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I have an 81 Monte that has been in storage this winter, It ran fine the last time I started it. Now there isn't any spark to the plugs. Is it possible that a bad altenator can keep power from going to the distributor?
how far back did you trace the ignition system? Did you check just at the plugs, or did you try at the coil? I would check from the coil to the distributor to see if there is any spark. If there is then maybe something is wrong inside the distributor. Or if there isn't maybe there's a problem before the coil. Does your car have a ballast resistor on it? This could be one cause.
Good Luck,
"Well done is better than well said." - Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
Al here with AutoReWire.com in beautiful downtown Galt, CA.
Let see, Ran before it went into storage, won't run now. Got mice???
Seriously I see this alot.
First be sure you do not have any spark. Hook up a timing light to one of the plug wires and have someone crank the engine while you pull the trigger on the light and look at it. No flash means NO spark. If it flashes you are getting some spark.
Check (using a test light) the Ignition wire at the Distributer Cap. Got juice?? Yes go to 2. No go to 1.
1). Check the wiring from the ignition switch to the fuse panel. Should be a pink wire. And from the fuse panel to the Distributor Cap. No juice?? Look closely at the wiring. Got Mice??
2) Remove the Distributor Cap and Check the rotor, if it looks like its shorted through to the distributor shaft replace it. Still no spart have the coil tested. Coil's ok. Have the ignition modual tested.
Usually when it ran before storage and now won't due to no spark I find that a little critter dined on the wiring.
When a GM HEI is running one minute and not the next or dies an unexpectedd death while going down the highway I usually find the rotor is shorted through.
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Yesterday before this race I happened to chase a cls55 amg, and he wanted to play but took his exit which was early. a very sick looking car at night and a beautiful exhaust note.
my power mods: uppipe, downpipe, exhaust
I had 2 other people in the car and the g35 only had the driver.
We took it from a 20mph roll and I kept pulling slowly and did not stop pulling. We reached about 90-100 before I stopped it. From an upward stop, he launched, I didn't and he pulled maybe a foot on my car and it stayed even. we flipped a u-turn and on a slight downhill we raced from around a 10mph roll and I pulled again all the way down to 110.
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My First Place Rankings: 274
Top 5: 707
Top 10: 774
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All these are out of over 750,000 results each... the recent update was a significant jump up for me, so I think if it was global I'd see traffic to match.
But as a webmaster following recent events, the arrival of 64.* type results ('type results' because they are no longer coming from 64.*) is pretty bl*ody important.
I'm pleased to see that a post about this significant event - which has happened much later than GG predicted - has finally made it through the flak cannons and air defences of this board.
Stop putting the boot in.
You got a mention re this subject this very morning [webmasterworld.com...] message #60.
I love the new results for my main site but a couple of secondaries have disappeared. Do you think they have turned up the dupe filter?
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Do you think they have turned up the dupe filter?
Entirely my own opinion. But given the total b*lls up presented over the past 4 months, nothing will ever surprise with G any more.
Bon Soir
Edit: grammar - rubbish French - spelling corrected. Must learn American, might need to name an update one day:)
I'm pretty sure this Dupe thing we are seeing on the new results (actually not seeing and that's the problem) is directly related to the semantic indexing which is now part of the algorithm.
I'm off to re-read the CIRCA paper to see if it mentions anything about this and will report back tomorrow.
Best wishes
[added] By Dupe thing and Dupe filter I'm specifically meaning duplicate content. Not the dupe filter in SERPs which is switched of when you repeat the search with omited results included.
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Me too. I was still enjoying the Brandy update thread, although I can understand where Brett/mods might get tired of "I see 216! I see 64!" type posts. :)
Just to answer the question, the 64 update should be mostly out by now--I think 2-3 data centers are still waiting to be switched, but will be switched in the next day or so.
Can't wait for both to show for good, I like the new layout, it's very tidy and I think the AdWords users will like it a little better as well.
Although the new layout did break in Safari for about every other search. The descriptions for the regular SERPs would flow into the AdWords listings.
Me too. I was still enjoying the Brandy update thread, although I can understand where Brett/mods might get tired of "I see 216! I see 64!" type posts. :)
We enjoy it too GG.
Tell Brett to allow us to discuss the SERPs - which look great now.
[edited by: SyntheticUpper at 8:24 pm (utc) on Feb. 19, 2004]
BTW, sorry that I initially thought the switchover would be done over the weekend and it's taken a few days extra. The production folks get the final say about when a binary is switched, and I have near-infinite trust in the wisdom of our production folks. :)
Is it usual for different locations to switch at different times even if you are looking on dot com. (not .com.au, .co.uk etc.)
Has it been confirmed that the 'new look' is more than just a test and will imminently roll out too? Brandy looks totally live to me but I've yet to see the new interface in anything other than screenshots.
I still like the may 2003 results the best, after that things went crazy, it has nothing to do with my site.
I'm only confirming that the Brandy change is switching over.
GG please say its staying around, and your not gonna be so eager to switch back so soon, as this is the best i have seen the SERPS since Oct 03
I am not just saying its great because i went up for some KWs, i also went down for some other KWs as well, but i think the general consensus here is that the right buttons have been pushed, and its not a bad tweak at all, took a long time coming but at least i can feel confident again with my work.
If you can get most here to say its a big improvement when compared with the last 2 updates (we all know the names) ;) then it can't be bad.....


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Teams, People and "Resources" – The Culture of Agility
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This content is syndicated from Agile Advice - Working With Agile Methods (Scrum, OpenAgile, Lean) by Mishkin Berteig. To view the original post in full, click here.In an Agile culture, it is considered rude to refer to people as "resources". People are not fungible – you cannot just take any old developer and plug them into any old project. Skills, personalities, likes, talents, potential all are so dynamic and unique for each individual person. So any management theory (including traditional project management) that treats people as "resources" like oil, gold or computers, is making an unjust simplification at the expense of the people working in the organization. Yet organizations need to be able to plan where to spend money, and certainly the people working in an organization are often one of the largest costs. From a financial perspective, from a business perspective, it makes sense to somehow treat people costs in the same way as other operational costs… and this often leads to dehumanizing people to the point of treating them like resources. So how can these legitimate organizational needs for budgeting mesh with the equally legitimate approach of Agile to treating people as unique actors be merged? It is actually quite simple, but the ramifications are deep: treat TEAMS as resources. Teams become the fundamental building blocks of an organization. Teams move from project to project or program to program or operation to operation. There is still a need to support the individuals in an organization, but it is done in the context of teams. An Agile team is cross-functional, but also constantly learning. Individuals on the team learn skills based on their own interest, but also based on the needs of the team for redundancy, parallelism, and expansion of capacity to take on new, more challenging work. Cross-functional teams can more easily (and more sanely) be compared for their value to the organization by looking at things such as their ability to produce finished product/services, their flexibility in serving the needs of the organization, and the quality/consistency of the work they produce. Teams can compete in a healthy way by striving for excellence in delivering value to the organization, whereas often competition between individuals can be quite unhealthy. From a budget perspective, teams are easy to manage: each team has a fully loaded cost based on salaries, space, equipment, etc. The cost is (or can be) relatively stable or grow predictably, and can still be handled operationally. As well, unlike individuals, it is much easier to treat a whole team as a fungible unit: you feed work to teams based on their availability rather than based on a detailed analysis of their skills/capacities/allocations. In Agile organizations, teams are resources, people are not.
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part of why it happens like this, is that in the accountancy packages (or I should say accountancy laws), people are booked on the expenses part.
If a company buys an office, it's booked on the investment side.
So the law encourage companies to think of their people as a costs. Not as an investment. While the offices, cars, computers are investments….


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Paul Okon may be axed from the Socceroos and lose his captaincy of the national team.
Frank Farina has yet to name his squad for Australia's February 18 friendly against Venezuela in Caracas but it is increasingly unlikely Okon will make the cut for the World Cup warm-up.
Okon, who has played 38 times for the Socceroos and captained the team since Farina took Australian soccer's top coaching job in 1999, is facing the chop after being unable to find a starting place with Serie B club, Vicenza.
"He is finding it difficult," Farina said. "There is no doubt about that. There are a number of issues that have to be addressed for the Venezuela game, not just with Paul, but with a few other players as well.
"Mark Viduka has some well documented family problems that have to be considered, for example."
Under FIFA regulations, the Australian Soccer Association must inform players and their respective clubs of an international call-up for the Venezuela game by Tuesday.
Asked if Okon would be included in the squad, Farina said: "I know what I am going to do. I will be looking at the situation over the next couple of days. I will be naming my best possible squad, put it that way."
Okon, 31, may be granted a stay of execution if he accepts a last-minute offer to quit Vicenza and sign with an as yet unnamed Belgian club before the European transfer window closes this weekend.
"Paul has to move (from Vicenza)," Farina said. "He has to be playing regularly. It's as simple as that."
Although fully fit, Okon has fallen from favour at the Italian club he joined from Leeds United at the beginning of this season. He signed for Vicenza to ensure he played European first team football and remained a key part of Farina's plans for the 2006 World Cup campaign.
Farina will not officially name his squad for the Venezuela match until after next weekend but Okon may find another way to win back his place if several key players are injured or become unavailable for the South American game.
Liverpool's Harry Kewell, Osasuna's John Aloisi, Josip Skoko at Turkish club Genclerbirligi, and Italian duo Mark Bresciano at Parma and Vince Grella at Empoli, will join Mark Viduka in struggling to make the midweek game bookended by a busy domestic European schedule.
Farina is likely to promote at least one member of the under-23 Olympic squad that qualified for Athens on Friday night.
Parramatta Power wing-back Ahmad Elrich and Nottingham Forest centre-back David Tarka are favourites to earn call-ups to the senior squad.
"The cupboard is not bare," Farina said. "There are a few players who will be given the opportunity over the next few months."
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Kiera ButlerMay 25, 2010 2:23 PM
Triple Pundit reports that Purell is now offering an eco-certified hand sanitizer:
...the watery gel everyone from Dick Cheney to Barack Obama uses to keep their hands "99.9%" germ-free now is now available in a biodegradable formula made from 100 percent renewable plant-based ethanol in a completely recyclable PET plastic container. Whew!
The whole package has been certified by Ecologo, which confirms that the product meets its recently released "Instant Hand Antiseptic Products standard." Accord to Joe Kanfer, CEO of GOJO, maker of Purell, it is the world's first hand sanitizer to received certification from an independent eco-labeling program.
The new product's light-weight packaging uses 30 percent less material, saving 250 tons of plastic a year.
...the watery gel everyone from Dick Cheney to Barack Obama uses to keep their hands "99.9%" germ-free now is now available in a biodegradable formula made from 100 percent renewable plant-based ethanol in a completely recyclable PET plastic container. Whew!
The whole package has been certified by Ecologo, which confirms that the product meets its recently released "Instant Hand Antiseptic Products standard." Accord to Joe Kanfer, CEO of GOJO, maker of Purell, it is the world's first hand sanitizer to received certification from an independent eco-labeling program.
The new product's light-weight packaging uses 30 percent less material, saving 250 tons of plastic a year.
Purell certainly deserves props for producing a biodegradable product and greening its packaging. But as Mother Jones reported in "Germ Warfare," our national obsession with cleanliness has reached a fever pitch, and some scientists think being too clean has actually made us sicker. Proponents of the "hygiene hypothesis" blame allergies and other autoimmune diseases on a lack of certain germs: In the developing world, where gut parasites are much more common, autoimmune disorders are much less common.
As the Boston Globe reports, some doctors are even experimenting with infecting allergic people with hook worms in hopes of giving their immune systems something to do besides give them allergy attacks. Infecting yourself with a parasite might seem creepier than popping a Benadryl, but the process actually sounds fairly painless. If it works? Imagine the possibilities: Less sneezing=fewer allergy drugs=fewer antihistamines in our waterways, etc.
As Triple Pundit's BC Upham points out, Purell isn't to blame for antibiotic-resistant superbugs—it's not made with antimicrobial agents, just alcohol. But it's still an awfully effective germ killer. So what do you think, Blue Marble readers? Should Purell be allowed to call a hand sanitizer green?
Josh HarkinsonMay 25, 2010 1:49 PM
Instead of just inspecting offshore oil platforms, employees of the Minerals Management Service spent time trading links to Internet porn, shaking off crystal meth buzzes, and partying on the dime of the oil companies that they were supposed to be regulating, according to a new report released Monday by the Interior Department's Inspector General. The IG's investigation of MMS' Lake Charles office, in oil-ravaged Louisiana, found "a culture where the acceptance of gifts from oil and gas companies was widespread." Among IG findings:
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Kate SheppardMay 25, 2010 10:23 AM
I'm at the Energy and Natural Resources Committee hearing on liability and the BP spill this morning, where senators are hearing testimony on how to ensure that the oil giant covers all the costs associated with the Gulf disaster.
Senate Democrats have put forward a bill to raise the liability cap to $10 billion. This would be significantly higher than the current cap of $75 million, set under the Oil Pollution Act of 1990, though it still might be well below the estimated $14 billion in costs expected to accrue in the Gulf spill. Senate Democrats have tried twice to bring up the measure under unanimous consent, but were twice blocked -- first by Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) and then by James Inhofe (R-Okla.).
I'll be live-tweeting the event below.
Kate SheppardMay 24, 2010 7:08 PM
The Environmental Protection Agency is increasing the pressure on BP to ditch the dirty dispersant the company is using in the Gulf of Mexico—after the oil giant refused to observe its directive to switch to a less toxic chemical and disclose more information about its clean-up efforts.
In a press conference with reporters Monday evening, EPA administrator Lisa P. Jackson expressed disappointment with the company's response, and said her agency will start its own environmental monitoring on the dispersants in the Gulf. The agency also called on the oil company to "scale back" its use of chemical dispersants by at least 50 percent. Responders in the Gulf, she said, are "approaching a world record" in the amount of dispersants used for a single spill.
Jackson said that she was "not satisfied" that BP has done "an extensive enough analysis of other dispersant options." The agency, she added, would also begin its own tests to confirm whether BP's assertion that Corexit is best dispersant option available "is accurate and supported by science."
"We are still deeply concerned about the things we don't know," said Jackson. "We must make sure that the dispersants we use are as non-toxic as possible."
Both Jackson and Coast Guard Rear Admiral Mary Landry stopped short of forcing BP to switch products, but said that the federal government reserves the ability to halt the use of dispersants altogether. Jackson said the decisions about dispersant use—and the resulting environmental trade-offs—have been among the toughest of her career. But she's also said she's reluctant to take them out of the toolbox, noting that "the number one enemy is the oil."
"The BP spill has thrust upon us what could potentially be one of the greatest environmental challenges of our time," said Jackson. "We live in a world where we're making tough decisions based on little science."
Kate SheppardMay 24, 2010 6:02 PM
In the weeks since BP's Deepwater Horizon well started spewing into the Gulf of Mexico, there's been increasing attention to the "cozy" relationship between the Minerals Management Service (MMS) and the oil industry it's supposed to regulate. How cozy? Just last summer the Obama administration tapped a BP executive to serve as a deputy administrator for land and minerals management.
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar last June appointed Sylvia V. Baca to the post, which did not require Senate confirmation. The appointment follows eight years at BP. From her MMS bio:
Baca had been general manager for Social Investment Programs and Strategic Partnerships at BP America Inc. in Houston, and had held several senior management positions with the company since 2001, focusing on environmental initiatives, overseeing cooperative projects with private and public organizations, developing health, safety, and emergency response programs and working on climate change, biodiversity and sustainability objectives.
As Director of Global Health, Safety, Environment & Emergency Response for BP Shipping Ltd. in London, Baca led a worldwide team to develop innovative and proactive energy and the environment initiatives. Among her accomplishments, she oversaw health, safety and environmental outcomes for an $8 billion ship building program, resulting in the youngest, greenest and most technically advanced fleet in the world. The project has received numerous awards for its safety and environmental advancements.
Baca is also an excellent example of the revolving door between government and industry that MMS has been accused of facilitating. From 1995 to 2001, she was an assistant secretary for land and minerals management at the Department of Interior before leaving to work for the oil giant.
Last week, Salazar unveiled plans to split MMS into three agencies—one that will focus on energy development, another on enforcement and the third on revenue collection. But that doesn't necessarily stop the spinning door between the beleaguered agency and the oil industry.
UPDATE: Salazar spokesperson Kendra Barkoff issued a statement noting that Baca, under federal government ethics standards, "has been and is recused from participating personally and substantially in any particular matter involving specific parties in which BP is or represents a party, for a period of two years following her appointment." She also noted that Baca is not working on offshore drilling at the agency (her post deals with on-shore drilling).
Her appointment to the agency, however, doesn't do much to help its industry-friendly reputation.
Julia WhittyMay 24, 2010 5:27 PM
"So the question is: How are we all going to respond to this? And we can do all sorts of things to fix it, but in the final analysis, the thing we really need to fix is ourselves; it's not about the fish; it's not about the pollution; it's not about the climate change. It's about us, and our greed and our need for growth and our inability to imagine a world which is different from the selfish world we live in today."
Kate SheppardMay 24, 2010 12:29 PM
In his weekly address Saturday, President Obama announced the formation of "National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling." This new panel is "tasked with providing recommendations on how we can prevent–and mitigate the impact of–any future spills that result from offshore drilling."
It's about time Obama showed some actual anger about the spill and put some thrust behind calls to improve regulation and enforcement in offshore drilling. But Obama yet again missed an opportunity to talk about how the spill illustrates the need to end reliance on fossil fuels. Instead, he gave passing acknowledgment to clean energy, while maintaining that we need to drill for oil here in the US:
One of the reasons I ran for President was to put America on the path to energy independence, and I have not wavered from that commitment. To achieve that goal, we must pursue clean energy and energy efficiency, and we've taken significant steps to do so. And we must also pursue domestic sources of oil and gas. Because it represents 30 percent of our oil production, the Gulf of Mexico can play an important part in securing our energy future. But we can only pursue offshore oil drilling if we have assurances that a disaster like the BP oil spill will not happen again. This Commission will, I hope, help provide those assurances so we can continue to seek a secure energy future for the United States of America.
This would have been a perfect point to restate the need for Congress to pass a climate and energy bill this year. But Obama did not.
Obama's senior adviser David Axelrod took a stab at it on MSNBC this morning, but was also less than convincing. "I would like to think that this will increase the sense of urgency in Congress, because it underscores the value in developing alternative sources of energy," he said. "So I hope that it will give added impetus to Congress to come up with and pass a comprehensive plan."
There will never be a better illustration of why our energy system is dirty and dangerous than the current disaster in the Gulf. But Congress needs Obama to step up and lead to prevent this opportunity from going to waste. So far, he hasn't.
Kate SheppardMay 24, 2010 11:47 AM
The federal government has so far left it up to BP to fix the well spewing into the Gulf of Mexico. But if BP's latest plan to stop the gushing Gulf well fails, the government may be obligated to take control of the situation, according to federal law.
The Oil Pollution Act of 1990, passed in the wake of the Exxon Valdez disaster, amends a portion of the Clean Water Act to not only allow but require the federal government to take over if discharge from a "vessel, offshore facility, or onshore facility" is determined to be "of such a size or character as to be a substantial threat to the public health or welfare of the United States." (I'm pretty sure the Gulf disaster more than qualifies as such at this point.)
"The President shall direct all Federal, State, and private actions to remove the discharge or to mitigate or prevent the threat of the discharge," the law states. It continues that the president may "remove and, if necessary, destroy a vessel discharging, or threatening to discharge, by whatever means are available."
David Pettit has more over on the Natural Resources Defense Council blog. Furthermore, he writes, under the National Contingency Plan developed by the EPA, the head of the Homeland Security Department is directed to appoint a federal incident commander charged with carrying out this obligation. In this case, the DHS head Janet Napolitano has appointed Coast Guard Commandant Adm. Thad Allen (yes, the same guy who maintains that he still trusts BP to fix the issue).
The federal government wants to keep this ball in BP's court in hopes of minimizing the political implications for the administration should efforts to cap the well continue to fail. But it's clear that they have a legal, if not moral, obligation to do more.
Kate SheppardMay 24, 2010 11:07 AM
BP continues to defy a directive from the Environmental Protection Agency to find a less toxic alternative for the chemicals the company is using to disperse oil in the Gulf. And despite a separate order from EPA and the Department of Homeland Security to make its operations more transparent, BP is still keeping crucial information about its activities in the Gulf under wraps.
BP sent a letter to the EPA Thursday saying that it was unable to find a replacement dispersant. The company redacts a number of critical pieces of data, which it claims are "confidential business information." An excerpt:
The EPA released a statement on Saturday saying that the agency it is working to get more information released:
BP and several of the dispersant manufacturers have claimed some sections of BP's response contain confidential business information (CBI). By law, CBI cannot be immediately made public except with the company's permission. EPA challenged these companies to make more information public and, as a result, several portions of the letter can now be made public. EPA is currently evaluating all legal options to ensure that the remaining redacted information is released to the public. EPA continues to strongly urge these companies to voluntarily make this information public so Americans can get a full picture of the potential environmental impact of these alternative dispersants.
I've asked EPA just how much the agency can do to force BP's hand on disclosure and moving to a less toxic dispersant option. I'll update as more information is available.
Kate SheppardMay 24, 2010 10:35 AM
BP was going to try a so-called "top kill" of the gusher in the Gulf over the weekend—an attempt to plug the well that involved shooting heavy drilling liquids into the hole and then sealing it with cement. But now it looks like that won't happen until Wednesday. Tensions between the oil company and the government have been rising, and questions about why it's taking BP so long to stop the hemorrhaging well seemed to hit a new peak this weekend, with Interior Secretary Ken Salazar complaining at a news conference Sunday that the oil giant has missed "deadline after deadline."
"If we find they're not doing what they're supposed to be doing, we'll push them out of the way appropriately," Salazar said.
But here's the issue. The federal government really, really doesn't want to push BP out of the way, because it doesn't have a better solution, either. The company's large containment dome idea failed, and it abandoned plans to try a smaller dome. Now they're trying this top kill, but no one knows if that will work. BP acknowledges that there are "uncertainties" with this plan. If it fails, it will probably take until August to drill a relief well, the next option.
Here's what Coast Guard spokesman Jim Hoeft told me in an email about control of the spill site:
At this moment in time, BP has the technology and the equipment to respond to this situation at the scene. As you're aware, the leak is nearly a mile under water, so use of their equipment is vital in ensuring that the leak is stopped. The most important step that everyone is working towards is stopping the leak.
At this moment in time, BP has the technology and the equipment to respond to this situation at the scene. As you're aware, the leak is nearly a mile under water, so use of their equipment is vital in ensuring that the leak is stopped. The most important step that everyone is working towards is stopping the leak.
It's one thing to acknowledge that BP has the technology to handle this (as regrettable as that might be). But over the weekend U.S. Coast Guard Commandant Adm. Thad Allen maintained that they've still got full faith in BP's ability to fix this on CNN:
"When I give them direction or the federal on-scene coordinator gives them direction, we get a response. I've got [BP Chief Executive] Tony Hayward's personal cell phone number. If I have a problem, I call him. Some of the problems we have had that we've worked through are more logistics and coordination issues. ... I trust Tony Hayward. When I talk to him, I get an answer.
"When I give them direction or the federal on-scene coordinator gives them direction, we get a response. I've got [BP Chief Executive] Tony Hayward's personal cell phone number. If I have a problem, I call him. Some of the problems we have had that we've worked through are more logistics and coordination issues. ... I trust Tony Hayward. When I talk to him, I get an answer.
This is probably not the message the federal government should be sending at this point.
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Not many people attend summer camp with their parents. Mindelle Pierce went with her mom when her mother was in her 90s.
They chose a two-week program for senior adults at the Isabella Freedman Jewish Retreat Center in Falls Village, Conn. Aside from typical camp activities such as swimming and arts and crafts, there was specialty programming for senior adults: lectures on health and nutrition, genealogy, flowers of the Torah, biblical prophets and trips to the theater and symphony.
Some 80 participants ranging in age from their 50s to 90s attended the camp.
Pierce, who is in her 60s and volunteers regularly at Isabella Freedman's senior camps, said she was drawn to the program five years ago by the "natural beauty infused with the spirituality that I felt while I was there — and the fact the programming was exceptional."
The Isabella Freedman program is among a number of senior camp programs across the U.S., including a handful that are geared to Jews. Yet despite the growing population of older adults, the number of senior camps has been dropping slightly, according to the American Camp Association, which has 225 senior camps as members.
It's a challenging environment for senior camps. Most recently, the Jewish-oriented Block and Hexter Vacation Center in Pennsylvania's Pocono Mountains closed in September due to lack of demand. With more resorts available in exotic locales and seniors more active than they were a few decades ago, mountain camps have lost some of their cachet.
"The new senior is more active and discriminating in taste than the senior of prior generations," said Elliot Forchheimer, assistant director of the New Jersey Y Camps, which runs the Kislak Adult Center offering sightseeing itineraries to places such as Florida, the Poconos and Texas.
To help stem the tide, some camps have changed or are planning changes to their offerings in hope of attracting a new generation of older adults.
"With tweaks and changes, these programs should be able to thrive," said Adam Weinstein, director of the Berkshire Hills Emanuel Camps-Adult Vacation Center in Copake, N.Y., which offers kosher food and Shabbat services.
"We're looking at programs that will also bring in a younger crowd of seniors," said Irene Drantch, director of the Circle Lodge Retreat in Hopewell Junction, N.Y., an 85-year-old facility that is affiliated with Workmen's Circle and draws anywhere from 25 people a week to a capacity participation of 135 for its Yiddish Week.
At Berkshire Hills, there are plans to split the 10-week summer into two five-week programs. One session will be geared to those who have been coming for years and aren't seeking changes, Weinstein said.
The other session will be aimed at younger seniors, allowing them to take advantage of both the facilities and nearby attractions.
"By splitting our summer between our traditional senior program and a program that is more like a Jewish version of Road Scholar, we are trying to make that transition" to younger seniors, Weinstein said, "while still serving the guests who have been our base."
Pairing sightseeing with educational lectures is the raison d'etre for Road Scholar, formerly known as Elderhostel, which offers about a dozen programs that explore Jewish culture, history and religion. Jewish programming has been available since the organization was founded more than three decades ago, and Road Scholar works with an array of Jewish organizations, museums, synagogues and educators, according to Stacie Fasola, its associate vice president of public and media relations.
Gerry Suskin went on a Road Scholar trip earlier this year that focused on New Mexico's Conversos and Crypto-Jews. The subject matter, not the age of her fellow travelers, is what drew her to the trip, Suskin said.
"I had always been somewhat knowledgeable about what happened during the Inquisition to the Jews," said Suskin, 75, "but I had no idea until I took this class" that Jews who had been forced to convert ended up in New Mexico.
For Judy Oppenheim of Hampden, Conn., lectures are only part of what has drawn her and her husband, Jerry, both 73, to Isabella Freedman for the past seven years. They're also taken with the physical setting, the diverse programming and the many friends they have made over the years.
"I like being back at camp as an adult," Oppenheim said. "I always liked it as a kid, and now I look forward to it as an adult."
For Inge Hershkowitz, who lives in the Bronx, N.Y., two weeks at Berkshire Hills last summer was a homecoming of sorts. Back in the 1950s, she and her three sons spent about six summers at what then was a family resort typical of the many bungalow colonies in the area, with her husband joining them on weekends.
This year, she particularly enjoyed the lectures on Jewish humor and outings that included seeing actress Olympia Dukakis onstage in "The Tempest." Said Hershkowitz, 88, "I already made reservations for next summer."


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Opinion: Is the GOP's Isolationism Here to Stay?
As a proud conservative, I am a firm believer in President Ronald Reagan's famous 11 Commandment not to speak ill of a fellow Republican. At the same time, I've been mulling over a statement made by Texas Governor Rick Perry (R-TX) during a recent presidential debate that has me a bit perplexed.
In case you missed it (what with the 200 or so Republican debates we've had thus far), Governor Perry announced that if he were elected president, his foreign policy budget would allocate zero dollars to foreign aid – with the exception of Israel – and that he would then dole out foreign assistance based on a particular country's level of support towards the United States. At first glance, Perry's position appears admirable – the United States is $15 trillion in debt and perhaps we'd be better off allocating our precious resources here at home rather than to countries abroad whose level of support towards the United States has been questionable at best.
For one, Pakistan certainly comes to mind – how could their intelligence service (ISI) not realize that Osama bin Laden was a mere stone's throw from their version of West Point for more than five years? Or, why should the United States contribute money to UNESCO when that body recently recognized the right of a Palestinian State to exist without first negotiating a two State solution between Israel and the Palestinian Authority? Cut off Pakistan and cut off UNESCO, I say. To his credit, President Obama has sharply reduced funding to the former and cut off American assistance to the latter.
But the more one delves into Governor Perry's statement, the more it reads as if it was drafted by an isolationist candidate than a Republican seeking his party's nomination for president of the United States. Does Perry now represent the mainstream of Republican thinking in regards to foreign assistance?
Fortunately, I think not. From the recent tsunami in Asia to the devastating earthquake in Haiti, countries around the world correctly look to the United States as the beacon of compassion and hope in times of trouble. In times of peace, the United States has led the way in providing foreign assistance to promote democracy, combat disease and participate in humanitarian activities.
According to a recent story by CBS News, the United States allocated $49.1 billion and $44.9 billion for Fiscal Years 2008-2009. For his part, President Obama called for $50.8 billion for fiscal year 2012 which began on October 1 of this year. As a percentage of overall dollars spent in our overall budget, these figures amount to slightly more than one percent a year. Meaningful foreign policy or posturing and window dressing for politicians looking for votes for a presidential election cycle? I'll let you decide.
Ron Christie is Founder and CEO of Christie Strategies LLC, a communications and issues management firm in Washington, D.C. He presently serves as a Resident Fellow at the John F. Kennedy School of Government's Institute of Politics at Harvard University and appears regularly on The Takeaway. A former special assistant to President George W. Bush, Christie is the author of the just published book, Acting White: The Curious History of a Racial Slur.


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In a different, fairer reality, the Kodaks might be remembered at least as rivals to Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers. True, they never performed in any movies and only made one national television appearance, and they never wrote a song like "Why Do Fools Fall in Love" -- but they had the sound, and the beat, and a lead singer with a voice as powerful as Lymon's. Formed in Newark, NJ during the mid- and late '50s, the Kodaks' sound was driven by Pearl McKinnon's powerful lead vocals, and as a mixed male/female singing group, they stood out from the pack. They cut four singles, none of which made the national charts, but all of which are prized by collectors and enthusiasts. The Kodaks were originally a quartet: Jimmy Patrick (lead, first tenor), William Franklin (second tenor), Larry Davis (baritone), and William Miller (bass). They were good, but they sounded a lot like every other singing group coming out of Newark's Central Ward in the middle of the '50s. Enter Pearl McKinnon, a 15-year-old friend of Jimmy Patrick's sister, who sang with Marian Patrick and William Miller's future wife Jean in a trio of their own at school. Her voice had a slightly, deeper, richer tone than most teenage girls, but also a fresh innocence and clear articulation that one more often associated with preteen boys -- the resemblance to Frankie Lymon's singing was unmistakable, and joining the male quartet, she made them unique. The group auditioned for Harlem-based impresario Bobby Robinson. He had, until the end of 1957, recorded Louie Lymon & the Teenchords, and heard in the Kodaks a sound uncannily similar to that of Louie's more successful brother Frankie and his group, the Teenagers. He signed the group (changing the spelling of their name on record labels to the Kodoks, to avoid a lawsuit from Eastman Kodak), releasing their first single, "Teenager's Dream" b/w "Little Boy and Girl," on his own Fury label in late 1957. That record got heavy local airplay in Newark, New York, and other nearby cities, even though it never made the national charts. With rehearsals and some polishing of their sound, they issued a second single, "Oh Gee, Oh Gosh" b/w "Make Believe World," in the spring of 1958, that made the local charts in Newark (number eight on the local Cashbox chart) and other East Coast cities, and saw sales in the Midwest as well. The A-side, in particular, was popular with many local deejays, and even the legendary Alan Freed played it heavily on his show. The result of all of this was lots of East Coast gigs for the quintet, including shows at the Apollo Theater alongside the likes of Jerry Butler, the Coasters, and Lee Andrews & the Hearts, and an appearance on Dick Clark's American Bandstand. Not everybody was happy with the nature of their success, or the sound the group was cultivating -- by the summer of 1958, Davis and Franklin, tired of emulating the music of Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers, quit the group, to be replaced by Richard "Pumpy" Dixon and Harold "Curly" Jenkins. Ironically, in the estimation of many (including Pearl McKinnon), their arrival, as veteran performers, only improved the group, strengthening their sound and making their stage choreography more exciting. The group released two more singles, "My Baby and Me" b/w "Kingless Castle," and "Runaround Baby" b/w "Guardian Angel," but neither sold as well as their predecessors. The group dissolved when Jimmy Patrick exited to join the Monotones, and Pearl McKinnon got married. William Miller tried to keep the ball rolling, forming the "Kadaks" with his wife Jean and Harold Jenkins, and a new member, Renaldo Gamble, but they faded after two failed singles. McKinnon returned to the business less than a year later, leading Pearl & the Deltars. They issued two singles, including a recut version of "Teenager's Dream," but never had more than local success. She later appeared in the '70s in an outfit known as 2nd Verse, but seemed to find a part of her true destiny later still, fronting a re-formed version of the Teenagers, taking Frankie Lymon's role as lead singer. ~ Bruce Eder
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- La Reprise by Alain Robbe-Grillet
Minuit, 253 pp, €15.09, November 2001, ISBN 2 7073 1756 X
The first novel that Robbe-Grillet wrote, Un Régicide, had a quotation at the start from Kierkegaard, an out of the way source for an agronomist turned writer who gave an impression of never having known a moment's metaphysical unease in his life. It came from The Seducer's Diary: 'One might have said that this man passed through life without leaving any trace … and one might even claim that he had no victims.'
'This man' was Kierkegaard who, in the Diary, practised what he defended as a 'necessary deception' by misrepresenting himself there as a seducer. What Robbe-Grillet will have liked most about this is letting on that you're a deceiver even as you go about your deceptive business.
In their new setting, Kierkegaard's words served as a warning of sorts, to readers of Un Régicide, or any other of Robbe-Grillet's subsequent novels: don't expect 'this man', or the underdeveloped human beings who pass through life in the form it takes here, to leave anything permanent behind them, because this novelist believes that a trace made is a trace requiring erasure. Un Régicide wastes no time in living up to its epigraph: it opens on a beach, whose fine sand is waiting to receive the footprints of the as yet anonymous protagonist. And fifty years on from that novel, in La Reprise, we're back on the sands almost straight away, with a protagonist who has already undergone duplication following what both are and aren't his own footprints; they won't survive, because the sea will shortly be back to wash them away.
The fact that Robbe-Grillet grew up close to the sea, in Brittany, is by the by. The footprints and other transient marks that appear in his fiction, as provisional impurities on one receptive surface or another, stand by extension for the marks that the writer himself is making. The inaugural sand in Un Régicide is also the hitherto blank sheet of paper that is about to be written on, with the difference that once they are made, the writer's marks will not be washed out, even if he likes to pretend that in an ideal world they should be. The byplay between inscription and effacement points to the movement out of which Robbe-Grillet holds fiction as such to emerge. From the moment he began writing, in the late 1940s, he saw it as his task, or else his opportunity, to produce novels in which 'reality' was represented in an unstable, oneiric form such that it could hardly be mistaken for the reality we're used to in fiction, with its reassuring constancy. Fiction isn't for real, so why try and make it appear so? There are good answers to that question, but Robbe-Grillet had no time for those. In his hands, fiction would be made to display its fictiveness, and fictiveness implies impermanence, when we're as free to unmake our fictions as we were free in the first place to make them.
The most teasingly graphic of all his demonstrations of this making/unmaking occurs in the book that has surely done best out of all those he has written, La Jalousie, which is structurally the simplest and least digressive. It's a fiction transpiring in the mind of a man who suspects that his wife is having an affair with a neighbour. The title is punning: the husband is suffering from jealousy, but a jalousie in French is also the word for a Venetian blind. Look through a Venetian blind, and your visual field is interrupted: the slats ensure that there are gaps in it, and where there's a gap there's also an opportunity to replace what is there to be seen in fact with an invention. A suspicious husband whose line of sight is obstructed is peculiarly quick to supplement fact with fiction, whence La Jalousie. In the course of the book a centipede is squashed by the presumed adulterer against a white wall, not once but on a number of never quite identical occasions. The squashing must recur because the mark it has made isn't consistently there: now you see it and now you don't, as the feeling of jealousy comes and goes. The insect is a projection, on a par with everything else in the novel, and the novel as a whole is an imposition, a smudge on the wall that really oughtn't to be there. Facts are what grown-ups should stick to, or so the scientistic young Robbe-Grillet affected to believe. There are a great and growing number of them in the modern world, certified by the various sciences, so there could be no serious case for going on writing fictions. There could, on the other hand, be a non-serious or at best semi-serious case for going on doing so, if you wrote fictions that made no pretence at being anything more. Life, the great Humphrey Bogart once observed, writes lousy plots, and Robbe-Grillet would write lousy plots also, ones that didn't measure up if you tried to read them as happening in a world of common reference, rather than as the product of an over-active imagination that would eventually cool down, its passing agitation exhausted. Not for nothing did he call the first novel that he actually published Les Gommes ('The Erasers') – Un Régicide finally appeared in 1978, 30 years after it was written.
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Vol. 24 No. 6 · 21 March 2002 » John Sturrock » I resume and I sum up
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KRS-One Pledges $50K to Museum He Once Protested
When the cash-strapped National Museum of Hip-Hop opened its doors at an event last April, KRS-One stole the show by declaring the place illegitimate and speaking out against its lack of input from people like himself and the genre's godfather Afrika Bambaataa. Fortunately, museum founder Craig Wilson recently reached out to KRS, changing his mind and getting the iconic rapper to put his money where his mouth is. KRS not only reversed his stance on the museum but donated a cool $50,000 to make sure it stays alive.
"[KRS] saw the [New York Times] article and said, 'It's making us look like we're not doing anything, and we're not gonna go nowhere … '" explained Wilson in a recent interview with HipHopDX. "That being the first significant pledge that we've gotten, it's nothing [in the grand scheme of things], but it's a lot, 'cause it came from KRS-One. I guess it makes sense that he's the first to do it. I'm hoping that this will put a lot of pressure on a lot of other artists, because this is something that all the artists should be coming together to give money to this cause."
Wilson added that he convinced KRS and other founders by proving that his motives with the museum were pure and had nothing to do with personal vanity. He claims that he takes no money from the project and is keen to create an environment where visitors can learn about rapping, DJing, breakdancing and graffiti through an educational and historical lens.
You can learn more about the National Museum of Hip-Hop and donate at the institution's website.


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Lemon Andersen 演繹「請不要奪走我的喬丹鞋」 ("Please don't take my Air Jordans")
你會為了一雙喬丹鞋 (Air Jordans) 而大開殺戒嗎?Lemon Andersen 為大家朗誦一首 Reg E. Gaines 的詩歌,吐露一個為球鞋殺人的故事。這些詩句教曉 Lemon,詩歌原來不只是表達自我,而且可以像音樂一樣動聽,只要賦予韻律,並融合身邊的紐約街頭景象。
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WEEI NFL Power Rankings, Week 16: Niners, Broncos pull ahead of Patriots
|12.18.12 at 10:42 am ET
For the second straight week, the No. 1 team has been dethroned in the WEEI NFL Power Rankings. After falling to the Niners at home, the Patriots drop to No. 3 while San Francisco leaps to the top of the class. Nine straight wins has propelled the Broncos all the way to the No. 2 spot, and the red-hot Seahawks fly jump to No. 7.
The Giants (8), Ravens (9) and Steelers (15) all plummet as those three teams are a combined 2-7 in the month of December. With just two games to go, many teams are fighting for their playoff lives. The NFC race will be fascinating as six teams — Giants, Redskins (10), Bears (11) Cowboys (12), Seahawks and Vikings (16) — fight for three remaining spots.
As usual, the Jaguars (32), Chiefs (31), Raiders (30) and Eagles (29) remain the bottom feeders of the NFL.
1. (2) 49ers (10-3-1) ' Yes, the Niners blew a 28-point lead, but they also went into Gillette Stadium and beat the red-hot Patriots in December. It was very impressive that they were able to keep their composure after losing the lead. In the end, the best defense in the league beat the best offense.
2. (3) Broncos (11-3) ' With games against two of the worst teams in the league remaining, the Broncos should wrap up the regular season and go into the playoffs with a first-round bye and 11 consecutive wins.
3. (1) Patriots (10-4) ' The road to the Super Bowl got a little tougher, but the Patriots have Tom Brady and Bill Belichick. No team in the AFC will want to play New England once the playoffs begin. Putting up 31 points in a half against the best defense in the league without Rob Gronkowski is pretty impressive.
4. (4) Texans (12-2) ' The number of big plays the Houston defense has allowed over the past few weeks has to be concerning to defensive coordinator Wade Phillips. The Texans have given up a 30-plus, an 80-plus, and three 60-plus-yard touchdown passes in their last five games.
5. (5) Falcons (12-2) ' As the playoffs draw near, the Falcons made their best case on Sunday for why teams should be afraid to play them this postseason. This is a mentally tough, resilient and well-rounded football team.
6. (6) Packers (10-4) ' Packers fans are optimistic their team will make another deep postseason run. Green Bay has won eight of its last nine, has wrapped up the NFC North, and is getting healthy at the right time.
7. (9) Seahawks (9-5) ' Since November, the Seahawks have scored 210 points and are averaging 35 points per game. Russell Wilson and Marshawn Lynch have developed into one of the best quarterback-running back tandems in the league.
8. (7) Giants (8-6) ' The inconsistent play at the end of the regular season has to catch up to them eventually, right? It's hard to count the Giants out after what they did in '07 and '11, but they have put themselves in a very dangerous position with just two games to go.
9. (8) Ravens (9-5) ' The Ravens need to find a way to stop the negative momentum that has built up in December. The best way to do that is for Joe Flacco to focus on protecting the football. Flacco has turned the ball over six times this month with three interceptions and three fumbles.
10. (13) Redskins (8-6) ' It's amazing how this team has gone from out of playoff contention to first place in the NFC East. The Redskins control their destiny — two more wins and they can call themselves division champs for the first time since 1999.
11. (10) Bears (8-6) ' What good is Jay Cutler if he can't beat the Packers? The Bears QB is 1-6 against Green Bay since joining the NFC North. It's hard to imagine that a team that started the season 7-1 could miss the playoffs. Chicago controlled the division for most of the season but lost both of its games to Green Bay this year.
12. (14) Cowboys (8-6) ' Dallas has won five of its last six and continues to keep its season alive. The Cowboys have had to endure a plethora of injuries, but what's even more impressive is the way they have found a way to win late in games. Their last four victories have been decided in the fourth quarter or overtime.
13. (11) Colts (9-5) ' Regardless of how the rest of the season plays out, the Colts should be extremely satisfied with the way they've improved this season. Indy already has accomplished the unthinkable by reaching the postseason.
14. (15) Bengals (8-6) ' The Bengals have a great opportunity to make the playoffs in back-to-back seasons for the first time since 1981 and '82. Getting their offense back on track is key, and that starts with better protection on the offensive line. Andy Dalton has been sacked 38 times this year, and 12 have those sacks have come in the month of December.
15. (12) Steelers (7-7) ' Turnover ratio is a very telling statistic, and the Steelers are a minus-14. There are only three other teams in the league that are worse. It's also never a good sign when the veteran quarterback is calling out the offensive coordinator.
16. (16) Vikings (8-6) ' Adrian Peterson has kept the Vikings in contention for a playoff spot all by himself. Regardless what happens this year, fans can feel good about how this team has progressed. Christian Ponder has a few wide receivers at the top of his offseason Christmas wish list. An upgrade at receiver to go along with Percy Harvin would do wonders for this offense.
17. (18) Saints (6-8) ' The playoffs are out of reach and surely the Saints organization is looking forward to turning the page from the 2012 season. The most important thing this team can do now is lock up Sean Payton to a contract. His importance to the success of the Saints was shown in his absence.
18. (17) Buccaneers (6-8) ' Greg Schiano has to be careful his team doesn't mess up all the positives the Bucs had going for them at the start of the season. Josh Freeman has taken a step back in December after showing major improvement. He's thrown five interceptions and has a sub-50.0 completion percentage, and the team is 0-3.
19. (19) Rams (6-7-1) ' Franchise quarterback Sam Bradford won't be the franchise QB for long if the Rams don't prioritize upgrading the offensive line during the offseason. Bradford has been sacked 105 times since entering the league in 2010. He's already been sacked 35 times this season.
20. (20) Dolphins (6-8) ' Ryan Tannehill has had a very encouraging season so far in Miami. The rookie showed off his scrambling ability in Sunday's win over the Jags. The Dolphins QB has a bright future in the NFL.
21. (24) Titans (5-9) ' With his team trailing the Jets in the third quarter, Jake Locker led a great drive down the field to retake the lead. That's exactly the type of thing Titans fans want to see the young Locker doing as the season draws to a close.
22. (27) Panthers (5-9) ' Cam Newton's sophomore season didn't start the way he would have liked, but the young QB has turned it around in his last five games. He's thrown 10 touchdown passes and zero interceptions in that span. The Panthers don't have much to play for beside ending their season on a positive note.
23. (21) Jets (6-8) ' I can't think of a more fitting way to sum up the Jets season other than the way they lost Monday night. Three fourth-quarter turnovers, two of them in the final two minutes of the game. The 2012 Jets season has been a total disaster, marred by a lack of leadership in the locker room and bad quarterback play.
24. (23) Bills (5-9) ' The Bills looked like they spent no time preparing for the Seahawks. This team desperately needs a coaching change. Chan Gailey repeatedly has been outcoached this year.
25. (25) Chargers (5-9) ' After watching Sunday's game against the Panthers, it looked like the Chargers have officially given up on the 2012 season. A 24-point loss at home against a last-place team is absolutely pathetic.
26. (26) Browns (5-9) ' Pat Shurmur's time in Cleveland likely is coming to an end. The team has just nine wins in his two seasons as coach.
27. (29) Cardinals (5-9) ' The Cardinals are a quarterback away from being competitive in this league. At the most important position, they are below average at best. Alex Smith, Michael Vick and Matt Flynn are possible solutions that would dramatically make the Cards a better team.
28. (22) Lions (4-10) ' The Lions need a change of philosophy in that locker room, and the best way to do that is to fire Jim Schwartz. This team lacks discipline, makes too many mental mistakes and is far too talented than what its record indicates.
29. (28) Eagles (4-10) ' Andy Reid's Eagles fell to 12-18 since the start of 2011. They've been a sorry excuse for a football team for the majority of the year.
30. (31) Raiders (4-10) ' A commitment to excellence? The Raiders haven't finished with a winning record in 10 straight seasons.
31. (30) Chiefs (2-12) ' If the Chiefs can take any solace from their dismal season they can look at the Colts, who they'll be playing this Sunday. They'll be hoping for that No. 1 pick and praying that Geno Smith or Matt Barkley can turn the franchise around.
32. (32) Jaguars (2-12) ' The Jaguars have been so bad this season they don't deserve to be on the same field as the Patriots this Sunday. However, be prepared to hear Bill Belichick and the Patriots players talk about how talented they are.
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"It is time to put aside partisan politics and come together as a community to create a society in which dignified work is a human birthright," Professor of Counseling, Developmental and Educational Psychology David Blustein argued in a May 16 letter to the editor of The New York Times Sunday Review, commenting on an op-ed piece, "The Human Disaster of Unemployment," by Dean Baker and Kevin Hassett. Read letter » Blustein was also quoted in an article, "Bringing Work Home," in the April 2012 issue of Counseling Today.
Elida Laski and Laura O'Dwyer received Teaching with New Media (TWIN) Awards from Boston College Instructional Design and eTeaching Services. Laski and O'Dwyer were recognized for integrating web-based tools into classroom teaching. Laski uses www.MyVirtualChild.com, which allows students to virtually raise a child from birth to 18 and discuss the results of parenting decisions students made based on what they learned in the classroom. O'Dwyer employs a lecture capture system in her classes, allowing students to review course lectures outside of class. Read more »
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Backers of extending the state's temporary 1-cent sales tax submitted more than 290,000 signatures Monday to put the issue on the November ballot. But at this point all they've really done is guaranteed a court fight.
Retailers are demanding that Governor Jan Brewer negotiate a deal with the nation's largest online retailer to get it to start collecting state sales taxes.
The complaint by the retailers is that they have to collect state and local sales taxes while online operations like Amazon.com do not. Gayle Shanks, one of the owners of Changing Hands Bookstore in Tempe said that's not fair.
Current law says companies with a retail presence in Arizona have to levy the tax. Efforts to expand that definition to include firms with only warehouses here were beaten back in the Senate by Amazon lobbyists -- twice. The proposal approved Wednesday by the House Commerce Committee seeks to sweeten the deal: The tax would be prospective only, meaning Amazon could escape having to fight a $53 million assessment from the state Department of Revenue for what it says are uncollected prior taxes. Mesa Republican J.D.
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An initiative drive launched today seeks to let voters decide if they want to make permanent the 1-cent sales tax set to expire next year.
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I'll provide a play-by-play for those in Canada who aren't watching or for those in the US who want to know how it's going.
Do you think we'll see any throw triple axels?
I'll provide a play-by-play for those in Canada who aren't watching or for those in the US who want to know how it's going.
Do you think we'll see any throw triple axels?
2twist -- nice
SBS 2a 2a sequence -- very nice
Lifts -- good, slightly rough dismount perhaps
Throw 3s -- she floated
SBS spins -- unison a bit rough
SBS 3s -- perfect
Throw 3l -- very nice
Lifts -- much better than first set
Lifts -- gorgeous, and perfectly on the crescendo of the music
They're going to be such a dynamic team. And I loved the costumes: simple and elegant.
1st in freeskate
1st overall
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Throw 3L -- hands down
2 Twist -- very nice
SBS 3t -- she falls
SBS 2a -- bit of a scratchy landing, but clean
Lifts -- nice
Lifts -- very nice, looked very difficult
Throw 3s -- she really had to fight, but didn't touch down
Spiral sequence -- very nice
Pairs Spin -- A bit of trouble on one of the transistions but nice
Footwork Sequence -- good
Lift -- very difficult, nice
Good performance, but not good enough to take away the lead from Dubé and Davison, I don't think.
3rd in freeskate
2nd overall
Throw 3l -- She had to fight, but no touch down
2Twist -- nice
SBS 3t -- she fell
Lifts -- nice
SBS 2a -- She steps out
Throw 3s -- Hands down
Lifts -- nice
Lifts -- nice
Darn. They let it go. They have lots of potential for the years to come though.
Not sure what place in freeskate.
3rd overall
2Twist -- nice
SBS 3t -- underrotates
Lifts -- nice
Throw 3l -- nice
SBS 2a -- rough landing
Lifts -- nice
Lifts -- nice
Throw 3s -- rough landing
Wow, they were HELD UP by the judges. I thought Dubé and Davison definitely should have won the free program. Because of the large lead, IMO a bit too large, that Marcoux and Buntin amassed in the short, I could have seen them not winning the competition, but they definitely should have won the free program. They were held up greatly by the PCS.
I just watched it also and I agree fully with you. They were handed the championship this year. Dube and Davison DEFINITELY should have won the free and possibly the title in my opinion.Originally Posted by CDMM1991
Re: M/B being handed the championship this year - I kinda saw this coming - particularly after the short when they were handed a totally undeserved HUGE lead. I mean, I had no problem with them being in first after the short as I would have been with any of the top four teams, actually. But the fact that they were given marks so far above the other skaters seemed like "defending champions" points.
With them finishing ahead of Dube/Davison, however....I think this might actually be a good thing for this young team. It gives them a chance to get senior international experience while still in the shadow of a more experienced team. A win in the free skate, however, would not have taken that opportunity away.