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By bluerasberry on 2010-02-01
I have been interested in video production for some time now. I have no desire to be artistic, but I would like to explore the possibility of creating a protocol by means of which anyone can quickly create educational videos of a certain known quality. I am interested in making some videos, but more than […]
Posted in art, education, India, research | Tagged astrology
By bluerasberry on 2010-01-18
I have not been working regularly since November and I was curious as to how I would feel without a job. I have heard of other people feeling a vacuum in life, or that they wanted to go back to work. I really like doing research, and I suppose now I am doing actual book […]
Posted in education | Tagged pedagogy
By bluerasberry on 2009-12-24
I went to the World Vision US Headquarters on Wednesday December 23. World Vision is the name for a non-profit organization founded in America in 1950 to do humanitarian aid and social development, especially in developing countries, and especially for the sake of children. Their m.o. is to get people in first-world countries to give […]
Posted in education, non-profit, presentation, research, Seattle | Tagged non-profit organization, youth, youth rights
By bluerasberry on 2009-11-20
The fall conference for the HIV Vaccine Trials Network was here in Seattle November 16-18. This was my second time attending. Conferences like these really get me excited. Part of the fun is in meeting new people who have total expectation of basing a social relationship on the exchange of information. Sometimes I feel like […]
Posted in education, health, HIV, presentation, research, Seattle | Tagged conference, HVTN, vaccine
By bluerasberry on 2009-08-22
Today I went to a Rick Steves travel workshop. Rick Steves is, I think, the single most prominent travel adviser in the English speaking world. He hosts an excellent European travel documentary series that is available on dvd and shown on public television channels, and he supervises the writing of travel guides for all areas […]
Posted in education, Seattle | Tagged pedagogy, travel
By bluerasberry on 2009-06-29
I spent Gay Pride this year at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center booth recruiting for people who might be interested in receiving an experimental HIV vaccine. The general criteria is that we are looking for people of all genders and sexual orientations who are between the ages of 18-50 and who are willing to […]
Posted in drug, education, festival, health, HIV, non-profit, presentation, research, Seattle | Tagged Gay Pride, HIV, vaccine
By bluerasberry on 2009-06-08
Actually, the plant is in the city of Renton, which is very close to Seattle. I took a tour there Saturday, June 6. Here is the summary of their work (PDF) that they present in diagram form. Public wastewater treatment is the process of channeling used water from private homes, businesses, factories, and all public […]
Posted in education, research | Tagged environment, tour, water
By bluerasberry on 2009-05-21
On Wednesday May 20 I went on a tour of the Hanford Site. This is a decommissioned nuclear reactor on the Columbia River in south-central Washington which had the sole mission of creating plutonium for weapons. The B Reactor there was the first large scale reactor built for this purpose; it was created for the […]
Posted in education, health, museum, presentation | Tagged military, science, tour
By bluerasberry on 2009-05-11
Actually, this is not a license. It is a medical assistance certification that may or may not have any value. In any case, I just finished a phlebotomy class and got a lot of practice performing and receiving blood draws. As a person who has participated in more than forty clinical trials requiring blood draws, […]
Posted in education, health, research, rights | Tagged blood
By bluerasberry on 2009-04-20
I went to the Friends of Seattle Public Library Book Sale this last weekend. This is a fundraising book sale that happens twice a year at the Hangar in Magnuson Park on Sand Point Way in Seattle. They sell books donated to the library and also library books which are being removed from the library’s […]
Posted in education, non-profit, Seattle | Tagged book