HISTORY: For the past 30 years Ms. Celestine Marks has been a leader in her community. As the Director of the Conestoga Recreation Center Ms. Celeste has ensured on going programming for her community through the center, despite limited resources. The very popular Conestoga Angles, the Conestog... Read more...
O_O Attorney General Eric Holder confirmed speculation Wednesday that President Barack Obama would issue a signing statement when he makes the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) and its controversial detention provisions law. “We made really substantial progress in moving from someth... Read more...
Facebook launched a new chat feature that enables people to confidentially chat with a counselor if friends report them as a suicide risk, reports the AP. Friends will be able to report content on the site by selecting "suicidal content" inside of the "harmful behavior" menu. At that point, Fa... Read more...
The literal meaning of the Sinhalese term 'degurun' is: 'the two teachers'. It actually refers to the two parents of a child. The Sanskrit-derived 'poorwachareen' has the meaning 'the first teachers', and is also a term for 'parents'. The existence of these terms signifies the importance that our ... Read more...
Carrier IQ provides software for carriers to track issues on your phone to help make the service you pay for better. So why in the world are so many people spun up about the software? The major news of the week is obviously the Carrier IQ controversy (see ZDNet related links below for lots of cover... Read more...
It took years for advocates of medical marijuana to sell New Jersey lawmakers on the idea of allowing certain patients to legally use pot. Some advocates are now finding that an even bigger task may be persuading towns to approve places for them to do business. Eight months after being selected ... Read more...
At 14, Shawn Turner-McGee is a convicted felon, arrested last spring for pushing his teacher and grabbing her arms. He said it was a misunderstanding, one that he wrote a written apology for and served probation. Last month, Greco Middle School officials suspended the seventh... Read more...
We think robots will work for us? Think again. It might be more likely we’ll be working for the robot. Among all the job takeovers robots will make in the next 15 years (by 2025 robots will take over nearly half of all U.S. jobs) get ready to have them as our supervisors. Because it’s already ... Read more...
Peace. Next Friday, December 9th and Saturday December 10th there will be a series of events corresponding to maintaining awareness of Mumia's 30 year unjust imprisonment and the new developments regarding his case. I am emailing you in the the hopes that you will participate in these historical... Read more...