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Think back several decades to 1966. It was a time of breathtaking contrasts: Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. made us laugh; Vietnam made us wince; the Monkees toured with Jimi Hendrix as their opening act; the Summer of Love was in full swing while race riots erupted in Atlanta, Chicago, Lansing, and Omaha. Through it all, we took to heart the Beatles No.1 hit, "We can work it out."
During this time period in a quiet, little town deep in the Florida interior, racers gathered next to Hendricks Field-a WW II-era airfield for training B-17 bomber crews, just outside of a town called Sebring-to continue one of the most respected racing traditions in America: the 12 Hours of Sebring.
Those attending the '66 Sebring event were witness to another contrast: the passing of the torch from the magnificent Grand Sport small-blocks to a new generation of big-cube superpower that would become known as the L88. The L88 was not quite ready for showrooms, but because of outings like this, it was race-proven before the public got its hands on it, which would ensure the L88 was ready to hit the ground running.
At Carlisle 2006, two thunder-and-lightning legends-the No. 001 Grand Sport and the '66 L88 development car-were reunited again, just like Sebring 1966.
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As the solid axle years were wrapping up and the Sting Ray era was dawning, Corvette intended to take things to a new level, but first it had to prove its new mettle in the showroom, on the street, and at the racetracks.
Talk about a tough neighborhood. Places like Sebring, Daytona, Nassau, and Watkins Glen were snake pits infested with venomous competitors such as Ferrari, Jaguar, Maserati, and archrival Ford Cobra. It was a strong field full of accomplished athletes, and just about the worst possible place to be the new kid. It's said that to be the best, you have to beat the best. Corvette had its work cut out for it.
When the '63 Z06 cars proved too heavy and hard on their brakes to knock off the front-runners, Chevrolet's inner sanctum had Plan B already in progress. It was the most radical Corvette to date. The new car, known as the Grand Sport, went on a crash diet-nearly every part normally constructed of steel or iron was built of aluminum: door hinges, door mechanisms, body brackets and members, windshield washer/wiper systems, steering box, differential housing, brake calipers, and the list goes on.
Bodies were built in the basic shape of the Corvette coupe, but the fiberglass process was changed to greatly reduce weight. The Grand Sport fiberglass had a different texture because normal production layers were omitted, and its thickness was also reduced, making the body basically a thin shell. Headlights were fixed to reduce the bracketry and covered by clear plastic covers.
Because the rest of the car now weighed far less, normal steel parts could also be lightened for the reduced load. The frame (which was tubular instead of conventional steel), suspension control arms, spindles, and rear suspension were all lightened through revised castings or by drilling holes in the regular parts.
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Juno: Wellllll am i taking you home or what?
Juno: Of course i am
Juno: I think..we might be able to work?
Juno: You are an amazing guy Ry.. Thank-you for being yourself when you are around me..
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Juno: Ry.. we both need to focus on our careers right now.. I was thinking we could keep doing this, get to know each other, have dinner,go to the movies.. Then when you feel it is right,, you can ask me?
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After watching this, I can't help but wonder; is there something horribly wrong with their amygdalas? Why are they so ambitious, do they even have amydgalas? Unfortunately I couldn't find any articles with research in this field, but if any of you could, that would be a great way to comment (**hint**hint**).
So instead, I began to wonder if humans would benefit as a species if we were as fearless as the honey badger. One has to admit, when it comes to disorders like OCD and Generalized Anxiety Disorder, the amygdala can be quite a burden. But still, with our lack of claws and sharp teeth, we are basically soft squishy bags of free meat, and one has to give a huge thanks to our amygdalas. It is due to our ability to analyze situations and learn from our mistakes that our species is on top. But hey, thats just my one opinion, so feel free to let me know if you disagree or have anything to add (again,**HINT**HINT**).


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NMCA introduced Xtreme Street back in 2002 as a way to emulate the original days of Super Street racing. In the early '90s the original NMCA group restricted Super Street to true 10.5-inch slicks, cowl hoods, and stock frames, and it brought in a new generation of racers from the streets. Pro Street might have gotten most of the attention during the original days of Fastest Street Car racing, but it was the Super Street class where the average fan related to the cars on the track. Fast-forward to modern times. The Super Street 10.5 category has morphed into back-half cars that run in the high 6s on 10.5-inch-wide tires. The roots of the category might be gone, but racers and fans can look to Xtreme Street to fill the void.
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Walking While Black
I'm sick to my stomach about the Trayvon Martin shooting that Jamelle Bouie mentioned here yesterday.
Over the weekend, Charles Blow at The New York Times (once again, my favorite columnist) wrote:
Trayvon had left the house he and his father were visiting to walk to the local 7-Eleven. On his way back, he caught the attention of George Zimmerman, a 28-year-old neighborhood watch captain, who was in a sport-utility vehicle. Zimmerman called the police because the boy looked "real suspicious," according to a 911 call released late Friday. The operator told Zimmerman that officers were being dispatched and not to pursue the boy.
Zimmerman apparently pursued him anyway, at some point getting out of his car and confronting the boy. Trayvon had a bag of Skittles and a can of iced tea. Zimmerman had a 9 millimeter handgun….
One other point: Trayvon is black. Zimmerman is not.
Trayvon was buried on March 3. Zimmerman is still free and has not been arrested or charged with a crime….
As the father of two black teenage boys, this case hits close to home. This is the fear that seizes me whenever my boys are out in the world: that a man with a gun and an itchy finger will find them "suspicious."
Here's how Mychal Denzel Smith puts it at The Nation:
On February 26, during halftime of the NBA All-Star game, the 17-year-old high school junior went to a nearby store in the Orlando suburb where he was visiting his father and stepmother in order to buy some candy for his younger brother. He returned to his family a six-foot, three-inch, 140-pound corpse.
We know who killed him.
And as the white parent of an African American grade-school boy, I feel sick to my stomach with helplessness.
Yes, Bouie and others point out that while this story is racially charged, there are other elements as well. Ta-Nehisi Coates at The Atlantic puts it perfectly:
The approach here is not "either it's about race or it isn't." It's "this is about race along with..."
(Follow him more generally to keep up with the emerging facts.) As The New York Times reports in its excellent roundup of the facts of the case, the Justice Department is looking into whether the local police have failed in their duties.
If the colors here were reversed, if a white man were dead by gunshot, do you think for a minute that the black man would be walking around free?
Some months ago, I wrote about the death of D.J. Henry, a Pace University quarterback with no history of trouble from an "exemplary" middle-class family, who died at the hands of someone who believed he was enforcing order. (A local TV station reports on the latest evidence released here; Boston-area radio reporter Philip Martin posts additional evidence here.) The black man is dead. The white man is walking around free. And I feel sick to my stomach.
You may not think so, but your brain is racist, as I wrote in December. It's sexist. It's full of all kinds of beliefs, unless we work consciously to offset the factory settings that we didn't install, according to the neurologists and social psychologists. We may think we understand what we think and believe, but most of the time, our minds aren't telling us what they're doing. Why again did George Zimmerman think that teen looked menacing? He probably thinks he has a reason. I bet his brain has a different reason.
I feel sick to my stomach with helplessness, once again, as a white parent of an African American boy. My little man is 8, and most people guess that he's 10 or 11. He's a foot taller and much broader and more muscular than most other kids his age. His feet are already longer than mine, and I've got big feet. In just a few years, he's going to look 16 or 18—the age when some people look at his skin color and, instead of seeing "child," see "menace."
Someday my young man is going to go for a walk, and I won't be with him.
I feel sick to my stomach.
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Tue, 2012-03-20 13:12
While it's good that the Justice Dept. is investigating, they will never get beyond a civil rights violation for what appears to be a murder. The only way it can be a murder investigation is if the local authorities make it one.
I had thought about taking the kids to DisneyWorld this summer, but now I don't think so. Maybe a boycott of this august institution would lead to a little pressure on the local authorities to wake up and do the right thing.
Tue, 2012-03-20 13:26
"Your brain is racist": No! The psychology paper you linked to in that previous post says the opposite. The researchers tested snap judgments of black and white faces to see whether racial values were hard-coded into test subjects' brains, as earlier researchers had suggested, or whether brains just had an innate capacity to make unconscious snap judgments based on learned social values. They found the latter to be true, meaning that we aren't born with racist values, only the capacity to act on them rapidly and unconsciously if we acquire them from our society.
I realize that's sort of a lengthy, technical objection, but I think it makes a huge difference whether, ultimately, you blame society or biology for social problems. If you believe that the root of the oppression of, say, African-Americans is that human brains are biased against black people, then whatever suggest social remedies you can suggest, however positive they may be, they will always contain the message that "we" see "them" as different and inferior, and that this can never change. That, for me, would be reason enough for despair.
Wed, 2012-03-21 15:54
You're right. It's not a default factory setting. It's a setting that's instilled by culture, but so early that it might as well be factory-installed; it can be overriden, later, by experience and conscious effort, but not eradicated. Did you take the test that was at the link?
A Thinker
Tue, 2012-03-20 23:23
If the colors were reversed, how would the author feel about it if Billy Graham or some other white preacher made a career out of holding press conferences, marches and fomenting white anger over incidents involving a black and a dead or allegedly injured white without regard to whether the police believed there was actually sufficient evidence to arrest the black?
Wed, 2012-03-21 17:54
And what if the sky was red? Your made-up scenario has no basis in reality. In reality, Trayvon Martin is dead, killed by a stranger with a gun who chased him and is now claiming the guy he stalked and chased "threatened him" when common sense dictates the reverse was true.
But nice try at changing the subject.
Thu, 2012-03-22 00:06
Defiant are flat out insane? That "scenario" is a daily event in the United States, statistically closer to twice a day. Here is some data if your actually interested in making sense and not just some race baiting lunatic. This case is (obviously) cherry picked, as a chance to race bait, there is no evidence that race played any factor, and despite what this idiotic article goes on about, you are far more likely to be killed for walking while black by a black offender, than all other races combined.
A Thinker
Wed, 2012-03-28 12:19
"...Your made-up scenario has no basis in reality...."
You're right, no white preachers get the kind of press for race-baiting that Sharpton and Jackson do.
"...In reality, Trayvon Martin is dead..."
That part is correct but if you've been following news stories the reality is shaping up to be a bit different than what was first asserted. There's no law against approaching someone to talk to them. It *is* illegal to start beating on someone because you feel like it.
A Thinker
Tue, 2012-03-20 23:36
...and further if the colors were reversed, what if it turned out that the accusations against the black were baseless but the white preacher after rabidly calling for "justice" against the black accused never uttered a word of apology or retraction for their misguided crusade?
Wed, 2012-03-21 10:18
No where does the article bother to mention that Zimmerman isn't white. Ironic considering the article's talk about the insidious nature of reflexive beliefs. A typical leftist reflexive thought drove this article: Black man shot under suspicious circumstances... It must have been the evil Southern White Guy.
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"Is light-skinned Hispanic so far from white?" In this country's dominant view of race, the answer to that question is an unqualified yes. The fact that Zimmerman isn't an "Anglo" actually gives much more force to the larger point that the negative stereotype about black males can be lethal as it is so widespread that it can have deadly consequence in spite of that fact. (Apparently it seems it can be a cause of horrifying actions taken by trigger-happy morons of many colors). Reflectively screaming, "Bubba did it" won't help spread consciousness of this fact, and I'm sorry to say that this is the way the article came off.
Thu, 2012-03-22 00:21
Or in a country of 300 million people someone like Zimmerman was bound to happen somewhere, and probably many times, but of course statistically the victim of a Hispanic is usually also Hispanic, many ethnicity and races self select into neighborhoods of a dominant group. There have been hundreds of murders since this occurred, across the country. You are race baiting, and probably determined to judge by skin color, but there is no evidence that Zimmerman wasn't one of the common murderers that have been a frequent event for all of recorded history regardless of race.
I'm giving out free violent crime stats to everyone that makes themselves sound stupid today:
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Wed, 2012-03-21 19:06
Have you seen his picture?
Hispanic isn't a race, like Caucasian or Asian. So one can be Caucasian and Hispanic. Or Black and Hispanic. The article and the comments make it out that this is some racists southern white guy who didn't have time to put on his KKK robes.
If Trayvon had been killed by Julio Rodriguez would it have elicited the same reactions about Republicans, whites, southerners, etc? I'm thinking not, because liberals are, by far the most prejudiced people in this country.
Wed, 2012-03-21 12:10
Wed, 2012-03-21 14:56
I am sick at the death of this young man and my thoughts go out to his family.
I cannot imagine what his family is going through.
But as a women and mother of a daughter I know that republican, religious, white, southern men top my list of men to be afraid of.
I am afraid of them, very afraid of the power they wield over my life.
My husband and I have decided not to visit Disney World, not support the culture of life in Florida.
tuttle from tacoma
Wed, 2012-03-21 16:24
not that Disney World will miss you or your attitude that whites are evil
but clue us in on what is the culture of Flroida
We know from the racist Sharpton what the cultural attitude of Harlem is
Guess that explains, how you always vote at election time, since skin color is all that motivates your racist thinking
Wed, 2012-03-21 17:24
Question: how do you know if a person is a republican and religious? Do you ask him for his voter card and the last time he went to church when you meet them? Are you saying if you made a friend with a republican, religious, white southern woman (I'm mean since that mixture of classification you're fine with) you would talk to her husband?
Being a man and a grandfather of black grandson, it seems to me you have the same attitudes that killed the young man, do you agree? I'm glad that this tragedy had the right mix of colors in it for you to comment on and show your bigotry and hatred.
Wed, 2012-03-21 15:35
mgardener, as someone pointed out hours before you posted, Zimmerman is not a "white southern man." But then as a coast liberal woman, facts only get in the way of your own prejudices. You are certainly free to stay in your bubble instead of visiting other parts of the country, learning how strange your life really is, and why so many folks reject your way of thinking.
Oh, and BTW, I don't know any republican, religious, white southern men or women who believe Zimmerman should be free. But I know a lot of liberal black activists who march on a regular basis to free their favorite terrorist.
Wed, 2012-03-21 17:49
Wed, 2012-03-21 19:10
Hispanic isn't a race, like Caucasian or Asian. So one can be Caucasian and Hispanic. Or Black and Hispanic. One with a good HS degree would know that because they know that Spain is in Europe!
The article and the comments make it out that this is some racists southern white guy who didn't have time to put on his KKK robes.
If Trayvon had been killed by Julio Rodriguez would it have elicited the same reactions about Republicans, whites, southerners, etc? I'm thinking not, because liberals are, by far the most prejudiced people in this country.
tuttle from tacoma
Wed, 2012-03-21 15:59
yet statistics tell us more blacks are brutalized and killed by other blacks then by whites
yet the old racism persists that whites are the enemies of blacks
strange how blacks never seem bothered by the plague of black on black violence that infests their neighborhoods
Wed, 2012-03-21 17:27
It is surely not right that "walking while black" ends up with apparently horrible injustices like this. But this kind of tragedy is not entirely the result of irrationality or racism in our communities. Many of our communities are really scary and dangerous places. And strangers, often easily identified by their race, frighten us. And with good cause -- sometimes.
In my town, last week a young, nondescript black man broke into an elderly couple's house, raped and beat an 85 year old woman to death in front of her 90 year old husband. He then beat the 90 year old Bronze Star Veteran who fought at D-Day and left him for dead. He then stole a flat screen TV, some jewelry and a Dodge Neon and left. He was later captured with the stolen goods and confessed.
He left that defenseless old man in a hospital bed saying over and over "I loved that old woman" -- his wife of 65 years.
Yes, it is wrong for a young man to have to live in a world where "walking while black" can have such horrendous results.
And it is also wrong for the real victims and potential victims of dangerous strangers to have to live in constant fear of horrendous results. What are they supposed to do? Wait for the criminal to enter the premises and wait, often futilely, for the police to show up in time to bag their bodies?
I do not in anyway condone this young man's shooting. But I am repulsed by the Rev. Jacksons of the world who will demonstrate when a tragedy like this happens and not even raise his little finger on behalf of the proposition that reducing their crimes against strangers would go a long way to reduce the level of fear that permeates our communities.
Maybe some of that fear is irrational and racist. But tell that to the friends and family of this couple. An old man and an old woman who never hurt anyone.
Wed, 2012-03-21 17:39
Trayvon Martin, in fact, was a victim of a dangerous stranger who chased him and shot him dead. He is "real victim" of a stranger's "horrendous result." So I'm not sure what kind of moral equivalence you're trying to draw. This case is not about Rev. Jackson or the rational fears of an old couple. It's about Trayvon Martin, and he does not automatically deserve to die because of a stranger's fears or Rev. Jackson's actions. And no one can tell anything the to the friends and family of a dead kid who never hurt anyone and still ended up dead for no reason.
P.S, To the people claiming Zimmerman wasn't white, he is listed as "white" in the police report, meaning he told the police he was white when they asked him for his race. Unless the detectives botched that too.
Thu, 2012-03-22 00:14
Wed, 2012-03-21 17:53
"As the father of two black teenage boys, this case hits close to home. This is the fear that seizes me whenever my boys are out in the world: that a man with a gun and an itchy finger will find them "suspicious.""
Hmmm. Lets put this into perspective, using a few facts from current FBI files: Of all violent crime (assault, rape, murder) 20% is cross racial crime Black/White. Of those 20% cross racial Black/White crimes, 95% involve Blacks attacking Whites while 5% involve Whites attacking Blacks. Additionally: there were just over 12,000 murders with all types of firearms last year. Of those 12,000 murders, 10,000 were with handguns. Of those 10,000 handgun murders, over 8,000 of the assailants were Black youths. We all have fears when we walk around the world, but some fears are more reasonable and substantial than others: that Black youths are more likely to be attacked by whites simply for being black does not seem to be one of them.
Wed, 2012-03-21 19:16
Please stop using facts. It just annoys the liberals both because they don't understand them and because it seems to be messing with this fantasy world they've created for everything.
The worst thing for the liberal has been the internet. In the old days a newspaper could print whatever it wanted and, finding out the truth was time consuming and even if you did, the only way to refute the liberal press was to write a letter to the editor.
Wed, 2012-03-21 20:44
Wed, 2012-03-21 22:49
Wed, 2012-03-21 22:41
Its true that Black on Black violence is the most common type, Black on White violence is the next most common, and White on Black violence is the least common, but I think the main issue with us liberals is Black on White violence gets punished much, MUCH more severely than White on Black violence. The Trayvon Martin case is getting a lot of press because it is a particularly egregious example of this; the police barely investigated the case, wheras if the case had been reversed, the case would have gotten a much more thorough investigation.
Thu, 2012-03-22 00:16
That's not true, it just happens less frequently, Thomas Sowell the BLACK chair of political science published in his books that accounting for repeat offenders and frequency of calls, resolutions appeared virtually identical. (Sorry no link, as I have a dead tree copy, but he is famous enough I am sure you could find)
Thu, 2012-03-22 01:57
Sowell is an economist, not a criminologist. He's also a hardcore idealogue. Researchers who specialize specifically in sentencing disparity and do not cling to a political affiliation find that there is racial bias in how cases are prosecuted at almost every level (See the sentencing project and the Vera institute.) Its also been found that there is racial disparity in sentencing for first time juvenile offenders, which eliminates the effect of previous record.
Wed, 2012-03-21 18:05
I know how important it is to you to use race as a qualifier, so I'm writing this comment t as a white grandfather raising a black grandson.
Do you know what make me sick to my stomach? People like you who write articles like this only when a tragedy happens with the right mix of color in it.
Would a black man, walking around free after killing a black teenager upset your stomach? Would a white man walking around free after killing a white teenage put a pain in your belly? Or a black man, freed after shooting a white teenage (in GA a few years ago) upset your stomach?
The tragedy here is a teenager is dead and the killer is walking free. Period! But if you need this tragedy to be highlighted by race for you to feel something then I would say that you have the same attitudes that killed this young man and your prejudices will bleed into the next generation.
Is it only when a white man kills a black teenager that you stomach doesn't sit right? It seems that you have the same attitudes that killed this young man.
Wed, 2012-03-21 18:55
Wed, 2012-03-21 21:44
One other point: Trayvon is black. Zimmerman is not.
Right when the story first came out and they thought the shooter was white it was mentioned every sentence. Now that the shooter is Hispanic he is just "not black". Walking while black? How about walking while white in Detroit or East LA or whatever minority area? Screw the writer of this story and all the whining race baiting blacks. My cousin was 19 and white in Detroit had his brains blown out by a Black because he was white and tall 6'6". The shooter spent 6 months in jail. Maybe this kid was doing something wrong. Maybe he was threatening the man and he defended himself. To assume he is innocent and pure as the driven snow is BS.
Wed, 2012-03-21 22:02
Virtually all my close friends including my partner are Black although I don't happen to be. It is just amazing how much racism Black people face in the USA. I suppose at one time most anybody who was different probably had a similar experience in this society over its history; that seems to be human nature. Maybe it dates from the days when strangers inevitably brought violence, disease, competition, or maybe all three. BUT every other group eventually finds itself on the "I'm OK" side of the line, as opposed to the "They are NOT OK" side, except Black Americans. Are others around here just too guilty over the past that they insist upon demonizing the same folks forever? Looks like it to me.
If that's the case, remember that the only people who got here without being effectively chattel were a few Native American tribal chiefs and a few folks who owned the ships they came in, probably 1000 people in the entire history of North America. Everyone else was an N-word type at the beginning, particularly including the early English Protestant folks, who were universally debtors, indentured servants, or feudal retainers, with a very very few exceptions. But all of us except out Black brothers and sisters are allowed the possibility of something about this changing someday for them or for at least some of their descendants.
Shame on my country!
BTW the last time I prepared to die fighting - and I mean it - I was with my best male friend in a part of town strange to us both when someone hollered in a very loud voice behind us, "HEY N****! What the F*** are You doing in MY part of Town!" As I should have guessed, but did not because of the Television English accent, the man was a close, Black friend of my friend, and a casual acquaintance of mine as well.
Wed, 2012-03-21 22:33
If my son got shot for no reason, I would not be happy if it was any less valid or unfair because of his race. Would it be ok if it were a white child being killed? Would it be ok if the killer was black. Most of the above comments are about race. The important thing is that some idiot shot a little kid. THe idoit is an American and so has the right to bear arms. However, with rights come with responsibility. When he shot that kid he shoud suffer all the criminal and civil consequences that go along with stupidity. When some one is reckless driving and kills a person, that person is prosecuted as a criminal and the family of the slain sues that person for every penny they have. Is this not the way its supposed to work in our society. It is not self defense if you follow the person.
Wed, 2012-03-21 22:43
If my son got shot for no reason, I would not be happy if it was any less valid or unfair because of his race. Would it be ok if it were a white child being killed? Would it be ok if the killer was black. Most of the above comments are about race. The important thing is that some idiot shot a little kid. THe idoit is an American and so has the right to bear arms. However, with rights come with responsibility. When he shot that kid he shoud suffer all the criminal and civil consequences that go along with stupidity. When some one is reckless driving and kills a person, that person is prosecuted as a criminal and the family of the slain sues that person for every penny they have. Is this not the way its supposed to work in our society. It is not self defense if you follow the person.
Wed, 2012-03-21 23:01
Let's be clear. I am a white senior with a concealed carry permit. I am conservative. I believe in the right to keep and bear arms and the right to defend oneself. I am usually armed. I take defending myself and my family seriously and do not intend to be made a victim while I wait 30 minutes for the cops to show up.
Anyone deserves the right to walk down the street unmolested - no matter whose neighborhood they might cross. A black kid should be safe in a white neighborhood just as a white kid should be safe in a black neighborhood. They are all someone's little baby boy. This sh*t has got to stop. What happened here (if we accept the narrative) was wrong. It was murder and the "guard" who did this deserves to be punished.
Do NOT blame gun-owners, conservatives or white (or Hispanic) people. They are not at fault. Guns are not at fault. Prejudice and racism are to blame and that comes from both blacks and whites.
Thu, 2012-03-22 00:29
Don't race bait to protect your political cause, there is no evidence Zimmerman's motivation was racist, and most murders, including most gun murders are within the same race. Actually, I agree a tool doesn't do it's own work, but screaming racist every time something that commonly happens within a race happens in a diverse setting is ludicrous.
Thu, 2012-03-22 00:10
Thu, 2012-03-22 00:30
Thu, 2012-03-22 13:30
Hate to break it to ya, dear ejgraff, but statistically your kids are FAR more likely to be killed by a black than by a white, and not for the reasons you mention. Blacks seem to enjoy killing one another over shoes, sunglasses, laundry detergent, women, dogs, drugs, or just to seem tough. It's far more likely that this is how your sons will die than by a random nut case out patrolling the neighborhood. Please stop spreading this nonsense and start speaking the truth about why young black men die.
Thu, 2012-03-22 13:34
Has anybody seen reporting on the race of the responding police officers? I nave not. I would bet that there are black officers involved or we would see 4 or 5 mentions in every news report that the officers were all white. Having black officers involved in the investigation does not fit the narrative the media wants.
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Live Q&A today at 3:30 Eastern: How is the developing brain of a child like the emerging global brain of the Internet?
"The Internet, like the developing brain of a child, is in a rapid phase of growth and change. This means that just as we must be mindful in how we nurture our children's minds, we must also pay careful attention to how we develop our global brain."
In conjunction with her TED Book, author and Webby Awards founder Tiffany Shlain has put together an excellent short film explaining her fascinating ideas about how brain development in kids parallels the development of the Internet.
You can watch the 10 minute film here: http://youtu.be/zLp-edwiGUU
And then read the book:
Kindle: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00A30S24S
iOS: https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/brain-power/id576233926?ls=1
And here's an article in the Harvard Business Review about the project:
Author Tiffany Shlain ( http://www.ted.com/profiles/91428 ) will be joining us here for a one-hour Q&A Tuesday, December 4th, from 3:30-4:30pm. Mark your calendars!
Dec 4 2012: afraid I am finding this format very confusing
Dec 4 2012: Irene, how can I help clarify the format? Would it help if you switch your "Sort By" setting to "Oldest First", so you can read questions/responses in the order they were published?
Dec 4 2012: FYI: I've found that you also have to keep "refreshing" the url !Dec 4 2012: I'm afraid our time is almost up. Tiffany, thank you so much for taking the time to share your thoughts with us. I look forward to seeing what you create next! :)
To our participants, thank you as always for sharing your excellent questions. We hope to see you again soon for the next TED book chat!
Dec 4 2012: Thank Aja! you are terrific! Very cool way to engage. :)
Helen Situ
Dec 4 2012: Sometimes people worry that the internet may be negatively affecting our brains and connection to one another, what are your thoughts on it?
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Dec 4 2012: great point. I think as with any technology there are good things and bad.... one good framework when thinking of technology and the internet is that it is just "an extension of us." we are good, bad and everything in between...and as with anything..if you over do it..it's not great. The reason my family and i started doing our weekly unplugging one day a week is because it was 'too much" technology.. I didn't need a neuroscientist to tell me that it wasn't good for my brain..because my head was hurting at night if i was at a screen until i slept. Now i dont' bring the cell phone or my laptop into my bedroom. I need to let my mind unwind. So as much as I LOVE technology and all the new ideas I am exposed to and new people I am connected to, I also know I need to turn it out too.Dec 4 2012: On the main topic of the book/film…. what would be your ideal future for this developing "mind" of the internet? Would it have any characteristics that it doesn't currently have? Do any existing networks achieve the sorts of deep, meaningful thoughts and connections that you'd like to see?
Dec 4 2012: It's been proven throughout history that innovation occurs when you get the most people from dif. perspectives thinking about a problem. Matt Ridley outlined this beautifully in his book "The Rational Optimist" where he talked about how innovation usually happened in cities where there were the møst folks from dif. backgrounds very close together. The ideal future of the developing internet is when everyone who wants to be online is online, and we have collaborative tools to bring people together from all dif. parts of the world to solve problems. We are just at the beginning of what i feel people will look back as the "Age of Collaboration." That's the "thinking" part of the future i would love...i also believe we are being awash in oxytocin ("love/collaboration/sharing hormone" in the brain) with all these links, clicks, posts, text....i think empathy will only increase as we get more connected...
Dec 4 2012: we 'just' need better tools to improve the quality of the connections. A 'like' or '+' button is just not enough.
Dec 4 2012: Dirk, can you elaborate? Would love more thoughts on building better tools.Dec 4 2012: how did your children (and your computer science) husband respond to the idea to unplug? any resistance?
Jim Daly
Dec 4 2012: I understand that your short film 'Brain Power' is part of a series you're working on. What's the meta-theme of the series, and how does 'Brain Power' fit into it? What will the other films be about?
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Dec 4 2012: "Brain Power" is part of a film series we are doing called "Let it Ripple: Mobile Films for Global Change." In these films we try to tackle topics that connect us all. Our first one was "A Declaration of Interdependence," the second about the importance of "Engagement" in society, and this one on the importance of nurturing and strengthening children's brains on the global brain of the internet. We will be doing three of these a year. 15 in all. All these films at their core, explore what it means to be human.Dec 4 2012: I feel like so much of what's uninteresting and less-valuable online is there because marketing, sales, and other forces are looking to turn users into customers/followers/etc. Does the developing brain have any comparable functions competing for our attention, that make it more difficult to focus on the best information/connections?
Dec 4 2012: Great question! I need to mull on that one.Dec 4 2012: Something that I found myself wondering as I watched and read… as you explain, the main way we're able to "shape" our children's brains is by choosing what to focus on with them, what to draw their attention to. The rest is naturally pruned away as they age. But does the same thing happen online? What's the process for pruning online information and connections that aren't useful or interesting?
Dec 4 2012: Great question. If you think about sites we no longer visit, people we no longer follow, things we unsubscribe to..we are pruning.Dec 4 2012: Tiffany, I remember that pivotal moment you showed in Connected where you saw how your "connectedness" with the world was impacting the connectedness with those closest to you (your daughters, husband, close friends and extended family).
Is there a similar ah-ha moment recently as a parent while you were working on Brain Power, specifically in working/nurturing children?
Dec 4 2012: yes. I remember the exact moment. Originally when we were working on "Brain Power" it was just focusing on how to best nurture children's brains. We were talking to this brilliant neuroscience Dr. Patricia Kuhl (she has a great TED Talk) and she says, "the goal is with children is to get all the different parts of the brain connected. They are born with 100 billion neurons but the connections between those neurons are not there yet. She explained how your interacting with them creates those connections. " a big lightbulb went off. this is like the internet. We only have 2 billion people online. We must try to get everyone online in order to see it's full potential." A lot of the neuroscientists talk about the "first 2000 days" of a childs brain being extremely imp. to set the foundation for the future. I realized we are in that first "2000 days" of the internet's growth and we need to be just as mindful how we are growing and shaping it.
Dec 4 2012: Wow. That put such weight to it! We are talking about fundamental changes in history just as we are impacting our children by either engaging them in intentional parenting....or not.
Dec 4 2012: What evidence supports classifying the internet within "the first 2000 days?" More importantly, what would signify to you, Tiffany, that the internet has reached full maturation? Is it possible that the total content and connection size of the Internet would only continue to increase, remaining in a perpetual sensorimotor/preoperational stage of development?
Helen Situ
Dec 4 2012: How did you get so many submissions from around the world for Brain Power?
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Dec 4 2012: We have a fantastic community who participates in what we call our "Cloud Films". "Brain Power" is our third film and each new one we do, we receive more submissions. We are just about to do a new call for entries, and I would love for you to join is. A great way to stay posted on our process and calls for entries is both our website www.letitripple.org and our facebook page "Connected the film" ...Dec 4 2012: what are some of the policy and spiritual challenges raised by this book? is my brain undeveloped because I don't relate to this formal...it is more like a chat and I have had difficulty seeing if there is a developing thread
Dec 4 2012: Your brain is not underdeveloped :)*
This is an unusual format for me too. but loving the interaction and questions.
Highly recommend you download the book. It's all in threads in there:)*
I feel like in Cinderella when the carriage is going to turn into a pumpkin in 1 minute! there is only 1 min left for this live Q & A.Dec 4 2012: Aja, at the moment Facebook and similarities work not that dissimilar from old mailbox/bbs systems that exited in the 1980s. FB has added a like button and everything looks flasher.but the quality of connections still often relies on RL meeting to gather depth, don't you think? also the interaction is largely text-based and asynchronous.
That said, I've never been to Second Life. Interaction in face-tface situations is much more comlex than what we are doing here. here we have to leave much of how the other orients to us, to our imagination.
Dec 4 2012: good point. i can't wait until video and moving images are really incorporated more into ...well, everything. When you are "with' someone live, half the info you get is from what they say, the other half from body language. We need to use both R & L hemisphere when interacting! I also think they need to add a "Dissimilar to you" button on twitter.Dec 4 2012: how do you see the link btw online and offline connections? Howard R talked long ago about the strengthening and connection-building effect of online communities. how do you experience that yourself?
Dec 4 2012: Great question. Both kinds of connections are important. I see this a lot when our "connected the film" facebook community comes to an live event. Nothing replaces the value of real life interaction.
Even with you. We met on Twitter as we both are interested in the same kind of ideas. Then when I told you I was coming to Europe you tweeted to a conference and made a talk/screening happen and I got to meet you in person. Love that. There needs to be a special word for when you meet someone you have only followed on twitter. I think "Twenchante" would work when we finally meet;)Dec 4 2012: Hi Tiffany,
What, in your opinion, could we each be doing to help shape a more developed internet? Is regularly going offline a part of this, or is it more in how we choose to spend our time when we are online?
Dec 4 2012: I def. thinking unplugging weekly is very important to try. I promise you will love it.
And then when we are online, we need to be mindful that everyone we follow is influencing the connections in your brain. So we need to be mindful of who and what ideas and connections we making happen. That's all for us personally..and our minds of course, plug into this larger global collection of minds.
On that front, I feel very strongly that we need to bridge the digital divide so we can get as many dif. perspectives and wisdom participating in these global conversations.
People also need to be paying attention to policies that are happening that can be the reshape the global brain in the wrong way. There is a mtg happening (ITU) which is making some major decisions in info flow onilne.. You can watch this video to check out how to understand what is happening and how to get involved. https://make-dev.mozillalabs.com/en-US/projects/roll-your-own-itu-activism-video/
I know that's a big list. I unpack it more clearly in the TEDBook which i think you would really enjoy reading. (and it has less typos;)
Dec 4 2012: Thank you, this is good food for thought.Dec 4 2012: I like that Robert's question touches on being mindful of the way we connect in addition to understanding the importance of disconnecting!
What is the next film we can expect in the Let It Ripple Series, Tiffany?Dec 4 2012: Tiffany, Have you seen others taking technology breaks (tech shabbats)? If so what has the response been? I am so thankful that you encouraged me to take them. Do you find it challenging to schedule those rests around your busy schedule and how technology centered your medium and craft is?
Dec 4 2012: I love that you do them too now. That has been the best part of these films is sharing that i unplug and seeing other people try it. (Everyone, here I recommend trying it!) Do I find it challenging to do ..no. I just have to plan. Now most close friends and family know they can't get in touch with me Friday night to sat. sundown (ish) but everyone adapts and then suddenly you have this day to focus on your family or just yourself...It is good to let your mind go into a dif. mode one day a week. With my kids we are pulling out all sorts of games (a 70's version of CLUE i found in my garage and scrabble.) We spend more time outside. it's all good.Dec 4 2012: Is this film and book related to your great feature-length film CONNECTED directly or indirectly?
Dec 4 2012: and how do you see your films emerging from or related to the Webby Awards?Dec 4 2012: Definitely related to our film "Connected." The whole new film series "Let it Ripple" is ideas from "Connected" in action. The climax of "connected" asks what is the potential of everyone being online? what can we do with that? (the film also goes into the good, the bad and the potential of all this connectedness and a very personal story interwoven..) you can watch the trailer at www.connectedthefilm.com
Dec 4 2012: and the Webbys? were you making films while you worked on the Webbys?Dec 4 2012: I saw that at the end of the film, you get a "customized" version if you are a non-profit. How does one do that and have you made any yet for non-profits? How do they use these customized films? What an amazing idea!
Dec 4 2012: agree. that is a great idea!Dec 4 2012: You can just go to our site www.letitripple.org and find out how to easily have one made for your nonprofit for free. We are already making around 25 versions of "Brain Power." Organizations that are interesting in child development, internet policy, education, tech, are all getting them made. It feels so great for our team to make these free films for nonprofits who do such imp. work but often don't have media to get their message out. The nonprofits will then use the film (which looks like it's their film with their call to action, url and logo at the end) for events, fundraising, email campaigns, etc.Dec 4 2012: is there a nook version of the book?
Dec 4 2012: Yes:) thanks Dirk!Dec 4 2012: How long did it take to complete the TED book? I love that the TED book deepens our engagement with these important topics of early brain development!
Dec 4 2012: This is a great question. I was Tiffany's editor on the book, and we really took a non-linear film and adapted it into a linear narrative that expands on the ideas in the film.Dec 4 2012: What is the most (or one of the most ;) interesting things you learned in the research & making of both the film & Brain Power Ted Book that you didn't know before?
Dec 4 2012: I think learning about neuroscience really help me think about the growth of the internet in a new way. The way I can contextualize what acts like PIPA and SOPA would have done to the web to constrict the free flow of information. Also in terms of neuroscience and my children. We have a 3 year old who is in that first "2000" of life when her brain is most malleable. And learning that her mind has more connections than the entire internet, def. blew my mind. I learned a lot of things that stimulate her brain's growth. Eye contact is great. and Making her laugh. These were things I did before but let's just say now, i do a lot more.
Dec 4 2012: When my 7 year old daughter watched it she pushed her fist in the air when learning that her bran has more connections that of an adultDec 4 2012: this is not live with moving images, correct?
Dec 4 2012: This is live right now. Ask away:)Dec 4 2012: and in relation to Aja's question, how do you strike the balance and manage (your) children's use of the internet and other activities considering the draw of screens is so great to children (and adults)?
Dec 4 2012: My family and I unplug once a week together as a family. We call it our "technology shabbats" it's really changed our lives. it's been around 2 years that we have been doing it. We also had a screening of "Brain Power" along with Rebecca Randall from "Commonsense Media" which was terrific. That website/org. has fantastic guidelines when thinking of our kids and screens.Dec 4 2012: Really glad I am able to type fast right now;) It's interesting to think that one's fingers are the conduits to our communicating our thinking;)Dec 4 2012: I'd love to hear more about this, as well. :) I loved the description in the book of your "Technology Shabbat". Do you have to lock up your laptops/phones/devices? I don't know how I'd be able to resist checking in with the online world for a full 24 hours!Dec 4 2012: We've also been fortunate enough to chat with Sherry Turkle and Howard Rheingold here on TED Conversations, both of whom are mentioned in your book. Do the three of you ever get together, and if so, what do you talk about? And do you keep your phones switched off? ;)
Dec 4 2012: Actually we do. Howard is a dear friend and mentor. We take walks in the hills of Mill Valley together and talk about this stuff. Sherry is fantastic too. Sherry and I talk about unplugging. One of these days we want to co-author something together.Dec 4 2012: Love your incorporation of found footage, animation, the submitted videos and great music in Brain Power making complex ideas entertaining and engaging. Do you always create work in this way?
Dec 4 2012: First, thank you:) This new style of filmmaking really evolves my earlier style. I couldn't afford to go to film school and often made films but recutting together old movies. That style still informs my film today. We now do original animation for our films but we rarely shoot. Adding this new component of having people all over the world send us videos is very exciting for our film team. We recently wrote a "Cloud Filmmaking Manifesto" which talks about our process. We are making free customized versions of our 10 minute film "Brain Power" for non profits.Dec 4 2012: Tiffany, do you see events such as Syria's shutdown as an example of toxic stress to the Internet?
Dec 4 2012: Yes! That is a great example. The government is trying to stop the flow of information and connection between people! an exact parallel.Dec 4 2012: How long did it take you to make BRAIN POWER including the research & making the film?
Dec 4 2012: Hmm..My co-writers Prof. Ken Goldberg & Sawyer Steele and I started diving into research January of this year. I was approached to do the TEDBook in I believe April. So let's just say 2012 was about "Brain Power";)
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Dec 4 2012: You're in it! Just write and submit your question the way you did right here. :)Dec 4 2012: Welcome Tiffany!
Dec 4 2012: Hello! Happy to be here:)Dec 4 2012: Hello all, and welcome to this live Q&A with author Tiffany Shlain! Tiffany, thank you for joining us, your "Brain Power" book and film have some fascinating thoughts for those of us who spend so much time online. :)
To start off, I wanted to ask… the book/film format for Brain Power was a new one for me, very cool! How did you get started as a filmmaker/author? Is this work you've always wanted to do, or did you find yourself unexpectedly drawn to it? Do you plan to use this book/film format for future projects?


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20th February 2014
F1 boss Bernie Ecclestone: I 'completely agree' with Putin's position on gay rights 40
6:06 PM — Bernie Ecclestone says he "completely agrees" with Vladimir Putin's stance on gay rights.
19th February 2014
Video: Pussy Riot whipped and beaten by Cossack militia for attempted Sochi performance 33
5:17 PM — A video has emerged which shows members of punk band Pussy Riot being whipped, sprayed in the face, struck and thrown to the ground by Cossack militia after they attempted a performance under a sign advertising the Sochi Winter Olympics.
18th February 2014
Putin gives top presidential honour to TV host who said gays hearts 'should be burned' 31
1:17 PM — A Russian TV host who said the hearts of gay people should be burned after they die, has been given a top honour by President Putin for contributions to the country's "social development", and "humanitarian achievements".
Two members of Pussy Riot arrested in Sochi
11:28 AM — Two members of the protest group Pussy Riot say they have been arrested in Sochi.
Olympic Committee defends arrest of Italian transgender former MP over rainbow demonstration at Sochi 14
10:42 AM — The International Olympic Committee has defended the arrest of a transgender Italian former MP who was recently seen demonstrating at the Sochi arena against Russia's anti-gay laws.
17th February 2014
Former rugby player: Gays have 'very little' interest in sport, just like I'm not interested in ballet 23
5:12 PM — A former international Irish rugby player has caused controversy by claiming that gay people have "very little" interest in sport.
Italian transgender former MP arrested over rainbow protest in Sochi 7
11:18 AM — A transgender Italian politician and LGBT campaigner has reportedly been arrested in Sochi for demonstrating against Russia's anti-gay laws.
16th February 2014
Lesbian Olympic snowboarder Belle Brockhoff targeted with onslaught of anti-gay hate tweets 8
2:24 PM — Lesbian Australian snowboarder Belle Brockhoff has revealed she has been the target of an onslaught of vicious anti-gay hate tweets, including messages saying she should "break a leg and get locked in the slammer."
Yoweri Museveni defends anti-gay bill with scientific report describing homosexuality as 'abnormal' 23
1:27 PM — The President of Uganda Yoweri Museveni has defended his decision to sign into law a bill which toughens punishments for gay people in the country, quoting a "scientific" study which calls homosexuality an "abnormal behaviour."
Billie Jean King to attend Winter Olympic closing ceremony 1
12:57 PM — Retired Tennis champion Billie Jean King is now set to attend the closing ceremony of the Sochi Winter Olympics as part of the US delegation following the death of her mother.
15th February 2014
Anti-gay law doesn't stop Grindr use from tripling at Sochi 10
10:25 AM — Use of the gay dating app Grindr has tripled in the Sochi areas, developers say, despite an anti-gay law which has caused an international outcry.
14th February 2014
Russia blocked an Olympian's website for 'gay propaganda' after seeing this picture 21
12:46 PM — Canadian bobsledder Justin Kripps' website has been blocked in Russia, after he posted a picture of his bobsled team in their pants.
13th February 2014
US Sochi delegation member Caitlin Cahow 'humbled' by experiences in Russia 20
7:32 PM — US Olympic ice hockey player Caitlin Cahow, who attended the Sochi Winter Olympics, has said that she experienced no issues when visiting Russia.
To anyone who has accused gays of 'homosexual propaganda', have a look at this 13
6:06 PM — A website has been set to repurpose Soviet propaganda posters in order to show support for Russian LGBT people during the Sochi Winter Olympics.
US Brewer to send 'same-sex' beer to Putin at the Sochi Olympics 1
5:43 PM — A brewer from the US state of Utah is to send a selection of its newly released "same-sex" beer to Russian President Vladimir Putin and organisers of the Sochi Winter Olympics.
Video: Jimmy Kimmel hits back at Olympic lugers who complained about 'gay' ad 5
5:41 PM — Jimmy Kimmel has struck back at Olympic lugers who complained about an advert that said their sport was 'a little bit gay'.
Russia bans foreign gay couples from adopting children 10
11:48 AM — Russia says it will no longer allow foreign couples to adopt Russian children if their country has same-sex marriage - or if the couples are gay.
12th February 2014
Video: 'Russia declares anti-gay violence newest Olympic sport' 11
7:19 PM — A new powerful video produced by the Russia Freedom Fund and Athlete Ally depicts violence against a gay couple as the newest Olympic sport.
Sorry Putin, now a MARRIED LESBIAN has won a silver medal at Sochi 12
6:13 PM — To the probable dismay of President Putin, an Austrian lesbian ski-jumper has become the second openly LGBT person to win a medal at the Sochi Winter Olympics.
Russian embassy says anti-gay attacks are no more severe than the UK's 'abuse' of ginger people 68
11:01 AM — Russian diplomats have condemned a recent Channel 4 documentary about anti-gay attacks in the country, saying a similar film could have been made out of the UK's "abuse" towards ginger people.


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Breakfast is Served...
Weekdays and Saturday . . . The Dining Room opens 8:00 AM to 9:30 AM
Sunday Early Morning . . . Continental Breakfast in breezway 7:00 AM -9:30 AM
Sunday Brunch . . . available from 9:30 AM to 2:30 PM
Sunday Early Morning . . . Continental Breakfast in breezway 7:00 AM -9:30 AM
Sunday Brunch . . . available from 9:30 AM to 2:30 PM
Coffee and a Breakfast Sweet . . . Available Daily from 7:30 to 9:00 AM in the breezeway of the Main Inn
Dining Room HoursOur dining room is open from 11:45 AM to approximately 9:00 PM Tuesday through Saturday.
Monday – Lounge Dining only 12:00 to 6:00 PM
Reservations are taken during the following hours:
Lunch served from 11:45 to 2:30 PM (except on Sunday)
Dinner from 4:30 to 9:00 PM (Tuesday through Saturday)
Sunday Brunch is served from 9:30 AM to 2:30 PM~ Sunday Dinner from 3:00 to 8:00 PM
Lounge DiningMonday Noon to 6:00 PM
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Sunday Noon to 8:00 PM
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Indeed...very confusing...especially the part where it says:
The numbers 7 and 8...right next to each other in order..so easy to mix up when reading.
I totally thought this whole thing was about 8...couldn't tell it was about 7 at all...
The title misleads everyone into thinking this is about Windows 8. It obviously has information about Windows 7.
But... I'm not talking about this. I'm complaining about the title and saying that it is poorly written and obviously it is, that's why so many people got confused over this.
You can see that you actually didn't exactly read what I wrote, but in this case, it was not poorly written because that's only one simple critic, not a whole article talking about numbers and projections that are pretty vague.
It says Windows 7 in the first sentence. And second. And fifth. This is not exactly heavy reading.
Seems I have to another mislead complainer here...


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