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More state school leaders will consider moving abroad because of growing 'disgruntlement' with the profession in the UK, says recruitment boss, Tes reports.
More frustrated state school leaders will consider jumping ship to international private schools in the light of funding cuts and policy changes, an education consultant has predicted.
Russell Speirs, CEO and founder of RSAcademics, which operates recruitment services for heads and teachers, believes the pressures in UK state schools will make international postings look "shinier".
Speaking at the Westminster Education Forum on UK education abroad, he said: "We think there will be an increase in demand from people in the maintained sector because of the disgruntlement with the profession in the UK.
"There are some real challenges in terms of funding for British schools in the state sector and constant changes make it, I think, very frustrating for a lot of people working in the state sector in the UK.
"This will make the attraction of an international posting a little bit shinier."
Speaking to Tes after the seminar, Sakina Zafar, director of academic development at the Council of British International Schools (COBIS), said that, anecdotally, it had seen a rise in the number of teachers in UK state schools in recent years who were interested in working in an international private school.
"There is a significant number of teachers from the UK looking to move internationally," she said. "The salaries are good but it is the work-life balance that motivates them.
"For example, some go to Thailand where they earn less than here, because the quality of life is better. And some feel the education system in the UK has lost its way. They are disillusioned."
However, there are concerns that there will not be enough high-quality school leaders and teachers to meet future demand in the sector. The number of students and teachers working in international schools is expected to double in a year, according to ISC Research.
But, speaking at the Westminster Education Forum on Tuesday, Ms Zafar added: "We need to attract more teachers. [It is] becoming an increasing concern."
And some COBIS members are worried that it will be harder to attract teachers after the government changes the standards to which it holds British schools overseas accountable.
Tes revealed that half of the 140 British international schools that currently benefit from an official government badge of quality, which helps them to attract teachers, will have to lose the seal of approval because of the standards.
From September, schools will only be able to receive the kitemark if they encourage respect for people with protected characteristics as set out in the Equality Act. Heads working in countries where homosexuality is illegal say that adhering to this British value could result in them being imprisoned or deported, or their school being closed down.
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Little Otsu was a favorite seller of paper products in the Mission for the greater part of the past decade. The independent publishing company sold beautiful illustrated paper, "uncommon illustrated books," and other handmade goods first on 16th Street and then from a Valencia Street storefront leased by McSweeney's from 2002 through the end of 2010. Many among us can recall lazy afternoons spent flipping through exquisite decorative planners and books or eyeballing dozens of hand-drawn cards.
Some of its products still live online, and owners Jeremy Crown and Yvonne Chen -- now based in Portland, Ore. -- are making more available all the time. Yet with the closing came a physical loss. There's something added by a brick-and-mortar space -- the touch and feel of fine craftsmanship. For the rest of this month, that tangible part of Little Otsu is back in S.F. in the back gallery of Market Street design-friendly boutique Rare Device.
How long will last?
Until June 29.
Will there be more Little Otsu pop-ups around San Francisco?
At the moment we don't have any plans, but we'd love to do it again.
So between not having a good space, and a good manager leaving, we thought it made sense not to move to another location. Also, having been there for eight years, our rent was not in line with the current prices, and it made it untenable for us.
How did you choose the items to be displayed in Rare Device?
Our pop-up shop is focused on our own published goods and includes nearly everything we've published that is in print. We recently started a new series of mini art books called The Little Otsu Living Things series, and the pop-up shop is in part a celebration of the release of the series. It includes some original artwork that's for sale in the gallery.

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Young Doctor Palička: "Sudan Is a Country of Paradoxes"
Martin Palička went to Sudan as an exchange student. While there, he signed up for a weeklong mission where he visited remote areas with experienced doctors lacking any electricity. How did the doctor cope with such an adventure?
Sudan. An unknown land for most people. Can you introduce Sudan as a country to us?
Sudan is a country of many paradoxes and abysmal differences. Half a litre of water costs more than a litre of petrol, even when the roads are unbelievably full. Ironically, mobile Internet in the capital works better than in the Czech Republic, even though other things, such as waste collection, public transport, potable water, electricity and more, do not work there at all, in spite of the fact that there are hundreds of well-educated people who can speak different languages. For example, a university-educated engineer speaking perfect English and Spanish drives a taxi because he was offered a job that pays 2,000 pounds per month (about CZK 1,200) and the taxi earns him more money. Those are sad paradoxes. Otherwise, Sudan is a very diverse country. Most people are very friendly, helpful and fair.
How do people live there and what was your impression of them?
There are people with great education and insight, as well as people who cannot read and who do not know how old they are. Thousands of people live in the streets and then there are people that own huge homes installed with generators for use during power failures. Democracy definitely does not work there. The local government and the president keep power using military forces, 85 % of the budget goes to the army and security. And that is the beginning and end of all problems that Sudan has. Recently, there have been several uprisings and revolutions at the university but they all have been supressed. Soldiers are all over the place. The Sudanese, at least the educated ones, will tell you that they would like to leave the country. But they are also very proud of their country and they worry about the situation with the government.
What exactly did you do there during your internship?
I was assigned to a general surgery department, which I chose. I worked in the local hospital and got my first clinical experience under the supervision of local physicians. In the Czech Republic, a student of medicine does not get to the clinic much during the first three years. He or she has to learn a lot of information and get a lot of knowledge, and then get the experience of real medicine. I was excited about every new case. There were surgeries (amputations) of mycetoma, discharging hydatidosa abscesses from the liver, surgeries of tumours that grew to incredible dimensions when compared to Europe. I also assisted on some surgeries and did some basic procedures, such as cleaning and insertion of stitches.
You said that you participated in a weeklong mission during your internship, can you tell us something about it?
Our mission was huge. There were 120 members, divided into 4 smaller teams. Each team then visited a new village every morning. The teams had four units: the clinic, lab, pharmacy and focus group. Patients came, signed in and while they were waiting for the doctor, the focus group stepped in. Education about malaria, TBC, washing hands, the importance of female hygiene etc. After their visit with the doctor, the patients either received a prescription for medicine from the pharmacy, or a reference to the laboratory for testing. We also brought generators with us so we were able to do some basic examinations using centrifuges and microscopes. We also ran quick tests for malaria, typhoid fever, or pregnancy. Our mobile hospital was set up in a local school and there were a lot of children there, which we focused on. Education has the highest value and meaning. I spent the rest of the time in the clinic with Doctor Josiph, who translated everything for me and taught me how to identify illnesses. After a few days, I was able to identify skin issues when the patient walked in. On the other hand, other things were shocking and I will never forget them.
It had to be very difficult. Were there moments when you were barely coping, when it was too much for you?
The first three weeks in Africa were difficult. It is a completely different world, it is hard to get used to the different standards of quality. When I thought I finally learned do deal with it, the mission came. The last week was truly a purgatory. I tested my limits there, both physically and mentally. We drove to villages that were about 450 km southwest from Chartum, in a beeline. And since the mission management selects the most remote areas, we travelled through desert for three hours every day. Travelling in the African desert on a prototype Tatra from the previous century is not very comfortable. And if you want to serve all the patients, you need time. Our daily schedule was as follows: wake up at 4:30, brush teeth, load medicine, water and generators so we could leave at 5:30. The day in the village sometimes ended at 8 or 9 p.m. when we worked using the lights from our mobile phones. We got back between 11 p.m. and midnight. That depended on how many times we sank in the desert, which could be 8 to 10 times. And if someone was a bit spoiled like me and wanted to get cleaned up, then you went to bed at two a.m. But I don't want it to sound like I'm complaining. The last week was an experience of a lifetime.
Working for others brings a strong feeling of satisfaction. Which moment will you always remember?
There was one moment that I will never forget. There was everything in that moment: emotions, joy and sadness. A mother with two heavily malnourished and dehydrated children came to our office. A boy and a girl, 17 days old. She delivered them at home, full-term, and both babies started crying right after the delivery, which is a good sign. However, the mother stated that they were throwing up, had diarrhoea and refused to eat in the last two days. The children were apathetic, had a fever, dry mouths and tear ducts. Both children immediately needed a peripheral vein, antibiotics, water and hospitalisation. But what could we do? It was half past six in the evening and our improvised office was getting dark. So we took the tables and went playground in front of the school. We had a limited number of small cannulas. The first attempts are unsuccessful. Both children have very thin veins, which are also very fragile due to malnutrition, and the cannula easily breaks through. We manage to insert one in the boy. He gets antibiotics. It is more complicated with the girl. Each attempt is unsuccessful and we are running out of the cannulas. There are a lot of curious onlookers around us. They push one another and at one point one of them knocks the cannula out of Doctor Josiph's hand. It is useless. At that point, I lose it due to the fatigue and emotions. I get up and start yelling at the people around me in Czech. "Get out of here! All of you!" I don't care that they don't understand a word I say. Fortunately, an older man understood and became a supporter and protector and he didn't let anyone closer to me. Doctor Josiph was calm, he didn't move a muscle. And that's why I admire him. It was dark as we administered the last cannula, the girl's last chance. If we miss, it's over. However, Josiph doesn't want to give up, he rinses the cannula in disinfectant and tries it again and again, until he securely attaches it in the vein. With a light from a mobile phone, exhausted. My role can be summarised with the following words: hold, hand and give me a light. We are happy, we give one another high fives with the bloody gloves, smiling. But we both know that it's not over yet. The children need to go to a hospital. We only gave them time, little time. The completely resigned and maybe even illiterate mother might not even understand what Josiph has been explaining to her for many minutes. We get on a motorcycle that takes us to the edge of the village where the truck with the rest of team awaits us. Josiph recaps the whole case one more time and his calm story ends with the words: "We did our best, be god with them."
You are now back at home, how was it when you returned? Isn't it a bit uneasy to come back from a place where people get by with so little?
Everything in Africa is delayed. No-one takes time too seriously, so I wasn't even surprised. Everyone at home welcomed me as if I wasn't going to return, or as if I were gone for two years. I don't feel uneasy. People in Sudan don't know how we live here. Just like we don't know how they live. We have prejudice, fear and I don't know what else. Their lives are not like others. They are more complicated. But they don't complain. They don't want to run away to Europe. They live their lives with what they have. Sometimes maybe better than we do. And those of us who have seen it and experienced the difference, need to be grateful for what we have. I won't say what exactly, simply everything.
Every experience like that changes you a bit. Do you feel that something has changed? And what exactly?
I do. I got used to everything in the month. I don't try to solve everything, I simply take it as it comes. They are usually silly things. An hour-long traffic jam on the highway doesn't mean anything to me. A stinky toilet at the petrol station? So what! A WC is a luxury. Holes in the road? At least there is a road. So, that's how I think now, I enjoy small things. On the other hand, I don't think that long stays in Africa is the best that a spoiled European like me can do. One starts slacking in many areas. Such as hygiene, which seems useless when you are bathing in water that is dirty. When you live in an apartment with dozens of cockroaches and huge ants that are impossible to kill. When you have to leave trash out in the street because there are no trash cans. You simply have to resign and after a while, you are almost burnt out. So, one has to be careful with staying in such a country for a long time.
A lot of people are willing to help, to amend injustice, but there only few who actually have the strength to do something. Do you have any advice on where to start?
Don't talk too much about it, don't look for reasons why not to do it. Just do it. I signed up for Sudan about six months in advance, at a time when I had difficult third-year exams ahead of me, which older medics as well as lecturers warned us about. I reduced the time for preparation by one month and risked not passing the exams. I hated myself for that many times. I was afraid to depart for Africa. Everyone was warning me. My family, my girlfriend, even the doctor at the infectious disease department in Ostrava where I had all my immunisations done. And the result? The greatest experience and adventure of my life.
Martin Palička is a 23-years-old student in his third year at the University of Ostrava Faculty of Medicine. One of his initiatives is the foundation of an educational and charitable project for his classmates, friends, as well as the public called the Chocolate Heart. It was organised under the auspices of IFMSA, a student organisation. He has become more and more involved in the activities of this organisation and this year, he was elected the Local President of IFMSA CZ Ostrava. His internship was also made possible thanks to this organisation.
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Jim really enjoyed himself in NASCAR country. One of his favorite stops was at RCR Museum. I stayed in the truck with the puppers and told Jim he needed to take pictures for me. Well, he certainly took pictures. Lots of pictures. I made him choose the pictures that are going in this blog post.
The Richard Childress Racing Museum, located in Welcome, North Carolina, traces how an independent one-car team evolved into one of NASCAR's most successful organizations.
The museum hosts the largest collection of No. 3 Goodwrench Chevrolets, including the 1998 Daytona 500-winning car, the 1995 Brickyard 400 winner and each of the special paint schemes driven by Earnhardt in the All-Star races from 1995-2000.
This car helped RCR win their first two NASCAR Winston Cup Championships with Dale Earnhardt, in 1986 and 1987.
The late Dale Earnhardt appeared on a commemorative Wheaties boxes in conjunction with his induction into NASCAR's Hall of Fame in May 2010. Earnhardt was also featured on the Wheaties box in 1997 and is the first NASCAR driver to appear twice.
On February 20, 2000, Dale Earnhardt drove a new 2000 Monte Carlo at the Daytona 500 featuring the little devil, Taz. The car's paint scheme, based on the cartoon character, was used in Chevrolet's TV advertising campaign.
This paint scheme was the creation of pop artist Peter Max in 2000. Dale drove this car in six races and had two top 3 and four top 10 finishes. Kevin Harvick used this car to qualify in 2001 but crashed it in Turn 1 on the first lap.
Dale drove the No. 3 Oreo Chevrolet Monte Carlo to a second place finish in the 2001 Budweiser Shootout at Daytona. The paint scheme was part of a promotional program with Nabisco.
Jim is having such a good time.
In the fabrication room the bodies for the cars were created from flat pieces of sheet metal and hung on the chassis. This picture shows the roll cage.
On May 28, 2917 Austin Dillon earned his first career Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series victory in the Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte. Driving the Dow Salutes Veterans Chevrolet, Dillon returned the No. 3 Chevy to Victory Lane for the first time since Dale won at Talladega in 2000.
The Intimidator's Classic Black #3.
While sitting in the parking lot, one of the race cars they were working on back in the shop, was driven around the roads to test it out.
They use huge trailers to haul the cars from track to track.
And we couldn't leave without getting Jim a souvenir.
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As I reflect back upon my 10 years of being an acupuncturist, I am in awe of all that I have learned. I have learned from my patients, from my additional training since my graduate school in Traditional Chinese Medicine, and I've learned from my teachers and colleagues. The theories of TCM have … [Read more...] about What have I learned? Celebrating 10 years of insight in alternative medicine
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As women prepare to become mothers, those last few weeks can often feel like the most stressful. It's common for women to have gotten to the point where they truly believe that they will have a baby on their due date. Women know rationally that it's very unlikely, but they've said that date so … [Read more...] about Pre- Birth Meditation
The Gut & Immune System Connection
I recently held a seminar with Dr. George Nicoloff, who is board certified in Integrative Holistic Medicine. We were so excited to have over 60 people attend! We agreed to speak on the connection between the gut & immune system, as we know how deeply interwoven they are. We shared a lot of … [Read more...] about The Gut & Immune System Connection
How acupuncture can benefit breastfeeding: An encouraging testimonial
I was a patient at Acupuncture Healthcare after the birth of my second child. I was experiencing low milk supply after many efforts to prevent it, both pre-nataly and post-nataly. I went to great efforts to boost my supply including; Lactation Consultant visits (pre and post natal), herbs (pre and … [Read more...] about How acupuncture can benefit breastfeeding: An encouraging testimonial
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The postpartum time can be very challenging, from recovering from your birth to not getting enough sleep to having trouble with breastfeeding. Acupuncture can help. As an acupuncturist and a birth/postpartum doula, I am happy to talk with women about their specific situation and see if acupuncture … [Read more...] about How can acupuncture benefit breastfeeding?
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Former WWE superstar Edge has been cast as a villain in the upcoming season of The CW's The Flash. The Flash has some incredible momentum as it begins production on season 2. Along with the news that season 2 would see the introduction of other speedsters from the various alternate Earths which was teased in the season 1 finale.
We have been getting a lot of casting news recently as well as a teaser trailer showing a blue streak zipping through the streets of Central City. However the most exciting piece of news for me is that Adam Copeland, or Edge to us fans, has been cast as Atom-Smasher. Edge is one of my all-time favourite wrestlers. He is most definitely one of the best of the modern-era. His in-ring action is often stylish and exciting, beaten only by his amazing promo work. His promos are compelling and fantastically acted.
When he was villain, you despised him, when he was the hero you rooted for him. He was not only an impressive athlete and technical wrestler but he also had an undeniable screen presence. He made any segment he was involved in as dramatic and engaging as anything on HBO or AMC. He was forced to retire from in-ring action due to a neck injury that, should he have continued to wrestle would have put him in a wheelchair. His retirement came out of nowhere. He just got in the ring one day on RAW, in civilian clothing and emotionally announced that he has to retire. The shock and sadness of the fans in the arena was audible when he dropped the bombshell that he was leaving. The segment is still one of the most upsetting moments in history for WWE fans.
Although since then he hasn't disappeared from our screens. He has in fact pursued an acting career, appearing in Haven and Sanctuary. The movie production subsidiary of the WWE, WWE Films are currently working on a number of action and horror movies. They recruit actors from within featuring former and current WWE superstars. For example this year will see the release of Lockdown starring Dean Ambrose and Vengeance starring Big Show. As well as Interrogation which will star Adam "Edge" Copeland alongside C.J. Perry, who WWE fans will know as Lana.
According to Comicbook.com Edge will make his villainous debut in the premiere of season 2. His name was actually lifted from a hero in the comics. Here is The CW's description of Atom-Smasher:
"One of the most powerful enemies we encounter this season, Atom Smasher has come to Central City to kill The Flash. His incredible strength and ability to grow to enormous size makes him more than a match for Flash and the entire S.T.A.R. Labs team will have to come together to find a way to defeat him."
The award winning effects team working on The Flash will know doubt have a field day with that. Exciting times for fans of The Flash.


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September started out uneventful, hadn't read a book much on the first week, not even a sniff, well not until its second week. And turned out quiet of a reading streak for me. Who knew? I had a continuous hit reads, up to my last book for this month. And I have won a couple of books from giveaways I have joined it's really amazing. Without further ado, my September…
Books I've Read
What the Woods Keep – Katya de Becerra
A Blade So Black – L.L. McKinney
If The Dress Fits – Carla de Guzman
The Queen's Game – Carla de Guzman
Reviews for both If the Dress Fits and The Queen's Game
Trashy Romance Novel – Jacqueline E. Smith
The Weeping Books of Blinney Lane – Drea Damara
Daniel Daniels and the World's Worst Zoo – Robbie Yates
One Very Odd Teacher – Robbie Yates
The Assassin's Blade – Sarah J. Maas
Review Scheduled to be posted this October!
Love in Between – Mercy Jane Porquez Ballesteros
A Spark of White Fire – Sangu Mandanna
Goodreads Review | Blog Review
A total of 11 reads for this month is great! I had a lot of books read that turned out to be new favorites this month.
Around the Blog
- The Language of Thorns – Anna @ My Bookish Dream
- November 9 – Bree @ In Love & Words
- The Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy – The Book Corps
- Small Spaces – Kayla @ Books and Blends
- The Leading Edge of Now by Marci Lyn Curtis – Jen D Bibliophile
- Wildcard by Marie Lu – Kath
- Cheerleader by Kara Thomas – Amber @ Ambsread
- This Book Better Be Trending by Gretchen McNeil – Arrow Jameson
- Imagine Us Happy by Jennifer Yu – Kalina @ Kalina's Book Blog
- Hello, Universe by Erin Kelly – The Nerdy Side of the Queen
- Toil and Trouble Anthology from Booked All Night
- Starfish by Akemi Bowman from Drizzle and Hurricane Books
- The Last Wish of Sasha Cade – Cheyanne Young from Rose Book Blog
- What the Flower Says of Death by Danielle Koste from Wander With Jon
Discussion Posts & Memes
- Audiobooks – Yay or Nay?
- An interview with Ruth Ware – Ali @ I Wuv Books
- Representation Matters – Kaleena @ Reader Voracious
- Should an author generalize their works or should the reader do research instead? Aria @ Snow White Hates Apple
- 10 Things Nobody Told You About Blogging – ZaThinks
- Hidden YA Gems – Booked on a Feeling
- Reviewing ARC is Hard – Lily @ Sprinkle of Dreams
- Rating System from Bookish Rantings
- Blogging Do's and Don't from BookDragonism
- Why I am going to Start DNF-ing Books from Alexia @ The Bookworm Daydreamer
- You might be interested in this one form Zoie of Whiskey Away with Words… A Writers' Revelation
- This interesting blog survey result from Pages Unbound Reviews
- Shalini talks about negative reviews on her blog…
- Are we being too hard on our followers? see the post from Renard's World here.
- And this list that you should definitely check out from Shealea @ That Bookshelf Bitch, fall 2018: Asian sci-fi & fantasy releases.
Book Tags I Did
Unforgettable Bookish Memories
Blog Tours I Hosted
Reign of Mist – Helen Scheuerer
Eight Goodbyes – Christine Brae
What the Woods Keep – Katya de Becerra
A Blade So Black – L.L. McKinney
The Weeping Books of Blinney Lane – Drea Damara
A Spark of White Fire – Sangu Mandanna
Books I Got
from the giveaways I got
I won 2 books from The Nerdy Elite
- Broken Things by Lauren Oliver ARC
- My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry by Frederik Backman (yet to arrive)
I won 6 books from Harper Grae
- Ace of Shades – Amanda Foody
- Strange the Dreamer – Laini Taylor
- A Court of Frost and Starlight – Sarah J. Maas
- Red Rising – Pierce Brown
- The Lost Hero – Rick Riordan
- Truthwitch – Susan Dennard
A total of 8 books won. Thank you so much!
And I got these books for myself.
- I had these books in my TBR for the longest time and I had been hunting copies of it… Hunting Lila and Losing Lila by Sarah Alderson
- The Wrath and The Dawn and The Rose and The Dagger by Rene Adieh
October Goals?
- I really want to write more non-review posts for my blog.
- Read at least 8 books this month.
- I really want to hit the 10,000 visit mark in my blog this month. I don't know hahaha
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I was reading through the list of suggested topics for our second paper and the supply chain of chocolate and slavery caught my interest. I quickly did a Google search and got immediate hits involving the Ivory Coast. I recall reading a few articles in the past about this topic, but I never looked into it again. Therefore, I figured that the widespread use of child labor, and in some cases slavery, on West African cocoa farms would be an interesting case to research for my second paper.
I found an article from the Food Empowerment Project website, that is actually an organization who "seeks to create a more just and sustainable world by recognizing the power of one's food choices" (Foodispower.org). The article is titles, "Slaver in the Chocolate Industry," which discusses extremely harsh conditions that child are forced to grow up in. The article explains that some children end up on the farms because they need work and others are "sold" by their own relatives to traffickers or to the farm owners. The worst part is that it has been documented that traffickers often times have abducted young boys from small neighboring African countries to have them work on their farms. The article continues to describe the horrendous conditions and labor that occurs on these cocoa farms.
There are many companies that have been known to use chocolate produced by slave labor such as, Hershey's, Nestle, Kraft, Toblerone, and more. It appears that even these companies are aware that this is occurring in African countries where it is receiving its cocoa. It does not look as though any of these companies are taking extreme measures to fix this problem. In my opinion, this is extremely unethical as these companies should be responsible for all stakeholders that may be effected and in this case the children in Africa should be a main focus.


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My original motivation for learning how to code wasn't because developers were in high demand career-wise, or because there was a lot of support for women interested in tech.
My original motivation for learning was because I really, really wanted to create a mini social network for students working on civic engagement and social impact causes in their community, so that different student organizations working on similar non-profit-driven missions could connect and share resources and ultimately become *better* at what they were doing.
Incredibly, I signed up my first 300 users and created my first prototype of that site — a WordPress site with a Buddypress plugin — without knowing an ounce of code. I'd somehow convinced my freshman-year economics professor, Dr. Leachman, to be my advisor for a self-crafted independent study course on social networks and civic engagement, which in my mind validated the 8 hours a day I was spending working on the site. I was literally treating it like a full-time job, which was hilarious because in addition to balancing it with four other econ courses and a part-time job, I was also — again — in the unenviable position of not really knowing how to code.
What I mostly did, instead, was look at my WordPress files and guess at their functions. I'd change up CSS values, and google CSS snippets, but I didn't know that it would've been incredibly helpful to master CSS *selectors*. I'd move around text, and accidentally break PHP, and then hilariously call up my hosting company to ask them to reverse my changes by loading an older version of the database.
Ultimately, I probably spent much more time than I needed working on development features with a hammer instead of a scalpel, but reflecting back, I don't regret it, because it was so much fun — because:
A) In addition to installing an atrocious number of WordPress and Buddypress plugins, I was scheduling interviews with students, professors, and university staff, and learning about their goals and motivations, and trying to find buy-in where I could, and demo-ing my site.
B) People were truly excited about the potential for the social network to shine a light on student civic initiatives and local non-profits, and had lots of questions about why people would want to visit my site instead of Facebook, and loved the gamification features (which I installed using a Buddypress plugin). I got lots of buy-in from people who weren't sure where this social network was going, but were interested in getting aboard the ride.
C) I wasn't always able to figure out how to implement the suggestions people gave me, but I remember that it was thrilling — always — to make some small change and see it come live on the site.
Fast forward: I finally pick up a legit CSS and jQuery and WordPress book, and find it helpful for when I'm thinking up prototypes to A/B test at my job, where I'm having tons of fun trying to increase the rate of action-taking and sharing of meaningful progressive content.
Fast forward: I enroll in a 12-week Mon./Wed. evening front-end development course, have an incredible amount of fun learning with my fellow part-timer classmates, learn *that's* how HTML/CSS/JS files can work together to *run in one's localhost*, learn about how *filepaths* in HTML files work for the first time, and start taking the Chrome web console seriously as a debugger tool, and learn about how media queries are used for responsive design.
Fast forward: I pick up Bootstrap and Git (convenient because I end up using both for my job, where I've transitioned into doing front-end web development full-time), and discover that I *love* going to hackathons and learning from/working with/teaching other people.
Fast forward: I realize that I suck at javascript. I read Eloquent Javascript for the first time, but read it incorrectly — i.e. glancing at the solutions, skipping over the exercises, and not often fully comprehending the concepts I'm reading about: things like closure and hoisting and the unique treatment of the javascript "this." I take a class on Javascript, which introduces me to a whole new world of thinking in terms of objects and classes, and I severely regret the fact that I had zero interest in taking an introductory Computer Science course ("I don't want to have a career where I stare at a computer screen all day!" "I don't want to follow in my dad's footsteps!" "I probably won't be very good at it!") for the majority of my time in school.
Fast forward: I lose my initial, irrational fear of working with APIs.
Fast forward: I self-study Learn Python the Hard Way and Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming with Python course on Udacity, which — funnily enough — helps accelerate my understanding of javascript. From going through Django tutorials as well, I suddenly realize how little I know of regular expressions and creating models/databases and — in general — full-stack, back-end web development.
I am lucky enough to have a wonderful significant other and family and friends who support me, though, and who have helped me discover that learning programming together — i.e. reading a tutorial together and pair programming through exercises and projects — can be an incredibly helpful part of the learning process.
Current time: I feel the pressure of learning ALL THE THINGS.
Current time: I feel the pressure of learning ALL THE THINGS, but what I do have to show for it?
You know, this post was supposed to be about actionifying the news — i.e. using a website, in some way, to help people digest the terrible things happening in the news, and turn that outrage into positive action that can be tracked — step-by-step — and historically — through time. A timeline of real-time advocacy, if you will. That was my idea.
Somewhere, I think, my motivations got bogged down by the technicalities. And maybe that's okay. I've found that the more I learn, the more I see different languages and technologies tying together, and the more competent I'll be if I ever want to product manage and build out an incipient fleeting idea.
But I *am* starting to realize that maybe — just maybe — I need to take a deep breath, and not lose sight of the ultimate goal of mastering models-views-controllers or python or a particular javascript framework… the ultimate goal being, of course, the creation itself.
In this current world — where we have the option of choosing between Django vs. Rails and WordPress vs. Drupal and SASS vs. LESS and Twitter Boostrap vs. Zurb Foundation and Flask vs. Sinatra and MySQL vs. Postgres vs. MongoDB and AngularJS vs. NodeJS and Jekyll vs. Tumblr vs. WordPress vs. Blogspot vs. Ghost and etc. vs. etc. — let's not lose sight of the end users and the ultimate value added of our products.
After all, no one questions that Watsi runs on X technology stack when it raises enough money to cover the medical fees of thousands of people, or that Upworthy runs on Rails when it's able to shine million of views on formerly unknown inspiring people and projects, or that Nicholas Kristof's writings (no code!) on his New York Times blog raises thousands of dollars for out-of-sight causes, or that Everytown runs on Y technology stack when it raises enough donations to deliver over 2 million postcards against gun violence to policy decision makers, or that the technologies behind Avaaz, Change, and MoveOn.org for their petition tools and advocacy platforms are Q, R, and S.
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When Wyatt and Michelle leave for Chicago to attend the wedding of an old friend of Michelle's, Wyatt has no idea how close his beloved Domina is to the edge. While helping Wyatt battle the demons of his PTSD, Michelle has been trying to ignore her own issues, but the past refuses to stay buried and she soon finds herself spiraling out of control. More determined than ever to protect Wyatt from herself, Michelle tries to pretend everything is perfect with devastating results.
Wyatt can see that Michelle is losing it, but he doesn't know how to help her when she refuses to admit there's a problem. No longer able to deal with the pressure of pretending to be perfect, Michelle self-destructs. Wyatt is now faced with a bitter choice - leave the woman who owns his heart or start a long and arduous journey to rescue the other half of his soul from her own personal Hell.
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Dear Friend,
Normally I write brief notes to you but I was inspired to write this lengthy letter (perhaps my longest ever) after reading fellow blogger Neil Schindler's recent post that focused on my article about the value of the arts in helping us know one another. The arts? Well, here we go again.
There is quite a to-do about Hulu's new series, "The Handmaid's Tale," which portrays an America that's been taken over militarily by fundamentalist Christians. The men rape subjugated fertile women in the hope they will bear children on behalf of privileged women who cannot.
It's no coincidence that Margaret Atwood's story, first published in 1985, has found new life since the election of the supposedly (but not really) pro-Christian President Donald J. Trump. The TV series strongly hints that Trump's election is a repeat of the history that Atwood begs us not to repeat.
Adolf Hitler was democratically elected with the support of many fearful and/or faith-dead German Christians and despite the warnings of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who paid for his protest with his life. But I also wonder if Hitler won just as Trump did in America – because his opponents were deemed even more incompetent, unbelievable, disconnected and/or untrustworthy than he was.
Atwood is preaching what the 18th Century Irish statesman and philosopher Edmund Burke said: "Those who do not know history are condemned to repeat it." But he also said, "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."
Both of these statements were clarified for the 21st Century by Yale University historian Timothy Snyder on a recent episode of "The Daily Show." I don't have the space to summarize his remarks so I urge you to read the Yahoo story, watch the clip and then perhaps buy his book. After you see it you will understand what America may be on the verge of becoming.
Atwood and Hollywood raise an unsettling question: Could "good men" (i.e., Christians) find the courage to heed Bonhoeffer, remember history and prevent America from becoming Gilead?
The price is steep – a unity that demands we love others in the way Jesus has loved us. Loving sounds trite, perhaps even insulting. But loving ourselves and others corrects the lie that any individual or group among us is worthless. And once we realize how much we are worth, to each other and to God, it empowers us to be the good men and women who will stand up to tyranny.
I am grateful for "The Handmaid's Tale" because it warns American Christians that we aren't very good at loving and that we'd better get busy.
But that's not to say I wholeheartedly endorse this series. Far from it. Atwood and Hollywood are a match made in hell. Their cooperative effort proves the truth of the axiom, "Familiarity breeds contempt." Both are sufficiently "familiar" with Christianity and Christians to feel free to show contempt not just to individual Christians but also our faith. Their bias is leaking out of every pore.
A recent Maclean's commentary noted that, while white women might view the story's treatment of women as dystopian, it was a tragically real American experience for black women who, as slaves, were regularly raped by their "owners" and who have suffered innumerable injustices since slavery was abolished legally, if not always in fact.
That leads to a major difference between Atwood's book and the TV series. Atwood wrote about an America (a/k/a Gilead) where women of color are banished. They are not among the handmaids. In the TV series, however, women of color are among the handmaids, out of fear that the show would otherwise be deemed racist.
I find that interesting since racism is still so much a part of American life. As proof, just look what vandals recently did to LeBron James' home. What the producers may be saying, hypocritically, is that they don't want to stereotype all Americans as racist.
Why? They've stereotyped all Christians! Producers felt they had to adjust the story out of cultural sensitivity. So why not adjust it out of religious sensitivity?
Having rewritten one key element of Atwood's story, couldn't they also have altered the part about rape? Artificial insemination has come a long way since 1985. Couldn't they have utilized that method of impregnating women rather than to persist in portraying Gilead's Christian male elite as rapists? They kept that old story line, I fear, simply because it conforms more easily to their idea of who Christians are or might become.
If Hollywood and Atwood wanted to present a really scary, believable update of her book, they could have updated the enemy. We may be facing a far more sinister threat today from whites-only, racist, anti-government militias – a threat featured on a recent episode of the PBS program "Frontline." Click here to watch it.
No matter how the story is structured, some group will wind up being stereotyped and/or offended. But why work to find a believable enemy when you can simply pick on Christians, who are the easy, default choice when artists need a whipping boy?
When I watched clips from "The Handmaid's Tale" I thought: Wow, those red robes and white bonnets remind me of burqas. But Atwood and Hollywood don't have the "guts" – a/k/a the glaring stupidity – to portray Muslims in a bad light. Or Hindus, for that matter, who are doing some awful things to Christians in India these days.
Ask yourself what the reaction would be, here and abroad, if Atwood and Hollywood had portrayed America being taken over by any other religious group – let's say Muslim fanatics, who are a real threat elsewhere in the world and who encourage homegrown American terrorists to attack their fellow citizens.
Such a storyline might be a hit among bigots but the rest of us would be too embarrassed to watch it. Everyone in Tinseltown would immediately reject such a series as the worst kind of bigotry, and Muslim nutcases would use it as an example of why America deserves to be bombed into submission or out of existence.
But Christians worship a God who submitted to abuse rather than condemn his abusers – a God who tells us to love those who hate us. That gives Atwood and Hollywood the freedom to kick sand in the face of Christians.
Unfortunately, our lack of protest may convey the message that we are either too polite, too gutless, too disorganized and/or too accustomed to the abuse to stand up to it, which only serves to justify, in the eyes of Mr. and Mrs. At and Holly Wood, the contempt they have for us. They fail to see that our silence is a way to show them that we love them despite what they do to us.
"The Handmaid's Tale" also obscures a colossal blunder in the research Atwood claims she did. Fundamentalists comprise only a small percentage of all American Christians. If fundamentalists held anywhere near the kind of power that she warns against then the Moral Majority would still be with us. It would be our third political party by now.
A fundamentalist takeover as envisioned in "The Handmaid's Tale" thus would require some endorsement, verbally or tacitly, by the bulk of American Christians. That's a real stretch.
We may not be good at loving, but we have made progress as Jesus' followers. We have learned a lot about the horrors of racism, sexual abuse of minors and misogyny that have made headlines in modern America for decades. And increasingly, as investors, we are putting our money where our mouths are.
Our opposition to such tyranny might not be pretty, fancy, well-orchestrated or highly coordinated but I believe we would find a way to put our actions where we say our faith is. That's why God lavishes the Holy Spirit upon us, so that we can recognize truth and have the courage to defend it, despite the cost.
All God's blessings – Mark
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Frankenstein might want to weigh in on the release of a plan to provide a new body to a Russian man suffering from the rare muscle wasting disease, Werdnig-Hoffmann disease. Commentators speculate that the proposed fusion of "Mr. Valery Spiridonov, a 30-year-old computer scientist from Vladimir, Russia" to a donor body is unlikely to ever actually be performed due to the seeming unlikely odds that the technical challenges could be overcome. Nonetheless, this extreme experimental undertaking raises important ethical questions about how far to press the boundaries of surgery. At one time, hemicorporectomy surgery was proposed as theoretically feasible, and though the suggestion was laughed at initially, this procedure has now been done successfully multiple times, albeit with significant risk of mortality. If we are indeed embarking on a new path where the head of one living being can be transplanted onto another, we must attend to the underlying values that we ascribe to mind, body, and personhood.
In any transplantation and donation scenario, informed consent is a central concern. For convenience sake, I will consider Mr. Spiridonov the 'recipient' and the 'donor' to be the cadaveric body which would be attached. In truth, we could view the head as the donated organ and the torso with limbs the recipient, but that discussion is deferred for now. Is it possible for either the recipient or donor to provide informed consent to participate in such an endeavor? Certainly, if such an undertaking were to move forward, the risk of death for Mr. Spiridonov would be significant, but additional risks include a vast unknown as to what his lived experience might be once the surgery is completed. As for the donor, it requires some recognition that one's body would be put to such purpose. Furthermore, it seems likely to require the donor's family be willing to accept this plan as well. Though many donate their body to be used for scientific study, deceased organ donation allows for the vital organ to be implanted within a recipient's own body cavity. Where a whole body is concerned, particularly when the head and neck may be severed from the rest of the body, it seems reasonable to expect protest from loved ones. Although another head, face, and brain would be operating the donor body, would it not still be in many ways – the donor?
Discomfort seems likely to arise from the concepts related to embodiment – that we are in large part beings that exist and interact with the world through our bodies and elements of identity are intertwined with our physical selves. To transplant a head onto a different body, there is a complete disruption of the physical self. If we accept that the world is experienced in part by our bodies as well as our minds an alteration to this degree seems likely to cause an unimaginable distortion of one's selfhood.
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GREAT BRITAIN, June 2, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Faith-based schools in the UK are facing efforts by a homosexual activist group to ensure the schools' acceptance of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender lifestyles for their students.
Schools Out has called on the government to ensure the new Equality Act, which will prohibit any discrimination based on sexual orientation in the provision of goods and services, including education, will be fully enforced in the faith schools.
The organisation is also calling for changes to the education system that would emphasize the "culture and history" of LGBT people in school curricula.
Meanwhile, Catholic adoption agencies in Scotland are reacting to proposed legislation that would allow homosexual couples to jointly adopt children. The agencies are requesting an exemption allowing them to opt out of facilitating homosexual adoptions, should the measure become law. The Catholic Church has specifically condemned placing children in a homosexual environment, saying homosexual adoption must be considered"gravely immoral."
Under current Scottish law, only one member of an unmarried or homosexual couple can legally adopt a child. The Adoption and Children Bill would remove that restriction.
Stephen Small, from the St. Andrew's Children Society, told members of parliament the agency believes homosexual adoption could be damaging to already vulnerable children, reported The Scotsman.
"We still have an issue about the effects on children – especially those who have already had major disadvantage and discrimination in their lives, being placed with what we would still regard as an untested family situation."
Michael Mesarowicz, of St. Margaret's Children and Family Care Society, said there were "strong feelings" in the Catholic Church about the issue. "The Catholic Church has been very vocal about what they view is the right and proper family unit."
Scottish Cardinal Keith O'Brien condemned the legalization of homosexual adoptions when the measure was proposed last year, The Scotsman reported.
"Such a measure would distort the understanding of the family, cause harm to children and promote the status of homosexual relationships," Cardinal O'Brien said. "Homosexual unions are notoriously fragile and unstable, and the small number of homosexual couples living together make the suggestion that this measure would increase the number of potential adoptive parents unrealistic."
"To place children in such a situation is to put them in an environment that is not conducive to their full human development. This is gravely immoral and in open contradiction to the principle, recognised in the UN Convention on the rights of the child, that the best interests of the child, as the weaker and more vulnerable party, are to be the paramount consideration in every case."
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Artists often spend years struggling before they achieve success. Soul singer Sonny Knight spent half a century.
"I guess inside of us all we've got that dream that says something will happen that's good," Knight said.
In Knight's case, the dream never died; it just took its own sweet time coming true.
Now 67, Knight spent much of his life plugging away at small-time gigs with little-known bands, meanwhile earning his living as a truck driver. He recorded a couple of songs, had a brief top-40 hit in the 1970s. By the '90s, he was performing in nursing homes.
Then, three years ago, he began fronting a new band, the Lakers. Now he's playing places like South by Southwest, the Monterey (Calif.) Jazz Festival, House of Blues in Chicago, the Minnesota State Fair. He and the Lakers headlined a sold-out show at First Avenue and have performed in Spain and France.
Is he more successful now than he ever thought he'd be? "Absolutely," Knight said without hesitation. "By far."
Born in Mississippi, where he sang in church at an early age and "got used to standing up in front of people," Knight moved with his family to St. Paul when he was 7. By 15 he had a band, Little Sonny Knight and the Cymbals, that recorded a song in 1965 called "Tears on My Pillow." If the title sounds familiar, you're probably thinking of a more famous song of the same name by Little Anthony and the Imperials.
Knight interrupted his singing career at 18 to enlist in the Army. He spent three years in combat in Korea and Vietnam. "If I had to do it all over again, I'd think about it a little bit," he said, "but I'd do it again for my country, anytime."
After he was discharged, he joined an R&B group that came to be called Haze. They spent time in California and Delaware, played here and there, made the Billboard Top 40 with a recording called "I Do Love My Lady."
"The music was magic with those guys," Knight said. "I learned a lot and really enjoyed them."
But bigger gigs and a livable income proved elusive. "Money is hard to come by in this business," Knight said. Whatever they earned had to be split among about 10 band members. They would pool pocket change to buy food from convenience stores.
Members of Haze went their separate ways in 1979. Although Knight kept hoping they'd get back together, "it didn't work out like that." In the 1990s, Knight joined a trio called The Bachelors that played venues like nursing homes.
Then, three years ago, his fortunes changed. Knight landed a gig singing with Secret Stash Records, a Minneapolis label that had just compiled an album of reissued music from Twin Cities R&B bands of the '60s and '70s. Though Knight wasn't featured on the album, he was invited to join the revue-style concerts the label held to celebrate the album's release.
His performances went over so well that Secret Stash invited Knight to be the lead singer for the Lakers, a band the label had organized to record funk and soul albums.
"Everybody is half my age; I'm the old guy wherever we're at," Knight said. "I'm trying to keep up with these young cats and they want to do it like this, and I'm learning that way."
It's a steep learning curve and a physical workout. He can't be a "laid-back crooner," he has to belt out songs and jump around the stage.
"I'll do anything humanly possible to get people interested and enjoying our show," he said. "I'm up there to entertain, and I don't think I'm doing a good job if I'm just standing there blurting it out. I'm soaking wet by the time I get done."
He considers himself in good health and works out regularly. But he wears hearing aids after a lifetime of loud music and loud trucks. He uses an inhaler. He has some arthritis in his back. And thanks to what he's been told may have been exposure to Agent Orange in Vietnam, he suffers tremors in his hands so severe that he can't pick up a full glass of water without spilling it.
Not that he's complaining.
"I see a lot of my friends, they kind of give in to the aches and pains or the first heart attack," Knight said. "You're not too old to keep moving and doing what you want to do. Some people, I think, give up on that and I don't want to give up. I feel like I did when I was 15."


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Amazon Releases MP3 Clips Widget
I've been an Amazon associate for years and have yet to reap any rewards, however, I've always had fun playing with their new tools, from the Omakase ad widget to clicking on my own ads to (eventually) get an additional 5% off and now to testing their new MP3 clips widget.
Let's have some fun!
I Shot the Photo for a Nuveen Ad at Wrigley Field
The Art Director of Nuveen Investment's PR company (Fallon) contacted me a few months ago via e-mail asking if I'd be willing to let Nuveen use a photo I took at Wrigley Field last August for a print ad.
The photo was uploaded into my Flickr account and was well-tagged. I license all of my photos with a Creative Commons attribution non-commercial license, meaning that anyone is free to use the image with attribution, except for commercial purposes (I since changed this particular photo to all-rights-reserved to make it even more clear that I wasn't willing to give it away to Nuveen).
Although I suspect the photo has been on display since the beginning of the season (I'm told it is one of eight on display in the entry way of the skybox area near the ticket booth) I was finally notified today of its use and agreed to terms to license it for the rest of the season. I must say I'm very happy to report that the Creative Commons system works, I've made money from shooting a photo that was discovered on Flickr and never expected to, and even though the ad is pretty stupid, at least it's not above the communal urinal in the men's room.
An interesting aside, the original photo was in color and was taken during the Chicago Air & Water Show. The jet pictured in the original was rubbed out for the ad.
Facebook: By Adding This App, You Agree to Be Used in an Ad
This kind of caught me by surprise — I've never seen it — even in the small print of a Facebook App — where adding an application to your profile equivocates signing away your likeness to said app for use in an add on your friends' profiles. Here's my friend Patrick Neeman of Speaktech being totally USED and I wonder if he even knows it?
Is this unique to the "Friends for Sale" App being advertised here or is this a standard policy allowed by developers who build Facebook Apps? Seems a little much to me… What do you think?


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Country music singer Jake Owen and his ex-wife, Lacey, may have dissolved their marriage a little over two years ago, but that hasn't stopped them from being amazing co-parents to their beautiful daughter, Pearl.
The happy and healthy munchkin is clearly daddy's girl, and mama's little princess, as seen on both of her parents' respective social media pages.
RELATED: A country star's ex-wife finds love once again
The latest evidence of that has us smiling from ear to ear.
On Dec. 16, Lacey shared a precious video on Instagram that shows her now five year old tyke singing all of the lyrics to "Standing Tall" — a children's song inspired by the book, "I Am Yoga."
"I can stand up for you … I can stand up for peace" #spreadthelove#loveall #peaceandlove ✌🏼💛," Lacey captioned the photo, referencing the lyrics of the catchy tune.
As you can see in the clip above, Pearl, wearing what looks like a school uniform with a giant blue bow atop her head, appears to be imitating all of the movements to a music video while sitting in the back seat of her mama's car. While singing the words to the kid-friendly song, she clasps her two tiny hands together, then later takes a deep breath, which is exactly what the singer does in the YouTube video below.
How adorable is that?
It turns out that young Pearl isn't the only one introducing us to new songs, as her daddy is currently laying down some tracks for a new album.
The 36-year-old "Beachin'" singer, who recently left his record label, RCA, to sign with his publisher's Big Loud Records, posted a slide show on his Instagram page featuring him in the studio with headphones on.
RELATED: This country star's love for his daughter is the cutest thing ever
"Feels good to be making music again," he captioned the album.
Even though Jake is busy recording, he still makes sure get in some father/daughter time with his baby girl, who currently resides in Florida with her mom. As a matter of fact, in January, he'll play three back-to-back shows in the Sunshine State. For more info on Jake's upcoming tour dates, you can visit his website here.


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Ralph Rapson is the most influential Minnesota architect of the twentieth century. Architect, artist, furniture designer, and teacher, he has played a leading role in the development and practice of modern architecture and design, both nationally and internationally. Beginning in the late 1930s, at Cranbrook under Eliel Saarinen, Rapson became famous for his rapid, exquisite renderings and his creative reexamination of traditional furniture and housing forms. He also began a career-long involvement in architectural competitions and experimental programs that helped shape the future of modernism in America. In postwar Europe, his designs for nine U.S. embassy projects established a new international model for the American embassy abroad.
In 1954 Rapson assumed leadership of the University of Minnesotas School of Architecture, beginning a thirty-year tenure that would transform not only the school itself but the standing of the design profession within the state.
Over sixty years and against the tides and assaults of architectural fads and fashion, Ralph Rapson has maintained a consistency and commitment to the basic and best principles of modern architecture, unswervingly and without distraction. He has never lost sight of the larger questions of architectureits potential for community betterment and enrichment of the human experience.


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Artists craft all kinds of amazing creations. The talent of each artist it unique, which brings a special kind of experience which is to each his own, and it's a beautiful and magical thing. Whether it is painting, sculpture, music, or even writing, to surround and submerge oneself in someone's brilliant work of art is delightful.
Robert Gonsalves is an artist who works wonders with his talent, and instead of painting regular things which are regularly encountered, he makes his very own special creations by adding optical illusions with the traditional art forms. His paintings will definitely blow your mind, and will have you look at it at least twice, just to try to understand what you are looking at. Or to comprehend if what you saw was what you thought you saw. When you look at his work, you'll understand that it obviously requires a tremendous amount of skill and patience to create.
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State Officials Grant Extension Due to Long Lines, Voting Equipment Technical Difficulties
In an historic mid-term…
This non-partisan effort in Missouri, organized by Advancement Project's national office, a leading voter protection organization, is part of the nation's largest Election Protection program, designed to assist any voters with questions or issues on Election Day.
The groups condemn all acts of hate and urge all victims and witnesses of hate to document their incidents.
Organizers Move to Ensure Access to Ballot Under New Law
Quite simply, Missouri has failed to put its money where its mouth is. Because of that, the Court is going to allow this case to go to trial. We look forward to our further day in court."
"Xenophobia, racism and anti-semitism in the United States is more than just a concept. It is real."
Advancement Project's national office is suing the state of Florida seeking a statewide extension of the voter registration deadline to Tuesday, October 16.
Today, a jury found Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke guilty of second degree murder and 16 counts of aggravated battery with a firearm in the murder 17-year-old Laquan McDonald in 2014. Advancement Project's national office released the following statement:
Our new report shows a link between the numbers of Returning Citizens and lower-income levels, employment and education rates, and higher child poverty rates in Black neighborhoods
Changes to Public Charge Could Put Health and Immigration Status at Risk for Millions
Sheila Thomas was a staunch civil rights advocate who refused to sit on the sidelines.


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Tomorrow is Super Tuesday, and in addition to the presidential primary, there are a number of other issues on the ballot. Please remember to vote!
This year voting is being done a little differently. Ballots and booklets on the propositions were mailed out a few weeks back. A number of locations have been open for dropping off ballots for awhile. If you aren't sure where to go, please check the Santa Clara County Registrar of Voters website. Or phone them at 408-299-8683.
There are two types of locations: some are drop off only, and others are voting locations.
Ballot Drop Box locations in and near Los Gatos include these:
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- Los Gatos Town Hall
- Monte Sereno City Hall
- Saratoga City Hall
- Saratoga Library
- West Valley College Fox Center
- Campbell Library
- Vineland Branch Library (Cambrian)
Vote Centers – locations where you can actually vote and not simply turn in your ballot
- Los Gatos Lodge – El Gato Room
- The Pavilion at Redwood Estates
- Belwood Cabana Club (east Los Gatos)
And MANY other locations – please check the link above for the complete list.


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