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and many garden/lawn products are made from recycled materials.
If your house or apartment was built before 1978, it is likely to still have lead-based paint on walls and other surfaces. Lead in the environment is especially harmful to children and pregnant women. Before you begin any paint removal or remodeling projects, be sure to test for lead. You can hire a professional to remove it or do it yourself. If you do it yourself, spread tarps under the work area, don't work on windy days, and collect and dispose of your paint waste in a licensed sanitary landfill.
Buy carpet made from recycled drink bottles (polyethylene terephthalate fiber). This recycled-content carpet is durable, resists moisture and staining, and requires no additional chemicals for its manufacture. Visit www.ecoproducts.com for more information.
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In June, many of us start some kind of landscaping around our property.
You can reduce the environmental impacts of landscaping your lawn
and property by grasscycling, mulching, and composting. Properly
managing your yard waste enhances your environment and saves you
money. EPA's GreenScapes program can show professional and
amateur landscapers how. GreenScapes provides cost-efficient
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Visit the GreenScapes Web site. A consumer brochure, "Greenscaping" Your Lawn and Garden (EPA530-K-03-002), is also available.
Install properly insulated skylights or larger windows to allow more natural light into your home. You will help reduce the amount of energy and electricity used to light your home.
To help save landfill space, donate reusable old cabinets, doors, plumbing fixtures, and hardware to a local charity or building materials reuse center.
Contact your local household hazardous waste collection facility for instructions on safely disposing of harmful waste products and materials, such as empty aerosol paint cans, leftover paint and thinners, used solvents and paint chips, unused garden products like fertilizers and pesticides, and household chemicals.
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Sidewalks, recycling, loans and more on Pittsford agendaBy Lucia Suarez
STAFF WRITER | February 06,2013PITTSFORD A three-week break in biweekly Select Board meetings has given Pittsford town officials a packed agenda tonight.
Town Manager John Haverstock said the reason for the three-week break was the month of January having five Wednesdays with the first meeting landing on the first day of the month.
The Select Boards consideration of the towns Planning Commissions proposal to adopt a permanent zoning ordinance. Haverstock said the town has operated under an interim zoning ordinance for two years and now they want to make it permanent.
Its exactly the same as the interim ordinance, he said.
The Dufresne Group, are scheduled to give a presentation on the sidewalk construction project through the village center down Arch and Pleasant streets to Lothrop Elementary School. The project, which will be constructed next year, is expected to cost close to $400,000.
This (discussion) will be on the alignment of the sidewalk and the alternatives like should we expand the sidewalk from the elementary school to Route 7, Haverstock said.
He said they were expecting the alternatives presentation by the Dufresne Group in a couple weeks, but were pleasantly surprised when they were ready for tonights meeting.
The project is just a sidewalk, so maybe its not as complicated, the town manager said.
According to the agenda, the Select Board members will also execute loan documents regarding the states well-drilling loan fund.
Haverstock said the state is ready to start distributing $6,000 loans for 26 Pittsford residents who will be disconnected from the Proctor water system soon. The board just needs to sign some paperwork for the state, he said.
The final agenda items to the towns recycling and garbage removal practices. It will feature a discussion and presentation by Rutland companies Casella Waste Systems and Earth Waste Systems and the Rutland County Solid Waste District.
We had wanted to discuss the notion of doing zero-sort recycling (with Casella), Haverstock said. We have been given a tour of Casellas facility in Rutland. We were certainly impressed, but we will see if it makes sense for our residents.
The Select Board meets at 6:30 p.m. at the conference room in the town office building.
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Coronary artery
disease occurs when fatty deposits called
plaque (say "plak") build up inside the coronary
arteries. The coronary arteries wrap around the heart and supply it with blood
and oxygen. When plaque builds up, it narrows the arteries and reduces the
amount of blood that gets to your heart. This can lead to serious problems,
heart attack.
Coronary artery disease
(also called CAD) is the most common type of heart disease. It is also the
number one killer of both men and women in the United States.
can be a shock to find out that you have coronary artery disease. Many people
only find out when they have a heart attack. Whether or not you have had a
heart attack, there are many things you can do to slow coronary artery disease
and reduce your risk of future problems.
Coronary artery disease is
caused by hardening of the arteries, or
atherosclerosis. Atherosclerosis occurs when plaque
builds up inside the arteries. (Arteries are the blood vessels that carry
oxygen-rich blood throughout your body.) Atherosclerosis can affect any
arteries in the body. When it occurs in the arteries that supply blood to the
heart, it is called coronary artery disease.
Plaque is a fatty
material made up of cholesterol, calcium, and other substances in the blood. To
understand why plaque is a problem, compare a healthy artery with an artery
with atherosclerosis:
When plaque builds
up in the coronary arteries, the heart doesn't get the blood it needs to work
well. Over time, this can weaken or damage the heart. If a plaque tears, the
body tries to fix the tear by forming a blood clot around it. The clot can
block blood flow to the heart and cause a heart attack.
Usually people with coronary artery disease don't
have symptoms until after age 50. Then they may start to have symptoms at times
when the heart is working harder and needs more oxygen, such as during
exercise. Symptoms include:
Less common symptoms include a fast heartbeat, feeling sick
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In rare cases, a person can have a "silent" heart attack, without
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To diagnose coronary artery disease, doctors
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If your doctor thinks that you have coronary artery disease, you may have
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family history. Other risk factors you can control,
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can help lower your risks. You will likely take medicines and may have a
procedure to open your arteries.
Lifestyle changes are the first step for anyone with coronary artery disease.
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Milwaukee, Wis. – The Salvation Army of Milwaukee County announced
that it is tying in with three Just Between Friends (JBF) Spring Community
Children's and Maternity Consignment spring sales that will take place
March, April, and May in the Greater Milwaukee area. Just Between Friends will
help promote The Salvation Army in conjunction with its sales, plus The
Salvation Army will receive unsold items such as children's and maternity
clothes, children's shoes through size 3, toys, board games, electronic
games, DVDs, and books when the sales are over.
The three JBF sales will take place March 6-10 at the Washington County
Fairgrounds; April 21-26, at the Wisconsin Exposition Center at Wisconsin State
Fair Park; and from May 2-5 at the Waukesha Expo Center.
The sales will be open to the public at the Washington County Fairgrounds
March 6 and 7 from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m., March 8 from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m., and a
half-price sale will be on Saturday, March 9, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., and
Sunday, March 10, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Admission on Wed., Mar. 6, is $3, and
free the remaining three days.
The sale at State Fair Park will be Sun., Apr. 21, from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m.;
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p.m. Admission is free Apr. 22-26, and $3 on opening day, Apr. 21. A half-price
sale will be on Thurs., Apr. 25.
JBF's Waukesha County public sales will be Thurs., May 2, through Sat,
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Admission to Thursday's sale is $3; other days it is free.
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and provides an opportunity for families to recycle their kids' clothing
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hungry, relief for disaster victims, assistance for the disabled, outreach to
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What happens when GM Performance Parts teams up with a loyal, experienced doorslammer racer to prove the mettle of its new LSX protg? More than anything it becomes a lesson learned, a lesson that can be passed on to LSX aspirants as gospel. in this case, Robin Lawrence's Nova runs the NMCA Nostalgia Pro Street class.
This current 440.180ci version arrives at its displacement via a 4.185-inch bore and a 4.00-inch stroke. Previous experiments were conducted with a 454-inch LSX equipped with much-modified C5R castings (complete with welded-on tabs at the bottom of the heads). Now it seems as if they were a stop-gap measure that proved inappropriate for the combination and seriously reduced the swept area, requiring massive work on the piston domes to overcome.
The C5R heads were used simply because no other GMPP parts were capable of supporting the power and torque levels Lawrence sought (900 hp normally aspirated). Though he could have gone to the aftermarket for the heads he needed, the edict was to use GMPP castings, period. Those pieces are now readily available, and the new engine has a completely different combination. The only items carried over from the 454 to the 440-inch version were the Dailey Oil Pump dry sump system, Stef's pan, MSD ignition, roller lifters, springs, retainers, keepers, and head studs.
Of much more importance is the stuff that got changed and why. Up first, the valve lifters were allowing oil to pass above the camshaft oil galley because the base circle on the original 55mm camshaft was too small to get lobe lift. Hence, the lifter bodies dropped below the oil galley. Changing to the 60mm camshaft required a block with a raised cam bore (0.078-inch) and lifter bores (offset drilled) that would accommodate 0.941-inch tie-bar rollers, and a custom Lunati grind (282/304 degrees duration, 0.970-inch lift at the valve, and 114-degree lobe separation). This stick was designed by Harold Berkshire with a tighter lobe separation as well as a smaller duration on the intake lobe. He increased lobe lift by about 0.005 inch. A (standard) 9.26-inch-deck LSX engineering block was machined (any CNC-equipped shop can do this) to accept the larger diameter camshaft.
A Lunati 4.00-inch stroke forging is teamed with 6.062-inch GRP aluminum connecting rods fitted with 2.100-inch bearings, rather than the 1.88-inch bearings used previously. Trend wristpins hold the 14:1 Diamond pistons that are circled by Hellfire ring packs (1/16-inch top). For a little more squeeze on the lower end, Lawrence increased the main stud diameter from 10 to 11 mm.
At this point, GMPP requested that Lawrence work with one of its developmental partners, Thomson Automotive in Redford, Michigan. Brian Thomson and his guys have extensive experience with LS engines and felt that they could extract important information from his experimentation by bringing the program to someone local to the GMPP engineers.
High-horsepower lessons (930 on nuts) learned with the 454: The 41/8-inch stroke crankshaft was flexing at high RPM. Lawrence consulted with many crankshaft experts and got different suggestions from each. Some suggested a center counterweight. Another felt that extra bearing clearance would help. In the final analysis, he reduced the stroke of the crankshaft. With the original combination, because of the bore spacing on a small-block, the area from the main journal to the rod journal is small. As you increase the stroke or the distance, you have less material. Lawrence felt that a 2.100-inch rod journal as well as a 4-inch stroke would increase rigidity.


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Classroom decor can range from the crayon-bright interiors of preschools to the gray terrazzo floors and white-washed block walls still seen in many old high schools. When it comes to learning, does color matter?
The current consensus is that what a student hears, feels and smells has a significant impact on his or her learning. Brain-based learning, the latest buzz in education, is, at its core, learning via the senses.
"We know that color is one of the key elements in a stimulus–rich learning environment," says Randy Fielding, chairman of Fielding Nair International, a Minneapolis planning and design firm specializing in education environments. According to Fielding, founder of DesignShare.com, a resource for designers of learning environments, research shows that students learn best in color-filled settings.
"A well-planned palette offers a broad range of colors," he says, including serene blue or green shades combined with more stimulating reds, oranges or yellows. "Utilizing lighter tones in combination with deeper accent colors creates a dynamic sense of place."
Functional color, which prioritizes educational results before aesthetics, focuses on such learning enhancements as reducing eye strain and increasing attention spans. For the majority of students, high contrasts are stimulating, while lighter tones can promote focus. One study even indicated that monotonous color schemes increase the rate of student absenteeism.
The key to creating ready-to-learn environments, says Fielding, is a variety of colors and a range of color intensity, including some hues used as way-finders and culture-builders in common areas.
"In a cold climate, warm, earthy tones invite students and teachers to nestle into a cozy cafe area, for engaging in both reflective and collaborative learning," he says. "In warmer climates, a cooler palette in a cafe or gathering area can invite students to relax and flex their interpersonal intelligence."
Fielding also debunks a few commonly held assumptions about color's impact. "Red doesn't hyper-stimulate," he says; too much soothing green may dull, rather than relax, the senses. And bright primary colors, long presumed to be elementary-age favorites, can be too harsh and should be used only sparingly. "Children are wonderfully sensitive to nuances in both lighting and color," he says. As for which specific colors work best, Fielding doesn't discriminate. "All colors," like all students, he says, "are good."
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Want to buy a new home in San Diego County?
You may have to wait in line.
Demand for housing has become so intense that major builders are requiring prospective clients to sign up on lists for a chance to buy a home. If you're among the 100-plus people in a queue, you can blame that on the region's lack of new construction and near record-low listings.
"The problem is being created by the absence of inventory in the resale market," said San Diego economist Alan Nevin. "That's creating a panic mentality."
That type of thinking has brought some housing experts back to the mid-1990s, when would-be buyers camped out for days at subdivisions when new phases were released. That process has been largely replaced by a more organized method: waitlists.
Waitlists may be a more-controlled system than campouts, but they're still a gamble for buyers. Supply is so low that your turn may not come for a while. Or your preferred home style may run out by the time your number is called. In one new community adjacent to Carmel Valley, clients who land on a list now are looking at an entry date of about summer 2014 if the current list pace continues.
Would you get on a waitlist for a new home?
Yes. 19% (108)
No. 81% (451)
559 total votes.
Even if you make it out of a waitlist, you could see the price of new homes jacked up. Some homebuilders, taking note of increased demand, have been boosting prices after each phase.
Nevin fears these supply-demand dynamics could fuel a dangerous rise in home prices, which have accelerated due to a sizable share of investment and cash buyers creating more competition in the overall market.
Single-family home prices have risen 14 percent from a year ago while condo values have gone up by 21 percent, said Nevin, citing a recent per-square-footage analysis from the Greater San Diego Association of Realtors.
"That's an outrageous increase even though (homeowners) love to see their home values go up. But it will become another debacle like what we had," said Nevin, referring to the lead-up to the housing crisis.
Other industry experts said today's price gains are an indicator of a recovering real estate market, not another housing bubble.
"We're raising prices again, which we think is important for buyer confidence," said Matt Sauls, a spokesman for Pardee Homes, which is based in Los Angeles and has an office in San Diego. Pardee has four actively selling communities in San Diego County. "It's not the same kind of price increases we saw in 2005."
Today's real estate climate also raises long-term supply concerns. The fear is that a housing shortage is imminent as the job market improves, households continue to form and the amount of developable land keeps shrinking.
The current pace of residential building permits issued in the county is about half of what the region needs, said Marney Cox, chief economist at San Diego Association of Governments.
The lack of construction means tighter supply and in turn — because of greater demand for housing — higher housing prices. Price appreciation can be great for potential sellers who are underwater on their mortgages and have been waiting to list their homes for a profit or to break even. But price gains are not a welcome sign for potential buyers, the same people who've been sent to real estate waiting rooms.


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By Tessa Raebeck
From remembrances of death and celebrations of love, industrial sculptures to cartoonish monsters, the crisp lines of houses to the blurred hues of sunsets, "Phenomena" is showcasing the variety of talent on the East End through the works of six emerging artists.
"Phenomena," which opened on Saturday at Kathryn Markel Fine Arts in Bridgehampton, is the latest installation from the Tonic Artspace.
Springs-raised Grant Haffner and his twin sister Carly Haffner are the co-founders of the Bonac Tonic Art Collective, a group established in 2005 for young, local artists on the East End. The Tonic Artspace, Mr. Haffner said, "is the next phase in the collective's metamorphosis to hopefully more pop-up gallery type situations."
"An undefined, forever evolving, pop-up art promoting machine that understands no boundaries," the Tonic Artspace's show features the work of both Haffners, Arrex, Scott Gibbons, Christine Lidrbauch and Maeve D'Arcy.
Mr. Haffner, who has grown steadily in popularity since emerging on the East End art scene, has several pieces in the show, including a print of a colorful sunset, vibrant with oranges, reds, pinks and yellows, with a two-lane road stretching into the abyss beneath it. The scene is recognizably on the East End, although the exact location is unknown—and perhaps unnecessary. When looking at the painting, it is as if the viewer is looking out the dashboard of their car or truck, driving through the colors and into the horizon.
"When I drive I feel completely alive," writes Mr. Haffner. "For a small moment, in between this place and that, I am free from reality. My truck and I become a motion of blurred color, barreling through space and time. I like to keep my window open to listen to the sounds that traveling makes, to enjoy the smell of the landscape. Every trip is a new one, not one sunset is the same. On the road I am a part of the painting. I am movement, color, sound, adventure and emotions. This is my landscape."
Carly Haffner has shown her work in New York City, San Francisco and Richmond, Virginia. In one painting, a tree in the foreground has a date and heart carved into it, allowing the viewer to devise their own story of what "Nov. 4th 1993" means. A house stands alone in the background, perhaps owned by the couple who carved the heart, perhaps unrelated. The apparent simplicity of her paintings gives them depth, sending the viewer's eyes in multiple directions with tree shadows that aren't quite natural and colored leaves that aren't quite formed.
The Haffners' creativity can be traced back to their father, Phil, who passed away February 6. "His passionate and creative spirit will never leave us," the collective wrote in a press release issued to announce the show's opening. A 1974 portrait of Phil Haffner completed by San Francisco artist Lori Weiss is displayed in his honor as a part of the show.
A core artist of the collective, Scott Gibbons of East Hampton is also showing in "Phenomena." Gibbons' art comes from the worlds he creates in his own head, which are filled with interesting creatures and strange characters of his imagination that he materializes through sculpture. "To put it simply, he is a creator of worlds unbeknown to conventional art circles in that he manipulates textiles to his bidding in order to convey his cartoonish and childlike whims," the press release announcing the show stated.
Artist Christine Lidrbauch often uses found materials and discarded items to show the "melding of male and female cultures." In one piece, a viewer far away sees a simple red and yellow flower against a pretty pink backdrop. Upon closer examination, they find the lines of the petals are in fact missiles.
Maeve D'Arcy, a visual artist from Queens, works on social justice and visual art simultaneously, with her focus on painting, drawing and sculpture. "The patterns accumulate into an urban/rural map of abstract geometric porous land masses and aerial views of real and imagined spaces," she says.
Arrex, "a very cool up and coming street artist to keep your eyes on," according to Mr. Haffner, created his work in the show after dealing with multiple deaths in his family and discovering that he had a tumor.
Skulls, from the same base photograph, adorn his color prints in the street art style of overlapping figures, strong black lines and mixed images. "My skulls serve as a small reminder of our mortality and the fragility that is life," said Arrex. "The fun I have with them reflects that while life is serious business … it should also be fun."
"Phenomena" is on view Saturday and Sunday from 1 to 6 p.m. and Monday through Friday by appointment at the Kathryn Markel Gallery, 2418 Main Street in Bridgehampton. For more information, visit haffnervision.com.


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In 1996, the series was spun off into an animated feature film, Beavis and Butt-Head Do America.
The show centers on a pair of teenagers, Beavis and Butt-head, who live in the fictional town of Highland, Texas. They while away their time in sarcastic conversation, fantasizing about sex and masculinity, although they have no real-world experience with either thing. They attend Highland High (based on a real high school in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where Judge grew up) and occasionally work at part-time jobs, putting as little effort as possible into everything they do. They survive their misadventures without serious consequences, and with a generally contented, though critical (not apathetic) worldview. During each episode, Beavis and Butt-head watch and make fun of two or three music videos.
|Has an underbite and a fixated stare on his face, which is almost always shown in profile. Beavis grunts when he laughs, has a grainy, guttural voice and has a penchant for picking his nose. The more excitable of the two, he is oblivious to the obvious and slightly nicer overall than Butt-head. He is often abused physically, either by Butt-head or various other characters whom he infuriates. He usually takes every beating and screams in pain before quickly reverting back to his trademark laugh. Before controversy erupted (see below) he exhibited an obsession with fire, as well as other psychotic tendencies (one episode showed that he has voices in his head telling him to engage in destructive activities); however, generally he has a passive demeanor in contrast to Butt-head's dominant personality. Beavis also has an alter ego named The Great Cornholio, who usually surfaces after he consumes large quantities of caffeine and/or sugar. Beavis was named after Bobby Beavis, a boy who lived in the same neighborhood as Mike Judge during Judge's time in college. Judge states, however, that it was only the name that he gave to Beavis, and that Bobby was nothing like Beavis at all.
|Wears dental braces and has squinty eyes and a drooping nose with prominent nostrils. His top gums are often exposed due to a small upper lip, and he speaks nasally with a deep voice and a slight lisp. He begins almost every statement with "Uhhhhhh..." and ends with a short laugh. Calmer, and cockier. Butt-head is oblivious to subtleties, but is usually 100% confident in everything he says and does, no matter how ridiculous or frivolous it is. The designated "leader" of the duo, he derives pleasure from being regularly abusive to Beavis. Mike Judge got the idea for the name Butt-head from two people he knew during his childhood called "Iron Butt" (who would encourage people to kick him in the butt to demonstrate his strength) and "Butt-head".
|The nearsighted, elderly neighbor of Beavis and Butt-head. He often hires them to do chores, which results in them destroying his yard, home, or personal belongings. Due to his poor eyesight and mild senility, he never seems to recognize the two and he never remembers their names. He served in the Navy during World War II and the Korean War. His character is a big influence on the look and voice of the character Hank Hill from Judge's following series, King of the Hill as both were based on the same person from Judge's youth.
|A teacher at Highland High School, and arguably the only person who cares about Beavis and Butt-head. Van Driessen is a devoted hippie with a forgiving nature and gentle demeanor. His repeated attempts to teach the duo useful life lessons typically end in disaster, as they almost always deduce the wrong message. He often plays songs on his acoustic guitar, which typically end in him being severely hurt, and in some cases almost killed. He has been shown teaching classes on biology, art, animation, economics, health, history, and literature, among others.
|Another of the duo's high school teachers, and the antithesis of Van Driessen. Angry, impatient and short-tempered, Buzzcut is a veteran Marine and, with the possible exception of Principal McVicker, hates the duo more than any other character. He is shown substitute teaching regular classes, but usually teaches physical education. It has been implied that he has on occasion committed assault and battery against the duo, but he once defended them from an angry guest lecturer by saying "This is my class. I do the ass kicking around here!"
|Principal of Highland High and, arguably, Beavis and Butt-head's arch-nemesis. The two have unintentionally ruined his life, and have driven him to the edge of insanity. Many episodes begin with Beavis and Butt-head in his office. They refer to him as "McDicker." He is known for constantly trembling out of anxiety over Beavis and Butt-head, their antics, and his inevitably futile attempts to punish them. In the series finale, Beavis and Butt-head Are Dead, upon hearing the news of Beavis's and Butt-head's "deaths", he stops trembling for the first time. When they show up to their own memorial services very much alive, he apparently suffers a heart attack and presumably dies.
|Daria is a sarcastic, vaguely alt-rockerish, nerdy girl who attends Highland High with Beavis and Butt-head, and she is one of the few people who sees the two for what they truly are. While not above taking jabs at them for their lack of intelligence, she also offers help and advice from time to time, and probably respects them a little more than most do. The duo nicknamed her "Diarrhea" but once said she was cool after she asked President Clinton a pointed question during a school assembly. She eventually went on to star in her own spin-off series, Daria.
|Todd is a twenty-something hoodlum who is rude, arrogant, and violent. Beavis and Butt-head look up to him and aspire to join his "gang". Todd despises the two, but will take advantage of them when he needs something, such as money, or a place to hide from other gangs or the police.
|A nerdy, short kid who looks up to Beavis and Butt-head and believes they are his best friends. He typically wears a Winger shirt. Beavis and Butt-head actually think little of Stewart; they relate to him like Todd relates to them.
At times, the criticism reflected their young age and ignorance of music history. Upon seeing a video by Black Sabbath, they decided that the band's vocalist couldn't be Ozzy Osbourne, because "Ozzy's an old fart!" Butt-head mistook their raw sound for grunge and inquired if they were from Seattle; Beavis replied "No, they're American," even though Seattle is located in Washington, one of the United States, and Black Sabbath's members were from England. During one episode, Butt-head remarked, "You know those asswipes The Beatles? Those guys ruined music." Similarly, the pair described Paul Simon as "that old dude from Africa who used to be in the Beatles." However, at other times they seemed almost respectful and willing to learn about music.
They showed a particular disdain for many generic 1980's hair bands (with the exception of Guns N' Roses, Mötley Crüe, Van Halen and to a lesser extent, Aerosmith). Their epitome of "wuss bands" was Winger, of which Stewart was a big fan. They had no tolerance for new wave or electronic music (except for industrial music, and Devo's "Whip It"). Nu metal bands such as Korn were criticized for lacking originality (although this was only by Beavis when he was in a state of dizziness, he did claim however that they sound "kinda cool"). The duo were also very critical of death metal, particularly the vocal style of the genre, mocking it, and claiming that "it sounds like it would come out of Godzilla's butt".
Bands who received considerably large amounts of criticism during the tenure of the show included Poison and Grim Reaper.
Beavis and Butt-head had especially severe reactions when confronted with videos they found particularly awful. As soon as Butt-head realized he was watching a Michael Bolton video, he announced that he had soiled his pants. The famous pianist Yanni also earned a very harsh critique from the boys. Sometimes, while giving a harsh review for a video, the duo gives a review to another band or musician despite the video not belonging to them in the first place; this was the fate for Ace of Base while the boys were watching "Here We Go" by Stakka Bo. When confronted with Milli Vanilli's "Baby Don't Forget my Number," and Vanilla Ice's "Ice Ice Baby" the pair looked at one another in horror and without speaking a word changed the channel. This was perhaps the harshest commentary they ever gave a music video. The Europeans's video for "We Are Animals" was the most critically trashed by the duo, as Butt-head claimed, "This sucks more than anything I have ever seen." Another video that could make this claim was King Diamond's "The Family Ghost," in which Butt-head claimed, "This could be the worst crap I've ever seen in my life."
Even bands they liked were not spared. They were disappointed by an AC/DC video despite being fans of the group. Also, during a Metallica video, Butt-head comments, telling Lars Ulrich, "Sit down, Lars, and drum like you're supposed to!" Judas Priest's video for "Breaking The Law" also drew a negative reaction ("I like Priest and everything, but this sucks!"), despite the fact that Beavis and Butt-head sang the song itself numerous times throughout the series. Soundgarden's Spoonman also got a negative review, despite the pair being fans of the band. Beavis was annoyed that Soundgarden did not appear in the video, and Butt-head interpreted the lyric "all my friends are brown and red" as stating that the singer hated his friends, referring to them as "turds".
Beavis and Butt-head also shared a disdainful dislike of many bands from England, even dismissing legendary rock bands just upon their birthplace; While watching a Pink Floyd video, he claimed that they were "Just another bunch of wussies from England." Other bands, such as The Shamen and Blur, were mocked for their British accents. The duo also made fun of performers who were effeminate or androgynous, and often evinced disgust or fear towards notions of male homosexuality.
Beavis and Butt-Head seemed to be fans of most of the Seattle Grunge bands of the era; including Alice in Chains, Nirvana, Soundgarden, and Pearl Jam (but notably, they never viewed any Pearl Jam videos). Four videos by Alice in Chains and Soundgarden were featured on the show with notable praise from the duo, two Nirvana videos were also featured. Members of the Alice in Chains (most notably Sean Kinney) were fans of the show, and were flattered that the band received such a direct thumbs up from the show. Despite not understanding the lyrics to the Melvins "Hooch", they enjoyed it nonetheless. They even gave comical interpretations of what they thought the lyrics were such as "Done right like a belgy!", "Exit is my raging member, banging on a TV!", and "Like a steaming photographing on a wire relay in a state of!".
Both Beavis and Butt-head seemed excited in the Smashing Pumpkins's video Today when they saw the people "making out," when the band painted the ice cream truck, and when the band started throwing things at Billy Corgan, the lead singer. They even praised Radiohead, a band that is usually not regarded as the duo's type of music; Creep got a positive review because of its heavy guitar riffs, while they claimed they liked to mellow out to Fake Plastic Trees (they usually hated soft songs). Beavis was also excited over the Replacements video Bastards of Young, which ends with a stereo being destroyed. The duo showed favor towards the video for Milla Jovovich's The Gentleman Who Fell, from her album The Divine Comedy, though it may have been due to the fact that Jovovich appeared in various stages of undress throughout the video. One of the strangest and most unexpected positive reviews they ever gave was for Jive Talkin' by the Bee Gees, which they mistook for the Black Crowes (in the end, they realized they weren't the Black Crowes, but danced to the song anyway). Motörhead is also a band that they seemed to love, but they only seemed to compliment Lemmy. In fact, on a Ramones video where Lemmy makes an appearance, Beavis asked what Lemmy was doing there and Butt-head responded by saying, "He's Lemmy, dumbass. He can go into any damn video he wants."
Despite heavy metal and hard rock being their favorite forms of music, Beavis and Butt-head have a fondness for hip-hop, especially gangsta rap. Rap groups and performers such as Snoop Dogg, The Beastie Boys, LL Cool J, Run DMC, Sir Mix-A-Lot and Dr. Dre received positive responses from the boys. This can be noted with Beavis's occasional mimicking of "gangsta" jargon ("We jus' kickin' it...in tha hang-outs," "I'm a G, a straight "G" (Butt-head responded, "Yeah, you're a "G" for "Gonad")," "Droppin' plates on yo ass, beotch"). Beavis even went as far as to say, "You know when Coolio says, 'I can see myself in the pistol smoke?' He stole that from Snoop Dogg!"
Funk music was likely another genre they liked. They were seen dancing to various funk songs, and especially liked some bands that incorporated elements of funk into their music.
One of their oddest reviews was that of the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion's "Dang" video, where they endlessly praised it, simply because it was a music video.
Although Beavis and Butt-head share the same musical tastes, there were some rare occasions where opinions largely conflicted. An obvious example can be seen during the video review for Something for the Pain by Bon Jovi (a musician whom the duo refer to as a "wuss band") in which Beavis claimed to enjoy the song causing Butt-head to smack him repeatedly, claiming to do it for "Beavis' own good." However, Beavis insisted on enjoying the song and singing along to the main lyrics, and eventually retaliated against Butt-head by kicking him in the testicles--twice--and praising Bon Jovi by spitting, "Damn it, Butt-head, Bon Jovi rules! I like this song, so blow your ass, damn it!" A less dramatic example can be seen during R.E.M.'s video for Shiny Happy People, where Beavis sings along to the lyrics provoking another repeated smacking by Butt-head. Also, during the video for Rush's Stick it Out, Beavis seemed to like them, even going so far as sing a bit of The Spirit of Radio, but Butt-head dismissed guitarist Alex Lifeson as a wuss. In another episode, during the review for Metallica's For Whom the Bell Tolls, Butt-head repeatedly claims that Metallica sucks, much to Beavis's annoyance. However, in an earlier review, Butt-head shares Beavis's love of Metallica. This can imply that by the time they were watching the former, Butt-head had either grown to dislike the band, or was just criticizing them to annoy Beavis.
The duo also had a liking of vocalist Mike Patton and his band Faith No More. It can be assumed that the pair may have attempted to give some videos the ultimate compliment. The ultimate compliment would likely have been parallel to the ultimate put-down (see previous) and would have consisted of them simply being silent for the video's duration. An example of this is where they were watching California by Wax, which featured a man running around on fire. Butt-head praised the video, but Beavis, being a pyromaniac (and having been instructed by the MTV higher-ups to not say the word "fire"), chose to stare at the video and say nothing. Butt-head got annoyed by this, and tried to snap Beavis out of his seemingly catatonic state. Another example was the Ramones's I Wanna Be Sedated, where they did not praise the band verbally other than Beavis saying "YES!" when the video starts, but headbanged for the video's duration (along with occasionally humming the main riff). In other reviews, during particularly good videos, Butt-head has told Beavis to shut up because he wanted to see the video. Beavis once told Butt-head to shut up when Butt-head wouldn't stop talking during a Rancid video. After Butt-head menacingly told Beavis to never ever tell him to shut up again, Beavis kicked Butt-head in the testicles, told him to shut up again, and left the room to get some food.
As well as dancing, they also sang during some music video reviews. This ranged from imitating the instrumentation, singing along with the lyrics, or even mocking the singing style of some singers (Butt-head particularly liked to imitate death metal vocalists). If they weren't familiar with a song, but knew the band, they would sing one of the band's more famous songs (on one occasion Beavis noticed that they were watching a Primus video and sang a part of "My Name Is Mud"). If they weren't familiar with the song or band at all, they would sing something that sounded similar to the song. One instance occurred when a video for "F-Sharp" by Nudeswirl came on, and Beavis started singing "Paradise City" by Guns N' Roses. Butt-head also sang along with Biz Markie during the song "Just A Friend."
They showed some signs of intelligence when it came to some bands and artists, despite the fact that they didn't know much about even their favourite bands. On one occasion, they claimed that "Pantera" had an abusive upbringing, but they meant lead singer Phil Anselmo, not the whole band. They knew practically nothing about the band Hole, and thought that Hole was the name of the lead singer. However, they could recognize James Hetfield and Lars Ulrich from Metallica, Flea from Red Hot Chili Peppers, Bono and The Edge from U2 (although they referred to Bono as "Boner") and Axl Rose from Guns N' Roses. During a Foo Fighters video review, Butt-head recognizes the lead singer as Dave Grohl, referring to him as "that dude from Nirvana." Beavis thought Butt-head was referring to deceased Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain and said "Butt-head, I don't think that dude's with us anymore, you shouldn't say that." Butt-head patiently explained to Beavis that Grohl was the drummer with Nirvana and was playing guitar for the Foo Fighters.
Sometimes they mistook some bands for others. They believed they were watching a Red Hot Chili Peppers video when they were really watching a Faith No More video (though this is probably a jab at Chili Peppers' frontman Anthony Kiedis accusing Mike Patton of ripping his style off). In another review, they were watching a video by a band called Sausage (a side project of Primus' Les Claypool). Beavis thought this band was actually Primus (ironically, he was close to correct, since Sausage was comprised of the original members of Primus), while Butt-head believed they were a fictional band called the Seminiferous Tubloidial Buttnoids.
It is implied that the duo did drugs during music video reviews, as evidenced by the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion's video for "Dang", where Beavis asks Butt-head if he has any nutmeg. Nutmeg can cause hallucinations in high doses, but there is no other evidence to suggest that they did drugs.
There were times where critiques of the videos were minimal or even nonexistent. Some videos were praised or disparaged only once, usually at the start, after which they began discussing a subject in the video (such as with Green Day's "Basket Case" video, where they began talking about the film One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest). Some videos received no critiques at all, positive or negative. It can be assumed that they deliberately ignored some videos, citing Butt-head's comment during a Ween video ("Quit talking about this video and do something funny!") and some episodes in which they played a card game, slept, or even left the room rather than watch the video.
On several occasions, the two mistook bandmates for other celebrities, such as The Clash guitarist Mick Jones as Jerry Seinfeld, a member of Japanese pop band Pizzicato Five as Ernie from "My Three Sons" and Yanni as Geraldo Rivera. They also sometimes made crude puns on the names of celebrities (believing the names they said were really the celebrities' names) who came to mind during a video they were watching; some of these included Connie Chung as Connie Schlong, Bette Midler as Butt Midler and Monica Seles as Monica Phallus. They even mistook Rosie O'Donnell, in the video "The Bedrock Twist" from the B-52s, for Roseanne and called her Buttseanne.
Bands and videos were not the only subjects of which they were critical. They also engaged in conversation about films, television shows, certain people and other pop culture references. Sometimes they praised the subject, but were more often derisive.
Over its run, Beavis and Butt-head drew a notable amount of both positive and negative reactions from the public with its combination of lewd humor and implied criticism of society. It became the focus of criticism from social conservatives, such as Michael Medved, while others, such as David Letterman, and the conservative magazine National Review, defended it as a cleverly subversive vehicle for social criticism and a particularly creative and intelligent comedy. Either way, the show captured the imaginations of many young television viewers in the United States and abroad and is often considered a classic piece of 1990s youth culture and the MTV generation.
In 1997 Dan Tobin of The Boston Phoenix praised the series for its humor, stating that the series "stupidity into a crusade, forcing us to acknowledge how little it really takes to make us laugh.
In 1997 Ted Drozdowski of The Boston Phoenix described the 1997 Beavis and Butt-head state as "reduced to self-parody of their self-parody.
In December 2006, TV Guide ranked the duo's distinct laughing at #66 on their list of the 100 Greatest TV Quotes and Catchphrases.
Actor Patrick Stewart, in an interview with Conan O'Brien, professed his affection for the show, stating "it will go down in history as one of the great cultural icons of the 20th century".
One could interpret some future jokes within the show as jabs about the controversy, despite the fact that their pyromania had already been an established character trait.
In February 1994, watchdog group "Morality in Media" blamed the death of an 8-month-old girl struck by a bowling ball thrown from an overpass onto a Jersey City, New Jersey highway near the Holland Tunnel on the episode "Ball Breakers", in which Beavis and Butt-head loaded a bowling ball with explosives and dropped it from a rooftop. The 18-year-old man arrested for the crime did not have access to cable, however, and the show was eventually cleared of blame.
The original disclaimer in the first and second seasons shown before each episode was:
MTV also responded by broadcasting the program after 11:00 P.M., and changing the original disclaimer to a new one, reminding viewers that:
This disclaimer also appears before the opening of their Sega Genesis and Super Nintendo game.
They were famously lambasted by Democratic senator Fritz Hollings as "Buffcoat and Beaver," which would subsequently become a running gag on the show of adults mispronouncing their names, as well as in the movie, where an old lady consistently calls them "Travis" and "Bob-head".
Beavis and Butt-head have been compared to idiot savants, because of their creative and subversively intelligent observations of music videos. This part of the show was mostly improvised by Mike Judge and is considered by many to be the show's highlight. With regard to criticisms of the two as "idiots," Judge responded that a show about straight-A students would not be funny.
Also, in recent interviews, Judge claims that he is interested in doing a live action spin-off movie. He said that previously he despised the idea, but now he thinks "maybe there's something there.
Beavis and Butt-head have appeared on several shows besides their own.
The Contents of the Work Sucks! and There Goes The Neighborhood VHS compilations were combined into a single LaserDisc compilation entitled Beavis and Butt-head: The Essential Collection, which was also released by Sony Music Video in 1994. This was the sole release of Beavis and Butt-head in the LaserDisc format.
All VHS collections of episodes are out of print. They were compiled into two sets of three multi-episode Time-Life DVD releases called The Best of Beavis and Butt-head, which are also no longer available. A set of three DVDs from Time-Life containing the same content as 6 of the VHS editions was released in December 2002. The remaining 5 VHS programs were also released on DVD soon afterwards but were not equally advertised (if at all) and are subsequently rarer.
Several more VHS compilations were also released exclusively in the United Kingdom, between 1997 and 2002, in addition to PAL versions of the eleven American tapes. Some UK-only compilations include a three-part series entitled History of Beavis which contained the all of the Season 1 episodes, as well as a "Too Dumb For TV" compilation dedicated to some of the banned episodes such as "Stewart's House" and "Way Down Mexico Way". A fourth volume of History of Beavis was scheduled, but pulled from release at the last minute. Unlike the American tapes, some of the UK-only tapes contained music videos.
A two-disc DVD set titled The History of Beavis and Butt-head was scheduled for release in September 2002 containing the program content of four of the UK-exclusive VHS tapes. However, its release was cancelled at the last moment at the demand of Judge, who owns approval rights for video releases of the series. Many copies were mistakenly put on store shelves on the scheduled release date, only to be immediately recalled. The set started selling on eBay at very high prices, sometimes over $300 USD. According to Judge, the History set was made up of episodes that he had previously rejected for home video release and was prepared without his knowledge or consent.
On November 8, 2005, MTV and Paramount Home Entertainment released a three-disc DVD compilation titled Beavis and Butt-head: The Mike Judge Collection, Volume 1. The DVD set includes 40 episodes and 11 music video segments from the original shows. All prior VHS and DVD releases have lacked these segments except for the VHS release of Beavis and Butt-head Do Christmas, and the last disc of the second Time-Life set.
23 of the 40 episodes included on the Mike Judge Collection were advertised to have been director's cuts containing "previously censored material". However, the majority of the "Director's Cut" episodes are actually missing footage from their original broadcast versions, although two episodes ("Home Improvement" and "Lawn and Garden") did indeed have excised footage reinstated. The reason for these edits is unknown, although Mike Judge stated in a Houston Chronicle article on the release that he corrected certain animation mistakes on the DVD that he found to be troublesome. The following (known to date) edits were all made in Vol. 1 in order to correct "animation mistakes" according to Mike Judge:
The Mike Judge Collection, Volume 2 was released on June 13, 2006. This compilation features 40 additional episodes, 13 music videos, and a Brokeback Mountain parody featuring Beavis and Butt-head, which uses a similar score and format as Brokeback's movie trailer. The parody functions as a commercial for the DVD release of Mike Judge Collection, Volume 3. Also included are segments from the Beavis and Butt-head "Butt Bowl" specials, traditionally aired during halftime of the Super Bowl; parodies of Calvin Klein advertisements are also featured. In Volume 2, edits on previous VHS/DVD releases of the episode "Bungholio - Lord of the Harvest" (then called "Butt-o-Ween") have not been reinstated. The edit deleted a scene where the boys are trying out Halloween costumes in their bathroom and Beavis appears dressed up like Stewart, i.e. wearing a Winger T-shirt saying "Look...I'm a Wuss".
The Mike Judge Collection, Volume 3 was released on August 1, 2006. 42 episodes are featured, as well as 15 music video segments. Bonus features include the original, uncut "Frog Baseball" episode, and many (if not all) of the Christmas-related clips. Despite the criticism received over severe episode censorship in Vol. 1, edits were again made on at least two episodes - a scene where Beavis & Butt-head cut their teacher's chair in half was removed in "Woodshop", and a short line from Beavis in "Impotence".
On January 26, 2006, MTV and Apple released Beavis and Butt-head, Vol. 1 on the iTunes Store.


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Race-Blind Admissions Are Affirmative Action for Whites
Brooke Kimbrough always dreamed of becoming a University of Michigan Wolverine. Her score on the ACT—a college-readiness test—dwarfs the scores of most of her classmates. Earlier this month, she was part of a winning team at the National Urban League Debate Championship in Washington, D.C. Last week, she became a powerful symbol for exactly how Michigan's race-blind college admissions policies have failed.
In December, the University of Michigan informed Kimbrough that her application for admission had been wait-listed. Two months later, she received the letter that she had not been accepted. But instead of conceding defeat, Kimbrough decided to fight. Today she hopes that her story will highlight how Michigan's current approach to race in admissions fails exceptional students of color. Black students comprise just 4.6 percent of the 2012 freshman class; in 2008, the number was 6.8 percent.
Over the course of this year, I had the honor of working with University Preparatory Academy debate coach Sharon Hopkins, who guided Kimbrough and her partner, Rayvon Dean, to victory. Shortly after her team won the debate championship, I spoke with Kimbrough about her protest of the University of Michigan's admission policy.
"This isn't about me," Kimbrough said. "That's not why I'm doing this. The real problem is when students are denied and don't speak up, don't question the system that failed them." To that end, Kimbrough has joined with the Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, Integration, and Immigrant Rights and Fight for Equality By Any Means Necessary (BAMN) to advocate for the rights of black students in admissions and on campus.
Nearly 15 years ago, Jennifer Gratz, a white high-school senior, was denied admission to the University of Michigan. Rather than keeping quiet, she also fought. Gratz began by mounting a coordinated legal and media battle to challenge her rejection. In 2003, the Supreme Court ruled in her favor, and its decision in Gratz v. Bollinger ended the university's system of preferential admission based on race. Encouraged by this victory, Gratz and other opponents of affirmative action went on to champion a statewide ballot initiative that completely banned any use of race as a criteria for admissions at Michigan's public universities.
At the University of Michigan, the years following the high court's decision have seen a precipitous drop in the number of African-American students. For Kimbrough, who uses discussions of racial privilege and cultural politics in her debate competitions, her rejection from Michigan became an opportunity to highlight a concrete instance of colorblind discrimination.
While both Gratz and Kimbrough fought their decisions, Jennifer Gratz bristles at comparisons. "I fought for all applicants to be treated equally—as individuals, without regard to race," Gratz said in a comment on the Detroit News website. "This woman is standing up for group rights and asking for preferential treatment based on race while others are discriminated against, she wants unequal treatment. Ms. Kimbrough is fighting because she wasn't accepted; I fought because of discrimination in the admissions process, a major difference."
What critics of affirmative action like Gratz don't talk about, and what they are deeply invested in keeping hidden, is the racial violence and culture of white aggression that intensifies and pervades campus life for students of color when affirmative action policies are taken away. This dirty secret was blown apart earlier this year when University of Michigan's Black Student Union decided that they'd had enough, launching the viral Twitter campaign known as #BBUM (Being Black at U-M). Stories ranged from hurtful micro-aggressions to racial slurs to threats of physical violence. Overall #BBUM highlighted the dysphoria of a campus population of color whose number is in steep decline.
But so incensed is Gratz, 37, that she has challenged Kimbrough, 17, to a public debate on the issue of affirmative action, according to the Detroit Free Press. In an apparent attempt to appear gracious, Gratz, citing her potential opponent's youth and inexperience, offered to allow Kimbrough to include a BAMN representative on her side of the debate.
The attitude expressed by Gratz betrays a seemingly willful obliviousness to the fact that no group experiences more affirmative action than white people. Michigan's formal pro-white affirmative action policy, colloquially known as "legacy preference," puts the children of alumni ahead of other applicants. It unquestionably favors the white and the wealthy, at the expense of the poor and the black. Outside of the U.S., legacy admissions mostly went the way of feudalism. But at many U.S. universities, and especially at Michigan, legacy admissions amount to an eternal parade of white pride.
Why does legacy preference work this way? Because it reinforces the demographic power of previous generations of whites that benefited from dozens of explicitly segregationist federal and state institutions. Those institutions, from the New Deal to the G.I. Bill, helped whites out of Depression-era poverty while explicitly disadvantaging blacks, locking whole communities into cycles of violence and misery. "When I think about the fact that my grandmother's grandmother was a slave baby—like, literally owned as property—and then I hear people talk about how whites don't experience affirmative action from legacy, it's so frustrating," Kimbrough said. "People want to put that behind them. They'd prefer not to think about it. The thing is that black people can't put that history behind us because we live it every day."
And legacy doesn't even scratch the surface of the biggest instrument of racial discrimination in so-called "race-blind" university admissions: standardized testing. Most scholars of education policy agree that the ACT testing process, like the SAT, favors wealthy white students from suburban environments at the expense of students who are poor black and urban. This favoritism is often deemed a "necessary evil" of education policy, done in the service of meritocratic apples-to-apples comparisons of students' analytical skills. There are many reasons for performance disparities, from cultural assumptions of the test writers to unequal access to prep materials and tutors.
"We don't have time to prep for the ACT the way some students do," Kimbrough explains. "I come from a single-parent household. We worry about keeping the lights on and food on the table. Even though I want to go to college, people have to understand that the ACT isn't a priority. Michigan talks about 'holistic' admissions. I wonder what's so holistic about it." Standardized testing is literally the example given in sociological texts to define the term "institutional racism".
It must be nice to live in the world of Jennifer Gratz. It is a world in which America somehow happened without colonialism or slavery, where we are born into bodies in which race is invisible (which is how the concept of race generally functions for members of the white majority). In Gratz's worldview, disparities in wealth and access to public goods have no bearing on the measure of that mystical quotient of "ability".
"Public universities are supposed to represent us," says Kimbrough. "Blacks and Latinos are 14 percent of the population, and yet our public universities can't represent us. We pay taxes for that university to stand as tall as it does. It's sad."
Mon, 2014-04-21 11:02
This author, like lots of liberals, uses race as a proxy for disadvantage, and there is no reason to do so: There are plenty of whites and Asians who are not advantaged, and plenty of blacks and Latinos who are (indeed, 86 percent of African Americans admitted to the more selective schools studied in the pro-preference book The Shape of the River came from upper- or middle-class backgrounds). So it is no surprise that the rationale for racial preferences endorsed here has long been rejected by the Supreme Court.
Mon, 2014-04-21 17:50
Mon, 2014-04-21 18:12
I'm inclined to agree that legacy admissions and standardized tests are deeply flawed, but surely the answer is to simply remove those policies. I think a truly equal admission process is still the proper goal, and the present racial disparity simply means we haven't reached it yet.
Mon, 2014-04-21 18:31
The whole point of standardized testing was to achieve a truly equal admission process. But in practice, as we have seen, standardized tests favor those in a position to prepare for them, with free time and engaged parents who can afford to pay for test prep. Do you have a way to prevent this? If not, on what basis do you propose to admit some students but not others?
Mon, 2014-04-21 20:07
The standardized tests aren't everything even right now. High school GPA, extracurricular activities, and application essays are all important, and I'm not entirely clear why they wouldn't be sufficient on their own. Or, alternatively, if you REALLY want a standardized test for some reason, provide free test prep materials and tutoring, perhaps integrated into the high school curriculum.
Tue, 2014-04-22 08:09
Nothing like total fiction, institutionalized racism is the new code word to cover for the failure of single-parents to raise children as effectively as two-parent families.
The problem in the African American community is the absolute devastation liberal social policy has wrought on it since LBJ's failed "war on poverty." Frederick Douglass would roll over in his grave to see how dependent the Democratic Party has made the African American community. When will Sophists like Edmund quick writing fiction about racism and realize the truth, all of the disparity between African Americans and other segments of American society is explained by the disproportionate number of single-parent families, teenage motherhood, and failure to graduate high school.
It isn't racism Mr. Zagorin it is the total collapse of the African American family and the falling respect for education in the African American community caused by the failed social engineering of the liberal Democrats that is to blame, of which you are obviously one.
What a sad failure of rational thought your argument is.
Tue, 2014-04-22 11:28
What a provocative and ignorant headline. Asians, not whites, get into schools the most if acceptance is blind. And of course acceptance should be blind, the scotus said "minorities are disadvantaged" by affirmative action. That is true, and it's true we are all disadvantaged by it. Academic competition makes our students smarter and they in turn make our society better that much better. Affirmative action only hinders that and leaves us unnable to compete internationally with countries who don't have such programs.
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Tue, 2014-04-22 13:41
Ms. Gratz says "I fought for all applicants to be treated equally—as individuals, without regard to race," This is America - NEVER will every applicant be treated equally - NEVER. This is a great country, but not one where true egalitarianism has ever existed. The powerful and the connected are the ones that have your seats - not the measly 4% of black students. Admission to the colleges that really count will never be done based on purely ranking test scores.
Wed, 2014-04-23 11:46
If the problem is legacy preferences which disproportionately favors wealthy people (who happen to be disproportionately white), then the solution is socioeconomic affirmative action which favors economically disadvantaged people (who happen to be disproportionately black).
If the problem is lack of SAT/ACT prep on the part of minority students, then the solution is more SAT/ACT prep, maybe paid for by tax dollars.
If the problem is the cultural assumptions behind the test, then write a new test (a new SAT is coming out).
If the problem is --
"We don't have time to prep for the ACT the way some students do," Kimbrough explains. "I come from a single-parent household. We worry about keeping the lights on and food on the table. Even though I want to go to college, people have to understand that the ACT isn't a priority."
then the solution is -- make the ACT "a priority." There's nothing the government or universities can do to change personal and family priorities.
Race-based affirmative action is the laziest "solution" to the institutional problems you cite.
Chen Ni - Chattahoochee Class of 2006
Thu, 2014-04-24 23:24
Thanks for your comments. My responses, loosely in order.
- I am not a liberal. You don't know me, don't make spurious assumptions. Your statistics are about % of black students admitted, which at UofM is 4%. This drop in black student population literally contributes to an environment of physical insecurity for these students who are targeted by aggressive whites on campus. Your argument that some of the black students who are trying to enjoy the benefits of higher education on a campus hostile to their presence are wealthy is entirely irrelevant.
- Americans judge people based on the color of their skin, often to the detriment of black folks regardless of whether or not they are rich or poor. Even Oprah gets refused service for being black. The idea that the *only* form of discrimination black folks experience is class-based has been disproven time and time again
- For these and other reasons, race-blind class-based affirmative action would do nothing to remedy the problem of endangered communities of students of color on UofM campus or other college campuses.
- Blaming "Black culture" or the "African-American family" for racism is, on closer examination, both empirically flawed and historically suspect given the legacy of antiblack segregation, exclusion and violence. Here are the numbers and a summary of the debate between Coates and Chait on same question, for anyone keeping score
Chen, good to hear from you! I have largely dealt with your "solution" previously, but taking race into account positively to counteract the way that it substructures negative outcome is the only way to increase black enrollment in the here and now and counteract a culture of white aggression and antiblackness among undergraduates. I'll quote from the above Guardian piece, because the question is not about abstract fairness but how to create a community of scholars in public universities where black students are not a violently harassed 4% on campus. UofM recognized that this is necessary and promised 10% black student enrollment, but has never kept that promise. Here's the quote, which I think puts the relation aptly:
"So, yes, class and race are in many ways inextricably linked, but it's folly to focus solely on socioeconomic factors if you're looking for diversity in college admissions – they'll never serve as a magic proxy for race."
Fri, 2014-04-25 22:01
I wonder how long it will be before some white student rejected by some elite university asks for Affirmative Action because they were rejected. Some California universities are close to being majority Asian American. Sooner or later some White student will not be accepted and will go to court because there are too few "White students" in the university. They will not call it Affirmative Action but that will be what they willl be asking for.
Will the tipping point be 50%? My guess would be when the university becomes 66% Asian American.
Sat, 2014-04-26 16:41
This is what would likely happen if affirmative action policies came to an end.
Black enrollment at top tier colleges will go down; black enrollment at second and third tier colleges will increase slightly and the black graduation rate will go up. How do we know this? Just look at California.
For all the pontificating about race that occurs whenever affirmative action comes up, these are the most likely results if affirmative action policies come to an end.
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Active Users!
I suppose that typing something like "Non Active Users!" as the title wouldn't really attract many readers, huh?
Well if you read one of my earlier posts, you know that I'm trying to get everyone to be more active on the site and kind of bring it back to life. I want all of us in this community to bring ourselves closer together because we can all use the support and encouragement from other Korn fans. We just all have so much in common and can really relate to each other.
I was wondering what you guys think would really make the site better and bring it back to life. Because RIGHT NOW it's like there's DEAD BODIES EVERYWHERE. We need to GET UP! and if Y'ALL WANT A WEBSITE, let's make some suggestions in the comments!
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Huh. I think that some stuff should keep only here, in the forums which would be available registered users or everyone. It would be cool if you could see exclusive pics or maybe even little videoclips just here, but for free. (It's kind of frustrating if the super-exclusive content would only be for paying members, old slipknot site for example). Also, we need some sort of site manager, one or more to send this content or and news and help keep the forum active with other active members.
What do you think?
I like my life insane.
Re: Active Users!
Huh. I think that some stuff should keep only here, in the forums which would be available registered users or everyone. It would be cool if you could see exclusive pics or maybe even little videoclips just here, but for free. (It's kind of frustrating if the super-exclusive content would only be for paying members, old slipknot site for example). Also, we need some sort of site manager, one or more to send this content or and news and help keep the forum active with other active members.
What do you think?
Yeah, totally. I agree. Here's some of my suggestions as well...As I said yesterday, I'm trying to get our community on this site more active and bring us all closer together. I had a few suggestions that I'd love for you to take into consideration. They're just some ideas to help my goal. Firstly, I think the site should find a few more ways to earn points, and I really think that the point store should definitely have some more products. I also think it would be cool if we could just upload a picture from out of a file onto a blog without having to connect an account to another website. It'd be a lot easier. If the profiles could include some extra stuff like Favorite Korn song and/or album along with favorite Korn memory, that'd be really neat and give a better sense of individuality among people who are SO similar (Which is awesome). Also, the favorites of band members on the site should include all the boys from the band and maybe a little more detailed information. It's a really awesome feature on the site, but there's so little on it! It may even be cool to have a fan of the day featured everyday so that we can all add them, especially if they're active because that will REALLY help my goal of bringing our Korn community closer. Now, I love the site and I am certainly NOT trying to insult anyone whats-so-ever. However, I believe you wrote that you are open for comments about the site. I'm just trying to help and I honestly think a few adjustments will help us. I really appreciate what you do and I love how interactive you are. I don't want it to be a site that gets updated and changed constantly, though, because that is just SUCH a hassle. Thank you so much for your time. --Mitchie
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Good call. More information on the band members themselves, such as their favourites, is a good idea. Whether it's updated monthly or whenever suits. Some of us just want to know what makes the guys in Korn tick. It's an awesome way to discover bands, books and films that might have gone by unnoticed otherwise.
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I think the band may be a little taxed right now to worry about this site. They know it is here for us, and that is the coolest thing ever! I've communicated about shit that I don't even talk to family about! The feeiings inside that they don't understand, or worse, don't give a fuck about! I believe we have all been brought together by an amazing band to listen, help, nurture, laugh, cry and just be who you are!
I'm quite sure that when any of the members of the band find themselves with a little downtime (and it doesn't appear like that is happening any time soon), they may take a look and say, "Damn, we have to get on our site more often!"
Until then, I am very happy communicating with all my new KoRn friends here! You guys are best, and I mean that with all sincerity! If I want to see the band, they're posting things on Facebook (really hope I win Munky's guitar!), and they post a lot of pics on Twitter and Intagram.
That's it for me, LuvU All!!!
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I guess we all just want them to know that we are just as much here for them as they are there for us. I love that they have continued to update the website, especially for those of us who have bought, and do buy, the subscription. The fact that I have been able to have an audio keepsake from the Korn set at Soundwave is proof of that, not many other bands have ever offered that for their fans. It is good to know they appreciate us as much as we appreciate them, and in the end that is all, as Korn fans, that we want.
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It's one of science fiction's greatest unfulfilled promises, right up there with teleportation and time travel.
And, no, Terrafugia hasn't built us a Tardis or promised to beam us up. But they say they're closer than ever to giving us a flying car.
This week, the Woburn, Massachussetts-based aerospace company announced it has begun feasibility studies on a car capable of vertical takeoffs and landings. The TF-X would be a four-seat, plug-in hybrid electric vehicle, according to the company.
"We are passionate about continuing to lead the creation of a flying car industry and are dedicating resources to lay the foundations for our vision of personal transportation," Terrafugia CEO Carl Dietrich said in a media release. "Terrafugia is about increasing the level of safety, simplicity, and convenience of aviation. TF-X is an opportunity to provide the world with a new dimension of personal freedom!"
The new TF-X project comes as work on the Transition shifts "from research and development to certification, production, and customer support activities," the company said.
Terrafugia says it has about 100 orders for the Transition, which goes for $279,000.
The big difference between the Transition, which is scheduled to hit the market in 2015, and the new flying car is that the TF-X would be able to take off anywhere, like a helicopter, and not just at an airport.


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democrats = being on their high horse claiming to speak for everyone... "we arent interested" ... what a crap...
Actually they said most. Do you know how the concept of zeitgeist works?
Also generally people don't take the advice of people who try to play the race card by using the POTUS middle name in not-as-subtle-as-they-think attempts to link him to Saddam Hussein.
His name is Barack Obama. His middle name is Hussein.
Do you call everyone by their middle and last name avoiding their first name, or is he just special?
Think carefully before you answer.