a little rant

"Whaddya mean 'the way Utah treats its Deaf people?' Honestly, I think Utah is one of the best places for a Deaf person to live in--big community, and it's the ONLY state that has a Deaf center owned, operated, and geared toward the Deaf."

1. BYU won't easily provide services for the Deaf students because it is church-owned. "ADA does not apply." BYUtv, part of PBS, certainly isn't eager to closed caption their shows.

2. Interpreters are underpaid and overworked. University of Utah hoarded the most funds for college and university interpreter payrolls. Other Utah colleges and universities end up with more Deaf students and a smaller, limited budget. University of Utah refuse to recognize ASL as a language. They've classified ASL as a Communcative Disorder.

3. Several times, the Utah Legislation has tried to dinimish the Deaf Center and its services by trying to axe out a huge chunk of the Center's fiscal budget. Even though the Deaf Center is awesome and I know it is, Utah's government is trying to close it down.

4. The pro-CI/Oral USDB (main focus on verbal communication) has successfully absorbed the BiCultural-BiLingual JMS (main focus on educating the Deaf). Can you say, "Yay, AGBellers!"??

5. The Deaf Mormons.. *sigh* They're a great disappointment and puts the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in bad light. You know how it is with Deaf community and its problems with gossips and rumors. Well, most Mormons are the same way, too! Do the math: Deaf + Mormon = 2 times the shit. I've tried for 9 years to "live in--big community" in Utah and it nearly killed me. That place is EVIL!

6. Most of the Utahn businesses are Republican. Unless Vocational Rehabilitation foots the bill, most of them try their damnedest to never provide an interpreter, never hire, never promote or immediately fire a Deaf. Why? Because, in their eyes, Deaf employees are too expensive. You will find some well-paid Deaf employees in Utah because their mommies and daddies are CEOs. Nepotism Rocks! You better befriend one of those rich Deafies and hope their families will hire you!

7. Utah is Anti-Gay. Utah is Anti-Gay. Utah is Anti-Gay. Utah is Anti-Gay. Utah is Anti-Gay. Utah is Anti-Gay, need I say more? Mormons are supposed to be ALL about love and not hate. Utah's a crock of hypocritical shit.

8. Olympics 2002 was held in SLC. That city is READY for such olympic events like the Paralympics and Deaflympics! Yeah, let us all hope and say a little prayer that the SLC's committee remain pure and faithful to the ways of administrating ethically.

9. Even though Utah's a shitty place to live, it's a great vacation spot with hot, cute people!

10. If you're not Mormon, you'll soon be assimilated! ;)

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Your Birthdate: October 16

Your birth on the 16th day of the month gives a sense of loneliness and generally the desire to work alone. You are relatively inflexible, and insist on your being independent. You need a good deal of time to rest and to meditate. You are introspective and a little stubborn. Because of this, it may not be easy for you to maintain permanent relationships, but you probably will as you are very much into home and family. This birth day inclines to interests in the technical, the scientific, and to the religious or the unknown realm of spiritual explorations. The date gives you a tendency to seek unusual approaches and makes your style seem a little different and unique to those around you. Your intuition is aided by the day of your birth, but most of your actions are bedded in logic, responsibility, and the rational approach. You may be emotional, but have a hard time expressing these emotions. Because of this, there may be some difficulty in giving or receiving affection.

What Does Your Birth Date Mean?

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Your Geek Profile:

Fashion Geekiness: High

Academic Geekiness: Moderate

Gamer Geekiness: Moderate

Geekiness in Love: Moderate

Internet Geekiness: Moderate

General Geekiness: Low

Movie Geekiness: Low

Music Geekiness: Low

SciFi Geekiness: Low

How Geeky Are You?

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From Forever Geek: "Here's something for broadband people that will really speed Firefox up:

1.Type 'about:config' into the address bar and hit return. Scroll down and look for the following entries:

network.http.pipelining
network.http.proxy.pipelining
network.http.pipelining.maxrequests

Normally the browser will make one request to a web page at a time. When you enable pipelining it will make several at once, which really speeds up page loading.

2. Alter the entries as follows:

Set 'network.http.pipelining' to 'true'

Set 'network.http.proxy.pipelining' to 'true'

Set 'network.http.pipelining.maxrequests' to some number like 30.
This means it will make 30 requests at once.

3. Lastly right-click anywhere and select New-> Integer. Name it 'nglayout.initialpaint.delay' and set its value to '0'. This value is the amount of time the browser waits before it acts on information it receives.

If you're using a broadband connection you'll oad pages MUCH faster now!"

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Deaf 258: I feel dirty
Cherry: why?
Deaf 258: bec I am a stumbleupon whore
Deaf 258: still using it
Cherry: lol

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Cool!! Now, I am going to be spending some time reading the Cyber Film School Moviemaking Website!

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Here's a good poem written by one of my new, good friends in Deaf theatre!

Best Friends

I grew up receiving scars.
Having scars I wouldn't mind
which is good for me.
Also for other people with
their own scars
makes us stronger.
But losing you is not a scar.
It is murder, a whole big wound.
A part of me dies
because that part of me is you.
You made me,
I made you,
as we grew.
We made eachother.
Such a tremdous love I have for you,
you wouldn't believe your eyes.
Losing you is far worse than anything
in this whole universe.
A half of me is bleeding
because you walked away.

Copyright © 2005 Veronica Kozlowski

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