tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-64720195065986745992024-03-05T21:49:07.476-08:00Interactive Me.diaPeggy Moranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07162459982572768665noreply@blogger.comBlogger40125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6472019506598674599.post-66564967419939483012011-03-16T16:32:00.000-07:002011-03-16T16:32:33.515-07:00The end is here......finals are finished and the winter term is OVER!!<br />
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Thanks, <a href="http://stephen.macek.faculty.noctrl.edu/">Professor Macek</a>!<br />
I really enjoyed your <a href="http://stephen.macek.faculty.noctrl.edu/Courses/coursespage.htm">classes</a>.<br />
Here is a present just for you, because I know how much this means to you:<br />
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See you <a href="http://northcentralcollege.edu/home/">next term</a>!<br />
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<a href="http://mcmoran.students.noctrl.edu/">Peggy</a>Peggy Moranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07162459982572768665noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6472019506598674599.post-82054980025872844652011-03-09T16:42:00.000-08:002011-03-09T16:42:10.504-08:00"Ladybug, Ladybug, fly away home... ...Your house is on fire and your children are alone."<br />
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I always hated that little rhyme. I felt sorry for the mom-bug having her house burn while she was out doing some mom-thing, like gathering food for the baby-bugs. I worried for the baby-bugs; would she make it back in time?<br />
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In the news this morning there was an AWFUL story about a human mom who was off milking the cows when her family home literally burned down, killing six of her seven children. That is an unfathomable loss a real person is enduring right this moment; it isn't a story or a rhyme.<br />
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My own house isn't on fire, but I smell smoke. I worry I may misread the signals for being too busy. There have been some serious family crises unfolding at home and presently they are threatening my student-hood. As a mom, a "nontraditional" student, and a business owner, I am pretty busy. I was actually spread <s>rather</s> REALLY thinly <i>before</i> starting school. I guess when I started, I was naively thinking "what's a little more work?" It is a lot, actually.<br />
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Suddenly I am very torn about my commitments. I am a scholar, getting paid to go to school (crazy, right?!), but first and foremost I am a mom. I feel like the lady-bug, and suddenly I'm not so sure about the school-thing. I might quit, actually. That sounds dumb from one perspective (I have a 4.0 GPA and a free ride); from another it feels urgent.<br />
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I'm feeling very much like it is time to "fly away home."Peggy Moranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07162459982572768665noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6472019506598674599.post-40548068969333359762011-03-03T08:41:00.000-08:002011-03-03T08:41:31.608-08:00And now for Ohio, and next...?From today's Washington Post:<br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', times, serif; font-size: 17px;">"The divide between government worker unions and their opponents,</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', times, serif; font-size: 17px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', times, serif; font-size: 17px;"><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2011/02/25/ST2011022502566.html" style="color: #0c4790; text-decoration: underline;" target="">playing out now in several state capitals</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', times, serif; font-size: 17px;">, highlights a critical aspect of the evolving labor movement."</span></blockquote>Will this trend keep spreading? How do you feel about the spreading legislative push to restrict the union rights of government workers?Peggy Moranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07162459982572768665noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6472019506598674599.post-48128702861216809922011-03-01T23:31:00.000-08:002011-03-01T23:31:12.424-08:00Former Senator Chris Dodd to Head Motion Picture Association<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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</span></span></h1><h1 class="artHeadline" style="font: normal normal normal 31px/1em georgia; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-style: normal;"> After a year-long search to replace Dan Glickman, former senator <a href="http://www.politicsdaily.com/2011/03/01/former-senator-chris-dodd-to-head-motion-picture-association/?icid=maing|main5|dl1|sec3_lnk1|47612">Chris Dodd has been named the new head </a>of the <a href="http://www.mpaa.org/">MPAA</a>. Dodd is </span></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;">an <span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial;">American</span> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial;">lawyer</span>, <span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial;">lobbyist</span>, and <span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial;">Democratic Party</span> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial;">politician</span> who served as a <span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial;">United States Senator</span> from <span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial;">Connecticut</span> for a thirty-year period ending with the <span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial;">111th United States Congress</span>. </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 19px;"> </span></h1><h1 class="artHeadline" style="font: normal normal normal 31px/1em georgia; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-style: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #111111; line-height: 21px;"> Barry Meyer, chairman of Warner Bros., said Dodd has the "right political instincts and experience" to lead the film industry against content piracy. You can read more <a href="http://www.deadline.com/2011/03/mpaa-names-christopher-dodd-chairmanceo/">here</a>; I'll wait. </span></span></span></i></span></h1><h1 class="artHeadline" style="font: normal normal normal 31px/1em georgia; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-style: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #111111; line-height: 21px;">(tick, tock; tick, tock) </span></span></span></i></span></h1><h1 class="artHeadline" style="font: normal normal normal 31px/1em georgia; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-style: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #111111; line-height: 21px;"> So, what do you think? Is digital piracy about to get a wake-up call? Is Dodd the right person for the job?</span></span></span></i></span></h1><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-style: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #111111; line-height: 21px;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0237041/"><b><span style="color: #00325b;">George Drakoulias</span></b></a>, music producer, artists & repertoire executive at American Recordings, and veteran of Def Jam Recordings, claims "the old business model is dead." Drakoulias thinks the CD is on its last legs, and will be gone in five years. He also believes the future holds some sort of music subscription service, possibly some pooled talent co-ops, such as the bands of Ozzfest, and computer involvement paired with highly mobile music. In any case he feels </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">"the future is really in the hands of the consumer," with the public dictating "to whatever is left of the record industry."<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Peter Rojas</span></b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">, founder of <a href="http://www.engadget.com/"><span style="color: #00325b;">Engadget</span></a> and co-founder of <a href="http://roj.as/entries/2007/06/11/rcrd-lbl/"><span style="color: #00325b;">RCRD LBL</span></a>, doesn't "pretend to know what the industry will look like in ten years," but is amused that "music itself is healthier than ever" thanks to the Internet, low-cost (or even no-cost) digital tools, and the resulting explosion of consumer-producer creativity.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Steve Gottlieb</span></b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">, president of <a href="http://www.tvtrecords.com/home/"><span style="color: #00325b;">TVT Records</span></a>, feels "we have little choice but to invest in advertising-supported free services that will make this type of consumption profitable." Gottlieb believes the music industry will figure out new ways to recapture the revenue it’s losing, and then develop a "new, secure file format that offers audio, meta-data, and other digital features superior to those of MP3s." Gottlieb suggests this shouldn't pose too much difficulty and will provide the industry access to high quality digital products for direct sale that can be ad free, though he fails to explain how this could happen. He also warns "unless the labels actively reinvent themselves and embrace change, they will continue to find themselves in an expanding music marketplace that rewards their efforts less and less. "</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">As for me, I am sticking with my idea of bringing music back to the live local venues, with direct marketing of recorded music--for whatever digital devices the future may bring-- allowing more control and revenue to stay where it belongs; in the possession of the music makers.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><div style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: #333333;">This music was rife with the kind of power that comes from direct access. No pirating or paying to download; just live gigs your friends told you about, or you read about on a poster, or you performed; you were there to experience it.</span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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If there was a</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #333333;"> </span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><i><span style="color: #333333;">lot</span></i></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #333333;"> </span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: #333333;">of talent, though, things changed. Then came the offers, the hopes, the big money, the recordings. It was cool to hear friends on the radio or their records, but live and local was better. Even though everyone was trying to get their deal and make it big, when it happened the happiness was sometimes short lived. Sadly the music got buried in big business dealings, sold-out song writing, tour buses, substance problems, and far-away, huge stadiums. It was still kind of cool, but not as cool.</span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: #333333;">Perhaps it is time to rethink the best way to share and sell the fruits of musical inspiration, talent and effort. Perhaps it is time for a new version of the folk art music model, where producers and consumers are often the same people and music is made for the joy of producing and sharing it. Money can still be made--maybe not millions--but the greedy people who were always just in it to get rich might get weeded out.</span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: #333333;">Perhaps musicians should get back to performing more concerts, handing out fliers, and putting up lots of posters. By all means keep the new media, too; promote websites, sell recordings, get fans to tell their friends. Maybe direct access can help recreate the interactive, connected relationships musicians once had with their listeners.</span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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</span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/these-charts-explain-the-real-death-of-the-music-industry-2011-2">The Real Death of Music</a></b></span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3366cc; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><a href="http://www.bain.com/bainweb/PDFs/cms/Public/BB_Publishing_in_the_digital_era.pdf">Publishing in the Digital Era</a></b></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3366cc; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><a href="http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/exec/trubin/05-07-08leadershipinmedia.mspx">Leadership in Media</a></b></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><a href="http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2011/02/16/who-will-survive-in-the-new-networked-media-oceans"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Surviving the Networked Media Oceans</b></span></a></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3366cc; font-size: x-small;"><b><br />
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</b></span></div></span>Peggy Moranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07162459982572768665noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6472019506598674599.post-16992092637615628002011-02-26T21:08:00.000-08:002011-02-26T21:08:08.530-08:00“What’s disgusting? Union busting!”<h2 property="dc:title" style="clear: both; color: #1d1d1d; font-weight: normal; line-height: 9px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_381397676"><br />
</a></span></h2><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; line-height: 9px;"><h2 property="dc:title" style="clear: both; color: #1d1d1d; font-size: 24px; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><a href="http://www.thenation.com/blog/158872/crowds-swell-toward-125000-madison-activists-rally-nationwide-back-wisconsin-workers">Upwards of 125,000 March in Madison, as Activists Rally Nationwide to Back Wisconsin Workers</a></h2></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #526a83; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 9px;"><a href="http://www.thenation.com/authors/john-nichols" style="color: #46607b; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;"><span property="dc:creator">John Nichols</span></a></span></div>Peggy Moranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07162459982572768665noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6472019506598674599.post-3209498291728945502011-02-25T19:23:00.000-08:002011-02-25T19:23:17.548-08:00Union vote elicits shouts of "Shame!" from Wisconsin Democrats<div class="entryhead" id="entryhead"><h1 style="margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px;"><span style="color: black;">A highly contested bill was passed early Friday by the Wisconsin Assembly. The budget plan by Gov. Scott Walker (R), which would strip most public unions of nearly all of their rights to collectively bargain, has drawn thousands of unions supporters who have gathered in protest at the State Capital in Madison over the past two weeks. </span>State Senate Democrats refused to return to the Capitol to join the Republican Senate majority for a vote on the bill.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px;"><br />
After more than 60 hours of debate, shortly after 1:00 AM, the Republicans called for the vote. The vote happened quickly, with Republicans passing the bill in a matter of seconds, while Democrats were yelling "No, No, you can't do this!"</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px;"><br />
Apparently they can, and did. The bill passed 51-17</span></div></span></h1></div><div style="padding-bottom: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 14px;"><br />
<blockquote style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal arial; line-height: 19px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px;"><object height="285" width="454"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/5f0VProvuAo?fs=1&hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="454" height="285"></object></span></blockquote></span></div><div class="entrytext" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 14px;"><div style="color: black; font: normal normal normal 14px/18px arial; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; width: auto;"></div><div style="color: black; font: normal normal normal 14px/18px arial; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; width: auto;">(Via <a href="http://thedailywh.at/2011/02/25/so-this-just-happened-of-the-day/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+feedburner%2Foicv+%28The+Daily+What%29" style="color: #0c4790; text-decoration: underline;">The Daily What</a>)</div><a href="" id="more" style="text-decoration: underline;"></a></div><div class="posted" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; clear: both; color: #555555; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; font: normal normal bold 11px/normal Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 17px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 19px; padding-left: 7px; padding-right: 7px; padding-top: 7px; text-align: left; width: auto;"><br />
</div>Peggy Moranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07162459982572768665noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6472019506598674599.post-50815379424751375222011-02-24T08:22:00.000-08:002011-02-24T08:25:47.557-08:00UFOs and Such<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b>What do you think, really? Do you believe <a href="http://www.ufoevidence.org/topics/media.htm">close encounters of the alien kind</a> have been happening here on our home planet, as <a href="http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/2010/09/27/bts.ufo.activity.cnn">some media are reporting</a>? </b></span><br />
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<div><div style="text-align: center;"><img height="300" src="http://www.sacredart-murals.co.uk/images/mural-rooms/Aliens-and-UFOs/aliens-ufo-greys-mothership.jpg" width="400" /></div><div><br />
</div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">There have always been those super out-there <a href="http://www.theufochronicles.com/">believers</a>, and the web now allows them to build many amazing websites. There are those intended to serve as "</span><a href="http://www.voxalien.com/i-am-alien/5-you-alien-life-form-welcome-here" style="color: #38761d;">welcome home</a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">" landing pages for our intergalactic brethren, and those that warn of </span><a href="http://www.think-aboutit.com/aliens/seventy.htm" style="color: #38761d;">interplanetary threats</a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">, cautioning </span><a href="http://www.bautforum.com/archive/index.php/t-23814.html" style="color: #38761d;">we will make great pets</a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;"> or become super tasty meals if we do not wise up and get ready to resist impending alien invasions. Warnings don't just come from tin-foil hat wearing types; </span><a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/science/space/article7107207.ece" style="color: #38761d;">Stephen Hawking recently put in his two cents</a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;"> regarding "don't talk to strangers (from other planets.)"The Royal Society in London recently hosted a conference on the topic of alien encounters, <a href="http://royalsociety.org/Is-there-anybody-out-there/">"Is There Anybody Out There?"</a></span></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;"> </span></b></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b><br />
</b></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b>Meanwhile, in several <a href="http://latinamericacurrentevents.com/chile-releases-ufo-report/">areas</a> <a href="http://zhizn.ru/articles/show/192">around the world</a> there are <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/International/fresh-report-ufo-chinas-skies/story?id=11814100">media reports</a> that pop up citing close encounters sourced by supposedly highly reliable military personnel, confirmed by corroborating data such as radar reports or concurrent civilian sightings. </b></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b><br />
</b></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b>The <a href="http://www.aolnews.com/2010/09/28/ex-air-force-officers-ufos-monitored-nuke-sites-for-60-years/">latest of these reports</a>, on the AOL home page today, references some "evidence" of UFOs tampering with military nukes. Yikes.</b></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b><br />
</b></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b>Okay, I am familiar with the "dog ate my homework"-sort of excuses for screwing up; I've used that on occasion myself. But if these military guys are the ones actually turning the nukes on and off for kicks (or by accident) and then blaming it on the aliens--well, that may be more scary than aliens. </b></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b><br />
</b></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b>All scoffing and skepticism aside, what do you think? Have you ever had an actual, impossible-to-dismiss-as-something-else UFO sighting?</b></span></div></div></div>Peggy Moranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07162459982572768665noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6472019506598674599.post-83269264123204785352011-02-21T05:13:00.000-08:002011-02-21T05:13:11.351-08:00"Can I count on ya?...Hey buddy,"<div style="color: #111111; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">Rahm--the real one, not the one who has all of the Twitter followers--seems to have learned from his fake alter ego and has toned down the F-bombs. Perhaps this watering down of his salty side plus the fact he has some rather lukewarm rivals may be setting him up for a big win...</div><div style="color: #111111; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;"><br />
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</div><div style="color: #111111; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;"><img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.politicsdaily.com/media/2011/02/rahm-emanuel-chicago-427mh022011.jpg" /></div><div style="color: #111111; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;"><blockquote><a href="http://www.politicsdaily.com/2011/02/20/rahm-emanuel-may-clinch-chicago-mayors-race-on-tuesday/?icid=maing|main5|dl1|sec3_lnk2|45446">"CHICAGO -- The election to replace Mayor Richard M. Daley of Chicago is Tuesday and Rahm Emanuel, the former White House chief of staff, is so far ahead that the only question is, will he win outright with more than 50 percent of the vote or be forced into a run-off on April 5 against whoever places what may be a distant second...</a></blockquote><div><br />
</div></div>Peggy Moranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07162459982572768665noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6472019506598674599.post-43354529487014906102011-02-15T19:39:00.000-08:002011-02-15T19:39:12.695-08:00The Right to Freedom of Association<h1 class="entry-title" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.05em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: -1px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.2em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; width: 618px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.aolnews.com/2011/02/15/lawyers-seek-to-shield-twitter-accounts-from-wikileaks-investiga/?icid=maing|main5|dl1|sec3_lnk2|44304">Lawyers Seek to Shield Twitter Accounts From WikiLeaks Investigation</a></span></h1><div><br />
</div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 12px;"><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">On Monday 14th February 2011, <a class="twitter-anywhere-user" href="http://www.twitter.com/wikileaks" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">@wikileaks</a> said:</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.5em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">WIKILEAKS PRESS RELEASE<br />
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Tomorrow (Tuesday morning), a federal magistrates court in Virginia's national security heartland will be the scene of the first round in the US government's legal battle against Julian Assange. The US Attorney-General has brought an action against Twitter, demanding that it disclose the names, dates and locations of all persons who have used its services to receive messages from Wikileaks or Mr Assange. It is understood that Twitter will resist the order, so as to protect the privacy of its customers.<br />
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Assange said today "This is an outrageous attack by the Obama administration on the privacy and free speech rights of Twitter's customers - many of them American citizens. More shocking, at this time, is that it amounts to an attack on the right to freedom of association, a freedom that the people of Tunisia and Egypt, for example, spurred on by the information released by Wikileaks, have found so valuable".<br />
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On December 14, 2010, the US Department of Justice obtained an Order requiring Twitter turn over records of all communications between Wikileaks and its followers. This Order was acquired through the use of the "Patriot Act", which establishes procedures whereby the Government can acquire information about users of electronic communication networks without a Search Warrant, without Probable Cause, without particularizing the records that relate to a proper investigatory objective—and with without any public scrutiny. The basis for the Order remains sealed and secret.<br />
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Whilst happy that Twitter plans to resist the subpoena, Wikileaks said it was confirmed that other service providers like Google and Facebook and Yahoo may also have been served with a production order back in December, at the same time as Twitter, and may already have provided information to the government by way of a deal under the secrecy provisions introduced by the Patriot Act. "We are all asking all service providers to explain whether they too have been served with a similar order, and whether, they have caved into it" said Mr Assange.<br />
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Tuesday’s case in Virginia, involves the United States government seeking to obtain vast amounts of private information that would jeopardize and chill First Amendment rights of association, of expression, of political assembly, of speech. At its essence it seeks information that can be converted into a list of individuals, across the globe, who have followed, communicated with, and received messages from WikiLeaks – the very sort of government intrusion into basic freedoms that the Supreme Court ruled was prohibited by the First Amendment. WikiLeaks will not participate directly in that proceeding because it believes that the US lacks jurisdiction over expressive activities beyond its borders, but it strongly supports the associational rights of its followers and all who work toward a more open society.<br />
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Mr Assange will not himself be intervening in the action against Twitter because as an Australian who has committed no criminal act on US territory, he claims that the American courts have no jurisdiction over him. The head of his UK legal team, Geoffrey Robertson QC, has brought in Alan Dershowitz, the distinguished Harvard Law Professor, as part of the team to advise on the US Attorney General's actions.<br />
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</b></div><div class="summary" style="font-size: 1.2em; line-height: 1.25em; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"></span></b></div><h1 style="color: black; font-size: 2.4em; font: normal normal normal 15px/normal Georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-transform: none;"><b><a class="video_link" href="http://video.nytimes.com/video/2010/11/20/technology/1248069313108/fast-times-at-woodside-high.html" style="color: #004276; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">Fast Times at Woodside High</a></b></h1><div class="summary" style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 1.2em; line-height: 1.25em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-transform: none;"><b>How Technology is Distracting Students</b></div><div style="font-size: 10px;"></div><div style="font-size: 10px;"></div></div>Peggy Moranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07162459982572768665noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6472019506598674599.post-40381808649130419662011-02-05T16:57:00.000-08:002011-02-05T16:57:16.609-08:00Egyptian Music and Social Change<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Dr. Ramzi Salti, professor of Arabic Language and Literature at Stanford University, is this week's guest on "Stanford Spotlight." Dr. Salti </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">discusses and plays </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">old and new </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Arabic music from Egypt, including music that is fueling the current uprising in that country:<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><a href="http://www.radio4all.net/responder.php/download/49171/55230/69836/?url=http://www.radio4all.net/files/author30@gmail.com/4294-1-STANFORD_SPOTLIGHT_COMPLETE.mp3"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;">radio4all.net:</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; color: black;"> </span>Podcast </b></a></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Ramzi Salti's blog: <a href="http://www.author32.blogspot.com/">"Pop Culture in the Arab World."</a></span>Peggy Moranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07162459982572768665noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6472019506598674599.post-64911289682662047022011-02-05T14:00:00.000-08:002011-02-05T14:00:51.790-08:00The Kids Are Alright<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzJTB_hj5CKfDX7sJQ41nA_PqHo4c6pW8FWd4p6p7N9jE0MwkO14lrjCMGex41oC9aWCxDey1dQ_P1X6JD69oGAJYdW49XjjBc1dBfk8AF9vZevbpcRagNbMzUfr1L5OyE8al98ALk6no/s1600/digital+kids.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="66" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzJTB_hj5CKfDX7sJQ41nA_PqHo4c6pW8FWd4p6p7N9jE0MwkO14lrjCMGex41oC9aWCxDey1dQ_P1X6JD69oGAJYdW49XjjBc1dBfk8AF9vZevbpcRagNbMzUfr1L5OyE8al98ALk6no/s400/digital+kids.png" width="400" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b> </b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13; font-size: large;">Today's</span></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><b> tween and teen</b></span> consumers have been surrounded by electronic technology since birth. They take their media as for granted as the previous generation took whatever it was they experienced: Walkman? Desktop PC? Video camera? Contemporary kids are unimpressed--Got iPad?--though expectant their access to electronic gadgets will continue, unimpeded by parents. Parents, who once did without the gadgets they now dish out to their offspring, are more aware of costs and assume there should at least be some appreciation. Meanwhile, entitled children shrug unimpressed shoulders and upgrade with their own money or nag until they are provided with all the latest and--for awhile, anyway--greatest devices.<br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13; font-size: large;">Parents worry</span></b></span> about the consequences their pioneering children may face, using the devices they provide. Their children's young minds are dispersing at warp speed to wander paths where parents not only cannot lead--in many cases they don't even know how to follow. Are the children of this generation at risk in a digital "Lord of the Flies?" Are they being led away by the shiny, high-tech, multi-media Pied Piper, where, alone in an electronic forest, they make easy prey?<br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13; font-size: large;">Perhaps the predators</span></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span>do "come out at midnight," but parents have ways of keeping them at bay. This new technology may have its sharp edge, but we don't need to entirely take it away. Instead we need to teach children how to use it in age appropriate ways, without harm to themselves or others. This might require a quick education for the parents, to bring them up to speed.By strengthening their own understanding of new media and making sure their kids know how to resist attractions that pose harm, parents will know for sure: "The kids are alright."<br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13; font-size: large;">They won't always</span></b></span> seem so shallow, either. Young kids used to yak away on the phone; now they text away, thumbs flying. But in time the conversations change, regardless of the medium facilitating them. Children's interests and the topics they discuss will mature. When it does, the skills and tools these children have mastered will allow them a whole new level of connection, new ideas launching from broad mind-bases with a reach their parents could not have conceived of.<br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13; font-size: large;">And in no time</span></b></span> at all these kids will be grown and getting their turn to generate <i>their</i> versions of new technology. Eventually they will have their own kids, who will likewise be born into a new set of technological advances and advantages; and then their parents--today's digital generation--may find themselves shaking their heads at the audacity and entitlement.<br />
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<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-weight: bold; line-height: 36px;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-PT3vEjw5g&feature=related"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Are Kids Different Because of Digital Media?</span></a></span></div>Peggy Moranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07162459982572768665noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6472019506598674599.post-10951152423753198152011-02-02T14:12:00.000-08:002011-02-02T14:12:50.987-08:00<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 12px;"></span><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.thedaily.com/"><img border="0" height="184" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJNhA0grcbkGB0UFUhPM3yEEgwssq2w0dvO1EfA2_wp1GB3USqzAszhKENVtwg4Q3e_Q8IJ-vDCyKTukTEILj8SvQotBPhaz3arVp72mG_QwNWk28OQiy7U6m06XCWXsn4UtJjb4Jxtfc/s320/The-daily.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>Peggy Moranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07162459982572768665noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6472019506598674599.post-46166454489782765282011-02-01T14:27:00.000-08:002011-02-01T14:27:41.446-08:00North Central College: Snow Day!!!<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b> I have received official notice:</b></span><br />
<blockquote><span style="line-height: 17px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11pt;">"North Central College will be closed beginning at 4:00 p.m. on Tuesday, February 1, 2011 through Wednesday, February 2, 2011. All classes and regularly scheduled activities are canceled, and only employees designated "essential" are required to report to work. A </span><a href="http://www.weather.com/weather/alerts/localstatealerts/?areaid=ILZ013&phenomena=BZ&office=KLOT&etn=0001&significance=W&wxlayer=radar&zoom=7&camefrom=national" style="font-size: 11pt;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Blizzard Warning</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11pt;"> remains in effect from 3:00 p.m. today through 3:00 p.m. Wednesday, February 2, 2011. You are encouraged to get safely to your final destination for the evening and remain off the roads. A decision regarding classes for Thursday, February 3, 2011 will be made no later than 6:00 a.m. Thursday."</span></span></span></blockquote><div style="font-size: 13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> </span></div>Peggy Moranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07162459982572768665noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6472019506598674599.post-72360859471949256392011-02-01T13:43:00.000-08:002011-02-01T13:57:42.652-08:00Egyptian President Mubarak Says He Won't Run for New Term<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://english.aljazeera.net/watch_now/"><img alt="[QODLink]" src="http://english.aljazeera.net/mritems/Images/2011/2/1/2011211801578148_16.jpg" /></a></span><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">As the Egyptian <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 19px;">anti-government uprising</span> unfolds the question of what role the Egyptian women are playing is in many people's minds. According to reports,<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #1f1f1f; line-height: 23px;"> the number of women taking part in the protests is "unprecendented." Slate <a href="http://www.doublex.com/blog/xxfactor/women-are-substantial-part-egyptian-protests" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #003366; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">rounds</a></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #1f1f1f; line-height: 23px;"> up various estimates of <a href="http://globalvoicesonline.org/2011/02/01/protesting-women-celebrated-online/">women in the crowds</a>:</span></div><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #1f1f1f; line-height: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-size: 32px; line-height: 36px;">“</span>Ghada Shahbandar, an activist with the Egyptian Organization for Human Rights, estimated the crowd downtown to be 20 percent female. Other estimates were as high as 50 percent. In past protests, the female presence would rarely rise to 10 percent. Protests have a reputation for being dangerous for Egyptian women, whose common struggle as objects of sexual harassment is exacerbated in the congested, male-dominated crowd.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></blockquote>Peggy Moranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07162459982572768665noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6472019506598674599.post-1181382259140187852011-01-31T19:35:00.000-08:002011-01-31T19:35:20.956-08:00"Egyptians are not Americans"<h2 style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; line-height: 1.25em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Sharing some perspectives on the events transpiring in Egypt:</span></h2><h2 style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.25em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><a href="http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/what_corruption_and_force_have_wrought_in_egypt_20110130/">What Corruption and Force Have Wrought in Egypt</a><br />
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