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Original post made by WonderingParent, Fairmeadow, on Jun 6, 2007
(Well, not peer pressure - but I got bought in by the commercial on the TV that says knowledge can melt away during summer - I see that happening with my kids - 4th and 5th graders ) I talked to the Score folks in the midtown and their sales pitch is excellent !
My kids are above the average level in school. They can certainly put in a little more effort and get to the top level as far as academics is concerned, but then their social activities/sports comes into play. I am always torn between letting them go play ball outside vs asking them to sit down and do one advanced math problem.
Both me and my spouse have an advanced college degree, we can definitely help the kids with their math, science problems - but the main challenge is to get them to "sit down" and agree to work on stuff (they will do the bare minimum required to get them out of 'homework' ).
Getting them to sit down and work on something will be resolved if they go to one of these programs and have an instructor watching over their shoulder for 1 hour ... but then a part of me wonders, if this would be pushing them a bit too much ( joys of decision making as a parent )
I want to get a realistic feedback from the parents who have tried these programs and have liked it / hated it ...
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a resident of Palo Alto High School
on Jun 6, 2007 at 3:59 pm
We haven't tried the programs, but they have popped up in the last five years all over Silicon Valley mostly in affluent areas(not to mention individual expensive Math tutors who don't really advertise their services). I'm sure some programs are "worthwhile" and others less so.
I am quite interested how students and parents fail to disclose to schools/teachers at the middle/high school level their use of paid tutoring (even when directly queried by Math teachers) to "get ahead" of the curriculum, so that when the time comes (and it counts in high school) there is an easy A. This creates stress on peers who are being taught the curriculum properly as it comes along by PAUSD teachers and learning through their own efforts. It's a great competitive strategy on the part of many parents here.
Most kids I've observed don't especially appear to want to enter programs like these, though there could be a few who benefit from extra support, remedial work, or by moving ahead if they "love" Math.
I can't really believe that each of these students who "moves ahead" truly is so naturally gifted at Math that the PAUSD curriculum at the highest levels is not sufficient to provide a challenge. A favorite goal of parents here is to get their kid moved ahead one grade in Math in middle school - for no particular reason other than for competitive purposes as students are compared with their grade-level peers when they apply to top colleges. Once on the train, you have to keep going; students need tutoring each year to keep one year ahead. I think college applications should require the student to state how many years of tutoring they have received and at what cost. Be aware that what others do will affect your student's standing at the high school level (not what one would immediately think).
a resident of Evergreen Park
on Jun 7, 2007 at 12:22 am
An exaggerated view, but maybe a little too close for comfort?
"You're only ten, but you have to get ahead now. I know you're not really all that interested in this stuff, but you can follow your own interests when your student loans come due. See, what you do now determines what happens in middle school determines what happens in high school determines what happens in college determines wheter or not you're good enough to be my kid. And by the way, we'll get that bumper sticker on the van for everyone to see real soon. Why should you just read a book or just go out and play? This is Palo Alto. No other kids are doing that. They're going to Kumon to be better than you, but we won't let that happen, don't worry. Your mom and I have advanced degrees and even though you're too young to really know your own goals, let's just assume you want to be like us, only more so. We know the path because we lived it and now it's your turn to live our life. Wait, that didn't come out right."
A part of you wonders? Listen to it! That's your instinct telling you to back off and go for a hike or a walk. Bake some cookies. Look at baby pictures and old family videos together, then go do something new worth videotaping just cause its fun and cute. Will they thank you for the extra math problems? Will they remember it? Will you make home movies of algebra at the kitchen table? Create some space to just live, or create some fun, loving memories. Enjoy the present!
a resident of Palo Alto Hills
on Jun 7, 2007 at 8:21 am
If you want to raise your kid to be another worker bee in the hive, then fill all their time and mental capacity with academics. If you want to nurture a 3 dimensional thinking feeling human think about it again.
a resident of Palo Alto Hills
on Jun 7, 2007 at 8:23 am
And while you're at it, make sure you add mandarin to their resume. That will help ensure that they are on the path to success I hear. Even it it's at the expense of the needs of 98% of the rest of the kids in the city. As long as they get theirs it doesn't matter what happens to everyone else.
a resident of JLS Middle School
on Jun 7, 2007 at 8:52 am
My 6th grade son has been having math problems at school.
But, get him to talk baseball, he can work out averages, stats, memorise all sorts of irrelevant data, and use his brain as well as his body for his favorite sport.
Bottom line, get your child involved in something they are really passionate about and sit back and watch. Let them excel in their field and if it becomes necessary to provide some tutoring deal with it then. Don't turn the kid off school, or off being a kid. Let the kid in child show what he can do first and be amazed at the results.
a resident of Midtown
on Jun 7, 2007 at 9:39 am
Kumon involves lots of repetition. Their methods are what American teachers call drill and kill, though they are very popular in Asia.
In most cases, I think kids who follow Kumon will raise their scores, but it won't get them to "sit down" let alone teach them disciplined study habits--that's something you have to teach them. It will add 10-30 minutes a day to the homework load.
The method is pure repetition with no attempt to engage interest, and I think most kids would come to dislike any subject taught like this.
Personally, I might try a kid out on Kumon if he or she was lagging but never if he or she was at grade level or above. The trade-off--killing any interest in learning--is too great. Let's say you could move your 2nd grader's reading ability from 2.8 to 3.4. Is that worth the boredom inflicted?
If your kids are above average in school, let them play soccer or dance. During the summer, find another way to keep their minds sharp. Make sure they're reading. Find a fun math workbook.
a resident of Duveneck/St. Francis
on Jun 7, 2007 at 8:45 pm
I actually have a young relative who was one of those math whizzes. Having seen that kind of facility up close, I think afterschool tutoring just to push a kid "ahead" is counterproductive long term. If you're a kid who loves math and is gifted at it, you don't need drilling and you don't need your time taken up with exercises, when your mind could be exploring weird math facts. If you like math and do above average, why should you have a subject pushed on you to the point where it becomes a punishment. That kills incentive and creativity.
I think tutoring is for kids who aren't, for whatever reason, getting it in school and need the help or a different approach. It's also for kids who want to learn a subject not taught in school.
They have a phrase at some of the top colleges for overprepared kids who then fall apart in college when they're left to their own devices, "hothouse flowers."
a resident of Barron Park
on Jun 8, 2007 at 1:01 pm
Joe is a registered user.
Kumon probably isn't a good fit for a child who's already at or above grade level. But, I had a niece who was behind in math and she not only caught up but became much more confident and comfortable at school after the Kumon program especially in her core math/science subjects.
Both of my kids were in Sylvan for a while and loved it. The instructors were excellent and Sylvan gave both the kids and parents great feedback on their progress. At Sylvan, there were drills, but they were always moving to more and more difficult concepts and building on what they already knew. Both of my kids are very active in sports, but they never complained about going to Sylvan or thought that the program boring.
a resident of Los Altos
on Jun 15, 2007 at 7:04 pm
My kid goes to Score, because she was not at grade level for her school...yes for the rest of the country, but not for her class. I think it's fair that you ask about these programs. There's nothing wrong with them...she's currently 1 grade above where she was, which is now on par for her class, 1 grade above vs. rest of country. How can any of us help but to think of these programs, when they're getting 5 days of STAR testing in second grade?! I find the tutoring is much better than the computer work. It's 3:1 ratio, but it works. We're still in our 6 month contract, so we'll think about pulling her out at the end of this. HTH
a resident of Barron Park
on Jun 15, 2007 at 11:52 pm
Wondering - I have no experience with tutoring or enrichment programs, but a lot with kids. Kids are all different and you know yours best. Some kids benefit from some structure or a push; others benefit from being left to their own devices. I personally like to try things and see how they go; the results are sometimes surprising and we all learn something. I had to literally drag my daughter to travel softball try-outs; now it is the favorite thing in her world. Was I being pushy or a good parent? Time will tell.
We try to avoid pushing our kids to achieve our own dreams; but helping them find and explore there own is important to us and that help can take many forms.
Good luck.
a resident of Adobe-Meadow
on Jul 7, 2008 at 9:28 pm
My children have been going to Kumon for 4 years. Frankly, I see more advantages than disadvantages. First of all, this program helps children become more disciplined, organized and familiar with their daily routine. Second of all, the more your children know and learn, the more confident they become. I would disagree with those folks thinking that this method us purely repetition. Believe me, this method does develop analyzing skills. I can't tell you that my kids fully enjoy attending Kumon and I'm sure that they would rather play basketball instead. Most of the kids don't like going to school anyway. However, we all have to remember that when it comes to college, it is a very competitive world. There is nothing rong with trying to work hard.
a resident of Jordan Middle School
on Jul 8, 2008 at 12:48 pm
We have experience with 7 years of Kumon so I hope this will be more helpful than just a parenting opinion. Like every other parent, I want my children to do well in academics, but not at the sacrifice of their happiness and well-being. We lived in the midwest and began Kumon out there because the education was so deficient. As an example, my son missed 30 days of school one year due to vacationing because he wasn't missing anything in school anyway.
Fast forward to Palo Alto, and we continued Kumon during elementary school. However, at 6th grade, the school workload increased tremendously and my son said that for an entire math test, only one or two questions related to his Kumon work. He is a straight "A" student and on AVERAGE, had 2-4 hours of homework each night(including studying for tests, projects, workbooks). How does one justify assigning him Kumon also? Where would his down time be? And when his sport began, we knew we could no longer continue Kumon.
If you view the students who are doing Kumon, most are elementary school level, and my daughter still does Kumon because she has the extra time and a review of math for her is helpful since math is her weakness. Once she is out elementary school, however, she will probably drop Kumon due to an increased workload.
Here's how Kumon works: pick up worksheets on Tuesdays & Fridays and complete the worksheets at the office. There are two subjects available and you can choose both or one. Each subject(math or reading) should take about 10-15 min. for the child to complete per day. However, at the Kumon in Los Altos, they have the children do additional stuff such as complete a number board, so they can be there for 20 min. per subject. During the week, the student completes the worksheets for each day and then returns. Kumon regulates it so the worksheets are not too difficult for the child and the child times him/herself. The goal is to be able to finish the worksheets in 10 min. or less without errors before they move the child onto the next level. If the Kumon administrator is good, the worksheets are fairly easy for the child but not so easy that they feel like they are wasting their time. The children should not need any help from the parent (only an occasional question. My older son said he actually learned some interesting knowledge from the reading worksheets.
It is an adjustment to get used to the routine at first and seems like a lot of work. Fortunately, at the "Los Altos" center, there are plenty of stores around for shopping to keep you busy while you wait. What I like about Kumon is that I am so busy that this system is easier for me, even though I am a stay-at-home mom. If I had to open a workbook and help my children on my own, it would never occur and they would not take well to me working with them. It is a commitment and the Kumon philosophy is for the students to continue everyday so they don't take well to students continually not completing worksheets or skipping out for a week. Sometimes, we would take a week-long break because the kids needed it and then they would be fine to return to it but we still were committed the rest of the time. When my children had soccer and weren't keeping up with the worksheets, it did affect their Kumon. Their times would slow down so the Kumon reasoning to continue everyday does have merit.
Kumon is a franchise. We tried the Kumon at Cubberley Community Center and the "Los Altos" one located in Mountain View, between BevMo and Ross. There is another Mtn. View site so they call this one the Los Altos site. Those in the know, know that the Los Altos site is superior. My children were disappointed with the Cubberley site. There is a Kumon website for more info.
As far as SCORE, I have heard disappointment with it but have no experience.
In conclusion, if your child is doing well in school, Kumon is not really necessary since the Palo Alto schools are good. Of course, it would be helpful, but not completely necessary. I asked a child attending a Los Altos private middle school how much homework he had and he said "an hour and a half at most". Had Jordan been that easy, we could have justified continuing Kumon. Kumon does teach good math skills such as learning to calculate in the head and we have been very happy with it. We make sure to let the kids have fun in their lives because we believe that all learning and no fun makes it difficult for them to keep up their motivation to do well academically.
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Jul 8, 2008 at 2:46 pm
For complicated reasons, we used Kumon for 1 1/2 years.
The method is very Japanese, very rote, very boring. It is suitable for some kids who are behind and need lots of repetition. I would never put a kid in who is at or above grade level because of the boring, step-wise approach. Let them play.
I do agree about the Los Altos brach--very well run, good "teachers."
a resident of Greenmeadow
on Jul 8, 2008 at 9:43 pm
Our daughter went the summer program at Score in Midtown last year. She was at the grade level, she was categorized as a 'good student' by her teachers. However, she was very anxious about math. Both myself and my husband have higher college degrees and we were quite comfortable with teaching her / helping her. However when either parent attempted to help with the math - there were too many meltdowns.
We joined the score summer program. It worked wonders for our daughter's confidence in Math .. I mean *wonders* ! The program was computer base and it adapted to the skill level. I think this adaptation worked really well - since when she was having a hard time with a particular series of problems, the computer threw out less challenging problems to help the morale.
You will hear a lot of negative feedback about Score / Kumon ( there are quite a few postings regarding it on this thread already ). Go with your gut feel regarding your own child. These programs work with certain kids - not all kids gain from it.
Midtown Score offers a couple of trial lessons .. they are worth a try.
a resident of Old Palo Alto
on Aug 13, 2009 at 5:14 pm
I have a son who is doing pretty well in academics with out any turoring services. I bring a lot of worksheets from various book stores and work with him at home. Most of my friends have enrolled their kids in Kumon and have mixed feelings about it. But when it comes to the kids, they without any hesitation say that it is very boring and tedious. So, if kids are not interested in doing it then why are we adults forcing it on them. Kumon repeats the same problems again and again, which is more like memorizing rather then understanding the concept. Kids that go to Kumon lose their problem solving and analyzing abilities because it is more like parrot teaching. Bottom line if kids are doing well by themselves at school then why impose more work on them. Life is too short anyway, don't make it too complicated...manke it fun....You will cherish it later. Good luck!!!
a resident of JLS Middle School
on Aug 13, 2009 at 5:20 pm
I have tried Kumon and it didn't work for my child. I totally agree that it is very boring and not exciting atall for my child. We have noticed that her scores went down after we enrolled her in Kumon because she was focused in the Asian way of teaching (memorizing rather than understanding), which is very unlike in US.She is doing fine in school after we pulled her out from kumon.
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I'd like to see him get at least 10-12 carries in this game to keep the 9er D off balance. He has the speed to take it to the outside & get positive yds.
i want to add that i hope we're closer to DW and AB2 getting larger roles. not bc of any dislike of bradshaw but bc we will need bradshaw for the entire season and post season. if we have to continually run AB 30x a game, he won't last another month imho and if he does somehow last, he prob wont be very effective (worn down).
i remember that with jacobs, the past two yrs we used him sparingly early in the season to try and save him for the push to the playoffs and playoff run. now granted we were afforded that luxury bc we had 2 starters basically with AB and BJ....and for the most part, the theory worked pretty well. Jacobs had that 100 yd game away at dallas in his only real game as the feature back aside from a couple others iirc.
now, the question is, are DW and AB2 ready? I believe they are. The only thing, testing them vs SF could lead to some issues, like if either fumble a couple times, it could devastate their psyche (and football is 90% mental). Im glad we have TC as the coach bc i believe he'll make the right decision. I honestly wouldnt be opposed to given DW a few more carries than recently, but nothing too big. might need to rely on bradshaw solely for one more week (meaning he gets like 90% of the carries and snaps)
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Order of the Roadrunner Award: Michelle Detiveaux Rodriguez
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In the fifth of five award spotlights featured on UTSA Today before the ceremony, the Order of the Roadrunner Award recognizes an individual who demonstrates exemplary service and commitment to UTSA and the achievement of its goals through his or her actions throughout the year. This individual has enhanced the quality of work life in ways that significantly increase productivity and efficiency for colleagues or customers through the development of creative solutions, providing outstanding and ongoing excellence in services to faculty, staff, students or other UTSA customers. This is the highest honor that a UTSA staff member can receive for their service to the UTSA community.
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The five Staff Excellence Awards recognize excellent work performance in emerging leadership, dynamic leadership, teamwork, extraordinary initiative and overall excellence. The awards are: Rising Star Award, Leadership Award, Team Spirit Award, Extra Mile Award and Order of the Roadrunner Award. One hundred nominations were submitted; one hundred twenty-three employees were nominated.
Michelle Detiveaux Rodriguez
Order of the Roadrunner Award winner
Michelle Detiveaux Rodriguez has worked in Career Services since she was a UTSA student. She is now the career counselor for the College of Education and Human Development.
As a career counselor, she has demonstrated devotion and passion in helping UTSA education students find a place in the work force. The education career counselor position was newly created when Rodriguez took the job, and she realized the responsibility she would carry on her shoulders.
Rodriguez maintains excellent relationships between UTSA and local school districts. She was instrumental in creating the UTSA Educator Fair, where students now can apply for positions with more than 100 school districts. She makes it easy for human resources personnel to do their jobs and hire UTSA students. She keeps long hours to make sure that students who cannot meet during the day have an opportunity to meet with her. She also reaches out to students through classroom presentations.
Rodriguez works to develop good relationships with faculty and staff in academic departments as well as other student affairs departments. She is the treasurer of the San Antonio Colleges and Universities Placement Association and was nominated to serve as the secretary and treasurer of the Texas Association of Employment. Because of her expertise, she was invited to speak at the Academy for Teacher Excellence.
Rodriguez' achievements as a career counselor are an example of the devotion and passion she has for her job. As a UTSA alumna, she exhibits integrity and professionalism that speaks volumes to all who come in contact with her. She is tireless and goes above and beyond in her determination to help students find a place in the work force and succeed in life. She exemplifies the service and commitment to UTSA worthy of the Order of the Roadrunner Award.
UTSA employees are invited to attend the event hosted by Guy Bailey, provost and executive vice president, Rosalie Ambrosino, vice president for student affairs, and Richard Lewis, special assistant to the president, at 2:30 p.m., Thursday, April 28, in the University Center Retama Auditorium (2.01.02) on the 1604 Campus. The ceremony will include remarks by President Ricardo Romo.
Downtown Campus and Institute of Texan Cultures staff members can attend the event utilizing VIA bus 94 at no charge by showing their UTSACard.
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Like many in the alternative press, we pride ourselves on being ahead of the game. Sometimes, of course, that means we're wrong about what might be coming down the pike — that's part of the risk of being "out front" and not just reacting to the news as it happens.
But as we celebrate our 10th anniversary, we thought we'd look back to see how we did. Herewith, this sampling of what we've covered, how it's gone, and what's new in those areas.
More from the Portland Phoenix's 10th Anniversary:
Portland theater's losses and gains since 1999
The 10 most influential bands of our first 10 years
A decade gone by
Portland: From a handful of restaurants to a restaurant town
Diversity times ten
Talking politics: The song remains the same
Marc Shepard: I remember when...
Portland's art scene has changed quite a lot
New technology
Over the past 10 years, our technological lives have changed dramatically. The Phoenix has tried to keep up. Consider Michael Joseph Gross's November 1999 article about cell-phone etiquette, which advised users not to give their cell numbers out to friends, to keep their phones off as a rule, and to "always tell people, at the beginning of a call, that you're on a cell phone." No mention of sexting.
A few years later, in August 2003, Jess Kilby went "wardriving" (as "the search for wireless internet networks" was dubbed) around Portland. "Though WiFi (wireless fidelity) is enjoying a boom in popularity among early adopters . . . it's hard to discern exactly how much the average computer user knows about wireless technology," she wrote. Clearly iPhones were not even conceivable.
And then in May 2004, Kilby tried out beta Gmail; she praised the now-ubiquitous e-mail program for how swiftly it processed attachments, the automatic and "elegant" spell-check, and address auto-complete. She wasn't so keen on the lack of a simple "Delete" button, and had trouble navigating Gmail's trademark threaded-conversation interface. She did not evaluate what many consider to be Gmail's best feature — its search function; nor did she explore the social protocol of keeping your G-chat window open throughout the workday.
Moderation in Maine
We have the same two senators now that we did 10 years ago — Republicans Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins. And they're (mostly) pulling off the same difficult brand of bipartisanship that they have been for a decade. On issues like gay rights, balancing the federal budget, health care, and gun control, "the limits of Snowe's and Collins's moderation becomes apparent," Dan Kennedy wrote in an inaugural-issue analysis of Maine's "moderate" Republican senators. "Still, [they] stand out as the kind of Republicans whom progressives can live with, if not enthusiastically endorse."
We've covered Snowe's and Collins's tricky balancing act several times over the past decade. More recently, in a 2006 piece about how their Supreme Court votes would affect women, Sara Donnelly pointed out that Maine's senators "were the only pro-choice women in the Senate to vote for Alito. So much for girl power."
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Bring out the flavors of salmon with a Japanese-inspired infusion of ginger, sesame oil and wasabi. If you serve these patties on whole-wheat buns, consider reduced-fat mayonnaise and sliced cucumbers as condiments. Or skip the buns and set the patties atop a vinegary salad of greens, carrots, radishes and sprouts.
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Games I Own: Doom 3
Posted on 15th Apr 2009 at 17:40 by Joe Martin with 6 comments
Or, rather, I don't like much of Doom 3. The first half an hour or so of the game is pretty good, despite being pretty much a straight rip-off of Half-Life, and there are some bits that really make you jump later on…but the rest of it? Bleh.
There's three main reasons I don't like Doom 3. The first is that it's endlessly repetitive – dark hallways go on forever, punctuated only by utterly redundant outside sections and oh, another scared scientist. Worse, it doesn't even seem like there's any variation to the game; all I can remember of it is fighting endless bloody imps.
The second reason I don't like it is that the game as a whole is massively contrived and manufactured. There isn't a single part of Doom 3 that stands out as being an example of where game design and concept meet; this is a high-tech science base that's supposed to be utterly self-reliant yet even the well-lit areas are dismal and dim. Everyone moans that there should be duct tape somewhere in the base, but I'm more concerned by the poor lighting conditions even before the demons appear. And a marine should have more important things to do then go fetch eggheads, right? And why doesn't a single scientist decide to follow the man with a gun, or at least mug him for his weapons?


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Discussion in '2007 Playoffs' started by Dlev59, May 13, 2007.
I am not going to work till Friday........ I can`t face those folks tomorrow.................
Likewise. I was not able to watch the game tonight, or even check the score until the beginning of the fourth quarter. When I saw the score on yahoo sports, I thought perhaps there was a mistake, and that yahoo had the numbers reversed. A real shock. Very difficult to understand the mentality that would allow this kind of a letdown (or overconfidence), particularly after what happened in the Cleveland series last year.
This is making my keyboard hurt.
Boy did the complexion of this series change quickly. The Pistons have lost the mental edge and the Bulls have all the confidence in the world. How can this team have such a split personality? No thanks to the refs in this game.
Just remind them they are 'Zards fans.
Watched the second half. What a piece of crap game from the Pistons. Bulls got anything they wanted, made the extra (and extra) pass while the Pistons launched bad jump shot after bad jump shot. I offer my kingdom for a low post threat.
bs calls. chicago knows the way to beat the pistons is to take chauncey out. rip needs to sit and put delfino / flip murray in because they drive to the hole. chicago is hiding ben gordon on defense by having him check rip. rip isn't a difficult defensive assignment. webber needs to sit and put in maxiell. lindsey never needs to touch the court in this series.
Why do I care so much how this team plays? It just puts me in a bad mood to see the Bulls tromp on the Pistons on their home court. Where is the fire in the belly that was so evident earlier in the series? Really do the Pistons only play well when they have their backs against the wall? Flip can't be blamed for this loss, the players have to execute and show some will to win. Letting the Bulls shoot 72% in the first half? They are a jump shooting team and they were looking like Hall of Fame players right down to riding the pine normally Chris Duhan. The Pistons start and stop with Rasheed and he just has to come out to play on Thursday and not let this thing go to 7 games, my heart can't take it. Also the bench needs to come in and play the way they are capable of, let the starters rest a bit more in the 1st half and trust the bench to carry some of the heavy lifting.
I'm disappointed but we have two chances to win one game. The Bulls have to be perfect.
Agreed. But, One can`t help to think about history being made. Coming back from a 3-0 deficit - with the Pistons being the team that was up. That would be devestating to me, you, the city of Detroit, and the list goes on...............
True, but two days ago we were anticipating a sweep. Now we're reduced to pointing out that we probably won't succumb to the worst collapse in playoffs history. That's...not good.
I can smell it out here in California dude! Flip has flopped. The pressure was on the Pistons and they choked big time It ain't over yet, the Bulls maybe able to pull off the sweep the hard way and the history will be made. Yeah the Pistons can go fishin ...NOT Believe me the Bulls will more focused to take care of business on their own floor than we were tonight. Those Road Warriors better step up on Thursday or the momentum will surely be in the Bulls favor in game seven despite it being at the palace. I said in the pregame chat that the first team to 90 would win...but wtf happen...well the Bulls hit the shots in the first half, (72%) gained the confidence and kept shooting in the second half to finish with 57%. Not only did the they let Chicago dictate the tempo by hitting the shots and showing the energy in the first qtr, but they let the second tier guys like Tyrus Thomas get off with dunks (5-5 at one point) and left PJ Brown open to hit 7-9 uncontested shots. ben Gordon shot with reckless abandon and made most of them including 5-6 form the 3 point line. I thought he had more than the 28 that he finished with. Heinrich also picked apart our defense for 13 assists and timely shots to finish with 17. Key to the game IMO was CB going out with four fouls with 7:32 left in the 3rd. The score was 70-62 and it appeared that the Pistons could cut that lead in half by the end of the qtr, but with Hunter replacing Billups, the Bulls put together a 12-2 run over the next 4 mins before Flip replaced Hunter with Flip jr. with about 3 mins left in the third qtr. The Bulls continued the run and finished with a 20-5 run before Billups reappeared at the end of the qtr, but the game was over then even with another 12 mins to go. Don't jump off the bandwagon folks. we can still win this but it has to be in six...need the weekend off to rest for the Cavs. Just stop Gordon!!!
Billups gets 3 fouls in 4.5 minutes to start the 3rd. Bulls go on a 20-5 run without Billups on the court (replaced by Hunter and Murray). Hunter, 2 fouls in 4 minutes 15 seconds. Pistons only score 2 points during this time.
I agree, there were some bad calls. But I don't think you can blame this one on the refs. The Pistons played poorly. They are going to have to play better ball if they are going to advance.
Really interesting pressers. I'm happy I am recording them. Billups says they needed to make adjustments but didn't. Should have them up in an hour or so.
Last year I thought it was just Flips bad coaching that cost the Pistons against the Heat but this year I can't believe how stupid the players are. I mean didn't they learn ANYTHING from the series against Cleveland last year. They were in the Bulls heads after game three. They thrashed them for two in Detroit and erased a 19 point lead in game three to beat them,then in game four they just mailed it in. I mean even the players admit that in the papers. Maybe more of them should have stayed in college for the full four years. Now the Bulls have all of the confidence in the world and they are going home for the next game. I have to think that Webber shouldn't start any more in this series, Max should start so someone will be attacking the basket to start the game and draw some fouls then bring Webber in when Chauncy sits and run the offense through him. As for Kirk the flopper, his idea of defense is to fall down 24 times a game figuring that even if he only gets 25% of the calls his man will foul out. Couldn't stand to watch the fourth quarter, I had to find something else to do just to keep from firing something at the TV. Too expensive these days and not as durable.
I couldn't stomach this one at all so I tuned out in the second half. I think the Bulls win a close Game 6 in Chicago and Detroit wins a close Game 7 back at The Palace, but having to go seven games is ridiculous. I think you have to give the Bulls some credit. They shot the lights out. 73 percent in the first half.
73 Percent but they were only up by 8. This was a winnable game until the whistles came. We get zero respect from the zebras at home.
They are getting to the open floor. Why now and not before--I don't know. We made them drive in the first two games and they would throw it to Ben. Even the drives are more open but the key is that they are getting and hitting jumpers. The Pistons have to stop the jumpers even if it means giving them a drive here or there. What worries me is that a young team may have found an answer to an older team. I hope that that isn't it and that good old fashion effort is what we need. I am as stunned as anyone by this game. We too can press this team and make them frantic. We need to get back to business. Part of their game plan is to drive and get fouled (we have to be selective as they are not good finishers). Why did Webber foul Ben Wallace? We are not playing smart. That is just one example. They also plan on running and taking the quick look. We have to be ready for that. The offense was strained because we cannot score at that pace. We need to get Sheed on the block, get Chauncey into the lane some and please keep Rip from driving all the way to the hoop to get blocked. Maxiel should get more playing time. Tough loss to digest. I hope it is just a big blip and does not damage the playoff run. you have to be worried.
What a joke of a game...the complete opposite of how I felt this game would go. CB out on fouls didn't help (still played 34 minutes), but few Pistons played with much intensity at home...except for Jmax. Gordon lit it up tonight, Deng was steady, but TT put up some demoralizing play. The D was non-existent tonight. Playing into lee's court...Murray & Hunter combined for 30 minutes, 0 points, 1 assist & 4 TO's...not that it really mattered anyway. This game was never within control of the Pistons. Kenny The Jet postgame diagnosed the Pistons with 'phatcatitis' in being lackadaisical....can't disagree after tonight's disappointing turd. I am now starting to worry some.
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posted at 10:49 pm on October 15, 2012 by Allahpundit
One senior Democratic official expressed real concern tonight unlike I have heard before about Ohio potentially slipping away from Obama (the state has been trending Republican in statewide races, Rob Portman has become a force, religious and gun groups are flooding the state with voter contacts, two of Romney's top strategists have recently won a statewide race there, etc).
This doesn't mean Romney has the upper hand right now. But it is no longer at all implausible that he could take the three Southern battlegrounds and Ohio. If he does that, he sure as heck would have the upper hand. And that leaves at least some Democrats with the shakes.
In a stark warning on the eve of the second presidential debate, veteran Democratic strategists Stanley B. Greenberg and James Carville write in a newly released memo that the campaign "has reached a tipping point" that could cost President Obama reelection if he does not present a more compelling vision for the next four years…
In an interview, Greenberg said that at the first debate, Mitt Romney caused many voters who are worried about the nation's direction to view him in a new light, mostly by convincing them he had aggressive plans to improve the economy — even as Obama conveyed little about goals of his own. After the debate, Greenberg said, undecided and loosely committed voters "are looking at Romney. Before [the debate] I thought they were trying to get to Obama. But I don't think that's true anymore. I think now they are considering Romney, which is why the next debate is pretty critical."
Obama has two big problems going into the second showdown with Romney. One, he needs to win just to level the score. And two, even if he wins at Hofstra, it's likely the second debate will have fewer viewers and receive less attention than the first. So the president actually needs not only to win, but to win big to return to an equal debate footing with Romney after the disaster in Denver…
The strategist wants to see a forceful Obama — a really forceful Obama — take on Romney. "The '47 percent,' he ought to be shoving up Romney's a–," the Democrat says. "Romney can say he apologized. But Obama can say an apology doesn't change things. Romney didn't misspeak. That was a two-minute oration that basically gave Romney's view of America."…
"You can overcompensate, and he has to be careful not to," the Democratic strategist says. "You can't go from being a pussycat to a pit bull."
Obama's biggest problem, however, may not be Romney but the debate's format, which couldn't be more difficult for an incumbent mounting a comeback. The second debate will be town-hall-style, where a selected audience of undecided voters asks the questions, many of which will likely focus on the president's tenure.
Hence, Obama must figure out how to defend his record before the crowd, focusing most of his attention on his individual questioners, while at the same time attacking Romney—and all without overdoing the negativism that typically doesn't play well in such formats. Pulling that off may be the only way the president can prove to the millions of Americans watching on TV that he can do what he failed to accomplish last week in Denver: effectively counter the insurgent across from him on the stage…
In a town-hall format, an attack strategy risks annoying the audience, Sabato says. In Richmond, he adds, "members of the audience could be seen openly rebelling when the candidates got too negative."
[A]lmost all the damage in town hall-style presidential debates is self-inflicted. The only way to win is to allow your opponent to make mistakes…
If Obama is listening to the advice of countless media pundits that suggest he ought to come out more aggressively–and all signs are that he will try to do just that–then he is heading for trouble. Not only is Romney at his best when being attacked, but attacking Romney in front of a group of real-life voters will seem petty and will likely reinforce perceptions of Obama as running a negative campaign without new ideas or proposals.
Similarly, if Romney listens to his innumerable critics who describe him as out of touch with ordinary people (based on very little evidence), and tries too hard to "empathize" with the people in the room, he may end up looking foolish. Yet he cannot be passive, either, and rest on his laurels, because that will lend credence to the media's narrative.
Until just over a week ago, President Obama's campaign was on the cusp of doing something unprecedented in modern presidential politics: turning the election into a referendum on the challenger, Mitt Romney. Why is that so special? Because every prior example of an incumbent running for reelection in recent times has wound up being a referendum on the guy in the White House…
His advisers have long believed that a weary public has no patience for grand ideas or presidential self-applause. So Obama's strategy has focused primarily on going after Romney—until last week, with remarkable success.
But Romney's debate performance and his subsequent revival suggest that voters do have an appetite for big ideas and promises, no matter how vaguely defined. Unless Obama begins to offer a few of his own, there's little reason to assume that a referendum on his presidency will turn out the way he hopes.
[H]is problem is this: In Denver he didn't just lose a debate—he lost the carefully cultivated illusion of a larger-than-life figure who was Lincoln and FDR and Moses all wrapped in one.
Some 67 million Americans were watching on TV. What they saw was the scene from the Wizard of Oz, when Dorothy's dog pulls back the curtain to reveal there is no wizard at all, just a man from the Midwest who pumped himself up into something far beyond his mortal self—and got the whole of Oz to believe it…
In the two remaining debates, Mr. Obama will surely be more assertive, more competitive, and more engaged than he was in round one. But this time the curtain has been pulled back and the aura is gone. That means Mr. Obama's Republican opponent—for the first time in two presidential contests—will finally be contesting a mere mortal, not a wizard of his own Oz.
Everyone loves a comeback, and just as pundits and reporters found one after the first debate in Denver in the GOP nominee's strong performance, Romney and GOP operatives argue that the same will hold true of the president following Tuesday's second round on Long Island.
A senior Romney adviser predicted that "It's going to be very hard to find observers to say [Obama] was just as bad as he was in the first debate…. the last debate sort of lowered a lot of expectations in the minds of many observers."
"Perhaps Romney's biggest challenge will be overcoming a Gang of 500 who would love nothing more than reporting 'Obama wins round by KO' lede,'" concurred Brad Dayspring, a GOP strategist and adviser to the YG Action Fund. "Obama the comeback kid is a very appealing story line."
Via Pew.
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Malware authors must have a soft spot in their hearts for the long-maligned South African vuvuzela, because once again, the most annoying noisemaker in World Cup history is driving people to Web sites which push infections down to their computers. This time, people are retweeting the malicious links attached to a message that reads "OMG! Vuvuzela banned!" along with the hashtags #worldcup and #vuvuzelabanned. At last check in Google, references to the malicious links number over 16,000.
The tweets use a variety of different link shortening services (including bit.ly, tinyurl.com, is.gd, and dr.tl) to mask the fact that their destination is actually a bogus image hosting website hosted on the .in top-level domain (supposedly used by Web sites registered in the country of India, but these sites are all hosted elsewhere). The Web site you eventually land on calls itself Image Sheep, while in the background, your PC is being herded into a botnet.
As an aside, there is a real image hosting service by the same name, but the real Image Sheep is registered elsewhere and hosted in an entirely different network than these fake Image Sheep clones.
Once the victim's browser loads the fake Image Sheep page, it pushes a Java "image viewer" applet, named target.jar, down to the browser. It's easy to pick apart the contents of this file, which contains additional Java applets and PHP scripts that push the malicious file (named IMG12523.jpg.exe) down to the victim's computer. The file itself is a downloader component of an adversary we've seen before: Trojan-Backdoor-Protard (aka Gootkit), which retrieves additional malware and retrieves complex instructions.
As we've seen in our earlier Protard infections, the malware distributors behind Protard write small, simplistic malware executables, and use complex Web based scripting as instructions, to control the malware's behavior. That seems to be the case in this instance, as well.
Once executed, the initial payload begins a process where it downloads several payloads, including the pernicious adware known as Virtumonde, from bts.microsoftupdateserver.org, a site hosted in Russia. Some of those payloads are downloaders, as well.
The file then receives batches of 25 stolen credentials, in the forms of email addresses and passwords, from the command and control server…
…and with those credentials, the tool begins to attempt to log into Twitter, MySpace, and Facebook, methodically testing each email/password combination to see if it successfully logs into the service, as shown in this screen taken from a packet capturing tool.
This behavior is similar to how the spy tested stolen FTP credentials the last time we looked at it.
The JAR file that's used to draw down the initial infection also contains scripting that adds an entry with details about the victim's computer into a MySQL database running on the malicious web server. Looking at the SQL commands in use in the script, it's clear the malware distributors are closely monitoring the effectiveness of the infection: It's reporting back the number of infected users, the rate at which people infect themselves, and the clicks to various parts of the page.
Oh yeah, and this is where the plain old 'tard meets the Protard: They've left their SQL server root password blank. Thanks, fellas.
That's important because, at last check, the malware distributors have registered only a small number of sites, but are using lots of different shortened URLs to link to those sites.
In addition, the WHOIS information for the domains used to host the fake Image Sheep pages all reference the word godsname as the Registrant Organization.
The Protard malware file's properties refer to the Product Name of the malware as godsname2, which probably isn't a coincidence.
Bottom line, don't click the malicious shortlinks in these tweets, and make sure your browser and the Java plug-in installed on your computer are both up to date. We're blocking the domains involved in the attack, and our customers can expect that we'll have added detections for the malware to our next definition release.


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Does anyone have personal experience with the flow rate (GPM) on the 1" Maxant Honey Pump?
Does anyone have personal experience with the flow rate (GPM) on the 1" Maxant Honey Pump?
depends on rpm and distance to pump,, call maxant, give them what you have and listen to their recommendations,,
I am a dealer for Maxant and talked to them. Bottom line, they don't know. No flies on Maxant. They are really good about standing behind their products. They say the pump will only pump 1 GPM. That is based on recollection of a calculation done 40 years ago by someone who is no longer in the picture. They have no anecdotal information from actual users. My motor RPM/pump output capacity/pulley size calculations indicate 6.86 GPM with a 1 HP motor. They are using an underpowered 1/3 HP HVAC blower motor but they are using a double jack pulley system. Even with the undersized motor the pump ought to do 2+ gallons a minute. The only anecdotal information I have from actual users is 1.6 GPM pumping under heavy load through an in-line filter and 2 to 2.5 GPM in a hot honey room, high moisture honey, low load situation. I am hoping someone else using the Maxant pump will post their experience.
At 85 degrees F right out of the sump my maxant will pump about 3.5-4 gal per minute.
Thanks for the reply THALL. That's more than I (or Maxant) thought it would do. I'm wondering about the following specifics:
1) Are you running 1" lines all the way or close nippling on both sides of the pump and running 1-1/2" or 2" lines?
2) What is the average moisture level of the honey you are pumping?
3) How high are you having to pump it vertically into your tanks?
4) How do you have your pump anchored to the floor (not at all, lagged into the slab, blocked in but not lagged, etc.)
5) How are you uncapping (some of the guys using chain uncappers get slower rates due to the real small wax bits that get past the sump)?
I am not familiar with this exact pump but I have been researching these pump beads. The potential performance is greatly affected by:
Required lift-always try tokeep the pump lower than the supply or "charge" the supply side witbwith a pusher pump-maybe a hand version. The viscosity/weight is the real problem.
Run at the proper rpm so the liquid does not cavitate inside the pump. The thicker the fluid and or the higher the lift the lower the rpm needed. If this pump is a true 1" gear pump I would think a 1 1/2 HP pump would providea lot more volume than what has been posted.
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I used these pumps on high viscous water based conductive adhesives.
The whole issue with pumping viscous materials is getting the material to the push side of the pump. If you can successfully do that than you can push it anywhere with just horsepower. These pumps are food grade easy to clean and keep clean but I don't suspect that there are many used in the honey industry because of their cost. However, they are well suited for the application.
These pumps were the only pump design that was capable of doing the job for adhesives because of their low shear action.
I am just curious but has anyone measured the viscosity of honey before and after it has been pumped? I suppose thinning the honey down is not a negative for most consumers.
Brian Cardinal
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No I mean thinning down by mechanical shear. Nothing is added (like water). If you were to compare the viscosity before pumping and after pumping it would have to be at the same temperature to make a true comparison.
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In speaking with an engineer at a large pump manufacturing company it was explained to me that the problem with pumping high viscosity liquids, as you suggest, is getting the liquid to the push side BUT I was also told that a gear pump, in a high viscosity application, will have trouble lifting the liquid (head???). This person was very helpful & informative and thought the gear pump would be helped greatly with some sort of pusher pump or having the liquid supply placed level with, or above, the pump inlet. He also said that cavitation is large issue in determining the pump size and rpm.
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Supply side is always level with pump in an extraction situation because the honey is being pumped from a sump where the outlet is about the same height as the supply side of the pump. Cavitation is caused by the honey not being able to fill the void caused at the inlet by the pump fast enough. This problem is alleviated by warm honey (85 F or above), close nippling on both sides of the pump and going up 1 or two hose sizes right at the nipple, and making sure the float switch turns off the pump before the honey level gets below the top of the sump outlet. No need to reinvent the wheel. There are plenty of good honey pumps on the market. I am just trying to find out if anyone has personal, real world, anecdotal experience with the 1" Maxant honey pump.
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If all you are looking for is a transfer pump then I would look into a pneumatic piston pump or maybe a large diaphragm pump. These are good for transfer but as you would expect they pulsate.
Sorry Howard but most of your guesses are wrong. Shearing has nothing to do with cavitation. Shearing is the sliding of two solid parts with a thin layer of fluid between. It might be easier to visualize in any lubricant application. In the case of pumping honey the honey is the lubricant that gets pinched between two surfaces that are moving in opposite directions. The cavity of a gear pump is very small when compared to the surface area that is in contact with the honey so there would be a lot of shearing of the honey.
If you look at the packers point of view this shearing is a benefit. After all they are trying to ultra filter the honey so the thinner they can get it the easier it is to push it through fine filters. If no body complains that the honey runs like water then they got it made. Some people may be suspicious that they added water but I doubt that that is the reason that it is thinner.
Brian Cardinal
Zone 5a, Practicing non-intervention beekeeping
The Maxant pump is a gear pump so these type pumps are obviously widely used to pump honey.
It appears from the picture that they have this pump slowed down to maybe 300 rpm. The large pulley looks 6X larger than the motor pulley. The page states that the inlet/outlet are 1" which suggests it is a 1" gear pump.. I would guess it is an Oberdorfer 700N or equivalent. I didn't take the time to look for the specs so I can't tell what the performance is. In my experience Maxant makes top quality equipment and this pump appears to be a good value. I too would be interested in hearing from someone that has one.
I am confused about your statement about shear & honey. Are you saying that the gear pump WILL cause thinning of honey by the shearing action? It appears so because you go on to say that packers benefit from this shearing???
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I found that honey viscosity is 10,000 cps
But stil have no clue how the whole pump from sump works
Brian Cardinal
Zone 5a, Practicing non-intervention beekeeping
Help me acquire a reasonable honey pump
Don't let me down
The pumps that are used right now I would consider reasonable because they have been used for so long. They may not be what you want to pay for it. All of the food grade pumps that I have used are way beyond the price of a honey pump. You best bet is to try and find something used.
Maybe you can get lucky and find something used in the food industry like these.
Brian Cardinal
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Review of John Muir Trail: The Essential Guide to Hiking America's Most Famous Trail, 5th Edition, by Elizabeth Wenk, Wilderness Press, 2014, 296 pages.
Reviewed by Roleigh Martin, Lead Moderator: JohnMuirTrail Yahoo Group, 6/5/2014 9:41PM
This is a book review about a trail that Backpacker Magazine has called twice America's greatest trail, the 212 mile long John Muir Trail (JMT) which starts at Yosemite Valley in California and ends at Whitney Portal after you finish getting to the summit of Mt. Whitney, the tallest mountain in the 48 contiguous US States. I just finished reading Elizabeth Wenk's 5th edition of her classic 2007, 4th edition, JMT Guide book. Both books are exactly 296 pages long (counting the introductory pages). The 5th edition book contains much more information (some written and much visual).
In the previous edition she included information for both the popular direction (Southbound also called SOBO) and the less popular Northbound (also called NOBO). She migrated the 79 pages of information about the NOBO route to the electronic edition of the book that is forthcoming. This is because the vast majority of JMT hikers do the SOBO route because it starts at a low elevation (around 4,000 feet) versus starting at the end, Mt. Whitney, which is 14,505 feet high. Most hikers want to slowly acclimate to higher elevations, myself included. I have done the JMT Southbound 6 times now and will be doing my 7th consecutive annual JMT hike in the summer of 2014.
She has used these freed-up 79 pages to go into more depth about doing the JMT hike.
The book has new maps of the trail and now number 16 maps instead of 13. In the 4th edition, each page of a book showed one of the 13 map pages. In the 5th edition, each map page spans two book pages, so the maps are more than twice as big in the 5th edition, and they include an extra color (black/white/red vs black/white). The new maps represent the biggest improvement from the 4th edition. They were created specifically for the book to be easy to read and show the relevant landscape on either side of the trail. They use 200 feet contour lines, versus 80 which enable one to see ridges vs valleys and determine approximate elevation levels, without being overly busy. All the place names and such stand out better with this format. Information from the book is directly plotted onto the maps. If photocopied, they'd be very readable on the trail, an extra bonus.
The book now features panoramic images of what mountain peaks are seen from the top of the major JMT Passes, two images shown normally for these major passes, one looking north from the pass; the other looking south. This is what I consider the major reason to get the book if you already own the 4th edition and plan to do the trail again. She presents four panoramic images from the top of Mt. Whitney! The author explained to me she included a panorama for any pass with an open view so she skipped passes like Selden looking south or Donohue looking North, because there you are not looking straight at a "sea of peaks".
Another new feature for the 5th edition is that she documents all of the JMT trail sections that are longer than 3 miles without any water or with few options to refill. You'll want to photocopy this page for your next hike!
More information is given on the logistics of getting to and doing the hike, on water purification and water quality. She presents a comprehensive history of the making of the trail.
She provides updated information throughout including referrals to JMT web sites and social groups that contain extensive, well cataloged information, such as mentioning twice the John Muir Trail Yahoo group which has about 3000 members.
She now includes a section on Emergency Beacons and Contacts with emergency phone numbers.
For those new to the JMT and Elizabeth Wenk, she has a doctorate in biology whose thesis was on the effects of rock type on alpine plant distribution and physiology. She instructs the reader on the geology, wildlife, and plant and tree life one sees during a JMT hike.
Like with the 4th edition, but updated, she continues to show all the utilized camp sites, junctions, passes, and scenic waypoints of the trail. Alongside each map, she has a visual altitude profile of the hiking section involved. She covers in detail side trails and exit trails, including details and maps of the side towns near the exit trailheads. She also provides an Excel Spreadsheet (not in the book though) with included GPS files for your GPS devices containing all the tables in her book as well as additional information. Her spreadsheet is currently hosted at the John Muir Trail Yahoo Group and at the Wilderness Press website.
At our JMT Yahoo Group, we have long delved deep into the logistics of how to do the JMT but while reading the 5th edition, I was pleasantly surprised to learn new details myself. For instance, we have always advised people to get to the trail, if by flying, through either San Francisco, Sacramento, Fresno, Merced, Mammoth Lakes or Reno, and we give details how to proceed on from there. Her book includes Los Angeles though and how to utilize public and private transport from there. Impressive and indicative of the thoroughness of the author's attention to detail.
I highly recommend this book to all JMT enthusiasts, including those who have done the trail and want to revisit their walk from home. Getting the panoramic images with the peaks labeled is very interesting information to show one just what you're seeing (or have seen) on the trail. If you plan on doing the trail the first time or the nth time, this book is a must. An incredible accomplishment by an incredible researcher who is very attentive and considerate to the needs of her audience.Jun 9, 2014 at 6:58 am #2109935
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Got a place for book reviewsJun 9, 2014 at 7:24 am #2109942
Roleigh MartinBPL Member
@marti124Locale: Moderator-JohnMuirTrail Yahoo Group
Thanks Ken, I didn't notice that forum. I read though the choices and thought this one was the place to post.
RoleighJun 9, 2014 at 7:32 am #2109944
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Wow I didn't know those reader reviews existed on BPL. Found a few interesting books on there.
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Fitting in
Do you fit in? Do I fit in? If the powers that be feel we don't fit in, that can be scary.
Does Chief Craig Taylor fit in? Personally, I feel he does. I have heard he has been seen sitting, drinking coffee and visiting, and probably eating doughnuts.
He used to come into Sportland restaurant and have coffee and visit with the folks at the counter. Then he would "pop" his head into the back room and tell us, the Tuesday morning group, we were making too much noise (laughing) and he would have to cite us in if we didn't quiet down.
We loved it. He is friendly and approachable and made me feel safe.
I haven't always agreed with the decisions of the Nisswa mayors and councils, but I always felt they were doing what was best for our community. I sure was wrong there.
Yes, there is someone who doesn't fit in, Mr. Mayor. But it sure isn't Chief Taylor.
Carol Alverson,