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Off to Goodison Park for a midweek clash with David Moyes' Everton, a team that started red hot and is suddenly struggling for results. This fixture always makes for an interesting tactical battle and with both teams experiencing a dip in form I expect high drama once again. Everton have uncharacteristically for a change, started the season really well and sit just above us in 5th place. Winning this game would mean moving up the table and potentially boosting our morale for the relatively light run we have into the end of the year before all hell breaks loose in January with our rather frightening match schedule.
Everton will unfortunately be able to rely on the services of their well rested and fully fit attacking midfield beast Fellaini, who's just returned from a suspension but they are missing several key players in Coleman, Mirallas and their stalwart captain Phil Neville. This season they have favoured a similar formation and strategy to our own in that they play in a 4-4-1-1 and like to attack down the flanks, particularly the left wing of Baines and Pienaar. Their winger and fullback duos are very aggressive and favour overlapping runs and triangles with Fellaini in order to create space for crossing opportunities, something our fullbacks will have to be very aware of as they create many scoring chances from these crosses. Everton have a tough physical midfield that likes to keep possession in the opponent's half with short sharp passing and constant lateral movement, testing the defense on both sides. In this game however they may be slightly more predictable without being able to field their usual right wing duo of Coleman and Mirallas which could make them far easier to defend against by focusing their attack only on the left. They are in a sense, very much like Arsenal in that they have a brilliant starting eleven but lack the depth to play convincingly when one or two of their starters are out injured. One thing we will have to be very mindful of is conceding silly, pointless freekicks in dangerous areas as Everton have scored 22% of their goals this season from set pieces and given our weakness at defending them, this is a very real threat. They are also not at all shy about having a go from range, the majority of which come from their central midfielders so our defense will have to stay alert and close down players before they have an opportunity to shoot.
From an attacking point of view, Arsenal will be best off attempting to press their midfield, not easy with the likes of Fellaini and Osman in the center but if we do not and we allow Everton time and space on the ball, it will go very badly for us. Everton's main weakness is the high defensive line they like to play. With Baines and Coleman always pushing up this allows for wingers to beat the offside trap often and a clever center forward making lateral and diagonal runs may be able to pull their Center Backs out of position and allow a midfielder to run into the space created between them, something a player like Wilshere excels at. Theo Walcott who's been pronounced fit once more for this match will be against it vs Leighton Baines who's probably the best left back in the league but this may still prove to be the best avenue for our attacks. He has the pace to beat their high offside trap and his wide runs should help to really stretch the isolated center backs and create scoring opportunities for Giroud, Cazorla and Wilshere. Given that this match will most likely be decided by this battle on our right wing it is critical that both Sagna and Walcott start as their chemistry makes for one of the best pairings in the league and our best hope of gaining this tactical edge.
The combination of Gibbs and Podolski on the left is more of a lucky dip attack avenue as lately with Podolski you're never sure what you're going to get. The fact that Vermaelen was rested for the match vs Aston Villa suggests to me he may well start at left back in this one, particularly since Gibbs is still returning from a lengthy injury and probably still lacks match fitness after playing just 3 days ago. I think the biggest worry for Arsenal however is how fatigued Cazorla and Arteta will be for this match, both looked quite lethargic vs Villa and now just 3 days later they face a much sterner test. Arteta will undoubtedly be out under constant pressure by Fellaini and it may prove disastrous for us. We may see early subs for either player in the form of Ramsey and Coquelin and if we're really lucky our little Mozart Tomas Rosicky, who's fresh returned from a long injury spell and it will be interesting how these players fare in these key positions. Overall I remain cautiously optimistic of our chances given that we have a better track record against Everton than pretty much any other team in the Premier League and although Everton can be tenacious, our players always seem to be up for this one, home or away.
Everton Dangermen: Fellaini, Jelavic, Baines, Pienaar, Jagielka
Result Prediction: With the disappointing result vs Aston Villa the players will really want to prove themselves and coupled with our results history against Everton and the spirit we usually display against them I'll say a tight win for us in a real nail biter, 2-1 Arsenal.
Predicted Lineup: Szczesny, Sagna, Mertesacker, Koscielny, Vermaelen, Walcott, Wilshere, Arteta, Podolski, Cazorla, Giroud
Conclusion: Everton will bring it, they always do. They will look to attack us through the wing of Baines and Pienaar with support from Fellaini, befor whipping in crosses for Jelavic. They will also try to punish us from set pieces and corners. Arsenal will try to press back their midfield and nullify Fellaini's man marking of Arteta while playing triangles through Cazorla and the wing of Walcott and Sagna. Giroud will make lateral runs to both stay onside and pull their Center Backs out of position for Wilshere and Cazorla to run into the channels of space created. Wilshere's involvement both in attack and defense is key in this match.
We may well get a really pleasant and welcome suprise by seeing Tomas Rosicky back in the side today off the bench and this would do wonders for our season ambition as well as finally allowing Santi Cazorla some rest! Time to get behind the team and listen to those crazy away fans of ours again, Come On You Gunners!


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Here is the next summer feature from North Carolina Newspapers in Education. These features were developed by NC NIE based on themes chosen by the national Collaborative Summer Library Program. For more information visit http://www.cslpreads.org/
Each feature offers an activity that relies on news and information. Headings for each activity focus on one of the themes: One World, Many Stories or You are Here. The features also direct readers to public libraries to learn more. Thank you to N.C. NIE for sharing!
To download a printable copy, click on the following link: http://legacy.grandforksherald.com/pdfs/04-A%20Telling%20Story.pdf
Here are some links to local libraries:
Grand Forks Public Library http://gflibrary.com/
Campbell Library in East Grand Forks http://www.egf.mn/index.aspx?NID=185
UND Chester Fritz Library http://library.und.edu/

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Robert Muggah
Robert Muggah is a co-founder and research director of the Igarapé Institute, a leading think and do tank in Brazil. He is also co-founder of the SecDev Group and SecDev Foundation, digital security and risk analysis groups with global reach. He is affiliated with Singularity University, the University of British Columbia, the Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, the University of Oxford and the University of San Diego. He's also given talks with TED, TED Global, the Web Summit and the World Economic Forum in Davos. He earned his PhD from the University of Oxford.


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Last week, the newly elected Quebec Premier Francois Legault and his party the Coalition Avenir Quebec introduced legislation to raise the minimum age from 18 to 21 in Quebec to consume and purchase all cannabis products. The bill will also ban the consumption of all cannabis products in all public spaces including parks and playgrounds.
This is a huge change from all of the other premiers and provinces who have linked drinking age to cannabis consumption age even though medically they are completely different products.
Quebec is finally the first government to justly act to protect teenagers from the impact of marijuana on the development of their brains. The minimum age to buy and consume recreational marijuana should be set at 21 across Canada. Every other premier should be acting as quickly and swiftly as Premier Legault to raise the age to 21.
There is no question the legalization of pot has created economic opportunities for many Canadians and the intention of pot legalization is to put the criminals and black market out of business. But there are many questions about the impact of pot on the developing brain of people under 25.
Some medical studies have found that even light use of marijuana — smoking pot once a week — may cause structural changes in the size and shape of two brain regions. The study titled "Cannabis Use is Quantitatively Associated with Nucleus Accumbens and Amygdala Abnormalities in Young Adult Recreational Users" was published April 2014 in The Journal of Neuroscience.
Since then there have been other studies that show casual use of marijuana may be related to major brain changes. We know our brains are still developing until we reach the age of 25. Putting the age limit at 21 is actually just a political compromise and still setting the age too low.
There is a reason car rental companies do not rent cars to people under 21 and charge an extra fee to drivers under 25. Your brain is still developing, and you make decisions differently.
Why can Avis or Budget act in the best interests of our young people while our governments rush to make drugs available to our kids?
Ontario Premier Doug Ford is himself newly elected. He and the other premiers should consider a more phased-in and gradual approach than what happened this past October.
Set the age limit at 21 immediately as a pilot project, fund studies from the sales of marijuana provincially and if everything goes well you can lower the age later.
"Science and research support a higher (age) limit," Andrew Murrie, CEO of MADD Canada, told me in an interview last spring. "And there should be national standards. Ten different provinces will give you 10 different sets of ages and regulations, which gives you 10 different sets of problems."
Murrie supports strict provincial controls to regulate "grow your own pot" operations, access to minors and the sale and distribution of legal weed.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said in the fall that increasing the legal age could undermine one of his key aims: eliminating the black market.
I would think the police and our judicial system should be used to get rid of the black market instead of treating 19- and 20-year-olds as marijuana guinea pigs.
The Premier of Quebec made a bold and powerful political statement this week by acting to product young people in his province. A minimum age of 21 is the best possible way to protect our youngest and most vulnerable generation of Canadians and it should be set to 21 across the entire country.
Jim Warren is a Liberal strategist who previously worked for Toronto Mayor Mel Lastman and Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty.


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Henry Jenkins gave the closing keynote at the International Communications Association Latin American Conference in Santiago de Chile two weeks ago. His talk was titled "From Participatory Culture to Participatory Politics by Way of Participatory Learning." This post contains live notes by @schock w/additional links by "mariel." If you'd like to see Jenkins speak IRL, he'll be in town this weekend for Futures of Entertainment 6.
What is participation?
Jenkins wants to take us on a trajectory of thinking about what we mean by participation. It's a term he's used throughout his career, but also has been shifting in its cultural and academic resonance over time. He'll link participatory politics, culture, and learning.
The first slide is from #OWS. Jenkins arrived at Zucotti park, and 100 zombies came off the bus; they decided to join #ows after coming to NYC for a zombie convention. Jenkins thinks Zombies became a central metaphor to #ows: undead corporations that were kept alive by the blood and sweat of the 99%. It's not a coincidence: other cultural figures could have showed up, but zombies were key. As Jenkins walked around, he also saw fans from other media franchises: Game of Thrones, V for Vendetta masks. He saw people from occupy sesame street, complaing that 99% of cookies went to 1% of monsters. Many people were taking pictures; the figures, much like cosplayers in Tokyo, were there to be photographed. There was a sense of play, spectacle. OWS was a provocation, a desire to change discourse, as much as it was a desire to change politics in the traditional sense. If the goal was to change discourse, the strategy involved producing, remixing, circulating media of all kinds.
Linking conversations about participatory culture and politics
Someone like Stephen Duncombe might say that this was 'ethical spectacle.' Jenkins thinks it was a new kind of politics, participatory, linked to participatory democracy. We [media scholars] are finally having conversations with those scholars who write about participatory democracy. Jenkins notes Nico Carpentier's work on media, participation, and politics.
Participatory Culture
Jenkins shows us his previous definition of participatory culture, from a report his team created for Macarthur: Key elements include low barriers to participation, strong support for sharing, informal mentorship, members who feel that their contributions matter, and who care about others' participation. Participatory cultures reward participation. 'Not everyone must participate, but everyone must believe that if they participate it will be valued.'
We can make a distinction between 'lurkers' who could participate but don't, and those who don't have access to participation.
Jenkins thinks that it's also important to focus on technology access, and a participation gap that extends across experiences, knowledge, skills, and mentorship. All of these are structured by inequality, and all are determinative of who gets to participate. In other words, underlying the discussion of participatory politics are struggles over democracy and inequality.
Pedagogical implications of cultural participation
When Jenkins arrived at MIT, Seymour Pappert had just written a paper about Samba schools in Brazil as a model for pedagogy. Students kept coming to him with this metaphor. More recently, Jenkins finally has made it to visit these samba schools in Brazil, to see what Pappert was talking about. Jenkins shares a quote from that article, about what it's like to drop in at a Samba School on a typical Saturday night:
"If you dropped in at a Samba School on a typical Saturday night you would take it for a dance hall. The dominant activity is dancing, with the expected accompaniment of drinking, talking and observing the scene. From time to time the dancing stops and someone sings a lyric or makes a short speech over a very loud P.A. system. You would soon begin to realize that there is more continuity, social cohesion and long term common purpose than amongst transient or even regular dancers in a typical American dance hall…"
Pappert continues, describing the function of the Samba school, which is to prepare people for participation in Carnival. "People come to dance, but are also participating in the choice and elaboration of the theme of the next carnival."
So the schools create a context that facilitates participation. Pappert argued for the crucial importance of people present in a face to face location, with an openness to all skill levels, from young kids to experienced dancers. All are part of the gathering. In other words, the schools provide a structured context for informal learning. Sometimes the mode of interaction is more didactic, other times more informal, but the point is that anyone can participate.
Pappert wanted to think about how to transfer the Samba School learning style to other areas: mathermatics, computer programming, grammar, etc. This in large part has been the point of Macarthur's investment in this area.
Jenkins shows an image of NY library digital learning area that is designed to allow this kind of fluid knowledge and skill sharing. He emphasizes that digital media in this space don't displace print media: print checkouts have increased a great deal. People come together to learn digital skills but also hang out, browse books, and so on.
Another image of a samba school, more recent: women on the sidelines, with cell phones, connecting to their networks. So the Samba school is also a 'virtual environment.' On the day Jenkins visited, it was valentines day, so people are dressed in various costumes, messaging friends and loved ones.
A third image: 'participation police' who march through the crowd dressed as authorities, looking for people who are not dancing. Jenkins got nervous since he's not a good dancer… but they gave him a colorful shirt, which allowed him to participate without needing a high skill level 🙂
Participatory Culture is Latin American
So ultimately, what draws Jenkins back to Brazil is the fusion of folk traditions and emerging digital media. Mass media in the North was (in theory) displacing folk cultures, while in Latin America, perhaps less so, since there was more hybridity.
He shows a slide with stills of YT videos created by youth from different favelas, who can connect virtually in ways they can't physically. Melissa Brough is looking at hip hop activism in NYC, and mediated spaces that serve a similar function.
Next: a slide of Mardi Gras Indians. George Lipsitz talks about Mardi Gras in NOLA as a reflection of "resource poor, network rich" African American communities. Lipsitz: these networks were profoundly disrupted by Katrina. Social networks help people maintain community; Katrina damaged that support system.
Jenkins shows a slide with the '4 cs' of participatory culture: connect, circulate, create, collaborate. Of course, these flow into each other and can't be isolated.
Guy Fawkes Masks and #OWS
Jenkins shows a line drawing of the Guy Fawkes movement, which tried to blow up Parliament. The state tried to make it a bogeyman. By the 18th-19th century, popular movements reappropriated GF for protest. Then, Alan Moore wrote V for Vendetta, the comic series that critiqued Thatcher regime. The film version is produced in the early years of Bush Admin, and widely read in the US as a critique of post 911, patriot act america. On YouTube, there are endless mashups and remixes incorporating Bush, Blair, and other actors in the war on terror. The subtext becomes prominent in these.
The next step is the move to 4chan. Henry provides a bit of an overview of the history of 4chan. Whitney Philips of U Oregon just wrote a diss about 4chan as digestive process: consume everything, and produce poop for the rest of the internet. 4chan experimented with Joker imagery from Dark Knight Returns. Joker Obama "Why so Socialist?" got picked up by the Tea Party and widely circulated.
Simultaneously, Anonymous comes out of 4chan, and anons use the Guy Fawkes mask to protest the Church of Scientology. When #ows comes along, the GF mask has become a current symbol of protest; occupiers appropriate the mask. There's then pushback: since WB has rights to the guy fawkes mask, every purchase of the mask supports one of America's largest media congolmerates. This is a rich instance of the process by which Cultural symbols get appropriated and transformed through processes of participatory politics.[sc note: for more on this topic, take a look at Molly Sauter's article on Guy Fawkes Mask-ology]
Circulation vs. Distribution
Henry's next book includes a differentiation between circulation and distribution. Distribution is what Warner Brothers does. Circulation is what networks do, as they take and share media content, and move it from one place to another. Of course, circulation is partly determined by distribution, but it also includes unauthorized distribution. Jenkins uses 'unauthorized' rather than 'pirate' in order to avoid debates about morality and legality. Although, he argues that rights holders also benefit enormously if they lower the cost of transmission by taking advantage of grassroots circulation.
Pepper Spray Cop
Next example is Pepper Spray Cop meme. He describes the background of the pepper spray event on Saturday; by Monday there were hundreds of mash ups; Pepper Spray Cop became an icon of #ows. Remix and circulation.
Binders of Women
This week, there's been an even faster turnaround. On CNN, after the debate, commentators didn't even mention this line. On twitter, within 20 seconds, it had begun. bindersofwomen.org was registered, @romneysbinder existed, and thousands of mashups were produced overnight. Yesterday, Obama used the phrase "Romnesia," and within 24 hours there were many mashups being circulated.
Henry described these processes in Convergence Culture as the equivalent of political cartoons. This is a wider use of that approach by grassroots communities.
The Cure for Viral Media
The news media would describe this as "viral media." Jenkins loathes this phrase: we've fought for 30 years over the agency/structure debate; 'viral' throws agency out the window.
Neal Stephenson produced the 'viral media' meme in Snow Crash: irrational, self replicating information; we're hosts of information we don't control. Henry thinks this completely strips away the social and political agency of those who participate in political remix. People choose to make, pass on, circulate these kind of texts; if we stay with a 'viral' metaphor we don't ask important questions about agency, motive, and so on.
Just as Spreadable Media went to press, #Kony2012 happened. Henry asks the audience who knows about it; half raise their hands. He notes that internet culture travels through certain circuits, may not be known beyond subcommunities, although they are massive.
Jenkins now summarizes the goals of Kony2012. Invisible Children thought they'd reach .5 million viewers, eventually. Instead, it blew up rapidly. He shows the bar chart "Viral Video Campaigns that reached 70 million views most quickly:"
Kony2012 took 4 days to reach 70 million viewers. You could add together the top box office from Hollywood and the most popular TV series at the time, and you don't get to 70 million.
IC was unprepared for the level of coverage they got. HJ isn't saying he supports their message – there are many valid criticisms. But the rapid sucess overwhelmed IC, and produced the nervous breakdown of one of the organizational leaders.
Next he shows SocialFlow (gilad lotan) visualization of Tweets about #kony2012
This graphic is from this post: http://blog.socialflow.com/post/7120244932/data-viz-kony2012-see-how-invisible-networks-helped-a-campaign-capture-the-worlds-attention.
What it shows us is that the drivers of circulation of the video were from much smaller towns – Dayton, Ohio, Birmingham, Alabama. Circulation may empower communities that were off the cultural radar before. Jenkins shows a picture from Lucerne, Switzerland, of a hanging banner that reads Kony2012. He notes that the Ugandan president responded.
Of course, there was the Slacktivism critique: "Watch 30 minute vieo on internet –> become social activist" image macro:
The second video IC released, was watched by 2 million viewers. This seems small compared to 70 million; but it's much greater than IC's original goal of reaching .5 million. Any PR firm would say this is a massive success.
Macarthur Youth and Participatory Politics network
Henry is working with a team of grad students who have been doing ethnographies of innovative groups. They were already familiar w/IC. He wants to highlight some additional examples. For example, the Harry Potter Alliance uses the storyworld of HP to mobilize fans around the concept "What Would Dumbledore Do." They try to apply ethics from the HP world to real world activism. Currently, fan activists are fighting to get Warner Brothers to use fair trade chocolate.
These groups bridge between participatory culture, participatory politcs, and institutional politics. There's a network effect: interest driven networks and friendship driven networks are linked through overarching metaphors and structures, identify causes and issues, model forms of activism, and broker relationships to other, existing organizations. HPA links to NGOs, foundations, labor groups, etc.
None of this looks like Gladwell's 'twitter revolution.' Gladwell compares the civil rights movement in the 1960s with a technology, twitter. To do that, we'd have to compare the use of telephones by the civil rights movement to the use of twitter today. We'd never say 'the telephone was the essence of the civil rights movement." The same would be true today. Twitter, YT, mashups, are all tools, used in a broader context.
We see this in Arely Zimmerman's work on the DREAM activists. He shows a still from Coming Out as Undocumented on YouTube: a risky strategy, in the context of an Obama administration that has deported more people than the Bush administration.[sc note: here's a link to my presentation on this topic at the same conference in Santiago: http://prezi.com/user/schock – http://prezi.com/m7fwn46a6s1n/dreaming-out-loud-transmedia-activism-by-undocumented-youth/ ]
DREAMers are linking civil rights tactics with new media tools, livestreams, YT, etc.
Heny ends with a few final thoughts, then opens it up for Q&A.
How do we move from information to meaningful action, and avoid the critique "Kony2012: proving that 99% of youtubers believe exactly what a video tells them?"
How do we move from anecdotes to more systematic knowledge? Macarthur has done a national study of youth, available for download here: Youth and Participatory Politics: a National Survey.
New forms of media literacy are vital: we have to help people gain skills of critical reception. DREAMers know very well that they'll be attacked online. IC wasn't prepared for the attacks. So these are important skills that have to be fostered.
Carolina Avila de Ecuador: My line of interest is in politics. In Ecuador movements and parties are both strong. But to talk about spontaneous organizations, they have to be organized. There's a situation of student movements: how can movements of this type deal with the population that says "you are no longer what you were before, you have to deal with t
Henry: I've discussed the adhocracy of fan communities. Informal networks, that create fan fic, fan vids, very speedy process. HPA begins to organize that process, and link it to more established organizations. You have to demo credibility at that moment of transition. There's a long history of outside agitators coming in to fan cultures. Andrew Slack has to prove he's a HP fan. So far, our case studies haven't really seen a full on movement. You might say DREAMers are close to being a movement. We're skeptical of big organizations. Our case studies don't take us to the point you're describing. It's one thing for women to quickly rally and put up a bindersofwomen tumblr, or mansplaining Paul Ryan. It'd not clear how these translate to Get Out the Vote, but it does create a counterdiscourse.
sc: what if we start from social movement media practices? Where do we start looking for participatory politics?
Henry: there are many teams who are doing this work through different lenses. [He name checks a series that I couldn't capture quickly enough].
Henry's team is ethnographic. They are looking at DREAM activists, libertarians, etc. They found that DREAMers have appropriated Superman, for example, because superman renounced his citizenship. Right wing got mad. DREAMers said 'when was Superman a citizen? he arrives undocumented, is adopted by an Anglo familiy, etc.' DREAmers aren't all comic book fans, but some were. My sense is: yes. If you look at any movement today, it will follow some of these tactics. We did a special issue of transformative works and cultures on fan activism. [ http://journal.transformativeworks.org/index.php/twc/issue/view/12 ]
There's something about defining your id as a fan activist, appropriation of pop culture, that's different than volunteerism that college students do for a line on their resume. There's something powerful about affective identification with a fan community.
Q: Kiara Sáez universidad de chile. Would like to ask, in regard with the dimension of education, communication, and participatory politics in samba schools in Brazil: Do you, in your theoretical framework, look at latin american authors who have approached this in the 1970s? Paolo Freire, Beltran, other authors who maybe intersect w/popular culture while focusing more on development. They understood the fundamental role of popular communication in the social.
HJ: I forgot my last slide! [it's a giant picture of Paolo Freire ] [audience laughs]. Freire's work is fundamental for understanding participation in education. It's been less visible in the DML network than it should be, partly because Freire's language is overtly Marxist, and teachers and librarians struggle with how to apply it. But I've been reading his work closely. Quote: "Education … as an instrument .. to facilitate integration of the younger generation into the logic of the present system and bring about confirmity, or it becomes the practices of Freedom…"
Q: Patricia Peña from uC: what is the challnege when we talk about a culture of play? Learning that goes further than the formal? How do you manage the ludic, and integrate it into eudcation?
HJ: The Macarthur whitepaper describes the implications of participatory culture for education. We described 11 core competencies that schools should support. The ludic is key to that. We know call our whole project PLAY, and it's designed to create a ludic climate in the classroom at all levels. We have whitepapers coming out on my blog. The 4 cs will also come out shortly. I'm very focused on this.
I also want to distinguish, following Nico Carpentier, between participation through the media and participatry media. YT is not a democratic institution. But, a group like the DREAMers or OWS can effectively communicate through YT. Our team has monitored Twitter and YT; there are more than 10,000 Ows related videos. This commercially owned side was used as a distribution channel for their content. This is different than, say, Fox News. Both are corporate controlled, but Occupiers can't ciruclate things through Fox.
We need to distinguish between a participatory movement, like occupy, a channel, like YT, and a broadcast network that makes it difficult for anyone to participate. On the other side: fandom, that poaches text from broadcast to make it participatory. I'm trying to hold on to my deep believe in agency.
Q: Silvia Pellegrini, PUChile. We're talking lately here about mobilizations. You've described a new form of politics. Still, the participation we've seen can be good, or have problems. We need a new literacy to enter, in a competent form, to this culture. My question: is a new type of literacy necessary, that goes further than our current system? Second question: what can we do in that direction.
HJ: Participatory culture isn't necessarily more civil. We encounter racism, misgyny, homophobia, overtly. Existing political institutions have checks on these, which grassroots groups don't necessarily have. We're seeing hostile, destructive, reactionary uses of these tools, for example around immigration. this is not the end battle. We need to build the capacity for everyone to participate, and also move towards better, shared ends. Participatory doesn't necessarily mean democratic, or progressive. Ethan Zuckerman has the Cute Cat Theory: any tech that lets us exchange cute cats can help us bring down a governemnt. I would add: any platform that lets us post immigrant rights videos also will be used to post anti-immigrant videos. Fiske says; technologies are platforms for battles. Sites of struggle.
In our framework, negotation is a core skill. It's the ability to move between communities. It's a central theme of our work around literature, in a book called reading and participatory culture: remixing moby dick. It will have a digital book developed by annenberg innovation lab. How do we use fiction to talk about norms, civility across communities, etc. It's a step in the right direction, but only a step towards diversity as we foster more participatory culture.


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I am wont to think that I could spend my days contentedly in any retired country house that I see; for I see it to advantage now and without incumbrance; I have not yet imported my humdrum thoughts, my prosaic habits, into it to mar the landscape. What is this beauty in the landscape but a certain fertility in me? I look in vain to see it realized but in my own life. If I could wholly cease to be ashamed of myself, I think that all my days would be fair.
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Comparing and contrasting are key skills in language. Synonyms and antonyms are an easy, language-building approach to learning comparing and contrasting. It also helps build vocabulary when students realize that there is not only one antonym for each word, that words aren't simply paired together, but actually massive families of similar words. Have your K-5 students look at some of these worksheets on have fun teaching to see which words they can identify as opposites.


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'War is Hell!' And in Outer Space it's even worse.
Fighting in weightless conditions takes a special kind of warrior. Victory goes to the agile, swift, and strong. The battle is won by accurate shooters, proficient with every kind of ray gun made by man or alien.
Zero Gee Combat is a pose series of 24 free-form pistoleros striving for survival in zero and low gravity scenarios. Some serial movement poses are included. 9 Loader poses.
Zero Gee Combat poses are designed around the 4 Classic Ray Guns by Valandar. Loader body poses are provided for right and left hand gun attachment. 16 right and left hand poses in all are included for ray guns and for Davorama's sci-fi Shard pistols for M4.
Right and left hand smart-prop Classic Ray Guns are included, courtesy of DAZ3D, and 4 Shard pistol smart-props are included, courtesy of Davo. The 4 ray guns and 4 Shard guns are included as PP2 files only. You must have both gun sets for the props to load and work.
Although loader and hand poses are provided, any other guns can be used with hand poses and guns from other sources.
As most poses are free-floating it is quite easy to rotate poses in mid-air for a wider variety of actions. Also legs can be easily altered for even more variety.
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Wednesday, January 18, 2017
Wood Crate Storage with Wheels
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Now that is one great idea!! Love it!!ReplyDelete
Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by!!
I'm in love with these wheeled crates too!Delete
Very smart, my pantry looks just like your "before" pic. I love it when you get the look you want plus functionality!ReplyDelete
Thanks for sharing at Funtastic Friday.Replies
Thanks Kimm, I'm so happy with how it turned out!Delete
I have a dust bunnies collecting on my pantry floor. Yuck! This is a great idea! Thank you!ReplyDelete
Happy Wednesday! MegsReplies
I hear ya! These crates were the solution to that and all those cans on the floor!Delete
I love crates! What an awesome idea to add wheels and have them in your pantry, so cool and so pretty too!ReplyDeleteReplies
I love these crates too! Thank you for the feature on your blog!Delete
Those crates seem been made to fit that space!! Love the look of wheels on crates by the way, your pantry looks so neat and organized!ReplyDeleteReplies
I got lucky that they fit perfectly in that space! The wheels are my favorite part!Delete
That looks so much better Heidi and it must make it so much easier to clean too. Great idea to add the wheels.ReplyDeleteReplies
Yes! We love it. Sometimes my kids will just walk in there and stand for a few minutes looking around because there is so much uncluttered space now!Delete
I have been looking all over for a storage solution for my food blogging photo props. There is room under a built-in desk, but the I haven't been able to find pre-made solutions that were the right size and on wheels. These crates plus wheels would be perfect! I feel a project about to happen! Can I ask at what kind of store you found the crates?ReplyDeleteReplies
Yes! I picked these up at Michaels on sale. I've also seen similar crates at Walmart. Good luck, would love to see your finished crates :)Delete
You can actually make the storage crate into a nice cushioned chair on wheels in the same way if you fix a lid on and upholster some cushion right on the top! But this little idea is going to be a lifesaver in your house when you just need to put things into a bit more organization!ReplyDeleteReplies
I never thought of that! Great idea!Delete
Simply wonderful!I'm going to do the same hope i'll.Additionally i'll doing some design on the surface of the wood by using wood router.ReplyDelete


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This is how we make our morning announcements at our school.
First, I downloaded free, no-attribution-necessary videos from Pixabay to make into our Intro and Outtro stings, as well as our regular announcements like birthdays and weather. I added free, no-attribution-necessary music from Youtube to them, to make it more fun.
Next, students record clips of themselves doing the daily changing announcements using Quicktime. Usually they use my laptop, since it's faster than the lab computers. Sometimes they eat lunch in the computer lab and work on them days in advance, since things like the lunch menu can be figured out in advance. They name the clips something like 1027lunch, 1027news, 1027history, so that I can import them into iMovie all at the same time. I also only change the Outtro every couple of weeks, since that script is more permanent. I will have students re-record as we start rotating new kids in this month.
We do have one student records audio and not video, so I download pictures to go with that report, either from Pixabay or Wikimedia Commons. I try to get ones that I don't need to attribute, but if I do have to attribute, I make sure I copy and paste the necessary attribution into the video description when I upload it. (Thanks Creative Commons!)
Then, I put the clips in the order that I want them. And I make sure visual images sync up with audio where necessary. This is something I've turned into a template. I hope that by the end of the year, the students will be doing much of this behind-the-scenes work. But, we'll see.
Next, I make sure the "titles" are updated. I use titles to identify the students reporters, to credit news sources for current events, and to overlay changing information over videos that stay the same. For example, I just click on the weather title and re-enter the forecast info for each day.
Finally, I share the project to Youtube, altering the date and making sure it's set to public. I linked my Youtube account to iMovie to do this. I also set up a Youtube playlist that automatically grabs any video I upload with "WPKY News" in the title. I also usually shoot out a reminder email to teachers with a link to the announcements.
I really liked how we did announcements last year on Google Hangouts, because teachers could tune in live if they wanted, and our efforts were automatically uploaded after. But I like this way too. We can do more in advance (like recording Monday's announcements on a Friday during lunch if I have a meeting in another building). We can re-do individual bits if we have to and change them out (I expect this will happen to the lunch menu sometimes when we have snow days). We can try and try again when kids stumble over pronunciation.
But it is a work in progress. There are days when I thought I updated a clip but I didn't, and send out a video with yesterday's birthdays or lunch. Sometimes when I add a new clip, I forget to delete an older one. I tried to get it going on a lab computer so that kids could do more of the editing independently, but the machine was so slow that both the kids and I got really frustrated with it. I want to incorporate regular segments like "Tech Tip Tuesday" but scheduling is a pain. But some mistakes stay in on purpose. For example, when kids struggle with words but self-correct, I like to leave it in because I think that's good modeling for younger students still learning to read.
I'm uploaded the pre-produced clips to Google Drive, so you can use them if you want, or get a sense of how to make your own. I really do encourage making your own, or having students make them, to go along with your school culture!


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How to Remove Headphone symbol in Xiaomi Redmi & Mi Phones.
Hi there guys, Today we will look into to the most common problem of Xiaomi devices which is Stuck Headphone Notification Symbol. If own a Xiaomi then i bet you encounter the same issue of not dont worry its coming lol…Ok coming to the point so first of all let's understand the issue in detail and then we will various methods to solve the xiaomi redmi note stuck in headphone mode.
It's not just the which irritates you all the time the main problem is that you cannot attend any calls, Play music or any other activity that uses your phone's speaker. Here in this article we gonna see if this is a hardware issue or software related problem and talk about how you can solve this problem. Let's check out the step by step guide for resolving this headphone stuck problem in your favourite Xiaomi device.
How To Fix Stuck Headphone Notification Symbol?
As i already told you that this problem can be seen in almost all Xiaomi devices most common devices are Redmi Note 3, Redmi 3s / Prime, Redmi Note 4, Redmi 4, Redmi 4A.
One thing you guys must note that this problem because of hardware issue So please don't think that you format (Factory Reset) your device and problem solved, Even Device reflash won't work in this problem.
How do you remove the headphone symbol in notification bar on redmi note?
There are various ways to solve this issue there may be possibility that one of them may work for you or no one don't worry even after following all steps you phones still stuck in headphone mode just comment below and we will help you.
I encountered this issue in my Redmi note 4 when is i was listening to music and then removed it to attend the call then i saw that my phone's speaker is not working i tried shaking the phone rebooting it at the end i realized that headphone icon is present at the notification bar even if it's not inserted. I searched many forums sites question answers website and finally able to slove the issue.
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Why Headphone mode Stuck occurs in Xiaomi devices:
Some of the reason for Headphone mode Stuck occurs in Xiaomi devices
- One of the possible reason for this issue is the that dust might stuck in your headphone jack and causing this issue.
- Your headphone jack area gets damaged when you are removing or inserting the headphone jack.
- Your did.'t detected that you have removed the headphone and stuck in this mode.
- Water gets into the the jack even few droplets can cause this issue.
If you ever stuck in any issue related to phones just simply restart the device and see if if issue still persists or not if you have already tried this then follow the few other methods to solve this issue.
Steps to Remove Headphone mode in Xiaomi devices
First Method to remove Headphones Symbol – Xiaomi Redmi devices
In this case just take a earbud and insert it into the headphone jack are and clean it gently without damaging any component.
Second Method to remove Headphones Symbol – Xiaomi Redmi devices
If the first is not working dont worry here is the second solution.
Take your headphone gently insert it in the headphone jack area and wait for few seconds and remove it see if it solves the issue if not then try again and this time plugin and plug out fast without damaging your phone. Do it a couple of times quickly and see it works or not.
Third Method to remove Headphones Symbol – Xiaomi Redmi devices
Go to Settings < Sound & Vibration < Audio Settings< Choose Head Phone Types.
Fourth Method to remove Headphones Symbol – Xiaomi Redmi devices
Try to open the service menu and check if your speaker are damaged or not if speaker are damaged then you have to to get it replaced.
If the problem still not solved your last bet is to go to service center.


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We are expecting our next baby and he is going to be born (hopefuly not before) January. My three-year-old son was born in September which means we still have lots of warm winter-clothes for the little one but slightly in a different size, meaning bigger. So I am collecting warm babyclothing in newborn-size now. Also, our daily life-style is different now: I have to get into the car and pick up my older son from the kindergarten every single day at the same time. This got me thinking: how am I going to manage this with a newborn? It is something that many parent can manage, so I will, too. But to make it just a little bit easier, I figured out to create a couple things, like this car-seat baby blanket. It will be useful because the temperature in the house, in the car and in the kindergarten will never be really cold but on the street it might be. Yes, we used regular blankets with my first son but we also lost a couple of them. And we mostly used the stroller anyway, not the car seat…
To make this blanket, I needed a warm but not too thick fabric, so I choose the combination of fleece and cotton. I bought a 130x170cm big fleece blanket. I could have bought it as fabric, but I just didn't have time to head to the fabric store. This way was easier for me and it only costed 3€. The other two fabric were already on hand at home.
Then I was searching online for DIY ideas but I couldn't find anything that I liked. Or if I found something interesting, then it had no tutorial. So I came up with my own idea, made it, it turned out exactly how I wanted and now I am sharing the tutorial with you.
What you will need for one blanket:
– fleece ca. 130x150cm
– a cotton fabric of your choice for the inner side ca. 130x120cm
– an other cotton fabric for the bag-part ca. 50x50cm
I drew a "sample" or "plan" for myself and it looked something like this:
I decided to make the rounded top but if you want to make a hoody, then make the square-kind top and at the end attache three pair of magnetic buttons.
First I took out the cover from our baby seat (maxi cosi) and layed on top of my fleece. I traced the edges and the holes with a pencil to get some idea how big this thing should be.
In the car seat there are two sets of holes for the seat belt. Mark them both and the one down in the middle, as well!
Then comes the tricky part: I just drew the whole shape following my "plan". I folded it in half, so both sides will be the same, and then cut it out.
Note: I could have made the bottom a bit wilder… next time.
Then I layed the leftover fabric underneath and cut around the bottom. Don't have to cut farther then 5 cm from the corners. (Shown on the next picture)
Then I took off the blanket and folded the leftover-halfcut fabric into half. Marked wher the top should be and then cut it.
Now I had the two pieces I needed.
As the next step, I cut out the same shape from the baige cotton fabric, and the smaller fabric with the elephant pattern. I just simply layed the fleece pieces onto the cotton fabrics and cut around them.
When I was finished with the cutting, I layed the two smaller parts onto each other, facing the right sides and then sewed just the top together. Then I turned it inside out and sewed it along the edge again.
After that I was making a fabric-sandwich: put the cotton fabric wrong side down, then the smaller pieces facing the pattern up, then the fleece facing your markings down.
Pin all four layers together and sew. Don't forget to leave a gap somewhere to turn the whole thing inside out later.
Then I made an other seam around the edge from where the bag on the bottom starts to the other end of it. I forgot to take a picture of this step but hopefuly you understand what I am trying to say. The important thing is to close the gap once the blanket is turned inside out. The good news is that your blanket is basically done. The last thing to do is to make those button-holes that you marked at the beginning. But before you do that, make sure to check if your markings are at the right place. Mine were not! I put back the car-seat together and put the blanket on top, just as we would use it. Then took a look at the seatbelt and made new markings.
Then I rememberd, that there is somewhere a newborn addition/extension to the car seat. I was able to find it and tried the blanket out with it. I noticed that I had to make a third marking for the seatbelt-hole because it had a completely different size now. Don't forget to do this!
Finally I sewed the button holes for the seatbelts but only after careful measuring! And voila! The blanket was done! I am so happy with the result!
My model was the huge teddy-bear once again. It is much bigger then a newborn (about 70-80cm) but I think you get the idea how the blanket works and looks in use.
For me it was very important to have a cotton fabric inside of the blanket because my older son's skin is sensitive to anything that is not cotton, so I had to make sure, that the little one has also cotton touching his skin, if possible. Just in case, you know.
I made some other great projects for the car that I will present in the next post. Not much baby-related but very practical things if you use your car a lot.
And at the end I still had lot of left-over fabric. My evening-project was to make a hat(again, with cotton on the inside) and a scarf for my older son. We call it the "elf-hat" and he loves it! (And as a bonus for me, I don't have to pay an other 8-10€ for a new set of hat and scarf!)
What do you think of this project? I am very happy with the price. I gave only 3€ out, but with the cotton fabrics the hole blanket costs no more than 6-10€. If you buy something like this in a store or even online, you will at least have to pay 15-20€, if not more… But probably more. This sewing project took me about three hours which is not bad, I think. But my favorite thing about this project, that I made it especialy for our son, and that is priceless.
UPDATE: The blanket has been in use for six weeks now and it is really great. Here is a picture with our son (and no more teddy bear):


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The Open Beacon MP4 Conversion and Compression plugin converts and compresses video files to the popular MP4 format using the powerful FFmpeg tool.
Over the past 10 years, the stunning rise of video on the internet as a way to communicate and disseminate ideas has made it a platform that EVERYONE has needed to get familiar with and master. With this rise, came incredible tools like FFmpeg and video file formats like MP4, that has become the de facto video format on the web. FFmpeg is a powerful open source video conversion, compression and streaming tool used by top services like YouTube and Facebook. Because of the current zeitgeist, it is important to use video on your site to interact with you visitors in ways that they can relate to and understand. Communicating in a standard way using the MP4 video format and making sure those videos are small in size but good in quality is therefore absolutely imperative.
Open Beacon MP4 Conversion and Compression combines WordPress with FFmpeg to easily convert files from the popular FLV and MOV file formats to the even more popular MP4 file format. Existing MP4 files can be radically compressed without any perceptible loss in video quality. In short, Open Beacon MP4 Conversion and Compression is what any WordPress aficionado needs if they want to use FFmpeg.
Below is a video demonstrating how the plugin works:
1. Install the plugin like it is commonly done, either by uploading it via FTP or by using the "Add Plugin" function of WordPress.
2. Activate the plugin at the plugin administration page.
3. Go to the "OB MP4 ConComp Central" and click the "Settings" tab.
4. Enter the FFmpeg path. Put in a local FFmpeg path for a local WordPress installation or one provided by your host for a remote one.
5. Go to the "Central" tab and start converting.
1.Go to the "OB MP4 ConComp Central" menu and click it. Click on the "Settings" tab. Make sure that the FFmpeg path has been entered correctly and that FFmpeg has in fact been found.
2. Click on the "Central" tab. You can the select the video you want to convert, assign it a category and write a short caption. After all the data has been filled out, click the "Convert and Compress Video" button. After the video has been converted and compressed, You can view it by going to the "OB MP4 ConComps" menu.
3. The "OB MP4 ConComps" page shows all the compressions and conversions you have made, titled with the caption you entered. Click on one of the titled links to open your output video.
4. The "Open Beacon MP4 Compression and Conversion" page contains metaboxes with metadata pertaining to the video output. This is the same data you captured when you uploaded the original video. To get your compressed and converted video, go to the bottom "Video" metabox and right click the "Download" button; you can then save the output video wherever you please.
Open Beacon MP4 Conversion and Compression will be available on WordPress.org soon.


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My family home is over 100 years old, and my dad has been tackling a different project each year for the past 18 years. The living room was one of the last rooms to be gutted and redone.
Along with the dry wall and paint job, my Dad rewired the surround sound and put all of the entertainment cables and cords in the walls. Fancy.
|My sister was very aware that I was taking snapshots of the room and did not see any need to sit up.
Bonus: Adorable beagle.
Don't my mom and dad make a great home renovation team?


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SN 8 | EP 25 | And So We Commence
After the family attends Theo's graduation and Olivia leaves for Singapore, Cliff and Clair share a quiet moment.
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"The Cosby Show" centers on the lives of the Huxtables: obstetrician Cliff and his lawyer wife Claire, their daughters Sondra, Denise, Vanessa and Rudy, and son Theo. Based on the standup comedy of Bill Cosby, the show focused on his observations of family life. Although based on comedy, the series also addresses some more serious topics, such as learning disabilities and teen pregnancy.
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I Fell Into a Burning...
Posted by Rob, Friday, June 20, 2008 9:53 PM
Next weekend is Copenhagen Pro! Here's an update on the course. On Thursday night next week, the spirit of Johnny Cash will be looking down as we host Ring of Fire. Dangerous stuff like that is always guaranteed to be a good time. See you there and if you can't make it, I'll try to make you feel like you were there with photos and silly captions.
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Graphic sexual content will no longer be publicly viewed or shared on its blogging tool, Blogger, starting March 23, Google announced.
Google made the announcement on its support page, stating, "If your existing blog does have sexually explicit or graphic nude images or video, your blog will be made private after March 23, 2015. No content will be deleted, but private content can only be seen by the owner or admins of the blog and the people who the owner has shared the blog with."
Google will not take down the blog, but will make it private -- and no longer publicly viewable. Those who want to keep their blog will either have to take down the explicit content or can pre-emptively make it private. If a blog is created after March 23, Google reserves the right to take down a blog with graphic sexual content "or take other action."
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I brought some cut rectangles and translated them into this:
And then I started quilting on Sunday. Chris (THE frecklemama) and Kelly (Kelbysews) helped me pick out this perfect quilting design. Doesn't it remind you of the synaptic cleft between neurons?...oh no... just me?
I hope to get this finished by the end of the week. Our guild has a sewing day this Sunday.
I also started making Sew Sweetness's aeroplane bag. I decided to QAYG because Elizabeth did. Pretty good reason.


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I didn't hermit too much, once again as I had stitching friends over Friday-Sunday. My main focus this past weekend was to finish up an exchange piece, which I did Sunday morning. Of course I can't share it with you just yet. Sadly no pictures of this HD just yet.
I took a few other great pictures on the weekend I wanted to share with you.


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Autoimmune Arthritis refers to autoimmune, inflammatory diseases that heavily involve the joints, but also affect tissues and organs. While there are over 80 autoimmune diseases, only some include symptoms of arthritis, which makes them unique. Unlike the more commonly known and understood Degenerative Arthritis (Osteoarthritis), it is caused by cellular malfunction, which results in inflammation of the joints, tissues, and organs.
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When these diseases are not fully developed, or overlap and cannot be determined which disease diagnosis should be rendered, this is called Undifferentiated Connective Tissue Disease or Undifferentiated Spondyloarthropathy.
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We mostly deal with small to medium businesses who aren't very web savy or don't really understand how important the web is.
We are the best and easiest way to have a really good professional website. And we need to show that our design is perfect value for money and not at the cheap end of the scale.
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Wednesday, February 9, 2011
Daily Deals on I'm Doing El Paso
If you're looking for a daily deal in El Paso, look no further than the website for I'm Doing El Paso (IDEP). IDEP recently launched a new section on their website called Deals, where every daily deal offered in the region is listed. Be sure to bookmark the page as it's a great resource, http://imdoingelpaso.com/deals/.
You'll notice the page features a lovely widget for the daily deal (which is near and dear to my heart) Busca Oferta. Busca Oferta is the first Spanish-language deal to enter the El Paso market thanks to Entravision Communications. You can visit Busca Oferta directly at http://buscaelpaso.com/.
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"Then you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free." They answered, "We are Abraham's children, and we have never been anyone's slaves. So why do you say we will be free?" Jesus answered, "I tell you the truth, everyone who lives in sin is a slave to sin. A slave does not stay with a family forever, but a son belongs to the family forever. So if the Son makes you free, you will be truly free" [John 8: 32-36 (NCV)]
Today, July 4th, is our nation's Independence Day and we celebrate the liberty we enjoy in this nation. Families will gather for parades, picnics, and fireworks. While we may live in a nation of freedom, without Christ, we will never truly be free men or women. We won't be free because, no matter where we live, we will still be slaves to sin.
As thankful as I am for the patriots who made this great nation a reality, I am even more thankful for Jesus and His small crew of apostles who made it possible for us to live in true freedom! The Liberty Bell rang out for our nation's freedom but the cross gave us our spiritual freedom—freedom from bondage to sin and the freedom to serve God.
As we enjoy the fireworks and patriotic music tonight, let's remember to thank God both for the freedom we enjoy in our nation and, more important, for the freedom we enjoy in our hearts and souls.
Lord God Almighty, in whose Name the founders of this country won liberty for themselves and for us, and lit the torch of freedom for nations then unborn: Grant that we and all the people of this land may have grace to maintain our liberties in righteousness and peace; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen [The Book of Common Prayer]


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Who we are
o Partners section
Lead Partner – Generalitat de Catalunya
Generalitat de Catalunya
Department of Governance, Public Administrations and Housing.
C/ Diputación, 92. 08015 Barcelona (SPAIN)
Short description of the entity
The European Programmes Unit has a broad experience in leading EU-funded projects, under several programmes, related to housing, urban areas, energy efficiency and SMART policy implementation. It has acted as a Lead Partner in several Strategic Projects, such as the MARIE project, and is also involved in many others as partner, having gained a reputation of well developing partner and reliability in defining and acquiring objectives.
Short description of the role in the project
As Lead Partner of the SHERPA project, the European Programmes Unit is involved in every part of the project. It embraces the overall management and financial overview of the project whilst playing a leading role in the coordination of the development of the testing module, coordinating its activities and supervising the different working groups. It also plays a crucial role in the development of the communication activities, as well as the transferring and capitalising ones, with a special focus on the Catalonia area.
Expectations from the SHERPA project
"SHERPA is a great opportunity to start and develop new ERB policies, as it will be providing the methodology to prepare and finance new energy efficiency projects for the Public Administrations buildings in the Catalan territory. We expect SHERPA to provide the framework to begin a new strategy to upgrade the sustainability of the public buildings in the Catalan territory, thus generating important economic savings for the contributors, as well as complying with the carbon emission, energy savings and RES objectives settled by the EU and the Catalan Government."
Contact: Mr Xavier Martí Ragué, Head of the European Programmes Unit
@: firstname.lastname@example.com
Tel: +34 667 081 843
International Centre for Numerical Methods in Engineering
CIMNE - UPC Campus Terrassa, Edifici GAIA (TR14), 2ª Planta, Desp. 236. C/. Rambla Sant Nebridi 22, 08222 Terrassa, Barcelona (SPAIN)
Short description of the entity
CIMNE, www.cimne.com, is an autonomous research and development centre, created in 1987. CIMNE has the experience and reputation gained through participation in more than 950 R&D projects with the financial support of the European Community, and various organizations as well as Spanish and international enterprises. Within CIMNE, the Buildings Energy and Environment (BEE Group) is an independent research group of around 20 researchers, focusing their R&D activities on methodologies and tools for the reduction of CO2 emissions in the urban environment. Within this focus, work is organised along three lines: applied research for the energy retrofitting of buildings and neighbourhoods; applied research for the introduction of renewable energies and energy efficient methodologies in the building sector and consultancy and assessment to municipalities to enhance their sustainable urban development, CIMNE BEE Group is dedicated to achieving the highest possible energy performance in as many buildings as possible, by the practical application of research results in a real, business oriented environment. Our Municipal Information Energy System (SIE) (http://www.inergybcn.com/), an energy management service enabling auditing, monitoring and control of municipal energy consumption in public buildings and public lighting systems is implemented in over 6000 public buildings and 250 municipalities. Our Big Data Open source platform, BEE Data (www.beegroup-cimne.com) is providing energy awareness services to more than 300.000 residential consumers and business intelligence services to 8 electricity distribution and supply companies.
Short description of the role in the project
The role of CIMNE in the project is to provide the Information System for gathering and analysing the data from the public buildings involved in the SHERPA pilots. The Information System is essential for the decision making, the knowledge exchange and the training activities in the project. Based on the collection and analysis of energy efficiency measures (EMS) applied in real buildings and the evaluation of their impact over the energy consumption, the Information System will provide key insights and will enable the collaboration between the SHERPA partners.
Expectations from the SHERPA project
Collection of large amount of public building data from the Mediterranean region, including energy consumption and EEM by building typologies which will give place to extensive benchmarking and evaluation of the effectiveness of the investments in energy efficiency. This is expected to provide valuable knowledge and improved tools for the CIMNE's consultancy services for the public sector.
Valencia Institute of Building
Carrer de les Tres Forques, 98. 46018 València (SPAIN)
Short description of the entity
The Valencia Institute of Building (Instituto Valenciano de la Edificación), IVE, is a non-profit research institute focused on the built environment and construction field since 1986. IVE promotes competitive research, innovation, education and multilateral cross-border cooperation projects by enhancing sustainability in buildings and resilience in cities.
Following a multidisciplinary approach, IVE supports the Valencian Community Ministry of Housing and Urban Planning policies, and contributes to innovation of the construction sector, using a problem-solving methodology. It endorses knowledge dissemination and technology transfer by putting together the four main stakeholder groups of the innovation pyramid: R&D, public authorities, private companies and society in general.
Short description of the role in the project
Owners and investors often complain about the multiple barriers they face when improving the energy performance of public buildings. Together with the difficulty to access financing, one of the most often quoted barriers is the lack of knowledge about what to do, where to start, which measures to implement, and in which order. IVE is coordinating the TRAINING work package which objective is to improve stakeholders' skills through webinars. By means of a Virtual Classroom Web platform, an online repository with the recording of all training sessions and a wide range of material and resources remains available for consultation for all parties involved in the project.
However, apart from leading the TRAINING work package, IVE is actively participating in SHERPA with 10 regional pilots and 10 local building pilots, in collaboration with the different local and regional administrations.
Expectations from the SHERPA project
"We are interested in reporting some good examples of energy renovation of public buildings to create a snow ball effect showing tangible ways of improving the Mediterranean public building stock. With this in mind, IVE expects Mediterranean Regions will implement and comply with the Energy Efficiency Directive requirements, and that deep energy renovation of building stock takes off in the coming years led by regional and council governments.
Additionally, due to our leader role in the TRAINING work package and to our large experience on professional education, we will refine topics, materials and teaching methodology in order to further improve stakeholders' skills in the Mediterranean climate and culture."
Contact: Ms Laura Soto Francés, Dr. Architect and Ms Carolina Mateo Cecilia, Dr. Architect
@: email@example.com & firstname.lastname@example.com
Tel: +34 961 20 75 31
Conference of Peripheral Maritime Regions of Europe (CPMR) Intermediterranean Commission
Delegation of the CPMR in Spain, Via Laietana, 14. 08003 Barcelona (SPAIN)
Short description of the entity
Created in Andalusia in 1990 and gathering around 40 Member Regions from 9 different EU member states and other countries (Albania, Cyprus, France, Greece, Italy, Malta, Morocco, Spain and Tunisia) the CPMR Intermediterranean Commission (IMC) was created to express the shared interests of Mediterranean Regions in important European negotiations. It focuses on the development of the Euro-Mediterranean dialogue and territorial cooperation, concentrating its efforts on Transport and Integrated Maritime Policy, Economic and Social Cohesion, Water and Energy.
Short description of the role in the project
As WP2 (Communication) leader, the IMC will mainly be in charge of coordinating communication activities, which include elaborating promotional materials (brochure, factsheets, newsletters, videos, etc.), feeding the MED web platform, identifying and collaborating with key stakeholders through SHERPA target audience mapping, and interacting with the MED thematic community 2.1 on Efficient Buildings. The IMC will also participate in testing activities (WP3) to follow closely the results of the project and be able to translate them into a simple language. Being a network of over 40 Mediterranean regions and having a Task Force dedicated to EEB, the IMC will finally play an important role in capitalisation activities. Two meetings of its EEB Task Force will be organised back-to-back with regional workshops falling under WP5 (Capitalisation). SHERPA Final Agreement, which encompasses the Joint Action Plan, Policy Recommendations and the Declaration of Commitment, will be presented and signed during the IMC 2019 General Assembly.
Expectations from the SHERPA project
Help raise the capacity of our members in terms of EEB and also improve regional EEB strategies. Feed our TF and engage our members.
Contact: Mrs Flora Leroy, Policy and Project Officer, Mr Davide Strangis, Director General European Programs, Partnerships and Geographical Commissions and Mr Emmanuel Maniscalco, Senior Programme Officer
@: firstname.lastname@example.com ; firstname.lastname@example.com & firstname.lastname@example.com
Tel: +33 7 63 22 33 25
National association of local authorities, associations and companies for waste management, energy management and district heating
18 rue Gabriel Péri CS 20102 Cedex
69623 Villeurbanne (FRANCE)
Description of the entity :
Created 30 years ago, AMORCE is the French association for energy management and waste management. AMORCE counts 850 members among whom more than 550 local authorities, and 250 professionals. In the energy department, we mainly work on energy efficiency (for public and private buildings), renewable energy, district heating, gas and electric grids, local energy policies. We animate this network of members to share experiences, knowledge and opinions, through about fifty meetings and publications yearly. AMORCE is also a priviledged interlocutor to represent local authorities and professionnels in national negociations dealing with energy or waste fied.
Description of the role of your entity in the project :
As a member of SHERPA Project, AMORCE will work with french mediterranean regions to facilitate renovation of public buldings. As an expert on EEB, AMORCE will contribute to disseminate best practices and key info to region, municipalities and their main partners. We aim to identify and publicize the brakes and levers to the renovation regarding especially to financing support. Moreover, as a recognized network, AMORCE will organize meetings and trainings dealing with renovation and energy management.
Description on what you expect from the SHERPA project :
Why have you joined SHERPA project?
SHERPA will bring us shared knowledge, expand our european network and a strengthen our abilities to facilitate public buildings renovations through a with a well-established methodology. Joining Sherpa project will give us more possibilities to support french local authorities to massify the energy efficiency mesures on public buildings.
What SHERPA has already bring to you ?
As we didn't start to analyze regional buildings yet, the first and second management meetings were an excellent opportunity to learn about region in further progress. Being SHERPA members for ten months enabled us attend to usefull technical training courses. In addition, the exchanges within the group also led us to accelerate the elaboration of a communication document for municipalities about all existing financial sources for publics building renovation."
Official contact Person : Fabien Moudileno, energy officer
PP5 – Emilia-Romagna
Regione Emilia-Romagna
Viale Aldo Moro 30, 40127 Bologna (ITALY)
Short description of the entity
Emilia-Romagna is located in the north east of Italy having an extension of 22,452.77 Km2 and about 4.500.000 inhabitants. Emilia-Romagna Regional Authority was established on June 1970 and includes local communities, institutions and territories of 9 Provinces (Bologna, Ferrara, Forlì-Cesena, Modena, Parma, Piacenza, Ravenna, Reggio Emilia, Rimini). The headquarters of Emilia Romagna is in the city of Bologna. Emilia Romagna regulates and promotes the sustainable development of the territory including energy sustainability and efficient use of resources.
Short description of the role in the project
The Emilia Romagna Region participates actively in the testing phase involving 10 public buildings and related energy efficiency projects. It contributes with the other regions to define a common roadmap for the transferring of test phase results to regional and international levels, also through regional events and workshops. In the final phase for capitalization of results, the Region will integrate the developed tools within the local planning processes and in specific within the local SEAPs.
Expectations from the SHERPA project
The SHERPA project is strategic in order to achieve the energy efficiency objectives about public buildings defined in local and regional energy policies. The tools developed by the project concerning governance, information, awareness, training and financing will compose a reference model. Project activities will focus on public social housing building keeping into consideration the relevant role of the housing policies for reducing the costs of energy consumption within household economy and improving well-being and health in an integrated and sustainable way.
Contact: Ms Claudia Mazzoli (technical and management activities) and Ms Valeria Camprini (administrative and financial activities)
@: firstname.lastname@example.com & email@example.com
Tel: +39 051 527 34 31
PP6 – Lazio
Via Rosa Raimondi Garibaldi, 7
00145 Roma Lazio
Short description of the entity
Development of the regional territory, environmental impact, strengthening of best practices on energy savings, innovative spin-off on a post-seismic town, energy classification on building under reconstruction after the earthquake of 2009, sharing good initiatives with other project's partners.
Short description of the role in the project
Capitalisation operational role (to be completed)
Expectations from the SHERPA project
Lazio region will enhance regional energy efficiency policy in synergies with local plans/strategies at municipality level Increase the commitment of local authorities through SEAPs to really contribute to the regional and national energy efficiency target. Increase knowledge and capitalise to better manage energy in public buildings at regional and local level Develop synergies with measures about EE in public buildings financed by ERDF Regional Operational Programme 2014-2020.
Contact: Leonilde Tocchi
00142 Roma Lazio
ltocchi@ regione.lazio.it
PP7 – Abruzzo
Via Salaria Antica Est n. 27
67100 L'Aquila – Abruzzo - ITALY
Short description of the entity
The Abruzzo Region has always been very active and much involved in European Union initiatives and this has allowed to give a boost to the regional economy. The Abruzzo Region can rely on 22 staff members who deal with disseminating and fostering – also by means of training and information activities - the opportunities offered by the EU programmes, in order to encourage increasingly broader participation of associations, enterprises and local administrations.
Short description of the role of your entity in the project
The Abruzzo Region plays no specific role in terms of SHERPA WPs management like some of the other partners. Its tasks include the identification of a number of pilot buildings and the collection of the related information, relevant to integrate the shared platform and to achieve the project objectives in view of the capitalization phase. The Abruzzo Region is actively engaged in all project activities.
Short paragraph on what you expect from the SHERPA project
Over the years, Abruzzo has built upon the topics relating to energy efficiency of public buildings, with particular reference to the historic buildings severely ruined by the earthquake in 2009 and by the most recent earthquakes that hit many towns and villages. We believe that to share these experiences with the other partners is extremely important, with the aim to extend the adoption of techniques and models to as many buildings as possible, which may improve design and management.
Contact : Paola Di Salvatore
@ : firstname.lastname@example.com
Tel: 0039-0862 364285
PP8 – Ministry for Gozo
Ministry for Gozo
ECOGOZO Regional Development Directorate
St Francis Square Victoria, Gozo VCT 1335 Victoria (MALTA)
Short description of the entity
EcoGozo is essentially a Local Sustainable Development strategy for the Island of Gozo adopted by the Government in 2009. Through a holistic approach, this strategy seeks to achieve an enduring environmental improvement while at the same time, fostering economic development and social progress on the island. The Directorate for ecoGozo and Regional Development within the Ministry for Gozo has taken up the role required to consolidate and formalise this vision, and organize and coordinate its implementation.
Short description of the role in the project
The Directorate for ecoGozo and Regional Development is the only entity within the Ministry for Gozo that will be responsible for carrying out the SHERPA Project.
Expectations from the SHERPA project
"We expect this project to identify ways in which energy inefficient buildings owned by public administration can be improved in terms of energy efficiency. The envisaged training should empower us to be able to share the knowledge acquired in this project with other local entities that may wish to energy renovate buildings in the future."
Contact: Ms Vicky Xuereb
@: email@example.com
Tel: +356 22156321
Regional Development Agency of the Dubrovnik-Neretva County DUNEA LLC
Branitelja Dubrovnika 41, 20000 Dubrovnik Dubrovačko-neretvanska županija
Short description of the entity
The Regional Development Agency of the Dubrovnik-Neretva County DUNEA LLC. was founded in 2006 at the initiative of the Dubrovnik-Neretva County and its basic role is to achieve sustainable development of the County as well as to improve and coordinate existing development activities in accordance with the needs of the Region, national requirements, and requirements of the European Union in order to plan the future economic development with bordering regions.
Short description of the role in the project
DUNEA, as the representative of the Dubrovnik-Neretva County, is involved in the following WPs: Project Management, Project Communication, Testing, Transferring and Capitalizing. Our role is to cooperate with the Government od Catalonia (LP) and other project partners, institutions which are engaged in EEB plans and the SEAPs in the project area and the MED area and European organisations to accomplish all the activities, outputs and deliverables.
Expectations from the SHERPA project
"As much as possible EEB projects to reinforce the capacities of Public Administrations at regional and sub-regional level within the Dubrovnik-Neretva County so as to be a part of envisaged 25% energy and CO2 emissions reduction; regional and local EEB Policy Agreements; shared Information system among the participating regions and municipalities; public awareness strategies, including planning and implementation of specific trainings; innovative combination and optimization of financial models for EEB."
Centre for Renewable Energy Sources and Saving
19th km Marathonos Ave, 19009, Pikermi, Attiki (GREECE)
Short description of the entity
The Centre for Renewable Energy Sources and Saving (CRES) is the Greek national entity for the promotion of energy saving, rational use of energy and renewable energy sources. It is the national coordination centre for supporting the implementation of the national energy efficiency policy and provides support to public authorities in planning and implementing energy-efficiency plans and projects for their public buildings' stock. It has participated in numerous national/EU projects in the field of energy-efficiency in buildings and communities e.g. ELIH-MED, REPUBLIC-MED etc.
Short description of the role in the project
CRES will coordinate the capitalisation work package (WP5), aimed at ensuring wide diffusion of SHERPA and other relevant projects' results to Regions/Municipalities across the MED area. CRES will develop an online capitalisation forum and set of toolkits. At national level, CRES will collaborate with the Region of Crete throughout the project providing technical support in the implementation of the pilot activities (WP3), and will have a key role in the transferring activities (WP4) particularly through its role as a national Covenant of Mayors coordinator.
Expectations from the SHERPA project
CRES provides support to public authorities in developing and implementing energy renovation plans and projects for public buildings. Through SHERPA CRES will gain valuable experience from testing and capitalisation of methodologies/ best practices related to energy renovation of public buildings, through an integrated approach (governance, information, financial, awareness) at multi-governance level. Furthermore, SHERPA will offer the opportunity to build synergies with and capitalise on CRES past and current projects related to public buildings energy-efficiency.
PP11 - Crete
Region of Crete
Eleftherias Square, 71201 Heraklion (GREECE)
Short description of the entity
Public authority that designs and implements policies for sustainable regional development at socioeconomic, environmental and cultural level. It demonstrates a strategic planning in its territory for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth under the vision of the "Europe 2020" in the fields of environment, energy, climate change, social policy and innovation. It elaborates a regional energy strategy as a policy tool for the design, development and implementation of energy projects in order to meet the energy needs, save energy and protect the environment and cultural heritage.
Short description of the role in the project
Our main role as a pilot region is to reinforce the capacity of our entity, so as to improve EE in our building stock, reduce CO2 emissions and transfer the knowledge to local actors. We participate in the four pilot activities (governance, information, awareness - training and financing) of the Testing WP, with 10 selected buildings, in order to integrate the knowledge generated, in our regional strategy. Through the transferring and capitalizing WPs, we plan to engage all the municipalities and the key players of the energy sector for designing and implementing the regional EEB strategy.
Expectations from the SHERPA project
Our participation in the project will enhance the capacity of regional and local administrations for designing and implementing the regional EEB strategy. Training and educational seminars will provide public authorities knowledge and know-how for renovating public and municipal buildings in order to improve energy performance. Through cooperation and common understanding it is expected public authorities to be informed and motivated as to achieve good projects and practices.
Contact: Ms Maria Apostolaki
@: firstname.lastname@example.com
Tel: +30 2813400248