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The Real Value of a College Education

A debate is simmering in America over the worth of a college education. Advocates point to higher lifetime earning power. Critics complain about soaring lifetime debt. Some young people wonder whether it’s time well-spent.  The debate generated a slow-rolling inner reflection on how my college experience influenced my life journey. Like many Baby Boomers, I was the first member of my family to…

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list of best Universities in Washington State

Washington State is home to many universities and colleges, offering students a wide range of educational opportunities. In this blog post, we’ll provide an overview of some of the top universities in the state. Antioch University Seattle:   Founded in 1975, Antioch University  Seattle is a non-profit private higher education institution located in the urban setting of the large city of Seattle…

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Cherry blossoms on the Quad, gloomy March day, University of Washington, Seattle, 1991.

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Autumn colors on the University of Washington campus Seattle, WA November 2023

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Rose hip wreath, University District Farmers Market, Seattle, 2004.

Happy Holidays

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Seattle snow.

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Selective Color photo

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Analysis of data from dozens of foraging societies around the world shows that women hunt in at least 79% of these societies, opposing the widespread belief that men exclusively hunt and women exclusively gather. Abigail Anderson of Seattle Pacific University, US, and colleagues presented these findings in the open-access journal PLOS ONE on June 28, 2023. A common belief holds that, among foraging populations, men have typically hunted animals while women gathered plant products for food. However, mounting archaeological evidence from across human history and prehistory is challenging this paradigm; for instance, women in many societies have been found buried alongside big-game hunting tools. Some researchers have suggested that women's role as hunters was confined to the past, with more recent foraging societies following the paradigm of men as hunters and women as gatherers. To investigate that possibility, Anderson and colleagues analyzed data from the past 100 years on 63 foraging societies around the world, including societies in North and South America, Africa, Australia, Asia, and the Oceanic region. They found that women hunt in 79% of the analyzed societies, regardless of their status as mothers. More than 70% of female hunting appears to be intentional—as opposed to opportunistic killing of animals encountered while performing other activities, and intentional hunting by women appears to target game of all sizes, most often large game. The analysis also revealed that women are actively involved in teaching hunting practices and that they often employ a greater variety of weapon choice and hunting strategies than men.

These findings suggest that, in many foraging societies, women are skilled hunters and play an instrumental role in the practice, adding to the evidence opposing long-held perceptions about gender roles in foraging societies. The authors note that these stereotypes have influenced previous archaeological studies, with, for instance, some researchers reluctant to interpret objects buried with women as hunting tools. They call for reevaluation of such evidence and caution against misapplying the idea of men as hunters and women as gatherers in future research. The authors add, "Evidence from around the world shows that women participate in subsistence hunting in the majority of cultures."

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"In the Courtyard"

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25 years of 'thoughts and prayers'.

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Robb Elementary SchoolThurston High School

Columbine High School

Heritage High School

Deming Middle School

Fort Gibson Middle School

Buell Elementary School

Lake Worth Middle School

University of Arkansas

Junipero Serra High School

Santana High School

Bishop Neumann High School

Pacific Lutheran University

Granite Hills High School

Lew Wallace High School

Martin Luther King, Jr High School

Appalachian School of Law

Washington High School

Conception Abbey

Benjamin Tasker Middle School

University of Arizona

Lincoln High School

John McDonogh High School

Red Lion Area Junior High School

Case Western Reserve University

Rocori High School

Ballou High School

Randallstown High School

Bowen High School

Red Lake Senior High School

Harlan Community Academy High School

Campbell County High School

Milwee Middle School

Roseburg High School

Pine Middle School

Essex Elementary School

Duquesne University

Platte Canyon High School

Weston High School

West Nickel Mines School

Joplin Memorial Middle School

Henry Foss High School

Compton Centennial High School

Virginia Tech

Success Tech Academy

Miami Carol City Senior High School

Hamilton High School

Louisiana Technical College

Mitchell High School

EO Green Junior High School

Northern Illinois University

Lakota Middle School

Knoxville Central High School

Willoughby South High School

Henry Ford High School

University of Central Arkansas

Dillard High School

Dunbar High School

Hampton University

Harvard College

Larose-Cut Off Middle School

International Studies Academy

Skyline College

Discovery Middle School

University of Alabama

DeKalb School

Deer Creek Middle School

Ohio State University

Mumford High School

University of Texas

Kelly Elementary School

Marinette High School

Aurora Central High School

Millard South High School

Martinsville West Middle School

Worthing High School

Millard South High School

Highlands Intermediate School

Cape Fear High School

Chardon High School

Episcopal School of Jacksonville

Oikos University

Hamilton High School

Perry Hall School

Normal Community High School

University of South Alabama

Banner Academy South

University of Southern California

Sandy Hook Elementary School

Apostolic Revival Center Christian School

Taft Union High School

Osborn High School

Stevens Institute of Business and Arts

Hazard Community and Technical College

Chicago State University

Lone Star College-North

Cesar Chavez High School

Price Middle School

University of Central Florida

New River Community College

Grambling State University

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Ossie Ware Mitchell Middle School

Ronald E McNair Discovery Academy

North Panola High School

Carver High School

Agape Christian Academy

Sparks Middle School

North Carolina A&T State University

Stephenson High School

Brashear High School

West Orange High School

Arapahoe High School

Edison High School

Liberty Technology Magnet High School

Hillhouse High School

Berrendo Middle School

Purdue University

South Carolina State University

Los Angeles Valley College

Charles F Brush High School

University of Southern California

Georgia Regents University

Academy of Knowledge Preschool

Benjamin Banneker High School

D H Conley High School

East English Village Preparatory Academy

Paine College

Georgia Gwinnett College

John F Kennedy High School

Seattle Pacific University

Reynolds High School

Indiana State University

Albemarle High School

Fern Creek Traditional High School

Langston Hughes High School

Marysville Pilchuck High School

Florida State University

Miami Carol City High School

Rogers State University

Rosemary Anderson High School

Wisconsin Lutheran High School

Frederick High School

Tenaya Middle School

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JB Martin Middle School

Southwestern Classical Academy

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Umpqua Community College

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Tennessee State University

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Mojave High School

Lawrence Central High School

Franklin High School

Muskegon Heights High School

Independence High School

Madison High School

Antigo High School

University of California-Los Angeles

Jeremiah Burke High School

Alpine High School

Townville Elementary School

Vigor High School

Linden McKinley STEM Academy

June Jordan High School for Equity

Union Middle School

Mueller Park Junior High School

West Liberty-Salem High School

University of Washington

King City High School

North Park Elementary School

North Lake College

Freeman High School

Mattoon High School

Rancho Tehama Elementary School

Aztec High School

Wake Forest University

Italy High School

NET Charter High School

Marshall County High School

Sal Castro Middle School

Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School

Great Mills High School

Central Michigan University

Huffman High School

Frederick Douglass High School

Forest High School

Highland High School

Dixon High School

Santa Fe High School

Noblesville West Middle School

University of North Carolina Charlotte

STEM School Highlands Ranch

Edgewood High School

Palm Beach Central High School

Providence Career & Technical Academy

Fairley High School (school bus)

Canyon Springs High School

Dennis Intermediate School

Florida International University

Central Elementary School

Cascade Middle School

Davidson High School

Prairie View A & M University

Altascocita High School

Central Academy of Excellence

Cleveland High School

Robert E Lee High School

Cheyenne South High School

Grambling State University

Blountsville Elementary School

Holmes County, Mississippi (school bus)

Prescott High School

College of the Mainland

Wynbrooke Elementary School

UNC Charlotte

Riverview Florida (school bus)

Second Chance High School

Carman-Ainsworth High School

Williwaw Elementary School

Monroe Clark Middle School

Central Catholic High School

Jeanette High School

Eastern Hills High School

DeAnza High School

Ridgway High School

Reginald F Lewis High School

Saugus High School

Pleasantville High School

Waukesha South High School

Oshkosh High School

Catholic Academy of New Haven

Bellaire High School

North Crowley High School

McAuliffe Elementary School

South Oak Cliff High School

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Sonora High School

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She-Ra characters’ favorite movies!!! This one will probably be pretty controversial.

Adora: Alien. But she gets scared and has to cuddle with Catra (that’s her favorite part).

Catra: Predator. She can’t tell who she’s rooting for half the time though.

Glimmer: Captain Harlock: Space Pirate. She loves the aesthetic.

Bow: Star Wars. He’s very opinionated on the watch order.

Perfuma: Up in Smoke (never gonna let that joke go)

Mermista: Knives Out (but she’s waiting for the MerMysteries movie franchise)

Sea Hawk: The Princess Bride. He fancies himself Westley.

Scorpia: She’s a MCU fan and can’t pick her favorite of them.

Double Trouble: They hate watch Master of Disguise regularly.

Entrapta: Pacific Rim. Giant mechs! Fighting! Tech!

Hordak: Sleepless in Seattle. He loves romcoms!

Madame Razz: Primer. To her the plot is very straightforward, predictable, and linear

Shadow Weaver: Matilda. She has no idea why such wonderful and caring parents were so maligned!

Frosta: Godzilla movies. She has plans for an ice kaiju once she gets better at controlling her powers.

Micah: Star Trek: Wrath of Khan. He and Bow get into arguments about the better franchise and Glimmer has to tear them apart.

Kyle: Scott Pilgrim vs. the World - He fancies himself Scott. He isn’t.

Kadroh: Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. He loves how wrong it is about the universe!

Melog: The Aristocats. ‘Nuff said.

Netossa and Spinnerella: Lord of the Rings. They watch the Extended Editions together at least once a year.

Horde Prime: Horde Prime The Movie: A Horde Prime Production by Light Of Horde Prime Studios

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Hey y'all did u know that one of the nazi scientists who perpetrated human experiments taught for almost 20 years at the university of washington in seattle after wwii, after going to the school of aviation medicine at randolph air force base in texas. This fact gets worse in a sec. <3

Some of his publications include "radiation effects on man in space," and "physical considerations regarding conservation of heat in man, especially loss of heat by conduction." Gosh! I wonder how a man associated with human experimentation created those publications!

He taught meteorology and, wait for it:

Physiology. Almost the exact same things he taught and studied in germany! And performed human experiments about! Well ain't that neat. His name was Konrad Johannes Karl Büttner.

Why yes, he got here via Operation Paperclip! And yes, he never saw a single consequence for being a nazi or experimenting on unwilling human subjects often resulting in horrific death. No, he didn't even change his name or use an alias! He was just out and about!

Just fun Pacific Northwest facts!! <3

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Oxygen Destroyer - Guardian of the Universe (2024)

Macho Frost of Texas Toast Chainsaw Massacre looks at Guardian of the Universe, the brand new album from Seattle kaiju themed thrash death band Oxygen Destroyer, released August 9th on Redefining Darkness Records.

The Pacific Northwest’s own kaiju worshipping death thrash outfit Oxygen Destroyer has done it again. This time a tribute the mighty Heisei Gamera trilogy of the 90’s, which if you have not watched I HIGHLY recommend, they are whoopass. Every album OD drop they get better and better, and this point I don’t know how they are going to top this one. This is easily one of my favorite metal releases of 2024.

Listen to the album and read the full review:

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Red pepper wreath, University District Farmers Market, Seattle, 2004.

HAPPY HOLIDAYS

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The Masque of Carcosa

Dated June 3rd 1903 

 “Battle not with monsters, lest ye become a monster, and if you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.” -Freidrich Neitzsche 1886 

Abstract: 

A story about demonic, potentially eldritch, possession and spatial manipulation as recounted by Dr. Samuel J. Innsmouth, Orca Island Asylum, Collected by Prof. Johann D. Van Alden, Dept. of Occult Sciences, Miskatonic University, for further academic study regarding; spatial manipulation, parasitic possession, and extra dimensional entities.

Testimony of Dr. Samuel J Innsmouth: 

As a young man I was always fascinated by masks, especially the horrific and grotesque masks of the theaters of antiquity. Now there is no particular cause for what I saw in them. Perhaps it was the archetypes of the human psyche laid bare and unformed yet still hiding the truth beneath a mockery, an illusion displayed for the sake of the story's convenience. But that was my youth. As I grew older I learned more about the world. I studied in the manner of my family to be a psychologist to learn the inner workings and structures of the human mind. 

After taking what I thought would be a beneficial position, I soon  found myself trapped in a remote asylum on Orca Island in the San Juan channel in the Pacific Northwest. I was working as a resident, studying and learning the trade, when a curious case crossed my desk. That being the case of Mr. Leopold Penn, an actor from Seattle who was displaying all the common signs of what was a sudden albeit particularly violent personality split, despite never having any prior recorded mental or physical ailments of any particular note, beyond a mild fear of spiders. 

Upon the completion of my transit from Orca Island to Seattle I was soon greeted and ushered to the city's hospital where for the time being they were keeping Mr. Penn in the psychiatric ward, I met Mr. Penn as he was sitting in his cell patiently reading Edgar Allen Poe’s Cask of Amontillado which in hindsight was quite an ironic pick considering what I was about to learn. As I began the interview and evaluation I quickly was informed by Mr. Penn that he was in fact a Mr. Shepherd Carcosa or at least so he claimed. He spoke with a strange almost snake like accent and he wore thick yellow robes stained with refuse and other offal and a Il Capitano mask, its crows beak nose drawn out long and hooked over a matted mustache. His mask was stained, yellowed, weathered, and withered with age and it hid his face or at least most of it. I was informed by one of my colleagues that whenever they tried to remove his costume the patient would go into a violent psychotic rage. 

As we conversed Mr. Penn speaking as his alter ego Carcosa revealed things that he should not have known, things that were… distressing.  But more so than that his eyes disturbed me to an even greater degree as he stared like a corpse, not at me but past me unblinking and unflinching. 

After hours of conversation, with him dodging my questions like a well trained ballerina doing pirouettes, he slumped over. When he arose again he asked where he was. He asked who I was. I answered these questions and I asked him who he was as I had similarly before. He replied that he was Leopold Penn or Leo to his friends. When I asked him to remove his mask the patient seemed… hesitant? Slowly, obligingly,  he tried to tug the mask off to which he failed causing the patient to panic and attempt to rip the mask off with great frenzy. In the dark pits of the mask's eyes I saw his terror.  He asked… no, begged for me to assist him before he slumped over again and passed out. 

Over the coming weeks he came into and out of consciousness innumerable times, frequently as Carcosa, increasingly rarely as himself. But the worst was yet to come for during a fit of unconsciousness we had him x-rayed to see what had come over him physiologically and what we saw scarred many in the room that day… myself included. The mask had grown, mutated, hell fused to his face. His bones became the masks and vice versa. Like a horrific parasite the weathered leather of the mask had become his skin and yet the eyes did not emerge; they remained sunken and obscured.

 Then the nightmares that plagued my team and I began. I dreamt of roiling seas of reeking yellow bile, that flowed seamlessly to a pus colored sky with black stars of gleaming obsidian. I alternately dreamed of crumbling cities scorched in flame, of things indescribable in their wickedness, and of strange sigils and signs etched in the dark and in the flames. In quiet moments when all the world should have been still I swore I heard something nowhere and everywhere within us and without us. laughing a sickly and wretched laugh as if it was mocking me, mocking us.  

Over the week following our examination of the mask on Penn/Carcosa, my colleagues began to degenerate and eccentricate acquiring bizarre habits and perversions. Eventually I was the only one left on the case, the only one stable enough to continue on.  And so, despite my own dreamlike horrors and trepidations  I entered Mr. Penn's padded cell, ostensibly to resume my investigation. 

To my horror,  when I entered I wasn't met with a hospital cell but rather I saw a grand and impossible city embraced to the east, west and south by the roiling sea of wretched reeking ochre bile from my dreams. It crashed against stained sizzling rocks, flowing into a fetid pus yellow sky adorned with black stars of obsidian just as in my nightmares. Everything was smothered with a steaming sulfurous humidity. The name of this abhorrent city rang in my mind like a foul requiem bell: “Carcosa… CARCOSA… CARCOSA… C A R C O S A!” 

I knew from my bones that this abysmal city had at one point appeared to be a beautiful metropolis without equal or rival in all the world. Through all the ages it was now sundered and crumbled to ash. And yet through glimpses, more like flashes really, I saw it for what it once had been in days of bygone glory and it was as beautiful as it was terrible. Its architecture was Vedic or something older. It reminded me of India but far older from either a time before the time of the brahmins' history or from a time they refuse to speak of.

The city was warped, crooked and bent in ways that it shouldn't have been, that it couldn't have been. Its citizens dressed in the fineries and excess of carnivals grander than Venice or anywhere of this world. All of them were wearing… masks… abhorrent wretched but beautiful masks. They appeared to be enslaved by their masks. They jerked to and fro stiffly, like demented marionettes flailing and contorting with agonizing efficiency. They didn't seem to speak and they didn't seem to breathe. 

At this point I decided to retreat to sanity and plan a new course of action. But to my horror, like a marionette, I felt my limbs move me forward from my entrance deeper and deeper into the city passing impossible architecture and bizarre puppets. After an eon of this madness I saw the palace wrought wholly from a single piece of alabaster. Throngs of pilgrims flocked to its gates and I flocked with them. Yet, as I approached the palace steps, flashes of rebellion and of treason most foul flickered across my mind. These were not pilgrims. These were revolutionaries. They parted before me…  parted like Moses parted the Red Sea. 

Against my will, I was carried up those steps and led by my own legs into a gaping pillared hall. Courtiers were locked in an endless waltz yet no noise came from them, not even the steps of their feet. Despite the glory of their robes I saw their chains. They were not here willingly but they were held here by iron will. Lo and there the throne rose above the masquerade, its occupant seated upon it exuded a regal air. As I approached I saw him for what he was, a necrotic and withered corpse bound to the throne. His body was augmented with unknowable clockwork. His eyes sunken and forgotten eons ago. His chains were rusted and yellow. Vile ichor foamed from the corners of his mouth past yellowed teeth, contorted in an endless scream. And yet I recognized something about this abhorrent cadaver, this Necrotic corpse. This wretched thing was Leopold Penn or what remained of him. 

Then HE arrived to great and grand fanfare; the braggart prince, wearing the same stained Capitano mask and the same faded yellow robes Mr. Penn was last seen in. HE strode forth with great swagger and bowed deeply yet mockingly before me. With a voice that sounded like a choir of suffering he spoke: “My most humble and deep seated apologies for being unable to present this domain to you Dr. Innsmouth.  I had the most pressing and urgent business. I see you've found our mutual friend? Don't worry he isn’t dead.” He chortled this last line with the sickening grace and bravado of someone who operated every fiber of their being manually and consciously. I realized this world, this place whatever it was, danced at his whim. He was the puppet master and this was his stage.

 I demanded he remove his mask and reveal himself. He, however, refused, for he wasn't wearing a mask at all. The horror of this realization caused me to scream. My spirit imploded under the might of that king of rotten amber, the lord of yellow, the eldest of the four, the chamberlain of the hanged king of thorns. As visions of terror, death, and woe seared themselves into my mind I saw a veiled king with a crown of stars, abhorrent temples dedicated to forgotten gods, a great web plied by its arachnian master. I saw many more things but then I awoke on the floor of Leopold's cell but Leopold Penn was not there. In fact, he was never seen again. I believe he yet lies in that deathless hell, caught in a vice between life and death, a sacrifice to the masque of Carcosa.  Conclusion by Prof. J.D. Van Alden: 

Upon further independent investigation I found no reports of one Leopold Penn beyond a few panning reviews from critics, as well as a missing persons poster dated to around the time of the incident. However, aside from those scant records there is no other documentation of this man. No birth certificate, no death certificate, no admissions documents from the hospital or any other such papers or records. 

Because it is clear a Mr. Penn existed and was an actor as claimed by Dr. Innsmouth I am inclined to believe the veracity of Dr. Innsmouth’s testimony. Further evidence and investigation is needed to make any proper deductions or examinations of the claims made regarding possession and spatial manipulations made by Dr. Innsmouth..  Addendum from Professor Johann Diederik Van Alden to the Faculty of the Miskatonic University Occult Sciences Department

Dr. Samuel J. Innsmouth is still working at Orca island asylum and still seems to suffer from night terrors. It would be wise to refer him to Mr. Siegel for study and observation. If any peculiar developments arise please notify me at the earliest possible time.

[eopederson]

University of Washington Station, Sound Transit, Seattle, 2016.