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I do think middle school, high school, college kids think about race (to the extent they think about it at all) differently than someone my age, your age, or generations before did, but if you engage them I just can't believe that they'd say race doesn't matter. I also can't buy that kids are tapped into any idea of the "market" and its "invisible hand." I might be willing to concede that market speak is so pervasive that maybe they're taking it in from the ether, but I would expect that more from young white kids with "conservative" parents (yes I'm stereotyping a bit) than young POC.
Thursday, March 15, 2012
Featured Reader Comment: Just What Do We Know About Young People's Attitudes About Race and Politics?
Wednesday, March 14, 2012
The 1990s are Back: Refighting the Culture Wars as Minister Farrakhan Visits Berkeley
But members of UC Berkeley's Black Student Union said the overall message was inspiring.
"What I got out of it was how we as black students can take our education and utilize it to build the black community back up," said Stephan Montouth. "We're looking at the minister's statements in terms of how to empower the black community not all of the other controversial things that he may have said in the past."
Pity those black and brown students who opted out--they would be written off, disappeared in the minds of those who fashioned themselves more "radical." We had little use for free riders. I was also fond of telling such cast offs of their untouchable status directly to their faces.
Tuesday, March 13, 2012
Critical Pedagogy: "White" Scholars Who Work on "The Race Issue"--Interviews with Tim Wise and Leon Litwak
We all work from a particular set of life experiences and social locations. Even for empiricists who ostensibly believe in positivism, the personal does find its way into one's research, scholarship, and writing. For my buck, it is better to know such things beforehand as they are a value added that appears between the lines of a given text, offering context, color, and influencing a text's unstated assumptions.
To point, Tim Wise is a friend of WARN. Whenever I get a chance to shill for one of his essays (the newest on Derrick Bell and Obama is great by the way) I do so. He is also a great speaker, one who is generous and patient with his audience and hosts. The above interview offers a narrative for his life's work, views on social justice, and shares some great insights on critical pedagogy.
Monday, March 12, 2012
The Joy of Invented Language: What the Hell is "Racialism?"
What Kennedy wrote of Matsuda was equally true of Bell: By claiming that being a member of a minority group automatically connotes a certain and superior worldview, he argued, she "stereotypes scholars." The CLS racialism simply inverted pernicious white stereotypes about black people: Instead of being inherently inferior, they were inherently superior.
As befit his racialist ideology, Bell was also a consummate race-card player. His academic career consisted of a long series of racial confrontations with the institutions he worked for. After being hired as an avowed racial token at Harvard, Bell left for Oregon, where he became the first black dean of a non-black school. But he resigned his deanship when the faculty voted against giving tenure to an Asian woman. He then went to Stanford, where a bizarre incident unfolded. Many of the students in his constitutional law course complained about his teaching, saying it was disorganized and excessively politicized.
At the same time, Obama was not a racial bomb-thrower. As Sugrue notes, Obama's racial views were not yet fully formed, but Obama never subscribed to Bell's crude racial essentialism and guilt-card playing. If he had been forced to openly state whether he agreed with Bell's racialist theories, he would have been caught in a bind, trapped between the racial solidarity that was expected of him and the universalism he was inwardly inclined toward. But he was not forced to.
Sunday, March 11, 2012
Derrick Bell Fallout (Continued): Fighting for the Full and Equal Rights of Black People is Most Certainly Anti-White Racism
- "Despite undeniable progress for many, no African Americans are insulated from incidents of racial discrimination. Our careers, even our lives, are threatened because of our color."
- "[T]he racism that made slavery feasible is far from dead … and the civil rights gains, so hard won, are being steadily eroded."
- "[F]ew whites are ready to actively promote civil rights for blacks."
- "[D]iscrimination in the workplace is as vicious (if less obvious) than it was when employers posted signs 'no negras need apply.'"
- "We rise and fall less as a result of our efforts than in response to the needs of a white society that condemns all blacks to quasi citizenship as surely as it segregated our parents."
- "Slavery is, as an example of what white America has done, a constant reminder of what white America might do."
- "Black people will never gain full equality in this country. … African Americans must confront and conquer the otherwise deadening reality of our permanent subordinate status."
- "Tolerated in good times, despised when things go wrong, as a people we [blacks] are scapegoated and sacrificed as distraction or catalyst for compromise to facilitate resolution of political differences or relieve economic adversity."
Saturday, March 10, 2012
Dead Breitbart Uses the Late Derrick Bell to Smear the Living President Obama
The conspiranoid thinking of the Tea Party GOP with its Birtherism, Obama derangement syndrome, and other assorted pathologies, is the rank afterbirth of conservatism during the moment that is late capitalism. This madness leads to a propensity to believe in the absurd. For example, the Tea Party GOP Right-wing media's most recent effort to slander President Barack Obama.
For the faux populist Right, and folks such as Rick Santorum and his allies, "higher education" is a refuge of the commies, homos, queers, drug users, elitists, coloreds, hippies, secularists, liberals, and their assorted ilk. Consequently, how can any patriotic God fearing American not oppose such a wicked cabal?
I smile at this hostility because it grossly exaggerates the power that academics and others have to influence their students, and society as a whole. After watching Fox News or reading World Net Daily, I am made to feel like a member of The Legion of Doom, as opposed to a struggling lecturer. My power is presented as being outsized; rather than that of he who only has power over office supplies, notepads, pins, and yellow Post-It notes. I wish that critical and engaged scholars could change the lives of students in mass. Sadly, that the reach is far shorter than what most imagine it to be.
At this juncture, I am left wondering is the hostility of conservatives to those who teach for a living a function of a base, centuries old, anti-intellectualism? Some type of misplaced class snobbery? Do they hate Obama primary because he is black? Or could it be that many conservatives hate President Obama because he is an educated black man? And this fact terrifies them? Are the Culture Wars just a carry over from a group of people who lost the Enlightenment and now want to burn witches and kill heretics in the year 2012?
This same public will consistently work against its own class interests in service of advancing a culture war, "values," narrative. They are moved by emotion, and the Manichean politics of the New Right and the Tea Party crowd, precisely because populist conservatism deemphasizes reasoned decision-making and instead emphasizes emotion, religion, and crude identity politics.
Ironically, Breitbart, Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, and the assorted Right wing propagandists, while skilled in offering up a type of political rhetoric for those who "want to feel smart," actually encourage glibness and stupidity. Even more funny and unexpected, the very figures they attack are some of the best thinkers which America has to offer. In all, the enemies list of the New Right is the foundation of a solid syllabus for any person who wants to think critically, and in doing so, to ask difficult questions about power, institutions, and politics. Ultimately, (and excluding the dead Austrian economist that Glenn Beck masturbates over) New Right, anti-Obama conservatives, are putting on blast some of those very people whose theories have the capacity to undo their agenda.
In keeping with this theme, who do you think should be added to the troglodyte Right's list of verboten thought?
Wednesday, March 7, 2012
This is the Point at Which I Swerve You: Loving the Rock's Boston History Themed Promo on John Cena
I would like to thank the kind folks over at Salon for featuring my piece on Rush Limbaugh and the Crisis in White Conservative Manhood (Crooks and Liars also gave it some love which is always appreciated) The piece is running about 12,000 views as of today...that ain't bad for a little armchair psychologizing of the Tea Party GOP's number one bloviator. I will also be on Ring of Fire Radio this weekend. The always supportive Mike Papantonio asked me to sit in for a few minutes. Of course, I accepted the generous invitation.Consequently, there are some new readers here at WARN. I welcome you all. Do come out of lurking and introduce yourselves. By way of introduction, I am an unapologetic ghetto nerd. Blogging is an exercise in self-indulgence and narcissism. I try to write about issues of public concern, but I am ultimately beholden to my own interests, odd predilections, and hobbies. In short, you never know what you are going to get: for me, that is the fun of talking to different folks about random and varied topics both online and in person.
Boston was an excellent prop for some highly entertaining storytelling through the devices of physicality, dexterous speech, and athleticism.In all, the Rock's promo was so solid that it rivaled the Revolutionary war revisionism in my favorite episode of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia.
[Perhaps some intrepid soul will do a drunken history version of the Rock's rewrite of U.S. history? Could be fun...]Those of us, we old time, smart marks who lived through the Attitude era were really and truly spoiled. Little did we realize what we were witnessing. Beyond the goodness of the Monday Night Wars, and early ECW, the mid to late nineties (into the first few years of the 2000s) was a golden age. Kayfabe had been broken; but, we still believed. There were performances like the Rock's on almost every show.
Rick Santorum Compares Defeating Barack Obama to Fighting the Nazis in World War 2
Subsequently, I took some of my allowance money and went to the local butcher. There I spent about thirty or so dollars on ingredients for stuffed peppers. I got the best cuts of ground beef, peppers, spices, and other necessary items. I cooked all day long. I stuffed the peppers generously, used some orange sewing string to secure the pepper tops back on, and cooked them at a high heat in the oven.
I was proud of the result. For thirty dollars--1980s bucks, a not insignificant amount of money at the time--I made a meal that could have been far better prepared for about 5 or so dollars. My mom praised me. My father, who was quite good in the kitchen (as his father was a cook on a tramp steamer), kindly suggested that I needed some breadcrumbs and olive oil to "wet" the dish and bind it together. They ate it. Smiled. And encouraged me to keep trying. In reality, my dinner was horrible. My parents really loved me: they ate this putrid dinner without complaint.
Rick Santorum's speech to his supporters on Super Tuesday was the equivalent of my childhood effort to cook for my parents. His speech was full of red meat for the Tea Party GOP base; it was comfort food for his public. However, Santorum's feast was gag worthy to those of us with a more refined palate.
Working through the entirety of Rick Santorum's speech (and Romney's was pretty close in its level of offensive rhetoric as well) is unnecessary. In all, Santorum's Super Tuesday address to his supplicants was a ham-fisted job that hit all of the obligatory Culture War talking points: Obama is a usurper; the United States is under siege by the President; "small town," "white" America is the "real America"; the strong wall that is the separation of church and state is fictitious, and the Constitution, the framers, and the United States are divinely inspired. Even allowing for these rhetorical flourishes, Santorum offered one utterance that is particularly worth highlighting:
But the greatest generation was the greatest generation not because they had greater -- greater character or courage or perseverance than those of us today. The greatest generation was great because, when freedom was at stake, they rose to meet the call to defend this country.
We're at a time in this country when freedom is at stake and you are all blessed, as I am, to be here at a time when your country needs you, to be here at a time, like the original founders of this country, who signed that Declaration of Independence, to be here at a time when freedom was at stake and people were willing to go out and do heroic and courageous things to win that victory.This passage reveals the deepest sentiments felt by the Tea Party GOP and the reactionary Right in the Age of Obama. The use of the words "courage" and "courageous" are pregnant with meaning. Courage implies risk, harm, the moral and ethical high ground, as well as danger. In this speech, Rick Santorum is signaling that the simple act of handing out fliers, calling potential voters, or canvasing a neighborhood with posters, puts his boosters in existential peril. Normal politics is made a crusade because the Obama administration are thugs.
Moreover, the most risk free political actions--Santorum's supporters are in bed with Power and not resisting it--are elevated to the heights of martyrdom. For outsiders looking in, this premise is absurd; for those who support Santorum, are Tea Party types, or reactionary conservatives, this rhetoric creates community and resonates as a type of common sense. The supporters of the New Right see themselves as the equivalent of sojourners, freedom fighters, and/or as abolitionists freeing slaves. The pundit classes use the language of the "enthusiasm gap" to both summarize and obfuscate a simple idea: Santorum's Christian Nationalist conservative brigands believe that they are on the right side of history; the facts can be damned.
In their eyes, the differences between Left and Right, Democrats and Republicans, are not marginal, coincidental, or negotiable. For Santorum and his folk, defeating Barack Obama is a call to arms, one rooted in the apocalypse, and an eschatological narrative that is heavy with political and existential gravity. Quite simply, Barack Obama is the devil: he must be beaten at any cost.
Santorum's channeling of the "Greatest Generation" is integral to his brand of religion infused conservatism, nostalgia, and Right-wing American Exceptionalism. As seen in movies such as Saving Private Ryan, the notion of the Greatest Generation is a lie based upon its own self-sustaining truth, one that does not have to be subjected to critical inquiry. Many Americans accept the idea of a Greatest Generation just because it is--what "real" American could ever challenge the historical myth of those great veterans who fought the Nazis and made the world safe for democracy?
People like true lies. Why? Because they make them feel good, safe, and comfortable (and isn't feeling good the whole point of politics in an age of spectacle and illusion?)
Some basic facts about World War Two are helpful as we try to reconcile Rick Santorum's appeals with the historical record. Consider the following:
- World War 2 was a global military conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945 which involved nearly all the nations of the world;
- World War 2 involved approximately 50-70 million casualties worldwide on both sides of the conflict;
- The Soviets lost almost 25 million military casualties;
- The United States lost almost half a million people;
- About 3 million or so people were killed in the death camps;
- 300,000 people were killed by the Japanese in Nanking;
- About 2 million people were killed during the Battle of Stalingrad;
- Approximately, 185,000 people were incinerated instantly, and/or either died later, from the atomic bombings of Nagasaki and Hiroshima.
Tuesday, March 6, 2012
Giving the People What They Want? Of Slut Shaming and What if Rush Limbaugh were Black?
To those who found themselves here in a roundabout way, I do not know anything about black shag haircuts. I also have no interest in discussing Michelle Obama's booty, or in negro penises and white teachers. However, I am working on an essay about racism and The Walking Dead. I do not know if pimps fall in love. My knowledge of such matters would suggest that a pimp's love is quite different from that of a square or a lame. I do have to admire the grammar of he or she who is searching for "white wife with brown child is a subtle message; she is a black cock slut."
Monday, March 5, 2012
More than Slut Shaming: Rush Limbaugh and the Crisis in White Conservative Manhood
The 2012 Republican primary season has featured many head-scratching moments. From audiences that cheer the macabre and the cruel, a fratricidal nomination process in which the front runners seem intent on destroying one another, and a collective descent into madness where the most fringe Right wing values such as nativism, conspiratorial Birtherism, old fashioned white racism, and puritanical Christian theocratic identity politics are on full display, it seems that the bizarre has become the new normal.
Since the election of Barack Obama, the Tea Party GOP has embraced a kamikaze-like politics in which they are willing to destroy the proverbial village in order to liberate it. This appetite for destruction has reached a fever pitch during the last few weeks. Rick Santorum and the Republican Party have called for limiting women's reproductive rights under the guise of defending "religion" from the "tyranny" of the Obama administration. A Federal Judge was caught forwarding an email to his friends suggesting that Barack Obama's conception was the product of drunken sex between his mother Ann Dunham, and a dog. And Rush Limbaugh launched a viciously misogynistic attack on Sandra Fluke, a private citizen, who dared to testify before Congress in defense of a woman's right to have equal access to birth control.
On the surface, these incidents appear to be unrelated. They are simply the desperate graspings and mouth utterances of an increasingly fringe and desperate Republican Party which is determined to defeat Barack Obama by any means necessary. However, these events are all symptoms of a bigger problem. In the Age of Obama white manhood—and a particular type of conservative white masculinity—is frightened, unsettled, and terrified of its obsolescence. White (conservative) masculinity finds itself in an existential crisis.
However, from the point of view of embattled white manhood, the situation is very much in doubt. If we reverse our perspective, or "turn the map upside down" as young Marines are trained to do in Officer Candidates School, the sense of crisis being felt by white conservative men is made all the more clear.
The election of Barack Obama has challenged a type of racial self-centeredness and narcissism, what is less precisely known as "white privilege," which has historically put whiteness--and white men--at the center of all things. The white racial frame assumes white dominance as a given: for many, the symbolic politics of a black man, his wife, and children living in the White House, and doing so with grace and dignity, is simply too much to bear. This reality is an upending of their world, an affront to a very narrow sense of what the "American tradition" is, and what the limits of "common sense" actually are.
At its root, conservatism is ultimately about resistance to social change. When imperiled, conservatism becomes reactionary. In the extreme, conservatism yields to its most base authoritarian impulses. As outlined above, the social and political changes of the civil rights and post-civil rights era are a dagger at the heart of contemporary conservatism--and the electoral coalition that has grounded the Republican Party since the 1960s. The maddening politics on display in the 2012 Republican primary are a response to this reality.
For example, public opinion surveys and experiments by researchers have repeatedly demonstrated a close relationship between the idea of who is "American," and a belief that "Americans" are "naturally" white. The courts and United States' immigration policy have reflected this idea, where until the 1950s, a person had to be of "white stock and ancestry" according to the commonsense norms of the "average" white person in order to be eligible for American citizenship. Therefore, if we grant that the national identity of the United States is tied to "white," "masculine," confidence and power (see: conservatives' love of cowboy politics and the "swagger" of men such as George Bush) the rise of China imperils American Exceptionalism as an ideology, one which is inseparably linked to both race and nation.
Citizenship in the United States is gendered—the Constitution had to be amended in order to give women the right to vote. Citizenship is also racialized—Jim and Jane Crow white supremacy were formal systems of racial hierarchy that deemed black Americans as second class citizens, and where any white person, regardless of their mediocrity and low accomplishments, were judged to be better than the most gifted, genius, moral, and brilliant person of color.
Race and gender also intersect. (White) manhood has defined itself by controlling access to women's bodies. Historically, white manhood has also been validated through efforts to dominate and control the bodies of people of color: in particular, those of African Americans. The American rituals of racialized violence, political exclusion and oppression, discrimination in the labor market, and the violent spectacle of the lynching tree, were/are means through which conservative white masculinity, specifically, and white identity, more generally, were validated.
We cannot forget that power is about more than controlling people's bodies. Power, is also about dictating the contours of people's life chances. The retrograde and fringe efforts by Republicans and Christian Nationalists such as Rick Santorum, Rush Limbaugh, and others to deny women their reproductive rights is a direct heir to a type of white manhood (and phallocentric politics), that validates itself through the control of female personhood. The white racial resentment which is the currency of the contemporary Republican Party also draws from this same wellspring.
My claim is not that there is something new about the current crisis in conservative white manhood during the Age of Obama and the Great Recession. For example, during the 1990s, movies such as Falling Down and the rise of "the angry white man" were signals to a sense of upset and malaise in which white men (and white people more generally) were believed to be under assault by immigrants, people of color, gays, lesbians, feminists, and "liberals"--all of who were enabled by an "oppressive" multiculturalism and agenda of political correctness.
More recent films such as Fight Club were efforts to work through the meaning of white manhood in an era of globalization, the rise of the service economy, and the decline of "blue collar" American masculinity. Nixon's silent majority, and Reagan's New Right, "working class," white electoral coalition, were also backlashes against the 1960s, the Civil Rights Movement, and a belief that white American masculinity was imperiled
Looking back more broadly, the
When Rick Santorum, Rush Limbaugh and their allies suggest that women should be denied reproductive rights, or that they should put aspirin between their legs in order to avoid pregnancy, white conservative manhood is reaching back to this fictive past. Likewise, when conservatives indulge in Birtherism, or wallow in white racism in order to delegitimize President Obama, they are reaching back to this lie of a dreamworld. To outsiders looking in, the claims by Pat Buchanan and Charles Murray that white civilization is under siege and in decline appear to be some type of agitprop theater, what is silly-talk that no reasonable person ought to take seriously.
However, for a particular type of white conservative the threat is absolutely real. The coarseness of the political rhetoric in the Age of Obama, and the Republican Party's embrace of the most fringe elements of the Right-wing imagination, is largely driven by a desire to protect conservative white manhood and masculinity at any cost.
For them, American civilization is inseparably and irrevocably tied to whiteness, and a very narrow, "traditional" understanding of what is means to be a "man." Therefore, by this calculus, the suicide bomber politics of the contemporary Republican Party are not insane—rather, they are the necessary and desperate actions of a people who believe that they are facing demographic suicide. The question then becomes: how far will conservatives go to protect a world in which white men and their sympathetic allies (such as Stockholmesque women like Sarah Palin and her "grizzly mom" brigades) are at the center of all things?
Thursday, March 1, 2012
(Non)Racist Federal Judge Says that "Mutt" Barack Obama's Mother Had Sex With a Dog
"Normally I don't send or forward a lot of these, but even by my standards, it was a bit touching. I want all of my friends to feel what I felt when I read this. Hope it touches your heart like it did mine.
"A little boy said to his mother; 'Mommy, how come I'm black and you're white?'" the email joke reads. "His mother replied, 'Don't even go there Barack! From what I can remember about that party, you're lucky you don't bark!'"
The news media have caught the vapors over Chief U.S District Judge Richard Cebull's suggestion that President Barack Obama's now deceased mother was a lustful white woman who was so drunk that she had sex with a dog and conceived the country's first black President. Some have dressed this "joke" up by using the language of "bestiality" to describe the implied sex act, an effort at humor which suggests that intercourse across the colorline is akin to coitus between different animal species. Let's be clear: Cebull found it funny to argue that Ann Dunham was such a drunken wanton slut that she would allow a dog to put his penis inside of her vagina to the point of orgasm, and said canine would ejaculate and conceive President Barack Obama.
Despicable. And let's not make prettier this ugliness in order to make it slightly more palatable.
As I alluded to regarding the high school students who made a Youtube video rant disparaging black people, much of the real action in regards to white supremacy in the colorblind age is in "the backstage." Emails, private jokes, humor, comedy, social media, and the Internet are the primary terrain(s) upon which post-civil rights era white racism is circulated. As one of modernity's greatest inventions, white supremacy is adept at using technology to advance itself--radio, postcards, magazines, film and TV have all been vehicles for teaching, learning, and reinforcing the notion of a racial hierarchy in which whites are dominant and non-whites are naturally subordinate.
The defense, "I was just kidding" is one of the first layers of white victimology and deflection that colorblind racists deploy in the Age of Obama. As an object lesson in this strategy, and the twisted logic that reactionary conservative white supremacists use to run away from their bile--as opposed to owning it (a move that I respect)--Cebull stated the following in defense of his misogynistic attack on Barack Obama's mother:
The judge acknowledged that the content of the email was racist, but said he does not consider himself racist. He said the email was intended to be a private communication."It was not intended by me in any way to become public," Cebull said. "I apologize to anybody who is offended by it, and I can obviously understand why people would be offended."
"The only reason I can explain it to you is I am not a fan of our president, but this goes beyond not being a fan," Cebull said. "I didn't send it as racist, although that's what it is. I sent it out because it's anti-Obama."Apparently, racism is secondary to political intent. Cebull does not realize that his brand of conservatism is inseparable from white racism. This is not a surprise. As Rick Santorum, Newt Gingrich, and Ron Paul have demonstrated, racist appeals are expected from the Tea Party GOP in the 2012 election cycle, and racism is inseparable from "normal" politics for the reactionary populist Right. Nevertheless, this pattern ought to remain troubling for decent minded and reasonable citizens.
He is in good company. There are many United States Justices and Judges who have openly shared their white supremacist bonafides and disdain for non-whites. For example, my favorite is Justice Taney's decision in the Dredd Scott decision where he observed:
"Yet the men who framed this declaration were great men… high in their sense of honor, and incapable of asserting principles inconsistent with those on which they were acting. They perfectly understood the meaning of the language they used, and how it would be understood by others; and they knew that it would not in any part of the civilized world be supposed to embrace the negro race, which, by common consent, had been excluded from civilized Governments and the family of nations, and doomed to slavery.
They spoke and acted according to the then established doctrines and principles, and in the ordinary language of the day, no one misunderstood them. The unhappy black race were separate from white by indelible marks, and laws long before established, and were never thought of or spoken of except as property, and when the claims of the owner or the profit of the trader were supposed to need protection.A close second is Justice Sutherlan, who in the Thind case established the limits of American citizenship as (almost) uniquely limited to "whites" when he decreed that:
What we now hold is that the words 'free white persons' are words of common speech, to be interpreted in accordance with the understanding of the common man, synonymous with the word 'Caucasian' only as that [261 U.S. 204, 215] word is popularly understood. As so understood and used, whatever may be the speculations of the ethnologist, it does not include the body of people to whom the appellee belongs.
It is a matter of familiar observation and knowledge that the physical group characteristics of the Hindus render them readily distinguishable from the various groups of persons in this country commonly recognized as white...It is very far from our thought to suggest the slightest question of racial superiority or inferiority. What we suggest is merely racial difference, and it is of such character and extent that the great body of our people instinctively recognize it and reject the thought of assimilation.Cebull should either resign or be removed from the Court. Yes, the notion that justice is blind has been exposed as a lie many times before, as race, ethnicity, class, gender, and sexuality have all been empirically demonstrated to be variables that impact decisions of "guilty" or "innocent." But ultimately, following this reveal, Cebull he has no credibility as a neutral arbiter of the law.
Many observers have suggested that Cebull should step down because there is no way that a person of color could come before him and expect equal treatment. My objection is a broader one. White supremacy, as well as racism, prejudice, and bigotry more generally, are part of a larger worldview and cognitive schema. A judge who holds beliefs like Cebull is also quite likely to be a person who has many other parochial, retrograde, and prejudicial views regarding matters of public concern. This reality should give any citizen cause, pause, worry, and concern, before entering his court.
White racism hurts people of color. It also hurts white folks too. We compartmentalize these shortcoming at the risk of hurting the public good. Cebull should step down not because he is a racist; rather, he should resign because he has demonstrated a shocking lack of the wisdom, vision, and forethought worthy of a public servant. Racism is not a narrow problem. It is a general defect of character which suggests that many other deficiencies are bubbling beneath the surface. The sooner we start thinking of white supremacy in those terms, the sooner our society will see it for the evil and social ill that it is.
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Lest We Forget that Rick Santorum Supporters are Real People Too
It is easy to demonize one's political foes.
The Right-wing media is persuasive because they offer a worldview, an alternate set of facts, and an emotionally compelling narrative which speaks directly to their public. In short, conservative spin doctors have figured out how to sell their ideology as a faith and a lifestyle where the proclamations, edicts, and conclusions are self-evident. This is especially appealing for low information voters.


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Prospect Profile: #10 Joe Cannata
Thomas Drance
August 20 2012 12:58PM
Drafted in the sixth round of the 2009 NHL Draft, Cannata's development over the past couple of seasons has the Canucks, and many of the club's fans excited. He checks in as the #10 prospect on our list.
Last season, Joe Cannata was one of the best goaltenders in college hockey. He started 36 games for Hockey East's Merrimack Warriors and was basically unbeatable, posting a .925% save percentage behind a team that regularly got shelled. His performance earned him 2nd team All American honours, he was named Hockey East first team as well, and he nearly led the Warriors to the schools fsecond NCAA Tournament berth (they narrowly fell short in the Hockey East quarterfinals against Rhode Island).
Cannata was a senior last season, so he's played his last game in NCAA division 1 hockey. He signed a professional contract with the Canucks shortly after Merrimack's season ended, and he even started a game late in the regular season for the Chicago Wolves. Cannata leaves behind one hell of a legacy, he'll graduate from Merrimack as the school's all time leader in wins, minutes, saves, goals-against average and save percentage.
Before the NHL Draft, I exchanged e-mails with goaltending coach Brian Daccord of "Stop it Goaltending," who has worked closely with Joe Cannata over the past few seasons (he's also worked with Cory Schneider). Brian in particular, raved about Cannata's technique, and the efficiency with which he utilizes his wide-frame in the net:
"One of Joe's attributes is his ability to fill the net. From the first time we got on the ice I was impressed with how square he gets to the puck. I remember looking at the net and asking myself how the puck was going to get by him. In today's NHL, with so much traffic and the speed of the game, Joe's girth will help him tremendously. [Cory Schneider] was a very athletic goalie with very little technique when I started with him. Joe has always had efficiency in his movement."
When I recently spoke with Justin Goldman (aka The Goalie Guild) he had a similar appraisal of Cannata's skill-set:
"Cannata is wider than he is tall. He takes up a lot of the net post-to-post, as opposed to being a really tall lanky goaltender. The number one goal for a goalie is to square up to pucks and take up as much space as possible, and Joe plays big in the net despite not having the greatest size or the greatest athleticism.
When you have that, you have a guy who can be economical in his movements (and that may have been a factor in why he was able to be so durable for Merrimack). That's one of the things I noticed about Cannata: he plays big for his size, he takes up a lot of space, he absorbs a lot of pucks, and if he gives up rebounds he doesn't have to flail or dive around. Cannata finds a way to stay balanced, and stay in control of his body like a sponge in the net."
Cannata's calm, steady style of play isn't just an aesthetic, it's reflective of his personality. Brian Daccord described Cannata as a guy with an exceptionally short memory (an invaluable asset for a goaltender). "Nothing really phases him," Brian told me, adding that "If [Cannata] was in a house on fire, he would probably stop in the kitchen to make himself a sandwich on his way out." Brian also told us that Cannata "is not a goalie that fluctuated in hot and cold games. Joe's dependability will be an asset that a head coach will appreciate."
Justin Goldman, who described Cannata as "an under the radar prospect with NHL upside," echoed the sentiment that Cannata has all of the intangibles one looks for in a high-end goaltending prospect. He also thinks Cannata's role at Merrimack, playing behind a team that really relied on his puck stopping ability to keep them in games, gives Cannata a leg up over other young goalies:
"In Cannata you have a goaltender who knows how to carry a team, and play essentially every single game. In Hockey East, he's facing good talent, and for him moving forward - you saw it in his AHL debut (where he hung in there and had a great performance) - I see a guy who is probably going to surprise a lot of people this season in Chicago.
That's what you want. When you have a guy with leadership qualities like Joe has the sky is really the limit. Skill can take you places, and you have to have it if you're going to push to be an NHL goaltender. But for a goalie: having the mental toughness and the ability to handle the ups and downs and be a durable guy, that's what really separates you from the pack. I really like what he can probably do here, in the next two or three years with Vancouver."
Going into this season (if the season ever happens), it's hard to project where exactly Joe Cannata fits in. With Luongo still on the roster and Eddie Lack unsigned, there's a lot of uncertainty between the pipes in the Canucks system. If Luongo is moved before the start of the upcoming (and probably delayed) campaign, it's possible that Eddie Lack will backup Cory Schneider in Vancouver. In that scenario, Joe Cannata would have ample opportunity to battle with Matt Climie for starts in Chicago. At the very least he'd be in competition with recently signed Mathieu Corbeil-Theriault for the right to backup Climie.
Of course, if Luongo remains with the Canucks, it's tough to see Cannata usurping Matt Climie or Eddie Lack with the Wolves. In that case, it seems probable that Cannata could spend a significant amount of time cutting his teeth in the ECHL with the Kalamazoo Wings. For skaters, playing regular minutes in the ECHL is usually a very bad sign, but it's a bit different for goaltenders (see Reimer, James). According to Justin Goldman, the ECHL may not be the worst place for Cannata to get his feet wet in professional hockey:
"For college goalies, you're playing only two nights a week and then you're just practicing for five days. College goalies, I think, benefit more from starting off in the ECHL because they get a better understanding of the demands of the pro-level, and what it's like to practice every day and play every other day."
Based on the way Cannata performed last season, both with Merrimack and in his one game stint with the Wolves, he's got an awful lot going for him. While Cannata will have a lot of competition for minutes in Chicago, that's probably a good thing for his long-term development. And anyway, if Cannata can continue to build off of his lights-out performance last season, he shouldn't have any trouble getting his share of starts.
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After five long years of trying to bring to pass the uniting of Green River City; it will become one county; Emery County. The Utah Supreme Court ruled on June 25 that the Green River Annexation issue was in fact constitutional and Emery County won on all counts.
Emery County and Green River City filed an appeal to the Utah Supreme Court, when trial court judge Lyle Anderson ruled in favor of Grand County declaring that section 17-2-6(2) of the Utah Code is unconstitutional under certain sections of the Utah Constitution. Judge Anderson failed to certify the election results which approved the annexation of that portion of Green River City located within Grand County into Emery County.
Grand County cross appealed Emery County and Green River City's right for election review. This appeal arises out of a long standing controversy between neighboring Grand County and Emery County and Green River City, which straddles the two counties common border. The Green River portion of Grand County, with the consent and encouragement of Emery County, petitioned the relevant county legislative bodies to be annexed by Emery County, the desired result being that all of Green River would be located in Emery County instead of spread across two counties. These same parties were before the Supreme Court in 1998 in connection with the same underlying controversy. In that case Grand County successfully challenged a previous version of section 17-2-6, the statute at issue. The statutory framework within which the battle rages has been changed by the Utah Legislature through the subsequent enactment of House Bill 49.
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The election was held and after the election, Grand County refused to certify the election with regard to the annexation proposal. On Dec. 14, 2000, the trial court granted Emery County and Green River's petition for election review. An annexation proposal must be approved by a majority of voters in the portion to be annexed and in the county in which it will be annexed. In this election a majority of the voters had approved this proposal, but the trial court refused to certify the election results because it held section 17-2-6(2) to be unconstitutional.
Grand County argued that Section 17-2-6(2) only applied to the Green River situation, but presently there are four cities/towns that fall into the class created by the statute. This does not render the statute to be "special" and created only for the Green River situation. As populations grow and shift and communities expand, more may come into existence which fit in this class. On this point Grand County's argument was unavailing.
The supreme court also ruled on the number of voters issue explaining that a voter was one who engages in the act of voting. The definition requires a majority of persons who engage in the act of voting who live in the territory to be annexed, as well as those who live in the county to which that territory is to be annexed, to vote in favor of an annexation proposal in order for it to be approved. In other words, the group of voters of which a majority is required consists merely of those who exercise the right to vote on the annexation proposal in question at the election in which the annexation proposal in question is offered for a vote. The number of votes cast at the ballot box itself is the basis for determining a majority, as opposed to the number of those possessing the qualifications to vote or those registered to vote in the annexing county or area to be annexed but who do not actually vote.
In previous cases it is presumed that, "All qualified voters who absent themselves from an election duly called are presumed to assent to the expressed will of the majority of those voting, unless the law providing for the election otherwise declares. This decision was made in the Glover v. Hot Springs Kennel Club, Inc. Therefore, Grand County was unable to stand on their insistence that the majority of registered voters must approve the annexation.
Green River City Mayor Glen Johnson said, "I feel great about this, it's been a lot of hard work and it has paid off. The city and the county feel it is the right way to go. It started around 1989, the first move to annex Green River into Emery County; but the governor vetoed the whole thing. Rep. Brad Johnson helped to get House Bill 49 passed and a lot of people did a lot of work on that legislation. All of the city council became involved and the mayor at the time, Judy Scott.
"Grand County has 14 days to contest the ruling, but I don't think they will because all five Supreme Court Judges ruled in our favor. The supreme court will now send it back to Judge Lyle Anderson and instruct him on the things he ruled against. He must change his ruling and say yes, it was a true vote with a majority and Lieutenant Governor Olene Walker must certify the vote. It will take effect on Jan. 1, 2003 and go into law. The governor will write a statement and declare that portion of Grand County will become Emery County. After that we will go to work to transfer the property.. The long term indebtedness will have to be adjusted. The transfer will take a lot of work by a lot of people. It will be a big hard job.
"Green River City took the lead and I have been so pleased that so many people got involved with this. I met with all the cities in the county and the final vote was 200 against and 4,000 voters for the annexation. We are pleased with all the support. There were so many of our Green River people who went door to door and were excited about it. This will also help the school district. It is a big step and it should have been done a long time ago. The county commission has been helpful and this was truly a community project. We hope the authorities of Emery County will help us to have the same benefits as the rest of the communities in the county.
"This was good politics and it was a good cause that we believed in and we won. We will still be neighbors with Grand County and we want to be good neighbors. We want to get along and we don't want any hurt feelings; we just want to be good neighbors," said Mayor Johnson.


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I'm currently using M33 5.00 M33-6
What do you guys use? Do you have a fat, a slim or a psp 3000?
What homebrew do you recommend? What definitions do you use?
Also, CSO vs. ISO vs. DAX, what do you prefer?
I'm currently using M33 5.00 M33-6
What do you guys use? Do you have a fat, a slim or a psp 3000?
What homebrew do you recommend? What definitions do you use?
Also, CSO vs. ISO vs. DAX, what do you prefer?
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3.50GEN-B, which is needed for the latest games. It looks like Team M33 stopped developing custom firmware. :/ ISO x CSO x DAX is not a choice of preference, CSO simply has the highest compression rate. Some games might slow down a bit on certain occasions, but not so horribly that it actually becomes bothersome.
I'm on 5.00 M33-6 too, had no problems playing new games yet (Idol Master SP games worked after the PPF patches) :x
I always uncompress CSO files back to ISO, Like Mass said, things can slow down, sound quality can be awfull too.
Project Diva compressed to CSO is fukken terrible, sound crackles, frame rate goes haywire, you can't play it when it's like that.
I suppose CSO is handy if you don't have much memory, but I just buy another Pro Duo when memory is running short :1
i dont know where to ask this, since this is a psp thread, ill ask here
how does the psp 3000 look??
and is there going to be another psp that will look entirely different?
i searched some pics but i dont know if they are fan made or concepts
the psp 3000 isn't much different from the 2000, only the screen is supposed to be brighter. and you cant really hack it. well you can sort of with chicken-hen, but i prefer m33.
i have a psp 2000 with 5.50 gen-a. i upgraded from 5.00 m33-6 because i wanted to play psn demoes, i.e. english dissidia demo
original psp (psp 1000 or phat psp) best for homebrew, easiest to hack
psp 2000 (psp slim & lite, the one i currently own)easy to hack, can't run homebrew written for 1.5, unless you use time machine. way lighter than original.
psp 3000 (psp bright?) hard to hack, but not impossible. don't get if you have the choice of getting the psp 2000. some modified button designs and umd tray designs.
psp go ( no umd drive, everything is flash memory) so far, unhackable
if you wanna pirate games, get the psp 2000. if you really like to homebrew, get the 1000. avoid the go and 3000
i own both psp-1000 and psp-2000 (recent upgrade because i found it at a good price mint condition). Running both at 5.00 m33-6 atm and will probably work to 5.50gen soon when the fall games come out. ( Little big planet and dissidia) cant wait for those games. As mentioned b4 cso is smaller and saves space but it does get a bit laggy at some areas (still bearable of course). i highly would not recommend the psp 3000.... as mentioned it is hackable but its very limited. To top it off theres a screen defect with it so boo on that. as for the psp go.... ill wait and see how that product fairs.... before considering on buying it...
I find that some games run with the M33 driver works better than if it ran with the PS9600 or the normal one(there's one other I forgot), and vice versa. I think it also depends on the games extension also.
At Gamecrazy, they're selling used/refurbed psp phats for $70. But goodluck finding any.
I prefer the phat, because imo it feels better in my hands. And whenever it drops on the floor, I dont get suicidal/homocidal over it.(unlike my friend's slim which broke after one fall from arms legnth).
I use 5.00 M33-4 on ChickHEN R2 homebrew enabled PSP Phat.
Funny thing though with my friends pandora battery (he needed to unbrick a psp he got for free, after he broke aforesaid slim psp). It leaked battery acid all over the fuses and whatnots on the pcb. He picked it up and he touched it, and his fingers started burning.
no 5.55 cfw in sight, which kinda sucks cause i have a feeling that dissidia will require it.
i might actually have to purchase a psp game.
oh and @ juice, the psp go comes out october 1st, and since sony is marketing it as a "high end" psp, its going to go for 249, which i think i stupid because the ps3 is now only 299.


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Hi there - we're planning a trip to the Tankwa Karoo in October this year, two families of two adults and two teenagers each, and would like advice about the weather at that time of the year and the likely condition of the roads. Would we need to travel in 4x4s to access routes in the park? Would Elandsberg be a good choice for both families to be together comfortably, or do you recommend moving around in the park and using other accommodation? We will be travelling from Cape Town so advice on the most interesting route (we enjoy back roads and meanders) would also be very welcome. Thank you - GayeD
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We went to Tankwa during October 2011 and we enjoyed it thoroughly. We camped in their wild camps and found that very rewarding. Some of them you need a 4x4 for. The others can be done with a sedan. Best is to find out from the website which of the camps will suit your purpose. To answer your question about the weather, follow the link below to see some of the pictures we took and from them you will be able to judge. Some days were very hot.
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The Emery High Spartans won three more ball games last week and now are tied with Juan Diego for the region lead with 6-2 records. Delta and Carbon are a game back with 5-3 records as the region enters the last week of play. Coach Jimmy Jones talked about the close race, "We have two games left that will determine our finish, we could end up anywhere from first to fourth. Juan Diego, Delta and us each control our own destiny and those are the two teams we play this week."
Emery started the week with a 10-0 win over Granite in Salt Lake City. Josh Eden pitched a complete game allowing no runs and five hits. Josh struck out nine batters and walked only two.
Emery scored five runs in the first inning as Kesler Tanner walked to lead off, Ryne Jones tripled, Trevor Thompson was hit by a pitch, David Justice singled, Ryan draper tripled and Kyler Edgehouse singled.
Emery scored three more runs in the second inning as Ryne Jones singled, Blake Mortensen singled, Justice singled again and Draper picked up two RBI's on a hit that was fumbled by the defense.
Thompson scored in the fourth inning after a single and an RBI hit by Justice. The last run came in the fifth inning as Kade Jones scored on a single by brother Ryne.
Emery defeated Manti in a non-region contest on Thursday by a score of 7-6. Trevor Komar opened on the mound and allowed the six runs through four innings. Jordan Gee pitched the last two innings in picking up the win.
Emery scored four times in the first inning. Ryne singled, Eden doubled, Thompson singled Justice singled and Mortensen singled. Draper with a home run. Steven Giles scored in the second inning and Mortensen and Ron Herrera scored in the seventh inning to give Emery the one run victory.
Emery then did something they had not done in five or six years, they handed Carbon a loss and they did it in Price. Emery easily won the game 10-3 as Edgehouse picked up the win. Edgehouse had eight strikeouts in the game and gave up three walks. Carbon had eight hits in the game but only had more than one hit in only the first inning when they scored two runs.
Emery scored one run in the first inning as Draper singled and scored on a single by Justice. Mortensen also singled to get Draper to third base.
Emery scored six runs in the second inning as they sent 10 batters to the plate. Ryne Jones walked, Landon Thomas walked, Kade Jones singled, Thompson doubled, Eden walked, Mortensen doubled and Justice doubled. All but Justice scored.
Emery scored their last three runs in the fifth inning. Mortensen got hit by a pitch, Justice singled, Ryne singled and Thomas singled. Edgehouse got aboard due to a Carbon error to score the last run.
Emery is hitting the ball really well, probably the best hitting team in years at Emery. As a team, Emery is batting .296 and is averaging just over seven runs per game. Leading the hitting is Ryne Jones with a .481 average. Right behind are Mortensen with a .375 average, Thompson with a .373 average and Justice with a .367 average. Draper is also hitting over .300, which seems to be the benchmark of a really good hitter, with a .326 average.
Kade Jones and Landon Thomas are each batting .286 and Eden is batting .275.
Kyler Edgehouse is the ace of the staff. Kyler has a 5-1 record and has an ERA of 2.42. Eden is right behind with a 3-3 record and a 3.94 ERA.


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There are certain parts of my childhood that I LOVE to remember...those glorious virgin moments..still untainted by life's cruel reality.
A few days ago I pulled bright red tinsel garland out of a Christmas box, held it up to my nose and breathed deep... I took in the scent of many Christmas' past, marveled at time's ruthless march and thought about how since the time I was a very little (sweet) girl I have loved that red tinsel garland.
Do you have an item like that in your life dear reader? Some small piece of history, that takes you right back?
I don't remember pulling it out the year after my Mom passed, but I remember the few years before..bringing out the decorations, the merry making of the tree, tacky glass balls accompanied the tacky red tinsel garland.. perfect makings for a 70's tree.
A few years after my own children were born I was bitter about Christmas. I struggled with the pain that sometimes accompanies so much of the Christmas season. Looking back I think I was mourning a bit, realizing that I did not have my biological mother to share the joy of having my own children to celebrate the birth of my Savior with.
Silly me.
One year as I was reluctantly pulling out our decorations I popped open the red tinsel garland box.. a flood of memories came over me.
That year when I sang Christmas carols at church they had a deeper meaning, they rang truer than ever before, tears pricked my eyes as I looked down the row at the family that my Maker had blessed me with. No more would I lament what I did not have..no, it was time to be thankful for what I did have.
It was time to start making new memories, let my ghosts of Christmas' past go. To choose to hold onto the good and let the bad become that hazy memory.
Now when you visit my house at Christmastime (please come for coffee & cookies!) you will not find the lastest trend in Anthropolgie tree decorating (sorry) but what you will find is a tree FILLED to the brim with love, meaning, nostalgia and the hope that Christmas brings.


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Comments: Borrowed this racquet used few times hit no walls or floor, had noticed broken upper corners, maybe from hitting ball off upper frame. Have played for many years never had this happen will stick to my head i165 much stronger.
Comments: Just broke my 4th of these racquets recently. ave had several over the past few years. I've been playing competitively for over 32 years, so am no newbie wall-whacker. As others say, "I love the feel of it and would like to stay close to the same.", etc. This last one held up longer than expected, but am over the idea of having to replace such a fragile weapon that should be a lot more durable. Anyway, any recommendations on a similar, more reliable raquet would be appreciated.
Comments: I have broken 3 of the four of these racquets in nearly the same spot after playing with them just over a year. This is without hitting a wall. I read other comments about the weakness and am reluctant to buy another. Any suggestions for a replacement with similar feel. I love the feel of it and would like to stay close to the same. Have never had them long enough to re-string.
Comments: Great Racquet for the price. It took me a few weeks to get used to it but I soon felt like it was an extension of my hand. I have had it for 2 years and the racquet has held up well (never broke, rock solid)...restrung multiple times and the stringing makes a big difference. I have bought nothing but Ektelon racquets since. I have the Copper O3 and the DPR Magnum Lite as well now.
Comments: Broke the racket within a few months of getting it. Miss hit the ball off the frame and that's all it took. Ektelon sent me a new racket and I've hade it for over a year now. The frame has a high sweet spot which suits my swing. Good combination of power and control. I do notice that when I miss-hit the ball the racquet is not very forgiving. Not a bad racquet for $99 if the frame holds.
Comments: Broke the racket within a few months of getting it. Miss hit the ball off the frame and that's all it took. Ektelon sent me a new racket and I've had it for over a year now. The frame has a high sweet spot which suits my swing. Good combination of power and control. I do notice that when I miss-hit the ball the racquet is not very forgiving. Not a bad racquet for $99 if the frame holds.
Comments: I am a player that spends more money on strings and rackets than I do on gym fees. I have used Ektelon all my life. I have gone through 4 O3 blacks 3 whites and now im trying the reds. For the price of course, I do my own stringing and gripping and Im praying this one last a while. I can handle the strings breaking but frames..ugh!
Comments: I feel this is one of the best playing racquets. This racquet has a lot of control and power, I was not happy with the factory strings seem to stiff. I tried E-Force oxygen 17 still did not fit the bill. I restrung with Forten sweet 17 at 30 lbs the racquet then lost a lot of control with no real gain in power, I then restrung with Forten at 33lbs set on the machine and racquet settled in to be quite amazing.
Comments: Very tight racquet. Plays very clean with good power and control. Did not have any problem with the dampener at all.
Comments: this racquet hits great but does not last at all very fragile. my second day playing with it and already broke. i am very disappointed and sending back to Ektelon to see if i can get a new one. i just heard the pop on the racquet after a normal point and notice two points after. never hit the wall with it so don't really know what happened.
Comments: Very nice racquet. Played with it for a little while now and must admit, it's very nice. In my tournament, I'm 3-1 so I like this racquet. It has great power and very easy to kill the ball. I am switching over to the 03 white and this will be my back up but over all amazing racquet and will improve your game!!!!
Comments: I love this racquet but it is killing my elbow. I had to take Motrin this morning for the pain. I am going to try new strings and a lighter tension.
Comments: I really like this racquet. I found that the Ektelon Silencer will dampen almost all the vibration if you place it so it lays across the centermost eight strings. As far as playability, it was very accurate, seemed manueverable, and felt very stable. And this was a used O3 Red as well. If you like the type of weight and balance this racquet provides, give it a shot. You may be pleasantly surprised.
Comments: Ive had the racquet for two days and already love it, im hitting the ball with power that my previous head racquet couldnt get close to. The racquet is balanced very nicely and is lightweight for those with quick swing speeds. In two days my shot placement has improved greatly. For those before me that say the racquet vibrates a ton, all you need to do is push the dampener flush against the first string above it, this will get rid of all vibrations. For those who are trying to decide between this one and the DPR, definitely spend the 10 bucks extra for this racquet.
Comments: A very good racquet But had to replace it three times. Looking for another racquet with same fill that will last longer.
Comments: Great racquet . . . if you don't mind replacing it every 6 months. I've been playing under a student sponsor package for the last three years and have gone through 8-9 racquets. Now that I'm no longer sponsored, I'm switching to a more dependable brand.
Comments: Excellent Racquet and I will recommended it to anyone that want to improve its game. You have to make sure that you have the right pattern for the dampener. If you have it wrong you will feel the vibration but if you have it right, you will not feel anything at all and you will be hitting that ball like never before. Great power and control from front and back of the court. I liked to do some tricky soft touches now and then and I don't feel this racquet is good for that, but just learning how to do them with it anyway. Factory strings have to go, they are terrible. I put some E-Force strings and it works super.
Comments: The O3 will have vibration if the dampener is placed through the strings incorrectly. I believe the correct pattern from the short side is over two strings, under three strings, over three strings, then under two. (Not sure since my racquet is not in front of me). This was from the Ektelon rep, so if I have it wrong, you may mention it to your club manager to talk to the Ektelon rep) It looks weird since the dampener doesn't seem to touch some of the strings but if the damper is alternating ever other string, the vibration will be noticeable. Using this pattern, there is no noticeable vibration in my racquet.
Comments: I have had the Ektelon O3 Black less than 3 months and I had to replace the strings. Then 1 week after replacing the strings, the frame cracks. I didn't string it past it's recommended tension. I rarely ever hit the walls on a swing so I can't attribute the frame cracking to abuse. I borrowed a fellow player's Ektelon O3 Red for a while. Anyway, 3 weeks into borrowing the Red, I had broken the strings and also cracked the frame. In the same fashion as the Black, in the same place. Durability on this racquet and the Ektelon O3 Black are to be questioned. My Black is still "under inspection" by Ektelon. Hope they find their QC was faulty.
Comments: I've played for over 20 years and never have had elbow pain. I love the racquet but it destroyed my elbow in 3 months. Luckily I broke it and had it sent back. During that time playing with my old E-force my elbow recovered. When I got the Ektelon back it only took 1 month for my elbow to hurt. I've tried restringing with Technifiber, dampers, everything. Great racquet but it's a killer on elbows!
Comments: wanted to move into the latest Ektelon since using the DPR Lite so I tried it....too much of a good thing for me...a lot more power without the effort and clean control but for me a sizable move from the DPR so I traded it for a second DPR. Now after breaking the DPR I am back to the 03 Red. I will give it a couple weeks to meld with me then buy a second one.
Comments: I Know the 03 Red is the best racquet I have played with as a ektelon player. I don't use factory strings and I don't feel any vibrations. The 03 black has a lot of vibrations. I broke two 03 red racquet in the last 8 months and Now I will be switching to Pro Kennex. I think the 03 red is a great racquet but I can't wait around for 2 or 3 months to always get a replacement.
Comments: I really love the racquet but it has broken on me three times.I have not had a problem with vibrations since i switched dampners.I will try the 03 Black and see how it is.
Comments: I have had this racquet for 2 weeks and I have to say that this racquet really takes you to the next level. It is full of power and the control is incredible. One thing that I did notice is that the racquet has some vibration.. nothing horrible but it is there. I am going to restring the racquet with technifibre Biphase and I am going to go for 32 lbs... I will play for a couple of weeks and then I will write again. (I heard that is the best string available)
Comments:I purchased this racquet based on great reviews. I upgraded from an ektelon viper. This racquet has it all. It gives me precision shot placement and plenty of power. One thing that has to definately go is the stock strings. I switched to technifibre after about a month of stock strings and felt a major difference. Stock strings gave this racquet a little vibration but when I made the switch it pretty much disapeared. Great racquet and highly recommended!
Comments: I love this racquet. Tons of control with great power. No problems with vibration. My only complaint - I just busted off one of the "Power Rings" that hold the middle strings located at the base of the head. I hit with reasonable power, but not enough that I should break the racquet. I hope this is just an odd occurrence.
Comments:Comments:One week and my elbow is killing me. I can feel the vibration on every hit. No matter if I am lobbing or nailing a power pass shot. I really love the balance and weight of the racket, but I've had to go back to my old racquet until I can get some advice on how to reduce the vibration. I am using the dampener that came with it along with the stock strings. Any advice on another string brand, tension, new grip, or another type of dampener that would help?
Comments:The 03 Red is a player's racquet. The faster the pace, the better you will play with the 03. The control is why I like it, but it is also very powerful. I'm sure Ektelon is having a good year with this one.
Comments:The O3 red is a much better racquet than the DPR in balance, feel, and power. I broke 2 DPR's within 2 months. I had the O3 re-gripped and restrung from the start. It makes a HUGE difference. I play 4-5 times a week as mid B. It's been much more reliable and I am on the third set of strings and same Python grip. I love watching players whiff at the serves. It's so nice to run a half dozen points on someone just on the serves. I am going to try the newest tecnifibre strings to see if the last longer.
Comments: I have been a happy user of the DPR Lite but did not want to find that all my buddies had the new O3 model while I limped along with last years "state of the art" racquet. I must say my first few trips to the court with the O3 were not love at first swipe...but after a few weeks of playing with it, I have become a believer. I don't really know how much more we can expect from the manufactures. All the new racquets are great and in the right hands can do amazing things. I think I shall change the stock strings on my racquet and see if that makes it even better. Overall, I would give it pretty darn high marks. It just took a little patience to get there.
Comments:I do not understand the comments about vibration, my 03 does not have thos eproblems. In fact, it hits very well with outstanding control. The power it delivers is very real, and the balance is superb. I recommend this racquet to any racquetball player that wants a premium racquetball instrument to compete with.
Comments: I agree with the vibration problems. I have never had "tennis elbow" but after a week of daily play I am experiencing steady pain in my elbow plus tightness in my triceps. The racquet is good w/ incredible power and huge sweetspot but I will probably switch back to my DPR to save my elbow.
Comments: I was not sure about this racquet since I have been using a Head i.165. I played 2 hours of singles tonight and found the racquet to be more comfortable and agile. The stock strings have to go. I am going to the Technifibre strings I have on the Head racquet. I have more control on my serves and less strain on my elbow.
Comments: This is, by far, the sweetest racquet I've ever played with. I'm surprised by some of the comments I've read about vibration problems, as I have experienced no such thing. The racquet is very, very solid, and I honestly haven't played with a racquet that is so responsive to more controlled, off-speed shots. The 03 Red is a real gem of a racquet. The power is immense. I've let a few friends hit with it, and they have all loved it - it is balanced differently than the DPR, so maybe that's why those with DPR's have a different perspective. This racquet is superior in every way. I play Elite Division, and style of play is *aggressive* control.
Comments: Unbelievable control and feel, complete with all the power you'll want. From soft touches to Mach 5 passes, this racquet will raise your game to the next level
Comments: I had a chance to hit this racquet at a demo night at my club. Racquet looks nice and feels light,lots of power, but I felt alot of vibration. I don't recommend this racquet for people that have sensitive elbows.
Comments: I have to disagree with the previous comment. This racquet has amazing balance and great power. The close-ups shots have control/accuracy and the power shots have zip. I do think the stock strings should be junked right away as when I got mine there were way too tight ~35-36lbs. Put a nice 17g and 18g string and you'll be impressed.
Comments: I have to say that after playing with the DPR and then trying the O3 that the DPR is far better. I found the O3 to be very stringy with so much vibration it affected my elbow tremendously. I think the DPR has as much power, is very stiff and there is no vibration at all. I do not suggest the O3 or anyone that suffers with tennis elbow.
Comments: This racquet is great! It is light and not too stiff. The Dominant is stiffer. Be prepared, power! I've only played with it for about 2 1/2 weeks so I'm still getting used to it. It gives you a great feel for the ball. I'm sure it's not just the racquet but there has been more aces and roll-outs in my game.


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Price,UT/Wahiawa,HI-Capt. James Leslie Carr, US Army (Ret), age 75, passed away on Tuesday, March 18, 2014 in Wahiawa, Hawaii.
Born November 4, 1938 in Sheridan, Wyo. to Juanita Marie Owings and Frederick L. Carr.
Married Larraine Hoemi Kailimai, June 10, 1960 in the Hawaiian LDS Temple Laie Oahu, HI.
Graduate of Carbon High School Class of 1957. Served in the US Army for two tours in Vietnam with honors including a Purple Heart. Worked for Cornets, Christensen Dental Lab, with brother-in-law, Dominic, Chevron Oil with Keith Leavitt, John's Distributing with John Beacco, Coca-Cola with Pace Hansen and the Dept. of Defense in Hawaii.
Member Price Elks Lodge #1550, American Legion, Veteran of Foreign Wars and Past Commander of the Disabled American Veterans.
Survived by wife, Larraine, HI; daughters Rayne (Frank) Jensen, Cleveland, UT, Gerianne, HI, Sarah (Michael) Tabije, Las Vegas, NV; brother John "Jack" Carr, Price, UT; grandchildren, Kerwin C. (KC), Zachary L., of Cleveland, Amanda Lei, Harold James, HI, Micah, NV; great-granddaughter A. Frankie Jensen.
Preceded in death by parents, sister, L. Janet (Dominic) Oliveto; sister-in-law, Ora Renee Carr, half siblings, granddaughter Crystal, extended family and many dear friends from his many walks of life.
Earthly resting place is in Hawaii with full military honors. Friends are welcome to share memories with the Carr family at www.mitchellfuneralhome.net.


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I had someone speaking to me the other day about the sublime and the transcendental, and I said my work wasnt all that transcendental. It has mystery in it, and it's very hot and romantic, but I'm not working toward any absolute. I will talk about the realism in the work, it's physicality and the violence of cutting into surfaces. I'm quite rutheless and relentless. The works are all about these tensions and contradictions in me. They're formal yet they're sexual, austere and mysterious at the same time. Mysterious to me also.
Sean Scully, interview with Adrian Dannatt, 'I don't have the American ambition of being the next great abstract artist', Flash Art, vol. 25, no. 164, May–June 1992, pp. 103–105 (p. 105).


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By GARY ARRINGTONSports Writer
Just after the holiday break, the Emery High swim team hosted region rival Richfield in a dual swim meet at the Emery County Aquatic Center. Although the Emery women defeated their counterparts 114-104, the Emery men lost 117-99 allowing Richfield to win the overall title by a score of 221-213.
Emery won 12 of the 22 events but depth came into play as Richfield had more of it to claim the win. Emery actually won eight of the 11 women's events while the men only won four of 11.
The three Emery relay teams all won. Members of the 200-yard medley team were Madi Allinson, Melece Pulli, Jessica Guymon and Laryssa Guymon. Members of the 200-yard free relay team were Chyanne Carter, Tanner Peterson, Hailee Rogers and Madi Allinson. Members of the 400-yard free relay team were Jessica Guymon, Laryssa Guymon, Hailee Rogers and Chyanne Carter.
Individual women winners were Laryssa Guymon in the 200-yard IM and the 100-yard breaststroke, Hailee Rogers in the 100-yard fly and the 100-yard backstroke and Jessica Guymon in the 100-yard freestyle. The Emery men's team of McKade Hansen, Levi Jensen, Kayden Parkins and Justan Potter won the 200-yard free relay. Individual men winners were Tyler Pulli in the 200-yard freestyle, Spencer Fauver in the 50-yard freestyle and Justan Potter in the 100-yard freestyle.
Second place finishers for the women were Madi Allinson in the 200-yard IM and the 100-yard back and Chyanne Carter in the 100-yard free and the 50-yard free. Second place finishers for the men were Justan Potter in the 50-yard free, Kayden Parkins in the 100-yard free, Colton Clement in the 500-yard free and Tyler Pulli in the 100-yard breast. The men's 400-yard free relay team of Spencer Fauver, Robert Boyer, Colton Clement and Tyler Pulli also finished second. The team will have a meet at Carbon on Jan. 8, at Uinta Jan. 10, and the region swim meet Jan. 26 also at Carbon.


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Virgin Australia Fares take off for Gladstone, Port Macquarie and Canberra15/08/2011
The Virgin Australia Group of Airlines has today announced the schedule and fares, on sale today, of new regional and intrastate services to be operated by ATR aircraft, subject to regulatory approvals.
Virgin Australia Group Executive Commercial Liz Savage said the 68-seater turboprop ATR would operate:
- Double daily week-day return Brisbane to Gladstone from 17 October;
- Daily return Brisbane to Port Macquarie from 19 October;
- Double daily Sydney to Port Macquarie from 19 October; and
- Up to six daily return services between Sydney to Canberra from 19 October.
Ms. Savage said the fares for flights between Brisbane and Gladstone would commence from $89.00 one way* and from Brisbane to Port Macquarie from just $99.00 one way*.
Under its alliance with Virgin Australia, Skywest will operate and maintain the ATR aircraft on behalf of Virgin Australia using Virgin Australia's branding and quality in-flight product and service.
*Seats are limited and may not be available at peak times or on all flights. Checked baggage charges apply to all Saver Fares. Fares on the net are one way, or $15 more by phone. Change/cancel fees apply. Fare is correct as at 15 August, 2011 and is subject to change. Fares are on sale from 1200 15 August. For travel from 17 October and 19 October 2011. Visit www.virginaustralia.com for more information.