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Wednesday, March 7, 2018
Edtech Startup Funding
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As entrepreneurship gains traction nationwide, schools are eager to connect their students to job opportunities. Most startups don’t have the budget to recruit on college campuses but only 14 percent of college grads want to work at big companies. By creating a school partnership, vetted startups could be matched with colleges and universities that are willing to serve as product development test beds while also providing students with internships, jobs, and knowledge.
As entrepreneurship gains traction nationwide, schools are eager to connect their students to job opportunities. Most startups don’t have the budget to recruit on college campuses but only 14 percent of college grads want to work at big companies. By creating a school partnership, vetted startups could be matched with colleges and universities that are willing to serve as product development test beds while also providing students with internships, jobs, and knowledge.
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Mott The Hoople, Bowie Tribute Down Under
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For those of you who don't follow the Ian Hunter To Tour Down Under Campaign thread :-) :-( As mentioned previously a couple of weeks ago during Record Store Day celebrations at Greville Records in Melbourne several music artists played acoustic versions of David Bowie songs. One of the artists, Tim Rogers of the excellent Australian band You Am I, included a great version of 'All The Young Dudes' in his set. He also gave Mott The Hoople a good mention during his intro. A friend, Harry Williams, filmed the performances and has posted some of them on Youtube. The Tim Rogers clip is attached. The whole video is worth watching but ATYD and Tim's intro starts at about 6.30 in. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2TgBKEeRKI Tim Rogers was also interviewed on an Australian national morning TV show, 'Today Extra', yesterday talking about an upcoming David Bowie tribute show at the Sydney Opera House. His band will be playing 'All The Young Dudes' at the tribute show. Tim not only mentioned Mott The Hoople once during the interview, he mentioned them twice :-) :-) Hopefully the following link to the video works for international viewers :-) https://www.9now.com.au/today/2016/clip ... mxbv7zxysd As a little bit of music trivia for you the male interviewer is David Campbell who is the son of Australian music veteran Jimmy Barnes, the lead singer of the legendary Australian band Cold Chisel, who some of you might have heard of.
Thursday, March 1, 2018
You Can Be Brave: Breaking Barriers to Inclusion - I Am Awesome Trailer (January 2018)
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Published on Jan 19, 2018“You Can Be Brave” is a feature documentary about one mother’s 15-year journey boldly fighting for her son (who has an intellectual and developmental disability) to be included in society. You will see how her perspective on disability evolved, and how she is continuing to break barriers to (dis)ABILITY inclusion. You will understand what it means to have a disability in our society, and what we as a community can do to take informed, intentional action to include people of all abilities. “My heroes are the parents of people with intellectual disabilities. They fight this fight 365 days a year, 7 days a week, all day, all night. Parents of kids with special needs are never done.” ~ Anthony Kennedy Shriver, Best Buddies International “There is no ‘us’ and ‘them’; there is only ‘us’.” ~ Tim Shriver, Special Olympics "You Can Be Brave: Breaking Barriers to Inclusion" is an Ability Revolution, Inc. Film in collaboration with Collaborate Films. Producer & Director: Dr. Jennifer Camota Luebke Cinematographer & Editor: Jaime Espiritu of Collaborate Films Music Director: Rich McCulley Narrator: Brian Shawn Title Song: Michael Riah
Original Music Featured in Film
Michael Riah Singer/Songwriter
Michael Riah is a soulful singer/songwriter who explores visceral human experiences in love and spirituality in his music. His delivery is vulnerable, yet sophisticated, raw, yet refined. Listen to Long Day, one of of the songs featured in the film.
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Post-Production Sound Engineer: Mike Manuel Production Advisor: Kenni Camota Marketing & Distribution Coordinator: Christopher Luebke www.YouCanBeBrave.com Facebook Page: You Can Be Brave Movie Twitter: @YouCanBeBrave18 Instagram: @YouCanBeBrave2018
Official Trailer
Published on Jan 19, 2018“You Can Be Brave” is a feature documentary about one mother’s 15-year journey boldly fighting for her son (who has an intellectual and developmental disability) to be included in society. You will see how her perspective on disability evolved, and how she is continuing to break barriers to (dis)ABILITY inclusion. You will understand what it means to have a disability in our society, and what we as a community can do to take informed, intentional action to include people of all abilities. “My heroes are the parents of people with intellectual disabilities. They fight this fight 365 days a year, 7 days a week, all day, all night. Parents of kids with special needs are never done.” ~ Anthony Kennedy Shriver, Best Buddies International “There is no ‘us’ and ‘them’; there is only ‘us’.” ~ Tim Shriver, Special Olympics "You Can Be Brave: Breaking Barriers to Inclusion" is an Ability Revolution, Inc. Film in collaboration with Collaborate Films. Producer & Director: Dr. Jennifer Camota Luebke Cinematographer & Editor: Jaime Espiritu of Collaborate Films Music Director: Rich McCulley Narrator: Brian Shawn Title Song: Michael Riah
Original Music Featured in Film
Michael Riah Singer/Songwriter
Michael Riah is a soulful singer/songwriter who explores visceral human experiences in love and spirituality in his music. His delivery is vulnerable, yet sophisticated, raw, yet refined. Listen to Long Day, one of of the songs featured in the film.
Featured Song
Post-Production Sound Engineer: Mike Manuel Production Advisor: Kenni Camota Marketing & Distribution Coordinator: Christopher Luebke www.YouCanBeBrave.com Facebook Page: You Can Be Brave Movie Twitter: @YouCanBeBrave18 Instagram: @YouCanBeBrave2018
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Wednesday, February 28, 2018
DOJ Says Atty. Gen. Used Alias to Conduct Official Business to Protect Security, Privacy
Illustrating how government hides information from the American public,
former Attorney General Loretta Lynch used a fake name to conduct official
Department of Justice (DOJ) business in agency emails obtained by Judicial Watch. As the
nation’s chief law enforcement officer Lynch, Barack Obama’s second
attorney general, skirted public-records laws by using the alias Elizabeth
Carlisle in emails she sent from her official DOJ account. In the records
provided to Judicial Watch, the DOJ explains it as necessary to “protect
her security and privacy and enable her to conduct Department business
efficiently via email.”
This begs the question of how many other government officials use fake names and whether those aliases are searched when agencies process Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests. Besides Lynch, we have only discovered the use of such aliases among government operatives to conduct official business at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Obama’s EPA administrator, Lisa Jackson, famously used the alias Richard Windsor in a government email account to conduct official business and communicate with staff. Jackson even took required EPA computer training under the fake identity with the handle Windsor.Richard@epa.
In Lynch’s case, Judicial Watch requested the records as part of an investigation into the Obama administration’s involvement in a United Nation’s international law enforcement coalition called Strong Cities Network (SCN). The purported mission of the global coalition was to build social cohesion and community resilience to counter violent extremism. The DOJ masterminded the agreement and Americans found out about the U.S.’s participation when Lynch announced it during a U.N. speech on September 29, 2015. Lynch referred to SCN as a “truly groundbreaking endeavor” and assured the notoriously corrupt world body that the Obama administration was deeply committed to the new initiative. “The government of the United States is fully invested in this collaborative approach and we have seen the value of empowering local communities by promoting initiatives they design and lead themselves,” Lynch said.
Following the Attorney General’s fiery U.N. delivery, a New York newspaper reported that the city was joining a new global, terror-busting network to combat homegrown extremism. Civil rights groups quickly denounced the U.S. participation, expressing concerns about law enforcement abuses against Muslims. In a letter to New York Mayor Bill de Blasio 22 civil rights groups warned that other programs created to counter violent extremism stigmatized “Muslim communities as suspicious and in need of special monitoring.” The anti-terror initiatives have also made “the relationship between Muslims and schools and social service providers into security-based engagements,” the letter states. SCN assures however, that “violent extremism and prevention efforts should not be associated with any particular religion, nationality or ethnic group.” In a statement the DOJ also guaranteed that the SCN will safeguard the rights of local citizens and communities. The State Department also put its weight behind SCN.
In its mission to educate the public about the operations and activities of government, Judicial Watch filed a FOIA request with the DOJ on October 15, 2015 for documents related to SCN. Specifically, Judicial Watch asked for legal opinions and analysis prepared by the DOJ relating to the U.S. involvement in the program, documents that form the foundation for the decision for the country to participate in SCN, all international agreements and related records involving the commitment of U.S. resources or personnel to SCN and records of communication between officials in the Office of the Attorney General relating to the initiative. The DOJ claimed to have no records related to the SCN and billed Judicial Watch a startling $50,000 to conduct the search that didn’t produce a single file.
Though the DOJ recently furnished the documents with Lynch’s fake name, the records were part of Judicial Watch’s original 2015 FOIA request. The records also show that then Assistant Attorney General John Carlin touted SCN at an event sponsored by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), an extremist leftist group that helped a gunman commit an act of terrorism against a conservative organization. A year later Carlin would launch the Michael Flynn counterintelligence investigation and seek the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant now in question.
This begs the question of how many other government officials use fake names and whether those aliases are searched when agencies process Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests. Besides Lynch, we have only discovered the use of such aliases among government operatives to conduct official business at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Obama’s EPA administrator, Lisa Jackson, famously used the alias Richard Windsor in a government email account to conduct official business and communicate with staff. Jackson even took required EPA computer training under the fake identity with the handle Windsor.Richard@epa.
In Lynch’s case, Judicial Watch requested the records as part of an investigation into the Obama administration’s involvement in a United Nation’s international law enforcement coalition called Strong Cities Network (SCN). The purported mission of the global coalition was to build social cohesion and community resilience to counter violent extremism. The DOJ masterminded the agreement and Americans found out about the U.S.’s participation when Lynch announced it during a U.N. speech on September 29, 2015. Lynch referred to SCN as a “truly groundbreaking endeavor” and assured the notoriously corrupt world body that the Obama administration was deeply committed to the new initiative. “The government of the United States is fully invested in this collaborative approach and we have seen the value of empowering local communities by promoting initiatives they design and lead themselves,” Lynch said.
Following the Attorney General’s fiery U.N. delivery, a New York newspaper reported that the city was joining a new global, terror-busting network to combat homegrown extremism. Civil rights groups quickly denounced the U.S. participation, expressing concerns about law enforcement abuses against Muslims. In a letter to New York Mayor Bill de Blasio 22 civil rights groups warned that other programs created to counter violent extremism stigmatized “Muslim communities as suspicious and in need of special monitoring.” The anti-terror initiatives have also made “the relationship between Muslims and schools and social service providers into security-based engagements,” the letter states. SCN assures however, that “violent extremism and prevention efforts should not be associated with any particular religion, nationality or ethnic group.” In a statement the DOJ also guaranteed that the SCN will safeguard the rights of local citizens and communities. The State Department also put its weight behind SCN.
In its mission to educate the public about the operations and activities of government, Judicial Watch filed a FOIA request with the DOJ on October 15, 2015 for documents related to SCN. Specifically, Judicial Watch asked for legal opinions and analysis prepared by the DOJ relating to the U.S. involvement in the program, documents that form the foundation for the decision for the country to participate in SCN, all international agreements and related records involving the commitment of U.S. resources or personnel to SCN and records of communication between officials in the Office of the Attorney General relating to the initiative. The DOJ claimed to have no records related to the SCN and billed Judicial Watch a startling $50,000 to conduct the search that didn’t produce a single file.
Though the DOJ recently furnished the documents with Lynch’s fake name, the records were part of Judicial Watch’s original 2015 FOIA request. The records also show that then Assistant Attorney General John Carlin touted SCN at an event sponsored by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), an extremist leftist group that helped a gunman commit an act of terrorism against a conservative organization. A year later Carlin would launch the Michael Flynn counterintelligence investigation and seek the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant now in question.
Tuesday, February 27, 2018
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