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1007It was going to be a good day. Shoga knew that a long time ago, of course, this was the day he would become a genin. Shoga had worked for two years for this day, to finally graduate the academy and become a full fledged shinobi for the Hidden Leaf Village. This wasn't a big deal for most of his family. On average, there was a person from his family who graduated once every three years or so. His father was the only one of his siblings not to become a shinobi, and all of their children had already grown and become shinobi themselves. However it was different for Shoga, he was the oldest of his siblings and the first one to become a genin. While his father was not especially happy about his choice for his future, he knew his father would be proud.
Shoga's four little brothers and two little sisters were all jumping around and being bothersome, as usual. Of all seven of the siblings, Shoga had been the first to graduate the academy, which made sense considering he was the oldest and first one to enter. Even though Shoga found his siblings annoying and portrayed himself as annoyed on the outside, on the inside his heart smiled at his younger siblings, and he greatly anticipated when they would graduate. After a few minutes of his siblings jumping over him and asking persistent questions Shoga finally managed to escape his household and go to the academy.
The academy was a safe place for Shoga, he was free of the responsibilities of family and he had plenty of friends there. Shoga wasn't big on paying attention in class, but always got good grades by studying outside of the Academy. Shoga was ready for all his work to pay off, he was ready to become a genin with all of his friends who had endured the academy with him. Most of his time at the Academy consisted of Shoga playing Shogi with other students, usually beating them and hustling their money from them. His father was a game shop keeper, and an avid shogi player, so much so that he named his first born child after the game. While Shoga found it annoying that he was named after a board game at first, he eventually began to accept it, then he started to embrace it. After all, no one could make fun of his name if he wasn't ashamed of it.
His family eventually all showed up to the Academy, along with his father and grandfather. Shoga's father was very polite. Although Shoga knew he wasn't happy, he knew his father was proud of him. His grandfather on the other hand was very excited for Shoga, he had been anticipating this moment since Shoga's father had been born after all. On the left to his father his siblings were jumping in anticipation, being restless and rambunctious, completely immature behavior. Shoga could feel his blood pressure rising, wishing his siblings could act normal for a little while, after all this day was about him, not them. Shoga counted to ten in his head five times before calming down. There was no way anyone or anything could ruin this day for him.
After a long amount of speeches and ceremonies he was finally released to his family with his brand new leaf headband and a new sense of accomplishment. Shoga was finally a shinobi. While his family went home with him to have a celebratory meal for him, Shoga's mind was else where, making endless maps of possibilities for the future. He kept on imagining himself as a jounin squad leader, or even someday Hokage, as absurd as that sounds. Even though his entire family had been shinobi, only his grandfather had ever reached the rank of shinobi, the majority of his family had been chuunin or genin their entire lives, never amounting to much glory on the battlefield.
Suddenly Shoga snapped back from thought as his youngest sister was trying to steal a roll of sushi from his plate. Shoga snapped at her with his chopsticks and finished eating the raw fish. Sushi was Shoga's favorite food, but it wasn't a regular thing to eat at his household. Sushi was very expensive, especially for such a large family like his. This was the reason Shoga always chose sushi to eat whenever he got to choose the family dinner. He always got the same thing; Avocado, Cream Cheese, Crab, and Soy dipping sauce. Whenever Shoga had spare allowance he would go to the local sushi bar and get as many rolls as he could buy. A few times he played shogi with the owners, who enjoyed Shoga's company a lot.
While Shoga had many friends, he didn't really like to play with them very much, they were much to rambunctious and dirty, always playing in the mud and "playing ninja", who played ninja? It was a much more productive way to spend your time by playing shogi or something that challenged your mind, that's what really got you far in ranks. That's why he spent most of his time training his mind instead of his body. Whenever he spared at the academy he would use the environment around him as much as possible to gain an advantage. Usually it worked, but when it didn't he was usually in trouble, his sparing partner would beat him silly. Children are childish, I should play with adults then I'll be more mature, that was always Shoga's though process. Unfortunately it backfired on him, as he had very little physical training as a result of that thought process.
Most of that didn't matter anymore, Shoga had promised himself that he would be a great and successful shinobi, just like his grandfather. Now all that was left was for him to meet his team and jonin sensei, which he had a lot of anxiety about. Shoga would push through that though, his first adventure was about to begin, nothing could stop him now!


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Former Chair of the Corporation, College governor William Bagnall receives an MBE in recognition of his magnificent contribution over many years to post-16 education.
William has served the College as a governor since 1996. In his time as Chair, William oversaw a period of significant and lasting change, taking responsibility for a multi-million pound investment in the site to develop the impressive facility enjoyed by so many young people today.
On learning of his honour, William said: 'I'm truly delighted with this award which came as a real surprise. Whilst in theory it is a public appreciation of my contribution to education over the last 21 years, in reality it's not just about me. It's a clear recognition of the success of this exceptional College and the great work undertaken by so many teachers, support staff and governors as well as the incredible leadership team headed firstly by John Guy and now Simon Jarvis. Everyone involved should rightly feel they own part of this honour.
The opportunity for me to become a governor of the College happened by chance and wasn't something I had envisaged. But I was immediately captivated by the absolute focus on the single objective to improve student achievements, by its essentially non-selective entry, by its great support for each student even as numbers grew and by the view that there is no reason it shouldn't provide the best sixth form education in the country.
The outcome is well known. Demand for a place at the College has grown from 1,200 to over 3,700 full time students taking A levels, the Estate has been transformed to provide the very best modern buildings and the College reputation has never been higher. It's well recorded that our students leave here as high achievers and, as the mission statement says, equipped with skills needed to meet the demands of a changing world with confidence.
My role here really has been the most satisfying thing I have done. It's been challenging, it's been fun and it's been immensely rewarding to have been part of this great success story.
Now I'm very excited about the planned formation of The Prospect Trust, a multi-academy trust to be set up to work with other schools in the area which will enable the experience and skills developed at the College to be used more widely. I think the prospects continue to be very exciting and everyone here knows that any help needed from me in the future will be given wholeheartedly.'
Principal Simon Jarvis commented: 'If ever there was a worthy recipient of an honours award it is William Bagnall. He exemplifies everything good about voluntary public service. Many thousands of youngsters will be unaware of the extraordinary contribution made to their lives by William who has devoted so much of his energy, selflessly and unstintingly despite the many professional demands on his time, to improving the College.
William is a true friend of the College: supportive, wise, rigorous and positively critical when the occasion demands. Thank you William – and here's to the next 20 years!'

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My Mother The QueenPosted: May 28, 2015 Filed under: Daily | Tags: bragging, daily, family, mom, momma, mother, school Leave a comment
I couldn't be more proud of my tenacious and curious Mother. I was graced with a family of learners and surrounded by smart people who asked questions about the world around us. The very definition of a life-long learner, my mom instilled in me curiosity, patience, and a deep passion for knowing.
When I endeavored to complete grad school, my mother was my champion (along with so many others). When the coin flipped and she faced the challenge of grad school, I was honored to listen to her puzzle through problems and talk about the ups and downs of classes. She finished her Master of Education degree almost one year ago and I am still glowing with pride and awe for the diligence and tenacity she exhibited in her pursuit of the degree. Having taught others most of her adult life (students and other teachers), she has always stayed abreast of current issues and needs in educating, and best practices and pedagogy. To me, and I believe her as well, the degree was a formalized acknowledgement of her lifetime of striving to be better, do better, and know more.
She was recently given an award from her primary professional organization for Outstanding Master's Thesis. Her research was well reasoned and her passion for students and teachers shone through her work. Here she was, many months after completing school, doing more work; preparing a presentation, creating a research poster, spending time and money to disseminate this work she literally put blood, sweat, and tears into (the blood was from paper cuts!). Momma presented on her research to her professional peers and has no doubt, from this research and her decades of work in the field, made a lasting impact on teaching and the lives of those lucky enough to be in her tutelage.
My mother is always busy and so am I. We don't live terribly far apart but it is still somehow difficult to make the time to spend together. This year, we vowed to get together more often and have, so far, done a pretty good job of seeing each other every few weeks. We've seen comedy shows, gardened, ate food, celebrated birthdays and holidays.. and regardless of the venue or activity I always find myself saying good bye and feeling so fortunate to learn from a woman so full of grace, humility, joy, and love. She and I can talk so pity to the companion who tries to keep up with us or interject (sorry to our husbands!). Basically, I love her. And, I wanted to brag about my awesome mom.
Stress Awareness & Reduction – My Top 5 StrategiesPosted: April 16, 2015 Filed under: Daily, Health | Tags: Amy Poehler, breathing, daily, health, healthy, mindfulness, run, self-care, sleep, stress, stress reduction 4 Comments
I am a classic stress-case in many ways. I appear as a calm ocean on the outside (or at least I hope I do), but inside my mind runs a lightening speed creating lists of all I have to do at work or at home, phone calls I feel guilty for not making (sorry, Dad!), birthday presents which are late and still not mailed out.. etc etc etc. I can work myself into a pretty tightly wound ball of stress quickly and especially as I get older, I am noticing more physical and mental symptoms associate with my stress. Bad stomach aches, indigestion, jaw popping (from clenching without noticing), headaches, heart racing, general dissatisfaction, and I am really started to develop worry lines:
Why am I telling you all this? Today is National Stress Awareness Day and I thought I'd share some of my tips and strategies for managing my own. I am not a trained expert per se (no LMHC here), but my through my education and profession I am steeped in the concept of self-care and as a seasoned stresser I have developed some pretty decent awareness and reduction practices.
5 Strategies for Stress Awareness & Reduction
1. Say No…sometimes
I love to say YES! This can be problematic because I want to do all the things all the time.When I was younger, this resulted in too many double-bookings and I found that I was not giving myself enough down-time to be alone and quiet my mind. I still enjoy being busy but have learned to look not only at if I am booked for that moment but also the larger pattern of busy-ness, I now take into consideration the recent past and nearing future before saying yes. In fact, if you ask MT, she'll tell you I'm the queen of non-commitment these days.Learning to say no really comes from listening to multiple needs and not letting my loud extrovert voice take over. I find I need more alone time as I grow older so I am tuning in to my introverted side and saying "No" to more things these days.
The other piece of this is be choosy. Say yes to things, people, and activities that add joy and love to your life. Say no to things that don't. Mind blowing, I know. But seriously – that person you don't really like but keeps inviting you to do stuff? You can totally say "no, thank you". I give you permission to say it over and over again. Fill you life, your hours, and your minutes with less things that feel obligatory and more things that fill you with happiness.
2. Single-tasking
Well, it is how I try to roll, anyway. Despite what we all answer in interview questions, multitasking has been proven to be inefficient and not helpful. Why do we still think that is the correct answer to "How do you juggle competing priorities?" is "I do it all at once!"?! I don't know. Single-tasking is the way to go. This is not my default, but especially when I am most stressed out, I am extra careful to focus on one task until it is complete. If I remember other things I need to do, I take a brief moment to jot it down so I don't have to worry about forgetting it, then I go back to my ONE task. With single-tasking I get more done in less time while feeling less scattered and worried.
3. Pause
When I start to feel my heart race or thump loudly I stop what I am doing, take a deep breath, and pause. 15-30 seconds of self check-in does wonders for the body and mind. Sometimes I close my eyes, sometimes I don't. I do a little inventory/scan of my physical body: where am I holding tension, what muscles are clenched, am I sitting up straight, when was the last time I ate, did I sleep enough last night etc., then do a mental inventory: what am I most worried about, what thoughts or stressors are unnecessary and/or unhelpful that I can let go of, etc. I work to just notice and try not to judge. Listening to yourself and checking in even briefly can tell you do much about what is going on. And when I stop to pause, I begin again better aware and prepared to handle or reduce the stress.
4. Disconnect
I suppose this is just a longer version of the pause. Particularly in the middle of a work day I set aside longer periods of time to not be on my phone, or tablet, or computer. I take a walk around campus or even just explore and walk around buildings if it is crappy out. Sometimes I listen to podcasts but in general I try to keep this time electronics free and use the opportunity to tune it to the people and nature around me. I let my mind wander and my body loosen. Without fail I come back to my desk more relaxed and positive. While the pause addresses acute stress and symptoms, this disconnect practice addresses overall reduction and stress management.
5. Run!
Really, any kind of exercise will do. It is so valuable to find something that can be a regular destressor and with the wide variety of exercises out there (zumba, yoga, weight lifting, running, biking, swimming) there really is something for everyone. For me, it isn't about doing the most, or being the best, or going the fastest – it is about taking care of this body and mind and getting the most out of everyday. It is about shedding the day's challenges and creating a mental and physical break in the day. When I spend the time and energy to exercise all sorts of other things seem to come easier, too: I eat healthier, I drink more water, I sleep better. No surprise – those things all help reduce stress.
These 5 stress awareness and reduction strategies help me appreciate and notice myself. Getting reconnected and in-tune with my body and mind helps me make better choices all around and is the best way to honor all the gifts they give me. We are all amazing and a little self-love goes a long way.
What are you favorite stress awareness and reduction strategies? When you get most stressed, what is your go-to for relief?
Also, isn't Amy Poehler the greatest? I just adore her acting and her admire her commitment to helping young girls develop emotional intelligence, resiliency, courage, and confidence. She is a class act. Check out Amy's Smart Girls if you haven't. I bet she has some good times on stress reduction…
DroolingPosted: August 15, 2013 Filed under: Daily, Running, Training | Tags: Brooks Ghost 6, daily, half marathon, running, Shoes, training 1 Comment
These are the newest member of my training team – Brooks Ghost 6! Now if I could just find the time between the new job and the moving to get my buns out for a run in them! Tonight for sure – no excuses and rain be dammed.
Aren't they gorgeous!!? I've been running on Brooks Glycerine 10s since January and after my long run two weeks ago I just knew they were shot. The bounce was gone, they felt flat and heavy. I put about 250 miles on those shoes and they are tired and spent. I went to get new shoes and needed to special order these because they are an 11.5. Oh, huge feet, why do you do me like that?! I was tempted to just buy the 11s that were at the store and not have to wait 4 days, but I'm so glad I was patient. I got to do a farewell run on my Glycerines with my running buddy, MT, last weekend. The 8 miles seemed like a fitting send off and I'm ready to lace up and head out with my cushy, wonderful Ghosts! Gotta break them in before the half in September!
Bonkers for BerriesPosted: August 5, 2013 Filed under: Daily, food | Tags: berries, canning, daily, food, fun, jam, u-pick, weekend 2 Comments
My u-pick berry haul from this weekend. Only took an hour to get ~11lbs of fresh, delicious, GIGANTIC berries. Can't wait to clean and freeze them tonight so I can make jam soon!
So pretty in their buckets!
My berry picking partner!
The blackberries are HUGE! Also, the blackberry and raspberry bushes had no thorns on them! I'd never heard of such a wonderful thing. They were so easy and pleasant to pick! I've always stuck to blueberries and strawberries because I hate the thorns, but a whole new world was opened this weekend. I cannot wait to eat the jam.
July StatsPosted: August 3, 2013 Filed under: Daily, food, Races, Running, Training | Tags: daily, family, Mr., run, running, stats, training, travel 1 Comment
In July
- 44.3 = Miles I ran (or 71.3 Kilometers, or 233,904 Feet, or 2,806,848 Inches, or 38.5 Nautical Miles).
- 5 = States I set foot in (Arizona, Colorado, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, and Washington – listed in alpha order not awesomeness order)
- 3 = Siblings I hugged (That is all of them – a feat considering we live in Washington, Iowa, and New Jersey)
- 3,751 = Approximation of the times I kissed my newest family member (my nephew) (Sadly, I did not get to hug and love on my two intelligent, funny, kind, wonderful nieces)
- 3 = Lbs lost (slow progress is the best kind when it comes to healthy weight loss!)
- 1 = New jobs accepted (can't wait to start it!)
- 14 = Days spent with Mr. (Summer traveling is fun but I miss him!)
- 3 = Times I ate Dunkin Donuts (4 times I drank coffee from D&D – (There aren't any in WA and I love them so! With all my travel I had to get as much as I could!)
New Adventures AheadPosted: August 1, 2013 Filed under: Daily | Tags: career, daily, dorm living, goals, job, Mr., RD Leave a comment
I've been on the job hunt since last summer when I was finishing up my MEd in Student Affairs Administration.. My diligence about constantly applying places has come and gone but essentially I've been continuously looking for a year now. I've rewritten cover letters and resumes time and time again. I've had interviews both on the phone and in-person. I've swallowed my pride and called to ask why I wasn't offered jobs and what I can do to improve only to hear I was their finest interview and it just boiled down to not having a PhD or experience doing this exact task for that exact office.
When asked me about the job search I simultaneously wanted to hug people and say thank you for your empathy and interest, and then reenact this scene from a TV show I love, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia:
Well, it is with great pleasure that I announce I have accepted a new position that is going to bring lots of new adventures to Mr. and I. I have accepted a position as a Resident Director (RD), which, for you non-student affairs folks, means I'll be supervising a staff of student Resident Assistants and managing one of the largest halls on our campus containing approximately 600 students. I was a Resident Assistant when I was in college and I'll be returning to the exact dorm that began my path to a career in student affairs. Both Mr. and I are very excited.
We'll live in the hall in a 1bdrm RD apartment in the dorm and we are in for all sorts of dorm living shenanigans. We will have to down size quite a bit as we are currently living (filling) a three bedroom house. I'm definitely the pack-rat in this family so I'll have a much harder time eliminating excess than Mr. will. His inclination is to toss all belonging sans a few pieces of clothing every 6 months. One of the many ways we balance each other so well.
This new job will provide me with all the professional development and growth I was looking for in addition to guaranteeing I'll have some pretty interesting stories to tell the rest of my life. Needless to say, the next several weeks will be very busy as I end my current position, start a new position, and host garage sales, pack, and move, but I'll be around and so excited for all the changes ahead!
Cold ShowersPosted: June 27, 2013 Filed under: Daily, Running | Tags: alaska, daily, run, running, summer vacation, training 3 Comments
I love cold showers. Not freezing cold, but quite chilly and brisk. I know that might make some of you cringe, but it is so refreshing – especially after coming home from a warm, humid, sticky, sweaty summer run. In general, I like to shower and I like cooler rather than hot hot showers (although sometimes hot feels SO good). I often shower twice a day just because. Getting into bed all clean makes me sleep better and helps me wash away the day's worries and frustrations. Combine that clean and renewed feeling with having just gone for a run and I am pretty much superwoman.
I went for a quick run yesterday and it was a steamy warm day. It had rained through the morning and the afternoon warmth turned it in to a bit of a humid mess here in the evening. Despite that, and perhaps with the motivation of escaping the banging above me from the roof repairs being done, I laced up and set out. It was a short run day so I pushed myself to run just a little faster and I was happy with my effort afterward.
My ankle has been feeling a bit better so I even did this short jog without my ankle brace. As it heels I'm giving it little tests here and there, but my longer runs and in races I'm still wearing the brace for good measure. The bruising is gone but it is still a bit swollen (it's been 11 weeks for those of you counting along with me) and there are some movements where I cringe and remember that it is not at full strength. My patience is wearing thin, but my desire to be healthy and back at 100% is strong so I've been mostly behaving and taking good care of it!
Oh yea! I almost forgot! I was in Alaska last week! I'll post about it later, but here is a preview for you to feast you eyes on:


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Donald Trump has found a cheat code for our current national politics, and he seems content to use it every week.
Here's the cheat code:
Donald Trump has targeted a specific group of voters who resent and distrust the mainstream media. This means that when that media criticizes him, those voters loyalty to him increases.
The reason this is a cheat code is that while it is very hard to get good publicity, it is trivially easy to get bad publicity. All it takes is a single threatening tweet to spark several days of critical covfefe--er, coverage.
When Donald Trump threatens North Korea or Iran, or seems to offer sympathy to white supremacists, he sparks a wave of (justified) criticism that just seems to make him more popular with his base.
The side effect is horrendous geopolitical risk, but that doesn't seem to deter Donald Trump one iota.
I believe that the best way to invalidate this cheat code is to focus the criticism of Donald Trump on concrete, pocketbook issues that directly affect his supporters. It is easy for them to support Donald Trump when his actions harm others, or cause harm in the future. It will be harder for them to support him when, say, his trade war with China causes massive layoffs in their town.


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Studying Geology at Dinosaur National Monument
by Aspen Gau, Colorado Mountain College Leadville Outdoor student
Startled awake by the sound of someone in the back of the bus, I came out of the thirtieth light nap that I had taken on the six-hour ride to Dinosaur National Monument. Confused as to why I was awoken so suddenly, I sat up and looked out the window. Our bus was slowly passing through a seemingly endless sea of sheep. This was the first truly shocking thing that happened on the Geology field trip, and an experience that I wouldn't have had if it weren't for the amazing opportunities that Colorado Mountain College has offered.
The trip was an overnight camping trip in Dinosaur National Monument just on the other side of the Colorado border in Utah, for our Geology class. Over that weekend we would hike and study the different geological formations of the park; formations of which we had only seen in photos during our lectures. Professor Kato Dee and a small team of helpers guided us through the trails, stopping here and there to teach us about the various formations we came across. Often times he would ask us questions and encourage us to come up with the answers even when no clear answer was available. In hindsight, this style of teaching really helped grow our understanding of what we were seeing.
As we came up to a high vista, the immense landscape spread out below us. This trip, though educational, was also filled with never before seen sights for much of the group, including me. The towering sandstone mountain in front of us and a large ridge that rolled along the horizon, paralleled by a winding river bed that stretched into the distance along a flat plain gave off a feeling of insignificance, yet, it also gave a drive to conquer. Perched on top of the highest point I could find, the group waited at as the stragglers continued to come up the trail. I took this opportunity to take in the scenery.
Kato called us back down and explained how we could decipher the land in a macro view as well as micro view, showing us how the earth had moved around and showing us artists projections of how the landscape may have looked way back when, before the desert that surrounded us existed. We snapped a quick group pic and headed on down the trial, which wound closely along the ridge and dumped us into a dried river bed that would take us back to the busses.
After climbing back in the bus, I passed out almost immediately, assuming that we were headed back on our way to campus. I was wrong. About 2 hours after we left dinosaur, I woke up to us still driving around dinosaur. We drove along a rolling mountain top road that went seemingly nowhere till we stopped at a trailhead, to which Kato said that we had another 2 miles to hike. There were grumblings on the bus, however, Kato handled the situation amazingly, ushering us out of the bus and heading us down the trail. This trail was beautiful, with vistas overlooking hundreds of miles of mutilated rock and after a couple of stops along the way to enjoy the views, we ended up at the end of a ridge with thousand foot drops on either side overlooking the confluence of the Green and Yampa rivers. From this point, Kato could point out much larger geologic activities in the valleys surrounding us, and the hike was well worth it in the end.
At Colorado Mountain College we have the unique ability to experience college in a way that no one else can. With the smaller class sizes, you get to know your professors on a personal level as well as learn directly from them in more ways than you could sitting in a lecture hall, and that I think, is pretty awesome.


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Workers gazing upward and into the distance was a key motif of sight in the art and photography of self-education. In this post, I follow this gaze to see what lies in the distance. Later I will move on to other common modes of looking: staring intently at books (i.e., reading) and staring out at the viewer while holding books. I'll have more to say about each of these in the future (likely in more formal venues), but for now I am simply "#writing in public"…
The enticement, fatalism, and police repression that the rank-and-file Wobbly Van Dilman drew in his cartoon "And the First Great Step is Education" personified the forces standing between working-class self-educators and their lofty goals. These were very much present dangers, as opposed to the memory of child labor depicted in John Anderson's "Out of the Darkness." Anderson, after all, was a success story; with barely any schooling he rose to the rank of Vice President in one of North America's larger trade unions. Dilman was still looking and climbing up.
Still, the "workers college" that Anderson's drawing suggested as the place of enlightenment was somewhere out of sight. Other images suggested more definite objects of attention, sometimes the sun or a star, sometimes a union logo, and sometimes across great distances to symbols of political and intellectual power. Distance and attention signaled desire, or at least they advertised the things viewers ought to desire in the artist's opinion. For instance, the cover of the February 1916 International Socialist Review (drawn by Stanford Chumley) pictured a workman sitting down to his lunch amidst factory buildings and power lines that open onto a view of a distant capital building. In the language of the Second International, workers want political power, and they can get it through the Socialist Party. Recruiting posters for the Workers Summer Schools at Bryn Mawr and the University of Wisconsin played with similar imagery. In one, a women looks up from her sewing machines and busy work-mates to a cathedral-like university building atop a hill. Another ("Job Doubtful? Try Study") reverses the view. A male figure dressed in a suit (presumably the worker addressed by the poster's text) looks out upon an industrial landscape from beneath a archway that suggests a university building. Each of these seems to play off the idea that knowledge and power occupy high ground that allows for a clearer view than possible in the cluttered and crowded working-class neighborhoods.
Like the temple on a hill, the rising sun is an old symbols that artists and illustrators have deployed to represent everything from national power to religious conversion, working-class revolution and superior consumer products. By the 1920s the visual language of advertising, especially in mass market periodicals and product labeling, was accessible to people across the industrializing world, and we can see some of this in labor movement iconography. In fact, some IWW cartoonists of the 1930s parodied product advertising, but that's for a later discussion.
Instead, let's look at two very different examples of the rising sun image, one symbolizing collective power and the other private escape. The title page of the 1935 ILGWU Education Department pamphlet "You and Your Union" (detail to the left) shows two women and two men looking up from their sewing machines and irons to a female figure. She holds aloft in one hand the logo of the union (radiating shafts of light), and points to the words "Knowledge is Power" at the center of the image. Under her arm she holds a set of books. The message here, I think, was not simply that the union, or education, was something workers desired. There is also a sense of the distance between workers and their goal, and the relative clarity of the object they gaze toward. But this image begs my original question: what does powerful knowledge look like? We get a better sense from the pamphlet's cover. Here the "Knowledge is Power" image sits atop a rising sun, and out of the sun well-dressed working women and men stride forcefully toward the reader. A pile of books, some open to text and images, lies between the viewer (a rank-and-file union member) and the powerful ranks of labor. The composite illustration links the individual and the shop group to the overall collective force of the union. It suggests both that reading is a crucial instrument of collective power, and that collective power makes books accessible as desired consumer products.
Books, as Nan Enstad argues in her study of women garment workers (Ladies of Labor, Girls of Adventure), symbolized and embodied leisure time and an imagined "good life"—time beyond the power of the factory clock and the rhythm of the machine. That is why the marching workers in on the cover of "You and Your Union" are so well dressed–they are not going to work. They are going out on the town. But if books symbolized leisure, nothing could symbolize free time more effectively than a book held, but unread. What a luxury it was to have time to doze off over a good book! This was the message of a cartoon accompanying a 1912 short story, "The Tired Girl's Dream." In the story, a young woman sits alone in her tiny apartment dreading the coming workday. She is, by today's standards, depressed because she simply moves between unrewarding work and her lonely apartment. She imagines herself sitting in the country, back up against a tree, a book open on her lap. But instead of reading, she gazes off into the distance at nothing in particular.
Next up: didactic, heroic, and assertive modes of looking.
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Entertainment Weekly dropped a ton of new information regarding ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY today. It covers a glut of information that includes confirming Darth Vader will play some part in the film, and a whole host of character details. But one piece of information seems to reigning supreme: the identity of Forest Whitaker's character. He will be playing Saw Gerrera. If the name doesn't jump out at you, don't worry, I was unfamiliar as well. Saw Gerrera had a brief arc in an episode of THE CLONE WARS television program. Saw is an old-timer from the clone wars. Producer Kathleen Kennedy had this to say about him:
"Consider him kind of a battered veteran who leads a band of Rebel extremists.He's on the fringe of the Rebel Alliance. Even [they] are a little concerned about him."
Here he is in the show:
And here he is in his live action glory:
Pretty cool, right?! I think this is a fantastic way to bring all the different facets of the expanded STAR WARS universe together and layer them for a story that feels like it truly does span decades. Strike back below with your thoughts on exploring Saw Gerrera's story! ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY opens in theaters December 16th, 2016
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KAWE offers the largest range of friction products for agriculture and industry in Europe.
With our range of more than 2.000 agriculture clutch parts (including Clutch covers/ pressure plates, clutch disks, bearings and flywheels) we offer solutions for more than 80 different tractor brands. Practically all tractor brands from A(gria) tot Z(etor) are covered. We are uniquely positioned as a manufacturer to supply our customers of clutch and brake parts of virtually all models from classics to today's generation.
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AirPrint Activator is a new tool by Stephan Muhl for those looking to use AirPrint with Windows.
Just download the one-click tool, install and activate AirPrint for Windows 32bit or 64bit. Then you have to have the printer in System Preferences (printer properties) to share. Already, all printer under Windows 32-bit or Windows 64-bit for IOS 4.2.1 and AirPrint available. Please note Step 3: AirPrint.exe must be enabled in Windows Firewall.
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New to PPAs?
What are PPAs? Check out our graphic guide!
Corporate Renewable Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs) allow corporates to purchase renewable energy directly from an energy generator.
Why are Corporate Renewable PPAs rapidly emerging as a business model in Europe?
Because these PPAs allow corporates to reduce their carbon footprint and manage volatile energy costs. And PPAs mean corporates can maintain a fixed price per/kW of energy over a period of years.
Corporate Renewable PPAs are changing the market terrain for renewables. The volume of these PPAs almost tripled in Europe in 2016 compared to 2015. In the US, PPAs accounted for almost half of the installed renewable energy capacity in 2016.
Why are big corporates investing in renewables?
More and more companies are procuring or aiming to procure 100% renewable energy. Corporates are playing a catalytic role for the deployment of renewables worldwide.
By choosing renewable energy as a commercial and strategic priority, corporates are showing leadership and commitment in the global sustainability agenda.
"Since we've started doing our long term PPAs, we've seen many other technology and traditional companies follow suit, so I believe we're starting to see industry in general realize that this is just not the right thing to do, but it's good business as well."
Global Vice President at Google
"This timely event will raise awareness of the huge opportunity presented by corporate sourcing of renewable energy. It will also identify barriers and propose solutions to facilitate companies, large and small, to procure more renewable energy."
Head of Unit for Renewables and CCS Policy at DG Energy, European Commission
"In a world of volatile wholesale energy markets, a long-term deal with a renewables supplier gives some welcome price certainty. And as the costs of both solar and wind power continue to fall way beyond expectations, such deals are becoming increasingly attractive."
Head of RE100, the Climate Group
"Corporate PPAs are a win-win: whilst enabling long-term contracts, they provide financial certainty for utilities and developers and they allow the chemical industry to contribute to sustainability goals. Corporate PPAs show that renewables are maturing into market based solutions."
Director General of CEFIC
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The other day I had had a particularly challenging day. I went to work out with my friend that morning and JaiseAnn insisted on being held the entire time. She would only be distracted by toys and food for minimal amounts of time before the tears and crying started up again. And that's how the day continued on. Zach worked later than normal, so when he walked through the door that night, we did a quick changing of the guards and I was off to go for a quick run.
Running has become something I almost treasure. I only recently realized what an asset it is to me. I work out with my friend every morning, but I have recently started running 3 days a week in addition to it because I need it. . (Two of those times are evenings after Zach gets home). I have come to discover a great power in running.
Why running?
For me--and my body and mind--all exercise is not created equal apparently.
3 Things Running Does for Me
I Carry My Own Weight
This may seem a little strange to most people, but I personally feel more connected to my body when I'm running. I think it has to do with my body and a pair of shoes being the only things I need in order to break a sweat on a run. I am literally burning calories by pulling and pushing my own weight every second. I feel connected to my body and that is a very powerful thing. When I run regularly, I make better decisions regarding my health and I feel happier about myself despite no change in size or weight.
I Move Forward
I am a person who lives in her mind. My mind never stops. There is always something going on. Some kind of reflection, memory, problem trying to be solved, daydreaming--something. My head goes a million miles an hour. (I've actually said many times that the best vacation someone could give me would be for me to get to switch brains with Zach for a day--his brain works when it needs to and it's off when it doesn't.) I can't seem to turn my brain off. Which means that on days where I'm sitting on the floor with JaiseAnn or when I'm trying to fold laundry and I'm lost in thought when a little girl starts whining and tugging on my pant legs, I start to feel frustrated an overwhelmed. I don't just need time alone with my thoughts. I need to move forward after thinking them. I need a plan of action. When I am running, my mind is, too. The difference is, I feel like in that half an hour of running time, I am able to move forward in my thinking. I get so much accomplished. I make plans and set goals, I am able to resolve things that are bothering me, it is also a time of creativity for me--I get some great ideas during my time running.
I Can Push Myself to Do Just a Little More
The Saturday before Thanksgiving, my mom, brother, Zach, and I ran a turkey trot relay.The relay was eight miles, each person ran the same two mile stretch. I really enjoyed it and it was fun. My mom was very worried about taking too long and frustrating the rest of us. We continually explained to her that we didn't care. She said that she found it odd that I didn't care about beating people or winning as I'm a very competitive person.
But that's the beauty of running. It is a solo sport. I only compete with myself. I could choose to truly compete with otheres in races, but I don't. Not only do I not have the skill level currently, but I don't have the desire. When we ran that race in December, I had one goal: to not stop. I didn't care how long it took, but I wasn't going to slow to a walk. It was a personal goal and I felt incredibly satisfied and accomplished when I was done. And that's how it is. As I've tried to build back up my stamina and endurance after having JaiseAnn, I continually push myself. Just a little more. Make it one more stretch, to that sign, to that tree, etc. And there's nothing more gratifying than pushing yourself like that mentally and physically as you meet and exceed each goal.
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Do you shoot photos with a stand-alone camera like a DSLR? Want to get those photos onto your iPhone for easy sharing (such as with Geospike)?
Now you can. Forget syncing with iTunes, that involves lots of configuration, and you end up with small images on your phone.
Introducing: Photo Queue. Photo queue is a free app that enables you copy full-size images from your Mac/PC over super-fast USB, and also send full-size images between iOS devices over bluetooth.
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How does Volume Replication work?
Volume replication is very similar to RAID 1. The first stage involves rebuilding the destination as a copy of the source volume. The next stage is a continuous online modification of the destination volume to preserve the mirror copy. The difference between this process...
22 Oct, 2008
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Is it possible to perform volume replication between different versions of Open-E software?
As concerns volume replication, you need to make sure that the DRBD daemon version is the same on both Open-E machines (you can check this by downloading the system logs and examining the file drbd.log). If the version is the same, it should work.
18 Sep, 2008
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Is the destination volume available during replication?
Data replication: In data replication, the destination share is available all the time - however, it should be used only for backup purposes because if you change some files, they will be replaced during the next synchronization. Volume replication: In volume replication, the volume will...
18 Sep, 2008
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What happens if connection is temporarily lost during volume replication?
If the connection is lost, the replication will resume as soon as the connection is back. Once the connection is restored, only the synchronization of the data that has not yet been transferred will be carried out. This will happen due to the ECC check of the transmitted data (tied to the...
18 Sep, 2008
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When using volume replication, will a file deleted on the source volume also be deleted from the destination volume?
Yes, the file would in this situation also be deleted on the destination volume.
18 Sep, 2008
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What are the requirements of volume replication?
For volume replication, you need a source, which is the share on an LV you wish to replicate, and you need a destination, which is a share in which you want the replicated data to be stored. In order for your replication task to work, your source Logical Volume and your destination...
12 Aug, 2008
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What to do when one of the servers involved in volume replication needs to change its IP?
Example application: There are two SANs using replication; one of them needs to be moved to a different location so that it synchronizes over the WAN, which means its IP will change. Solution: Stop your replication task by clicking on the stop button in...
18 Sep, 2008
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Why Open-E request to specify bandwidth value for volume replication?
Problem: Can you shed some light why we need to specify the bandwidth when create a volume replication task and what is the recommended value for the SyncSource bandwidth. Solution: The bandwidth need to be specified because the daemon works with very high priority. So, in some...
26 Feb, 2009
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Description of Connections Status in relation to Replications
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29 Jul, 2009
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What is the difference between asynchronous and synchronous volume replication ?
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Hannah Prior
Hannah Prior is the Young Blake Expeditions Programme Director at the Sir Peter Blake Trust and is responsible for all the logistics for the Young Blake Expedition to the Southern Ocean and Sub-Antarctic. She also held this position in the inaugural Young Blake Expedition to the Kermadecs in 2012 and to the Auckland Islands in 2014.
Hannah has worked for the Sir Peter Blake Trust for 6 years and is responsible for a number of programmes including the Sir Peter Blake Youth EnviroLeaders' Forum, the Blake Ambassador Programme and Young Blake Expeditions.
In 2010, Hannah was instrumental in reawakening red socks around New Zealand by starting the first national Red Socks Day. Today, tens of thousands of New Zealanders put on their red socks for kiwi pride and remembrance of a great kiwi hero. As part of Red Socks Day in 2011, she lead to victory the Guinness World Record attempt for the longest clothesline of socks - over 33,000 pairs pegged up and taken down all in one day!!
Hannah has a passion for travel, adventure and exploration, and her adventures have taken her to all corners of the earth. Except Antarctica - but she's working on that! The Young Blake Expedition to the Southern Ocean and Sub-Antarctic will be her fourth trip to sea with the Royal New Zealand Navy, and earlier this year she was an Educator at Sea on board the Exploration Vessel (E/V) Nautilus, a 64-meter research vessel operated by the Ocean Exploration Trust, in the Caribbean. In 2014, Hannah was awarded a Lead STEAM Communications Fellowship by the Ocean Exploration Trust.
Prior to the Trust, Hannah worked as a lawyer in Auckland, having attained Law and Arts (Political Studies, Geography and History) degrees from the University of Auckland.


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Toddler Found Shot To Death In Crib; Mother Arrested:
Another article from Thursday, again I apologize for being behind.
Anyway 39-year-old Cheryl Bush of Hollister, California was arrested in the death of her 18-month-old daughter Donna Mae.
A .357 Magnum was found outside of the home and is believed to be the murder weapon. For those of you who are unfamiliar with firearms a .357 is a very powerful gun. Donna Mae had been shot once in the head and once in the chest.
No motive has been given for the murder.


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Our collection of beautiful and stylish handmade lamps can be found in this section. If any of the lamps are out of stock they can be ordered especially at no extra cost. The artist can also make them to a certain size if required and in any of his colour washes; whitewash/grey/pale blue or aqua for the bases.
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Students get a healthy dose or do-si-do of square dancing in physical education.
Swing your partners January 27, 2009
Students use the accelerated quizzes to test their reading comprehension, that is why the teachers use the software, the student do it because computers are fun.
Angles and Angels January 22, 2009
Students in the Digital Art Class are often found roaming the school looking for interesting compositions and angles. They say the devil is in the details, but only art can be made by angels
Beyond High School January 19, 2009
Alumnus — Cassandra Mitchell — is now a starting guard/forward with the North Country Community College Saints in Saranac Lake. After a long absence, this is the first year that NCCC has had a division III women's basketball team.
Web site down January 16, 2009
The page is up and running
Unforntuately the website that houses the Indian Lake Central School Web Site is having difficulties.
Of the Gods January 15, 2009
Ms. Brand's Food and Nutrition Class have a dinner at the end of the quarter that is the students final project. The class picks a theme and provides a meal for friends and family of the students. This dinner had a Roman theme — Toga's, grapes, columns, laurel head dresses and more.


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One of the major benefits of living in a cosmopolitan city like Gurgaon is that you find lots of likeminded people and travelling with them is sheer fun.
Last week on Wednesday morning, four of us decided to go to the mountains and visit Dev Bhoomi, Himachal Pradesh.
We assembled at HUDA Metro Station and headed out to Delhi where another of our friends was supposed to join us.
Route : We took the following route
Delhi-Ambala-Rajpura-Banur-Kharar-Ropar-Nangal-Una-Bhota-Ner Chowk-Mandi-Bhuntar-Kasol-Tosh.
1st stop : Our first night halt was at Mandi, where we reached at 10.30 pm. A friend of a friend, who was travelling with us, had arranged our accommodation at IPH guest house at village Bijani at Mandi on top of a hill.
It was raining when we reached the guest house but still could not stop from admiring the Mandi town below and were totally bowled over when the guest house attendant agreed to serve us dinner on the guest house lawns.
Mandi incidentally is one of the largest cities of Himachal Pradesh with a total area of 23 sq kms and is currently the 2nd largest economy in the state next to Kangra.
It is the 3rd largest by population in state, after Shimla and Solan and serves as the headquarters of Mandi District and Zonal Headquarters of central zone including Districts namely Kullu, Bilaspur, and Hamirpur.
It is also called "Varanasi of Hills" or "Choti Kashi" or "Kashi of Himachal" mainly because Mandi proudly boasts of 81 temples while Benaras has only 80.
It also boasts of an Indian Institute of Technology (IIT).
It was in 1527 that Ajbar Sen established Mandi as the seat of the a princely state. Another historical fact about the city is historical suspension bridge called Victoria Bridge, built in 1877 which connects Jawahar Nagar (Khaliar), Old Mandi (Purani Mandi) to the main city. It is also famous for the International Mandi Shivaratri Fair.
It is approximately 185 km from Chandigarh, and 441 km from New Delhi.
(For our next stop read Dev Bhomi – Day 2)


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Bifold doors are a creative way to merge an indoor and outdoor space, allowing you to feast on your outdoor view and create the illusion of an extended space. To do this, both spaces should be carefully designed to create a continuous canvas that flows naturally to the eye, so that the doors don't look like a boundary between two vastly different spaces. This article shows you some ways to do this while keeping in mind the most important aspects of the project.
Choosing your flooring
Having complementary flooring between the inside and outside of your space can make a small indoor space look bigger. Therefore, choose the same floor colouring and style inside and out: if using tiles, choose similar-sized tiles in the same shades or patterns where possible. Of course, outdoor tiles must be stronger to bear the exposure to elements, but you can find complementary designs for the different styles. If using wooden or wood-like slats, ensure they are laid out in the same pattern. Also, your patio or decking should be at the same level as your indoor space for continuity, safety and convenience.
Merge internal and external features
Choose complementary styles for your indoor and patio furniture. The positioning is also important: place the outdoor furniture close to the door in a layout that complements your indoor layout. You can create zones outside, with areas for play, relaxation and even dining on fine-weather evenings, particularly if you have a large space to work with. Introduce some houseplants indoors to complement your outdoor garden or include other natural elements such as seashells, bamboo crafts, animal-skin rugs and wood carvings among others.
Figure out the folds
Determine the best configuration for your folding doors: bifold doors can open inwards or outwards. The number of leaves/folds will also affect your view, so choose the fewest possible while considering security implications. Installing bifold doors on a longer space increases the design impact – you create a feeling of more space and light internally. You can increase the length by having bifold doors covering adjoining walls, especially if your yard extends to both sides.
Visit home exhibitions and supplier showrooms to see how different door styles can fit different spaces; online pictures are also a useful resource. Don't worry about privacy: you can install retractable blinds which allow you the privacy you need when necessary.
Work on the garden/yard
Finally, ensure that your yard is worth looking into, since that's the point of having these doors. You can incorporate different features depending on the amount of space you have: a small garden, entertainment zone on the decking/patio, play-area for the children, a small pool etc. –it all depends on your budget. Consult a landscape architect to help you work the details of the external space.Share
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Hello, my name is Colin and this is my construction blog. When people think of the construction industry, they often just imagine guys in hard hats building brick walls. While this is a popular image of the industry, it doesn't reflect the true diversity of different contractors and tradesmen who are involved in a construction project. Lasy year, my wife and I decided to construct our dream home. I had to arrange visits of plumbers, roofers, electricians, surveyors and home builders in order to get the job done. I learnt a lot during that experience, so I decided to start this blog.


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In its final report to Congress Oct. 20, the Child Online Protection Act (COPA) Commission recommended a combination of broader public education, heightened public awareness of existing technologies, better enforcement of existing laws, and industry self-regulation to help stop kids from accessing internet material that is "harmful" to minors.
The commission stopped short of recommending mandatory web filtering for schools, even as Congress considered a bill that would require just that.
"The commission has concluded that no single technology or method will completely protect children from harmful material online," said Don Telage, the group's chairman.
Congress asked the 18-member commission to evaluate potential solutions to keep kids from accessing inappropriate material on the internet when it enacted COPA in 1998. That act also made it a crime for web sites to allow access to harmful material by minors, a provision the courts have struck down as unconstitutional.
After hearing from numerous witnesses and reading pages of testimony, the commission identified 17 technologies and methods for protecting children. Commission members then rated each item according to effectiveness, accessibility, cost, First Amendment issues, privacy, and law enforcement.
"This report should serve as a blueprint for future action and is a first step in what we hope will be a continuing dialogue among Congress, the federal government, law enforcement, and the internet community," Telage said.
Public awareness
The commission recommends that government and the private sector launch a major family education campaign to promote public awareness of technologies and methods available to protect children online. Many people are knowledgeable about the internet, but parents generally are not, Telage said.
The campaign should stress parental involvement in their children's online activities, access to child-friendly sites, and technology to protect children onlineperhaps through a web site. Government, schools, PTA groups, public libraries, and community centers should be essential components of this campaign, the report said.
Computer retailers and manufacturers should readily sell filters and other parental controls, it said. In addition, both parents and public institutionssuch as schools and librariesthat offer internet access should adopt acceptable-use policies, and government and industry should promote their use.
"Just as we provide children with firm rules for crossing the street, we need to provide them with rules and guidelines to facilitate their online learning experience as well as their safety," the report said.
Consumer empowerment
Child protection technologies need to be evaluatedand the public needs to be informed of these evaluationsso consumers know how well they work and what they block, the report said.
"One of the things we learned about in the testimony was the variation in effectiveness of these tools," including filters, browsers, rating systems, and biometrics, Telage said. He described it as a "fledgling industry" that has no meaning for the public. "We got such conflicting testimony that we could not get a clear statement about this," he said.
A nongovernmental testing facility could give the public objective, well-researched information about the features, effectiveness, price, and search criteria of the various protection technologies on the market, the report said.
Also, the commission recommends that the industry make better filters and monitors that are easy to use and are more accessible. Browsers and web portals should prominently display links to parental control devices.
The report also said national industry standards need to be developed for labeling, rating, and identifying web sites.
"We found that if only sites rate and label by some uniform manner, then the filters work better," Telage said. Both new media, like the internet, and old media, like television, print, movies, and games, need to create uniform ratings, the report said.
Law enforcement
The report recommends that all government levels increase law enforcement funding to pay for more aggressive investigations and prosecutions to deter online pornography and sexual exploitation of children.
"The testimony … showed the resources law enforcement had [were] so inadequate, they [could] only focus on child-stalking cases," Telage said. "It's a question of manpower."
State and federal law enforcement should provide internet service providers with a list of internet news groups and web sites that contain child pornography or lead to convictions involving obscene material, the report said.
The commission called for stricter laws and better enforcement to discourage deceptive or unfair practices that entice children to look at obscene materials. This would prevent producers and distributors of obscene material from marketing to children, the report said.
The commission also challenged the "adult industry" to take responsibility and to police itself. Representatives from the industry told the commission they are willing to take steps to restrict child access to adult content.
"The adult industry needs to self-regulate itself, so its material doesn't come into the hands of children," Telage said. This means the front pages of adult sites wouldn't contain explicit graphics or text and would be labeled "adult only."
In addition, ISPs should take voluntary steps to protect minors by regulating themselves, the report said. They should remove child pornography hosted on their servers when they are notified of its presence, and they should voluntarily cooperate with authorities during investigations involving their services.
"Some of the smaller ISPs are not that good at it," Telage said, although larger ISPs do self-regulate.
Items not recommended
The commission's report does not recommend the creation of special top-level domains such as ".xxx" or ".kids," although the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) was to consider approving them in November. The COPA Commission has not advocated or been involved with ICANN's decision-making process, Telage said.
New top-level domains come with First Amendment and privacy issues, Telage said. "They sound good on the surface, but once you get into them, you realize they have problems."
Also, the commission doesn't recommend mandatory filtering. The report said, "No particular technology or method provides a perfect solution but, when used in conjunction with education, acceptable-use policies, and adult supervision, many technologies can provide improved safety."
The education spending bill still being considered by Congress at press time contained language that would force schools and libraries to use filtering technologies as a condition of receiving federal eRate funding.
Telage said the commission thought it was best to give the commercial adult industry a chance to police itself first.
"The most significant recommendation in my mind is the charge to the adult industry to self-regulate," Telage said. "It puts the burden where it belongs."
Most services self-regulate, and the adult industry should do the same, he said. "It would single-handedly have the largest impact on the problem," Telage said. "It [also] would have minimal impact on First Amendment issues."
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At A Plus, we're addicted to pop culture, and Pop Culture Intervention brings that obsession to the soapbox. Through this series, we'll recommend what you should be watching, reading or listening to; explore how arts and entertainment affect us; and interpret the important messages contained within various works.
With each turn of the calendar, we celebrate pop culture anniversaries — whether they be movies that came out 20 years ago or albums that turned 20 years old — and 2018 is no different.
There are some great TV shows, songs, albums, movies, and even a book celebrating a major milestone this year, and we think you should experience them again or, if you've never experienced them before, check them out for the first time. We've taken a deep dive throughout pop culture history to discover some of these gems turning either 10, 20, 25, 30, 40, or 50 years old — although we're sure there are works that are even older that deserve your attention.
These various mediums all left their mark on the world, inspiring us all enough to where — here we are years later — we're still talking about them. Let the trip down memory lane begin:
50 years ago: "Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood" premieres
When it comes to educational TV, Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood is one the the biggest — besides perhaps Sesame Street. Though the show had existed before making its U.S. debut on February 19, 1968, it was then that it began a run here in the States and became a TV staple until it concluded on August 31, 2001. Fred Rogers inspired generations worth of children, enlightening them about important issues, introducing them to different facets of life, and just teaching them to be good people. Later this year, in honor of the show's 50th anniversary, a documentary about it titled Won't You Be My Neighbor? will be released.
50 years ago: The Beatles release "Hey Jude"
Known for being one of the biggest songs by The Beatles, "Hey Jude" was released 50 years ago this year — on August 26, 1968, to be exact. It was written by Paul McCartney — credited to Lennon-McCartney — as a song meant to comfort Julian Lennon during a trying time. See, this was when John Lennon was splitting from Cynthia Lennon and getting with Yoko Ono. The song itself was nominated for three Grammys (but failed to win any of them) and has been hailed as one of the best songs ever by any group — not just one of the best from The Beatles.
40 years ago: "The Wiz" hits theaters
Representation matters and The Wiz is a prime example of that. The movie — released on October 24, 1978 — was loosely based on a Broadway musical of the same name from 1974 and was a reimagining of the 1900 novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum and the subsequent 1939 film adaptation of the same name starring Judy Garland. It featured an all-star cast of Diana Ross, Michael Jackson, and many other Black entertainers from the time, and centered the story in a New York City-like world. It wasn't received well by critics or at the box office but, like a handful of other works, has since become a cult classic. In fact, NBC put on a live TV music of it in 2015.
30 years ago: N.W.A. releases "Straight Outta Compton"
Straight Outta Compton made waves in a major way when N.W.A. — made up of Arabian Prince, MC Ren, Ice Cube, Eazy-E, DJ Yella, and Dr. Dre at the time — released it on August 8, 1988. The album, which was the group's studio debut, was a pioneering moment of gangsta rap and is considered to be an influential and evolutionary moment for hip-hop music thanks to songs such as the "Straight Outta Compton," "Fuck tha Police," and "Gangsta Gangsta." It was even selected for preservation in the National Recording Registry by the Library of Congress in 2017 for the mark it left.
25 years ago: "The Joy Luck Club" hits the big screen
Though 2018 will give us Crazy Rich Asians, many are concerned that it has been too long — 25 years, to be exact — since another Asian-focused (and one not centered around kung fu) movie hit the big screen. That film would be Wayne Wang's The Joy Luck Club, based on the book of the same name by Amy Tan. The movie centers around a group of Chinese-American women and their Chinese mothers, who meet regularly to eat, share stories, and play mahjong. Throughout the film, we learn about the pasts of the women and their daughters, examining how Chinese and American cultures clash as they attempt to understand each other in the ever-changing times.
20 years ago: "Mulan" hits the big screen
One of Disney's beloved animated movies turns 20 this year: Mulan. The film — which was released on June 19, 1998 — tells the story of a young Chinese woman who proves she can do anything a man can do by volunteering to join the army in the spot intended for her father and helping the country win a war, is an inspiring one and is currently getting a live-action remake. It's based on Chinese legend, which is why Ming-Na Wen, the original speaking voice of Mulan, wanted a person of Chinese descent to play the part. Thankfully the studio avoided whitewashing the part when it found Liu Yifei, aka Crystal Liu, to star in the new version. "Reflection" on repeat forever.
20 years ago: Brandy and Monica release "The Boy is Mine"
This year marks big anniversaries for "... Baby One More Time" by Britney Spears and "I Kissed A Girl" by Katy Perry, but there's one other song we want to talk about: "The Boy is Mine" by Brandy and Monica. The tune, inspired by Michael Jackson and Paul McCartney's 1982 duet "The Girl is Mine," was the first No. 1 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 chart for both women and subverted the media's portrayal of a feud between two strong, independent females that tends to garner attention and was played up more than it was real. It was released on May 18, 1998, and was the song of the summer that year. "The Boy is Mine" earned the ladies a Grammy win and, 14 years after its release, brought them back together to sing another song, one titled "It All Belongs to Me."
20 years ago: "Will & Grace" premieres on TV
There are many shows that could be celebrating their 20-year anniversary this year — such as Dawson's Creek, which gave us TV's first gay kiss, and Sex and the City, which introduced us to Carrie Bradshaw and the rest of the brunch crew. With Will & Grace, we got a TV show with unapologetically out gay characters — the first primetime show with them in lead roles — in Will Truman (Eric McCormack) and Jack McFarland (Sean Hayes). It was the biggest win for the LGBT community since Ellen DeGeneres came out on Ellen the year prior and inspired others that came after it. Will & Grace debuted on September 21, 1998, and ran until May 18, 2006. Then, when the stars aligned, it returned on September 28, 2017.
10 years ago: Suzanne Collins releases "The Hunger Games"
Children being forced to out-survive and, sometimes, kill one another, might not be the most positive plot ever created, but the saving grace here is Katniss Everdeen from The Hunger Games. The YA heroine was brought to life thanks to the words penned by Suzanne Collins — and later by Jennifer Lawrence on the big screen — giving the literary world a major dose of girl power on September 14, 2008. With J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter franchise hitting shelves a decade before and giving us a male hero in its title character, Collins gave us the female counterpart to inspire little girls all over the world.


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Terra Lightfoot - I'll Be Home For Christmas video
Canadian singer-songwriter Terra Lightfoot has released her version of the classic 'Ill Be Home For Christmas' and the result is a wonderfully melancholy take on the Bing Crosby standard. Terra Lightfoot is no stranger to Red Guitar Music as we reviewed her excellent album 'Every Time My Mind Runs Wild' earlier this year here. The video and Terra's thoughts on the song follows:
Terra Lightfoot released her album Every Time My Mind Runs Wild in the UK on August 26th through Sonic Uniyon Records; lead single Never Will was released earlier in the year followed by tracks No Hurry and Lily's Fair; plus 2016 brought extensive touring across the UK and Europe.
We reviewed the album here
Whether you're talking about her as a songwriter, guitarist or vocalist, one thing is indisputable: Hamilton's Terra Lightfoot is a ferocious talent. Her songs tap into the raw emotion of hearts supercharged by love, lust, loneliness and temptation. Her playing melds expert finger-picking and distorted, hook-heavy melodies. And her elemental voice commands attention and awe, whether on slow-burning soul ballads or hard-charging rock numbers.


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I wait and wonder as the black hole in my neck sucks the energy from my life. It takes time and joy away from my children. It steals the last bits of romance from my already stale marraige. No one really knows what's deep down in there, no matter who's science we use to scan my curious gland. Multiple nodules; some hot and some cold. They squeeze my throat like an oh so gentle gag. Will it all go away with surgery or will I have to fight it forever? No one can tell me. I have no answers for now. It's only a black hole.
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1. PLoS One. 2012;7(2):e31388. Epub 2012 Feb 3.Homocysteinylated Albumin Promotes Increased Monocyte-Endothelial Cell Adhesionand Up-Regulation of MCP1, Hsp60 and ADAM17.Capasso R, Sambri I, Cimmino A, Salemme S, Lombardi C, Acanfora F, Satta E,Puppione DL, Perna AF, Ingrosso D.Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics "F. Cedrangolo", School of Medicine,Second University of Naples, Naples, Italy.RATIONALE: The cardiovascular risk factor homocysteine is mainly bound toproteins in human plasma, and it has been hypothesized that homocysteinylatedproteins are important mediators of the toxic effects of hyperhomocysteinemia. Ithas been recently demonstrated that homocysteinylated proteins are elevated inhemodialysis patients, a high cardiovascular risk population, and thathomocysteinylated albumin shows altered properties.OBJECTIVE: Aim of this work was to investigate the effects of homocysteinylatedalbumin - the circulating form of this amino acid, utilized at the concentration present in uremia - on monocyte adhesion to a human endothelial cell culturemonolayer and the relevant molecular changes induced at both cell levels.METHODS AND RESULTS: Treated endothelial cells showed a significant increase inmonocyte adhesion. Endothelial cells showed after treatment a significant,specific and time-dependent increase in ICAM1 and VCAM1. Expression profiling andreal time PCR, as well as protein analysis, showed an increase in the expression of genes encoding for chemokines/cytokines regulating the adhesion process andmediators of vascular remodeling (ADAM17, MCP1, and Hsp60). The mature form ofADAM17 was also increased as well as Tnf-α released in the cell medium. Atmonocyte level, treatment induced up-regulation of ICAM1, MCP1 and its receptorCCR2.CONCLUSIONS: Treatment with homocysteinylated albumin specifically increasesmonocyte adhesion to endothelial cells through up-regulation of effectorsinvolved in vascular remodeling.PMID: 22319627 [PubMed - in process]


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LegCo Paper No. CB(1) 2016/95-96
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Mrs Miriam LAU was elected Chairman of the Bills Committee.
2. The Administration briefed members on the objectives and the legislative proposals included in the Companies (Amendment) Bill 1996 (the Bill) as set out in the relevant Legislative Council Brief.
3. In making reference to the consultation with professional and trade bodies on the legislative amendments regarding the ultra vires and constructive notice doctrines, the Administration had advised that the majority of respondents supported the approach proposed by the Standing Committee on Company Law Reform (SCCLR) for doing away with the doctrines, while two respondents favoured more limited changes based on those in UK. In response to the Chairmans enquiry about these two respondents, Mr J T Allen advised that the Chinese Manufacturers Association had no specific preference for the UK or the SCCLR approach. The association considered it undersirable to make sensitive changes to the legislation at a time of transition. The other respondent, the Law Society of Hong Kong, preferred the UK approach as it considered the legal profession in Hong Kong to be more familiar with the UK company law.
4. On the proposal to deregulate the statutory forms presently contained in the Fifth Schedule of the Companies Ordinance, members asked whether any other Government department(s) had similar arrangement. In response, Mr A H Patel advised that at present, the majority of the forms of the Land Registry were prescribed in the Land Registration Ordinance, while the Land Registrar was empowered to specify a minority of the forms of the Registry. He also advised that a number of other departments, such as the Rating and Valuation Department, were also empowered to specify their own forms. In response to members enquiry about the practices in other countries, Mr Patel advised that in Canada and Australia, the forms of their companies registries or equivalent were still prescribed in the legislation. In response to the Chairman, Mr Tisman agreed to provide information on various common law jurisdictions, such as Australia, on their position regarding the deregulation of their companies forms.
5. On the contracting out of insolvency work from the Official Receivers (OR) Office to the private sector, Mr Brown and Mr Tisman advised that since May, there already existed an administrative contracting out system for cases with net realisable assets exceeding $200,000 in the ORs Office. Under the present provisions, the OR had to be involved in the insolvency proceedings at certain stages even if an outside provisional liquidator was appointed followed the presentation of a winding-up petition. The proposed amendments to section 194 would help improve this situation to an extent. However, the existing contracting out system would continue to operate with or without these amendments as the system was independent of the proposed amendments.
6. In response to the Chairmans enquiry on whether there were guidelines to ensure that the private practitioners to whom insolvency cases were contracted out by the OR were qualified for the task, Mr Tisman advised that an Administrative Panel with only a limited number of member firms of the Hong Kong Society of Accountants comprising experienced insolvency practitioners had been established. The qualified companies were selected for their experience and expertise in insolvency work .
7. Regarding the time-frame of the legislative process of the Bill, Mr Tisman advised that the Administration hoped that the Bill could be enacted as soon as possible and preferably before the end of 1996.
8. Mr Eric LI informed the meeting that the Hong Kong Society of Accountants were preparing their submission concerning the Bill.
Members agreed that the next meeting would be held on 4 September 1996 at 8:30 am. The Bills Committee would invited the following bodies to the next meeting to present their views on the Bill:
There being no other business, the meeting ended at 5:30 pm.
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In a country torn by conflict, CARITAS Colombia is working for lasting peace, and reparation for victims.
This week, the Catholic Church in Colombia is celebrating Semana por la Paz – Peace Week – in honour of the thousands of victims of the Colombian conflict.
The annual campaign, organised Caritas Colombia and widely supported by faith groups, promotes solidarity and awareness in Colombian society for the plight of the victims of the armed conflict, and to work for a comprehensive reparation plan for them. Thousands of groups, humanitarian organisations and individuals have come together with one message: that despite the years of war and violence, peace in Colombia is possible.
The legacy of Conflict
Over 40 years of internal armed conflict in Colombia has caused mass suffering for its citizens. More than 4 million people have been displaced, and as many as 30,000 have disappeared. Kidnappings, forced recruitment and a largely hidden epidemic of gender-based violence have been perpetrated, not only by guerrilla and paramilitary groups, but also by the state. But despite the scale of conflict, Colombia's troubles have been largely overlooked by the world's media, says Msgr Hector Fabio Henao, secretary general of Caritas Colombia. "Colombia shares the tragic situations of other countries such as the mass displacement in Congo, the devastation of landmines suffered in some Asian countries and the insecurity of Haiti and yet there is very little awareness about the seriousness of our situation," he told Caritas reporters.
Peace is possible
To ensure a lasting and constructive peace, victims of Colombia's conflict must have the right to:
- Truth about the crimes committed against them and their families;
- Justice leading to prosecution of the perpetrators of violence;
- Reparation – including the return of stolen land and assets;
- Non-repetition – the right to guarantee that the violations will never again take place.
The Catholic Church believes a lasting solution to Colombia's internal armed conflict is possible. But it's vital to give voice to the thousands of victims, and to ensure they are at the foundation of the road to constructing peace. But there's a long way to go, and the Colombian government is failing to meet the needs of the thousands of victims.
The judicial system is struggling to process 138,000 cases, and threats against victims and human rights groups still hinder their access to truth and justice.Meanwhile, little progress has been made to recover land and other assets illegally obtained by armed actors, or to provide an integral reparation programme with the active participation of victims.
Even so, campaigners refuse to give up hope. "Cooperation and support has an enormous impact on these communities," says Msgr Hector Fabio Henao. "It helps them feel part of one family and that their suffering is no different from that of their brothers and sisters in other parts of the world."
Peace cannot be achieved by the absence of war alone; the deep-rooted causes of the conflict must be addressed to secure lasting peace and create the conditions for reconciliation.
This article was compiled with information originally published by Caritas .


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