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My 2002 Suzuki GV with the Peugeot RHZ engine(DW10ATED) and Bosch electronics which has done only 225000 miles has started going into occasional limp mode. When it does it usually throws a P0903 fault code and usually after about 5 miles.
This ODB2 P0903 code implies that the clutch actuator is reading high. I guess they mean high resistance/impedance i.e.open circuit.
However, given that it is a manual gearbox, without cruise control and there is no clutch switch near the pedal and nothing on the clutch hydraulic line this seems to be an impossible fault.
I've looked at a few web sites and discovered that I am not alone. A (very) few others have had the P0903 code on Pugs but no solutions. Nobody seems to have any explanation: unsurprising really as it would seem to be a nonsense code.
Can anyone shed any light?
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Are you sure that code isnt P0093? if that is the case its a fuel system leak????
It is definitely P0903 - I've just rechecked with a second scanner. What is odd is that for a week about a month ago it was occasionally taking ages to start and would throw a P0230 fault. Normally that would mean the lifter pump was faulty, but it was replaced less than 20,000 miles ago and I can hear it humming away quite contentedlyat switch on. Also fuel was and is flowing happily at pressure through the filter. The pump relay and the fuel filter including housing were all replaced at the the same time as the pump - all OEM (Bosch) bits. The P0230 fault of a month ago cleared when I refilled with fresh diesel and I had more or less convinced myself that it was a bad tank of diesel that had caused it. It was about 2 weeks after that that the P0903 started. I reckon a leak off test might be next although as the car runs superbly for 5-10 miles before the fault appears an injector problem seems unlikely. It also suggests the hp pump and rail are fine, I'd have expected 'proper' injector faults to show up if the problem was there. If injectors are OK I'll check the hp regulator. It is a bit tricky to get at though. The only thing that seems to correspond to the fault is that the engine reaches operating temperature around about the same time and I noticed one report of someone with a Peugeot finding a P0903 fault alongside a temperature sensor fault - however in that instance there was a temperature sensor fault. Temperature gauge on mine is fine. I've heard that MAF's can have odd side effects on the HDI. I've occasionally had a P0243 fault (Wastegate solenoid) although there is nothing wrong with the solenoid - or wastegate or turbo for that matter. This tends to happen on really hot days and as others have suggested that the fault is actually due to the MAF misreading pressures.
I am still bewildered. The ecu's on these are pretty primitive. The Furby is much more sophisticated! . Someone somewhere must have access to the code or at least a flowchart. Help
Sorry your right it does mean short on clutch actuater,but not knowing the motor I cant find out anymore as yet,is it hydraulic
Oops..I didn't mean MAF pressure in thta last post - I meant flow. Apparently the P0243 fault can appear if the ecu doesn't detect a drop in airflow shortly after the wastegate opens, For some obscure reason the ecu flags this a s a solenoid fault. A solenoid fault is a possibility but it could be caused by other things such as a faulty MAF or stuck wastegate actuator. I can't see how that could register a p0903 fault on a non existent clucth switch/actuator though.
Blimey. I've found (I think) the problem and the solution. The brake switch on the Grand Vitara is a Single Pole Double Throw (SPDT) type and one pole is connected to the stop lights. But the other is connected to the ecu to signal when the brakes are applied . However it is connected using the clutch switch logic circuit. This means that when the brakes are applied the ecu detects this and the fuel is reduced. If the switch is faulty (or as it seems to have been in my case, even just a bit loose) the ecu receives a signal that the brakes have been applied when they haven't.
I reckon it is pretty irresponsible for Peugeout/Bosch to have allowed their designers to allow the brake pedal switch to masquerade as a clutch switch. I think Suzuki should have spotted it as well even though the car uses the PSA Peugeot 'plug'n'play HDI engine and ancilliary equipment from Bosch.
Anyway, I removed the switch which felt a bit loose, had a look at the insides which were pristine, and put it back. it is now much tighter than it was. The P0903 fault hasn't been seen since.
So if you have a 2.0 HDI with P0903 fault - before anything else check the brake pedal switch.
Crazy...but true!!!
Aargh ignore previous post. This hasn't solved the P0903 problem - a week later it has re-emerged. Also this time I took the switch off and examined the cable and disciovered that the brake swict has only 2 wires - no extra pair going to the ecu (although the Puegeot RHZ circuit diagram shows them).
It could be that the stop light wire itself goesto the ecu - that would work, but I am beginning to suspect it must be something else.
Also the P0243 fault - absent for months - re-appeared a little while later.
Well, astonishly the fault has completely disappeared and has stayed away for almost a month now. Car is pulling wonderfully - better than I can remember ofr many a year.
I've done a few things.
1. Wiggled the (red) connector just below and to the front of the fuel filter.
2. Blew out the rubber tube that connects to the MAP (not MAf) sensor.
3. Fitted a new cambelt and auxiliary belt.
I can't see how a new cambelt couldmake any difference - the old one looked to be in perfect condition but it had done about 75,000 miles. Similarly for the auxiliary belt.
The MAP sensor tube seemd perfectly clear - can't see that being the problem.
Whcih leaves wiggling the connector. DAFT.
hi did this fault ever come back as i have a 406 with exactly the same faults and im banging my head now spent hours with readers and multi meters and no sucess
look forward to your reply
hi did this fault ever come back as i have a 406 with exactly the same faults and im banging my head now spent hours with readers and multi meters and no sucess
look forward to your reply
Sorry for slow reply - the faultb never returned so I didn't look at the site again. However a different fault arose last month when the car wouldn't start. It turned out that the plug/socket connecting to the fuel regulator (on the back of the hp pump) had worked itself looseand it did it again a week later. Weather is too cold to get at it and fix properly at the moment so I've used a couple of plastic ties to hold in position. When it happened the second time it threw a P0230 fault - rather misleading as this suggests a lifter pump fault.. If you are still getting the P0903 fault check both that the brake switch is tight AND that the pug/socket to the fuel regulator is tight. I've heard that the fuel regulators on these can be a problem as well - they used to be extortionately expensive but I have seen aftermarket ones (I think an Italian make) for sale recently at £65 or so. If the problem persists on my car I think I may invest in one of these.
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No matter how many times I go to DC, I always find that I'm never there long enough. Here are ten things we did on our trip this time:
1. Starting with the last bit first, we ended our trip at the National Portrait Gallery.
I had never been – I KNOW; I can't believe it, either! – and I'm SO glad we went. There was a lot to take in, but my favorite bit was rounding the corner to see this guy;
Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you my favorite Revolutionary War badass, Henry Knox.
Mr. Knox was a Chief Artillery Officer in George Washington's Continental Army. After the Continentals took Fort Ticonderoga in upstate New York, Knox suggested to his friend Washington that the fort's cannon might be useful in breaking the Siege of Boston, so Washington sent Knox to retrieve the arms. Knox and his crew reached the fort on December 5th, 1775 and commenced to haul some 60 tons of cannon and other armaments by boat, horse and ox-drawn sledges over a 300 mile trek through some pretty rugged terrain (let's recall we're talking 1775 here, People; no interstates – or even real roads – to speak of, AND in the middle of the opening of shitty weather season in this part of the world). Knox arrived in Cambridge on January 27th, 1776, and the armaments he provided helped to free Boston from British occupation. The Noble Train of Artillery, as Knox's amazing logistical feat came to be known, is still considered one of the Continental Army's great successes, and it is one of my FAVORITE Revolutionary War stories.
Dork that I am, I didn't even need to read the accompanying information card to know who this is and what he did, and I caught other museum visitors listening in as I gleefully recounted Knox's adventures to my daughters (again).
2. The MLK Memorial.
We drove in the first day we were there, though in hindsight, that may have been a poor decision on our part (we took the Metro for the rest of the week). The parking spot we found was on the far side of the MLK memorial, so we walked through on our way to our destination, which was…
3. Ford's Theatre. Mr. Chili and I had gone to Ford's Theatre many, many years ago, but the girls had never been, so that was our first official stop.
The museum part of the building wasn't opening until later than we wanted to stay, so we got tickets for the play that they put on a few times a day and called it a win. The play was very well done; it was a meditation/imagining of what the actors in the playhouse were thinking and feeling in the days immediately after Lincoln's assassination, and was by turns moving and rueful; there was a lot of "what if" in the play, and I felt the actors did a good job of conveying the frustration, anger, and grief that the people they were portraying must have felt.
4. The Udvar-Hazy Center
We spent the whole afternoon of our first day here. It's an annex of the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum and even for someone like me (who's not especially enamored of machinery), it's a really cool place. They have the Enola Gay, a Concorde, and the space shuttle Discovery in the exhibits, and even though visitors can't go in the aircraft, we can get close enough to see the rivets in the skins. Mr. Chili adores the place, and since it really is kind of cool, we girls don't mind spending time there.
5. The American History Museum.
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It seems that I always end up here. I've seen the First Ladies' dresses exhibit a number of times, but I never get tired of it. There are a lot of great things in this museum that I never get around to (I've only seen the Ruby Slippers once), but I always feel like I've missed something if I don't go through the dress exhibit.
6. National Gallery of Art.
I learned something on this trip. I had always assumed that the National Gallery of Art was a Smithsonian outfit, but it's not. I learned this because I bought a membership to the Smithsonian while I was at the Udvar-Hazy Center on Tuesday, and I tried to use my sparkly new membership card to get a discount at the National Gallery gift shop, where they politely informed me that the were NOT a Smithsonian museum. Huh. Who knew? Not I.
Anyway, we had lunch here after the American History Museum (we often have lunch here; I'm not sure why) and then we made our way to my favorite exhibit; the Massachusetts 54th Memorial:
The bronze of this is across the street from the State House at the top of the Commons in Boston, and whenever I'm in the neighborhood, I go and have another look at it. I love the complexity of the piece, and I have a particular place in my heart for the story and the people it commemorates.
7. The National Air and Space Museum
After getting our fill of fine art, we trekked across the Mall and into the Air and Space Museum. Mr. Chili went off to look at all the space flight stuff (because, you know, that's what he does) and the girls and I ducked into a movie in the planetarium (narrated by Neil deGrasse Tyson!).
The chairs are reclined (to get a better view of the domed screen, of course) which made it difficult not to fall asleep. I discovered that afternoon that Mr. Tyson's voice is very soothing…
8. The National Zoo.
I have a love/hate relationship with zoos.
I love them because they offer me a chance to see critters that I would never, ever see in the course of my life. Let's be honest, the most exotic thing I'm likely to spy is a moose, really, so being able to see real live zebras and elephants and lions (and pandas!) is kind of a big deal.
(Yeah; it's a stone lion from the entry gates. Sue me; this was the best picture I got on my phone and Mr. Chili hasn't uploaded his camera pictures yet)
That being said, the "hate" comes from the knowledge that these beautiful, wild creatures live in pens that are far too small (no matter how big they are) and in climates for which they are ill suited.
I have yet to come to terms with my warring feelings about zoos, but this one was lovely. It was clean, the animals seemed well cared for, and there's some significant research and outreach happening in association with the National Zoo. I suppose, if we're going to keep wild things in zoos, we should keep them as the Smithsonian does.
9. The World War II Memorial
I love this memorial precisely because there are outfits whose sole purpose is to bus veterans in to visit the site every day. As we walked by on our way to Ford's Theatre on our first full day in the city, we saw literally dozens of veterans being helped into the memorial and, knowing that we're fast losing this generation to old age, it was gratifying to see them.
We also passed a British school trip (all the kids looked so cute in their matching uniforms!). As we were walking by, one of the teachers asked the kids about what e pluribus unum meant. One little boy practically dislocated his shoulder raising his hand, and as he blurted out the English translation of the motto, Bean observed under her breath that we're kind of doing a shitty job with the whole "out of many, one" thing lately. God, I love that kid.
10. Everything from home to DC and back again.
The Chili family has figured out that we're pretty good at car trips. My husband is a great trip planner; before we get in the car, he's printed out maps, (note with circles and directions to where we're going to stop for lunch and gas along the way) so we've got a good idea of what to expect. Observe:
I load up the car with snacks, the girls bring books and games, we set Pandora to a station we can all agree on, and away we go. It is my custom on this trip (which we've taken several times now) to snap a picture of the Tappan Zee Bridge on our way through. This is the homeward-bound side. We're still a long way from home here – I feel like we're finally close to home when the road signs start mentioning Boston – but the bridge feels like a ceremonial halfway point.


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Stream of Evidence from 3 Spacecraft Indicates That the Moon Has Water
Stream of Evidence from 3 Spacecraft Indicates That the Moon Has Water
A trio of reports using recent and archival data
point to molecular water across the lunar surface
By John Matson
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September 23, 2009
A hotly anticipated experiment will test the theory next month that the moon's permanently shadowed polar craters harbor pockets of water ice. A NASA spacecraft called the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) will perform a two-stage bombardment of a south polar crater to see what rises up in the ensuing debris plume.
Now, just two weeks before LCROSS's scheduled barrage, comes a suite of evidence that the moon indeed hosts water. But the new studies point to a different sort of deposit than the concentrated ice supply LCROSS seeks—they indicate that water exists diffusely across the moon as molecules clinging to the surface in low concentrations. What is more, there may be a water cycle in which the molecule is broken down and reformulated over the span of a lunar daytime (about two Earth weeks long).
A trio of papers published online this week in Science, each using spectroscopic data collected by a different spacecraft, find light absorptions characteristic of water or hydroxyl (OH) molecules or both. And the papers' authors say that the scenario in which both molecules appear across the lunar surface is the most plausible explanation for their data.
Water and hydroxyl are related molecular species and have similar spectroscopic signatures—the wavelengths characteristic of each reside nearby in the infrared portion of the electromagnetic spectrum. The three-micron absorption band indicative of water appeared broadly across the lunar surface in spectrometric data taken by the Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M3), an instrument that circled the moon aboard India's Chandrayaan 1 spacecraft until the orbiter's mission ended prematurely last month.
At first, the instrument's minders were confounded, figuring that something on M3 had gone awry. "The first reaction that I think all of us had was, this is ridiculous," says Carle Pieters, a planetary scientist at Brown University and principal investigator for M3. The team was finding evidence for water not in permanently shadowed craters but on the sunlit portions of the moon, which just did not add up.
"We spent months going through our data, trying to find what went wrong," she recalls. "What is it that gives us this signature that we can't get rid of?" Unable to troubleshoot the odd result, Pieters's group turned to a second, and then a third, independent observation.
Roger Clark, a U.S. Geological Survey spectroscopist on the M3 team, reanalyzed archival data from the Cassini spacecraft, now exploring Saturn and its satellites, taken during a 1999 flyby of the moon. The Cassini data agreed with the finding that water appears to be widespread across the lunar surface.
Yet more confirmation came from a timely flyby of the Deep Impact probe, en route to a cometary rendezvous in 2010. In June the spacecraft swung past the moon, and its spectrometer put the lunar water theory to the test—a test that went swimmingly well.
"In the Deep Impact data, we have very strong evidence that [water is] everywhere," says planetary geologist Jessica Sunshine, a senior research scientist at the University of Maryland, College Park, who works on both the M3 instrument and the Deep Impact mission. "There is no place on the moon that we don't see this." She notes that the water appears to hug the lunar surface—reaching depths measured in millimeters or even hundreds of microns—and that the local abundance in a typical area appears quite low. "We're still talking about amounts of water that are less than the hottest desert you could think of here," Sunshine says.
Paul Lucey, a planetary scientist at the University of Hawaii at Manoa who wrote a commentary in Science to accompany the three spectroscopic studies, says that he found the results "pretty stunning."
"I was on vacation when I read the first paper, and I used colorful language when I read it," Lucey says. "I was amazed." At the same time, he says, it is not certain that the spectra show both water and hydroxyl. "We see OH or H2O," he says. "I believe further analysis of the data that now exists will probably allow distinguishing between those two cases."
On the other hand, Lucey notes, the Deep Impact study "is suggesting that the signature is changing with temperature or time, so that suggests to me that water is more likely, just because OH binds so tightly to minerals and is not going to be very mobile." In some places, such as near the equator, where daytime temperatures are high, Deep Impact saw the signal dissipating by the time the sun was directly overhead, returning when cooler temperatures arrived in the lunar evening.
One explanation for that phenomenon is that a stream of charged hydrogen atoms in the solar wind could react with oxygen-bearing lunar minerals to produce water at the surface. That process would explain the steady, fast-acting replenishment seen in the data after sunlight has dissociated the water molecules.
Sunshine notes that in her view it is not so much a question of whether hydroxyl or water is present but how much each contributes to the spectral signature. "The water and hydroxyl sort of mix, and it's more complicated to know what is uniquely water versus uniquely OH," she says. "However, we are seeing changes as this water loss happens, and we see changes in the different parts of the absorption feature, so we're seeing different species coming in and out. The simplest explanation for that is certainly that you have water being lost. OH is a much stronger bond; it's harder to get rid of."
Pieters says the data from the three papers, taken together, settle the water question. "Basically, the bottom line, if you read all three of them, is there is no question that water and hydroxyl exist on the surficial upper layers of the moon," she says.
So why has this widespread surface phenomenon never been uncovered before, especially given that its discovery relies in part on 10-year-old data? "I think it's just one of those funny science sociological phenomena that it just didn't occur to take the measurement," Lucey says.
Sunshine says that the focus on polar traps, such as that sought by LCROSS, tended to dominate the search for water on the lunar surface. "Everybody tends to think about this in terms of polar ice caps and skating rinks and lakes, and we're talking about molecules," she says. "It's a real shift in the way people think about water on the moon."
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Blaming extraordinary fuel prices, American Airlines (AMR) said Wednesday it plans for the first time to charge many passengers $15 on top of airfares to check one suitcase on a domestic flight.
If American follows through, many domestic passengers who check two bags this summer will pay $40 extra each way in addition to much higher airfares than last summer. American and other airlines began charging $25 to check a second bag after United Airlines (UAUA) launched that fee in February to help cover fuel prices that have soared more than 60% in a year, pushing airlines into the red.
SERVICE CUTBACKS: American Airlines to cut about 300 flights
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TODAY IN THE SKY BLOG: AA to begin charging for all checked bags
American also announced it's raising fees on numerous other services, such as selling tickets through reservations agents instead of the Internet, transporting an unaccompanied child or a pet, or changing a ticket. The airline said the new fees could generate hundreds of millions of dollars a year.
But the new bag fee especially could presage a frustrating and costly summer for travelers. If other airlines match the fee, many passengers who used to check bags may try to bring fat suitcases aboard to avoid the fees, complicating boarding.
Infrequent travelers not aware of the new fees will get a surprise when they get to the airport. "It will hit vacation travelers terribly," said frequent flier Charles Tatelbaum, a Fort Lauderdale attorney. "Everyone will be carrying Winnebago bags onto planes."
American won't charge the new fee to passengers on international flights, those paying full fares or those who are very high mileage members of its frequent-flier program. The bag fee will take effect on tickets bought June 15 or later.
Reaction to the announcement was mixed.
United Airlines, the USA's second-biggest carrier after American, said it is seriously considering matching American's fee. Delta (DAL) said it won't match immediately. If other airlines don't match, American will be forced to withdraw the fee. Discounter Spirit Airlines is the only U.S. carrier that already charges to check one bag.
Traveler Bob McBride, president of a recruiting company in Omaha, said the public doesn't "realize how close we are to a real disaster" because of fuel prices.
"Unless we pay the nickel-and-dime charges, we're going to lose a lot of airlines," he said.
Airfares expert Terry Trippler predicted other airlines will match the new fee — and add more, like charging for soft drinks on the plane.
"This isn't nickel-and-diming," he said. "It's survival."
Tom Parsons, CEO of website BestFares.com, urged fliers to carry the fee rules with them to the airport so they know their rights.
His other advice: "Pack light."
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A New Year's Resolution For The Social Media-rati
by Catharine P. Taylor on Dec 28, 11:12 AM
The thing that has most awed me about the year gone by is how we in the technology business -- and particularly in social media -- operate in a parallel universe when compared with the rest of the world. While everyone else moves around in a long-term funk, all day long I'm surrounded (virtually speaking) by people who live in a place where anything is possible, where there's plenty of money to be had to develop money-making ideas, and where the future is something to embrace, not fear. Having a new iPad only adds to my personal sense of wonder.
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A Social 2011 In Review
by David Berkowitz on Dec 27, 2:27 PM
Where did 2011 go? How did Pinterest, Bo.lt, and Sonar change how we interact with media, and with each other? What happened to Anthony Weiner and Osama Bin Laden? When did "+"join "@" in the digital lexicon? In a year where I visited eight countries and read 95 books, I also managed to pen nearly 50 columns, and I reread them all so you don't have to. Several themes emerged, with quite a few posts about startups, shopping, mobile social media, Google, and events. The year also brought its share of failures and disappointments to learn from. Here's 2011 in ...
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The 2011 Berky Award Winners
by David Berkowitz on Dec 20, 1:48 PM
It's time for the most anticipated time of year, as the Berky Awards have arrived. Here's how the Berky Awards work: each year (alright, just this one so far), millions of people vote on their favorite social media services and technologies. None of those people tell me their votes, though, so I have to come up with the winners myself. The winners are treated to a printout of this column at their own expense, and a free beer at 360i's bar whenever they're in Tribeca. Without further ado, here are the Berky Awards for Social Media Excellence in 2011. Please ...
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Of Lowe's, 'All-American Muslim,' And Facebook Home Page Improvement
by Catharine P. Taylor on Dec 14, 4:43 PM
Here at the sumptuous offices of the Social Media Insider, there's nothing we love more than a corporate PR controversy and a chance to be a Monday Morning (or, in this case, Wednesday afternoon) quarterback. So, in that spirit, let's talk about Lowe's!
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16 Resolutions For Vendors
by David Berkowitz on Dec 13, 1:35 PM
Over the course of a year, I'll get about a thousand pitches from vendors. The great ones lead to vendors becoming partners. The bad pitches get deleted. The worst get forwarded around. In light of that, here's my wish list for vendors. Vendors that follow the list will win more business. Granted, the best vendors don't need this list at all, but most can use at least a few reminders.
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A Reminder To Social Marketers: Nope, You're Not Trending
by Catharine P. Taylor on Dec 7, 3:41 PM
As it's only Dec. 7, I'm beginning to feel as though Top 10 lists, along with Christmas decorations in the mall, are going up more and more prematurely. How else to explain that this week has seen a bumper crop of Top 10 lists, ranging from the top Twitter hashtags, to Facebook's top -- well, 20 -- shared stories, to TIME magazine's list of 54 different Top 10s?
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How YouTube Became A Community
by David Berkowitz on Dec 6, 2:30 PM
Hey, community managers, the good news is that you have a new community to manage. Of course, that's also the bad news. YouTube has always been a funny site to include in social media plans. In the past, it hadn't felt that social. Unlike Facebook, Twitter, and other explicitly social properties, it's possible to use YouTube with absolutely no social interaction. But the latest updates to YouTube change everything.
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Friend Me Or Else: A Parent's View Of Teens And Facebook
by Catharine P. Taylor on Dec 1, 11:18 AM
Some weeks, Facebook is more interesting than others. And when I say that, I'm not talking about this week's settlement concerning privacy with the FTC. For me, the most interesting thing on Facebook this week was when I posted the following status update on Monday night: "Hi fellow parents of teenagers. I don't know everything there is to know about Facebook. Honest. So, here's my question: what guardrails do you put up when your teenager goes on Facebook?"
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The One-Percenters Of Recommendations
by David Berkowitz on Nov 29, 1:05 PM
Save money. Eat better. Become more popular. All this is possible for the lucky "haves" who distance themselves from the "have-nots" by joining a class of people shaping their lives and the lives of others through digitally shared recommendations. There's no membership card or initiation test. It's totally opt-in. But the tangible benefits can add up, and the intangible benefits can be far more substantial.Consider these three examples:
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What I'm Thankful For (In Social Media)
by Catharine P. Taylor on Nov 23, 4:11 PM
This being the day before Thanksgiving, I'm not thankful for much. Not yet, when there are still errands to run, pies to finish baking, columns to write and hundreds of miles to drive before we get to our destination -- which, as it turns out, is indeed grandmother's house. Still, when I take a step back, I'm thankful for a lot, and so, just as my colleague David Berkowitz wrote yesterday about who he's thankful for, I'm going to write about what I'm thankful for, at least when it comes to social media.
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Mind Of Man: Cut Peter Pan Some Slack
Women are always complaining that the men in their lives suffer from "Peter Pan Syndrome." It's a standard, catchall criticism that chicks levy willy-nilly on dudes for any number of relationship misdemeanors or faux pas. It refers to the title character in J.M. Barrie's classic, turn-of-last-century play and novel about a precocious young boy who refuses to grow up. And modern ladies love to slap this armchair diagnosis on any male behavior that is inconvenient to their self-interest.
If a guy chooses to play Assassin's Creed II on his day off instead of strolling through the farmers' market with his sustainable-food activist girlfriend and molesting squash, is he suffering from "Peter Pan Syndrome"? That same dude could have dreams, but they're probably dismissed as a symptom of "Peter Pan Syndrome." Real dreams, like being a parapsychologist, or a shark hunter, or a strip club DJ. Whatever, mock away. It's not like "locavore" is ever going to be an actual word that normal people use. And personally, I think it's very mature for a grown man to note that having a child can totally harsh a buzz. I'd like to add that not folding one's clothes is an aesthetic choice. Same with dishes.
It is a very modern point of contention between the genders that men aren't growing up, or at least, growing up according to the standards and expectations of the women in their lives, that men are lazy, hairy toddlers who want to retreat to their man caves, drink beer, and watch "Iron Man" Blu-ray extras. This is an unfair stereotype. There are plenty of men out there who make a living, dote on their families, and shoulder more than their share of responsibility, while at the same time being lazy, hairy toddlers who want to retreat to their man caves, drink beer, and watch "Iron Man" Blu-ray extras. It's called "complexity." Men have more layers than you suspect. We're like pancakes that way.
I don't think men with so-called "Peter Pan Syndrome" are the problem. I think many women, especially those who use the term "Peter Pan Syndrome" and pronounce the word "mature" as "matoooor," suffer from "Wendy Syndrome." That's right. I'm referring to the girl who accompanies Peter Pan to Never-Never Land, not to The Frisky's Dear Wendy, or even my older sister, Wendy. In the famous story, Wendy and her brothers join Peter Pan and his Lost Boys in their epic fight against Captain Hook. At the end of the story, Wendy chooses to return to England, and to grow up. Pan refuses.
Why would Wendy want to leave Never-Never Land? I mean, Peter has a great job — fighting pirates. Adoring co-workers. A nice tribe of natives as neighbors. The real estate is fantastic: There are beaches, mountains, tree houses. And the commute isn't bad, just the second star to the left and on till morning. Peter Pan is free, passionate, and just wants to have fun, like '90s-era Sheryl Crow. Why would Wendy give that up? Seriously. Why would she want to return to nasty old Victorian London? The city that gave us Mary Poppins, the barren, black-magic nanny with the chimney sweep boyfriend who eventually dies of emphysema? Or Oliver Twist, an orphan who barely escapes the white slave trade? What is so special about that industrial soot-choked metropolis of misery? What's the downside to an enchanted island, besides the fairy infestation?
If Wendy wanted children, she couldn't have done better than staying in Never-Never Land. It's. An. Island. Of. Little. Kids. Wendy returns because she's not comfortable with the abandon Peter Pan offers. She prefers the comforting shackles of social norms. To Wendy, exchanging soaring through the clouds for croquet with The Joneses is a fair trade. Clearly, she settled for settling down. It's an ageless place – she could have grown up any time. But Wendy set a limit to the adventures she allowed herself. Wendy broke Peter's heart, because she wouldn't fly with him one more time. Wendy put her foot down and grew up, leaving Peter with Tinker Bell, a thimble-sized badass who never shirked a pirate hunt. Poor Tink, if only Peter loved her back.
Next time you bemoan men behaving like Peter Pans, desperately holding on to an idealized, recent youth, take a moment for self-reflection. It won't hurt. Could it be that you're suffering from a mild case of "Wendy Syndrome"? Should you be in a hell-bent rush to act a certain way? Is it possible to have adventures and still be responsible? To waste time giggling and playing video games one night, and the next night engaging in captivating dinner conversation with people who keep back issues of The New Yorker by the toilet? According to some versions of Barrie's story, Peter returns every spring until Wendy grows up, and then Peter starts sprinkling his dust on her daughter. At the very least, Wendy recognizes that Peter Pan can teach some important and enduring life lessons. The airborne imp isn't so bad.
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Outgoing Anglo American chief executive Cynthia Carroll has stressed the need for industrial stability if the South African mining industry is to progress and continue to attract international investment.
In an unofficial swansong, Ms Carroll told delegates at the Mining Indaba conference in Cape Town on Tuesday that the strikes and anarchy witnessed at South African platinum and gold mines in recent months ultimately benefited no one.
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Ms Carroll, who resigned from Anglo American in October, had faced increasing shareholder criticism over below-par returns and a costly purchase of a stake in diamond company De Beers. Last week, Anglo said it would take a $US4 billion impairment charge against the value of a Brazilian iron ore project, Minas-Rio, after a budget blowout and delay in delivering the project until the end of 2014.
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During the last years, the application of different wireless technologies has been explored in order to enable Internet connectivity from vehicles. In addition, the widespread adoption of smartphones by citizens represents a great opportunity to integrate such nomadic devices inside vehicles in order to provide new and personalized on trip services for passengers. In this paper, a proposal of communication architecture to provide the ubiquitous connectivity needed to enhance the smart train concept is presented and preliminarily tested. It combines an intra-wagon communication system based on nomadic devices connected through a Bluetooth Piconet Network with a highly innovative train-to-ground communication system. In order to validate this communication solution, several tests and simulations have been performed and their results are described in this paper.
The companies that offer transportation services are increasingly interested in enabling remote communications with their fleet by using wireless technologies. These connectivity systems allow them to improve their daily work (by means of new services like fleet management, operation monitoring, safety related applications, vehicle maintenance or/and diagnostics, and so on) and the services provided to the transportation service users.
On the other hand, the widespread use of wireless and Internet technologies in transport systems enables the provision of a large number of new intelligent services. Moreover, the presence of ubiquitous connected vehicles (trains, subways, buses or cars), with inter- and intra-vehicular communication capabilities, as well as continuous connectivity with their control centers, is a key factor to take into account for the new generations of Intelligent Transportations Systems (ITS).
In the railway industry, the sector where our work is focused on, wired networks (such as Ethernet) are commonly used for intra-train communications. These networks are mainly used by the safety and control systems hosted inside a train. The innovation of this work is to enhance the concept of ubiquitous connected smart train by contributing with advances in train-to-ground wireless communication systems [
The paper is organized as follows: first, a brief overview of related work is introduced. Second, the current network architecture of the train, where our proposed solution is being tested, is described. Third, the train-to-ground communications design and tests results are exposed. Fourth, intra-wagon communications are proposed, including several simulation results. Finally, the conclusions and future work are expounded.
Mobile devices´ capabilities are constantly improving, allowing Internet access through different technologies (GPRS/UMTS, WiFi,
Consequently, during the last years the application of different wireless technologies has been explored in order to enable non-interrupted Internet connectivity from the vehicles (GPRS/UMTS, WiFi, WiMAX,
Nowadays the use of wireless and Internet technologies is increasing in the railway industry enabling bidirectional train-to-ground communications [
There are multiple works regarding communications optimization, including traffic prioritization and QoS control. However, these works are usually focused on networks instead of applications or services that use these networks [
With the purpose of achieving QoS requirements demanded by services, several communication management and prioritization heuristics [
In addition, many of these solutions are focused on mobile environments and are able to monitor network parameters (like bandwidth). The main idea in these solutions is to prioritize communications services allowing or denying communications, or readjusting its data rates, in accordance with QoS requirements demanded by the communication requests and the available networks bandwidth limitations.
These mentioned solutions, applied to transportation, would allow prioritizing vehicle-to-ground wireless communications taking into account its QoS restrictions. However, they are mostly oriented to regulate wireless stations' communications and not final individual applications communication requests. Moreover, they do not monitor previous performance aspects (variable) not allowing to the system to dynamically adjust its performance for more efficiency.
These questions open an interesting line of work to develop adaptive algorithms and interactive control methods that perform this adjustment dynamically. The basic idea is to monitor network conditions in real-time, receive feedback measures of the variables of interest, and based on these measures and QoS requirements, make a wireless communication prioritization assigning to the services the considered bandwidth data rate.
Regarding industrial solutions and projects, the work presented in this paper has considered wireless communications systems which have been widely applied to railway industry in order to respond to the communication needs demanded by railway companies. In this sense, the Safe Driver Machine Interface (SAFEDMI) [
The railway company EuskoTren (from the Basque Country in the north of Spain) has invested in the renovation of its trains and they have also been involved in technological innovation in order to incorporate new security and reliability systems. This technological innovation includes the definition of a wireless connectivity architecture [
On the other hand, Onboard Wireless Secured Video Surveillance (BOSS) [
Related to intra-wagon communications, this paper studies the application of Bluetooth piconet networks for intra-train communications. Piconet [
Sensors can use piconet to relay information about the state of the local environment or of a particular device. Personal connectivity is improved because the multitude of mobile and fixed devices commonly used by an individual can be connected by piconet; it might be used to personalize things nearby or allow two devices near each other to interoperate. Embedded networking is also suitable for smart information services: active diaries, alarms, information points, and electronic business cards, for example. The inherent close range connectivity that the piconet provides enables these applications can be context-aware [
Within the railway environment, and leveraging the features of wireless communications and personal smartphones, many applications of interest to railway users can be developed. Some of them concern trip monitoring, others concern location- and located-based services, close communications among passengers, notification and alert messages, registration, ticket booking and payment, intermodal passenger assistance, personal navigation, distribution and exchange of railway-related information, intelligent train control, demand-oriented transportation planning and rescheduling [
One needs to accurately know the performance of the communication channel to be used since these determine the feasibility of the services provided on it. In such way, Bluetooth is a suitable technology for alarm and event notification, and short messaging. It performs well at small and discrete data transfers, where data, which can be read at any time by a client, can be triggered by local events or user requests. Typical applications inform the user about the conditions on board (temperature, humidity, vehicle speed, vehicle occupancy,
Once the different approaches and existing solutions are analyzed and taking an overview of the related work in this area, the proposed solution establishes a communication system that enables intra-train and train-to-ground connectivity. This work has been deployed in a train manufactured by CAF (one of the largest train manufacturers in the world). Concerning integration issues, trains connectivity architecture is one of the most important aspects of the work. Specifically, the train used to carry out our tests has two networks that connect all devices that are deployed on the train.
On the one hand, it is the control network known as Train Communication Network (TCN). This network was the result of the work of the most important railway manufacturers (mainly Bombardier and Siemens) and its architecture is based on IEC 61375 standard [
On the other hand, there is the Added-Value Network (AVN). This network architecture is very similar to a local area network. It is usually based on the Ethernet standard. The objective of this second network is the connection of the devices that support other essential components of the train, such as: people counting systems, air conditioning systems, infotainment systems. Similar architectures have already been successfully employed in other scenarios, such as intelligent lighting systems and agricultural control [
Taking into account this train network architecture (
So, this solution deploys a BPN on each wagon. BPNs are interconnected each other through a train Ethernet network (AVN), which enables an information channel along the train. AVN is also integrated with the train-to-ground communication system in order to achieve external connectivity.
This approach will allow the railways companies to exchange information with their trains and distribute contents and information to the users. Thus, this kind of communications enables the development of new on trip personalized digital services for passengers (e.g., trip information, weather forecast or train connections in destination).
In order to respond to train-to-ground communications challenges, we propose a communication middleware that aims to enable several physical network links between train and ground system (3G, WiFi,
Focusing on an application layer middleware it is a more flexible approach being able to introduce new parameters or factors that can be managed to improve communications performance. So, the objective is to develop a dynamic and adaptive communications solution based not only on network conditions or applications request priorities. This system is based also on system historical performance parameters (previous bandwidth values, time in network coverage areas during the transportation routes, previous applications communications performance,
This middleware has been designed to respond to several requirements:
This middleware is composed of two software elements (
In order to establish train-to-ground communications, TCM and GCM can communicate through different communication network physical links. The TCM is who selects the active link considered most favourable for communications based on available link bandwidth measurements notified by the BMS, and then establishes active link connection with the GCM. Two kinds of flows are involved in these communications: data and control. Thus, GCM and TCM on each train communicate each other and exchange commands in order to establish active links and manage the prioritization of train and ground final applications requests. These priorities are managed using specific queue scheduling techniques. The control protocol is defined using XML messages where information is exchanged via TCP/IP sockets. Thus, this middleware is composed of several functional modules:
All these abilities have being successfully tested through preconfigured scenarios. The tests objective is to evaluate system performance under known conditions which include different kind of final applications with different communications and QoS needs, and changes in different network links connectivity conditions.
In a real situation, the vehicle moves from one network coverage area to other, which changes the conditions of the available access networks and bandwidth values. So, in order to set up a scenario as close as possible to real network conditions and bandwidth values, we measured bandwidth of two 3G links of different mobile phone companies along a route.
Having these values measured, we applied a bandwidth limiter tool (NetLimiter [
On the other hand, based on our previous experience working with transportation systems [
Based on these bandwidth values and the set of example applications, we deployed the test scenario. It was composed of a laptop for the train system, a PC for the terrestrial system, and a wireless router and two WiFi network links connected to the laptop (
Once the network bandwidth limitations and communication requests of the scheduled applications had been configured, we ran tests in order to evaluate system performance. Tests started launching first the high priority (CCTV in real time) and normal priority (deferred CCTV) requests. Critical requests are related to positioning service. So, this kind of request was created every 10 s, similarly to a real situation. In addition, during the tests, in the second minute was scheduled the launch of the low priority request (vehicular applications log downloads).
On the other hand, this test has been done through two network interfaces, so
This test lasts 9 min. If we look at the
The situation presented in
Therefore, the previous functional tests demonstrate that the system performance is successful taking into account its design objectives. The results determine that the middleware improves the performance of the most priority communications, and ensures that all data transmissions will perform in response to the final application QoS requirements.
Our approach proposes an intra-wagon communications network establishment based on Bluetooth Piconet Networks (BPN), which enable users' ubiquitous interaction with the train information systems. Thus, Bluetooth devices are organized in small networks (piconets) with one device acting as the master and up to seven others acting as active slaves, at any given time [
Therefore, the proposed solution applies intra-wagon communications creating a BPN inside each passenger train wagon. The tests have been based on three devices, one master unit and two slaves. The master unit device is placed just below the ceiling in the central part of the wagon, and the two slaves are just above the seats, emulating a real person who is sitting in the wagon sending information with a mobile device.
In addition, simulations have been made using the indoor wagon passenger train as scenario. The wagon has been modeled as a metallic cube, with rows of seats with a polycarbonate base. Simulations are based on the deterministic method of a 3D beam source, with the aid of an in-house developed ray launching code [
As stated above, in this type of environment, the fundamental radio electric phenomenon is described by multipath propagation. To illustrate this fact, the power delay profile for the passenger wagon in a central location has been obtained and is shown in
The intra-wagon communication system based on nomadic devices has been assessed for Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) and classic Bluetooth. BLE is an emerging wireless technology developed by the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) for short-range communication. In contrast with classic Bluetooth, BLE has been designed as a low-power solution for control and monitoring applications. BLE is the distinctive feature of the Bluetooth 4.0 specification [
In order to validate the results previously obtained, measurements in a real wagon train have been developed. A transmitter antenna, connected to a signal generator at 2.4 GHz has been located at the coordinates (X = 14.8 m, Y = 1.25 m, Z = 1.1 m) which correspond with the final part of the wagon train, with a transmission power of −10 dBm. The employed signal generator is a portable Agilent N1996A and the spectrum analyzer is an Agilent N9912 Field Fox. The antennas used are ECOM5-2400 from RS, both omnidirectional antennas.
In order to validate the results described above, we have developed RailService, an app developed for Android and IOS mobile devices that allows them to act as a remote control to select the TV channels and volume of the screen embedded in the front seat, which also reveals environmental vehicle parameters (temperature, humidity, speed), the time remaining to reach the destination and an alarm to alert the passenger with a certain advance of the arrival at destination. In order to prevent during screen's degradation due to the continuous, and sometimes inadequate, use of the buttons of the screens (or even the touch screens) we allow the use of the passenger's smartphone as a remote that controls the display and forwards the audio signal to the user. Passengers can then listen to the audio from their own phone and control their screen from their own smartphone.
Audio and video contents are supplied by a content provider (or a set of them). We collect the multimedia contents in a network-attached storage (NAS) in order to avoid the interruption of the information flow when the train traverses areas of low or null coverage that may cause the degradation of the user's perception of the service. The NAS, a Blusens Server Box in our case, makes use of DLNA and UPnP to provide via WiFi the multimedia flow to the screens embedded in the back seats.
Since Bluetooth was designed to minimize energy consumption, it is not indicated to provide multimedia transfer. For this reason, some authors as [
Transportation companies have been investing heavily in recent years in technological innovation activities in order to improve the quality of services offered to their customers. This is allowing the establishment of wireless communications between vehicles and management facilities of these companies, enabling the development and deployment of new Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS).
This paper has proposed a solution to provide the ubiquitous connectivity needed to enhance the smart train concept. It includes not only train-to-ground communication systems, but also intra-wagon connectivity which integrates passengers' devices in the environment.
Regarding the last challenge, results of several radioelectric simulations have been presented in order to analyze the viability of the applications of Bluetooth Piconet Networks inside train wagons, using an indoor wagon passenger train as test scenario. On the other hand, a research work focused on the development of a train-to-ground communication middleware designed to respond to communication requirements demanded by railway applications was presented. It manages aspects related to QoS, uses multiple radio and mobile interfaces (GPRS, UMTS, WLAN,
The research area where is focused the research work presented in this paper has still a long way since the progress in telecommunications and its applications for the development of new services in the transportation open a wide range of possibilities (from the point of view of network communications, and also from the point of view of information systems that could be developed around it). In regards to the extension of the presented approach to other transportation systems, as for example suburban systems, the software communication architecture is fully compliance with other systems, but several issues related to physical layer such as bandwidth or channel capacity, should be explored and addressed specifically.
This work has been funded by the Ministry of Science and Innovation of Spain under INNPACTO funding program (RailTrace project, IPT-370000-2010-036) and to project TIN2011-28347-CO2-02. Special thanks to Eusko Trenbideak - Ferrocarriles Vascos S.A. for their support.
The authors declare no conflict of interest.
Network architecture of the ubiquitous connected train.
Train-to-ground communication middleware architecture.
Estimated bandwidth mean values.
Test set-up.
Bandwidth of the active link.
Low priority request launch.
Low priority communication pause for bandwidth limitations.
High priority request prioritization.
Estimation of received power (dBm) on the indoor passenger wagon train for height of 1.5 m obtained by full 3D Ray Launching algorithm.
Estimation of radials of received power (dBm) along the X-axis for Y = 1.25 m along the indoor passenger wagon train.
Power Delay Profile at a given cuboid, located at the central location in the indoor wagon train: (
Estimation of radials of received power (dBm) along the X-axis for Y = 1.25 m and Z = 0.8 m along the indoor passenger wagon train (
Measurement points within the passenger wagon train.
Comparison simulation
RailService's screen captures.
RailService's architecture.
Some communication flows for the remote control of the app.
Set of test applications.
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I recently read Montessori from the Start, and I've become acquainted with the general principles of Montessori education and upbringing. In particular, I do believe that an orderly environment with a place for everything is a good way to raise children.
However, my husband is the kind of person who just leaves things ...wherever. He's the kind of person who never makes the bed because it's just going to get slept in again. He keeps asking me to buy a second laundry basket, but I resist because if we had two, he'd never put his clothes in the drawers. We have talks/fights about this from time to time (often including him reminding me that "entropy is the law!"), but they seem to have little lasting effect. He and I spend about equal time taking care of our 9-month-old son, since we each work from home for half of the day and are in the office for the other half. When I get home to take over after a morning in the office, there are toys everywhere, the baby's baskets of clothes are off the shelves, and sometimes the potty (we do EC) still has the morning poop in it!
I also should add that he has a traumatic brain injury, and I'm never really sure how much of his quirks have to do with that, how much have to do with just being a guy, how much is just how he is, and how much is trying to drive me crazy.
I've accepted the fact that I'll never change my husband, though I do point out when he is making my life more difficult. However, I really want to raise my children to have a respect for and inclination toward order. Among other things, having some help reversing the entropy around here would be pretty awesome.
I would even be ok with my kids having two ways of being--a different set of rules for mom and dad.
Has anyone attempted to have an orderly Montessori-in-the-home environment when your spouse doesn't really see the value in an orderly lifestyle? I could use some advice/help/assistance.
Mama to Silas Anansi, born 9/9/10 and Petra Eadaion, born 10/1/12.
Can't help you, I'm in the same boat. (the entropy comment too...aargh!)
I'll be enjoying any feedback and advice you get!!!
ok...but seriously, I have learned one thing..
I learned that I can't control his behavior, and it's unrealistic for me to have the entire house the way I would like it, but I have managed to establish "calm" areas...spaces that need to be ordered and peaceful. (in our case, these are the kitchen when not in use-it must be neat and clean when I come down in the morning, the dinning room table, DD's play area when not in use and the front hall) The rest of the house, well, let's not go there.
I selected these areas for the importance in our daily rythm. They didn't get neat and order overnight..nnooo way!! But I found that now that they are, it seems easier to keep them that way.
It did involve a pretty big purge to get rid of anything that was cluttering the space.
I'm not going to fool you in thinking this turned my DH in some magical tidy man (oh how I wish!!!), I am the one who does most of the picking up (DD is still just a toddler), but I will admit that I find that DH has a lot more respect for the order in these spaces than he did before, and he will even tidy up every once in a while! (which is something he never ever did before)
Like I said, the rest of the house can be a disaster, but somehow these spaces can be brought back to order and peace and that feels good, you know!
I keep reminding myself that it's a process.
You won't necessarily change him, but you can help facilitate a more orderly environment. I think children want order and if you can help the child be orderly then that's half the battle. Your son is 9 months old, but when you arrive home and put things aways "hi son, since we're done, we're going to put things away".
The second laundry basket/hamper is a great idea - we implemented that and it's a small step above clothes on the floor so now my little one knows that clothes go in the hamper. We have a hamper upstairs and downstairs.
I think of putting things away a lot like point of sale candy racks. We purchase what's in front of us. Similarly, if there is an easy way to put things away, then I'm more apt to do it. I have a lot of bins, bring them out for my daughter to put her puzzle pieces, etc.
Cubby holes - shoes, purses, gloves all go in the cubby (not always first try), but takes a blitz through the living room to put everything away in the entry-way - these don't have baskets so they don't need to be pulled out to access something.
Low shelves and bins - I found some very nice ones for a reasonable costs - again, nothing needs to be pulled out
One nice thing about cubby shelves and bins - your husband doesn't need to pull out the basket to reach the items.
I know your son is 9 months old - but, within a year, he should be responsible for HELPING to put his own things away. I started at about a year and a half.old, before bed we'd put things away.
Last thing - and I cannot emphasize enough - less is better. If there are more possessions than can be put on the shelf and in a set of bins, it's more than a child needs. Invest in a plastic tote to put away the extras.
I hope this helps - my home certainly won't be in a magazine, but now that I have cubby systems and shelves, at least things are off the floor and it's easier for me and my daughter to put things away.
Hope this helps - I struggle a great deal with entropy so I had to create the environment that accommodated it. I hope it's not against TOS to post links to products, they were just included to illustrate how cubby shelves, bins and low shelves make it EASIER to put things away.
First, I wanted to thank you for your thoughtful post. I've been working way overtime lately and hadn't had a chance to respond. I really do appreciate your presenting the other side of this, and in such a kind and rational way.
Wow, what you said about the baskets is SO TRUE. We have these cute little baskets under our changing table, with all of DS's clothes and diapers in them. DH gets them out to find an outfit or whatever, and never, never, never puts them back on the shelf. He says it's just so much easier to leave them out like that.
I'm going to try to get some cubbies like the ones you linked to. We rarely have so many toys out that they wouldn't fit in there (although, when I ask DH to *rotate* the baby's toys...he just gets out more. Without putting any away.)--in fact, they all fit into a picnic basket. It's just a matter of putting them there! I've read all these Montessori books that talk about how babies are naturally interested in "in and out." Well, mine is just interested in "out!" I'm hoping soon he'll find "in" compelling, and then we can toss his toys in the basket together.
Mama to Silas Anansi, born 9/9/10 and Petra Eadaion, born 10/1/12.
What a fantastic post! My first inclination is to say "It doesn't really matter what your husband does" because your kids are going to have their areas and he will have his. Moving has shown me and my husband what a difference separate spaces can make in a house. My little boy has two rooms for himself and a space in the kitchen just for him. Everything else is family space. Here is how we did it.
In his Room:
His drawers are 3 with underpants and socks in the top, shirts in the middle and pants on the bottom. These drawers are labeled and not over packed. He can put away his own clothes AND get dressed all by himself in the morning.
His toys are in specific places- even the different types of engines have different spaces. One at a time on his play rug and put away after (I'll be honest, one at a time doesn't always work but it helps!)
Basically a place for everything and everything in its place.
His second area is an all family creative space where he has a set of shelves and a small desk. These shelves are amazing! A bin for crayons, a bin for scissors, a bin for puff balls and felt and fun foam, etc. On another shelf, he has all his personal cooking equipment. On another he has science experiments.
In the Kitchen, he has one cupboard all to himself. In this cupboard, he has 3 bowls, 3 plates and 3 cups. He has granola bars, cereal or other special snacks. WHENEVER he wants, he grabs one or gets his own drink. awesome. He also has a similar situation in the bathroom.
This is why what your husband does doesn't matter to your children's Montessori method; All they have to worry about is their space. Try to ask him to confine his mess area to his bedroom or study.
My husband does generally confine his personal mess to his "man cave." I guess what I'm going crazy over is his inability to manage the baby's mess. DS is only 10 months old. He's not really capable of putting his own stuff away reliably. When I come home after DH has spent the morning with the baby, there are Cheerios all over the carpet and DS's toys scattered everywhere--because DH doesn't do a good job of putting stuff back where it goes. I hope that I'll be good enough at modeling order that DS will be able to keep his own spaces orderly someday, but right now, his spaces are orderly only when he is with me AND I have found the time to clean up from the baby mess that DH has left all over.
Mama to Silas Anansi, born 9/9/10 and Petra Eadaion, born 10/1/12.
It seem that you are going to have to carry the burden of the physical environment on your own until you can teach your DD to help out. I just want to add that order in the child's routine is also extremely important. Meals, bath time, bed time routines etc. need to be consistent and orderly. Children are happier when they know what to expect. (Plus, I always get compliments from babysitter about how easy my children are to put to bed.) Good luck to you!
I have the same situation. My husband cares for our daughter when I'm at work and it's like he is allergic to routine. I'm not even a neat person, and it drives me crazy. He also has some impairments, so it is hard to know what is going on. Some of the things that have worked for us is having it come from someone else "an authority figure" about how important the orderly environment and routine are for children -- in a book, a therapist, professional organizer, etc. We hired a professional organizer which really helped. We couldn't afford for her to organize the whole house, but we paid to have certain areas done and it really helped since she could listen to him and how his brain worked and set things up in a way that he could manage. Those areas after nearly a year remain fairly organized. Another tip is labels. I label everything so it has a "home" and I notice when the label is starring him in the face, he puts the object where the label is which is so nice because I can find it later! Yeah!! Good luck. I know what a challenge it is.
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Some heretic tried to interrupt the sanctity of Michelle Obama's Vineyard power walk?
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During the same vacation, nobody on Team Obama seemed to mind that the president was spotted golfing a few minutes after a statement about the beheading of a U.S. journalist, but somebody was worried about the optics of this?
Vocativ was on Martha's Vineyard over the weekend to film a piece about the African-American community on the island. While we were shooting on Beach Road, one of the busiest thoroughfares on the Vineyard, the Secret Service approached and asked us to switch off our camera for 15 minutes.
A moment later, first lady Michelle Obama power walked by our crew. She was out for some exercise with a small group—and a serious security detail. It was 9:30 in the morning.
Our producer and cameraman were surrounded by Secret Service agents and very strongly advised to stop filming. At one point, Mrs. Obama looked in their direction and said, "Don't do that." It's unclear if she was telling the agents to leave us alone, or scolding us for filming on public property.
More of the story here.
Weird how the Secret Service person seemed surprised somebody was trying to record that, but if it's really a problem, hasn't FLOTUS ever heard of a treadmill?
9 Responses to "Some heretic tried to interrupt the sanctity of Michelle Obama's Vineyard power walk?"
Tax Refunds on
August 27th, 2014 5:17 am
It's impossible for first lady to be private.
Marshall_Will on
August 27th, 2014 2:32 pm
"The first lady is a leading advocate for getting kids to be more active. She practices what she preaches". ( para )
Yeah, I'm sure the whole ( rather adult ) concept of "power walking" complete w/ entourage of brown nosers is instantly relateable to 7 year olds. The bigger point for Dim supporters that voted for these azzclowns would be: When was the last time moms working 2 ( part-time ) jobs since they lost their FT career had TIME for a power walk?
On Martha's Vineyard?
ChapBix on
August 27th, 2014 2:34 pm
Then that nasty First Amendment comes into play. The government censoring the press? Where's the outrage from the Fourth Estate?
Marshall_Will on
August 27th, 2014 3:37 pm
Poster over at Townhall noted ( re: the publicly-funded National Science Foundation's ) enactment of the Twitter Police, that some time back Obama tried to install Federal employees into news rooms across the nation.
When that FAILED ( we get the Twitter Popo ) All of which amount to attacks on the 1st! ( Ostensibly to do away w/ the 2nd? ) This is a CLEAR sign Progressives are losing the war on Twitter! Thanks in no small part to Mrs. Malkin.
So… in an effort to "level the playing field" they'll instead opt to "make conservative's every word, TOXIC!" on the Twittersphere. You just KNOW they'll be there an in instant every time some doochebag tries to make ethnic/sexual slurs toward MM and other conservative women!
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August 27th, 2014 3:41 pm
Ahem, on the topic of MM's You've Got Hatemail.., there's simply too much of it for it to be a coincidence! She's not even on TV any more and the Hate Tweets are coming from Zimbabwe or other obscure locale/individual.
These HAVE to be "straw accounts" set up by the Democrat Media Complex. There won't even BE an exchange or topic other than say one of local interest and OUT come the hate tweets! No Hipster is that bored or even adept to effect these…
Truesoldier__ on
August 27th, 2014 4:52 pm
No doubt about it. I am sure they are coming from the 19.5 million fake twitter followers of dear leader:
Truesoldier__ on
August 27th, 2014 4:54 pm
That reminds me of this working mom's open letter to Gwyenth Paltrow.
Marshall_Will on
August 28th, 2014 12:22 pm
Great link. Those guys always NAIL it. Their methods of determining 'fake accounts' is probably more precise than swing state voter rolls?
Even Twitter's OWN CEO admits it's an easy number to fabricate/manipulate. With over HALF of der' leader's "followers" more fake than Dolly Parton's..? How hard is it to manufacture Random Hipster Dude ( that shows no history of OTHER tweets ) to bring the racist quickie out of the blue?
Hipsters and [most] 20-somethings are far too lazy and horrified of harshing their buzz to BOTHER.
friv de on
September 3rd, 2014 5:41 am
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