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The students and teachers of Perspectives Middle Academy (located in Auburn Gresham) are making tremendous academic and social emotional learning growth. Just this past year SY 2013-2014, they made almost two (2) grade levels of growth in both math and reading.
Photos by David Terry
Two Seattle Icons: The 1962 Space Needle and Chief Seattle, the Duwamish leader for whom the city was named. While eating lunch in a little Thai restaurant in Tillicum Square, I looked out the window to see the juxtaposition of these icons as in the photo on the left. I tried a few different POV's when I went back outside, and the photo on the right was the most successful.
Chief Seattle, born in the late 1700's, was a warrior, orator and statesman. He is perhaps best known for his 1854 speech when the land on which Seattle is located was purchased by the US government. At the time, a sketchy translation was made from the original Lushootseed language into Chinook jargon (the limited trade language of the area); several years later it was translated into very flowery English. A fictionalized version of his speech was written by screenwriter Ted Perry for the 1972 movie "Home." No one knows exactly what he really said, but the movie version presents a passionate and much-loved environmental plea, an excerpt of which is quoted below:
"The President in Washington sends word that he wishes to buy our land. But how can you buy or sell the sky? the land? The idea is strange to us. If we do not own the freshness of the air and the sparkle of the water, how can you buy them? Every part of the earth is sacred to my people. Every shining pine needle, every sandy shore, every mist in the dark woods, every meadow, every humming insect. All are holy in the memory and experience of my people ..... The shining water that moves in the streams and rivers is not just water, but the blood of our ancestors. If we sell you our land, you must remember that it is sacred. Each glossy reflection in the clear waters of the lakes tells of events and memories in the life of my people. The water's murmur is the voice of my father's father. The rivers are our brothers. They quench our thirst. They carry our canoes and feed our children. So you must give the rivers the kindness that you would give any brother. If we sell you our land, remember that the air is precious to us, that the air shares its spirit with all the life that it supports. The wind that gave our grandfather his first breath also received his last sigh. The wind also gives our children the spirit of life. So if we sell our land, you must keep it apart and sacred, as a place where man can go to taste the wind that is sweetened by the meadow flowers. Will you teach your children what we have taught our children? That the earth is our mother? What befalls the earth befalls all the sons of the earth. This we know: the earth does not belong to man, man belongs to the earth. All things are connected like the blood that unites us all. Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself."
Sometimes the best way to see the flaws in an image is to examine its
negative...
What if the Obamas had paraded five children across the stage, following
the debate, including a three month-old infant and an unwed, pregnant teenage
daughter?
What if John McCain was a former president of the Harvard Law Review?
What if Barack Obama finished fifth from the bottom of his college
graduating class?
What if McCain had only married once, and Obama was a divorcee?
What if Obama had met his second wife in a bar and had a long affair while
he was still married?
What if Michelle Obama was the wife who not only became addicted to pain
killers but also acquired them illegally through her charitable organization?
What if Cindy McCain graduated from Harvard?
What if Obama had been a member of the Keating Five? (The Keating Five
were five United States Senators accused of corruption in 1989, igniting a major
political scandal as part of the larger Savings and Loan crisis of the late 1980s and early
1990s.)
What if Obama couldn't read from a teleprompter?
What if Obama was the one who had military experience that included discipline problems and a record of crashing seven planes?
What if Obama was the one who was known to publicly display a serious anger management problem?
What if Michelle Obama's family had made their money from beer
distribution?
You could easily add to this list. If these questions reflected a reality,
if the tables were turned, do you really believe the election numbers would be as close as
they are?
This is what racism does. It covers up, rationalizes and minimizes
qualities in one candidate and emphasizes negative characteristics in another when there is a color difference.
And, think of this - the candidates' educational backgrounds:
Barack Obama:
Columbia University - B.A. Political Science with a Specialization in
International Relations.
Harvard - Juris Doctor (J.D.) Magna Cum Laude
Joseph Biden:
University of Delaware - B.A. in History and B.A. in Political Science.
Syracuse University College of Law - Juris Doctor (J.D.)
John McCain:
United States Naval Academy - Class rank: 894 of 899
Sarah Palin:
Hawaii Pacific University - 1 semester
North Idaho College - 2 semesters - general study
University of Idaho - 2 semesters - journalism
Matanuska-Susitna College - 1 semester
University of Idaho - 3 semesters - B.A. in Journalism?
Education isn't everything, but this is about the two highest offices in
the land as well as our standing in the world.
[Pen and ink on watercolor paper. Digital colour.]
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This is my suppose to be entry for my photog club monthly contest, but due to work constrain I didn't make to the judging. Sad.. :(
Sometimes it's just how you look at things, it's all about perspective, the art of representing three-dimensional objects on a two-dimensional surface so as to give the right impression of their height, width, depth, and position in relation to each other.
Vector graphic Perspective / Shapes Pack available for free download at www.free-vectors.com in EPS / AI vector format.
This picture was taken not far from where I live. A few years ago this street didn't exist; now there's a huge subdivision.
Perspective view of one of the main support towers of the Golden Gate Bridge, with billowing clouds coming through the suspension cables
I've been meaning to take the camera round some of the wee closes in Elgin for ages, so last Saturday I did. I love the perspective down these wee lanes, and the strong sunlight cast some stonking shadows.
A perspective I made for an interior designer.
Design concept by Patricia Lopez (Lopez Design Studio)
Modeled in 3DS Max. Rendered with mental ray.
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Just a different perspective to see things. Shot made during our photowalk in Heidelberg (Flickr Klub Karlsruhe).
Canon EOS 40D
1/30s
ISO 320
f/13
Heidelberg,
Germany
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