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About the article about the church and One United ("The clock is ticking," Bay State Banner, March 8, 2012).
A couple more pieces of information would have really helped. How did the church intend to replay the loan, and why were they not able to?
That should have been one of the main points in the article. But I didn't see that question addressed at all. I still don't know how you can make a profit from owning a community center to repay about $5 million in outstanding loans. Furthermore, why is the building still not complete?
Earlier this month, I joined Rev. Al Sharpton and the National Action Network on the march from Selma to Montgomery. I am one of the 40 percent of Americans who are independent of both of the major parties.
Back in the days of Ross Perot, the media called guys like me "angry white men." Along the route, I spoke with many people and brought greetings from Dr. Lenora Fulani, the country's leading African American independent with whom I've worked closely and from IndependentVoting.org, the country's largest organization of independent voters, of which I'm a part.
I have been an independent activist concerned with voters' rights for many years. In Birmingham, as chair of the Petitioners Alliance, I helped lead the first citywide Initiative & Referendum movement. With Alabama Sen. Hank Sanders, one of the sponsors of this historic march, I wrote legislation to open access to the Alabama ballot.
As independents, we fight for reforms that not only protect the right to vote, but also increase the power of the vote. For this march, I was proud to have fellow independents Mark Bodenhausen and Lorna Lindsey join me for the historic bridge crossing in Selma. Lindsey had never been to a major demonstration before. We added our voices to the call for an end to voter ID laws that suppress the full participation of all our citizens.
Independents have experienced disenfranchisement. We know that when partisan interests wave a flag about so-called voter fraud in an election year, you can pretty much count on the fact that they're doing it for partisan reasons, not to protect our democracy.
Partisanship is destroying our democracy and making our government incapable of moving our country forward. I am far from alone in this concern. Right now, our Congress has a 97 percent disapproval rating. Most Americans look at Congress and see how partisan its behavior is and feel angry that our government is not working for them.
We need to broaden participation in our democracy, not narrow it. We need to make sure that no Americans are turned away from the polls because they don't have the right identification. And that means photo ID, state ID and political ID. In 26 states, independents are prevented from voting in primaries, not because they don't have an ID, but because they don't belong to a party! That's just wrong. There is an historic bond that ties African Americans and independents together. That bond is based on our shared belief that our democracy must work for everyone, not just the powerful, not just the parties — but for the people!


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PPSA Gallery: Anne Swearman, APSA, PPSAAnne lives in the United Kingdom. She has been interested in photography since she was eleven years old when she managed to get some glass plates for her father's Thornton-Pickard reflex. Photographic materials only became slightly available after the war, but she managed to get developer and Hypo to process the plates. Her father bought a 'Purma Special' when she was about 13 and she was allowed to use it. There was a long gap in her photography hobby when she married and had children. She took a son to a Photo club when he was 12, and even though he left after a few months, she stayed. Later she became interested in International Exhibitions, earned her PPSA Distinction in 2010, her APSA Honor in 2012, has an EFIAP, and is an Associate of the Royal Photographic Society. She has been a member of her local Whitley Bay Photographic Society for over thirty years, and was one of the first people in the North of England to become interested in Digital Photography. She uses it in many ways and especially enjoys producing creative images which are regarded as 'seriously weird.' Anne is a judge and lecturer and a member of a PSA EID Study Group for creative photography. She finds it sometimes daunting to sit in front of a blank screen needing to produce something creative for the next month. She has found counting up acceptances with a view to the next PSA Star an excellent motivator to keep going. Anne enjoys her hobby and the bonus of the many friends she has made in so many places.
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UNSECURED creditors of discount chain Retail Adventures look set to suffer substantial losses from a deal to sell the chain back to its original owner, Jan Cameron.
It is understood administrators Deloitte will next week rubber stamp a deal for Ms Cameron to buy back the chain of 236 stores for $72 million.
It was reported yesterday that the $72m offer was $30m more than that made by another party for the entire chain.
Administrators confirmed yesterday that a voluntary administrator was able to sell a business without holding a second creditors meeting and without the approval of a committee of creditors.
Since going into administration last year with total liabilities of $268m, Ms Cameron's company DSG Holdings has operated the chain under a licence agreement.
During that time, 32 stores have been closed, including 20 Chickenfeed stores in Tasmania. A total of 786 employees were made redundant.
Ms Cameron has put a further $45m into the business and kept an agreed minimum stock level of $70m.
A report to creditors last November revealed unsecured trade creditors were owed $97m and related creditors were owed $68m.
"For there to be any return to unsecured creditors, the value of the business would need to exceed $105m," the report said.
Unsecured creditors include suppliers such as Chinese exporters and other businesses such as Mr Fothergill's Seeds and Bulbs, which is owed $364,000.
Ms Cameron is the company's most significant secured creditor with an $80m secured debt and employee entitlements totalling about $25m.
In its November report to creditors, Deloitte said a second creditors meeting would consider whether a deed of company arrangement needed to be established, whether the administration needed to end and whether control of the company should be returned to its directors.


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On the Shoulders of Giants
I'm excited to let you know that after nearly SIX years blogging at this site, On the Shoulders Of Giants is moving over to CTQ's handsome new website! (Lots to explore there...more on that soon.)
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Alas, the bags are packed.
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I spent the day away from my students grading the writing portion of the 8th grade NY State Common Core ELA Exams. I got to grade one short response and one extended response. I've done this in previous years, but given all of the changes in the exam format and the standards being assessed, everyone was paying extra close attention to the way we were were trained to score the questions.
I have some serious questions about what I learned today, but unfortunately, that's about all I can say. That's because I had to sign a confidentiality agreement before the training and scoring began that said I would not share anything I saw or heard today in relation to the scoring of the test. (I wrote about this last year too--Must Teachers Keep Quiet About the Test?)
The way Pearson directs the scoring of writing pieces on these tests will impact the overall scores of our students this year as well as the way teachers prepare students to meet the demans of the test in subsequent years. The state released a rubric for the writing tasks in advance of the test on engageny.org, but the way the rubric gets applied to student work is where the rubber actually hits the road, so to speak, in the standardized assessment of these Common Core standards.
Here's the problem. These standards are still new and experimental, and so are the standardized tests designed to measure them. Inevitably, at this stage there are going to be glitches or issues with both the standards and the way they are being measured, especially when the people directly involved with them (teachers and students) did not have input into their design. It seems that teachers are being forced to comply with new standards and assessments, but not given a forum to offer vital feedback about them and the transition process.
I don't like being made to promise my silence. I don't understand what purpose it serves either, besides keeping problems out of the light.
To NY State and Pearson--don't require our silence. Admit that there are flaws in the new system with potential to do as much damage as any other flaw in our education system, and invite teachers and school leaders into the revision process.
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I have been a fan of the Common Core Learning Standards for ELA since I first read them a few years ago. By and large, the Common Core Standards represent a direction that is more in line with what I've always tried to focus on in my teaching. I actually quite like these nicely organized standards that push toward deeper thinking.
I have a few concerns though. In no particular order, here they are:
- Not everything in the standards seems developmentally appropriate--analyzing author's purpose in the 3rd grade, for example?
- Only one teacher was included in the team of 60 who wrote the standards. (Perhaps this accounts the above point--either way, it needs to be checked and revised.)
- No mention of poetry writing. How many teachers across the country will stop giving students the opportunity to write poems? How is this good for kids?
- Fiction writing is downplayed, visible only as couched inside the general concept of "narrative" witing. This lessens our students' participation in a rich literary tradition.
- At least in NY, teachers have not been included in the design of assessments for the CCLS. Instead, Pearson is doing this work. And it shows in the product that teachers are not involved. Lots to think about and improve upon if the intention is there.
- Are standardized assessments going to drive the instructional shift toward Common Core? That would leave so much out! That would be to take a great opportunity and diminish it significantly and unnecessarily.
I've got a lot more to say about each of these points and I will be exploring them over the next several months. As I said before, I like the Common Core, but, as many educators are saying right now, I'm concerned about implementation. I see a need for some thoughtful revisions. Can we make that happen?
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Directly before administering Day 2 of NY State ELA testing, about two 2 weeks ago, I gave students a warmup sheet, which asked them to "draw an emoticon or face that shows how you are feeling about the test today." Then it asked them to free write about it in the space below.
Below is a collection of some of the emoticons they drew. I find them entertaining in the way that they communicate some of the spirit of the middle school child, but also poignant in what they express about this yearly ritual that takes up significant space in their educational and personal lives. I wish I had photographed all of them, but this is a pretty good representation of the overall response:
Have you struggled to fit current events into your curriculum? Feel like current events is an "all-or-nothing" sort of thing to teach, and if you can't do it all, then might as well do nothing? I have. Here are two resources that have resolved that issue for me this year.
CNN Student News. Every morning at 4am, CNN creates a 10 minute news segment for kids. It's posted for free on their website, and teachers at my school have started showing it daily in homeroom. It's interesting and accessible for students, and they look forward to learning about the world every morning. They've even become fans of the anchor, Carl Azuz. There is tons of opportunity for discussion and follow-up reading, if time permits, and current events frequently connect with students' learning in their classes. I see this as a huge resource for increasing students' cultural capital. [Watch today's segment here.]
Upfront Magazine. This excellent current events magazine is a collaboration between The New York Times and Scholastic. My school ordered a subscription to it, and a class set arrives each month. We pass it among the different grades, so most students get a chance to read each issue. Students are very interested in the articles, which cover national and international news and issues. They are accessible for middle school readers, and they present a balanced view of most issues. I used this resource during a journalism unit to teach students about how feature articles are structured. Most of the articles in the magazine are features, with a few informational or Q & A pieces, and always a political cartoon. [View a sample issue here.]
During our journalism unit, I had several issues of Upfront as well as some other newspapers on the tables, and students got into the routine of simply reading the news at the start of class. It was very relaxing, introduces a large element of choice, and students learned a lot and became more curious about the world. Now, when the new issue comes, at least one teacher makes the magazines available for students at the start of class.
These resources have been so valuable to my students this year, and so convenient for me. Both present quality, age-appropriate ways to make current events a regular part of a middle school curriculum without having to "stop everything" and do current events for a few weeks, which I often see happen. These resources have helped me make it simply a part of my students' daily school experience, without leaving behind other important studies.
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Any classroom teacher could have looked at Day 2 of the NY State ELA Exam that was administered last week on Wednesday and known that it was too much for students to do in the alotted 90 minutes. Unfortunately, it looks like neither Pearson nor the NY State Department of Education saw fit to consult (or listen to) teachers on this. The result was a test that many students did not finish, which will yield data that does not tell us much about what students can really do, when it comes to the new Common Core standards. (See this NY Times article for reporting on reactions to this test.)
As I looked through the test booklet to process each question, being a careful and not especially fast reader myself, I knew I would have struggled to finish in time. The test presented students with the following tasks to complete in 90 minutes:
- 3 lengthy passages, of 2-3 pages, with plenty of unfamiliar vocabulary for students to probem-solve and complex sentences for students to read and reread for understanding
- 7 complex multiple choice questions on each passage, which required students to look back at the passage and really think about what the question is asking and consider the implications of each answer choice to choose the best one. These were not straightforward, "did you understand what you read?" type questions and answers. There were several questions, for which neither I nor any English teacher on my team, was sure of the correct answer.
- 5 complex "short response" questions which require textual evidence in paragraph form.
- an extended response to one passage (an essay)
A sixth grade teacher I know--who finds the new CC standards a natural fit to her teaching--said, "If critical thinking is what we're really emphasizing with the Common Core standards, why was there no time given for that on the test?" Exactly.
The Common Core Language Standards say nothing about students needing to be able to read or write at a certain speed. My fast readers (students who read significantly faster than I do) had no problem with the time, but even very high performing students who read at a more regular speed or who think a lot about each sentence they write had trouble finishing. A good number did not complete the test. My students were not the only ones. An elementary school teacher I know reported that just over half of their students completed the test. One of my students with friends at NEST, a high performing, gifted and talented NYC school, told me her friends said only one person in their class finished the test.
The most unfortunate part of this is that we'll have no real way of knowing how our students would have done, had they finished the test. The data won't tell us much about our students' performance on the new types of tasks included on the test. I don't personally need such data to tell me what my students can and cannot do--but I know this data will be used to evaluate what my students' skills, as well as the impact of my teaching.
Though I have many criticisms about the use of standardized testing to measure teaching and learning, today I simply draw the line at a test that was impossible for many skilled readers and writers to finish. All they had to do was show some teachers that test... gross negligence, willful ignorance, or just mean? Any which way, students and teachers should not be guinea pigs for high stakes experiments.
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For years now, fellow English teacher and blogger, Renee Moore, has been singing praises of the English Companion Ning, a site where English teachers can help each other and talk shop. I am finally there, and oh, what I have been missing!
This is the place for English teachers to pose questions like, what does "pre writing" really mean, what part of it do students need, and how do you use it in your classroom? It is also a place where English teachers can share love of literature and end up comparing the writing of Fitzgerald and Milton. It's a place to ask for good text suggestions for high school ELL's, and sharing materials for great poetry lessons, and commisserate about the amount of time we spend thinking about grading papers. The conversation is really thoughtful, and people are more than willing to share what they know and help each other. Their tagline is,
"A place to ask questions and get help. A community dedicated to helping
you enjoy your work. A cafe without walls or coffee: just friends."
How nice is that?!
I've been thinking a lot lately about how teachers can guide our own professional development. For English teachers, it doesn't get much better than a site like this. The ability to connect with other teachers asynchronously with no geographical obstacles, ask your own questions and help others is something we should all be doing.
If you teach English and you're not on the Ning, you're missing out!
Professional development for teachers today is often done "to us," not "by us." There is a lack of consistency in these top down PD initiatives, as different solutions to old problems are tried almost yearly, but never actually established or appropriately reflected upon by teachers and leaders. These "flavor of the month" initiatives are met with a lot of eye rolling by teachers, because they rarely speak directly to the needs we have in our classrooms. What's especially strange to me about this model is that it does not set up teachers to be the experts in our own field.
I imagine that in a transformed, more teacher-driven profession, most teachers would have a professional pathway that looks something like this--
1. Once teachers acquire the basics of teaching (or during that period), we
would identify areas of interest, such as designing assessments, teaching the skills
of collaboration to students, or connecting with communities around student learning, to name a
few possibilities.
2. Teachers would then explore these areas deeply in their
own teaching, drawing on available research and methods and developing their own practices that work for their students in their school
3. We would also participate in the discourse around
these practices within the wider profession. Unfortunately, the discourse has often included only
professors and researchers, and to some degree, preservice or beginning teachers through course work, but not
experienced, practicing teachers!
4. Finally, they would find themselves in a position to
share their developments with other teachers, both in their school and outside. They could write, present at conferences, and
moved into various leadership roles.
The result would be a more deeply skilled, empowered teaching force, in which we are clearly the experts at what we do.
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This is one of those moments where I have so much on my mind, that I don't know what to write about. So I'm just going to level with you:
The past couple of months have taken a toll on me. Fulltime teaching and writing a book in my extra time, on top of my usual writing and teacher leadership activities, have been no joke. I've pushed myself mentally and physically past what I thought was my limit. No, writing is not a sport; I'm talking about teaching without a full night's sleep too many days each week, for weeks at a time. (Serious empathy going out to the teachers out there who are new moms and dads and do this for their little ones).
This weekend I'm spending time with family, and I feel like I'm barely here. I haven't had time to just be. I haven't had time to get my nails done or other seemingly unimportant stuff that grounds me.
I'm not complaining. I'm proud and excited that I've written a book about an aspect of my teaching that I feel so passionately about and can now share on a new level; I love my students and I'm energized by teaching every day. I would not say that this feeling is one of being burnt out. It's just that there is a personal cost to trying to do so much at once.
Yes, this should be called "Extreme Teacher Leadership"! There are other ways, though... Check out the discussion by teacher leaders at the Teaching Ahead Roundtable on hybrid roles.
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I've dreamt of a hybrid role that allows me to teach part time and lead part time. Here, for example, was my birthday wish a few years ago... the image from that post was so great I had to repeat it here.
Right now, there is a great discussion happening at Teaching Ahead: A Roundtable hosted by EdWeek Teacher and CTQ. Several teacher leaders, including myself, have posted descriptions of our ideal hybrid roles, and the discussion has been equally interesting.
My post is about creating a multi-layered teaching position and I'm working on a follow-up. Brooke Peters of the Odyssey Initiative has been writing about how to create a school around teacher leadership and she shares great suggestions and ideas for hyrbid roles gleaned from her travels to schools around the country. Ilana Garon, Lhisa Almashy, and Linda Yaron describe their unique, ideal hybrid roles.
Check in now--follow up posts are coming out!
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Many of you successfully achieved the event's goal – to write 7 picture books in 7 days. The purpose of the event is to encourage everyone to FINISH first drafts of book ideas you've had bouncing around in your head but had been procrastinating on actually writing out. Now you all have either seven (or at least a couple) first drafts that you can revise later in the year. YIPPEE!
Today's blog is our wrap up blog. I am also going to announce the winners of our 2012 NaPiBoWriWee Contest! (Winners were chosen at random for a bunch of cool prizes!)
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The 13 alleged members of the mortgage fraud ring include real estate attorneys, title closers, appraisers and straw buyers. They were arrested on conspiracy to commit bank fraud and wire fraud charges.
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Getting the family together for some nice after dinner conversation, with dessert (preferably something chocolate).
Enjoying a peaceful run with the lights in the city dimmed.
Having a living room campout and playing Monopoly with my kids by the light of our windup lantern.
Earth Hour (http://www.earthhour.org/) is a planet wide event that brings awareness to climate change. It was started in Sydney, Australia in 2007 as an event to show that everybody can have an effect on climate change. Earth Hour went international the next year with Toronto signing up and then quick expansion to around 135 countries. Brought to the world by the World Wildlife Fund and symbolized by 60+ which represents the sixty minutes in the hour PLUS continuing to make a difference every day.
The amazing response to Earth Hour shows that the citizens of planet Earth care about the anthropomorphic causes of climate change and want to do something about it. This event acts as a stepping stone to make people more aware of what they can do to counteract climate change. As simple as turning the lights off for an hour is, it shows that everybody can have an impact through small lifestyle changes. Lowering the temperature on your thermostat in the winter by a degree or two, walking or riding to work or using mass transit and making sure you turn your lights off are just a few of the ways we can help save our planet.
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I have spoken about Mr Yates in past posts - he is one of my favorite fishermen; he is beloved by nearly every British angler as an author, photographer and staunch advocate for vintage fishing gear and methods. Over the last few months, in anticipation for Maine's fishing season, I read a few of his books – each one is a masterpiece. I knew through Yates' reputation and his previous works that I would love these books, but as each one unfolded I became further charmed and impressed by Yates; his philosophies, his love for the outdoors, nature and, of course, tea. All of which resonate with me and my beliefs.
When I came to the end of "Nightwalk", Yates' magical and lyrical book about walking through nighttime British countryside, I was keen to find out what he was up to next. It was in this search that I came across his intended crowd funded next publication. Entitled "The Lost Diaries" the book is exactly that, a book of his recently rediscovered fishing diaries dating from the 1980s, including "the last days Chris spent fishing at Redmire after his record catch and the early days of the Golden Scale Club."
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JOPLIN -- More than 150 bicyclists left Schifferdecker Park Saturday morning for the "Mother Road Bicycle Tour." The routes ran between 13 and 100 miles running through Missouri, Kansas and Oklahoma. The $40 entry fee is used to support the Joplin Trails Coalition which maintains three trails in Jasper county. Organizers say everyone is welcome to use the trails. Sunday hundreds of runners will be on historic Route 66 for the third annual "Mother Road Marathon." Participants will be running 26.2 miles, 13.1 miles and 5k races starting at different locations at 7:30AM.
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text: This Scout retains its original ¼-inch armor plate that could stop high-velocity small arms up to .30 caliber. Because this rig returned from overseas, Federal regulations required the armor to be demilitarized by burning an "X" into the armor in various places with a torch. These were welded up for cosmetic reasons but the armor protection is permanently compromised. The tires are '80s-era 8-20 Michelin XY with an armored casing, fitted by the Greeks.This Scout retains its original ¼-inch armor plate that could stop high-velocity small arm Few vehicles designed in the '30s saw much combat time in WWII, but one that did was the M3A1 Scout Car by the White Motor Company. In 1937, after trolling three years for an elusive contract for armored scout cars, the Army accepted White's third prototype, the M3. White built 64 M3s for operational tests in 1938, and based on field reports the improved M3A1 model was developed. High-volume production of M3A1s began in June of 1939 and continued into 1944. The M3A1 was no engineering marvel. It was largely built of commercially available truck parts with four-wheel drive and an armored body added. The engine was a 320ci Hercules JXD truck engine, an L-head six that's more or less a reliability legend. The Army also experimented with diesel power in the M3A1, building a hundred with either a 103hp, 339ci Hercules DJXD Lanova cell diesel or an 81hp, 317ci Buda-Lanova 6DT317. The Hercules diesel weighed a gut-busting 3,380 pounds. The transmission was a four-speed Clark 230F and behind that was a divorced Wisconsin T-32-15 full-time transfer case. That's full-time with no center diff and you can imagine what a bear this thing is to steer on a paved road. Low range was 1.87:1. Axles were Timken-Detroit spilt-case units, very similar to what was used in WWII era 2½-ton 6x6 trucks. Oddly enough, the Scout did have power brakes, using a Bragg-Kliesrath vacuum booster. Nicholson currently mounts only a single .30 cal. M1919 Browning replica. The original perceived use of the Scout Car was "reconnaissance in force" and many were fitted with powerful radios. Typically they were assigned to armored units for scouting ahead of tanks. Early on, some were also set up as 4.2-inch mortar carriers. The standard M3A1 Scout mounted one .50 caliber M2 machine gun and at least one .30 cal. M1917 water-cooled, or M1919 air-cooled machine gun. These guns mount on a skate rail and can be fired from any position around the vehicle. Commonly, a second .30 cal. was added in the field for even more serious firepower. Exterior armor was ¼-inch hardened plate from the Diebold Safe Company, with a ½-inch plate windshield. The floor and underseat fuel tanks were also armored. Scout Cars first saw action in the Pacific in late 1941 and in the invasion of North Africa in late 1942 but were found to have a serious flaw. The Scouts were robust, reliable machines, but too heavy for adequate cross-country performance on the 8.25-20 (later 9.00-20) tires. They tended to sink like rocks in soft ground and stuck Scouts are of little use. By late 1942 they were effectively replaced as forward recon vehicles by armored cars with far better cross-country mobility. Many M3A1s were given to Allied forces from other nations who may have used them to better effect. Some were retained by US forces for convoy protection, road patrols, and military police duty. In excess of 20,000 M3 and M3A1 Scout cars were built and some were reported to be in service as late as the '90s in some parts of the world. It's unclear how many remain but the higher estimates run around 200. They are a popular collectible because they will actually fit into a normal garage. Unfortunately, most of the survivors are overseas, making importation difficult due to federal regulations on importing armored military equipment. Mechanical parts are not difficult to find but body parts can be very difficult. Current restored values run from $30,000 to $60,000, depending on the vehicle and accessories. The Details General Owner/Hometown: Pat Nicholson/Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Vehicle: 1942 White M3A1 Scout Car Estimated value: $50,000 Engine Type: 320ci Hercules JXD, inline-six Power (hp): 110 @ 3000 rpm Torque (lb-ft): 241@ 1100 rpm Bore & Stroke (in): 4.00 x 4.25 Compression ratio: 5.88:1 Drivetrain Transmission: Four-speed, Clark 230F Transfer case: Two-speed, Wisconsin T-32-15 Axle/Differentials/tires Front: Timken F30 Rear: Timken R35 Axle ratio: 5.14:1 Tires: 8.25-20 (later 9.00-20) Dimensions/Capacities L x W x H (in): 221.5 x 80 x 78.5 Wheelbase (in): 131 GVW (lbs): 12,400 Curb weight (lbs): 8,900 Fuel capacity (gal): 30 (15x2) Range (mi): 250 Performance Top speed (mph): 55 Cruising speed (mph): 45 Min. ground clearance (in): 15.75 Approach angle (deg): 37 Departure angle (deg): 35 Fording depth (in): 28 Armament: 1-.50 cal., 1-.30 cal. This '42 M3A1 is owned by collector Pat Nicholson. Its last military service was with the Greek Army but it may have seen service with the French Army before that. Noted MV restorer Jesse Browning brought it back to life in 2008 and it took about three months of steady work. The repair parts came from Rod Shaver Military Vehicle Parts, in Chandler, Arizona. If the M3A1 looks familiar from this angle, bear in mind White also designed the American halftrack and built most of them. The halftrack front wrap looks very similar but there is next to no mechanical parts carryover. The front roller is to aid the vehicle crossing gullies.This '42 M3A1 is owned by collector Pat Nicholson. Its last military service was with the Originally, six outward-facing bucket seats were mounted in back. Nicholson has the seats but finds it much easier to get around inside without them. The skate rail goes around the upper edge of the fighting compartment and the gun, or guns, can fire from any position.Originally, six outward-facing bucket seats were mounted in back. Nicholson has the seats The Hercules JXD engine is legendary in truck and industrial circles. It powered a bunch of military equipment during WWII, from trucks and armored cars to generators. Though of modest output, it could push the 12,000-pound Scout Car to 55 mph and deliver 8 mpg doing it.The Hercules JXD engine is legendary in truck and industrial circles. It powered a bunch o By Jim Allen Enjoyed this Post? Subscribe to our RSS Feed, or use your favorite social media to recommend us to friends and colleagues!


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"The $150 per semester increase will be one of the lowest tuition increases that we've had in the last seven years," Reed said.
Who is supposed to feel good about this? Wouldn't it be better if this was the only tuition increase in the past seven years? Or if it was the last tuition increase for the next seven years?
The week before, Gov. Jerry Brown engaged in another highly dubious superlative when he noted that the new changes in the state's public employee retirement system mark "the biggest rollback to public pension benefits in the history of California."
That sounds impressive, but of course this rollback is the "biggest" only because the pension system has grown so massive and has gone without reform for so long.
Another example of such misleading wordplay: After a jobs report Friday showed California's unemployment rate dipping from 10.7 percent to 10.6 percent in August, Employment Development Department spokeswoman Loree Levy said the state is enjoying its "strongest year-over-year private sector job growth, both in number and percent, since way back in March of 2001."
Well, naturally. Jobswise, the state has nowhere to go but up.
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We look forward to a day when a $150 tuition hike again sounds gigantic, when further pension rollbacks make this one look tiny, and when the state unemployment picture has no more room for improvement.


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Health Services hopes to enhance students' learning and overall experiences at Babson by assisting them in maintaining optimum physical and emotional health.
Our mission in Health Services is to assist Babson students in maintaining optimum physical and emotional health through the provision of high quality, comprehensive medical care in combination with health education and wellness services that are both easily accessible and cost effective.
Massachusetts has reported comparatively higher peaks of the flu earlier in the season this year. While Babson Health Services administered flu vaccines to students during the Fall semester, we strongly encourage those students who have not yet received the flu vaccine to do so prior to returning to campus, if possible. It takes approximately one to two weeks from the time of vaccination to build antibodies.
Massachusetts has been offering free flu shot clinics and will continue to do so while the supply of vaccine lasts. If you have not done so already, you can contact your local health department, primary care giver's office, or pharmacy as many are also administering flu shot clinics in your local areas, both in Massachusetts and in other states.
Besides getting the flu vaccine, some other steps you can take to protect yourself are:
If you are not feeling well, remember the following as you recover:
Should you have any questions, please call Health Services at 781-239-6363.
Contact Public Safety (ext. 5555) at any time. They will respond promptly and provide or arrange transportation to Health Services or the hospital.
In order to avoid delay in seeing a member of the clinical staff, students are asked to schedule appointments ahead of time. To make an appointment, call 781-239-6363. Every effort is made to see any student who is ill within 24 hours.
The staff strives to provide medical care in a timely and efficient manner by highly skilled, thoughtful, and caring clinicians. The following services are available to all full-time Babson College students:
Health Services is staffed by a highly skilled and caring team of nurse practitioners, a consulting physician, two health and wellness professionals, a nutritionist, and an administrative assistant. The nurse practitioners are certified by the national nursing organization and are licensed to diagnose and treat illnesses, prescribe medication, order and interpret diagnostic tests, and provide health counseling and education.
Monday through Friday:9 a.m.–5 p.m.
Urgent Care HoursMonday and Thursday5–7 p.m.
Physician HoursWednesday and Friday12–2 p.m.
Allergy InjectionsWednesday and Friday12–1:30 p.m.
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