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Akihabara, Tokyo's "Electric Town," is famous for its huge stores overflowing with the latest Japanese electronics. But the area is also a haven for otaku -- Japan's manga- and anime-inspired geek underground.
These are a few sights to see and things to buy in the neihborhood.
The Eco Warriors sub line from 1991 was an interesting one. On the positive side, it encouraged kids to take care of the environment (by having them play with toys made from petroleum!) and wasn't quite as gay as "Captain Planet and the Planeteers". It was the first time the GI Joe A Real American Hero toyline had tried to get topical and socially "relevant" (with arguably comical results), but would not be the last (hello, D.E.F.!).
On the negative side, it was obviously the turning point at which not only many figures, but even the majority of vehicles would now start to be released almost exclusively in colorful, but terribly loud and unrealistic "neon" colors. A trend, along with rediculously oversized weapons, which sadly mars too many of the GIJoe toys made in the 90's.
I always thought that the concept of Eco Warriors was pretty cool, but the execution was often weak. Around the time these toys were released the first Gulf War had just been fought and "Eco Terrorism" had briefly become a buzzword after Saddam's forces deliberately set some oil wells in Kuwait on fire. So to have Cobra, a fictional terrorist organization, get into the eco terrorism biz only made sense. It also tapped into the zietgiest of the era, the first attempt at making being environmentally conscious into something hip happened around this time, after the Exxon Valdez disaster, the discovery of the hole in the ozone layer (one of the Joe Eco Warriors was even called "Ozone"!) and the hoopla surrounding the 20th anniversary of Earth Day, being what we would now call "green" was in - for about 2 minutes!
In the comics, the Eco Warriors storyline revolved around Cesspool's efforts to turn toxic waste produced by his company into a nastty substance called "Plasmatox" (which could eat through just about anything ) which Cobra wanted to use as a weapon, which is actually a pretty cool idea, I think - a pity most of the toys sucked.
The Eco Warriors also had a gimmick where they had weapons that shot water and they had different parts of the figures that when hit with COLD water would change color to show battle damage. It sounds like a fun idea that I would've liked when I was five. I can imagine that these water squirting toys drove some parents nuts!
The Governor’s Welfare Employment Committee announced the winners of its 2017 TANF Employment Awards of Excellence as it recognized 39 employers in Delaware who hire, train and maintain positive working relationships with employees who receive Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) benefits, and 47 TANF clients who have succeeded in the workplace despite the challenges they have faced.
The nominees in both the employee and employer categories were honored at a breakfast ceremony April 19 at Dover Downs Hotel & Casino.
The employee winners of the 2017 TANF Employment Awards of Excellence are:
•New Castle County: Gienavive Johnson
•Kent County: Patricia Milburn
•Sussex County: Valarie Purnell
•Statewide: Akira Collins
The employer winners of the 2017 TANF Employment Awards of Excellence are:
•New Castle County: Dust Away Cleaning
•Kent County: God’s Way Thrift Store
•Sussex County: Delmarva Clergy United in Social Actions (DCUSA)
•Statewide: Dover Downs Hotel & Casino
The event was hosted by the Governor’s Welfare Employment Committee, the Department of Health and Social Services, the Department of Labor, the Delaware Economic Development Office, and DART. All nominees were invited to the ceremony.
“We all have an attachment to work and to the dignity that comes with a job,” DHSS Secretary Dr. Kara Odom Walker said. “The working parents we honored found jobs through our TANF program, and they are raising their families, demonstrating initiative and excelling in their workplaces. That path to self-sufficiency was borne out of perseverance. That is a powerful message of success, and I’m so proud of the work we’re doing together.”
“The TANF program is yet another valuable resource the State of Delaware is making available to some of our most deserving residents,” said Labor Secretary Dr. Patrice Gilliam-Johnson. “We are pleased to be recognizing those employers who help make these opportunities a reality and the employees who continue to serve as stellar examples of the program’s success.”
A total of 47 employees – 19 from New Castle County, 16 from Sussex County and 12 from Kent County – were nominated, along with 39 employers. The employers nominated were:
•Kent County (18 nominees): The Grocery Basket, God’s Way Thrift Store, Integrity Staffing Solutions, Sea Watch International, Perdue Farms, Hardee’s, Walmart, International House of Pancakes (IHOP), McDonald’s, Dover Downs Hotel & Casino, Matthew Smith Bus Company, American Home Solutions, Bayada Home Health Care, Adecco Staffing, American Maid Services, Dollar Tree, Dover Post and TGI Friday’s.
•New Castle County (15 nominees): Dust Away Cleaning, Griswold Home Care, Express Employment Professionals, Kool Kid’s Learning Center, Securitas Security Services, Angel Companions, North American On-Site, Latin American Community Center, Beverly’s Helping Hands Child Care Center, Ministry of Caring II Bambino Infant Child Care Center, Family Dollar, Panda Express, EDSI Solutions, Always Best Care and Integrity Staffing Solutions.
•Sussex County (six nominees): Epic Health Services, DePaul Industries, Quality Staffing Services, Delmarva Clergy United in Social Action (DCUSA), The Curiosity Shop and Meoli Companies.
To hire a Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) recipient or to learn more about the TANF employment initiative, contact the Delaware Department of Labor, at 302-761-8085.
In Fiscal Year 2016, the Department of Health and Social Services had 4,976 TANF cases, serving 8,245 children, plus their parents. The average TANF household grant was $266 per month. TANF is a time-limited program, and work-mandatory clients can receive TANF benefits for a maximum of 36 total months in their lifetimes. To get a monthly TANF benefit, most clients must work or participate in work-related activities for 20 to 40 hours per week, depending on the number of parents in the household and the age of their children.
In Fiscal Year 2016, employment and training vendors served 1,704 clients in Delaware, with 329 clients earning full-time jobs and 408 earning part-time jobs.
To learn more about Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) in Delaware, go to:
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RELEASE DATE: 21st May 2019
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Dare to Dream: New ‘Craftivism’ project
announced by Heritage Open Days
13th-22nd September 2019
This year, England’s largest festival of culture and heritage will celebrate its 25th anniversary, with a new arts commission focusing on those who have affected positive change and the power of gentle protest.
In 2019, Heritage Open Days will celebrate its anniversary with 25 Years of People Power. Against a backdrop of Brexit - a time of unprecedented social division and uncertainty - hundreds of events across the country will celebrate change-makers; those whose visions and dreams have brought positive developments to our society, both large and small.
Alongside festival walks, talks and openings, the Dare to Dream project will explore the power of positive visualisation in effecting change and finding solutions to the problems that surround us. Through a series of ‘craftivism workshops’ designed by Sarah Corbett, founder of the global Craftivist Collective, participants will have an opportunity to think about the issues that matter to them, and how to be an active part of bringing positive change, both locally and globally. The commission is the third in Heritage Open Days’ Unsung Stories strand, made possible by support from players of People’s Postcode Lottery with the aim of exploring lesser-known histories in new and innovative ways.
Participants will hand-stitch their positive visions for the future onto fabric ‘dream clouds’, share their creations on social media, and display them in meaningful locations to encourage us all to be solution-seekers and change-makers. “We’re thrilled to be working with Sarah, who embodies the gentle form of People Power that is at the heart of Heritage Open Days,” says HODs National Manager, Annabelle Thorpe.
“Throughout history, real change has come from those who have thought differently, dreamed big and believed solutions are there to be found. Dare to Dream offers a chance for everyone to think about how we can all positively shape the future, and make our dreams for a fairer, happier society become reality.”
Across the Heritage Open Days festival, Sarah will lead four free workshops, launching at
Dartington Hall in Totnes, where the concept for the NHS was established in the 1940s. Moving to Norwich, Manchester and Durham, each session will take inspiration from local dream-makers whose historic ideas helped to shape a new reality. Downloadable instruction packs will also enable organisers to run their own Dare to Dream workshops, enabling nationwide participation. After the festival, insights drawn from the workshops will create a picture of our dreams and hopes for society in the next 25 years.
"By having a vision rather than just fixating on a problem, our brains start finding ways to turn
those visions into reality” says campaigner, Sarah Corbett. “Join us and craft your creation, whilst you think deeply about what your dream for a better world will look like, and how you can be part of making it. Stitch by soothing stitch, we can help become change-makers."
Yesterday’s dreams shaped today’s reality. This September, join Heritage Open Days and the
Craftivist Collective to create individual dreams for a positive future.
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For more information and photographs:
Laura Davey, Press and Communications Officer
020 3097 1977 | laura.davey@heritageopendays.org.uk
More details about Dare to Dream can be found at
www.heritageopendays.org.uk/visiting/unsung-stories/dare-...
NOTES TO EDITORS
About Heritage Open Days
• Heritage Open Days (13th-22nd September 2019) is England’s largest festival of history and
culture; in 2018, over 5,500 events welcomed more than three million visitors across the
country.
• All events are free, including access to many sites that usually charge for admission.
• Heritage Open Days is coordinated and promoted nationally by the National Trust with
support from players of People’s Postcode Lottery, and run locally by a large range of
organisations (including civic societies, heritage organisations, and local councils,
community champions and thousands of enthusiastic volunteers).
• Heritage Open Days is England’s contribution to European Heritage Days, taking place
across 50 countries. Other events in the UK are Doors Open Days in Scotland
(www.doorsopendays.org.uk); Open Doors Days in Wales
(www.cadw.wales.gov.uk/opendoors); European Heritage Open Days in Northern Ireland
(www.communities-ni.gov.uk/articles/european-heritage-open...); Open House London
• For further details, visit www.heritageopendays.org.uk, follow on Twitter
@HeritageOpenDay, or subscribe to the newsletter.
About People Power and Unsung Stories
• People Power is Heritage Open Days’ theme for 2019, celebrating the 25th anniversary of
the festival, and highlighting the ability of local communities, groups and individuals to evoke change. For more information, visit www.heritageopendays.org.uk/organising/people-
power
• The Unsung Stories programme is annual arts-based strand of Heritage Open Days,
commissioning artists to work with local organisers, bringing to life stories, and reflecting
HODs’ belief that history belongs to all of us. For more information, visit
www.heritageopendays.org.uk/visiting/unsung-stories
About the Craftivist Collective and Sarah Corbett
• Sarah Corbett is an award-winning campaigner, author of How to be a Craftivist: The Art of
Gentle Protest, and founder and Creative Director of the global Craftivist Collective. She
grew up in a low-income area of Liverpool and was born into an activist family. Her TED
talk ‘Activism Needs Introverts’ has been viewed over 1 million times.
• The Craftivist Collective is a social enterprise providing products and services to help
individuals, groups and organisations around the world learn and take part in ‘a gentle
protest’ approach to craftivism (craft + activism), and transform the way people practice
activism in more emotionally intelligent, creative and kind and effective ways.
• Previous craftivism projects have addressed mental health, living wage and climate change
amongst other issues. Their projects have helped change laws and policies, as well as hearts
and minds.
• They have worked with Save the Children, Unicef and Mind, have helped create the new
Girlguiding craftivism badge, as well as collaborating with Secret Cinema and V&A, amongst
others.
• Sarah is experienced as an interviewee for print, online, live or prerecorded audio,
television and vlogs.
• For further details, visit www.craftivist-collective.com or follow on Twitter and Instagram
@Craftivists.
About People’s Postcode Lottery
• People’s Postcode Lottery manages multiple society lotteries promoted by different
charities and good causes. People play with their chosen postcodes for a chance to win
cash prizes. A minimum of 32% from each subscription goes directly to charities and good
causes across Great Britain and internationally -- players have raised £416 million so far.
For details of the charities and good causes which are promoting and benefitting from the
lottery draws, please visit www.postcodelottery.co.uk/good-causes/draw-calendar
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TEENS LEAD FERNDALE WAR PROTEST
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Source: The Bellingham Herald
Mar, 20, 2008
Teens lead Ferndale war protest
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Mayor, Iraq vets take part in rallyCAT SIEH
FERNDALE — Nearly 100 people, including Mayor Gary Jensen, gathered at the Ferndale Riverwalk Wednesday afternoon to protest the Iraq War on its fifth anniversary.
The crowd, organized by and composed almost entirely of Ferndale High School students, was joined by prominent peace activists and Iraq veterans. The march marks the second rally in several months by Ferndale High students — the first was a walkout protest in November.
Students who marched down Main Street to join the 3 p.m. rally held signs reading, “These colors don’t run the world” and “Oh say can you cease.”
“It’s really empowering to see all these students here,” said co-organizer James Underwood, a Ferndale sophomore who also helped organize the walkout. “Every boy here is going to sign up with Selective Services in a few years. We’re going to be directly impacted if this war continues and this is the only way we have to express our opinions.”
Ferndale sophomore Joanna Hendricks said it was her first time participating in an anti-war protest. “I’m all for peace and I can’t vote, so this is my way of sharing my opinion,” she said.
Co-organizer Amy Englesberg, a Ferndale senior, said she wanted to show Ferndale it has a strong peace community before she graduates.
“I really felt the need to make my mark, because Ferndale has never been known as an activist town,” she said. “One of the problems I’ve faced in high school is that so many people don’t care. One more conversation, one more voice, one more horn honking is encouraging us to keep going.”
Mayor Jensen addressed the crowd in a brief speech.
“In America you’re going to become the reason for our change,” he said. “Ask your parents, ‘Do you vote?’ Grab your friends and say, ‘We need to be involved.’ It doesn’t help to complain and yell and make posters unless you take that final step.”
Jensen encouraged students, many of whom had not yet turned 18, to register to vote as soon as possible, adding, “I’m hoping someone is sitting in the Oval Office ... and saying ‘maybe I made a mistake.’”
Representatives from the local chapter of Iraq Veterans Against the War also attended the event, and several teens played music in support of peace.
As traffic passed on Main Street, hundreds of cars honked in support.
“We have a lot more people honking or giving us peace signs than giving us the finger,” Underwood said. “It’s much more positive than we would have had in Ferndale a few years ago.”
Whatcom County Peace & Justice Center also held rallies at seven Bellingham intersections Wednesday, and Bellingham’s Operation Democracy held a candlelight vigil to honor Washington troops and Iraqi children who have died in the war.
Copyright ©2008 The Bellingham Herald
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Orang yang bekerja karena Politik dia lah yang penghancur Bumi.
Orang yang bekerja karena kesadaran dan budi pekerti dia lah surgeon Bumi.
Orang yang masa bodoh dia lah yang terkubur di dalam Bumi.
Orang yang peduli dia lah yang membangun Bumi.
Kita ada di posisi mana..?
Glass stereo slides of Italy, taken with the Richard Verascope stereo camera.
Photos taken by my g-grandfather during trips to England and Europe, with the family, 1907 to 1922.
The slides, contain two small positive transparency images, of 38 x38mm (1 ½”) , giving a reasonable medium-resolution image.
The images are normally viewed with the self-advancing tray viewer – the Richard Taxiphote cabinet stereo viewer.
Pentax LX | Pentax Fa 43mm F1.9 limited | Kodak Color 200 200
Scanned with Pentax K1 FA Macro 50mm at F8 | Essential Film Holder
Ice Plant in Santa Cruz California. I stay positive about this move to California. When I list the things that make it worth living here, they always end up being the flowers, trees, plants and weather. This is growing off the side of someone's front patio and just freakin unbelievable. The dog crap on the sidewalk, that is believable.
SOOC, yes it really is that bright.
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Witnessing the treasure trove of talent of the students, Mrs. Gupta said that the confidence, creativity, dance, music, theatre, art & culture of our extremely talented Presidians weaved magic on the stage. Describing the amazing Future Fest she said that it is called the Future Fest, because, our children are our future and one day the nation and the world will be in awe of their achievements. They will make us –the parents, the teachers and the school immensely proud. We at Presidium are working towards this future. She appreciated the efforts, hard work and passion of the teachers as well as the Starmakers Team in preparing and guiding the children for putting up a spectacular show. The last leg of Presidium’s annual Future Fest celebrated the love for art and creativity of our 5000 primary young Presidians from Grade Nursery to 3rd. The astonishing performances created a world of fantasy and charm that was truly exceptional and praiseworthy.