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Nuclear role sparks fears for policing
Last updated at 12:03, Thursday, 26 April 2012
FEARS have been raised that Cumbria police officers will be "stretched" as they are brought in to help police Sellafield site.
An agreement has been drawn up between Cumbria Constabulary, Sellafield Ltd and the Civil Nuclear Constabulary to implement a new way of policing.
However, there are concerns the move will put a strain on Cumbria Constabulary's resources, which has already been forced to make serious cutbacks.
David Moore, chair of the emergency planning sub committee of the West Cumbria Site Stakeholder Group, said: "It's going to stretch the work force of Cumbria Constabulary as they will have the responsibility of investigating criminal and HSE issues, which the nuclear constabulary currently deal with. I would suggest that they are finding it difficult with the workload now and the workload is just going to increase."
As well as policing the county, Cumbrian police officers will now also have to deal with general policing issues at Sellafield. This has not been done before.
Coun Moore, for Seascale, said: "At Sellafield there is around 15,000 on site, which is like adding another town into the area for the police to cover. It's right and proper that support is provided for the police for this to happen. As a community we don't want to find our services dwindling because of the changes. Sellafield sites needs to provide some form of support."
Previously the nuclear constabulary was in charge of the general policing of the site and its main job was to defend the site from a potential terrorist attack.
Although Cumbria Police will take over the general policing of crimes, it will not be based on site. The nuclear constabulary will deal solely with anti-terrorism issues and the separate guard force will be in charge of checking staff passes.
Chief Superintendent Steve Johnson, of Cumbria Constabulary, said: "The Memorandum of Understanding will give definite working agreements between Sellafield, Civil Nuclear Constabulary and Cumbria Constabulary. By working together, the aim is to provide an enhanced policing response on the Sellafield site. At this time Cumbria Constabulary police officers will only attend Sellafield site when there has been a call for service and it is considered necessary to send a police officer."
A Sellafield Ltd spokesman said there are instances where the separate duties and responsibilities of each organisation overlap, or where mutual co-operation is needed to prevent crime.
First published at 11:11, Thursday, 26 April 2012
Published by http://www.whitehavennews.co.uk
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Ooohh - got a few bites there from our internationally recognised and lauded CNC colleagues.Go on then, catch me parking illegally another twice and whatcha gonna do? Ban me off site for three months for being a naughty boy?And I notice you've all managed to learn the phrases "protecting our lives", "keeping us safe" and " we just make it (the job) look easy"Yes I remember when the loose cannon went off - you very ably guarded the approaches to the site and nothing more.I just wonder how fast you'd react to a real incident outside of a training exercise.
Its idiots like derek that give the site a bad name. Also, if the site has 15,ooo people on it, these are local people so the volume of public that cumbria would support remains unchanged. Same old local news making a mountain out of a mole hill to sell a storey, any excuse to use the name sellafield.
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Rodriguez: 'ASU is very explosive on both sides'
University of Arizona head coach Rich Rodriguez is no stranger to big rivalry games. As the head coach of the University of Michigan from 2008-2010, Rodriguez experienced what many consider the biggest rivalry in college football against Ohio State.
So when his No. 24 Wildcats welcome cross-state rival Arizona State to Tucson for the annual matchup this Friday, Rodriguez said he knows from experience that psyching up his players won't be problem. He just needs to make sure they stay focused.
"As far as getting them excited and emotionally ready, it should be easier than any game because of the rivalry, because of the intensity and because we hear about it all year," Rodriguez told Arizona Sports 620's Doug and Wolf. "What you have to do is make sure your execution is there. When you start getting too emotional or forgetting about how to execute and just run your play then I think you're going to hurt your team."
As for his opponents, who are coming off a 46-7 dismantling of Washington State this past Saturday, Rodriguez said he expects Arizona State to bring a well-balanced attack from both sides of the ball, but is confident his team will be prepared.
"They're a very explosive team on both sides. They get a lot pressure and a lot of sacks defensively. They'll blitz 50 percent of the time or more," said Rodriguez. "Offensively they've got good enough playmakers, starting with their quarterback and all the way through their perimeter. If you mess up or give them a little crease they make a lot of big plays and they do a lot of tricky stuff sometimes too. So we've got to be really really disciplined and make sure we tackle well in space."
Rodriguez went on to say his team will have to maintain its composure if it hopes to slow down a Sun Devil offense led by sophomore quarterback Taylor Kelly, who's coming of a four touchdown performance against the Cougars.
"I just think you have to be sound defensively because if you don't, when you run that type of offense where [Kelly's] got multiple reads and you lack discipline, all of a sudden the guy is going to be wide open and Taylor Kelly has been really impressive with finding that guy all year," said Rodriguez.
Besides a very formidable pass offense, the Sun Devils boast the No. 1 pass defense in the Pac-12 and have accumulated the most sacks in the nation. Rodriguez said the Arizona State defense will bring a type play his team hasn't seen all year, specifically pointing to junior defensive tackle Will Sutton and senior linebacker Brandon Magee.
"They are aggressive and they bring a lot of pressure. They've got one of the first guys you want on your team in Will Sutton and the way he plays defense is phenomenal. He's a tremendous player and Magee is a great linebacker," said Rodriguez. "They're athletic, they play hard and they bring a lot of pressure. So you've got to be ready for all their looks. Our guys have done a good with that all year but at the same time we're going to see some different looks we haven't seen so we've got to work hard this week to be ready for it."
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Teams from the Southeast District met Sunday in Jackson to create the brackets for the 2013 OHSAA Southeast District Boys Basketball Tournament.
This year, the district has created brackets for Division II, Division III, and Division IV. A full analysis of the brackets, team-by-team, will appear in the Tuesday print edition of the Daily Times.
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Police: Sleeping driver injures threeBy Josh OGorman
STAFF WRITER | May 13,2013DANBY Police said a sleeping driver sent a family of three including an 8-month-old boy to the hospital Sunday afternoon.
Shortly after 4 p.m., Vermont State Police and rescue personnel from Wallingford and Manchester responded to a crash on Route 7 near the intersection of Scottsville Road just south of the Wallingford town line.
According to Trooper Michael Tietz, Antonio J. King, 29, of Wallingford, was driving north in a gray Toyota Tundra pickup when he crossed the center line, went off the west side of the road and overturned, with the truck coming to rest upon its roof.
The driver said he fell asleep at the wheel, said Tietz, noting a lack of skid marks on the blacktop that would indicate a driver hitting the brakes. Once they caught the culvert, they were done.
Also in the truck at the time of the crash was Amanda King, 29, of Wallingford, and the Kings 8-month-old son. Antonio King sustained facial lacerations, Tietz said. He was uncertain of what injuries, if any, were sustained by Amanda King or the child.
At the request of the parents, Tietz said, an ambulance took the child to the Kings residence nearby, before they were convinced to bring the child to a hospital. All three were taken to Rutland Regional Medical Center by Manchester Rescue Squad.
Amanda King was listed in good condition Sunday night, according to a hospital spokeswoman. Conditions were not available for Antonio King or the child.
Tietz said he screened Antonio King for drunken driving and found he had not been drinking.
Police interviewed a witness who was also traveling north behind the Kings, who said the driver did not hit the brakes as the truck crossed the line and went off the road, Tietz said.
There was no property damage and no other vehicles were involved in the crash, which restricted travel along Route 7 to one lane for about an hour.
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What makes breast cancer "advanced"? Simply put, advanced breast cancer has spread beyond the breasts and their lymph nodes. In metastatic breast cancer, the most advanced form, cancer cells spread to other parts of the body, like the bones, lungs or liver, where they continue to reproduce.
Though difficult to treat in the past, medical advances are helping doctors treat advanced breast cancer. For example, Cancer Treatment Centers of America (CTCA) provides each patient with a personalized cancer treatment plan, which may include chemotherapy, hormone therapy, surgery and radiation integrated with complementary medicine like mind-body medicine, naturopathy and nutrition.
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The Estes family of Jefferson has delivered a Christmas tree to the White House before, in 2008, but another trip to Washington, D.C., as guests of the first family was not a been-there-done-that affair.
Eight members of the Estes family – Rusty, Ann, Beau, Amanda, Kati, Athena, Colin and Riley — delivered their second Peak Farms tree to the White House on Nov. 23.
"We got there on Thursday night", said Ann. The family was first given a tour of the White House.
"We got to see the bowling alley, which thrilled the kids," she said.
When the first family received them, Ann said, "immediately the girls, Malia and Sasha, handed our grandchildren gifts."
The Estes children then gave the Obama's a history of fraser firs.
"We had pictures made with Michelle and the girls, and the dog, Bo," Ann said.
"The tree was actually delivered the Tuesday before we got there," Rusty said. An old flatbed wagon was used to ceremoniously cart the tree up to the house Friday morning.
"[The first lady] said it was perfect, and gave a thumbs up," said Beau.
Getting the tree into the White House Blue Room and setting it up was a minor feat of engineering, Rusty said.
The 22-year old fraser fir was 18.5 feet tall, 11 feet across at the base, and weighed about 800 pounds, Beau said. Bound for shipping and wrapped in a drop cloth on site, it had to pass through a six-foot doorway.
"They set it up on dollies and rolled it to the front steps," Beau said. "The National Park Service employees more or less just manhandled it in."
It took a crew of 14-16 to move the tree into the Blue Room, and mount it to the tree stand, which was a stainless steel structure big enough to accept a trunk even larger than this one, Rusty said.
"To me, that's the special time," he said, "when you've got a tree that you've grown on your farm…then you see your tree in the White House…representing the whole country. That's pretty special."
But the reception wasn't all spit and polish, as the White House staff was in full decorating mode. "We got to see the White House in a complete mess," Ann said.
Amanda, a teacher at Blue Ridge Elementary, said she had arranged with a White House staffer for her students to make tree ornaments for the White House, which the Estes family brought with them.
"We were allowed to create 35 ornaments," she said, which are now hanging on several of the 50-plus Christmas trees at the White House.
Back at their hotel that night, Fox News called and offered to send taxis to pick up the whole family and bring them over for a tour of Fox's D.C. studio. "Our grandchildren got to pretend they were doing the weather," Ann said.
At 10 p.m. the family gave an unrehearsed interview on Fox News Live.
Colin, 7, said he "had a real good time in Washington," and got to talk to the Obama girls.
"The whole White house staff and Michelle Obama were very gracious hosts," Ann said. "You would have thought we were the important people."
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If you are wondering what dumbbells are and what dumbbell exercises are all about then here is a brief overview to clear things up.
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Always look on the bright side of life... hum along with me if you recognize that Monty Python tune. Silly movie, but a poignant statement about our attitudes when we are presented with less than desirable situations.
For example, this weekend I went camping and could have focused on the fact that I slept in a tent in freezing temperatures or I could remember the beautiful sunrise that greeted me every morning. I could complain about the sand covering almost everything I touched or be happy I didn't have to drive back and forth to the beach and pay for an expensive hotel.
Also, I could have been upset about the raccoons and squirrels that kept coming after my food but... you know what, I was not only annoyed but totally freaked out by these little pests. They had no fear and were freakishly strong. I watched as the raccoons lifted the lid on an ice chest even after I sat a heavy log on it. As I ate, squirrels dove from trees above to get the food sitting next to me at the table. They truly put the wild in wildlife.
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Photo Booth on iPad 2 hands-on
Photo Booth on the iPad 2 is a fun application that applies silly effects to your camera when taking photos. It is similar to Photo Booth on the Mac and is entertaining for kids and adults alike.
Photo Booth is equipped with 8 different effects: Thermal Camera, Mirror, X-Ray, Kaleidoscope, Light Tunnel, Squeeze, Twirl, and Stretch. You can edit the effect before snapping the picture by pinching and dragging on the screen. As you take photos (from either front or rear camera) with Photo Booth, they are saved to your Camera Roll and you can see thumbnails of the images at the bottom of the screen. From here, you can easily email, copy, and delete multiple photos. Be careful though, deleting a photo from Photo Booth also deletes it from your Camera Roll.
The quality of the photos taken with the VGA front-facing camera are not by any means outstanding, but given the nature of these shots - fun, quirky, and silly - it isn't too big of a deal.
Check out some images taken with Photo Booth after the break!
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Yes. I have a furnace. But it costs a lot of money to heat my house, so we generally keep it cold inside and layer up to save money. And I also just like beanies.
Same here Leanna. I have a 5000sqft home with propane heat. Cost $1200 about every 7 weeks or less if it is cold in the winter to heat it. Keep my house at 60 with a few heaters (unless I have company) and layer up. We are used to it. We only use 20% of the home for living anyway. I wear a knit hat or knit head band just like you. When I'm on facetime calls on my iphone I always get asked why I'm wearing a hat in the house. Actually I have gotten used to it. I dont notice it until I go to my friends who has a woodstove with a house temp of 78 or higher!
Eeeek! You're right! I updated the post to reflect that feature. Thanks!
@Leanna. I like beanies too. Remind me of my rastafari cap I used to wear when I was alive......
(What's my detail, doctor?)
Your hat...
Your hat makes me want to cry, Leanna.
[Extra credit to whoever gets the reference. For those who don't, that's 'cry' in a good way.]
Yes, you can, but only on some effects. Dunno why Leanna didn't show it though.
I have to agree. This is an app for my 8 year old. Play with it once and that's that. Reminds me of the 100's of cheesy Photoshop filtrs over the years.
Now that being said....I am not a musician and play no instrument but for some dumb reason I downloaded GarageBand onto my Ipad 1 last night. OMG. What an amazing app!!! I was amazed. Tons of fun. Makes me wish I played an instrument. My son will love it too. I really want to play with it. I highly recommend it for a DL. Sorry for getting off topic.
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Saturday, April 28, 2012
anti-racism as social sorting
The post gets a lot of it right, and some of it deeply, proudly wrong, and sadly its character and its positioning suggest to me that what it gets right in content is less important than what it achieves for those who tweet, share, and endorse it. Its positioning, that is, in the broader consciousness of the Internet tastemakers who are responsible for so much of what crosses your browser.
If you're like me, with a lot of vaguely leftish friends, you likely will recognize what has become a daily encounter. Someone on Facebook will post an enjoyable, aggressive piece that gets it mostly right, about racism or sexism or various other shitty attitudes. Everybody will click like, people will post their various "right ons," and in general it will all be a little orgy of feeling good. And, more, feeling better than whoever the target of the piece is. What is unclear is the theory of change, how exactly the ideas being celebrated by the people on Facebook are supposed to spread. I suppose it's possible that some apolitical people read the links and are inspired. I worry that it's more likely that the self-congratulatory aspect of these daily spectacles confirms every bad stereotype about liberals said apolitical people have ever heard.
But perhaps there's a question that preempts one about a theory of change: is achieving change really the point? Or is what's being celebrated really the people doing the celebrating? Certainly, a common thread to pieces that the Twitterati self-aggrandizingly call "real talk" is a proud ambivalence towards actually achieving anything more than being righteous. It doesn't help that so many of the venues for this kind of aggressively enlightened writing are places generally dedicated to cultural competition-- competition over art and clothes and music and style and, in general, leading the kind of aspirational life that is at once validated by all the cool kids and yet conspicuously uninterested in being cool.
On the one hand, the wedding of egalitarian politics and websites devoted to aspirational culture has resulted in a lot of funny, aggressive and liberal-ish essays being passed around between connected (and therefore loud) people. On the other hand, there is a necessary and inevitable dilution of what politics means in such a context. It's no coincidence that this subgenre is almost exclusively devoted to feel-good identity politics and barely touches actual structural change, which is messy and requires greater conviction than that which can be expressed on a Facebook wall. Worse, websites like Jezebel (which is only a convenient placeholder, here, for a broader phenomenon) explicitly and unapologetically link the conviction one feels about bands and denim with the conviction one feels about slurs, street harassment, and Islamaphobia. The question is whether that latter shouldn't be a different kind of conviction altogether. I know that those who write for and enjoy these websites would say that they of course believe that. I'm just not so sure that they can so mingle pop culture nonsense with political righteousness and maintain such a distinction in effect.
The question that gnaws at me is simple: would so many people tweet and like and share those links, if not for the culturally competitive aspect? Is the point really anti-racism, or anti-sexism, or anti-homophobia, or is yet another example of people taking psychic pleasure in announcing on the Internet the ways in which they are better than others? If Lindy West got to keep her principled opposition to racism, but was forced to do so in a way that contributed nothing to her considerable self-regard, would she still invest the effort? I have my doubts.
Which is not to say that she doesn't understand many of the phenomena that she describes, or that she isn't perceptive, funny, or politically principled. In some measure, she's all three. But I worry that her stances on various flavors of hipster racism-- which, let's be clear, really means "racism as expressed by people I and others like me feel socially competitive with, racism I live with"-- are not ultimately different from her stances on the wrong shoes, or the wrong band, or whatever random piece of personal baggage people are magnifying online today to feel better about themselves.
This is a document designed not so much to solicit a response or provoke a change as to position the author. Consider the statement "Race is one of the least complicated issues that there is," an obvious absurdity that the writer patently does not believe. (Having just written hundreds of words on the subject and all.) Such a notion would certainly come as a surprise to the myriad thinkers, educators, philosophers, and activists who have labored on opposing racism for longer than West has been alive. But then, such rhetorical aggression is largely the point. Enlightenment without provocation has such little percentage in it. Part of the point of this sort of document is to achieve invulnerability: so much chest-pounding righteousness numbs you to the details, makes you stupider and reassures you that this stupidity is actually an expression of righteous passion. Meanwhile, West demonstrates AP-test level mastery of a profoundly important Internet skill, which is associating yourself and the value of your writing with the political effort itself. The unmistakable subtext of the post is that criticizing West would be tantamount to criticizing the anti-racist effort itself. (The problem is that this defense mechanism ensures that the post's fundamental character is more about Lindy West than about the problems she identifies.) And, indeed, the showy stupidity of calling race an uncomplicated phenomenon is really preemption, a way to dare people into criticizing her post and in so doing open themselves up to the charge that they oppose its intent and not its content.
In my own life, truly critical understanding has only ever come from self-indictment. That notion, that greater enlightenment comes first from criticizing the self, is totally alien to the culture of competition that hangs around the trendy Internet like a thick fog. The needy aggression that is the default state of the paradoxically passionate and disaffected digital class, cultivated and commodified so brilliantly by Gawker Media and its sundry imitators, cannot stand the loss of regard that might come from genuine self-criticism. These days, even those sentiments that take the form of self-criticism tend, with a moment's review, to collapse into a sidelong critique of others. (JD Daniels: "I have trouble talking about books because to me it feels like narcissistic display. I'm reading this great book because I'm so great." Don't worry, JD. That's only you.) So it is all directed outward, and so attitudes as righteous as anti-racism become just more fuel for the engine of self-promotion. In fact, they are better than all of the other insubstantial bullshit that people use to compete with each other, because while such wars have to be waged secretly (the worst loss possible comes from revealing that you are invested in the fight), purportedly enlightened political aggression contains the plausible deniability of self-aggrandizement.
What is left to be decided is if anti-racist and anti-sexist goals can survive being instrumentalized. I'm a pessimist. I'll tell the truth: I felt more hopeful for the end of racism when opposing racism was an end and not a means.
22 comments:
- Zach said...
' Everybody will click like, people will post their various "right ons," and in general it will all be a little orgy of feeling good.'
This captures what eventually alienated me from the UU church. I don't know that many UU churches are that way; however, I was attending a lay led fellowship. It provided a good support system, but it did a lot of talking about how great we all were.
- April 28, 2012 at 7:15 AM
- Greg Sanders said...
Based on my memory of political sciences classes, comments made about political candidates on a sports program could be far more influential than much more detailed information on a news program. Quite simply, the sports programs are where the people are.
Thus in response to your ending:
"What is left to be decided is if anti-racist and anti-sexist goals can survive being instrumentalized. I'm a pessimist. I'll tell the truth: I felt more hopeful for the end of racism when opposing racism was an end and not a means."
If anti-racist and anti-sexist goals cannot survive being instrumentalized, they will never be achieved. If people are not avoiding such behavior because it is wrong, then let them avoid it because it is gauche. Social norms are powerful things, they are certainly not unalloyed tools of good but they are key to establishing what is acceptable in a work or an informal environment.
In fact, I'd say an earlier point you make is quite revealing on this question: "If Lindy West got to keep her principled opposition to racism, but was forced to do so in a way that contributed nothing to her considerable self-regard, would she still invest the effort? I have my doubts."
I don't know the writer, so I won't comment on the applicability to this case. However, I'll grant it for the sake of argument. If you're right instrumentality has gotten her talking about anti-racism in a way that at least produces pieces with some good points. That's a success.
It would be a problem if people that previously treated anti-racism and anti-sexism as an end started primarily treating it as a means. It will similarly be a problem if new recruits that might treat anti-racism and anti-sexism as end get stuck at a stage of seeing it as a means and never go further. However, I don't think you've documented either of those phenomenon.
None of this invalidates your critique. I just think your big picture view is off. Using social status to forward egalitarian values is a powerful tool but it involves corruption. Pointing out where that corruption happens is important and probably critical to helping people who become alienated from popular discourse but don't know where to go next. But if the instrumental anti-racists or anti-sexists of the world abandoned their space in the popular discourse, there is any number of inegalitarian social norms that would be eager to take their place.
- April 28, 2012 at 8:21 AM
- Freddie said...
If anti-racist and anti-sexist goals cannot survive being instrumentalized, they will never be achieved. If people are not avoiding such behavior because it is wrong, then let them avoid it because it is gauche. Social norms are powerful things, they are certainly not unalloyed tools of good but they are key to establishing what is acceptable in a work or an informal environment.
That's a great point.
- April 28, 2012 at 8:31 AM
- Freddie said...
Incidentally, I have no idea why this comments box is suddenly so small and janky. Annoying.
- April 28, 2012 at 8:32 AM
- Russell Arben Fox said...
Meanwhile, West demonstrates AP-test level mastery of a profoundly important Internet skill, which is associating yourself and the value of your writing with the political effort itself.
That's a terrific slam, but an even more terrific--incisive, meaning it cuts through the cant succinctly and gets me where my heart resides--point. I recognize that I do this constantly, and it's a lazy way to operate, one which the patterns of interaction on FB make so easy. Good catch, Freddie.
- April 28, 2012 at 8:43 AM
- davidly said...
If people are not avoiding such behavior because it is wrong, then let them avoid it because it is gauche. Social norms are powerful things, they are certainly not unalloyed tools of good but they are key to establishing what is acceptable in a work or an informal environment.
Like the OP author, I think this is a good point, but in support of the OP. Racism as gaucheness does nothing to lessen its appeal. Racism has been obscured as rebellion against the norm for too long already.
- April 28, 2012 at 9:49 AM
Freddie - thanks for this post, very interesting. The Jezebel piece makes some good points. It may be that you and I object to this sort of thing for same reason. We don't believe that the writers have paid their dues. It's one thing to be upper class and proud of your race-neutral views. It's another to have needed that job at the fire department or to have had a confrontation in a restricted area with a person who wishes you harm. And lacking the communication skills to write a witty post,
- April 28, 2012 at 9:59 AM
Freddie; exactly right, this gets to what always bothered me about the phenomenon
- April 28, 2012 at 1:05 PM
- jpmeyer said...
You know where this gets REALLY bad? Fandom communities and Tumblr.
- April 28, 2012 at 1:31 PM
- J. Otto Pohl said...
I also think the fact that the fact that certain political positions such as 'anti-racism' become basically social fashion accessories is a problem. It means that the position really is just rhetoric often times.
For instance, how many, "progressive" whites are willing to work in predominantly black environments? My experience of living in Ghana is not all that many. There are a lot of openings at the history department here and yet we receive almost no applications from white Americans. This is despite the fact that there are a lot of unemployed and underemployed American history PhDs out there. They simply just do not want to work in Africa. So the 'anti-racist' rhetoric does not translate into action. A lot of "progressives" love black people only as long as they are far away.
- April 28, 2012 at 4:43 PM
- seize said...
Freddie, great article. I liked Lindy's original piece but there was definitely something missing.
Otto, I will share that news with my unemployed liberal-arts-PhD friends. :)
- April 29, 2012 at 10:59 AM
This is fair, but I also think there's something else behind the flurries of 'right-on' to these sorts of things. People believe that racism, eg, is wrong, but they don't exactly know why, and aren't even clear on what exactly racism is, and this ignorance bothers them, not least because if they don't know what it is, then how can they justify their belief that it's wrong? So alot of the feverish interest in these pieces is coming from a submerged desire to know.
- April 29, 2012 at 2:50 PM
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- April 29, 2012 at 11:00 PM
- Jesse M said...
At a certain level of meta-discourse, the appeal of logic is hard to separate from the appeal of logic's appearance, and the passion for truth is hard to separate from the passion of self-reinforcement. It's tough.
However, I don't know exactly what kind of discursive world you're advocating. Is it the pure rationalist public sphere that Habermas and Rawls fantasized about? Is it one where everybody's own interests and self-images are obscured, so people can only talk disinterestedly? So that all social progress is perfectly neutral and principled and abstract, never integrated with fashion or the ongoing forces of cultural drift? Whatever that future looks like, it's one I have trouble envisioning.
For me, the bottom line: when we talk about social tensions, we're talking about peoples' interests and identities, and whether they're in harmony or in conflict. Lindy West is trying to realign some of those interests -- challenging some peoples' entrenched self-righteousness (casually racist hipsters) and asserting a different kind of social self-regard. This is necessary and proper, because social conflict will always be a question of self-interest and self-image and identity.
I agree with Greg Sanders, above: identity politics goals are always already instrumentalized. You have to find a way to hold out hope for progress, despite having to work within the constraints of human beings' masturbatory self-esteem.
Also, it should be pointed out... I found this blog post reposted by a liberal Facebook friend, talking about how important this point is to make. Your criticisms are abstract enough that they can, and should, be applied to your own blog post, as well.
- April 30, 2012 at 10:53 AM
- Freddie said...
Your criticisms are abstract enough that they can, and should, be applied to your own blog post, as well.
Oh, for sure.
- April 30, 2012 at 1:59 PM
- michael simpkins said...
Great post, I think you need to tug on that string a little more though. More troubling to me than the positioning aspect is that West seems most bothered by being confronted with racism. She admits as much in the second paragraph, "people benefit from racism—hell, I benefit from it every day." In other words, there is racism, but keep that shit where it belongs, in the judicial courts and human resource offices where I can ignore it. God forbid one of her hipster friends ironically remind her of the racist society she lives in.
- May 1, 2012 at 6:11 AM
Steve Sailer's comment on the Jezebel post: "What we're seeing over the last couple of weeks are the unfunny, unsuccessful, uncool white girls in the media (e.g., Jezebel writers) waging war using charges of racism on the funny, successful, cool white girls in the media (e.g., Dunham, Arfin, Deschanel)."
- May 1, 2012 at 2:47 PM
- Will Shetterly said...
"I felt more hopeful for the end of racism when opposing racism was an end and not a means."
I am generally suspicious of the social justice crowd's constant quibbling with language, because they tend to ignore context, but I have my own bit of language obsession regarding them: As "anti-X" rather than "pro-Y", they define themselves by what they oppose rather than what they love, so they must perpetuate what they oppose to have purpose. Or, at the very least, they must find it, even if they have to invent it, so they see racism where another evil may be at work.
- May 18, 2012 at 5:21 PM
I am generally suspicious of the social justice crowd's constant quibbling with language, because they tend to ignore context
You, sir, are a genius.
- May 19, 2012 at 11:57 PM
- Spencer said...
Jup as someone already pointed out. Lindy´s post was great but this one has exactly that thing the Lindy´s version was missing.
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U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano has appointed R. Bowen Loftin, president of Texas A&M University, to the Homeland Security Academic Advisory Council (HSAAC). The new council, comprised of prominent university presidents and academic leaders, is charged with advising the Secretary and senior leadership at the Department on several key issues.
"Dr. Loftin's extensive experience and expertise will make him a valuable asset to the Council," said Secretary Napolitano. "I look forward to working with him on these critical issues."
The new council underscores the Department's commitment to working with the academic community. In this noteworthy role, Loftin will provide advice and recommendations on issues related to student and recent graduate recruitment; international students; academic research; campus and community resiliency, security and preparedness; and faculty exchanges.
"I am honored to join other academic leaders in this effort," Loftin said. "Our perspectives as administrators with expertise in various disciplines will help promote and strengthen the country's homeland security efforts."
In addition to administrative experience as president of Texas A&M and previously as chief executive officer of Texas A&M's maritime branch campus in Galveston, Loftin has extensive expertise in computer modeling and simulation, including work with NASA. His honors include the American Association of Artificial Intelligence Award for an innovative application of artificial intelligence and the 1995 NASA Invention of the Year Award.
Loftin will attend the group's inaugural meeting on March 20 in Washington, D.C.
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Whitman's Big Bat Carries Hawks to AMCC Win
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HAMBURG, NY – Playing in their first home game of the 2013 season, the Hilbert College softball team did not disappoint.
They jumped out to an 8-2 opening game victory, to earn their first Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference (AMCC) win before they give up eight unanswered runs in the night-cap to split games against La Roche College. Junior Natalie Whitman and senior Amber Grosch {in photo} finished the day with three hits each and Jaelyn Gotham took the W in the circle.
The visitors notched a run in the top of the second inning before Hilbert went on its hitting tear in the morning game. Whitman's single opened the inning but Hilbert found themselves in the hole with two quick outs. The Hawks stayed tough offensively and worked their way into a four-run inning as Grosch, Eliza Stringhamand Elissa Hall were credited with RBIs.
Hilbert was tough on defense at a time the RedHawks were knocking. Grosch turned a double play, tagging the runner before tossing the ball to first base in the 4th inning and Kateland Ball threw a runner out at the plate from center field in the 5th.
La Roche's new pitcher in the fifth inning opened with three Hilbert walks setting up Whitman for the team's first home run of the season, but a grand-slam home to center field for Whitman. The Hawks rode their emotions to the final pitch.
In the second game, the Hawks found themselves down 6-0 after three innings which was extended to eight at the top of the sixth to end the game.
Devan Jonathan opened the game in the circle and took the loss after tossing 2.1 innings with one strike out.
The Hawks are able to relax for the night, but they then turn around and host Penn State Behrend in a rescheduled game for Sunday at 1pm.
Hilbert College, located in suburban Hamburg, N.Y., south of Buffalo, is a private four-year college founded in 1957 in the Catholic Franciscan tradition. With nearly 1,100 students, Hilbert is a dynamic Western New York college that offers career-focused majors, including one of the top criminal justice programs in the region, and more than 50 minors and concentrations. The college's engaging, student-centered campus community offers numerous leadership, internship, and service learning opportunities from which students launch successful careers while making positive changes in their communities. The Hilbert Blueprint promotes a well-rounded student experience over four years – starting with the Foundations Seminar in the freshman year, followed by Sophomore Service, Junior Symposium, and culminating with the Senior Capstone. Hilbert has expanded its academic offerings with the college's first graduate programs and new Accelerated Degree Programs geared to adult learners.
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The Skyway provides several ways to experience the big screen: from the climate-controlled privacy of your own vehicle, on bring-your-own lawn chairs or seated on supersized benches in the equivalent of an outdoor front row.
One of the oldest drive-ins in Wisconsin, the Skyway has been attracting families for summer movies since it opened in 1950. Vehicles have evolved significantly since then, but the essential drive-in experience remains the same. Viewers in the first four rows listen to the movie through old-fashioned car speakers (dial into your car radio or bring a portable radio if you're kicking back in camp chairs). The snack bar gets busy before dusk and at intermission hocking pizza, ice cream, hot dogs, nachos and popcorn with real butter. A large play set gives restless young viewers an outlet for their energy.
The Skyway is an affordable summer fun destination for the whole family; adult admission is $7.50, kids 5 to 11 are $4, and children age 5 and younger get in free. The double features start with a family flick at dusk (which can mean after 9 p.m. at the height of summer) followed by a current action adventure. Get cash first—the Skyway doesn't accept credit or debit cards.


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K-8 Homeschool Adventure Courses
In each course, you will receive in-depth lab/classroom experience to add to your science learning. There will be a film for each program shown in our Dr. Phillips CineDome giant screen theater. Supplemental Pre/Post Activities will be available online at www.osc.org/educators. Students will be grouped by age according to enrollment. This program is designed for students and their parents. Together you will participate in the Discovery Lab Workshops, exhibits, movies, and or live shows.
Program Time
2nd Mondays of the month from 10:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.
K-5 includes a 60 minute lab experience
6-8 includes a 90 minute lab experience
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Grades K-5
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$23.00 Student-Parent Team – Members
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$15.00 Grade 6-8 student only – Non-member
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9:30 - 10:00 a.m. Check in
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11:15 - 12:00 p.m. Guided Exhibit Hall Exploration
12:00 - 12:45 p.m. CineDome Film
1:00 - 2:00 p.m. Self Guided Exploration and/or Lunch
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Grade K-5 courses are independent and do not build upon each other.
Grade 6-8 courses are progressive and build upon each other.
Fall Semester:
Monday, September 8, 2014
K SuperHero Science
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3-5 SuperHero Science
6-8 Destination STEM: Roller Coasters
Monday, October 13, 2014
K Happy Habitats
1-2 Wonderful Water
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6-8 Destination STEM: Video Games
Monday, November 10, 2014
K Forces of Nature
1-2 Forces of Nature
3-5 Forces of Nature
6-8 Destination STEM: Bridges
Monday, December 8, 2014
K Spaced Out
1-2 Spaced Out
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6-8 Destination STEM: Airplanes
Spring Semester:
Monday, February 9, 2015
K STEM-tastic
1-2 STEM-tastic
3-5 STEM-tastic
6-8 Destination STEM: Soldering
Monday, March 9, 2015
K Bridge Building Lab
1-2 Bridge Building Lab
3-5 Bridge Building Lab
6-8 Destination STEM: Programming
Monday, April 13, 2015
K Habitat Hike
1-2 STEM Exhibit Challenges
3-5 STEM Exhibit Challenges
6-8 Destination STEM: Med Sim 101
Monday, May 11, 2015
K Mother Goose Science
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3-5 STEM Exhibit Challenges
6-8 Destination STEM: Dissection and Ghost Shrimp
Homeschool Overnight Adventures
Overnight Adventure programs are a great way for your child to learn while bonding with fellow friends! Each overnight program includes; exploration of the Orlando Science Center, an age-appropriate themed workshop, a large-format film, dinner, breakfast and an unforgettable experience for you and your young scientist!
- Minimum of 50 participants is required, for booking.
- $47 per student; 1 adult free for every 10 students.
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ECP226 - Professional Teaching Practice and Child Study (0-3 Years)
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|Enrolment modes:
Trimester 1: Burwood (Melbourne), Waurn Ponds (Geelong), Warrnambool
Trimester 3: Burwood (Melbourne), Waurn Ponds (Geelong), Warrnambool
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Learning experiences are via CloudDeakin. Students are also required to attend a 10 day teaching practicum and 3 x 3 hour intensives.
This unit will provide students with opportunities to engage with the education and care of children from birth to two years of age. In a supervised practicum, students will engage with infants and very young children, teachers and families and will be able to critically analyse and reflect on the components of quality environments and programmes for infants and very young children. Students will be able to make critical connections between theory and practice, and incorporate their understandings about the National Quality Framework legislative and regulatory requirements, including the child care accreditation requirements, and National and Victorian Curriculum documents in the context of teaching, learning and care for children from birth to two years of age.
Task 1: Critical Reflective Journal, equivalent to 2500 words
Task 2: Report 20%, equivalent to 2500 words
Task 3: Child Study, equivalent to 3000 words
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The greater crime is that I pay $30/mo for a plan that only occasionally sees data speeds over 1MB/s even with the supposed "4G" HSPA+
AT&T keeping up pressure on top iPhone data users
Looks like AT&T is still sending out passive aggressive -- or aggressive aggressive -- text messages to top iPhone data users again/still.
AT&T Free Msg: Your data usage this month is in the top 5% of users. Use Wi-Fi to help avoid reduced speeds in future bill cycles. Visit www.att.com/dataplans.
Nothing new, of course, they've been sniffing around for Jailbreak tetherers and trying to figure out other ways to lighten their network load for a while now.
Anyone else wake up to this particular nastygram recently? If so, how much data did it take to make you a five-percenter?
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AT&T keeping up pressure on top iPhone data users
I get crappy speeds in speedtests too. shrugs I gave up sweating it. If I want lightning fast, I use my iMac. It is a shame that they charge 30 bucks though. Its about time that data plans got cheaper.
Perhaps you get punished for using what you've paid for...
AT&T works better than any other carrier for me. Perhaps you just don't have a clue about real world performance....
The thing is, we are never given concrete numbers so you really have no idea what is being used. Also, how many of you are willing to bet they include dumb phones that have data contracts in with the smartphones? This lets them set a ceiling at anything they want basically.
The thing is, we are never given concrete numbers so you really have no idea what is being used. Also, how many of you are willing to bet they include dumb phones that have data contracts in with the smartphones? This lets them set a ceiling at anything they want basically.
5%. Coincidentally I just passed 2GB for the month. I wonder if that's related...
LMAO! That is too funny! I've never gotten one of those. Not even back when I used to use my sling box while at work during my lunch hours! I have one of the grandfathered unlimited plans. I wonder if this message went to some one with an unlimited plan.
They always put me in the top 5% and I do have the old unlimited plain. They have to give at some time. As the Internet is a big part of the digital age. More and more people from kids to youth to elders are using the Internet. Wireless company's need to keep up with the demand of users. It is the way of life. Get in the game or get out!
Yea me too 5% but has anyone got the email where AT&T said there gonna change your plan cause they detected you were tethering
I would gladly take the place of any AT&T customer due to my horrible verizon data speeds
Yeah I'm totally with you there, I switched from a 2 year old Nexus One on T-Mobile's 3G to a Verizon 4S and couldn't believe how slow it is. Seriously, it kind of blows my mind that all my friends with Verizon never said, "hey btw the 3G data speeds are barely fast enough to stream Pandora."
In NYC
im in NYC as well
AT&T's speeds are just fine in Seattle with a 4S: 3Mbps to 5Mbps; once I got 9Mbps, admittedly standing about 15 feet from the highly visible cell site.
oh crap 20gbs wow!!!
Too funny!!
The danger to all users is that AT&T is tiering it's data service with this 5% of users which pay for an unlimited plan instead of addressing this with development of their network. Today's 5 % top users may represent the normal user of tomorrow as we become more dependent on data access in mobile devices. We are being exploited as a consumer early in the game and castigated with telecom greed to come. 95% raise your concern for you are part of the 100%.
you have no case. they said they would charge you a certain amount of money to use your data as much as you want without having to pay overages for that data. they never said how fast that data would be.
you have no case. they said they would charge you a certain amount of money to use your data as much as you want without having to pay overages for that data. they never said how fast that data would be.
I got it, I've been using iTunes music match to download my library, most of it was done on wi/fi, but it doesn't stop when I leave my wifi network. I've downloaded about 4000 songs. I'm also grandfathered in to unlimited data.
I'd be pissed if I got that message considering I'm paying for unlimited data. I see people are talking about data speeds so here is my two cents. I live in Princeton NJ, during the day when the network must be getting nailed by all the users I see speeds of 3-5mbps, but at night I get between 9 and 11mbps on my iPhone 4s. I was impressed so I run the speedtest app around 10 more times just to check and it was still the same speed. I'm very impressed with 11mbps over 3G/fate 4G.
Checked my data usage after receiving the text. 2088 mb. I'm grandfathered in, so they must really want to start charging me for the overage. Why do I feel that "top 5%" is a big old lie?
ATT Rep: "you are being switche off your unlimited data plan because you use too much data".
Me: "you won't mind waving all early termination fees then, effectively nullifying all contract terms".
ATT Rep: "No problem, we will miss your business".
Me: "ATT sure will when I see them in court".
Grandfathering in an unlimited data plan that I have always used over 7Gb a month, means nothing has changed. Well, they obviously lie about letting you have "Unlimited Data".
Instead they should have renames it to the "Unlimited up to 5.5Gb plan".
Even though there is the "undue network stress" clause, I have proof that I am in a tower zone that literally sees an average of count it FOUR users.
Undue stress my-ass.
My lawyer already tells me I have a clean cut case, and he will take the case for a 35% fee if won, and NO fee if lost. Zero cost up front. He's pushing for $2+M because it is reasonable given the corporate "scheme", and is the only true way for the corporation to feel a sense of repercussion on the matter... A few hundred thousand is pennies to them.
Pretty soon we submit the case and file for discovery and release of pertinent records/data from ATT.
Where I were I get great speeds on my 4. Im talking 3.3 down and 1.4 up. Now when I was in downtown Seattle I could barley send an email with a picture. At one point edge was faster than 3g when I was in seattle.
Screen shot from a few days agohttp://d.pr/EBwW
I'm in the 95%!! Yes, and I tether. Psh, when my internet goes out and I can't get on XboxLive, AT&T is my backup. Haha. But I must say, my KDR takes a hit in COD. Step ya game up AT&T, not coo', not coo' at all. ;-)
I try my best to use as much data as possible every month. F my carrier (VZW).
I got a Top 5% text and email. I have used 5656.09 MB of Unlimited (at 14 of 30 days in my billing cycle)
Not Jailbroken. Just a lot of Hulu+, Slingbox, and HBO Go...
I received this message this message this morning and I have only used 2gb. This is bs. The top 5 percent could use 1gb and they will slow your speed b/c you are in the top 5%. That's not smart business. At least T-Mobile tells you that if you use 2gb of data on your unlimited data plan they will slow your speed but saying the top 5% and notifying a threshold is bs
Lol Ive used 32GB of date this month. At&t sent me that messege this morning i was wondering why and now i know. But, honestly Whatever they choose to do, wont stop me from using my internet as much as i want as long as its unlimited. I pay for it for a reason and ive paid for unlimited since the first iphone came out back in 07. I now have an iPhone 4, and Im constantly on my phone after updating from the 3Gs. Everything is digital, and everything now a days surrounds around the internet. If sprint can find a way to have unlimited for everyone and not bitch about it, then im sure at&t can find a way too.
I'm in the 5% and the throttling speeds are horrendous. You can't stream anything at all. I hope someone really does stand up to ATT and let them know their deception will not continue. I understand that I am paying for unlimited data and that there is nothing in the terms that says speed is a part of that. However, considering when they throttle they are deliberately capping how much data I can use per month opposed to how much data I'd be able to use without that throttle so essentially what I'm paying for ($30/month grandfathered unlimited plan) is not unlimited at all but limited by the enforced throttling on their part.


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Feed My Starving Children MobilePack events allow people across the United States to pack life-giving meals. Chattanooga's event took place from Jan. 16-20 and was expected to pack over 1.5 million meals.
"Our student-athletes are always getting involved with community service projects, but most of them are done on a team-by-team basis," stated UTC Interim Director of Athletics Laura Herron. "This was a unique opportunity for them to work together as a department on a community-wide project."
Members of the Mocs cross country and track & field, football, soccer, women's golf, volleyball and women's tennis teams, along with coaches and administrators, packed thousands of meals in their session today.
Volunteers went through a quick tutorial on how to assemble the meals before donning their stylish hairnets and getting to work. Staff members kept the afternoon festive with music and contests for teams who packed the most meals.
"We are having a great time," stated Chris Mayes, a member of the Mocs football team. "We do a lot of community service, but events like these are so much fun that it doesn't seem like work. It also makes you feel good to know that you are doing something that will impact the lives of many, many people."
For more information on the Feed My Starving Children campaign, visit www.fmsc.org. Be sure to check out the accompanying photo gallery and look for additional video on Monday.