Catherine V. Palmer - getting some ink in the UMass Alumni Magazine

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Catherine V. Palmer
ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT

Catherin V. Palmer, BS Communication Disorders, '84 Director of the AuD program in the Department of Communication Science and Disorders, School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Pittsburgh.

Tell us briefly who you are.

Catherine V. Palmer, PhD. I am an associate professor and director of the AuD program in the Department of Communication Science and Disorders, School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Pittsburgh. I am also an associate professor in the Department of Otolaryngology in the School of Medicine and serve as the director of the Audiology and Hearing Aid Clinic at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. This includes clinical work and overseeing the operations of the main clinic and six satellite clinics. I graduated with a BA (Education) and BS (Communication Disorders) from the University of Massachusetts in 1984.

What is your most memorable moment at UMass?

My most memorable moments are all related to the wonderful experience of living in the Butterfield Dorm and the friends that I had there including my best friend, Pat Vaillancourt ’84 (now Pat Quill) who also was in the Communication Disorders program. My brother, Bob Palmer, was in charge of the in-house food services in the dorm for my last couple of years and that was great as well. I also participated in the synchronized swimming club and had a good time choreographing and performing routines. I also participated in the summer program at Oxford University which was a terrific experience in terms of travel and education.

Describe your professional career for us.

I spent the last semester of my time at UMass teaching 3rd grade on an Indian Reservation in Taos, NM. This was a wonderful experience and although I already knew I would be going back to graduate school for audiology, this teaching experience has impacted how I teach as a college professor. I attended Northwestern University for my Master’s degree and then spent two years at the Long Beach (California) VA practicing as an audiologist and a research assistant. I returned to Northwestern for my PhD and upon completion joined the University of Pittsburgh in 1990. My job as a professor at the University of Pittsburgh includes teaching and research and expanded greatly in 1998 when I took over as the director of Audiology for the medical center. The combination of responsibilities is wonderful with the clinical practice informing both my research program and teaching and my research impacting my teaching and clinical practice as well. I was honored to serve on the board of the American Academy of Audiology and currently serve on the Board of the DePaul School for Hearing and Speech. I am the Editor-in-Chief of Seminars in Hearing as well. I created the Musicians' Hearing Center at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center in 2003 and enjoy working with musicians and providing hearing protection to all ages of musicians to ensure that they can participate safely in this activity for a life time.

How did the SPHHS help you prepare for your career?

I enjoyed every moment of my time at UMass and in the Department of Communication Disorders. The department gave me a sense of connection in what is a very large University. This allowed me to have a safe haven as I explored all that UMass had to offer. Jay Melrose was my advisor and I always had the sense that he really cared about how I did and what happened to me. The other faculty members were supportive and challenging and presented lots of opportunities for involvement (I remember interesting research with Dr. Harry Seymour and a great trip to my first American Speech Language Hearing Association meeting at the urging of the faculty). With encouragement from Rich Freyman, I presented my first research paper at a national conference in my senior year. This gave me a sense of interest in research and the comfort to interact at a research meeting. I feel very fortunate to continue to interact with the UMass Communication Disorders faculty who I knew as a student; and my good friend, Karen Helfer, who completed her PhD at Northwestern University at the same time I did, joined the faculty as well. UMass continues to have a tremendous group of individuals in the Communication Disorders Department.

What do you think the future holds in store for professionals in the field of Public Health and/or Health Sciences?

There is a tremendous need for services from audiologists across the life span. We are seeing a shift to a focus on quality of life in health care and audiologists will play an essential role in this area. Individuals are more aware than ever that they need to protect their hearing and that they need to do something about hearing loss if it has occurred because it impacts communication thereby cutting them off from people and activities that they care about. The research and technology that audiologists now have access to allow us to do more than we've ever been able to do before. It is exciting for us and the people we serve.

Is there anything else that you would like us to know about you?

When I arrived at the University of Pittsburgh, the first person I met was Elaine Mormer ’79, ’81G (previously Rosenthal). Elaine graduated from the UMass graduate program in audiology just as I was finishing my undergraduate degree there, but our paths had never crossed. She had single-handedly kept the program at Pitt going and she was ready to do big things once a faculty was in place. We (as a group) have done big things and now have an excellent, thriving audiology AuD and PhD program. We sometimes get students who have completed their undergraduate work at UMass and that is always a treat (and they are always well prepared). The highlight of my work is taking on new projects with Elaine and seeing what we can accomplish - it is a true blessing to have a colleague like Elaine and our backgrounds and work ethic are very similar partly due to UMass.


I got married to Mark Rauterkus a couple of months after arriving in Pittsburgh. We now have two delightful boys (Grant, 12 and Erik, 15). We have lived in the same house for 20 years and have the good fortune of having Mark's parents and my mother living in the Pittsburgh area. My career has afforded us the opportunity to travel around the world with our boys as I have been invited to teach and lecture and Mark's career as a swim and water polo coach has allowed them to join teams and make friends around the world.

Twitter, Facebook, and social activism : The New Yorker

From four the first day it grew.

Twitter, Facebook, and social activism : The New Yorker
By next morning, the protest had grown to twenty-seven men and four women, most from the same dormitory as the original four. The men were dressed in suits and ties. The students had brought their schoolwork, and studied as they sat at the counter. On Wednesday, students from Greensboro’s “Negro” secondary school, Dudley High, joined in, and the number of protesters swelled to eighty. By Thursday, the protesters numbered three hundred, including three white women, from the Greensboro campus of the University of North Carolina. By Saturday, the sit-in had reached six hundred. People spilled out onto the street. White teen-agers waved Confederate flags. Someone threw a firecracker. At noon, the A. & T. football team arrived.

The Eagle: Around the World to Korea

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Written by Anna Vitti

This August, Erik Rauterkus, Tobias Raether and C.J.Abenes took a memorable trip across the globe to Korea for two weeks with a program called C.I.E.F. The U.S. students stayed on the Yonsei University campus. The trip entailed the introduction of Korean culture to a number of United States students. When asked why they wanted to go in the first place, Erik noted that he really wanted the cultural experience and went to “broaden my horizons.” The students all found out about the program in different ways. Tobias’ mother was a local coordinator of the program. C.J. found an ad on the internet and checked it out. Tobias pointed to the fun of being in Korea with a group of fellow American students really liked visiting Seoul and experiencing the city."

Linux in Schools

http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/09/linux_in_schools.php
"This is an excellent guest post by Scott Rowed on the use of Linu in K-12 schools, including strong evidence that school districts tha do not have students using the Linux operating system are placing their students at a disadvantage, as well as a description of on outstanding success story in British Columbia.""Learning Linux in school can be compared to French Immersion. Just as students in the French program still learn English, students learning Linux will still be exposed to Windows and Mac computers sufficiently to learn what they need. Linux, as well as French, can open up career opportunities that otherwise may not be possible."

Announcing the October 13th OpenGov Community Summit @ NASA (and online)*

RSVP: http://october-opengov-workshop.eventbrite.com   

What: The Open Government Community Summit Series is an inter-agency
collaborative event hosted by a different agency each month. Several
working groups have formed out of previous workshops, and the focus for the
final two workshops of 2010 is to actually build-- not just talk about-- the
essential "learning infrastructure" (i.e. collective knowledge resources and
standard operating procedures) necessary to sustain the open government
community over the long haul.

This month's summit is generously hosted by NASA and facilitated by the Open
Forum Foundation .

Something New*:* Whether you can attend the summit or not, we need your
help. Our community lacks some critical elements of this learning
infrastructure and we're calling for the OpenGov Community Barn Raising of
2010 which is occurring online now through October 13th.

To participate in building this learning infrastructure prior to the summit,
join one of the working groups (OpenGov Inspiration
, OpenGov Community Knowledge Management
, OpenGov Community Standards)
and write a single sentence describing how you'll spend your 30 minutes
working on any of the community infrastructure projects that are listed on
those pages between now and Oct 13th. Full details for this collective
effort are on the wiki.

Note #1: Everyone is highly encouraged to bring a laptop to this event so we
can experiment with some new online and in-person collaborative techniques.

Note #2: Due to security restrictions at this location, participants must be
US citizens. Remote participation, however, will be robust and open to all.

When: Wednesday, October 13, 2010 from 9am-2pm, with an additional
opportunity for inter-agency co-working in the workshop space from 2pm-4pm
("co-working" means using a shared workspace to do your normal everyday work
in the presence of people doing similar work from other agencies). We highly
recommend you allow plenty of time to clear security in the morning.

Who: Federal managers implementing open government programs across all
federal agencies, transparency advocates, participation advocates, and
collaboration experts.

Where: NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC. The closest metro stations are
L'Enfant Plaza (Blue/Orange/Green/Yellow Lines) and Federal Center SW
(Blue/Orange Lines). Enter the building at the intersection of 4th and E
Street SW.

*Remote participants* will be able to contribute ideas and shape the
in-person workshop as it takes place. Final details will be emailed to
registered remote participants on October 11th. We are committed to making
this a highly engaging experience even for those that cannot be present in
DC that day. The first hour of presentations will be streamed live; several
of the breakout sessions that follow will be in a discussion format and have
a 2-way audio feed. We'll also be using Google Docs for collaborative
note-taking and brainstorming, so that remote participants are as connected
to the event as possible. Several of these techniques are experimental;
it's open gov, so we're all learning as we go!

House OKs concussion measure for young athletes

House OKs concussion measure for young athletes

the state House on Tuesday night passed the Safety in Youth Sports Act aimed at trying to prevent serious brain trauma and better monitor concussions in Pennsylvania athletes in middle and high schools.

Following nearly a half-hour of debate on such points as civil liability and the act's language defining "a licensed or certified health-care practitioner," state representatives approved the measure by a 169-29 vote.


Read more: http://post-gazette.com/pg/10272/1091118-454.stm#ixzz10vMAVvm5

Trouble in the Land of Wikileaks | techPresident

Trouble in the Land of Wikileaks | techPresident

Ding Dong and Grant. Yep, his name is just that.

We miss you Ding Dong. Hope all is well with you.

Diplomatic feud latest woe at Commonwealth Games - More Sports - SI.com

Diplomatic feud latest woe at Commonwealth Games - More Sports - SI.com

Direct from ericjodom:
Can you help me spread the word that http://liberty.com is live as of today? Thanks!

Gates Gives $12M to Four Cities to Boost College Completion - College Bound - Education Week

Gates Gives $12M to Four Cities to Boost College Completion - College Bound - Education Week

Fw: [ooo-announce] OpenOffice.org Community announces The Document Foundation

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-----Original Message-----
From: The Document Foundation <info@documentfoundation.org>
Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2010 08:58:32
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Subject: [ooo-announce] OpenOffice.org Community announces The Document Foundation
OpenOffice.org Community announces The Document Foundation

The community of volunteers developing and promoting OpenOffice.org sets up an independent Foundation to drive the further growth of the project

The Internet, September 28, 2010 - The community of volunteers who develop and promote OpenOffice.org, the leading free office software, announce a major change in the project's structure. After ten years' successful growth with Sun Microsystems as founding and principle sponsor, the project launches an independent foundation called "The Document Foundation", to fulfil the promise of independence written in the original charter.

The Foundation will be the cornerstone of a new ecosystem where individuals and organisations can contribute to and benefit from the availability of a truly free office suite. It will generate increased competition and choice for the benefit of customers and drive innovation in the office suite market. From now on, the OpenOffice.org community will be known as "The Document Foundation".

Oracle, who acquired OpenOffice.org assets as a result of its acquisition of Sun Microsystems, has been invited to become a member of the new Foundation, and donate the brand the community has grown during the past ten years. Pending this decision, the brand "LibreOffice" has been chosen for the software going forward.

The Document Foundation is the result of a collective effort by leading independent members of the OpenOffice.org community, including several project leads and key members of the Community Council. It will be led initially by a Steering Committee of developers and national language projects managers. The Foundation aims to lower the barrier of adoption for both users and developers, to make LibreOffice the most accessible office suite ever.

The Foundation will coordinate and oversee the development of LibreOffice, which is available in beta version at the placeholder site: http://www.libreoffice.org. Developers are invited to join the project and contribute to the code in the new friendly and open environment, to shape the future of office productivity suites alongside contributors who translate, test, document, support, and promote the software.

Speaking for the group of volunteers, Sophie Gautier - a veteran of the community and the former maintainer of the French speaking language project - has declared: "We believe that the Foundation is a key step for the evolution of the free office suite, as it liberates the development of the code and the evolution of the project from the constraints represented by the commercial interests of a single company. Free software advocates around the world have the extraordinary opportunity of joining the group of founding members today, to write a completely new chapter in the history of FLOSS".

FSF President Richard Stallman welcomed LibreOffice release and it's stated policy of only recommending free software. "I'm very pleased that the Document Foundation will not recommend nonfree add-ons, since they are the main freedom problem of the current OpenOffice.org. I hope that the LibreOffice developers and the Oracle-employed developers of OpenOffice will be able to cooperate on development of the body of the code".

"The Document Foundation supports the Open Document Format, and is keen to work at OASIS to the next evolution of the ISO standard", says Charles Schulz, member of the Community Council and lead of the Native Language Confederation. "The Document Foundation brings to the table the point of view of developers, supporters and users, and this might accelerate the adoption process of ODF at government and enterprise level".

Chris DiBona, Open Source Programs Manager at Google, Inc., has commented: "The creation of The Document Foundation is a great step forward in encouraging further development of open source office suites. Having a level playing field for all contributors is fundamental in creating a broad and active community around an open source software project. Google is proud to be a supporter of The Document Foundation and participate in the project".

"Viva la LibreOffice", said Guy Lunardi, product management Director at Novell. "We look forward to working with the Document Foundation to help develop a solid open source document software offering. Ultimately, we envision LibreOffice do for the office productivity market what Mozilla Firefox has done for browsers".

Jan Wildeboer, EMEA Open Source Affairs at Red Hat, has commented: "All over the world, users, companies and governments are moving to innovative technology solutions based on Open Standards. Red Hat is proud to join this effort".

Mark Shuttleworth, founder and major shareholder of Canonical, the makers of Ubuntu, has declared: "Office productivity software is a critical component of the free software desktop, and the Ubuntu Project will be pleased to ship LibreOffice from The Document Foundation in future releases of Ubuntu. The Document Foundation's stewardship of LibreOffice provides Ubuntu developers an effective forum for collaboration around the code that makes Ubuntu an effective solution for the desktop in office environments".

"The Open Source Initiative has observed a trend back towards open collaborative communities for open source software", said Simon Phipps, a Director of the Open Source Initiative. "We welcome The Document Foundation initiative and look forward to the innovation it is able to drive with a truly open community gathered around a free software commons, in the spirit of the best of open source software".

"We welcome the LibreOffice project to the free software community as we believe there is a great opportunity for them to enrich the free desktop experience." says Stormy Peters, Executive Director of the GNOME Foundation. "Over the years the GNOME community has been supportive of OpenOffice together with applications in the GNOME Office suite, such as Gnumeric, GnuCash and Abiword. As LibreOffice joins the free software community, we believe that free desktop users will benefit from a rich set of choices."

Patrick Luby, Chief Engineer of NeoOffice says "I am happy to see a new, independent LibreOffice foundation to continue creating an office suite with enhanced features, pushing OpenOffice.org in new, exciting directions". Ed Peterlin, Chief Visionary at NeoOffice says "I am excited we will be able to continue bringing excellent features from LibreOffice to the Mac platform. In the future I also hope to extend our web based collaboration tools to support LibreOffice users on all platforms".

Chris Halls, UK Managing Director of Credativ, an independent consulting and services company specialising in the development, implementation and support of open source solutions: "Welcomes the foundation as an opportunity to provide a new focus for the community contributors and allow them to move the project forward together. In our business, we support thousands of office desktops in many different environments. It is vital that the feedback and code that we can contribute as part of our day to day work can flow easily into the project".

"The creation of The Document Foundation is in line with the vision BrOffice.org - Projeto Brasil has for the Brazilian OpenOffice.org community. Our country already has a large investment in the Open Document Format and the software tools fully suporting it. BrOffice.org and The Document Foundation share the same values and objectives and we are more than happy to be part of it.", says Claudio Filho, Chairman of the BrOffice.org NGO of Brazil.

The Norwegian foundation "Åpne kontorprogram på norsk" ("Open Office Suites In Norwegian") is responsible for the Norwegian translation of OpenOffice.org, and for promoting OpenOffice.org in Norway. So far the Norwegian project has been administered and financed mainly by counties and municipalities, but recently the foundation has started a process for getting commercial companies more actively involved. We realise the need for a more substantial commercial participation to establish a long-term sustainable project. Our foundation notes that the other Nordic countries, a majority of the European countries, as well as a range of worldwide big companies like Google, Novell, Canonical and Red Hat are now cooperating with The Document Foundation. We believe this is the right way forward also for Norway. A cooperation with The Document Foundation will make it easier to create more innovative and user-friendly solutions integrated with the LibreOffice suite. Eliminating license barriers and obtaining easy access to source code and standards will facilitate further development of related and integrated surrounding products.

Additional information, including the mission, are available on the web site of The Document Foundation: http://www.documentfoundation.org
Biographies and pictures of the founding members of The Document Foundation are available here: http://www.documentfoundation.org/foundation/
There is a specific page for people interested in contributing to the development of the code: http://www.documentfoundation.org/contribution/

The Document Foundation has a Twitter account at http://twitter.com/docufoundation and an Identi.ca account at http://identi.ca/docufoundation

The announcements mailing list is at announce+subscribe@documentfoundation.org
The discussion mailing list is at discuss+subscribe@documentfoundation.org
The IRC channel is #documentfoundation at irc.freenode.net

The Document Foundation

The Document Foundation is an independent self-governing democratic Foundation created by leading members of the OpenOffice.org Community. It continues to build on the Foundation of ten years' dedicated work by the OpenOffice.org community, and was created in the belief that an independent Foundation is the best fit to the Community's core values of openness, transparency, and valuing people for their contribution. It is open to any individual who agrees with our core values and contributes to our activities, and welcomes corporate participation, e.g. by sponsoring individuals to work as equals alongside other contributors in the community.

Media Contacts

Florian Effenberger (Germany)
Phone: +49 8341 99660880
Mobile: +49 151 14424108
Skype: floeff
E-mail: floeff@documentfoundation.org

Olivier Hallot (Brazil)
Mobile: +55 21 88228812
E-mail: olivier.hallot@documentfoundation.org

Charles H. Schulz (France)
Mobile: +33 6 98655424
E-mail: charles.schulz@documentfoundation.org

Italo Vignoli (Italy)
Mobile: +39 348 5653829
E-mail: italo.vignoli@documentfoundation.org

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Fw: Zoe Mulford with Brad Yoder in Friendship October 24

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Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2010 00:40:19
To: altesj<altesj@yahoo.com>
Subject: Zoe Mulford with Brad Yoder in Friendship October 24

Friendship House Concerts is proud to present

Zoe Mulford
with Brad Yoder

Sunday, October 24

4:00 pm

A set by American songwriter Zoe Mulford is like a small volume of
short stories - evocative, beautifully crafted, and endlessly varied.
Whether her starting-point is Franklin's doomed polar expedition or
the neglected contents of her own refrigerator, her vivid storytelling
and down-to-earth humor promise listeners an enjoyable journey. She
backs her clear voice with guitar or claw-hammer banjo and
intersperses her own songs with selections from the music that
inspires them: American and British folk ballads, Appalachian banjo
tunes, and the work of songwriters from George Gershwin to Richard
Thompson. Raised near Philadelphia, she now lives in Manchester,
England and plays on both sides of the Atlantic.

Her latest release, "Bonfires", celebrates the folk tradition from
North Carolina to Liverpool. The album reached #3 on the Folk-DJ chart
the month after its release and has continued to have airplay across
the US and beyond.

In addition to music, Zoe likes farmer's markets, children's books,
martial arts movies, and cooking with lots of garlic.

Check out Zoe and her music at http://www.zoemulford.com and Brad at
http://www.bradyoder.com

Seating is limited. For information and/or an invitation, call or email:
LLouise & Jim Altes
412.361.6051
friendshiphouseconcerts@gmail.com

Suggested donation: $10.00. All proceeds go to the performer.
After the concert, there will be a pot luck dinner. Please bring an
entree, an hors d'oeuvre, a salad, a side dish, or dessert to share.

Upcoming events of interest:

Sept 26 Craig Bickhardt http://www.craigbickhardt.com/ @ Cindy &
Rick's cah@lonewolf.com
Sept 29, Bill Staines http://www.acousticmusic.com/staines at Bill &
Judy Locke's lockewn@comcast.net
Oct 3, Matt Brown http://www.brownsdream.us/ at Annie & Curt's
amtrimble@earthlink.net
Oct 22, Romi Mayes http://romimayes.com at Tania and Rich's tbikerman@yahoo.com
Oct 24, Zoe Mulford http://www.zoemulford.com/ at Jim and LLouise's
friendshiphouseconcerts@gmail.com
Oct 24, Phil Cooper & Susan Urban (February Sky)
http://www.februarysky.com/ at Curt and Annie's
amtrimble@earthlink.net
Oct 27 (tentative), Mollie O'Brien and Rich Moore
http://mollieobrien.com at Cindy and Rick's cah@lonewolf.com
Nov 15, Bryan Bowers http://www.bryanbowers.com/ @ Cindy and Rick's
cah@lonewolf.com
Dec 4, Dwight Diller http://dwightdiller.com @ Cindy and Rick's cah@lonewolf.com
Dec 4, Rod Picott w/Amanda Shires http://www.rodpicott.com/ at Tania
and Rich's tbikerman@yahoo.com
Mar 23, Molasses Creek http://molassescreek.com/ at Rick and Cindy's
cah@lonewolf.com
Apr 3, Brian Peters
http://www.harbourtownrecords.com/peterspromoters.htm @ Rick and
Cindy's cah@lonewolf.com

As Athletic Directors Compete, Money Flows to All Sports - NYTimes.com

As Athletic Directors Compete, Money Flows to All Sports - NYTimes.com

Waiting for Superman, an educational movie only about charter schools

t r u t h o u t | "Waiting for 'Superman'": A simplistic view of education reform?: "In the eyes of some education observers, 'Waiting for 'Superman'' oversimplifies the problems facing US students and implies an education reform silver bullet for struggling public schools.
'Waiting for 'Superman,'' opening Friday in New York and Los Angeles, has generated buzz for months in education circles. Everyone from Oprah Winfrey to Bill Gates is celebrating the documentary, which tells the emotional stories of five students who have entered lotteries to get into successful public charter schools.
Yet in the eyes of some education observers, the movie oversimplifies the problems facing US students and implies a silver-bullet fix for struggling public schools."

$10 million for Project 10^100 winners

From:
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/09/10-million-for-project-10100-winners.html

Two years ago today, we began Project 10^100 by asking you to share
your ideas for changing the world by helping as many people as
possible. Your spirit and participation surpassed even our most
optimistic expectations. People from more than 170 countries submitted
more than 150,000 ideas. We selected 16 big ideas and asked the public
to vote for their favorites. The five ideas that received the most
votes are the winners of Project 10^100. Over the past 12 months,
we’ve reviewed concrete proposals to tackle these ideas, and today
we’re pleased to give a total of $10 million to five inspiring
organizations working on solutions to each of these global challenges:

...

Idea: Make government more transparent
Project funded: Public.Resource.Org is a non-profit organization
focused on enabling online access to public government documents in
the United States. We are providing $2 million to Public.Resource.Org
to support the Law.Gov initiative, which aims to make all primary
legal materials in the United States available to all.


See:
http://public.resource.org/law.gov/index.html

Law.Gov is an idea, an idea that the primary legal materials of the
United States should be readily available to all, and that
governmental institutions should make these materials available in
bulk as distributed, authenticated, well-formatted data. To make this
idea a reality, a series of workshops were held throughout the
country, resulting in a consensus on 10 core principles.

...

Also for interest from the Google blog post:

Idea: Make educational content available online for free
Project funded: The Khan Academy is a non-profit educational
organization that provides high-quality, free education to anyone,
anywhere via an online library of more than 1,600 teaching videos. We
are providing $2 million to support the creation of more courses and
to enable the Khan Academy to translate their core library into the
world’s most widely spoken languages.

Steven Clift - http://stevenclift.com
Executive Director - http://E-Democracy.Org
Follow me - http://twitter.com/democracy
New Tel: +1.612.234.7072

Fw: Radical Reels!

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From: Megan Bennett <megzzies@gmail.com>

Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2010 21:24:17 -0400

To: Megan Bennett<megzzies@gmail.com>

Subject: Radical Reels!

Hi POC peoples!

Do you want to see BANFF-like adventure films on Monday, October 4th?  Venture Outdoors is offering POC a group deal to see Radical Reels at 7 30 pm at the Byham Theatre.  Radical Reels is like BANFF, except the films are adrenaline-oriented.  Tickets should run about $10 apiece. 

This year, films will be about skiing/snowboarding, mountain biking, rock climbing, whitewater kayaking, noboarding (you'll have to come to Radical Reels to find out what that is) and more!

For the trailer, visit http://ventureoutdoors.org/

To get the group rate, at least 10 people need to come.  I know this is short notice, but please let me know by Wednesday, September 29, if you are interested.

Have a good night and get pumped for Radical Reels!

~Megan

Pittsburgh PTO Workshop

FAIR-WORKSHOP

Meet Fundraising Companies
Mingle with other PTA/PTO’S

HAVE FUN – START THE YEAR OFF RIGHT
BRING THE FAMILY
Monday, September 27, 2010
6:00 to 8:00 PM

PTA/PTO member or just thinking about it
Come and learn about:
Running a successful PTA/PTO
Roles and Responsibilities of Officers
Best Practices

Administration Building (Oakland)
Conference Room A
341 S. Bellefield Ave.RSVP to Wanda Spencer
412-622-3617
Wspencer1@pghboe.net

t r u t h o u t | C'mon, Time to Rebrand Your Life!

t r u t h o u t | C'mon, Time to Rebrand Your Life!: "In India, a similar rebranding is under way for next month's Commonwealth Games. In the country that has most of the world's malnourished children, the capital Delhi has been rebranded a 'world class city' at a cost of $2.5 billion. A school for 180 slum children has been bulldozed so that a vast estate of luxury apartments can be built for visiting athletes. 'They told us we were a security threat so we had to go,' said the head teacher. 'All my children were crying.' It is one of many demolitions; over 100,000 families have been evicted to make way for 'security zones' around the games and facilities that will mostly benefit India's small, but powerful, managerial and technocratic class who, besotted with all things corporate, prefer not to be reminded that 77 percent of their compatriots are dirt poor."

Why You Can't Have a Moneybomb App | techPresident

Why You Can't Have a Moneybomb App | techPresident: "An Apple spokesperson follows up on this question of why you'll find yourself rejected from the iTunes store if you attempt to build an iPhone or iPad app that takes political donations or charitable contributions.
Apple's '70/30' revenue-sharing model is, it seems, the primary condition holding you back. Under that model, developers retain the bulk of the money that comes their way through the iTunes store, but Apple still retains nearly a third of the cash."