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Thrustburst emerges
Umlautgames has finished its first game and stands from the shadows to the harsh digital fluorescent light to say, "Please play it!". Originally conceived by myself (I am Helm!) as a variation of Urthwurm in the capable coding hands of Fuzzpilz it became much more, very fast. The additional design was brainstormed between the two of us, until we were joined by Ptoing on extra graphics (most of the graphics, to be precise), DarkStalkey on sound effects, Lackey on even more graphic goodness and Ghormak on music. That group named itself Umlautgames when Thrustburst was about 85% done.
We then sat there and did nothing for the game for a year and a half.
Recently though the stars aligned favorably and pushed us to a proper release. Download the game here and be sure to tell us what you think!
We have two more projects in various stages of design and implementation which we will periodically show off and discuss on this website while waiting for the stars to realign.
For now, try to finish Thrustburst, old man!
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Embers from a fire that originated at a recycling plant near downtown spread several miles south Oct. 3 because of 30 mph winds. In the 3200 block of South Fairmont Ave., a small structure was destroyed and the 48-year home of Dario and Hermalinda Alvarez suffered major damage. CORRECTION: Oct. 4, 2013 Text in the original version of this video misidentified the location of a fire. The error has been corrected.
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May 15, 2013
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BRISTOL, Tenn. – Nate Moorman, King University's men's wrestling coach announced the dates for the Tornado Wrestling Camps at King University. The camp will take place from June 16-20 and is open to ages 11 and older.
There are two options for this camp, campers can commute or stay on campus. Registration fees for commuters are $175 and $275 if the camper will be staying on campus. Teams of 10 or more can sign up for $250 per camper. The registration fee includes insurance, a t-shirt, instruction and competition.
The registration deadline for the Tornado Wrestling Camps is June 1. For more information, follow the links at the top of the page.


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Interview: Antron Brown and Chuck Wade, Team Antron, Toyota Dream Build Challenge
Driver and Build Leader Share their Background and Inspiration
In advance of the Toyota Racing Dream Build Challenge project reveals later this month, we interviewed Antron Brown and Chuck Wade of Team Antron, which is building a custom drag-racing inspired Toyota Sequoia.
Brown is the only driver in NHRA history to have won in both Top Fuel and Pro Stock Motorcycle competition. Since 2008, Brown has taken 18 Top Fuel victories, and took six victories in the 2011 season alone, placing third in the points total in 2009 and 2011. His current career-best time is a 3.766 ET at 325.37 mph.
Wade's career spans more than 40 years as a driver, crew chief, mechanic, engineer, and machinist. He served as program director for Renault Jeep Sport, running Jeep's off-road racing program. For the past 16 years, he has worked for Toyota's motorsports program building specialty vehicles for racing and shows, and providing technical support to Toyota's grassroots motorsports efforts.
Be sure to vote for your favorite vehicle and driver at Toyota Racing Dream Build Challenge!
Antron Brown
Q:How did you first get interested in racing?
A: I grew up around drag racing. My dad and uncle were drag racing before I was born. When I was in high school, I'd join them at their races in New Jersey at Englishtown and Reading and Maple Grove in Pennsylvania. We'd race at those dragstrips all the time. At the age of 12, I rebuilt my first two-stroke dirtbike engine. My dad saw that I had some mechanical skills. At a really early age, I had my hand in race cars. My dad was in the Army, and was a tank and Humvee mechanic.
Q: When did professional motorsports competition first look like a career option?
A: My career started when I was 20 years old. I was in college. I started working for a professional motorcycle team for Troy Vincent. It was December 1997. I was finishing up my associate degree, and was about to go to a four-year college, and that's when I got into drag racing professionally.
Q: What are some of the similarities and differences between racing motorcycles and cars?
A: The mindset is the same. When I went from Pro-Stock Motorcycles to Top Fuel, I didn't have to learn how to race all over again -- I just had to learn how to drive the car. You have to finesse both of them. On the bikes, you use more physical strength, whereas in the car, I'm finessing things more with my hands. The thing with reaction times is, either you've got it, or you don't. If you go into another sport, like football, they're either fast, or they're not fast. It's not something you can really teach.
Q: We heard that you went to the Olympic trials in the 100-meter event?
A: (Laughs) That's kind of a myth that still gets perpetuated. When I was in college, I was quick enough to qualify for the Olympic trials, but I decided not to pursue it further.
Q: What personal or professional goals do you hope to accomplish within the next few years?
A: My main goal is to win the world championship. We've been breaking a lot of NHRA records, we won the U.S. Nationals, and won the most races in a year for a Top Fuel team. The last thing we want to accomplish as a team is to win the championship. We've been close four times to winning. We tasted it, trust me!
Q: Some people thought the Sequoia was an unusual choice for this project. Why did you choose it?
A: I chose a vehicle I drive every day. I drive a Sequoia every day at home. I thought "You know what would be cool? What if we tricked one of these out like a pro-street drag car." We've tubbed it out, and we're going to put the three seats in back for the kids. It's going to be the fastest grocery-getter going down the street. We're calling it the "Dragquoia." It's going to be pretty cool.
Chuck Wade, Team Antron Project Build Leader
Q: Could you share a little bit about your approach to building the Dragquoia?
A: For anything at SEMA, if it isn't a "wow," it's invisible. Historically, what we've done for SEMA vehicles is pull out all the stops. We want to make it come across like it was built like a Toyota, but built like an outrageous Toyota.
Q: What has been the biggest challenge of this project build?
A: The timeframe was a challenge. Normally, we'd have plenty of time to build the vehicle, but the deadline for this build is a whole month before SEMA. The tight schedule has been our single biggest challenge.
Q: What do you feel you and your team bring to the table for this project build?
A: I started building cars in the late '60s. I don't know how many cars I've built. It's probably well over 100. Every year I've put in a full season of racing, I've won a championship. I've got a lot of pride in what we do. We want this car to show off what Antron and Toyota can do together. I have to acknowledge the team I've been working with: Marty Schwerter, Rich Garver, and Sam Puleri. Marty is a mechanic and machinist; Sam does design and fabrication; and Rich is Toyota master technician and fabricator. They've been doing most of the heavy lifting on this project. I just sign the checks!


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Papier-Mâché Bugs
Papier-mâché is a classic kindergarten craft. It's messy, fun, and enables the kids to use their hands to create something special. Let the kids really do this one on their own - everything from tearing the newspaper, to mixing the homemade paste, to blowing the balloons. In the process, they'll get great use of their fine motor skills, and feel a great sense of accomplishment having completed each step themselves.
What You Need:
- Flour
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- Stir stick
- Paper bowls
- Balloons
- Newspaper
- Paint
- Paintbrushes
What You Do:
- Have the kids tear the newspaper into approx. four inch long strips. This is just a guideline, as any strip will do, but the smaller in size, the better.
- Try to find the long thin balloons that have the indentations in them. Stretch them out a few times and blow them up so they aren't completely full. They should resemble a caterpillar in their shape, lumpy and long. Again, you're not striving for perfection! Caterpillars come in different shapes and sizes, so let the kids practice blowing up balloons (this can be tricky for some) and have fun with the shapes.
- Let the kids mix together the flour and water until it becomes a glue-like substance. You can always buy "modge podge" (already made glue) at a craft store, but kids love making their own version. It should be fairly watery, so that it drips off a spoon.
- With their balloon in front of them, tell the kids to start dipping strips! Take one strip of newspaper and fully coat it in the glue. Using their fingers, have the children squeeze off any excess glue on their newspaper strip before applying it to the balloon.
- After they have fully covered the balloon with newspaper strips, you'll need to let this first layer dry completely for a day or two and then repeat again, covering the whole balloon a second time.
- After it is completely dry, let the kids go wild with painting their caterpillars. For added fun, try gluing on googly eyes, sequins, glitter, etc. For creepier crawlers, you can even add fake furry eyebrows!


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The Variants!Monday, October 29th, 2012
I know we haven't been around here much lately, but we have been elsewhere on the internet, you know, doin' thangs.
Most notably, we've been appearing as "actors" in Season 3 of the comic-centric webseries, The Variants!
Unlike here, where we're just jerks to each other, in The Variants we're totally bad guys.
To get you up to speed, here are all 8 of the episodes that have been released so far.
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We knew that the Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G would be released sometime in "late March," but the exact date had remained a mystery until now. T-Mobile has just announced that this "blazing" device will be released nationwide on March 28th. This date follows a previous March 21st pre-release, in which only select stores will be carrying the smartphone.
The device won't take your breath away, but it is a good upgrade for those that don't mind a few downsides. For starters, the Blaze 4G won't come with Android 4.0. It will be released with Android 2.3, only to be updated to Ice Cream Sandwich later on. And it happens to have a 3.97-inch display, which is a size many would believe to be too small amidst 4.3+" behemoths. Granted, it is a Super AMOLED display, so the nice colors might make up for it.
The device also sports a 1.5 GHz dual-core processor, NFC, a 5 MP rear-facing camera (720p HD recording), a 1.3 MP front-facing camera. The Blaze 4G also supports T-Mobile's HSPA+42 support for faster data speeds. I see it like mid-end device with a high-end punch in some specs.
As we reported last month, the device will cost $149.99 after a $50 mail-in rebate. Of course, you will have to sign your wallet away for 2 years, though with T-Mobile being one of the lowest-cost carriers in the U.S., that should be too much of a problem. But if you are already at it, maybe you should check out this device. Honestly, I would throw in the extra $80 to get a Galaxy S II or an HTC Amaze 4G, but this device just might be the right one for you.
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FCC tests, okays Palm 'Pre 2'
P102 not an iPhone clone after all?
HP's next Palm smartphone may not lack a physical keyboard after all. This week, it emerged that a Palm device dubbed the P102UEU had been certified by the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC).
Background: P100 was the Pre, and the P101 was the Pre Plus, suggesting P102 is the Pre 2 - or whatever HP chooses to call it. Devices destined for Europe have traditionally had the 'UEU' suffix appended to their model numbers.
Crucially, the FCC tested the device in both open and closed configurations, which indicates that the next Pre is, like its predecessors, a slider. That, in turn, suggests a physical keyboard will be part of the spec.
The tested phone has the same size back panel - this one compatible with Palm's Touchstone wireless charging system - which again points to a device not unlike the Palm Plus.
Folk who've poked their noses into the FCC documentation claim on the PreCentral forum that the new phone will sport a 1GHz CPU. It has 802.11b/g Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 2.1.
Earlier this week it was rumoured that an upcoming Palm gadget, codenamed 'Mansion', will not include a physical keyboard but instead boast an iPhone-style touchscreen-only form-factor.
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I told a lie
Could you tell me why?
Heavy sigh
You gotta help me die
Cord of sin
You said you'd cut it. Can you tell me when?
Jesus, kiss
Come and collect me for eternal bliss
Though it's against your nature to be impolite
Would You please break into my heart tonight
And steal away my fear?
Cause it's my nature to just sit and guard it
Though the prison doors, I'm afraid to depart it
I'm stuck right here
You gotta get me clear
I hear a word
Somebody says something that I know is absurd
But I give it room
Now, inside the greenhouse of my heart I got a deady bloom
My fist 'round a rose
My hands all bloody from the thorns there, I suppose
But I don't let go
Sometimes I'm a coward. I try not to let it show
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WASHINGTON — Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke said Thursday that the housing market is "far from being out of the woods," despite initial signs pointing to a recovery.
With construction activity, sales, and home prices still well below pre-crisis levels, a revival of U.S. housing sector "still faces significant challenges and the benefits remain quite uneven," the Fed chairman said in a speech to the Operation HOPE Global Financial Dignity Summit in Atlanta.
In recent months, the housing market has shown signs of improvement as national home prices have lifted for the last nine consecutive months. Sales of both new and existing home sales have also risen, while homebuilder sentiment has improved substantially. Even real estate agents have reported a rise in homebuyer traffic.
Demand for homes has also increased, given historically low interest rates on 30-year mortgages and lower home prices, Berannke said, following several rounds of quantitative easing taken by the Federal Open Market Committee to help lower long-term interest rates.
Still, other data points demonstrate headwinds are still derailing a full recovery, Bernanke said.
Foreclosures have dropped off since their peak in 2010, yet there are still 2 million families close to losing their homes, three times the historic norm. National homeownership is also at a 15-year low, having slipped nearly four percentage points since its height in 2004.
"Although there are good reasons to be encouraged by the recent direction of the housing market, we should not be satisfied with the progress we have seen so far," said Bernanke. "Strengthening and broadening the housing recovery remain a critical challenge for policymakers, lenders, and community leaders."
The impact of such crises often erodes the progress achieved especially by low-income and minority communities' ability to purchase homes, the Fed chairman said.
Nationally, the pace of residential lending has fallen by more than half from 2006 to 2011 for first-lien mortgages. It is at its lowest level since 1995.
For minority groups and those families with lower incomes, the number of loans extended to African Americans and Hispanics to buy a home has fallen more than 65%. Lending to non-Hispanic whites has fallen by a smaller margin of less than 50%. The same can be seen for lower-income neighborhoods where home-purchase loans have fallen by about 75%.
"Unemployment, income loss, and income insecurity prevent many households from purchasing homes, and concerns about the future direction of the labor market, housing prices, and the economy more generally keep other potential buyers on the sidelines," said Bernanke.
While part of the reason for the decline in mortgage lending has been a reluctance by qualified potential buyers to purchase home, tight credit standards continues to remain a factor.
The Fed's latest quarterly Senior Loan Officer Opinion Survey, which is meant to update policymakers about lending conditions, showed that banks have continued to keep their mortgage credit standards tight since 2007.
Bankers have been less inclined to approve a government-insured mortgage for less than creditworthy borrowers due to concerns about higher risk of put-backs of delinquent mortgages, among other factors.
Another drawback, Bernanke said, has been the over-correction by lenders to greatly improve their underwriting standards for their residential loans, which had been lax in the lead up to the financial crisis.
"It seems likely at this point that the pendulum has swung too far the other way, and that overly tight lending standards may now be preventing creditworthy borrowers from buying homes, thereby slowing the revival in housing and impeding the economic recovery," said Bernanke.


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Every day, animals suffer in Massachusetts, whether as "food animals", lab animals, unwanted pets, or as animals killed or abused for clothing or entertainment. On land and sea and in the air, wild animals suffer from hunting, fishing, and trapping. And because these animals cannot speak for themselves, we at MARC act as a voice to end this suffering.
MARC is a volunteer group that works to end suffering for all animals: farmed animals, animals in laboratories and entertainment, companion animals, fur animals and other wildlife. MARC is the largest and most active animal rights group in Massachusetts, with over 3500 members. MARC's members range from grade school students to grandparents and are as diverse as the animal issues we work on. But we are united in our love and concern for animals and our belief that animals should not be exploited by humans.
Every year, MARC organizes and participates in over 100 public events to help animals. MARC uses protests and leafleting, public educational outreach, tabling, talks, letter and phone campaigns, letters to editors, face-to-face meetings, media interviews, conferences, walks and marches, and legislative action to help end animal suffering. We also supply resources to Massachusetts student groups. MARC emphasizes reaching general public audiences.


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If you have a heart to serve, we're ready to prepare you for Christian ministry. Whether God has called you into local churches, para-church organizations, or on the mission field, our program will give you the knowledge you need to minister effectively for the cause of Christ.
In the Christian Ministry degree program, you will become a competent student and teacher of the Bible, and you will learn models for ministry that are effective in today's world.
However, Christian Ministry is not just about the classroom. You will get the opportunity to put your knowledge into action through the Christian Service Assignment and the Christian Ministry Internship.
When you graduate, you will be able to enter ministry with a practical knowledge and experience that will make you effective in your service and ministry.
For more information about course requirements, view the course catalog for:
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Singapore, the premier shipping center in Southeast Asia, was ranked the world's second busiest port in terms of shipping tonnage in 2013. The island-state, with its strategic location in the region, is a significant oil refining and trading hub. It has also become a natural gas player in the region following the start-up of a liquefied natural gas (LNG) import terminal on Jurong Island in 2013. Although Singapore produces no oil and gas, companies based in the country are actively engaged in providing services in support of regional exploration and production activities. Many oilfield service and subsea companies have operations in Singapore, which is home to major offshore and marine firms such as Keppel Corp. and Sembcorp Marine.


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Cadbury AFL 9s is the AFL's newest game. It's a fast, free-flowing game that involves 9 players on each team playing on a smaller field. Best of all, it's mixed 'touch football' with no tackling or bumping, making it suitable for people of any age or skill level.
"The Game for Everyone" emphasises inclusive competition that is accessible to individuals of all abilities. AFL 9s has strong parallels with the traditional game but is easier to play and provides an environment whereby participation, enjoyment and safety are the priority.
It is as simple as getting a group of at least 9 mates together and registering a team for the upcoming season. Mixed teams must include a minimum of 3 girls but we strongly encourage teams to aim to get as many girls as possible. Can't get a team together? You can register as an individual player and will then be allocated to a team.
To register a team or as an individual please go to www.afl9s.com.au
AFL 9s is a great pathway into umpiring as well as a great alternative to the traditional umpiring. All AFL9s umpires are provided with a training night to ensure they are competent and understand the changes to the game. AFL9s umpiring is also a great opportunity for umpires to get involved in footy at a social level. Everyone can be an AFL9s umpire, so get involved!!
To find out more information about becoming an umpire, email Josh Bowler at email@example.com.
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Canadian researchers are taking part in a global project that aims to unlock the secrets of the ocean's tiniest helpers.
Invisible to the naked eye, microbes include small but mighty bacteria, viruses and algae that scientists say are vital to the sea and beyond.
"They're basically the little engines behind why the world is ticking," says Julie LaRoche, a biology professor at Dalhousie University in Halifax and Canada research chair in marine microbial genomics and biogeochemistry.
"When you think of bacteria, you always think about (how) bacteria make you sick, they make your food spoil, but most bacteria are really good for the environment.
"They have a very specific function, they recycle the nutrients in the soil or in the ocean.
"Also, a lot of bacteria can do photosynthesis . . . and they're at the base of the food chain, so they produce all the food that the fish will eat eventually."
LaRoche is among the researchers taking part in Ocean Sampling Day, a worldwide effort that will see ocean water containing millions of microbes collected on Saturday — the summer solstice — from more than 100 sites around the world, including three in Canada.
Dalhousie spokeswoman Nikki Comeau says researchers from universities in Canada and the United States will also take samples from sites in Manitoba and Nunavut.
She says the overall project is being co-ordinated by Jacobs University in Germany and the University of Oxford in the U.K.
Once collected and analyzed, the data will be available online and mapped so that microbes can be identified in all corners of the world.
"The idea is to collect a baseline of all the microbial diversity that's actually present right now in the ocean . . . but the part that we don't see because the microbes are so small," says LaRoche.
"It's not something you think about every day, but they're there and they're really important in balancing everything."
LaRoche and her team collected their samples Friday from different depths of the Bedford Basin in the northwestern end of Halifax harbour, from the water's surface to the bottom.
The nutrient-rich Bedford Basin is an ideal spot to collect samples because it shares similar characteristics with deeper waters off the Scotian Shelf, she added.
LaRoche said the samples taken will be filtered and the DNA extracted and sequenced.
"It's really hard to construct what genes belong to what bacteria, but we're getting really a lot better at doing these kinds of analysis now," she says.


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Reviewed By William P (Crookston, NE) Reviewed for a 1996 Nissan Hardbody —2/17/2010 9:29 PM
I was a little doubtful when I ordered the seal from the other reviews I read, but am glad I ordered it anyway. On my pickup, "96 Nissan, the bottom seal went on great, but for the side seals I had to trim the seal for the latch. When done and with the tailgate closed I feel I have a great seal around the tailgate. I live in the country and have about ten miles of dirt road. No car or truck seals out all the road dust, trunk or in the cab, but the Truxedo TruxSeal Tailgate Seal does a real fine job. I would say that if you use your truck only on the highway you should have no problem. Just be sure to follow the instructions and wash where the seal goes on real good, and the two alcohol prep pads, that are in the kit, are not enough, but some rubbing alcohol and cotton balls did the trick for me. I would reccomend this to anyone.


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Patricia Marie Gordon Gnan
Patricia Marie Gordon Gnan, 52, of Ridgway died unexpectedly Saturday, June 22, 2013. She was born March 15, 1961, the daughter of the late William and Margaretta Gill Gordon. She enjoyed spending time with her family, animals, and riding motorcycles. She overcame many hardships including being a two-year cancer survivor and can now rest in peace. She is survived by two daughters, Tonya Pack (Corey) of Pittsburgh and Brittany Gnan of Ridgway; two grandchildren, Kolbey Pack and unborn baby Pack of Pittsburgh; two sisters, Nancy Greiner (Ron) of Ridgway and Janice Rodriguez; and by many cousins, nieces, and nephews. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by a sister, Linda DeSalve. Funeral services for Patricia Marie Gordon Gnan will be held at the Salvation Army, 245 Main St., Ridgway, on Sunday, June 30 at 6 p.m. Friends will be received one hour prior to the service. Interment will be in Lakelawn Cemetery.Funeral arrangements are under the direction of the Meehan-Shilk Funeral Home.


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With continued speculation over possible transfers, how are Manchester United and Arsenal fairing in the transfer market?
Arsenal so far, have signed an under-21 French international for free. Yaya Sanogo from Auxerre.
This is the signing that will win Arsenal a trophy this coming season? Maybe in 3 years but patience is running thin.
Although Arsene Wenger has placed bids on prolific players such as Luis Suarez and Gonzalo Higuain, he and the board are unwilling to pay the fees being demanded and therefore have failed to land either player.
New Man United boss David Moyes would no doubt have liked to have made a larger impact by now, but unfortunately all he has done is sign Uruguayan defender Guillermo Varela for a fee of £1.55 million.
Again Moyes has tried to sign players like Cesc Fabregas from Barcelona, but the Spanish club's unwillingness to sell makes a deal look unlikely.
Meanwhile every day that passes brings you nearer to the day that Marouane Fellaini's release clause of £22 million expires.
Manchester City however, look to have hit the ground running.
Having already spent £95.8 million on several extremely talented players, they look like a team that can boast a starting 11 that could potentially win the UEFA Champions League providing their manager can find a winning formula.
What's putting David Moyes under even more pressure is the constant speculation surrounding Wayne Rooney and a proposed move to Chelsea. If this deal goes through they will have England's number 10 and Andre Schurrle in their ranks to score goals, not to mention young gun Romelu Lukaku.
For the time being it looks as if Man City and Chelsea will run away from Arsenal and current champions Man United. But, the transfer window remains open for another month meaning plenty of things can change. I'm sure we are all keen to see how this summer plans out for all of the Premier League clubs.
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It's been a few days since Sprint sent out invitations to their press event at CTIA. While we certainly have our own ideas as to what Sprint will announce, an anonymous tipster has come forward, possibly revealing Sprint's big announcement agenda.
The source claims that Sprint has three Android devices waiting to be unveiled at CTIA. Two phones and one tablet. The first phone will be the Nexus S which will be equipped with WiMax capabilities. As you may recall Sprint did have plans to launch the original Nexus One last year, but changed their mind since the handset wouldn't offer anything unique over the T-Mobile and AT&T versions that were being sold by Google.
The second handset Sprint will unveil at CTIA with be the HTC EVO 3D. As the name implies, the HTC EVO 3D will feature 3D capabilities (though we're not sure what those are at this moment) and we're pretty sure it'll support Sprint's 4G WiMax network. We do not know the specs of the HTC EVO 3D, but the hope is that the handset will be similar to the rumored HTC Pyramid (dual-core 1.2 GHz Snapdragon processor [MSM8260] and a 4.3 inch qHD display) which should be heading to T-Mobile later this spring.
Since Verizon has the XOOM and T-Mobile has the G-Slate, Sprint has decided to offer up their own Android tablet: the HTC EVO View. The only detail we have right now is the tablet's name, but we're assuming that it will be pretty similar to the HTC Flyer which is running a 1.5 GHz Qualcomm processor, with a 7-inch display, Android 2.3, and HTC's new Scribe technology.
While everything above may sound feasible, we're still labeling it all as rumors until we can get some concrete evidence. But that doesn't mean we're not excited! If the report does turn out to be true, which of three devices will you be picking up?


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LAKE TAHOE — As much as 1 foot of snow is possible in higher-elevation areas around Truckee/Tahoe by Wednesday evening, according to the National Weather Service in Reno.
A winter weather advisory will be in effect from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Wednesday. Six to 12 inches of snow is possible above 7,000 feet, with up to four inches likely at lake level.
Snow levels will begin up high before falling below 7,000 feet during the late evening Wednesday, according to NWS.
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Genco Shipping (New York Stock Exchange NYSE: GNK) owns 53 dry bulk vessels[1], ships used to transport non-liquid goods such as grain or coal. The company has grown at a breakneck pace.[2][3] Genco's ships, which have a total shipping capacity of approximately 3,812,000 deadweight tons (dwt),[1]move mostly iron ore, coal, grain, and steel products. Genco charters its ships for periods of one to four years, and so only assists other companies in moving those goods. As Genco charters its ships for movement along major international shipping routes, it exposes itself to competition from the 1,300 or so other dry bulk vessel shipping companies and owners operating in the world.[4]
The health of the dry bulk shipping industry, and all companies within it, are tied to the health of China's economy.[5] With China on the rise, shipping rates have been skyrocketing.[6] Unfortunately, a surge in new shipbuilding is raising demand for ship maintenance and repair services, as well as moderating potentially high charter rates. Worse yet, that surge is going to continue for at least the next couple of years. Ironically, while high demand for steel products has pushed up charter rates, it has also made new shipbuilding more expensive.
Genco Shipping buys used but young vessels, and then contracts them out to customers for periods of one to four years for a fixed daily fee.
Unlike many of its competitors, which focus on building up a fleet of just one or two ship types, Genco evaluates a ship on its value in and of itself, not on its type. Each ship is capable of carrying a different amount of cargo, with a Capesize vessel capable of moving six times as much cargo as a Handysize vessel.[7] Being larger is not always better, however. A large ship like the Capesize can only be accommodated by the largest deep water terminals, while a Handysize vessel can access nearly all ports. Therefore, although rates for dry bulk ships tend to move together, they do vary by vessel type. Having a diversified fleet lets Genco minimize volatility in its revenues.
Genco has also made the choice, which it may later change, to make time charters rather than running its ships on the spot market. On the spot market, a company can contract out its ship for a single voyage based on current charter rates on the Baltic Dry Index (BDI). The BDI is a daily average of the prices required by shipping companies on the Baltic Exchange to transport raw materials across the sea. The Baltic Exchange is a global marketplace for brokering dry cargo shipping contracts. Long term contracts avoid the risks, but also the potential profits to be made on the spot market. In a time charter, Genco loans its ships to another company for a fixed daily fee. Genco is responsible for managing the ship and its crew during that time, but has no control over how its ship is used, aside from terms set in the charter contract. Genco does not manage its ships directly, preferring to contract technical managers from companies in the business of taking care of the day to day activities of dry cargo vessels.
In 2009, GNK generated a net income of $148.6 million on $379.5 million in total revenues. This represents a 71.7% increase in net income on a 6.4% decrease in total revenues from 2008, when the company earned $86.6 million on total revenues of $405.4 million.
GNK operates through one reportable business segment which transports drybulk cargo with its fleet.[9] The company does not provide geographic breakdown of its revenues because doing so is impractical when shipping through international waters.[10]
Strong growth in Asia, mostly in China, has caused demand for raw materials to skyrocket. Unable to extract the necessary resources domestically, China has turned to imports from other countries. Because Genco's fleet is diversified, the company avoided being dragged down by negative growth in the Handysize market, in which it owns 8 ships[7], but also avoided being propelled by strong growth in the Supramax and Panamax markets, in which it has 9 ships.[7]
Rising Chinese demand for iron ore has pushed up dry bulk shipping rates.This means that shipbuilding costs have been increasing, making future ship expansion more expensive. Some of that rise will be absorbed by shipbuilders, and some of it won't. The problem is that future fleet expansion is becoming less and less attractive. Within 3 years the size of the worldwide fleet will be at least one and half times what it is now.[11] Even if China continues its rapid rate of expansion, over the past 3 years it grew just 36%,[12] not 50%.
Competition in the dry bulk shipping industry is based primarily on three things: price, vessel type, and vessel age. Price wise Genco has little control, only being able to choose when and for how long to make a contract. Genco's fleet is young, with an average age of just 6.37 years,[7] and well diversified, with almost every type of ship from the baby Handysize to the gargantuan Capesize.[7] Unlike its competitors that run on the spot market, Genco passes port, canal, and fuel costs onto its customers.[13]
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Has 'Teen Mom 2' Ruined Leah Messer's Life? She Thinks So!
Leah became a star thanks to MTV's Teen Mom 2, but filming the reality TV show has gone from a dream to a nightmare for the mother of two!
Leah Messer still has two years left in her contract with MTV, yet she's ready to call it quits. According to In Touch magazine, Leah is blaming the show for making her life miserable!
"The show controls her," a friend of Leah's told the magazine. "It's making her life hell!"
Teen Mom 2 starts its new season in December, and Leah is worried the producers will make her look "slutty." After her messy divorce from Aliannah and Aleeah's dad, Corey Simms, Leah went through a string of guys until she found her most recent boyfriend, Jeremy Calvert. "Leah thinks MTV is determined to make her look like a bad mom," her friend told the mag.
Besides capturing her marriage collapse in front of millions of viewers, Leah worries about the production's effect on her twins. Leah's friend said producers make too many demands of Leah and the girls — including waking the twins up at all hours!
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Tinea Capitis
Tinea capitis is an infection of the scalp. It is caused by a type of fungus called a dermatophyte. It occurs most often in children. It is very rare in adults.
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The fungi thrive in warm, humid environments. Factors that may contribute to tinea capitis include:
- Hot
- Humid climates
- Excessive sweating
Factors that increase your chance for tinea capitis include:
- Age: under 10 years of age
- Race: African
- Daycare centers
- Exposure to pets with the infection
- Poor hygiene
- Sharing combs, brushes, or hats
- Diabetes
- Immune system disorders, such as HIV infection
Symptoms of tinea capitis include:
- Itching of the scalp (not always present)
- Bald patches
- Possibly areas with swelling, redness, scales, sores, or irritated skin
If not properly treated, it may cause permanent hair loss and scarring.
Your doctor will ask about your child's symptoms and medical history. A physical exam will be done. Your child may need to be referred to a specialist. A dermatologist focuses on skin issues.
The diagnosis is often made with close inspection of the scalp. If the diagnosis is uncertain, the doctor may scrape your child's scalp or clip a few hairs for testing.
Tests on the sample may include:
- Microscopic examination
- Fungal culture
The main treatment for tinea capitis is prescription antifungal medicines. The condition, though, can be difficult to treat. In some cases, tinea capitis can return after treatment. For some children, the condition goes away during the time of puberty.
Using an antifungal shampoo may help to reduce the risk of spreading the condition to others.
To help reduce your child's chance of getting tinea capitis, take the following steps:
- Shampoo your child's hair regularly.
- Do not allow your child to share headgear, brushes, or combs.
- Wash towels, clothes, and any shared items used by an infected person to prevent spreading it to others in the household.
- Take your pets to the veterinarian for treatment if they develop skin rashes.
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When washing your cat's litter box, use mild soap and water. Harsh chemicals can be harmful for your cat, and their odors could discourage future litter box visits.
Is your cat packing on too much extra weight? According to a recent survey organized by The Association for Pet Obesity Prevention, chances are high. Veterinarians in 29 states concluded that 53 percent of all cats studied were overweight, with 19 percent being downright obese.
"We are becoming a nation of couch potatoes and lap potatoes," says the study's lead investigator, Ernie Ward, DVM, a Calabash, N.C., veterinarian. He points out that too much weight may contribute to health problems, such as high blood pressure and diabetes.
If your cat does fall into the hefty majority, the extra weight may have more to do with domestication than intentional laziness. Pet nutritionist Hilary Watson of Ontario, Canada, thinks the switch from outdoor wild to indoor mild may be at the root of the pudginess problem.
Wild, Wily and ThinWatson, who has over 20 years of experience in pet food formulation and quality assurance, explains that in the wild, feral cats primarily eat small prey, like rodents. Since there isn't much meat on a mouse, and feral cats do not store food, a cat in the wild is constantly hunting during its waking hours.
While feral cats face numerous health threats, ranging from malnutrition to predation by other animals, they generally don't suffer from obesity. Cats' bodies are best adapted to the feral eating lifestyle, which includes many small meals during the day paired with a certain amount of exercise. But how can you duplicate this regimen at home?
Tap Into Your Cat's Inner HunterYour cat may take care of some of the problem itself. You may have noticed that unless your feline is famished or is a very heavy eater, it probably eats a certain amount of food in a single sitting and then returns every so often to the dish throughout the day. Unfortunately, naps may be all that occur between the noshes.
Watson suggests adding a hunting element to the routine. Place small bowls in four different rooms of your home that your cat can access. Leave three of the bowls empty each day, using just one for the day's food, but vary the bowl choice. For example, on Monday, feed your cat from the bowl in the pantry. On Tuesday, use the bowl in the kitchen. "Your cat won't keep track but will likely march around throughout the day investigating the different bowls," Watson says, adding that she's coaxed many cats to "exercise" with this technique.
Multi-cat, Multi-weight HouseholdsIf two or more cats live in your home, and your veterinarian believes only one has a weight problem, Watson offers a few suggestions. If your heavy cat has difficulty jumping, try raising the other cats' food bowls off the ground so the fat cat can't get to them. This can help solve the problem of the heavy cat refusing to eat its weight-control food.
If the above fails or isn't possible, place a chain on a door between two rooms. The chain allows the door to remain slightly ajar, allowing the svelte cats to slip through for easy access to their food bowls. The heftier cat is then fed its weight-control meal separately in the other room.
Tips for Keeping Tabby Un-tubbyCornell University's College of Veterinary Medicine offers these additional tips for keeping your cat at a healthy weight:
As Dr. Ward suggested, both people and pets have a tendency now to be too sedentary. Remember that your "lap potato" is lounging over a potential couch potato -- you. If you develop better eating and exercise habits, chances are, those will benefit your pets too.
Jennifer Viegas is the managing editor of The Daily Cat. She is a journalist for Discovery News, the news service for the Discovery Channel, and has written more than 20 books on animals, health and other science-related topics.
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What India's Decision to Ban Dolphin Captivity Means
Move indicates a growing understanding that cetaceans are 'nonhuman persons'
The Indian Ministry of Environment and Forests' decision to ban dolphin captivity within India has been making waves around the world. The unprecedented decision is particularly significant because it reflects an increasing global understanding that dolphins deserve better protections based on who – rather than what – they are.
The decision, outlined in a circular released by the Central Zoo Authority, states that because dolphins are by nature "highly intelligent and sensitive," they ought to be seen as "nonhuman persons" and should have "their own specific rights." It says that it is "morally unacceptable to keep them captive for entertainment purposes."
"This opens up a whole new discourse of ethics in the animal protection movement in India," Puja Mitra from the Federation of Indian Animal Protection Organizations (FIAPO), the group leading the campaign to ban dolphinariums in India, said after the environment ministry announced its decision last month. The move came after months of protests against a proposed dolphin park in the southern state of Kerala and plans for several other marine mammal parks in other parts of the country.
Animal welfare groups have long been arguing that dolphins ought to be considered nonhuman persons, but to many people the concept of personhood remains unclear. It is therefore useful to understand precisely what personhood implies, why it is featured so prominently in the Indian announcement of a ban on dolphinariums, and how it is increasingly relevant within discussions of cetacean welfare.
The concept of nonhuman personhood is grounded in the distinction between who and what. These two broad categories encompass everything on (and off) the planet – humans are persons (who), while things (what) include all nonhuman life and all inanimate objects, from bacteria to monkeys to stars.
As Dr. Thomas White explains in his book, In Defense of Dolphins (2007), for something to be classified as a person, it is recognized as having certain characteristics, such as self-awareness, emotions, cognitive complexity, and other attributes we associate with humans. Having these characteristics means that the organism has basic needs that must be satisfied in order for it to live a fulfilled, healthy life, and that when these needs are not met, it results in suffering. Society bestows certain rights unto persons in order to ensure these needs are met and safeguarded. The needs of life, liberty, and freedom from harm, for example, form the basis of human rights.
On the other hand, being classified as a thing either denotes an inanimate object or a nonhuman organism, both of which are assumed as not having the same needs as humans because neither are believed to experience, in a human way, significant pain, pleasure, or similar sensations that stem from possessing some degree of mental sophistication. Despite the fact that some humane laws exist to prevent unnecessary cruelty, animals are still considered property and are usually denied the basic rights of life, liberty or freedom from harm.
The outcome of this blanketing distinction is that dolphins have much the same rights as inanimate objects. The captivity industry benefits from this distinction: they are able to exploit the lives of dolphins by denying them freedom and being allowed to cause them harm (and the captivity industry has become adept at hiding the harm they cause to dolphins in their care). The assumption that dolphins have no needs is also what allows fishermen Taiji, Japan to post signs that say, "These dolphins are owned by Fisherman Association," and why they are allowed to slaughter hundreds of them at the notorious "cove" each year.
The designation of dolphins as property begs for revision in light of what science has revealed about dolphins over the last several decades.
It is proven that dolphins possess most, if not all, of the characteristics to qualify as persons: they are self-aware; they can make decisions and solve complex problems. Their brain structure indicates that they likely experience emotions, they live in complex cultures, and they use tools. It can be safely assumed that they have the capacity to reflect upon their own lives and that their minds allow them to feel and think about pain. The Taiji dolphins know that their family is being slaughtered all around them. (Even scientists say that the way dolphins are slaughtered in Taiji is unnecessarily cruel.)
These are the reasons that the Indian circular stipulates that dolphins should be given certain basic rights – not the right to vote, mind you, but merely the rights not to be captured, confined, or killed, in order to prevent the suffering that they most likely experience when these rights are violated.
So far the announcement has been met with a positive response from governing bodies in India. "(Dolphin captivity) is illegal now," said N. Venugopal, who heads the Greater Cochin Development Authority, one of the agencies in Kerala that was considering a captive facility proposal. "It is over. We will not allow it anymore." It is expected that all relevant agencies and individuals will adhere to the ban.
India has carefully considered whether it is morally acceptable to allow dolphin captivity within its borders and has answered this question with a resounding "no". This progressive statement is helping to pave the way towards greater public understanding of who dolphins are. There's a growing understanding that they are intelligent and emotional beings who deserve to be free.
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One of the greatest decisions taken (by India) in history of humanity and earth!
By Sachchidanand on Fri, January 23, 2015 at 1:58 am
What India's Decision to Ban Dolphin Captivity Means:
They're Idiots.
By Sheila Dunn on Thu, July 25, 2013 at 6:41 pm
Amen to that logic.
I had some awesome moments body surfing with these gentle Creatures.
By Paul Malchiodi on Mon, July 15, 2013 at 8:42 pm
Please ban dolphins Captivity India . It is necessary and important in the country. Dolphins is belong to Ocean, The captivity made dolphins will died , unhealth and unhappy and cruelty. please respect adn responsible a life. Don't let beautiful soul decline and lost. Thank you.
By liu wai ling on Mon, June 24, 2013 at 5:56 pm
Thanks for making this article available. this is the leading edge of paradigm shift we are currently facing. Boldly and wholly taking a that we are not alone in conscious life on earth. It will be up to all of us to keep the momentum flowing!
By Eli Weiss on Mon, June 24, 2013 at 9:43 am
What irks me is that, in my opinion, dolphins already understand us, it's just that humans - so far anyway - don't understand them.
We don't have any right to kill them nor keep them captive for our entertainment because it certainly isn't for educational purposes.
Some of the captive dolphins, orcas and belugas may be able to be rehabilitated and released but not all thanks to the life they've been forced to live in captivity but that doesn't mean they can't be retired to seapens. It should be up to the various institutions to PAY for their retirement to seapens seeing they have made millions of dollars by keeping them confined.
There MUST be no ability or loop hole that allows wild-caught cetaceans to be brought into whatever country, specifically whale-laundering which is what is happening with the 18 wild-caught belugas currently languishing in Russia that the Georgia Seaquarium wants to import.
The sooner that places like SeaWorld are banned from captive breeding the better. It's no better than the slave trade from centuries ago.
By Monica Gilbert on Thu, June 13, 2013 at 9:52 pm
I have wondered lately if some group has finally figured out a way to have full conversations with dolphins
By boontney on Wed, June 12, 2013 at 11:57 pm


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How, the FUCK, am I supposed to react to the written skidsmarks you monocleclub wankers have left in my comments? tell me this. I've got Ren asserting that some physical law of the fucking universe forbids me from objecting to anything she says, Octogalore fails at life (again, I would not want ot be you when you reincarnate...) with both another failed attempt at grammar criticism (I speak vernacular english Octagalore! get the fuck over this concept already) and some classic bad faith arguement in form of the hoary old "conspiracy theory" chestnut.
*le sigh*
I've got Daisy mad at me because of, I fuck you not, a misplaced hyphen and Ravenm failing at Ally work quite spectacularly.
But it's the good kind of failier, you know, the kind that is wrong in that way taht is begs for a correction that is oh so right.
Folks, MLK has explained this already; it is very easy to trick a POC, you just have to make them trust your crackery ass and then punished them for that misplaced trust.
It's a side effect of living in a racist, white supremicist society, where it is literally beaten into POC's heads that white opinions are far far more valid than their own, where white voices are given room while POC voices are shouted down.
Being an ally means creating spaces where POC are accomodated and treated like equals, so when, after several years in which Ren has humored every crazy ass MRA and white racist misogynist that felt like posting a comment on her blog, she decides to pick out and hold up for ridicule - how dare Kate tell you that a phrase you use makes your blog a hostile place for her! The nerve of the
And the absolute ally-vacuum into which I shouted in that comment thread is... well that's what "the silence of our freinds" thing MEANS you idiot white people. And far be it from me to point fingers, but could someone please remind me why, despite the fact that I, unlike "radical" folks like Daisy, am not a regular commenter at Ren the
NOT ONLY, used the racist "Political Correctness" dogwhistle to silence and dehumanise a POC,
NOT ONLY co-opted the oppression experienced by asian americans so that she could use it like a commodity rather than the fucked up bullshit women like Kate have to put up with every fucking day of their lives that it actually is,
NOT ONLY then proceeded to pretend that she and her white regular commenters (like Amber) had authority enough to decide whether or not that POC was ALLOWED to be offended by something Ren said, when only a sociopath would presume that what a person feels is a debatable thing.
No agree to disagree there of course, and no allies hanging around that blog neither.
Let me now go off on a seeming tangent for second:
My objections as an anarchist to the monocle club are not to the group per se, but the power dynamics inherent to such exclusive secret clubs, linked into the same mechanisms for utilizing social capital that you find in Kos's townhouse group, or in the little club Vallenti and Marcotte formed a year or so back, or like the "safe spaces" Radfems are always using to fuck over sex workers and transexuals - And we can know that groups like this impose a hierarchy onto the social groups they arise from because that's what all the other groups have done, even though the other feminist groups who have these groups are, just like you guys, allegedly against such abusive power structures and hierarchies.
And yes, calling a safe space a "book club", or a hippo for that matter, doesn't actually change those underlying dyanmics and hierarchies.
My second major, philisophical problem you could say, with such groups is that they generally require an acceptance of what Marx in manifesto call "critical utopian socialism", and thus are inherently flawed and self restraining for the same reasons, and I cannot repeat what Mardx wrote better than him so I'll just quote the relevent section:
We do not here refer to that literature which, in every great modern revolution, has always given voice to the demands of the proletariat, such as the writings of Babeuf [4] and others.
The first direct attempts of the proletariat to attain its own ends, made in times of universal excitement, when feudal society was being overthrown, necessarily failed, owing to the then undeveloped state of the proletariat, as well as to the absence of the economic conditions for its emancipation, conditions that had yet to be produced, and could be produced by the impending bourgeois epoch alone. The revolutionary literature that accompanied these first movements of the proletariat had necessarily a reactionary character. It inculcated universal asceticism and social levelling in its crudest form.
The socialist and communist systems, properly so called, those of Saint-Simon [5], Fourier [6], Owen [7], and others, spring into existence in the early undeveloped period, described above, of the struggle between proletariat and bourgeoisie (see Section 1. Bourgeois and Proletarians).
The founders of these systems see, indeed, the class antagonisms, as well as the action of the decomposing elements in the prevailing form of society. But the proletariat, as yet in its infancy, offers to them the spectacle of a class without any historical initiative or any independent political movement.
Since the development of class antagonism keeps even pace with the development of industry, the economic situation, as they find it, does not as yet offer to them the material conditions for the emancipation of the proletariat. They therefore search after a new social science, after new social laws, that are to create these conditions.
Historical action is to yield to their personal inventive action; historically created conditions of emancipation to fantastic ones; and the gradual, spontaneous class organization of the proletariat to an organization of society especially contrived by these inventors. Future history resolves itself, in their eyes, into the propaganda and the practical carrying out of their social plans.
In the formation of their plans, they are conscious of caring chiefly for the interests of the working class, as being the most suffering class. Only from the point of view of being the most suffering class does the proletariat exist for them.
The undeveloped state of the class struggle, as well as their own surroundings, causes Socialists of this kind to consider themselves far superior to all class antagonisms. They want to improve the condition of every member of society, even that of the most favored. Hence, they habitually appeal to society at large, without the distinction of class; nay, by preference, to the ruling class. For how can people when once they understand their system, fail to see in it the best possible plan of the best possible state of society?
Hence, they reject all political, and especially all revolutionary action; they wish to attain their ends by peaceful means, necessarily doomed to failure, and by the force of example, to pave the way for the new social gospel.
Such fantastic pictures of future society, painted at a time when the proletariat is still in a very undeveloped state and has but a fantastic conception of its own position, correspond with the first instinctive yearnings of that class for a general reconstruction of society.
But these socialist and communist publications contain also a critical element. They attack every principle of existing society. Hence, they are full of the most valuable materials for the enlightenment of the working class. The practical measures proposed in them -- such as the abolition of the distinction between town and country, of the family, of the carrying on of industries for the account of private individuals, and of the wage system, the proclamation of social harmony, the conversion of the function of the state into a more superintendence of production -- all these proposals point solely to the disappearance of class antagonisms which were, at that time, only just cropping up, and which, in these publications, are recognized in their earliest indistinct and undefined forms only. These proposals, therefore, are of a purely utopian character.
The significance of critical-utopian socialism and communism bears an inverse relation to historical development. In proportion as the modern class struggle develops and takes definite shape, this fantastic standing apart from the contest, these fantastic attacks on it, lose all practical value and all theoretical justifications. Therefore, although the originators of these systems were, in many respects, revolutionary, their disciples have, in every case, formed mere reactionary sects. They hold fast by the original views of their masters, in opposition to the progressive historical development of the proletariat. They, therefore, endeavor, and that consistently, to deaden the class struggle and to reconcile the class antagonisms. They still dream of experimental realization of their social utopias, of founding isolated phalansteres, of establishing "Home Colonies", or setting up a "Little Icaria" [8] -- pocket editions of the New Jerusalem -- and to realize all these castles in the air, they are compelled to appeal to the feelings and purses of the bourgeois. By degrees, they sink into the category of the reactionary conservative socialists depicted above, differing from these only by more systematic pedantry, and by their fanatical and superstitious belief in the miraculous effects of their social science.
They, therefore, violently oppose all political action on the part of the working class; such action, according to them, can only result from blind unbelief in the new gospel.
The Owenites in England, and the Fourierists in France, respectively, oppose the Chartists and the Reformistes.
And So I must also object to your group on communist grounds.
Thirdly; As an ally I must again Object to your group on practical grounds. to summarize, no gated community ever changed the world.
That is largely my objection to the radfems' silly little safe spaces, you can't change hte world from outside, and if you think that you can build a shangri-la so awesome that unreconstructed crackers will flock to you and demand to be let in...well I have news for you, the crakcers like being crackers, more importantly the system that made them crackers in the first place is bigger, and weilds more of the power that these sorts of groups are trying to weild.
This is one way to intrepret Audre Lord's "you cannot demolish the master's house with the master's tools" - you don't take a knife to a gun fight, and if your opponent has more guns than you have, then going to a gun fight at all seems stupid.
And here's the thing that I suspect I've been leaving unspoken when I should have: surely there's a better way to do things than this?
You can't deconstruct privelage in a secret little exclusive group because privelage works by it being kept invisible - if your attempt to tackle privealge doesn't consist of being LOUD and being PUBLIC rather than polite and private it WILL fail, because of what privealge is and how it works.
More importantly you can't build a community from exclusivity - you partition off the conversation between allies and you stop the silent majority (the lurkers) from being able to gain anything from it, and you create a circle jerk.
And you try to pass that off as "ally work", as "SRS Anti-racist bizness", then well... don't.
Because that's the thing, I can't force you to listen, I can't force you to actually think or have an open and public conversation about this group, about what it should involve and the draw backs of various approachs, and how maybe you should set up checks and balances to stop abuses of power and to limit the degree of damage an unhealthy and uncritical social cohesion can bring about.
Because you have far more social capital than I can bring to bear, and you have more social captial than I am willing to accumulate to fight you all.
And while I suppose I could hack into your accounts, your email, your bank accounts and similar, and dredge up your personal details and basically utilize the exact same pre-existnt power structures that your group, as it stands, has been supportive of, I have a horrible sinking feeling that I'm morally obliged to take the higher ground. Also I is lazy and personal bank details has not got a flavor
But I don't expect you to listen, you've shown that you don't want to take anything I say in good faith, you would rather prefer to dismiss and dehumanize me to protect your clique, and you're free to do that I guess.
This is a public space and public spaces are, in our society, by definition, the "safe space" of assholes - sure the neo-nazis have to skulk around stormfront, but you visit most of the "big blogs", and you'll find that any talk about race, or sexism, or whatever and privelage will be quickly shut down, shouted down and then locked down, because there's nothing worse than being called "racist" or "sexist" and it's all so unfair to the poor opressed rich white guy.
Don't be the poor oppressed rich white guy, don't be self pitying.
And even more unfortunately the old saying goes that you can't teach a student who isn't willing to learn, so as of this moment please take it as read that I am no longer going to self identify as an "ally", considering that you guys will undoubtably drag the term through the mud, and make us whtie folk who give more of a shit about people rather than privelage look really fucking bad by association, during this year - even more so than you already have of course, thank you for that Ren and Amber - and I have no power to stop you.
So I guess you win? Or whatever this is exactly.


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"Magpie and the Dandelion," The Avett Brothers (American)
The evolving definition of folk music currently carries a little bit of rock, a little bit of reverb and a few other nontraditional flavors thrown in the stew. It's all being well received and The Avett Brothers' new album "Magpie and the Dandelion" should be no exception.
Songs like "Open Ended Life" and "Skin and Bones" present a folk version of rock's wall-of-sound approach. Instead of a nuanced give and take between banjo and guitar and drums, we get them all at once, side by side, vying for attention. With proper mixing it works on these hardened-heart love songs.
Things work up to a glorious crescendo on several tracks, going from simmer to boil on "Another is Waiting." Though it's worth noting that the sizzle on "Magpie" is mostly thanks to strong instrumentals. The group lacks a strong lead vocalist. Both Scott and Seth Avett can sing, but not convincingly enough to mesmerize the listener because of it.
All in all, this is pleasant listening and the songs stick in the head. The North Carolina trio is a tight band eight albums into their career, and the folk renaissance has ushered in a new and deserving appreciation for their lilting nu-folk.
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