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With Casey Waleko, his freshman ace, back on the mound, Lou Reale, who coaches East Hampton High School's softball team, has reason to think the Bonackers will be competitive this season, "though," as he said following Saturday's 4-1 win here over Westhampton Beach, "the two Class A leagues are tough. . . . Deer Park [a new entry in League V] beat Lindsay Taylor and Kings Park 16-1!"
Newsday's previews on Sunday said Taylor, Eastport-South Manor's Catherine Havens, and Hauppauge's Nicole Ehlinger (all of them League V pitchers) were "in a league of their own."
East Hampton, which plays in League VI, is to play a crossover with Deer Park next Thursday, and is to play Kings Park on April 23, Eastport-South Manor on April 27, and Hauppauge on May 2.
In touting the Class A pitchers no mention was made of Waleko, who is coming back from a six-week layoff owing to an operation on her pitching hand, nor was East Hampton mentioned as among the teams in the Class A mix. Though the Bonackers, if Waleko's pitching, could well be a contender.
"She's got to get stronger," Reale said following Saturday's win over the Hurricanes. "She's got to build up her stamina and strength. For her first start, it was pretty good. She gave up five hits (including two line-drive doubles), struck out 10, and didn't walk anyone. Her drop wasn't dropping and she's got to get more consistent with her changeup, but she was throwing all her pitches — her fastball, rise, drop, and changeup — and she told me that she felt good."
Waleko may not pitch day in, day out, however. She has a capable backup in Sam Mathews, though Mathews was hit pretty hard in last week's league opener at Sayville, which the home team won 5-0.
"The reason they won was we didn't hit the ball and we made four errors," said Reale. "Their pitcher, Selts, hit a home run and two rockets that Courtney [Dess] caught in center field. One was hit straight at her, the other she ran down. The score would have been a lot worse if they'd gone through."
Besides Waleko, Saturday's starting lineup included Ricky Slater, a sophomore who was brought up from the junior varsity, at first base. Amanda Thompson, who began the season there, has been moved to right field, and the former right fielder, Dana Dragone, who is pretty quick, now is in left.
Other jayvee players who were up with the varsity on Saturday were Ciere Kenney, Shannon McCaffery, and Sarah Becker, all ninth graders, and Sydney Sanicola, a sophomore. They apparently will alternate between the two teams in order to gain more experience.
In Saturday's game, a makeup of one that was supposed to have been played a couple of days before, East Hampton got on the scoreboard with a run in the bottom of the first inning. After Maysie Makrianes, the leadoff hitter, had reached first base safely on an infield error and Deryn Hahn, the third baseman, had singled, Thompson drove Makrianes home from second with a two-out single down the third-base line.
The Bonackers made it 3-0 in the bottom of the third. After Makrianes had popped out to short, Hahn lined a single over third, Kathryn Hess, the hard-hitting catcher, ripped a shot between third and short, and Meghan Hess drove in Hahn with a base hit of her own.
As her younger sister pulled into third, Meghan Hess, with Thompson about to step into the batter's box, strolled down to second. Again Thompson came through with an r.b.i. single. A strikeout by Slater, who was hitting sixth in the lineup, and a popout to short by Abbey Schutte, the designated hitter, ended the inning.
The visitors got one back in the top of the fourth, the result of an error by Thompson, who dropped a soft fly hit her way by Madi Sganga, a double to left by Vicky Mackowka, and a pop r.b.i. single over third by Christina Albin. Still facing a bases-loaded situation, with no outs, Waleko bore down, retiring Tara Boeshore on a pop to Meghan Hess at short, Claudia Purkis on a lineout to Hahn, and striking out her opposite number, Gaby Gaeta.
East Hampton scored its fourth run, in the bottom of the sixth, because of some heads-up baserunning. After two were out, Dragone walked and stole second with Makrianes up. When Makrianes drew a walk on a 3-2 pitch, Dragone stole third, and came home as Makrianes drew a throw as she continued around first. She was thrown out trying to get back into first base, but by that time Dragone had crossed the plate.
Waleko got two quick outs in the visitors' last at-bat, Purkis grounding out third-to-first and Gaeta again fanning the breeze. But then Brie Ostreicher, pinch-hitting for Katy McCarthy, stroked a double to left-center. The next batter, the leadoff hitter, Michelle Cardo, popped one toward Waleko, who trapped the ball and threw to Slater at first, but Slater dropped the throw, allowing Ostreicher to score.
Cardo pulled up at second on the play. Westhampton's hopes were dashed at that point, however, as Sganga grounded out pitcher-to-first.
The players celebrated with cupcakes supplied by Waleko's mother, Tracey, and were delighted to hear that if it did not rain Monday they'd board the bus for Elwood-John Glenn after the eighth period. (There are nine periods in East Hampton High's school day.)


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|Kelly and the girls at the Northeast Florida Fair in Callahan...Yee Haw!
Saturday, I took the girls to the fair with a friend and her daughter, and that's where I believe Olivia and I picked up the intestinal virus from hell. We both started feeling poorly Sunday and by Sunday night were running high fevers. Suffice it say things got worse from there and we spent all day Monday and Tuesday either in bed or in the bathroom. Livvie's started clearing up Tuesday afternoon, and she was actually able to go back to school yesterday. But mine showed no signs of letting go and I was also becoming very congested and developing a very bad cough. I finally broke down and went to the doctor yesterday; I must admit I was honestly afraid to be away from the bathroom for the 30 minutes it takes to get to my doctor's office. He diagnosed me with a severe intestinal virus (duh!) and a severe sinus infection….two totally unrelated illnesses that just happened to attack me at the same time. He put me on an anti-viral and a Z-pack and sent me home to drink lots more fluids and go back to bed. I've lost seven pounds since Sunday. Luckily, so far Sarah and DH have shown no signs of either illness. Hopefully that won't change!
Yes, I know that's my body speaking to me…telling me that I'm overdoing it. Yet you know what? I look back at the past two months, and there's unfortunately very little I could have done differently. (This is the same issue I have with the whole "you make time for what's important" line of thinking I so often hear…frankly sometimes there is simply just not enough time in the day). I cut things out this Fall. I made a conscious decision to cut out one show and chose a show close to home for October so I could sleep in my own bed; I chose not go to any September games, so I had no travel in September; and I told my guitar teacher that I'd have to forego my lessons the entire month of October, but none of that helped. It was my work schedule that put me over the top, and that, unfortunately, short of quitting my job, is out of my hands. And this week was a big one, with our biggest Fall term event plus two screenings of a national film we'd been planning for months plus a very important college-wide training for which I am one of the process leaders. And nope, the world did not come crashing down because I wasn't there (at least as far as I know…I'm not at work after all, but I haven't gotten any "the world has come crashing down" emails from my assistant, God bless her).
My point in all this? Not sure, but I'll give it a shot. First, to the moms out there who are in the same boat as I am, working a very demanding full-time job while also trying to raise your wonderful children and work on your creativity, whether it's a business or a hobby, listen to your body when it starts telling you that you need a break, and take it. You deserve it, and you need it. And while you're at it, listen to your heart when it's trying to tell you that maybe you need a change, and see what you can do about that too. I've been working on that part, but I haven't come up with a workable option yet. It makes me sad to think that I may have to give up some of the things l love (like my art or music) because my job can be so draining.
And for the moms who live very different lives from me, who work from home or whose creativity is their work, and have time at home with your children…even when you may feel like pulling your hair out because your toddler has smeared spaghetti sauce all over your kitchen cabinets (or your couch), revel in the idea that you have the freedom to be there for that, that you are not in that 8-to-6-plus grind, that you are there for all those little moments working moms miss. It may not seem like the cat's meow to you, but sister, I know many a working mom out here who would love to lick out of that bowl.
For me? Something's gotta give. Not sure what that's going to be yet, but I'll keep working on it. Right now though, I think I'll go drink some more Gatorade and go back to bed. Hope you are feeling well!

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Our simple prenatal workout takes you through all three trimesters
Between the hectic pace of work and caring for my year-old daughter, I didn't really have time to feel pregnant with my second child (morning sickness aside). Then I started taking prenatal yoga classes at the Integral Yoga Institute in Manhattan, where I worked. (I squeezed them in during my lunch hour.) The stretches relaxed some of my aching joints, and the various poses made me feel energized. But most important, the program's last 10 minutes were devoted to relaxing and visualizing the small life growing inside me. It was a time for bonding that my usual fitness regimen hadn't provided.
For many women, the meditative aspect of yoga adds an emotional dimension to feeling strong. Prenatal yoga works in two realms of health: physical and spiritual, says Gurmukh Kaur Khalsa, a Los Angeles-based yoga instructor and the author of The Eight Human Talents (HarperCollins, 2000). "You need both of these ingredients to get through labor," Khalsa says. "By learning how to shift your focus from the mental aspects that you get from reading books to the spiritual or feeling sensation of your body, you can relax, concentrate and draw on your inner strength."
As for the physical benefits of this type of exercise: "Yoga provides a safe and nurturing system of overall health for the pregnant woman and child," says Eric Small, a certified Iyengar yoga instructor and director of the Beverly Hills Iyengar Studio in Beverly Hills, Calif.
Yoga Explained Yoga, a Sanskrit word meaning "to yoke," or come together, dates back thousands of years in India. There are many different types. Hatha focuses on balance, awareness and harmony with body, mind and emotions. Iyengar, nicknamed "furniture yoga" because it uses props such as chairs, benches and wood blocks, requires precise body alignment in poses. Kundalini combines chanting with stretching and strengthening exercises.
"Any of these can, with some modifications, accommodate the various stages of pregnancy, but it's important to learn the exercises properly," says Small, who has taught yoga for more than 30 years. "Since the Iyengar method uses props for support and balance, it can be the most compassionate, safe way of integrating exercise into a pregnant woman's lifestyle. The postures reposition the body in relation to the growing fetus, releasing stress in the lower back, groin and digestive system."
Small developed our program using Iyengar exercises, with poses or modifications for each trimester. "This routine is designed to encompass the general population," he says. "But I always recommend that pregnant women talk about their goals and concerns with a qualified, certified yoga instructor who has special training in prenatal yoga." Be sure to check with your doctor or health care provider before starting any exercise regimen.
The Workout Do the following program in the order listed at least 3 times per week. On non-yoga days, include other activities such as walking or swimming. Choose the variation of each pose that's most appropriate for you based on your fitness level, flexibility, strength, trimester and familiarity with yoga. Hold each pose for 5 smooth, controlled breaths. If any of the poses becomes uncomfortable, stop. (If you have never done yoga before, you may want to take a class led by a certified yoga professional to prepare for this workout.)
1/Warrior Series 1st Trimester Warrior II Stand with your back against a wall, right heel against it, toes turned inward at 30 degrees. Align left heel with the ball of right foot, toes at a 90-degree angle. Lift arms to shoulder height, palms down, neck relaxed. Contract bellybutton in toward spine. Inhale; then exhale and bend left knee until it's aligned with left ankle. Maintain pose for 5 breaths; then repeat in the other direction.
2nd Trimester Warrior I Sit sideways in a chair (back of the chair is to your left side and against the wall for extra support), left leg forward so thigh is parallel to the floor, left knee bent at a 90-degree angle to the left ankle. Right leg is behind you so you're balanced on the ball of your right foot. Try to keep right buttock pressed on the chair so hips are squared and facing forward. Extend arms forward, then overhead. Relax shoulders and neck, tucking tailbone to keep from arching lower back. Hold for 5 breaths; then repeat in the other direction.
3rd Trimester Do Warrior I pose as in second trimester, except place your hands on your hips (not shown). Benefits: leg strength; posture; balance.
2/triangle series 1st Trimester Start in the same position as Warrior II. Lift arms up to shoulder height, palms down. Keeping legs straight and leading with your left arm, reach out and forward, bringing your torso over your front leg; then reach down toward the floor with your left hand and place it on your left shin. As your hand grasps your shin, rotate the right side of your body (ribs and right shoulder) open; lift your right arm so it lines up with your left arm. Look at your right hand if that feels OK. Maintain pose for 5 breaths; then use your right hand to help lift you up and out of the pose. Square your feet and repeat on the other side.
2nd Trimester Do the same pose, but rest your left hand on a low bench or two large books or yoga blocks.
3rd Trimester Do the same pose, but rest left hand on a chair seat (with extra towels, if needed). Bend your left knee if necessary. Benefits: leg strength and flexibility; may bring better blood circulation and delivery of nutrients to fetus.
3/rotation series 1st Trimester Chair Twist Sit on the edge of a chair with knees and feet together. Place the back of your right hand on the outside of your left knee and left hand on the back of the chair seat. Keeping torso erect and hips square, rotate torso (moving ribs, baby and shoulders) to the left. Hold for 5 breaths, switch hand positions and repeat to the other side.
2nd & 3rd Trimesters Open-Leg Chair Twist Sit on the edge of a chair and extend your right leg out to the side, keeping it fairly straight, toes and knees open and on a diagonal. Place left foot on floor facing forward, left knee bent and in line with left ankle. Place right hand lightly on top of left thigh just above knee and left hand on the back of the chair seat, arms straight. Keep torso lifted, shoulders and neck relaxed. Inhale; then exhale as you rotate torso and shoulders to the left. Maintain pose for 5 breaths, switch leg position and repeat, rotating in the other direction.Benefits: torso and shoulder flexibility and mobility; muscle toning to support weight of the fetus; relief of stress to lower back, hips and legs.
4/cobbler series 1st & 2nd Trimesters Seated Cobbler Sit on a bolster or 2 or 3 blankets about 2 inches from a wall so your tailbone drops between the wall and the blankets, legs lifted off the floor. Press soles of your feet together. Place fingers behind ankles or calves, using forearms to spread groin. Bring shoulders in line with hips. Maintain pose for at least 5 breaths.
3rd Trimester Lying Cobbler Place blankets behind you on the floor to support your upper torso and keep your head higher than your abdomen when you lie back. Sitting with soles of your feet together, place a strap around your ankles, across hip flexors and around hips and lower back. Once secure with firm tension, lie back so the blankets are at your lower back and your pelvis is free. Extend your arms out to the sides at shoulder height, palms up. Maintain pose for at least 5 breaths. Benefits: hip flexibility; preparation of pelvis for childbirth.
5/forward-bending series 1st Trimester Downward-Facing Dog From an all-fours position, hands under shoulders and knees in line with hips, lift heels and hips upward, straightening legs as much as you can to form an inverted "V," heels still lifted. As your tailbone lifts upward, press your chest toward the floor, keeping your back long and your shoulders and neck relaxed. Your body should be one straight line from head to hips. Keep arms straight, widen shoulders and look back at your thighs so your head and neck are aligned with your arms. Maintain pose for 5 breaths; then lower yourself back down to your hands and knees.
2nd Trimester Supported Wide-Leg Stance Stand facing a chair. Put forearms on the seat so elbows line up under your shoulders, palms together, thumbs lifted. Separate your legs wider than hip-width apart, keeping legs straight with tailbone, back, neck and head in one line. Press up off your forearms (so you're not slouching); maintain pose for 5 breaths.
3rd Trimester Do the Supported Wide-Leg Stance as in second trimester, except extend your arms fully on the chair on either side of your ears as a modified Downward-Facing Dog. You will need to be a bit farther away from the chair. Maintain pose for 5 breaths. Benefits: overall relaxation; hamstring flexibility; relief of lower-back pain.
6/cross-seat forward bend all Trimesters Sit cross-legged on one or 2 blankets in front of a chair. Either grasp the back of the chair with arms extended, or extend your arms directly on the chair seat. Keep hips on the blanket, back long. Maintain pose for at least 5 breaths or as long as you like. Benefits: relaxation; relief of lower-back pain.


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I come from a big family and growing up we were together all of the time. Our gatherings were mostly, if not all, family. I didn't notice that because there were so darn many of us. I don't remember a birthday party with my friends although I used to go to their parties and think it amazing their cousins weren't there.
When I met my husband one of the first things we realized is how similar our families were including both having an Uncle Angelo. He has similar memories of growing up with his cousins but there was one thing exclusive to his family. You did not have to be actually related to be given the honor of being called uncle, aunt or cousin.
Simply being an old family friend usually gave you that distinction. My mother-in-law's neighbor growing up is Aunt Betty. They grew up together and have stayed close to this day. Mom still drives Aunt Betty to the grocery store and for hair appointments. This relationship has thrived for nearly 80 years. It is no wonder that she is an "aunt" and her children are "cousins."
When I first met them it took some getting used to…how are you related to Aunt Dot? She lives upstairs? So how is she your aunt? Is Addison your uncle because his cousin lives upstairs? It made no sense to me. My husband's family is not only a melting pot of relatives but of family friends.
We have "adopted" this way of life and our son's family is huge! Our college friends are "aunts" and "uncles" and their children are Anthony's "cousins." Our neighbor's grandchildren call us aunt and uncle and my husband is a Godfather to the eldest. We have many Godchildren who call us aunt and uncle.
Uncle Charlie is one of my husband's best friends from high school. He is a dentist and did our son's braces. One day when he was 7 or 8 he was talking to his best buddy in the neighborhood telling him he had to go to Uncle Charlie's to have his braces adjusted. When he asked how we were related, Anthony said that he was his father's friend. His pal did not believe that was a relationship but Anthony patiently explained that some people you are related to by blood and some people you are related to by love.
My friend Denise, a college hall mate, and her husband Gerry are hosting our family for Thanksgiving today. Anthony loves Aunt Denise and her youngest son is our Godchild. Their family table becomes our family table because we are related by love.
Happy Thanksgiving!
Life is good!
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Finding the way around Gunn
Original post made on Sep 22, 2012
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Comments (30)
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Sep 22, 2012 at 6:03 pm
Glad to hear that Gunn has Titan 101 and was looking for ways to improve it. Sorry to hear that the students feel so pressed to leave school early on Thursdays when these Titan sessions are often scheduled. This article did not say whether Freshmen are required to attend the sessions. If they are forced to go resenting the time taken away from an early Thursday escape that would not be desirable. I would hope that the perceived benefits of the Titan 101 program would far offset the need to leave school early in order to take care of their "multiple extracurricular time demands". It is interesting that "breathing and relaxation" was "dumped after getting panned by the students". It seems as if these skills would be extra necessary to have in one's toolkit for dealing with the multiple stresses of so many extracurricular activities. I hope the Gunn internal working group come up with some great ideas for improving the counseling overall. I think that the Gunn students deserve to have at least as many touch points with adults at school as Paly students. I don't know why there has been so much resistance to giving Gunn students a better system. Perhaps they can take Paly's system and tweek it to meet their own vision of good guidance. I think that Paly's system would definitely serve as a model of something that has been successful as well as having withstood the test of time. I was following the work of We Can Do Better Palo Alto and even attended some board meetings where some of their members were speaking. I noticed that they were unwaveringly supportive of the students at Gunn by advocating for something better (teacher advisory) for them. I would not have characterized their advocacy as "ordering the board" to do anything. I hope that they can honestly look at the benefits of TA and consider creating their own system which works at least as well as Paly's. Knowing Gunn, they will come up with a great system with their own twist on it. I wish that more Gunn parents could have attended the Teacher Advisory information session with Denise Pope that was presented by WCDBPA. I learned so much from this forum. My Gunn parent friends were unaware of this opportunity and when I shared the information they found it very enlightening as they had so much misinformation about what TA means. There is too much misinformation and misunderstanding out there about counseling systems. Hopefully more will be revealed about this at the upcoming School Board candidate forums. I would like to extend my gratitude to this parent committee WCDBPA for steadfastly researching and providing the information that the board and parents would need to implement best practices........the practices that will benefit all of our students across the district.
a resident of Crescent Park
on Sep 22, 2012 at 11:01 pm
I think you'll find this is part of the effort to improve counselling effectiveness at Gunn:
"Objective: Improvements to Titan 101 (Recommended by Staff/GRW, implemented by Titan 101 Committee)
Revisions for Titan 101 have already been outlined for next year with a calendar of meetings that will help the transition of 9th graders to Gunn. There is strong staff support to increase the number
of meetings by staff and students, which will allow thoughtful curriculum delivery in the areas of personal/social and academic planning. This will help foster relationships between students and
staff on campus in conjunction with student connectedness and developmental assets initiatives. A key component is the addition of counselors meeting specifically with their 9th grade students in a
small group setting in the fall and spring."
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Sep 23, 2012 at 7:11 am
PA Parent,
Quoting you and then responding (#1):
**"Gunn students deserve to have at least as many touch points with adults at school as Paly students."**
If you are from Gunn, no need to worry about school differences. Gunn students have at least as many touch points. It is just that Gunn students initially get them from all around campus (teachers, coaches, club leaders) and while more Paly students get them from their TAs (who btw change after 9th grade).
Student guidance survey results:
> Paly and Gunn students on how many of them have close relationships with adults on campus: The same. 49% & 50%.
> 1 out of every 4 Paly students said that there were NO adults on campus whom they could go to when facing a personal challenge.
That is despite all Paly studnets having TAs they meet with regularly who are supposed to be available outside of the TA sessions to talk to.
By the beginning of 12th grade, more Gunn students report having better relationships with their counselors than Paly students have with their TAs.
> Students saying that their counselor or TA had gotten to know them well by 12th grade: Gunn better. 59% Gunn. 53% Paly.
Neither campus should be content with these stats. Work is needed on both sides of town.
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Sep 23, 2012 at 7:13 am
Quoting you and then responding (#2):
**"Paly's system would definitely serve as a model of something that has been successful as well as having withstood the test of time." **
From the students' perspective, Paly's TA program is not a "model" of success.
> Same student guidance survey: 37% of Paly students say Paly TA sessions were NOT a valuable use of their time and another 30% did not endorse it enthusiastically either.
As already mentioned, 12th graders:
> At Paly were less connected with their advisor than Gunn 12th graders were with their counselor.
> At Gunn were much happier with the quality of advice they got from them than Paly 12th graders were (72% compared to 57%).
That was after Paly students had spent 3 years in twice a month meetings with TAs in Paly's fully-vetted, more expensive, 20 year old program.
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Sep 23, 2012 at 7:14 am
Quoting you and then responding (#3):
**"There is too much misinformation and misunderstanding out there about counseling systems. "**
a resident of Palo Verde
on Sep 23, 2012 at 11:24 am
My high schoolers had very good connections with their teachers at Gunn. My kids found the Gunn teachers very accessible before and after school and during prep periods.
My daughter has friends at Paly who say their TA sessions are NOT small groups of students, but rather large groups of students, which provides very little chance to connect with the TA.
Why has it been determined by a few that Paly's system is better than Gunn's? Paly's system may work better for some students, but keep in mind that Gunn's system works better for other students. For our family, Gunn's system worked well.
a resident of Community Center
on Sep 23, 2012 at 12:44 pm
I hope that the Gunn working committee keeps an open mind throughout the process and looks at best practices outside the district as well as looking at Paly's TA system. It would be great to tap into the wisdom of experts in this area. There is a group in Cambridge, Mass, Educators for Social Responsibility , who have a wealth of information and research on the subject. I am sure that there are other experts out there.
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Sep 23, 2012 at 1:47 pm
Same student guidance survey: 37% of Paly students say Paly TA sessions were NOT a valuable use of their time and another 30% did not endorse it enthusiastically either
This statistic says it all. Turning from a system which could use a bit of improvement to one which is not very good would be unwise.
a resident of JLS Middle School
on Sep 23, 2012 at 2:21 pm
@citizen writes: "...Turning from a system which could use a bit of improvement to one which is not very good would be unwise."
True, true. However, nobody is defending the guidance system at Gunn - most of the arguments are against change, not arguments in favor of what they currently have.
So, in fact, to use your logic, turning from a system which is not very good (Gunn) to one which could use a bit of improvement (Paly) is a good step forward. We should take that step, before my kids end up there.
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Sep 23, 2012 at 2:37 pm
Compare the Gunn student satisfaction numbers by 12th grade with those from Paly and you'll see that Paly should be looking to Gunn for ideas on how it can improve the guidance and counseling services it provides students.
Sure seems that both schools should be taking a hard look at where they fall short and see what "best practices" they can borrow from the other.
a resident of Duveneck/St. Francis
on Sep 23, 2012 at 2:51 pm
Both systems have their good points, but to be clear, TA classes are 25 or so kids, they meet 11 times sophomore year, 13 times junior year and 4 or 5 times senior year, so it is actually not a ton of time spent together. A lot of the time is spent learning about Naviance, picking classes for the following year and planning for all four years of school. For the most part, I would say the the students would not go to their Advisor for advice on non-academic problems.
a resident of Barron Park
on Sep 23, 2012 at 2:58 pm
In discussing counseling at the two high schools, it's helpful to be looking at the data. The best data comes from a survey completed earlier this year at both high schools. The data is extremely useful, representing a much larger sample size than prior surveys (the sample size at Gunn is 1560 students, and at Paly is 1368).
In short, the data demonstrates that students at Paly are receiving much better and more effective guidances services than are students at Gunn. In gross terms, there are 264 measures on which Gunn and Paly can be directly compared. For 239 of these measures (91%), Paly students are 5 or more percentage points more satisfied than Gunn students. For 6 of these measures (2%), Gunn students are 5 or more percentage points more satisfied than Paly students. This is an overwhelming difference, though it is completely consistent with the history of student and parent surveys for various WASC and strategic plan surveys. See the data here: Web Link.
With respect to seniors, while is true that the satisfaction gap is greatest for 9th, 10th, and 11th graders, Gunn seniors are still less satisfied than Paly seniors. Of the 6 items on which Gunn exceeds Paly in satisfaction by 5 or more percentage points, 5 of them are among seniors. Even among seniors, however, Gunn students are less satisfied than Paly students (there are 31 measures on which Paly seniors exceed Gunn by 5 or more percentage points).
But the difference in the lower grades is remarkable: there are well over a hundred measures on which Paly exceeds Gunn by more than 5 percentage points, and 1 for Gunn ("I feel well-informed about the different classes and academic options available to me": Gunn 75%, Paly 69%). Many of the gaps are extremely large, for example: "I find it easy to talk to my guidance counselor (Gunn 9th graders: 46%, Paly 9th graders: 72%), "My counselor is an important resource for me (Gunn 9th graders: 39%, Paly 9th graders: 64%), "I get enough time with my guidance counselor or TA to plan my academic and career goals (Gunn 10th graders: 48%, Paly 10th graders: 71%), "I trust my guidance counselor or TA to help me if I am struggling academically (Gunn 11th graders: 57%, Paly 11th graders: 78%).
Our students collectively took a lot of time to tell us their experience with counseling in our schools (including providing open-ended responses at Gunn [Web Link] and Paly [Web Link]). We owe it to them to listen and act responsibly. That's why I've urged that Gunn make a plan to implement an advisory system for Gunn students -- because we have a years of data and supporting research that show that this is a best practice for delivering guidance services to high school students. Our students at Gunn deserve services that are equally as good as those we deliver to Paly students, while we at the same time work to make the TA system as good as it can be at both schools.
I'm running for School Board in part because I would like to see the district be more proactive in identifying and implementing best practices across our school sites -- for more information on this point, see Web Link.
a resident of Duveneck/St. Francis
on Sep 23, 2012 at 3:13 pm
Ken -
First let me say, I totally agree with you about implementing best practices from school to school.
As a Paly parent for a number of years, in my opinion, the Freshman TA's are great and meet with the kids every week or every other week. The quality of the TA's is generally good and they really help the kids. The 10-12th grade TA's are a mixed bag. The teachers that the kids truly relate to are not usually TA's (they are often very involved in other venues like drama, journalism, coaching a team, etc. Some of the TA's are terrific, some seem to be mainly doing it for the prep time, they cover things quickly with the kids and release them early.
While I am all for improving counseling at all our schools, Gunn needs to have teacher buy-in for a TA system (aka they have to be willing to be TA's). Perhaps we should examine the "best practices" at both schools and combine them.
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Sep 23, 2012 at 4:15 pm
I agree, let's listen to the students.
I'm looking at the same student survey data source you are.
How do you square that 37% of Paly students say Paly TA sessions were NOT a valuable use of their time and another 30% did not endorse it enthusiastically with your conclusion that Gunn must move to Paly's TA model?
a resident of Crescent Park
on Sep 23, 2012 at 4:47 pm
Ken, in the data you quote above, where is the question to Paly Students "I get enough time with my guidance counselor to plan my academic and career goals" in the surveys? I see the question asked about the TAs but I can't find the same question asked of Paly students about their GCs.
Likewise I don't see the question "I trust my guidance counselor to help me if I am struggling academically". I see the question asked of TAs at Paly but not the GCs.
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Sep 23, 2012 at 10:11 pm
Anyone who even *thinks* that:
"12th graders at Paly were less connected with their advisor than Gunn 12th graders were with their counselor"
is smoking crack. I have a child who graduated from Gunn. Let me tell you, it wasn't possible to feel less connected with the advisor. Each advisor at Gunn has HUNDREDS of students and met with students for a total of 4 hours over 4 years.
The reasoning here is toxic.
a resident of Barron Park
on Sep 23, 2012 at 10:18 pm
The survey at Paly didn't ask about guidance counselors providing advice about academic and career goals or about help for struggling academically, probably because of the division of labor among adults in guidance roles at Paly. Briefly, teacher advisors are primarily responsible for academic advising, while guidance counselors focus on social and emotional issues. (There's actually a third leg to the stool, which is college and career advisors at Paly).
At Paly, in addition to the approximately 40 teacher advisors, there are 4 guidance counselors (one for each grade who loops with the students for all 4 years), and 2 college and career advisors. See Web Link for a description.
At Gunn, by contrast, there are six permanent and one temporary guidance counselors who provide all guidance services, including academic advising, social emotional support, and college advising. Because the counselors at Gunn must wear so many hats, they are spread very thin. Consequently they meet with each student in grades 9-11 once each year, and spend more time with seniors who are applying to college.
The effect of a division of labor with adults in multiple overlapping roles is most apparent in Tables M.0.a and M.0.b (in Web Link). For example, 88% of Paly students and 57% of Gunn students say that at least one adult in a guidance role can help them if they are struggling academically, 91% of Paly students and 70% of Gunn students say that they can get deciding which colleges fit their goals, and 79% of Paly students and 30% of Gunn students say that they can get help if they are struggling with health issues.
We shouldn't be seeing differences of this magnitude in service delivery between our two high schools. That's why I have consistently advocated for Gunn to move to a counseling system closer to the teacher advisory model that Paly uses, with appropriate support for the change and with adaptations to fit Gunn's particular needs. If you agree with this perspective that we should be using best practices in all our schools, I hope you will consider voting for me on November 6. For more information, see Web Link.
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Sep 23, 2012 at 11:11 pm
No reason to be so incredulous Mr. Pepperdine.
900 of our high school seniors were surveyed this spring and this is how they answered questions 21 (on page 12) and 33 (on page 22):
59% at Gunn agree that their Guidance Counselors have gotten to know them well compared to 53% for Paly's TAs.
72% at Gunn believe that their Guidance Counselor had been a valuable resource for them compared to 57% for Paly's TAs.
Web Link
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Sep 23, 2012 at 11:19 pm
Any thoughts about 67% of Paly students not finding TA time to be that valuable?
Question 6 on page 4: "Advisory is a valuable use of my
Web Link
a resident of Barron Park
on Sep 23, 2012 at 11:55 pm
What seems to be lost in all the anti-TA talk is this: Titan 101 is a form of TA. So Gunn is already moving in that direction. And guess what? The sky hasn't fallen.
This isn't an issue of whether Gunn should adopt the Paly program wholesale. I haven't heard a single person say that. But what is clear is that, while there needs to be improvement at both high schools, Gunn has much farther to go. The Gunn guidance system is an old-school model and doesn't represent the best current thinking in high school guidance systems.
Hopefully that will be the focus of the Gunn guidance committee: bringing the best possible thinking and system to Gunn so kids are supported in the best possible way. That's what we should be talking about. All the rest of this is just noise.
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Sep 24, 2012 at 7:13 am
Maybe this study explains why Gunn seniors are pleased with their "old-school" guidance model which is less time intensive than TA and so probably a much more direct way for students to get the information that they value and need.
This, one of the few studies of school guidance systems, is out of UCSF and was conducted just a few years ago in California with 10k linguistically and racially diverse students.
In this study, particular attention was paid to advisory programs, the school reform strategy that others have thought, like here in Palo Alto, could better address students' social and emotional needs.
Researchers concluded that advisory didn't work. "Schools need to integrate strategies of caring into their daily work and overall school climate, as opposed to simply annexing it within an advisory period."
Why didn't advisory work? "A likely explanation is that students are distinguishing between the 'real life' experiences of personalization versus the more formal structure of advisory programs.
This indicates that relationships matter more when they appear in informal, improvised, and, therefore, more authentic, encounters between teachers and students, than when they appear because of formal structures of courses, like advisory, that are institutionally designated for that purpose."
They also found that the better students felt about advisory, the worse their grades and English test scores were.
California Healthy Kids Research Project/ UCSF's Institute for Healthy Policy Studies and West Ed:
Web Link
a resident of Crescent Park
on Sep 24, 2012 at 8:28 am
Ken, the whole premise for your conclusion assumes there is no support besides GCs at Gunn. Your analysis is to compare GCs to TAs, which you've stated fulfill different roles.
As with your previous comparison between TAs and GCs your quote "Gunn students say that at least one adult in a guidance role can help them if they are struggling academically" isn't accurate. The only question that was posed to each school was: "I trust my TA to help me if I am struggling academically" versus "I trust my Guidance Counselor to help me if I am struggling academically".
This question wasn't posed to find out about GCs at Paly or teachers at Gunn. Without this information, how do you draw your conclusion that adding TAs at Gunn is the best use of resources?
a resident of Adobe-Meadow
on Sep 24, 2012 at 8:32 am
Your report of this study is misleading. First, the researchers studied small, low income and minority schools not large, affluent white schools like Paly and Gunn. For this reason the findings are of very limited applicability. Second, the outcome measures are limited to GPA and standardized test scores. The researchers did not ask whether the students' social-emotional health improved as a result of advisory. The study asks about the relationship of students positive feelings about advisory to their GPA. This relationship is not necessarily causal at all -- as the researchers themselves acknowledge:
"The simplest explanation is that students who needed advisory most (i.e., had the lowest grades, etc.) were the ones who valued advisory most, and vice versa, and the worse they performed, the more they valued advisory. Meanwhile, students who felt good about their position in school and their relationships with teachers tended to perform better academically."
See: Web Link
The authors also conclude that the inverse relationship could be driven by the fact that many of the students who like advisory are low performing and might otherwise have dropped out but are being held into school by that relationship. There is no evidence in this study that liking advisory is causing grades to fall, and the mechanism for that claim would be hard to figure out.
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Sep 24, 2012 at 9:33 am
Where is the research that Ken Dauber mentions which proves that advisory improves students' social emotional lives?
This UC study says, at least as of 2010, that "the role of advisory programs specifically in supporting personalization remains murky."
This study also raises several important things that Gunn might want to ponder before jumping in.
Would Gunn find that at Paly, like in the study, "the more students, in general, reported satisfaction with advisory, the worse they performed academically" overall? If one set of students performs better with it (those with lower grades), then perhaps advisory should be mandatory for them and not implemented system-wide.
Can Gunn dive deeper to see why 67% of Paly students don't find advisory to be all that valuable? Could it be, again like the study suggests, that "students are distinguishing between the lived experiences of personalization versus the more bureaucratic, instrumental quality of advisory programs"?
Maybe Gunn will conclude, again from the study, that with more attention it will be better "able to integrate strategies of caring into their daily work and overall school climate, as opposed to annexing it within an advisory period, [which] may be more successful."
Finally, again from the UC study: "As McLaughlin (1987) said: 'you can't mandate what matters.'"
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Sep 24, 2012 at 5:21 pm
sample size at Gunn is 1560 students, and at Paly is 1368
Should we be looking at numbers? Why does Paly have 200 less students? This makes a huge difference in reaching all students.
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Sep 24, 2012 at 5:33 pm
School has been in session for a month.
Why are they just now getting around to having a freshman orientation?
a resident of Midtown
on Sep 25, 2012 at 11:07 am
Dear Parent ~
It seem the article was not clear. Please note that freshman orientation has not just begun. The freshman have had benefit of a number of programs/meetings supporting their transition to high school. I hear from my child that it has been very helpful and she is much less anxious that I had expected.
I appreciate the Gunn Titan 101 effort and particularly the openness and willingness to seek and consider student feedback and make adjustments for continuous improvements.
a resident of Charleston Gardens
on Sep 25, 2012 at 10:28 pm
In measureing the well being of one student population vs another, I wonder if you have to normalize for the fact that Gunn students have to weave in and through the entire parking lot, in and amongst MOVING TRAFFIC, CARS and bikes, in massive herds, between classes, every day, just to get from one period to the next (meaning the heart of the parking lot is main and heavily used throughfare across campus.) - Or I wonder if you have to normalize for the construction disruptions literally from one boundary of campus clear to the other end - that has been in place for the ENTIRE FOUR YEARS, of my senior daughter's time at Gunn. Frankly, if my home, where I spent more than 6 hours a day (more than most of us actually spend at HOME), were in massive upheaval for four years straight - I'd be a basket case too.
If Mr Dauber wants to do the Gunn kids such a favor, he'd be putting up a big stink about the massive and prolonged disruptions to the students at Gunn (and so many of our campuses). Never ending really - Because the school district is apparently flush with construction cash, with not a care in the world about the students that are being so massively disrupted by it for the ENTIRE HIGH SCHOOL careers.
a resident of College Terrace
on Sep 26, 2012 at 7:34 pm
I don't understand Ken's use of data but that is not the issue for me.
I have seen and interacted in a non-Palo Alto *public* high school slightly larger than Gunn with significantly less money where students, admin, teachers and parents ALL worked respectfully and commitedly to making the experience the best ever. Guess what? The teachers are accessible and not defensive, the students are respectful and earn the grades they get without parental lobbying, and everyone -- students, staff, admin,parents -- is committed to making the school a place of supportive community. People do feel connected, and proud of their school.
On the other hand, I have been in meetings at Gunn with unbelievably rude, aggressive parents who swaggered and attacked the adminstration on the simplest things when a polite request would have done the job. It was flabbergasting. In my decades spent on and off in Palo Alto, the greatest constant has been the schizophrenic culture of smugness about our superior schools combined with perpetual drum-beating about those same schools' many failings. The culture of disrespect in this district is nauseating and it starts with the adults. There is a lot of adult bullying in this district. I would give anything to have ONE civil meeting where people talked about what was right and how to build on that, without attacking and demanding that their pet ideas be adopted.
The Counselor system will work well at Gunn with tweaks, and the Paly TA system needs improvement too -- though, with modification, It might work better for Paly students. Replacing counselors with teachers who are NOT TRAINED COUNSELORS (as at Paly), shoving the TA system down the throats of Gunn students when it doesn't get hearty endorsement from the Paly students hardly seems like the best solution.
If I were an administrator I would be thoroughly sick of how every effort to reach out and do a better job is met with derisive sneers about how much better they could do.
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After having tested a Pass power amplifier and phono preamplifier, I could not wait to get my hands on a preamplifier, to complete the system analysis. The subject of this review is the venerable XP-20, which has been in the Pass inventory since 2009. It's a fully balanced design, with separate power supply chassis for low noise. The bench test results were quite surprising. Read on to see for yourselves.
- Design: Fully Balanced Stereo Preamplifier
- Maximum Voltage Output: 34 Volts into 100 kOhms
- MFR: 2 Hz – 60 kHz, – 3 dB
- Inputs: XLR and RCA
- Outputs: XLR and RCA
- Input Impedance: 96 kOhms XLR, 48 kOhms RCA
- Output Impedance: 100 Ohms XLR, 50 Ohms RCA
- Dimensions: 4″ H x 17″ W x 12″ D (Each Chassis)
- Weight: 40 Pounds (Both Chassis Together)
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Pass states that the XP-20 is a significant improvement over the previous XP-10, adding more detail and weight to the deep bass. The former is due – as evidenced by the IMD bench test – to a vanishingly low IMD, while the latter is due to a more substantial power supply.
There are two gain stages, biased into Pure Class A, with a driver in between, resulting in no phase inversion at the output. This also keeps the signal path as short as possible.
The front panel has buttons to select the input, an LED readout panel for indicating the status of the preamp, including the volume, which is indicated in numbers.
The rear panel has two sets of XLR (balanced) inputs, three sets of RCA (unbalanced) inputs, a tape loop, one set of XLR outputs, and two sets of RCA outputs. There is also a DB-25 connection and an included cable to connect the power supply.
The remote control is routed from a single block of aluminum and matches the elegance of the preamplifier. It has the necessary features of power on/off, input selection, mute, volume, balance, pass-through (for multi-channel home theater use), and the ability to turn a power amplifier on as well as turn the preamplifier display on or off.
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For the listening tests, I used an OPPO BDP-95 universal player, Classé CA-M600 monoblock power amplifiers, and Carver Mark IV ribbon speakers. Cables were Emotiva, Marc Audio, and Legenburg.
I was totally unprepared for the amount of detail that was presented to me in the music I played using the XP-20 preamplifier. It is none of that "There was more air around the brass," or, "the background was blacker," kind of thing, which are simply prosaic ways of saying there is less distortion, and in particular, less IMD. It was simply that absolutely every nuance was audible. When you look at the bench tests, you will see why.
Even this classic Miles Davis jazz album that was originally released as an LP, and subsequently re-issued on 45 RPM LP, CD, and SACD (the version I listened to) delivered incredible detail. Brass is notorious for being harsh when there is significant distortion, but Mile's trumpet was as smooth as silk. The sticking on Jimmy Cobb's cymbals had the kind of detail I am used to when playing my own cymbals. Just when you think you have already heard everything the recording has to deliver, you discover something new. Wow!
Stravinsky's Firebird is not exactly background music, and the XP-20 brought it even more forward. Just abolutely amazing. It's wonderful to be able to hear every instrument separate from all the others, rather than sounding like they slightly overlap, due to the mushiness produced by distortion products. There are some sections in this piece where the full orchestra is going at it, and I think even the stage hands must have been playing harmonicas and kazoos. I heard it all.
I tend to visualize scenes in my imagination when listening to music, and in Track 1 ("Introduction"), I visualized a submarine lurking below the surface of the Atlantic in 1941, and seeing a target, prepares the torpedoes to attack the ship. If the music sounds mushy, I have less visualization. It's cloudy, as the music is not crisp and clean. Well, I could hear the Captain requesting the bearing of the target, and shouting, "Fire 1." Great visualization. Wonderful preamplifier.
Now here is an album to test the bass capabilities of your audio system. I have plenty of power and big speakers, but a preamp with a weak power supply would roll off the low end. I heard every rumble, thump, and bass drum pounding away. Nope. No shortage of preamplifier drive capability here.
Pipe organ is the ultimate deep bass test, and Bach is King of the Organ Music Composers. The low pedal tones rattled the studs in my wall. Again, the power supply of the XP-20 stood the test.
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Distortion measurements were taken using the XLR inputs and outputs, and were made within an 80 kHz bandwidth.
A 1 kHz sine wave test signal resulted in only 0.001% THD+N at 2 volts output.
Using a combination of 19 kHz and 20 kHz sine waves, the B-A peak at 1 kHz was 118 dB below the fundamentals.
There was only 0.0009% IMD at 2 volts output, which is the lowest IMD we have ever measured on a preamplifier. This was responsible for the incredible amount of detail that I heard in the recordings.
IMD is an insidious infection of the music. It produces more damage than simple harmonic distortion. Here's why. Let's say you have a trumpet playing a single note at middle C and an oboe playing an E at the same time. Each instrument will have a fundamental frequency and harmonics that create the sound of the instrument. In the audio system, each of those fundamentals and harmonics produced by the instrument will have harmonics produced by the preamplifier, amplifier, and speakers. Those harmonic distortion peaks could be counted if you like. But, with IMD, what happens is all the harmonic distortion peaks interact with the other distortion peaks, creating additional distortion peaks that represent the sum of two peaks, and the difference between the two peaks (the lower one subtracted from the larger one). And, those interaction peaks, then interact again, with each other, and with other harmonic peaks. So, theoretically, you can have an infinite number of IMD peaks. The results? Mushy sound where instruments seem to be blending with one another rather than remaining distinct. The IMD measurement in the Pass XP-20 was a revelation for me, as I have heard preamps and power amps with 0.001% THD+N, but never a preamp or power amp with an IMD less than 0.001%. I conclude a direct correlation with the stunning detail I heard in the recordings with that low IMD.
THD+N was less than 0.002% all the way out to 50 kHz. Superb!
With a 100 kOhm load, the sharp knee (the practical output limit) was at 4 volts RMS. Output at clipping (1% THD+N) was at 34 volts.
The frequency response was down 3 dB at 60 kHz as per the specification. In the audible band, the frequency response was 20 Hz – 20 kHz, – 0.2 dB.
The XP-20 is truly an amazing product, and in my opinion, it's one of the finest preamplifiers in the world. The vanishingly low IMD results in astonishing detail that is unmatched by any preamplifier I have ever tested. It is so evident, you actually have to get used to hearing such a tremendous improvement in your music collection. Tube aficionados probably would not like this preamp, unless paired with a tube power amplifier, but for solid state fans, it will be love at first audition.
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People have an emotional attachment to printed books. So much so, that the most repeated argument against the universal adoption of ebooks is "I love print, and no ebook will ever be able to take its place."
Let's analyze this position. At its heart, the argument is emotional, not logical, for reasons this essay will explain. But an emotional response is still a very effective one. We're an emotional species, and the history of mankind shows that emotion often dictates our actions.
Looking at the history of technology, it isn't too often that a new tech completely replaces the tech that existed previously. The automobile became the preferred method of personal transportation, but many people still own horses, and every big city offers the expensive horse and buggy ride around town.
Consider the bow and arrow. When gunpowder was invented, a natural assumption could have been that there would never again be any use for arrows. Yet archery is still a thriving business, and you can go into any sporting goods store and buy a crossbow.
People used horses to get from point A to point B. People used bow and arrows to hit a target from a distance. When cars and guns came, it was easier to get to point B and hit targets using these new techs. As a result, they became the widely adopted methods to complete these tasks.
Let's say that a technology used to complete a task has "destination value." The goal is getting the task done, and if one tech is advantageous over another tech, it often becomes the preferred method.
But there are still archery ranges and horse riders. That's because these offer an experience as well as a destination value. It's fun to get to point B on a horse, and ask any Ted Nugent fan about his affinity for the compound bow.
Sometimes it isn't just about the destination value. Sometimes the journey is also important.
Let's call this experience "journey value." It's a large part of the reason the horse and bow never went away.
These techs, however, aren't media.
Media, by definition, is a delivery system.
But is the end result the destination? Or does the journey also have value?
Let's use the music industry as an example yet again, because I believe there are parallels to the publishing industry.
The LP was the dominant music format for years. 8 track tapes were invented as an alternative, and though they had some advantages (you could now play music in your car) they didn't replace LPs.
But in the case of both the LP and the 8-track, they had similar destination value. They both allowed you to listen to a song. Their comparable journey value was negligible. How you listened to the song really didn't add much to the experience. The point was being able to listen to a song, not the format the song was in.
Along come cassette tapes. These had an advantage over 8-tracks and LPs, because they could record music. But they didn't replace LPs. Music stores sold LPs and cassettes side by side, and different consumers had different preferences.
Again, the experience is the song itself, not the delivery method. High destination value. Low journey value.
Then CDs came on the scene. It was originally thought by the industry that cassettes would be the death of LPs, because cassettes allowed for piracy. But the two mediums co-existed peacefully for years.
With the advent of CDs, the quality of music went up. Digital allowed for a lossless version of the musical artist's master tapes, with a delivery system superior to both LPs and cassettes.
Digital also allowed those original masters to be digitally remastered, to make the quality better than ever.
But consumers didn't warm up to CDs right away. First of all, the device to play CDs on was very expensive (I recall it being the most expensive part of a stereo system for several years after it was introduced.)
Music publishers, however, wanted people to adopt this new format. I'm not sure why. Maybe deals with CD player manufacturers. Maybe CDs had a higher profit margin than LPs and cassettes, or were easier to ship or mass produce. Whatever the reason, they wanted to push this new technology. And one of the ways they did this was to stop making as many LPs.
At one point, you would walk into a music store and it was all LPs, and some 8 tracks. Years later, it was about half LPs and half cassettes. Years later it was a few LPs, cassettes, and a growing CD selection. Then it was no LPs, a few cassettes, and mostly CDs. And eventually, it was all CDs.
CDs did provide a better way to experience a song. They sounded better (though a few diehard LP audiophiles may argue against the point.)
But a CD was just a vehicle for the thing that hadn't changed: the song.
The destination value of a CD was equal to the destination value of a cassette. They both played a song that you could listen to. And the journey value to each was negligible. They could both be played on portable Walkmans, and in cars. CD had better sound quality. Cassettes could record music.
The ability to record music adds an interesting dynamic. One of the things I find interesting is that cassettes weren't fully replaced by CDs until another invention came out: the CD burner.
Like the CD player, the burner started out as very expensive. And it actually wasn't invented as a way to copy music. It was invented as a way to store data on a personal computer. But computer users soon realized that this new technology could be used for piracy.
A CD is digital. This digitized information could be copied onto a computer, and then that could be copied onto a blank disk.
Piracy then evolved. A CD of 12 songs takes up a lot of megabytes. So users began to play with ways to compress this information, so more songs could take up less space. The MP3 was born.
With the advent of the MP3, something interesting and unexpected happened. Consumers of music, used to having a physical, tangible product that was the delivery system for their music (the LP, cassette, or CD) realized they didn't need the tangible product. Music could exist solely as digital binary code on a computer.
Apple looked at this user trend, and created a user-friendly device that played MP3s. Today, a computer company is the biggest retailer of music players (iPod and iPhones) and music itself (on iTunes) in the world.
You'd think that maybe Columbia Records, or some other big record company, would have been the leader in this industry and spearheaded the MP3 movement. But they didn't. They tried to block it, and hired lots of lawyers and sued a lot of people and invested a ton of money in copy protection that didn't work.
Or perhaps a major retailer, like Sam Goody or Musicland, would have realized they were losing CD sales, and taken a good look at where there customers were now getting music. Surely they could have found a way to make money off of this trend.
But they didn't. They went out of business.
So a computer company now rules the music industry.
Now let's go back to destination value and journey value. While Apple changed the way the world listened to music, the destination value was still the same thing it has always been: the song.
While listening to a song on an iPod is easier and has many advantages to listening to an LP, the song is still the important thing. How you listen to a song has continually evolved since Edison. But this experience can't be logically compared to shooting a bow or riding a horse.
When you close your eyes and listen to a song, it's for the song. It's not for the experience of using a record player, cassette player, CD player, Zune, iPod, or computer. The joy is not sticking the tape in, or putting the headphones on.
I'd say that the delivery system for music is not nearly as important as the music itself. Which is why we've had so many delivery systems, and will no doubt have many more in our lifetimes.
The song remains the same. Technology will always march on. And neither the big record companies, nor the big record stores, ever figured that out.
So let's bring ebooks into this discussion.
By stating they won't ever give up print books, print aficionados are giving value to the journey. The act of turning pages, the smell of paper, the feel of a book in their hands--to print fans, this seems to be just as enjoyable as the story itself.
I don't buy it.
The joy of riding a horse, while destination can be important, is also closely tied in with with the experience. You can ride a horse with no destination at all and still have a great time.
You don't need to hunt with a bow and shoot an animal to enjoy the feeling of pulling back the bow string and letting an arrow fly, no matter the target. Using a arrow is fun just shooting it into the air (make sure no one is around first.)
Can you picture yourself popping a CD into the stereo without music coming out? Can you imagine going for a walk with your iPod, putting in your ear buds, and selecting a song on iTunes with the sound on mute? That's journey value, and the journey value is zero.
Now picture being curled up on a couch with a book. Smell it. Feel it. Stick out your tongue and taste it if you so desire.
How often would you repeat that experience if the book had no words on any of its pages?
In fact, the journey experience with media is imagined. Or it's tied into nostalgia, pleasant memories, and previous pleasurable experiences. People love paper books because it was the only way they've had, in the hundreds of years the medium has exited, to experience a story.
But a story is not print on a page. It never has been.
A story is the writer's words in your head.
And guess what, print book aficionados? You can get the story into your head without dead trees.
(This is the first part of a two part essay about changing media technology, the role of piracy in adopting new media technology, and why an online bookseller is now feared as having a stranglehold on the future of publishing. Part 2 is HERE.)
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USDA Changes Procedures on Releasing Crop & Livestock Reports
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced new procedures for the release of market-affecting crop and livestock reports from the National Agricultural Statistics Service and World Agricultural Outlook Board to ensure that all members of the public have access to the information at the same time.
Under current "Lockup" procedures, information is released to the public at 12:00 p.m. (Eastern), though the news media are allowed access approximately 90 minutes early, with their reports embargoed until the noon release time. Prompted by inquiries from the public, USDA examined the procedures and determined that technological advancements have afforded recipients of customized media reports a market advantage not enjoyed by members of the general public.
The USDA also sought analytical assistance from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to help inform a policy update to the lockup procedures.
As a result, beginning August 1, 2018, USDA will provide media the same access to the NASS and WAOB reports as the public, with the information becoming available to all at 12:00 p.m. on days the reports are released.
"These reports are greatly anticipated each time they are released, and they can have significant market impacts," said U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue. "Everyone who has interest in the USDA reports should have the same access as anyone else. Modern technology and current trading tactics have made microseconds a factor.
"This change addresses the 'head start' of a few microseconds that can amount to a market advantage. The new procedures will level the playing field and make the issuance of the reports fair to everyone involved."
USDA produces a number of reports with significant market impacts, such as commodity futures sold on the Chicago Board of Trade. Those reports are prepared by NASS and WAOB staff under special "lockup" conditions at USDA: no electronic transmission devices are permitted into lockup (such as cellular telephones) and once people enter the lockup they cannot leave until the reports are sent out to the public at 12:00 p.m.
The public is allowed to enter lockup at 10:30 a.m. to hear about the lockup facility and to sit in on the data briefing that occurs at approximately 11:45 a.m. Again, no transmission devices are allowed into lockup and the public is not allowed to leave until 12:00 p.m.
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UK doctors helped create four-volume guide for veterans' health care
The health and care of the nation's 2 million veterans is the focus of a new four-volume resource edited by and featuring experts with ties to the University of Kentucky.
With contributions from 65 experts around the globe, including seven allied with the UK, the handbook aims to explain the history of veterans' health care, examine the challenges of the most recent vets of Iraq and Afghanistan, and explore how the country can best treat military men and women in the future.
The scope of the official title — The Praeger Handbook of Veterans' Health: History, Challenges, Issues, and Developments — reflects the depth of the research.
The editor, Dr. Thomas Miller, professor emeritus and senior research scientist in psychiatry at UK, began working on the handbook in 2006. Miller, who has spent decades dealing with veterans' health problems, said he culled his authors from a wide network that included experts from Australia, Russia and China who explain how veteran care works in those countries.
The volumes are intended to be a comprehensive resource for veterans and their families and the medical professionals who care for them written in a way the layperson could understand, Miller said.
(It is designed as a resource for libraries, health care offices and universities, but it is available at online bookstores for $257.)
Topics range from the back office to the bedside as experts weigh in on topics as varied as how to best get electronic medical records to transfer from the military to the VA system and the unique challenges in caring for the current wave of severely injured patients who simply wouldn't have survived in previous wars. Advances in medical care and equipment has made once-fatal injuries survivable, said Dr. James Holsinger, chair of the Department of Health Services Management.
The dependence of current efforts on citizen soldiers from the Reserves has created new challenges for health care providers, said Holsinger, who contributed to the handbook and is a former major general in the U.S. Army Reserve. Reservists are serving multiple tours and, in Kentucky, often returning home to small towns where there is no one who has shared their war experience, he said.
"This is no different than any other war we have fought before," he said.
The intensity of the fighting and the repeated transitions between military and civilian life can complicate the feelings of isolation that compound symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder. Plus, he said, many of today's returning soldiers have the complication of traumatic brain injuries in addition to PTSD or even the third challenge of having lost a limb.
The handbook reiterates the importance of a comprehensive approach in treating veterans, he said.
"You can't just treat them in an individual slice," he said.
Miller said he hopes the book will not only show people the scope of services available and how to get the help they need, but help shape the future of veteran care and by extension health care in the United States, he said.
There is a lot to be learned — good and bad — from the collective experience of professionals at more than 100 VA hospitals, he said.
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Alighiero e Boetti
Opera Postale, 1980
Artwork Details
- Artist
- Alighiero e Boetti
- Title
- Opera Postale
- Year
- 1980
- Medium
- Envelopes, stamps, ink, pencil, spray-paint, paper collage on paper
- Credit line
- Dia Art Foundation; Gift of Louise and Leonard Riggio
- Reference number
- 2004.006.1-.16
- Classification
- work on paper
- Location
- Not on view
Alighiero e Boetti
Alighiero e Boetti was born in Turin, Italy, in 1940. He died in Rome in 1994.
Through travels, collaborations, and a variety of mediums, Boetti playfully and systematically addressed the complementary themes of time and space, duality and multiplicity, and order and disorder. In 1967, his first exhibition in his native Turin featured works associated with the Arte Povera movement. The following year he left the radicalized artistic and political scene of northern Italy and moved to Rome. He thereafter started a body of conceptual works signed Alighiero "e" Boetti, introducing the theme of dualism and multiplication in his practice.
In 1971 Boetti first traveled to Kabul, Afghanistan, where he ran a hotel and started a long collaboration with craftswomen in a local embroidery school to make woven kilims of different dimensions and subject matter. His most extensive serial work, Mappa (Map, 1972) is based on an altered academic atlas, with sentences or numbers transcribed around its margins. Illustrative of Boetti's concern with time and classification, Ammazzare il Tempo (To Kill Time, 1978) is composed of 100 embroidered squares with words organized into grids spelling out variations of the popular expression for coping with boredom.
His interest in geography and systems led him to postal works. For Untitled. Victoria Boogie Woogie (1972) Boetti addressed letters to himself from various cities in Italy. Following a system based on the different colors of Italian postage, Boetti achieved some 5,040 different combinations that he installed in a grid, recalling Mondrian's work referenced in the title. Similarly, in Opera Postale (Postal Work, 1980) the act of sending letters becomes a study of numerical progressions and multiplications. In Untitled (January–December) (1986), Boetti tackles the problem of fixing present-time by faithfully reproducing magazine covers in black pencil drawings.
In 1994–95 the joint exhibition Alighiero e Boetti and Frédéric Bruly Bouabré: World Envisioned opened at Dia Center for the Arts, and in 2014 a display of Boetti's works was on view at Dia:Beacon.


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By Pamela Pattison Lash
As a part of a new project I've taken on, I am investigating the early wills that were probated in what was officially deemed as Williams Co, OH. The first probated will was that of James Jolly. Here's what I've pieced together. Please note that Jolly's actual residence was likely to have been in Defiance Co, OH, which became a county from land in Williams County as of 1845. If someone can show proof of direct ancestry to James and/or Agnes Buchannan Jolly, he/she would be eligible for First Families of Williams Co, OH (through the Williams County Genealogical Society).
Williams County, OH Will Book #1 (1824-1852) Jolly, James p1 – 13 May 1825 #1
· Of Highland Co, OH; will written on 16 Aug 1809; mentions wife Agnes, 6 children not of age and not named; executors wife and Bigger Head
James Jolly (1778 Washington Co, PA – 30 May 1825 Defiance, Williams Co, OH); s/o David Jolly and Elizabeth Kelly; m 1798, Highland Co, OH, Agnes Buchanan (25 Dec 1778 OH – 3 Oct 1825 Williams Co, OH; d/o James Buchanan and Agnes Turner)
Note his will mentions six unnamed, under age children so they might be – Elizabeth, Thomas, Mahala, Agnes, Sarah, and David; however, online sources state that Mahala was born in 1820, so at this point the identity of the children and their birth order is unknown.
Possible Children (from online sources):
1. Elizabeth (20 Apr 1799 Hillsboro, Highland Co, OH – 5 Sept 1887 Benton Co, IN; mar Robert S Young, 1829 Highland Co, OH)
2. Thomas (30 May 1800 - )
3. Agnes (25 Jan 1802 - ; mar James Williams)
4. Sarah (4 Dec 1803 -; mar James Craig, 31 Oct 1825 Williams Co, OH – Marriage V1 p2)
5. David (23 Oct 1806 - )
6. Jane (10 Apr 1811 Hillsboro, Highland Co, OH – 1861 Benton Co, IN; mar Samuel Addison Keyes)
7. Margaret (4 May 1813 - )
8. James Turner (1814 -16 Sept 1860 Defiance, Defiance Co, OH; mar Rebecca Ann Travis, 15 June 1843 Williams Co, OH – Marriage V1 p67)
9. Cyrus (5 Apr 1818 - )
10. Mahala 1800 or (24 Aug 1820 – ); mar Neal Dougherty, 9 June 1840 Highland Co, OH)
This information was taken from the History of the Early Settlement of Highland Co Ohio, 1890 by the Gazette office, Chapter XX111
Father David Jolly Sr. was among the first settlers in Wheeling, Virginia. His dwelling was on a hill about 3 miles from the mouth of Wheeling Creek, and the site of his cabin is still pointed out by old residents not far from the turnpike road which crosses the hill from the old toll gate to the river. His family consisted in 1790 when he lived at that place of himself, wife, and six children, with one grandchild. From the time he made his settlement there and up to Wayne's Treaty in 1795 the border line of civilization was in constant danger and consequent dread of Indians and not a year passed that did not witness conflicts and massacres more or less sanguinary. The fort at Wheeling afforded protection only to those within its gates.
On 8 June 1790 in Wheeling, Ohio Co, VA (now WVA) his family was attacked by Indians. James Jolly had gone to the spring some distance from the house for a bucket of water. Mrs. Jolly was standing in the door waiting for James to come with the water and when the Indians no doubting but all the family had arrived to dinner, fired from their well-chosen ambush into the house. Mrs. Jolly fell dead instantly, John was shot in the mouth and fell, very badly wounded, a daughter and grandson were also wounded at the first fire, Immediately after the fire the Indians rushed in and scalped them with their tomahawks while they were in their death struggle. James had heard the alarm and hurried making his escape and the remaining members of the family at home, who had not been injured, were William, the youngest son and his cousin Joseph McCune who was at the house on a visit. The Indians took these boys prisoners, they pillaged and fired the house and made a rapid retreat. David Jolly Sr. arrived at his desolate and burning home only in time to drag the remains of his murdered friends from the flames, which soon consumed the building. He ran to the nearest neighbor and gave alarm.
James Jolly married Agnes Buchanan c1798 in Highland Co, OH.
Early in June 1805 David Jolly and James Jolly with their families, moved up from the vicinity of Chillicothe and settled on the Rocky Fork east of present town of Hillsborough, on the farm recently owned by John H. Jolly. The Jollys were among the first settlers of Chillicothe, having emigrated to that neighborhood in the fall of 1790 from Virginia (West VA now).
Wife Mary Ann Warnock and her brother James Jolly were appointed administrators of William Warnock's estate on December 22, 1805. He left children David, Elizabeth and Rebecka. Mary Ann as his widow and her brother James Jolly were appointed guardians on June 28, 1809. On 16 August 1809 James Jolly wrote his will as James Jolly of Highland Co, OH.
1810 Liberty Twp, Highland Co, OH Tax List
James Jolly was a tanner, who worked at his trade on a farm in Marshall Township, afterward owned by Judge Delaplane, but now in possession of Judge Huggins. James as a tanner moved to Ft Defiance c1823. He died c13 May 1825. On 12 Oct 1825 Agnes Jolly has an estate probated (Probate case number 2). These are the only two Jolly probates found in (1824-1900) Williams Co, OH probate.
According to The History of Williams Co, OH, Weston Goodspeed, 1882, p352, in St. Joseph Twp there was a Turner Jolly, a young man with no permanent abode, c Aug 1835.
US General Land Office Records, 16 Oct 1835, Land Office in Wapakoneta, Sec 14 T6N R1E, 1st PM, Williams Co, OH – James Turner Jolly of Williams Co, OH, 40A.
US General Land Office Records, 16 Mar 1837, Land Office in Lima, Sec 23 T6N R1E, 1st PM, Williams Co, OH – James Turner Jolly of Williams Co, OH, 40A. Note this James Turner Jolly was most likely the son of James Jolly.
James T. Jolly married Rebecca Travis, 15 June 1843 Williams Co, OH – Marriage V1 p67)
1850 Noble, Defiance, Ohio; Roll: M432_674; Page: 42B; Image: 597.
h/h 575/575 Jolly, James T 30 OH farmer $400 (could possibly 36 as age)
Rebecca 25 OH
Sarah 5 OH
William C 1 OH
1860 Noble, Defiance, Ohio; Roll: M653_947; Page: 340; Image: 131; Family History Library Film: 803947. PO Brunersburg
h/h 926/9191 Jolly, James 46 OH farmer $150
Rebecca 35 OH
Sarah 17 OH domestic
William 11 OH
Thomas 9 OH
Dills 7 OH
Catharine 5 OH


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Standard ECMA-203
Private Integrated Services Network (PISN)
- Inter-Exchange Signalling Protocol - Call Intrusion Supplementary
Service (QSIG-CI)
4th edition (December 2001)
This Standard specifies the signalling protocol for the support of the Call Intrusion supplementary service (SS-CI) at the Q reference point between Private Integrated services Network eXchanges (PINXs) connected together within a Private Integrated Services Network (PISN).
SS-CI is a supplementary service which, on request from the calling user, enables the calling user to establish communication with a busy called user by breaking into an established call between the called user and a third user (unwanted user).
The Q reference point is defined in ECMA-133.
Service specifications are produced in three stages and according to the method specified in ETS 300 387. This Standard contains the stage 3 specification for the Q reference point and satisfies the requirements identified by the stage 1 and stage 2 specifications in ECMA-202.
The signalling protocol for SS-CI operates on top of the signalling protocol for basic circuit switched call control, as specified in ECMA-143, and uses certain aspects of the generic procedures for the control of supplementary services specified in ECMA-165.
This Standard also specifies additional signalling protocol requirements for the support of interactions at the Q reference point between SS-CI and other supplementary services and ANFs.
Additional interactions that have no impact on the signalling protocol at the Q reference point can be found in the relevant stage 1 specifications.
The protocol defined in this Standard forms part of the
PSS1 protocol (informally known as QSIG).
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I was reading this thread and went and did a research for Georgia. I will do a small tut here to help her out.
If you would like to try this quilt, go to the thread above and download the pdf that I uploaded.
Now here is the beginning of the block. I have never done this one before so I will post as I go along.
First, gather up all different fabrics or go to the link posted in the thread above to look at her quilt. Cut six wedges and six background.
I mark the centers of each one by just folding over and pressing a crease. There are three creases in the background and one crease for the middle of the wedges.
Pin the middle of one wedge to the middle of one background and pin through the 1/4 inch seam allowance at both ends.
Sew three wedge to one background, two wedges to 4 backgrounds and one wedge to one background (pics below).
I just set them together to see if they are ok. I will have to make at least three more blocks before deciding on the sewing together.
I will not square them off as I will leave them rounded at the edge.