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international standards of excellence in teaching and research, and has
been at the international forefront of academic scholarship for many years.
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Higher Education, the University has a comprehensive range of study
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than 1,200 members of academic and academic-related staff, many of whom are
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Professor in Linguistics (Ref.: 20110421)
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distinction for tenure track appointment as Professor in Linguistics in the
department of Linguistics, School of Humanities, from as soon as possible.
The position is first offered on a three-year fixed-term basis, with the
possibility of renewal and with consideration for tenure during the second
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Who are the �environmentalists?� Are all Birkenstock wearers part of the movement? What about the lady at the grocery store with a canvas sack for her purchases?
There is a difference between those who care for the earth, want to use it wisely, and believe in recycling--and those who are in decision-making positions, setting policy and/or funding the programs. Most Americans fit into the first group. We learned not to be a �litter-bug,� and we surely want clean air and water. Yet, the majority of Americans who value the earth and all that it has to offer us are not pushing an environmentalist agenda.
We need another word, one that sets those of us who care for the earth apart from those pushing an extreme agenda. Ron Arnold uses the term �Big Green� to represent the combination of activist, government, and donor working together to change policy--essentially creating an iron triangle. Big Green is an apt description as the combination does effectively communicate something bigger than the lady with the canvas bag in the checkout line. Like big labor or big business, Big Green carries the connotation of power.
At CARE we like the idea of a �Watermelon.� We, perhaps, have popularized, but did not create the moniker. We have received a positive response to �Green on the outside like environmentalism, red on the inside like neo-communism or neo-socialism.� We have bumper stickers that say, �Smash the Watermelons� and pens that are green on the outside that write with red ink. Both are very popular.
Whatever label you like, keep in mind that we are talking about something bigger, something organized, and something with plans greater than saving polar bears or spotted owls. If you study the Watermelons--Big Green groups, the key players, their leadership, and their funding--you�ll find plans to fundamentally transform the United States of America.
Whether we refer to them as Big Green or Watermelons, there are
hundreds of these groups
influencing policy in America. We questioned the motives. As we�ve already seen, energy is essential to the life we live. Following the actions of these myriad groups, it appears that their plans will end the America we know and love. When you study this day in and day out as we do, you have to wonder, �Why are they doing this?� Some do not seem to like any energy source--many even oppose the so called �darlings� of the energy world: wind and solar.
They use the courts, case-by-case, permit-by-permit, to increase the costs of an individual or company using their own property with the goal of discouraging the development of that property. There appears to be an aversion to someone benefiting from their own personal property--as if it should be used only for the collective good.
Permitting is used as a tool to stop development. This can happen because a person who owns a piece of property, needs a permit to do anything on it--even building a house. Because the permitting process is so backlogged, the property has a much higher value if it is already permitted. Due to department staffing shortages, many agencies are months behind in permitting.
There seems to be a simple solution. With all the stimulus spending, use the funds to hire more people in the departments that are backlogged. That would be the solution if you
growth. But that is not the goal of most agencies today. The permitting process is complicated for a reason.
During the Clinton administration, many of the people in the Environmental Protection Agency, and other like departments, were personal appointees of Al Gore�s. Many are still there. They deliberately derailed the regulatory process to put an end to economic development. Off-shore drilling is an example of the regulatory process deterring development of oil and gas resources in America.
The true environmentalists want people to move into cities where they are easier to control. They want to get rid of inefficient human patterns--which happens when people live in rural locations. Think about it. Many of the ideas lauded by environmental groups: electric cars, community gardens, and mass transit--for example, only work in cities.
As we learned more and more about the environmentalists� efforts, it became clear that �control� was really the issue. A complete picture began to emerge and the painting looked a lot like a watermelon: green on the outside and red on the inside.
Of course, the environmentalists do not fit the true Marxist model, but in the general sense, the idea of �red� explains a lot. Columnist George Will says, �Today�s �green left� is the old �red left� revised.� In his
op-ed on polar bears
, he states, �The left exists to enlarge the state's supervision of life, narrowing individual choices in the name of collective good. Hence the left's hostility to markets. And to automobiles--people going wherever they want whenever they want.� This explains the �red.�
George Will continues, �The green left understands that the direct route to government control of almost everything is to stigmatize, as a planetary menace, something involved in almost everything--carbon. Environmentalism is, as Lawson (author of
An Appeal to Reason: a Cool Look at Global Warming
) writes, an unlimited �license to intrude.� �Eco-fundamentalism,� which is �the quasi-religion of green alarmism,� promises �global salvationism.��
This increasing government theme is repeated in the writings of Fred L. Smith, Jr., President of the Competitive Enterprise Institute. In a 2004 article titled,
Eco-Facism Going Global
, he says:
We can say this for environmental activists--they are persistent, constantly developing collectivist schemes to increase the size and scope of government. And they are becoming more ambitious.
Not content with giving more power to Uncle Sam, they now seek to give greater power to the United Nations, a move that would seriously undermine American sovereignty and pave the way for top-down global wealth transfer schemes that would make the Great Society look small. Let's take a look at two such schemes.
The Law of the Sea Treaty: This treaty would give the U.N. the power to regulate and tax deep-sea mining and redistribute the receipts to Third World governments. It would simultaneously legitimize the principles of green collectivism and global income redistribution. President Reagan rejected the treaty in 1982, but a loose coalition of interest groups and activists are now working to revive this monster.
The Kyoto Protocol on �climate change�: This treaty seeks to restrict global greenhouse gas emissions, including those of carbon dioxide--the inescapable by--product of energy production. Kyoto's backers ignore the lack of evidence for catastrophic warming and the dire economic consequences of an energy-starved future, but no matter. They seem most interested in Kyoto's wealth transfer potential. Statements by one U.N. official suggest that if Kyoto took effect, the U.N. would ask rich countries to provide �funding� to poor countries to �help [them] better adapt to climate change� in the name of global �equity.�
Notice how these two eco-collectivist treaties would give the U.N. control over large sums of money. The Iraqi oil-for-food program scandal has given us a stark lesson on how the U.N. handles funds. As P.J. O'Rourke said about another group of bureaucrats, giving the U.N. more money and power would be �like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.�
Are the pieces of the puzzle beginning to fit together?
This thinking maybe totally foreign to you. Even when you can see what�s happening today, your probably have to wonder about the root cause. We�d heard many people mention something like, �many of the environmentalists operate as a result of a 1960s and 1970s mindset they had never grown out of.� One of our members suggested that checking out a written in the early 1970s:
Cows, Pigs, Wars and Witches
. How could a book by that title could help us on the quest for understanding this mindset. The subtitle is
The Riddles of Culture
. Still no clue. He said, �Hang in through the whole book. It came together at the end.� It did, Chapter 11.
The Watermelons--those who are green on the outside and red on the inside
operating on the remnants of the 60s and 70s. Back in the day, the mindset was, according to
Cows, Pigs, Wars and Witches
, referred to as the counter-culture or Consciousness III.
The following is the description of counter-culture: �Counter-culture celebrates the supposedly natural life of primitive peoples. Its members wear beads, headbands, body paint, and colorful tattered clothing; they yearn to be a tribe. They seem to believe that tribal peoples are nonmaterialistic, spontaneous, and reverently in touch with occult sources of enchantment.� While much of that comment is totally 70s, the idea of the primitive peoples, of the tribe, seemed to have a current quality to it. It helped to understand the apparent hatred of modern development and the inherent desire to go back to caves.
Previous paragraphs made more sense. Read this general introduction of the counter-culture mindset:
�The unexpected resurgence of attitudes and theories long held to be incompatible with the expansion of Western science and technology is associated with the development of a lifestyle which has been given the name �counter-culture.� According to Theodore Roszak, one of the movement�s adult prophets, counter-culture will save the world from the �myths of objective consciousness.� It will �subvert the scientific worldview� and substitute a new culture in which the �non-intellective capacities� will reign supreme. Charles A. Reich, another minor prophet of recent years, speaks of a millennial state of mind which he calls Consciousness III. To achieve Consciousness III is �to be deeply suspicious of logic, rationality, analysis, and of principles.�
In the lifestyle of the counter-culture, feelings, spontaneity, imagination are good; science, logic are bad. Its members boast of fleeing �objectivity� as if from a place inhabited by plague.
A central aspect of counter-culture is the belief that consciousness controls history. People are what goes on in their minds; to make them better, all you have to do is give them better ideas. Objective conditions count for little.�
No wonder the fact that you cannot power the world on wind or solar power doesn�t phase the Watermelons in their insistent push for ineffective systems. They believe that if they say it enough, it will be so. �Science, logic are bad.� �Objective conditions count for little.�
See if you don�t agree that the following sentences from
Cows, Pigs, Wars and Witches
don�t sound like the Watermelons we have come to know. As you read, try replacing the word �superconsciousness� with the word �Environmentalism.� �Its advocates insist that superconsciousness can make the world into a more friendly and more habitable place; they see flight from objectivity as a politically effective way to achieve an equitable distribution of wealth, recycling of resources, abolition of impersonal bureaucracies, and the correction of other dehumanizing aspects of modern technocratic societies. �Capitalism, the corporate state, the age of science, the Protestant ethic--all represent types of consciousness, and they can be altered by choosing a new consciousness.�
The message has percolated down through the years. The counter-culture has been successful in bringing about a new consciousness. Later in the book, Chapter 11 says, �Consciousness III will destroy the corporate state �without violence, without seizure of political power, without overthrow, of any existing group of people.� Counter-culture is sworn to attack minds, not capital gains or depletion allowances. � The hope that counter-culture will transform society into �something a human being can identify as, home� rests on the fact that it is a middle-class movement. What makes it so important �is that a radical rejection of science and technological values should appear so close to the center of our society, rather than on the negligible margins. It is the middle-class young who are conducting this politics of consciousness.�
For 40+ years, they have continued quietly �conducting this politics of consciousness� with results the author of the book probably never imagined. As we have seen, they mostly do not hold political office. Without violence, they have attacked minds. They have transformed society--all while we were sleeping. Toward the end of the chapter, the author, Marvin Harris, again quotes Theodore Roszak, stating that the primary goal of counter-culture is to proclaim �a new heaven and a new earth.�
In general, with each of the thirty plus year old quotes, if you replace the words �counter-culture� or �Consciousness III� with �environmentalism,� they could have been written today. The environmentalists do definitely dream of a new earth. They have visions of a utopia. They do not have any real plans as to how we will get there. But they are conducting politics of consciousness and in the thirty-plus years since, have managed to transform much of society into believing with them.
Patrick Moore is one of the founders of Greenpeace. His experience with the environmental movement of the 60s and 70s supports the thesis of
Cows, Pigs, Wars and Witches
--though we are not saying he�s ever read it. Patrick Moore in New Mexico in 2009 where he said that the environmental movement depends on politics of confrontation--which he defined as telling people what they should not do. His comment was specifically in reference to energy.
Moore explained that the 80's ushered in the age of environmental extremism. The basic issues for which he and Greenpeace fought had largely been accomplished and the general public was in agreement with the primary message. In order for the environmentalists to stay counter-culture, they had to adopt ever more extreme positions. �What happened is environmental extremism,� said Moore. �They've abandoned science and logic altogether.�
Moore said the extremism movement is dying off because young people are more accepting of new technology. The extremist message today is "anti:" anti-human, anti-science, anti-technology, anti-trade and globalization, anti-business and capitalism, and ultimately, anti-civilization. No wonder it seems no regulation goes far enough to appease them.
Addressing his change in position, Moore says, "I had been against at least three or four things every day of my life for 15 years; I decided I'd like to be in favor of something for a change. I made the transition from the politics of confrontation to the politics of building consensus." Today, Patrick Moore is known for his work supporting nuclear energy.
To the environmental extremist, as Patrick Moore calls them, the Watermelons as we call them, or Big Green as Ron Arnold calls them, America as we know it is bad. But if we follow their plan, we will have a new earth--and it will not look much like the country people are risking their lives to get into. It will not be a super-power. Instead it will be a superconciousness, looking more like a hippie commune than the wealthiest nation in the world.
Which of today�s �necessities� would you want to live without? As seen in the commentary, for Economist and actor Ben Stein, he would not want to live without the air conditioner. For you, maybe it is not the air conditioner--though probably none of us would really want to live without it. Most of us would have a hard time picking just one modern convenience we would not want to live without. You might think, �I really like hot water when I turn the handle. My cell phone is very convenient. I do like clean clothes. Then there is my car. Oh, my computer!�
Each year as the Christmas season approaches, inventors come up a new energy using appliance, mechanical toy, or computer product that we cannot live without. Children must have what their friends have--even if the item is close to lethal or exorbitantly expensive. We all want to be �with it.� We plug in one more energy draining unit while praising the idea of �going green.� It�s a patriot idea as long as it takes nothing away from our personal pleasures.
The records for 2010 show that Amazon�s best-seller was the Kindle--a simple tool that allows us to read books without ever really buying one. No trip to the library or bookstore. We stay warm in our well-heated homes and plug the Kindle into its source of energy.
We are used to available energy. We do not want to be without it and we don�t want to take a big step backward.
If you like the freedoms and luxuries that make America great, you�d better thank energy, as it is what separates us from the undeveloped countries. This is why it is important that we smash the Watermelons--no, not them personally (we am not inciting violence), but their pervasive hold on America�s energy policy.
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About the Author: Patrick S. Moon serves as U.S. Ambassador to Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The next generation of Bosnia and Herzegovina's leaders said they felt inspired and energized by Secretary Clinton's Town Hall meeting October 12 in Sarajevo.
"Young people here don't think they have a chance to say anything, but she gave us a chance to raise up our voices," said Demi Comage, a law student from the University of Sarajevo and president of a local youth organization. "It was quite inspiring to me. This talk gave me the power to walk on."
A diverse mix of 400-some students from across the country -- ranging from high school students from Islamic madrasahs to graduate students from mainly Croat areas and university students from the Republika Srpska -- came to the National Theater for a chance to have a conversation with the Secretary during the first stop of her visit to the Balkans. Before the dialogue began, though, the students heard a simple plea from the Secretary.
"The United States believes in the future of this country and believes in the potential of the young people," she said, adding later, "Now is the time to build on the gains that have been made in recent years. Now is the time to strengthen democratic institutions, to deepen peace between neighbors, and to create the conditions for long-term political, economic, and social progress."
The young people were full of questions and comments for the Secretary. A young woman asked for advice on integrating divided schools. Another asked for tips on expanding the role of women in politics here. A graduate student expressed hope for more college exchanges between the United States and Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Interest in the Secretary's visit was, unfortunately, much higher than the number of seats at the National Theater. Hoping to "democratize" the Town Hall event, we at Embassy Sarajevo asked our Facebook Friends to submit questions for the Secretary. A young woman from Banja Luka, Tanja Mihajlovic, wanted to know about the future of U.S. development plans here. Secretary Clinton responded, "We are willing and standing by ready to help," but that the necessary work of constitutional and economic reforms must come from within.
"Now there needs to be what we would call a second wind, where people do not get discouraged, where they do not give up, where they do not accept the status quo, where they do not retreat into their own communities and have nothing to do with the other," Secretary Clinton added, answering Ms. Mihajlovic's question.
Although Secretary Clinton's message was well-captured by the title of the event, "Forging a Future Together," the venue itself was powerful. More than any other building in this city, the National Theater has been a place of hope. Since its opening performance in 1921, the squat stone building on the banks of the Miljacka River has hosted well over 1,000 plays, ballets, operas and concerts. Most significantly, the theater remained a beacon of culture and life during the dark years of Sarajevo's three-year siege during the early 1990s.
Many of the young people in the audience had no direct memories of the war, but Secretary Clinton invoked the conflict in her call to action. "I urge you to remember the hard times that your families in this country have already endured and the toughness and the talents that carried you through," she said. "If you channel those strengths now into the difficult but rewarding work of shaping the future you will inherit, you will be the beneficiaries. The more engaged you are, the more you demand of your leaders, the more you can contribute to political, economic, and social progress that leads to prosperity and opportunity for you."
Amila Kurtovic, a student who attended the State Department's Ben Franklin Summer Institute in 2008, said she was surprised by the Secretary Clinton's candor during the Town Hall event. "I thought she was very open," Kurtovic said. "She really thought about our questions. She actually listened to what we said."
After the hour-long event, Kurtovic, who urged the Secretary to expand student exchange programs, said she left the theater with ideas churning in her head. She's already making plans to become more engaged in politics and civil society here. "The Secretary wasn't giving us false promises. She said that we need to make our own changes, but this was inspirational for me," Kurtovic said. "The Secretary came to Sarajevo and she chose to talk with students, not just government representatives."
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Rob, your such a beautiful man and i hope you realize it. Just love looking at you. I could stare at you all day and night. Your such a sweetheart. I hope Kristen really realizes what she has. Your the best ever.ReplyDelete
I totally agree with you. His a sweetheart and a really funny guy that's what I like more about him. His more then good looks.Delete
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IMO, IF Kristen didn't realize what she had before, I think she definitely does NOW, after nearly losing Rob this summer... tends to put everything into perspective pretty quickly. In pics of them together since, she seems a little more humble & looks at him with a renewed & deeper appreciation in her expression... & she holds onto him a little tighter now, too. I love to see them adore each other... it is sooooo sweet. :-) I think the two of them together are even better than either one of them alone!Delete
I agree with you Anon 10:03PM... Kristen looks @ him with a renewed expression of deep love and appreciation... I am sure she will hold on to him and will never slip him hereafter.. Rob is a lovely soul both inside and out...Delete
sorry I mean Most* not more heheheReplyDelete
Canne was 99.9% perfect. Only bad thing I have to say about Canne is that we didn't get to see a picture of Rob with Kristen in that Red Dress.Delete
Is that guy feeling up Rob in the first pic?SSSSSSTOP,only KS has the sole right to do that,where is KS?ReplyDelete
Promote what you love instead of bashing what you hate <3
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Pastels are such a refreshing look to hair coloring but we do often see a lot of poorly applied coloring, which is not the case when looking at some of the styles pulled from Ginger Boyle's portfolio. The tone of purple really works well with the short scruffy pixie, a definite head turner for the ladies that are a little more daring and bold with their fashion and looks.
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Polar Bear Plunge in Sunriver
There's a foot and a half of snow on the ground. Icicles are dangling from tree branches. Everyone outside in Sunriver is buddled in mittens, hats and thick parkas and the thermostat reads 12 degrees. So why will over 100 people dress down to their swimsuits and jump into an icy 38 degree pool on New Year's Day in Sunriver? It remains a mystery. But rest assured, for those wanting/willing/needing to partake in the Polar Bear Plunge, our grounds crew is busy getting the pool ready today. Happy New Year!
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Here's how RW members rated this race in the past (5 votes).
In short: Great preparation for Birmingham HalfIn full: A really challenging 8 1/2 miles, but lot of fun...until the 1 in 3 climb a mile from the end which eliminated any lingering thoughts of trying to chase down the guy in front.Date of review: October 7, 2012
In short: come on!!!!!!!!!!In full: another great year for another great race!! no goody bag this year lol but the medal still brilliant! doing it again next year!Date of review: October 4, 2012
In short: Big Hills.In full: My Garmin logged 1572 feet of altitude gain during the race, so this is proper hilly. Lots of variety and interest on a twisty route - roads, mud, grass, woodland, stony paths, tracks. Good marshalling, very supportive and friendly. Anyone who can maintain a run up every hill on this race has my respect! Date of review: October 3, 2012
In short: A great challenge. Not for the faint heartedIn full: Cracking race. Well organised with good facilities. Very tough course that certainly blows away any cobwebs. Hills, fresh air and some great views (if you get chance).Enthusiastic and helpful marshalls. Clear mile markers. Best part is the coffee and homemade cakes after.. much needed and well earned.Date of review: October 1, 2012
In short: Brillian run, brilliant marshalls, killer course...but very enjoyableIn full: Thanks to everyone involved, course was so hard & hilly but atmosphere was brilliant all round the course. Will be back again...but not till muscles have been well soaked!! Would recommend this run to anyone looking to do something different to the usual road courses.Date of review: October 1, 2012
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ATI, graphics business unit of Advanced Micro Devices, said that it had not implemented its Sideport technology, which was supposed to boost multi-GPU performance of ATI Radeon HD 4800 X2 graphics card, into the new ATI Radeon HD 5800-series graphics processing units (GPUs).
"ATI CrossFire Sideport is not implemented in the ATI Radeon HD 5800 series GPUs. Improvements in our ATI CrossFireX drivers and interconnect performance have made this feature unnecessary for achieving good performance scaling on multi-GPU boards, be it past generation or current generation products. We have seen that PCI Express 2.1 bandwidth can keep ATI Radeon 5800 GPUs fed with data," said Devon Nekechuk, a spokesperson for ATI.
Back in mid-2008, when ATI introduced its Radeon HD 4870 X2 graphics card powered by two Radeon HD 4870 graphics processing units, it unveiled Sideport technology, which was supposed to boost bandwidth between GPUs in order to let them quicker share the information among each other. However, the company has never enabled this additional interconnection and used PCI Express 1.1 for communication between the chips instead.
It turns out that Sideport will never seen the light of the day, perhaps, due to complexities of synchronizing data transfers between different interconnections. Maybe, when the multi-GPU technologies used by consumer-oriented solutions change radically and extremely high-bandwidth will be required for interconnection between the chips, Sideport will be back. However, not with the ATI Radeon HD 5800/5900-series.


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Still looking for a market
ESCANABA – The Escanaba Downtown Development Authority (DDA) continues to consider purchasing a vacant building downtown and renovating the structure into a farmers market.
The DDA is looking at the old Upper Peninsula Power Co., building on the 100 block of Stephenson Avenue as a potential site for an indoor/outdoor farmers market, business incubator and meeting space.
"We're just considering it at this time," said DDA Director Judy Schroeder after Wednesday's regular board meeting at city hall.
She explained the agency has made three offers on the property and the owner has reduced the price considerably by more than two-thirds the original asking price.
No decisions have been made by the DDA, said Schroeder, which wants to get the project moving along so the agency can apply for economic development monies currently available from the state.
DDA representatives plan to meet with an official from the Michigan Economic Development Corp., to find out how the project can take advantage of current funding by meeting grant requirements in the site plan proposal, she said.
Development of the DDA's farmers market has been an ongoing priority for the authority. The DDA has also looked into building a new indoor/outdoor facility at its present location at 115 N. 9th St.
In addition, the board is considering hiring a project manager to develop the farmers market because of the lack of qualified applicants received for the DDA directorship. The DDA is seeking candidates with experience in community planning and project management to oversee the agency's current and future projects.
The DDA is looking for a new director because Schroeder would like to step down to a part-time position within the agency.
In other business Wednesday, Kevin Cook, an energy management consultant, recommended the DDA participate in an energy optimization program and energy audits for downtown business owners by applying for funding to make buildings more energy efficient.
Regarding the DDA's facade program, the board approved a draft Wednesday for the request for proposal (RFP) of design services and preliminary costs for the 2013-14 grant season. Business owners who are approved for the project can receive state funding to pay for a portion of costs to renovate building exteriors.
The board also agreed to submit a resolution of support for the downtown to be listed on the National Register of Historic Places for recognition purposes and tax incentives.
The authority was informed the lighting will be improved on the overhead welcome sign on Ludington Street at Lincoln Avenue sometime this month.
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RIM's Heins Deserves Props for Leadership
I recall thinking: How can this company announce this news in the middle of this football game? It was the perfect symbol of how tone deaf the company had been with their shareholder base.
I'd never heard of Thorsten Heins but I assumed he was a puppet for outgoing co-CEO Mike Lazaridis, because a.) he'd worked at RIM since 2007 and b.) I had heard he'd been hand picked by Lazaridis.
For about the next six months, each time Heins spoke publicly, it seemed like he put his foot in his mouth. It was incredible to me how poor a communicator he was. In one of his first interviews, he said that RIM was doing just fine and the media and investors immediately jumped down his throat.
When RIMM pushed back the BlackBerry 10 launch to January this past summer, anyone who hadn't already written off RIMM did. Heins displayed no sense of urgency.
In July, I remember calling him the "worst communicating CEO I'd ever seen."
However, what wasn't obvious to me then, but which I began to hear over the end of the summer and then into the Fall, was that Heins was a solid, execution-focused CEO. Most employees actually liked him, even though he announced in the summer that he'd cut one-third of the workforce to conserve cash.
But in the past seven months, it's really impossible to point to any mistakes that Heins has made as CEO to this point a week before the critical BB10 launch.
The cost cuts. The cash management to date. Previewing BB10 to carriers and critical "opinion leaders." Offering cash awards for developers to port apps over to the new OS. Ensuring almost all of the top 100 apps were there. Delivering a snappy phone. Making the BB10 very interesting for their heartbeat-core enterprise and government customers (with "Balance" between work and personal). Offering existing users and CIOs incentives to move to BB10. Getting carriers onboard to support the new phones. Not selling the company at the lows or doing some partnership with another company that wasn't beneficial for RIMM but to make it look like RIMM had a big brother behind it.
Of course, the RIMM bears will say none of that matters unless/until Heins delivers a phone that is a hit. After all, almost everyone agrees that BB10 is a make-or-break moment for the company. So none of these moves matter if the new phones are a flop.


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Learn the fundamentals of all operations with Couchbase including creating, updating, and deleting Documents, atomic counters, CAS operations for Optimistic Concurrency, Locks for Pessimistic Concurrency, Expirations and Durability.
What will be covered during this training:
DEMO: Make a connection; Create, update and delete Documents; Optimistic Concurrency
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In his own words, Jasdeep has "had many hats, many roles, and is accustomed to intense startup culture, entrepreneurial spirit, and beating the odds". He is as a Technical Evangelist at Couchbase, where he is responsible for helping developers and their organizations make the most cost effective and scalable decisions and empower their projects.


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Playground Ensemble: May 17, 2012 7:30pm Emerging VoicesPosted by s21concerts in Concert Announcement, tags: chamber music, classical, classical music, Colorado, Conrad Kehn, Denver, emerging composers, Jeff Ashear, Music, new composers, new music, Nicholas ehlers, Young Person's Guide
New works by rising composers, including new Playground commissions and Conrad Kehn's "Young Person's Guide to Modern Music."
Featuring: New Playground commissions by Jeff Ashear and Nicholas Ehlers, Conrad Kehn's Young Person's Guide to Modern Music, Greg Simon's Piano Quintet No. 1 and Christopher Auerbach-Brown's Pillars of Air.
Hamilton Recital Hall, Newman Center for the Performing Arts,
2344 E. Iliff ave.,
Denver CO, 80208
Tickets $18 adult, $16 seniors, free with Pioneer card or ANY student ID. Ticket prices include free parking at the Newman Center parking garage and a reception after the concert to greet the artists.
Lamont Concert Line (303) 871-6412
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Fire chiefs brace for property tax cuts
Tax relief could affect service areas and response times in the county and the state.
By ANNE LINDBERG
Published May 28, 2007
A severe cutback in property taxes would devastate fire and emergency service across the county, Pinellas fire chiefs say.
For example, the Palm Harbor and East Lake Fire Rescue departments are independent districts funded by property taxes. If taxes go down, so does their funding.
"I can't give you hard numbers (for what the results would be) because I don't entirely understand the percentage plan yet," Palm Harbor fire Chief James Angle said.
Though state officials think that much of the rhetoric amounts to scare tactics, they are aware of the potential effect of property tax cuts on services funded solely by ad valorem taxes.
"I think they're having knee-jerk reactions," said state Rep. Janet Long, D-Seminole.
"I think that this is a question of values and that this is a question of priorities and that the cities and the county are going to use that to whip up debate."
Although Long promised that public safety and education issues would be funded first, she conceded at a forum last week that you don't cut billions from a budget without losing services or something else.
It's difficult to have any debate or quantify the impact because there are several plans on the table, but the picture is not pretty, Pinellas Park fire Chief Doug Lewis said.
"We're large enough, I think, (to) weather the storm, but for smaller departments ... it could be devastating," Lewis said. "It's not a pleasant subject to talk about."
The potential problem lies in the way Pinellas fire and emergency service are delivered.
Cities pay for their own fire departments that serve their residents. The money comes out of the general fund budget, which is built from property taxes and other sources, like franchise fees. If property taxes are cut, the city can use other money for fire service.
But in some instances unincorporated areas contract with cities to provide fire service. That money can come from only property taxes, as dictated by a state law passed in 1973. If property taxes are slashed, there is nowhere else to get the money and the fire budget will decrease.
Pinellas Park serves some pockets of unincorporated Pinellas and part of the unincorporated High Point area. The county money for those areas accounts for about 20 percent of the department's $10.5-million budget, and a decrease would hurt, Lewis said.
Lewis said he's expecting to lose firefighters, but the impact remains to be seen.
If the worst-case scenario happened and Pinellas Park had to close its High Point station, the only one in the unincorporated area, the city has four other stations to take up the slack. Service would be stretched, but the effect would not be devastating.
Other departments, like Seminole, are in a much worse position. Three of the Seminole department's four stations are in the unincorporated area. And the county money accounts for about 75.3 percent of the Seminole department's $9.7-million fire and EMS budget.
If the property tax reduction is small, the department could survive, said Seminole Chief Dan Graves. Some positions would be lost, but "we would just try to live with that and move on."
If the state House of Representatives has its way and whacks 25 percent off taxes, Graves said, "that's ugly. That equates to 24 fire/medic positions. It's just incredible. It's over a quarter of my budget."
In the end, Graves said, that would mean closing two county stations and putting a heavier burden on the others that remain open. In 2006, Seminole answered 10, 625 requests for emergency service.
That could mean Seminole firefighters would run calls into the county without any units from the unincorporated area there to reciprocate. Graves said he cannot see spending city money that way.
Cities like Seminole might decide not to run into the county, he said. Graves said he would hate to see that happen, but if the political powers decided not to spend city money that way, then "we, as soldiers, will go out and soldier as they tell us to."
At the very least, response times would be slower because there would be fewer emergency teams to answer calls.
Lt. Rick Feinberg, spokesman for the St. Petersburg Fire Rescue, said his department, like all others, would be affected. The department has two stations in the county and all EMS funding comes from property taxes that are then distributed by the county. The question is how big the hit.
Palm Harbor's Chief James Angle said station closings would affect other counties, too, and that would hurt the state's emergency response system.
Most recently, the state used the system to fight fires in Lake City. Within six hours, the area had 37 units with 148 firefighters. If just one station is closed in each county, he said, it would hurt the ability to provide relief after hurricanes and during forest fires.
Angle said it's too early to panic. He and his fire commission have spoken frequently with members of the county's legislative delegation to explain the nature of special districts and of fire/EMS funding.
"They do seem to understand the situation with special districts," Angle said. "I really believe some of our local legislators are listening."


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Thursday, October 29, 2009
Halloween Makeup - Easy Half-Dead Zombie Look
Back with another tutorial! This was a last minute edition to my Halloween Makeup series that I filmed on Tuesday. My boyfriend has this weird obsession with zombie movies...this year he really wanted to rock it out as a half-dead zombie.
This look is so easy to do...all you need it your 88, 96, 120 palette (or any red, black, purple and blue eyeshadows) ..whichever one you have...some glue stick, lash or school glue, toilet paper...and your regular foundation.
This is probably the only time the boyfriend will let me put makeup on him, lol. As I told him in the video, come on...rappers wear foundation too! he he
Enjoy the tutorial!
The final look! This is a jazzed up version Mike made in photoshop to amp up the lighting...you can see how it looks in person in the vid.
Tonight I'll upload the Cheetah girl Vid. Stay tuned!
Atlanta Makeup Artist
12 comments:
- Faressa said...
you guys are soo cutee together =)
another great vid!
thanks for sharing
- October 29, 2009 at 10:56 AM
- Sherry said...
very good thumbs up :) hehe.. your bf look so shy.
- October 29, 2009 at 11:06 AM
- Ateya said...
I LOVE YOU TWO TO DEATH!! Great video Ren..HOT!
- October 29, 2009 at 11:39 AM
- Dvue1119 said...
lol i love it thats funny...or "scary" good work, lots of detail!!.. even with a tutorial i dont think i could recreate that...awesome job!...and you two are adorable.
- October 29, 2009 at 12:38 PM
- Ida said...
whoa that's awesome!
- October 29, 2009 at 12:50 PM
- Princesa Livia said...
You guys are so sweet :) Love the tutorial!!
- October 29, 2009 at 4:53 PM
- mina said...
Love the video!
- October 29, 2009 at 6:16 PM
- Nicole said...
Wow Ren! This looks great! I wish I could get my husband to let me try this on him!! Thanks so much for taking time to do your blog, I love it!! I have to say I'm a little disappointed the BF didn't do your signiture final pose!!
- October 29, 2009 at 7:04 PM
- MochaMakeupLover said...
This looks amazing - you are so talented!
- October 29, 2009 at 9:36 PM
- alittlebitofevrything said...
i love this! the toilet paper method is clever. you &your man are so adorable :)
loveeee your blog, keep up the amazing work!
- October 30, 2009 at 1:03 AM
- audgepodge said...
You and your BF are so cute! And he has some nice skin as well ;)
- November 20, 2009 at 10:39 PM
- jambandchick said...
Thanks for the toilet paper trick...my son & I made a great zombie costume...we didn't have much money to spend this year & it ended up more realistic & original & my son having the best time...we took old clothes & imagined what had happened to this zombie( every zombie has a back story) we shredded one pant leg & took our candle/ grill torch & burnt up the other to his shirt..we made slashes across his chest & w/ ur toilet paper trick (which saved us big time cause he always had wanted open wounds) & my makeup, a 2$ creme kit, & homemade fake blood; he was the greatest zombie ever and we spent less than 10$ on his costume this year & it was the most fun!! Ty so much
- November 1, 2010 at 6:34 AM


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Built during World War II, George Washington University's Lisner Auditorium has hosted everyone from Ingrid Bergman in "Joan of Lorraine" to Pink Floyd. It is home to the university's theater, dance and music departments as well as the university symphony and band. GWU books a Performing Arts Series of visiting artists and the Washington Performing Arts Society brings in additional performers. The Washington Concert Opera stages a spring and fall production and Opera International stages its annual offering here. This is also the home of the Pan American Symphony Orchestra; and, every December, the Washington Revels put on the singing, dancing, audience-participation festival "The Christmas Revels."
Lisner seats 1,490 in two sections on a single floor. The orchestra section is the front area and the terrace is the area farther back. The front row of the terrace is the equivalent of only the 15th row and -- because the rake of the floor in the orchestra section is so shallow -- it is almost directly at the level of the stage. This is row AA and it has the best view in the hall, which may be why presidents -- of the university or of the United States -- are seated there when they attend.
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Skip to comments.Egypt will no longer tolerate attacks on Palestinians: FJP
Posted on 11/14/2012 9:39:43 AM PST by Nachum
CAIRO: Egypt´s Islamist Freedom and Justice Party, formerly headed by President Mohamed Morsi, said on Wednesday Egypt would no longer stand by as Israel attacked Palestinians after air strikes killed a Hamas leader. The FJP, the political arm of the powerful Muslim Brotherhood movement, said Israeli air strikes that killed top militant Ahmed al-Jaabari in Gaza earlier on Wednesday required "swift Arab and international action to stop the massacres." The party, which fielded Morsi in a June election to replace toppled president Hosni Mubarak, said Israel "must take into account the changes in the Arab region and especially Egypt."
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Did Hamas do the massive rocket attack knowing Israel would kick their ass but would bring in Egypt and possibly Iran to kickoff the next ME war?
Hmmmm....looks like those cush Ambassadorship jobs Obama's been giving out gonna come with a pricetag now.....a man, or woman, would have to be a frigging fool to take one of them in a mideast country now, for sure. Unless they're homos looking to bugger some underaged local dancing boy, of course...
The Israeli response should be: "We accept the proposal of the government of Egypt for them to allow unrestricted and permanent Palestinian immigration from Gaza, and we thank them for making this significant concession in the peace process."
Then they should hang up the phone, then disconnect the phone.
"IDF Pinpoint Strike on Ahmed Jabri, Head of Hamas Military Wing"
Buh-bye, Sucka!
LOL, okay so Egypt wants a repeat of past defeats. Israel will accommodate them any time they like.
Where is Allah getting all those virgins anyway?
In my make-life-fair fantasy, Candy Crowley would be forced to take the ambassadorship job in Libya.
All Obama's fault. Sincerely.
Well, that one got a good chuckle from me! But I'm afraid she'd be shunned as too swinish looking to be anywhere near diplomatically effective..
You ain't kiddin'... the SOB set us up for WWIII.
The 1967 and 1973 wars will look like a sunday outing compared to what's coming.
Time for Israel to take back Sinai.
Just a warmup.
I like how they waited to hit the car at an intersection. Nothing was injured other than the car and it's occupants, flaming as it coasted to a stop a short distance ahead.
Note to Hamas leaders, "Sending rockets into Israel probably isn't a good idea. Of course you can do what you want, but don't blame Israel for reacting."
Thanks Nachum, I had a feeling after the election something would kick off soon.
Egypt stunningly (/sarc) silent on how they will no longer tolerate Palestinian attacks on Israel. Why...it's almost as if the new Muslim Brotherhood led Egyptian government agrees with the Palestinian attacks!
To many of us that had been "put in our PC places" in the past, we're not surprised that the word "Arab" has come out as an enemy of Israel.
Ohh .. it's only the small group of radical muslims ... not all of them ...
Abraham, one of your sons ... the one that hates your kids, is dangerously out of line, and one of his peeps has chsarge of OUR being there to help YOU.
Just take back Gaza, force all residents to Egypt and seal the border with Egypt.
Then tell them anything that comes over the wall will be sent back ten fold.
Bibi: "Bring it."
Sweet! That was actually very kind of the shooter to hit the scumbags after they were clear from the truck they passed.
Israel "must take into account the changes in the Arab region and especially Egypt."
YES, target them too!
A plague on all nations that are against Israel.
Well, I wouldn't expect the Muzzies to mention that they started it. But AFP might at least have given it a word or two at the end of the article. Since they pose as a news organization.
To any Americans working in the M1 or F16 factories in Egypt: This would be a REAL good time to take a vacation, knowwutimean?
Just the idea of Cairo ... wow. And then the food riots.
Egypt is in dire need of a couple of tac nukes. One over Cairo, one at the Aswan.
Shove it up your smelly Obama, Egypt.
Should Morsi become rash, I expect that will happen. How long can Egypt's population tread water?
the infowarrior
well what could happen is that Egypt, who hasn't learned a thing in 4 centuries, will begin an attack signaling Syria, who also hasn't leaned much throughout history , to attack also - Lebanon of course will have to support their Hamas brothers and attack also.
the fecal matter is about to hit the rotary air circulation machine
Extreme doubt obtains that a nuke of any description would be needed for Aswan. And, the flood waters from the destroyed dam could very easily do Cairo a real number without all that pesky radiation in the air.
Morsi is talking out his keffeyeh, and both Israel, and Morsi's own generals know it. He enters into this at his, and his peoples' own peril...
the infowarrior
The Egyptians would do well to shut up.
Next time Israel takes over the Sinai, they can make part of it a homeland for the "Palestinians." But Israel should retain control of the canal.
A couple of nukes to key points at the High aswan dam and much of Egypt will need to learn scuba diving in a hurry!
Israel is unable to distinguish between land and the people on the land. After its various wars with other countries who were aided by people in Israeli territory, the Israelis neglected the opportunity to expel those who fought against them as hostiles.
Right now, they should establish a very clear policy that if Egypt or the Gaza Paleos attack them, they will clear Gaza of all Arab Muslims, who will be expelled to Egypt.
If they are attacked by Jordan, the same with the West Bank Paleos, they are booted out of the West Bank to Jordan permanently.
This is how things are done in the world, and Israel can no longer pussyfoot around and pretend it can manage a hostile population of enemies in its territory. If (when) they attack, kick them out. For good. No returns.
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How is offing a Hamas scumbag a massacre?
Wouldn't be ironic if the "left behind series" ended up being, minus some of the characters and more specious episodes, a road map of what actually happens?
Imagine standing incredulous before Christ when the Holy One says..."well I sent preachers, your poor mother prayed for you and urged you to repent, and I practically gave the whole end times scenario away through the "Left Behind books"...I don't know what more of a hint I could have given, without giving away times and dates...but those were known only to the Father"
(well the Bible says that none of us will have any excuses...God will have attempted warn us in what ever way he could...the Bible, preachers, an angel flying between heaven and Earth,Holy Ghost whispers and faint echos of the truth that intertwine around the fads and fictions in our national media...I find even the current "zombie craze" seem to have echo's regarding the Bible's warning of the loss of love and growing lawlessness of men at large(hence "zombies")...a great falling away as the Bible says!)
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This is the time of year flowers are blooming and plants are growing in the Hospital's courtyard garden. Brenda Miller and Katherine Doty, (pictured above) members of the St. John's Episcopal Green Team and Fairfield Master Gardener' pull weeds and tend to plants to help them thrive.
Both have been involved in helping to enhance the courtyard garden, known as the Garden of Remembering, thanks to a Keep Fairfield Beautiful grant written by Doty. Water for the plants is provided by the rain barrel pictured provided by the grant.
Engraved bricks, which line the sidewalk, are available with a $50 donation to the FMH Foundation.
They make special gifts to honor or remember loved ones or friends,yourself, or a business.
Acknowledgments are sent as requested.
Occasions such as Mother's Day, Fathers Day, graduation, grandchild's birthday, retirement or death make lasting gifts.
St. John's Green Team has "adopted" a section of the garden and invites other groups or individuals to "adopt' a small section of the garden to provide on-gong tender care.
If interested contact: Brenda Miller at 81-4422 or Katherine Doty at 815-0563.
Virginia Lacy, vice president of the FMH Foundation, project chair for engraved bricks, can be contacted at contacted 803- 360-0893.
Donor cards to purchase engraved bricks are available in the lobby of the hospital, Insurance of Fairfield, 120 South Congress St., Fairfield County Museum, First Citizens Bank, Winnsboro and First Citizens Bank and local merchants in Ridgeway.
Fairfield Memorial Hospital Foundation is a 501 ( c ) 3 established to support the hospital to purchase needed equipment and technology.
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Top 10 Reasons Not to Eat Pigs
Attention, shoppers: Stop picking up dead "Babes" and "Wilburs" at the grocery store! Here are our top 10 reasons to keep pork off your fork and put delicious Babe-free alternatives on your shopping list instead.
1. Porking You Up
It's a fact—ham, sausage, and bacon strips will go right to your hips. Eating pork products, which are loaded with artery-clogging cholesterol and saturated fat, is a good way to increase your waistline and increase your chances of developing deadly diseases such as heart disease, diabetes, arthritis, osteoporosis, Alzheimer's, asthma, and impotence. Research has shown that vegetarians are 50 percent less likely to develop heart disease, and they have 40 percent of the cancer rate of meat-eaters. Plus, meat-eaters are nine times more likely to be obese than pure vegetarians are.
2. Pigs Have Feelings Too
Ninety-seven percent of pigs in the United States today are raised in factory farms, where they will never run across sprawling pastures, bask in the sun, breathe fresh air, or do anything else that comes naturally to them. Crowded into warehouses with nothing to do and nowhere to go, they are kept on a steady diet of drugs to keep them alive and make them grow faster, but the drugs cause many of the animals to become crippled under their own bulk.
3. Pigs and Playstations
Think that you can outplay a pig on your Playstation? You may be surprised. According to research, pigs are much smarter than dogs, and they even do better at video games than some primates. In fact, pigs are extremely clever animals who form complex social networks and have excellent memories. Eating a pig is like eating your dog! As actor Cameron Diaz put it after hearing that pigs have the mental capacities of a 3-year-old human: "[Eating bacon is] like eating my niece!
4. Pigs Prefer Mud, Not Crud
Pigs are actually very clean animals. If they are given sufficient space, pigs are careful not to soil the areas where they sleep or eat. And forget the silly saying "sweating like a pig"—pigs can't even sweat! That's why they bathe in water or mud to cool off. But in factory farms, they're forced to live in their own feces and vomit and even amid the corpses of other pigs. Conditions are so filthy that at any given time, more than one-quarter of pigs suffer from mange—think of your worst case of poison ivy, and imagine having to suffer from it for the rest of your life.
5. Farming Family Values
Factory farms are pure hell for pigs and their babies. Mother pigs spend most of their lives in tiny "gestation" crates, which are so small that the animals are unable to turn around or even lie down comfortably. They are repeatedly impregnated until they are slaughtered. Piglets, who are taken away from their distraught mothers after just a few weeks, have their tails chopped off, their teeth are clipped off with pliers, and the males are castrated—all without painkillers.
6. The Manure Is Blowing in the Wind …
A pig farm with 5,000 animals produces as much fecal waste as a city of 50,000 people. In 1995, 25 million gallons of putrid hog urine and feces spilled into a North Carolina river, immediately killing between 10 and 14 million fish. To get around water pollution limits, factory farms will frequently take the tons of urine and feces that are stored in cesspools and turn them into liquid waste that they spray into the air. This manure-filled mist is carried away by the wind and inhaled by the people who live nearby.
7. Bacteria-Laden Bacon and Harmful Ham
Extremely crowded conditions, poor ventilation, and filth in factory farms cause such rampant disease in pigs that 70 percent of them have pneumonia by the time they're sent to the slaughterhouse. In order to keep pigs alive in conditions that would otherwise kill them and to promote unnaturally fast growth, the industry keeps pigs on a steady diet of the antibiotics that we depend on to treat human illnesses. This overuse of antibiotics has led to the development of "superbacteria," or antibiotic-resistant bacterial strains. The ham, bacon, and sausage that you're eating may make the drugs that your doctor prescribes the next time you get sick completely ineffective.
8. Hell on Wheels
More than 170,000 pigs die in transport each year, and more than 420,000 are crippled by the time they arrive at the slaughterhouse. Transport trucks, which carry pigs hundreds of miles through all weather extremes with no food or water, regularly flip over, throwing injured and dying animals onto the road. These terrified and injured animals are rarely offered veterinary care, and most languish in pain for hours; some even bleed to death on the side of the road. After an accident in April 2005, Smithfield spokesperson Jerry Hostetter told one reporter, "I hate to admit it, but it happens all the time."
9. Killing Them Without Kindness
A typical slaughterhouse kills up to 1,100 pigs every hour, which makes it impossible for them to be given humane, painless deaths. The U.S. Department of Agriculture documented 14 humane slaughter violations at one processing plant, where inspectors found hogs who "were walking and squealing after being stunned [with a stun gun] as many as four times." Because of improper stunning methods and extremely fast line speeds, many pigs are still alive when they are dumped into scalding-hot hair-removal tanks—they literally drown in scalding-hot water.
10. Ditch the Bacon and Get Fakin'
Save pigs from hell and yourself from bad health by feasting on faux pork products instead. Stuff a sandwich full of Yves brand veggie ham slices, or throw some Lightlife Smart Bacon into a sizzling skillet—the freezer and "health food" sections of your local grocery or health food stores are packed full of these and other tasty substitutes.
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pork is forbidden in some religions
I actually do NOT like pork……..And I've watched geese and ducks near my house……I did not know until today that they stuff them.. Very cruel! Not gonna eat meat until animals used are treated like…well traditional farm animals
A new reason to avoid pork. It was recently announced that eating bacon decreases sperm count and quality.
We are totally against factory farms and animal abuse. We raise organic clean animals for food. Our pigs are bathed, nurtured cleanly. our animals daily have clean wood chips ,washed bedding clean food every day. When we butcher our animals ,it is calm and quiet and respectful.However we are only raising meat for our own consumption. We have been told that our animals live better than most humans. It is unfair to group everyone in one onvelope
I've decided today no more pork for me I've been given up beef, trying to slowly become a real vegerterian
Yes I totally agree, in fact I gave up pork an any other bad foods an after doing that I realize the complete change in my body such as better bowel movements, an better skin, an good thinking lol…
After reading articles like these and watching videos, I gave up eating all meat 2 years ago ( except chicken and fish).
And I am much better off health-wise.
I am never going to eat non veg again. Thanks to this site who gave me a reason to quit. I am not that inhuman to support such cruelty.
people…should stop eating factory farmed animals. not just prok, but Chickens, Cattles, and Sheep are all treated the same way that this article is explaining about their behaviour on Pigs.
Factory farm is not just cruel, brutal, and inhumane, but very unhealthy to our bodies.
instead, put the extrea $$ and buy Organic, free range animal products. get meat from actual farms (which is more expensive fyi)…either that, or just go fully vegetarian
I decided today is the day I stop eating pork. I just will not support the industry that imprisons, tortures and kills these intelligent beings. I will miss ham on Easter, pepperoni on my pizza and bacon with my eggs, but it's all worth it.
I won't eat pork again but Daniel.. eating fats are good but there are different types of fats.. some do attribute to health issues. Your on a computer so instead of assuming just do your own research. Or better yet hit the "South Beach Diet" they divide the good fats vs the bad fats.. even carbs have good vs bad. By the way to the other gentleman.. plants or dare I say vegetables and fruits don't carry any fats but a potato does contain starch. But pork, never again!
I have always loved the taste of bacon but after reading this artical and seeing many others I won't be eating it anymore. How badly the animal is treated and how bad it is for me is the reason. I doubt if I am ever a complete vegetarian but I eat very little meat for economic reasons. Most my protien comes from beans and brown rice, I also eat fish and cheese, when I can find it on sale. I have been on this kind of diet for so long now that I don't miss meat at all, in fact, a McDonalds hamburger tastes like trash. Bacon I will miss you, but, you gotta go.
I feel sorry for the pigs. I also refuse to eat anything with pork in it.
People are stupid if u think animal fats are good for you. These are saturated fats and lead to a wide variety of health related issues. Plant fats are what is needed for overall health. Mono or poly unsaturated
The first point is a crock of bull. The fact that you attribute heart disease and cancer to eating saturated fats means your living in the past. Fats are healthy for you and whether your vegetarian or not you should eat them. Not eating bacon is fine but if your going to lie its not.
all the religious books (torah, bible, and Quran ) prohibit eating it for the reasons listed and many more reasons .
First pork harvest more diesease than.any other animal. Second you are right pigs dont sweat the toxin the eat are stored in their bodies. Third their stomachs digest food within a hour meaning more toxins that insteed than means more toxic meat. There are plenty of facts out there in this overwhelming tech age, but that will educate us properly. Pig also is not a healthy meat and all together there is enough substituted out there should just be avoided.
little would this site have you know that pigs will also consume human beings if given the chance they are omnivores.
I'm more shock about pigs being smart like 3 year olds :0. Few years ago I heard about a lady pig who saved her from dieing by pretending to be dead in the street. I always thought that this lady just happen to have a smart pig by chance.
Anonymous- I didn't know that they ate their own poo yuck.


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Who knew about dramaturgy?
Tuesday was the first read through for The Book Club Play at Geva Theatre Center. That meant fruit and breakfast pizza beforehand with the actors, various Geva staff and those of us participating in a grand experiment with the play – a cohort group allowing all kinds of backstage access during the play's development, rehearsal and staging. Oddly enough, the biggest eye-opening moment came for me the day before, when the dramaturgy for the play arrived in my inbox. My limited understanding of what the dramaturge, or theatrical literary advisor, did was write a blurb about the play that goes into the playbill. But there's so much more! The dramaturgy is basically a research paper, prepared in this case by Geva's Jean Ryon, explaining all the cultural and literary references in the script. So this is what happens in the big leagues of theater! The dramaturgy gives the back story on just about anything anyone might question while going through the script. How to pronounce "coxswain." An explanation of cable access television. Everything you'd like to know about Moby Dick, one of the books that the book club in The Book Club Play discusses. And then there are not one but two recipes for lox dip. I haven't read my copy of the script yet and I stayed only through the end of Act I's read-through, so I can only guess that it comes up in Act II. I'm wondering if that dip will be on the menu the next time I drop by rehearsal.


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by Amanda Edwards '13
I HAD JUST FINISHED A LONG WEEK OF CLASSES, WORK, AND PAPERS. Finally, it was Friday. On this particular Friday I was anxious for work to end and the weekend to begin, because I was going to Star Party.
Star Party is an event the physics club puts on every semester to Joshua Tree National Park for some amazing star gazing. All 30-some students piled in an old fashioned school bus with our tents, sleeping bags, flashlights, guitars and s'more stuff. I knew most of the people going even though we had never formerly met. That is the nature of Whittier College, you know so many more people than you think you do just by association within the community.
The Physics Club left to get there early so Dr. Piner had time to set up the high magnification telescope on the tripod. When we arrived at camp there was a warm fire already made. The warm fire was much appreciated because the temperature drops to the 50s after the sun sets. The campsite is fit to accommodate 45 people. There is a central pavilion with three tables on a cement deck. To the right are two grills for barbequing. The fire pit is located further into the campsite and we were free to set up our tents where we pleased within the boundaries of our plot.
Some of the group gathered around the fire while others cooked or looked through the telescope where Dr. Piner had a double star in focus. He explained that often when one sees a big bright star, it is really a double star or a cluster of stars.
As the burgers were cooking, no time was wasted. The campfire circle began singing songs everyone knew; the Beetles, Wheezer, the Black Eyed Peas, etc. It was like being out in the desert, three hours from school brought us all immediately closer and any insecurity you had about your vocals faded away, for better or for worse.
It was a crisp, clear fall night. We were able to see Jupiter and the moon and many shooting stars that night. My personal favorites were the sightings of the meteor shower. I had never seen longer, brighter shooting stars!
During the night; the moon shed enough light for us to hike up the nearby mountain. From the top we all stared in awe, into the humbling night sky.
In the morning, while everyone was waking up, eating donuts or cooking up leftover burgers, three of us took a nature walk. We were able to spot a big coyote, various birds and two jack rabbits!
The ride home was quiet, most were quick to fall asleep after a long night of star gazing, joke telling, game playing, and hiking through the desert. If you ask any student at Whittier, Star Party is one campus event, of many, that you must experience before graduating.


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Topic: IE won't display Rails pages at all
Hi -- I've a fully functioning Rails app that's been deployed at working smoothly for a few months now.
The latest version on my development machine (as well as a short-lived production deployment before I rolled back) suddenly doesn't display on IE (versions 6, 7 or 8) AT ALL. It shows up with a blank screen or says, "The webpage cannot be displayed."
I've tried removing recent changes from it, do the point of deleting everything from the application template and simply putting in "Test". As expected, in Firefox every page simply reads "Test", but in IE it STILL comes up with a blank page.
As another test, I took the entire HTML source of a page out of Firefox and pasted it into a static file. IE reads this just fine! Here's the link... http://goprohosting.com/t/
The page also almost validates as XHTML 1.0 Transitional.... just a & that should be &
Here's a link for that... http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http: ing.com/t/
Does anyone have an idea what might be happening here?? I'm at a loss, esp. since it doesn't work on either development or production servers, and I haven't changed any configuration options that I'm aware of.
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At University President Lee Bollinger's fireside chat, I tried to explain the contradiction in the way we talk about affirmative action. Belief in affirmative action stems from the conviction that Black and Brown people are counted for claims of diversity and progress. At the same time, though, our traumas and needs are systematically ignored. While Columbia is heralded as a symbol of progress and diversity in higher education, many students of color are forced to get through depression after depression at this university. We must ask ourselves why this is. What personal trauma do we bring to the University when coming here? What trauma is inherited by a history of violence against our communities of color?
I want to make it clear that I am not talking about all students of color. I know many students of color who are content here—particularly those students who have had access to predominantly white private schools or well-off public schools near rich, predominantly white neighborhoods. In a similar vein, many upper-class international students of color cannot relate to the struggles that many poor people of color go through in this country. This could mean growing up in a heavily policed neighborhood with racist practices targeting black and Latino youth or going to an overcrowded school that does not have the resources to meet the needs of its students.
However, the stories of students for whom affirmative action was created are often quite different.
I was the first one in my high school in Southern California—which was composed predominantly of students of color—to get into Columbia. I applied early decision without having left the West Coast, hoping that I could feel free in New York City as a gay person and escape the slurs and personal trauma of being one of five out gay kids in a school of over 3,000. My idea of being gay—and the misconception that in order to be queer I had to sever myself from my family and community—came from a completely white-washed idea of the LGBT community, one influenced by the mainstream: Lady Gaga, Dan Savage, and a misconstrued historicization of the Stonewall Riot that ignores the crucial role of transwomen of color such as Sylvia Rivera.
As my first full week in New York came to an end, I realized that the freedom of gayness I looked for when I left California was unrealistic. I remember calling my friend back home, sobbing in the dark on the floor of my Hartley single filled with sorrow and deep regret that I left my friends and family 3,000 miles away. The extreme culture shock I felt didn't leave until my sophomore year, after I had already discussed the possibility of dropping out or transferring to a school in California with my adviser and Counseling and Psychological Services therapists. My depression became so intense that I stopped being able to believe that I would feel anything other than the giant void growing in me.
The main reasons I didn't drop out or transfer was that, after living in Q House my sophomore year and helping to rebuild Proud Colors(our organization for queer people of color), my depression temporarily calmed down, and I was able to continue my existence on this campus.
Many of my friends have had similar experiences. Since my time here, I've known more than six students of color, most of them queer, that have had to take medical leaves for depressionand many more, myself included, who battle with on-and-off depression and anxiety. The overwhelming amount of people of color, especially queer people of color, who are currently going through or getting over depression and anxiety on this campus goes to show that this is a systemic issue that should not be seen as a problem that an individual has to face alone.
How can we piece together the causes of this systematic depression of students of color? We have to challenge history to understand these complex issues because part of the ongoing mental and physical colonization of people of color is denying us our history and making our stories and pain invisible or irrelevant.
Do the Core and the University acknowledge our existence and our resistance enough, or at all? How are we to survive these legacies of trauma while ignoring the history of genocide and enslavement on this continent, the history of this campus, and the pain we inherit as people of color.
We must address the legacies of trauma that students of color carry with us before we can begin to heal our communities on this campus.
The author is a Columbia College senior majoring in Latino studies. He is the gender and sexuality chair of Chicano Caucus and the co-chair of Queer Awareness Month.
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Travis Reuter's Rotational TemplatesPosted by Christian Carey in CD Review, tags: avant classical, guitar, jazz fusion, new focus
Rotational Templates
Travis Reuter Quintet (Travis Reuter, guitar; Jeremy Viner, tenor saxophone; Bobby Avey, Fender Rhodes; Chris Tordini, bass; Jason Nazary, drums)
After its commodification and some excess smooth jazz hybridization in the eighties and nineties, jazz fusion became a somewhat maligned genre. But if you're fusing jazz signatures and rock instrumentation with the "right stuff," its flexible profile can be a vehicle for heady music-making and imaginative improvisations. Guitarist Travis Reuter is not only a fine jazz-rock exponent and bandleader; as a composer, he references contemporary classical music, naming modernists such as Elliott Carter as well as the New Complexity composers as interests. On his debut album as leader, Rotational Templates, titles such as "Singular Arrays" and "Flux Derivatives," as well as the intricately constructed pieces to which they are appended, demonstrate this connection.
Of course, Reuter isn't the only musician exploring this particular amalgam. Tyshawn Sorey and Matthew Shipp have long been interested in similar integrations of avant-classical into jazz. But Reuter adds a layer of fusion to the mix, giving us an ample dose of structured yet nimble riffing, reminiscent in places of Alan Holdsworth, that suits the ornate constructions of his hybrid compositions.
His collaborators make strong contributions as well. Avey's linear solos dovetail with Reuter's melodies in a savory duet on "Singular Arrays." Meanwhile, Viner and Reuter join to play a unison head on "Flux Derivatives," but then diverge for their own solo turns. Viner's is filled with ecstatic, free jazz inflected, angularities and the occasional stratospheric wail. He's also exemplary on "Residency at 20 (Part 2)" adding exultant altissimo passages and post-blues flourishes to its avant jazz template. Tordini and Nazary create fulsome grooves that propel the action but are never obtrusive. Joined by Avey, they create piquant post-tonal changes and flexible phrases that undergird the soloists with fascinating harmonic contours.
All of this is accomplished without losing a sense of jazz's swinging vitality: quite a feat for a debut!


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The UTMB Fun Run - Page 5
Three hours into the race and eight miles further up the trail, in the small mountain village of Les Contamines, photographer David Clifford and I stood beneath a large tent with 25 other press members waiting for the first runners to come through. That they were a little behind schedule didn't surprise anybody— the rain had been falling so hard that it slowed even the normally unwavering French traffic. We sipped wine, ate tartiflette and yelled to each other above the machine-gun patter of the rain. When, after several more minutes they still hadn't arrived, there was talk of the leaders possibly taking a wrong turn.
A woman with the race organization, drenched and visibly distraught, entered the tent and called for our attention. Her French was lost on me for several moments until her final sentence: "Le Ooohh Tay Emm Bay se fini." Her translator explained that due to the "apocalyptic" rainfall, mudslides and stolen trail markers just ahead, organizers decided that it was no longer safe to continue the race. The 2010 UTMB was over. An hour later the TDS, too, was cancelled.
We returned to Rue Vallot before midnight where the Friday night crowd now included gaunt and saddened runners still in their race clothes with race numbers attached. They stood at the bar alongside young, well-dressed and heavily perfumed French couples, drinking beer and discussing, mostly, the justification for canceling the race.
"It is a mountain race," exclaimed Scott Jurek, "All competitors should be prepared to experience the extreme elements that a mountain environment can dish out. It's hard for me to swallow the UTMB race directors' decision."
Prior to the start, athletes had been warned that the weather would provide as much of a challenge as the course itself, and to prepare appropriately. Required gear included clothing for the elements. Echoing Jurek's sentiments, Jornet would later write (translated from French), "The mountains are not always that of the sun, green fields, flowers and cows. They are also of rocks, storms and snow. That is what creates the mountain spirit. As more races succumb to cancellations at the first drop of rain, the further the sport finds itself from that spirit."
We stumbled on to Jurek's attic apartment where his support team of friends from Germany and the States sat around the living room discussing the tragedy of the canceled race. The German couple, ever leery of the beer from beyond their border, pulled bottle after bottle of a warm German brew from a case brought with them. Having already intended to stay up the entire night, following Jurek from aid station to aid station, the bell ringing four in the morning did little to send them to sleep.
Throughout the evening two other races were consistently mentioned: the Kaiser Marathon and the Grand Raid du Mercantour. On a July day in 2008 during the second running of the Kaiser Marathon, the weather in southern Germany turned, stranding nearly 50 runners dressed only in singlets and running shorts. By the time they could be pulled from the course, two of them had perished from hypothermia. A year later, in southern France, under very similar conditions, three middle-of-the-pack runners would also lose their lives to exposure.
"When looking at the big picture, I totally understand the decision," said Jurek later. "The UTMB has always been an event that celebrates the everyday trail runner as well as the elites. Over 40 hours in those conditions would have been disastrous."


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