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49 – Best. Interview. Ever.

January 11th, 2010 | by Pressyuk

Took the words out of my mouth. Wait, those were my words. Awesome.

I’ll chat about the comic in a moment but first, I’d like to talk to you about something. Human Trafficking. Its something that you read online or watch on telly every day but do you really know the facts?

For example, did you know that more people today endure slavery of one kind or another than during the trans-atlantic slave trade? Thats 27 million people. Did you also know that the majority of these people are women and children smuggled into Europe and North America to lead awful lives in prostitution and the grey market?

But did you know that you could help stop this today?

Well some of us have decided to do something about it. Monday, January 11th is National Human Trafficking Awareness Day. To participate, we formed the Comic Creator’s Alliance–a group of over eighty comic book creators (both web and print) who volunteered our artistic talents to raise money and awareness for this cause.

Together we have each donated an original drawing of our own female characters, and combined them into a single wallpaper image. The wallpaper features characters from The Phoenix Requiem, Girls with Slingshots, Earthsong, Looking for Group, Shadowgirls, The Uniques and three IDW Publishing titles: Fallen Angel, The Dreamland Chronicles and The Dreamer, and lots, lots more!

Donate today to download this unique, once-in-a-lifetime wallpaper. Just like Lincoln and Wilberforce before us we can stop modern slavery dead in its tracks. Lets make it happen.

The Donations Drive will last for two weeks, from January 11th – 24th. All proceeds will be split evenly between Love146 and Gracehaven House- two organizations working on rehabilitation of victims and prevention of this crime.

Anyway back to the comic. I would think this would be the best interview ever if the Boss allowed you to smack him in the face. Either Alan is very drunk (or punch drunk) or he just wants to see if Bernadette is the real deal. I’m probably going to side with the latter.

In other news, more stuff has arrived:

Its going to be the first anniversary of Hard-Graft next month so I might concoct a little competition or something to help celebrate!

└ Tags: Alan, back of my hand, Bernadette, comedy, drama, GOOD JOB, politics, woe

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Poor education.

November 7th, 2009 | by Pressyuk

Posted In: blog

I must say I did smile lightly in wonder at the BBC’s Mike Baker who staunchly rejected any suggestion of “inverted class war” against the Middle & Upper Classes in UK University selection.
That may well be the case but he then goes on to make some glaring contradictory statements. For example:

But they are not using crude measures to promote less able pupils from inner-city comprehensives ahead of more able students from independent or grammar schools.

No, they are doing it because they just want to be sure they are getting the best students, selected on merit, and chosen because they are most likely to thrive at the university.

Followed by:

Oxford [University] has a tough job on admissions. Almost all of its 15,000 applicants are predicted to get at least three A grades at A-level. So how do its admissions tutors make sure they are picking the best students, irrespective of social background or prior educational experience?

First, Oxford requires most applicants to take a special university entrance exam on top of their A-level studies. Then it interviews some 10,000 students before making 3,500 offers for 3,200 places.

Because it is as interested in future potential as in past attainment, Oxford collects information on the applicants’ backgrounds against five criteria. It then awards students a “flag” if they meet these criteria, which include: whether their school has below average GCSE or A-level grades, whether they live in the poorest postcode neighbourhoods, whether they have taken part in summer schools aimed at pupils from deprived homes, and whether they have even been in care.

If they meet at least three criteria, they are “flagged up” to the individual college admissions tutors.

I honestly had to re-read both statements several times to try and work out quite what exactly he was trying to say. Was he saying that Universities select on merit or was he saying that they’re chosen on the basis of social background?

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└ Tags: BBC, education, fail, politics

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Required reading #3

September 8th, 2009 | by Pressyuk

Posted In: blog, Uncategorized

Well now! This is turning into quite the tradition now. Hope you’ve enjoyed the links I put forth recently but lo! Here are some more:

Glenn Beck gives me a migraine, somehow discovers that Rockefeller was a commie-nazi.
Another Huff’ Post article, this time on a rare photo of the dying moments of a US Soldier. I’ll elaborate on this issue in a later post.
As one dot com giant suffers, another more traditional tech monolith..er..suffers. Helpful hint to American readers: the EU will persecute any “foreign” merger with gusto but not so much any Franco-German marriages of convenience. Have Microsoft’s troubles with the Commission taught you nothing?!
Hey, did you hear the one about the white South African getting asylum in Canada? Oh, guess not.
A veritable tsunami of links here, this time about tweeting and how it can get you into trouble in sport.
French decide to tax idiocy on the high seas. Arrr!
Got no mates on Facebook? Buy them.

└ Tags: bookmarks, Links, politics, required reading, updates

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