By bluerasberry on 2019-09-08
On Saturday 7 September 2019 I attended the 18th Annual Youth Film Festival in Charlottesville. A nonprofit organization called Light House Studio presents this. I like that there is an organization which provides a channel for youth to produce and publish films locally. Because I am a media access advocate, I liked less that all […]
Posted in art, Charlottesville, festival, non-profit | Tagged movie, youth
By bluerasberry on 2014-05-05
Wednesday 30 April to Friday 2 May I was in DC for a Choosing Wisely meetup. Part of it was hosted by ABIM Foundation and part was hosted by Consumer Reports. When I was there I met other people who work in health communications and we talked about how we get messages to people. One […]
Posted in Consumer Reports, DC, health, Wikipedia | Tagged advertising, Douglas Rushkoff, Kevin Kelly, social media, youth
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 2009-01-25
Last night I went to Cocoon House in Everett and met with Marty Arellano, the director of youth operations there. Cocoon House is a non-profit organization that provides care – particularly housing – to homeless persons under age 18. I had met Marty a few months ago when the PI (Janet Walthew) for the study […]
Posted in education, non-profit | Tagged Americorps, homeless, youth, youth rights
By bluerasberry on 2009-01-01
In my previous post I showed a picture of the view of Seattle to the south of where I live. Immediately north of where I live is what used to be a house where a lot of kids met until about three months ago, when this house was closed by the landlord and all the […]
Posted in health, presentation, Seattle | Tagged homeless, police, protest, youth
By bluerasberry on 2008-05-29
I want to make some notes about my last job as a test grader for high school standardized exams. I worked at this mass grading facility for ten days sometime within the last couple of months, and I read essays by kids around 12 years old. I do not know the standards, but the grades […]
Posted in art, education, work | Tagged data, fiction, logistics, pop culture, test, youth
By bluerasberry on 2008-05-07
I do not have a strong work ethic with respect to working for causes for which I am not involved in some decision-making process. I got a new job which starts tomorrow. It is nice for me for several reasons. It is a full-time temporary job. I love temporary work because I get to quit […]
Posted in education, work | Tagged youth
By bluerasberry on 2007-04-03
Before I start passing on partly unsubstatiated rumors let me say that my studies are going well and that within the last week I have found a surge of speaking proficiency from within. I have begun daily study with M.N. and he presses me to speak and write without preparation or my books. I find […]
Posted in computer, India, religion, rights | Tagged blood, death, food, gay rights, Hinduism, Islam, marijuana, ritual, scam, Sikhism, sport, water, youth
By bluerasberry on 2007-03-25
Ashu begins as a beggar On Friday March 23 I returned to Varanasi from Azemgarh. I had gone for Ashu’s janeu. There were I think ten of us in the van and the trip took two hours. As usual, I slept most of the way and had no regard for crammed conditions. Puja was beginning […]
Posted in festival, India, religion | Tagged death, Hinduism, medicine, ritual, youth