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Working through Whiteness
Examining White Racial Identity and Profession with Pre-service Teachers
Kenneth J. Fasching-Varner -
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Adrienne D. Dixson and Roland W. Mitchell
White educators comprise between 85-92 percent of the current teaching force in the United States, yet in the race toward leaving no child behind, contemporary educational research often invests significant time and energy looking for ways to reach students who represent difference without examining the nature of those who do the work of educating the nation's public school children. Educational research that has looked at racial identity is often void of earnest discussion of the identity of the teachers, how that identity impacts teacher beliefs about students and families, and ultimately how teachers frame their understanding of the profession. This book takes readers on a journey to explore the nature of pre-service teachers' narratives as a means of better understanding racial identity and the way teachers enter the profession. Through a case study analysis approach,
Examining White Racial Identity and Profession with Pre-service Teachers
examines the nature of white racial identity as seen through the narratives of nine pre-service teachers as well as his own struggles with racial identity. This text draws on racial identity, critical race theory, and discourse and narrative analysis to reveal how participants in the study used discourse structures to present beliefs about race and their own understandings and ultimately how the teachers' narratives display underdeveloped understandings of their choices to become educators. Fasching-Varner also critically examines his own racial identity auto-ethnographically, and ultimately proposes a new, non-developmental model for thinking about white racial identity. This text aims to help teacher educators and teachers to work against the privileges of whiteness so as to better engage students in culturally relevant ways.
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is the Shirley B. Barton and assistant professor in Elementary Education at Louisiana State University in the College of Human Sciences and Education's School of Education. His areas of expertise include sociocultural foundations, pre-service teacher development, reflexive practice, literacy, second-language acquisition and development, critical race theory, culturally relevant pedagogy, and multicultural education.
Foreword: Primum Non Nocere
Adrienne D. Dixson
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Racial Identity and Pre-service Teachers
Chapter 3: Mapping the Terrain
Chapter 4: Semantic Moves Relative to Race
Chapter 5: Naivete in Rationales for Being Teachers
Chapter 6: White Racial Identity
Chapter 7: Implications and Future Directions
Afterword: The Long Hard Look
Roland W. Mitchell
In this important new book by Kenneth Fasching-Varner, we not only hear the voices and stories of teachers that ring with familiarity, investment, and conflict —we also gain compelling insight into the troubling discourses of race and Whiteness that have long framed teaching and teachers. Read and discuss this book today.
Kevin Kumashiro, dean,University of San Francisco School of Education, author of "Bad Teacher!: How Blaming Teachers Distorts the Bigger Picture"
Working through Whiteness: Examining White Racial Identity and Profession with Pre-Service Teachers
by Kenneth Fasching-Varner is an honest, unflinching study of the racial narratives of white pre-service teachers. Dr. Fasching-Varner builds on critical race scholarship, laying bare and employing concepts such as counter-storytelling, whiteness as property, expansive and restricted anti-discrimination, white identity development, and more, to reveal the ways that color-blindness and dysconscious racism (naivety about racism's predominance in our world) thwarts teachers' abilities to become culturally relevant and to break the system of beliefs and teaching practices that perpetuate the educational debt, the so-called racial achievement gap. Using theories of white racial identity and the auto-ethnography of his own life trajectory as a white male, Fasching-Varner examines the processes and workings of white identity of his study's participants and finds that an expanded model is needed to account for the nature of white individuals and whites as a connected group in the system of privileged whiteness. In his recommendations for teacher education programs, teacher educators and pre-service teachers, we find that change is possible, through contextualized, intentional, selective approaches that complement the reality of our particular classroom settings, where teachers teach in a meaningful and culturally relevant manner. Read this book, be inspired and informed.
Elaine Richardson, Ohio State University
Working through Whiteness: Examining White Racial Identity and Profession with Pre-service Teachers
reverses the gaze in discussions about raciality and racism in education by focusing on brokers of power and privilege instead of the victimized, as is often the case. The gaze is penetrating, compelling, sometimes disturbing, but always necessary in the struggle to achieve equity and justice in educational opportunities and outcomes for diverse underserved students. Compliments are due to the author for being courageous enough to reveal inconvenient and often unspeakable truths about Whiteness for and among the majority who teach—White teachers. In the process Fasching-Varner demonstrates the power of narratives as content and method for better preparing White teachers to understand their own raciality and its effects on how they relate to diverse students. This is a must read for White prospective and practicing teachers, as well as teacher educators.
Geneva Gay, University of Washington
Kenneth Fasching-Varner has done an immeasurable service with this volume. Academic yet accessible,
Working Through Whiteness
masterfully explores the way in which whites entering the teaching profession either have or (more problematically) have not critically explored their racial identities, and the consequences of their uninterrogated white lenses on the children of color who comprise a growing share of the students in their classrooms. All pre-service teachers should read it, as should anyone who cares about the creation of educational equity in the United States.
Tim Wise, author of White Like Me and Between Barack and a Hard Place
Fasching-Varner (Louisiana State Univ.) examines the preparation of white teachers, a complex, challenging topic given that the majority of the teaching force is white while the school-age population is increasingly nonwhite. The author positions his work within critical race theory and white racial identity theory and provides an extensive review of the literature to establish a helpful frame of reference. The study seeks to address three gaps in the literature: how white pre-service teachers and white teacher educator researchers come to terms with their own whiteness; the transition of teachers from pre- to in-service relative to these teacher's sense and understanding of white racial identity; and how white racial identity models can be used as a means of analyzing and explicating the nature of individual white people. Drawing on rich, interesting, and difficult interview and auto-ethnographic data, Fasching-Varner argues that participants utilized white racial bonding through various discourses as a means of discussing and negotiating the topic of race. In addition, the author found that pre-service teachers exhibited racial "dysconsciousness" about their rationales for why they have decided to become teachers. This book should generate important conversations about race in order to improve schooling for all children.
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Codemasters has announced DiRT 3, confirming that it will feature cars that go fast.
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"How do they come up with these names"..... you say ?
Are you stoopid: it's simply 'cos it's the third Dit game...... innit !
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if you didn't tell me it's Dirt 3, from 1:00 to the end, i'd have thought it's a Ken Block stunt show.
i want GRiD 2 :(
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Whilst I enjoyed Dirt 2 the best bit of the game was the actual rally bits (shock horror!). I found the head to head stuff tiresome after about the 5th time around the same track with the same one liners
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Looks more like a cutscene from Top Gear than a game trailer! :P
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Yeah the proper rally races with co-driver were by far the highlight. I couldn't stand the horrible land rush van races which seemed to take up 1/3 of the game.
Still loved DiRT2 and am looking forward to DiRT3 & GRID2. :D
I do not know if GRID2 has been officially annouced, however i do recall reading in the last couple of weeks a news post somewhere stating codemasters are currently working on Dirt 3, GRID 2 and a new Operation Flashpoint, all while finishing up the new F1 game.Originally Posted by delsinboy
... has grid 2 been officially announced yet?
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What r u lot smoking, dirt 2 was crap.
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it's a Ken Block stunt show.
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More americanisation (ESPN logo) & exploding trucks.
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yeah looks good but i also prefer grid. has grid 2 been officially announced yet?
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god,i hope they get rid of them annoying menus, from loading up the game to getting a race would take about 10 minutes!
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In baseball, they say you can never have too much pitching. The Yankees seem to be taking that to heart. According to George King of the New York Post, the New York plans on sending scouts to watch Chien Ming Wang pitch for Taiwan in the World Baseball Classic. Billy Connors, who used to serve as a vital part in developing pitching within the organization for the last 20 plus years, recently had Wang over at his house to throw. Connors, now a spring training instructor, was impressed. The Yankees currently have six pitchers for five spots. CC Sabathia, Hiroki Kuroda, Andy Pettitte and Phil Hughes are all pencilled into the rotation. David Phelps and Ivan Nova are the two main guys fighting for the fifth spot. If Wang is 100% healthy and effective, the Yankees would love to have him. The Bombers would be able to keep him fresh in Triple A, and then call him up as insurance should a starter get hurt. However, Wang is said to be looking for a major league contract. According to King, Cashman has stated he hasn't had any contact with Wang's representatives. Wang was the ace of the staff when he pitched for the Yankees from 2005-2009. However, his career took a turn for the worst after he suffered a devastating foot injury while running the bases in Houston. After tearing his lisfranc tendon, Wang missed the rest of '08 and was never the same in '09 after appearing in just six games. He missed all of 2010 with arm trouble, and returned to the majors in 2011 with the Nationals, where he pitched last year as well. For his career with New York, Wang had a record of 55-26 with a 4.16 ERA. In two stellar years from '06-'07, Wang went a combined 38-13 with a 3.67 ERA.
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Narus changes course by betting on its 'machine learning' expertise
John Trobough
When, in 2010, Boeing bought Narus, a firm that specialized in "Big Data" analytics, Boeing probably thought it had acquired a highly-capable firm in a hot new niche. But, before too much time had passed, Boeing decided that Big Data analytics might not be all that it was cracked up to be, and that it should probably poke around in Narus's intellectual property closet to see what else it could find.
Last September, Boeing hired John Trobough, a serial technology innovator in Silicon Valley who thinks of himself as a corporate turnaround artist, to take the reins at Narus and rummage around in that IP closet. Sure enough, Trobough found intellectual property that was impressive enough for him to chart an entirely new course for Narus; to take down the company's existing Website (because it no longer describes where Narus is actually heading); and to prepare to "re-launch" Narus at the sprawling RSA show in San Francisco, which opens on Feb. 25.
"I opened the closet door and jewels fell on my feet," recalled Trobough, in an exclusive interview with Government Security News on Feb. 22.
When Narus used to tout its ability to analyze huge mountains of data, and find patterns within that data that might help detect a cyber attack on a computer network -- or identify a terrorist by spotting nearly-invisible relationships that existed between that terrorist and his worldwide compatriots -- the company was at the cutting-edge of what has come to be known as Web 1.0 and Web 2.0.
Today, cyber experts describe the emergence of Web 3.0, which is sometimes called the "Semantic Web" or the "Predictive Web," in which data crunchers are no longer satisfied to simply identify static content on HTML Websites (Web 1.0) or dissect user-generated data that can be found on social networks (Web 2.0).
Now, aficionados of Web 3.0 are striving to place data they find on Websites, social media and in Internet traffic in context, so they can develop a superior understanding of the meaning and relationships inherent in that data.
What does all that that mean? Trobough tried to explain how the sophistication of Web 3.0 has moved it well past the Web 1.0 and Web 2.0 capabilities of yester-year. Suppose, for example, you had a week off from work and wanted to plan a holiday. You might go to the Google search engine and type in "Mexican vacation." Back in the Web 2.0 days, a state-of-the-art search might have generated a set of results that simply cited a long list of undifferentiated hotels, resorts and travel agents located in Mexico.
By contrast, a Web 3.0 search of the same phrase, "Mexican vacation," might plow through vast amounts of data the search engine now has access to -- about you, your computer, your spending habits, your personal interests, etc. By sorting, sifting and analyzing all this available data -- in an automated fashion, through what is known as "machine learning" -- a Web 3.0 search might determine that you are, in fact, a wealthy, well-educated professional, with a high-speed Internet connection, a taste for fine wines and high-end vacations, who should probably be presented with an upscale offer from a Ritz-Carlton Hotel located on a swanky Mexican beach, rather than a budget-conscious Holiday Inn sitting in a less exotic locale. That's an illustration of finding relationships within the data, so the results can be presented in context.
Here's another example, provided by Prakash Nagpal, a senior vice president of Narus, during the same phone interview with GSN.
Suppose a computer network was being attacked by hackers based in countries throughout the world. By using machine learning, the IT administrator for that computer network might be able to determine the points of origin -- and, perhaps, the precise IP addresses being used by the attackers -- by analyzing mountains of data about the incoming traffic, as it crossed his or her network. Now, further suppose that the IT administrator monitors those suspected IP addresses, and discovers that some of the users of those IP addresses periodically log into their own Facebook accounts. By carefully monitoring their activity on Facebook, the IT administrator might be able to identify the exact names, addresses and occupations of some of the individuals who had mounted the original cyber assaults on his network.
Nagpal explained that his company's machine learning algorithm would need to analyze thousands or millions of interactions to arrive at such conclusions. "You can't find this through manual actions," he told GSN. "What's new is that you can do this with machine learning."
The new leadership team at Narus believes that its expertise in machine learning could be the key to robust sales in the future. Trobough acknowledges that machine learning is not new to Narus; in fact, the algorithm has been kicking around Narus for approximately three years, he told GSN. What's new is the emphasis that the company now intends to place on this emerging cyber technology.
In fact, Narus has developed a project, which it has code-named AppScout, that enables an IT administrator to spot traffic moving suspiciously around his computer network, and to reverse engineer that traffic in order to identify what kind of application it is. Trobough says that it is very hard to identify the actual application for about 60 percent of the traffic that moves around the average network.
Nagpal, the SVP of Narus, wasn't too keen on explaining his company's methodology for reverse engineering the data packets moving about a network. "This is our secret sauce," he told GSN.


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Mandela Has Lung Infection as Wife Says He's Losing Sparkle
Nelson Mandela spent a fourth day in a Pretoria hospital receiving medical treatment for a lung infection, while his wife, Graca Machel, spoke about him losing his "sparkle."
The 94-year-old former president was admitted to the hospital on Dec. 8 to undergo tests, which "revealed a recurrence of a previous lung infection," South Africa's Presidency said in an e-mailed statement today. Mandela "is responding to the treatment," it said.
After spending 27 years in prison for fighting against white minority rule, Mandela helped negotiate a peaceful end to apartheid, taking office after the first all-race elections in 1994. He stepped down as president voluntarily in 1999.
Machel said in an interview with Johannesburg-based eNews Channel Africa that Mandela's aging is painful to witness.
"The spirit and the sparkle, you see that somehow it's fading," she told the broadcaster.
Mandela underwent exploratory surgery for an abdominal complaint in February and was hospitalized a year before that for an acute respiratory infection.
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Palin hard at work for the debate
Two people close to the campaign, addressing her difficulties, said she had been stuffed with facts as if preparing for an oral exam and had become nervous and unnatural in the few interviews.
Advisers said she was a diligent worker and was frequently up until the small hours of the morning in her hotel room trying to cram as much information as possible before the debate.
"I think she has to be careful not to be overprogrammed for the debate," said Robert T. Bennett, the Ohio Republican chairman. "I think she's a lot brighter than people are giving her credit for."
"If Palin messes up the debate she should bow out"
/what in the hell is the matter with you defeatists?!
Buckaroo on September 30, 2008 at 4:36 AM
You are mistaken. I am not a defeatist, I am a realist. The Palin bounce is done. If she does poorly in the debate then she immediately becomes a drag on the campaign, not an asset. Having a strong economic mind on the ticket has become critical and if Palin cannot help the ticket win then she should think of the country and not herself.
Just as a note, you certainly could chosen a less insulting response. You do understand what that term means don't you? Disagreement is not a license for debasement.
Hawthorne on September 30, 2008 at 4:41 AM
One more clarificati0on Buckaroo. If Palin bombs in the debate then she will have cemented the notion that she is just not ready for prime time. There will not be another big media event for her to recover and the MSM will bury her stump speeches and gladly continue the line that she just isn't ready.
This is EXACTLY what I referred to about the danger of McCain picking an unknown instead of taking Romney. The media and the Obama campaign has been successful in defining her to most of the American voters. Even the Palin supporters are reluctantly admitting she hasn't been able to perform up to the standard she set at the Republican Convention.
So Buckaroo, please tell me exactly where Palin will recover from a bomb in the debate?
Hawthorne on September 30, 2008 at 5:30 AM
Hawthorne on September 30, 2008 at 4:41 AM
Personally, I'd replace the top of the ticket, but that's just me.
Anyone remember how Silky Pony did on foreign affairs questions (if any) during the 2004 VP debate???
I don't remember any reporter questioning his ignorance and inexperience in foreign affairs back in 2004.
We now know his inept handling of DOMESTIC affairs, don't we??
fred5678 on September 30, 2008 at 5:47 AM
Palin has already done her job. Doesn't matter much how she does in the debates.
Sarah Palin was picked to reach out to libertarian voters.
Libertarian Bob Barr was at 6%! in Zogby over the summer. He's now down to 1% Post Palin. Brillant move by McCain. By picking one of the most libertarian elected officials in the country he swooped up 90% of the libertarian vote.
Libertarians will support Palin no matter what.
Now McCain just needs to pick up some more Moderate Centrists, and that's his job, not Palin's.
ericdondero on September 30, 2008 at 5:49 AM
Prochamas, you can't believe how nasty some conservatives are being to Palin?
Par for the course. Some conservatives, especially establishmentarians, have been suspicious of libertarians like Palin, ever since Goldwater.
The Eastern Establishment just ain't comfortable with us Western-style rugged individualists, who don't quite talk like them.
They tried to run Goldwater out of the Party. Now they're doing the same to Goldwater's heir Sarah Palin.
ericdondero on September 30, 2008 at 5:53 AM
All it will take is ONE sound byte from the debate, and she is done with. Her political career outside of Alaska is over with.
He said, with apparent glee.
I'm resigned to the fact that the stories saying she failed in her debate with Biden have already been written and filed. As rockmom said, the fix is in and it's working.
DrSteve on September 30, 2008 at 8:17 AM
Palin has already done her job. Doesn't matter much how she does in the debates.
Sarah Palin was picked to reach out to libertarian voters.
Libertarian Bob Barr was at 6%! in Zogby over the summer. He's now down to 1% Post Palin. Brillant move by McCain. By picking one of the most libertarian elected officials in the country he swooped up 90% of the libertarian vote.
Libertarians will support Palin no matter what.
Now McCain just needs to pick up some more Moderate Centrists, and that's his job, not Palin's.
ericdondero on September 30, 2008 at 5:49 AM
I do not agree at all. Sarah Palin was picked for a lot more than Libertarian voters. She was picked to secure the right flank. She helped excite the conservatives. Not the Neo-cons or the RINOs, but the real conservatives. But Romney would have done this too.
She was also chosen to pick off a few female votes from the disaffected Hillary backers. She also helps minimize the "historical election" advantage from Obama by being a historical pick herself.
I am not saying that Palin is a complete failure. But in order to keep the ticket afloat she needs to be more reassuring to the public. The moderates realize that McCain is old and has a history of health problems. So the competence of Palin is a big deal. You can try to minimize this issue, but I have heard it voiced a lot. Not just in the media but by regular people in conversation.
When you are in an election that is shaping up more and more to be about choosing leadership at a potentially disastrous time for our country, you want a leader that is reassuring and has some depth. Palin is not showing she can do the job if McCain goes down. Frankly, McCain hasn't done real well himself recently.
Hawthorne on September 30, 2008 at 8:18 AM
I notice how the MSM standard release contains at least one blurb about how 'Some Conservatives have expressed concern over Palins qualifications.' or something similar.
More projection on the MSM's part in fearing the curtain is being pulled back on their own unqualified nominee.
cntrlfrk on September 30, 2008 at 8:23 AM
I certainly do not think Obama is a good candidate either. I am just saying that Palin is slowly losing her cachet that she gained from her convention speech. I don't think she has to be perfect at the debate, but she has to leave people with some reassurance of her ability to run the country in difficult times.
I guess it is sort of like the worry that your starting quarterback might have a career ending injury and you would be left with an untested rookie at the helm. Sure they were a big hit in college ball but this is the pros and what you saw of the rookie in preseason so far has not been reassuring. You are just hoping they can show something in the last big preseason test that will give you some confidence in them.
Hawthorne on September 30, 2008 at 8:42 AM
muyoso on September 30, 2008 at 1:40 AM
I care about what she did in Alaska a shitload more than I care about some stupid interviews. It shows what she can do in an executive position. I'd take someone with Palin's success (despite the fact that she's only been governor for about a year) over an empty suit with articulate speeches any day.
Darth Executor on September 30, 2008 at 9:10 AM
What a bunch of weak-kneed weenies many of you have become. Things get tough and you are ready to start throwing conservatives with a good record and good future under the bus.
Show some friggen' backbone. The MSM is completely in the tank for Obambi and some of you are cowering in the corner.
spec_ops_mateo on September 30, 2008 at 9:20 AM
The fact that she's taking debating lessons as we speak does not bode well for her. Doesn't matter how many all nighters she pulls between now and the debate to try to learn policy and facts for the first time.
It's going to be an awesome train wreck.
The Disasta from Alaska is going to hand Obama a double digit lead.
Dave Rywall on September 30, 2008 at 9:25 AM
spec_ops_mateo on September 30, 2008 at 9:20 AM
cntrlfrk on September 30, 2008 at 9:32 AM
What conservatives?
Those people are full of duck manure.
This one. She's not qualified to be vice president, let alone president. Anyone who doesn't cringe when watching the Coric interview needs to pee because they're full of Kool Aid.
Sarah Palin wouldn't be a vice presidential nominee if she weren't a woman. Period.
RayinVA on September 30, 2008 at 9:54 AM
Sarah Palin wouldn't be a vice presidential nominee if she weren't a woman. Period.
RayinVA on September 30, 2008 at 9:54 AM
And Obama being black?????
repvoter on September 30, 2008 at 10:00 AM
The media destroyed Dan Quayle, and they're trying to destroy Sarah Palin.
And as we can see, there are a lot of people who claim to be conservative but just lap up whatever the media tells them.
The job of being Vice President is not the same as the job of being interviewed by media. Testing a person's recall of facts about foreign policy is just testing their recall of facts. Katie Couric demands Palin give her specific examples of McCain pushing for more regulation, and you accept that like you would have to be able to answer such a question before being a vice president.
Conservatives are our own worst enemies sometimes. Including McCain's campaign staff, which is too concerned with avoiding mistakes rather than giving reasons why people should vote for their guy. And obsessively concerned with making sure the VP candidate never contradicts the P candidate. Let her. She only has to be broadly in agreement with McCain on foreign policy, not a clone.
She says we should be able to cross over into Pakistan to pursue Al Quaeda as needed just moments after saying we will work with the Pakistan government, and it's amazing the number of people who can't put the comment into context, but try to say she's contradicting the candidate. And McCain and Palin go to a media interview to call it a "gotcha" question rather than just saying that she was speaking in the context of working with the Pakistan government, not against them.
Obama is an empty suit, but conservatives seem to be giving the whole election to him. Very frustrating to watch.
tom on September 30, 2008 at 11:12 AM
The critics are forgetting her record of accomplishment. Governor Palin became governor all by herself. How dumb is that? It is apparent that she is new to to 'gotcha' journalists. That will be solved as she gets more experience.
scrubjay on September 30, 2008 at 12:10 PM
"If Palin messes up the debate she should bow out"
Without taking sides on her competence or readiness, it is too late for her to bow out (actually it was too late that day in Dayton, but whatever).
Politically speaking, it would kill McCain's chances. Consider the slams which would come: "Bad judgment", "Turned by a pretty face", etc.
Nationally speaking, it would hand the White House to a [INSERT MY NORMAL SPIEL HERE]. Consider the consequences for the country: [INSERT MY NORMAL SPIEL HERE].
McCain-Palin or Obama bin Biden–make a choice and work for it.
Tommygun on September 30, 2008 at 3:20 PM
Sarah Palin wouldn't be a vice presidential nominee if she weren't a woman. Period.
RayinVA on September 30, 2008 at 9:54 AM
And Obama being black?????
repvoter on September 30, 2008 at 10:00 AM
Correct repvoter.
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Not the first time he's touted the benefits of shotgun ownership lately either. As goofy as it is, I think this is actually kinda sorta effective at blunting the "gun-grabbing" critique liberals naturally face whenever they get itchy about "assault weapons." Here's the vice president of the United States encouraging you to go on out and get yourself a 12-gauge, just like the one he's got. Why? Because it's easier to aim and use than an AR-15, which … I'm pretty sure isn't true, but whatever. Just buy a shotgun. Buy a shotgun. That way, if ever you snap and head off on a killing spree, the death toll will be limited. Unless you bring a bag of shells with you and reload quickly, I guess. In which case, who knows?
That's the first clip. The second clip, also from today's Q&A with Parents magazine, is of someone asking why we'd expect an assault-weapons ban to work any better than the ban on illegal drugs does. Biden's reply: Do you mean we should legalize all drugs? Which, of course, is a non sequitur. Few people (at least outside hardcore libertarian precincts) support legalizing all drugs or all weapons. There's a national push to legalize weed but not so much to legalize heroin and meth; most are content to leave those restricted on grounds that they're too dangerous, just like most gun owners are content to leave machine guns and bazookas in the hands of the feds. The better questions are (1) why is Biden trying to expand prohibition even though the data doesn't support the need for it? And (2) how does he decide when it's worth limiting the rights of the law-abiding majority in order to make things marginally more difficult for criminals? If banning assault weapons is justifiable, why shouldn't we ban booze that's over, say, five percent ABV in order to reduce drunk-driving accidents? The White House refrain throughout this miserable process has been that it's worth doing if it'll save even one life. Well, I'll bet a ban on liquor that's higher than 10 proof would save at least one. How about it?
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Its Pixel Precise HD system also helps its pictures look mesmerisingly sharp, and its motion processing ensures players appear with a fluidity and clarity that's rare indeed in the LCD world. Don't set the motion processing to too high a level, though, if you don't want to suffer with obvious image artefacts.
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When we first reviewed it, Sony's 40in 40EX503 was one of the only TVs around with a built-in Freeview HD tuner. This is significant for the World Cup because it allows people in areas able to receive Freeview HD broadcasts to watch all the World Cup games in HD without needing a satellite dish.
The set also employs 100Hz processing to increase - with a decent if not spectacular measure of success - the clarity of the ball and players as they go about their footie business.
Colours, meanwhile, make up for not being the most vibrant around by portraying subtle shades and skin tones with unusual accuracy and finesse. And last but by no means least, it delivers an outstanding black level response - a virtue of its dynamic contrast system, which ensures that bright elements are punchy and shadow details remain in predominantly dark scenes.
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The main appeal of the 42in P42S20 (the 50in version is reviewed in full here) is simply that it uses plasma rather than LCD technology. Why is this important? Because plasma technology suffers scarcely at all with the response time issues associated with LCD TVs, and so the P42S20 can show the players charging around the pitch - and the frequent fast camera pans - with much more clarity than the vast majority of LCD rivals.
The P42S20 further bolsters its World Cup credentials by carrying a Freeview HD tuner for receiving World Cup footie matches in HD through your aerial, as well as 600Hz sub-field drive processing, which does a good job of reducing plasma's judder issues.
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Given the number of times we've written about the subject, hopefully you're familiar with the basic difference between a Roth IRA and a traditional IRA. If this has escaped you, however, here's a brief refresher: Contributions to a traditional IRA are deductible, and contributions to a Roth IRA are not. Plus, when you retire and receive distributions from a traditional IRA, they are taxed. When you receive them from a Roth IRA they are not. So you have a choice: Be taxed on your retirement savings now, or later.
That's the most known difference between the two, but we'll help you fill in the details, so that you can make a truly informed decision about which retirement account is best for you.
Tried and true, the traditional IRA works like a savings account. Each year, you make a contribution. Your contributions are invested inside the account, and if your account earns money, it's not taxed. The lack of tax on your investment earnings allows your money to grow bigger faster. And that's not all. You could contribute up to $5,000 in 2008, and contributions to your account are deductible. In order to fully deduct contributions to a traditional IRA in 2008, your adjusted gross income must have been $53,000 or less as a single person or $85,000 or less as a married person filing jointly. Furthermore, if you're over the age of 70 ½, forget about contributing to your traditional account: It's not allowed.
Fortunately, there is no age limit on a Roth IRA, and the income limits for Roths are much higher. So if you earn too much income to contribute to a traditional account, don't give up yet. Although no deduction is permitted for contributions to a Roth IRA, your investment will still grow tax free inside the account. Even better, your contributions and earnings won't be taxed when they are distributed to you. Of course, Congress likes to complicate stuff, so income limitations apply. You can contribute to a Roth as long as you have an adjusted gross income of less than $116,000 as a single person or $169,000 as a married person filing jointly. These numbers are more forgiving than the traditional IRA limits, so a broader assortment of folks qualify for the Roth account than the traditional one.
Finally, did you know that you can have and contribute to both types of accounts? There is no law against opening both a Roth IRA and a traditional IRA. Of course, the overall contribution limit still applies. You can contribute up to $5,000, but you have to spread it between the two accounts.
For instance, if you can take a full deduction for your traditional IRA contribution, you might choose to put all $5,000 into that account. But if your deduction is reduced because your income is too high, you might contribute the deductible amount to your traditional IRA and the rest to your Roth. Furthermore, the IRS will allow you to move payments made to one account into another if you make the move in the same year as the original payment. This means you don't have to plan your traditional/Roth split in advance. Having both kinds of accounts provides you with more flexibility at tax time. Don't forget, though, that maintaining two accounts means paying two sets of investment fees, which might outweigh the benefit if your service providers are expensive.
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ST. LOUIS - Just two weeks ago, organizers of the yearly festival headlined by the rap-metal Insane Clown Posse announced that the multiday concert event would be staged at a mid-Missouri campground after seven years of sometimes sketchy times in southern Illinois.
But it appears that folks around the CryBaby Campground near Kaiser, Mo., didn't want any part of the so-called Gathering of the Juggalos, a moniker for the band's fans, who'll have to wait again to hear where the show lands.
Psychopathic Records, the Insane Clown Posse duo's Detroit-area promoters, announced that CryBaby Campground's operators have withdrawn from hosting the event, citing a backlash from locals worried about the several-day gathering marked over the years by unruliness, drug overdoses, fights, arrests and deaths.
In a posting on its website, Psychopathic said owners of the campground on a 300-acre family farm near Kaiser, about 170 miles west of St. Louis, had embraced the Juggalos since last month's signing of the contract to host the event.
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Psychopathic said people who already have purchased tickets or rented a CryBaby campsite will get full refunds as the gathering's organizers pursued what was called their "Plan B" of a couple of new potential sites they say they already have identified. Those locations haven't been made public.
A message left Thursday with Psychopathic Records spokesman Jason Webber wasn't immediately returned. Attempts to reach CryBaby's operators were not successful.
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Does Mindy McCready Have a Case Against Her Mother?
After illegally taking her son, Zander, from Florida and fleeing with him — first to Tennessee and then to Arkansas, where she was eventually found by authorities — you'd think Mindy McCready doesn't have a leg to stand on in the custody battle over the little boy. That's not to mention the troubled singer's rap sheet of drug and alcohol-related crimes, her multiple stints in rehab and suicide attempts. Yet the 36-year-old left a private hearing in an Arkansas courtroom earlier this week with a big smile on her face … hinting to reporters that she may have avoided kidnapping charges and even won custody of her 5-year-old son, at least temporarily. So what gives Mindy an edge over his legal guardian, her mother Gayle Inge? According to the 'Ten Thousand Angels' singer, it could be something rather shocking, as she has publicly accused her mother and stepfather, Michael Inge, of abusing Zander, both physically and emotionally.
"There was absolutely never any abuse in this home," said Gayle, responding to the accusations on NBC's 'Today.' "We're sad that she made that allegation. She's been here with him … There's many tapes and videos, and there's been a lot of scrutiny as far as DCF (Department of Children and Families) workers are here continually … We are sure there is no abuse here."
An unlikely ally in Mindy's case to gain custody of her son is the very person she's battling.
"We actually would love to see [Zander] with his mother," Gayle tells NBC. "We've said to Mindy over and over, if she'd just work a plan to get her child back, whatever she can do … We were in hopes that she could have her child back. We just wanted to be grandparents."
But in yet another twist in this ongoing drama, Mindy finally has someone backing her claims that the little boy was abused in the Inge household. NBC reports that the singer's grandmother, Joan Sancel, has signed a sworn affidavit alleging that Gayle and Michael Inge follow "cultist beliefs" of the Treasures of the Snow religious group. She claims that Zander would "be hit with a wooden spoon for punishment," as a result of the couple's religious beliefs.
Gayle and Michael Inge are both ministers, but again deny all allegations of abuse. In further examination of Treasure of the Snow, which is led by the Inges, the group has a website that promotes faith-based living and Christian beliefs through spiritual blogs, Bible verses and a section for prayer requests, among other features. There is nothing on the site about corporal punishment.
Zander's father, Billy McKnight, also denounces the allegations of abuse in the Inge home. "Gayle is a wonderful human being," Mindy's ex tells Taste of Country. "Why [Mindy] and her mother don't get along is disheartening. I don't know why. Gayle reaches out to her. I've been there."
Regardless of Mindy claiming she's a "happy girl" when leaving her closed-door court hearing this week, Zander's custody is not settled permanently. The state of Florida has custody of the little boy, while Gayle Inge has been his legal guardian since 2007. Billy McKnight has unsupervised visitation rights, while Mindy's visits are to be supervised.
"I think that's part of the problem," Gayle tells NBC of the custodial uncertainty. "I don't think Mindy's ever processed the fact that we don't have any rights, we can't make any decisions. We're really sad, because we don't know what the outcome of this [will be]. We do know there's a very lenient judge who's given her so much grace. And the fact that she's pregnant, we plead for mercy."
Mindy is seven months along with twins. The babies' father, Mindy tells the Associated Press, is a music producer named David. The singer gushed about her new beau with The Boot back in April of 2010. "I'm dating a producer, songwriter, genius musician. He's a wonderful guy from New Orleans," she told us. "He is the sweetest and most wonderful person I have ever had in my life … This is a different kind of love — a grown-up kind of love, a real kind of love."
Whether the twins will grow up living with their big brother remains to be seen. Legal experts tell NBC that the court views what Mindy did — taking her son without legal permission — is considered kidnapping. Ignoring a court order and igniting a three-state search could ruin her chances of getting custody.
Gayle Inge insists she hopes the courts will see that her pregnant daughter can be a good mother, with help from family. And no matter the ugly accusations thrown her way, she remains on Mindy's side.
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The Alliance for Historic Wyoming, in partnership with the Bureau of Land Management, will host a tour of the Castle Gardens Rock Art Site in Fremont County on June 22.
The event is part of AHW's Unbarred series, which provides glimpses into preservation efforts in Wyoming. The Castle Gardens event will feature a tour of the site with archaeologist Craig Bromley of the Lander BLM as well as a discussion of the tribal importance of the site and its future as a cultural site in Wyoming.
Castle Gardens, named for the area's turrets and towers of eroded sandstone, is located roughly 45 miles east of Riverton in the interior Wind River Basin. The area has been attracting visitors for thousands of years, many of whom have left their markings in the soft sandstone.
This early "graffiti" is now recognized and appreciated as Native American rock art, also known as petroglyphs and pictographs.
Visitors who wish to go on the tour are asked to meet at the Waltman Rest Area on Highway 20/26 between Casper and Shoshoni at 10 a.m. Attendees should bring plenty of water and a lunch and be properly dressed for the weather and conditions as there are limited facilities at the Castle Gardens site. There is little shade at the site.
The first systematic study of Castle Gardens took place in 1932 by professional archaeologist E. B. Renaud of the Archeological Society of the Western High Plains. Renaud was guided by Wyoming geologist JD Love, and came away with valuable drawings and photographs of the area.
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