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Just a couple years ago, terms like WOD, Fran or bar-facing burpee were unfamiliar to most South Floridians. That's ditto for Pukey the Mascot and Greg Glassman, the former gymnast who founded the intense, grueling fitness craze called CrossFit.
Today, the strength and conditioning program that began in California — and was designed for police academies, commandos, Olympic medalists, pro athletes and martial artists — is a hit with teachers, stay-at home moms, and even kids in Miami and seniors in Hollywood.
Since Marcio Pizanelli opened the first CrossFit gym in South Florida in 2006, about 70 more "boxes" have popped up from Homestead to Fort Lauderdale, most within the past two years. The gyms, which CrossFitters call boxes because most are located in no-frills warehouses, have names that include CrossFit Fever, CrossFit Kingdom and CrossFit Fully Involved. They are independently owned and operated.
"I started it because I believe in it," said Pizanelli, owner and operator of CrossFit Miami, a 2,000-square-foot space in Doral.
Powered by muscle
Nobody walks on a treadmill and reads Vogue at a CrossFit class. The only machines are rowers powered by muscles. But there are plenty of barbells, kettle bells, climbing ropes, medicine balls and PVC pipes.
The format is simple: a warm-up and a "workout of the day" known as a WOD. They usually are 20 minutes or less, but so draining they exhaust even buff, super trainer Bob Harper of The Biggest Loser TV hit.
"Everyone leaves sweat angels on the floor," said James Piccolino, a sports chiropractor and avid CrossFitter in Miami.
Except for a few benchmark WODs such as Fran, and "hero" WODs named after fallen soldiers, the workout of the day is never the same. The challenge and variety are part of the appeal.
Glassman developed his ideas on fitness back in the early 1970s, when he was a high school gymnast who wanted to get stronger. His father pulled the family station wagon out of the garage so he could have a space to lift weights. He started with a 110-pound "Ted Williams" weight set bought at Sears. But the traditional weight exercises were not creating the feeling of strength and cardio fatigue that emulated what he went through with his grueling still-ring routines. So he created "Fran."
It's 21 thrusters (front squat with a follow-up push press of weight over the head) and 21 pull-ups, followed by sets of 15 and sets of nine, for a total of 45 each. The goal: Complete it as fast as you can.
On a YouTube video, Glassman told a group: "The first time I did it I unceremoniously threw up all over the floor."
Glassman was so excited, he went across the street to get a fellow gymnast. "Never mind what's on my shirt, come with me," he said he told his friend. "A workout was born."
But it was not until 2000 that he started CrossFit as a company. It had been a cult program, followed by sweat-soaked disciples who were bored by swanky, machine-infested gyms. They were willing to work hard for results.
Pizanelli had learned about the intense program from a friend who had been a firefighter. At the time, the nearest CrossFit gym was in Jupiter and CrossFit was just beginning to evolve into the mainstream.
Pizanelli took the leap and at age 23 debuted CrossFit Miami. "I was No. 175 on the affiliate list," he said.
Glassman soon began putting his "Workout of the Day" online. Free training videos became available on YouTube. Firemen wearing full gear posted their exhausting-just-to-watch workouts. CrossFit caught fire. During the height of the recession, demand for one of the world's toughest fitness regimes resulted in the rapid opening of CrossFit gyms. There are now about 3,400 boxes worldwide, with more than 1,000 opening in just the past year, according to the CrossFit website www.crossfit.com.
It helped that CrossFit gyms are relatively cheap to open compared to traditional gyms. Guido Trinidad, a former professional football player, opened Peak360 Athletic Performance CrossFit in Miami in 2009. He said he had just $5,000 in his bank account, "about enough to pay the first month's rent," and some equipment he already had purchased when operating a boot camp out of his car.
He mustered another $50,000 to $60,000 in loans to purchase more equipment and the most expensive item: the rubber floor. Watch 300 pounds worth of barbell and weights drop repeatedly on the floor after dead lifts and it's easy to see why.
Booming business
"I think I paid a little over $2 a square foot for the rubber floor and over $1 a pound for the weights," Trinidad said. He now has more than 200 members at Peak360 and is about to open another CrossFit on Miami Beach. "Business is booming," he said.
While CrossFit began as a fitness workout, it also has evolved into a sport. The first CrossFit Games, to crown the world's "fittest" male and female, were held in 2007 with about 500 competitors. The 2012 CrossFit Games are coming up in July at the Home Depot Center in Carson, Calif. More than 70,000 people from around the world participated in open and regional qualifiers, in which athletes have no idea what the competitions will be.
$1 million purse
The top three women and men from each of the 17 regionals worldwide advance to the final three-day competition, which has a $1 million purse with the male and female winners each receiving $250,000.
Trinidad became the first Miami athlete to make the CrossFit Games, when he finished in the top three at the South East Regionals held last month in West Palm Beach.
Rich Froning Jr. of Cookeville, Tenn., will be defending his men's title. "You can't necessarily be the best at one thing," Froning, 24, said. "You need to be good at a bunch of stuff and eliminate your weaknesses. That's the whole thing about CrossFit."
He and his cousin began doing CrossFit in his dad's barn. But he prefers the camaraderie and competitiveness of classes. "The Crossfit community is so strong because of the shared suffering," he said.
Ron Medina, a roofing contractor, had just finished his WOD during a recent class at Peak360. At 43, he said he's in the best shape of his life.
"Going to the gym was very boring for me," he said. "Here, it is like a competition. Today's workout was only nine minutes, but it was very hard. I'm pretty sure everybody wanted to pass out at the end."
But while CrossFit is growing in leaps and bounds now, Walter R. Thompson, professor of exercise science at Georgia State University, said it's likely to become just another fitness fad. High-intensity training programs, like CrossFit and Insanity, did not make the top 20 of the 2011 annual survey of 20,000 certified trainers of the American College of Sports Medicine. And he doesn't expect it to crack the top 20 for the upcoming 2012 survey.
"CrossFit is real attractive because it's new and sexy," said Thompson, who heads the survey and has been studying fitness trends for 32 years. "But my suspicion is the rate of injuring is going to be so high it's going to fall off."
Thompson also said he does not believe CrossFit is "sustainable" because it's trying to appeal to everyone. "Once these companies like CrossFit and Insanity start messing with their core, not their core muscles but their core marketing strategies, and adapt to older people and people with chronic disease and maybe disabilities, it becomes a hybrid program. You may have the CrossFit brand, but it's no longer the CrossFit program."
Reebok, one of the world's largest makers of sports footwear and apparel, disagrees with that short shelf-life assessment.
"I've seen all [the fitness fads] come and go, but CrossFit is here to stay," said Chris Froio, vice president of fitness and training for Reebok.
The global company, with $3 billion in sales, is banking on CrossFit to help the company with it's new direction — turning to its fitness roots, a reaction to the loss of its 10-year contract with the National Football League and its purchase six years ago by Adidas. In 2010, Reebok signed a 10-year deal with CrossFit that includes title sponsorship of the CrossFit Games, which a Forbes blogger called one of the fastest-growing sports.
The sponsorship was not a snappy decision. Reebok spent a couple of years exploring many types of fitness activities. "Along the way, we stumbled onto CrossFit," Froio said, discovering that some employees were trying the exercises on the back field of Reebok's Massachusetts headquarters. "Basically, it spurred about 20 of us to try it. We instantly fell in love with the whole physical part, and the social, community and team environment it provides."
But, Froio conceded, "I was as skeptical as anybody when I first started researching it."
Froning said he thinks Reebok's sponsorship makes the fitness workout with the macho image more appealing to the masses. "It may be kind of scary at first. But put a name like Reebok and there is a sense of security. Maybe I can try it. And the beauty of CrossFit is that it's not just for competitors like me. You can scale it back."
Reebok owns two CrossFit gyms for its employees near Boston. It also is affiliated with about 50 CrossFit gyms in 20 countries, but only three are in the United States. One of them is Reebok Miami Beach CrossFit.
Reebok backing
"The Miami Beach box is in close proximity to athletes, celebrities and employees," Froio said. "We want to be anywhere there is an epicenter of the Reebok brand. But we do not want the independent affiliates to think Reebok is coming in and opening monster gyms to put them out of business. There is nothing further from the truth."
Reebok wants CrossFit to thrive, so CrossFitters will buy zillions of dollars worth of their shoes and apparel designed especially for the strength and conditioning program in which people can sprint, lift weights and jump in the same workout. CrossFit's motto is "our specialty is not specializing." Reebok launches its new CrossFit line on June 1.YouTube had played a big role in bringing the CrossFit community together. On one YouTube posting, Glassman explained how he came to name the infamous Fran WOD. "Anything that left you flat on the back, looking up at the sky and asking what the [expletive] happened to me deserved a female's name … right?" Glassman said. "They're not old girlfriends. They're just like storms. If hurricanes that wreak havoc on the whole town can be Fran, so can a workout."
Most CrossFitters know their Fran time. "Having a sub 2 minute and 30 second Fran is amazing, like running under a 4-minute mile," Piccolino said. Froio said his best Fran is 4:37, "kind of mediocre."
But there are risks with CrossFit. In 2005, Glassman began warning his followers about exertional rhabdomyolysis, which he described in a CrossFit journal entry as a "potentially lethal systemic meltdown initiated by the kidneys in response to the presence of shed muscle-fiber debris and exhaust in the bloodstream."
CrossFit now requires training certification through the American National Standards Institute. Trainers learn how to properly demonstrate exercises and movements, and how to work with individual participants to ensure they are doing the workouts with proper intensity and the right amount of weights for their fitness level — for both results and safety.
Marcus St. John, a 39-year-old cardiologist at West Kendall Baptist Hospital, works out regularly at Peak360 CrossFit. He said while there is risk of different types of injury, workouts are generally safe if done correctly and without ego.
"I'm OK lifting the same weight as the women," said St. John, who stands at six feet eight but is thin at 205 pounds.
Vidal Lazo turned a Tire Kingdom in Miami into a CrossFit Kingdom nearly three years ago. He said it offers something for everybody.
"CrossFit on YouTube looks intimidating," Lazo said. "But the majority of people in CrossFit are regular people. … There is CrossFit for kids, teens, masters over 45, disabled veterans and women who are pregnant. It's adaptable."
CrossFit makes money on trainings for certification and specialty seminars, most of which are sold out months in advance now. It also licenses its name to gyms for an annual fee. Pizanelli pays just $500 per year since he was among the early CrossFit affiliates. Shondelle Soloman-Miles, who transformed her Synergize gym in Hollywood into CrossFit 954 in 2009, pays $2,000 per year. Now the license fee is about $3,000 per year and expected to rise, she said.
"It's still way less than a franchise with no independence," she said. "I like that you can run your box the way you want to."
In South Florida, most CrossFit gyms charge an average of $125 per month. While it's more expensive than most traditional gym memberships, it comes with trainers who work with you at every session.
Surprisingly, women make up the majority of CrossFitters at many South Florida gyms. Many also work out at home.
"When I turned 41, everything started heading south," said Helen Mopsick, a mother of three young boys. Her husband, Adam, trains her, as well as her sister and friend, at 5:30 a.m.
"In just three weeks, it changes your body," Mopsick said. "And it's exciting to do a pull-up. I'm doing things I wasn't able to do as a child."
Passionate fans
Soloman-Miles recently led a class with her workout of the day that included 10 bar-facing burpees, which she had a college student demonstrate. "You jump down, kick your legs back, let your chest touch the ground, kick your legs in and jump up. Then you jump over the barbell lying on the ground," she said.
A few yards away, Nadine Laurent, 37, was doing 215-pound dead lifts. A year ago she could only do 110 pounds.
"Right now, CrossFit is growing so rapidly; maybe at some point it will fizzle out," said Solomon-Miles, 37. "But I still think there will always be a CrossFit population of people passionate about it. I'll be doing this until I'm 90 with a walking stick."


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What's CF?Obviously somewhere I better not go.PT
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mev- congrats on being released and going to the ob. How did your first apt go? I'm so happy that you had good hb in both babies. Super jealous that you get to stop the suppositories. I have to use them until the end of the first trimester. Yuck! But I will do anything for a healthy baby so I guess I just have to grin and bear it.
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If you met your spouse after college, how did you meet?
At a party.
I just need to find out how to say it in Slavonic!
Quote from: ZealousZeal on July 26, 2012, 10:46:03 AMAt a party.That sounds like awfully normal. You have a life and all. What are you doing in a place like this? Go away before you end up being like us.
At a classical music recital.
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The actors who were actually drunk on set
While many of us like to have a drink at the end of a busy work week, doing so on the job would probably result in not having a work week at all.
Not for some. Especially not for some in Hollywood.
Chances are, if you've seen Fight Club, Black Swan or even The Sound of Music (clutches pearls), at one point or another, a major character was three sheets to the wind.
Margot Robbie in The Wolf of Wall Street
How does a relatively unknown ex-neighbours actress gear up for a sex scene with silver screen heavyweight Leonardo DiCaprio?
For Robbie, it worked. Not only was the scene completely intoxicating (sorry) but her performance in the film shot her straight to the A-list.
And considering the amount of drugs and booze featured in the film, it was the only incident of actual drinking on-set.
Daniel Radcliffe in Harry Potter
Radcliffe would often unintentionally show up more than buzzed from the night before. "I went into work still drunk. I can point to many scenes where I'm just gone. Dead behind the eyes. I have a very addictive personality. It was a problem," he has been previously quoted as saying.
Anna Kendrick in Drinking Buddies
OK, so this movie is about people who work at a brewery, but for the most part, all of the beer chugged was non-alcoholic. Except that time when the crew swapped the fake stuff with the real deal. The scene where she and her fiancé in the movie play a drinking game where Kendrick's character keeps losing, and is forced to drink more and more beer… yep, she was pretty hammered IRL.
She told Vulture, "I was pounding beer and I didn't realise it was real until halfway through the take. I was like, I'm super drunk right now! And so as soon as the take was over, I had to announce to everybody that I was drunk at work. I was horrified by the idea that I was going to be the next troublesome star who got drunk and started flipping over tables or whatever. I just tried to sit quietly until I sobered up."
Shia LaBeouf in Lawless
Like any method actor, LaBeouf was just getting into character. I mean, c'mon, he played a bootlegger during Prohibition.
"I did it for the movie. I didn't drink off set for no reason," LeBeouf told Page Six.
"I did it because, when I showed up on set the next day, my [bleep]ing eyes looked like this and my face…had that drunk bloat that I needed, that I couldn't have if that wasn't going on."
Brad Pitt and Edward Norton in Fight Club
One of the most memorable scenes (OK, they're all pretty amazing) was on that came about almost by accident.
The scene where Pitt and Norton are drunkenly hitting golf balls? Not acting. David Fincher, the director, saw the pair having a swing with some beers during some downtime, caught it on film and put it in the movie.
Mila Kunis and Natalie Portman in Black Swan
Kunis has denied it but director Darren Aronofsky claims that she and Portman downed tequila before their sex scene.
Like Margot Robbie, the tequila was to dial-down the nerves, but unlike Robbie, the pair apparently polished off the entire bottle.
Jennifer Lawrence in The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
Seems as though Lawrence and some of her cast mates liked nothing more than to get loose on the set of the second Hunger Games movie.
During a Google+ Hangout fan Q&A, the stars were asked about their favourite memory from filming. Josh Hutcherson, who played Peeta, recalled a long day shooting with Woody Harrelson and "were just running around acting like total idiots while you guys were trying to film. It was so much fun."
"We were drunk," Lawrence laughed. "That was fun. That was the first time I've ever drank at work."
Hutcherson quipped, "It was the first, but it wasn't the last!"
Julie Andrews in The Sound of Music
And no, it wasn't while Fraulein Maria was knocking up those curtain outfits for the Von Trapp kids either.
Apparently the bloke who owned the land where the Do-Re-Me scene was filmed made his own schnapps and Andrews would take shots while she practiced her guitar.
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Sports Illustrated's excellent college basketball writer Luke Winn has a revealing nugget that says a lot about college basketball in his Elite 8 postmortem today: Each Final Four team this year was the best defensive team in its respective region.
Using the defensive efficiency statistic provided by kenpom.com, Winn found that defense is king in the NCAA Tournament. He noted that just four of the last 40 teams to make the Final Four have been ranked outside the top 30 in defensive efficiency.
So what's it mean?
One conclusion you could draw is that the rise of good defenses in college hoops has been a result of the decline of good offenses. As we saw yesterday when UNC was firing on all cylinders in the first half against Kansas, good offense beats good defense.
But because teams only stay together for a season and good players always leave school early, elite offensive teams are extremely rare. UNC was such a team — a cohesive five-man offensive unit that played together for two seasons and developed a variety of ways to score — before point guard Kendall Marshall got hurt, and the whole thing came apart.
But ultimately this year's UNC team was so good offensively because Harrison Barnes, John Henson, Tyler Zeller, and Kendall Marshall all decided to forego the NBA Draft last year. Who knows when that will happen again.
Winn argues that scoring is down because of "tough-to-crack defensive schemes" and "extra-terrestrial shot-blockers." It'd be interesting to see what would happen if a truly elite, dynamic offense came up against such defenses. But unfortunately no such team exist right now.
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Cat and Enormous Beetle Are Unlikely Friends [VIDEO]
It's unclear if this cat allowed a beetle to climb atop its head because of an affinity for the enormous bug, or because it is just too tired and lazy to deal with the bold encroachment.
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Conference on Iran to feature Tehran apologist
By Kenneth R. Timmerman and Sayeh Hassan
So we welcome the initiative of the Canadian International Council and the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Ottawa in holding a May 5 conference on Iran. But we question why the organizers would even contemplate inviting as a keynote speaker Trita Parsi, a pro-Tehran lobbyist who has become so infamous among Iranian-Americans that they show up for his events just to heckle him.
Until the widely disputed June 2009 "election" of Iranian strongman Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Parsi and his group, the National Iranian American Council (NIAC ) rarely mentioned the words "human rights." Instead, they lobbied the U.S. Congress hard against U.S. sanctions on Iran and promoted U.S. trade with Iran, despite the regime's human rights record, its nuclear weapons ambitions, and its support for international terrorism and vows to wipe Israel off the map.
Canada Promotes "The Mullahs' Voice"
While the Canadian International Council is set to sponsor an Ottawa event on May 5th, entitled, "Iran in Context: Global and Regional Implications" ostensibly to focus on "political and security issues," the event has drawn a strong protest letter that includes signatories from a broad multicultural spectrum of the Iranian community in Canada who request cancelling the event.
The petition expresses concern about several speakers on the conference panel, deeming them to be Iranian regime apologists who would present the Iranian government as a "pragmatic and rational entity," in which diplomacy and dialogue could offer solutions. One of those speakers is Trita Parsi, founder of the National Iranian American Council (NIAC), a lobby that advocates the lifting of trade and economic sanctions against Iran. Kenneth R. Timmerman -- Executive Director for the Foundation of Democracy in Iran, and nominated for the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize along with John Bolton for his work on Iran -- once described Parsi as "The Mullahs' Voice" and the "unofficial spokesman in Washington who can talk circles around their official ambassadors."
Parsi's lobby, the NIAC was also featured unfavorably in the Washington Times as violating Federal lobbying rules in its quest for Iranian advocacy. Before he founded the NIAC, Parsi had launched another group: "Iranians for International Cooperation"(IIC). Although Parsi is publicly critical of the Iranian regime, his group listed as top priorities the "safeguard Iran's and Iranian interests, the removal of U.S. economic and political sanctions against Iran, and the commencement of an Iran-U.S. dialogue."
With the Western predilection for dialogue as an effective tool for mediation and change, the history of such endeavours with Iran should cast doubt on the viability of such efforts. Talks between Iran, Britain, Germany and France, for example, began in 2003 and ended in failure. They were intended to ensure that Iran would not develop nuclear weapons. In 2004, an agreement was finally signed between Iran, France, Germany, the U.K. — with support from the European Union — in which Iran agreed to suspend its uranium enrichment activities. Yet Iran reneged on the agreement, asserting its "sovereign right to enrich uranium." Further negotiations and warnings from Western allies that Iran was in violation of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty proved futile, as did ambiguous threats from European nations about punitive action from the UN Security Council.
Although sponsors of the conference are the Department of National Defence and the Canadian Security Intelligence Service; and the declared aim of the conference is to try better to understand the decision-making process of the Iranian regime in the hope of facilitating reform through policy options; and that it has drawn together a panel of "experts on Iran" from Canada, the U.S., Europe and the Middle East, a Wall Street Journal Report has asserted, about dialogue with Iran, that "public opinion throughout the region will conclude that the United States has at last surrendered to the reality of Iranian rule. The damage to America's regional, if not global influence, could prove irreversible."
Had Iran cooperated with the world community, it would have begun its journey toward a semblance of reform, but instead it remains a rogue nation with a regime that upholds its proxies Hamas and Hizbullah by financial support and training, and with the goal of obliterating Israel.
Recently Reza Cyrus Pahlavi — the older son of the late Shah of Iran, Mohammead Reza Pahlavi — called on 'foreign' countries to stop dialoguing with Iran and instead support those who try to effect change in leadership. Pahlavi even suggested that given the brutality of the Iranian Regime, that some members of the Iranian military may not stand with the regime to the end, beckoning that now was the time for the people of Iran to be emboldened for change as seen in Tunisia and Egypt. Not far from Canada's collective memory looms the story of Canadian-Iranian photojournalist Zahra Kazemi who was detained and arrested by Iranian officials in 2003 for taking pictures of a student protest outside a prison in Tehran. While in custody, she was brutally beaten, tortured and raped. She died from her injuries, a savagery the Iranian authorities initially tried to cover up.
The Canadian International Council conference's intention to engage Iran bears serious implications. In the absence of strict mandates -- which Iran has already rebuffed with its unbending resolve in the face of sanctions — promoting dialogue with Iran amounts to a legitimization of this brutal regime, along with its accomplices, Hizbullah and Hamas.
There is also the lunacy of the mystical menace Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to contend with; in 2005 he gave $17 million to the shrine of the 12th Imam who he apparently believes will appear before the next U.S. Presidential election.
Ahmadinejad has also stated that the main mission of the Islamic revolution is to pave the way for the coming of the 12th Imam, a messianic event that according to Shi'a Islam is to be preceded by apocalyptic conditions; a sobering thought given his uranium enrichment program and his outspoken wish to "wipe" Israel off the face of the map.
The letter of petition opposing the Canadian conference stated wisely: "You should refrain from appeasing the Islamic government by all means possible, and certainly should not host those who seek to facilitate and buy time for the regime to develop its nuclear weapons' program using the rhetoric and guise of democracy and hiding behind the flag of human rights."
According to many news sources including The Guardian, Iraqi forces have attacked Camp Ashraf in Iraq and have killed at least 3 people and injured 13. According to MEK the death toll maybe as high as 23.
While many of us may not agree with the MEK ideology we cannot remain silent while fellow Iranians are being massacred. This is not so much political issue as it is a "human issue" and I would urge everyone to break the silence and to condemn this brutal act by the Iraqi forces.
First They came... - Pastor Martin Niemoller
First they came for the communists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a communist.
Then they came for the trade unionists,
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Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a Jew.
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Down with the Islamic Regime in Iran
Long Live Freedom in Iran
Open Letter-Iranian Community Expresses Grave Concern Regarding CIC's "Iran in Context Event"0 comments - published on Tuesday, April 05, 2011
The Honorable Peter MacKay, Minister of National Defense
Jennifer Jeffs, Canadian International Council President
Richard B. Fadden, Canadian Security Intelligence Director
Jim Balsillie, Co-CEO, Research In Motion
Perrin Beatty, President and CEO, Canadian Chamber of Commerce
André Desmarais, President & CEO- Power Corporation of Canada
Re: Iranian Community Expresses Grave Concern Regarding CIC's "Iran in Context Event"
We, the undersigned, are extremely concerned about the National Branch of CIC and the University of Ottawa's upcoming conference "Iran in Context - Regional and Global Implications."
For over three decades, various governments have used dialogue and diplomacy with the regime in Iran to no avail, starting with the administration of President Jimmy Carter, who did everything possible to assure the new regime of American friendship and failed miserably. Since that time, the more world governments have tried to engage the regime's leaders, the more belligerent, emboldened and abusive they have become. Countries such as Canada, which is well aware of the brutality of the Iranian regime, through the death of the Iranian-Canadian photojournalist Zahra Kazemi, and institutions such as yours and the University of Ottawa should support pro-democracy opposition groups. You should refrain from appeasing the Islamic government by all means possible and certainly should not host those who seek to facilitate and buy time for the regime to develop its nuclear weapon's program using the rhetoric and guise of democracy and hiding behind the flag of human rights.
These apologists, and regime supporters intentionally portray the Islamic government in Iran as a pragmatic and rational entity. They suggest that dialogue and diplomacy are the best way to deal with Iran. They falsely claim that sanctions are not effective and hurt ordinary Iranian people. Recently, primarily due to opposition leaders Mousavi's and Karrubi's arrests, these apologists are attempting to shift the focus from Iran's weapons program to what they have decided is more acceptable human rights issues. They have falsely blamed regime's blatant human rights violations, only second to China's, on U.S. pressure and ridiculously claimed that recognition of the IRI would improve the human rights violations in Iran. The Iranian American community considers Dr. Ramin Jahanbegloo and Trita Parsi of the National Iranian American Council (NIAC) such intellectually dishonest regime apologists. They contribute to regime's agenda and serve the interests of those in power in the Islamic republic. Ramin Jahanbegloo is a known apologist who seeks reform but not systemic change for Iran, knowing fully well that reform is not possible under the IRI Constitution.
Trita Parsi falsely purports to represent Iranian-American interests in the United States. The Center for Security Policy cites NIAC as a lobby organization for the government of Iran. As a result of a lawsuit, numerous NIAC documents have been brought to light that show NIAC lobbies for policies favorable to the regime in Iran. Law enforcement experts, who have reviewed some of NIAC's emails, memos and board minutes, believe that NIAC has operated as an undeclared lobby and may be guilty of violating tax laws, the Foreign Agents Registration Act and lobbying disclosure laws. NIAC has less than 3,000 members, according to Parsi, yet NIAC asserts that it represents the majority of the nearly 1 million Iranian-Americans in the USA. In our view, NIAC and Parsi will eventually be subjected to criminal prosecution and organizations and individuals that collaborate with NIAC will come to regret their affiliations with them.
Currently, the Middle East is in crisis. Pro-democracy forces are springing up daily to demand basic human rights and better living conditions. It is about time that countries such as Canada publicly align themselves with the people who have suffered brutally at the hands of dictators and tyrants. It is time to give honor, dignity, moral imperatives and ethical values precedence over lucrative financial contracts that often occur, wrongly, at the expense of ordinary citizens' lives.
We respectfully request the cancellation of this conference, or the inclusion of representative experts, who can provide a more honest and accurate picture of the current situation and opposition forces inside and outside Iran. Furthermore, Canada must have an enduring commitment to encourage democracy and human rights throughout the world and cannot ignore the fact that the current regime in Iran is a major threat to world's economic stability and world peace. Canada must encourage and support every group that truly advocates freedom and the rule of law and oppose any regime that denies such progress. At this time, Iran is dominated by a vicious dictator who has proven his lack of concern for his own people on countless occasions. There should be no question that Canada must have every ethical, moral and strategic reason to encourage Iranian democratic movements.
The Iranian opposition groups hope to establish a co-operative relationship with the Canadian people and seek their support in establishing a secular and democratic government in Iran.
The Undersigned
Cina Dabestani, Chairman of Constitutionalist Party of Iran, Washington DC Chapter
The Honorable H. Hakimi, Retired Ambassador
Dr. Arash Irandoost, Pro-Democracy Movement of Iran (PDMI)
Walton K. Martin III, Director, The Iran Information Project, USA
Dr. Gill Gillespie, Director, The Iran Information Project, UK
Sayeh Hassan, Barrister & Solicitor, pro-democracy activist, Canada
Mehdi Zolfaghari
Parvin Irandoost, Human Rights Advocate
Sohrab, Shabnameh.org
Dr. A. Samadani
Debora M. Andress
Dr. Mansur Rastani
Saied Shemirani, Political Activist: United Persian Organization (Iranbozorg)
Sheri Alvadin, Human Rights Activist and Publisher
Firouzeh Ghaffarpour, Political Activist
Dr. Bijan Eftekhari, Professor of Economics
Caspian Makan, Writer & Film Maker, Human Rights Activist
Tarek Fatah, Founder, Muslim Canadian Congress
Frank Salvato, Executive Director BasicsProject.org
Zohre Mizrahi, Attorney, Human Rights Advocate
Yasamine Morteza Gaeini, Khashm, Toronto Branch
Morteza Gaeini, Khashm, Toronto Branch
Rabbi Dr. Daniel M. Zuckerman, D.D., Chairman, American for Democracy in the Middle-East
Jay Ewasiuk, Edmonton, AB
Behnaz Shariari, Member Stop Child Execution and Human Rights Activist
Hassan Darashti
Ally Bolour, Esq.


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Fox News figures have cast Hurricane Sandy as an event that "has nothing to do with global warming." But climate scientists agree that global warming has exacerbated the flooding from storms like Sandy, and is expected to increase the severity of hurricanes.
Climate Change Is Expected To Lead To More Intense Hurricanes
Many Uncertainties Remain About The Effects Of Climate Change On Hurricanes. A Special Report of Working Groups I and II of the Intergovernmental Panel On Climate Change noted that in contrast to certain extreme weather events like heat waves that are better understood, there is an "incomplete understanding" about how climate change has and will affect tropical cyclones (a term that includes hurricanes and typhoons). The IPCC report stated that it is "likely" that "average tropical cyclone wind speed" and "Heavy rainfalls associated with tropic cyclones" will increase on a warming earth, but that there is "low confidence" in any observed trends for tropical cyclones. The report further noted that "Attribution of single extreme events to anthropogenic climate change is challenging." [Special Report of Working Groups I and II of the Intergovernmental Panel On Climate Change, 2012]
However, Hurricanes Are Expected To Become More Intense. An October 30 post on the New York Times Green blog by science reporter Justin Gillis noted that while little analysis has been done on hybrid storms like Hurricane Sandy, "Extensive computer modeling has suggested that the number of Atlantic hurricanes will stay the same or even decrease with global warming, but that the intensity of the storms that do occur is likely to increase." [Green, The New York Times, 10/30/12]
AP: Experts Have Concluded That "As The Climate Warms," Storms "Will Be Stronger And Wetter." An October 30 Associated Press article said that climate scientists "have been warning about the risk for big storms and serious flooding in New York" for over a dozen years and added, "A 2000 federal report about global warming's effect on the United States warned specifically of that possibility." The article also noted that "climate scientists and hurricane experts have concluded that as the climate warms," there will be fewer hurricanes, but that they will "be stronger and wetter." [Associated Press, 10/30/12]
Experts Agree Rising Sea Levels Have Exacerbated Flooding From Storms Including Sandy
Wash. Post's Wonkblog: Hurricane Sandy Highlights A "Major Reason To Worry About Climate Change: Rising Sea Levels." In an October 29 post on The Washington Post's Wonkblog titled, "Yes, Hurricane Sandy is a good reason to worry about climate change," Brad Plumer wrote that while there are many uncertainties in attributing hurricane patterns to climate change, "Hurricane Sandy does highlight at least one other major reason to worry about climate change: rising sea levels." He noted that higher sea levels will magnify storm surges during large and small storms, leading to coastal flooding. The post concluded:
The endless debates about whether this or that particular hurricane can be blamed on global warming are fascinating. But they can also distract from the more basic fact that our cities and infrastructure are quite vulnerable to future temperature increases and sea-level rise. And Hurricane Sandy, unfortunately, is a grim reminder of that. [Wonkblog, The Washington Post, 10/29/12]
Climate Central: Higher Sea Levels, Which Are Connected To Global Warming, Produced Higher Tides For Sandy. In an October 29 Climate Central post titled "Sandy's Storm Surge Explained and Why It Matters," Michael D. Lemonick described a storm surge as "the pulse of seawater pushed ashore by [a storm's] winds and low atmospheric pressure" and wrote that it "will almost certainly cause more concentrated damage than the hurricane's powerful surface winds, torrential rains and mountain snows." He went on to put Sandy's storm surge into historical context:
Global sea level is now about 8 inches higher, on average, than it was in 1900, in connection with global warming. Sinking land has added several inches more of local sea level rise in the Mid-Atlantic. That means the storm tides from Sandy are that much higher than they would have been if the identical storm had come along back then.
And as sea level continues to rise in a warming world, a Sandy that arrives in 2100, when average sea level is likely to be about 3 feet higher than it is today, would be correspondingly more destructive. [Climate Central, 10/29/12]
NY Times' Green Blog: "The Biggest Problem Seen During Hurricane Sandy Will Become Worse In The Future: Storm Surge." The New York Times Green blog also noted that "the biggest problem seen during Hurricane Sandy will become worse in the future: storm surge." The post continued:
The ocean is rising relentlessly, and scientists say this is a direct consequence of global warming. Warm water expands, just as warm air does, and the warming of the ocean is one factor behind the rise. Another is that land ice the world over is starting to melt as the climate grows warmer, dumping extra water into the ocean.
Over all, the ocean rose about eight inches in the last century. The rate appears to have accelerated recently, to about a foot per century, and some scientists think it will accelerate further, so that the rise between now and the end of the century could exceed three feet. The problem will be exacerbated in places where land is also sinking, such as the mid-Atlantic region of the United States and southern Louisiana.
The likely effect, [climate scientist] Dr. [Kerry A.] Emanuel said, is that coastal flooding on a scale that once happened only once or twice per century -- the scale of Sandy, in other words -- will become much more commonplace within the coming decades. [Green, The New York Times, 10/30/12]
Yet Fox News Figures Claim Sandy "Has Nothing To Do With Global Warming"
Perino: "This Has Nothing To Do With Global Warming." During the October 30 edition of Fox News' The Five, co-host Bob Beckel suggested that Hurricane Sandy -- along with a number of other indicators, such as the past decade being the hottest on record -- indicates that climate change is happening. Co-host Dana Perino responded, in part, "This has nothing to do with global warming." [Fox News, The Five, 10/30/12]
Bolling: Sandy "Has Nothing To Do With Global Warming." During the October 31 edition of Fox & Friends, Eric Bolling denied that climate change is related to Hurricane Sandy, saying: "Where is the proof? These global warming claims have been debunked time and time again. Look, it's weather. Weather changes. Things happen. It has nothing to do with global warming." [Fox News, Fox & Friends, 10/31/12]
Fox Regular Bastardi: Potential Increase In Large Storms On Eastern Seaboard "Has Nothing To Do With Global Warming." During the October 29 edition of Fox News' Hannity, frequent Fox News guest and weatherman Joe Bastardi discussed Hurricane Sandy. He predicted that the Eastern Seaboard will see more large storms over "the next five to 10 years," but claimed that such a phenomenon "has nothing to do with global warming" and "has everything to do with nature." [Fox News, Hannity, 10/29/12]
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Trip: Wetpixel Misool / Raja Ampat, Indonesia Expedition 2010
Dates: Arrive 20 Nov 2010, depart on 02/03 Dec 2010
Trip Leader: Eric Cheng
Host: Misool Eco-Resort, http://misoolecoresort.com
Come dive the famed reefs of Raja Ampat with Wetpixel! Raja Ampat, Indonesia, is generally considered to be the center of tropical marine biodiversity. Lush, colorful coral reefs are a backdrop for exceptional fish and invertebrate life.
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20 Nov: Boat transfer from Sorong, Indonesia to Misool Eco Resort
21 Nov - 01 Dec: Diving, diving, diving! (11 full days)
02 Dec: Off-gas / boat transfer to Sorong (overnight stay)
03 Dec: Depart Sorong
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- meals and non-alcoholic beverages
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Not included is airfare, additional local accommodation during transfers, alcoholic drinks, additional dives.
Deposit: US$1,500, due with booking
Payment 1: US$1,500, due May 1, 2010
Balance: Balance of payment due 1 July 2010.
Getting There: Guests must arrive in Sorong on or before November 20, 2010. Please contact Dan for full details.
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In a perfect Baltimore baseball world, we wouldn't be looking in the rear-view mirror yet, but 85 wins -- while certainly respectable -- were not enough to push the Orioles' second straight winning season into October. So, while you're watching the postseason and secretly rooting for whichever team plays the Boston Red Sox, here is our 2013 Orioles report card. Keep in mind that the grades are based on the performance of each player in the context of his role with the team, not necessarily in comparison to his teammates or similar players around the league. So, a player with limited at-bats or innings may get a higher grade than a full-time player, even though there is no question about their relative value. Each position player appeared in at least nine games with the Orioles, while each pitcher made at least five appearances with the team. Within each position group, the players are arranged in order of number of games played, with the most at the beginning and the fewest at the end.
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Xavier is proud to offer three academic majors in Sustainability as well as the continuation of our Environmental Sciences program.
Sustainability, defined as "development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs," affects nearly all enterprises, both public and private.
Focuses on sustainable organizations and economies, and involves studies in ecological, environmental, and natural resource economics; management for sustainability and social responsibility; and attention to key related areas such as organizational change management and global supply chain management. Sustainable businesses have lower enterprise risk, better reputations, attract more talented employees and have improved long-term viability.
Focuses on sustainable economies, and includes the study of natural resources, ecological and environmental problems, processes, and policies at local, national and global levels. Students will integrate economic analysis with cultural studies, global economic development, policy studies, and management, as they gain skills to conceptualize and solve sustainability problems. Students will critically examine the goal of ever greater material consumption and the notion of natural capital as a mere storehouse of natural resources waiting to be used up.
Focuses on the science and art of agriculture; and both the necessity and benefits of small-scale, sustainable, and diversified food production in the context of a Jesuit education. The program offers students the opportunity to become stewards of healthy, productive soils, communities, and regions through study and practical experience with growing, processing and distributing food.
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The Check-In: Bracht Smokes the Competition in Los Cabos
Highlights from Los Cabos and San Juan, entries open in Taiwan, and priority entries for Melbourne
Timo Bracht easily dominated the men's race, while Erika Csomor had to fight right to the end as she caught Michelle Vesterby in the closing stages of the marathon.
Csomor's Close Call
Two years ago Denmark's Michelle Vesterby surprised the IRONMAN world by leading for much of the day at IRONMAN Arizona, only to be caught and passed during the marathon by Leanda Cave. At the inaugural IRONMAN Los Cabos, Vesterby, who took her first IRONMAN win in Lanzarote last May, stayed at the front for much of the race once again, but was eventually passed with a few miles to go in the marathon by veteran Erika Csomor (HUN). American Lisa Ribes ran her way to third.
Bracht Dominates
The men's race started out looking competitive, but once the marathon began it quickly became a one-man show as Germany's Timo Bracht added yet another IRONMAN win to his impressive resume. For much of the ride Australian Luke McKenzie had ridden at the front with Bracht and another German uber-cyclist, Maik Twelsiek, but the Australian wasn't able to stay in touch and dropped off the pace during the latter stages of the ride. Once the run began, Bracht quickly ran away from Twelsiek and never looked back.
The battle for second was considerably more exciting than the race for the win as France's Trevor Delsaut managed to hold off Hungary's Jozsef Major for the runner-up spot by just 34 seconds. Canadian Jeff Symonds had an impressive IRONMAN debut in fourth, while Twelsiek faded to fifth.
Denmark's Helle Frederiksen and American Andy Starykowicz battled the heat and winds, not to mention the tough fields, to take the wins at IRONMAN 70.3 San Juan today.
In a surprise turn of events, IRONMAN bike split record holder Starykowicz wasn't the first man off the bike, but when Ben Collins dropped out of the race with just a few miles left to go, Starykowicz was able to hang on for the win over former ITU racer Bertrand Billard (FRA) and two-time San Juan champ Tim O'Donnell.
A new initiative will allow athletes who register for IRONMAN 70.3 Taiwan or IRONMAN 70.3 Japan the opportunity to gain priority entry to IRONMAN Asia-Pacific Championship Melbourne 2014.
"We have introduced the priority entry program to reward loyalty of athletes at our events across Asia by giving them the opportunity to secure entry to the sold-out IRONMAN Asia-Pacific Championship Melbourne event," says IRONMAN Asia-Pacific CEO Geoff Meyer.
This year's race in Melbourne sold out in less than five minutes, making it difficult for those outside of Australia to get in to the event.
Priority Entry for Asia-Pacific Championship
General entry for IRONMAN 70.3 Taiwan will open on Tuesday, March 19, 2013. In its fourth year the event, which is located on the southern tip of Taiwan, has grown from a field of 900 to almost 1,700 last year. The race will take place on November 2, 2013 and takes place in and around scenic Formosa and the city of Kenting. The race is anticipated to sell out.


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This is our third year here and we still haven't had any trick or treaters other than the boys. When you live on a state road out in the country I guess you shouldn't really expect any. The kids that live out here get driven into town to go with friends or family.
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Are any changes in store for Season 2? .....But if everyone had done his or her job properly that week, then this format would've worked really well. So, I'm not going to change the system. I'm just going to suggest that we do a better job when we do it in the future," he said.What else can you tell us about Season 2? ...... "So we each have one girl, one boy, one over, and one group," explained Paula. "That's actually what's being spoken about and I think the public is right on track."
The X Factor host is leaving the Fox singing competition series. I wont be hosting next seasons X Factor which is a shame but I cant complain as Ive had a great time, Jones wrote on Twitter. Good luck to everyone on the show.Sources close to the show confirm Jones is exiting the program. Fox and executive producer Simon Cowell are determined to make adjustments to the series after a first season that performed solidly, but fell short of what many thought was the shows high potential given its dominance in the UK. Critics considered the British personality Jones a likely candidate to get the boot given his reviews.
Steve Jones isn't the only one not returning for the second season of X Factor.I can exclusively reveal that Nicole Scherzinger has also decided not to come back."She wants to focus on her music career," a source said. "She's spoken to Simon [Cowell] and he's given her his blessing."
I think they should boot Simon. He was nasty to the other 3 judges at times, not simply disagreeing but going out of his way to denigrate them. On the other hand, Nicole lost it when she had to choose between Rachel Crow and Marcus Canty. She wasn't cruel, I believe that she didn't want to choose and thought the votes would save Rachel. All that said, this is Simon's show, he's not going to get the heave-ho so I hope they find 2 really good judges for this next season. I really didn't have a problem with Steve Jones, he was OK for me.
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A bar drink - the bartender pours you a snifter of cognac, then slaps you in the face hard.
Yes, barkeep? I would like to buy those two douchebags at the end of the bar a round of Ike turners.
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Ike Turner, phased in the youngbloodz song is a wife beater.
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Posted up on the corner with some dickies and an ike turner, that a wife beater if you n****a don't understand my slang
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Having sex in the doggystyle position, before the man is about to blow his wad he pulls out and spits on the females back while ejaculating into his own hand, and when she turns around to attempt a kiss, he SMACKS the freshly prepared baby batter on her face, and calls her a bitch.
My girl was crying becuz we were doin it in the shower and i gave her an Ike Turner.
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When one beat his wife with his penis. It's in honour of the man himself, ex huband of Tina Turner, a Famous singer. Turner was later convicted and served time in a California State Prison for drug-related charges, while Tina went on to have a successful solo career beginning in the early 1980s.
She's black and blue after I Ike Turnered her last night
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Another name for some good weed because itll hit you in the head real quick...
Nigga we was in the telly blowed off of some Ike Turner.
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Man 2: Nigga thats that straight Ike Turner aint it...
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Mixing together Coca Cola and Newcastle (Beer) to create a pseudo energy drink known as the Ike Turner. Order a Coke and Newcastle, drink half of each, and mix...in a glass or in the bottle: if you pour it in a bottle, expect it to foam at the mouth.
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The USDA Agricultural Marketing Service has approved the establishment of the soybean checkoff-funded Technology Utilization Center, a new "virtual center" with no office, lab or staff, according to the United Soybean Board.
The center, whose board of directors will range from farmer-leaders to researchers, soybean processors and end-users, will serve as a clearinghouse of information needed to advance the competitiveness and profitability of U.S. soybeans.
"TUC will serve as a facilitator between the private sector, government, and industry to create the pull-through needed to commercialize new soybean varieties with improved traits," said Richard Borgsmiller, chairman of the United Soybean Board and a soybean farmer from Murphysboro, Ill.
"Through the TUC, we hope to speed up the inclusion of specific traits in U.S. varieties, which will keep us competitive, not only with other countries, but other oilseeds as well. These quality improvements are necessary for continued success in the global market."
TUC, which is part of the checkoff-funded Better Bean Initiative (BBI), correlates with the program's goal of keeping U.S. soybean farmers competitive. A 22-man board, ranging from farmer leaders to researchers, soybean processors and end users will oversee TUC's work. The USB chief executive officer will manage the center's operations, and all TUC board members will be selected by USB.
USB established the Better Bean Initiative a few years ago to address growing concerns over competition from other sources of protein and oil and other soybean-producing countries. Through the BBI, U.S. soybean farmers are funding research to improve the protein and oil composition of U.S. soybeans.
"USDA is concerned about the U.S. grower losing global market share in the future and is looking for opportunities to focus on this issue," said USB Vice Chairman David Durham, a soybean farmer from Hardin, Mo. "TUC should offer an industry platform to improve the intrinsic value of U.S. soybeans and strengthen our future competitiveness."
According to Durham, industry representatives from the public and private sector are very supportive of the checkoff-funded BBI and TUC. Through TUC, industry leaders have an additional business platform to work together to identify key market issues and jointly move forward to commercialize soybean technology that either currently exists or is being developed.
Previous contributions from Monsanto are an example of how TUC can bring together technology from the public and private sector to benefit U.S. soybean farmers, according to Borgsmiller.
The center has received three technology contributions from Monsanto Company — a low palmitic marker, a library of BAC-end gene sequences, and 200 simple-sequence-repeat markers, which the company developed jointly with the USDA's Agricultural Research Service.
These tools should help BBI researchers breed plants more efficiently and more accurately, and shorten the timeline for development of higher-quality varieties for U.S. soybean farmers.
"The USB's TUC serves as a unique venue for idea exchange that may someday lead to the development of a better bean for American producers," said Carl Casale, vice president of Monsanto's North American operations. "Monsanto is proud to be a part of the USB's Better Bean Initiative and provide the group with support in achieving its goals."
"The center's board will serve as an industry coalition that will bring together the various research entities and their technologies," said Durham. "It is critical that the soybean checkoff takes a leading role in order to ensure industry commitment and success. With a solid industry alliance, U.S. soybean farmers will have a stronger, unified voice."
USB is made up of 62 farmer-directors who oversee the investments of the soybean checkoff on behalf of all U.S. soybean farmers. As stipulated in the Soybean Promotion, Research and Consumer Information Act, USDA's Agricultural Marketing Service has oversight responsibilities for USB and the soybean checkoff.
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So we had an awesome new trial that I was the trial chair of at Boomtowne this weekend. I busted my hump and ran my dog. I was pleasantly surprised that my dog (or me, I'm not really sure which one) was able to handle the stress of the weekend and still work her butt off.
We had 4 great runs, but I screwed two of them up.
Her jumpers runs were excellent runs but my body language (one shoulder out of place) and me loosing my place on the course because I didn't trust her to get the last pole cost us those Q's.
In standard she did awesome. The first standard run was a bit sluggish but we pulled through and got a 3rd place and a high scoring sheltie win for our 2nd AX leg. The next day I listened to the judge who came out to dinner with me the night before and trusted my dog and we Q'd with a clean run, first place and a high scoring sheltie win to finish her AX on her birthday!
I was so proud of her. We had so many issues when we started competing I never thought we'd make it out of Novice Standard. She is a great jumpers dog and now I'm falling behind in terms of handling skills. If you had asked me 3 years ago I never would have said she'd have finished her AX before her AXJ.
And our judge Terry Brown was a breath of fresh air in terms of respect for the exhibitors and the sport in general. He truely was rooting for the teams, but was very respectful of the rules. He was so supportive of all exhibitors but had a great way of treating the novice and junior handlers with respect and encouragement. He does conformation, agility, obedience and true search and rescue work with siberian huskies, an aussie and a Belgium shepherd.(they're working on getting certified in body part cadaver searches this month with his Belgium shepherd) Very cool interesting and individual.
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I've spoken before (Barcamp Orlando, 2007) about how we, as a culture, do not protect data as well as we should. We value physical things more than we value data, even though some of us spend far more of our lives creating and using data.
One way we can lose data is through theft of the hardware it's on. We can think about the value of encryption, not only in how much positive value some information has to you (how much is a random string worth, really?), but also in how much negative value it would have if someone else had control of it (like when your bank password is in the hands of someone else).
Ubuntu can't help you value your data more, but it can help remove some of the negative impact of someone stealing your hardware. Though a single directory was available only to advanced users back in Ubuntu 9.04, now all users can take advantage of having all personal data encrypted! That's right — you entire home directory can be encrypted. There's a great article written by Dustin Kirkland that elucidates how to begin to use encrypted home, even for established users and systems.
I thought I understood the migration process more than I really did, so my first attempt failed. I worked on it until I understood it, and so maybe someone will find a high-level summary of what I learned to be useful:
- Start ~/Private dir encryption. Copy all of your home into it (excluding the "Private" therein). Unmount the encryption.
- Make a new directory outside to hold config files. Move your ~/.ecryptfs into it, so there's no chicken-egg problem in loading the config files. Move your ~/.Private ciphertext into it also.
- Make a new directory that will be renamed to your home directory later, which will hold almost nothing except a symlink to the config files and symlink to ciphertext dir.
- Move your home out of the way, to back up. Move the new tmp into place.
- Then, at log in, it reads the configs, finds the ciphertext, mounts this on top of your home, and all works as it should.
That is of course, just an overview of what one does, and should only help one grapple with the concepts, not help one actually do anything. For more helpful advice see that article above.
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