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Republicans have made it clear that their next budget goal is to slash so-called entitlement programs. Democrats have failed to explain to the public that the misnamed programs are valuable and prevent millions of Americans, many of them elderly or children, from living in poverty.
The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) issued a report last week that found: "Social Security benefits play a vital role in reducing poverty. Without Social Security, 22.2 million more Americans would be poor, according to the latest available Census data (for 2012). Although most of those whom Social Security keeps out of poverty are elderly, nearly a third are under age 65, including one million children. Depending on their design, reductions in Social Security benefits could significantly increase poverty, particularly among the elderly."
The report explained: "Almost 90% of people aged 65 and older receive some of their family income from Social Security. Without Social Security benefits, 44.4% of elderly Americans would have incomes below the official poverty line, all else being equal; with Social Security benefits, only 9.1% do. These benefits lift 15.3 million elderly Americans (including 9.0 million women) above the poverty line."
Medicare has proven equally as effective. Yet Republicans like to pretend that the U.S. is quickly moving toward an entitlement society.
However, CBPP issued a report last year titled, "Contrary to 'Entitlement Society' Rhetoric, Over Nine-Tenths of Entitlement Benefits Go to Elderly, Disabled, or Working Households."
It stated: "More than 90% of the benefit dollars that entitlement and other mandatory programs spend go to assist people who are elderly, seriously disabled, or members of working households—not to able-bodied, working-age Americans who choose not to work. This figure has changed little in the past few years.
"The claim behind these critiques is clear: federal spending on entitlements and other mandatory programs through which individuals receive benefits is promoting laziness, creating a dependent class of Americans who are losing the desire to work and would rather collect government benefits than find a job.
"Such beliefs are starkly at odds with the basic facts regarding social programs, the analysis finds. Federal budget and Census data show that, in 2010, 91% of the benefit dollars from entitlement and other mandatory programs went to the elderly (people 65 and over), the seriously disabled, and members of working households. People who are neither elderly nor disabled (and do not live in a working household) received only nine percent of the benefits.
"Moreover, the vast bulk of that nine percent goes for medical care, unemployment insurance benefits (which individuals must have a significant work history to receive), Social Security survivor benefits for the children and spouses of deceased workers, and Social Security benefits for retirees between ages 62 and 64. Seven out of the nine percentage points go for one of these four purposes."
The research also shatters another myth, the idea that entitlement programs shift resources for the middle class to the poor.
"The data show that the middle class receives approximately its proportionate share of benefits: in 2010, the middle 60% of the population received 58% of the entitlement benefits. The top 20% of the population received 10% of the benefits; the bottom 20% received 32% of the benefits. "
Even with a sluggish economy, Congress seems unwilling to support those on food stamps, now called SNAP—Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. Under the 2009 Recovery Act, recipients received a 13.6% temporary boost in benefits. However, that provision is set to expire on Nov. 1, resulting in an $80 a month loss for a family of four. That means SNAP benefits will average less than $1.40 per person per meal in fiscal 2014.
Instead of continuing to help those in dire need, House Agriculture Committee Chairman Frank Lucas (R-Okla.) introduced legislation in September cutting SNAP by at least $39 billion over the next decade.
To his credit, President Obama has suggested a more balanced approach, with cuts being matched by closing some of the loopholes for the wealthy.
According to the Tax Policy Center, the top fifth of the population receives 66% of tax-expenditure benefits, the middle 60% of the population receives a little more than 31% of tax-expenditure benefits, the bottom fifth receives just 2.8% of tax-expenditure benefits and the top one percent of the population receives 23.9% of tax-expenditure benefits. And the report pointed out, "That's more than eight times as much as the bottom fifth of the population, and nearly as much as the middle 60% of the population."
It's time for President Obama and Democratic leaders to show that they can stand up to Teapublicans more than once.
(George E. Curry, former editor-in-chief of Emerge magazine, is editor-in-chief of the National Newspaper Publishers Association News Service (NNPA.) He is a keynote speaker, moderator, and media coach. Curry can be reached through his website, <www.georgecurry. com>.


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GURPS Spaceships 2: Traders, Liners, and Transports is now available from e23.
Building from the simple design system found in Spaceships 1, David Pulver has created nearly three dozen sample ships to fill the role of "moving stuff." From tramp freighters and heavy lift boosters, from passenger liners to yachts, this release has ships you need for any interstellar merchant campaign.
Spaceships 2 also covers the financial aspects of finding a ship, booking cargo and passengers, and making a profit. From operating expenses to speculative trade, this PDF details everything you need to know, including how to fudge it all!
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Carrot clarinet | Linsey Pollak | TEDxSydney
Linsey Pollak turns a carrot into a clarinet using an electic drill a carrot and a saxophone mouthpiece, and plays it all in a matter of 5 minutes.
Linsey Pollak is an Australian musician, instrument maker, composer, musical director and community music facilitator. He has recorded 31 albums, toured his solo shows extensively in Europe, Nth America and Asia as well as performing at most major festivals around Australia.
Linsey has devised many large Festival pieces such as "BimBamBoo" and "Sound Forest", as well as collaborating on many music and theatre projects around Australia. He established The Multicultural Arts Centre of WA, and has co-ordinated five Cross-cultural Music Ensembles in three different States. Linsey has also worked as a musical instrument maker for 40 years and has designed a number of new wind instruments as well as specialising in woodwind instruments from Eastern Europe.
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Superhero io is a fun multiplayer game where you can play as your favorite superhero characters in the classic io hack and slash arena. You may attack your enemies, however, you risk being hit yourself. Try to swing towards the back of an enemy to avoid being hit by their weapon.


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Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free" – plaque on the Statue of Liberty
"Scotland will always offer a warm welcome to the world. In fact, our reputation for being an open, warm-hearted, hospitable country has never been more important…..you will always be welcome here" – First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, Hogmanay 2018.
Of the many myths propagated by British Nationalists in the rewriting of the 2014 independence referendum narrative, perhaps the biggest one is that it was divisive. "Scotland doesn't want another divisive referendum", says Ruth Davidson in the unlikely event of the leader of the North British Youse Had Yer Vote Party making a public appearance. Nonsense. I watched them, touring Scotland at the public's expense, being paid to tell us how crap we were. They weren't complaining about division then. They looked like they were having a ball, probably because, like Brexiteers getting nostalgic about the war, it was the last time they were remotely relevant. One time, Somebody threw an egg at Jim Murphy. That was about as divisive as it got.
In any case, how do you divide a country that's already divided? Scotland to me is like Churchill's Russia – a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma. Warm, yet thrawn. Glasgow or Edinburgh? Highland or Lowland? The inherent duality of the Scottish character was understood as long ago as James Scott Hogg and Robert Louis Stevenson – no wonder we produce so many great crime writers. Even something as seemingly as innocuous as football divides us, which the comedian Frankie Boyle pithily summed up last week: "after the hatred and division of 2018", he wrote, "it'll be nice to sit back and enjoy the Old Firm game". Honestly, we don't need referendums to divide us. We could start a rammy in an empty room.
As we enter a new year, we remain, despite everything, a part of this disunited kingdom. It is utterly baffling that this is so. Our failure to call a second independence referendum is beginning to look like complicity, like we don't really believe. That we don't quite care enough.
Here's one of several uncomfortable truths about the 2014 referendum. Yes, Better Together were totally mendacious. Yes, they broke purdah by publishing the infamous "vow" after the postal votes that they admitted they tampered with were already in. And, yes, every single promise they made to keep us in the unionist project, from the securing of orders in the shipyards and the jobs in HMRC to securing our continuing membership of the European Union, has been broken. Instead of shiny new powers and virtual home rule we got EVEL, Brexit and a power grab. They bribed, cheated and lied, from start to finish. The truth is that they were always going to but we voted for them anyway because we – or enough of us – were worried about our pensions. Nicola Sturgeon's speech on Scotland's reputation for inclusivity, fairness and hospitality reminds us that we've always had a "guid conceit" of ourselves, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't ask if we're justified in holding it. As a country, we tell ourselves that we believe in fairness, in equality. That a man's a man for a' that. That we are all Jock Thamson's bairns. And then I remember that two million of us voted against our own country – because we didn't really believe that Scotland is a country at all, and I think: really?
There must surely be a point where enough is enough. It seems it wasn't EVEL or the power grab or Brexit, or a Supreme Court judgement that reminded us that Westminster is sovereign. But maybe we're close to the tipping point.
As 2018 drew to a close, the British Government published a guide as to how EU residents could apply to stay in a place that they already stayed in, a place where they already work and pay taxes and raise their weans. Scotland, naturally, has no power in this area. In fact, Scotland can't even do what its become increasingly good at over the years as budgets are cut and Barnett is scrapped and devolution is rolled back – mitigate – because Westminster has ruled that we can't even pay the £65 registration fee on behalf of our fellow Scots, some of whom have understandably already flitted to somewhere that doesn't treat them as a burden. Meanwhile, our farming, service and health industries struggle without their skills and their labour. This is what we voted for. This is what Better Together looks like. This is your precious union. Welcome to Britain, your family of nations.
Where shall we start with this?
In Arthur Conan Doyle's novels, Sherlock Holmes holds that to find the truth all you need to do is eliminate the impossible and whatever is left, however improbable, is the truth. So given that every single study shows that immigration boosts the economy and helps the UK in many other ways, we can only conclude what once must have been considered improbable but now seems self-evident: The British Government doesn't like foreign people very much. In fact, you'd have to conclude it doesn't much like them at all.
Where stands Scotland in all this?
For all our warm words and belief in our inclusive egalitarianism, when presented with the chance to become the society our fathers told us we were, we spurned it. Having talked the talk, we failed to walk the walk. We boasted then we cowered. We voted No. And while no decent person could disagree with the sentiments expressed by the First Minister at Hogmanay, without the power to mitigate, far less legislate, they remain just warm words. How or whether we choose to bridge that gap between wishful thinking and meaningful action will I think, in this and every other area, define our 2019.
Because we've been marginalised and ignored over a Brexit we rejected. We've mitigated bedroom taxes and rape clauses. We've witnessed a power grab and a rolling back of the devolution settlement. Perhaps this illiberal, callous, heartless undermining of the very status of our fellow Scots will be the moment where we say: Not in our name. Perhaps the question we ask ourselves – hopefully soon – isn't "yes or no", but something more fundamental: who are we?
And I understand the caution that determines we wait until we're well ahead in a number of polls before we call it. That we must wait until the Brexit fog clears. But what if we aren't, and what if it doesn't? What does that mean? Five years? Ten? Now is not the time? But something feels different today. Sometimes you just choose to do the right thing. And if we are the inclusive, welcoming egalitarian people we say we are then we'll win and it won't even be close. It's about being good people. It's about deciding who and what we are.
Timing is irrelevant. Either independence is a good idea or it is not. And anyway, what if we didn't call a second referendum in these circumstances? What would that say about us? If not now, when?
A fork has opened up on the road. I imagine a future reached through choosing one way. Years from now I'm in a bar far from these shores where I meet a Polish guy I used to know, a guy who left Scotland in 2019 after his residency was undermined by the British Government. I'll be wondering if there's more I could have done. But maybe I was a bit feart. Maybe, deep down, I didn't care enough
And then there's the other future. The one where I said: "Not in my name". One where I was my brother's keeper, where I had his back. One reached by the road less travelled, one that makes the difference.
All we ask is that those who lead us have the courage to do right by us.
Call it, First Minister. And call it today. Today is the first day of the year. When could be better? What have we got to lose? Whatever happens, at least we'll know the truth. We'll know who we are. Because, whatever good or ill befalls us, it's always better to be yourself.
Happy new year, good people. You know what to do.
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Debian Security Advisory
DSA-2196-1 maradns -- buffer overflow
- Date Reported:
- 19 Mar 2011
- Affected Packages:
- maradns
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 610834.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2011-0520.
- More information:
Witold Baryluk discovered that MaraDNS, a simple security-focused Domain Name System server, may overflow an internal buffer when handling requests with a large number of labels, causing a server crash and the consequent denial of service.
For the oldstable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 1.3.07.09-2.1.
For the stable distribution (squeeze) and greater this problem had already been fixed in version 1.4.03-1.1.
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Giants safety Tyler Sash was banned four games earlier this week, after testing positive for a banned substance. But this was no ordinary failed piss test—Sash claims he was using Adderall, under a doctor's supervision, and Adderall is a drug that the NFL's totally cool with when it's prescribed for a legitimate purpose.
Sash says he was taking it for his fear of public speaking (which is decidedly not what it's used for), and Tom Coughlin is flabbergasted that the NFL is punishing the second-year player:
"We'd talked to him last night. I didn't have a chance to talk to him today," Coughlin said. "I read the information. I feel very badly for the player. This kid really had no intention of doing anything that was illegal. I know what the definition of the rule is, and I understand all about that; I've been there myself….but you have to ask yourself, sometimes common sense needs to be involved."
Sash is getting a lot of sympathy, and the NFL's drug testing procedure is taking heat. But here's a very important point: the only source claiming Sash's positive result was due to Adderall, instead of something more sinister, is Sash himself.
The NFL won't comment on the test results, nor Sash's appeal, which is disappointing. But the fact remains, there's no way for us to tell Adderall from greenies or meth or any other form of amphetamines in a drug test. They all provide the same competitive benefits—increased alertness, increased stamina, increased oxygen flow—but
only Adderall has recognized medical benefits. And the NFL, to its credit, accepts this. If a player has a legitimate prescription for Adderall or Ritalin or any ADHD drug, they merely need to inform the league, and those failed drug tests are tossed out.
Sash says he didn't realize he had to inform the NFL, but that doesn't quite wash. His teammate Andre Brown was suspended earlier this year for failing a drug test, but Brown appealed that he had a prescription, and had forgotten to fill out the league paperwork. Exactly the same situation as Sash's, if you believe Sash. Brown's appeal was successful; Sash's was not. We're obviously not getting the full story here.
We wish the NFL was more transparent on these matters. Brown's suspension was vacated. Texans punter Bret Hartmann had his Ritalin suspension reduced to three games. Packers DE Mike Neal's was upheld at four games. Pittsburgh TE Weslye Saunders and Rams WR Austin Pettis too. What's the difference in all these cases? Obviously something. But the NFL can't comment—they're not allowed to, under the CBA. And that leaves the door open for any player who fails a drug test of any kind to claim it was prescribed ADHD medication, and the league can't refute it. All these suspensions have come in the last year, so Adderall might be the new excuse of choice for a positive test, replacing the long-lived "tainted supplement" defense.
The excuse becomes less believable when the league specifically allows Adderall and Ritalin when prescribed correctly. So, some advice to players: just find a shady doctor who's liberal with his scrip pad. It's really not that hard. Baseball players have figured that out.


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Snort is an open source network intrusion detection and prevention
system. It is capable of performing real-time traffic analysis,
alerting, blocking and packet logging on IP networks. It utilizes
a combination of protocol analysis and pattern matching in order to
detect a anomalies, misuse and attacks.
Snort uses a flexible rules language to describe activity that can
be considered malicious or anomalous as well as an analysis engine
that incorporates a modular plugin architecture. Snort is capable
of detecting and responding in real-time, sending alerts, performing
session sniping, logging packets, or dropping sessions/packets when
deployed in-line.
Snort has three primary functional modes. It can be used as a packet
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debugging, etc), or as a full blown network intrusion detection and
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by David Solway
Men need to "be better."
—Michelle Obama in conversation with Oprah.
Western civilization is clearly coming part at the seams. There are so many destructive elements at work, they are almost impossible to list. But one of the most destructive of these elements, incited by a punitive feminist ideology, is the relentless campaign to delegitimize the very idea of manhood. And the most effective way to do that is to impugn male sexuality.
We are told constantly that we live in a virtual rape culture, a culture in which rape is widespread and condoned, victims are blamed, and rapists receive little or no punishment. There are rape cultures in the world. If one wants to see one in action, all one need do is look at the Muslim world or at Muslim enclaves and populations that have burrowed into Western nations, where atrocities and scandals continue to multiply. In the Western world, by contrast, rape and other forms of sexual misconduct—even mere allegations of sexual misconduct—are universally condemned and harshly punished.
No matter. Islamic culture gets a free pass while Western culture is said to be ravaged by gynophobia under the reign of male supremacism. In the new sexual paradigm that has clamped succubus-like upon the culture, the heterosexual male mainstream is under attack for the crime of harboring a normal sexual drive, which must be ruthlessly expunged in an offensive characterized by media propaganda, legislative bias and institutional practices. Respectable-seeming websites promote the total reform of masculinity using terms such as "mascupathy" to define masculine traits such as aggression and competitiveness as forms of disease needing to be cured. Western men are being progressively demasculanized, a deficiency which results, as Andrew Klavan argues, in "tremulous feminists who hysterically fear rape culture on college campuses where it is not, and Western leaders who don't dare to see the rape culture inherent in invading Islam, where it is."
The signs of anti-male bias are everywhere we look. The university, for example, has become a veritable minefield for male students, who may at any time be hauled before an administrative tribunal and their careers put in jeopardy for sexual misconduct, however trivial or ambiguous. A recent memo from my wife's university mandates a statement against "sexual violence" in all course syllabi—mind you, nothing against harassing and lying about one's professor for a better grade, shutting down conservative, Zionist, pro-Life or anti-feminist speakers, perpetrating racist hoaxes, denouncing the teaching of good English and male authors as forms of "microagression," or any of the other violations of civil conduct that we have witnessed on university campuses recently. The only sexist harassment that takes place regularly in academia is feminist harassment of male students and staff—but that is considered not intimidation but enlightened practice.
Is it any wonder, then, that even our military is being insidiously weakened? Responding to a vehement attack on supposed martial dishonor by a former Supreme Court justice, it has turned from its primary task of defending the country to counseling its soldiers against what it regards as sexual delinquency by issuing wallet cards listing "inappropriate behaviors." These include "sexual assault, sexual interference, sexual exploitation, offensive sexual remarks or unacceptable language or jokes, unwelcome requests of a sexual nature or verbal abuse of a sexual nature, voyeurism, indecent acts and publishing intimate images of a person without their consent." The fact is, most men in the civilized West are not sexual predators or unreconstructed brutes but most men do tend to joke and flirt and make off-color remarks and otherwise show an interest in women, whether sexual or romantic, in virtue of being men. More to the point, if men are no longer permitted to be men, how then can they be soldiers?
When manliness is eliminated from a culture fixated on the supposedly corrupt and vicious nature of masculinity, while armies of apologetic White Knights and self-abnegating feminist allies (aka "manginas") come to replace a diminishing platoon of alpha males—"We live in a world run by betas and their lady friends," quips J.R. Dunn in a prescient article for American Thinker—the writing is on the wall. As Michael Ignatieff reminded us in The Lesser Evil, a culture, a nation or a civilization cannot expect to survive if it is defended by herbivores. It needs a Praetorian cohort of carnivores, determined men proud of their masculinity and unafraid to confront the enemies outside the gates as well as the fifth columnists, defeatists and appeasers within—i.e., politicians on both sides of the aisle, spineless university administrators, media abettors, tergiversating liberals, tenured academics who indoctrinate from the left rather than educate from the tradition of reputable scholarship, and the feminist Furies acting out their faux version of Lysistrata—if a culture is not only to survive but to flourish.
First published in PJ Media.
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In this guide are the official logos and colors for the new PRCC brand. Consistent use of these logos and colors will enhance the external image of PRCC and reinforce its brand. To execute these branding elements in a format other than those shown in this guide, specific approval must be granted. To download a printable PRCC Styles Manual, click here.
Importance of Maintaining the PRCC Brand
PRCC's brand is the emotional and psychological connection between the College and its prospective students, current students, faculty, staff, alumni, and community members. Key elements of PRCC's brand are leadership, strength, passion, achievement, and graceful ferocity. Care and tradition are at its root. Passion and a progressive spirit are at its heart. Strength and achievement are at its soul. PRCC's brand should direct all conversations with prospective/current students and alumni. Commitment to PRCC's brand through the use of the Graphics Standards Manual will create consistency among all promotional efforts, cause PRCC to stand out from other community colleges, establish a professional image across the entire institution, and unite three campuses under the single PRCC banner.
Official PRCC Colors
The official PRCC colors are PMS 505 and PMS 1235 (Pantone Matching System) and every effort should be made to replicate these colors as closely as possible. One should always print with these two spot colors to ensure 100% accuracy in the final printed piece. However, there may be times in which printing with "spot colors" are not practical and/or impossible. This could be due to printer capabilities, cost-effectiveness, or a variety of other reasons. When this occurs, request that the printer match the PMS colors as closely as possible. Most printers, suppliers, and manufacturers should be able to match these colors with relative accuracy. Reproducing the exact color with the CMYK (cyan, magenta, yellow, and black) printing process is nearly impossible in most situations. RGB (red, green, and blue) should be used for web and on-screen purposes only. Below are some examples of typical usage for each of these color formats.
PMS Spot Color
- High-profile printed pieces (shirts, hats, athletic gear, orientation folders, brochures, etc.)
- Pieces that have a large quantity/high print-run (business cards, letterhead, PRCC branded office supplies, etc.)
- Screen-printed materials
- Short-life, low-profile printed pieces or throw-aways (flyers, postcards/mailers with a limited audience, etc.)
- Short print-run pieces (simple brochures, flyers, etc. – items printed in small quantities of 1,000 or less)
- Signs and banners (PMS spot color is often not an option for large format printing)
- Websites
- Web Ads
- PowerPoint Presentations
- Television and Videos
Wildcat Maroon:
50c / 100m / 100y / 25k
118r / 33g / 45b
Hex Code: #76212d
Wildcat Gold:
0c / 29m / 92y / 0k
253r / 187g / 45b
Hex Code: #fdbb2d
River Stone:
13c / 10m / 6y / 0k
221r / 217g / 224b
Hex Code: #DDD9E0
Wrought Iron:
97c / 21m / 33y / 73k
4r / 33g / 37b
Hex Code: #042125
50c / 18m / 0y / 25k
96r / 128g / 156b
Hex Code: #60809C
25c / 30m / 39y / 0k
190r / 192g / 196b
Hex Code: #BEA182
Sunset Sky:
9c / 21m / 12y / 1k
228r / 192g / 196b
Hex Code: #E4C0C4
Pinebelt Green:
26c / 0m / 8y / 9k
172r / 209g / 202b
Hex Code: #ACD1CA
Since the redesign of the website, we encourage the use of three new fonts: Montserrat, Pridi and Oswald.
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Official PRCC Emblem
This is the primary, official logo for PRCC. It represents the College as a whole and promotes elements of academic excellence, achievement, and leadership, which are key components of the brand. The official logo must be prominently displayed on all College materials, both print and electronic. The emblem can be utilized in several colors: maroon, gold, black or white. Examples of the appropriate use of these four colors are noted here.
Vertical Logos
Horizontal Logos
Additional Official PRCC Marks
These additional marks for PRCC also represent the College as a whole and promote the key elements of its brand. They should not be used as replacements for the official emblem. However, they can be used to enhance the overall appearance and branding of print and electronic publications. As with the official emblem, these additional marks can also be utilized in several colors: maroon, gold, black or white. Examples of the appropriate use of these four colors are noted here.
Athletic Logos
These logos were designed for use by the PRCC athletic programs, the bookstore, and other departments when ordering game day or spirit items. As with the official PRCC emblem, the athletic logos should remain in their original forms and should not be altered in any fashion. The appropriate color usage of these logos is defined here.
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Spirit Marks
These marks are for informal representation of the College. They should be used to communicate school spirit. When creating official academic publications, these secondary marks should never compete with or be used in substitution of the official PRCC emblems and logos. Examples of the appropriate use of PRCC colors and color combinations are noted here.
Spirit Wordmarks
These additional informal marks also portray PRCC spirit. When creating official academic publications, these secondary marks should never compete with or be used in substitution of the official PRCC emblems and logos. However, they can be used to enhance the overall appearance and branding of print and electronic publications. Examples of the appropriate use of PRCC colors and color combinations are noted here.
Unacceptable Usage of the PRCC Emblem and Marks
Never alter or redraw any of the official PRCC logos or graphics. Do not add to, rotate, change the proportion, alter the transparency, combine colors, place in another shape, or reset the type of the official logos. Also, the PRCC logos should not be applied to busy palettes or used on patterned backgrounds. Clipart should not be used on official PRCC publications.


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SEATTLE (REUTERS) - Google Inc asked the United States (US) Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court on Tuesday to allow it to publish aggregate numbers of national security requests it receives separately from criminal requests, on First Amendment grounds.
In its filing, Google requested the court to allow it to publish the aggregate number of national security requests it receives, including disclosures under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (Fisa), claiming it as part of its First Amendment right to free speech.
"In light of the intense public interest generated by the Guardian's and Post's erroneous articles, and others that have followed them, Google seeks to increase its transparency with users and the public regarding its receipt of national security requests, if any," the Google filing said.
Google's move comes after other tech companies, including Microsoft Corp, Facebook Inc and Apple Inc released limited information about the number of surveillance requests they receive under an agreement they struck with the US government last week.
Under that agreement, the companies were only allowed to disclose aggregate requests for data made by government agencies without showing the split between surveillance and criminal requests, and only for a six-month period.
The companies are scrambling to assert their independence after documents leaked to the Washington Post and the Guardian newspapers suggested they had given the US government "direct access" to their computers as part of a National Security Agency program called Prism.
The disclosures about Prism, and related revelations about broad-based collection of telephone records, have triggered widespread concern and congressional hearings about the scope and extent of the information-gathering.
Google said it asked the US Department of Justice and Federal Bureau of Investigation on June 11 to publish the aggregate number of national security requests, but said it was told such an act would be unlawful.


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"Change Our World" is more than the theme of this year's International Youth Day; it is an injunction that should inspire young people at all times.
Far too many of the world's more than one billion young people lack the education, freedom and opportunities they deserve. Yet despite these constraints – and in some cases because of them - young people are mobilizing in growing numbers to build a better future. Over the past year, they have achieved stunning results, overturning dictatorships and sending waves of hope across regions and around the world.
Young people are gifted with open minds and a keen awareness of emerging trends, and are bringing their energy, ideas and courage to some of the most complex and important challenges facing the human family. They often understand better than older generations that we can transcend our religious and cultural differences in order to reach our shared goals. They are standing up for the rights of oppressed peoples, including those who suffer discrimination based on gender, race and sexual orientation. They are confronting sensitive issues in order to stop the spread of HIV. And they are often the leading proponents of sustainability and green life-styles.
The international community must continue to work together to expand the horizons of opportunity for these young women and men and answer their legitimate demands for dignity, development and decent work. Failing to invest in our youth is a false economy. Investments in young people will pay great dividends in a better future for all.
This Day marks the end of the International Year of Youth, a milestone in global advocacy by and for the world's young people. My hope is that this experience will now provide a foundation to go even further in harnessing the talents and energies of young people. To them I say: you have the opportunity to change our world. Seize it.


text: The Supreme Court has adopted amendments to a rule to give judges the authority to issue warrants to remotely search computers whose locations are concealed using technology.The proposed move had been criticized by civil rights groups and companies like Google that said it threatened to undermine the privacy rights and computer security of Internet users.The top court has approved changes to the Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure , including Rule 41, which with some exceptions prohibits a federal judge from issuing a search warrant outside of the judge\u2019s district. The change in the rule was proposed by the Advisory Committee on the Rules of Criminal Procedure at the request of the Department of Justice .\u201cRemote searches of media or information that have been \u2018concealed through technological means\u2019 may take place anywhere in the world,\u201d said Google in a filing to the committee in February last year. It pointed out that a magistrate judge in a court in Texas had denied an application for a Rule 41 warrant to permit U.S. law enforcement agents to hack a computer whose location was unknown, but whose IP address was most recently associated with a country in Southeast Asia.Under the amendments, which comes into effect on Dec. 1 unless Congress passes legislation changing it, a magistrate judge with authority in any district, where activities related to a crime may have occurred, can issue a warrant to use remote access to search computers and other devices and seize or copy electronically stored information located within or outside that district, if the district where the computer or information is located has been concealed through technological means.It provides for a similar warrant in investigations under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, which involve protected computers that have been damaged without authorization and are located in five or more districts. This provision could allow investigators to obtain warrants to search a large number of computers in many districts simultaneously, if they are suspected to be part of a botnet or even if they are found to contain some malware or virus, according to critics of the provision.The definition of a \u201cdamaged computer\u201d under the CFAA is very broad and could be interpreted for example to include software infected with unwelcome code, malware or viruses, according to the Google filing.In the wake of the Supreme Court decision, the focus now shifts to Congress. New America\u2019s Open Technology Institute (OTI) has called on legislators to block the changes as they would for the first time \u201cexplicitly authorize law enforcement to secretly and remotely hack into targeted computers of both suspects and victims alike.\u201d\u201cUnder the proposed rules, the government would now be able to obtain a single warrant to access and search thousands or millions of computers at once; and the vast majority of the affected computers would belong to the victims, not the perpetrators, of a cybercrime,\u201d said Senator Ron Wyden, a Democrat from Oregon in a statement on Thursday. Wyden said he planned to introduce legislation shortly to reverse the amendments.U.S. Chief Justice John G. Roberts on Thursday transmitted the amended rules to Congress.A federal judge in Massachusetts recently rejected evidence in a child pornography case that law enforcement obtained after hacking a child porn service on the Tor network, ruling that a judge in Virginia, who issued the warrant, could not authorize the search of property located outside the Eastern District of Virginia. The ruling is likely to give a boost to the FBI\u2019s demand for a change to Rule 41.


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Your current insurance policies are about to expire
If your home, auto, life or health insurance policies are about to expire, make time to meet with your agent. As your needs change, so should your coverage. Your agent can help you review what you want to protect and what you may need.
Your family status changes
Planning a wedding, expecting a baby or adopting a child? You'll want to help protect your growing family with adequate life insurance and disability income insurance. Losing a family member through death or divorce also should prompt a policy review. Remember to review and change the beneficiary designations on your existing policies, as needed.
Your children have matured to driving age
When you have a new teen driver, adequate auto insurance is a must. Your agent can perform a car insurance review and look at options with you. Whether your child is leaving for college, or has recently graduated, it's time to consider renters insurance. Personal property and liability protection are typically provided under renters insurance. Discuss with an agent the amount of coverage needed to help protect your child's new home.
You move or remodel your house
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You're starting a business
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Your employment status changes
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Infosys Posts Stronger-Than-Expected Profits Aided By Weak Rupee, Retains Guidance For US Revenues
First quarter earnings at Infosys, India's second-largest IT services exporter that generates a bulk of its revenues from North America, exceeded market expectations aided by a depreciating rupee and an expansion in the U.S. economy, even as the company attempts regain its position as India's IT bellwether under fresh leadership.
Infosys' consolidated net profit for the fiscal first quarter ended June 30 rose 3.7 percent to 23.74 billion rupees ($396 million) from 22.89 billion rupees recorded in the year-ago period, and surpassing the 23.3 billion rupees predicted by analysts polled by Reuters.
"This is far better than what some people in the market were expecting. The earnings have been pretty volatile in the last few quarters and this time around the expectations were muted given what has happened in the company recently. I think the stock should now go for re-rating," Tarun Sisodia, director at Chanakya Niti Pvt Ltd, told Reuters.
In dollar terms, Infosys's net profit registered an annual growth of 0.5 percent to $418 million for the quarter, while its net profit witnessed a sequential decline of 5.9 percent. The company's total revenues for the first quarter stood at $2 billion, registering an annual growth of 13.6 percent and a sequential growth of 2.7 percent. Infosys also kept its dollar revenue outlook unchanged at 6 percent to 10 percent for the fiscal year, and revised its rupee revenue outlook upwards to 13 percent to 17 percent.
"Despite facing an uncertain macro environment, changing regulatory regime and a volatile currency environment, we have done well in Q1 and are cautiously optimistic about rest of the year," Infosys CEO and Managing Director S.D. Shibulal said.
The Bangalore, India-based IT giant's better-than-expected earnings for the June quarter, which followed a series of disappointing performances in past quarters, sent its shares soaring more than 15 percent in morning trade on the benchmark BSE Sensex index. Last quarter, Infosys' projections for its full-year revenue growth was half of what was expected by analysts, leading to a 20 percent fall in its stock price at the time.
Higher demand from US and Weak Rupee Boosts Profit Margins
Indian IT services companies such as Infosys and Tata Consultancy Services are set to benefit from growing demand for IT services from the U.S. as the world's largest economy recovers from the financial crisis.
According to a forecast by Forrester, a consulting firm, demand for information and communication technology from U.S. businesses and government bodies are set to post the steepest gain in 2014 since the 2008 financial crisis, Reuters reported. Forrester predicted IT purchases from the U.S. to increase by 6.1 percent, a four-year high, in 2014.
The strong growth outlook is expected to significantly benefit Infosys, which makes 62 percent of its revenues from North America. In the current quarter, the company recorded a sequential growth of 4.9 percent in its North American market, while its growth in Europe declined by 3 percent sequentially.
At the same time, continuing weakness in the Indian rupee, which depreciated by almost 10 percent against the dollar in the April-June quarter, helped the company's performance.
Leadership Change
Infosys, which once was deemed as India's IT bellwether has lost significant market share in the last two years, as the company struggled with leadership issues, after its key co-founders and top leaders either retired or left the firm.
Now, the company in an attempt to regain its lost glory has brought back co-founder and ex-chairman N.R. Narayana Murthy to head the company. Murthy took office as the company's executive chairman on June 1 and analysts believe that Murthy's experience and charisma could help the company win back its position as an industry leader.
"You can ascribe it to Murthy magic. If they have deviated from their Infosys 3.0 strategy to focus on more mundane work at a lower price to bump up volume that would be a good strategy and you can expect that kind of pragmatism from Murthy," Phani Sekhar, a fund manager at Angel Broking, told Reuters.
Another major challenge for Murthy, Infosys and its Indian peers would be the proposed changes to U.S. visa policies -- including raising processing fees to double the current amount and capping the number of work visas -- that could severely constrain its operations in one of its biggest markets and hurt the company's future profitability.
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When he was arrested for burglary in early 2006, Kesler Dufrene, a Haitian native residing in Florida's Manatee County, already had a long history of sometimes violent criminality. His first arrest was at age 14 when he assaulted a teacher, and he has built up a long rap sheet since then. Often described as a drifter, Dufrene was caught burglarizing a home in July of 2006. Already on probation for theft, a judge gave him five years and ordered him deported after serving his sentence.
He never was. Dufrene emerged from prison in 2010 during a moratorium on deportations to Haiti enacted by the Obama administration. Due to his history, he was being "supervised" by immigration authorities, but that supervision was lax to say the least. Weeks after his release Dufrene committed a vicious, seemingly random triple homicide. One of the victims was a 15-year-old girl.
The local news ran a quote by the teen's mother lamenting that "immigration" killed her daughter. Few news articles pointed out that the grieving mother, 37-year-old Audrey Hansack, is a native of Nicaragua who moved back to her home country in disgust with our immigration system. It's hard to argue with her criticism. Dufrene spent his entire life in our country breaking the law and there is evidence that he did not act alone in his last crime, that perhaps his friends and family aided his violence.
What Hansack's criticism doesn't articulate is the root cause of criminality involving illegal immigrants. The postmodernist disdain for assimilation not only leads to ghettoized, impoverished immigrant populations cruelly barred from achievement; it encourages criminality by allowing barbarity to flourish in America under the guise of multiculturalism.
In 2006, Dr. Deborah Schurman-Kauflin, a renowned criminal profiler, wrote an essay titled "Importing Violence: The Dangers of Immigration from Violent Cultures" that identifies this phenomenon. Schurman-Kauflin concentrates on Latin American and Muslim immigrants who refuse to assimilate to Western values' treatment of women. Her exposition of certain Mexican cultural peculiarities is especially disturbing:
Over the past several years, the U.S. has seen a large influx of immigrants, both legal and illegal, from countries whose values are opposed to the rights guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution. Specifically, there are large numbers of immigrants coming from countries that are misogynistic. These societies accord women little to no rights, and the idea of violence committed by men against women and children is not unusual.
First, take the concept of "rapto." This comes from Mexico where in some areas, it is socially acceptable for a man of any age to abduct a female of any age as long as long as he intends to marry her. That is right. Men can kidnap and rape females. This is acceptable in Oaxaca where the government continues to view rapto as a minor crime. One legislator even referred to this horrid violation as "romantic." Lest anyone believe such garbage, note that 24 year old Mexican immigrant Eliseo Nunez snatched a 12 year old girl and took her to Mexico to fulfill his erotic desires. Isn't that romantic?
Many such cases have surfaced in America, where Mexican immigrants who have avoided or been denied access to the forces of assimilation then commit crimes that would be considered acceptable in Mexico. Many Americans are shocked to learn that the statutory age in several Mexican states is 12. Little wonder that we find stories of adult Mexican nationals molesting children — why wouldn't they in a society that refuses to demand they conform to our standards?
In 2008 a 36-year-old illegal immigrant from Mexico named Olivar Roblero attempted to kidnap his 9-year-old neighbor. Authorities learned that prior to the kidnapping attempt Roblero had failed to buy the girl from her parent. He told the mother he wanted the girl to be his wife and he'd treat her well. Rebuffed, Roblero tried to resort to the "rapto" of his native country.
Even if he was aware of U.S. law regarding such matters Roblero clearly thought that Americans viewed sex, marriage, and child brides the same way he did. It does not excuse his attack, but it does raise questions about how isolated from the American mainstream this man was, even after living in the country for years. No one in his community told him that American families don't sell their pre-pubescent daughters to men in their late 30s? Doesn't that illustrate the need for a policy of assimilation?
But the acceptance of these un-American values also changes our society as we absorb them. In 2009, 11-year-old Julissa Rodriguez ran away to Mexico with a 23-year-old man named Enrique Vasquez. Oddly, news reports and even some community members treated the 23-year-old as though he was little Julissa's boyfriend as opposed to a pedophile. Julissa was molested by a pedophile who convinced her to run away with him and news reports treated the child like a 17-year-old out on a lark.
In a clearer case of American moral values losing ground to third world barbarity, an 11-year-old Hispanic girl in Texas was brutally gang raped by more than 10 assailants who filmed the attack. A reporter who viewed the arrest affidavit wrote that the attack details were too obscene to repeat. Defenders of the attackers, all of whom were African-Americans, claimed that the 11-year-old was a slut who wanted to be violently raped. Even the New York Times ran an article that blamed the victim for "dressing older" than she was. The brutalized child was treated in a more sexualized way than any adult rape victim. It's hard to believe that the acceptance of Latin and Central American misogyny played no part in both the crime and the reaction to it.
Assimilation isn't just a mechanism to help immigrants prosper. A culture and its values need it to survive.
No one can deny the link between un-assimilated (often illegal) immigrants and crime. A 2009 decrease in crime in Phoenix, Arizona, coincided with a decrease in the illegal alien population. ICE recently swept up 20 foreign nationals in the South who were sex offenders and announced that in 2011 they deported almost 6,000 rapists and child molesters.
Also note that legal immigrants who arrive here with the express purpose of becoming American citizens do not have anywhere near the levels of criminality as illegal aliens. There are many theories, but the criminality dividing Somali Muslims best illustrates this.
Leaders in the Somali community in Minnesota have long complained about the radicalization of their children. In 2008 more than 40 young Somali Americans disappeared from the state and many showed up working as soldiers for African jihadist groups. These events coincided with a rise in bias attacks against non-Muslims, homosexuals, and even other Somalis who broke the social mores of that community's former home. Some of the attacks were so brazen that their perpetrators filmed and uploaded them onto the web with no attempt to disguise identities.
It's clear that in this case, an insular, ghettoized community lives by the values and standards of a war-torn country overrun with Islamism. But why? How have we allowed people living in America to completely reject American standards of morality and culture? How do we produce communities so insular that the members within seem shocked when what they consider normal gets them arrested?
America is having a crisis of confidence. The left in this country has introduced the postmodern concept of subjective truth and morality into our culture, convincing many that American values are not superior — just different. This is, of course, untrue. American values and morals tower over the rest of the world. The ideas of personal autonomy and individual sovereignty make attacking homosexuals or people of different faiths abhorrent even to the most zealous Muslim American if they adopt our values. Children are protected from sexual predation here, not just because we have different standards, but because we're a civilized society that recognizes how exploitative and dangerous it is for adults to have sexual relations with children. We don't assault teachers, break into other people's houses, or commit random mass murders because in America we understand these things are wrong, not just illegal.
We have begun the process of losing that understanding. Dufrene didn't just slip through the cracks in 2010, he had a long criminal history that we as a society simply accepted because we no longer have the confidence to put an end to it. Dufrene should have been deported long before 2006, and the community he lived in should have been brought into the American mainstream. We should have the strength as a society to embrace immigrants and refugees while still insisting that they become Americans. Multiculturalism and a flickering faith in our traditions and values are what killed Audrey Hansack's daughter, not immigration.
Related: See Rob Taylor's previous articles on crime and culture:
Seasons in Hell: The Brutality of America's Modern Day Slave Trade
Mumia Abu-Jamal, Damien Echols, and the Cult of the Murder Groupie
The Victim Factory: Occupy Wall Street and The Left's Culture of Crime


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Good news for all those who ever had a teacher or a parent say "If you would just apply yourself you could learn anything! You're only using 10 percent of your brain!"
All those people were wrong. If we did use only 10 percent of our brains we'd be close to dead, according to Eric Chudler, director of the Center for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering at the University of Washington, who maintains an entertaining brain science website for kids. "When recordings are made from brain EEGs, or PET scans, or any type of brain scan, there's no part of the brain just sitting there unused," he said.
Larry Squire, a research neuroscientist with the Veterans Administration hospital in San Diego, and at the University of California San Diego, pointed out that "any place the brain is damaged there is a consequence."
Damaged brains may have been where this myth originated. During the first half of the last century, a pioneering neuroscientist named Karl Lashley experimented on rodents by excising portions of their brains to see what happened. When he put these rodents in mazes they'd been trained to navigate, he found that animals with missing bits of brain often successfully navigated the mazes.
This wound up being transmuted into the idea humans must be wasting vast brain potential. With the rise of the human potential movement in the 1960s, some preached that all sorts of powers, including bending spoons and psychic abilities, were laying dormant in our heads and that all we had to do was get off our duffs and activate them.
"That's a case of something one often sees, of taking something from the world of psychology and in trying to make the idea concrete, bringing in the mechanisms of biology," Squire explained. "It's fair to say we can all do better, and we have room for improvement through practice and developing skills, but that has nothing to do with the idea that we use only 10 percent of our brains."
The brain, Chudler said, isn't like a disc drive with some set amount of capacity. It's a dynamic maze of wiring where new connections can be created in response to new stimuli, or lost with disuse. And much of it is constantly occupied not with intellectual thinking, but running our systems.
"That's why the brain is such an expensive organ," he explained. "It requires 20 percent of our blood supply, and it's a real energy hog." If we used only 10 percent of it, the brain wouldn't require such high maintenance.
"Besides," he pointed out, "why would our brains have gotten bigger through evolution if so much of it were going unused?"
Brian Alexander is co-author, with Larry Young PhD., of "The Chemistry Between Us: Love Sex and the Science of Attraction," to be published September 13.


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Like many law enforcement agencies, the Halton Regional Police Service has been collecting data on its activities for years. But as is the case with most such efforts, the data was ending up in a "digital filing cabinet" — and users couldn't find anything unless they knew exactly what they were looking for.
So in 2014, the Toronto-area police department created an analytics unit with a mandate to make things more efficient. Operating like a technology startup, the unit works to promote a culture of data-driven decision-making; it's staffed with data scientists, mathematicians, programmers and police officers.
With help from Hexagon, the HRPS built a data warehouse that consolidated data sources and then deployed the vendor's business intelligence software. Now, each individual action performed by officers is time-stamped and classified based on the nature of the activity. Officer location and vehicle speed are also tracked via GPS.
"The need to communicate the goals and possibilities of a business intelligence system to the entire organization has been key to our success," says Joseph Glover, police analytics coordinator at the HRPS. "Unless people can believe in the product, the solving of the technical challenges doesn't mean much."
The unit analyzed activity data in three-month increments and quarter over quarter to identify the busiest times for officers. Commanders then set up a schedule with overlapping 10-hour shifts to coincide with peak activity. Once the new schedule was in place, the HRPS saw decreased wait times on pending calls and a reduction in officer overload during busy periods.
The analytics capabilities have transformed the HRPS. "Employees throughout the organization, from front-line officers to the senior executive, now factor data and analysis into their decision-making," Glover says. "From officer deployment to crime analysis to civilian staffing, analytics has influenced every aspect of the service." (Watch this video to see the Halton Regional Police Service system in action.)
As the organization continues to gain experience using data resources, it's discovering "the importance of having a larger organizational data strategy," says inspector Derek Davis. "We have recognized the virtuous cycle that business process produces data, data produces analysis, analysis leads to better decisions, and those decisions impact business process."


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Title: Every Little Kiss
Series: Kissed by the Bay #1
Author: Susan Hatler
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Published: September 3, 2015
Publisher: Hatco Publishing
My Rating: 4.5 stars
Source: Purchased, Kindle Edition
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When Wendy Watts left Blue Moon Bay, she vowed never to return to the small coastal town where her parents had abandoned her and her brother. Now she's a successful Realtor, and a workaholic who stays away from complicated emotions—until her grandmother dies, leaving Wendy the Inn at Blue Moon Bay and mandating that if Wendy sells it, she must put it on the market herself "in person."
As soon as Wendy arrives in Blue Moon Bay, bad memories, the inn's poor condition, and her brother's pleas to keep the inn overwhelm her. Then she meets a sexy laid-back stranger on the beach, and Wendy does something she never does . . . she opens up and confides her problems to him. Since Max Huntington's only in town for one night, Wendy spontaneously kisses him, hoping to be distracted from her troubles for just one evening.
But when Wendy begins the painstaking process of fixing up the inn in order to sell it, Max tells her he's staying on longer. He's enchanted by the charming inn and even more with the kisses they shared on the beach. He wants to help her with the repairs, and she reluctantly accepts his offer.
Although she's determined to remain detached from the allure of her inn, Blue Moon Bay and Max, every repair, every stroll on the beach, and every moment spent with Max, draws her in and reminds her of the local legend she'd believed as a child: that being kissed by the bay under a blue moon will lead to love that lasts forever.
No true spoilers, promise.


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Saturday, February 25, 2012
Kraftin Kimmie Stamps Challenge #117
It's challenge day at Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps, and this week it's an awesome sketch:
Visit the Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps blog for links to all the designers who have samples to share, and to link up your creation when you're ready to play along!
For my card, I've used a GORGEOUS peacock image from the new Tweets & Twitters 2. I colored in a blue and green palette with Copic markers, then inked and distressed the edges. The sentiment is die-cut into a tab using one of The Cat's Pajamas Circus Label dies (trimmed down). I flipped and rotated the sketch to best work with my image.
I want to thank Kimmie and the whole Krafty Girls crew for the incredible opportunity to guest design with them this month. I've had an absolute blast! Thank you, KKS!
And thank you for visiting! Have a fantastic weekend. I'm headed out to an all-day crop and hope to make some substantial progress on my Project Life album. I'm not much of a "public" crafter, so when I filled out the registration form portion that asked who I wanted to sit with, I wanted to write an electrical outlet and leave it at that! LOL! It's not that I'm anti-social -- it's that I can't seem to mix social and productive! Wish me luck :)
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Thursday, February 23, 2012
Happy St. Patrick's Day - DS40
It feels like I blinked and Valentine's Day had passed right on by! For that matter, all of January and the better part of February. Is it just me, or is the year flying by? I thought I'd whip up a little something for St. Patrick's Day before that, too, passes by. I've used Verve's new Lucky You stamp set and coordinating Shamrock Die Set. The papers are Echo Park A Walk in the Park, and the layout is the awesome Deconstructed Sketch #40. Love this sketch!
Check out all the fantastic samples from the Deconstructed Sketch Girls:
And when you're ready to play, just link up your creation HERE.
Thanks so much for stopping by!
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
TCPTues198: Bestest Friend Ever
Bring on the pastels and join The Cat's Pajamas for its weekly TCP Tuesday challenge! Here's the soft, sweet color challenge Lori has provided this week:
I pulled out the adorable Kick Some Grass set and some lovely My Mind's Eye Dolled Up papers. The bunny is nestled in some grass that I die-cut with TCP's Grass Border CutUps die. I added some teeny clear rhinestones to the flower centers for a bit of sparkle.
TCP Tuesday Challenge Details:
1. Each Tuesday we will give you a challenge.
2. You will have until the end of the month to complete the challenge.
3. Add your entry to the Inlinkz Gallery or upload to the SCS Gallery, using the keyword TCPTUES198 for this week's challenge.
4. TCP stamps are not required for this challenge, but highly recommended.
5. There will be one randomly chosen weekly winner, announced on Tuesdays who will win a Gift Voucher for use on The Cat's Pajamas website.
6. There will be one winner, The Swanky Stamper, announced the 1st of each month. They will win several sets from an upcoming release and get to play along with us at our Pajama Party and Blog Hop.
7. The winner has one week from the day the winner is posted to contact me for his/her voucher code.
Here's the February SFYTT:
The February SFYTT is sponsored by Your Next Stamp, which has generously provided a discount code for SFYTT participants. Enjoy!
Thanks for visiting!
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Monday, February 20, 2012
Everything Is Going To Be Okay
Surprise!! A group of us are hijacking this week's Mojo Monday Sketch Challenge in order to pull off a surprise blog hop for Julee! She and her husband Mark soon will be welcoming twin boys into their family, and we wanted to share our congratulations and best wishes with them!
Did you arrive here from Susan Liles's blog? If not, head over to Teresa Kline's blog, where the hop begins. (You'll also find the full hop order there, just in case there are any glitches along the way.) Be sure to visit our guest of honor, Julee, to share your love and well wishes!
As part of the hop, we thought we'd share some words of advice and/or wisdom for the parents-to-be. I think the most profound insight I ever had as a new parent was when I realized, and I mean really, truly realized, that just as God gave my child to me, God also gave me to my child. It was easy for me to see my baby as a gift from above, but much harder to think of myself as God's gift to my baby, especially since most of the time I felt like I didn't have the first clue about motherhood. Julee and Mark, may you find empowerment, encouragement, peace, and awe in the awareness that God Almighty Himself chose YOU to be the parents of these precious boys. He knows exactly what He's doing, so, indeed, everything is going to be okay!
The sentiment I've used is a brand-new Plain Jane, Be Okay, that Julee surprised us with last week. If you haven't seen the beautiful card Julee made with Be Okay, check it out HERE. What a great phrase to have in stamp form!
And here's today's Mojo Monday sketch #229: (I turned the sketch upside down and tilted the inner rectangle cluster.
To play along, link up your creation to the Mojo Monday blog.
To continue with the surprise blog hop for Julee and Mark, your next stop is Taylor Van Bruggen!
Thanks so much for visiting!
Sunday, February 19, 2012
Kraftin' Kimmie Release Hop
Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps' release day is here, and to celebrate, we're having a Release Hop! If you need to go back to the beginning and get caught up, then head over to the Kraftin' Kimmie Challenge Blog, where you'll also find the full hop list.
As you hop from blog to blog, be sure to leave a comment at each and every stop because some lucky stampers will win packages of these incredible stamps from the new release. And when you're done hoppin', visit the Kraftin' Kimmie shop, because ALL the new images are NOW available! Gimme Kimmies kits, for those who "need it all," are also available at a discount, but for a limited time only.
There's so much to see along the hop today. The February release includes the adorable Cheryl Alger Lulu and Friends set, two different sets of fantastic feathered friends, Tweets and Twitters 1 and Tweets and Twitters 2, both illustrated by Emilie Goulet, the amazing new collection of six Annie Rodrigue Superheroes, and, finally, a perfect new set to work with all your stamps, In Stitches.
I chose to show off the adorable Rescue Ranger from the Superheroes collection. Gotta say, this is my kind of superhero! My personal secret weapon cure-all? A pint of Ben & Jerry's Coffee Heath Bar Crunch. Works every time! (Or maybe it just tastes so good you forget about the icky stuff!)
I colored the image with Copics and die-cut it with a Spellbinders Labels Eighteen die. The papers are from the My Mind's Eye Fiddlesticks 6x6 pad. I tell ya, I'm going to need an intervention with the woodgrain patterns and paper doilies if I don't soon stop! I embellished with buttons, satin ribbon, lace trim, burlap string, and an open scallop border die-cut.
The sentiment continues on the card inside, which is also decorated to coordinate with the card front.
Thanks so much for stopping by. To continue with the hop, you'll want to visit Peggy next. I'm sure she's got something gorgeous to inspire you -- she always does!
Enjoy the hop and have a wonderful Sunday!
Stamps: Rescue Ranger Superhero (Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps)
Paper: Copic X-Press It card stock, Papertrey Fine Linen card stock, My Mind's Eye Miss Caroline "Fiddlesticks" paper collection
Ink: Versafine Onyx Black, Memento Tuxedo Black, Ranger Tumbled Glass Distress
Accessories: Copic markers, Spellbinders Labels Eighteen and Labels Fourteen Nestabilities, sanding block, distressing tool, foam adhesive, Papertrey ribbon and button, May Arts burlap string, white lace trim from stash, My Favorite Things Open Scallop Border and Medium Scallop Border Dienamics, The Cat's Pajamas Circus Labels Cut-Ups, paper doily, sewing machine
Size: 5 1/2" square
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Saturday, February 18, 2012
Kraftin' Kimmie Peek: Superheroes
Today's Kraftin' Kimmie peek is Marvelous Mom, one of the new Superheroes images by Annie Rodrigue. It's also challenge day, and this week, we have a sketch challenge.
Visit the Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps blog for additional challenge details, more fabulous sketch inspiration, and looks at all the different Superheroes images -- CUTE! Hope you can play along!
Have a fantastic weekend!
Friday, February 17, 2012
Kraftin' Kimmie Peek: Tweets & Twitters
Okay, SUPER fun image to share with you today from the upcoming Kraftin' Kimmie release (which is this coming Sunday, BTW). I'm no ornithologist, so I drew coloring inspiration from ... Rio!
Meet Blu ...
This crazy cute fella is from Tweets & Twitters. Check out all the KKS design team inspiration today! Links are on the Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps blog.
Side note: I first imagined this image all colored up in a rainbow of bright, tropical colors; however, with one or two lonely exceptions, rainbows and I just don't play together nicely. I opted for an all-blue bird, thinking the final colored image would be easier to work with. Are you kidding? You could conduct a traffic stop with this shade of blue! And I can assure you not one of my three bazillion pieces of patterned paper has this particular blue in it! All of this to say ... I'm a little skeered posting this one!
Have a great day, and tune in tomorrow for more Krafty peeks!
Meet Blu ...
... here to wish you a Happy Bird-Day!
This crazy cute fella is from Tweets & Twitters. Check out all the KKS design team inspiration today! Links are on the Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps blog.
Side note: I first imagined this image all colored up in a rainbow of bright, tropical colors; however, with one or two lonely exceptions, rainbows and I just don't play together nicely. I opted for an all-blue bird, thinking the final colored image would be easier to work with. Are you kidding? You could conduct a traffic stop with this shade of blue! And I can assure you not one of my three bazillion pieces of patterned paper has this particular blue in it! All of this to say ... I'm a little skeered posting this one!
Have a great day, and tune in tomorrow for more Krafty peeks!
Thursday, February 16, 2012
Kraftin' Kimmie Peek: Lulu and Friends
Today I'm joining the Krafty Girls of Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps for peeks of the upcoming release! This adorable image comes from the Lulu and Friends stamp set. Isn't she just precious?! Coloring is with Copics, papers are from the Dilly Dally 6x6 paper pad by My Mind's Eye, and the layout is this week's Deconstructed Sketch. Head over to the Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps blog for all the release info and links to all the designers posting peeks today. Tune in again tomorrow and Saturday for additional peeks and on Sunday for a release hop. The new stamps will be available for purchase Sunday in the Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps store.
And here's the new Deconstructed Sketch, #39:
Lots of sketch inspiration from the Deconstructed Sketch Girls, too:
- Amber Hight
- Amy Sheffer, Guest Designer (that's me)
- Arielle Gordon
- Donna Wardle
- Jen Shults
- Jessica Diedrich
- Kadie Ensley
- Lori Boyd
- Pam Varnell
- Sheri Gilson
To play along, just link up your creation HERE.
Thanks for stopping by!
Stamps: Lulu and Friends (Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps, releasing Sunday, 2/19)
Paper: Copic X-Press It card stock, Papertrey Fine Linen card stock, My Mind's Eye Dilly Dally 6x6 pad
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Ranger Old Paper and Pumice Stone Distress Inks
Accessories: Copic markers, paper doily, sewing machine, foam adhesive, yellow trim (unknown), Papertrey ribbon and buttons, May Arts twine, Verve Wavy Hearts and Loopy Blooms dies, dew drops, My Favorite Things open scallop border die, distressing tool
Size: 5 1/2" square
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
TCP Tuesday: Get Well Cuppa
This week's TCP challenge, hosted by Julie, is an ABC challenge -- Anything But Card. All the details, plus Julie's crazy adorable treat project, are posted in the TCP Forum on Splitcoast. Can't wait to see all the entries!
With a few different friends ill or just down in the dumps, I've been in a get well mindset. I found a yummy looking package of gourmet chicken noodle soup mix at the grocery store and decided to pretty it up a bit by first putting the ingredients into a glass cracker jar (from Target) and then decorating the jar. The front label is done with stamps from A Cuppa. I colored with Copics, paper pieced the apron with patterns from My Mind's Eye's new On the Bright Side Two 6x6 pad, then trimmed out everything and layered over a paper doily.
I embellished the jar top with layered circles and a rosette made with TCP's Easy Rosettes CutUps die. This sentiment is also from A Cuppa.
Last I tried some raffia around the jar lid and hung a shipping tag printed with the name of the soup on one side and cooking instructions on the other.
Thanks for stopping by!
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Labels: ABC, The Cat's Pajamas
Saturday, February 11, 2012
Kraftin' Kimmie Pins & Pearls
This week's Kraftin' Kimmie challenge, hosted by Sandie Dunn, is to use pins and pearls. I knew the lovely and elegant Elaine would be perfect, especially paired with the beautiful papers in the Howdy Doody paper pack by My Mind's Eye. I colored with Copics, then trimmed out Elaine to fit the layout, which is this month's Sketch For You To Try. The rolled flower at the top was done with a My Favorite Things die, and the others flowers are from my stash. The pink pearl stick pins and light green pearls are both from Pizzazz Aplenty.
Check out Kimmie's blog for LOADS of challenge inspiration. You will be amazed! That's where you'll link up to play along, too!
And here's the SFYTT that I used:
Those three little circles are proving tricky for me! This time, I went with a loose interpretation using scattered flowers and a button. Remember, the SFYTT Sisters are posting weekly sketch inspiration. Today (after 11 am), you can also see samples from Amber, Megan, Becky, and Iwona. When you're ready to play, link up your creation HERE. If you play along each month, you'll be eligible for a huge prize pack drawing at the end of the year.
See you again soon, and in the meantime, have a fab weekend!
Stamps: Elaine (Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps)
Paper: Papertrey Vintage Cream and Fine Linen card stock, My Mind's Eye Miss Caroline Howdy Doody 6x6 collection
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Ranger Old Paper, Tea Dye, and Walnut Stain Distress Ink
Accessories: Copic markers, Spellbinders Classic Circle Nestabilities, paper flowers from stash, May Arts ivory burlap string and crochet trim, My Favorite Things Rolled Flower and Medium Scallop Border Dienamics dies, Pizzazz Aplenty pink pearl stick pins and 4mm Jade Ice pearls, Papertrey button, paper flowers from stash, sewing machine, foam adhesive
Size: 4 1/4" x 5 1/2
Thursday, February 9, 2012
Deconstructed Sketch #38 - Thank U
Happy Thursday! Happy Deconstructed Sketch day :)
Here's what we get to play with this week:
I had a blast making my challenge sample. The sketch is fabulous and so, so easy to work with, the Verve You and I stamp set and coordinating I Heart U Die Set are among my favorite Verve ever, and the papers (Howdy Doody from My Mind's Eye's Miss Caroline line) are just beyond gorgeous. Lots of distressing, stitching, sanding, flowers, twine, ribbon, trim -- all my favorite things!
Ready to play along? Go HERE to link up your creation. And be sure to hop around for lots of sketch inspiration:
- Amber Hight
- Amy Sheffer, Guest Designer (that's me)
- Arielle Gordon
- Donna Wardle
- Jen Shults
- Jessica Diedrich
- Kadie Ensley
- Lori Boyd
- Pam Varnell
- Sheri Gilson
Stamps: You and I (Verve Stamps)
Paper: Papertrey Kraft card stock, Neenah Classic Crest Solar White card stock, My Mind's Eye Miss Caroline Howdy Doody 6x6 collection
Ink: Stampin' Up White craft ink, Ranger Frayed Burlap Distress Ink
Accessories: Verve I Heart U Die Set, Spellbinders Picot Circle Nestabilities, Papertrey button, May Arts twine, lace trim (from stash) Papertrey Berry Sorbet ribbon, Stampin' Up So Saffron ribbon, Recollections mini roses, distressing tool, foam adhesive, sewing machine
Size: 4 1/4" x 5 1/2"
Wednesday, February 8, 2012
Let's Take Off {TCP Tues}
Part of my sweet new gig with The Cat's Pajamas will be playing along in the weekly TCP Tuesday challenges. Not necessarily on Tuesday, I should add (I do know today is Wednesday {grin}). The challenges run all week, and so The Cat Pack rolls out inspirational samples all week, too.
For this week's challenge, Jen gives us this inspiration collage:
How's that for FUN?!
I confess the only way I know how to handle a rainbow of color all at once is to go CAS (clean and simple). Love how the white space lets the colors pop without being too overwhelming. The image, from Up, Up & Away, is colored with Copics, the sentiment is from Away We Go, and the clouds are cut from the Clouds Border CutUps die.
Want to play along? Here are some details you will want to know {including how to become the next Swanky Stamper!}…
1. Each Tuesday we will give you a challenge.
2. You will have until the end of the month to complete the challenge.
3. Add your entry to the Inlinkz Gallery on Alma's blog or upload to SCS using the keyword TCPTUES196 for this week's challenge.
2. You will have until the end of the month to complete the challenge.
3. Add your entry to the Inlinkz Gallery on Alma's blog or upload to SCS using the keyword TCPTUES196 for this week's challenge.
4. TCP stamps are not required for this challenge, but highly recommended.
5. There will be one randomly chosen weekly winner, announced on Tuesdays who will win a Gift Voucher for use on The Cat's Pajamas website.
5. There will be one randomly chosen weekly winner, announced on Tuesdays who will win a Gift Voucher for use on The Cat's Pajamas website.
6. There will be one winner, The Swanky Stamper, announced the 1st of each month. That winner will win several sets from an upcoming release and get to play along with us at our Pajama Party and Blog Hop.
Good luck!
Monday, February 6, 2012
Meowy Good News!!
I've just about been dying to share this happy news -- I'm joining Sprinkle and the gang as the newest member of the The Cat Pack, a.k.a. The Cat's Pajamas design team! Alma (TCP owner) has a little announcement over on her blog, too -- hope you'll check it out!
And since I couldn't let one more minute go by without trying on my swanky new watermark, I put together this last-minute number for the current TCP Tuesday challenge, hosted by Leigh O'Brien:
The image and sentiment are from Ewe Complete Me. I used one of the TCP CutUps dies, Circus Panels, for the base part of my banners. I just cut them in half, then stitched traditional triangular pennants on top.
I colored primarily with Copics, then added the grass with Prismacolor pencils. Here's a closer look:
I've always thought that the stippled-style shading looks really fun and decided to give it a go here. I have no idea if there's a "proper" technique, but little marker dots in a few different shades of light blue-greens, warm grays and even a light blue-violet seemed a good place to start..
Thanks for sharing my happy news! Meow ;)
Stamps: Ewe Complete Me (The Cat's Pajamas)
Paper: Papertrey Smokey Shadow card stock, Copic X-Press It Blending card stock, Neenah Classic Crest Solar White card stock, My Mind's Eye Love Me 6x6 collection
Ink: Versafine Onyx Black, Memento Tuxedo Black, Stampin' Up Soft Sky, Tim Holtz Pumice Stone Distress Ink
Accessories: TCP Circus Panels CutUps, Spellbinders classic circle Nestabilities, Wilton doily, Pizzazz Aplenty 2mm clear rhinestones, paper piercer/needle/thread, sewing machine, foam adhesive, Copic markers, Prismacolor pencils, corner rounder, Papertrey buttons, Cotton Candy Divine Twine
Size: 4 1/4" x 5 1/2"
Saturday, February 4, 2012
February SFYTT: Your Next Stamp
[***Second post today. Scroll down for my Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps Challenge post***]
It's time to unveil the February Sketch For You To Try! How do you like monthly sketch/weekly inspiration format?
This month, we're sponsored by another super fun company, Your Next Stamp, home of some of the cutest images money can buy! Remember, if you complete all twelve sketches during the year, you'll be eligible for a super prize pack in December!
Take a good, hard look at the February sketch ...
... because it might be hard to spot in my, er, "creative" interpretation {grin}:
Between rotating the sketch 90 degrees, replacing the three small circles with clouds, and then using an image that substantially exceeds the focal panel, the sketch is, granted, a bit manipulated, but the nuts and bolt are all there. The adorable image is Up, Up & Away from the new Jenny Suchin Designs line at Your Next Stamp. I paper pieced the balloon and basket and colored the koala (also popped up on dimensionals) with Copic markers.
The fun papers are from another collection by UHK Gallery, a paper company in Poland that I posted about earlier this week. This collection is called Babie Lato - BOY. Love these colors!
For sketch inspiration, visit the SFYTT Sisters:
Jen del Muro with Designer of the Month Angela Thomas
Amber Hight
Amber Hight
and an extra dose of inspiration from YNS designers (links on Jen's blog)
Have a good weekend, friends!
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For many women in music, sexism in their professional lives is commonplace.
Experimental pop musician Grimes outlined what this means for her in a Tumblr entry about the behavior she finds most disturbing and offensive. Here's just a small piece of her post:
i dont want to be molested at shows or on the street by people who perceive me as an object that exists for their personal satisfaction
i dont want to live in a world where im gonna have to start employing body guards because this kind of behavior is so commonplace and accepted and I'm pissed that when I express concern over my own safety it's often ignored until people see firsthand what happens and then they apologize for not taking me seriously after the fact…
I'm tired of men who aren't professional or even accomplished musicians continually offering to 'help me out' (without being asked), as if i did this by accident and i'm gonna flounder without them. or as if the fact that I'm a woman makes me incapable of using technology. I have never seen this kind of thing happen to any of my male peers
It's not just Grimes who feels this way. Female musicians spanning many genres and levels of fame have been open about their experiences in ways that speak to gender inequality. In an email to BuzzFeed, Heather D'Angelo of electro-pop band Au Revoir Simone referenced the last paragraph, quoted above, of Grimes' post and how it relates to the ways she's felt condescended to by men:
Au Revoir Simone has been on the receiving end of completely unsolicited advice from the most random dudes since our first show in 2003. And it's also true that as an all-female, all-synth band, we seem to be susceptible to a very special brand of "advice": "You know, you ladies would be so much better if you had [insert any instrument here]." As if we never before thought of having a live drummer or guitars until it was suggested by some guy whose musical prowess most likely doesn't extend much farther than a Saturday night playing Guitar Hero.
These "helpful hints" undermine D'Angelo as an established, professional artist, but at least they acknowledge that she's in the band at all. D'Angelo's bandmate, Erika Forster, recounted the many times she's been mistaken for a hanger-on as opposed to an actual musician:
Since the early days of our band we experienced a lot of, "Are you the merch girls?" and being sternly told that we were't allowed access somewhere by men, or sometimes women, who assumed we were the girlfriends or groupies.
Women in more niche genres say they also experience gender inequality in their jobs.
BuzzFeed spoke to Sarah Manning, a professional alto saxophonist and jazz composer, about her job. In an email, she described what it's like to be a successful female musician in a genre viewed as predominantly male:
[Female jazz musicians] are still considered "the other" and the assumption is that we are not as capable as our male peers. To believe in a player or innovator with a different sound devoid of the usual influences requires an assumption that he/she knows what they are doing, and so residual concern with whether women can play leaves little room for female innovators to be taken seriously.
She puts forth the idea that while men in jazz are encouraged to experiment and find their own style, women have to work harder to prove that they can actually play to begin with.
Female rappers have also spoken extensively about their treatment as women in the hip-hop world.
In an interview with Hip Hop Core, Jean Grae talked about the ways she's treated her differently than her male peers:
I'd like there to be no line between the requirements to be dope as a female emcee or as a male. If you like me, you like me because you think I have the skill to represent the art form. If not, then don't dislike me simply because I'm female. Also, never call me a femcee. That is so insulting. Mancee? We don't say that, do we? Why the separatist approach then?
Grae outlines her frustration with being pigeonholed because of her gender, which, as she points out, isn't a problem that men in her genre have to face at all.
Being discounted for one's gender isn't limited to musicians outside the mainstream, either.
Super-famous women have discussed their frustrations about the way they're treated as females in the music world, as well. In the MTV special Nicki Minaj: My Time Now, the rapper discussed the inconsistencies between the treatment of women and men in the entertainment industry:
When you're a girl, you have to be like…everything. You have to be dope at what you do, but you have to be super sweet and you have to be sexy and you have to be this and you have to be that and you have to be nice and you have to… It's like, I can't be all those things at once. I'm a human being.
The expectations of character that Minaj says women face are impossible to uphold all at once, obviously.
Although all of this can be quite aggravating, some also acknowledge those who came before them and the advantages of being a female musician.
In an email to BuzzFeed, Caroline Polachek of the band Chairlift wrote that she believes things are becoming easier for women in music, especially because of the internet. She also feels gratitude toward women who have paved the way for current female musicians:
Music has been a very difficult terrain for women to do anything but be pretty puppets in, or finely tuned instruments for male hands, at best, and I feel very indebted to the few decades of badasses that came before me and turned shit on its head and made it an accessible playing field.
Forster says that her experience, though occasionally frustrating, has been a positive one, as well:
It has in some ways been an advantage to be a female band. I think we've gotten opportunity and exposure from being different.
While these perspectives are positive indicators of forward motion for female musicians, it still feels like there's a long way to go before women are on equal footing with men, Manning says. And she wonders how these challenges might affect less fortunate women in the field:
I love music too much not to learn to dial out and continue to work hard to record, compose and perform despite the obstacles, but how many others never make it out of the shadows?
It's a question well worth considering.


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