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On a cold January morning in Berlin, the outlook for the new year is grim. By 9 a.m., hundreds of anxious job-seekers have already gathered in the city's nine unemployment offices, filling waiting rooms with a haze of cigarette smoke. Since Germany's unification, east Berlin's unemployment rate has climbed close to 13%. And to many of Berlin's new jobless, Chancellor Helmut Kohl is to blame. "He is letting the smaller people down," grieves Detlef, a 34-year-old warehouseman who lost his job a year ago.
Berlin laborers aren't the only ones pointing fingers at Kohl this winter. As a $100 billion-a-year reunification bill and painfully high interest rates push Germany into its worst slump in a decade, industry chiefs, economists, and European allies from Ireland to Italy are pleading with the burly Chancellor to get on the stick. "Our markets are sliding away," says Hans-Jurgen Marczinski, managing director of Thyssen Maschinenbau, a leading machine-tool maker. "There should be less blather and more action."
Until recently, such calls had gone unheeded. But in past weeks, Kohl finally appears to have awakened. Mindful that America's prolonged recession swept George Bush from office, Kohl is mounting a swift offensive to rescue the economy and save his Conservative coalition government--and himself--from possible defeat in 1994's state and federal elections.
JUICY BONE. By late January, Kohl hopes to have forged an ambitious "solidarity pact" among federal, state, and local governments and unions, industries, and banks. To get what he wants, the Chancellor has been summoning opposition and labor leaders to his Bonn residence for private dinners lasting well into the night. Showing he's willing to deal, Kohl recently tossed his Social Democratic Party opponents an important bone: continued federal subsidies for the core of eastern Germany's state industries. But the Chancellor also argues that Germans must accept painful cuts in social programs and a loss of real income after a decade of steady growth. He maintains his pact is vital to preserve Germany's sagging competitiveness, accelerate the slow recovery of the formerly Communist East, and help foot the staggering cost of unification. Without an accord, Germany--and Kohl's dream for an economically and politically united Europe--is sure to founder.
A solidarity pact has been needed only twice since 1945 to propel Germany out of dangerous economic shoals. But Kohl has ample reason to seek such drastic action. In this winter of discontent, Bonn's federal budget deficit is mushrooming (charts). With industry orders and production falling (table), economists see German gross domestic product dropping more than 1% in 1993 after expanding a meager 1.5% the year before. If unemployment continues to mount, violent attacks on foreigners by right-wing radicals could worsen. For these reasons and more, Kohl is likely to win his pact. Even Social Democratic leader Bjorn Engholm concedes that "if we work at odds with one another, nothing will move at all."
RATE CUT? Kohl's deal, involving a commitment to slash federal spending and cap wage increases, would pave the way for the Bundesbank to cut Germany's 8.6% short-term interest rates, perhaps by as much as 2.5 percentage points, beginning as early as February or March. That could ease pressure on France and other neighboring economies, restore stability to Europe's currency system, and even bring the German recession to a close by yearend. "With a cut in rates, we would see a black cloud lifted," says Robert Faircloth, chief operating officer of British conglomerate BTR PLC.
Hints of Kohl's new deal are emerging. Inflation averaged 4% in 1992. But Germany's dire straits are beginning to persuade unions to moderate wage increase demands. The powerful metalworkers' union I. G. Metall, for example, has agreed to a mere 3% increase this year, and public-sector negotiations for 1993 are also likely to come in around that level. Such moderation, says economist Richard Reid of UBS Phillips & Drew, could allow inflation to decline to 2.1% by 1994.
Keeping labor costs down in eastern Germany will be a thornier affair. Eastern wages are skyrocketing under a lavish post-unification deal to ratchet them up to western levels as soon as 1995. April's scheduled increase for eastern metalworkers alone is 26%. But with eastern productivity only a third of that in the west, such a jump would deal a death blow to hundreds of money-losing machinery makers. "You might as well close their doors today," says Otto Lambsdorff, head of the the governing coalition's Free Democratic Party.
So far, I. G. Metall has refused to renegotiate the eastern deal. But with 3 million easterners out of work, government officials expect the union soon will have to accept a compromise exempting ailing companies from the wage increase and allowing them to strike their own pay deals. Such a crack in Germany's broadly binding industrywide contracts could even give employers leverage to forge similar agreements in the west and win new flexibility in work rules.
With labor expected to accede to his pact, Kohl is stepping up the squeeze on state and federal coffers. He is seeking deep budget cuts, including $5 billion to $7.5 billion in a supplemental budget for 1993 and $19 billion to $31 billion over the next three years. That will mean revamping Germany's cradle-to-grave social security system. "The government wants to take an ax not only to a branch of the social welfare system, but to the entire tree," fumes Socialist Engholm.
But Kohl maintains that there's fat to trim. A four-person eastern household on welfare, for instance, receives $1,420 a month, $100 more than the net income of a working family. Kohl proposes cutting jobless benefits in the east and west by 3% and then freezing them for several years. He warns that income taxes will have to rise by 10% in 1995.To win public support, Kohl will soon take to the airwaves. He plans six TV shows patterned on the fireside chats of Franklin D. Roosevelt and the radio pep talks of former Chancellor Ludwig Erhard, who coaxed Germans into performing an economic miracle during the 1950s. Kohl is also counting on a political boost from an expected Cabinet reshuffle. Newly designated Economics Minister Gunter Rexrodt, a former Citibank executive and Berlin finance minister, likely will accomplish more than predecessor Jurgen Molleman, who resigned amid an influence-peddling scandal.
VW LAYOFFS. Even if Kohl wins over politicians and workers, convincing industry to step up investment will still be a Herculean task. Kohl will try to boost private investment in the east by increasing incentives. But, slammed by the slump in western Germany and brutal competition in Asia, manufacturers no longer have the luxury of doing what the Chancellor asks. With sales languishing, Volkswagen is delaying a $1 billion addition to its eastern car plant in Zwickau and Daimler Benz is putting off a truck plant in Berlin. Machinery maker Metallgesellschaft is even shutting down an eastern plant it bought from the government only a year ago, although that might subject the company to penalties. And many companies are moving production to the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland, where wages are 10% of German levels.
Manufacturers are equally reluctant to invest in the west. VW, for example, may slash its 1993 capital spending in half, to around $3 billion. It's also shedding 30,000 of its 273,000 workers this year alone. Daimler Benz is also trimming its labor force. Even sectors that had been shielded from the downturn are being buffeted. Although the fourth quarter is usually the biggest period for software maker SAP, for example, 1992's final months fell far short of company expectations.
More pain lies ahead as Kohl struggles to get his once-vibrant economy to shake the reunification blues. Imbued with a strong sense of fiscal discipline, Germans prefer to hear the truth even if it's unpleasant. Twice before in the postwar years, they listened. For the sake of Germany, Europe, and the global economy, they are close to doing it again.


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We live in retro times. After years of haute French, fusion fuss and smooth Italians, bourgeois French is making a strong showing in the lists of the capital's eateries. There is Racine, opened last year, next door to the revived Grill St Quentin, and Conran's Almeida, La Trouvaille and, oooh, several more besides.
The latest to show up in the centre of the city is Chez Max, which, under the benevolent aegis of Max Renzland, patron and guiding spirit, has decamped from the leafy suburbs to the south-west of town and taken over the site of what was once the Parisienne Chop House, a satellite of the Marco Pierre White empire.
However, la cuisine bourgeois is not the only retro show in town. By a strange quirk of timing, the Rivington Bar and Grill, a restaurant serving the British equivalent - that is, traditional home cooking - has opened in EC2. Both have much to recommend them, and they make an interesting contrast in style and comestibles.
Most of the décor and fixtures of the vanished Parisienne Chop House are still present in Chez Max - the booths, the chequerboard flooring, the posters, the oxblood lights. It is a very fair pastiche of a true brasserie, a resemblance that is heightened by the French waiters, classically kitted out, and the presence of Renzland himself, a man who looks comfortable inside his not inconsiderable tum, and who marshals staff and customers with skill and kindly firmness.
The Rivington Bar and Grill is the opposite of this in almost every way. It is clean, stark and modern. It has the obligatory wood floor and white walls of today's vogueish, fogey-ish eatery. It smacks of smart meritocracy, of youth and of disposable income. It has no Max Renzland to put the imprimatur of the patron on the place, but it has efficient, bustling waitresses of much charm. The Rivington Bar and Grill speaks for new Britain as eloquently as Chez Max speaks for old France.
But how do you rate devilled lambs' kidneys or poached egg with buttered sea kale at the former against smoked herring fillets with potato salad or Antillaise black pudding with potato purée, onions and mustard sauce at the latter? Or, indeed, the Rivington's hamburger and chips or Barnsley chop and bubble and squeak against Chez Max's braised lamb persillé with haricots flageolet, spinach, roast garlic and jus or saucisse de Morteau artisanale grillés, Savoy cabbage, purée and Dijon mustard sauce (the Chez Max menu is an endearing mix of the two languages).
I suppose you can't, really. Dishes of this kind have an irresistible siren call to my tastebuds and sense of noshtalgia. These are the foods I grew up with, foods I learned to salivate over at my granny's knee. And when they are pulled off with attention to detail - perfect pink kidneys singing in a rich sauce made bouncy with mustard and Worcestershire sauce; the slight bitterness of crisp sea kale, that rarest and most delicate of British vegetables, swathed in egg yolk and melted butter; taut, tense herring with firm potatoes glistening in peanut oil; and refined, downy, black pudding with fleecy mash - well, I would happily eat them every day from here to eternity.
When it came to main courses, Chez Max began to put some distance between itself and the Rivington Bar and Grill. The cause of the latter was not helped by some very pedestrian chips, although the hamburger which they accompanied verged on the excellent. The Barnsley chop was a plain and perfectly fine piece of meat, but there was nothing exceptional about its pedigree.
The sad fact is that, wholesome and pleasing though such dishes may be, they are simply no match for a bit of braised shoulder of lamb persillé or a mighty, meaty Morteau sausage served with all the trimmings. These French classics have an attention to detail, a sophistication to the individual elements, as well as to the cooking processes, that produces layers of flavour that their English counterparts lack, at least in the form they take at the Rivington Bar and Grill.
Even at the pudding stage, when a British restaurant really should have a clear advantage over a French one, a dreadful, over-sweet apple crumble that appeared to have been soldered to the plate simply betrayed our great heritage.
The prices are roughly comparable - £76.22 for two at the Rivington, £79.50 at Chez Max - although Chez Max does fixed-price lunches, and the Rivington does not. And the wine list at Chez Max is more highly developed, and offers wines by the 25cl and 50cl carafe, as well as by the glass.
In the end, then, you pays your money and you takes your choice - plain-speaking English against the seductive murmur of French.


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Mary Jo Bang Contemplates Helen of Troy
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Helen's beauty is often associated with "whiteness" and light…It's not surprising to have erotic heat described as white-hot. And light/fire is power, which is why Prometheus got into trouble with the gods. H.D. (1886-1961), in her "Helen," reverses desire's white heat and makes white the color of icy hatred. White appears three times in the first nine lines. The reiteration—especially when combined with "lustre" (shine/gleam/glitter, but also glory/honor/fame) and "cool feet"—effectively turns Helen into a cold-footed/cold-blooded polished-marble statue. Rather than love, the clenched-jaw sparseness of the poem also gestures to hate. The rhyme scheme, irregular but adamant, avoids seeming too studied and yet creates a taut cohesiveness, as if an explosive charge is contained, but barely.
For the audio recording and Bang's full analysis, head on over to Slate.
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Adriene Jenik, Professor and Director, School of Art
In her work at ASU and in our community, Adriene Jenik has proven herself to be an advocate for women and underrepresented groups. Within the School of Art, Adriene hasmade significant efforts to diversify student populations and faculty. For example, she has worked with alumnus Kade Twist on a Native American student recruitment and retention effort, has initiated a Community Murals class that connects undergraduate students in ASU residence halls with local Latino art talent in the Calle 16 mural collective, and has prepared nominations for and secured fellowship funding for more than twenty incoming women, underrepresented and financially deserving graduate students. She has provided strong guidance to search committees for new faculty hires, encouraging careful consideration for minority candidates. Before her arrival, minorities constituted eight percent of full-time faculty in the School of Art. Now, the percentage has almost doubled to fourteen percent. Taking LGBT candidates into account, all four new faculty hires since her arrival have been among underrepresented populations. The School of Art is poised to hire three additional faculty; women will fill two of the new posts. In addition to her leadership in diversifying the School of Art, Adriene Jenik has proven herself to be a mentor and a tireless advocate for those whose voices are often not heard. She has mentored four junior women faculty successfully through the tenure process and has provided support for countless more. Adriene works behind the scenes to ensure that the efforts of women and previously marginalized groups within our community are supported. In addition to her work at ASU, Adriene is also working within the community to ensure that children of the greatest need have a voice. She is a sworn "court appointed special advocate" (CASA) for Maricopa County. This is a monthly, fifteen-to-twenty hour volunteer commitment whereby she is assigned to a child who has been removed from their home and is a ward of the state. She serves as the child's advocate until his or her case is closed. In the words of her nominator, "her personal commitments as a member of many communities and to her own practice as an artist go well beyond what many are able to accomplish."
Brenda Hogue, Associate Professor, School of Life Sciences and the Biodesign Institute
It is no secret that women and minorities are significantly underrepresented in science professions. Just how much is eye-opening. The U.S. Department of Commerce reports that although women fill close to half of all jobs in the U.S. economy, they hold less than 25 percent of STEM jobs. For Dr. Brenda Hogue, this was a call for action. Brenda saw deficiencies in the preparation of female and underrepresented students who wanted to go on to pursue careers in biomedicine. Unfair circumstances prevented these students from achieving their career goals. Brenda was inspired to do something about the gap in opportunity and has supported several innovative programs that are serving these populations at ASU. She has certainly been an inspiration at ASU to take action in advocating for positive change. Responding to this need, Brenda Hogue developed the ASU Post-Baccalaureate Research Education Program (PREP) for Biomedical Research. She serves as the as primary investigator and director of the program. PREP is a training program that focuses on helping underrepresented students prepare for entry and success in Ph.D. graduate programs in the biomedical sciences. Upon obtaining an undergraduate degree, the program provides a one- or two-year intensive experience to fill the gaps the students need to continue and be accepted to advanced degree programs.
To date, the PREP program, under Brenda's direction, has provided mentored research, academic preparation and skill/training activities for 29 students. Currently 8 students are active PREP scholars. Of the students who have already participated, 90 percent are currently enrolled in a PhD program or medical school or joined the workforce in a STEM career. Dr. Hogue's efforts not only increase the visibility of the need for programs such as PREP, but it changes the status quo to help us reach the day when every young girl who dreams of becoming a scientist can do just that.
Keith Crnic, Chair & Professor, Department of Psychology, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
A factor that is often essential to the success of women and other underrepresented groups is a culture of support and encouragement. In his role as Department Chair of Psychology, Dr. Keith Crnic has effectively demonstrated himself to be a model leader who not only believes in promoting women's success, but in creating a culture that is supportive and fair, and of the highest quality. It is a culture that supports diversity, creative thinking and the value of everyone's input. The result of such effort is a diverse department where women not only succeed but often rise to leadership positions and positions of power. As a testament to Keith's commitment to the success of his women faculty and under-represented individuals in his department, Keith's nomination was a book length compilation of stories from women faculty in Psychology which all echoed the same thing. Keith does whatever it takes to help women succeed and his motto of "We'll make it work" does just that. We share with you the nomination submitted by one faculty member which encapsulates much of what makes Keith's efforts special. "Keith is a steady champion for women in his role as head of a large productive department. Numerous women have advanced to positions of leadership while he has been head of the psychology department and he has been highly influential in supporting these accomplishments. I count myself among the many fortunate women that have been guided and supported by Keith through major career and family decisions. Keith promotes a positive climate for women through daily actions and values. In matters of hiring, promotion and tenure decisions, and other important responsibilities, he consistently challenges the department to make sure that women are given fair consideration. All else being equal in a decision to interview or hire a candidate, for example he will be the first to push for a woman candidate. On the issues of salary as well, he has advocated extremely well for women faculty, always with the goal of promoting the highest quality of scholarship, teaching and service at ASU. Keith is sensitive to women's issues in academia. For example, he works with women faculty on issues of maternity leave and other family-related matters to ensure they can balance personal and professional needs, and he evenhandedly applies the same standards with male employees as well. With Keith, these issues are never political or polarizing. They are matters of fairness and justice, and thus, they have shaped a strong culture of support for women and women's issues among faculty, staff, and students."
Ayanna Thompson, Professor of English and Associate Dean of Faculty for CLAS
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Ramsey Eric Ramsey, Associate Dean of Barrett The Honors College and Associate Professor, School of Social and Behavioral Sciences, New College of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences
Dean Ramsey Eric Ramsey is a highly accomplished academic who is well liked and deeply respected by all who know him. He treats everyone with respect, especially those who often may not speak up for themselves. His inherent belief in equality and kindness is reflected in how he addresses each person from student, to academic to administrator. It is in this spirit, that Dean Ramsey has demonstrated himself to be an advocate of women and underrepresented groups. Through his leadership and mentorship, he has created an on-going system that promotes the success of women and underrepresented groups , including first generation college students. As the Associate Dean of Barrett Honors College (BHC) for the West campus, Eric Ramsey advocates for first generation students. Dr. Ramsey believes many first generation or underrepresented students may not be aware of their own potential to do great work and do not consider themselves Honors College worthy. He is often seen meeting with students and families individually to learn more about each student and provides them with the opportunities for knowledge and growth. Dr. Ramsey travels to remote and rural communities in Arizona to talk to students who often have not encountered an academic or thought about the possibility of college at a large research institution. In addition to first generation students, Dr. Ramsey is a strong advocate for women. He actively mentors female staff who report to him, along with graduate and undergraduate students. There are countless examples of women who have succeeded with their professional and educational goals in part to Dean Ramsey's support and mentorship. An undergraduate female, first- generation college student shared that Dean Ramsey has been critical to her success in college as a mentor and he has made her realize that she can accomplish what she sets out to do. In the words of one of his nominators, "Dean Ramsey does not need to volunteer to flip pancakes at the midnight breakfast serving students, nor open his home and family to welcome students during the holidays, or to reassure recent doctoral graduates of their worth, but he does all these things and more. This is what makes him special."
Barbara Aarestad, Coordinator and Career Counselor, Career Preparation Center at ASU Polytechnic
Historically, women have been underrepresented in fields of science and engineering. Barbara Aarestad is dedicated to changing that history. As a career counselor and employment advisor, she realizes how crucial the inclusion of women in the technology professions is to the advancement of women in our global society. Through her work with undergraduate students on the cusp of their careers and with young girls in our community, Barbara is committed to making sure that women have the tools that they need to succeed. In 2011, Barbara became an advisor to the Polytechnic WISE (Women in Science and Engineering), an organization focused on advancing women's entry into professional careers in science and engineering. Barbara works tirelessly with undergraduate students, providing them with the knowledge and support they need to succeed and effectively compete. Barbara believes through education, support and encouragement of women scholars, the gender gap in technology fields will be closed. And it is this belief that frames the work that she does not only with young scholars, but future scholars as well. Barbara forged a relationship with the Girls Scouts of America Scout leadership in Arizona. Working with the Arizona Cactus Pine Girl Scout Council, she is currently designing STEM curriculum as part of the Girl Scout Merit Badges and Handbook. The STEM curriculum she is helping to create and implement will provide the tools to prepare the next generation of young girls to pursue careers in the STEM fields. In the words of her nominator, "Barbara's expertise in career counseling and her enthusiasm to help women achieve their goals manifests in her daily conversation. She brings a tremendous energy and productivity to all her projects and devotes herself to a project completely to ensure the success of the endeavor. She is a great asset to the university community and our greater community."
ASU Cesar Chavez Leadership Institute (CCLI)
A report in 1997 indicated that Hispanic educational attainment in Arizona continued to lag behind that of other ethnic groups including Whites, African Americans and Asians. Less than 5% of Hispanics in Arizona had a bachelors degree and 48% did not graduate from high school. In order to ensure the continued development of its economy and quality of life, Arizona needed to utilize the untapped resource that its Hispanic community represented.
The ASU Cesar Chavez Leadership Institute (CCLI) was established in 1995 to fill a gap in leadership development training for underrepresented Hispanic high school students in the state of Arizona. CCLI is a high energy, one-week in-residence leadership workshop at Arizona State University for high school sophomores and juniors from around the state. Students are invited to apply for 60 available program slots. Selected students participate in a one-of-a-kind experience that embraces diversity, reinforces the value of community service and encourages civic engagement. The program also fosters academic and personal success within a collaborative peer environment. To date, CCLI has provided over 800 Arizona high school students with leadership development skills while advancing the goal of pursuing higher education. Program tracking shows a 93% high school graduation rate among CCLI alumni over the past five years. Of those delegates who graduated from high school, 87% went on to pursue higher education with 60% of those students choosing ASU. But perhaps the best demonstration of the impact of CCLI comes in the words of one of their graduates, "At the Cesar Chavez Leadership Institute, I met other students also committed to following their passions and not afraid to be the first at something. I learned that it's okay to be different. The fact that everyone comes from a different background allows for more creativity; and my unique experience as a Mexican American and a woman, has propelled me to do the unthinkable without fear or hesitation. Years later, I've graduated with a degree I love, I have lived and worked abroad, and now reside in my favorite city doing my dream job."


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Again, I'm not trying to start WWIII on this, but what am I missing?
I also think that you take that concept to an extreme that would inhibit innovation.
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First up, the Cyber-Shot HX20V (above) packs a not-to-be-sniffed-at 18.2MP EXMOR R CMOS sensor with a big, big optical zoom – 20x in fact. It also has full HD video recording and 3D shooting capabilities – plus Sony's ramped up the number of manual controls for aspiring photographers. If you're looking to save a few bucks, the Cyber-Shot HX10V is almost identical except that the lens has a 16x optical zoom instead.
Taking a turn for the rugged, Sony has also intro'd its Panasonic FT4-baiting rugged compact – the Cyber-Shot TX20. At 12.2mm slim, you get a 16.2MP sensor and Carl Zeiss Vario-Tessar lens plus all the usual toughend-up specs – so it's waterproof to 5m, dustproof, freezeproof and shockproof for drops of up to 1.5m.
This is a camera that needs to be bashed about a bit, so we'll let you know how it fares when we get our hands on one.
Gunning for small, light and 'sleek' is the Cyber-Shot WX100 – which Sony reckons is the world's tiniest and lightest compact camera to sport a 10x optical zoom. The WX100 is clearly hell bent on shoving your smartphone's cam to one side with its 18.2MP EXMOR R CMOS sensor, ISO up to 12800 and full HD video skills. All that and it's just 108g light and 17.5mm thick (excluding that Sony G lens).
The new Sony Cyber-Shot line-up should be hitting shops as soon as the end of April, with the rugged TX20 debuting in mid-May. Prices have yet to be revealed, but we'll let you know as soon as we have them.
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Problems after installing doms rear lca's
The car seems to sit a bit higher with the perches all the way down, and also after a quick test drive felt like the rear was wobbly as hell. I gave a look (knowing the alignment was off obviously changing then out) but then actual rear tires are pointed inward as well as the rear of the the rear tires (hope i dont confuse) being pointed outward.) I have adjustable toe links I am installing tomorrow, and was wondering if an alignment would straighten on the tires to run straight, not pointed inward in the rear as they are now. The steering wheel does need to be held at a slight angle at certain speeds to drive straight.
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if you have adjustable lower control arms AND adjustable toe arms, they will be able to properly align the car and get the tires to run straight.
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a 4 point alignment will fix this problem as my 2000 did the same thing on rear wheels they were leaning in at top and out at bottom took it in for a 4 point alignment and problem solved
Any time you put the suspension apart you need to do a alignment. Before you add the toe-links make sure you add boots to them to protect the heim joints from dirt/dust & do not grease or oil them up. Then the tech will adjust your camber & then the toe on the rear first & then adjust the toe on the front after doing the rear, w/ getting the s/w straight. As far as the rear height & the spring perchs all the way down, the only thing left is to run shorter springs. I've seen where the springs perchs are set a few inches from the bottom & the car was sitting pretty low. Be interested in where he figured the height of the perches compared to the stock arms. Did you get a chance to compare his arms & the stock ones side by side? Just looking in pix the stock arms have pretty low spring pockets.
I just finished putting on Doms rear LCA today and my car went from being tight as a virgin to all over the place in the rear. I already had his Toe and Camber arms on as well as rear brace.
I am hoping its just an alignment issue with the weeble wobble rear. Will find out soon.
Did yours get right after the alignment 1hotfocus?
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How Dense Can You Get?
Staten Island is the epicenter of the national debate over balancing the need for affordable housing with the desire to control development.
Let's agree from the start that there are builders on Staten Island who have done their profession no favors. Even in New York City, surely the nation's capital of commercial chutzpah, they've managed to stand out.
They have jammed entire townhouse communities onto single-home lots. They have built town-homes with backyards so tiny that practically the only way to grill a hamburger without trespassing is to lean out the door to flip it. They have given the island a new term--"ski-slope driveway"--by installing driveways that drop so steeply from the street they're unusable except on foot. They have even put up houses with front steps that lead directly to the street. Not the sidewalk, but the street. "They have created," says one city official, "some of the most abysmal housing I've ever seen."
It may be only a small minority of developers who've defied house- building principles your average eight-year-old could enunciate, but for Staten Islanders they symbolize a big problem: This once-calm island feels out of control. Long a redoubt of placid middle-class suburbia, Staten Island now shares the woes of suburbs everywhere. Its roads are jammed, its schools are crowded, its sewers are inadequate, it doesn't have enough police stations or firehouses--an entire infrastructure that was created for a quieter, less-crowded era is badly stretched. "People here," says Mike Morrell, president of the oldest neighborhood association on the island, "don't want any more development."
So it should be no surprise that over the past few years, Staten Island has been seized with a passion for "downzoning," or limiting housing density. It is a cause that has engendered near-religious devotion in local political circles and gained much sympathy in city government, where there is genuine dismay at some of the more egregious examples of island home-building and keen awareness that Staten Island is linked to New Jersey by three bridges. "We are trying to keep New Yorkers in New York," says Amanda Burden, chairwoman of the City Planning Commission. "If we destroy their communities, they will leave." Left unsaid, but impossible to ignore, is the fact that Mayor Michael Bloomberg, a Republican, is up for reelection, and Republicans don't win citywide in New York without solid support from Staten Island.
Which is why a planning commission meeting in June was a shocker: While the commission easily approved a couple of additional downzonings for Staten Island, its members, for the first time, raised pointed questions about just what the city is doing in its least- populated borough--questions that, in one form or another, communities all over the country are facing as they struggle to define who will get to live there.
The problem is that in its zeal to protect Staten Island's quality of life, the city has run smack into the fact that Staten Island is considered by many New Yorkers of modest means to be their entree into the housing market. "This has always been the city's safety valve for the working class to get a little piece of the American dream," says Richard Flanagan, a political scientist at the College of Staten Island. Cops, firefighters, teachers, sanitation workers, pipefitters, construction workers--the borough was built on their hunger for a house and a yard. In an era of rapidly escalating housing prices, however, the downzonings have made it harder to satisfy that yen. "They've eliminated affordable housing types," says R. Randy Lee, a Staten Island developer whose company builds subsidized housing in the New York metropolitan area. "The houses that are most affordable to build and provide have been eliminated."
There is an obvious way out of this conundrum: Staten Island could plan for denser development in areas that can support it, create the infrastructure to make it workable and then rezone to allow it. But as Flanagan puts it, "There is no political opening for a dialogue about density here. No one wants to hear it."
From small towns in Vermont to popular cities such as San Francisco and Seattle to older suburbs that have been rediscovered, the mismatch between housing that ordinary working families can afford and what is actually available is growing--yet building more housing to meet the demand is fraught with political danger. As on Staten Island, resolving the dilemma entails making a host of difficult decisions about planning, zoning, transportation and infrastructure. The political wherewithal to tackle these issues, however, often has yet to catch up with the new reality of affordable housing: As the federal government withdraws from the housing scene, the responsibility for innovative answers to the nation's housing crunch has come to rest in local hands, both public and private.
"This battle will be won and lost in the zoning boards of America," says Howard Husock, director of case programs at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government and author of "America's Trillion-Dollar Housing Mistake." "Each town and city will have to make its own decisions." The struggles of Staten Island suggest just how difficult making those decisions is proving to be.
Once full of farms, oystering hamlets and small industry--textile dyeing and printing, breweries, brickworks, an Ivory Soap factory-- Staten Island was for much of the last century truly a place apart from the rest of New York City. That changed abruptly in 1964, when the opening of the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge linked the island to Brooklyn. Housing boomed as the island's population grew from 222,000 in 1960 to 352,000 in 1980 and about half a million today. But the basic development pattern--Victorians, colonials, capes and bungalows with front and back yards, many with detached single-car garages--held steady.
In 1971, in a bid to get ahead of the waves of newcomers that pretty much everyone could see coming, Republican state Senator John Marchi proposed a plan to have the Rouse Co. build a series of suburban communities with infrastructure to serve them. The notion was eventually derailed by a combination of environmental concerns and Conservative Party opposition to government planning, and it was the last time any comprehensive effort to plan for Staten Island was able to make much headway. "It was a turning point," says Flanagan. "That was Staten Island's lost moment."
Even so, for a long time Staten Island was able to get by with a sprawling development pattern, a road network of mostly two-lane avenues and a couple of expressways, and a transit system consisting of the ferry to Manhattan, a single above-ground rail line and bus service. But as once-empty lots were filled in and developers started tearing down existing homes to put up townhouses, the island's dependence on the car caught up with it. Builder Randy Lee notes, "Staten Island has 2.7 cars per household, and if you take away people like the elderly and people in public housing who don't have cars, it's more like 3.1 cars per household. And these cars have to have roadways to drive on and places to park." The result is that one of the first calculations residents make when they see new development is the number of new cars they can expect to see on their streets and vying with them for parking spaces. Small wonder there's no appetite for new development.
Yet people keep coming. On the island's North Shore, the poorer and denser part, there are neighborhoods where three or four families are crowding into two-bedroom apartments, and the demand for housing is so intense all over that illegal basement rentals are proliferating, bringing in more cars and straining resources even further. This is not all bad: The once-decrepit North Shore community of Port Richmond, for instance, has been entirely revitalized by Mexican families in the past few years, but it is also desperately overcrowded. So far, the only official response has been to strike at the symptoms, not the cause, says the Reverend Terry Troia, who runs a nonprofit service agency for the homeless and low-income families there. "We're quick to close illegal SROs, but I don't see anyone building legal SROs," she says. "We're quick to cite illegal rentals and move the families out, but not to find a solution for that family. Don't we have an obligation to house the people who pump our gas, clean our offices, staff our emergency rooms, teach our kids?" Instead, Port Richmond is on the list for downzoning.
To be sure, New York City is hardly blind to the need for affordable housing. At the start of his administration, Bloomberg announced an initiative to spend $3 billion on creating 64,000 units of affordable housing, and the city has been an enthusiastic user of tax credits and "inclusionary zoning"--under which developers can build more market- rate units in their projects than zoning would otherwise allow, in exchange for building affordable units. It has won plaudits from affordable housing advocates, and a more tempered response among those who argue that it is driving up the cost of housing for everyone else, with its inclusionary zoning efforts in two mammoth new development projects, the Hudson Yards on Manhattan's far West Side, and the proposed remaking of Brooklyn's waterfront.
On Staten Island itself, the city is working on a small range of affordable housing projects: a 141-unit affordable co-op development called Stapleton Mews; a 100-unit development for senior citizens on the grounds of an old hospital; and the complete reworking of a rundown public housing project known as Markham Gardens that could create up to 476 units of housing for seniors and Section 8 voucher- holders, townhomes affordable to low-income buyers and low-income rental units. Moreover, says Shaun Donovan, commissioner of the city's Department of Housing Preservation and Development, "People tend to forget that New York City has added more than 800,000 people since 1990, so there is a greater imperative than ever to preserve existing affordable housing."
Yet the city's approach is limited by its belief that "affordable housing" is possible only where it is the instigator. As planning chair Amanda Burden put it recently, "Where you see affordable housing, it's met two conditions: Either it's on city-owned land or it's where you can provide the density to do inclusionary zoning." Staten Island has few places that meet either of those conditions right now, which means that if housing is going to be created on the scale needed to meet demand, the market will have to do it. This is not impossible. Although critics of Staten Island's builders insist that all "the market" is interested in producing is $400,000 townhouses, builders themselves are quick to point to townhouses that sold for $350,000--which is "affordable" by the city's own measures-- and less. "I've built maybe 2,000 units of affordable housing on Staten Island for rental and for sale, under various government programs," says Randy Lee, "and of those, over 1,000 were affordable homeownership units; the last group sold for about $250,000." That was, he points out, before the downzonings went into effect.
So the city finds itself in an ungainly position. It is aggressively pursuing affordable housing as a citywide policy, while at the same time making the construction of affordable housing less likely in large swaths of Staten Island through its downzoning efforts. "What the city's doing," says Julia Vitullo-Martin, a writer on development issues and a fellow at the Manhattan Institute, "is downzoning these areas in which there's enormous market demand and at the same time providing subsidized housing in areas like Brooklyn and Manhattan, where there's also enormous market demand. So for this moderate-income group who want to buy on Staten Island, the city's providing subsidized housing in Brooklyn. It seems insane."
This inconsistency got its first official acknowledgement at the June meeting of the City Planning Commission. The commission approved two new downzonings and put a third on the docket, but it also saw the first open stirrings of unrest with the city's policies begin to surface. "This commission has systematically been downzoning large parts of Staten Island, the Bronx and Queens," said Irwin Cantor, a courtly structural engineer from Queens who sits on the planning commission, "but what we are also doing is zoning away our heritage of welcome to the newly arrived and the striving. At the end of the day, they will come, and they will need to be housed." Burden responded that "there is always a tension between affordability and the preservation of the character of a neighborhood," but in the case of Staten Island, she would lean toward the latter. "I believe that inappropriate development does not necessarily enhance affordability," she said.
This stance drew a fervent second from City Councilman Andrew Lanza, a Republican who represents the well-to-do South Shore of Staten Island and who is, at the moment, the champion of downzoning there, with 10 separate proposals that have either been approved or are in the pipeline; all three of the proposals the commission dealt with that day were his. Lanza was blunt. "Don't be fooled by this affordable housing red herring," he fumed. "It's a diversion, a smokescreen. It's a lie."
Patience for this argument is starting to wear thin among some members of the City Planning Commission--although with a mayoral election looming, not in public. "In all the other boroughs," notes one person familiar with the commission's thinking, "we have seemed to blend downzoning with some degree of 'upzoning,' or adding density. That doesn't happen on Staten Island. There are pieces of Staten Island that can be upzoned. It's true, they have lousy infrastructure, but they don't come busting anyone's chops to get better infrastructure. They use the lack to explain why not to build."
In truth, there are any number of neighborhoods on Staten Island that could tolerate more density, and hence new opportunities for affordable housing--most notably the string of neighborhoods along the train line and the neighborhood around the ferry terminal, St. George, which already has high-rise office buildings. "St. George is a natural choice for density," says Allan Cappelli, a consultant to the island's builders' association. "It ought to be like downtown Brooklyn, or Park Slope--it's got every bus line, the ferry, the train. It's a community that's desolate at night; it desperately needs people there. And instead they downzoned it!"
But building would take a comprehensive effort to step back and look at where growth on Staten Island should occur, and island politicians have seen little to gain in trying to force hard choices on an electorate that wants an uncrowded suburban lifestyle. "There's never really a constituency for planning for infrastructure," says Cappelli. "An anticipated constituency doesn't have clout--government responds to those who are there, not those who are coming."
To be fair, political leaders on Staten Island have for years now been talking about turning an abandoned rail line along the North Shore into light rail; the city has made it clear that it has other priorities. Which is the other part of the island's problem: The city officials ultimately responsible for paying attention to Staten Island have tended to rely on what Richard Flanagan calls "bread and circuses" to keep it happy: a new minor-league baseball stadium, redoing the ferry terminal, closing the much-hated Fresh Kills landfill. "Compared to the Bronx and parts of Brooklyn, this is a solidly middle-class borough and other city residents have needs that need to be met first," Flanagan explains. "But the way city hall has met Staten Island's needs has been public relations and symbols, not the ongoing substantive engagement of government that goes on every day."
The result of all this is that no one--neither Staten Island's political leadership nor New York City's--seems to know how to start the process of building a constituency for grappling with the island's growth. At the City Planning Commission hearing in June, for instance, it was hard not to notice that when Michael Fazio, president of Staten Island's builders association, practically begged the commission to look into appropriate increases in density to meet the demand for housing, Burden's response was to put the onus on him and his colleagues. "If the Building Industry Association would actually look at sites that could be upzoned, then build a consensus in the community for upzoning," she said, "then that becomes a critical component of what you're bringing before us."
There are, in fact, a variety of efforts underway on Staten Island that could, eventually, bring about change. The plan for remaking the Markham Gardens public housing project, for instance, was hammered out by a group of clergy-led affordable housing advocates and North Shore politicians, and they've indicated that they plan to keep meeting. The island's chamber of commerce is working with city and state agencies to come up with a comprehensive transportation plan. And the City Planning Commission is working on proposals to develop the industrial land along the island's remote West Shore.
There is also the island's Growth Management Task Force, created a few years ago by Bloomberg to get a grip on the "over-development" problem. The task force's report, which was aimed squarely at the bad townhouse designs that so irk Staten Islanders, was the basis for a new series of design regulations aimed at ensuring that new homes have adequate yards and parking spaces. More recently, the task force issued a recommendation--since accepted by the City Planning Commission--that commercial areas where builders had been replacing stores with new housing instead require ground-floor commercial uses and housing above, a classic zoning technique for creating new affordable housing.
Since the task force is the only publicly sanctioned body with a cross-section of Staten Islanders looking at development, it would seem like a natural place to start a broader planning effort, but it is unclear whether its members would agree. "This task force wasn't to plan for what's coming, it was put together because the house was on fire," says Joe Markowski, president of the New Dorp Central Civic Association and a task force member. "This was an attempt to salvage what's left."
The truth is, none of these efforts meets Staten Island's fundamental need, which is for a political process capable of deciding where new housing can legitimately go. "Someone has to want to create the rules that will facilitate it," says Sandy Krueger, CEO of the Staten Island Board of Realtors. "It takes government to come in and say, 'We'll do a consolidated master plan, not just fight fires.' The problem is, it was beneficial to a lot of parties to allow uncontrolled development. Now we're at the day of reckoning, and there is no effective leadership."
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West Midlands Police said the 18-year-old was arrested on Thursday by officers attempting to trace 17-year-old Natalie Putt.
Miss Putt disappeared from her home in Upper Gornal, in September last year, 11 weeks after giving birth.
A police spokesman said the man was released without charge on Friday and inquiries were continuing.
Further forensic examinations were being carried out at Miss Putt's home, the spokesman said.
The Nottinghamshire force's underwater search team was assisting with the inquiry, the spokesman added.
The teenager disappeared after saying she was going to the shops near her home in Thornleigh, near Dudley, on 1 September.
She took no personal possessions and left behind her three-month-old baby son Rhys.
Rhys is being cared for by Natalie's father and stepmother.


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The designer of the spectacular Olympic cauldron talked today of the two year cloak-and-dagger operation to keep the project top secret.
Thomas Heatherwick said "only four or five people" had been aware of the two year project to create the cauldron which will burn for the duration of the 30th Olympic Games.
The giant creation which provided the spectacular finale to the £27 million Opening Ceremony was put together in King's Cross and in a shed in Harrogate.
The first time it was tested last week was at 3am inside a locked Olympic Stadium with only a handful of insiders present.
Even performers, volunteers and key staff were kept out of the loop as the mission to unveil the promised "wow" factor proceeded.
Prime Minister David Cameron was in on the secret and whenever backing was needed for developing the revolutionary design, he was consulted.
The cauldron featured 204 copper "petals' which each represented the nations competing at the London games and were carried alongside national flags and competitors.
In the climax of the ceremony the individual flames spread between the petals, converging on the cauldron to create one giant flame.
The cauldron was developed at the Heatherwick Studio in Kings Cross, and taken to Yorkshire for finishing and testing.
"It was like one of those James Bond secret gadget places where everything is top secret" he said.
"My own mother was cross with me for the last two weeks as she read everything and went online to try and work out where the cauldron would be placed in the stadium.
"She felt her son should at least tell her. But only four or five people knew."
Mr Heatherwick said he had wanted to create a cauldron for the Olympic flame that would "root the whole ceremony in the spectators, in the people who would be there".
"We were aware that cauldrons have been getting bigger, higher, fatter, as each Olympics has happened and we felt that we shouldn't try to be even bigger than the last ones.
"So then when we were thinking about this incredible event with these 204 nations coming together… it didn't feel enough to just design a different shape of bowl on a stick."
His solution was to create a cauldron comprised of stems topped with the petals which hydraulically lifted to converge and create a cauldron shape after they were lit in the opening ceremony.
Each petal is a different shape and an intricate operation was masterminded to ensure they fitted onto metal poles securely before being ignited.
"It seemed to work last night, which was a huge relief" he said.
The cauldron was lit in the centre of the Olympic stadium but before the athletics events begins there on August 3, it will be lifted into place at one end of the stadium where a giant bell hung during the opening ceremony.
"At the end of the Games this cauldron will dismantle itself and radiate back down to the ground and each of those copper pieces taken away by each nation and put in a national Olympic cabinet somewhere," Heatherwick said.
One of the dancers Mehmet Ali, 35, of Ilford, Essex, said:"It was a huge surprise to nearly everyone. They would only work on it during rehearsals when everybody had left the stadium in the last few days.
"But it was amazing and incredible to be part of it."
The cauldron will be broken up at the closing ceremony and each of its 204 copper 'petals' given to the competing nations as a souvenir.
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