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Stylistically, singer/songwriter Michael Johnson has been all over the map, ranging from folk to pop and soft rock to country. But no matter what kind of music he recorded, he maintained a mellow, pleasant tone that served as his hallmark. Johnson was born in Alamosa, CO, in 1944 and started playing the guitar as a teenager, studying both rock & roll and jazz. At 21, he traveled to Barcelona and studied classical guitar with Graciano Tarrago for a year, then returned to the U.S.... Read more


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Putting Your Short Sale In the Best Light:
Filed under: Short Sales
The home foreclosure and short sale market today is bloated. It is unequivocally a buyers' market and will certainly continue to be for a few more years. For those selling, they make be asking for nothing short of a miracle to get them out of a house that has become too much of a financial burden. You can make your house more eligible for a short sale by following this short sale etiquette.
Take pains to properly value your short sale
Short sales are often negotiated between the buyer, seller, and agents involved. Those parties will go through the process of valuing a house and then agreeing on a figure. Banks are beset with toxic assets and underwater homes. The last thing they get excited about is settling for a home at a fraction of the price. You may want to warm your bank up to a considerably reduced short sale price before coming at them with a lowball figure.
Do you make too much money or have too many assets?
Banks are not eager to accept short sales. Even a hair off the original value of the loan hurts their profit margins. While you may find someone ready to buy your home and at a universally agreeable short sale price, banks could reject your offer because they find your net worth is inconsistent with the need for a short sale. In this case, if you still really want out, banks will ask you to cover the difference of the short sale. You stand to lose your house and tens or hundreds of thousands extra.

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MISSING: Black Border Collie Mix Dog Near SW 146th and 22nd SW
We received both an email and forum posting this morning about "Sophie," a lost black border collie mix dog, missing from around the Seahurst neighborhood near SW 146th and 22nd SW.
Here's a pic of the dog, followed by the posting:
We have lost our new black border collie mix dog.
Her name is Sophie and she looks like a black fox.
She is very frightened and will probably run if approached.
She was last seen in the Seahurst neighborhood near 146th and 22nd SW.
Please call us if you see her (206-948-3516) She is about 20 pounds and has one cropped ear. She has a green collar, tags, and is trailing a leash.
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The June 16 Soweto Youth Uprising
11 June 2015
The June 16 1976 Uprising that began in Soweto and spread countrywide profoundly changed the socio-political landscape in South Africa. Events that triggered the uprising can be traced back to policies of the Apartheid government that resulted in the introduction of the Bantu Education Act in 1953. The rise of the Black Consciousness Movement (BCM) and the formation of South African Students Organisation (SASO) raised the political consciousness of many students while others joined the wave of anti-Apartheid sentiment within the student community. When the language of Afrikaans alongside English was made compulsory as a medium of instruction in schools in 1974, black students began mobilizing themselves. On 16 June 1976 between 3000 and 10 000 students mobilized by the South African Students Movement`s Action Committee supported by the BCM marched peacefully to demonstrate and protest against the governments directive. The march was meant to culminate at a rally in Orlando Stadium.
On their pathway they were met by heavily armed police who fired teargas and later live ammunition on demonstrating students. This resulted in a widespread revolt that turned into an uprising against the government. While the uprising began in Soweto, it spread across the country and carried on until the following year.
The aftermath of the events of June 16 1976 had dire consequences for the Apartheid government. Images of the police firing on peacefully demonstrating students led an international revulsion against South Africa as its brutality was exposed. Meanwhile, the weakened and exiled liberation movements received new recruits fleeing political persecution at home giving impetus to the struggle against Apartheid.
Bantu Education Policy
The word Bantu in the term Bantu education is highly charged politically and has derogatory connotations. The Bantu Educational system was designed to train and fit Africans for their role in the newly (1948) evolving apartheid society. Education was viewed as a part of the overall apartheid system including homelands, urban restrictions, pass laws and job reservation. This role was one of labourer, worker, and servant only. As H.F Verwoerd, the architect of the Bantu Education Act (1953), conceived it:
There is no place for [the African] in the European community above the level of certain forms of labour. It is of no avail for him to receive a training which has as its aim, absorption in the European community
Pre-apartheid education of Africans
It is mistaken however, to understand that there was no pre-apartheid educational marginalization of black South Africans. Long before the historic 1948 white elections that gave the Nationalist Party power, there was a system of segregated and unequal education in the country. While white schooling was free, compulsory and expanding, black education was sorely neglected. Financial underprovision and an urban influx led to gravely insufficient schooling facilities, teachers and educational materials as well as student absenteeism or non-enrolment. A 1936 Inquiry identified problems, only to have almost nothing done about these needs.
Bantu education and the racist compartmentalizing of education.
In 1949 the government appointed the Eiselen Commission with the task of considering African education provision. The Commission recommended `resorting to radical measures` for the `effective reform of the Bantu school system`.
In 1953, prior to the apartheid government`s Bantu Education Act, 90% of black South African schools were state-aided mission schools. The Act demanded that all such schools register with the state, and removed control of African education from the churches and provincial authorities. This control was centralized in the Bantu Education Department, a body dedicated to keeping it separate and inferior. Almost all the mission schools closed down. The Roman Catholic Church was largely alone in its attempt to keep its schools going without state aid. The 1953 Act also separated the financing of education for Africans from general state spending and linked it to direct tax paid by Africans themselves, with the result that far less was spent on black children than on white children.
In 1954--5 black teachers and students protested against Bantu Education. The African Education Movement was formed to provide alternative education. For a few years, cultural clubs operated as informal schools, but by 1960 they had closed down.
The Extension of University Education Act, Act 45 of 1959, put an end to black students attending white universities (mainly the universities of Cape Town and Witwatersrand). Separating tertiary institutions according to race, this Act set up separate `tribal colleges` for black university students. The so-called `bush` Universities such as Fort Hare, Vista, Venda, Western Cape were formed. Blacks could no longer freely attend white universities. Again, there were strong protests.
Expenditure on Bantu Education increased from the late 1960s, once the apartheid Nationalist government saw the need for a trained African labour force. Through this, more African children attended school than under the old missionary system of education, albeit grossly deprived of facilities in comparison with the education of other races, especially whites.
Nationally, pupil:teacher ratios went up from 46:1 in 1955 to 58:1 in 1967. Overcrowded classrooms were used on a rota basis. There was also a lack of teachers, and many of those who did teach were underqualified. In 1961, only 10 per cent of black teachers held a matriculation certificate [last year of high school]. Black education was essentially retrogressing, with teachers being less qualified than their students.
The Coloured Person`s Education Act of 1963 put control of `coloured` education under the Department of Coloured Affairs. `Coloured` schools also had to be registered with the government. `Coloured` education was made compulsory, but was now effectively separated from white schooling.
The 1965 Indian Education Act was passed to separate and control Indian education, which was placed under the Department of Indian Affairs. In 1976, the SAIC took over certain educational functions. Indian education was also made compulsory.
Because of the government`s `homelands` policy, no new high schools were built in Soweto between 1962 and 1971 -- students were meant to move to their relevant homeland to attend the newly built schools there. Then in 1972 the government gave in to pressure from business to improve the Bantu Education system to meet business`s need for a better trained black workforce. 40 new schools were built in Soweto. Between 1972 and 1976 the number of pupils at secondary schools increased from 12,656 to 34,656. One in five Soweto children were attending secondary school.
Oppression through inferior education and the 1976 Soweto uprising
An increase in secondary school attendance had a significant effect on youth culture. Previously, many young people spent the time between leaving primary school and obtaining a job (if they were lucky) in gangs, which generally lacked any political consciousness. But now secondary school students were developing their own. In 1969 the black South African Student Organization (SASO) was formed.
Though Bantu Education was designed to deprive Africans and isolate them from `subversive` ideas, indignation at being given such `gutter` education became a major focus for resistance, most notably in the 1976 Soweto uprising. In the wake of this effective and clear protest, some reform attempts were made, but it was a case of too little, too late. Major disparities in racially separate education provision continued into the 1990s.
When high-school students in Soweto started protesting for better education on 16 June 1976, police responded with teargas and live bullets. It is commemorated today by a South African national holiday, Youth day, which honors all the young people who lost their lives in the struggle against Apartheid and Bantu Education.
In the 1980s very little education at all took place in the Bantu Education system, which was the target of almost continuous protest. The legacy of decades of inferior education (underdevelopment, poor self-image, economic depression, unemployment, crime, etc.) has lasted far beyond the introduction of a single educational system in 1994 with the first democratic elections, and the creation of the Government of National Unity. (Thanks to the South African History Online)


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A nice gift indeed!!
There is a story about Mr Happy going to Glumland..meets the Mayor everyone is sad
...Mr Happy then changes the name of the land to Smile-ville!
Everyone is Happy.... A pre Little Miss Sunshine story in 1975!
See inside the Mr Men cook book...thanks to Evelyn. Its interesting that the inside pictures of how to cook is drawn by someone else in a different style...with Rogers Mr Men above. Heres the email I recieved with the pictures inside.
Hello I Looking through books at a charity shop for my young son when I can across an old copy of The Mr.Men Cookbook. Is this a rare copy I think it was printed in 1979. Is this of any interest to you? and do you have any information on this? Before I let my 3 year old son to get his hands on it. Regards Evelyn
Mr Cheeky a new Mr Men by Adam Hargreaves.. inspired by Gemma Almond (aged 8)
who won the competition to design a Mr Man..this is only found in WH Smiths...it was for the 30 year birthday of the Mr Men.
Some of the money when you bought the book went to the charity -Children with Leukameia
The Mr Men and Little Miss books have incorporated a "guest star" for the first time. One thousand copies of Little Miss Stella, based on designer Stella McCartney, are being used as invitations to a fashion show. From www.bbc.co.uk


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Mr. Garabito's career encompassed the investigative and protective missions of the Secret Service, both foreign and domestic, and included a unique and wide range of experience in the fields of intelligence, aviation and airspace security, personal protection, Continuity of Operations/Continuity of Government (COOP/COG) programs and procedures, site and major event security, and direct supervision of operational units. He has held senior-level positions in investigative, protective, administrative, and financial management fields. He has extensive experience in operational and strategic planning, interagency coordination and consensus building, and the execution of multi-agency security plans with domestic and foreign partners.
Mr. Garabito began his Secret Service career serving as a Special Agent in the Office of Investigations, where he carried out several protective assignments and conducted numerous international counterfeit, fraud, and forgery investigations, including undercover assignments in the Newark, NJ and New York City Field Office districts, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, and other Caribbean nations. He also conducted seminars regarding counterfeit currency, credit card fraud, and U.S. Treasury checks for foreign and domestic law enforcement, financial institutions, and government agencies. He was subsequently promoted to the Presidential Protective Division, where he served in a number of operational assignments over a period of five years. During this time, he was the Lead Advance Agent on several Presidential foreign trips to high-risk locations.
Mr. Garabito entered the agency's supervisory ranks in 2000 with his selection as Assistant to the Special Agent in Charge of the Presidential Protective Division's White House Security Branch responsible for all White House complex security functions. Of particular note, he was charged with developing and leading the USSS Air Security Program following the attacks of September 11, 2001. He later transformed and modernized the USSS Protective Intelligence and Assessment Division, improving efficiency for acquiring and disseminating critical cyber intelligence information pertaining to potential threats to principals and venues under USSS protection.
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AJ Michalka & Georgie Flores Get Chic at Aritzia x Levi's Launch Party!
About Photo #1123540: AJ Michalka looked so cute at the Levi's x Aritzia launch party! The 26-year-old singer and actress stepped out at the event on Thursday night (November 16)… Read The Post Here
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Only 14 years after the birth of the Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX), the company has announced its latest excitement in the field of space exploration, particularly in reconnoitering our red planet, Mars. SpaceX and NASA have collaborated to send the Dragon (spacecraft developed by SpaceX) on an expedition to dig out and collect scientific data which obviously will be used for further research on the planet. No doubt the name of the mission goes by "Red Dragon."
The company is expecting to commence the launch in 2018 which, apart from collecting crucial data will also demonstrate the technologies that are needed to land large payloads on the red planet using propulsive landings which is the use of potent rockets to stabilize the spacecraft while landing.
The Dragon craft initially was meant to carry human beings inside it but the CEO/CTO Elon Musk says that the interior of the spacecraft is not suitable to carry people for a journeys longer than from our planet to the moon. Still, an official at NASA says that NASA is the only agency that is closer to sending human beings on mars than anyone. The official also gave a hint about NASA's plans to send humans on Mars in the 2030s.
Musk also said that the new iteration to Dragon, the Dragon 2 is capable of landing anywhere in the solar system due to its design and vision. The company will be funding the project while NASA will provide with technical support and access to Deep Space Network for the purpose of communications.
Just two days ago the company tweeted about its mission:
Planning to send Dragon to Mars as soon as 2018. Red Dragons will inform overall Mars architecture, details to come pic.twitter.com/u4nbVUNCpA
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) April 27, 2016
The company also tweeted a GIF yesterday demonstrating the stability of Dragon 2 while landing:
Recently tested Dragon 2's SuperDraco propulsive landing system at our McGregor, TX facility. Key for Mars landing pic.twitter.com/dV1nhKDMhr
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) April 27, 2016
The propulsive landing system is called "SuperDraco propulsive langing system." The above demonstration is done at a test facility in Texas.
SpaceX is so excited for this endeavor that it is looking forward into the future to actually send humans on Mars on a regular basis. The following picture was uploaded on the Earth Day at SpaceX's Facebook.
READ ALSO: Do you know these Amazing features in Tesla Car?
We highly appreciate the attempt to change the way scientists will see Mars from the data collected using SpaceX's Dragon 2. Elon Musk was the former entrepreneur at PayPal is the current CEO for Tesla Motors and SpaceX and we already know the success of Tesla in the past couple of years. We believe that SpaceX and NASA will be creating history in just two years from now in the field of space exploration and probably will declare that Mars is ready as an alternate habitat for us.


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Tagged: Doug Mathis
Where Are They Now?
Opening Day for the Grizzlies' 2012 season is 35 days away (43 until the home opener on April 13th). While the next month will dictate how the Grizzlies roster shakes out, it is time to revisit the 2011 Opening Day roster. Some familiar faces may return to Fresno this season, but several players have moved on to other organizations. Check out the list below to see where they have landed.
RHP Josh Banks – signed with the Baltimore Orioles. Banks was without a job until February 28th when he signed with the Orioles on a Minor League contract. The right-hander is local to the Baltimore area as he is from Severna Park, Maryland.
RHP Casey Daigle – unsigned. Daigle pitched in 36 games with the Grizzlies last season. He did not pitch in a game after July 10th, however, as he ended the season on the disabled list.
RHP Steve Edlefsen – on the Giants' 40-man roster. The right-hander made his Major League debut in 2011, pitching in 13 games with the Giants. The 26-year-old, who has pitched in Fresno for parts of the last three seasons, may once again start the year in Fresno this season, but he may also see significant time with the Giants.
LHP Alex Hinshaw – signed with the San Diego Padres. The left-hander was released this past offseason, before he was signed by San Diego. The 29-year-old attended San Diego State University, so the transition to America's Finest City should be an easy one if he pitches for the parent club. Hinshaw was invited to the Padres' Major League Spring Training as a non-roster invitee.
RHP Andrew Kown – re-signed with the Giants; invited to San Francisco's Major League Spring Training as a non-roster invitee. Kown is a candidate to once again pitch for the Grizzlies, depending on how he performs in Spring Training and what types of opportunities open up at the big league level.
RHP Marc Kroon – retired
RHP Shane Loux – re-signed with the Giants; invited to San Francisco's Major League Spring Training as a non-roster invitee. Similar to Kown, Loux will more than likely start the season in Fresno if he sticks with the Giants organization.
RHP Doug Mathis – signed by the Boston Red Sox. Mathis appeared in 13 games with the Grizzlies in 2011 before joining the Oakland A's organization midway through the year. The University of Missouri product is in Boston's big league camp this spring. Former Giants farmhand Tony Pena Jr. is also with Mathis in Boston's Spring Training as a non-roster invitee.
RHP David Mixon – retired midseason last year. After appearing in seven games with the Grizzlies, the right-hander was sent to Double-A Richmond before joining High-A San Jose. In July, Mixon decided to step away from the game and step into a post-baseball career.
RHP Henry Sosa – traded to the Houston Astros midseason last year. Sosa is on the Astros' 40-man roster and figures to contend for a spot in Houston's pitching staff at some point this season. The Astros are a young team, and Sosa has only made 10 Major League starts in his career, all of which occurred last season.
RHP Ryan Vogelsong – re-signed with the Giants on a two-year deal. In case you didn't hear, the right-hander had a good season last year.
LHP Matt Yourkin – re-signed with the Giants; invited to San Francisco's Major League Spring Training as a non-roster invitee. Once again, Yourkin is in the same boat as Kown and Loux in terms of where he starts this season. If Yourkin pitches for the Grizzlies in 2012, it will be his third-straight season in Fresno.
C Chris Stewart – on the Giants' 40-man roster. Stewart is competing with Eli Whiteside for the backup catcher role with the Giants.
C Jackson Williams – still within the Giants organization. Williams is attending big league Spring Training camp for the fifth straight season as a non-roster invitee.
INF Brock Bond – still within the Giants organization. Bond missed most of the 2011 season with an injury. He will be looking to bounce back in 2012, possibly putting up numbers similar to 2010, when he was named a Pacific Coast League All-Star.
INF Emmanuel Burriss – on the Giants' 40-man roster. Burriss is competing for a role with the Giants full-time, either as a starter or as a utility player off the bench.
INF Conor Gillaspie – on the Giants' 40-man roster. Gillaspie appeared in 15 games with the Giants last season as a September call-up. He first appeared with the Giants in a limited role during his first professional season in 2008, all of which was part of his contract. Gillaspie will more than likely start the year in Fresno with his play and opportunities opening up at the Major League level determining where he finishes the year.
INF Edgar Gonzalez – signed by the Chicago Cubs. Gonzalez was one of the mainstays in the Grizzlies lineup in a year filled with plenty of roster turnover. He signed with the Cubs organization entering the 2012 season and is participating in the Cubs' big league Spring Training camp as a non-roster invitee. Plenty of competition exists for Gonzalez in the Cubs' camp, but Grizzlies fans might have the opportunity to watch him play again in May when the Iowa Cubs pay a visit to Fresno. All of this, of course, depends on Gonzalez staying with the Cubs organization if he does not make the big league club breaking Spring Training.
INF Brett Pill – on the Giants' 40-man roster. Pill is competing for a spot on the Giants 25-man roster breaking Spring Training camp. After primarily playing first base for his first five professional seasons, Pill gained some experience at second base with the Grizzlies in 2011. In addition to playing a handful of games at third in the minors, as well as taking some fly balls as an outfielder in Spring Training, Pill is adding versatility to help him make the Giants' Opening Day roster.
INF Ryan Rohlinger – signed a Minor League contract with the Cleveland Indians. Rohlinger was traded to the Colorado Rockies in early June of last season, where he played in 70 games with the Colorado Springs Sky Sox to end the year. The 28-year-old will attend the Indians' Minor League camp after his deal with Cleveland did not include an invitation to the big league Spring Training.
OF Terry Evans – unsigned. Evans opened the 2011 campaign with the Giants organization, appearing in 39 games with the Grizzlies. He opted out of his contract at the end of May, freeing him up to sign with the Philadelphia Phillies. The Georgia native played in 48 games with the Double-A Reading Phillies to close out the 2011 season.
OF Darren Ford – signed with the Seattle Mariners. The speedy outfielder was let go by the Giants this past offseason in a reshuffling of the 40-man roster. Ford battled injuries for most of the 2011 season, spending time at four different levels in the San Francisco organization. Ford received an invitation to the Mariners' Major League Spring Training, but with nine outfielders already on the 40-man roster, Ford will have plenty of opportunity to compete for a spot with Mariners. Worse comes to worse, Ford will land with the Tacoma Rainiers. The Grizzlies play the Rainiers to open Fresno's 2012 home schedule.
OF Tyler Graham – on the Giants' 40-man roster. Graham led the PCL in steals in 2011, a year after he batted .343 over 109 games with the Grizzlies in 2010. The Giants added Graham to their 40-man roster this past offseason, meaning Graham could make his Major League debut in 2012 if an outfield spot opens up in San Francisco or, at the very least, as a September call-up.
OF Thomas Neal – traded to the Cleveland Indians midway through last season. Neal has secured a 40-man roster spot with the Indians entering Spring Training, but he is facing plenty of competition, including from former Grizzlies and Giants outfielder Fred Lewis.
My New Classroom
By: Josh Jackson
Anybody who is involved in Minor League Baseball knows that there is a certain theme affiliated with the sport. It does not matter if you are a player, a coach, a front office employee, or a lowly intern such as myself. Everyone is trying to push themselves to the next level, however possible. This concept especially pertains to me, as a recent college graduate currently seeking full-time employment, as the competition in the industry doesn't exclusively take place on the baseball diamond. Of course, this is what I expected when I started my internship back in February, but I did not get to fully experience the fluidity of the industry until taking a trip with the team to Sacramento.
The June 17th game against the Sacramento River Cats marked the beginning of the 2011 edition of what is known as the Highway 99 showdown series. It also represented my first experience on the road with a professional baseball team. I sat in the press box during the game and really tried to take everything in. It was a beautiful day at Raley Field, and I was admiring the performance of Grizzlies starter Matt Yourkin, who was having another solid outing. At a certain point during the game, River Cats Media Relations Director Rebecca Brutlag peered through her binoculars as she saw an unfamiliar figure warming up in the Sacramento bullpen. "Who the heck is that warming up in our bullpen?" she asked to the press box at large. I turned to my boss, Director of Media Relations with the Grizzlies, and he jokingly replied, "It's probably Doug Mathis."
Doug Mathis had opted out of his contract with the Fresno Grizzlies just two days prior. Despite six quality starts in 13 appearances as a Grizzly, Mathis was never able to find the win column for a variety of reasons. Anyone who paid any attention to the season that Doug Mathis was having in Fresno would be understanding of his frustration and the decision he made. Mathis needed a new start in order to get to where he wanted to be.
So as it turns out, we looked through the binoculars and confirmed that the right-hander warming up in the home bullpen was none other than Mathis himself. We eventually found out that Mathis had been signed by the Oakland A's and was set to be placed on the Sacramento roster. Mathis made no appearance that day, but the sighting of one of our best pitchers in a rival uniform served as a wake-up call. It showed me just how quickly things could change on a day-to-day basis.
The situation became even more of a reality when we were down in the River Cats clubhouse the next day. As I waited for my boss to finish an interview with Major League rehabber Mark Ellis, I stood just a few feet away from Mathis, who was wearing a Sacramento River Cats warm-up shirt. He sat there quietly as he ate the food provided to the players. Guys were coming up to him and introducing themselves, which drove home the fact that Mathis was still a stranger in the clubhouse. None of it seemed out of the ordinary, though. It was evident that scenarios like this are played out on a constant basis.
After the near no-hit performance put on by the Grizzlies pitching staff that day, we headed back to the hotel in downtown Sacramento. As we walked into a lounge area near the lobby, we noticed a few of the Grizzlies players and coaches sitting at a table, sharing food and cocktails. It took me a second to realize it, but Mathis had joined the group. This was not shocking to me by any means, however being a witness to the scene reminded me of my recent college experiences.
The baseball world is just like one big fraternity- everyone seems to be connected to each other in one way or another. In fact, we ran into Grizzlies reliever Geno Espineli and River Cats reliever Joe Bateman at a local Irish Pub later on that night. The two pitchers had played together at Double-A Connecticut when Bateman was still with the Giants organization. We sat and talked about baseball in general and what it was like to work in the sport from each of our own perspectives.
At one point in the conversation, Espineli made a statement that I felt was really representative of what playing at the minor league level is all about. "It's crazy how much players move around. Everywhere I go, I'll run into people I used to play with and I'll be like, 'Wow, you're playing here now?' It's just crazy how often it happens."
Bateman was also venting his frustration that comes with the strenuous environment of the minors. After a couple of drinks, it was hard for an athlete like himself to conceal his competitive nature. "I just feel like I deserve a shot. I should at least get the chance," he explained. Bateman got off to a good start in the beginning of the year, but has struggled as of late. He did, however, strike out four Grizzly batters over two innings the previous day. Bateman seemed overly eager throughout the conversation, and at one point he had inquired to see if we had heard his name get brought up in any trade rumors. We laughed and joked about it even though his request was somewhat serious. The conversation eventually ended and I returned back to the hotel having gained a new perspective on the world of baseball.
In business school, we always talked about the importance of developing good contacts and maintaining healthy professional relationships along the way. I saw over that weekend that this is not a foreign concept in professional sports, regardless of how you are affiliated with the industry. What I learned and experienced could not necessarily be achieved in a classroom setting, I had to see it for myself. I don't know if there is any real conclusion to a baseball story, but I am excited to say that my story is just beginning.


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While many bachelors still doggedly prefer dogs, in recent years cats have clawed their way to the top of the popularity contest. Apartment living makes self-contained cats today's pet of choice.
"Just 20 years ago, there were twice as many dogs as cats in the United States," said Tom McLaughlin, executive vice president of the Western World Pet Supply Assn., headquartered in South Pasadena. "Now there are 54 million cats and 52 million dogs.
"With so many people moving into condominiums and with our fast-paced life style, pet owners of both sexes are discovering the advantages that cats offer," McLaughlin added.
"A cat doesn't need a back yard, it doesn't need to be taken on walks. You can leave a cat alone over the weekend with a litter pan and a self-feeding device, and it will be fine. You couldn't possibly do that with a dog--it would yap its head off."


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Team and Games 2016
Wanna make something? Make it wel
Alessandro Bertola
Silvio Capostagno
Francesco Romeo
Pietro Bongiovanni
Annalisa Toselli
Paolo Cois Marco
Trinastich Christian Carvelli
MATHRIS:Mathris aims to increase quick computing capacity without forgetting the playful aspects, suitable for all educational environments, even to treat learning disorders
Never fall asleep
Elena Rita Trovato
Marco Claude
Felice Balzano
Antonio Ventura
Elisa Wan
Francesco Maggiolino
M4THM4RE: A game that teach players the divisibility criteria in a funny way.
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Tutti per uno – unity per tutti
Giacomo Mosso
Simone Romano
Andrea Bruson
Paolo Mosso
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Math-of-History-962168397262620/
Ogni sfida noi polverizziamo, attento a te il team bomba siamo
Teodosio Scazzi
Lorenzo Rinaudo
Carlo BAroni
Davide Cavagnuolo
Giovanni Volpintesta
SAmuele Bianchi
Anna Maria Morra
"TmathT : Under Expressure" The game has been developed for people from 11 to 14 years old. It could be used during the lessons by the multiplayer mode : infact students must collaborate to find the combination for defuse the ink bomb.
The #BOMBTEAM is now developing a version for tablet and smartphone that will be avaible soon.
The purpose of the game is to make the students learn how to solve math's problems with a gamer component that makes all more interesting.
Besides math the students have to face another obstacle, represented by the logical riddles. They are located between two levels :
when you solve them, you can approach another room ( with a new level ).
Every chapter have a new and more difficult math expression which is the key to discover the vandal.
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Games that bytes back
Giacolo Pietromilano
Alessandro Fiore
Gianni Cito
GAetano Dilovardo
Ilaria Scarca
Roberto Cau
Functional escape is a dynamic platformer which, in an ironic manner, hopes to familiarize the player with mathematical functions by allowing the player to input a function, it being graphed and the playable character traverses the line to reach the goal at the end.
Everything is better with a dragon
Matteo Lista
Simone Turello
Luca Pregno
Andrea Mattei
Valerio Ghiano
Lorenzo Sacchetti
Flame The Professor : The core mechanic of the game is to apply mathematical transformation to functions in order to hit one or more targets on the screen.
It is a simple puzzle game, everything is static and the player hasn't any source of time limitation.
The plane where the game takes place is a cartesian plane and every level will have a certain amount of targets and obstacles; the player will have to choose between a number of given transformation in order to find the transformed function that perfectly fits the level.
Only one function, hitting every target and avoiding every obstacle, is the winning one!
play by the rules and break them with art
Luca Rickler
Daniel Lorusso
Dario Gamba
Klajdi Dyftari
Dario Conti
MATH DUNGEON: An adventure puzzle where an explorer has to find a hidden treasure, while being chased by a monster. There are 4 levels, with 10 rooms each, (each more difficult than the previous) and every level you will be tested with a different basic operation problem. You have 5 "lives" until you get caught by the monster; and you have a limited time to solve each room. Score is assigned every level based on the level and the time the time spent.
to code or to not to code
Edoardo CAmara
Manuel Hagiu
FAbio Sofer
Edoardo Avenia
Stefano Vitti
Ivan Meotto


text: [RETROSPECTIVE] Brian Duffy June 21, 2011 The first ever full-career retrospective of the legendary British photographer opens to the public on July 8th 2011, coinciding with the publication of Duffy – the first and only book of the photographer's work. Duffy infamously quit photography in 1979 when, at the height of his career, he took the majority of his photographic work into the back garden and set it on fire. Featuring more than 160 images painstakingly rediscovered by Duffy's son after years of searching through archives and publications around the world, this exhibition has truly risen from the ashes. On view July 8 to August 28 at Idea Generation in London. www.gallery.ideageneration.co.uk


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In Local Races, Education Takes Center Stage
In an election year when schools are a paramount issue for voters nearly everywhere, mayoral aspirants sound like school board candidates, and the debates between school board hopefuls are resonating more than ever.
"Education is a top concern, and it's spilled over into every type of race, and especially local races," said Dennis Friel, who coordinates local campaigns for the National Education Association. "It's a pattern shaping up around the country. People want to know, 'What are you going to do about schools?'"
In Denver, Miami, Washington, and other cities, the focus on education that is influencing campaigns at the state level is also playing out locally.
In several cities, mayoral candidates are addressing head-on an issue that many city governments have traditionally ignored. The trend follows highly publicized efforts by such mayors as Thomas M. Menino of Boston and Chicago's Richard M. Daley to tackle the tough problems of urban schools.
And in school board races and local bond elections, voters' concerns over the quality and cost of education are playing out. "Schools are a factor at every level," said Susan A. MacManus, a political science professor at the University of South Florida in Tampa. "From the top of the ticket down to hometown politics."
New Era in Washington
Foremost among the mayoral candidates wading into education is Anthony A. Williams, the bookish, mild-mannered former city chief financial officer who defeated several veteran politicians to win the Democratic nomination in the nation's capital. The departure of Washington's retiring mayor, Marion S. Barry Jr., from the political scene touched off a free-for-all in which Mr. Williams, a political newcomer, rose to the top.
In his primary race, Mr. Williams promised a new high-tech high school, lower class sizes, and higher teacher salaries. His schools platform, combined with his experience in dealing with Congress and his reputation as a fiscal manager, landed him the nomination. He is favored to beat Carol Schwartz in the Nov. 3 election in the heavily Democratic city.
Ms. Schwartz, a moderate Republican who ran a tough race against Mayor Barry in 1994, opposes congressional Republicans' efforts to pass a school voucher program for the city and notes often that her three children attended its public schools.
In Louisville, Ky., Democrat Dave Armstrong, a county judge, is running for mayor against Republican Bill Wilson. Mr. Armstrong has promised to visit a city school one day each week if elected, even while conceding that he has no authority over the Jefferson County district, which includes Louisville.
"Education is a real focus in Kentucky and in downtown Louisville," said Bob Benson, Mr. Armstrong's campaign director. "Dave wants to call attention to the quality of Louisville schools."
For most of the last 15 years Mr. Wilson, who was a lifelong Democrat before switching parties last year, served as an alderman for Louisville. He cites crime as the city's most pressing problem and says that if the city would keep schools open after school and into the evening for cultural programs, tutoring, and recreation, juvenile crime and teenage-pregnancy rates would decline.
Spotlight on School Boards
School board candidates, especially in big cities, are also on the hot seat. Local press coverage, analysts say, has been heavier and more probing than in the past, and savvy voters are homing in on such specifics as class size, safety, vouchers, and busing.
"With education in the forefront of public opinion, school board races have been elevated," said Jay Butler, the director of communications for the National School Boards Association in Alexandria, Va. "In the past, school board candidates were the last choice on the ballot, where people would say, 'Who are these people?' But with the spotlight on schools, voters are seeing these races in a whole new light."
In Florida, for example, a state with one of the fastest-growing school-age populations, local board races have in many cases become a referendum on the new guard vs. the old, Ms. MacManus of the University of South Florida said.
"The public is clamoring for solutions and has grown more impatient with people on boards for a long period of time," she said. "They're tired of the same old sayings, the same old promises, and the same old excuses."
Upsets in Miami
North of Miami, voters in the 231,000-student Broward County system, which includes Fort Lauderdale, are electing board members for the first time from specific districts rather than at-large. There, school crowding and concerns over mismanagement were big issues in primary races.
Both issues loomed large as Don Samuels, a longtime board member and its current chairman, sought a Democratic nomination for one of the five open seats. In a major upset, he lost to Stephanie Arma Kraft, a lawyer and parent who ran her first-ever campaign on her "outsider" status. She faces no Republican challenger next month.
There were just two races for the nine-member Miami-Dade school board this fall, both of which were decided in the primaries. The 345,000-student system's school board has been elected by district rather than countywide since 1996. Former Opa-locka Mayor Robert Ingram, a Democrat, took one seat; no Republican is running for that seat. And Republican and former community council member Marta Perez beat incumbent Renier Diaz de la Portilla in a tight race for the second Miami-Dade board seat. No Democrats entered that district's race.
Though the federally created control board that oversees city finances in the District of Columbia stripped Washington's school board of most of its power in 1996, spirited races for the 12-member panel there have continued nonetheless. And the election may have new significance: The control board's new chairwoman, Federal Reserve Board Vice Chairwoman Alice Rivlin, has spoken recently of returning authority to the elected board over the next two years.
Given the record-setting growth in enrollments nationwide, John Augenblick of the Denver-based school finance consulting group Augenblick & Myers, predicts that bond referendums, especially in the most crowded districts, stand a good chance of passing.
"In many places, all you have to do is look out your window to see growth" and understand the need for new schools, he said. He added that passing bond referendums where the problem is less related to growth and more to aging facilities will be tougher.
Building for the Future
Among the largest bond proposals facing voters next month is the one in Clark County, Nev. Voters in the 203,000-student district, which includes Las Vegas, will decided whether to approve a 10-year tax freeze that would raise some $2.5 billion for school construction by not allowing the current tax rate to be cut as old bonds are paid off. Voters in the county, one of the nation's fastest-growing, passed school bond referendums in 1992, 1994, and 1996.
The Houston district is proposing a $678 million bond issue to build new schools and renovate old ones. The 211,000 district's last bond bid, a $390 million package in 1996, lost by a narrow margin.
In the 68,000-student Denver system, voters will be asked to approve a $305 million bond measure and a $17 million property-tax levy. The bond money would go to build new schools, repair old ones, and replace some old school buses. Most of the new property-tax proceeds would support literacy efforts, including tutoring programs and the hiring of reading assistants.
Coverage of urban education is underwritten in part by a grant from the George Gund Foundation.
Vol. 18, Issue 7, Page 5Published in Print: October 14, 1998, as In Local Races, Education Takes Center Stage
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This is what you see - my new Cypher necklace made of polymer tubes and sterling silver chain.
This is what I saw - Cypher necklace on white plastic on a wooden chest near a window, me perched, heals hanging off the edge of the chest, using my feet (see the blue socks?) to hold a piece of mirror to bounce the light.
I sometimes wonder about the difference between what gets portrayed on the internet (and in print and wherever) and reality. And I was struck by the quite un-glamorous, un-artsy, un-cropped images I took while trying to photograph this necklace. Comical but real.


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The Business of Art: Brian Clark at Transmedia Vancouver (2/2)/
One For Them, One for Us Back at StoryWorld, Brian Clark mentioned a business tactic that inspired a lot of us from Vancouver, and that was "one for them, one for us." Do the projects for clients in order to make money, then use that money to help fund your own projects, to do the ones you want to do.
This week at Transmedia Vancouver, after being thanked for that insight, Brian went on to say that you can also use your own self-funded projects to experiment, and to take the kinds of risks you'd never be able to convince a client to take -- and then, if it succeeds, you can point to your own success when you talk to future clients to prove that it can work.
He said that the things they experiment with themselves become the template for what they do for bigger clients, confident that the tactics will work (and then likely able to do it on a larger scale).
Occupy Transmedia
Brian was asked about his Occupy Transmedia panel/event at StoryWorld, where he and Jan Libby organized a much more freeform dialogue than the conference had seen so far for everyone to air their grievances with the form. He said that we are getting dangerously attached to gurus in transmedia, and we need to get away from that. We need to keep the conversation as open as possible.
He also wants to find the short-form of transmedia. Every art form has one -- the single to the album, the short story to the novel, the short film to the feature. We don't have one yet, but perhaps we can find it if we focus on where the problems are in the form. Thus: OccupyTransmedia.
And the best parts of that, Brian said, were the more virulent, like "No more free work." We need to start a dialogue about how to solve the problems. Are there easy solutions? Maybe not, but a dialogue will help us get smarter and get better and work towards figuring it out.
Filmmakers and Gamemakers
The next question was about improving the dialogue between filmmakers who want to add game elements to their work and the gamemakers who are asked to do it.
Brian said he likes to use sports as metaphors for narrative. The rules of basketball are there not just to make it a fair game but to make it an exciting game with all the same tropes as a good narrative. The shot clock makes sure you don't just hold onto the ball and it gets boring. You have this constant back and forth, reversals of fortune, rising tension and anticipation, fluctuating emotions, and hopefully a close ending. And the rules are constantly tweaked and adjusted to optimize that emergent narrative.
Storytellers understand that, that story requires tension, and that the sport has a series of rules designed to produce a certain kind of narrative.
He also mentioned the use of game-like mechanics in film: In the 60's, filmmaker William Castle created a film where right at the climax, audience members (who had been given glow-in-the-dark thumbs) were asked to vote on whether the killer should be shown mercy, or should die, and would be shown an alternate ending based on their vote. But Castle had never even filmed the version where the killer lived. Magicians call this "forced choice," when they know what the outcome will be. And yet, it gives the audience a feeling of agency within the movie.
Be Your Own Distributor
The benefit of being your own distributor, Brian said, is the direct connection with fans. You don't want to hand your relationship with your fans, the people who will follow you from your first film/project to your second, over to someone else.
Brian said that when someone comes up to him and says they liked one of his films, he doesn't know anything about them and can only nod and say thanks. When it's someone who's a fan of one of his interactive experiences, though, he knows their forum handle and knows way more about them than they do about him. That relationship is vital.
He then paraphrased DIY filmmaker Sarah Jacobson in saying this: What's stopping you? If the distributors say no, call the theatres. If the theatres say no, call the high school. If the high school says no, rent a screen and put it in a park. If the park says no, stick a VCR in the back of your car. What's stopping you from getting your project out there?
Too many producers decide they're going to sell their film, and then when they don't, they have no backup plan.
In talking about working with brands and ad agencies, Brian outlined three interesting trends with how brands are changing what they do: brand journalism, where we can once more have a personal relationship with the people behind the product; gamification, through things like loyalty programs; and the rethinking of the television commercial, which has become a secondary money-maker to product placement.
Squirrels and Escalators
He also talked about a design problem he was given by the Smithsonian: how to make museums more interesting to the busloads of kids that are shipped in every week than chasing squirrels and running up the down escalator. To solve this awesome design challenge, he's been working on how to make a visit to the museum more goal-oriented than what was pedantic mandated wandering -- challenges and competitions, puzzles and rewards.
Cause-based Transmedia
When asked about a cause-based transmedia project, Brian said that the challenge of cause-based transmedia is that you're always either playing to the people who already agree with you, or you're being provocative.
World Without Oil may have made some difference to those who played it, but was likely only played by those who already agreed with the message. Conversely, PETA strives to be as provocative as possible, dumping blood on runway models and whatnot. There's very little in the middle. And neither extreme really starts a useful dialogue. Even if you can do a project that gets people in the same room, it's difficult to have those conversations.
So Brian believes that such projects need to be entertainment first, with the issue hidden underneath. All art, he said, has a thematic message about the world in it. If you can be entertaining first and foremost, you can get people interested, and they will then get the message you're sending.
He created a project called Eldritch Errors, which he said was mainly to work out his own angst of being an American under the Bush administration -- the story was a techno-Lovecraftian world, dealing with an insurmountable evil force. What do you do in that situation? So instead of terrorists, he's talking about cultists. He could raise issues about the Bush administration without raising issues about the Bush administration. (A behind-the-scenes and post-mortem blog can be found at schmeldritch.com.)
The Message
So I think the overall message we can take from Brian's awesome and insightful visit to Transmedia Vancouver is that we need to do whatever it takes to make our stuff. Find a business model that works for you, and work it into the design of your project. Distribute yourself if you need to; do whatever it is you need to; do the client projects to give you the leeway to do your own. Make great entertainment that your audience will pay you for; put your messages within it.
And as a community, we need to keep talking. Find where we have problems, and work together to find solutions; try to avoid assigning guruship; and move transmedia storytelling into its next phase as the mature artform we all know it can be.
Be sure to check out our experimental fiction project Azrael's Stop, about a boy who must learn to live when everyone he loves has died. Updated daily at azraelsstop.com


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This guy is the luckiest Dude this Summer! He had some Fun-Time with 2 Girls at the Public Beach, and we caught them with a Spycam having some Oral Sex, and he also got a Beer in his Hands, so how could this get even better? 😀Tags: beach oral sex, blowjob, public beach
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Several people asked me to share this design so here it is!
Click here to download a zip file with the following embroidery formats: .pes, .jef, .vip, .hus and .sew.
The design is 4" x 5" approximately.
Use only for personal projects.
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
Free machine embroidery design: Totoro
Posted by Blanche at 1:00 PM
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So awesome! Makes me wish I was able to embroider :(ReplyDelete
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Cute! We LOVED and still love that movie, we are big Stuido Ghibli fans!ReplyDelete
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text: Tonight soap making project goat milk soap unscented with yogurt. Now smell so good n look yummy but cannot eat. Yogurt plus goat milk very very beneficial for skin as yogurt have lactic acid help skin renewal and exfoliating skin plus with fresh goat milk from Farm unlimited benefits. Now waiting for curing. www.ameryllisnatureskincare.WordPress.com #goatmilksoap #yogurt


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Better Name
Surrogates-Horrible images of Juno and Baby Mamma flashed through my mind when I first heard this movie title.
Pandorum – echoes of "Pandora", the chick that just couldn't keep her grubby fingers off the box that released all evil.
Edge: Pandorum
Surrogates- People plug in to a machine and control robots out in the real world. This allows them to live isolated lives hooked into machines all day (livin' the dream). They can feel pleasure through the surrogates (how else would they infuse sex into the story line) but somehow can not experience pain. This lovely world ends when someone figures out how to kill people through their surrogates. Oh my!
Pandorum – What?! Some unfortunate astronauts on a ship in deep space find themselves haunted by something mysterious?! Alien–>Event Horizon–>Supernova–>Solaris… that's what we call "trending down".
Edge: Surrogates
Leading Man
Surrogates – This movie is awesome because not only do we get bald, angry looking Bruce Willis, but we also get his robot played by long-haired- nice-guy Bruce Willis. This is great for Bruce, cause he has been in a slump lately and now has 2 chances to break out of it!
Pandorum – Ben Foster plays creepy (3:10 to Yuma) and creepier (Hostage) because he looks creepy. Age hasn't made him less creepy. I'd go with him as the bad guy, even if that doesn't make sense within the context of this movie. Dennis Quaid is somehow a wannabe Kevin Costner, yet manages to produce even more mediocre movies than his idol.
Edge: Surrogates
Leading Woman
Surrogates – Um.. if you could be a robot of anything, why would you ever want to be a woman? With that said, Rhada Mitchell plays Willis' partner and helps him by probably asking questions that need to be answered in order to develop the plot.
Pandorum – the only thing I know about Antje Traue is that there is no way to pronounce the "ntj" sound in the English language.
Edge: Surrogates
Surrogates – Too many sci-fi movies start off with the preview being a commercial for some futuristic product. They are somewhat forced to do this in order to explain the premise of the movie, but this one drags on for too long, and doesn't make much sense. We also get the obligatory human face ripped off to reveal robotic inner workings. Snore.
Pandorum – Really, with these horror movie previews, you can usually stir intrigue by showing a bunch of scared/disheveled people…and this preview is no exception. We'll even forgive the laughable baby-alien-thing that pops up at the end:
Edge: Pandorum


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Can you believe we are into the last few days of January?! I actually hope that February goes by just as quickly because I am ready for spring! Anyone else having a bout of spring fever?
I am blogging over on The Craft's Meow blog today and I tried to help my case of spring fever by using some bright spring colors on the card I made for the post. I am not sure it helped or made it worse, LOL!
Here is a peek of the card I am sharing -
Tuesday, January 29
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Seven Seas Waterpark and Resort has just released its second official sneak peek photo tease on Valentine's Day.
Shown above is a different view of the Water Slide Tower. Watching the photo further adds to the excitement and thrill of enjoying the first water-themed amusement park in this part of the country located in Barra, Opol, Misamis Oriental.
Keep posted for further announcement.


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Recent research discovered that one-fourth of employees use the very same password for all their online and computer accounts, placing corporate cybersecurity in peril and emphasizing a demand for sounder education.
Even worse, approximately 81 percent of the surveyed employees who use the same passwords for all the accounts do not even worry about safeguarding their phones or computers with a passcode. The survey further discovered that 23 percent of workers regularly click on possibly harmful links before even verifying if they are genuine in any way.
Cybersecurity Hygiene Falls Through The Cracks Notwithstanding Increased Awareness
The study revealed that people are still unable to follow fundamental cyber hygiene best practices irrespective of improving information regarding cybersecurity. As per the report, named "Cyber Hygiene Study 2018," more than half of employees said that the threat of private data leak is their first cybersecurity concern. However, one-third of them agreed that they do not use two-factor authentication method or 2FA for their devices. 17 percent of the respondents said that they have the same passcode for six or more accounts.
Such poor password practices persevere irrespective of the efforts of the employers' to implement corporate cybersecurity strategies. Another survey conducted by a Business to Business market research firm named Clutch observed that a whopping 67 percent of users frequently get reminders to change their passwords. Whereas 82 percent of employees said that they do update their passwords from time to time, only 41 percent of respondents said they use two-factor authentication, and only 20 percent have a password manager.
Improving Corporate Cybersecurity
On the positive side, the Clutch survey revealed that people could be very proactive in ways which go over and above their corporate cybersecurity strategies. As a matter of fact, 60 percent of respondents said that they report cybersecurity events to their companies whereas 59 percent of employees have passed through security and compliance training.
As the organizations are becoming more and more digitized, companies are working on finding the proper equilibrium between enabling employees to be fruitful and ensuring that they do not get themselves into any trouble. This could explain why 55 percent of employees stated that their access to the internet is limited at work and 53 percent of the respondents said that they come across user permission prompts when they request access to the systems they require to perform their tasks.
Dramatically, yet, barely 47 percent of respondents are required to acknowledge their organization's IT security policy formally. These outcomes hint at a requirement for IT leaders to encourage awareness regarding corporate cybersecurity policies and catch up to make sure that employees are following good cyber hygiene.


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Mr BANDT (Melbourne) (12:55): I rise on behalf of the Australian Greens to oppose the Stronger Futures in the Northern Territory Bill 2011. We oppose the bill, not because we do not support stronger futures for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people but because we do.
We support stronger futures for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as we do for all Australians, not just in the Northern Territory but across the country. But stronger futures for Australia must be underpinned by equality and respect for our first peoples. This bill is not underpinned by equality or respect. It is an extension of the top-down, punitive, discriminatory and flawed Northern Territory intervention initiated by the Howard government and perpetuated by this Labor government. It is only a few weeks since the Expert Panel on Constitutional Recognition of Indigenous Australians presented their report recommending a series of changes to our Constitution which would go some way to righting the wrongs of the past and to recognising Indigenous Australians. Such a referendum would further challenge the false and damaging assumption that Australia was a nation born from a land devoid of people when instead we are a country first cared for by one of the world's oldest living cultures. Constitutional recognition would be another step towards healing this shameful legacy.
It was only last week that we as a nation had an opportunity to reflect on the fourth anniversary of the apology to the stolen generations, and still so much needs to be done to bring about true reconciliation in this country. We need to match the words of the apology with actions that deliver equality. This bill, however, is yet another example of the government's inability to extend the commitment to recognition, reconciliation and equality across its legislative agenda.
With this bill, the government is seeking to continue and expand the discriminatory measures introduced by the Howard government's Northern Territory intervention. It is an intervention which has failed to put in place measures that genuinely overcome disadvantage, an intervention which has failed to deliver better overall outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and an intervention which will fail to deliver stronger futures for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
One look at the Closing the Gap in the Northern Territory Monitoring Report shows how much work there is still to do: school attendance has declined since 2009; child hospitalisation rates have increased; incarceration rates continue to rise, with Indigenous people more than 17 times more likely to be incarcerated than non-Indigenous people in 2008; and incidences of personal harm and suicide have doubled since 2007. There is no evidence that any positive changes in education and employment have come from this flawed intervention.
The use of spin to justify poor policies will remain a necessity until the approach in the Northern Territory changes. I am a big believer in the principle that you do not make people's lives better by taking away their rights. This expansion adheres to the long-held and ultimately flawed principle that punishing people will lead to changes in behaviour. These old approaches are typified by negative measures such as income management and the suspension of welfare payments, which are justified with the use of reports that are all too often derived from perfunctory consultations by government employed outsiders and framed to meet a predetermined outcome. They generally lack the quantitative rigour which is necessary.
Stronger Futures consultations have come under fire for poor process and reporting. Analysis based on independent recordings of the consultations reveals striking discrepancies between opinions expressed by communities and the view of opinions present in the report. A top-down intervention is unnecessary for effecting change in the community, and other ideas proposed by the communities themselves are being ignored by the consultation process.
The government point to some areas they say have improved, such as personal and community safety, to justify a continuation of the intervention. An increased feeling of safety is hardly surprising given that some policies associated with the intervention have seen money spent on more safe houses, police and Aboriginal liaison officers. These investments obviously produce results, they improve services and they address wider community disadvantage. The key point here is that an emergency intervention, with its discrimination and punitive approach, is not needed in order to make these investments a reality.
The Improving School Enrolment and Attendance through Welfare Reform Measure, or SEAM program, is another example of an unnecessarily punitive policy that achieves some benefit through the elements of investment contained within it that could be achieved in other ways. SEAM is now being extended, despite the fact that DEEWR have admitted the trials could not be directly linked to educational outcomes. It was made clear in Senate estimates recently that the positive and more consistent results from SEAM are delivered through case management and personalised involvement with families rather than any measures that punish parents.
Consistently better outcomes are delivered when the primary policies focus on engagement between parents and schools. The positive investments contribute to improving school attendance. More teachers, better training, bilingual education, community involvement, better parental engagement with schools, action to address children's hearing health and more investment in case management would all deliver better outcomes than SEAM is able to. It is these suggestions that were most prevalent in the Stronger Futures consultation with communities, not a preference for punitive measures.
Despite this, money is still being funnelled into truancy measures which alienate people and take an old-fashioned, punitive approach. This approach, aimed at punishing parents, does not build the trust or partnerships that are needed or build the ability of parents to take responsibility for their child's education in positive ways. The $1.5 billion spent so far would have delivered significantly better results had it been directed to service investments and programs rather than signs, bureaucracy and income management.
These programs are extremely costly. To date, the bill for the current income management process in the Northern Territory sits at around $450 million and the policy remains one of the most criticised across the NT. The money used to income-manage people would produce far better results if it were directed to services and programs based on collaboration and community involvement and partnership.
A recent report by the Equality Rights Alliance into women's experiences of income management in the Northern Territory, funded by the government, shows that, of the 168 surveyed, 74 per cent said that the BasicsCard does not make it easier to look after their families. Most women reported that it just added difficulties and costs to paying for goods and services. The report also showed that most women surveyed had an apparent lack of understanding as to the purpose of the program or why they were on it and 70 per cent said they did not feel safer since the introduction of income management.
In their submission to the Senate inquiry on this legislation, the National Congress of Australia's First Peoples highlighted the general lack of robust baseline data and evidence in support of policies initiated in the intervention. The government needs to be investing in policy measures that have solid evidence to support them, not repeating the same failed policies over and over. If we were to implement sound community based initiatives that we know are effective, that would provide communities with the ability and opportunity to control and improve their social and economic conditions—elements that are a key component of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, which Australia has endorsed.
Engagement in the Northern Territory and with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities must be fundamentally altered if the rights set out in the UN declaration are to be honoured. That will happen when we adopt policies that are considered and that originate from real, consultative engagement with a sound evidence base. When this occurs, a well-chosen set of statistics and a well-oiled PR machine will not be needed to justify the approach. The benefits for communities and individuals across the Northern Territory will be self-evident.
The government's stealthy expansion of income management measures is a sign they have failed to learn their lesson in the Northern Territory. In the words of Barb Shaw:
Loss of autonomy, resources and opportunities in communities is driving many people into the larger town centres. The overcrowding situation with housing has not improved. More and more Aboriginal children are being removed from families, another silent statistic. There is a deteriorating social situation in these larger towns, with crime on the increase.
The government remain unable to effectively develop and implement policies alongside communities in the Northern Territory that work. This legislation will only further entrench this, not just in the NT but now in other parts of the country as income management is extended to other states and territories to allow for the quarantining of income support payments.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities must be allowed to take responsibility for their own affairs. This legislation is a step in the wrong direction and the government is missing yet another opportunity to take a new approach in the Northern Territory. Extending ineffective measures is a waste of money. Punishing parents by cutting income support flies in the face of existing knowledge and opinion, including of the government's own departments. You do not have to be a rocket scientist to work out that by investing in community services you improve outcomes for communities and address disadvantage. The Australian Greens are committed to proactive and positive policies which deliver long-term benefits for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and not costly punishment schemes which diminish the ability of those peoples to develop the capacity to build their own stronger futures as they define them.
The government continues to act in a way contrary to the evidence and the opinions of experts and the community. This is precisely why we have seen more than $1.5 billion spent on the intervention without seeing the necessary improvements. The Australian Greens—in particular my colleague Senator Rachel Siewert, who has worked tirelessly to uncover the real impacts of government policies on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples—have strongly and consistently stood up to the government over the issue of the intervention. I have serious doubts about extending a program which is already operating and returning underwhelming results. That is why I will be voting against this legislation.


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Thursday, March 29, 2012
The Voice of Saturn Synth, Eurorack module!
Finally finished the first actual production VoS Synth euro module. I have a very limited number available at the moment, with more coming hopefully later this summer. This first batch is handmade by myself and is a bit cheaper since the panels were messed up slightly in fabrication (the top mounting holes are about 3mm too low, thus I had to route the holes out to make them bigger.
Its the same circuit as my previous synth, but its really interesting to use within the context of a modular with all the cv possibilities. The video pretty much demonstrates the range of sounds and modulations. Panels, pcbs and vactrols are available from Curious Inventor. I have some built modules for $220, get in touch if you are interested.
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Monday, August 29, 2011
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We've also watched Edwardian Farm, which is about life just after the turn of the 20th Century.
We have enjoyed both of these series immensely. They're delightful to watch while being educational at the same time.
We've also been wanting to see a third series that was made using the same historians/archaeologists, but it hasn't been available on YouTube. Well, this week Shawn just happened to check again and we were excited to find that it's available! So, we're now in the process of watching Tales from the Green Valley. It is about life in the year 1620.
I can't recommend these enough. What's especially nice is that these are made with actual historians...professionals that are enthralled with life in the past. Other shows that we have watched have had more of a drama-filled "reality tv" feel to them and we just simply do not care to watch that kind of show. This is a wonderful change from the norm. If you do get to watch them, let me know what you think!
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- AnonymousAugust 30, 2011 at 8:20 AM
I love these shows too! I haven't heard of Tales From The Green Valley, but I have seen the others. You might also enjoy a BBC series titled, The 1900 House, also available on YouTube. I family tries to live as they did in 1900, but based in the town. There are things of value we can still learn from this series, but I much prefer the shows set in the countryside, as I'm sure you do too.ReplyDelete
Thanks for the recommendation! We'll be sure to watch it as well when we're finished with Tales From The Green Valley. There was another series that we stumbled across one evening, but I haven't been able to find it again. Perhaps you've heard of it. It was an older BBC series that featured life during World War 2. It showed how everyone "made do" with what they had available since new supplies were cut off. I think it was called something like "Wartime Kitchen" or something similar. If you stumble across any other shows similar to these, please let me know. We truly enjoy them.
Take care,
- AnonymousAugust 30, 2011 at 11:43 AM
Wow, these links are exciting! I think I found what you're looking for and it's on YouTube:ReplyDelete
Wartime Kitchen & Garden (Episode 8, part 1)
We'll have to search for the other parts.
Thank you so much Brenda!ReplyDelete


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