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BOSTON - The Boston Business Journal has named Acquia one of the Best Places to Work in Massachusetts in its eleventh annual regional awards program. The honor recognizes Acquia's achievements in creating a positive work environment that attracts and retains employees through a combination of employee satisfaction, working conditions and company culture.
Acquia was one of over 400 companies to qualify for consideration based on a two-stage nomination process and the results of employee-satisfaction surveys taken throughout March & April.
"Our Best Places to Work event will again recognize the importance of cultivating a great workplace culture as a competitive advantage," said Chris McIntosh, publisher of the Boston Business Journal. "Companies on our list can be justifiably proud of creating a high level of workplace satisfaction during an economy where traditional rewards like big raises and bonuses aren't as easy to give. In good times and in bad, our results validate how the creation of the right corporate culture can create powerful business advantages. Employees are proud to work for companies that are about more than just business."
The survey project was launched in January by the Boston Business Journal in conjunction with market research firm Quantum Workplace of Omaha, NE. Companies were evaluated on the results of more than 18,000 employee-satisfaction surveys. Employees answered questionnaires that addressed such factors as their pride in the company, company encouragement, support and recognition of achievement and relationships with co-workers and supervisors. The results were analyzed and scored by assigning points to each question.
80 companies total … the top 25 companies in three size categories plus the top 5 in a new category called "PR/Communications" will be awarded during a lively cocktail reception on June 13th at the iconic CitiCenter /Wang Theatre and profiled in a special supplement of the Boston Business Journal on June 14th.
This year's 100 top companies are feeding a burgeoning data macrosphere, propelling the entire computing paradigm into a interdependent, connected, and mobile future. The fourth annual AlwaysOn OnDemand 100 represents a list of vigorous emerging and mature companies that are going beyond creating new business opportunities. The cloud infrastructure, SaaS, and on-demand marketplace is reinventing computing—how it's powered, where data is stored, and where and when we access it.
The AlwaysOn editorial team, along with partners at KPMG, Bridge Bank, General Catalyst Partners, Menlo Ventures, GSV Capital, Mayfield Fund, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Intel Capital, New Enterprise Associates, Azure Capital, Allegis Capital, Venrock, InterWest Partners, Illuminate Ventures, Madrona Venture Group, AT&T, Jafco Ventures, Institutional Venture Partners, Oak Investment Partners, Greylock Partners, Andreessen Horowitz, and industry experts across the globe, went out into the entrepreneurial ecosystem to find the top 100 private companies that are disrupting the entire computing paradigm.
These startups are bringing a new world of highly nimble, versatile, and mobile services to everyone participating in the new digital era. While these businesses are transforming the way we interact with computers and computing resources, they are also creating high-growth businesses that offer huge upside potential for investors.
Stable Cloud, Mobile Audience This year's OnDemand 100 launches at a time when the entire world is experiencing a shift in the way it relates to technology, information, and media. Only a few short years ago, the cloud was being warily considered as just another clever marketing buzzword being used to describe something that sounded too good to be true. As we look at the top companies on this year's OnDemand 100, it's clear that the buzzword has become reality—and lived up to its promise. Cloud infrastructure is expanding into and enhancing every sector of the technology world.
Incredibly intelligent entrepreneurs have taken this concept and turned it into the reality that will carry us into the computing future. Continually enhancing cloud tools, platforms, security, and data storage, management, and delivery, cloud infrastructure companies are becoming the go-to resource for deploying today's critical business and consumer applications. Whether it's public, private, or hybrid, the cloud infrastructure companies that are providing the most robust, trustworthy, always-on performance are the ones propelling us into a completely new computing universe.
The robust applications, mobile technology, and on-demand innovations being supported in the cloud are enhancing almost every sector of the online world. We've seen the borders being pulled down between desktop, TV, tablet, smartphone, and laptop. And while the amount of data being generated and consumed is continuing to expand almost faster than we can harness its power, the rigorous determination of the OnDemand 100 winners is meeting and exceeding this continual entrepreneurial challenge. The data macrosphere is a reality—a binary organism that's fueling our creative process and bringing new ideas to fruition. As it grows and expands into every corner of the cloud, the applications it inspires will continue to feed the success of the Global Silicon Valley.
Reimagining the Computing Paradigm This year's OnDemand 100 companies, like their predecessors, were selected based on a set of five criteria: innovation, market potential, commercialization, stakeholder value, and media buzz. As the cloud infrastructure, SaaS, and on-demand community redefines the world of technology, it continues to push the limits of computer power and how data resources are created, stored, and delivered—developing new ideas and creating new companies with outstanding growth potential.
Congratulations to all the 2013 OnDemand 100 winners. These top venture capital-backed on-demand and SaaS companies are taking advantage of an increasingly stable and reliable cloud infrastructure to develop, maintain, and deploy a continuous stream of disruptive technology to every single computer user on the planet. The technology platforms and services represented in this year's list are feeding a burgeoning data macrosphere, propelling the entire computing paradigm into a interdependent, connected, and mobile future.
Here's how I think about a platform — you work in a platform. A platform is designed for a specific business function like marketing, sales, HR, finance, etc. Platforms connect to other platforms, so integration is key.
The important part of the definition is that a platform is something you use every day, and plays a critical part in the success of your role. For example, the Acquia marketing team lives inside of Marketo, setting up programs, writing emails, scoring leads and analyzing results. Marketo is the first application we open in the morning and the last we close at the end of the day. It plays a pivotal role in making sure we're passing the best leads to sales at the right time, while nurturing our earlier stage prospects.
Enterprises are rapidly adopting open-source software to achieve value far beyond just lowering costs. Tom Wentworth, CMO at open-source provider Acquia, discusses how open source addresses trends in evolving enterprise needs and shares examples of return on investment that enterprises achieve through open source.
Enterprises, like all businesses today, are trying to survive in a time of digital disruption. The market is beyond competitive. Look at how digital pioneers like Netflix and Amazon have transformed their industries. It's only a matter of time before that happens to every industry, if they aren't ready to innovate.
Open source allows enterprise business to place its bet on the freedom to innovate. The global developer communities bring unforeseen development speed, and the lack of high license fees mean that resources can be invested in a great digital experience. Most importantly, though, open source provides the freedom to innovate, plan out your own product road map, and respond quickly to market demands. That equals survival.
By Bryan Ruby
This week, I received an email from some marketing folks that Acquia was announcing they are open sourcing their mobile application code for posting content to Drupal sites. For those that don't know, Acquia is a commercial open source software company that provides products, services, and technical support for Drupal. This isn't the first time Acquia and other Drupal vendors have given code back to the Drupal community and you can be assured it won't be the last.
Honestly, I had not been following the development of Drupal Create so it's taken me some time to better understand the significance of this story to open source. SparkPR's Eric Sokolsky explained it to me in his email this way:
Today, Acquia released source code that will allow Drupal website content owners and developers to create their own customized mobile content publishing apps. These apps – the first of their kind on the Drupal platform -- will enable developers to create or curate content on their iOS phones and publish it directly to their existing Drupal-based sites – without being tethered to a laptop or desktop computer.
If I didn't know any better, I would have thought Acquia was eavesdropping on some recent discussions I've had regarding my observation on the potential conflicts between open source vendors and open source communities. Their action alone suggests that perhaps I worry too much. Let me explain.
Les développeurs vont pouvoir créer des applications sous iOS pour produire du contenu pour Drupal. Acquia a publié sur GitHub le code source en Objective-C de son application mobile Drupal Create.
Avec la mise à disposition du code source Drupal Create, les contributeurs qui sont amenés à publier des contenus sur des sites réalisés avec le CMS Drupal, peuvent le faire à partir de leur terminal sous iOS. L'intégralité du code source de l'application mobile a été mise à disposition en Objective-C sur le référentiel Github, vient d'indiquer la société Acquia qui pilote le projet Open Source de gestion de contenus web. Il permettra aux développeurs de créer des apps personnalisées pour communiquer avec leurs sites montés avec Drupal. Une app prête à l'utilisation, Drupal Gardens, est par ailleurs proposée sur iTunes.
By Anthony Myers
Like posting content to Drupal sites from an iOS device? Acquia, the commercial provider of Drupal Web CMS services, has released the code base for building native iOS apps that can post content right to a Drupal website — the first of its kind.
Produce Content from an iPhone or iPad What has to be one of the most difficult things for website owners to do is to create content from a mobile device — any content producer will vouch for this painful reality. But while laptops and desktops provide ease of use, they are not exactly practical to use when publishing content on the go.
Some work related items have to be done remotely as is seen in the many discussions on the bring your own device phenomenon. Quite often, however, this is in the context of document collaboration, social media and other collaborative work settings and rarely about content production. In this case it's widely accepted that mobile devices are really not preferable at all.
Excerpt of Executive Summary | View Online Below or Download PDF Throughout the ages, technology has played an essential role for government to craft a better society for citizens. In the Roman Empire, the aqueducts revolutionized services provided to Roman citizens. Leveraging gravity alone, the Romans were able to transform communities, providing water to distant cities and towns, and create an engineering marvel that would lead to years of economic dominance and influence society for years to come.
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The chief digital officer, a relatively recent addition to the C-Suite, is already making his influence felt on today's technological landscape and, by extension, everyday living. Companies that have yet to hire a CDO, but who regard a great digital customer experience as core to the business, should consider making room for one.
From morning coffee (Starbucks Corp. has a chief digital officer) to the evening panel discussion at the local university (Harvard University has one as well), there's now a CDO considering the digital implications of experiences that you might not expect. Going through Times Square, I'm reminded that NYC now has its own chief digital officer, that there's a CDO at the nearby CVS Caremark Corp., and a CDO at the New York Stock Exchange.
It's fairly easy to pinpoint the trickle-down difference at this everyday level, compared to the days prior the appearance of the chief digital officer. Whether you're Whole Foods Market Inc. or Warner Music, you now likely have somebody — even if he or she doesn't have a CDO title — with full responsibility for how technology frames the customer experience. It's at this personal interaction level where the CDO's impact is most keenly felt.
Drupal is one of the most popular Web content management systems in higher education, but that doesn't mean every university uses it effectively. Scott Lozier, a senior Web developer at Bentley University in Waltham, Mass., says the open source CMS was already in use there when he arrived about a year and a half ago, but it was being used in a scattered way.
Acquia has announced four key appointments to strengthen the team in their new Australian office and support the Acquia Cloud, an scalable hosting environment for Drupal deployments.
The company helps enterprises to create extraordinary web experiences based on Drupal, the open source platform that integrates content, community and commerce. Offering a variety of SaaS solutions specifically designed for Drupal, Acquia gives global organizations the unparalleled ability to rapidly deploy and manage multichannel content across web and mobile devices.
Open source software company, Acquia, has made some new hires to boost its local presence and Cloud offering.
David Peterson has joined as senior Drupal advisor. He has worked on many Drupal sites, including the ABC's Hungry Beat and digital radio properties. He will be tasked with sharing his knowledge in the local Drupal community, offering training, encouraging local meetings and assisting partners with tenders, architectural issues and customer engagements.
Acquia, the enterprise guide to Drupal and the developers of Mollom, just announced the release of its new content moderation platform. Mollum is a Content Moderation Platform service that analyzes content quality on a website and filters out spam or inappropriate messages. Content moderation is a challenging and time-consuming job, but Mollom's advanced solution makes the task quick and easy.
According to one of the developers, Dries Buytaert (of Drupal fame), "I feel like we've secured our place as the leading enterprise-ready content moderation system." The new rollout is the climax to two years of development, 600 beta testers, and millions of filtered comments.
There are currently more than 1,500 Government of Canada-owned URLS, according to an e-mailed statement from Matthew Conway, a spokesperson for Treasury Board president Tony Clement.
Officials want to reduce that to six or fewer websites as part of a broader modernization effort aimed at making it easier for citizens to digitally navigate their way through federal services.
At the same time, Mr. Conway said the government intends to consolidate and standardize the many platforms and tools used to support the federal government's vast web presence.
Los Angeles, Calif. – International Women's Day, Colocation America announced their Second Annual "Top 5 Women in the Data Center Industry 2013." After researching numerous candidates, Colocation America named Meg Whitman, President and Chief Executive Officer for Hewlett-Packard, Joanne Olsen, Senior Vice president of NAS Applications and Cloud Services for Oracle Corporation, Lynn LeBlanc, CEO and Founder for HotLink Corporation, Kathy Warden, Corporate Vice President and President Information Systems sector for Northrop Grumman, and Angela Byron, Director of Community Development for Acquia Inc as the most influential women in the data center industry of 2013.
"We've received numerous amounts of gratitude on last year's list and we knew that we had another opportunity to show our appreciation this year", says Shawn Ahdoot, marketing director of Colocation America. "These women have paved the way in our industry and will not be forgotten, but to be remembered by the young and inspired minds of today. We only hope that their stories of success can be duplicated by the next generation of the inspired," Ahdoot adds.
These women join last year's 2012 list of powerful women that are making a difference in the industry. In order to expand and promote more women, Colocation America added the "honorable mentions" list in which readers can comment and suggest the women in technology that have and continued to inspire them.
Open source digital services provider Acquia has released Drupal Commons 3.0 to help with the creation and management of customer communities and social-driven applications.
Acquia's most recent focus has been on expanding their global presence with US $30 million in funding that was used to further sales and marketing in Europe and Asia Pacific and by bringing its Drupal hosting provider to Europe, North America, Asia and Australia.
With Drupal Commons 3.0 the company aims to build on a previous release, the Open WEM initiative for digital marketers by offering clients a Drupal powered, open sourced, social business tool that brings together content, community and commerce platforms.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 02/27/13 -- Cloudwords, the first cloud-based translation management application, today announced the launch of Cloudwords for Drupal, a first of its kind integration with a translation management platform for the world's largest open source content management system (CMS). Acquia, the enterprise guide to Drupal, is a key partner in bringing this module to organizations using Drupal with an integration and automation capability that has not previously been available. Today's announcement marks a first for the translation management industry, as Cloudwords will be the first translation management platform to offer pre-packaged integration with Drupal 7.
As more companies grow dissatisfied with older options for managing web content, a number are turning to open source software Drupal for digital publishing.
That trend in turn has provided a big boost for Acquia Inc., making the Burlington-based provider of support for Drupal applications one of the fastest growing tech companies in the country.
Acquia officials say the company's revenue is going to roughly double this year, compared to the nearly $22 million the firm took in last year. The company is on a hiring spree to keep up with all the new clients, with expectations to add another ...
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Twenty time TT winner and outright lap record holder John McGuinness will be the star guest at this years MCNLive! at Butlins Skegness on March 28-31. On 4pm on Saturday afternoon the Morecambe missile will be giving a big-screen, live commentary on one of his stunning 130mph laps of the TT. McGuinness will talk through the mountain course corner by ...
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In this week's MCN paper, available in newsagents, on iPad and Android from March 5: MotoGP shock week: Rossi on top as Lorenzo slumps New Ducati Diavel revealed Britain's best real world bikes tested First ride: Yamaha Super Tenere All available in print at your local newsagent, or on iPad and Google editions from March 5!
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Official images and technical data reveal that Ducati's game-changing Diavel will benefit from a host of revisions for 2014, three years after the bike was launched to widespread acclaim for delivering sportsbike levels of performance to the cruiser class. The main changes centre around a new twin-spark version of the 1198cc Testastretta V-twin engine. While Ducati claim that it will ...
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The rules have changed for Passports. Now if the cruise is a "closed loop" (begins in a US port and ends in the same port) you DO NOT need a passport. You can use an original birth certificate. Having said that it is always good to travel with a passport because if you miss the ship getting back into the US will be more "fun" than you planned on! Have fun and happy sailings! Your travel agents in San Antonio.
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Beginning Monday June 8th 2009, all US citizens traveling to Canada, Mexico, Bermuda and the Caribbean will be required to carry a passport. Without a passport US citizens will not be allowed to board a cruise ship to any of these destinations.
This is the final phase of the US Dept. of Homeland Security Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative. Based on reports from our travelers the wait time for a new passport is running three to four weeks. Renewals are running two to three weeks. Expedited service is available if you are getting close to your travel date. You have plenty of time to get your US passport before any of the upcoming lifestyle cruises, that are scheduled, if you act soon. |
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POLITICAL choices have economic consequences - really big ones.
A series of columns in the Wall Street Journal in the last month shed light on one of those choices - states' posture toward union membership.
A little history:
Late in 2009, in the middle of the recession, the Boeing Co, facing a backlog of orders for its new 787 Dreamliner, broke ground on a second assembly plant near Charleston, S.C.
The company's first Dreamliner assembly plant was built in Everett, Wash., in 2003.
The $1 billion South Carolina investment is the first big airline plant built in the United States in 40 years.
The 1.2-million-square-foot facility is almost ready to go. A thousand workers are being trained to begin production in July.
With the economy teetering on the verge of a double-dip recession, Americans thirst for more such economic news.
But in April, the Obama administration's National Labor Relation Board filed a complaint to force Boeing to move the production line back to Washington State. The NLRB contends Boeing's investment in South Carolina, a right-to-work state, was an unlawful retaliation against its unionized employees in Washington State.
The company has suffered strikes at that facility.
Boeing vowed to contest the matter, which led to the first column by Jim McNerney, Boeing's chairman, president and chief executive officer.
Among other things, McNerney denied that the company is opposed to unions or is making a mass exodus to right-to-work states. Boeing operates in 34 states, only half of them right-to-work.
Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., also reacted to the NLRB's decision to go after Boeing.
In 1979, when he was governor of Tennessee, he wrote, then-President Jimmy Carter urged public officials: "Governors, go to Japan. Persuade them to make here what they sell here."
Alexander went to see Nissan executives, who were trying to figure out where to put their first U.S. plant.
Tennessee won over Kentucky.
"Tennessee has a right-to-work law and Kentucky does not," Alexander wrote. "This meant that in Kentucky workers would have to join the United Auto Workers union. Workers in Tennessee had a choice."


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By Mr. Rushing of Boston, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 3625) of Byron Rushing and William N. Brownsberger (with the approval of the mayor and city council) relative to discriminatory housing practices in the city of Boston. Housing. [Local Approval Received.]
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The Chevrolet Corvette – GM's little performance savior. This car has meant everything to Chevrolet for one simple reason; because it used to be the only car with some style. It was the only model that made anyone feel emotional about driving a Chevrolet and its history is second to none. The American sports car market has been utterly dominated by the Corvette from the Airbox models to the legendary Stingray.
The Z06 was originally introduced to push the envelope in terms of performance for the Corvette lineup. Recently Chevrolet decided that the Corvette needed to incorporate the largest and most powerful engine thus creating the ZR1 . The ZR1 model has become the poster child of American supercar fame taking on the challengers from across the pond and, with the hiatus of the Dodge Viper , it is likely to keep its crown for some time.
Even with the invention of the ZR1, the Z06 model has not been neglected. Several different levels of Z06 trim exist, each coming with different types of option packages delivering varied results depending on what type of driving the car will most likely encounter.
Hit the jump for more details on the 2011 Chevrolet Corvette Z06.
The standard Corvette has not changed its shape since the latest body came out, but the Z06 models offer a host of improvements. For the Z06 Carbon Limited Edition the car gets a carbon fiber hood, carbon-fiber rocker panels, and 20" double spoke wheels finished in black. These weight saving pieces help the Carbon edition become the best performing model in the line. In addition, only 500 of these models will be built.
Current Corvette models have been able to withstand the test of time and with these latest iterations, it seems as though they will be just fine for the next few years...
The two new packages are the Z07 and CFZ each providing their own individual touches. The CFZ package is akin to the Carbon Edition by providing rocker extensions, front splitter, and a rear spoiler. The Z07 package ups the ante with carbon-ceramic brakes provided by Brembo and Michelin Sport PS2 tires surrounding 20-spoke wheels. Perhaps the most effective addition that comes with this package is the Magnetic Selective Ride Control giving more options to the driver as well as enhancing the handling of the car on all surfaces.
Current Corvette models have been able to withstand the test of time and with these latest iterations, it seems as though they will be just fine for the next few years until a completely new replacement is ready. Extensive use of carbon-fiber through the fenders, hood, roof, and front splitter has helped to shave weight and increase aesthetic appeal at the same time.
In most comparison tests, the place in which the Corvette drops the ball compared to its competition is the interior. Let's admit that most people do not buy a Corvette in order to receive some sort of opulent interior treatment, but at the same time these cars are not cheap. A base Corvette Z06 will set you back $74,305 and for that kind of cash there are plenty of sudo-luxury sports cars to choose from.
The 3LZ trim level option has helped the Corvette out immensely. It offers the instrument panel, door panels, console cover, and sport seats all wrapped in leather. The option of different colored stitching, providing a level of customization, is also a nice touch.
If you are lucky enough to get one of the few Carbon Limited Edition models than your interior will be one of the few that feels completely outfitted. It includes suede-leather seating surfaces, suede steering wheel, shift knob, door pulls, and armrests. The Blue and Orange stitching options are only available on this model and racing pedals with a racing number complete the upgrades. One issue that seems to be raised with every Corvette is the lack of support in the seats.
The Z06 model is quite the competitor even when compared to its mighty ZR1 sibling. The 7.0-liter LS7 V8 is nothing short of fantastic when put to the test. It produces 505hp at 6,300rpm and 470 lb-ft of torque at 4,800rpm, which is more than sufficient to spin the rear tires into oblivion. Through the use of lightweight materials such as the titanium intake valves, the Z06 models are the lightest Corvettes in the range.
All of this power under the hood in conjunction with the lightweight components, get the Z06 Carbon Edition to sprint from 0-60mph in 3.7 seconds and slaughter the quarter-mile in 11.6 seconds. The ZR1 may do the 60mph race in a supercar-like 3.3 seconds, but either one is truly fast. The Z06 actually stops faster than a ZR1 from 60mph in an astonishing 93ft. compared with the ZR1 that takes 97ft to come to a halt.
2010 Corvette Coupe - $48,950
1LT Base Equipment Group | $0 |
2LT Equipment Group | $1,195 |
3LT Preferred Equipment Group | $4,205 |
4LT Premium Equipment Group | $7,705 |
2010 Corvette Convertible - $53,600
1LT Base Equipment Group | $0 |
2LT Equipment Group | $3,190 |
3LT Preferred Equipment Group | $6,200 |
4LT Premium Equipment Group | $9,700 |
2010 Corvette Grand Sport Coupe - $54,790
1LT Base Equipment Group | $0 |
2LT Equipment Group | $1,195 |
3LT Preferred Equipment Group | $4,205 |
4LT Premium Equipment Group | $7,705 |
2010 Corvette Grand Sport Convertible - $58,600
1LT Base Equipment Group | $0 |
2LT Equipment Group | $3,190 |
3LT Preferred Equipment Group | $6,200 |
4LT Premium Equipment Group | $9,700 |
2010 Corvette Z06 - $74,305
1LZ Base Equipment Group | $0 |
2LZ Preferred Equipment Group | $2,665 |
3LZ Premium Equipment Group | $7,170 |
2010 Corvette ZR1 - $109,800
1ZR Base Equipment Group | $0 |
3ZR Premium Equipment Group | $10,000 |
C2L | Roof Package – Includes Painted and Glass Tops | $1,400 |
CC3 | Glass Roof instead of Painted Roof | $750 |
CCR | Special order option | $0 |
CFZ | Z06 Carbon Fiber Package | $3,995 |
D30 | Color Combination Override | $590 |
F55 | Magnetic Selective Ride Control – Grand Sports | $1,695 |
F55 | Magnetic Selective Ride Control – Coupe/Conv | $1,995 |
H33 | Cyber Gray Metallic Headlamp Override | $590 |
H34 | Blade Silver Metallic Headlamp Override | $590 |
H35 | Black Headlamp Override | $590 |
J55 | Cross Drilled Brake Rotors | $500 |
MN6 | 6-Speed Manual Transmission | $0 |
MXO | 6-Speed Paddle Shift Automatic Transmission | $1,250 |
NPP | Dual Mode Exhaust | $1,195 |
PYD | Grand Sport Competition Gray Wheels | $395 |
PYE | Grand Sport Chrome Wheels | $1,995 |
Q44 | Z06 Competition Gray Wheels | $395 |
Q6B | ZR1 Chrome Wheels | $2,000 |
Q6J | ZR1 Competition Gray Wheels | $395 |
Q76 | Z06 Original Chrome 10 spoke Wheels | $1,495 |
Q8A | Z06 Spider Chrome Wheels | $1,995 |
Q9V | Chrome 5 Spoke Wheels – Coupe and Conv Only | $1,850 |
QX1 | Split Spoke Competition Gray Wheels | $395 |
R8C | Museum Delivery | $490 |
U3U | Navigation 6.5" Screen | $1,795 |
US9 | 6 Disc CD Changer | $395 |
Z07 | Z06 Ultimate Performance Package | $9,495 |
Z15 | Grand Sport Heritage Package | $1,195 |
**6 | Two-Tone Seating | $695 |
36S | Custom Leather Stitching – Yellow | $395 |
37S | Custom Leather Stitching – Blue | $395 |
38S | Custom Leather Stitching – Red | $395 |
0B1 | Cross Flag Embroidery on Headrests | $300 |
28U | Inferno Orange Metiallic | $300 |
45U | Velocity Yellow Premium Tintcoat | $850 |
85U | Jetstream Blue Premium Tintcoat | $850 |
89U | Crystal Red Premium Tintcoat | $850 |
GLB | Supersonic Blue Metallic | $300 |
PYD | Competition Gray Aluminum – Grand Sport | $395 |
PYE | Chrome Aluminum – Grand Sport | $1,995 |
Q44 | Z06 Competition Gray | $395 |
Q6B | ZR1 Chrome Aluminum | $2,000 |
Q6J | ZR1 Competition Gray Aluminum | $395 |
Q8A | Z06 Chrome Aluminum | $1,995 |
QX1 | Competition Gray Aluminum – Coupe/Conv | $395 |
QX3 | Chrome Aluminum – Coupe/Conv | $1,850 |
RQ1 | Machine Faced Aluminum – Coupe/Conv | $895 |
With there being no true American sports car to challenge the throne since the departure of the Dodge Viper, it is hard to find direct competition to the Corvette at any trim level, let alone Z06 form. Just for kicks, comparing the two show they are strikingly similar - the Viper does have a large engine in terms of cylinders, but only by one extra liter. Horsepower numbers are close for a V8 vs. a V10, but the Viper wins all day in the torque category with 560 lb-ft on tap. The closest comparison are the quarter-mile and 0-60 times that are virtually identical.
The Nissan Skyline provides similar technical specs and actually accelerates faster than the corvette, making it to 60mph in 3.5 seconds. It is also a very different animal, having four-wheel drive and a back seat bringing it further away from the true old-school sports car that the Corvette is able to bring out. If that is what type of vehicle you're looking for than the Corvette is the only thing currently on the market willing to provide big V8 thrills at a fraction of the price of its foreign competition.
- Carbon-Fiber Parts
- LS7 V8 Engine
- Near ZR1 Performance
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2 Bed 2 Bath Waterfront Home w/ Pool/Dock-WOW! in Manasota Key
- bedrooms 2
- baths 2
- sleeps 7
- pool yes
- hot tub no
- pets allowed yes
- type House
- community
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$ 3,200 - $ 4,500 / month
vacation rental description
Come vacation with us on Manasota Key! Picture yourself staying in this
beautifully decorated old style Florida home! Enjoy this lovely 2 bedroom 2
Bathroom Private Home that is located right on Lemon Bay. This home has a
dock for your boating pleasure or for those that like the option of
dropping a line in the water whenever they please! The Gulf of Mexico
is available by walking 300ft or you can drive a half mile to Englewood
There is also two 1 bedroom 1 bath furnished apartments on the
property next door should you have additional guests. Please inquire
as to monthly and weekly rates.
You are also only minutes from restaurants, shopping, Grocery Stores and
property availability
Last modified on 03-9-2014 at 12:06 PM.
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house rental amenities
Beach Access to the Gulf of Mexico within 300FT.
Hardwood floors throughout
High Speed Internet
New Kitchen with flat top stove
Central Heat & Air Conditioning
2 Flat screen TV's/DVD & VCR
Washer & Dryer
Propane Grill
Master Bedroom has a King Size Bed
Guest Bedroom has two twins
Queen size Sofa Sleeper
Linens & Bath/Beach Towels
Beach Towels and Chairs
activities and attractions in Manasota Key Gulf Coast South
Relaxing, Swimming, Boating, Biking, Shelling on White Sandy Beaches,
& Golfing. 45 Minutes to Sarasota, 1.5 Hours to Tampa, 1.15 hours to
Ft. Myers 2.5 Hours to Disney.
vacation rental rates
Available all Year:
May Through December: $3,200/$900 Weekly
January through April: $4,500/$1,300 Weekly
Discounts available for more than one month booking
Non refundable cleaning fee of $75
Non refundable cleaning fee with Pets $100
Security Deposit of $500 is due upon making your Reservation.
Deposit will be refunded if cancellation is made 30 days prior to
Total Payment due 30 days prior to check-in
Smoking on Patio's Only
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Glazed Pork Tenderloin Recipe
"Here's a well-seasoned recipe originally for the grill," explains Virginia Smith in Peoria, Illinois. "But we liked it so much that I changed it for the oven just so we could enjoy it all year long!"
- 2 teaspoons dried oregano
- 1 teaspoon dried parsley flakes
- 1/2 teaspoon dried rosemary, crushed
- 1/2 teaspoon dried thyme
- 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
- 1/2 teaspoon seasoned salt
- Dash pepper
- Dash cayenne pepper
- 1 pork tenderloin (3/4 pound)
- 4-1/2 teaspoons brown sugar
- 4-1/2 teaspoons Dijon mustard
- 1/4 teaspoon honey
- In a small bowl, combine the first eight ingredients. Rub over pork. Place in a large resealable plastic bag. Seal bag and refrigerate overnight.
- Combine the glaze ingredients. Place tenderloin on a rack in a foil-lined shallow roasting pan. Bake, uncovered, at 350° for 40-45 minutes or until a meat thermometer reads 160°, basting occasionally with glaze. Let stand for 5 minutes before slicing. Yield: 2 servings.
Originally published as Glazed Pork Tenderloin in Cooking for 2
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This is my go to recipe for pork tenderloin. I occasionally leave the spices on it, but more often I just throw it together and put it in the toaster over. No muss, no fuss! Always tastes wonderful, and makes great leftovers.
Reviewed Apr. 30, 2012
Loved it! Highly recommend! I did not marinate it since I wasn't prepared but it still came out excellent! I reserved some glaze & heated till it was saucy & poured over tenderloin when finished to give it more sauce. YUMMY!
Reviewed Apr. 10, 2011
This pork tenderloin has become a regular addition to the dinner rotation at our home. It's juicy, tender, flavorful, and easy.
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Slipknot News: Corey Taylor passes out onstage, 'Knotfest' August 17 & 18 with final live performance of 2012 on PPV, Clown interview at anti-bullying event (video)
by craig on Jul.13, 2012, under ROCK NEWS, ROCK TOUR DATES, VIDEO
Corey Taylor of Slipknot had a scare on July 10 when he passed out near the end of the band's Mayhem Festival performance in Dallas, Texas. He is OK, and continues on the Mayhem tour with Slayer, Motorhead, Anthrax, As I Lay Dying, the Devil Wears Prada and more. Check out footage of Corey passing out below.
Slipknot will hold their first-ever Knotfest with two day-long events, one August 17th in their home state of Iowa and the other August 18th in Somerset, on the border of Wisconsin and Minnesota. The shows will find Slipknot joined by the Deftones, Dethklok, Serj Tankian, the Urge, Cannibal Corpse and more.
"It's all about having fun and bringing something to the world of rock & roll, bringing it to the standard it used to be," Slipknot's Shawn "Clown" Crahan told Rolling Stone. "It's time for us to really engulf this idea known as Knotfest where we're in control, we make a day devoted to our mindset, our ideas, the people that we want to play with, the people that we think our fans want to be around."
"When everyone leaves their senses [will be] overloaded, and I'm talking about smells, sights, hearing, your body, everything is overloaded with stimulation, because that's what Slipknot does," Crahan says.
The festival is offering activities besides the show itself as part of its "dark carnival experience." Circus big-top tents, pillars of fire, amusement park rides, burlesque performers, firebreathers, stilt walkers, drum circles made of junkyard cars and graffiti walls are some of the stimuli expected. The two shows will also debut a Slipknot museum.
Knotfest is something the band has always wanted to do, according to Crahan. And the time is right. "Now, after 15 years, things feel right, things feel complete, things feel like we can accomplish anything. And I love challenges," he says.
That came about in large part through adversity. The band suffered a devastating loss in 2010 when bassist Paul Gray was found dead in his Iowa hotel room. Like any group that's suffered the death of a band mate, Slipknot were left to figure out the best way to carry on and honor their brother. They decided to do it live.
"When the tragedy of our life happened, instead of going away we decided, 'No, that's not the right thing to do. Let's go out, let's share the way we feel with the people that feel like we feel,'" Crahan says. "So last summer we embarked on a tour, then we went to South America and opened up for Metallica in Rock In Rio. We just got back from Australia, and now we're gonna embark on another fantastic one-of-a-kind tour, ending this thought process that's been consumed by these feelings about a great loss."
After closing this chapter, the band will move on. "We're going to take our personal time to do what it is we feel we need to do to get ready for the new record that's gonna come out sooner than anybody knows," says Crahan.
Expect Knotfest to be an ongoing tradition, even if Slipknot isn't always on the bill. "It's something that we want to be in control of so much that it can exist without us," Crahan says.
Slipknot's final live performance of 2012 will be broadcast worldwide via pay per view. The "Slipknot Live At Knotfest" event from Somerset, Wisconsin is in partnership with TODOCAST and Event View Live. The official broadcast site is www.EventViewLive.com.
The "Slipknot Live At Knotfest" event can be accessed from any Internet device at $14.95 for early bird fans now through August 11. The week before the event, the price will rise to $19.95. Fans who purchase early will receive full access to "Slipknot Saturdays" which begin Saturday, July 14 (and continue each Saturday until the event) and feature exclusive SLIPKNOT performances and video footage documenting the road to Knotfest.
The "Slipknot Live At Knotfest" event will include all the insanity that goes on backstage. Fans can pause it. Rewind it. Re-watch it. Day-of-show footage includes a behind-the-scenes tour of the festival grounds, pre-show interviews with Knotfest artists and Mistress Juliya, the stunning high definition main-stage performance of Slipknot as well as exclusive post-show interviews with the band. The entire "Slipknot Live At Knotfest" event package is available to purchasers for on-demand viewing for 30 days following the event.
On June 5, M. Shawn "Clown" Crahan talked to the Des Moines Register at Dayton Oaks campground in support of anti-bullying activist Kirk Smalley of Stand For The Silent. At the event Crahan spoke about the upcoming Knotfest and shared his views on bullying.


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The Longboat Key Publix is attracting more than just grocery shoppers.
In the coming months, it could attract two new restaurants, some new businesses and, possibly, a future town center.
In the months leading up to the store's Dec. 13 opening, rumors circulated about what's in store for the parcels surrounding the new grocery store.
Up first, the last piece of the former Avenue of the Flowers Plaza will be torn down — but not until after season.
Lakeland-based Publix Super Markets Inc., which bought the Avenue of the Flowers II plaza from Howard Rooks and used a portion of it to house its construction operations, won't tear it down until April, after the Easter rush. In its place will come more parking spaces and landscaping.
Rooks still owns the former Mattison's Steakhouse building at the Plaza, which Publix was not interested in buying.
Rooks, though, said he has interest from a Sarasota restaurateur who would like to lease the space for a new restaurant on the Key.
"Ultimately, I hope to get a restaurant back up and running in the space in the next three months or so," Rooks said. "I also plan to make improvements to the building, redo the landscaping and renovate the parking lot."
Longboat Key resident Joe Wolfer, who owns two vacant parcels that sit along Bay Isles Road near the Publix property, doubts that a restaurant can survive again in that space.
Wolfer said he's held preliminary discussions with Rooks about purchasing the property, which he believes is better suited to package with his approximately three acres of vacant property for use as a future town center.
Publix paid Wolfer $1.1 million two years ago for one acre of property along the right side of the new grocery store that it uses for parking.
"The remaining three acres of land is available for sale, and my belief is it would be a significant improvement if the land were made into a town center," Wolfer said.
Apparently, the town agrees with Wolfer's assessment.
Town Manager Dave Bullock confirmed he has held preliminary discussions with Wolfer about acquiring the land.
Wolfer said the town offered $700,000 for the property, which was valued at $1.2 million after the town paid for two appraisals, six months ago.
But Bullock said no official offer for the property was ever made.
"I'm keeping an eye on that property and have also met with Mr. Rooks about his property," Bullock said. "The town has not made any formal offers but will maintain a dialogue with both property owners."
Wolfer is hopeful the property will be sold to the town but said he's not willing to "give the property away."
"I'm a town resident, and I can see this land being utilized with benches, a park and a place to walk with a cup of coffee," Wolfer said. "It could only help enhance an area that's the center of our community."
Meanwhile, some current and new businesses are making their way into the retail plaza that Publix built to the left of its new grocery store.
Rumors are circulating about whether the former Longboat Liquors will enter the space closest to Publix or if Publix hopes to place a Publix Liquors store there.
Publix spokesperson Shannon Patten said she couldn't comment on future tenants or upcoming changes to the new Shoppes of Bay Isles at this time.
Nails of Longboat Key opened last weekend next to the former liquor store space, and White Sands Dry Cleaner opened this week next door to the nail salon.
Premier Sotheby's International Realty will acquire 866 square feet of space next to the dry cleaner, according to the leasing website.
Your Fitness Instructor and Longboat Key Dental also have openings planned soon.
What's left in the plaza is a 1,299-square-foot spot in the middle and a 2,578-square-foot spot at the end of the plaza, where Publix wants to put a restaurant.
Petar Sibinkic, owner of Your Fitness Instructor, received the certificate of occupancy for his new 2,598-square-foot gym last week and has a construction crew working on the gym now.
"We're really excited to be a part of this new plaza," Sibinkic said. "I'm happy with the mix of tenants we already have and hope a future restaurant will sit right next door to me sometime soon."
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Alison Hirschel is the elder law attorney at the Michigan Poverty Law Program, a statewide back-up center for legal services programs, and the director of the Michigan Elder Justice Initiative. In addition, she is a commissioner of the American Bar Association Commission on Law and Aging and counsel to the State Long Term Care Ombudsman Program and the Michigan Campaign for Quality Care. She is a past president of The Consumer Voice (formerly NCCNHR, the National Consumer Voice for Quality Long Term Care) in Washington, D.C. She is also co-editor and one of the authors of
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In both 2008 and 2009, Prof. Hirschel provided testimony to congressional committees. She served as a delegate to the White House Conference on Aging in 2005. In 2003, she received the National Aging and Law Award. She served as a Yale Law School Arthur Liman Fellow in 1997-1998. Prior to joining the Michigan Law faculty in 1998, she worked at Community Legal Services in Philadelphia as a staff attorney, as co-director of the Elderly Law Project, and finally as deputy director. From 1991-1997, she taught elder law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. She served as a law clerk for the Hon. Joseph S. Lord III in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
Prof. Hirschel received her BA from the University of Michigan and her JD from Yale Law School.
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"Long-Term Care Options and Quality Issues." In
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Let's Build One!: Millennium Falcon Blueprints
Note: Trying to follow these tiny-ass blueprints is gonna result in a spaceship that looks like a turd and explodes on launch, click HERE to see the full-size version.
These are blueprints (or whiteprints, rather) of the Millennium Falcon (possibly from this book). You could use them to build your own. Ooooooor color at TGI Friday's while waiting for your meal to arrive. Whatever the case, you better have ordered the f***ing chicken fingers. Country gravy, COUNTRY GRAVY!!
UPDATE: Okay so my brother just informed me Friday's hasn't been serving country gravy with chicken fingers for at least six years. Wow, time flies. AND SO DOES MY DRAGON MOUNT, SUCKERS! *shooting fireballs*
These Are The Blueprints For The Millennium Falcon [jalopnik]
Thanks to mikoboy and ChrisTheMan, who don't use blueprints because they hate the Na'vi.
Note: This picture is small and doesn't do the thing justice click HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE and HERE to see some nice, high-res pics. Remember the Millennium Falcon play-fort built as part of a Make-A-Wish wish granting for little leukemia-stricken Christian Bentley? Well it wa... / Continue →
This is a giant-ass Millennium Falcon beanbag chairbed. I would sleep on it. But I'd also eat on it, because I'm a disgusting fatbody. True story: when I was doing my quarterly bed laundry this weekend I found a turkey drumstick, half a piece of pizza (sans crust), two Fruit... / Continue →
And you thought your mailbox was cool. Painted ducks aren't cool, X-wing fighters are cool. I love getting packages! This little picture doesn't do the five-foot wing span of Craig Smith's X-Wing mailbox justice. I made this so long ago, it is actually in need of weatherin... / Continue →


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Wilson's Sweet Tooth Gets a Big HitWilson previews the upcoming Sweet Tooth FestivalCHARLOTTE, N.C. - Sweeeet! The one word that best describes Wilson's gig today. He was at the BLACKLION in Pineville previewing the upcoming 2nd Annual Sweet Tooth Festival. Wilson was joined by Heather McDonnell of Cupcrazed Cakery in Fort Mill who was a finalist on the TV show "Cupcake Wars." Wilson, keep the day job...you do not have a future in baking. The 2nd Annual Sweet Tooth Festival will be held at the BLACKLION in Pineville on Saturday, March 9th at 7pm. Tickets include private shopping/tasting experience throughout the entire BLACKLION store, deluxe sampling, cooking demonstrations, a lounge and a red carpet. Portions of the proceeds go to Regional Aids Interfaith Network. Go to the Sweet Tooth Festival weblink below to purchase tickets. Websites you should check out from today's Wilson's World 2nd Annual Sweet Tooth Festival Regional Aids Interfaith Network (RAIN) Follow Wilson on Twitter at: www.Twitter.com/WilsonShow
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Ji-Kun Hatchling
Binds when picked up
Use: Teaches you how to summon this companion.
As of Patch 5.4, players can now win this pet by using a bonus roll (Mogu Rune of Fate) after defeating Ji-Kun.
Yes! I'm so glad I'm not the only one who thinks she looks like Kazooie! :D
I check the AH everyday at least once for pets, and I bought this pet today for 600g....someone didn't know what they had here.
Why do so many of these new pets say their Base Quality is Poor? I'm using the site, trying to figure out which pets start out as rare and which start out as uncommon (so I can collect stones) and I'm very confused.
To the question about what to combine this pet with...well, I'm still working on that at the moment, lol. I would, however, eventually like to try it out with my Mr. Wiggles that I'll be leveling to 25. Uncanny Luck + Caw = I don't care what pet is across from me, it's going down! My ability bar looks like - Peck | Wild Winds | Caw. I dunno what it is, but using Slicing Winds just isn't doing it for me. He rarely hits more than one time with it. :(
any tips with other pets to combine on a team? its really adorable
Can you get it from a token bonus roll ?
Just dropped today in LFR for me! I'm so happy! I didn't realize the drop rate was so low. Note it didn't come out of a fail bag for me but was given -with- a fail bag, in case you're curious.
Sadly I wish I had gotten this little guy out of looking for raid, but I traded with one of the top people who own the auction house on my realm. Took me two hours too get him too level 25 just love him and hes very usefull on my team. I do recomend him too others. =3
Just got mine from LFR :)
i got mine the first run the new LFR opened from the boss , almost died hahaha i call him JI JI :D
It supposedly has a 1% drop rate and has a chance to drop off any raid difficulty off of Ji-Kun. Its **adorable!!** Mine dropped today during LFR, and doesn't seem to be attached to normal loot.
Anyone else want this pet just to name it 'Kazooie'? I guess that means I should name my Hyjal Cub 'Banjo' if I ever luck into this cutie!


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Cardiff University has been visiting Kazakhstan twice a year since 2009 and regularly attends educational exhibitions. Staff from the University also give presentations in high schools and universities in Almaty, Astana and Karaganda.
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Since I initially came to do my master's, I chose Cardiff because it offered me the course I wanted – International Economics, Banking and Finance. Later on I met Professor Patrick Minford as he was my lecturer in Macroeconomics. He helped develop my interests in further study and research into that subject.
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Announcing American Renaissance's 2010 Conference!
I can see
the article's lead sentence already:
"White supremacists from three continents gathered in the Washington, DC
area over the weekend to vent their hatred of minorities
and bemoan their loss of privileges"!
That will be the spin that the Southern Poverty Law Center ($PLC) will put on the upcoming American Renaissance (AR) conference, to be held in the DC area February 19-21. And the Washington Post won't be far behind in suggesting that we were only barely able to suppress our urge to goose-step around the conference hall and shout "Sieg Heil!"
That is what liberals do when whites get together to talk about their interests as a people.
I should know. This will be the ninth AR conference since we started having them in 1994. (I wrote about them in VDARE.COM in 2008, 2006, and 2004). There is a substantial portion of the population—diminishing in number, to be sure—whose brains stop working when they hear the word "white" associated with otherwise respectable words like "heritage", "pride", "survival", or "rights." Every other group in the country can talk about these things. But as soon as whites do, it is pure evil.
This has been official doctrine ever since the '60s or '70s. And this official doctrine is dying a particularly lingering death.
Virtually all whites prefer the company of other whites—just look where they live and where they send their children to school—but all is forgiven so long as they pretend to love diversity. It is the idea of 300 of us all in the same room, laughing openly at the idea that diversity is a strength, that is more than the hypocrites who run the country can stand.
Our conference will also attract a fragrant band of protestors who will march around outside, braying about how bad we are, and who will promote "tolerance" and "diversity" by trying to shut the conference down. These protestors are devoted to us. We can reliably count on them to provide free entertainment for conference guests and to ensure plenty of press and TV coverage. It just wouldn't be an AR conference without them.
For 2010 we have a first-rate lineup of speakers.
Nick Griffin, Chairman of the
British National Party, could be our top draw. Fresh
from his victorious campaign for a seat in the
Euro-Parliament, he will speak about the wisdom British
voters showed in rallying to the view that
As Mr. Griffin found when he recently waded into the piranha pit as a guest on BBC TV's flagship politics program, Question Time, nothing enrages the established parties more than outsiders chewing into their monopoly. Conservatives and Labour alike are reduced to cries of "Nazi" as they see their voters defecting to the one party that really cares about the future of their country.
Another star speaker: filmmaker Craig Bodeker. His A Conversation About Race, which exposes the double standards and sloppy thinking about race and "racism", won the expected praise from dissident media such as VDARE.COM and American Renaissance but is so deft and convincing that even James Taranto of the Wall Street Journal admitted he found the documentary "fascinating" and wrote that "Bodeker makes a compelling case that much of what he calls the 'conventional wisdom' about race consists of . . . unthinking assumptions about the nature of American society and the racial attitudes of others". [In Defense of Carol Swain, October 26, 2009]Even the $outhern Poverty Law Center conceded that Mr. Bodeker "comes across as an affable guy intent on using logic and facts to debunk what he sees as the myth of racism".
It takes an unusual guy to win plaudits from such a variety of sources. Mr. Bodeker will tell us how he did it.
Hugh Kennedy is a prominent legal scholar who will talk about the Left's strategy of chipping away at the First Amendment. Champions of "diversity" and "tolerance" are never happier than when they are muzzling opponents, but they haven't quite figured out a way around the Constitution. Mr. Kennedy will explain what stands between them and the thought-crime laws they are itching to pass, and what we will have to do to keep sites like VDARE.COM safe from back-door censorship.
speaker will be
Dan Roodt, a leader of the
beleaguered Afrikaners of
South Africa. If you think we have a worrisome
future, imagine what it is like for
And there will be many other excellent speakers. Donald Thomas will expose the shocking machinations behind what is known as "refugee resettlement".
Your servant and occasional VDARE.COM contributor will talk about just what is at stake if we continue to drift towards dispossession. David Yeagley—also a VDARE.COM contributor—will offer a Comanche's appraisal of the white man's plight. Raymond Wolters of the University of Delaware, one of America's most courageous academics, will describe the will 'o the wisps the educational establishment has been chasing in its great and futile effort to "close the gaps". The inimitable Sam Dickson will close the conference, as he always does, with what amounts to a benediction for heretics—the heretics we find ourselves to be as soon as we stray from today's secular religion of race.
The real conference, however, will take place as always in the halls, at the bar, during coffee breaks, and late into the night, as people from nearly every American state enjoy the heady atmosphere that only the undeceived can create.
Perhaps it is because we have a black president, or perhaps because immigration is now spreading from the coasts to every part of the country, but unprecedented numbers of whites are coming out their coma and beginning to realize where our country is heading. The result is energy, ideas, activism, and commitment on a far greater scale than at any time in the 20 years since American Renaissance began publishing.
These are still very dark times in America. But the movement to speak out in the name of our nation's founding stock—to put our house back in order—is building up to critical mass. It helps, of course, that we have history, morality, and human nature all on our side.
Do you care about the America you will be passing on to your children and grand-children? Then join us in February!
More details here! Register online here!
Jared Taylor (email him) is editor of American Renaissance and the author of Paved With Good Intentions: The Failure of Race Relations in Contemporary America. (For Peter Brimelow's review, click here.)


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