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Jason Osborne was trying to grab a quick lunch away from the crowds when his wife called his cellphone. "Jason, you've got to come see this boy at the booth. He's amazing!"
When Osborne, who cofounded the nonprofit citizen-science group Paleo Quest with Aaron A. Alford, made his way back to Scientific American's booth at the USA Science & Engineering Festival in Washington, D.C., he was impressed by the focus of the seven-year-old home-schooled boy, who was staring intently into one of the six Zeiss Stemi DV4 stereo microscopes on loan for use with SharkFinder kits. The kits each contain a fossil-bearing matrix from the Atlantic coastal plain. The boy asked Osborne a series of thoughtful questions. He pointed out a suspected fossil bone, noting (correctly) that he thought it was a bone because it had "little holes" in it.
"I watched him work," says Osborne, who is also neurobiological instrument and systems designer at Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) and host researcher at JASON Learning, an educational affiliate of National Geographic and the Sea Research Foundation, and thought, "We have to do something for this kid."
Bretton Kent, director of undergraduate studies at the University of Maryland, College Park, Entomology Department, and head of the lab that publishes on SharkFinder samples, agreed. On the spot, he invited the boy to be a research associate at the university over the summer to comb through fossil-bearing samples.
Yes, kids were doing some real science at the Scientific American booth. In addition to finding fossil teeth from ancient sharks, skates and rays, they also reviewed scientific journal articles with Noah Gray, an editor at Nature; Robert Knight, a professor of psychology and neuroscience at the University of California, Berkeley; Frederick Fenter of the journal Frontiers for Young Minds, and Kamila Markram, the cofounder of the Frontiers journals. (Nature, Frontiers for Young Minds and Frontiers are sister publications of Scientific American.) And the youngsters and their families also did some of Scientific American's own Bring Science Home activities.
"Every scientist that I know can point to a handful of people that inspired them to enter a STEM career track by helping them make an emotional connection to science and discovery," says Alford, who is a psychiatric epidemiologist and evaluator for the Battelle Memorial Institute in Arlington, Va., and also a host researcher and STEM methodologist at JASON Learning. I know I join the rest of the Scientific American team when I say I hope that kind of inspiring connection happened for the many bright-eyed little ones who joined us at the festival.
More than 690 students, aged 2-1/2 to 14, discovered fossils with SharkFinder at the X-STEM Symposium and the weekend Festival. The scientist volunteers gave away more than a quarter of a ton of fossil shells and marine-mammal bone to visitors during the event as well.
Kids who made scientifically important finds–an estimated 50 to 100 participants–will have their names included in resulting publications as the discoverers, say Alford and Osborne.
"We love these kids!" said Alford. "They are like Jason and me in so many ways. They have a passion and drive that keeps them focused and happy in their focus on science long after most people lose interest. Their sense of wonder is hyper developed! How cool is that? (For more on the fossil exploits of Alford and Osborne, check out the Google Hangout On Air from a swamp that we did last year as part of a series for the Google Science Fair and the Scientific American Science in Action award.)
"I almost tear up when the kids look up at me" when they've made a discovery, adds Osborne. "They're almost a little scared but they're excited." Just like a scientist.
(You also can see a four-minute video of Osborne and Aaron with me from a USA Science & Engineering Festival Google Hangout On Air from the show floor, along with festival cofounders Larry Bock and Ray O. Johnson, of Lockheed Martin, as well as Christopher Botjes of the Society of American Magicians.)


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Schizophrenia, as described by mental health professionals, is a chronic, severe, and disabling mental disorder. It affects about 1 percent of Americans.
- ... schizophrenics are the victims of lives filled with trauma, sometimes subtle but usually obvious. Professionals have tried not to listen. But if one investigates, most of the bad things patients talk about or symbolize in their symptoms are not delusional, but real traumas. It helps to face the truth. [1]
It has been recognized by the American Psychiatric Association and throughout recorded history.
People with schizophrenia may hear voices other people don't hear or they may believe that others are reading their minds, controlling their thoughts, or plotting to harm them. These experiences are terrifying and can cause fearfulness, withdrawal, or extreme agitation.
People with schizophrenia may not make sense when they talk, may sit for hours without moving or talking much, or may seem perfectly fine until they talk about what they are really thinking.
Because many people with schizophrenia have difficulty holding a job or caring for themselves, the burden on their families and society is significant as well.
Available treatments can relieve many of the disorder's symptoms, but most people who have schizophrenia must cope with some residual symptoms as long as they live. Nevertheless, this is a time of hope for people with schizophrenia and their families. Many people with the disorder now lead rewarding and meaningful lives in their communities. Researchers are developing more effective medications and using new research tools to understand the causes of schizophrenia and to find ways to prevent and treat it.
The symptoms of schizophrenia fall into three broad categories:
- Positive symptoms are unusual thoughts or perceptions, including hallucinations, delusions, thought disorder, and disorders of movement.
- Negative symptoms represent a loss or a decrease in the ability to initiate plans, speak, express emotion, or find pleasure in everyday life. These symptoms are harder to recognize as part of the disorder and can be mistaken for laziness or depression.
- Cognitive symptoms (or cognitive deficits) are problems with attention, certain types of memory, and the executive functions that allow us to plan and organize. Cognitive deficits can also be difficult to recognize as part of the disorder but are the most disabling in terms of leading a normal life.
Positive symptoms
Positive symptoms are easy-to-spot behaviors not seen in healthy people and usually involve a loss of contact with reality. They include hallucinations, delusions, thought disorder, and disorders of movement. Positive symptoms can come and go. Sometimes they are severe and at other times hardly noticeable, depending on whether the individual is receiving treatment.
- Hallucinations: A hallucination is something a person sees, hears, smells, or feels that no one else experiences. "Voices" (auditory hallucinations) are the most common type of hallucination in schizophrenia. Many people with the disorder hear voices that may comment on their behavior, order them to do things, warn them of impending danger, or talk to each other (usually about the patient). They may hear these voices for a long time before family and friends notice that something is wrong. Other types of hallucinations include seeing people or objects that are not there (visual hallucinations), smelling odors that no one else detects (olfactory hallucinations - although this can also be a symptom of certain brain tumors), feeling things like invisible fingers touching their bodies (tactile hallucinations)when no one is near and tasting things when there is no substance present in the person's mouth (gustatory hallucinations).
- Delusions: Delusions are false personal beliefs that are not part of the person's culture and do not change, even when other people present proof that the beliefs are not true or logical. People with schizophrenia can have delusions that are quite bizarre, such as believing that neighbors can control their behavior with magnetic waves, people on television are directing special messages to them, or radio stations are broadcasting their thoughts aloud to others. They may also have delusions of grandeur and think they are famous historical figures or that they are highly important. People with paranoid schizophrenia can believe that others are deliberately cheating, harassing, poisoning, spying upon, or plotting against them or the people they care about. These beliefs are called delusions of persecution. In addition, individuals may experience ideas of reference, whereby they may experience messages from the TV, radio or newspaper meant specifically for them, that no-one else can see/hear or understand. Ideas of reference can also include "secret signals" from other people, such as the way an innocent person across the road stops to let someone pass, or the way in which a receptionist holds the telephone.
- Thought Disorder: People with schizophrenia often have unusual thought processes. One dramatic form is disorganized thinking, in which the person has difficulty organizing his or her thoughts or connecting them logically. Speech may be garbled or hard to understand. Another form is "thought blocking," in which the person stops abruptly in the middle of a thought. When asked why, the person may say that it felt as if the thought had been taken out of his or her head. Finally, the individual might make up unintelligible words, or "neologisms." In addition, some people experience having their thoughts "removed" from their minds (thought withdrawal), that others are putting thoughts into their head (thought insertion) or that everyone can hear the individual's thoughts (thought broadcast).
- Disorders of Movement: People with schizophrenia can be clumsy and uncoordinated. They may also exhibit involuntary movements and may grimace or exhibit unusual mannerisms. Such movements are often side effects of the anti-psychotic medications used to treat the primary symptoms of schizophrenia (Tardive Dyskinesia - TD - or Extra-Pyramidal Side Effects - EPSEs). They may repeat certain motions over and over or, in extreme cases, may become catatonic. Catatonia is a state of immobility and unresponsiveness. It was more common when treatment for schizophrenia was not available; fortunately, it is now rare.
Negative symptoms
The term "negative symptoms" refers to reductions in normal emotional and behavioral states. These include the following:
- Flat affect: immobile facial expression, monotonous voice
- Lack of pleasure in everyday life
- Diminished ability to initiate and sustain planned activity
- Infrequent speaking: even when forced to interact
- Demotivation: a lack of interest in life in general
- Hygiene neglect: People with schizophrenia often neglect basic hygiene and need help with everyday activities.
Because it is not as obvious that negative symptoms are part of a psychiatric illness, people with schizophrenia are often perceived as lazy and unwilling to better their lives.
Cognitive symptoms
Cognitive symptoms are subtle and are often detected only when neuropsychological tests are performed. They include the following:
- Poor "executive functioning": Person lack the ability to absorb and interpret information and make decisions based on that information
- Inability to sustain attention
- Problems with "working memory": Person lacks the ability to keep recently learned information in mind and use it right away
Cognitive impairments often interfere with the patient's ability to lead a normal life and earn a living. They can cause great emotional distress.

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Tonight's Episodes of The Candy Show: with Guests: Ghettosocks ( Music) and Kyle Scott ( Fire Performer), and of course COMEDY with Aboriginal Stand up comedian, Candy Palmater. 11PM EST/ 12 midnight AST, on APTN and APTN HD Channels.
Missed the first few episodes of Season 3 of The Candy Show on National TV? Not to worry, watch them all here: Network Online Episodes


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Russell Glasser will discuss tactics for atheist outreach. Topics covered will include when and why to speak up, knowing your audience, general principles for dealing with theistic arguments, and how to get attention.
Russell Glasser received an MS degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Texas. Russell is a lifelong atheist, and has been a member of the Atheist Community of Austin since 1999. During that time, he has been producer, host, and co-host on "The Atheist Experience," a founding member of "The Non-Prophets," and a co-creator of the IronChariots.org wiki site with Matt Dillahunty. Russell is also a prolific contributor to the online atheist community. He has been blogging on religious and political topics since 2005 on both his personal blog, "Kazim's Korner" and the Atheist Experience blog.
I am working on the assumption that somebody (usually Don) will record the lecture so we can post it on Google Video or something later. I am also working on a Power Point presentation that I will post after the lecture.
For more information on this and other monthly lectures, please visit the ACA lecture series page. This should be fun, hope to see you all there.


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SEC Obtains Freeze on Proceeds from Unlawful Distribution of Biozoom Securities
Washington, D.C., July 3, 2013 —
Biozoom, formerly Entertainment Art, Inc., announced in April that it was changing its name and moving from producing leather bags to developing biomedical technology. The SEC's complaint alleges that from March to June 2013, the ten defendants received more than 20 million shares of Entertainment Art, which was one-third of the company's total outstanding shares. In a one-month period beginning in mid-May, eight of them sold more than 14 million shares. The sales yielded almost $34 million, of which almost $17 million was wired to overseas bank accounts. Their U.S. brokerage accounts, which include approximately $16 million in cash, are subject to the asset freeze.
The SEC's complaint, filed in U.S. District Court in Manhattan, charges the eight defendants — Magdalena Tavella, Andres Horacio Ficicchia, Gonzalo Garcia Blaya, Lucia Mariana Hernando, Cecilia De Lorenzo, Adriana Rosa Bagattin, Daniela Patricia Goldman and Mariano Pablo Ferrari — along with two others, Mariano Graciarena and Fernando Loureyro, who received shares but have yet to sell them.
"Today's action, along with the SEC's trading suspension order last week, demonstrate the SEC's ability and commitment to act swiftly to halt ongoing illegal conduct and preserve assets," said Antonia Chion, Associate Director in the SEC's Division of Enforcement.
According to the SEC's complaint, when the defendants deposited the Biozoom stock into their U.S. brokerage accounts, they claimed to have acquired the bulk of the shares in March 2013 from Entertainment Art shareholders who purchased them in private placements that began in 2007. Each of the defendants provided stock purchase agreements between them and the former shareholders purportedly signed by the defendants and those shareholders. The SEC alleges that the documents were false because the Entertainment Art investors had sold all of their stock in the company in 2009, almost four years earlier. The defendants' shares of Biozoom were deposited into their accounts as shares that purportedly could be freely traded and the defendants sold them even though no registration statement was filed with the SEC for any of the sales transactions, in violation of U.S. law.
In addition to the temporary restraining order and asset freeze granted by the court, the SEC is seeking preliminary and permanent injunctions, return of the selling defendants' allegedly ill-gotten sale proceeds, and civil penalties. The SEC also seeks preliminary and permanent injunctions against the non-selling defendants, Graciarena and Loureyro, because of the likelihood that both defendants will offer or sell their Biozoom shares to the public in violation of the registration requirements of U.S. securities law.
Ricky Sachar, Scott Lowry, Deborah Tarasevich, Jennie Krasner, and Robert Nesbitt conducted the SEC's investigation, which is continuing. Patrick M. Bryan will lead the litigation. The SEC acknowledges the assistance of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA).


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Once upon a time, lifes goes on as usual, boring. Until one day my friend showing me a weird clock on youtube. i said "wow, that was awesome!", "how it works?", "i should make one!". Basically, i have experienced on electronic DIY stuffs. i started to figure out on how to make it, lots of information found. so basicaly, propeller clock based on POV (Persistence of vision)
The clock's graph formed by cheating human eyes, one array of leds burst on constant interval/delay in one motor rotation, continuously (in this case divided to 360 degree in one rotation, can be more for higher resolution).
After i've found, understand, (and yet still confused on how it works :P). i started making prototypes with existing MCU module (atmega8535), wired to array of 8 leds. it works, and not good!! it's too heavy, no index reference, the text is very unstable. i need to design new board which is lighter and throw out all unnecessary components. there are two web site that i'm using as references, when building this clock.
i used the codes from there with lots of modification, original code is writen using ICCAVR, i converted it to AVR Studio.
i used his isolated power supply, to power up the propeller clock module.
For remote control, it was stolen from here: 😀


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Carewatchers has developed relationships with skilled nursing facilities in Alaska also known as nursing homes. Alaska skilled nursing facilities service can vary from facility to facility, however most provide quality care and protect resident's rights. Carewatchers elder/senior skilled nursing facility placement and referral agency service directory will help you find some of the best skilled nursing facility to care for your loved one. Carewatchers is an established senior facility placement and referral agency and our personalized or listing service is offered at no cost to the potential resident.
Nursing homes are regulated by the State of Alaska and are normally the highest level of care for older adults outside of a hospital. Nursing homes provide what is called custodial care, including getting in and out of bed, and helping with feeding, bathing, and dressing. Nursing homes have changed dramatically over the past several decades. Today's skilled nursing facilities are highly regulated, high-quality institutions for the care and treatment of older adults who have severe physical health and/or mental disabilities.
There are many senior living communities, facilities and agencies that serve elder/seniors in Alaska. They are Adult Day Care Centers, Assisted Living Facilities Continuing Care Retirement Communities, Hospice Care Facilities, Independent Living Communities, In-Home Care Agencies, Memory Care Facilities and Residential Care Homes.
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- delete a role's login from the system
roledel [-r] [-S repository] role
The roledel utility deletes a role account from the system and makes the appropriate account-related changes to the system file and file system. roledel also removes the role from each user's list of assumable roles.
An administrator must be granted the User Management Profile to be able to delete an existing role.
The following options are supported:
Remove the role's home directory from the system. This directory must exist. The files and directories under the home directory will no longer be accessible following successful execution of the command. The ZFS dataset that was created for the role's home directory will be removed.
The auto_home entry for the role will be deleted.
The valid repositories are files, ldap. The repository specifies which name service will be updated. The default repository is files.
The following operands are supported:
An existing role name to be deleted.
The following exit values are returned:
Successful completion.
Invalid command syntax. A usage message for the roledel command is displayed.
The account to be removed does not exist.
The account to be removed is in use.
Cannot update the /etc/group or /etc/user_attr file but the login is removed from the /etc/passwd file.
Cannot remove or otherwise modify the home directory.
system password file
system file containing roles' encrypted passwords and related information
system file containing group definitions
system file containing additional role attributes
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
auths(1), passwd(1), profiles(1), roles(1), users(1B), groupadd(1M), groupdel(1M), groupmod(1M), logins(1M), roleadd(1M), rolemod(1M), useradd(1M), userdel(1M), usermod(1M), passwd(4), prof_attr(4), user_attr(4), attributes(5)
The roledel utility only deletes an account definition that is in the group, passwd, shadow, and user_attr databases in the repository.


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The initial idea for Schoology came about during college when three friends, Jeremy Friedman, Ryan Hwang and Tim Trinidad tried to develop an effective platform for sharing lecture notes with everyone in the class. After two weeks of development, the project gained traction, but not in higher education; rather, K-12 students began actively using the service and teachers began reaching out. "It got us thinking," says Jeremy. "The learning management system that our university relied upon handled the basics just fine, but missed so many opportunities to be a more collaborative and more effective tool for both professors and students," he says. In K-12, the problem was even larger, since most schools didn't even have learning management platforms. "Why not create a platform for K-12 that looks and feels like the tools people use outside the classroom, but contains the functionality of a learning platform?" Jeremy asked. "Better yet, why not provide a platform that could be implemented in a single classroom with teachers and students, or implemented on a school-wide basis without any cost or friction?" Great questions, and with those, the next thing they knew, Jeremy and his co-founders set out to make the vision a reality.
Victor: What does the name mean?
Jeremy: In the Greek language, the "logy" suffix is used to identify core knowledge about a specific theme—sociology, theology, etc. And the word "school" is an instantly recognizable term for any place of learning, whether it's a traditional elementary school classroom, a virtual university, or even a cooking school. So, what better name to use for a collaborative platform that excels in learning than "Schoology"?
Victor: What is it? Who created it?
Jeremy: Schoology is a collaborative learning platform, combining the course content and functionality of traditional learning management systems with the immediacy, access, and connectivity of social networking tools.
Schoology was started by four people; I was one of them. Ryan Hwang and Tim Trinidad, who I knew from college (Washington University in St. Louis), and Bill Kindler, who I knew from home.
Victor: The layout looks familiar. What does it do and what are the benefits?
Jeremy: Schoology allows teachers to securely and efficiently conduct tests and quizzes, host discussions about course materials, provide supplemental insights on daily lessons via blogging, offer one-to-one feedback on assignments, assign and collect homework, and expand in-class learning by sharing supplemental content and linking to additional reference materials. It also provides a safe and secure area for students to communicate and collaborate. As the platform is cloud-based, it essentially renders the three o'clock dismissal bell obsolete in terms of access to learning. All students and teachers need is a computer with an Internet connection.
By upgrading to the enterprise level version of Schoology, school and district administrators gain access to customizable system settings, permission controls, and branding features. Equally important, the enterprise version offers the ability to migrate individual teachers from their solitary Schoology platforms to one singular, shared one that opens a window for across-the-board performance reporting and analytics.
And since Schoology is cloud-based, it's completely online. There's no software to install, no extra equipment, and no maintenance required. It's safe, secure, private and protected.
Its layout resembles the look of popular social media tools, so it's comfortable and familiar—and easy for technology novices to quickly learn and use.
The greatest benefit to Schoology is the stronger connections and collaboration it fosters among teachers and students—and their parents. By enabling parents to sign up, too, Schoology encourages more frequent communication with their child's teacher, ultimately boosting parental engagement in the learning process, a critical component of every student's success.
Victor: How is it unique from other similar products/services? What companies do you see as in the same market?
Jeremy: There are many, many education technologies available that address specific needs within the learning marketplace, including some that overlap with bits of what Schoology offers. The vast majority, however, aren't hitting the mark with respect to what educators and students need in terms of accessibility, integration, and basic functionality. They simply aren't keeping pace with innovation.
Early products were developed with just the administrator in mind, making them clunky and difficult to use. More recently, a number of companies have emerged with solutions that focus solely on niches, such as teachers, students, or parents. Schoology is unique in understanding the need to create a product that is fun, familiar, and easy-to-use for students, teachers, and parents alike. Equally important, it provides specific features that administrators say matter most, such as critical third-party technology integration, scalability, and enterprise-level controls, data reporting and customization.
Victor: When was it developed?
Jeremy: We began working on developing Schoology after college graduation in May 2009, with the first marketable platform launched in September 2010.
Victor: How much does it cost? What are the options?
Jeremy: Individual teachers, students, and parents can use Schoology on their own—at no cost—with the full suite of course content, third-party program and service compatibility, and social networking functionality that teachers want to boost student engagement and spark their intellectual curiosity. The premium analytics, reporting functionality, and customizable configuration that appeal to school and district administrators are offered through our fee-based enterprise-level solution.
Victor: What are some examples of it in action?
Jeremy: Teachers across the U.S. and as far away as Malaysia use Schoology in countless ways every day to connect not only with their own students, but also those in other classrooms by working with other teachers on shared learning projects. It's helping to power more than 60,000 courses and delivering more than 150 tests and quizzes an hour.
Victor: Who is it particularly tailored for? Who is it not for?
Jeremy: Schoology is a platform that helps people teach and learn more effectively and efficiently. One of its greatest advantages is its flexibility in terms of the context in which that learning takes place. Although we are focusing our marketing efforts right now on the K-12 space, Schoology is equally suitable for—and is being successfully used by—colleges and universities, virtual schools, and even corporate users like Groupon who need a reliable, accessible vehicle for delivering uniform training to its geographically dispersed workforce. As long as you believe in the meaningful role that technology can and should play in reforming the outdated classroom-only, 9-to-3 traditional approach to learning, Schoology is the platform for you.
Victor: Your thoughts on education these days?
Jeremy: Clearly, everyone at Schoology shares the vision that there is a meaningful, beneficial role for technology in the classroom, and that there is a need to reshape, reform, and renew outdated teaching approaches that are no longer aligned with the reality of the way students—people of all ages, actually—learn today. It's not just occurring in the classroom, and certainly not solely between the hours of 9:00 and 3:00. Technologies like Schoology that allow for anytime, anywhere learning and instruction reflect this paradigm shift and rightfully so.
Victor: What sort of formative experiences in your own education helped to inform your approach to creating Schoology?
Jeremy: As I mentioned before, the idea for Schoology truly came out of a very personal education experience for its founders—our growing frustration with the LMS our college was using! We had been a user of these systems from both the student side, as well as the teacher side when acting as a Teaching Assistance for college courses. After a lot of "Wouldn't it be great if it would allow us to…"-type conversations, we decided to just do it. We set out to make a better product and succeeded.
Victor: How does Schoology address some of your concerns about education?
Jeremy: Educators know that it takes more than lessons on "reading, 'riting, and 'rithmetic" to give students the well-rounded, practical education they need to thrive and be successful. The world has evolved and will continue to do so, and modern educational theory and practice has to keep up. That includes not only what we teach, but how we teach it. As I said earlier, even though K-12 education is still formally blocked out in most districts for weekdays between 9-3 pm, students' learning cannot be similarly contained. Thanks to the Internet and the ubiquity of cellphones, laptops, PDAs, and the like that enable people to access unprecedented amounts of information within seconds. The education sector shouldn't ignore that fundamental reality. Instead, they need to harness these innovations and leverage ways to capitalize on the opportunities technology presents. Schoology does exactly that.
Victor: Your take on the future of education?
Jeremy: It's very, very positive. We speak to educators all the time and are continually amazed by the creative ways that they have welcomed technology into their classrooms and the stellar performance that they are getting as a result from their students. It is clear that our vision for enhancing the learning process through the adoption of innovative technologies that fuel greater engagement, collaboration, and communication among teachers, students, and parents is very widely shared.
Victor: Got any quirky stories?
Jeremy: I'm not sure if quirky, but the one thing we find amusing is how frequently people mispronounce "Schoology" as "School-ology"…a name we had considered but discarded in the beginning as too much of a mouthful! When people ask though, we tell them that we don't care how they say it, as long as they spell it right in the browser.
Victor Rivero tells the story of 21st-century education transformation. He is the editor-in-chief of EdTech Digest, a magazine about education transformed through technology. Innovative CEOs, founders and educators: enter the EdTech Digest Awards Program.


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Ford Adds Excitement To The 2014 Barrett-Jackson Auction
The 43rd edition of the Barrett-Jackson Classic Car Auction was bigger and better than ever. New this year was a permanent building where the auction block was located. The new structure enabled Barrett-Jackson to expand the car display and exhibitor area to add to the fun and excitement of the Scottsdale facility. The new Ride and Drive area was expanded and moved the southeast area of the complex. Ford Motor Company made good use of this area with large number of Ford and Lincoln vehicle for people to test drive. From the Ford Motor Company exhibit at the entrance to the Ride and Drive circuit, the new, expanded Scottsdale site features exhibits, eateries and cars for every automotive taste.
One of the most impressive cars at the Ford Ride and Drive was the new Fiesta ST. After one lap around the course riders could see the car's impressive acceleration and braking capabilities. The Recaro seats held the occupant firmly in place even during the impressive cornering forces generated by the Fiesta ST. The deep mellow exhaust note of the Boss 302s and GT500s could be heard as we approached the course and foretold of an exciting time to come. Not all the Ford offerings were ultra-high performance, but were impressive none the less. The 2014 Ford Edge Sport featuring an industry first 22 inch wheel and tire combination for a crossover vehicle was smooth and quiet around the track.
As a person walks the grounds there were a number of Ford performance companies showcasing their latest products to check out. Shelby American unveiled the 50th Anniversary 289 FIA Cobra. The new edition is exactly like the five FIA 289 Cobra Roadsters built by Shelby American in 1964 to compete in this country and Europe in the quest for the World Manufacture's Championship. During the Cobra's press conference, both Shelby American President, John Luft and Vice President of Sales and Operations Gray Patterson explained the many features of the newest winner from Shelby American. Only 50 50th Anniversary 289 FIA Cobras will be built.
In addition to the latest Cobra the Shelby American's exhibit included the Shelby 1000, Super Snakes and the Shelby Store with a cool collection of memorabilia.
Galpin Ford, one of the country's largest Ford dealers, was represented by the company's highly successful GalpinAutosports Division. Their exhibit was stocked with an impressive lineup of the firm's performance vehicles, including; a GT500 WITH Galpin modifications, a very cool 1970s Bronco equipped to run the Baja 1000 and a 1960s Ford Econoline pickup with trick paint and performance parts.
Roush Performance also displayed an impressive array of Ford sourced performance equipment for a variety of vehicles.
Without a doubt the star of the Ford Motor Company exhibit was the 2015 Mustangs. A hardtop and convertible were always surrounded by a host of people checking the latest version of America's original Pony Car. This year makes the 50th Anniversary of the Mustang and the 2015 Mustang, which will go on sale in the fall, has the styling and performance equipment to continue the Mustang's performance image.
Each year at the Scottsdale Barrett-Jackson Classic Car Auction, Ford Motor Company auctions off a special Mustang for the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation.
This year the excitement grew on Saturday night as the first 2015 Mustang was sold for $300,000! As with all Ford charity cars, all the proceeds go to the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation. The winner will receive the first Mustang off the line along with a special plaque signed by all the Team Mustang members.
Once again Ford and Barrett-Jackson have combined to produce a fun filled, weeklong event that has something for everyone.
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BAGHDAD, Jan. 29 (UPI) -- Hussein Shahristani, Iraq's energy chief, says Baghdad is working with Iran to boost oil exports, a move by these two Shiite-majority powers that could lead to a major challenge of Sunni Saudi Arabia and its domination of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries.
Shahristani, Iraq's deputy prime minister for energy, told a conference Tuesday at the Royal Institute of International Affairs, a London think tank: "We feel the world needs to be assured of fuel for economic growth."
The Daily Telegraph of London reported he disclosed Iraq is collaborating with Iran, its traditional Arab enemy until the Americans toppled Saddam Hussein in 2003, to help it attract investment ahead of the possible lifting of U.S.-led sanctions as Tehran moves toward detente with the West.
International oil companies are reported to be lining up to secure big contracts with Iran to rebuild its long-underfunded energy industry, an endeavor that could cost as much as $200 billion.
"Iran has been in touch with us," Shahristani said. "They want to share our contracts model and experience" in opening up to international oil companies for investment, expertise and access to advanced technology as Iraq has done since 2003.
Iraq, heavily dependent on its oil exports, currently produces about 3 million barrels per day, with exports of about 2.2 million bpd.
Shahristani, who as oil minister was the architect of Iraq's drive to rebuild its dilapidated energy industry following Saddam's ouster, says Baghdad aims to triple production to 9 million bpd by 2020.
That's a step down from its earlier target of 10 million to 12 million bpd by 2017, a level energy insiders dismissed as wildly ambitious and beyond Iraq's capabilities.
But even the scaled-down target is considered beyond reach within the stated time frame, and for the same reasons: bureaucratic bungling, infrastructure delays and a worsening security crisis.
On the Iranian side, Tehran appears to be moving toward a resolution with the United States and its allies related to its contentious nuclear program, which would lead to the easing and possible lifting of sanctions that have crippled Iran's oil production.
But its energy industry has long been in poor shape and is in dire need of massive investment that will have to come from foreign oil companies, a process that will likely take years to have an impact.
Iran has seen its oil exports cut in half because of sanctions, falling from 2.5 million bpd in June 2011 to 1.2 million bpd in September 2013, the International Energy Agency in Paris reports.
That has cost Tehran an estimated $80 billion in oil revenues since 2012. Now it wants to get back to its pre-sanctions level of 4.2 million bpd, and then boost that to 6 million bpd.
At OPEC's annual meeting in December, Iranian Oil Minister Bijan Zanganeh, called on Riyadh, which has been making billions by covering the loss of Iranian and Libyan production over the last couple of years, to cut back its production to accommodate Tehran.
Saudi Arabia, which is engaged in a potentially explosive intelligence war with Iran, is unlikely to help the Islamic republic willingly. It's been producing a record 10 million bpd, well above its long-observed level of 8 million bpd.
As the only swing producer, this has enhanced its control of the purse strings on global oil prices and so, all things considered, it's not expected to relinquish that without a struggle, particularly as it will have to contend with growing U.S. shale oil production, now running at an estimated 8 million bpd.
The shale challenge aside, the U.S. global security consultancy Stratfor observes that "in the long term, Iran and Iraq's production is the key issue" in OPEC remaining a cohesive force in the global energy industry.
"Should Iran and Iraq together boost production to a reasonable achievable level of 11 million bpd by 2020 that would represent an increase of 5 million to 6 million bpd above present levels," it said.
"OPEC's export quotas have already been a source of tension among its members, but producers have always found ways to skirt around them. That may no longer be possible."


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Forums → Art, Music, and Writing → Official Poetry Contests - Theme: Sunshine (Due: May 31)
Welcome to the newest contest on ArmorGames!
This is the new and improved version of both the Periodic Poetry Contest and the Haiku Contest. From this point out, both contests will be combined into one massive contest for everyone to enjoy! And as such, each user is allowed to enter is both contests with separate entries if they so desire, effectively doubling the odds of winning.
Each contest (One being general poetry and the other exclusively haiku) will have one winner every month. Every month, two winners (one from each contest shall be chosen and receive a merit for all their hard work. Show it off to your friends, gloat about it to your enemies! Tell your parents about it and confuse them! It's a win-win-win-win-win scenario, folks.
General Poetry Contest:
- It must fit the theme if the month (same theme as the Haiku Contest).
- It must be submitted by the deadline.
- It cannot have inappropriate language in it.
- It cannot be stolen (if you plagiarize, we will find you).
- The poem must be created for this contest
- A user cannot win twice in a row (though everyone is welcome to submit every month!)
- Only one submission per user will be accepted
Once a month a winner will be chosen from all the received entries. To begin, the Moderation/Administration Team will act as judges and choose winners. Subject to change depending on how well things go.
The winner will then make a comment on the ContestWinners profile to receive a merit.
(Original idea by ubertuna, itemized rules by DragonMistress, modified by Devoidless)
Haiku Contest
"A Haiku is a Japanese lyric verse form having three unrhymed lines of five, seven, and five syllables, traditionally invoking an aspect of nature or the seasons."
Well, that said, here are the rules:
- It must fit the theme of the month (same as General Poetry Contest)
-The haiku must be original (no plagiarizing)!
- It must be submitted before the deadline
- It must be created for the contest (no using works previously written)
- One submission per user
- The same user cannot win twice in a row (but they are welcome to submit!)
Once a month a winner will be chosen from all the received entries. To begin, the Moderation/Administration Team will act as judges and choose winners. Subject to change depending on how well things go.
The winner will then make a post on the ContestWinners profile to receive a merit.
(Original idea and itemized rules by Maverick4, modified by Devoidless)
First Themes
The first themes to kick off this contest shall be:
- The theme for the General Poetry contest this run is "Touch of Truth".
- The theme for the Haiku contest is "Broken Bond".
Submitting an entry
Since there are two separate contests, users are required to mention in the post which contest they wish to use the entry for. Any entry without this is subject to not being entered into either contest.
Examples of how to clarify which contest an entry is for:
This poem is for the General Poetry contest
-This is for the Haiku contest
I'd like to enter this for the General Poetry/Haiku contest
Remember, each user is allowed to join both contests!
Alright! Looking forward to seeing what you all can create! Good luck, and have fun with it!
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This is for the general contest
All thoughts of this are blind,
And in blindness I see
All the inbetweens, that tread
So carefully between the lines.
With soft glances, and harsh
Movements, I find a way.
To shield my eyes; dry
As they must be, for you,
(Always for you) have left.
All thoughts of this are blind.
From Wikipedia:
Traditional haiku consist of 17 on (also known as morae), in three phrases of 5, 7 and 5 on respectively. Any one of the three phrases may end with the kireji. Although haiku are often stated to have 17 syllables, this is inaccurate as syllables and on are not the same.
I'm lost here. Not only does traditional haiku have the 17 on which don't equate exactly to syllables, there is traditionally a kigo (seasonal reference) drawn from a saijiki (defined list of seasonal references), and they are written in kanji I assume.
So if I wrote a haiku in Japanese the words and on would be different than the words and syllables in English. Causing it not to be the proper syllable count in English and not a proper haiku, Then again, if I write a haiku in English it won't translate correctly to Japanese, it won't have the proper on and maybe no kigo. Again, it won't be a proper haiku.
So, is it actually possible for an English speaking person to write a proper haiku without it writing it in Japanese?
So, can I submit a different one, or am I disqualified for this month?
This poem is for the General Poetry contest
I wipe the stray tear from my face,
his words a lie, a deadly mace
For he does not tell it all
he dabbles with the truthful ball
and never seems to see the light
a darkened room, a sleepless night
Utterances of pure hate
Just make me unlawful bait,
for the swine who yellow
the wrong truth, i bellow
that you only make a Touch Of Truth
woah... too deep for me... my brain hurts
The other haiku contests went on for, let me think...over three years? So I do not see why we should stop now. XD
Of course you can, or retool your previous one to work. Just as long as you make it clear which one you want submitted, you are in the clear. We're not that harsh. ^_^
I ain't no word spinner by any means, but here it goes...
For the general contest, something overly emo...
A knife may have worked, a farewell to you.
Yet God forgives the wretch, a paradise
Which is eternal is hard to cut through.
Death is a mercy that would not suffice.
To simply live, and forgive and forget.
A sentiment lost, a time forgotten
Before childish dreams became regret.
Kindness would only be misbegotten
Was there fault in knowing, the signs were there.
The sunset was fading, the weak of mind
Travel to what is beautiful and fair.
An advantage used by snakes and their kind.
But I digress, the punishment is late.
For what you've sown, live with unending hate.
And for the haiku contest...
Hammer strikes iron,
A pair of chains lie shattered,
Freedom discovered.
This is yet another entry for the Haiku Contest, since my first one did not count.
The tinted white van
At the children's candy store
High, dreadful screaming
Here is the entry for the haiku, breaking bonds:
In the summer sky -
clouds part away from above
nigai kinoko.
(If that doesn't work maybe this)
In the summer sky -
clouds part their ways to reveal
a bitter mushroom.
(or this alternate poem)
In the summer sky
the white clouds are tormenting
nijū hibakusha
The rules in the Haiku Contest state only one submission per user per round. Adding to that, your third poem has an error in the last row, containing 6 syllables and not 5. Choose either the first or second submission, or revise the third.
First of all, my bad.
Second, I am horrible at counting syllables, so I used this site:
I'm seeing the site probably didn't see Å« as anything and didn't count the syllables correctly.
Okay, sorry about that. This below will be my one entry for the haiku contest.
In the summer sky
the white clouds are tormenting
the hibakusha
Man. I haven't done this in a long time. Plus I was never very good. Let's see what I can do though.
Poetry Entry:
A compulsive liar was he
To which everyone could see
They did not trust him one bit
Not even if he spoke a mere lick
He had a strange look in his eye
Though he saw no one when they walked by
One day he took a lie too far
And for it he was tarred
He died with a smile on his face
One that could not be replaced
He wouldn't of had to die
If he did not tell that little white lie
I dont know much bout poems but i like writing, and also have a bit of trouble as i thought them in italian so the transation is a bit difficult and my grammer is terrible i exuse my self for any mistakes in spelling, so this is my one,
Poetry Entry:
we walked
we ran
we dashed trough life
with all our might
but to the dark sister
we could not escape
as she comes
embracing us
and to bed
laying us.
For the Haiku contest:
Rosebushes entwined
Suffered wither and decay;
Loathsome liberty.
(The rosebushes are meant to symbolize lovers)
I'll have to think of something for the poetry contest.. I can do that, right, posting each entry in different posts?
Act of betrayal,
breaks the bond of compassion.
Love eternal, gone.
For the haiku contest.
Okay, I revised my poem again. This will be my haiku entry. I wanted to add punctuation.
In the summer sky,
the white clouds are tormenting
the hibakusha.
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Shedding Light in the Night: How Solar Energy and Mobile Charging Improves Quality of Life in India
In this installment of Digital Diversity, Gwen Kidera – Project Associate at S3IDF (Small Scale Sustainable Infrastructure Development Fund) – explains how their non-profit organisation provides underserved communities with Integrated Energy Centre carts (IECs) equipped with reliable solar powered lamps and mobile charging stations. Access to light and mobile technology improves the quality of life in these communities by allowing them to continue working after dark.
Digital Diversity is a series of blog posts from kiwanja.net featuring the many ways mobile phones and other appropriate technologies are being used throughout the world to improve, enrich, and empower billions of lives. This article was curated by Gabrielle LePore, our Media and Research Assistant. You can follow Gabrielle on Twitter at @GabrielleLePore and kiwanja.net at @kiwanja
By Gwen Kidera
Solar lights switch on in the tents of nomadic North Indian residents as the sun sets over the Thanisandra slum in Bangalore, India. Men pick up their tools to carve drums, which serve as the community's primary source of livelihood, and women crouch to cook supper as the smell of firewood permeates the thick night air.
Wahida, a resident in the camp, returns from the community-owned cart with a rented and freshly charged solar lamp. She hangs it in the centre of her tent above the heads of her six children and her husband who busily works on the ornate drum on his lap. She relaxes because the light allows her husband to work into the night carving drums that are sold to earn additional income, and her children keep safe from pests that would otherwise creep into the poorly lit area. Reliable and safe lighting was a luxury beyond the reach of most residents before the community-owned and operated Integrated Energy Centre (IEC) arrived.
In March 2013, SELCO Solar Pvt. Ltd. (SELCO India), an organisation whose mission is to improve the quality of life in underdeveloped communities through sustainable methods, worked with S3IDF to establish a waterproof and durable solar-powered IEC cart to provide lamps and mobile charging to 30 of approximately 80 households in Thanisandra. The nomadic community, which has been moving as a unit across the country for generations, can take the cart with them wherever they go, ensuring many years of reliable lighting. Once they pay off the initial capital costs of the cart, they can own it and lend the lamps to community members without cost.
Before the IEC, families spent a large portion of their earnings on black market kerosene which posed health hazards such as increased risk of burns and the release of unhealthy fumes. Now, families spend less than US$2.50 a month for up to eight hours of solar light each evening. In addition to the cart, SELCO India and S3IDF are exploring ways to connect the community's drum production to viable markets, thereby increasing residents' incomes.
The centre in Thanisandra is just one of 18 IECs under development across the state of Karnataka. Each centre is created based on a needs assessment and tailored to meet the community's specific circumstances. Although the centres vary in services and business models, at heart they are all solar-powered community centres that provide the underserved with resources to which they otherwise would not have.
IECs are built within communities which are off the grid and lack access to electricity. They not only provide much needed energy but they also have the ability to supply useful products, such as solar lanterns, small appliances and tools, mobile charging, larger productive-use technologies – grain mixers and grinders – community TVs, cooling/heating systems, as well as resources for education, health, awareness and livelihood training.
IECs offer educational services including audio-visual aids to books, and computers to DVD players, and other basic literacy programs. The IECs can also improve public health by providing solar charging points for ultrasound devices, vaccine boxes and refrigeration for medicines. Other resources include ticket booking and printing, Internet services for obtaining identity cards and sending bill payments, and access to agricultural and trade-related information. As if that weren't enough, IECS also offer community members the opportunity to enroll in vocational training programs, including classes on computers, sewing and fruit drying.
The people who benefit from the IECs run them, and they are designed to be operationally sustainable with revenue generated by the IECs covering all maintenance and operating costs.
The implementation of the IEC cart in Thanisandra improved the quality of life of the entire community. "Now we can easily make 20-30 more drums after dark, and I can even finish my quilting without letting my housework suffer", Wahida explains. "It feels different since it's the first time we have had the luxury to work like this."
Wahida is hopeful for her future and that of her family and community. She would like to see an increase in demand for their drums, which could become a reality with SELCO India and S3IDF's help.
When asked how the solar lights have changed her circumstances, she smiled and proudly stated, "With the light, even our tent starts looking like a palace, it makes us feel like our dreams can come true."
Gwen began exploring the field of social entrepreneurship in 2009 while in South Africa on a field study program through the Social Enterprise Institute at Northeastern University. She assisted in giving business development support to local entrepreneurs from the townships around Cape Town over the course of two trips. She went on to study microfinance in Belize and work with a group of students to determine the effectiveness of a microfinance institute's training programs and causes of default among Haitian borrowers in the Dominican Republic. She spent a summer working for the Clinton Health Access Initiative, and in 2011 worked in Meru, Kenya for the Miriam Kanana Mubichi Foundation where she taught health and art classes, advised a women's textile company, researched malnutrition at the local hospital, and arranged school feeding programs.
In 2013, Gwen became a Project Associate at the S3IDF, a nonprofit organisation based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Members of the organisation work to reduce poverty in developing countries by supporting small scale enterprises that meet basic infrastructure needs and providing opportunities for economic advancement. She is an avid traveler and enjoys documenting her trips and getting to know the local culture through photography and blogging.
This post originally appeared at Newswatch. Digital Diversity is produced by Ken Banks, innovator, mentor, anthropologist, National Geographic Emerging Explorer and Founder of kiwanja.net, FrontlineSMS and Means of Exchange. He shares exciting stories in Digital Diversity about how mobile phones and appropriate technologies are being used throughout the world to improve, enrich, and empower billions of lives. You can follow him on Twitter @kiwanja


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Turkish Leader Reshuffles Cabinet Following Corruption Allegations. (Reuters)
African Leaders Arrive In South Sudan To Hold Mediated Talks. (BBC)
Thai Government Won't Delay Elections; Protests Turn Deadly. (AP)
Re-enactors Stage Washington's Crossing Across Delaware River. (Delaware County Times)
Russian Icebreakers Head For Tourist Ship Still Stuck In Antarctic Ice. (UPI)
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I have been traveling over the past several days, and now I will be leading a retreat for lay Carmelites over the weekend. Thus, I will not be updating the blog until early next week.
As we conclude the month of our Lady and enter the month of the Sacred Heart, let us continue our prayers for the renewal of the Christian family (though our official May prayer-campaign is now concluded). Further, let us consecrate our family and all families to the Sacred Heart of Jesus through the Immaculate Heart of Mary!
Please pray for me and for all who are on the retreat!
Sacred Heart of Jesus, we place our trust in you!


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In 1950, Wally Wood convinced EC publisher William Gaines to create science fiction comic books. In Weird Science and Weird Fantasy (later combined into Weird Science Fantasy) Wood knocked the ball out of the park by pencilling and inking spectacular images that defined the way science fiction looked during the fifties.
During the 1970s, Wood's health began to decline. He suffered from chronic headaches, alcoholism, kidney failure and strokes. The health problems led him to commit suicide in 1981. He left behind a legacy that will never be forgotten.
Here is a sampling of Wood's work from around the net…
Wally had a tension in him, an intensity that he locked away in an internal steam boiler. I think it ate away his insides, and the work really used him up. I think he delivered some of the finest work that was ever drawn, and I think it's to his credit that he put so much intensity into his work at great sacrifice to himself. –Harvey Kurtzman
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Revew Quiz: Using Possessive Pronouns
Change each sentence so that it uses a possessive pronoun instead of a possessive adjective.
For example, "This is their book." becomes "This book is theirs."
Type your answers in the box and then click on "Check". If you are stuck, you can click on "Show a letter" to see one letter in the answer.
- This is my pen.
- That is your book.
- Those are his shoes.
- That is her job.
- These are their pencils.


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Washington – The Rev. Dr. Franklyn Richardson longs for the old days, when all it took was Sunday sermons by African-American ministers to fire up their flocks to get registered and vote in local, state and federal elections.
"In the past, all we had to do was encourage people to register," said Richardson, the senior pastor of the Grace Baptist Church of Mount Vernon, N.Y., and Port St. Lucie, Fla., and the chair of the Conference of National Black Churches. "Now it's a different animal."
African-American churches, historically at the forefront of the nation's civil and voting rights efforts, are grappling this election year with how to navigate through the wave of new voting-access laws approved in many Republican-controlled states, laws that many African-Americans believe were implemented to suppress the votes of minorities and others.
Members of the Congressional Black Caucus and several hundred clergy leaders from the Conference of National Black Churches are scheduled to hold a summit Wednesday in Washington to discuss the new laws, their potential impact on African-American voters and how churches can educate parishioners, help them register and help get them to the polls on Election Day to prevent any significant drop-off from 2008.
"We will have attorneys there who are well-equipped to provide the guidance to the clergy members," said Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, D-Mo., the Congressional Black Caucus chair and a United Methodist pastor. "They will understand, before they leave, about some of the new laws in certain states designed – as we interpret them – to reduce the turnout. The day is over when they could just stand in the pulpit and say 'Go vote. It's your duty.' They've got to now be equipped with some sophisticated information to help inspire a turnout and protect parishioners from some of the schemes that are out there."
Since last year, at least 15 states have passed a wide array of laws that they say are aimed at reducing voter fraud. Up to 38 states, including some of those 15, are weighing legislation that would require people to show government-approved photo identification or provide proof of citizenship before registering or casting ballots.
Other changes that states have adopted or are considering include restricting voter-registration drives by third-party groups such as the League of Women Voters and the NAACP, curtailing or eliminating early voting, doing away with same-day registration and rescinding the right to vote of convicted felons who've served their time.
Advocates of the new laws say they're needed to protect the integrity of the vote, to prevent illegal immigrants from casting ballots and to clamp down on voter fraud, although several studies over the years indicate that systemic voter fraud in this country is negligible.
A study last year by New York University's Brennan Center for Justice said the new laws "may sharply tilt the political terrain for the 2012 election" by restricting voting access to 5 million people – most of them minorities, elderly or low-income.
States that have adopted such laws account for 171 electoral votes this year, 63 percent of the 270 electoral votes needed to win the presidency, according to the Brennan Center. Some of the states with new laws – Pennsylvania, Florida, Ohio, and Virginia – are battlegrounds considered crucial to the fortunes of President Barack Obama and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee.
African-American ministers, elected officials and civil rights advocates are especially concerned about photo ID laws. The Brennan Center study found that more than 21 million Americans don't have government-approved photo identification. The NAACP estimates that about 25 percent of African-Americans nationwide don't the proper documentation to meet some ID requirements. And, according to the Brennan Center, 15 percent of voters who earn less than $35,000 a year don't have government photo ID.
Opponents of the photo ID requirement consider it the equivalent of a modern-day poll tax. They say it forces voters to pay for driver's licenses or other government-approved picture ID in order to exercise a guaranteed constitutional right. Photo-ID advocates point out that such identification is needed to travel aboard airplanes and to purchase cigarettes and alcohol.
Seeking to minimize the poll-tax and disenfranchisement arguments, some states are making government-issued identification available free or at a reduced cost to voters who provide documentation proving they are who they say they are. Earlier this month, Virginia Republican Gov. Bob McDonnell signed an executive order calling on the state's election board to issue non-photo IDs to all the state's registered voters. He also ordered that a public awareness campaign be launched to educate residents about the new ID requirement.
"Every qualified citizen has the right to cast one vote," McDonnell said in a statement. "Not two votes; not zero votes. It's our duty as a democracy to ensure that is always the case." McDonnell often is included on the list of possible GOP vice-presidential candidates.
The Justice Department recently rejected stringent photo ID laws in South Carolina and Texas as discriminatory. It's reviewing Florida's new voter laws as part of Section 5 of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, which requires approval of proposed voting-law changes in 16 mostly Southern states because they have histories of discrimination.
African-American clergy members work against this unsettled electoral backdrop. African-American churches played a significant role in voter turnout in 2008, which helped Obama capture swing states including Florida, North Carolina and Virginia to win the White House.
"The black clergy will have to do a yeoman's job of educating their congregations about the various changes that vary from state to state," said Nicole Austin-Hillery, the director and counsel of the Brennan Center's Washington office. "The churches will really have to step up to the plate and help parishioners get the voter ID required by some states."
At this week's meeting, Congressional Black Caucus officials will urge African-American clergy leaders to embark on a 90-day voter empowerment effort starting in August.
The plan includes churches taking up "love offerings" – monetary collections – for church members who lack government-issued photo IDs and don't have the means to pay for them; holding voter-registration drives in partnership with other organizations; encouraging parishioners to vote early or absentee where available and making sure that parishioners go to the correct polling stations on Election Day.
Caucus members also will show ministers innovative ways of getting the word out on the new voting laws, including giving hand-held church fans to parishioners – such as those designed by Rep. Frederica Wilson, D-Fla., and Florida election officials – that have information on how to vote absentee and how to fill out election forms.
But accomplishing some of the 90-day tasks could prove difficult.
Florida's new laws, for example, shrank the early-voting period from 14 days to eight and eliminated voting on the last Sunday before Election Day. In 2008, scores of African-American churches in Florida and across the country held "Souls to the Polls" drives, in which churches helped parishioners go directly from the pews to the polls after Sunday services.
African-Americans composed only 13 percent of voters in Florida but 22 percent of early voters. And they accounted for 31 percent of voters on the final Sunday before the election, Dartmouth College government professor Michael Herron and University of Florida political science professor Daniel Smith told a Senate Judiciary subcommittee in January.
African Methodist Church Bishop McKinley Young, whose district encompasses Florida and the Bahamas, said losing that last Sunday "hurts the scope and reach of the people with 'Souls to the Polls' " and will make turnout efforts tougher for African-American clergy.
"We have a challenge, and we're not going to let these rules hinder us," he said. "We worked hard in 2008 and we'll work even harder in 2012."
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We are on our way to the airport
by Steve Ray on January 19, 2008
Heading for Israel to lead the Catholic Way Bible Study group. We will be in touch and Lord willing (and technology willing)
I will be uploading our Virtual Pilgrimage Videos each night. You can see them all here. Keep us in your prayers. Steve & Janet Ray
SUNDAY UPDATE: It's 4:30 AM Monday morning Israel time and we just arrived at the Notre Dame in Jerusalem–our favorite city in the world. Monday we visit a lot of folks, distribute gifts and prepare for our Catholic Way Bible Study pilgrims who arrive on Tuesday morning. On the plane I got a lot of writing done for the CSS Bible Study on Genesis. Since it is 4:30 we hear the wailing Muslim calls to prayer from nearby minarets.


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Shinya Yamanaka
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Shinya Yamanaka, Japanese Yamanaka Shinya, (born September 4, 1962, Ōsaka, Japan), Japanese physician and researcher who developed a revolutionary method for generating stem cells from existing cells of the body. This method involved inserting specific genes into the nuclei of adult cells (e.g., connective-tissue cells), a process that resulted in the reversion of cells from an adult state to a pluripotent state. As pluripotent cells, they had regained the capacity to differentiate into any cell type of the body. Thus, the reverted cells became known as induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells. Yamanaka and British developmental biologist John B. Gurdon shared the 2012 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for the discovery that mature cells could be reprogrammed.
Yamanaka received an M.D. from Kōbe University in 1987 and a Ph.D. in pharmacology from the Ōsaka City University Graduate School in 1993. That year he joined the Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease, San Francisco, where he began investigating the c-Myc gene in different strains of knockout mice (mice in which a specific gene has been rendered nonfunctional in order to investigate the gene's function). In 1996 Yamanaka returned to Ōsaka City University, where he remained until 1999, when he took a position at the Nara Institute of Science and Technology. During this period his research became increasingly focused on stem cells. In 2004 he moved to the Institute for Frontier Medical Sciences at Kyōto University, where he began his landmark studies on finding ways to induce pluripotency in cells. Yamanaka again sought research opportunities in the United States and subsequently was awarded funding that allowed him to split his time between Kyōto and the Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease. Yamanaka became a senior investigator at the Gladstone Institute in 2007.
In 2006 Yamanaka announced that he had succeeded in generating iPS cells. The cells had the properties of embryonic stem cells but were produced by inserting four specific genes into the nuclei of mouse adult fibroblasts (connective-tissue cells). The following year Yamanaka reported that he had derived iPS cells from human adult fibroblasts—the first successful attempt at generating human versions of these cells. This discovery marked a turning point in stem-cell research, because it offered a way of obtaining human stem cells without the controversial use of human embryos. Yamanaka's technique to convert adult cells into iPS cells up to that time had employed a retrovirus that contained the c-Myc gene. This gene was believed to play a fundamental role in reprogramming the nuclei of adult cells. However, Yamanaka recognized that the activation of c-Myc during the process of creating iPS cells led to the formation of tumours when the stem cells were later transplanted into mice. He subsequently created iPS cells without c-Myc in order to render the cells noncancerous and thereby overcome a major concern in the therapeutic safety of iPS cells. In 2008 Yamanaka reported another breakthrough—the generation of iPS cells from mouse liver and stomach cells.
Yamanaka received multiple awards for his contributions to stem-cell research, including the Robert Koch Prize (2008), the Shaw Prize in Life Science and Medicine (2008), the Gairdner Foundation International Award (2009), the Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award (2009), and the Millennium Technology Prize (2012).


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WiP Wednesday: The mostly wordless one
I manage did finish up a quilt this week, my Bella Patchwork quilt, and put the finishing touches on the pattern as well, which you can find at both my Pattern Shop and on Craftsy.
I'm also working on finishing up a little Jane Market Bag to tote around my goodies at Market. This pattern is so simple and quick to put together, I cannot recommend it enough!!
Stay tuned for a fun Market recap next week! I'm looking forward to sharing the whole experience when I get back :) Don't forget to link up your works in progress over at Lee's!
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Lovely quilty finish! Have a great time at market!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMay 16, 2012 at 8:27 AM
Love your quilt...I plan to make a picnic quilt very soon! That inspires me.ReplyDelete
I also finished two bags yesterday...love the fabric you selected!
Love the quilt and the bag. Have a great time at market :)ReplyDelete
Gorgeous quilt have a great time at Market!ReplyDelete
Jealous! I can't wait to hear about your market adventures.ReplyDelete
Lucky you! Have an awesome time. And I love your Silent Cinema market bag.ReplyDelete
Yay! for market...I'll be there too...and I see that we'll be together on Friday night for dinner! Looking forward to meeting you then....ReplyDelete
Have fun at market! Some day I am going to get to go :) I love the new pattern and can't wait to pick one up and make it up. And hey if some extra marmalade falls in your basket at sample spree let me know okay :)ReplyDelete
Loving the finishes, but have a total blast at Market!ReplyDelete
Great looking quilt and bag!ReplyDelete
Hope you have a great time at the market! =D
- AnonymousMay 16, 2012 at 9:02 PM
Have an awesome time at Market! Can't wait to see everyone's thoughts/ideas/comments/pictures!ReplyDelete
Have fun and good luck (I assume you're there to sell your awesome patterns)!ReplyDelete
Have fun at the Spring Market.ReplyDelete
I made it through 2 1/2 months of posts and enjoyed seeing all you've been doing!
Sorry it was quick, but it was so nice to meet you today! :)ReplyDelete
Thank you for leaving a comment for me! I appreciate each and every one of them and try to respond when time allows. Your comments totally brighten my day :)


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Jason Ashley Wright, World Scene: Rebeka Radcliff struggled with anxiety for a long time.
She started running marathons to try to manage it. The long distances helped, she said, but it wasn't enough.
"I would go for a run, feel relaxed for a few hours or even for the rest of the day, but then the anxiety would be back again," Radcliff said.
Eventually, she realized that running couldn't be her ultimate anxiety solution. She didn't feel it was severe enough to warrant medication, and she believed there was a way to use mind over matter to manage it.
Then, she became pregnant …


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and so, we've reached the end.
the sky is big in pasadena lasted through four years of daily photos. this is the one thousand four hundred and forty-first consecutive daily blog post. this humble site has seen over 90,000 visitors and thousands of wonderful comments.
i set out to give myself an artistic outlet during my time in seminary, and i never imagined how big it could become. it has been an incredible journey and i am extremely proud of the result.
but to be quite honest, i am ready for a break. i'm sure i'll probably start blogging again sometime in the near future - maybe in a different format and certainly in a new location. i don't know quite what my blogging future holds, but i can say that today's post is the last one for now.
i want to say thank you to everyone who has ever visited, and an even bigger thank you to those who have commented, become daily visitors, or added this website to your blogroll or rss feed. your appreciation of my work has been what has kept this project going.
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my favorites are these fine sites. if you haven't already, please add these incredible blogs to your reading list...
pasadena daily photo (petrea is the best of the best and an incredible inspiration)
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Aaron J. Shatkin was well known for his work on reoviruses beginning in the 1960s in his laboratory at the Roche Institute of Molecular Biology in Nutley, NJ and then at Rutgers University. He was among the first to appreciate that virus particles contained many different enzymes, such as RNA polymerase and poly(A) polymerase, that could be readily purified and used to study aspects of the viral replication cycle. His studies of reovirus mRNAs revealed an unusual methylated, blocked 5′-terminal structure, m-7G(5′)ppp(5′)G-MpCp-. He found that the 5′-terminal G of reovirus mRNAs made in purified virions or in infected cells was linked to the second G via a 5′-5′ chemical linkage, not the typical 5′-3′ linkage found in nucleic acids. This structure, soon to be called the cap, was subsequently found on many other viral and cellular mRNAs. His laboratory found that the cap is required for efficient translation of mRNA and also for mRNA stability. His discovery of a protein that binds the cap, now called eIF4E, lead to our understanding of how ribosomes are recruited to mRNAs to initiate protein synthesis. In recent years he became interested in the enzymatic machinery in cells that is responsible for synthesis of the cap structure, the capping enzyme. He studied the role of the capping enzyme in the nematode C. elegans and, in one of his last papers, solved the structure of the protein.
I have very good memories of Aaron: in 1979 I interviewed for a postdoctoral position in his laboratory at the Roche Institute (during my seminar I also met Ann Skalka with whom I co-authored a virology textbook many years later). Aaron was the first to offer me a postdoctoral position. I recall him being extremely kind and genuinely interested in my career. When I told him I was also interested in David Baltimore's laboratory, he quipped 'You'll be lucky to even talk to him'; but he had a smile on his face. I was lucky to obtain a position in the Baltimore lab, and when I called Aaron to tell him, he was extremely gracious and congratulatory.
Over the years I met Aaron on many occasions; he was always friendly and cheerful and we often had long scientific conversations. When I moved to Scotch Plains, NJ in 1989 I was surprised to find that Aaron lived just around the corner, less than a mile away. I often saw him jogging by my home on Saturday mornings. Once I pointed him out to my older son: 'that is the man who discovered the cap on mRNAs!' My son had just studied the mRNA cap in high school biology so he knew what I meant. After that he often told his friends that the cap-discoverer lived near him in NJ.
Several years ago, when our town wanted to build a home on a nearby small island of land, residents organized a rally to protest the development. It was called 'Save Cooper Road Island' and Aaron and his wife Joan came to lend their support! You can see me with Aaron in photographs of the event (In the photo at left, he is to my left, wearing khaki pants, a dark jacket, and white cap; I am holding a sign, and Joan is to my right).
Just over a year ago he interrupted one of his runs to come by and tell me that his wife had passed away. 'It's a bummer', he said, 'I have to do all the cooking and cleaning by myself'. I asked him when he was going to retire, and he said now that his wife had died, he would probably keep working as long as he lived. Which he did.
Aaron was a terrific person and scientist. I will miss watching him jog by, telling people that my neighbor discovered the mRNA cap, and thinking about him as I drive past his home. I had planned for years to organize a dinner with him and my Ph.D. mentor, Peter Palese (Peter did a postdoctoral fellowship at the Roche Institute while Aaron was there and knew him well). I also planned to interview Aaron for TWiV. Now I can't do either. I really should learn not to put off doing important things.
On the Death of Aaron J. Shatkin
Aaron J. Shatkin Ph.D. Obituary