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Wednesday, February 6, 2013
CB250N Cafe Racer The Hornet and the 5K wall
Here is a photo taken by the seller of me riding away from his house..
So now the saga..
Well I have spent the last few days rebuilding the carbs on the bike, had them off about 15 times, checking and rechecking cleaning and checking again.
A photo of my work area, I am in a small unit with no space..
I spent a lot of time reading blogs, forums and tuning guides and kept coming to the 5K wall that honda twins of this vintage had. This was the problem I was having with the CB250N it would not rev past 5k and I now was pretty sure it was not the carbs.
Okay this led me to electrics, COOL.... I know but in a past life I did this as a job and my hobby is Ham radio and electronics so now I went from an area i was okay in (Mechanics) to an area I actually loved electrics.
I was able to get the bike running so the first thing i did was put a timing light on it to see if the high RPM pulser was triggering the advance, it was advancing but I noticed that as the bike surged and lost power it lost spark, okay so it really is looking like an electronics problem.
Okay next I pulled the wiring to the CDI on the left hand of the air box... WTF I just noticed that the frame has been resprayed with the bloody wiring loom on the bike, there is paint in the connectors, there is paint on the earth points and paint everywhere it should not be....
So out came the dremel (mini grinder) and I started to sand all the paint of the earth points for the coils and CDI. I removed some extra wire that had been spliced between the CDI and the stator and reran the loom to get an extra two inches to rejoin the loom.
A photo of the "new" rewired loom you cant see much but I replaced connectors in the harness and removed a 6 inch splice someone had added to the stator wiring (blue white CDI voltage wires) and reran the loom to allow for the shorter length
Gapped the plugs and cranked it,.... Its alive its alive it is revving to red line and just sounds heaps better.
I hosed the stator with with a dry silicon lube I use that repels water and doesnt harm wiring to protect it and stop corrosion.
So I have been over the bike and so far have a small list of things for RWC (MOT) they are as follows...
Replace Brake Lever (I broke it putting the bike in the car)
Re wire front brake switch
Plastic weld LH side cover crack
Lube Clutch and Throttle cables
Pull apart RH switch block and clean Hi/Lo switch
Replace Fuel line and add inline filter
Sync Carbs
Reweld header it has a small crack near the muffler
On the plus side the previous owner who could not get it to run well had done the following already...
New chain and sprockets
New Rear Indicators
New Brake pads and bleed brakes
Replacement seat from wrecker
New brake light
Anyway that will do for this post... but for those that didnt see the last post in the welcome section here is a rendering of what I want the bike to look like when done
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Anyone who thought the age of plague might have banished the specter of religious fanaticism was disabused last week when a middle school teacher in a Paris suburb was beheaded by an Islamist fanatic for displaying caricatures of the prophet Mohammad during a class discussion about free speech. The assailant, a teenager of Chechen origin, murdered and then decapitated his victim before being killed by French police. Less than a fortnight before, there was a stabbing outside the Parisian offices formerly occupied by the satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo, which France's interior minister also described as an "act of Islamist terrorism."
The stubborn persistence of Islamist terror speaks to the durability of ferocious faith-based dogmas, one of which seeks to reintroduce secular Western democracies to the long-forgotten notion of "blasphemy." This will only come as a surprise to those with short memories. Ayatollah Khomeini's 1989 fatwa suborning the murder of Salman Rushdie for merely writing a novel reignited the old debate about the place of tolerance in an age of religious hatred. More than 30 years later, theocratic forces have grown more diffuse but also tenacious.
Religious pluralism has long been understood as the best means of suppressing and overcoming dangerous religious passions. "If there were only one religion in England," remarked Voltaire, "there would be danger of despotism, if there were two they would cut each other's throats, but there are thirty and they live in peace and happiness." It would be delusional to believe that Voltaire's native land is approaching despotism, but it isn't quite living in peace and happiness either. (One suspects the author of Le Fanatisme, ou Mahomet le prophète might have expected this disharmony between the republic and its Muslim citizens.) France is not a country of one religion or two, but of many and none. Its secular state sits atop a largely post-Christian society that is increasingly contending with a phenomenon of what Emanuel Macron recently described as "Islamic separatism." France is hardly alone among European democracies in housing a swelling and poorly integrated Islamic population, but its condition is advanced since a non-trivial number of the country's six million Muslims risk forming what Macron calls a "counter-society."
Around the world, numerous societies are beset by the spasms of violence produced by radical Islam. A new form of religious fanaticism, fueled by Islamist passions and enabled by progressive idiocy, holds what Timothy Garton Ash calls the "assassin's veto" over what materials may be published and consumed. It has led to vicious and sometimes lethal attacks on freethinkers far and wide, while producing a climate of fear and self-censorship among those who would ordinarily criticize religious ideas without apology.
This is an intolerable state of affairs. The brazen intimidation of free expression and the innocent blood actually being shed (the vast majority of which is Muslim blood, as it happens) is evidence of a severe problem within the Islamic faith that requires criticism. It demands that a battle of ideas be waged against Islamism and on behalf of free expression. It is imperative that every government that claims to belong to the civilized world be fully engaged in this effort. This will not be easy. Such an open confrontation with Muslim totalitarianism will not merely elicit outrage among the most bloodthirsty factions of those believing Mohammed to be God's last messenger on Earth. It will also be condemned by what the British Muslim writer and activist Maajid Nawaz dubs "the regressive Left," which regards any scrutiny of Islam and Islamism as an act of "Islamophobia."
In the weeks after the assassination of the Charlie Hebdo journalists, the liberal writer Jonathan Chait summarized the apologetics of this faction as follows: "On the one hand, religious extremists should not threaten people who offend their beliefs. On the other hand, nobody should offend their beliefs. The right to blasphemy should exist but only in theory." He continued: "The line separating these two positions is perilously thin. The Muslim radical argues that the ban on blasphemy is morally right and should be followed; the Western liberal insists it is morally wrong but should be followed. Theoretical distinctions aside, both positions yield an identical outcome."
It has been said often before, but in the aftermath of the two Parisian attacks, it bears repeating—both Islamists and their ostensibly secular defenders must be resisted. They must understand that the defense of universal human rights is not a provocation, much less a "phobia," but a moral obligation. The campaign of undisguised menace against artists and writers and cartoonists who question or mock revered scriptures and religious figures is granted too much credence in certain quarters that proclaim to merely be respecting "Muslim sensibilities." What these peace-at-any-price observers don't grasp, however, is that it is only recently (with the rise of Wahhabism) that the portrayal of Mohammad has been deemed blasphemous. In any case, scrutiny of religious texts and prophets is a foundational element of the Enlightenment. Surrender that keystone principle, and what remains of the larger edifice?
The consequence of failing to prosecute this struggle in defense of freedom of religion and freedom of speech will be the steady erosion of tolerance and inquiry in the name of good manners. It could lead to what the British writer Kenan Malik has called an "auction of victimhood," with offended groups competing to see if they can receive special exemptions and get their taboo images removed from the public eye. A decade after Jyllands-Posten published the Danish cartoons of Mohammad in 2005, it chose not to republish the Charlie Hebdo drawings, citing its "unique position" of vulnerability. Flemming Rose, the editor who commissioned the original cartoons, told the BBC, "We caved in." "Violence works," he added, and "sometimes the sword is mightier than the pen."
The cycle of Islamist intimidation and secular surrender is fraught with risk. France faces the prospect of being split into rival nations: one that lives in a secular republic and another one that lives in the shadow of sharia and blasphemy codes, even if the Islamic law is de facto rather than de jure. If this fate is permitted to come to pass, the cause of civilization will lose a vital foothold in Europe, with repercussions far beyond the old continent.
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'Volunteer' day: What is the meaning of Haggerty's guilt, and Bloomberg's independence?
On the wood paneling behind the bench of Manhattan Supreme Court Judge Ronald Zweibel, who has presided over the case of John Haggerty, the political operative accused of stealing a million dollars and change from New York's billionaire mayor during his $100 million-plus 2009 reelection bid, the motto emblazoned on the wood reads: "IN GOd WE TrUSt." The letters are all uppercase, but the "D", "R", and second "T" are replacements, smaller and shinier than the others.
The shabby motto, with its Melvillean suggestion of misplaced confidence, matched the shabbiness of the trial, in which words were shorn of their very meaning.
Shortly before noon on Oct. 21, the jury found John Haggerty, a campaign "volunteer," guilty on charges of second-degree grand larceny and money laundering for pocketing more than a million dollars that Bloomberg had "donated" to the New York State Independence Party to pay for election-day "ballot security" for Bloomberg and also, nominally, for the other candidates the party was fielding in that election.
The verdict, like those other Independence Party candidates, felt like an afterthought. The fate of Haggerty, a Queens-based Republican operative, was never the reason that members of the press packed the courtroom gallery over the course of several weeks to follow the proceedings. Nor was it the disappearance of the mayor's money, which wasn't even of much interest to the mayor himself.
Members of the media were there for a rare opportunity to hear Bloomberg and his top aides testifying under oath about the murky inner dealings of his operation.
The trial's glossary of double-talk opens with the setting itself, "Manhattan Supreme Court," which despite its name is New York's trial-level court. (The state's high court is the Court of Appeals.) Its judges are nominally elected to 14-year terms but in practice they're selected by party bosses who dole out the Democratic line, thereby virtually guaranteeing victory in down-ballot races.
Throughout the trial, a hot-dog man was stationed outside the court with an ad on the side of his cart for a bail bondsman. People just in or out of lockup did their best to bum smokes from $13 packs.
On the second day of the trial, during a lunchtime break in the testimony of Kevin Sheekey—Bloomberg's longtime political adviser, former deputy mayor and sometimes campaign "volunteer" who's now the chairman of Bloomberg Government (really, that's the name), a branch of the mayor's private company—a new set of lawyers came in and Judge Zweibel briefly turned his attention to a pregnant young woman pleading down an assault charge.
The empty language that came up inside the Supreme Court all traces back to the billionaire mayor who won office in 2001 on the premise that a candidate willing to serve for a buck a year couldn't be bought, so that while money had corrupted politics and public service, his money could redeem it. In office, he's put that money where his mouth is, using his private fortune and his philanthropic trust to help advance his political interests. His media business provides a soft landing for trusted advisers and necessary allies; its opinion arm, Bloomberg View, reflects his views.
That confusion of the many Bloomberg brands, all of them serving the greater good of Michael Bloomberg, was a key theme of the Haggerty defense. The mayor's private lawyers were representing many of the prosecution witnesses who worked for him at Bloomberg L.P., the Bloomberg Family Trust and City Hall, at Bloomberg's personal expense. Bloomberg even had his own private spokesman in the courtroom, former first deputy press secretary Jason Post, who was referred to in many news reports as "a spokesman for Mayor Michael Bloomberg."
To recap: Bloomberg "donated" $1.2 million from his private fortune to the so-called housekeeping account of the Independence Party, whose line the small-i independent-registered mayor was running on, along with the Republicans'. It was the largest contribution the party had ever received, breaking Bloomberg's own record gift the previous year. The party was in turn supposed to pass through $1.1 million to Haggerty for spending on ballot security, with the remaining hundred thousand "washed in" as an actual donation. Haggerty, the prosecution alleged, simply pocketed most of that money without providing the service.
Bloomberg was able to circumvent the state's campaign-finance laws limiting donations by giving the money to a party housekeeping account and, since it was nominally for the benefit of all the party's candidates, it was never recorded as an expense by his campaign.
"I have no idea," Bloomberg said on the stand when asked to name one of his 2009 Independence Party ticket-mates. "It was a long time ago."
The spending emerged only when the party filed its disclosures in January of 2010, after voters had had their once-every-four-years say.
Two rules, though, govern these uncapped contributions to housekeeping accounts: The giver can't dictate how the money is spend, and it can't be spent on behalf of a particular candidate. The defense as such boiled down to: Even if our guy stole the money, he couldn't have stolen it from Bloomberg because it wasn't his anymore. The implicit question to the jurors: Do you really want to lock up the little crook for outsmarting the big one?
Jurors seemed to be wrestling with the question during their deliberations, asking Judge Zweibel first to explain who the victim was (Michael Bloomberg, he told them), and then whether they had to consider the identity of the victim in reaching a verdict.
That identity isn't easy to pin down, which may help explain their decision to acquit Haggerty on the top charge of the indictment, first degree felony theft: It turns out the $1.2 million spent to re-elect Mayor Bloomberg (and the other Independence candidates, of course) hadn't been drawn from the account of Michael Bloomberg, private citizen, but in fact had been paid out of a separate trust he'd established that was legally separate from him—a distinction that neither the prosecution nor Bloomberg himself on the stand seemed to be aware of. There are a lot of "Bloomberg hats," as defense attorney Dennis Vacco frequently put it, to keep track of.
On the stand, Bloomberg and his aides said they'd had no significant contact with the state Independence Party during the 2009 campaign. Haggerty, the "volunteer," had handled the negotiation.
He was "our representative," said Bloomberg, who testified that he never spoke with party chairman Frank MacKay or anyone else with power in the party before striking what he called "a verbal agreement" with them.
As the Times' Michael Powell put it: "This means that Mr. Haggerty, the 'volunteer,' was bargaining with himself on behalf of the mayor."
Bloomberg's "volunteers," of course, are anything but backroom envelope lickers, and have good reason to expect reward. First Deputy Mayor Patti Harris, who "volunteers" on the side as the head of Bloomberg's multibillion-dollar family trust, also "volunteered" on the 2009 campaign before signing up full-time just three months out from the election. She was paid $450,000 for her work in those final weeks.
Sheekey, who "volunteered" for the re-election campaign while serving as a deputy mayor in 2009, also ended up with a six-figure reward for signing on at the end, though he couldn't recall the exact amount on the stand.
Both Sheekey and Harris eschewed titles that year, and referred with some apparent disdain to the nominal "campaign manager," Bradley Tusk.
(This broad notion of volunteerism was a recurring theme: At one point in the trial, Bloomberg even offered that Stephen Goldsmith, the deputy mayor who left office after he was arrested in a domestic dispute, had "volunteered" to resign.)
One question the defense harped on, and which the mayor and his people danced around, concerned the terms on which his aides were authorized to spend his money on behalf of his political interests, and what money, exactly, they were allowed to spend. That seemed to fit a broader pattern of avoiding paper trails—"Generally I never believed in contracts," the mayor testified. "I look somebody in the eyes and if they look trustworthy and I believe in them, their handshake is worth more to me than a piece of paper"—and formal titles.
"I can't answer that yes or no," said Harris, when the defense asked if she had written authority to cut checks on behalf of her boss. Nor could she remember any particular checks she'd cut on his behalf in the past.
Bloomberg was even more evasive, at one point insisting that a waiver from the toothless Conflict of Interest Board, allowing another City Hall aide to "volunteer" with the "planning and execution of both my formal, public events … as well as smaller private events," gave her the power to spend his private money on behalf of his political interests.
"If that isn't one of the personal things, I don't know what is, of course," the mayor said at the end of a testy exchange with defense lawyer Raymond Castello.
Pressed later on the question of whether Harris needed a conflict waiver to spent his private money while "volunteering" for him, Bloomberg shrugged: "I don't believe she would need one for anything she does for me personally. She doesn't do anything that would be a conflict when she works for me."
Those exchanges seemed to hurt the prosecution while advancing the preferred narratives of both Bloomberg, who left the courtroom with his secrets intact about how his money actually gets spent, and for Haggerty, whose lawyers were able to intimate that the mayor's spending was untoward. The alleged victim and the accused victimizer seemed to be reading from the same script, parsing words to skirt the plain meaning of the law.
The Independence Party, which has traditionally profited from the confusion of actually "independent" or unaffiliated voters, still has about $100,000 of Bloomberg's stolen "gift" that it's never been asked to return, the defense noted. (Presumably, that loose change was the "wash in" that Haggerty referred to in an email to then-deputy mayor Sheekey discussing the transfer). For years, Bloomberg also funneled campaign and "charitable" money to the New York City branch of the party controlled by Lenora Fulani, the lunatic longtime acolyte of recently deceased psychiatrist-cultist Fred Newman. The pair dominated the city party until 2006, and Fulani continues to control its Manhattan branch. Their rented party line proved crucial to Bloomberg's tight wins in both 2001 and 2009.
Explaining the huge gifts he's made to party accounts in the context of his professed disdain for partisan politics, Bloomberg again framed his private cash as a public good: "I think we should be supporting parties other than the two major parties because an awful lot of people in the city do not want to belong to any of the two major parties and it's better for the voter to have alternatives."
(Bloomberg has showered money not just on the Independence Party over the course of his three campaigns, but on the local Republican Party, which has also backed him each time.)
The glossary closes with "ballot security," the service Haggerty had "volunteered" to provide, and Bloomberg has "donated" more than a million dollars to receive. On the stand, the mayor said that this, too, was a public good his cash provided, "a process to make sure that people that want to vote, have the right to vote, and don't get pushed aside or denied the access to vote."
His last two Democratic foes saw it in different terms, publicly calling it a means of voter suppression. That's a loser's complaint in part—there have been few documented cases of suppression in citywide elections in recent years, and there haven't been significant instances of fraud, either. But the idea that this expenditure was about safeguarding people's rights is a hard sale.
Haggerty made his bones in part on still another of New York's nutty laws: petition challenges that use the state's absurdly stringent ballot access requirements to push non-party-approved candidates out of races.
"We could have done a lot of good in this society with a million-odd dollars, it's a lot of money," Bloomberg complained on the stand, as though if not for Haggerty he would have spent it on, say, feeding the hungry.
During closing arguments, as jurors listened first to the defense's sprawling account of the mayor's wanton ways amid the murkiness of campaign finance law and then to the prosecution's simple case about a guy promising to provide a service and instead pocketing the money, one juror wore a red t-shirt with white lettering that seemed oddly matched to the moment. The shirt said, "TRUTH HURTS.'
Bloomberg and Haggerty, his erstwhile agent, can at least agree on that.


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These findings allow a few conclusions. Aside from the importance of deep troughs to ice motion, the extension inland means that glaciers will have to retreat further than anticipated inland in order to reach a position above sea level. "Some of them will stay in contact with the ocean for centuries, when we thought that in a couple of decades they would stabilize." said Mathieu Morlighem.
The ice sheet is therefore more vulnerable than predicted, and existing projections of sea level rise contribution from Greenland are too conservative and need to be revised. The research also shows that also means that these troughs are old – it takes 10,000 to 100,000 years for these troughs to be created through erosive action. Also startling is that while only 8% of these regions correspond to ice-grounding below sea level, they are responsible for 88% of the total ice discharge. These are the parts of Greenland that really matter.
As the authors state in the paper, "Our findings imply that the outlet glaciers of Greenland, and the ice sheet as a whole, are probably more vulnerable to ocean thermal forcing and peripheral thinning than inferred previously from existing numerical ice-sheet models."
Dr. Rignot gave a great summary when I contacted him, "Observations published in a number of recent, independent studies in the scientific literature provide unquestionable and timely evidence that climate change has already significantly shaken up the giant ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica."
"Many glaciers in Greenland are accelerating and retreating and we know that these changes are triggered by warmer ocean currents" said Mathieu Morlighem. However, models predicted that the glaciers would soon reach higher ground and stabilize. The ice sheet would therefore stop shrinking in a couple of decades and its contribution to sea level rise would be limited. This new study turns that prior viewpoint on its head.
As a scientist, it is hard to wait until the latest installment on this critical topic. While depressing that again, research is implying the future sea level rise may be worse than feared, it is fascinating to watch the clever methods these scientists devise to measure the world's great ice bodies.


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Higher Education: The Chain of Bullying
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, students in many universities sat on departmental committees and voted on hiring decisions and curricula. They posted "Challenge Authority!" signs on bulletin boards and classroom walls. Many faculty joined "Professions for the People" and encouraged their students to get out into the community and study and join their struggles. Faculty and students worked together to hold teach-ins against the Vietnam war. Students did not ask deans for permission to post their flyers or take their bullhorns and speak out on campus.
The university—then or now—cannot be viewed in isolation. In our book, Bully Nation, we show that America is a militaristic corporate society with bullying built into its essence. From the point of view of the American elite, the purpose of the university is to produce a higher-level labor force and conduct research for profit, military domination and social stability. There may be more freedom and less bullying in the university than other institutions including the corporation, the military, the police, the courts, elementary and high schools. However, the university is a link in a bullying chain where institutions and individuals higher in the chain bully those below.
In response to student protest movements of the 1960/70s, many corporate donors, trustees, and state legislators sensed that the university was not serving militaristic capitalism, withdrew support and forced administrators to tighten control.
In response to student protest movements of the 1960/70s, many corporate donors, trustees, and state legislators sensed that the university was not serving militaristic capitalism, withdrew support and forced administrators to tighten control. Heads of universities were bullied into bullying.
Decades ago, college presidents who restricted student and faculty rights rose to political prominence. After S.I. Hayakawa, Chancellor of San Francisco State, crushed a strike, he became a U.S. Senator from California. Boston University President John Silber was embraced by trustees who made him the highest paid college president in the country, but he sent the police to squash student protests, provoked strikes by students and faculty, and had ten deans and three-quarters of the Faculty Assembly demand his resignation. He then received 49% of the vote when he ran for Governor of Massachusetts.
One politician benefited more than any other from attacking academic freedom—Ronald Reagan, although his background was in Hollywood, not in academia. In 1966 when he first ran for Governor of California, he sent a letter to then Chancellor of San Francisco State Glenn Dumke asking:
How far do we go in tolerating these people & this trash under the excuse of academic freedom & freedom of expression?...Hasn't the time come to take on those neurotics in our faculty group and lay down some rules of conduct for the students?
When he was elected President in 1980, Ronald Reagan moved swiftly to rein in these immoral sites of undisciplined and unpatriotic student mobs. What Reagan wrought was the intensification of the corporatized bureaucratic university, a mega-hierarchical structure that we call the "chain of bullying." Sweeping away the anti-authoritarian and libertine spirit of the 1960s, the Reagan revolution created a university of top-heavy administrative armies to enforce order, authority and rule-based conformity. Trustee boards and top-heavy administrations sit on top of the chain, faculty below them, students at the bottom, and campus workers subject to yet another chain.
Universities have refused to cooperate with the Trump administration's demand to report undocumented immigrant students and academics have been extremely critical of many of President Trump's assertions, including his denial of global warming. Trumpists view the university as a site of dangerous dissent, and Trump is using his budgetary powers to bully them and reduce their influence. Trump's budget, if enacted, will accelerate the downward spiral of declining federal financial support for universities. Trump's proposed 2018 budget will cut nearly 4 billion dollars from Pell Grants, a federal program which upon which over 9 million students, nearly 40% of all students, depend. He plans to cut another $193 million from programs for students who need remedial support to thrive in college. Substantial cuts are also planned for student loans and federal student work-study assistance, all forms of budgetary bullying intended to instill fear and compliance with Trump's political agenda.
Such political bullying contributes to a chain of bullying within the university, as boards of trustees and university presidents seek to tighten the academic ship and rein in professors, students and staff who might be seen as jeopardizing university funding.
In Bully Nation, we show that bullying is perpetrated by institutions as well as individuals. Structural bullying runs rampant in our corporations, government, and the military as well as universities. As in the schoolyard, this institutional bullying arises out of inequalities of power torturing those lower in the chain with humiliation and even trauma if they don't conform or obey.
Universities have long been hierarchical—before the 1960s there were dress codes, rigid tests and attacks on student protests—but the chain was looser in some earlier eras and is now tightening rapidly, creating a rule-smothered bureaucracy running contrary to the free-thinking and empowering ideal of higher education. Anti-intellectualism, always strong in America, has returned with a vengeance since the Reagan era, as elites are bullying academic administrators to focus on vocational training and stamp out dissent.
A bloated administrative hierarchy—seeking donations from corporations, the government and alums—is the linchpin of this new academic authoritarianism, likely to grow under Trump but evident at least since Reagan. Seeking more power and money for itself, it imposes an ever-increasing set of rules that bully faculty and students, who are bullied to bully each other.
This internal university structural bullying, that we describe below, while not started by Trump, reflects a chain of command academic model mirroring the Trumpist bullying template envisioned for virtually all institutions.
The administration bullies its own. The top deans bully the legion of associate, assistant and deputy deans to bully students and faculty. For example, in many universities, deans of students prevent students from posting flyers, distributing them in dormitories, or assembling freely to speak without registering as official student organizations and getting multiple permits for the place, topic, and speakers.
When we have asked deans of students why they police student speech so rigidly, many say they are sympathetic to student speech but are afraid of being fired by higher administrators who want law and order on campus.
Top university officials at many schools are bullying faculty to create standardized syllabi forms, dictating class readings, schedules, assignments, tests, and grading criteria. Some universities impose "syllabus rubrics," with boxes—which many faculty see as meaningless—that must be checked to determine if the course fulfills "measurable learning objectives" dictated from above.
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The regimentation often leads faculty to teach to the rule and the test and to abandon the spontaneous teaching dialogue with students that is free form and a basis for true learning. In fact, the administrative rules for faculty just described bully professors to bully students pervasively in their teaching, even if the professor's own personal values and style is antithetical to bullying. Many faculty resist or ignore rules but increasingly at their peril as funds are shrinking and jobs less secure.
Traditionally, universities prided themselves as communities of scholars, original thinkers, where no two people would teach the same course, the same way. However recently, administrators and academic departments are moving toward the idea that instructors should be interchangeable, as textbooks are assigned for certain courses without regard to whom teaches them.
One of the demands of the student movements of the 1960/70s was that students be given direct input in their education and be allowed to evaluate their professors. In some universities, especially state universities, this demand has been usurped by administrators who now use students to ensure professors and courses conform to their expectations. In many universities—probably not a majority, but possibly becoming more widespread- students are asked to assign a number value to how well the professor meet these criteria:
- Grading criteria were clearly stated.
- Course objectives were stated.
- The course covered the stated objectives.
This form takes one model of teaching and implies that is the only legitimate one, having a structured course outline that is closely followed and bringing students to focus on grades. There in nothing on enthusiasm, breeding love of the subject, instructor's understanding of the material, encouraging a wide range of points of view, generating student input, or fostering independent creative thinking.
Administrators have appointed themselves guardians and protectors of students and thus use students to help control faculty. The Israeli lobby has pressured universities to deny positions to scholars critical of Israel. Some chancellors justify cancelling such an appointment on the grounds that anyone using such "disrespectful" language would not maintain a "civil" manner in the classroom and thus make student uncomfortable and reluctant to express themselves. Students weren't complaining, but the Israel lobby was using the language of free speech and academic freedom to suppress these principles.
There are mandates to give students "trigger warning" when issues which might challenge preconceived view of the world are about to raised. This is actually a demand not to expose students to new perspectives and thus deny the opportunity to expand their perspectives and develop their ability to think critically. There are codes, specifying how faculty must handle sensitive issues, especially around race, gender, sexual orientation and veteran status-again limiting debate on the grounds of preventing students from feeling uneasy.
Faculty research (and that of student papers too) is similarly increasingly regimented, often through Institutional Review Boards (IRB). Getting through the IRB approval can be maddening and exhausting, especially when the research is historical and no "subjects" are at risk.
Students get the heaviest bullying, in and out of the classroom, from administrators, faculty and fellow students. They are victims of the restrictions placed on faculty—and of a new generation of faculty with less job security and more adapted to accept administrative control leading them to control or bully students. Student loan debt and tight job markets make students vulnerable, fearful and easier to bully into "respectable" courses, ideas and conduct consistent with getting a good corporate or professional job. Cutting funding is an effective strategy to force students to focus on jobs and not ask too many questions about society or education.
Administrators, faculty and students are all part of the "upstairs" of the corporatized university, itself part of a longer bullying chain that extends into the "downstairs" of buildings and grounds workers, custodians, secretaries, and clerks composing a huge bottom part of the bullying chain. Those in the downstairs are bullied ever more as the administration - bullied by new financial and political constraint - seeks to lower costs by subjecting downstairs workers to more temporary and lower-paid positions, creating bullying more severe than that imposed on the upstairs strata.
Much of this intensifying bullying of the downstairs by the upstairs has been described in the literature on corporatization of the university—and on discussions of adjunct faculty whose acute job vulnerability and low pay renders them similar to the "downstairs" university workers.
In one university, we encountered a long-term book-orderer in the university bookstore which was being sold to Folletts. All employees were being fired, and a new class of workers was being hired, all part-time and without the security or benefits, assumed in the past. Here we see the structural transformation that is changing the university into a microcosm of the corporate world.
The only solution is for all university employees to educate themselves about the reality of the bully chain—and its subversion of free inquiry and critical thought as well as its dehumanizing impacts up and down the chain. Such education must lead to organizing efforts to reduce power inequalities in universities and to create a more empowered faculty, students and workforce fighting for freedom and justice – both inside and outside higher education.
We see two hopeful signs. One is past or present models of universities that do not grade, let students create their own individual program of studies, and encourage student participation in university governance and community struggles for justice. These have included such schools as Evergreen College, Oberlin, Univ. of California at Santa Cruz, and Antioch. The other hopeful sign is the rise of student and faculty protests for free speech, anti-racist, anti-corporatization, unions for graduate students and faculty, anti sexual harassment, making universities sanctuaries for Muslim, undocumented or other potential deportees, and divestment of fossil fuel portfolios in university endowments.
The Trump era is accelerating a new wave of students and faculty seeking an end to bullying on and off campus, just as the Vietnam and Nixon era did.
Charles Derber & Yale Magrass
Charles Derber, Professor of Sociology at Boston College, and Yale Magrass, Chancellor Professor of Sociology/Anthropology at University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth, are co-authors of Bully Nation: How the American Establishment Creates a Bullying Society.


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What is an academy?
Academies are independent, state-funded schools, which receive their funding directly from central government, rather than through a local authority. Although the day-to-day running of the school remains with the head teacher or principal, they are overseen by individual charitable bodies called academy trusts and may be part of an academy chain. These trusts provide advice, support, and expertise. They have more freedom than other state schools over their finances and curriculum and do not need to follow national pay and conditions for teachers.
How many are there?
As of June 2015, there are 4676 academies open in England. There are hundreds more in the pipeline. The number has grown dramatically under the coalition government, from 203 in May 2010. Now over half of all secondaries in England are academies.
Are academies all about improving failing schools?
Not any more. The policy, which originated under Labour, aimed to improve struggling schools, primarily in deprived areas. This continues under the sponsored-academy model, where failing schools are taken over and run by an academy trust, usually under a new principal and governing body. This has been changed radically and accelerated by the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition. Now all schools, - primary as well as secondary – have been invited to convert to academy status, but priority has been given to those deemed by education watchdog Ofsted to be "outstanding" or "performing well". These are known as convertor academies and are in part about spreading good practice from the best schools. The government argues academies drive up standards by putting more power in the hands of head teachers and cutting bureaucracy. It says they have been shown to improve twice as fast as other state schools.
How do schools benefit from becoming academies?
On top of the £25,000 towards conversion costs the Department for Education, academies can potentially top up their budget by as much as 10%. This is because on top of the regular per pupil funding, it gets money that would previously have been held back by the local authority to provide services such as special needs support. If the school is able to buy in the services it needs more cheaply, or has less need of those services, it can benefit financially from becoming an academy. Now large academy chains run schools creating economies of scale themselves. More freedom over staff pay can mean they make savings or attract and retain good teachers by paying more, while control over the length of the school day can allow them to teach more lessons.
What do critics say?
Teaching unions say "academisation," as it is known, is a way of privatising the school system, because private providers run large "chains" of schools and the structure sidesteps the influence of the local authority. Labour argued the changes would benefit more privileged neighbourhoods and that the best schools would suck in the best teachers and resources, leaving those left under local authority control regarded as second best. Local councils have also lost money to provide support services for schools. Teachers have held strikes against conversions in many schools, angry over new terms and condition and outputs from national pay agreements.
How accountable are academies?
Like other schools, they are subject to inspections by Ofsted. However, a substantial chunk of new convertors will be outstanding schools – which are no longer subject to routine inspections under separate changes made to the education inspection regime. The DfE publishes their exam results and other data from academies, as it does for other schools, and they feature in school league tables. Opponents of the policy argue they are less accountable than other state schools, because they are not overseen by the elected local authority leaders.
How do schools convert voluntarily in to academies?
Schools submit their application to the DfE once they have a positive vote for the change from their governing body. Once the application is approved, the Secretary of State issues an academy order and a trust is then set up which in effect has a contract to run the academy for the government. The school then registers the academy trust with Companies House and agrees leasing arrangements for school buildings and land. The final stage is the signing of a funding agreement with the Secretary of State. Schools must hold some form of consultation before the funding agreement is signed. But some teachers' unions have criticised the fact that it has been left up to the school to decide who is consulted, and when and how this is done. The school does not need permission from the local authority to convert.
And in sponsored academies?
Under the new plans, a sponsored academy solution will be assumed for all schools judged inadequate by Ofsted. For underperforming schools, based on the missing of a series of benchmarks yet to be set out, regional schools commissioners will be given powers to intervene on behalf of the Secretary of State. For stagnating schools, which meet the government's future definition of coasting, additional support will be identified by the regional schools commissioner. They will also be able to impose academisation on these schools, bringing in new leadership where it is needed. However, the government says, schools will be given the time to improve if they have the capacity to do so and a credible plan.


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Physical activity offers greater health benefits to those with naturally low fitness levels
The benefits of being physically active are far greater for those who are naturally unfit, according to scientists at The University of Glasgow.
In a study of almost 500,000 participants from the UK Biobank, the researchers found that the benefits of being physically active, including decreased risk of mortality and heart disease, were far greater for those with low levels of fitness or poor grip strength.
The study, which is published today in the European Heart Journal, found that those with high fitness or strength levels were at low risk of premature mortality and cardiovascular disease whether had high or low levels of physical activity.
A high level of fitness – the ability of the body to deliver oxygen to the muscles so that they can do work – and a high level of strength are both known to be associated with reduced risk of mortality.
Current UK guidelines suggest that all adults should engage in 150 minutes of moderate or 75 minutes of vigorous physical activity per week, and public health strategies currently target everyone who is inactive to increase their physical activity level.
However the researchers, from the Institutes of Cardiovascular and Medical Sciences and Health and Wellbeing, suggest that a more targeted campaign at those who are unfit or have low grip strength could increase the clinical, and potentially cost, effectiveness of interventions.
Dr Jason Gill from the Institute of Cardiovascular and Medical Sciences, said: "We wanted to determine whether somebody's level of fitness or grip strength influenced the effect of physical activity on risk of mortality and cardiovascular disease.
"Our data showed that the benefits of being physically active were far greater in those with low levels of fitness or grip strength. Those with high fitness or strength were at low risk whether or not they had a high level of physical activity."
It is well established that physical activity reduces risk of mortality and a number of diseases including heart disease.
However this research suggests that there is a strong genetic component at play, which allows for people who are naturally fit or strong to gain some of the benefits of low risk of mortality and low risk of heart disease irrespective of whether they engage in physical exercise or not.
Dr Carlos Celis-Morales said: "Our findings suggest that targeting on the basis of strength, and possibly fitness, could greatly improve our ability to identify those individuals who could benefit most from increased physical activity, thereby increasing the clinical and cost effectiveness of physical activity interventions.
"Grip strength – the force applied by the hand to pull on or suspend from objects – is easy to measure and can be done quickly in health care and community settings, so this screening has potential for implementation."
The authors add that is possible that those with low fitness or strength may enjoy physical activity less than those who are naturally fit and strong, so it may be important to develop strategies to also help support their engagement in physical activity.
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Manish is a software engineer by day and a comedian for life! Having grown up in a small town in Bihar, he is full of life. His keen observer eyes can spot funniness in simplistic things. He complains, most of his adulthood was whiling away finding a girlfriend and he had to take up comedy after giving up hopes. Thankfully! Humour Sapiens got into a tête-à-tête with stand-up comic Manish Chaubey, who is all set to make it big!
How did you get into comedy?
I always wanted to do comedy and was keen on writing for faking news. However, I was very hesitant to be on stage and perform in front of people staring right back at me. I was introduced to Toastmasters by my colleague and friend Kaushal. I tried a few humorous speeches and landed to the open mics, which of course I bombed. But I took liking to this process and kept hitting open mics. And I believe, I am doing fairly well. Nevertheless, there is a long way to go.
What challenges did you face?
Initially, it was very hard to get spots. But luckily, at that time there were few open mics which I used to register for by taking leave from office. Being a comedian with a day job, getting to the shows was one of the biggest challenges I faced. But once the jokes work, everything is fine, the world is back to normal. 🙂
Your key achievements?
I recently did my 30 mins of jokes, I consider it as one of my achievements.
Any bombing moments you remember?
Hahaha. I remember I had a bet with Sparsh who kills harder than anyone I know that I will rock it. It was a show in the Big Pitcher, Indiranagar and under the pressure of performing well I bombed. Everyone was doing so well, and I had everyone looking at me with a poker face. It was embarrassing. But the next spot I got in the Big Pitcher I didn't disappoint. I had people giving me laughs. My bombing heart understood what peace meant.
Any experiences with annoying audience members?
I recently had an open mic where one dude began hackling. Apparently, he was drunk and accompanying a female friend. I tackled him a bit and luckily, he received a call and stepped out. Later, after the open mic, he came to me and he sportingly said that he was just checking my capabilities of responding to a hackler. He mentioned how he was attempting to make me a better comic. However, he did get a wee bit nice later and complimented me on handling it well, at the same time suggested a few things I could possibly do to better myself.
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avant garde jewellery design, body adornment, conceptual jewellery artist, Ewa Sliwinska, function of jewellery, futuristic jewellery
Jewellery artist Ewa Sliwinska
has a creative eye fixedly focused on
future ideas and interpretations
Her MA degree project
at the University of Fine Arts, Poznan (Poland),
is a jewellery collection entitled:
The Living Points Structure
Ms. Sliwinska designed pieces,
with an ultra-modern perspective.
More total body adornments than traditional jewellery,
the objects are created with a vision for
simultaneous wear on several body parts.
Her inspiration arose from contemplation on
the manner and attitude of how people might
wear jewellery in future: a century from present.
Hence, the idea of pieces, which are not limited to
a singular body part: finger, wrist, ear, ankle, etc –
but are of a body inter-connective quality.
The pieces are made from elasticated PVC strips,
"translucent tendrils" extending from the body,
moving in concert with the wearer.
As Ms. Sliwinska eloquently states:
"By wearing the designed objects one does not simply decorate the body, but rather extend it both in the context of multidimensional shape and activity – the movement is given a new visual representation
The concept and finished pieces intrigue:
this notion of jewellery as elaborate objects
of body continuation in form and motion.
With this impression jewellery is organic,
maybe not from materials used in construction,
but as more intricate and intimate to the wearer.
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text: No wonder her smile sparkled almost as brightly as the sequins on her costume. Strictly runner-up Rachel Stevens has been reprising her rivalry with dance floor champion Tom Chambers – and cha cha-ed off with the top prize. The re-run of last series' thrilling final came during the show's live tour, in which previous twinkled-toed contenders such as Jill Halfpenny, champion of series two, and Jodie Kidd, are joining the pair for performances across Britain. Rachel lost out in the last series despite being thought a more gifted dancer than Holby City actor Tom. But when the public sent in text message votes on their sizzling routines in Newcastle on the tour's opening night she was voted the clear winner. And the shine of her victory still hadn't worn off by the time she sashayed into Manchester a few days later on Wednesday. "It was great to beat Tom!" enthused the beauty, who was once again partnered with Italian hunk Vincent Simone. Photo: Getty Images The former S Club 7 singer and her professional partner Vincent Simone won the votes of the public on the first night of the show's live tour - and have been smiling ever since Photo: Getty Images Rachel, the runner-up last series, beat her rival Tom, who is the 2008 champion, into fifth place when previous contenders gathered for the performance


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As of June 29, Jupiter, the great benefic planet of wisdom, goodness, and justice, has just retrograded out of Capricorn, its sign of debilitation where it was weak, as well as being afflicted by Saturn. This is good news!
It is now in Sagittarius, its "office" sign which it owns and where it does its work. Jupiter is strong and powerful in Sagittarius.
It is also the ascendant of the U.S., so it is a very good transit for Americans in general. Jupiter in this position brings righteousness, integrity, and prevailing over negative influences.
Retrograde planets are extra active, so it looks like Jupiter has some work to do! Jupiter will stay retrograde through September 12, and will be in Sagittarius through November 19. This is interesting timing for our country, considering the upcoming election!
Jupiter may bring a burst of good energy and luck into the house occupied by Sagittarius in your chart, so watch for opportunities in that area as well.
Contact me for a $25 mini reading if you would like to know how this transit is affecting you personally, based on your horoscope. Offer is good through September 1.
I don't think this auspicious transit will make the pandemic and all the problems we have disappear, but it is good to find small joys and points of light in difficult times. If we can take one moment at a time and enjoy the simple pleasures such as a beautiful flower, sunset, or a delicious meal, we can be less anxious and stressed about the things we have no control over.
To help you get work with this transit, here are famous words of advice from the great yogi Tilopa, translated by Ken McLeod:
Don't recall. Let go of what has passed.
Don't imagine. Let go of what may come.
Don't think. Let go of what is happening now.
Don't examine. Don't try to figure anything out.
Don't control. Don't try to make anything happen.
Rest. Relax, right now, and rest.
Wishing you health, happiness and safety!
Vedic Astrologer, Homeopath, mother, grandmother, and Director of the Caduceus Institute of Classical Homeopathy.
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How to Make a Birthday Cake Pop-Up Card
And now I'm going to show you how to make a birthday cake with candles.
Take a piece of cardstock. I've cut mine in half. We're going to fold it in half. Match the edges and the corners and crease the middle. Take another sheet of paper and cut out a rectangle. A fairly large one because this is going to be your cake. Fold it in half. Make sure the edges meet and you crease the middle.
We're actually going to draw a little slight curve from top of the cake. And I'm going to cut the edges because I made my layer a little too wide. And here we go. Cut the curve. And now we have our cake piece. And you can set that aside.
Next, we're going to take another rectangle. We're going to fold it in half. Make sure the edges meet and crease the middle well. And now what we're going to do is, we're going to create two V-folds. So take the bottom edge. Fold it so that it comes close to the middle. So it's roughly 45 degrees. And you're going to do the same for the other side. So flip it over and fold up that corner. And unfold it and you can see that we've already created one big V-fold. And we want one more. So fold it back. And we're going to fold again at an angle, same angle as the first one, or as close as possible. And now you can see we've created two V-folds.
And I've already printed out and cut out, from a template, the cake and the double V-fold. The double V-fold you can cut out into candles. So here's the center. And what we're going to do is, we're going to have these come back and then this back V come forward. So as we close it, you push that back V forward. Like that. So now you have two V's working together. And here's my cake piece.
I also have little side tabs. Here's the front and here's the back. On the back, we're actually going to stick the candles to it. Take double stick tape and, on the front of your candles, on these bottom tabs, put double stick tape or glue. Up to you.
So now it's ready to stick down. You're going to line up this center line with the center line of the cake. And make sure that when you line it up, that your candles come out because this is the open position. You want to make sure that when your viewer opens your card, the candles pop up. So here we go. That's lined up. Press it down. Now you can see, without even putting it in the card, that the candles move.
So take your base page and put double stick tape on the side tabs of your cake pop. And line up the center lines of the cake and the candles with the center line of the base page and press down. Close it and open it. And that's how you make a cake with candles.


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The absorbing story implies heavy responsibilities: as Astrian, you must save Algoad from destruction and restore the living bond between humans and nature. Enjoy dozens of hours of exploration and fighting in majestic landscapes. Talk to the people you meet, featuring full voice acting: they may join your team, reveal some secret, give you a quest, and more. The thrilling turn-based fighting system will bring you to the heart of action!
Some of the features of the game are:
- The best, deepest Japanese role-playing game available on your HD smartphone.
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I think I have a PHP configuration problem on my development machine where I am setting up a development environment which interrogates a local MySQL database from Eclipse on a Windows XP platform using an Apache server. I can execute the PHPINFO program so I have a minimal PHP system working. I can interrogate my database from within Eclipse with SQL explorer. When I run my first test program to connect and run a SQL I get the following error:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function mysql_connect() in C:\Eclipse Workplace\Rouse\WebContent\timetable.php on line 16
I don't know how or where in the PHP configuration I would bring in the SQL routines. Does anyone know or am I on the wrong path.


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Sir Alex Ferguson never spoke to the media for over five years, did that make Manchester Utd a bad team? The response to that question is no.
The present ante-post Gold Cup favourite Presenting Percy has done nothing but improve each-season, his canny trainer Pat Kelly has really displayed his Midas touch at Cheltenham, his previous festival results are impressive reading.
Kelly appears to train his horses' for that specific race in mind, the rest of the years preparation doesn't really matter in his own personal judgment. To-date his bizarre but brilliant methods have worked a treat however this year the lack of information around Presenting Percy's preparation has sent ante-post punters into turmoil.
Athenry based Kelly is evidently a private man, his stable is the business of him and the paying owners only, he just doesn't want to converse with the media, at the end of the day that's his own agenda, that doesn't make him a bad trainer or deceitful in any way.
If it wasn't for Presenting Percy the bulk of his other runners would just go under the radar however the dilemma were in is that he has the preposterously short priced Gold Cup favourite and no-one is any wiser about his wellbeing, and no one is satisfied about the lack information accessible.
According to the previous trends and statistics Presenting Percy has an up-ward mountain to ascend to win the Gold Cup, honestly, I think he will run well in this race but winning is another story. I wouldn't be a siding with him now at the prohibitive odds, the bookmakers are the only ones winning from now in with the current betting price angle.
It doesn't matter what Kelly does or doesn't say to the media. If Presenting Percy lines up in the Gold Cup he will be in the best possibly shape of his life, you can bank on that for sure. Having trust in the trainer is better than second-guessing gossip. More respect for trainer Pat Kelly is called for.