Gamescom 2013: Lords of the Fallen

<p><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-d3UQz8CL_pw/UhNuqM3vkvI/AAAAAAAADDQ/y6s-P1BlV14/s1600-h/1146148_498068570276771_1209641973_o%25255B4%25255D.jpg"><img alt="1146148_498068570276771_1209641973_o" border="0" height="475" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-uEdO9jgeiqw/UhNuqjNdUtI/AAAAAAAADDY/193ia4BenSA/1146148_498068570276771_1209641973_o_thumb%25255B2%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px" title="1146148_498068570276771_1209641973_o" width="844"></a> </p> <p align="justify"><font size="3">Gamescon started today in Cologne, Germany and the first game that caught my undivided attention was not even on my radar: </font><a href="http://lordsofthefallen.com/" target="_blank"><font size="3">Lords of the Fallen</font></a><font size="3">.  The RPG is coming to PC, PS4, and XboxOne in 2014.  The video for the game can be seen </font><a href="http://www.viddler.com/v/dac885d7" target="_blank"><font size="3">here</font></a><font size="3"> and it seriously has my full attention. </font></p> <div id="scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:2c4b69ed-2305-4c93-a482-ad63a6de620c" class="wlWriterEditableSmartContent" style="float: none; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px">Technorati Tags: <a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Lords+of+the+Fallen" rel="tag">Lords of the Fallen</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/XboxOne" rel="tag">XboxOne</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Playstation+4" rel="tag">Playstation 4</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/PS4" rel="tag">PS4</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/PC" rel="tag">PC</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Xbox" rel="tag">Xbox</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/RPG" rel="tag">RPG</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Gamescon" rel="tag">Gamescon</a></div>

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Gamescon started today in Cologne, Germany and the first game that caught my undivided attention was not even on my radar: Lords of the Fa...

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Today's Teamster News 08.20.13

<a href="http://tiny.cc/1wk21w">DeKalb County Workers Nearer to Union</a>  Atlanta Journal-Constitution   ...DeKalb County took a huge step toward having its first union representing nonpublic safety workers...<br /><a href="https://events.teamster.org/ei/cm.esp?id=4010034&pageid=_3FH0ULU6B">Don’t Forget to Register for the Teamster Women’s Conference</a>  IBT   ...The Teamster Women’s Conference will be held September 19-21, 2013 in New Orleans. Sign up to join your Teamster Sisters and Brothers in this dynamic event while space is still available!...<br /><a href="http://portsmouth-nh.patch.com/groups/business-news/p/shaheen-high-sugar-prices-not-sweet-for-jobs">Shaheen: High Sugar Prices Not Sweet for Jobs</a>  Portsmouth Patch   ...Speaking to union representatives at the Teamsters Bakery and Laundry Conference in Portsmouth Monday, U.S. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-NH, said <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-08-13/sugar-rises-to-six-week-high-on-brazil-cold-scare-cocoa-falls.html">high sugar prices</a> are killing manufacturing jobs across the country...<br /><a href="http://www.workdayminnesota.org/index.php?news_6_5579">Rally for fair trade Tuesday in Minneapolis</a>  Workday Minnesota   ...Communications Workers of America President Larry Cohen will headline a rally Tuesday by union members, community groups and others to protest the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade deal...<br /><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/fast-food-workers-call-for-a-nationwide-walkout-on-aug-29/2013/08/19/69ebf748-0684-11e3-9259-e2aafe5a5f84_story.html?hpid=z11">Fast-food workers call for nationwide walkout Aug. 29</a>  Washington Post   ...Emboldened by an outpouring of support on social media, low-wage fast-food and retail workers from eight cities that staged walkouts earlier this year are calling for a national day of strikes on Aug. 29...<br /><a href="http://www.newsobserver.com/2013/08/19/3120620/moral-monday-rails-against-mecklenburg.html" rel="nofollow">Moral Monday protesters rail against 'Mecklenburg trio' </a> Charlotte Observer   ...One of the city’s largest protests – police estimated about 2,000 demonstrators – packed into uptown’s Marshall Park...<br /><a href="http://host.madison.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/despite-nearly-arrests-capitol-protest-grows/article_34a452e5-08a9-5388-94bc-40af1875650e.html#ixzz2cS5WbZ1E" rel="nofollow">Despite nearly 300 arrests, Capitol protest grows</a>  Wisconsin State Journal   ...Participation in the noontime Capitol protest against Gov. Scott Walker continued to crescendo Monday despite nearly four weeks of almost daily arrests for gathering in the rotunda without a permit...<br /><a href="http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2013/08/16/2478201/fewer-paid-sick-days/">Americans Get Fewer Paid Sick Days Than Two Decades Ago</a>  Think Progress   ...Compared to 1993, Americans now <a href="http://www.bls.gov/opub/btn/volume-2/paid-leave-in-private-industry-over-the-past-20-years.htm">get fewer paid sick days from their employers</a> on average, dropping from 10 days a year to eight for a worker who has been with a company for a year. The decrease becomes bigger the longer an employee stays on...<br /><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/19/opinion/bangladeshs-workers-deserve-better.html?_r=1&">Bangladesh’s Workers Deserve Better</a>  New York Times   ...Four months after a building collapse killed more than 1,100 factory workers in Bangladesh, their families are still waiting for adequate — and in some cases, any — compensation. This is a shocking lapse by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her government...<br /><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/govbeat/wp/2013/08/19/democrats-push-back-on-voting-rights/" rel="nofollow">Democrats push back on voting rights </a> Washington Post   ...After crying foul over Republican efforts to modify election laws in key states, Democrats are launching their own wide-ranging push to change the way Americans vote, kicking off the latest battles in a fight over voting rights that’s as old as the republic itself...<br /><a href="http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2013/08/16/2481211/denham-food-stamp-cuts/">Congressman Brags About ‘Savings’ In Farm Bill, Ignoring Devastating Food Stamp Cuts</a>  Think Progress   ...Rep. Jeff Denham (R-CA) flagrantly misrepresented what the House has done with the farm bill at a recent constituent breakfast in Turlock, California. Denham claimed the House farm bill cuts twice as much spending as it actually does, misled about the nature of those cuts, and ignored his party’s <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2013/07/16/2306781/stabenow-house-leaders-handling-of-farm-bill-endangers-whole-system/">unprecedented decision to drop food stamps</a> and other anti-hunger and anti-poverty spending from the bill...<br /><a href="http://www.opednews.com/articles/1/The-Incredible-Con-the-Ban-by-William-K-Black--130818-359.html" rel="nofollow">The Incredible Con the Banksters Pulled on the FBI</a> (opinion)  OpEdNews   ...criminal referrals have virtually vanished against the "accounting control frauds" that drive our recurrent, intensifying financial crises...<br /><a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-08-19/fannie-mae-and-freddie-mac-said-to-avoid-billions-in-write-offs.html">Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Said to Avoid Billions in Write-Offs</a>  Bloomberg News   ...Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which have reported record profits after a taxpayer bailout, are ignoring billions of dollars in potential losses on delinquent loans as they take three years to adopt a new accounting system, a government auditor said in a letter made public today...<br /><a href="http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2013-08-14/business/41397760_1_samsung-products-underage-labor-fair-labor-association">Samsung hit with lawsuit over labor conditions</a>  Washington Post   ...Samsung has been named in a lawsuit filed by a Brazilian labor group, which said working conditions at the technology firm’s assembly lines were in violation of Brazilian law. The group is asking for at least $108 million in damages...<br /><a href="http://ash.org/obama-goes-to-bat-for-big-tobacco-in-tpp/" rel="nofollow">Obama goes to bat for Big Tobacco in TPP</a>  Action on Smoking and Health   ...Legal analysts for the public health community, who were briefed Friday morning in a closed session by administration officials, agreed that the new proposal will do little to protect governments’ right to regulate tobacco...<br /><a href="http://www.tradereform.org/2013/08/1800-ohio-jobs-lost/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=1800-ohio-jobs-lost" rel="nofollow">1,800 Ohio jobs lost </a> Dayton Daily News   ...Offshoring continues to impact Ohio with companies cutting at least 1,800 jobs in the state since January, according to petitions for federal assistance from employees, labor groups, and company officials...<br /><a href="http://www.sfexaminer.com/sanfrancisco/support-lacking-for-bart-strike-ban/Content?oid=2551015">Support lacking for BART strike ban</a>  San Francisco Examiner   ...BART remains the busiest public transit system in the U.S. that does not have a worker strike ban in place, and the route to blocking that right could be a long journey...<br /><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/19/seattle-minimum-wage-campaign-washington_n_3778980.html?ref=topbar">There's A New Push To Raise Seattle Minimum Wage To $15 Per Hour</a>  Associated Press   ...Washington already has the nation's highest state minimum wage at $9.19 an hour. Now, there's a push in Seattle, at least, to make it $15... <br /><a href="http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/08/18/3571044/indiana-customers-due-32m-from.html">Indiana customers due $32M from 6 utilities</a>  Indianapolis Business Journal   ...Indiana's largest power companies are set to reimburse their customers $32 million after falling short on spending for energy efficiency last year...<br /><a href="http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2013/08/19/business/minnesota-factories-output-employment">Minnesota factories' output up, employment down</a>  Minnesota Public Radio   ...Minnesota's factories are churning out lots of products like airplane parts and medical devices these days, but they're not exactly going on hiring sprees...

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Daily Education and Technology News for Schools 08/20/2013

<ul class="diigo-linkroll"> <li> <p class="diigo-link"> <a href="http://joelcomm.com/i-am-leaving-social-media.html">I Am Leaving Social Media - Joel Comm - JoelComm.com</a> </p> <p class="diigo-description">I read Joel Comm's book Twitter Power and it has been one of my longtime favorites on the topic. Here he talks brutally about the negatives of social media. I admit the topic caught my attention. I"ve just found that if I'm brutal about who I follow and make sure they're real educators, I'm usually pretty happy with my stream. I unfollow junk as soon as it is evident it is junk. Ultimately we all must guard who we follow or we might just find ourselves following the garbage truck.</p> <p class="diigo-tags"> <span>tags:</span> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/news">news</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/twitter">twitter</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/social">social</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/media">media</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/opinions">opinions</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/social media">social media</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/edu_trends">edu_trends</a></p> </li> <li> <p class="diigo-link"> <a href="http://deaddrops.com">Dead Drops | Un-cloud your files in cement! 'Dead Drops’ is an anonymous, offline, peer to peer file-sharing network in public space.</a> </p> <p class="diigo-description">Dead drops.com has a list of dead drops around the world. Some of my students brought this in as a maker project that they want to do in Friday's #geniushour . Honestly, I'd never heard of this and I'm not sure what I think about this. It could easily be used for great things - sharing photos or making a time capsule of sorts, but it could also be use to pirate files. It is interesting what happens when students bring in ideas.</p> <p class="diigo-tags"> <span>tags:</span> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/education">education</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/news">news</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/maker_projects">maker_projects</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/file">file</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/sharing">sharing</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/hacking">hacking</a></p> </li> </ul><p class="diigo-ps">Posted from <a href='https://www.diigo.com'>Diigo</a>. The rest of my favorite links are <a href='https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher'>here</a>.</p>

Daily Education and Technology News for Schools 08/20/2013

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Pinetown Vodacom ICT Resource Centre and Cisco Training have a great influence in Zamokuhle Buthelezi’s Life

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /><span style="font-weight: normal;"><em>Submitted by Nomty Gaba from SchoolNet</em></span><br /><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is an Impact Story from the Pinetown Vodacom ICT Resource Centre showing how training in computer skills can greatly influence a person’s life. SchoolNet manages the Vodacom ICT Resource Centres for Vodacom. </span></span><br /><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6eH1dzvvXVIm8LVx9BNKEHXLYe4yc44RCDLJKE7dUJXyJYxDQ7Bh13uykEo9MUxwD1XDM8g-GCSUMZS4-PgMWxoFG_f2nAkziKdLAaSKozz7ViVnhl530CnOix1zOs8iVEd3pmyu8_j0/?imgmax=800" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="clip_image004" border="0" height="144" hspace="12" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6eH1dzvvXVIm8LVx9BNKEHXLYe4yc44RCDLJKE7dUJXyJYxDQ7Bh13uykEo9MUxwD1XDM8g-GCSUMZS4-PgMWxoFG_f2nAkziKdLAaSKozz7ViVnhl530CnOix1zOs8iVEd3pmyu8_j0/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; display: inline; margin-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="clip_image004" width="200" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Zamokuhle Buthelezi, a volunteer at the Pinetown Vodacom ICT Resource Centre and a Cisco trainer, says that the centre has had a great impact on his life. He started volunteering at the centre in March 2012 and in April 2013 he was nominated by the Pinetown Vodacom Centre manager to attend the two week long Cisco training course in Port Elizabeth. Since attending the training, Zamo has been using the skills that he acquired throughout Pinetown with a special focus on Tshelimnyama as this is his home town. Zamo has also been offering computer skills training at no cost to the Sakhisizwe Home Project as he is a member of this organisation. Zamo does not charge the people of iTshelimnyama for training but he does charge for computer repairs.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNwYD2D7VaEwspOfXY4pgBAC5mCEItW7infQ7wBYGfrr-sRHz3eflyzS7u0K0b_IGpQ03nUxWYB8mf-w8Sf3X8_Xrk8tCqBwGLQ83zuv4fvU8rDyDZlwWlzNC2bkSkJQ_sXLqlRqM9RZk/s1600-h/clip_image006%25255B3%25255D.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="clip_image006" border="0" height="156" hspace="12" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgC2otvL1JgXY-KPLrmETjPC9hefcDcpAMNCxA7_WJb3T-P1Yre_QKZAvuVdWabcQBkVeZQy1imKv0mF5riDNsASPlf5mIhb-Iit9JtYeEAOlI8lNXD-0u-cQJXtcK2DBn_vk1wefD5cbg/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="clip_image006" width="198" /></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Zamo boasts that the IT Cisco Academy improved his computer skills in a big way and he is committed to sharing his skills with the community. Zamo is a trainer for soft skills and also conducts basic computer skills training at the Vodacom ICT Resource Centre as well as being responsible for marketing the centre to his community. He is also involved in the community project called Youth in IT and is responsible for providing training in essential IT skills for this project. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiPrDJA1IJPibtJMlyRc-Lsf1cjiPD6lZXmOAfJuDEErwhyphenhyphen9DKcnsXYt9oRBj-wwuSXy8_CWxyeu4eb2d4K0c2i6wI-KmuTkVMWmTWu7ZLjd7g6AsFjUrZDUhydbCPc3KyVHanHDF6-YQ/s1600-h/clip_image008%25255B3%25255D.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="clip_image008" border="0" height="170" hspace="12" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhivmrO2RF-aCBC-ZHstLwHCvdLswUKl0E-v-fyWVLMzI0u60NJ6DgFarmTtnAJh3C7lFX1cGfKpI1Vuo4FwEXmGgmi10wiAalranF0xgaZTZbiXM5XVcM5QSZgQQZY9VE3bQigFCgSVwk/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; display: inline; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="clip_image008" width="197" /></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Zamo has fixed a number of computers since receiving Cisco training, but is especially proud of repairing Mr Mdunge’s desktop which other technical people had been unable to repair. He was also able to rectify the problem with the COMMOS settings on Mr Sibalukhulu’s desktop computer. Zamokuhle smiles when he talks about Siyabonga, another young person who is now helping him train the community, who Zamo helped to mentor. He also mentions how he enjoys running the SchoolNet Sizanani ICT for Community Members course and thinks that he may be able to charge for running this course as a small business opportunity. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhp7nQoxurUQVA5WeYdMhvUGBFTw4Lx79JiV6wIGQPQcHWQVAYfhhkqNjCysJ8kVSN-Bov__VnsKAugR17fG17WRuPcvKC0oGcb0Il2f-HiGhlIvHLe3mv-LvZY2uUv35ogpF1mruwA2yY/s1600-h/clip_image010%25255B3%25255D.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="clip_image010" border="0" height="121" hspace="12" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMx-VsYBidG8YK2KfoeHKQosHugb-Xqp-MSciI9QVSCshXeZIPiUjPI1A5-SW1i97ZnOfYFKAXhGLE9oKJ0zFVSkdknuKGKWYA1yGbqsLFc2Ik_lrPqSRi6zCquNugv541k2H8k_CyIA0/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="clip_image010" width="157" /></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Zamo is looking forward to the KwaZulu-Natal Vodacom ICT Resource Centre reopening in its new location and says he will be conducting Cisco Essentials Training once the move is complete. Currently he is promoting the course which will be offered at no cost to participants. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mrs Lindiwe Dlamini, the Centre Manager of the Vodacom ICT Resource Centre says Zamo is a very humble person and always willing to learn new skills. She has no doubt that companies will be interested in employing him.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">SchoolNet SA and the  Vodacom Foundation are proud of Zamokuhle Buthelezi’s journey. Well done! </span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></div>

news Pinetown Vodacom ICT Resource Centre and Cisco Training have a great influence in Zamokuhle Buthelezi’s Life

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We invite SA teachers to participate in our Adobe Youth Voices programme – free and exciting!

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBC9o9m3gbNM2Lei7BxuxRh-QV1asRK1EKEllrbhqFnt6CESEy2xXMc_JhTQBI9eTZbVjMfM2Dj9en5m5AWjlcHYn1sAK3sZ3ZRub0x5Oo-FE4s3bcYBV3KFkaJwIyjF4zA9Qrptn55ro/s1600-h/clip_image0024.png"><img alt="clip_image002" border="0" height="60" hspace="12" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDSA7FNGMN7D_BlL8SjlFax2SifhB9_PglxDg4XEfZ49feswlG9UcoxiTA53SGllsjyLJ6whsFs7TbXRiUzEPOwAmTQLm6PIPsOGYRQQ7tLuSJTCOCr3Xgt1npgvEPkhUxXytKSpwu2d0/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="clip_image002" width="123" /></a>       <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiox7e8f-oShz3FnnEOS2TjoIzTwLNViV8jtmCjtK-qsjUXNidGomWT8mVzwB8ntIOverPRQx18aWjpVF0e_ORG1BtAM54R6pVZZQ04kgY9KDtI45uH_k4UG79Lc34QtAhAPprZ7zrKp2Y/s1600-h/clip_image0024.jpg"><img alt="clip_image002" border="0" height="56" hspace="12" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMa0hrfea2RCyV9st8rbo9rWT_XZQAusb43QK9EXW9dZnlL8twobb364ZLHdJfTUJQCWygO7AfWKsSFtEAb_TKBw5cxWFrK_QSOHfvgMGWbeB6JtHu8yFH73BGbwCNGFCxbXMjk8buGPQ/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="clip_image002" width="240" /></a><em></em><br /><br /><em>S<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ubmitted by Omashani Naidoo</span></em><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you are a teacher of students aged 13 – 19 please think about joining our Adobe Youth Voices programme with a group of students – even if you need to form a club in order to do this.  Create media with the free products and free online training from Adobe headquarters that we supply.  </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">All teachers and learners who meet all expectations will go into a prize draw to win great prizes and a trip to the next IEARN conference.</span></div><span style="color: blue; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span><b><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">What is this programme all about?</span></b> <br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Adobe Youth Voices (AYV) is about igniting young people’s creative confidence – the ability to harness creative skills to solve problems – by empowering them to find their voice and make it heard. AYV is the Adobe Foundation’s global initiative to increase creativity in education, which we believe will better equip young people to be the problem solvers, critical thinkers, and leaders of tomorrow. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At the heart of AYV is an educational methodology that provides youth 13-19 years of age with the inspiration, training and technology to create original media content on an issue they care about. Through this experience, participants hone skills of self-expression, ideation, collaboration, flexibility and persistence – the skills we believe are central to creative confidence. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">AYV is brought to life through strategic partnerships with mission-aligned organizations and school districts who deliver and support AYV programming in over 50 countries. The Adobe Foundation provides funds, software, training materials, and on-going support to partner organizations who work directly with thousands of schools, community organi­zations, and educators worldwide. These educators then facilitate AYV locally - reaching 130,000 young people to date. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span><b><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">What are the benefits for me as a participating educator?</span></b> <br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In addition to learning skills in the use of Adobe Photoshop and Premier Elements, learn skills in facilitating workshops on creating media and creating social messaging, the following programme activities are also offered to participating teachers and learners.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span> <br /><table border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" style="width: 493px;"> <tbody><tr> <td valign="top" width="108"><div align="center"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Activity</b> </span></div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b></b></span><br /></td> <td valign="top" width="383"><div align="center"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Description</b><b></b></span></div></td></tr><tr> <td valign="top" width="108"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Essentials</span></td> <td valign="top" width="383"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Essentials (youthvoices.adobe.com/essentials/) connects partners, their educators, and thousands more who join, in an online community where they can share ideas, access curriculum and other resources, and upload youth media works in progress to receive feedback.</span></td></tr><tr> <td valign="top" width="108"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Aspire Awards</span></td> <td valign="top" width="383"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Aspire Awards (youthvoices.adobe.com/awards/), a global online media festival, recognizes best-in-class content and creativity from youth around the world. AYV youth are invited to submit projects for online viewing and voting and winning projects are awarded software and hardware.</span></td></tr><tr> <td valign="top" width="108"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Creativity Scholarships</span></td> <td valign="top" width="383"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Creativity Scholarships program supports the next generation of creative thinkers and propels the future careers of those who create. The scholarships provide financial support to youth who have participated in AYV through the network of strategic partners.</span></td></tr><tr> <td valign="top" width="108"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Educator Training</span></td> <td valign="top" width="383"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Through the AYV training, educators enhance their teaching strategies, gain new skills and collaborate with like-minded educators and youth media experts to enable young people to express themselves using digital tools.</span></td></tr><tr> <td valign="top" width="108"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">AYV Live!</span></td> <td valign="top" width="383"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">AYV Live! Showcases and celebrates the youth media created over a program year. These exhibition events also present opportunities for the youth to interact with an audience about their work. </span></td></tr><tr> <td valign="top" width="108"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Project Pitch Session</span></td> <td valign="top" width="383"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A project pitch session is an opportunity for the youth artists to present their ideas and confirm they have a solid plan before they go into production. Often pitch sessions are organized so that AYV youth present their ideas to a group of their peers and other AYV educators for feedback.</span></td></tr><tr> <td valign="top" width="108"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Rough Cut Review</span></td> <td valign="top" width="383"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A rough cut review allows youth to take a step back and see their work as an audience does, while receiving feedback on ways to clarify and synthesize their ideas. Similar to the pitch session, rough cut reviews are usually done as a group, where youth artists and educators review work together and provide feedback.</span></td></tr><tr> <td valign="top" width="108"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">AYV Summit</span></td> <td valign="top" width="383"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The AYV Summit brings together AYV educators, partners and youth from around the world for a bi-annual training and celebration of the program. The Summit fosters best practice sharing, cross-cultural exchanges, develops youth leadership, and celebrates best-in-class educators.</span></td></tr><tr> <td valign="top" width="108"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lead Educator Program</span></td> <td valign="top" width="383"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Lead Educator program has been designed as a way for AYV to maintain fidelity by supporting the core. AYV hosts an annual Lead Educator Training where Leads are prepared to be advocates for the program by articulating the need for creative confidence in their region and the community at large.<b><u></u></b></span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><br /></b></span><b><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Who is eligible to participate</span></b> <br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">• Schools or youth organizations that serve low-income, disadvantaged middle and high school youth (ages 13–19) </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">• Access to or a plan to access media production equipment and resources </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">• Commitment of site administrator and/or information technology department to expedite the installation of donated software on site computers as soon as it is made available </span><br /><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b></b> </span><br /><b><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">What educator selection criteria will be used?</span></b> <br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">• Experience in facilitating or an interest in learning new strategies for project-based learning </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">• Strong belief in student-centered community and social change projects </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">• Passionate about sharing youth perspectives and voices </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">• Committed to engaging youth in rigorous investigation of topics of their own choosing that are relevant and meaningful to their lives </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">• Motivated and available to participate in AYV, without insurmountable barriers to success </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">• For educators enrolling the English language online courses, an ability to read and understand English, and to interact in English with course facilitators and other course participants. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><b><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">What is expected of participating Educator? </span></b> <br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">• Participate in an 8-week online course </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">• Develop an AYV program plan for the year, which will be drafted during the online course </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">• Launch their program plan and guide at least 25 youth over the course of the year in the creation of youth media using the digital tools provided. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">• Participate in national AYV events, including workshops and exhibition activities </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">• Complete periodic reports describing progress, sharing best practices, and evaluating the benefit of AYV for youth </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">• Participate in the Adobe Youth Voices Essentials online community, sharing stories and program progress </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">• Contribute youth media work to the AYV collection during the September 2013-June 2014 iEARN AYV Program Year, to be exhibited locally, online, and globally. Final submission of projects need to be submitted by April. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">• Participate in program evaluation activities: each educator must complete a pre-program (start of online course), post-training (end of online course), post-program (upon submitting end of year work). Returning educators (those trained in previous years) who are not taking the online course, but will continue participating in AYV, should fill out a pre-program survey and a post-program survey. All participating educators should guide their students to complete two surveys: pre-program (prior to beginning the AYV program) and post-program (upon submitting end of year work). </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><strong><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Two courses on offer</span></strong> <br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Two course sessions are held during the AYV year. For South Africa, 6 educators will need to participate in the September course and another 6 educators in February. Each new educator is expected to take <b>one</b> 8-week course. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Course One:</b> 23 September 2013 – 18 November 2013 </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">+1 new course for returning AYV educators on Photoshop and Digital Messaging </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><br /></b></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Course Two:</b> 17 February 2014 – 14 April 2014turnign educators on Photoshop and Digital Messaging </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><strong><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Previous winners that travelled to the IEARN Conference with this project</span></strong><br /><br /><table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" style="width: 400px;"> <tbody><tr> <td valign="top" width="200"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjG_qMhq1oMej22zXE4-MalIxXlOvtEkX9d88fj-XN8kn0Xm98jjkAHvI-JoNQFKTFuVOR5V9RH99jWIT7S12w-AJeizaBA_3PZMTgV00mJCjEkEtSrzAlmVbaK523K-z8AyGVFgsT6gOo/s1600-h/image%25255B2%25255D.png"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="182" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhw8hjuiJVK2t3FV2ZymBawnDUF3autVLbobJwMwQyditoNmF4n6EQ1-nOBeE_i3KRsFfa0Yg6ILJkU1qd2r_7i2cI0fkpeqsa00cDSSNVuwG9MlGF5WCCNG5AP2HXAdgKRonBg-6Lw3Xk/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="244" /></span></a></td> <td valign="top" width="200"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiidPuotZAroID3SoB_csF6YaEoMfF85BJwoun5E7LJjuOEqDhOcrqxtZIlfwO0t7LcwgdHQa_5X2vKqvChyphenhyphen0f6OZTXylHkUAjT-pL7_c-K9o5SZNFX-nwFapCvJkcAss-EyFM5EGCraXA/s1600-h/image%25255B5%25255D.png"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="183" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1ifEgFb11eTLjtvT3dOTOH08kYwBiJAxWWgqXxEDGzJYjR0vhFhCyI5V2EeOJb2kedx6j0ne2MSDbrQ9b93i3Ifluja3h7joLdXfZdqmf-lqczvBbGPvpJg21JYo_2Tsf5EWfUqg6pPc/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="244" /></span></a></td></tr><tr> <td valign="top" width="200"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>Hlengiwe Mfeka visits California with her movie project on Street Children</i></span></td> <td valign="top" width="200"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>A SchoolNet AYV group visits Taiwan with Warren Sparrow's 'Super Veggie-Man' movie project</i></span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong><br /></strong></span><strong><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Read about th</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">e experiences of previous SA teachers who participated in this programme. </span></strong> <br /><strong><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1. <a href="http://e-blogschool.blogspot.com/2011/08/schoolnets-adobe-youth-voices-programme.html">SchoolNet's Adobe Youth Voices programme sends a team to California</a><br />(18 August 2011)<br />2. <a href="http://e-blogschool.blogspot.com/2012/08/a-wonderful-adobe-youth-voices-media.html">A wonderful Adobe Youth Voices media opportunity for South African teachers!</a><br />(27 August 2012)<br />3. <a href="http://e-blogschool.blogspot.com/2012/09/adobe-youth-voices-in-south.html">Adobe Youth Voices in South Africa–teachers, you have to join this amazing project!</a> (5 September 2012)<br />4. <a href="http://e-blogschool.blogspot.com/2012/09/congratulations-to-our-adobe-youth.html">Congratulations to our Adobe Youth Voices project winners!</a> (19 September 2012) </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>How to apply</b></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Send Ms Omashani Naidoo, </span><a href="mailto:omashani@schoolnet.org.za" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">omashani@schoolnet.org.za</a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> an email to express interest in participating in this Adobe Youth Voices collaboration project.</span></div>

Adobe Youth voices We invite SA teachers to participate in our Adobe Youth Voices programme – free and exciting!

       S ubmitted by Omashani Naidoo If you are a teacher of students aged 13 – 19 please think about joining our Adobe Youth Voices program...

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Our Anniversary is Coming Up and Gifts are Encouraged!!

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCmPie2E3Cnq7sD3XU8Uz4KpLxDW9yGGX0FKDAv1IYYhm3T8CzgEsaF7nQDx0rja_34rH4f_lLdpcK9lMRAoA4ueGG6EoBNPE0nvDNMxBzNqyaiG8OiVERm_Kmf3DvAOP7BzI1o8k61Rkz/s1600/Happy+3rd+Anniversary.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="362" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCmPie2E3Cnq7sD3XU8Uz4KpLxDW9yGGX0FKDAv1IYYhm3T8CzgEsaF7nQDx0rja_34rH4f_lLdpcK9lMRAoA4ueGG6EoBNPE0nvDNMxBzNqyaiG8OiVERm_Kmf3DvAOP7BzI1o8k61Rkz/s400/Happy+3rd+Anniversary.jpg" width="400" /></a>Cheers, and how is everyone today? Well I hope, and anyhoo…<br /><br />Y’know folks?<br /><br />This past Sunday on the IWS Radio Show which featured <a href="http://www.blogtalkradio.com/im-with-stupid/2013/08/18/bad-poetry-in-motion" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">bad poetry and Mexican-Americans</span></a> who get turned on by chicks who can sound like a man, Jayman and I put on one helluva two hour internet radio show.<br /><br />Some of the hilarity and professional type radio brilliance came from Jayman and I; however, much of it came from our hardworking IWS Radio team.<br /><br />People such as…<br /><br />Bobby Kraft…Guy Ahnyurdyck…Dixie Ozark…Slyder Balzcock…Kirk Douglas…Paul Piatt, and of course, the man with no first name…Rev. Moneymaker.<br /><br />But of course, what made the show a success were the guests in the chat room, and the caller-inners.<br /><br />People such as…<br /><br />The Lady Killer, Jesse Ferg…The Bryon with a Y lovin’, Nurse Sherri…Our newest American Luis, and his hilarious wife Michelle…A fun-loving, non-gay man from Northern California, one Brown Beasely…and of course…<br /><br />That North of the Border Hot Mess of Disorder,<a href="http://www.blogtalkradio.com/im-with-stupid/2013/08/18/bad-poetry-in-motion" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;"> the uber-lovely Canadian, Jamie</span></a>…who was listening from her bed, and as far as Jay and I could tell and/or imagined, she was naked while doing so.<br /><br />Yeah that’s great and all that Matt-Man, but what is your point?<br /><br />My point is…<br /><br />While I <i>enjoy</i> doing the show every Sunday with Jayman, yesterday I had <i>FUN</i> doing the show because we had great callers, great chat room guests, and THAT, is a recipe for fun, and I am sure that Jayman feels the same way.<br /><br />Jayman and I can do a show and banter quasi-wittingly amongst ourselves for 120 minutes, but it is always more fun when people chime in.<br /><br />You see?  If people don’t chime in during our show, it poses the age-old question.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZdhIGPKv6-GO8cdUeXMcrfOfMQPseVknVADpfZNh3tmPjZR3XC-Mftk5y5kPk8M_oG7ZemBAzaGwyg0R_BPvz_2lFV7_GGRq6tL3qslddHk1hwk3DAoX_I62XJyL9Uu_4PIzKGE4YXH6w/s1600/tiffany+dupont+sexy+naked+capitol+one.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZdhIGPKv6-GO8cdUeXMcrfOfMQPseVknVADpfZNh3tmPjZR3XC-Mftk5y5kPk8M_oG7ZemBAzaGwyg0R_BPvz_2lFV7_GGRq6tL3qslddHk1hwk3DAoX_I62XJyL9Uu_4PIzKGE4YXH6w/s400/tiffany+dupont+sexy+naked+capitol+one.jpg" width="305" /></a>If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around, does it make a noise?  Likewise…<br /><br />If Jay and I do a radio show, and nobody joins in, was the only noise created, that of our own voices?  Yes!! And really?  Who wants that?<br /><br />Nobody.  Not even Tiffany Dupont nor a falling tree in a forest that makes no sound…or something, but anyhoo…<br /><br />So folks, at long last, here is my point.<br /><br />This Sunday, August 25th from Noon-2 PM ET on<span style="color: blue;"> <a href="http://www.blogtalkradio.com/im-with-stupid/2013/08/18/bad-poetry-in-motion" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">IWS Radio</span></a>,</span> Jayman and I will be celebrating the end of our third season on Blog Talk Radio, and we’d like your help.<br /><br />We want you to help us fill the chat room.  We want anyone and everyone to call-in; we’d like you to record and send to us your words of encouragement or disdain, and we want to have one helluva send off to season number three of IWS Radio.<br /><br />Help a couple of bruthas out, as we celebrate season three and look forward to season four, but…<br /><br />Just don’t sound like Schmoop when doing so, because as she said to me early Sunday morning…<br /><br /><i>“Oh Dear God!!  There’s Going to be a Season Four!!?”</i><br /><br /><i>Cheers!!</i><br /><br /><i>Matt-Man</i><br /><br /><a href="mailto:mattmaniws@ymail.com">mattmaniws@ymail.com</a><br /><a href="https://twitter.com/MattMan_IWS" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">@mattman_iws</span></a><br /><a href="https://www.facebook.com/mattmaniws" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">My Facebook Page</span></a></div>

Our Anniversary is Coming Up and Gifts are Encouraged!!

Cheers, and how is everyone today? Well I hope, and anyhoo… Y’know folks? This past Sunday on the IWS Radio Show which featured bad poetry a...

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Congressman Goodlatte's townhall in Verona ... follow live

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_67LyIw_eMZfPs2QlqUFDRKIa2yzcQHSbU6kA7uGpm2NuUucAdqaCfVmXbxoYeYMpPX58VuCX73ef1SeAG8Rdxdtfh5xagbZkIecWwSwl5EmRD81rkn7iJmySUP_E0MDJvm2nMBx_HFJb/s1600/1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="202" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_67LyIw_eMZfPs2QlqUFDRKIa2yzcQHSbU6kA7uGpm2NuUucAdqaCfVmXbxoYeYMpPX58VuCX73ef1SeAG8Rdxdtfh5xagbZkIecWwSwl5EmRD81rkn7iJmySUP_E0MDJvm2nMBx_HFJb/s400/1.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Congressman Bob Goodlatte talks with the press including <a href="http://www.newsvirginian.com/">News-Virginian</a> political reporter Bob Stuart.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgMePt07N_0uM0HsjMpK62tg4pBHuwyKcn4bJ2Scv4Nw17uDm2UFjIcAlSso1UUZeYJfwiFj2FicqK7YqGnOqbtGK4qymIVp8NSuaDMAFijyLRWD88FuyvWKnsAFJYhh3esvzWlKFFUI_s/s1600/1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="171" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgMePt07N_0uM0HsjMpK62tg4pBHuwyKcn4bJ2Scv4Nw17uDm2UFjIcAlSso1UUZeYJfwiFj2FicqK7YqGnOqbtGK4qymIVp8NSuaDMAFijyLRWD88FuyvWKnsAFJYhh3esvzWlKFFUI_s/s400/1.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPW-PVaQHVlVlTLAYg-M-YvN-1YtcpcKuDQ03GMIxZ66JF27Udp1d8MdfYAqKaB843bAgmttGEI7wrGHu6aiUKFFUmdXygmRkfdDbda9isaO5kzYVytf-zXZoSpwGdN7ls1GjRX0U97BFf/s1600/2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="202" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPW-PVaQHVlVlTLAYg-M-YvN-1YtcpcKuDQ03GMIxZ66JF27Udp1d8MdfYAqKaB843bAgmttGEI7wrGHu6aiUKFFUmdXygmRkfdDbda9isaO5kzYVytf-zXZoSpwGdN7ls1GjRX0U97BFf/s400/2.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />Follow live ... @NL_System Calvin Trice and @NL_Data Jenny Coughlin<br /><br />6:30: Opening statement by Congressman Goodlatte<br />6:55: Opening remarks continue ... we're a nation of immigrants, nation of laws, various subjects being discussed by the Congressman, NSA<br />7:05: Questions now from the audience.... <br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgq9AsW4DMADTko-z4CzcgZs7Fu3iTI7ywgTWbkZBSrxoE4BwezXfx1i2MTvS8TQHg1fl4u1rFxjCoGTjS8YQ9BOvNquV2hFhv69ZykePcxtZ69ohFrR5tlEsIDM7zyEQAzENo2FC0u3bQ1/s1600/1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="176" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgq9AsW4DMADTko-z4CzcgZs7Fu3iTI7ywgTWbkZBSrxoE4BwezXfx1i2MTvS8TQHg1fl4u1rFxjCoGTjS8YQ9BOvNquV2hFhv69ZykePcxtZ69ohFrR5tlEsIDM7zyEQAzENo2FC0u3bQ1/s400/1.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />7:15: Virginia Organizing members stood as the question was asked about the Dream Act and other immigration issues.<br />8:10: Meeting over

Congressman Goodlatte's townhall in Verona ... follow live

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Questions and no answers

Is it really a HoH I want? Or am I just craving submission in general?  Does it matter who I'm submitting to?  Do I even want to submit to my husband?   Do I trust him to lead my family?  Or does my family need me to lead?  Am I insane to think I can step down from my job as reluctant HoH?<br /><br />Do I really want DD with my husband?  Or is it that I just need to be spanked on a regular basis?  Do I want the spanking because of an infraction of some sort?  Is it something I actually did wrong like being bitchy?  Or is it for something completely made up like wearing the wrong panties? <br /><br />Do I actually think a good spanking and a hug will set me on a path to be a better person?  Or am I just wanting more frequent/longer/harder spankings from my husband that lead to other things?  Or do I want to join the dark side with other like-minded people and get what I need (non-sexually) that way?  And if that's what it is, will that physical action bring the settled feelings I think it will?<br /><br />I crave those couple days to a week after really intense dominating sex.  It's not the post-orgasmic endorphiny gooey friendlier than usual the next day thing.  It's different. Can't explain it, but probably no need because you already understand.<br /><br />So is it just lots of sex that puts me in that state? Or is my submissive side so wonderfully fed by his domination/aggression?  Or is it the little bit of spanky stuff that does it? <br /><br />I don't know much and I don't have answers. <br /><br />One thing I do know is I would never, ever, ever cheat on him or do anything of any sort behind his back. 

Questions and no answers

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Walmart warehouse workers get justice and a huge raise

About 75 temporary workers got permanent jobs at a Walmart-controlled warehouse in Riverside, Calif., as a result of a federal lawsuit alleging massive wage theft by the giant retailer and its contractors. The permanent jobs come with a 60 percent wage increase, health benefits and paid sick time.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.warehouseworkersunited.org/warehouse-workers-win-60-percent-raise-plus-benefits/" rel="nofollow">Warehouse Workers United</a> tells us warehouse workers filed a class-action lawsuit in federal court nearly two years ago to recover back pay, penalties and damages. They claim Walmart-contracted warehouses forced them to work off the clock, denied them overtime pay, and retaliated when they stood up for their rights. U.S. District Court Judge Christina Snyder ruled <a href="http://teamsternation.blogspot.com/2013/01/woot-wal-mart-to-be-added-to-wage-theft.html" rel="nofollow">Walmart could be added to the suit as a defendant</a>.<br /><br />It is unclear how, exactly, the lawsuit led to the 75 workers getting full-time jobs and raises. What is clear is that two of the contractors, Schneider Logistics and Rogers-Premier Unloading Services,<a href="http://www.warehouseworkersunited.org/breaking-news-warehouse-workers-win-support-from-federal-court-on-retaliation/" rel="nofollow"> tried to fire every single worker in retaliation for bringing suit</a>. The workers, who actually worked for temp agency Impact Logistics, got a restraining order in February against the companies.<br /><br />Five months earlier, the California Department of Labor Standards Enforcement raided the warehouses in October and fined them more than $1 million for inadequate recordkeeping alone.<br /><br />According to Warehouse Workers United, the workers were offered full-time jobs with Schneider. They are about to get raises. Said warehouse worker Reynaldo Rios Ibanez<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">I haven’t received my first paycheck just yet, but it will be about double. It means it will be easier to take care of my family. Before I could not buy one single extra thing.</blockquote>Guadalupe Palma, director of Warehouse Workers United, said:<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">This demonstrates that the minute the staffing agencies were forced to comply with the law they began losing money because they could no longer cut corners. But the fact that now all workers at this critical Walmart-contracted warehouses will make a living wage with benefits shows that improving the quality of warehousing jobs is entirely within reach for major retailers like Walmart.</blockquote>The Riverside workers aren't the only ones fighting for a living wage against Walmart contractors. Last month, 32 <a href="http://www.warehouseworkersunited.org/striking-warehouse-workers-return-to-work-2/" rel="nofollow">warehouse workers walked off the job at a Mira Loma, Calif., warehouse</a> and successfully returned to work two days later.<br /><br /> If you fight, you can win.<br /><br />

Walmart warehouse workers get justice and a huge raise

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A New Blog To Check Out

Some thought provoking stuff here.<br /><br /><a href="https://sanjacintocountyoutlaw.wordpress.com/">Good 'Ol Bill</a> gave me a heads up so you know it's good.<br /><br /><br /> <a href="https://anonumoswithoutname.wordpress.com/"> Anōnumos -Without Name </a><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8nVWuKUE_PNCX46IQHjK95IoxLKLqAcqYgh4bEkUaoW1bN0tlLOzPsmrPrHMblliroOmoDheFY2YnwwDnxWqcgOANmlnOwWmbxy78zKg1Y8ymNAkewKoavRf3zG9zHsIRkkWrnB2S0Jqd/s1600/278418.jpg" imageanchor="1" ><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8nVWuKUE_PNCX46IQHjK95IoxLKLqAcqYgh4bEkUaoW1bN0tlLOzPsmrPrHMblliroOmoDheFY2YnwwDnxWqcgOANmlnOwWmbxy78zKg1Y8ymNAkewKoavRf3zG9zHsIRkkWrnB2S0Jqd/s400/278418.jpg" /></a>

A New Blog To Check Out

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Nationwide fast food strike announced for Aug. 29

<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/QPhIs677lOU" width="420"></iframe><br /><br />A national fast food strike involving thousands of low-wage workers will take place Aug. 29, the first national job action since the wave of one-day strikes began last fall in New York City.<br /><br />The <a href="http://lowpayisnotok.org/home-0819/?utm_campaign=LowPay&utm_medium=socialshare&utm_source=TW-home-0819" rel="nofollow">Low Pay Is Not OK</a> website tells us:<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">Fast food and other low wage workers across the country are going on strike on August 29. We’ve had enough of struggling to get by on minimum wage or barely more, so we’re walking off our jobs to demand $15 an hour and the right to form a union without retaliation.</blockquote>The fast food strike movement spread to eight U.S. cities over the summer and shows no signs of stopping. Workers in other low-wage occupations are also expected to strike soon in what some commentators call "strike season."<br /><br /><a href="http://q13fox.com/2013/08/19/fast-food-workers-call-for-nationwide-strike/#axzz2cRjJgB3B" rel="nofollow">Q13Fox</a> in Seattle reported:<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">Many, such as Burger King employee Terrance Wise, said the walkout is an effort to put pressure on the $200 billion fast-food industry. </blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">“The more of us who go on strike that day, the louder our message will be that it is not right for companies making billions in profits to pay their workers pennies,” Wise said. </blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">Retail workers from stores such as Macy’s, Sears and Dollar Tree are expected to join in the strike, lowpayisnot.org organizers said. </blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">The strike will take place the day after the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington, a march that called to raise minimum wage of $2 per hour. Adjusted to inflation, that minimum wage would equal $15.26 an hour today, according to an online inflation rate calculator. The federal minimum wage in 1963 was $1.25, which would equate to around $9.45 today.</blockquote>You can support the fast food strike by signing the petition <a href="http://lowpayisnotok.org/home-0819/?utm_campaign=LowPay&utm_medium=socialshare&utm_source=TW-home-0819" rel="nofollow">here</a> -- or brown-bagging it on Aug. 29. Or you could join them on a strike line in your city.<br /><br />

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Monday, Monday

<span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://www.archidose.org/wp/">A Weekly Dose of Architecture</a> Updates:</span><br /><br />This week's dose features the <a href="http://archidose.org/wp/2013/08/19/saint-louis-art-museum-east-building/">Saint Louis Art Museum East Building</a> in St. Louis, Missouri, by David Chipperfield Architects:<br /><a href="http://archidose.org/wp/2013/08/19/saint-louis-art-museum-east-building/"><img alt="this week's dose" src="http://archidose.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Aug13-19.jpg" title="This week's dose" width="640" /></a><br /><br />The featured past dose is the <a href="http://www.archidose.org/Aug09/17/dose.html">Messner Mountain Museum</a> in Bozen, Italy by Werner Tscholl:<br /><a href="http://www.archidose.org/Aug09/17/dose.html"><img alt="this week's dose" src="http://www.archidose.org/Aug09/17/image01.jpg" title="featured past dose" width="640" /></a><br /><br />This week's book review is <a href="http://archidose.org/wp/2013/08/19/young-frank-architect/"><i>Young Frank, Architect</i></a> by Frank Viva (L):<br /><a href="http://archidose.org/wp/2013/08/19/young-frank-architect/"><img alt="this week's book review" height="300" src="http://archidose.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/893_A2_Young_Frank_Book.jpg" title="This week's book review" /></a> <a href="http://www.archidose.org/books/3pigs.html"><img alt="this week's book review" height="300" src="http://www.archidose.org/books/3pigs.jpg" title="This week's book review" /></a><br />(R): The featured past book review is <a href="http://www.archidose.org/books/3pigs.html"><i>The Three Little Pigs</i></a> by Steven Guarnaccia.<br /><br />: : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : :<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">American-Architects <a href="http://www.american-architects.com/en/pages/50x50">Building of the Week</a>:</span><br /><br /><a href="http://www.world-architects.com/projects/projects_detail/42358">James B. Hunt Jr. Library</a> in Raleigh, North Carolina, by Snøhetta:<br /><a href="http://www.world-architects.com/projects/projects_detail/42358"><img alt="this week's Building of the Week" src="http://www.world-architects.com/files/projects/42358/images/1_HuntLibrary_ArchitectSnohetta_PhotoJeffGoldberg-Esto.jpg" title="Current Building of the Week on american-architects.com" width="640" /></a>

Monday, Monday

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Vietnam found to allow child slavery in garment factories

<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Vietnam’s tolerance of child slavery should disqualify it from joining the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) <o:p></o:p></span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjL5GNPh4L9dyFEjafZgdiLgok9fpP5_M0vgNOuTOWAXZejHvGXGnGsP1spLECr7NtKsbzE1Y7RlXgK3QNdhzmGV_vRO4iWp0vuqjkx_b7TV33eLlje3d5hnhidRw71jJ4kMMouyRMMkqih/s1600/tpp.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="130" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjL5GNPh4L9dyFEjafZgdiLgok9fpP5_M0vgNOuTOWAXZejHvGXGnGsP1spLECr7NtKsbzE1Y7RlXgK3QNdhzmGV_vRO4iWp0vuqjkx_b7TV33eLlje3d5hnhidRw71jJ4kMMouyRMMkqih/s320/tpp.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><a href="http://webapps.dol.gov/FederalRegister/PdfDisplay.aspx?DocId=26971"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A recent U.S. government report confirms Vietnamese children are being forced to work</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> in garment factories against their will. The government discovered child slavery when two Department of Labor officials visited Vietnam in January to investigate labor practices. As part of their visit, they met with Vietnamese government officials, unions and international and non-governmental groups working on child protection and worker rights issues. They found Vietnam has laws on the books, but they are not stopping child slavery:<o:p></o:p></span></div><div><blockquote class="tr_bq"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Enacting laws, meaningfully enforcing those laws, and establishing policies and programs are important components of any country’s efforts to combat forced child labor. However, based on the evidence reviewed, there are more than isolated cases of forced child labor in garment production.</span></blockquote></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The findings back up a </span><a href="http://www.workersrights.org/linkeddocs/WRC_Vietnam_Briefing_Paper.pdf"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">report by the Workers Rights Consortium</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> that outlined repeated instances of child slavery. The document also detailed the squalid working conditions and low wages tolerated in Vietnam. <o:p></o:p></span></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span><a href="http://teamsternation.blogspot.com/2013/07/US-should-terminate-Vietnam-TPP-talks.html"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Teamster President James P. Hoffa spoke out last month</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> against allowing Vietnam to be a part of the TPP, saying the nation should clean up its act before it can be allowed to. He demanded that U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman hold the Southeast Asian nation accountable for its human rights violations.<o:p></o:p></span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">U.S. workers should not be forced to compete against child slaves in garment factories.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>The last thing American working families need is another trade deal that’s unfair to American workers.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As TPP negotiations get set to resume in Brunei later this week, U.S. trade representatives and lawmakers must make sure the deal is a fair one. No one doubts the value of trade, but not if it puts the American worker at a disadvantage.</span></div>

Vietnam found to allow child slavery in garment factories

Vietnam’s tolerance of child slavery should disqualify it from joining the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) A recent U.S. governm...

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Largest Tablet of Samsung will Introduce In October: Report

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">After confirm the release date of new device <a href="http://www.pc-gadgetworld.com/2013/08/now-smartphone-on-your-wrist-samsung.html" target="_blank">smartwatch</a>, Samsung is ready to introduce another device. This time it is bigger than previous one, yes it is 12-inch in size. Samsung will introduce a 12-inch tablet in October.<br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-qxnYBuioP90/UhJS46PH4UI/AAAAAAAAAME/01LM2EJqfoI/s1600/samsung-galaxy-tab-small.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" border="0" height="272" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-qxnYBuioP90/UhJS46PH4UI/AAAAAAAAAME/01LM2EJqfoI/s320/samsung-galaxy-tab-small.jpg" title="Largest Tablet of Samsung 12-inch" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">cnet.com<br /><br /></td></tr></tbody></table>According to a Korean news paper the tablet will use a “higher than Full HD resolution" display from Samsung. The same news paper claims that it will launch in October, date is not confirm yet.<br /><br />Last week a report came from Digitimes that Apple and Samsung both are working on big size tablets, but now rumors that Apple is get slow on its 11.6-inch and 13.3-inch MacBook because of   fear of less down  business in this space.<br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-JnDez89CymA/UhJT1RQICuI/AAAAAAAAAMM/bW74r5ckOgI/s1600/Samsung-Tablet-Getty-Image.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" border="0" height="223" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-JnDez89CymA/UhJT1RQICuI/AAAAAAAAAMM/bW74r5ckOgI/s400/Samsung-Tablet-Getty-Image.jpg" title="largest tablet of samsung" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">mashable.com<br /><br /></td></tr></tbody></table>A rumor said that the resolutions of Samsung’s this huge tablet will same as the Google Nexus 10 and an ARM 11 processor. It could introduce in an event in  IFA exhibition, Germany early in next month.<br /><div><br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://plus.google.com/100638775997274345522" rel="author">Anil Swami</a></div></div>

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Four Healthy Meals for Weight Loss

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><h1 style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Four Healthy Meals for Weight Loss: </span></h1><div><br /></div> <center></br><script type="text/javascript"><!-- google_ad_client = "ca-pub-5028478688240504"; /* LargeInPost_waysforweightloss_300-600 */ google_ad_slot = "6695176472"; google_ad_width = 300; google_ad_height = 600; //--></script><script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"></script></br></center> <div><br /></div><span style="font-size: large;"></span><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">Make your  weight loss plan without disturbing about falling short on nutrition. By stuffing your plate with foods loaded with nutrients and low in calories, you'll get all essential fatty acids, the fiber, minerals and vitamins you need. You also feeling satisfied. With these meals:</span><br /><div><br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7Q1KHCTPHWP0tWBvUAgVjGp-yxTp-6NhaKIrl32EP8MGqgNIuD9YvYn2iNd39gW18oQedRHeucvPa-jQeiAnmGBUTIk_KncaE29mvKyuB4iotdI0cwzsyHb6hKQDGJ1dL1o2IizyL3YA/s1600/Four+Healthy+Meals+for+weight+loss.jpg" /></div><div><br /></div><div><h2 style="background-color: white; clear: left; color: #88a906; font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 29px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 0px 10px;"></h2></div><div><br /><span style="color: #20124d;"><br /></span></div><h3 style="background-color: white; clear: left; font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px; margin: 10px 0px 20px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #20124d; font-size: x-large;">Day One: </span></h3><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_x7yx1-KISgEg-5JGM1hpyJ82li6lMGf09FobDNgaCczj8B_6dUp9jxnU0oAMpNnF_iIWzjtyoxKonPyTil-oRdp0-plYFTieHkoZAi0WI6pZ2js0QxCXhyQPCYMoRk58r3fUgeccvvs/s1600/Day+One.jpg" /></div><br /><br /><h3 style="background-color: white; clear: left; font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px; margin: 10px 0px 20px;"><span style="color: #20124d; font-size: x-large;">Day Two: </span></h3><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5vkUsVJqsVjXc6iCk29W5MgpikFl6jjyWh2Ny2i-ghWXgG0ps-DPYvpfRNIQJacQEODM2edyk8Yopv68xH4uGOlSsVD1KA2Zmg2EMpT6o3oGZQYkJdObk04pbSwhduQy6FdhwbtSodYM/s1600/Day+Three.jpg" /></div><br /><br /><h3 style="background-color: white; clear: left; font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px; margin: 10px 0px 20px;"><span style="color: #20124d; font-size: x-large;">Day Three: </span></h3><div style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKyDwFfd2BG12l9LiUVfH_O4RmUik7EgNxuDNWs8yHN0xPx6UHtHWlTMXWDWBNtx6ro8ww6zufyEBCLJAKwmq_iwlbgoGJ4LXjwai_MNVLw7ND7sAjdpAq1HgIW6U1IGIXWj6t1-yWYno/s1600/Day+Four.jpg" /></div><br /><br /><h3 style="background-color: white; clear: left; font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px; margin: 10px 0px 20px;"><span style="color: #20124d; font-size: x-large;">Day Four: </span></h3><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7FpRDU7pI0UAQvzEDKnrDR_Y_Eq1yiUVece6fBEeTxnl8dL50dYOXYfJGBSToporceShdv4T5H4MJFtVBS29S6deI76uYa4Dkx1304UCGF-hiy3ACZ3ZaWIsG7HplPqzRIt_St4mKqG8/s1600/Day+Two.jpg" /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div></div>

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Gaining And Maintaining An Ideal Weight With Meratol

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Gaining And Maintaining An Ideal Weight With Meratol

By Margarita T. McNerney Proper nutrition and regular exercise are the only way to stay slim, healthy and full of energy. Unfortunately,...

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the diagnosis is in......

I know many have been wondering what's going on with the health this last week.  Until I got a firm answer from the physician, I wanted to wait to talk about what's up.<br /><br />About 5 years ago, I was diagnosed with a liver hemangioma.  It's usually something that is not a bother or to be treated - just a benign tumor like thing made up of blood vessles, etc.  But the problem is, where "henry" (as I have called it for years) is located.  It sometimes causes flare ups with my entire digestive system.<br /><br />This time, the fare up landed me in the ER about 2 weeks ago.  It was nothing I experienced before in terms of pain and over all feeling creapy.  I went to see my specialist who ordered a cat scan just to be sure.  Although those results are not back (I had it on Friday), the other tests done (ultrasound, etc) did show that I have a fatty liver.  It's the non-alcoholic fatty liver.  I am not surprised by the years of eating crap and I have had high cholestoral for at least 3 years.  My doctor said that just with what was reported with the ultrasound, she felt like that alone would have caused my symptoms.  The other thing that is complicating all of this more is my weight loss.  I've lost a lot of weight in a short time.  So, that again by itself could cause the flare up.<br /><br />Mix all three together, I was a mess.  The good news is, I am feeling almost 100 percent and I feel that I can get back on track.  I had a week derailment and fortunately, it's not Belviq related.  With the blessing of my physician, I can get back on track and go strong.<br /><br />I probably will have continued flare ups here and there - it's to be expected.  I just need to manage it better and not let myself get to the point I did.  I'm not very good at taking care of myself so this was a big lesson in "listen to your body".  <br /><br />The doctor still wants to do an endoscope (and we did have it scheduled but I cancelled at the last minute because I live alone with no family in Houston and could not figure out arrangements to get me there and home).  I will see how it goes first and then reschedule if need be.<br /><br />Thank you all for your kind words and prayers.<br /><br />XOXOX<br />Ellie

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What If What You ’Survived’ Wasn’t Cancer? - Bloomberg

<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 10px 10px 0px; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">You're feeling fine when you go for your annual physical. But your mammogram looks a little funny, or your PSA test is a little high, or you get a CT lung scan and a nodule shows up. You get a biopsy, and the doctor delivers the bad news: You have cancer. Because you don't want to die, you agree to be sliced up and irradiated. Then, fortunately, you're pronounced a "cancer survivor." You're glad they caught it early.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 10px 10px 0px; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">But maybe you went through all that pain for nothing.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 10px 10px 0px; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">For decades, the reigning theory has been that the earlier a cancer is spotted and treated, the less likely it is to be lethal, because it won't have time to grow and spread. Yet this theory infers causality from correlation. It implicitly assumes that cancer is cancer is cancer, even though we now know that even in the <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-10-30/studies-find-cancer-comes-in-more-shades-than-pink.html" title="Open Web Site" rel="external" density="sparse" style="outline: none; font-weight: bold; border-top-left-radius: 5px; border-top-right-radius: 5px; border-bottom-right-radius: 5px; border-bottom-left-radius: 5px; padding: 0px 2px; text-align: center; ">same part of the body</a>, cancer is <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-10-31/cancer-breakthroughs-meet-market-realities.html" title="Open Web Site" rel="external" density="full" style="outline: none; font-weight: bold; border-top-left-radius: 5px; border-top-right-radius: 5px; border-bottom-right-radius: 5px; border-bottom-left-radius: 5px; padding: 0px 2px; text-align: center; ">many different diseases</a> -- some aggressive, some not. Perhaps people survive early-stage cancers not because they're treated in time, but because their disease never would have become life-threatening at all.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 10px 10px 0px; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">This isn't just logical nit-picking. Thanks to widespread screening, the number of early-stage cancers identified has skyrocketed. In many instances -- including types of breast, prostate, thyroid and lung cancers -- more early diagnoses haven't led to proportionate decreases in mortality. (New drugs, not early detection, account for at least two-thirds of the reduction in breast-cancer mortality.) The cancers the tests pick up aren't necessarily life-threatening. They're just really common. So more sensitive tests and more frequent screening mean more cancer, more cancer treatment and more cancer survivors.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 10px 10px 0px; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"We'll all be cancer survivors if we keep going at the rate that we're going," says<a href="http://urology.ucsf.edu/people/peter-r-carroll" title="Open Web Site" rel="external" density="full" target="_blank" style="outline: none; font-weight: bold; border-top-left-radius: 5px; border-top-right-radius: 5px; border-bottom-right-radius: 5px; border-bottom-left-radius: 5px; padding: 0px 2px; text-align: center; ">Peter Carroll</a>, the chairman of the department of urology at the <a href="http://mobile.bloomberg.com/topics/university-of-california/" density="sparse" style="outline: none; font-weight: bold; border-top-left-radius: 5px; border-top-right-radius: 5px; border-bottom-right-radius: 5px; border-bottom-left-radius: 5px; padding: 0px 2px; text-align: center; ">University of California</a> at <a href="http://mobile.bloomberg.com/topics/san-francisco/" density="full" style="outline: none; font-weight: bold; border-top-left-radius: 5px; border-top-right-radius: 5px; border-bottom-right-radius: 5px; border-bottom-left-radius: 5px; padding: 0px 2px; text-align: center; ">San Francisco</a> and a specialist in prostate cancer.</span></p><h2 style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 2px; "><font size="3"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Distracting Doctors</span></font></h2><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 10px 10px 0px; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In a well-intended effort to save lives, the emphasis on early detection is essentially looking under the lamp post: Putting many patients who don't have life-threatening diseases through traumatic treatments while distracting doctors from the bigger challenge of developing ways to identify and treat the really dangerous fast-growing cancers.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 10px 10px 0px; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Physicians, patients, and the general public must recognize that overdiagnosis is common and occurs more frequently with cancer screening," argues a recent JAMA<a href="http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=1722196" title="Open Web Site" rel="external" density="full" target="_blank" style="outline: none; font-weight: bold; border-top-left-radius: 5px; border-top-right-radius: 5px; border-bottom-right-radius: 5px; border-bottom-left-radius: 5px; padding: 0px 2px; text-align: center; ">article</a> by the oncologists Laura J. Esserman (a surgeon and breast-cancer specialist), Ian M. Thompson Jr. (a urologist) and Brian Reid (a specialist in esophageal cancer). They argue for limiting the term "cancer" to conditions likely to be life-threatening if left untreated.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 10px 10px 0px; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">That's going to be a tough change for a lot of people to swallow. For patients and the rest of the public, getting tested offers a sense of control, encouraging an almost superstitious belief that frequent screening will ward off death. (A few years ago, when the actress Christina Applegate was making the <a href="http://thechart.blogs.cnn.com/2010/10/15/christina-applegate-mri-saved-my-life/" title="Open Web Site" rel="external" density="full" target="_blank" style="outline: none; font-weight: bold; border-top-left-radius: 5px; border-top-right-radius: 5px; border-bottom-right-radius: 5px; border-bottom-left-radius: 5px; padding: 0px 2px; text-align: center; ">talk-show rounds</a> urging young women to get breast MRIs, my own oncologist told me he was getting calls from women who thought the tests would not merely detect but prevent<a href="http://mobile.bloomberg.com/topics/breast-cancer/" density="sparse" style="outline: none; font-weight: bold; border-top-left-radius: 5px; border-top-right-radius: 5px; border-bottom-right-radius: 5px; border-bottom-left-radius: 5px; padding: 0px 2px; text-align: center; ">breast cancer</a>.)</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 10px 10px 0px; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Early detection of non-life-threatening cancers also produces a steady supply of "<a href="http://www.ncsd.org/" title="Open Web Site" rel="external" density="full" target="_blank" style="outline: none; font-weight: bold; border-top-left-radius: 5px; border-top-right-radius: 5px; border-bottom-right-radius: 5px; border-bottom-left-radius: 5px; padding: 0px 2px; text-align: center; ">cancer survivors</a>," who work to support cancer charities and make their efforts look successful. There's an entire industry devoted to celebrating "<a href="http://ww5.komen.org/Content.aspx?id=16370" title="Open Web Site" rel="external" density="full" target="_blank" style="outline: none; font-weight: bold; border-top-left-radius: 5px; border-top-right-radius: 5px; border-bottom-right-radius: 5px; border-bottom-left-radius: 5px; padding: 0px 2px; text-align: center; ">breast cancer survivors</a>" in particular, and many women are heavily invested in that identity. It offers a heroic honorific as a reward for enduring horrible treatments. A term originally coined to remind cancer patients that their disease need not be fatal has become a badge of personal achievement.</span></p><h2 style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 2px; "><font size="3"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Fearing Mistakes</span></font></h2><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 10px 10px 0px; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Physicians, meanwhile, fear making a mistake. It seems safer to treat someone who doesn't really need it than to miss something potentially fatal. But, warns<a href="http://cancer.ucsf.edu/people/profiles/esserman_laura.3704" title="Open Web Site" rel="external" density="full" target="_blank" style="outline: none; font-weight: bold; border-top-left-radius: 5px; border-top-right-radius: 5px; border-bottom-right-radius: 5px; border-bottom-left-radius: 5px; padding: 0px 2px; text-align: center; ">Esserman</a>, director of the Carol Franc Buck Breast Care Center at UCSF, "the cancers that grow and spread very quickly are not the ones that you can catch in time with screening." If anything, emphasizing early detection misdirects research and funding. "We have to come up with better treatments, we have to figure out who's really at risk for those and figure out how to prevent them," she says. "We're not going to fix it with screening."</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 10px 10px 0px; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">There are plenty of scientific unknowns. Take the commonly diagnosed breast cancer called ductal carcinoma in situ, which accounts for about a third of new U.S. diagnoses, 60,000 a year. In these cases, the cells lining the walls of milk ducts look like cancer, but they haven't invaded the surrounding breast tissue. DCIS was a rare diagnosis before the introduction of mammograms, which are highly sensitive to milk-duct calcifications, and the JAMA article labels it a "premalignant condition" that shouldn't even be called cancer. Arguably, a lot of women who think of themselves as "breast cancer survivors" have survived treatment, not cancer.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 10px 10px 0px; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Yet oncologists who identify DCIS have been surgically removing it (and in many cases the entire surrounding breast) for 40 years, so it's hard to know how dangerous it actually is. "Since we really don't know the true natural history of DCIS we do not know if DCIS always progresses to invasive cancer or not," says <a href="http://www.radnet.ucla.edu/radweb/sections/breast/news/Wells.jsp" title="Open Web Site" rel="external" density="full" target="_blank" style="outline: none; font-weight: bold; border-top-left-radius: 5px; border-top-right-radius: 5px; border-bottom-right-radius: 5px; border-bottom-left-radius: 5px; padding: 0px 2px; text-align: center; ">Colin Wells</a>, a radiologist at the University of California at <a href="http://mobile.bloomberg.com/topics/los-angeles/" density="sparse" style="outline: none; font-weight: bold; border-top-left-radius: 5px; border-top-right-radius: 5px; border-bottom-right-radius: 5px; border-bottom-left-radius: 5px; padding: 0px 2px; text-align: center; ">Los Angeles</a>specializing in breast imaging. "There are some reasons to think not, but this needs to be worked out" with further research. If DCIS does spread to invade breast tissue, the question remains whether that cancer threatens to go beyond the breast, becoming lethal if untreated.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 10px 10px 0px; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">By contrast, we do know that a lot of prostate cancer isn't dangerous. Autopsy studies show it's quite common in older men who die from unrelated causes. "Out there in the street, if you remove the prostates in men over the age of 50, 30 to 40 percent would have some kind of cancer," Carroll says, "most likely, low grade and low volume."</span></p><h2 style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 2px; "><font size="3"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Distinguishing Tumors</span></font></h2><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 10px 10px 0px; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Thanks to more sensitive tests, he notes, the prostate "cancers we're detecting today are totally different than the cancers we saw two decades ago. And our ability to distinguish these tumors is much better. We have the wherewithal now to be able to tell a patient that your cancer is highly likely confined to your prostate, of small volume, slow growing, and something that may not need immediate treatment at all."</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 10px 10px 0px; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Carroll has more than 1,000 patients under "active surveillance," getting regular PSA tests, imaging and biopsies. Only about one in three turns out to need treatment within five to 10 years. (An additional 10 percent opt for surgery simply because they get tired of all the tests or can't take the anxiety.) The program is also working, Carroll says, to "decrease the burden of testing," ideally by eliminating the need for repeated biopsies.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 10px 10px 0px; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Prostate cancer illustrates the cultural barriers to abandoning what Esserman calls today's "scorched earth policy." Despite the widespread awareness that many prostate cancers aren't life-threatening, many physicians are determined to find and treat it any time a PSA score comes in a little high. "I saw a gentleman this week who had had 12 biopsies, no cancer, and they said there must be cancer in there and they did 24," says <a href="http://urology.uthscsa.edu/bio.html" title="Open Web Site" rel="external" density="full" target="_blank" style="outline: none; font-weight: bold; border-top-left-radius: 5px; border-top-right-radius: 5px; border-bottom-right-radius: 5px; border-bottom-left-radius: 5px; padding: 0px 2px; text-align: center; ">Ian Thompson</a> of the University of Texas Health Science Center at <a href="http://mobile.bloomberg.com/topics/san-antonio/" density="full" style="outline: none; font-weight: bold; border-top-left-radius: 5px; border-top-right-radius: 5px; border-bottom-right-radius: 5px; border-bottom-left-radius: 5px; padding: 0px 2px; text-align: center; ">San Antonio</a>, who is one of the JAMA authors.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 10px 10px 0px; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A prostate-cancer diagnosis is still terrifying to patients and their families. Thompson describes many of his conversations with patients -- and especially with their wives -- as "talking them off the ledge." When he tells patients they're likely to be fine without immediate treatment, they often worry how they'll explain the good news to their children or neighbors. People expect a cancer diagnosis to entail trauma.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 10px 10px 0px; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Although Carroll thinks calling slow-growing prostate tumors "cancer" is important to encourage vigilance, Thompson wants to change the nomenclature, using the term IDLE (indolent lesions of epithelial origin) to describe low-risk cases where waiting isn't likely to make a difference. Just using the word "cancer," he argues, creates unnecessary suffering.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 10px 10px 0px; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"The number of people that will die from those slow-growing prostate cancers is really low," he says, but the unacknowledged costs of giving them a cancer diagnosis are huge: "the person who can't sleep for two weeks before his next test results, and all the follow-up biopsies and all the lost wages, and the people who can't get <a href="http://mobile.bloomberg.com/topics/life-insurance/" density="sparse" style="outline: none; font-weight: bold; border-top-left-radius: 5px; border-top-right-radius: 5px; border-bottom-right-radius: 5px; border-bottom-left-radius: 5px; padding: 0px 2px; text-align: center; ">life insurance</a>because they now have a new cancer diagnosis, the person whose firm says, 'Well, we're concerned you have cancer and therefore you can't be promoted to this job.'"</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 10px 10px 0px; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">It's a compelling case, but changing the vocabulary finesses the fundamental cultural issue: the widespread and incorrect belief that "cancer" is a single condition, defined only by site in the body, rather than a broad category like "infectious disease." Someone doesn't develop "cancer" but, rather, "a cancer." How frightening that diagnosis should be depends on which one.</span></p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><a href="http://mobile.bloomberg.com/news/2013-08-18/what-if-what-you-survived-wasn-t-cancer-.html">http://mobile.bloomberg.com/news/2013-08-18/what-if-what-you-survived-wasn-t-cancer-.html</a></span>

What If What You ’Survived’ Wasn’t Cancer? - Bloomberg

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Phillip Phillips moves back Up the BillBoard Chart

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaI8Qc7aqUUGEeKjyOkeIod3Uoib94lRXEo0RcPDNavwth8I9PxD2SdaynBp3sCsBqt_KycKApn3gGnX8m7X9lKXcwbxwsSqdplaceMqhAbs3A6av8EnnzDdtkje9jSDfo_UnQhzfsal-K/s1600/bb120-20130816.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="258" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaI8Qc7aqUUGEeKjyOkeIod3Uoib94lRXEo0RcPDNavwth8I9PxD2SdaynBp3sCsBqt_KycKApn3gGnX8m7X9lKXcwbxwsSqdplaceMqhAbs3A6av8EnnzDdtkje9jSDfo_UnQhzfsal-K/s400/bb120-20130816.png" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">blue = Phillip, black = Carrie, purple = Kelly, green = Fantasia, (red = Jessica, orange = Colton) </td></tr></tbody></table>People can say all they want about the last two male winners of American Idol, but what both Scotty McCreery and Phillip Phillips have proven is that they can sell albums and singles that have legs and hold well on the charts week after week. Scotty did so with his debut album "<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Clear-As-Day-Scotty-McCreery/dp/B0052TDGQO">Clear As Day</a>" which stayed in the Top 100 for 35 weeks and the Top 200 for 41 weeks, and Phillip is having similar resiliency with "<a href="http://www.amazon.com/World-From-Side-Phillip-Phillips/dp/B009NPA3MS/">The World From the Side of the Moon</a>" which on its 38th week <a href="http://www.billboard.com/charts/billboard-200?page=2">moves up to #57</a> from #61 last week. Even though his album has not quite matched the impressive total sales numbers that Scotty did, it is approaching the one million plateau and has been a very good sales leader for Interscope. Plus his two singles, "Home" and "Gone, Gone, Gone", have sold and held up even better than Scotty's did (which did quite well, with his fourth Country Top 40 single, "See You Tonight", continuing to move up the country chart today, well over two years after his American Idol win.)<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMc_soIeAVx-heGnYNp7bzP9NuhzUezZFckaGtJT69jm5bd-vy4lyuFqq4cmZTRvWnpeClqYdPlqJufkjuNQMT7z7o-OqtYb3cyykqAinT1V6RdYsnKflJCI2BYlIT2ylIKJlNvS8ceVjs/s1600/pp-twftsotm-20130816.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="157" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMc_soIeAVx-heGnYNp7bzP9NuhzUezZFckaGtJT69jm5bd-vy4lyuFqq4cmZTRvWnpeClqYdPlqJufkjuNQMT7z7o-OqtYb3cyykqAinT1V6RdYsnKflJCI2BYlIT2ylIKJlNvS8ceVjs/s400/pp-twftsotm-20130816.png" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibAbngDiIam65v-kGjeEKi9Xekqu2G8Y9qRGKz01Pfrn1EXYyh6vJMk9xgVmN8712vPB6fP_KhIoBmSFSwXSiGWVUTXIOPs1uHO38QFJHzy2kkCFOQAtSqDn_gsG5G9TACtSEIC8Ow5GTo/s1600/sm-allaccess-20130819.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="61" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibAbngDiIam65v-kGjeEKi9Xekqu2G8Y9qRGKz01Pfrn1EXYyh6vJMk9xgVmN8712vPB6fP_KhIoBmSFSwXSiGWVUTXIOPs1uHO38QFJHzy2kkCFOQAtSqDn_gsG5G9TACtSEIC8Ow5GTo/s400/sm-allaccess-20130819.png" width="400" /></a></div>Two of the other three Idol winners on the BillBoard 200 also saw their chart position improve. Carrie Underwood's "Blown Away" improved from #86 to #71 on her 67th week, and Kelly Clarkson saw her "Greatest Hits" album improve from #98 to #86. The only Idol winner to see their chart position fall slightly is Fantasia, whose "Side Effects of You", moved from #106 to #120 this week in its 16th week.<br /><br />Tomorrow sees the release of a new album from Season 9 winner, <a href="http://leedewyzeofficial.com/">Lee DeWyze</a>, as "<a href="http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/pop-shop/5646512/lee-dewyzes-frames-exclusive-album-premiere">Frames</a>" goes on sale. I wish him well but do not expect the greatest sales numbers from his release. Next week sees a more successful Idol alum release an album, as <a href="http://www.mandisaofficial.com/">Mandisa</a> will release "<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Overcomer-Mandisa/dp/B00DRIMVK4">Overcomer</a>", which is likely to enter at #1 on the Christian album chart, and fairly well on the BillBoard chart as well. I could see Mandisa leading the other Idols on the BillBoard chart for a while, with her first single, the title track "Overcomer" already in the Top 10 on Christian radio.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrfCWiLXmyJomJMw2E33ItWdLb7UICses2TaBAfFgheOzvgwtSeFXNO8FzoL4ygx1W4KdCu3u21kaHpHw-_jNwW-5twRncur3-EKFjXIJCiRv5kw7tj9qtP4UJoOIdmcFr3nVw-I1byhHv/s1600/cac-mediabase-20130819.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="277" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrfCWiLXmyJomJMw2E33ItWdLb7UICses2TaBAfFgheOzvgwtSeFXNO8FzoL4ygx1W4KdCu3u21kaHpHw-_jNwW-5twRncur3-EKFjXIJCiRv5kw7tj9qtP4UJoOIdmcFr3nVw-I1byhHv/s400/cac-mediabase-20130819.png" width="400" /></a></div><br />

Phillip Phillips moves back Up the BillBoard Chart

blue = Phillip, black = Carrie, purple = Kelly, green = Fantasia, (red = Jessica, orange = Colton)  People can say all they want about the l...

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