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Camry 2011 transmission problem
Had an appointment with the dealership yesterday.
Again we went through the same list of complaints that I have been facing. Nothing new, they always have answers ready, some of which are pure BS.
Anyways, they had it inspected by their Lead Technician. After two hours of wait , all they did was a "learned memory reset". The said that they checked the transmission fluid, software version and it was all fine.
So, back to where I started. As per them the car will start "learning" again and I should see some difference after 2-3k miles.
May be I will forget driving by the time the car has finished learning
I can't believe I paid a fortune just to make a new car learn how to drive smooth and correct.0
i know what you mean, last time i was at the dealership i heard that I was the only person that ever had these issues and when i directed them to this website ( and several others) they said edmunds.com was full of __it
etc. I too am so depressed after paying for this car and having these problems. I am at 2500 miles now and dont feel much difference in this car at all - one day it drives "normallY' and others it is back to driving like a garbage truck. I see signs on the road all the time "Cash for Junk Cars" and say hmmmmmmmm !! Still shopping around to trade in here but hate to lose money on this one - Have a 3 day weekend coming so may drop back by the dealership to let them know I am still having issues.
Peru and delbar,
Sorry to hear that you are still having problems. I've been thinking some more about this issue. You both have 4cly engines? You both are conservative / fuel conscious drivers? You both drive for extended times below 45 mph?
If you could compare your driving situation, maybe you could come up with some commonality areas to help isolate the cause or possibly help generate a work around.0
thanks for your input
I am just at a loss for words right now! Wish there were an easy solution to this problem. I am now afraid to trade it in for fear that I will trade for a bigger problem. I hear hybrids dont have this issue but cant afford a hybrid
big sighs here !!!!!0
Hybrids don't have "these" problems because they use a form of CVT, the PSD, Power Split Device. There are a few cars with an actual CVT now in the marketplace.0
do you happen to have a list of the cars or SUV's with CVT ?
Sorry, no...
I have a 4 cyl engine. Not conservative on fuel. I don't pay much attention to what mileage I get. I do drive mostly above 45mph.
I posted a few days back that the dealer cleared the learned memory. I have driven around 100 miles after that and the car seems OK.
Earlier I used to experience a lot of intermittent "engine breaking" which seems to be ok after the reset. Drives much better at lower speeds. Never had a major complaint at higher speeds.
The only concerns right now I have is the hard shifting. And it in mainly during the first few miles after I start my car. It pauses for a second or so and then shifts into the next gear. Why is this happening ? Does it go away after a few hundred miles ?0
Clearing the "learned" memory should have no effect in the long term, the ECU will simply relearn, over time, the same control parameters all over again.
Are you certain a "reflash" (TSB?) that would have long term effect wasn't done....?0
I think that "pause" in gear shift you are experiencing is due to the cold engine and an intentional design...i notice that in my 98 and 2010 toyotas..I think keeping the rpms higher briefly warms up the engine quicker..within several minutes as the engine warms up the transmission begins to shift normally..0
What are the ambient temperatures when the problem occurs? I'd look at everything.... type of gas used, air temperature, for that matter even air pressure in the tires, climate, altitude, terrain, driving style.
I'd change as many of those factors as reasonable until I got a change in performance. Bump up your air pressure 5psi, start using premium gas, see if the problem occurs on warm days, drive the car like you stole it once in a while, take the long way home. Unless you are willing to change you'll never find the solution.
Every problem has a solution and a positive attitude is everything. There IS a bright side that will keep these type of issues in perspective. Hang in there.0
The ambient temperatures vary from below 0 to the high 90's but the shift delay only occurs when the engine is cold or hasn't been run for several hours..on an extremely cold day the shift delay is evident for a longer time period than on a warm day...after 3-5 minutes of driving, the shifting returns to normal..as i mentioned before, I don't consider this a problem, just a "design quirk"..my toyota service manager said the same thing..0
I believe your symptoms indicate a slightly low transmission fluid level.
As I said earlier, checking the fluid level is a pain in the butt because the transmission must be hot to get a good reading. Because there is no dip stick it requires removing plugs and using your finger or visually checking for overflow. I don't have the exact procedure, but I think it can only be accessed from below the car. Sticking your arm into a hot motor/transmission area is zero fun especially as the exhaust system is right there too.
Based on my four decades of experience with dealership service centers, when the procedure is even slightly complicated I seriously doubt any auto repair tech is going to do the necessary steps to check it unless he absolutely has to.
So all the words in the world from a service rep don't mean squat unless they have the integrity to go through the whole CORRECT (meaning while hot) service procedure to verify the fluid levels on these transmission that are having problems. I'm guessing that low fluid level is the majority of the issues with these transmission and a difficult service procedure is the reason it's not fixed.
There is an additional issue with the shifting where the transmission is told to short shift pretty much skipping a gear (1st to 3rd, 2nd to 4th, 3rd to 5th) and spending less than a second in the middle gear.
Overall it's an interesting issue but one Toyota needs to look at if they expect repeat customers. I do hope that a everyone gets it fixed because it's annoying.0
motorcity6 Posts: 427Problem solved, better economy, and life returns to normal..My 06 Pontiac Grand Prix GT does its final shift at 45mph....or higher if the gas pedal is crushed..RPMs drop to 1250 @45mph..My other ride is a 5 speed man shift Mustang GT..
I first visited this website after I took the Pontiac in for tradein value on a 2011 Camry SE-4banger w/auto..$5000 reduction from MSRP on Camry, looked like a great deal until I came across the "mysterious shifting" and decided to cancel the balance of the deal..
Having a 2002 Camry XLE in my garage, I can attest that it's a trouble free ride, not exciting, but does basic automotive expectations very well..However I was in no mood to fight the service dept or whomever had to be involved over a shifting pattern or it's perceived shifting behavoir..
Anyone owning a mis-shifter, just drive it and if falls apart, then the fun begins...Sure would not rush out to trade into something else which may have a completely new "Quirk." Cars are fun items, but also can be a money-pit with headaches galore.. Camry builds a good car, however I didn't wish to push my luck..any increase in gas mileage could be offset by medical expenses incurred by frustration over your transmissions behavior...it's a losing game..0
It would be a safe bet that the dealer service personel have been forewarned against even checking the ATF level, let alone "topping off" above factory fill levels.
It's now SEALED for a good reason.0
I brought my 2011 SE Camry the day before X'mas. Took a trip home, approx 400 miles round trip. When i came back, i noticed everything you said happening to my car. In addition, when i'm braking, the care idles up and when driving btw 30 to 45mph, the gears shifts inconsistent. Sometimes jerking me. To be a brand new Camry, the car runs awful. Car has about 4,000 miles on it now because we have been traveling alot and it is running worst than ever. I took it to the dealer and of course they say nothing is wrong. How is your car running now?0
Wow! Your problems are very specific and they are on point of what is going on with my 2011 SE. I only had the car for a 2 months and all of the above are my issues too. I took my car to the dealer two times and they say nothing is wrong with it. This is UNBELIEVABLE. Was anything ever resolved with your car? I contacted the Toyota Customer Service and put in a complaint. Don't know how that will turn out. I hate my car and won't even drive it. I would rather drive my 1997 Ford Expedition with 199,000 miles. It has a better ride. UNBELIEVABLE! Please reply back to me and let me know what is going on with your car.0
I sincerely understand what you are going through. I feel the same way about mine. I want to trade it in, but i put $5000 down and i know i will lose out if i trade. Toyota is full of it! I think we need to start a class action suit.0
mine now has a little over 3000 miles on it and still having the issue.
2 trips so far to toyota and of course they say all is "normal"
car jerks into lower gears, car skips, sluggish acceleration at times and when braking car feels like it is being "pulled" to one side and binds. I also have a low "whiny" noise coming from under the hood when accelerating and when braking. I filed a complaint with toyota headquarters and they closed the case once the dealership found nothing wrong. I have downloaded a form from NHTSA site to fill out but have not had time to do that yet. I want to trade mine in too - problem is I paid cash for the car and will be out $ if I do unless I can trade keys for something else. I am also wondering why the local dealership has about 12 used 2011 Camry's with very low mileage for sale on their lots, some were rentals but others show two owners. I am also concerned that if I keep taking it in for service the carfax on the car will bring down the trade in value as well !
This is a dilemma that I think of every day and I hate driving this car ! Am going to try and fill out my NHTSA form this weekend and get that started as well. anyway - what really can we do ?? are we screwed or what ??!!
so sick of thinking about it and so sick of driving I wish I could take a cab to work !!
I also have found innovative routes to and from work to avoid some of the white knuckle experiences ! This is just ridiculous ! Also, my daughter has an 09 RAV-4 and has 20K on it and needed a brake job already, and is now still having noise from her brakes !! Toyota of is making crap for vehicles now and I am sure they have so many complaints they cant keep up with them ! Anyway, I have gone on long enough this a.m. - have to get ready for the not so enjoyable trip to work0
mfj Posts: 2I posted a similar finding back in June 2010, two months after I purchased my 2011 Camry 4 cyl automatic xle. Findings included: 1) jerky shifting between gears at around 2,000 rpm and while the vehicle speed is less than 45 mph , 2) an odd "downshift - then - upshift" while the vehicle is on a level road and is coasting down in speed and through the range from 25 mph to 15 mph, 3) a sensation that the car is stalling when it comes to a quick and controlled stop, 4) While these findings are present at all times, they are most noticeable when the car is at or under 45 degrees Fahrenheit (as read by the dashboard ambient thermometer display).
Recently, I was at the dealership for the 10,000 mile service, and while I was waiting I test drove another 2011 Camry 4cyl automatic xle, that had 25 miles on the odometer. I found that the car I test drove did not demonstrate the same findings I noted in #1 & #2 in the above paragraph.
The posts that I have been reading the past several months seem to indicate the the issues (#1 & #2) start occurring after the owner has driven the Camry for some number of miles.
A transmission system, at least from a "10,000 foot" perspective, includes mechanical parts, computer interface, and fluids. What if the problem is due to something very simple - like maybe the transmission fluid has been compromised in some way.
Here is my question. If the transmission fluid is flushed and replaced with new transmission fluid (Toyota brand fluid - of course), would this improve or correct the problems we have been noticing?
I look forward to reading responses to this question.0
luckyseven Posts: 134Very unlikely that there is anything wrong with transmission fluid in your car. I bet this is transmission software issue. When current gen 4 cyl Camry came out (2007?) there were all kinds of complaints on it's 5 speed transmission performance, you can try reading older posts. It took Toyota almost a year to improve transmission software to the point that complaints stopped. Cars produced earlier needed to be taken back to the dealer to get new software flashed in. I'm sure most Camry buyers are not noticing any problems, there are very few who are, otherwise their sales numbers wouldn't be as good as they are now. Toyota most likely already working on improved software for 6 speed transmissions but they doesn't think this is a high priority. If you guys keep calling their customer service with complaints then you might see new software sooner.0
Everything you said in your post is true. But i must say, i live in FL and for the past few weeks, we have been having 70degrees weather, and my car is still doing this. No matter when i get in my car, whether it is cool outside or warm, my car idles up really high when starting. I have to press my pedal to make it idle down.
I test drove a Camry the other day, same style of car, and the car drove good. No jerking or anything. I think you are right, when you drive your car for a number of miles, the problem comes out.
I called the Toyota Customer Experience number and was advised to test drive another one. They will be calling me back on Monday to see what I found. But from the way that guy was talking, he said if they speak to the mechanic at the dealership and they say they couldn't duplicate the problem, there is nothing they can do about it. Sound very script to me because the mechanic at the dealership said those exact words "can't duplicate the problem" to me. Something is strange going on...The rep also told me i can take it to a 3rd party arbitration...has anyone done that yet?0
Every new car leaving the factory has the various controlling ECU's loaded with a full set of DEFAULT, closest approximations, parameters. As the car is driven for the initial, say, 200 miles, these parameters are adjusted on the fly in order to get the parameter set to the most optimal setting.
The longer you drive the car the more resolution thse parameters will have regarding things like DRIVEABILITY, FE, EMISSIONS, etc. Beyond 200 miles these parameters will still be modified but now more in accordance with part wear rate, sensor drifting, etc.
Many of these parameters can be reset to the factory default by disconnecting the battery for 10-15 minutes.
So, many of these modern day cars will behave differently, sometimes in really odd ways, in an initial test drive vs down the road road about 200 miles.
But I'm pretty sure the following "symptoms" will now be with us for a VERY long time as they have to do with rather serious FE gains.
A) Shiftiness, continuous up and down shifting of these new 6(10) speed automatic transmissions in cruise mode due to the vargaries, however slight, of the roadbed and terrain.
1-2 second re-acceleration downshift delay, DBW system ENFORCES a delay in rising engine torque until a downshift can be completed that QUICKLY follows an upshift sequence.
C) Repetitive downshifting as roadspeed declines during a coastdown period to accomodate the new coastdown fuel cut technique. As you coast down from say 50 MPH the transaxle will downshift again and again to keep the engine above stall speed with NO FUEL. As you reach a slow enough speed that this can no longer be accomplished fuel flow will be restored and the tranaxle will now upshift. Making matters a bit worse, the final "coastdown" shift, into FIRST, will now not occur until the car comes to a FULL stop.
Weird set of "seat-of-the-pants" feelings, jerkiness, there.0
The operational temperature of your catalytic converter is in the range of 800F. The design is such that the QUICKER the converter rises to that level the quicker the emissions are lower to the EPA standard.
The design "thought" might be: On initial engine startup there may be no intention to drive away immediately, remote start for instance. So the engine is left at "high" idle, UNTIL there is an indication that the car is about to be driven, put in motion.
You may also notice that the car will not shift into/use OD for the first mile or so. That's for the very same reason, keep the engine RPM "high" until the converter comes up to operational temperature.0
4lisak4 Posts: 4I have the same problem, but dealership doesn't hear it. Mine seems to be getting more frequent. Is yours?0
jr125 Posts: 1I was experimenting the same issue, after I got a CHECK ENGINE LIGHT. First they reset everything and told me that the computer was on the learning proccess (2011 Camry with 23000 MILES) and the car did not have anything. That happened on a monday on friday the same week I was getting the same CHECK ENGINE warning. I took back to the dealer and the had to replace the entire transmition system. (CODE P2770). It's really scary when I read all this complaining. I hope that this help...0
I am having issues with a noise in the front end, between the tires every time I start the car and take off. Its a clunking noise and bugs the hell out of me. I am in the car business and leased it from a dealership where a friend works. I mentioned the problem to my friend and he said bring it in. I have had it 4 months and have 4000 miles on it. I finally had some time at 7:30 am to drop it off for inspection. Had to get shuttled to work. Anyways the mechanic says...if I don't hear the noise....then, I have a problem. What? He says its the ABS sytem filling with fluid and this will occur everytime I start the car and drive. How obnoxious. I feel this is a system flaw and there should be a recall. I have owned other cars with ABS and have never had this issue. Whats the recourse. I am taking th e car to a Toyota Certified mechanic outside the selling dealership. These prices are sooooo steep on these Toyotas....there should NOT BE ANY UNUSUAL noises that you have to put up with...every single day! Ridiculous!!! Any similair issues out there?0
I have the same issue on my 2011 Camry SE......A clunking noise every time I start the car and take off.......Its obnoxous and I do not pay big money every month to have to listen to that damn noise. Seriously!!!!! My car has 4000 miles on it and has made the noise since I took it home....did not notice on the test drive....possibly because the salesperson was talking so much. Hard to find time to take back to dealership...but did this week at 7:30 am before work and received shuttle to work. The findings? Mechanic says ABS system filling with fluid at each start causes the noise. If I don't hear the noise....then I should worry. I am very unhappy with this car and the answer received from the dealership. Give me the complaint # to call...please!!! Thx sunshine43....I knew I wasn't crazy!0
I agree...very unhappy with the 2011 Camry SE I have on a 3 year lease. The best thing about the car is the bluetooth and the 3 free months of XM radio. The clunking ABS noise is ridiculous. Class action suit???? Let me know!0
The SE seems to have problems too. Supposedly the clunking noise is common and comes from the ABS system filling on each start and take off in the car. Seriously sick of hearing the noise. Mechanic says if I DONT hear it I should worry then....Give me a break!0


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Seville - my new favorite city, and our rooftop, my new favorite rooftop. While there is still so much to discover and experience in Paris, it feels very much like home - and so lazying about, spending an afternoon drinking wine, reading and napping feels very wrong in Paris. But not in Seville! These photos were taken from our rooftop deck, right before I began that before mentioned nap. It was warm, with a slight breeze and church bells ringing in the distance, ever so often.


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Panalpina aces on sustainability scores
Press releases • Mar 27, 2019 09:45 GMT
International logistics and freight forwarding company Panalpina has achieved an A- for climate change from the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP), highlighting the company's position as a global leader for corporate action on climate and environmental protection.
Panalpina sets ambitious CO2 emissions targets for 2025
Press releases • Dec 19, 2016 11:00 GMT
Following last year's UN Climate Talks in Paris and as part of a global effort to mitigate climate change, Panalpina has delivered on its promise and set science-based emissions targets for the coming years. Panalpina is now one of 32 international companies to have such targets that have been approved by the Science Based Targets initiative.
Panalpina reports on sustainability progress during 2015
Press releases • Apr 12, 2016 09:00 GMT
During 2015, Panalpina continued its commitment to reducing its environmental impact, with a focus on greenhouse gas emissions. At the UN Climate Talks in Paris held in December 2015, it was announced that Panalpina was one of over 100 international companies and the only logistics company so far to commit to set reduction targets as part of the Science Based Targets Initiative.
Panalpina continues to gain ground in climate disclosure program
Press releases • Dec 22, 2015 08:00 GMT
Panalpina has received its highest Carbon Disclosure Project supply chain program score to date, reaching a score of 94 points out of 100. Furthermore, during the UN Climate Talks in Paris earlier this month, it was announced that Panalpina is one of 114 international companies that have committed to set science-based emissions targets as part of a global effort to mitigate climate change.


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With Shouts and Hugs, Sprint Boss Masayoshi Son of SoftBank Drives Turnaround
SoftBank Chief Executive Masayoshi Son Pushes Sprint to Shed 'Loser' Mindset in Mobile-Phone Industry
At a meeting with Sprint Corp. executives in October, the chief executive of parent company SoftBank Corp. lost his temper about the mobile carrier's advertising, complaining that it wasn't luring enough new customers.
"Are you stupid?" yelled Masayoshi Son, who engineered the Japanese company's takeover of the No. 3 wireless provider in the U.S. last year for about $22 billion, according to three people in the room. He slammed his fist on a table and suggested that Sprint fire all its ad agencies and start over....


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One of the best talks at BUILD - just not long enough!
I am sorry if this note is placed for wrong place, but I could not find any better suitable place.
I watched this Build conference video and I was NOT actually surprised to learn that there hasn't been too much interest by developer to WMI.
The speaker mention that developers get cold when it comes to native C++ which is required to develop a WMI/WMF/CIM based components.
I looked these videos and I am truly intrested in to develop and use them when I would need to integrate application management infrastructure as part of integrated solution which spans in multiple windows servers / desktops.
I believe this "developers getting cold" is not whole truth but rather lack of information made available for developers, or at least not in my case or cases I or my colleagues have been working.
Demo presenter says that these will be made available in download as we speak. However, there is a very little information anywhere I search for these.
I still don't find CIM Provider template for VS, neither by use of VS2010 Ultimate / VS11 Develop Preview (not express).
I downloaded WINDOWS MANAGEMENT FRAMEWORK 3.0 CTP1 RELEASE, which you cannot install into Windows 8 x64, neither any of the components can be used in VS11 Developer Preview.
Build was for Windows 8, fair enough, I saw that presenter where using VS2010 and I were able to install these components to Windows 7 / VS2010 Ultimate(s). Again cannot find anywhere the CIM templates neither more information in Channel9, MSDN, MSND Downloads, TechNet, or Microsoft Downloads.
I could not even find the forum for WMI / WMF / CIM Stuff. Now after two days of searching I find it hard to keep up the motivation to resolve this lack of information, even though videos were promising.
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At approximately 10:05 p.m., police from the 104th Precinct were notified of the suspicious package, sending emergency vehicles to quarantine the area.
Later reports from the 104th stated the duffle bag was filled with personal items like soap, toothpaste, socks and deodorant.
An FDNY Hazmat Unit found multiple containers to be filled with old gasoline, which was neutralized
"You see something you say something," Polgar said. "You don't want to take any chances. The fumes were so strong, that if somebody would have thrown a match in there, it would have been pretty bad."
The surrounding block was roped off with caution tape, homes in the area were evacuated and Maspeth High School was notified, however the school was not evacuated.
Polgar recalled his mother noticing a suspicious white van parked near where the items were found the night before at around 11 p.m. However, they did not notice whether anything was dropped off at that time.
"It had headlights on for a while and then left," he said of his mother's account of the incident. "Maybe they dumped it, I don't have any idea. As soon as I saw the duffle bag I said, 'Uh oh, I don't want to take any chances.'"


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SANTA BARBARA, Calif. – The UC Santa Barbara men's basketball team will travel to Utah State on Saturday, Feb. 18 for a Sears BracketBuster game, it was announced Monday. The game will not be televised.
The Aggies and Gauchos have a history as Big West Conference rivals and have met 61 times. Utah State has won 39 of the match-ups between the teams.
"It will be great to renew our rivalry with Utah State," said UCSB head coach Bob Williams. "It's always a tough trip because they are well-coached and have a great crowd, but we have a relationship with people there so this is a good draw."
This will be the second time that the Gauchos have played the Aggies in a BracketBuster match-up. The two teams also met in Logan in 2008 with Utah State winning, 72-59.
Including the 2008 meeting with the Aggies, this year's game will be UCSB's eighth as part of the BracketBuster series. In the inaugural event in 2003, the Gauchos lost to the University of Detroit by a score of 75-59. They also played BracketBuster games in 2006 (winning at San Jose State, 76-72), 2007 (losing at home to Eastern Washington, 71-70), 2009 (winning at home against Montana State, 78-72 in overtime), 2010 (winning at Fresno State, 64-60) and 2011 (losing at home to Boise State, 78-76 in overtime).
Utah State, which is coached by Stew Morrill, is currently 12-10 on the season. The Aggies have three players scoring in double-figures, led by guards Preston Medlin and Brockeith Pane who average 15.3 and 12.5 points per game respectively. Among their wins this season was a Nov. 11 win over BYU, 69-62.
All Big West teams are participating in the BracketBusters event. Long Beach State will travel to No. 12 Creighton in a televised matchup on ESPN2/ESPN3, headlining the league's participation.
Non-televised home games for the Big West include Montana State at Cal State Fullerton, Fresno State at Cal State Northridge, Eastern Washington at UC Irvine, Southern Utah at UC Riverside and Idaho State at Pacific. Road matchups include Cal Poly at Northern Colorado and UC Davis at Northern Arizona.
UCSB enters the week with a record of 11-7 overall and a Big West record of 6-2. The Gauchos travel to Cal State Northridge on Thursday, Feb. 2 for a 7:00 p.m. game against the Matadors. On Saturday, Feb. 4, they will play at Cal State Fullerton in a 6:00 p.m. game that will be televised on ESPNU.
All UCSB games can be heard live on KZSB AM 1290 and online by clicking here. Gerry Fall and Don Ford call all the action. Broadcasts begin 30 minutes prior to tip-off with the pregame show.


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The best time to visit 'Abādilah in United Arab Emirates is from january until december, when you will have a pleasant till very hot temperature and none till limited rainfall. The highest average temperature in 'Abādilah is 39°C in june and the lowest is 25°C in january. The weather and climate of 'Abādilah is suitable for a sun vacation.
The average climate figure for 'Abādilah is an 9,2. This is based on various factors, such as average temperatures, the chance of precipitation and weather experiences of others.
'Abādilah has the desert climate prevailing. The daytime temperature is warm to hot, while it can also be cold at night. You won't have rain here anytime soon. If you want to know what the average temperature is in 'Abādilah or when most precipitation (rain or snow) falls, you can find an overview below. This way, you are well prepared. Our average monthly climate data is based on data from the past 30 years.


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Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a chronic inflammatory disorder in which patients have inappropriate inflammation in various parts of the gastrointestinal tract. IBD can be further subdivided into Crohn's disease (which can affect all segments of the gastrointestinal tract) and ulcerative colitis (which predominantly affects the large intestine). 25% of patients with IBD in the United States were diagnosed during childhood. The treatment for IBD typically includes immunosuppressive medications that possess increased risk of both infection and cancer. By nature, children who start strong immunosuppressive agents may need to live with the consequences of these treatment choices made in early life. As the cause of IBD (in children and adults) is poorly understood, the available treatments do not adequately target the causal event of IBD but rather suppress inflammation at a late stage. The goal of my research is to better understand the cause of IBD.
Recent reports of children with mutations in the receptor for interleukin-10 (IL-10) have described a very aggressive form of Crohn's disease. These patients failed treatment with immunomodulators, corticosteroids, and anti-TNF monoclonal antibodies and required multiple bowel resections. These patients with mutations in the genes encoding IL-10 receptor (IL-10R) received allogeneic stem cell transplantation with resolution of their IBD symptoms.
Although these reports were limited to infants with IBD, the role that mutations in IL-10R genes might play in older IBD patients was unknown. We postulated that milder mutations in IL-10R may contribute to very early-onset IBD (VEO-IBD). Therefore, we performed deep sequencing of the coding regions of IL-10R genes (IL-10RA and IL-10RB) in a cohort of patients diagnosed with IBD as children. We identified a patient with infantile-onset IBD that was homozygous for an IL-10R mutation, who ultimately received an allogeneic stem cell transplantation. We also identified 2 polymorphisms in IL-10RA that were associated with an increased risk of developing very early onset ulcerative colitis (VEO-UC). These 2 polymorphisms were found to be inherited as a haplotype and doubled the risk of VEO-UC (<5yo). Subsequently, we validated the association in an independent cohort of children. Although these polymorphisms were not sufficient to cause IBD, they highlight the need to better define subsets of patients with IBD. As therapies for IBD become more specialized, the ability to identify genetic polymorphisms to allow for tailoring of therapy to the individual will be remarkably useful. This project was funded by the Crohn's and Colitis Foundation of America.
The current focus of my research is to identify causative genetic markers found in very early onset IBD. In addition to my work, there is an expanding series of cases of infantile-onset IBD in the literature of loss-of-function IL-10R mutations.
Although these IL-10R mutations appear sufficient to cause IBD, they only represent a portion of the genetic risk for developing IBD in children, especially out of the infantile age group. I am expanding the search for causal genetic variants in very early onset IBD with the use of whole exome sequencing. This strategy has the advantage over candidate gene analysis (such as my IL-10R research) in that allows analysis of alleles throughout an individual's exome. The overall goal is to both improve our understanding of the inciting events of VEO-IBD and to improve our ability to stratify patients with VEO-IBD into more distinct subsets to allow for tailoring of therapy.
In addition to my genetic research, I continue to be active in research collaborations investigating the upper gastrointestinal clinico-pathologic findings of pediatric IBD, optimizing the evaluation of children suspected to have IBD, and the microbiome of pediatric IBD.
1. Glocker EO, Kotlarz D, Boztug K, et al. Inflammatory bowel disease and mutations affecting the interleukin-10 receptor. N Engl J Med 2009;361(21):2033-45.
2. Moran CJ, Walters TD, Guo CH, et al. IL-10R polymorphisms are associated with very-early-onset ulcerative colitis. Inflamm Bowel Dis 2012.
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Getting Started with Current Sense Amplifiers
The Getting Started with Current Sense Amplifiers series helps engineers learn how to maximize the performance achieved when measuring current with a current sense amplifier (also called a current shunt monitor).
This is a series of short videos, each addressing a different topic. While intended as a series to be viewed in order, each session is stand-alone and can be viewed without the need to watch it all if there is a specific topic you are interested in learning more about.
Introduction to Power Topologies
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Introduction to Power Electronics
Power electronics impacts our lives in so many ways - from new power circuits that extend battery life to voltage regulators that help manage and distribute energy more efficiently from the grid to the consumer. This four-part Power 101 fundamentals course covers several topics that a design engineer needs to understand when it comes to power management design.
Systems Made Simple: Solar Inverters
One of the key systems in a solar energy harvester is a solar inverter. A solar inverter, or any kind of inverter for that matter, will take a Direct Current voltage input and convert it to an Alternating Current output that can be used to power standard appliances and electronics in a home or business. While just about any high power DC source can be used, the largest sector of inverter growth is in renewables, particularly solar applications. Watch this series to help you mitigate multiple solar inverter design challenges.
High Efficiency & Low EMI Switched Mode Power Supply design, introducing New Technologies
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Know Your Gate Driver
We live in a world where design engineers are on a seemingly constant pursuit for higher efficiency. Everyone wants to do more with less power. Higher system efficiency is a team effort that includes (but is not limited to) better-performing gate drivers, controllers and new wide-bandgap technologies. In this multi-part video series, we will focus on the gate drivers and how choosing the right driver can help your whole system design. You will learn about important gate driver specs, why they're important, and how they can influence the systems around them.
How to design multi-kW DC/DC converters for electric vehicles (EVs)
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Average Current Mode Control of Bidirectional DCDC Systems
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Perhaps the best part about Windows 8 is that it shares the same core with Windows Phone. This instantly translates into many apps that were made for mobiles coming onto the desktop platform a lot more easily.
Big Duck Games scored a big hit with their game Flow Free for both Android and iOS. And it's not available on the Windows 8 Store as well as the Windows Phone Store (compatible with 7.5 or higher), ready to be downloaded for free.


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Stories abound as to how some Jewish Europeans from invaded countries managed to survive World War II and the Holocaust. For Erdenheim resident Peter Lantos, 87, a retired doctor of chemical engineering, who served the plastics and chemicals industries from the research and design end to executive to consulting company owner for over 55 years, it was a summer sojourn his family took to America, where his father was required to travel for business, that saved their lives.
But Lantos, who served his adopted country in war so that he could become a citizen, is disgusted with the current state of politics. Lantos' memory is as sharp as a 24-year-old's, and his voice is strong. He fires off dates from his past as if he has an internet-fast assistant tracking the information. His letters to the editor are often published in the Philadelphia Inquirer. One has been published in Time Magazine.
This year, his published Inquirer letters have been about his concerns about Michael Vick after a playoff loss to the Packers, his disgust with Gov. Corbett's balanced budget at the expense of programs for the poor, government workers and education; and another expressing his opinion that his country "has become the land of the rich and the powerful and, above all, of businesses, as attempts are made to cure the economy at the expense of the poor, the elderly and the ill."
In May of 1939, his family sailed to America out of Genoa aboard the Conte Di Savoia, an Italian liner that was once known for making the fastest trip across the Atlantic. They arrived in New York and stayed in Princeton, N.J., where Lantos' uncle, Dr. Eugene Wigner, a professor of mathematical physics at Princeton University, lived.
The family planned to return to their home in Budapest, Hungary, on Sept. 3, 1939. But on Sept. 1, German troops crossed into Poland and eventually into almost every other country in Europe. As a result, the Lantos family was here for good. Peter became a sophomore at Princeton High School, where he learned from other students about things he never heard of in Hungary like baseball, football, badminton, bridge and dominoes.
And life in Princeton, one can imagine, was a hub of intelligence. Lantos' uncle would later go on to work on the Manhattan Project in 1942, the initiative that developed the Atom Bomb, until the war concluded in 1945. In 1963, Dr. Wigner was awarded a Nobel Prize in Physics.
"I can't say I came to the U.S. looking for greater opportunity and a better life," said Lantos during an early August interview. "Fate dealt me a good hand in that sense. Additionally, I got a better education because teachers here cared more. That, and I was in class with girls. In Hungary, boys and girls were separated at school."
In Budapest, the family lived a comfortable life. His father was a business executive of one of Europe's first conglomerates. "In retrospect," said Lantos, "I realized what a huge change it was for my parents."
As non-citizens during war-time America, it was difficult for them to find work. Peter's father eventually became a farmer, as a result, and his mother, a former housewife with maids and a cook, now tended to the chickens and domestic affairs.
"They never had any complaints," said Lantos. His family most likely would not have survived in Hungary. At the start of the war, Hungary was part of the Axis. By 1944, the Nazis had invaded and destroyed Budapest, but even as early as 1941, Hungarian-Jews (Lantos' mother was Jewish) had been handed over to the Nazis and eventually into forced labor and extermination camps.
After the war, an end reached in part due to the scientific discoveries of Lantos' uncle, Lantos finished high school. He volunteered for the Navy's radar program but was denied admission because he was not a U.S. citizen. He went on to study chemical engineering at Cornell University. After graduation from Cornell, he was drafted into the Army.
"I was patriotic," said Lantos. "I wanted to do my part for the country. I could have said I was not a citizen, but then I would have never become a citizen."
Three months into basic training, he was taken with a number of other cadets to Richmond, Virginia, and naturalized. During the remainder of World War II, Lantos served in Utah at the Dugwag Proving Ground researching chemical warfare like poison gas and incendiary bombs.
After the war, Lantos went back to Cornell, where he earned his Ph.D in chemical engineering in 1950. Through the decades he worked for General Electric, DuPont, Celanese, Sun Chemical and Rhodia, rising from the research and design positions he held early in his career, to the executive position he held at the Atlantic Ridgefield Company (ARCO) in Philadelphia in the late 1970s.
Then, in 1979, his life made a U-turn. Within a two-year period, Lantos was laid-off from ARCO, divorced his first wife and shortly after that met his new wife-to-be. He then started The Target Group, his own chemical and plastics industries consulting firm, until he retired in 2008.
"My new wife made a fantastic change in my life," said Lantos. "She taught me to be more people-oriented and less demanding. She made a better person and executive out of me."
By late 1979, Lantos and his new wife, Sandy, settled in Erdenheim. (A retired school counselor, Sandy worked at the Jenks Elementary School in Chestnut Hill for 25 years.) He ran the Target Group from home. His work with his consulting firm took him around the world. In 1994, Lantos had the opportunity to testify as an expert witness in a case involving the National Travel Safety Board (NTSB). NTSB officials concluded that a single-engine plane crashed due to a failure of the plastics in the fuel valve. But Lantos provided testimony that proved scientifically there was no way the plastics could have failed. When the case was examined more closely, it was determined that the pilot ran out of gas.
These days, Lantos spends much of his time writing. In 2005 he published a book, "Careers in Consulting" (The Graduate Group, Connecticut). He is also looking for a publisher for his book, "Government of the People, By the People, For the People?" In that book he contends that "a government for the people" is far from how today's government operates. "It's not the people we elect who really run the government," he insisted. "It's done behind the scenes by unelected lobbyists and entities like the military/industrial complex.
"I feel ordinary citizens, the taxpayers, are powerless … Right now is a perfect example. Seventy-five per cent of the voters are in favor of eliminating tax inequities, but our congressmen oppose this as one approach to debt reduction."
You can contact Lantos at email@example.com. He urges anyone interested in the issue of government failure to read "50 Examples of Government Waste" at www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa592.pdf.


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My original costume idea for my daughter was this cute crochet lamb costume but the more I thought about it the more I realized that it just didn't fit her personality - enter EVEL KNIEVEL!! I think all parents of toddlers can relate on some level to the humor of this costume. She had no fear and is my little stunt woman.
I took a white sweater shirt and sewed on the blue striping and then added white stars with puff paint. After she colored in the stars with Sharpie marker (heart break) I went over them again with red puff paint.
I made the pants following this tutorial from CraftStylish. I sewed in the blue panel and then puff painted the stars on the side.
I am happy to report that Evel Knievel won 3rd place in the costume contest and Robot won 2nd even though he was screaming and crying by the time the contest rolled around!


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Collecting and Preserving Videogames and Their Related Materials: A Review of Current Practice, Game-Related Archives and Research Projects
Megan Winget and Caitlin Murray
ASIS&T 2008 Annual Meeting (AM08 2008)
Columbus, Ohio, October 24-29, 2008
This paper reviews the major methods and theories regarding the preservation of new media artifacts such as videogames, and argues for the importance of collecting and coming to a better understanding of videogame artifacts of creation, which will help build a more detailed understanding of the essential qualities of these culturally significant artifacts. We will also review the major videogame collections in the United States, Europe and Japan to give an idea of the current state of videogame archives, and argue for a fuller, more comprehensive coverage of these materials in institutional repositories.
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Any petrochemical worker or electrician exposed to electric arc has something in common with a meth lab cleanup team. When they arrive on the job site, they may not know exactly what hazards they'll be exposed to, but they do know the potential for fire and chemical exposure exists. Ethanol, acids, oils, ammonia, and other chemicals are the standard issue, but fire is always a possibility.
The hazmat team, the electrician in a petrochemical plant, and a meatpacking company electrician all have something else in common: hydrocarbon loading potential on their clothing. When flame-resistant (FR) clothing has substantial hydrocarbon loading, ignition sources, such as potential flash fires or electric arcs, can make an FR garment less effective. In this type of situation, the worker must be cognizant of his or her surroundings and use personal protective equipment (PPE) made for those types of exposures. Under these circumstances, disposable FR garments are often the best solution. Let's take a quick look at the evolution of these garments for background.
Quick history lesson
Disposables have improved significantly from the first polyester spun-laced throw-away garments that changed the chemical protection world just a decade ago. Those garments were resistant to many chemicals but were not adequate if a flash fire or electric arc ensued. They did — and still do — make many low-level chemical exposures less hazardous for workers at a very reasonable cost. Newer coated and sealed seam garments on the chemical protection side have made even higher-level exposures, including chemical warfare, a less likely scenario. However, the flame-resistant side of the equation is still fraught with misunderstanding, especially when it comes to disposable garments.
In 1994, the first arc- and flame-resistant raingear was developed. A difficult battle was fought to get folks out of "FR"-labeled garments that passed small-scale tests but would melt onto workers in a 2- to 3-second flash fire exposure or electric arc event. This campaign was very successful. Now, another industry has a similar need. There are chemical-resistant garments that are flame-resistant and have been flash fire and arc tested, but many garments on the market should not be used in a flame or arc exposure. How can you tell the difference?
Melting makes the difference
Any material that melts and drips in electric arc or flash fire should not be used, even in low-risk potentials. The NFPA 70E standard requires that no melting materials be worn by a worker in any arc potential. Shouldn't this same interpretation be used in potential flame exposures? The most effective way to remedy this misunderstanding is to educate the market.
Cleaning up potentially hazardous materials is often part of the job. In electrical work, it could be oil containing small amounts of PCBs. This oil could also add hydrocarbon loading to the FR clothing. Cleaning up these materials requires a system of safety PPE that can be difficult to balance. It begs the question, "Do I need FR, chemical protection, or both?"
Market confusion about FR disposables and the meaning of some test methods is also a problem. Table 1 (click here to see Table 1) includes a list of the primary standards with an explanation of their proper uses. The first standard to address FR disposable garments was NFPA 2112, which added the allowance for FR disposable materials as "non-woven" materials. Some materials have been tested against this standard, but most specification writers are unaware of it. In addition, the standard also has some disadvantage to the end-user who wants a disposable garment. The disposable must meet a minimum body burn percentage and other tests that make the non-woven "disposable" beneficial in some jobs but less disposable from a cost perspective.
With a garment to be worn over FR clothing and disposed of readily when soiled, this standard's requirements may create a garment with a lower value proposition. NFPA 2112 disposable garments make sense in some specific applications, particularly when the FR disposable can be worn longer or in lieu of FR clothing, such as an inexpensive coverall for a supervisor, engineer, or visitor, or as outerwear in a higher potential threat.
Most FR disposable garments in the past would have been tested with a vertical flame test to differentiate them from a non-FR garment. Researchers now know this is not sufficient. This and other small-scale tests alone are inadequate to predict flash fire or arc burn protection. Full-scale tests (such as ASTM F1959 Electric Arc or ASTM F1930 Flash Fire) are best for these evaluations (click here to see Table 2). Because these full-scale tests entered the scene in the mid-1990s, the small-scale tests have been seen as less predictive of performance and usually are used for quality control only. A garment that passes a vertical flame test may still be life-threatening even in medial level flash fires or electric arcs, especially if the material is a melting material.
There is no standard for low-cost FR disposable garments. While FR raingear manufacturers are changing their claims on flame resistance based on these full-scale tests and better knowledge, the FR disposable market has not kept up because there is no real specification using the available full-scale test methods. Melting materials such as polyethylene, olefin, polyester, nylon are not acceptable even if labeled FR. (Note: A small percentage of these types of materials may be in full-scale tested FR materials and can add value to their performance.)
Practical solutions
How do you know you're purchasing the right product for the action at hand? Here are some factors to look for when selecting appropriate FR disposable garments.
Passes vertical flammability
Passes heat resistance
No melting and dripping in full-scale tests
Has some protective value from a full-scale test (ASTM F1930 or ASTM F1959)
Must not melt and drip in your exposure potential
Lighter weight materials may not meet 50% body burn or have a high arc rating, but they should be evaluated by a full-scale test method. Other FR clothing should be worn underneath the disposable unless its full-scale rating is adequate for the task.
A disposable that can be decontaminated or incinerated might be desirable in some applications (click here to see Table 3).
In upcoming years, the industry will likely demand a disposable FR standard either from ASTM F1506, ISEA, or NFPA (click here to see Table 4). Until that happens, examine the choices carefully. Look for full-scale data and evaluate the clothing system for the desired characteristics.
Hoagland does training on and testing of PPE in electric arc and flash fire, and is a member of IEEE, ASTM, NFPA, ASSE, and IEC. He is president of ArcWear.com in Louisville, Ky.


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If patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel, is social science the last resort of a losing cause? We may not know the answer for some time, but there's no question that some of the heaviest hitters in the fight to preserve race preferences in college admissions are now desperately trying to convert the findings of social research into an argument for what lawyers for the University of Michigan call "the compelling need for diversity in higher education." With the strong backing of the Office of Civil Rights of the U.S. Department of Education, they are also trying to prove that some of the traditional measures colleges use in admission—test scores in particular—are biased and unrelated to college success.
The attempt is understandable, but it's likely to be an uphill fight, and not a pretty one. In the past half a dozen years or so, the news for the defenders of race preferences in such things as public contracting and university admissions has been almost invariably bad, both in the courts and at the polls. And with major new attacks now being launched, a lot of activists are fearful that the entire legal basis of race preferences in university admissions is in jeopardy, even for private institutions. That legal basis, which rests largely on Lewis Powell's opinion in the 1978 case Regents of the University of California v. Bakke, has already been declared invalid by one federal appellate court (in Hopwood v. Texas, 1996) and is now being challenged again in the two major reverse discrimination suits for which the University of Michigan has assembled its "compelling need" arguments. Among lawyers trying to persuade the courts, "compelling need" and "compelling interest" are magic phrases—trump cards to justify devices, like race preferences, that would otherwise be blatantly unconstitutional.
For anyone who has not kept score in this fight, here, roughly, is where things stand. In the past three years, voters in California and Washington State passed nearly identical measures outlawing racial preferences in all public employment, contracting, and education. Now Ward Connerly, the California Republican who was the chief backer of those initiatives, is running a campaign to get a similar measure on the Florida ballot next year—despite the objections of Governor Jeb Bush, who fears it will be divisive at the very moment his brother, running for president, is trying to broaden the base of the Republican Party. Connerly's real hurdle will be getting some version of his proposal past the legal scrutiny of a Florida Supreme Court that, in the words of Connerly's campaign manager Herb Harmon, "is much inclined to take initiatives off the ballot." But if Connerly succeeds with the judges, passage should not be too difficult; the polls show that more than 80 percent of the voters support it. Thereafter, Connerly says, he wants to try to run a similar measure in Michigan or Colorado.
But for the defenders of race preferences, the far bigger threat comes from the federal courts, which have imposed increasingly tough standards on every race-conscious measure that's not narrowly tailored to remedy a specific case of immediate past discrimination. In Adarand v. Pe–a (1995), the U.S. Supreme Court severely restricted the use of racial set-asides in federal contracting; in Shaw v. Hunt (1996), it overturned racial gerrymandering in drawing legislative and congressional districts; in Podberesky v. Kirwan (1995), it declined to review a lower court decision striking down a University of Maryland scholarship program for blacks. Then, last November, a federal appellate court in Massachusetts struck down the race-based admissions formula at the selective Boston Latin School, the oldest public school in the country. And, in a further sign of the times, the NAACP, apparently fearful that the Boston case would become an unfortunate national precedent if the Supreme Court declined to hear it or ruled against it, persuaded the Boston School Committee not to appeal the decision. Meanwhile, suits filed by the conservative Center for Individual Rights (CIR) challenging race-based admission policies at the University of Michigan, the University of Michigan Law School, and the University of Washington Law School are making their way through the federal courts. In all three, CIR not only charges violations of Powell's Bakke standard, which permits the use of race as one "plus factor" in choosing an intellectually and socially diverse student body, but also, following the Hopwood decision, attacks Bakke itself as "a singular" opinion that is no longer constitutionally valid—if indeed it ever was. Powell, CIR argues, was the swing justice on a Court that was sharply divided, and while his decision determined the outcome, no other judge supported his reasoning.
Constitutional lawyers like Professor Robert Post of the Boalt Hall Law School at Berkeley believe that the federal courts will "ratchet up" Bakke, meaning that they will make it even tougher to use race, without actually overturning the Bakke decision. But it could just as easily be argued that Powell never contemplated an undergraduate admissions system that used race as blatantly as the University of Michigan or, until the regents stopped it in 1995, the University of California. Michigan has acknowledged that while it doesn't have nearly enough places for every qualified applicant at Ann Arbor and thus rejects thousands of qualified whites, it does admit virtually every qualified black. The chances for admission for whites with high grades and test scores are thus considerably lower than the chances for blacks with lower scores.
Color-Blind Affirmative Action?
What would a school that sought out disadvantaged students based on economic status—rather than racial background—look like? Very different from one that uses race-based affirmative action. At least, that's the conclusion one would draw from Lowell High School, in San Francisco. The students entering the elite magnet school this fall are the first class to be admitted since the school district agreed last February to end its racial desegregation consent decree. Under the new admissions policy—which may take special account of applicants' economic background but not their race—the number of African-American eighth graders accepted to the Lowell class of 2003 dropped from 5.6 percent last year (44 of 789 accepted students) to just under 2 percent (17 of 864 accepted students). The percentage of accepted Latino students fell from 11.4 percent to 5.4 percent.
The change in policy is the result of a 1994 lawsuit brought by Chinese-American families who challenged the city's 1983 desegregation ruling, which capped admission at magnet schools like Lowell at 40 percent of any ethnic group. The plaintiffs argued that, due to their relatively large numbers, Chinese-American children had a more difficult time getting into the schools of their choice. At exam schools like Lowell, Chinese- American students had to score significantly higher than even Caucasian students to secure a slot.
In response to the lawsuit, Lowell voluntarily eliminated race quotas in 1996. Since then—at least until this year—they had been using a system whereby applicants were assigned points based on grades and test scores, up to a maximum of 69 points. Any student who scored above 65 was automatically accepted. Once all the high scorers were accepted, the remaining seats (generally about 20 percent of the class) went to students whose lower scores were boosted by the addition of certain "diversity points." African-American, Latino, and Native American students received bonus points, as did students coming from disadvantaged backgrounds or students who demonstrated high indications of success despite less-than-stellar academic records. Slots made available by students who were accepted but didn't matriculate almost always went to African-American or Latino candidates, regardless of whether they had made the cut-off point.
But following the February settlement, which was approved by a U.S. District Court, San Francisco schools agreed officially to phase out race caps by 2002. The Lowell School agreed to go totally "color-blind" this fall—but also announced that it would remain committed to maintaining a diverse student body. How do you preserve racial diversity without considering race in the equation? Lowell administrators came up with some creative responses.
The list of "value-added" circumstances grew longer. Students from particular neighborhoods were given a bonus "diversity" point. Living in public housing or participating in the free-lunch program earned students a point. Points went to recent immigrants and non-native English speakers. Children whose parents did not complete high school could expect to move up a notch on the admissions scale, as could children from single-parent homes.
Yet despite these efforts, the admissions process resulted in dramatically fewer invitations to African-American and Latino students. And as of this writing, the school committee had no formal plan for evaluating the issue of diversity at Lowell. With African-American and Latino admissions down by more than half, the question may have to be re-examined—the judge indicated that if resegregation were to occur in the aftermath of the caps' elimination, the case should be reopened. Of course, with traditional race-based affirmative action programs coming under fire around the country, San Francisco deserves credit for trying to find new solutions to complex racial problems. And the data so far are limited. But if Lowell turns out to be typical, it looks like progressives who support affirmative action in education still have their work cut out for them.
—Joanna Mareth
The university justifies the policy by invoking the educational and social benefits of "diversity," a word that comes from Powell's opinion and which at the time of the Court's ruling meant a wide range of backgrounds, experiences, and interests. In the two decades since Bakke was decided, however, the meaning of the word has been effectively narrowed to refer primarily, if not entirely, to race. And it's in the context of that new meaning that a lot of people are now trying to enlist social science research.
Late in May some of the most prominent civil rights leaders—lawyers, academics, social activists—met at Stanford to discuss the draft of a document outlining the evidence. Among them were: Bill Lann Lee, President Clinton's embattled acting assistant attorney general for civil rights; Theodore Shaw, the associate director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund; William Taylor, vice chair of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights; and William T. Trent, a University of Illinois sociologist who has been a frequent expert witness on the educational benefits of school integration and diversity. The trouble is that neither the draft—which is titled "Compelling Interest: Examining the Evidence on Racial Dynamics in Higher Education"—nor the materials submitted to the courts by the University of Michigan, nor the various other pieces of purported scholarship produced in the cause are likely to be very persuasive.
In some cases, the research, much of it conducted by advocates in the form of attitude surveys based on predictable questions, seems to prove the obvious: that students who attend integrated colleges and classes will be exposed to a wider spectrum of ideas and views, thus learning more and becoming more open to interaction with others. Since many students do come from highly segregated schools and communities, it's argued, a diverse university campus may be the only opportunity for such exposure. Graduates of such programs, according to the studies, are more likely to live in integrated communities, which is obvious—a little like saying that those who go out for tennis in college are more prone to be playing tennis at the age of 60.
In others, the research blithely ignores contrary evidence and experience. A few years ago, Michigan conducted a longitudinal survey of those who entered college in the fall of 1990, which found that while students grew slightly more positive about affirmative action, 66 percent of whites agreed that "students of color are given advantages that discriminate against other students." More than half of the whites and over a third of the black students in the survey believed that the university's efforts to foster diversity caused more division than understanding. The report makes no mention of this study. Nor does any of the research even allude to the record of racial tension at places like the University of Massachusetts or to the speech codes and the other attempts to end tensions by enforcing political correctness at places like the University of Pennsylvania or the University of Wisconsin, or, indeed, at Michigan itself, where a restrictive speech code was struck down by a federal court back in 1989.
None of those things argues against integration or diversity; they just cast doubt on the contention that when an admissions office leans on the scale to bring in more underrepresented minorities, wonderful things automatically follow. At the very least they reinforce arguments of conservatives like Shelby Steele that where the admissions process is perceived to be unfair and the resulting decisions are regarded as illegitimate, the price in resentment may be intolerably high. In any case, even if the social science evidence were more powerful, it is unlikely that it would persuade the courts that racial diversity on campus is a compelling state interest justifying all sorts of decisive race preferences in the admissions process. One of the people at Stanford asked the telling question: How many people of which color do you need to achieve diversity? To which one might have added the question: How heavily can you lean on the scale to achieve it? Michigan allows as much as 20 points of a possible 150 to be based on race—less than the total weight given to grades, but as much or more than that given to most other categories. That surely isn't what Powell had in mind.
The controversy does raise one important and possibly portentous issue. What precisely is merit and how should it be judged? That question goes far beyond the reliability of measures like SAT scores, which are coming under increasingly sharp attack, even from the feds at the Office of Civil Rights, who recently put colleges on notice that "the use of any educational test which has a significant disparate impact on members of any particular race, national origin or sex is discriminatory and a violation [of federal law] unless it is educationally necessary and there is no practicable alternative . . . ." In The Shape of the River, William G. Bowen and Derek Bok's defense of race preferences in the Ivy League and other elite institutions, they contend that merit has little bearing on who "deserves" to go to college and a lot to do with the individual's potential contribution to the richness of his or her institution and, ultimately, his or her value to the larger society. That's more than a hypothetical issue since every judicial step to curb race preferences will increase pressure to redefine merit by de-emphasizing tests and similar quantitative measures and finding other ways to favor minority admissions in selective institutions.
Which, of course, is one of the reasons that race preferences are such a hot issue at elite colleges that want to select students with astronomical test scores while, at the same time, maintaining some legitimizing ethnic diversity. At the Stanford meeting, there were dire warnings about the impending resegregation of American higher education if what the participants call affirmative action is struck down.
But the issue has little bearing on the majority of institutions, which are, at best, only marginally selective. And while Bowen and Bok assert that a great many black leaders in this country are beneficiaries of affirmative action, most U.S. leaders—in business, in state and local government, in civic organizations—never saw the inside of an Ivy League college. Nor, of course, does it apply to the huge number of blacks and Hispanics who have neither the high school preparation nor the test scores to get them into the pool of candidates from which relatively selective public universities like Michigan or the University of California or the University of Virginia choose their students. The goal of a pluralist and multiracial society has now been broadly accepted by most American institutions. Only in the most indirect and symbolic sense does diversity in elite universities affect the pattern of opportunity, and of integrated living and working, for the vast majority of Americans. For them, the debate about standards at elite institutions is largely irrelevant.


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We are heating things up for Valentine's Day with this amazing recipe for homemade chocolate truffles!
These dark chocolate truffles have a trifecta of wonderful flavors—fresh ginger, our intensely ripe Black Cherry Balsamic Vinegar, and our ever-citrusy Blood Orange Olive Oil. Surprised to see balsamic vinegar in chocolate truffles? Even more surprised to see olive oil in there? Well, we hope your interest is piqued, because these truffles are awesome.
The Black Cherry Balsamic Vinegar gives just a hint of ripe cherry flavor to the dark chocolate, and the Blood Orange Olive Oil infuses the whole thing with a citrusy aroma and light orange undertone. We added finely minced fresh ginger to the truffles mix for a bright spiciness—but if you aren't a fan of raw ginger, go ahead and substitute in minced crystallized ginger. It will lend a sweeter flavor with a bit less sharpness.
The truffles are finished off in a cayenne-spiked cocoa powder coating. If you like just a bit of heat, use ¼ teaspoon cayenne; if you love the heat, use ½ teaspoon. And if you are into miscellaneous coatings for chocolate truffles, you'd be just fine rolling these in shredded coconut or minced nuts.
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Indian Land Middle School has been in the limelight a lot lately. The school stepped into the national spotlight early last month when its principal, David McDonald, was named the 2013 South Carolina Middle School Principal of the Year.
A few weeks later, ILMS learned it had been redesignated as a National School to Watch, an honor given to high-performing middle schools.
So the school has had a lot to celebrate lately and it begins 2013 glowing with deserved pride.
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