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Date: Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 2:37 AM<br><br><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 9px/normal Univers">
<font color="#333333" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11px;line-height:14px"><i>MAG-Net Anchors are in Maryland this week for the annual anchors meeting. On the MAG-Net site we'll have daily updates and photos from the event as well as fresh behind the scenes blogs from some of our anchors. Our first featured blogger is Carol Ammons,</i></span></font><em style="text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-variant:normal;text-align:-webkit-auto;font-weight:normal;line-height:14px;color:rgb(51,51,51);text-transform:none;font-size:11px;white-space:normal;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;word-spacing:0px"> Operation & Program Director of the Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center.</em></div>
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</em></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 9px/normal Univers"><span style="line-height:14px;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:-webkit-auto;font-variant:normal;color:rgb(51,51,51);text-transform:none;font-size:11px;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><font face="Arial"><b>MAG-Net Anchors Retreat Day One</b></font></span></div>
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</em></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 9px/normal Univers">What a way to open an event - for some who’ve never met and others who are re-uniting under the umbrella of connectivity and unity. Food! As stated by a great philosopher, “Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.” It was a great pleasure to me such an illustrious body of activist and organizers at the dinner table. We started the evening with a huge meal, excellent in taste and large in proportions. I really ate too much, and there goes my diet! If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world. Food, like a loving touch or a glimpse of divine<span style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:medium"><span style="font-family:Univers;font-size:9px"> power, has that ability to comfort. And I felt extremely comfortable.</span></span></div>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0px;font:9.0px Univers;min-height:9.0px"> <br></p><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 9px/normal Univers">The after dinner session started off just like a family re-union would, cultural exchanges, and personal stories of motivation and triumph. The staff planned for everything. Of course they knew that folks would be suffering for over-indulgence from dinner and amply worked in a bit of a competition to get the juices flowing. Rock, Paper, Scissors. Some twenty contenders entered the competition for the first annual Rock, Paper, Scissors championship, of which, the writer of this blog was this years WINNER!</div>
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<a href="http://www.mag-net.org/blog/mag-net-anchors-retreat-day-one-presented-carol-ammons" target="_blank">Read the rest of Carol Ammon's blog post and see pictures from day one on MAG-Net's website here.</a></div>
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