnose and scan tools can't help. The following understanding of how the electronic spark timing (EST) system works - what is taking place and why - is a big step toward a quicker and easier diagnosis of this circuit. When the engine is turning over, but below the run threshold of 400 RPM, the ECM holds the module's bypass voltage too low (0 volts) to energize its solid-state switch (ignition module). Another way of looking at the solid-state switch is to think of it as a relay. When voltage is applied, the relay is energized. With no voltage applied, the relay is de-energized. The pick-up coil/crank sensor pulses are amplified and shaped by the ignition module. These pulses are used to complete the circuit creating a magnetic field in the ignition coils primary winding that, when collapsing, will induce a high voltage in the secondary winding. Therefore, for every crank sensor/pick-up pulse, the coil is triggered. This is known as the bypass mode or module mode of operation. In this mode, the engine is running on the timing advance that is built into the ignition module.
With the voltage low on the bypass wire, the EST is pulled to ground through a resistor in the ignition module. This keeps the voltage on the EST wire at around 300 mV. When the ECM sees the RPM over the run threshold, it will then apply 5 volts to the bypass wire that will activate the solid-state switch (relay). This in turn will switch the EST from ground to the base of the transistor that controls the primary coil. In this mode, the primary coil winding is being triggered by the altered signal sent out from the ECM. The ECM will alter the signal to the ignition module and control the timing based on the inputs from various sensors. This is referred to as the EST mode.
This is how the system is designed to work! Now let's look at some of the things that can cause problems and set a Code 42. Under 400 RPM, no voltage on the bypass wire, the ECM expects to see low voltage (300 mV) on the EST line during this condition. If it sees 0 volts, indicating an open in the EST circuit - or higher than 500 mV - it sets a Code 42 and stays in the bypass mode.
If the bypass line is open, or grounded, the ignition module will not switch to the EST mode. The ignition module needs the bypass voltage to activate the solid-state switch so the EST voltage will be low over 400 RPM and a Code 42 will set. If the EST line is grounded, the ignition module will switch to the EST - but because the line is grounded, there will be no EST signal. A Code 42 will set.
To check the ignition module to see if the solid-state switch is capable of switching when the 5 volts are applied, the engine should not be running and the ECM connectors should be disconnected. An ohm meter and test light can be used. With the ohm meter on the EST circuit, it should read less that 500 ohms (in some cases, a lot less). Using a test light to battery voltage, probe the bypass wire. With this voltage applied to the bypass wire, the solid-state switch inside the ignition module should switch and the ohm meter on the EST circuit should go over 5,000 ohms. There is also another way to check this with the engine running: by removing the bypass and the EST wire from the module or ECM, run a jumper from the reference wire to the EST circuit. The reference signal is the signal that is used in the bypass mode to trigger the primary coil voltage. Apply 5 volts from one of the 5-volt reference circuits or a test light to battery voltage. This voltage on the bypass wire will activate the solid-state switch, in turn switching the module. On some models, the 5 volts or test light will have to be applied before starting or the motor will stall when the voltage is applied to the bypass. If the module is switching OK, the car will continue to run on the reference signal. If it stalls, the ignition module is not switching properly.
There are some other checks that can be made when working with an intermittent Code 42. When using a digital volt ohm meter (DVOM), there should be 5 volts on the bypass wire. On the EST wire, with the engine running, there will be close to 2.3 volts. The EST is a 5 volt on/off digital signal, so with a volt meter you will see the average of the high and the low. With the EST signal being a digital on/off signal, if you have a meter that will read in Hz, you can also pick up a Hz reading on the EST wire. Normally, you will see about 28 Hz with the engine idling and will increase with RPM. If the EST circuit would become momentarily grounded, or open, the engine will cut out. The voltage reading will jump down to as low as 1.3 volts and the Hz reading will jump from as low as 17 to 128 Hz. If there is a problem in the EST circuit, the voltage on the bypass wire will not change. If the bypass wire is momentarily grounded or open, the reading on the EST wire will be the same as if it was grounding or going open, but unlike a problem on the EST circuit, the bypass voltage will be pulled low if it becomes grounded or goes open. If this happens fast enough, the engine will cut out. The voltages will vary, but the SES light will not come on and no codes will be set.
With the EST circuit open, engine running, the voltage will stay low on the bypass wire and the ECM will not put out the 5 volts. With the EST shorted to ground, the voltage on the bypass wire will be high (5 volts) for a very short time (three seconds or less) then the ECM will remove the 5 volts. Using a min/max on the DVOM is the best way to see this voltage. With the bypass open, the EST circuit OK, the ECM will put out the 5 volts. By using a DVOM on both the EST and bypass wire, you can tap on the ECM, wiggle and tug on the wiring to see if the voltage or Hz reading will change. If it does, this is an indication that you have located the problem area.
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Very nice article there moneypit. That is the most detailed explaination I have read about how the ignition system works on the newer GM cars.
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Hey i was going thorugh my snap on and i pulled codes 16 and 36 high and low resolution problems. I was also looking through the recipts and it was replaced with a jegs setup and it was 249.99 and my buddy had one and it took a crap after two months. Anyways im thinking that it could be cap and rotor problems because it starts and runs but it is irratic sometimes. I am familiar with the opti-spark system and i am going to school for mechanics but im stuck in a rut any ideas? Anyone else have problems with the jegs setup?
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I answered your PM with this...hopefully some others can chime in.
Stay away from all of the optis except the GM's. The best place to get them is "partsladi" on ebay....very cheap and authentic parts.
For code 16 and 36, it could be the opti harness....those are known for going bad and causing this code...
Code 16- Low resolution pulse (distributor). ECM is not detecting the 4X pulse from distributor. Check wiring connections, especially the pigtail connector from the optispark to main wiring harness. This is the black/red wire that goes to terminal "A" on the pigtail connector. On the 1992-93 ecm, this is wire C5 (green connector). 1994-95 ecm, this is wire B2 (black connector). If wiring checks out, you will have to replace the optical sensor module in the distributor.
Code 36- Distributor ignition system. Faulty high resolution (360X) pulse or multiple low resolution pulses detected. Check pigtail connector from distributor to main harness for any opens or shorts. Verify wiring is okay before replacing distributor.
Get in there and look at the harness to make sure wires are in good shape. It might be worth it to replace that first before swapping out the opti again. When you do switch opti's, don't fall for the hype and go gm. Let me know what you find....
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i will do so tomorrow or today what have it i am frustrated right now because there are no codes anymore and as soon as i am to drive it anywhere something will happen to itjust because it can always right before work lol. Regardless i love the car and i wont throw the towel in because one i am not going to be defeated by it, two bring it to a shop there wont be anything left of the tires well there is not much left as it but there is still tread.
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The outcome.
Alright, after doing alot of head scratching researching and cussing swearing and everything else. I bid adoo to the old optispark and to the new. Kinda ryhmes, anyways if you are the unlucky soul of the code 16, code 36, code 42 and or code 42 i wish that you would not have to deal with it. Anyways On my ss i was having problems with my car fallign flat on its face and just plain ol out dying spitting sputtering and all the other common signs of optispark failure. I bought my car with a Supposed new one and it was however low quality one at that, from jegs. So first thing do not buy one from jegs in the first. Anyways to start the adventure of changing the optispark, Chances are if you do get the check engine light and have the luxury of a scanner then use it. Find out what codes you have. If a 42 or 42 set with the code 36 check all wiring. If all seems good then chances are your OPTISPARK took a dump.
Alright here is what all the codes mean
16 Low resolution- The PCM detects 720 high resolution timing pulses before any low resolution pulses are detected.
36 High Resolution- 40 low resolution pulses occur before any high resolution pulses are detected
42 Electronic Spark Timing- If DTC 42 is detected, the PCM will disable the fuel injectors to prevent flooding of the engine. DTC 42 will be stored in the PCM memory but will turn "ON" the Malfunction Indicator Lamp
Also on a lighter note, If these codes are intermittent chances are you have a bad cap and rotor. That is what happened to my car but i went ahead with replacing the whole assembly because if the cap and rotor went bad after 15k then i dont trust the optical part of it either why do all the work twice.
After you have determined your codes and what has went south follow the appropriate action. If it is determined that your optispark has went out then, one you are going to be pissed off, two be prepared to spend some money, three you are going to be irriatated, and four after it is all done you will be happy you did it.
Expect about a 4/5 hours to complete.
Tools required.
-Elbow Grease
-3/8 Drive Ratchet
-Harmonic balancer puller
-Drain pan
-10,13,14,15,17 mm sockets and a 3/8 socket
-Inch pound torque Wrench
-Foot pound torque Wrench
-random sizes of pliers
Torque Specs.
Water-pump 37 Foot Pounds
Distributor 106 Inch Pounds
Cap screws 25 Inch Pounds
Rotor Screw 6 Inch Pounds (apply LocTite)
Well after all that noise, Here is what you do.
1. disconnect your battery- people with the factory radio make sure you shut off the theft lock and if you didnt you just made your day that much longer.
2. Remove "home base" and all of the intake tubing (more work room)
3. Get a drain pan and remove all heater hoses, radiator hoses, and let it all drain out.
4. Remove air pump, water pump(there are six bolts instead of the 350 standard of four)
5. Remove the harmonic balancer 17MM bolts and get a puller to remove it off the snout.
6. Now the fun part it you are replacing the whole assembly disconnect the OPTI harness connector on the distributor, IF not then dont bother for a cap and rotor replacement. There are three 10mm screws holding the whole assembly on and it will come off as a unit if you do just remove the three screws. If you are going to replace the cap and rotor just remove the four screws and it will come off.
7. Pay attention to exactly how it comes off so you put the new one on correctly.
Installation is the exact opposite of the directions.
This may deserve a sticky.
Two photo shows the cap burn through
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Excited about etcd
There's been a lot of buzz about Docker over the past few weeks[1], so I was intrigued when I read about CoreOS, which amongst other things is designed to be a minimal substrate for Docker. When Alex Polvi left a comment that they might be giving away t-shirts to people signing up for the Alpha that was enough to get me interested. Alex reached out shortly after I signed up, and we had a chat last week.
Not Just Yet Another Just Enough Operating System.
The OS bit of CoreOS is pretty much what I expected – yet another Just Enough Operating System (JEOS). To a certain extent it's even more minimal than JEOSes that have come before, which is facilitated by the fact that Docker containers drag along their dependencies with them which means that the JEOS doesn't have to be tailor made to the application (or applications) running on it – it really can be a bare minimum, and it can also be a static target (or at least a pretty slow moving one).
Welcome to the world of matryoshka virtualisation.
Enter etcd
If CoreOS was just yet another JEOS distribution then it would be pretty uninteresting, but there's more…
A part of the CoreOS project (probably the most important part) is etcd.
A highly-available key value store for shared configuration and service discovery.
At the most basic level etcd is a place to put configuration metadata, which is a pretty mundane thing. What makes it interesting is that it's a distributed implementation, which allows for scale and resilience. What makes it very interesting is that it supports atomic test and set. Doing atomic actions in a distributed system is hard, and etcd employs the raft consensus algorithm to do the heavy lifting.
How will it get used?
There are lots of places where LDAP (or its proprietary sibling Active Directory) could be used (or should be used) for managing configuration metadata but isn't because it's too much work to get things set up[2]. The low bar to entry for using etcd should make it more accessible. I can even imagine a world where somebody might build a multi master LDAP implementation over the top of etcd.
Most clouds have some kind of instance metadata service (many mimic the AWS implementation). These are generally fine for getting configuration into an individual instance, but fall short when it comes to managing a topology of connected instances. The exception here is Google Compute Engine (GCE), which offers a key/value store that works beautifully across all instances in a given project. Anybody who's taken advantage of the GCE approach and who then wants to do the same thing in another cloud will be reaching for etcd.
The cool kids will of course use etcd as a way of wiring their Docker containers together.
How would I use it?
For the last few years CohesiveFT has had a product called Context3 (now rebranded 'Server3 automation'), which is a distributed topology manager. It works along the lines of init, but across an array of machines rather than an individual machine. If we ever get the chance to do a rewrite then etcd would be an ideal thing to build on.
Security and the chicken and egg problem
etcd supports SSL Client certificates for authentication, which presents something of a chicken and egg problem when it comes to the question of how did the client get its certificate in the first place (in a world where all configuration metadata is served up by etcd)? etcd is potentially very helpful with key management, whilst at the same time etcd needs some help with key management. I imagine people will end up using schemes along the lines of Chef, where an account key is used to retrieve unique instance/node keys.
There's no sign yet of an authorization scheme, but I'm sure that will have to come (hopefully by integration to a well understood standards based service mechanism and not just some clumsy system of ACLs).
etcd is going to be very helpful for managing configuration metadata in distributed environments (e.g. clouds), and the need for such management will only increase as applications use additional layers of virtualization (e.g. Linux containers). The system already offers useful functionality, but its applicable scope is presently constrained by a lack of sophisticated security controls (e.g. a limited administrative domain has to be used because there's no authorization). I'm sure that will be fixed in time, and I'll certainly be watching the project with interest.
PS It's implemented in Go, which is both cool and the new hotness, but definitely not luke warm.
[1] I should probably write up my impressions on Docker some other time.
[2] This discussion gets me perilously close to my rant about 'the next Enterprise Java Bean that I see will be my first one'. Calling them Enterprise Java Beans (EJBs) implied a level of service discovery and availability that has never achieved in practice because the place that EJBs were registered was always stranded on an individual application server (or cluster) rather than being a true enterprise service; and don't get me started about the lack of COM+ registration in AD either.
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Plastic surgeon's guide to Real Housewives of OC
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Photos: Above, The cast of Season 5 of "Real Housewives of Orange County,"minus departing Jeana Keough. Left to right: Lynne Curtin, Alexis Bellino, Vicki Gunvalson, Gretchen Rossi and Tamra Barney. (Photo courtesy of Bravo). Below, photo of Lynne Curtin from Bravo. Next, Vicki Gunvalson on left with Tamra Barney. (Getty Images photo) Bottom, Alexis Bellino at center between Lynne Curtin, left, and Gretchen Rossi. (Photo courtesy of RadarOnline.com)
Come with me now to a place called "Orange County."
It's a region that looks much like Southern California, but it's not Southern California
Instead we're going to the land inhabited by the "Real Housewives of Orange County."
They don't live in the real world. They live in the world of "reality TV," where the Bravo TV network portrays a life focused on "shopping, dining, drinking, dancing, plastic surgery and working out."
Our tour guide will be plastic surgeon Dr. John Di Saia. He's an outsider looking in, like us. With an office in San Clemente, he's not part of that world, unlike Dr. Milind Ambe of Newport Beach, whose skills as a plastic surgeon have been showcased on the show.
Because of our guide's specialty, we'll take a Plastic Surgery Tour of the Land of the Real Housewives. Tours of the housewives' exploits with shopping, dining, drinking, dancing, exercising and arguing would need other sorts of experts.
This tour is based on Di Saia's appearance on this past week's online "In Your Face CHAT," where he joined me and hundreds of readers in considering how cosmetic procedures have affected or could affect each of this season's Real Housewives. I invited cast members of "Real Housewives" to join the chat, but they were busy with interviews stirring up interest in the show's Season 5, which will launch Thursday.
First on the tour is Lynne Curtin, who is in her early 50s and the proud owner of a new face.
Since last season, she has had a facelift, a forehead lift, some lip filler and perhaps "some redo breast work," Di Saia says.
Her facelift has been greeted with accolades and amazement from online fans, partly because Bravo released a publicity photo of Curtin (at right) that seems to owe more to the talents of a Photoshop artist than to the skills of her plastic surgeon. See related slide show to compare before and after photos.
Of her new look, online commenters said, for example:
"Wow, Lynne. She looks Shakira-ish to me. LOL. I love Shakira."
"Lynne looks gorgeous! I wonder how much her facelift cost? It is rare to see such a good facelift these days."
But the cost of the facelift has some celebrity watchers worried, or simply judgmental. For example:
"Well, no wonder Lynne went broke. A facelift that good must have cost a fortune. She looks amazing though."
As that last comment suggests, real life threatens to intrude on the world of reality TV for Curtin, as well as for others of the Real Housewives. She not only had the facelift, but also lost her home. Our tour won't reach a place where we can understand how those two events make sense financially.
"Americans are not always so responsible," Di Saia says.
A facelift like hers would have cost anywhere from the "high teens" to "mid 20s," he estimates, or upward of $35,000 if she went to Beverly Hills.
His advice is to focus on simpler measures.
"She needs to get out of the sun," Di Saia says. Because of her years of sun worship, "she will likely still need skin care — laser or chemical peels — intermittently over the years."
As for her facelift, he reserves judgment on whether it's a success. "It is probably too early to tell. In six months we'll see. … Facelifts are good for 10 years or more. I like to let them sit so they look more natural as opposed to frequent major redos."
Next on our tour is Tamra Barney (pictured right with Vicki Gunvalson), an early-40s Botox fan who has a love-hate relationship with breast implants. A couple of years ago, she had her implants taken out by Dr. Ambe and replaced with smaller ones because the old ones were giving her pains in the back.
It's a common problem with large implants, Di Saia says.
Even after the downsizing, she still gets comments from people about how large her breasts are. That's not surprising, especially since she tends to turn sideways when she poses for photos.
This week, Barney sent me an email saying that she's considering getting rid of them entirely. "Truth be told," she said, "I'm thinking of going in to have my implants removed, like I wanted to do in the first place."
Di Saia commented, "If she has pain and has tried to downsize [already], maybe removal would be best. That is the best for pain."
For Vicki Gunvalson (pictured), who is in her late 40s, Di Saia recommends more skin care and less lip filler.
"She has sun damage on her chest, so she's got it facially as well, under the makeup," he says. Laser re-surfacing could help, he adds.
Di Saia notes that Gunvalson has a "large frame" with breast implants to match and "a bit of a long face."
If that bothers her, she could get facial implants to give make it look wider, he says.
When Gretchen Rossi came on the show last year, Bravo made a big deal of her not having breast implants, stating wrongly that women without breast implants are unusual in Orange County.
That might be a true statement about "Orange County," but not about the real Orange County.
Rossi, who is in her early 30s, may have had lots of other types of cosmetic work — "rhinoplasty, lip augmentation, possible cheek implants or soft tissue filler, and Botox injections" are what the Web site MakeMeHeal.com suspects.
Di Saia noted that online photos, allegedly of Rossi, suggest that she "has had a ton of facial work."
His recommendation for her: "She looks good. Just a little skin care I would think. A filler or two once in a while."
Bravo TV implies that breast implants are something that every Real Housewife has, except for Rossi.
It's true in the case of Jeana Keough, Di Saia says.
He has suggestions for more cosmetic work for her, if she wants it: "A little upper-lip filler, skin care, maybe a forehead lift … upper eyelids maybe as well."
In her mid 50s, Keough is the heaviest looking of the Real Housewives, which attracts some mean-spirited criticism from image-conscious celebrity watchers. One visitor to the online chat suggests that she would benefit from "all-over body lipo."
Di Saia responds, "Whole body lipo is not always so great. It is better for the patient to get her weight into control and then use lipo to touch up the problem areas."
This season's newcomer among the Real Housewives is Alexis Bellino, in her early 30s. (She's pictured at right with Lynne Curtin, left, and Gretchen Rossi, right.)
"She has had some fillers and maybe Botox," Di Saia says. Breast implants, too. "She went a bit large on the implants but, as we have said before, that is common and subjective."
One reader on the online chat comments, "I've had the privilege of meeting Alexis. She is a beautiful person inside and out. She's had 3 children, two twin girls and a boy. She visited Dr. [Michael] Niccole to have her breasts done after pregnancies."
Di Saia advises, "She might want to take it easy on the lip filler."
But he adds, "She is pretty. I would leave her be. Her nose might be good to do — something small — but I am a body surgeon."
Another reader on the online chat asks Di Saia, "Do you think, as a whole, the Housewives take plastic surgery and other procedures too far?"
His answer brings our tour back to the intersection of reality and show business.
"Some are getting close" to going too far, he says. "That is likely why the show picked them."
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I don't want to give out to much, but I have a sort of story I want to see I can exercise.
It all started with Dragons, Iris (Pokemon Anime), and Relatives. From there, I spun out a conflict between two sisters related to Iris fighting each other for a sort of power as Dragon Warriors. I subdivided the action into 4 parts, an introduction, Iris's story, a journey to find hidden objects, and the final conflict.
The names of the sisters I believe would be Veronica and Haemona. Them and Iris descend from an ancient civilization/specie of human called The People of the Dragons. After some legends which I'm still working on, Veronica and Haemona will conflict. Iris will also play an important role here. I think it'd probably be sort of violent.
Anyways, I'm not new to writing, it's just time management that I need to adjust. But I feel like I can probably develop enough from this.
Real quick, when you say "two sisters related to Iris," you mean those sisters are Iris' cousins, or the three of them are siblings? Just want to make sure.
Anyways, this sounds interesting. Am curious though what does the title Dragon Warrior means and also what the hidden objects have to do with the plot. Perhaps those objects needed to be found in order to be a Dragon Warrior?
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Luis Javier is 51 years old and the father of a 17 year old son. He has been living in the city for 30 years after having spent his childhood in the town of Abejorral which is located south of Antioquia. After observing the familiar work being done, Luis Javier started selling fast food from a cart in front of an educational institution in Medellín.
Recently, the city outfitted a kiosk for his business, which Luis Javier was able to expand. Currently, he is generating 8 jobs for his family members in two shifts. He works from 6:00 am until 11:00 pm, Monday through Friday and Saturdays until midday. Thanks to this business, he has been able to build his own home and get his family ahead in life.
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El señor Luis Javier a sus 51 años de edad es padre de un hijo de 17 años. Desde hace 30 años vive en la ciudad, luego de haber pasado su niñez en el municipio de Abejorral localizado al sur de Antioquia. Luego de observar el trabajo que conocidos realizaban, el señor Luis Javier comenzó con un carro de venta de comidas rápidas frente a una institución educativa de la ciudad de Medellín. Hasta hace poco, el municipio le acondicionó un kiosco para que realizará su trabajo, con lo cual el señor Luis Javier se pudo ampliar. Actualmente, el señor Luis Javier esta generando 8 empleos a sus familiares en dos turnos. El señor Luis Javier labora desde las 6:00 a.m. hasta las 11:00 p.m. de lunes a viernes y los sábados hasta el medio día. Gracias a este negocio, el señor Luis pudo hacer su propia casa y ha sacado su familia adelante. El señor Luis Javier necesita realizar mejoras locativas en su negocio tales como instalar la red de gas y mejorar el piso y las paredes. Además, requiere de la compra de surtido tal como gaseosas, panes y salsas. Con lo anterior podrán mejorar sus ingresos y así la calidad de vida de su familia. El sueño D. señor Luis Javier es tener su propio restaurante y en este generar un mayor numero de empleos directos a sus familiares.
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In over Our Heads: Applying Kegan's Theory of Development to Community College Students
Tinberg, Howard, Weisberger, Ronald, Community College Review
An epiphany enables you to sense creation not as something completed, but as constantly becoming, evolving, ascending. (Matt, 1995) While training increases the fund of knowledge, education leads us out of or liberates us from one construction or organization of mind in favor of a larger one. (Kegan, 1994) I know when I came here I was not sure if I belonged in college or framing houses.... I came into this semester as a framer and came out a student. (Brian, 1996)
As we attempt to reach out to students as instructors, counselors, or administrators, we often wonder what is going on in their heads. Our earnest attempts to "reach them" sometimes succeed but just as often leave them with blank or quizzical faces. We wonder whether we have been clear enough or whether we have used the proper methods. Too often we are left frustrated and either blame ourselves or, more often, the students.
Psychologist and educator Robert Kegan's response to this dilemma is to go beyond the "blame game" to uncover what is going on in the heads of our students as well as ourselves. Kegan's constructive-developmental theory represents an attempt to conceptualize the process of human development from infancy through adulthood. In so doing, he builds on the pioneering work of developmental theorists such as Piaget (1974), Erickson (1964), Kohlberg (1984), and Perry (1970). Erickson "was the first to look at personality development in a social context," and Piaget saw children and adolescents "moving from simple to more complex mental processes, and through equilibrium/disequilibrium stages" (Moore & Upcraft, 1990, pp. 5-6). Kohlberg created a theory of moral development, and Perry constructed a stage theory that examined the intellectual and ethical development of traditional college-age students.
The emphasis of Kegan's theory is on the period of adolescence onward, which encompasses the ages of students who enter the community college. Kegan views human growth (cognitive, affective, moral) as the interplay between internal psychological capacities and the demands of the external environment. As with most other developmental theories, Kegan's scheme considers the uniqueness of each human being while providing us with a model that allows for generalizing about how humans make sense of the world at different stages or phases of their lives. He is clearly aware of the social factors that condition our view of the world. He takes into account the work that has been done in the last decade by feminist theorists such as Gilligan (1983) and Belenky, Clinchy, Goldberger, and Tarule (1987), whose work has stressed the differences between men's and women's cognitive and affective development. He is also aware of the racial, ethnic, and class issues that still divide our society. Although he does not employ a socioeconomic analysis as do such educational critics as Giroux and McLaren (1989), Freire (1971), or Shor (1986), Kegan's sources are wide-ranging and provide him with a complex view of the interplay of societal forces and psychological capacities.
In the first part of this paper we will outline the basic features of Kegan's theory, particularly as it applies to education. We then provide an illustration of how it can be used by instructors to understand better the dynamics of the community college classroom and to determine what type of student development has occurred during the course of a semester.
Kegan's Theory of Human Development
In two major works, The Evolving Self (1982) and In over Our Heads: The Mental Demands of Modern Life (1994), Kegan constructs his theory of development on the principle stated succinctly by Perry that "organisms organize and human organisms organize meaning" (Kegan, 1994, p. 29). The ability to make sense of the world is an ongoing process from birth to death. According to Kegan, we develop levels of consciousness or capacities of mind that begin with the fantasy or "magic" stage (birth through 6 years old) when things come and go and do not appear to have any permanence. …


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One of these members is Elva, who makes a living by raising, slaughtering, and selling farm animals, such as chickens, pigs, goats, and others. By means of this work, she is helping her family by bringing in an income for them. Since she lives in a rural area, everything is more difficult, but she is fighting to move forward.
She is applying for this loan to invest in the purchase of animal feed so that she can continue with her work, as she has been doing.
Una de las integrantes es la Sra. Elva, quien se dedica a la cría, faena y venta de animales de corral, como ser gallinas, cerdos, cabras y demás, y por medio de ese trabajo esta ayudando a su familia teniendo y procurando los ingresos para ellos. Como es una zona rural les es más difícil todo, pero está luchando por salir adelante.
Solicita de este crédito para poder invertirlo en la compra de balanceados para sus animales para poder seguir con su trabajo como lo viene haciendo.
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This loan is designed for poor clients living in rural areas with high levels of crime and social conflict. These clients, working primarily in agriculture, are often ineligible for credit from formal financial institutions because of the high-crime area they live in, their lack of adequate collateral (like a land title), and the likelihood of low agricultural production due to bad weather or pests. Fundación Paraguaya is committed to serving these clients with loans and other wraparound services tailored to their needs. It also provides clients working in agriculture with access to discounted training courses at a local agricultural school to teach them how to improve their crop yields.
About Fundación ParaguayaFundación Paraguaya is a financially self-sustaining social enterprise that promotes entrepreneurship in urban and rural areas through microfinance, education programs, and more. Its focus on agriculture has helped many farmers boost their crop yields. And a number of other borrowers have taken out loans to start and grow social businesses that have helped deliver eyeglasses, medicines and other helpful services in their local communities.
This is a Group Loan
In a group loan, each member of the group receives an individual loan but is part of a larger group of individuals. The group is there to provide support to the members and to provide a system of peer pressure, but groups may or may not be formally bound by a group guarantee. In cases where there is a group guarantee, members of the group are responsible for paying back the loans of their fellow group members in the case of delinquency or default.
Kiva's Field Partners typically feature one borrower from a group. The loan description, sector, and other attributes for a group loan profile are determined by the featured borrower's loan. The other members of the group are not required to use their loans for the same purpose.
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Over at Publicola, Josh Feit posted the results of a poll commissioned by King County Executive wannabe Fred Jarrett showing that most people don't know who they'll vote for, but of those that do, Susan Hutchison is the big winner.
Wonk-junkies have been speculating for awhile that the number of hefty Democrats--two King County Council members and two rather prominent state legislators--may end up splitting the D vote, giving Hutchison a free ride to the general election. Jarrett's poll, conducted by Hart Research Associates in late April, found that of the 500 registered voters questioned, 59 percent were still undecided. Of those that know who they'll cast their ballot for, 20 percent said they'll give it to Hutchison. The four Democrats split up the rest with no one getting more than 7 percent (that was Jarrett). The four of them add up to 21 percent, so technically the Dems as a whole are ahead. It's worth mentioning that technically this is a non-partisan position now, but don't expect voters or candidates to treat it that way.
Another interesting thing shown by the poll, nearly two-thirds of those polled recognized Hutchison's name. Everyone else managed to ring bells with only about a quarter of the people queried. That will change as campaigning kicks into high gear over the summer so the results don't mean a lot. Hutchison's chances in the general might be slim since her Republican status will certainly be played up, but she's also a formidable spoiler who could thwart a two-Democrat general.
And poor Alan Lobdell, the Kent engineer that everyone forgets is also running for Executive, didn't even make the poll.


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I found my Mom and Dad after I ran away from my first home. I had recently had puppies, I think I was a breeder dog. I had been hit by a car, not too much damage, just road burn and a lost toenail, but it was very cold in Memphis, Tn that December day and I knew if I wanted to live I would need to find a "dog lover" to let me inside so I didn't freeze to death. I sniffed out a house with other dogs (lucky for my keen sense of smell), hoping that there was room for one more. Sure enough Mom found me covered by the leaves in her flower garden. It was December 1999 and I had found my new "dog house", there was Jingles (11/89 - 3/06) and Snuggles (3/84 - 12/00) to welcome me. I weighed only 3 lbs and every bone in my body was showing, I went to the vet and he said I would be alright with a little TLC and some antibiotics. Mom and Dad had me spayed so no more puppies thank goodness! I move to Spring Hill, Florida in March of 2005 and my new brother Buddy came to live with us in May of 2006.
Left a vote, we had a great day. Mom is on vacation for a week. She has a big long list of stuff, but only after, some Zack time and of course, some horse time. We dragged all our jumps out to the riding ring today, an got them set up. Had a nice ride on Royal Mes, got every one brushed up after dinner, working on some laundry now. Will talk soon, Donna Lee and Zack
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Thank you for the vote and coming by for my birthday and DOTD. What a surprise it was to see me in the spotlight. Mom was shocked but very happy this morning. It made our day. I got a new toy that I can't tear up. My last one lasted a whole year. Hope your having a wonderful weekend. Mini Aussie Kisses, Kaylee
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Tis I, your humble bumbler Chewie, brother of the bumblerette, Maya! I hope Maya told you how embarrassed and sorry I am. I can hardly face you. But I don't want to lose you as a friend so maybe we can make you smile a lilltle.
We actually wore out Mom and Dad! They both had to take little naps in the Living Room this afternoon. Daddy planted some stuff in the garden and ran over to check out a yard sale close by this morning.I sure don't understand why ANYBODYwould want to sell their yard.I guess they just sell little pieces of it with all the people that go to those things, which raises and even more perplexing question....why would anybody want to BUY a little piece of somebody elses yard? Yesterday I heard Mommy say they went to some yard sales and GARAGE sales...now how do you sell all those people your garage? Tomorrow morning they are going to a Rummage Sale. What the heck is a RUMMAGE?
If anybody knows what it is please let me know. I sure hope you don't have to feed it and if you do that it doesn't eat a lot! What is really strange about these things is, yesterday, Mommy and Daddy went to Garage and Yard Sales, and to a re-sale shop. They came home with a few things for the house and a game for the youngest niece and her half brother. How did they get those things instead of yards, garages and re-sales? If you go to a gift shop, you buy gifts, a flower shop you buy flowers, at a grocery store, you buy groceries.....I am soooo confused! Maya is sooooooo confused. Even our cousin Dexter who is MUCH older than us can't explain it. I think yard and garage sales and re-sale shops aren't the only places they went, myself. Maya and I are BOTH a little suspicious!
It's another hot day here! That's why Daddy quit working outside at lunchtime.He said it is a scorcher out there! No wonder that little bluebird is STILL trying to come in the house. It looks like he might be a little sunburned cause his front is a little bit red! I better go check on Daddy cause he hasn't moved on the couch for a while. I'm gonna borrow Mommy's hand mirror and go hold it under his nose and see if he steams it up. Cross your paws he does! Bark at ya later!
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First, I want to tell you that if Mommy and I weren't so dense, we would have put to vote for Coopie on my profile picture for your run for DOTM! You are such a special friend to me and I feel bad we didn't think to do it for you. Me or Mommy or Chewie should have thought of it. Chew is so embarrassed, he wants me to tell you how sorry he is cause he can't look you in the eyes.Please don't be hurt or upset with us, just know we are both sorry and stupid....VERY stupid!! :-(
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CONGRATS on your DOTM win!! Sorry I didn't get here sooner to congratulate you but Mama was busy this week.Your DOTM badge looks great on your page,I hope you;re enjoying your reign.Leaving you a big basket of bones,enjoy!! *hugs* Mugs
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My home is officially a 3-ring circus....I have never been to one but one of the times when Mommy was "other- wise occupied" (I'll explain THAT PHRASE later) I googled it on the computer, and with the size of my paws, that ain't easy!! Anyway I saw what came up on google and I swear it could have been my house!Mommy is better now that the AC is on, My eyes are good and now we are performing in a circus. We have my Lab cousin Dexter here for the weekend.
Mommy & Daddy picked him up after they saw The Avengers at the show. Dexter is old and he has always been the best behaved dog they ever saw. So what happens, Dex looks at Mom in the bedroom, hikes his leg and pees on the carpet(not good)Dad takes him out, Mom cleans the carpet! I am INNOCENT! Yay! Dexter wants my bed, Little Girl Cat wants Dex's bed Maya is on Mommy's lap. Dad goes downstairs to watch the ballgame, I go too, Dex is too arthritic but is gonna follow so Dad tells Mom, call Dexter & keep him up there. Mom calls Dex, he comes over to her, Maya has a fit, Dexter goes back to the steps, I come up the steps, Mommy says "lay down" the Cocatoo starts screaming! We lay down, I get up to go downstairs, Dex gets up, Mom says Dex come here and lay down, Dex comes, Maya growls, I come back upstairs. Mommy can't go potty cause we all get up & follow everytime either one leaves the room!This will be Mommy's life until late Sunday night or Mon. morning. BOL! You can see where there could have been an opening in all the up, down, growl, follow stuff for me to google. hehehe Mommy told the trainer we wouldn't be there for Tricks class or Puppy Playtime this Sunday because there was no way she could handle that! She said we would let her know about Mother's Day! I think it is so cool that I am not the one that gets their name said the most with the "lay downs" "come heres" My name gets said SECOND most and Maya's the least, naturally! But one good thing about a 3rd dog is you don't have to get in trouble the most anymore! Daddy said 3 dogs is 1 too many, he's glad it's a favor and not permanent! BOL!
Well gotta go, the ringmaster is calling and I think I don't want to be late!
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Our cousin Dexter says Hi and he's havin' a ball!
You are very pretty. Come visit me. I left you a vote.
Come visit me, DC Christmas Photo Album, Delta Dawn says, "A House Divided".
You look so pretty in your sweater!! It's so humid here that I couldn't stand something like that!! Well Moma & Daddy have talked abt another RV & the general conversation was abt if people left them & stored them. Although probably he would want to keep his here if he has any intention of continuing to hunt. We looked at some property on our Eastern Shore & he said that he was going to talk to the guy who owned it again. It's not that far from Ocean City or Chincoteague Island which we both like so we are considering this and it is up against some state hunting property he could also use. We don't know what we are doing just talking right now although I have been wanting a decent RV for some time. With his bad foot he is hesitant to do some things as he thinks its a lot of work & it may be too much for him for all I know. Well we'll see what happens. talk more soon!! I'd love to come down in a RV and stay a while...hugs LilyPup and Moma
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The Tao of Wu
Yesterday I received a preview copy of The Tao of Wu, a "spiritual memoir" in which Wu-Tang Clan producer RZA offers up pearls of wisdom. Actually, since we're talking about an icon of '90s hip-hop here, I should probably say he is dropping gem or blessing us with jewelz or some such thing.
The press materials call the book a "nonfiction Siddhartha for the hip-hop generation." And if Siddhartha had been into kung-fu flicks and the Five Percent Nation and his trusty companion Govinda had been a small-time weed dealer, that comparison would be spot on.
If you're seeking a little bit of enlightenment Wu-Tang style, the book holds plenty of lessons and what RZA calls his "pillars of wisdom." There's actually some really touching stuff about RZA's mother, and his time in jail, and his friendships.
But if you're just looking for scoop on everyone's favorite hip-hop supergroup, there's plenty of that, too. The book is slated for an Oct. 20 15 release, but here are a few nuggets to tide you over.
*RZA says that in 1991, Ghost was very into trying rip off a Brinks truck.
*Ghost used to call Old English "Wu juice," and RZA used to call Ballantine Ale "Shaolin."
*In 1989, RZA showed some of his friends Eight-Diagram and says some of them started crying because it's so real.
*RZA used to ride the subway wearing a Big Daddy Kane-style gold cable, a book of 120 lessons, and a .38 revolver.
*If you see Method Man on the street and yell out "Shaquan!" he'll probably turn around.
*A sampling of RZA's early production tools: 1982, Technics SL-6 turntable; 1985, Roland 606 drum machine; 1988, Casio sampler.
*RZA used to live in a basement below some family members of Prince Po from Organized Konfusion; Po used to come visit him and watch him make beats.
*RZA once hung out with Leonardo DiCaprio, right after Titanic came out. They smoked cuban cigars together and Leo recited some Wu-Tang lyrics.
*RZA holed up at Trump Tower while working on the Bobby Digital album; for fun, he used to hang out on the front stoop of The Plaza, drinking 40s, smoking weed, and watching the celebrities come and go.


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Go get'em Chaz just start pressuring Marco a little and he will break, he couldnt take the heat against Sykes and Max last year.
Portimao should be a good track as he will be able muscle that beamer around and force his way forward.


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