President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed optimism on the release of more of the kidnapped Chibok girls, after 21 of them were freed by Boko Haram, following more than two years of captivity.
Speaking at a joint press conference with the German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Friday in Berlin, President Buhari said negotiations will continue until all the girls secure their freedom.
"On the Chibok girls, we have been able to secure the release of 21 of them, so over 100 more are still in the hands of the terrorists somewhere in the Lake Chad Basin area which include Cameroon, Niger and Nigeria.
"In getting this 21 out, we hope we will get enough intelligence to go about securing the rest of them.
"We are very grateful to the UN for their participation in trying to secure the release of these girls.
``Please don't forget that as a result of terrorism in Nigeria, no fewer than 37,000 Nigerians were killed by Boko Haram.
"Right now we have about two million people in IDP camps, 60 per cent of them are women and children and 60 per cent of those children are orphaned.
"This is a major challenge for government; we have to provide face infrastructure especially for education and health, take them back to their villages and towns and reintegrate them so that they can have normal life,'' he said.
The President thanked the German government for their humanitarian assistance and support for Nigeria in dealing with the effects of terrorism.
Responding to a question on the BBC interview with his wife, Mrs Aisha Muhammadu Buhari, the President said his wife and the opposition needed to appreciate the depth of the problems he met on the ground.
He caused laughter at the press conference when he jokingly said: "I claim superior knowledge compared to her and the opposition,'' referring to his three attempts at the polls to become President of Nigeria over a 12-year period, succeeding in the fourth attempt.


• Given the reports that the Pirates have been one of the teams scouting Mike Carp, the left-handed hitter's eighth-inning two-run homer off Bryan Morris raised some eyebrows around McKechnie Field.
The reality is the Pirates' early impression of Chris McGuiness is far too good for them to make a quick move for anyone else.
• Edinson Volquez will make his first start in his next appearance, Sunday against the Orioles in Sarasota, Fla.
• Mark Melancon, in his first Grapefruit League appearance, and Jared Hughes, nailing down the save, both had a perfect inning with a strikeout.
• The Pirates' Minor League camp officially opens at Pirate City on Tuesday.
• Gaby Sanchez did some morning hitting in the cage and said his right knee felt fine. He had banged it up landing on it sliding into third Friday in Dunedin against the Blue Jays.
• Chase d'Arnaud is back in camp, though now on an invite after being outrighted to Triple-A Indianapolis once he passed through waivers.
"I'm still in a good place. It was just a paper move," said d'Arnaud, who had been designated for assignment on Feb. 24 to clear roster room for Brent Morel. "I'm still playing baseball, and I'm healthy."
• Dr. Kevin Elko, a native Pennsylvanian motivational speaker better known for his presentations to football teams, both NFL and college, addressed Pirates players and staff prior to Monday's workouts.


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Wisdom from the Faith Traditions for 2020
In the beginning of each year, we like to draw on the great faith traditions for wisdom on living the good life. The Tanenbaum Center for Interreligious Understanding again offers us its list of resolutions from diverse religions, beliefs and traditions.
SHARED VISIONS
To Live the Golden Rule
In everything do to others as you would have them do to you; for this is the law and the prophets.
Christianity, Matthew 7:12
To Embrace Religious Differences
Consort with the followers of all religions in a spirit of friendliness and fellowship.
The Bahá'í Faith, Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh, Bishárát
To Act Virtuously
Cultivate virtue in yourself, And it will be true.
Taoism, Tao Te Ching chapter 54
To Respect the Earth
Ether, air, fire, water, earth, planets, all creatures, directions, trees and plants, rivers and seas, they are all organs of God's body. Remembering this a devotee respects all species.
Hinduism, Srimad Bhagavatam (2.2.41)
To Treat the Stranger with Kindness
And a stranger shalt thou not wrong, neither shalt thou oppress him; for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.
Judaism, Exodus 22:20
To Challenge Fake News
I replied thus: I am Zoroaster, the staunch enemy of liars and falsehood. I shall fight against liars as long as I have strength and shall uphold truth and righteous people whole heartedly.
Zoroastrianism, Yasna 43 (Verse 8)
To Advocate for Justice
O you who have believed, be persistently standing firm in justice, witnesses for Allah, even if it be against yourselves or parents and relatives. Whether one is rich or poor, Allah is more worthy of both. So follow not [personal] inclination, lest you not be just.
Islam, Sahih International 4:135
To Speak with Honesty and Compassion
Speak only that which will bring you honor.
Sikhism, Guru Nanak, Sri Guru Granth Sahib
To Practice Nonviolence
One is not called noble who harms living beings. By not harming living beings one is called noble. Buddhism, Dhammapada (Verse 270)
To Make Peace Possible
Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace.
Confucianism, Confucius
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Education Week Lists its Top Debates for the Last Decade
If you want to read Education Week's selection of the top eleven "policy debates" and "challenging issues" of the last decade, you can link to it here:
https://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2019/12/18/2010-to-now-a-turbulent-decade-for.html
2010 to Now: A Turbulent Decade for Schools
By Evie Blad and Andrew Ujifusa
The new year brings to close a decade of stormy education policy debates, challenging issues for the nation's schools, and the maturing of a new federal education law—the Every Student Succeeds Act.
Between 2010 and 2020, enrollment at U.S. public schools grew more diverse. The public narrative on the teaching profession swung between calls to fire ineffective educators and sympathy for those who must work two jobs to keep up with their bills. And U.S. education secretaries caused controversy like never before. (continue to article)
Here is their list. Go to the article for a description of each.
The Every Student Succeeds Act
Obama Makes His Mark
Common Core and Testing
Tumultuous Times for Unions
School Shootings and Safety Debates
Student Enrollment: Two Tipping Points
Pendulum Swing for Civil Rights Enforcement
Battles Over School Choice
Teacher Activism
Bonus: 'Whole Child' and SEL
Teaching in 2020 vs. 2010: A Look Back at the Decade
Most PopularStories of the Decade: An Education Week Retrospective
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For Teachers Preparing to Teach about Impeachment and the 2020 Election
iCivics, the civic education organization, founded by former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor has come out with new programs, lessons, and video games to help students understand the upcoming impeachment process and the 2020 election.
Check out their latest resources.
1. NEW Cast Your Vote Game
There's a whole new version of our Cast Your Vote game that gives students practice researching candidates and issues ahead of Election Day. Download the Cast Your Vote Extension Pack and use the materials to help you reinforce the game's key concepts.
2. Impeachment and Conviction Infographic
Do your students have questions about how the impeachment process works? Our new infographic and accompanying teacher's Slide Deck will equip you to teach about this current event in your classroom.
3. Politics & Public Policy Unit
Dive into this curated unit to amp up election excitement in your classroom. Students will learn concepts and processes through simulations, presentations, vocabulary-building activities, and a mock election!
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In Memoriam: Jonas F. Soltis
I was saddened to hear that the last mentor from my doctoral days at Columbia University's Teachers College, Jonas Soltis, has passed on. I was so fortunate to have had Philip Phenix, Maxine Greene and Jonas Soltis as my professors and members of my doctoral dissertation committee during the 1970s. While Phil Phenix gave me a holistic view of what philosophy can provide, and Maxine an existential one, it was Jonas that honed my analytical skills during the heyday of analytical philosophy that still dominated the field during those years. Jonas' evolution in his approach to philosophy in subsequent years had a profound effect on both my thinking and teaching as I tried to help new teachers see the relevance of philosophy to their work. His application of philosophy to actual classroom issues and contemporary problems left an indelible mark on multitudes of young teachers that I have taught during the years as well as on the launching of the Journal of Educational Controversy. His legacy will be a powerful one.
A Fact Sheet on "Fake News" for Teachers
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WHAT IS "FAKE NEWS"? DO YOU KNOW?
Are our opinions based in real—and not fake—facts? Below we share some of the real facts worth knowing…
What is "fake news"?
"Fake news" is information that is presented as credible and factual, but that is not true and is intended to deceive people. It is a deliberate attempt to sway someone's opinion or validate it with disinformation. Simply stated, it is inaccurate, untrue, disinformation repeated by seemingly credible sources you trust including certain news sources or a trusted family member.
"Fake news" is not new—even the mythical age of "objective journalism" had its hiccups. During WWII, the Nazi party propagated fake news propaganda against the Jews; the Communists against the Capitalists, and the U.S. against Japanese-Americans; in the 1950s, Joseph McCarthy was accused of manipulating reporters and blacklisting those who couldn't be manipulated. But, it wasn't until the rise of web-generated content that "fake news" surged as a powerful force again.
According to the journal of Digital Journalism,i researchers have come up with six distinct definitions of fake news—news satire, news parody, propaganda, manipulation, sponsored content and fabrications. In February of 2017, Callum Borchers of the Washington Post claimed in his article 'Fake news' has now lost all meaning that following the 2016 election the term "fake news" has been repurposed by politicians to dismiss reporting that they disagree with.ii
Is "fake news" real?
Some of it, sometimes. Fake news can include an element of truth, but other facts are either distorted or misrepresented. Critically analyzing content and information has always been essential and checking for factual errors is a good place to start. Ultimately, however, fake news is biased and aims to convince its audience of a specific viewpoint, often political or ideological.
How do I spot "fake news?" And what can I do about it?
Consider the source & vet the publisher's credibility—
 Where is this information coming from? Would the site meet academic citation standards? Always check your sources. Infowars.com has a history of touting conspiracy theories, while The Guardian is known for journalism, having won a Pulitzer Prize for Public Service in 2014.
 What is the domain name? If the logo seems "off" or the website has additional letters added at the end such as ".com.co" then you're probably not looking at a credible source. Double-check and make sure .co is not referencing Colombia's internet country code top-level domain.iii
 Can you perform reverse image searches for photos or sources? In the era of Photoshop, you can't always believe what you see. (Don't know what a reverse image search is? Check here.
 What is the publication's point of view?
Read beyond the headline—
 Headlines are often designed to be inflammatory clickbait, so what's the whole story? Does the headline match the content of the article? Reading the article is key.
 Does the website carry a disclaimer? Satirical sites like The Onion or parody shows like SNL may contain a disclaimer, while others will not. Is it sponsored content? News organizations, even reputable ones such as The Washington Post increase their revenue running advertisements. Content may read like a regular news article, but cite a disclaimer that it is sponsored content and represents the opinion, interests, goals of the sponsor.iv
 Does the headline or story purposely play on your fears and/or anxieties? Is the story so outrageous you're having a hard time believing it? Do some digging—if other credible news outlets are reporting on the same information then it's probably trustworthy.v
Investigate the author—
 Is the article clearly attributed to an author? What other pieces has the author written?
 Are they a contributor or are they a paid staff writer? An author's bio can be a telltale sign of a fake story.vi Even that the author is fake.
How can I check out "fake news" stories?
There are a lot of organizations working on fact-checking, and dedicated to reviewing content. Some to check out include:
●Snopes.com
Snopes.com has been exposing false viral claims since the mid-1990s, including fabricated messages, distortions containing bits of truth and everything in between.vii
●PolitiFact.com
From the beginning, PolitiFact focused on looking at specific statements made by politicians and rating them for accuracy. This site rates statements based on the information known at the time the statement is made.viii
●Google.com/reverse-image-search
People take old photos and try to pass them off as current content. Check where that image has appeared before and who has shared it. Make sure the image is original and is used in its original context.ix
Why do I sometimes believe "fake news?
There are lots of reasons this happens—to all of us. Sometimes we fail to ask important questions about the content with which we engage. And with the advent of the internet and the rise of social media,x discerning whether content is credible or not can be difficult.
Ways to counter this include being careful not to accept information that simply confirms our own beliefs and personal biases. People of all ages, from media-savvy tweens to high-IQ academics, are susceptible to quickly forwarding along and sharing information without first verifying the content is true and the sources are accurate. And when it comes to checking if the info is legitimate, there's no quick fix. Discerning whether information is factual will take some digging.xi
The reality is that "fake news" is not a new phenomenon, but with the help of the internet, not only has our access to information increased—so has our ability to create and share information (and misinformation). Fifty years ago, sources of information were much more limited. We got our news from trusted sources, journalists and media outlets that vetted and verified before reporting. In the age of the internet, we now have entirely new ways of publishing, sharing and consuming information, with little to no verification standards. This means that the responsibility for verifying your news is now your burden and not the primary responsibility of the source.
Information overload and increased access to content distribution mean that web-generated news is on the rise. And that means we now must assume responsibility for safeguarding and verifying the truth, the facts and reality.
i Digital Journalism, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21670811.2017.1360143?scroll=top&needAccess=true& ii The Washington Post, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/02/09/fake-news-has-now-lost-all-meaning/?utm_term=.eeab6e7985f6
iii Domain Typer, https://domaintyper.com/domain-names/top-level-domains/ccTLD/co-domain
iv The Smithsonian, https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/age-old-problem-fake-news-180968945/
v First Draft News, https://firstdraftnews.org/the-4-bare-bones-things-every-journalist-needs-to-know-about-verification/
vi The News Literacy Project, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7eCB2F89K8
vii Snopes.com, https://www.snopes.com/about-snopes/
viii PolitiFact, https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2018/feb/12/principles-truth-o-meter-politifacts-methodology-i/
ix The News Literacy Project, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7eCB2F89K8
x The Smithsonian, https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/age-old-problem-fake-news-180968945/
xi TIME, http://time.com/5362183/the-real-fake-news-crisis/
Latest News Reports on Court's Affirmative Action Decision
As we prepare our upcoming issue of the Journal of Educational Controversy on the theme, "The Ethics of Memory: What Does it Mean to Apologize for Historical Wrongs," events keep catching up to us. One of the topics we encouraged authors to examine was on affirmative action. The courts have just handed down the latest decision on affirmative action. Below are some news reports along with a link to the actual decision to keep our readership up to date on events.
Federal judge rules Harvard does not discriminate against Asian Americans in admissions
Harvard DoesNot Discriminate Against Asian-Americans in Admissions, Judge Rules
ThatAffirmative Action Ruling Was Good. Its Rationale, Terrible
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Judge Upholds Harvard's Admissions Policies
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Washington Post Article Continues the Conversation We Started in our Article in 2012 on No-Excuses Charter Schools
We always like to provide our readership with updated thoughts on articles we have published. Readers will remember the article in our 2012 issue of Volume 6 by Alice Ginsberg entitled "The Dog Ate My Homework: Embracing Risk in the Chilling Climate of No Excuses Schools," that took a critical look at such schools. https://cedar.wwu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1149&context=jec
Recently, Valerie Strauss, an education reporter for the Washington Post, published an article, "Some 'no-excuses' charter schools say they are changing. Are they? Can they?" In the article, Strauss reflects on some recent exchanges of ideas on the possibility or impossibility of changes in these schools.
We invite thoughts and perspectives from our readers on this ongoing conversation.
Readers can read the Washington Post article at:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2019/08/29/some-no-excuses-charter-schools-say-they-are-changing-are-they-can-they/?noredirect=on&wpisrc=nl_answer&wpmm=1
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What Constitutes Effective Civic Education?
What Constitutes Effective Civic Education? An Invitation to our Readers.
As we work toward future issues of the Journal of Educational Controversy, we have been thinking about an issue on what constitutes an adequate and effective civic education for students growing up in a new world of social media. In addition to the development of rational deliberative arguments, what do students need to understand about things like coded language, gaslighting, the role of historical narratives, etc., in their civic education. We invite our readers to contribute to the structuring of our controversial scenario for the issue. What must our students know and understand?
July 4th, the Declaration of Independence, and Immigration
I am not sure what it means to celebrate the 4th of July. My town celebrates the 4th with the usual family activities in the parks and the fireworks over the bay in the evening. I do not mean to minimize family times, but we seem to be missing the whole point. I have long imagined such celebrations to include a day of citizen seminars in libraries, bookstores, parks and homes all over the country where citizens actually read and discuss some the founding documents and their implication to current events. What an inspiring education for our children.
Well, I decided this morning to actually read the Declaration of Independence before the evening's firework display. All of us are familiar with the moving words from the beginning of the document:
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.
But I wonder how many of us actually have read the entire document. So I decided to read more about the grievances that were enumerated and found this rather interesting one against King George III:
He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither…
Apparently King George III was also concerned about immigration of non-British Europeans who would not be sufficiently loyal to the crown. It looks like it was Germans especially that were the target in those days.
So here is my suggestion (which will never be a reality but I make it anyway as a candle in the dark). Let's take some time today to actually read and discuss this document. It seems the founders were finding such immigration policies to be a grievance and an affront to freedom loving people.
Congressional Hearing on HR 40 on Reparations: Testimony by Ta-Nehisi Coates
As we continue to work on our upcoming issue of the Journal of Educational Controversy on "The Ethics of Memory: What Does it Mean to Apologize for Historic Wrongs," recent events have caught up with our efforts. On June 19th, the U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties conducted a hearing on HR 40. - Commission to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African-Americans Act? Among those who testified before the committee was Ta-Nehisi Coates, whose influential 2014 article "The Case for Reparations" in The Atlantic revived the issue of reparations for slavery and its legacy. Below is the transcript of his testimony.
Testimony by Ta-Nehisi Coates before the House Subcommittee on HR 40
Yesterday, when I asked about reparations, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell offered a familiar reply. America should not be held liable for something that happened 150 years ago, since none of us currently alive are responsible. This rebuttal proffers a strange theory of governance that American accounts are somehow bound by the lifetime of its generations. But well into the century the United States was still paying out pensions to the heirs of Civil War soldiers. We honor treaties that date back some 200 years despite no one being alive who signed those treaties.
Many of us would love to be taxed for the things we are solely and individually responsible for. But we are American citizens, and thus bound to a collective enterprise that extends beyond our individual and personal reach. It would seem ridiculous to dispute invocations of the founders, or the Greatest Generation, on the basis of a lack of membership in either group. We recognize our lineage as a generational trust, as inheritance and the real dilemma posed by reparations is just that: a dilemma of inheritance. It's impossible to imagine America without the inheritance of slavery.
As historian Ed Baptiste has written, enslavement "shaped every crucial aspect of the economy and politics" of America, so that by 1836 more than $600 million, almost half of the economic activity in the United States, derived directly or indirectly from the cotton produced by the million-odd slaves. By the time the enslaved were emancipated, they comprised the largest single asset in America: $3 billion in 1860 dollars, more than all the other assets in the country combined.
The method of cultivating this asset was neither gentle cajoling nor persuasion, but torture, rape, and child trafficking. Enslavement reigned for 250 years on these shores. When it ended, this country could have extended its hallowed principles — life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness — to all, regardless of color. But America had other principles in mind. And so, for a century after the Civil War, black people were subjected to a relentless campaign of terror, a campaign that extended well into the lifetime of Majority Leader McConnell.
It is tempting to divorce this modern campaign of terror, of plunder, from enslavement, but the logic of enslavement, of white supremacy, respects no such borders, and the god of bondage was lustful and begat many heirs. Coup d'états and convict leasing. Vagrancy laws and debt peonage. Redlining and racist G.I. bills. Poll taxes and state-sponsored terrorism.
We grant that Mr. McConnell was not alive for Appomattox. But he was alive for the electrocution of George Stinney. He was alive for the blinding of Isaac Woodard. He was alive to witness kleptocracy in his native Alabama and a regime premised on electoral theft. Majority Leader McConnell cited civil rights legislation yesterday, as well he should, because he was alive to witness the harassment, jailing, and betrayal of those responsible for that legislation by a government sworn to protect them. He was alive for the redlining of Chicago and the looting of black homeowners of some $4 billion. Victims of that plunder are very much alive today. I am sure they'd love a word with the majority leader.
What they know, what this committee must know, is that while emancipation deadbolted the door against the bandits of America, Jim Crow wedged the windows wide open. And that is the thing about Senator McConnell's "something": It was 150 years ago. And it was right now.
The typical black family in this country has one-tenth the wealth of the typical white family. Black women die in childbirth at four times the rate of white women. And there is, of course, the shame of this land of the free boasting the largest prison population on the planet, of which the descendants of the enslaved make up the largest share.
The matter of reparations is one of making amends and direct redress, but it is also a question of citizenship. In H.R. 40, this body has a chance to both make good on its 2009 apology for enslavement, and reject fair-weather patriotism, to say that this nation is both its credits and debits. That if Thomas Jefferson matters, so does Sally Hemings. That if D-Day matters, so does Black Wall Street. That if Valley Forge matters, so does Fort Pillow.
Because the question really is not whether we'll be tied to the somethings of our past, but whether we are courageous enough to be tied to the whole of them. Thank you.
As Journal Prepares for its Next Theme on "The Ethics of Memory," Western Washington University Awards Honorary Degree to Former Student and Decorated Veteran Incarcerated with Japanese Americans during World War II
Western Washington University Awards Honorary Degree to Former Student and Decorated Veteran Incarcerated with Japanese Americans during World War II
by Mary Gallagher, Office of Communications and Marketing
Two black and white photos: Left, Japanese Americans boarded a bus parked in front of James Okubo's family home, beginning their forced removal in 1942. Right, a portrait of James Okubo
Western Washington University will award a posthumous honorary bachelor's degree at spring commencement Saturday, June 15 to James K. Okubo, a Medal of Honor recipient and former Western Washington College of Education student who was unable to finish his degree because his family was incarcerated during World War II along with about 120,000 West Coast residents of Japanese ancestry.
The degree will be presented at commencement Saturday, June 15, at 8:45 a.m. Tickets are required to attend the ceremony, which will also be livestreamed at www.ustream.tv/channel/wwu-live-events1
After leaving Western in 1942, Okubo enlisted in the U.S. Army and was a medic with the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, one of the most decorated units in U.S. military history. He was awarded a Silver Star for saving the lives of fellow soldiers under heavy fire in France in 1944, and received a Medal of Honor in 2000.
Okubo passed away in 1967. His children, William and Anne, and other members of their family are expected to attend the ceremony to accept the degree on behalf of their father.
James Okubo was born in Anacortes, grew up in Bellingham and graduated from Bellingham High School. His parents Kenzo and Fuyu Okubo, ran the Sunrise Café on Holly Street. He came to Western Washington College of Education with dreams of becoming a dentist; he was a popular student and a member of the ski club. But in spring 1942, Okubo and his family were forced to leave their well-established lives and join other Bellingham residents of Japanese descent – citizens and non-citizens alike -- for incarceration at the Tule Lake War Relocation Center in California.
In May of 1943, Okubo enlisted in the Army, and was assigned as a medic in the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, all-Nisei squad of second-generation Japanese Americans who would become legendary. During a daring rescue of a U.S. Army battalion trapped behind enemy lines in eastern France during World War II in October 1944, Okubo dodged grenades and heavy fire to crawl 150 yards to carry wounded men to safety, and personally treated 17 fellow soldiers. Days later, he ran through machine gun fire to rescue a comrade from a burning tank, saving his life. In 1945, Okubo's superiors nominated him for a Medal of Honor, but he received the Silver Star, perhaps because of a mistaken belief it was the highest honor available to a medic.
After the war, Okubo settled in the Detroit area, became a dentist and a faculty member at the University of Detroit Dental School. He died in a car crash at age 46 on a family ski trip in 1967.
In the late 1990s, the military records of Asian American World War II veterans came under closer scrutiny amid concerns they had not received full recognition for their valor. Okubo was posthumously granted the Medal of Honor by President Clinton in 2000 for "conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his live above and beyond the call of duty." His wife, Nobuyo "Nobi" Okubo, attended the ceremony at the White House. Since then, Okubo has been honored in other ways: Wounded soldiers now live in the Okubo Barracks at Fort Sam Houston in Texas, and military families receive care at the Okubo Family Medical and Dental Complex at Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Washington.
WWU staff members Carole Teshima, an administrative services manager in Woodring College of Education, and Mark Okinaka, a senior academic budget and finance analyst, first submitted Okubo's name for receiving the honorary degree after learning that Okubo appears to be the only full-time student forced to leave Western during World War II due to the incarceration of Japanese Americans. Teshima has also researched the histories of established local residents who were sent to the prison camps – and found no evidence anyone ever returned to Whatcom County.
On the 65th Anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education, the Journal of Educational Controversy Reflects Upon and Continues the Conversation
May 17th marks the 65th anniversary of the landmark case, Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, that brought state-sanctioned segregation in our nation's public schools to an end. Still, today's reality reveals that schools remain more segregated than at any time since 1968. And most disturbing, at recent senate hearings, over two dozen judicial nominees nominated by President Trump declined to even answer the question on whether the Brown decision had been properly decided. ("Trump judicial nominees decline to endorse Brown v. Board under Senate questioning," New York Times, May 16, 2019)
Over the years, the Journal of Educational Controversy has published articles that have tried to create a national dialogue on the struggle of African Americans in the quest for equity and the justice. Three issues in particular addressed directly some of these concerns.
Volume 2, Number 1 (2007) Jonathan Kozol's Nation of Shame Forty Years Later
In this issue, dedicated to Jonathan Kozol who had just published his latest book, The Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America, and who wrote the prologue to the issue, we sought to examine the various forces that impede or distract from the realization of the nation's struggle for equal educational opportunity. At the time of its publication, the U.S. Supreme Court was about to examine Seattle's school policies that aimed at promoting greater integration in its schools. We devoted a special section to the case, PICS v Seattle School District, in which we first talked about Seattle's past struggles for desegregation within the history of segregated housing patterns and restricted covenants. Following our historical account, we offered opposing legal positions as well as opposing views of school administrators including the story of Principal David Engle who resigned his position in opposition to the decision. Notably, the principals of 17 other high schools in Seattle wrote a public letter in support of Engle's action. A video of an interview with the author is also found on the journal's website.
Later, we published two issues that examined specific topics and movements.
Volume 7, Number 1 (2012) The School-to-Prison Pipeline
In this issue, we examined a national trend in which school policies and practices were increasingly resulting in criminalizing students rather than educating them. Statistics indicated that the number of suspensions, expulsions, dropouts or "pushouts," and juvenile justice confinements is growing. Moreover, this trend has had a disproportionate impact on students of color. We invited authors to examine the policy implications, the political ramifications, and the causes and possible solutions to this problem as well as a look at what these policies are teaching our students.
Volume 12, Number 1 (2017) Black Lives Matter and the Education Industrial Complex
In this issue, we turned to a contemporary social movement and examined the way the Black Lives Matter movement has highlighted the deep roots of institutionalized racism in the United States. Starting with the fundamental question, Do Black Lives Matter in the U.S. Education Industrial Complex?, the issue sought to explore the various questions raised by Black Lives Matter in relation to U.S. educational institutions, policies, and practices. The questions included the status of schools as institutions of control and sites of reproduction of racist ideology, the possibility of schools as sites of liberationist transformation, the institutional history of schools alongside the development of institutional racism, the institutional response of schools to incidents of racial violence, the history of black studies programs in relation to black liberation movements, and the appropriation and sanitizing of terms like diversity and multiculturalism.
Our upcoming issue will be on the theme: The Ethics of Memory: What Does it Mean to Apologize for Historical Wrongs (Volume 14)
While the theme will look at multiple dimensions of the question, we also wanted to include a reexamination of affirmative action since the U.S. Supreme Court will once again revisit the topic.
One of the goals of our journal is to provide a continuing conversation on these issues, returning to them within a different context, and opening a new perspective on the way we ask the question.
REMINDER: Deadline for Manuscripts -- June 30, 2019
REMINDER - DEADLINE FOR MANUSCRIPTS -- JUNE 30. 2019
We are pleased to announce the theme for the 2019 issue of the Journal of Educational Controversy.
NEW CALL FOR PAPERS
Theme: The Ethics of Memory: What Does it Mean to Apologize for Historical Wrongs
To apologize for a wrong committed can imply any number of things: that one has committed a wrong against another, that the wrong was done intentionally, that one committed the wrong with malice, that one is consciously aware of doing the wrong, that one has remorse, that one is seeking to right the wrong, that one feels a sense of guilt over committing the wrong, and/or that one is seeking redemption and reconciliation. But what does it mean for a state to apologize for an historical wrong that was committed long before its present members were born, but who may still continue to derive benefits from that wrong? Recently, a university chancellor apologized for her university's role in past racial injustices and acknowledged the "profound injustices of slavery" as she sought to reconcile the past with the present and the future. College protests around confederate statues stir conflicts between arguments over historical injustices and historical heritage. Historical figures who laid the foundation for the enlightenment principles embedded in the founding documents are found wanting in the ethics of historical memory and identity. And the Supreme Court's current reconsideration of affirmative action brings the issues back into the legal domain, as courts grapple with how to redress the effects of slavery and Jim Crow on educational opportunity. Alternatively, authors may find that the conceptual framework that embeds our question carries certain assumptions that ignores a framework that would center experiences like the Japanese-American internment camps or the Native American Boarding Schools rather than foregrounding them. Would placing the experiences of those who have been wronged central to our inquiry change the very way we pose the problem. How does the very notion of apology even look from the perspective of those who have suffered these wrongs? Words and their meanings have histories and continue through lived experiences that are named and experienced differently. For instance, racialized and other marginalized communities often refer to 'wronged' as historically and generationally traumatic—perhaps a different metaphor that communicates suffering is needed? In the midst of what is often highly contentious confrontations, this issue of the journal is seeking articles that can bring moral clarification and rigorous discernment to the topic.
Deadline for Manuscripts: June 30, 2019
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Author Brian Schultz on the Second Edition of his book, Spectacular Things Happen Along the Way: Lessons from an Urban Classroom
In a time of endless policies that attempt to commodify and standardize educational practices, it is refreshing to read a book that reminds us of the deeply personal and relational nature of teaching. The book, Spectacular Things Happen Along the Way: Lessons from an Urban Classroom," by Brian Schultz is now in its second edition so we invited Brian to inform our readers about the content of his latest edition.
Shortly before the publication of his first edition, Brian had published an article in our journal called "Living Savage Inequalities: Room 405's Fight for Equity in Schooling," where he first set forth his experiences teaching in an urban classroom that was to become the focus for his upcoming book. A discussion of that article generated a rejoinder by Sherick A. Hughes entitled, "Toward a Critical Race Pedagogy of Hope: A Rejoinder to Brian Schultz."
Because of the importance of his book, the journal subsequently published two reviews of the book when it first came out. One was by Carl A. Grant entitled, "Revealing Truths in a Troubled Time: A CounterNarrative," and the other by Paula Johnson.
Brian has been on the editorial board of the Journal of Educational Controversy since its inception in 2006. He is currently Professor and Chair of the Department of Teacher Education at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. Prior to joining the faculty at Miami, Brian was the Bernard J. Brommel Distinguished Research Professor and Chair of the Department of Educational Inquiry & Curriculum Studies at Northeastern Illinois University in Chicago.
Below is Brian's description of the second edition of his book.
Brian Schultz on the Tenth Anniversary Second Edition of Spectacular Things Happen along the Way: Lessons from an Urban Classroom
The original book remains as it was originally published 10 years ago documenting how I as a teacher, alongside my 5th-grade students, co-created a curriculum based on the students' needs, interests, and questions. Engaging with my students, who were mostly from a Chicago housing project, we develop an emergent and authentic curriculum based on what is most important to the 5th-graders—replacing their dilapidated school. As it was in the original edition, it details me as teacher in an urban school and his students juxtaposed against the powerful and entrenched bureaucracy of Chicago's public education system.
This 10th anniversary edition adds new material on both the front and back end. In so doing, I examine how school reform continues to fail students in urban contexts, reflect on my teaching and writing from a decade ago, and offers updates on students and what became of the school. My reflections, and the ongoing insights of the students have a lot to teach us both from when they were young people and now as young adults. In the new material at the beginning, I push back on narratives of city kids, push back on common definitions of curriculum, and push back on my own storytelling. In the new materials at the end, I provide how this story fits into the neoliberal, corporatized school reform pervasive across the country and in particular in Chicago, provide updates on the school and the land where the school once stood, and provide and complicate updates on the students from Room 405. Also there is a new foreword by Pedro Noguera, "A Lesson for Teachers on Making Choices and Making a Difference" and a new afterword by Sonia Nieto, "On Teaching with Hope and Humility."
Tinker Turns 50 Today – A Compilation of Articles on Student Rights from the Journal of Educational Controversy
Today marks the 50th anniversary of the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case, Tinker v. Des Moines, that helped define the constitutional rights of students in the public schools. The Journal of Educational Controversy has published a number of articles on the topic over the years.
Below is a list of articles previously published in the journal.
1. Strossen, Nadine and Larner, Daniel (2006) "Keeping The Constitution Inside The Schoolhouse Gate - Students' Rights Thirty Years After Tinker V. Des Moines Independent Community School District," Journal of Educational Controversy: Vol. 1 : No. 1 , Article 4.
Available at: https://cedar.wwu.edu/jec/vol1/iss1/4
2. Hilden, Julie (2006) "How Judge Alito Applied the First Amendment on Campus: His Important Decision On a Public School's Anti-Harassment Policy," Journal of Educational Controversy: Vol. 1 : No. 1 , Article 6. Available at: https://cedar.wwu.edu/jec/vol1/iss1/6
3. Caplan, Aaron H. (2008) "Visions of Public Education In Morse v. Frederick," Journal of Educational Controversy: Vol. 3 : No. 1 , Article 21. Available at: https://cedar.wwu.edu/jec/vol3/iss1/21
4. Roberts, Nathan M. (2008) ""Bong Hits 4 Jesus": Have Students' First Amendment Rights to Free Speech Been Changed After Morse v. Frederick?," Journal of Educational Controversy: Vol. 3 : No. 1 , Article 22. Available at: https://cedar.wwu.edu/jec/vol3/iss1/22
Our special issue on the "School to Prison Pipeline" also examined civil liberty and civil rights implications. The editorial below provides a description of the issue.
Kasprisin, Lorraine (2013) "The School-to-Prison Pipeline: A Civil Rights and a Civil Liberty Issue," Journal of Educational Controversy: Vol. 7 : No. 1 , Article 1. Available at: https://cedar.wwu.edu/jec/vol7/iss1/1
See also our links to videos (interviews and forums) on our journal's website.
See especially:
INTERVIEWS FROM AUTHORS TALK LINK:
APRIL 30, 2008 - INTERVIEW WITH AARON CAPLAN, Staff Attorney, American Civil Liberties Union, Washington, Loyola Law School, California on the Morse v. Frederick case.
FORUMS FROM PUBLIC FORUMS LINK:
2018 - 19th Annual Educational Law and Social Justice Forum, May 31, 2018. Topic: Speech and Protest in Public Schools with Speaker, Vanessa Hernandez, Youth Policy Director, ACLU of Washington
2009 - 11th Annual Educational Law and Social Justice Forum, April 29, 2009 - ACLU staff attorney Rose Spidell discusses "The School to Prison Pipeline."
2008 - 10th Annual Educational Law and Social Justice Forum, April 30, 2008, "Democracy and Student Rights" with Aaron Caplan, Staff Attorney, American Civil Liberties Union—Washington.
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Iconic Tribeca reaches its 18th
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A still from from the making of the Irish short documentary "99 Problems," which will be screened at this year's Tribeca Film Festival. PHOTO BY MALCOLM MCGETTIGAN
The upcoming curtain raiser at the Tribeca Film Festival 2019 – which runs from today through May 5 – is not just any annual benchmark number.
Rather, it's the 18th.
As the Festival itself reflects multitudes of diverse cultural manifestations and meanings, so too does the number associated with this year's 18th Tribeca cinematic celebration.
For example, in the Chinese tradition 18 is a very auspicious number. In the Hebrew system of the numerical value of words, the Hebrew word for life – chai – has the value of 18. As well, the number 18 is often associated with the moon, a symbol of mystery and intuition. In the Bhagavad Gita there are 18 chapters. In sum, 18 itself is the by-product of 2 x 9, re-doubling all the stellar qualities within nine.
As it happens, one Irish entry to make the prestigious cut features the most famous multiple of 9 in its title. Short of grabbing yourself an Irish 99-er – a delicious cone containing a sumptuous swirl of ice cream topped with a Cadbury chocolate flake, race to see the sensational line-up of "Forces of Nature" short films, headlined by the Irish documentary "99 Problems." This category of shorts is defined by the organizers as "character docs that demand attention." Presented courtesy of Culture Ireland, it features Mr. Pinky, who, producer Louise Byrne has observed, "teaches us that there are times in life when you need to stand your ground, protect what's important and refuse to be beaten." Byrne added: "Our short film is about an Ice Cream man from the North of Dublin and it unveils the murky underworld of the Irish ice-cream industry."
The screening schedule for "99 Problems" and the four others in the "Forces of Nature" category is as follows: 04/28/2019, 3:00 PM at REGAL-04; 04/29/2019, 5:00 PM at REGAL-06; 05/01/2019, 4:00 PM at REGAL-03; 05/04/2019, 5:00 PM at VEC-02. See tribecafilm.com for more details.
In the "Shorts: No Short Cuts," the organizers say that "Navigating life is tough in these female-focused short docs." The Irish doc in this group of four is called "Reality Baby." Life may be tough, but a little government support helps. Nodlag Houlihan, the director of "Reality Baby," stated: "I (with my company, Zucca Films) have received a great deal of support from public funding bodies over the years – Screen Ireland (formerly the Irish Film Board) in particular have supported us to make a number of film and documentary projects – also the Arts Council of Ireland and the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland – and we've worked in the last few years on direct commissions from RTE (Ireland's public service broadcaster). Culture Ireland, another public body, have funded me to travel to Tribeca and I'm very much looking forward to the opportunity to interact with audiences and other filmmakers and film industry professionals over there."
The Screening Schedule for this Shorts: No Short Cuts" group, including Houlihan's "Reality Baby," is as follow: 04/28/2019, 2:30 PM at REGAL-05; 04/30/2019, 5:45 PM at REGAL-04; 05/03/2019, 10:00 PM at VEC-05; 05/04/2019, 3:00 PM at VEC-03. Again check out tribecafilm.com.
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Oprah Winfrey and Ava DuVernay Plan To Reshape Public Perception of Black Lives Matter
The Hollywood heavyweights will focus on the movement in their upcoming television series 'Queen Sugar.'
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By Toni Akindele	· Updated October 27, 2020
Oprah Winfrey and Ava DuVernay plan to dismantle negative perceptions of the Black Lives Matter movement in their upcoming television series, Queen Sugar.
In an interview with THR, the two influencers shared how they plan on addressing the social movement in their new project.
"With the Black Lives Matter movement, a lot of the focus is on the protest and dissent," said DuVernay. "I'm hoping to dismantle the public notion, for folks outside of the community, of what Black Lives Matter means."
"Everybody gets caught up in the slogan and the protest," said Winfrey. "You see integration of Black Lives Matter from the beginning of [Queen Sugar] because it is literally Black lives having meaning and mattering in the everyday," DuVernay added.
Queen Sugar premieres on OWN September 6th. Check out the full interview here.
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31 October, 2015 in Images, Mars, Space, UFOs
More proof that an ancient Martian civilization may have existed on the planet at one time, according to a new article on the inquisitr.com.
NASA's Mars Curiosity rover has discovered a stone carving of an alien face — evidence of ancient alien civilization on the Red Planet — according to online UFO and Mars anomaly hunters.
The Martian Face Sculpture
This is a real face, deliberately made. If you expect to find a Da Vinci carving on Mars, you will be disappointed. Mars inhabitants had low art skills, but to them, these sculptures were exceptionally beautiful."
Other possibly reasons why the face "looks crude," according to UFO hunters, could be that the work of art is heavily eroded by the Martian weather after millions of years. Another possible explanation that alien hunters may want to consider is that the face is a work of abstract art.
It is also possible that the face is an accurate representation of the physiognomy of an ancient alien race with large "negroid" nose and thick lips. But the face looks unfamiliar to human observers and could be mistaken for chance arrangement of rocks because it is alien.
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Mars anomaly hunters believe that relics of ancient Mars civilization are more difficult to identify because, unlike remains of human civilization that are only a few thousand years old, Mars archaeological remains are millions of years old and thus more severely degraded by the elements.
Source: http://www.inquisitr.com/2531156/nasas-curiosity-rover-discovers-stone-carving-of-alien-face-on-mars-photos/
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Kanagal village in Periyapatna taluk of Mysore district is suddenly in limelight after few agricultural workers reported UFO and a "humanoid figure" sighting.
The unidentified figure was spotted by seven agricultural workers in Kanagal village in Periyapatna taluk of Mysuru district at around 2pm on October 1, 2015, as they worked in paddy fields.
sketch credit: thexenologist.com
They said the Alien humanoid figure dressed in orange came towards them from a red spacecraft which has flashes and sparks around it. Which emerged from the clouds took few photographs and took to the skies again.
Nigel Watson, author of the UFO Investigations Manual, said: "Sightings of flying people are not uncommon and such sightings have occurred long before the interest in flying saucers or aliens.
"What these villagers saw is hard to say, though it certainly had an impact on them and that it was something unusual."
Since the sighting, people with an interest in aliens have been making the trip to Kenagal to talk to the women involved.
T A Manjunatha, an alien enthusiast. said: "The women claim that the spacecraft descended close to 500 feet from them and they could spot humanoid figures. They have no clue about aliens and they have not even heard about such things. So we are assuming that they are not lying."
Source: http://www.ufo-blogger.com/2015/10/aliens-ufo-sightings-kanagal-village-mysuru-district-karnataka.html
29 October, 2015 in Claims, Images, Space, Video
There's An Alien 'Tower' In The Mysterious Ceres 'Bright Spot'? UFO Researcher Claims
A top online UFO researcher says that an alien "tower" on the asteroid Ceres has emerged from close analysis of a NASA photo of the mysterious "bright spots" on the surface of the celestial body classified by the space agency as a "dwarf planet." NASA has remained both fascinated and mystified by the bright spots that were first noticed in photos from the Dawn space probe inside an area that scientists have dubbed the Occator Crater.
A NASA video using composite, 3D images from the Dawn spacecraft, giving Earthbound viewers a 360-degree "tour" of the Occator Crater may be viewed on this page, above.
NASA scientists have yet to come up with a good explanation for the strange, bright white spots on the surface of Ceres, but as the Dawn spacecraft draws nearer and nearer to the dwarf planet, they expect that some answers may come into focus.
In late July, Dawn had lowered itself to an orbit of about 2,400 miles above the surface of Ceres, which is believed to be the largest of the thousands of asteroids in the solar system's asteroid belt that orbits the sun between the planets Mars and Jupiter.
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But using his own photographic software, UFO Sightings Daily editor Scott C. Waring — the man responsible for either making or publicizing dozens of similar "discoveries" in NASA inages such as the "moon-size" alien ships seen orbiting the sun, and "alien cities" supposedly found on the surface of the moon — enhanced the Sawn spacecraft photos and now says that he has seen that they reveal some kind of an "tower" in the Occator Crater.
Presumably, the structure, if indeed it exists, would be of alien origin.
"Looking back at Ceres I still wonder about the glowing structures. There were a few new photos and I decided to try my best to get something out of it. I used and abuse my photo program until this object came out. Now I didn't do anything except add darkness and sharpening," Waring wrote on the UFO Sighting Daily blog.
"These objects we see are the glowing alien structures in crater. Most of them are something out of a futuristic novel with chaotic directions and shape, but one has angles, height, roundness…all the qualities we recognize on Earth as a tower."
NASA scientists say that at one time, Ceres was a full-fledged planet in our solar system, and in addition to the intriguing bright spots, the celestial body contains a number of other remarkable features, including what NASA has described as a "pyramid," actually a giant mountain on the surface of Ceres.
"As we slowly approach the stage, our eyes transfixed on Ceres and her planetary dance, we find she has beguiled us but left us none the wiser," said Dawn mission investigator Chris Russell, who is based at the University of California at Los Angeles. "We expected to be surprised; we did not expect to be this puzzled."
Given the mysteries of Ceres that seem to baffle even the finest minds NASA has to offer, could the "discovery" made by one, individual UFO researcher be dismissed out of hand?
Source: http://www.inquisitr.com/2527235/nasa-tower-ceres-bright-spot-ufo/
28 October, 2015 in Canada, OVNIs, UFOs, Video
On a clear night in Manitoba, people may see all sorts of things in the sky – planes, birds and perhaps, a UFO.
It seems the province is a hotspot for unidentified flying objects.
Winnipeg's Kent Graham witnessed a UFO this summer.
"Your eye goes to it right away," said Graham. "It was like an orange sparkler coming down. Then the sparks went away and it was just a globe of orange light that just started doing crazy moves."
Over the years, thousands of reports just like Graham's have been logged and some defy explanation.
Canadian UFO researcher Chris Rutkowski told CTV there are reports dating back to 1792.
"David Thompson was in an area that was now around Thicket Portage in 1792, and it was winter," said Rutkowski. "They saw a mass of gelatinous luminosity moving through the air. It actually approached them. And when it was a few hundred feet from them, it dropped to the surface of the lake and vanished from site."
Rutkowski said Thompson had no reason to make up this story.
He added, given the time period, it couldn't have been a plane or other manmade object Thompson spotted in the sky.
The researcher said while most UFO reports are later identified, about 17 per cent are officially labelled as unexplained.
"After being involved in this for more than 30 years, there is a real phenomena," said Rutkowski. "It's not something that's made up, it's not hallucinations. People are actually seeing things."
What those things are, remains unknown.
Source: http://winnipeg.ctvnews.ca/people-are-actually-seeing-things-manitoba-a-hotspot-for-unidentified-flying-objects-1.2630577
in Brazil, Caution, Images, OVNIs, UFOs, Video
A pyramid-shaped UFO that appeared over Brazil in June has belatedly become an issue among UFO hunters.
Last Monday, UFO Sightings Daily showed a video of the bronze UFO over Sao Paulo on, June 14. The UFO appears to be about the size of a bird.
Scott Warning of UFO Sightings Daily said there had been sightings of other pyramid-shaped UFOs.
"For example, on Oct 5, 1996, a pilot over Pelotas, Brazil, recorded a similar bronze pyramid shape in the sky," he said.
Source: http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/world/2015/10/524_189478.html
in Mars
Alien hunters have done it again! Scouring NASA's database of rover photos, extraterrestrial enthusiasts claimed to have spotted a baby bear wandering alone on the red planet's rocky grounds.
UFO Sightings Daily writer Scott Waring announced in one of his latest blog posts that a bear-like creature was spotted by fellow alien hunter Paranormal Crucible of YouTube in one of NASA's photos. Waring claims that this is a proof of living creatures existing on Mars, and adds that this is why NASA posts photos only in black and white.
"There is a reason NASA puts photos into black and white. To hide the living creatures and plants that are an obvious color," Waring wrote in his blog post.
There is a version of NASA's photo on his site with the bear colored in for easy viewing.
Aside from a bear, the UFO hunters claimed to have also found a prairie dog, a squirrel and even an alien woman watching the Rover from a distance on Mars.
NASA rarely, if ever, comments on these sightings, save for a rare refute of the claim that NASA is hiding information of extraterrestrial life from the public and the possible reason why UFO hunters see what they want to see on Rover photos.
"There is no group that would be happier to see such a thing than the 500 scientists around the world who work on this Curiosity rover," NASA scientist Ashwin Vasavada said, adding that they haven't seen anything remotely like what the UFO hunters claimed to have spotted so far.
Vasavada added that he blames the sightings on pareidolia, or a psychological response that tricks the mind in seeing what it wants to see when it spots familiar objects in new or random places.
Nevertheless, UFO hunters are convinced with what they saw and are relentless in their quest to let the rest of the world know the truth.
Waring said that he will send this information to the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon via Twitter in his attempts to spread this sighting to the world.
"I will send this to the Secretary General of the United Nations...(as) I often alert them about these amazing discoveries," Waring wrote in his site. While he has yet to receive a positive response, he is continuing his efforts along with a plea for others to share these findings and "help them open their eyes and see the truth."
Source: http://www.techtimes.com/articles/99994/20151027/alien-hunter-wants-to-inform-un-about-walking-bear-on-planet-mars.htm
in Images, OVNIs, Russia, UFOs
The latest unidentified flying objects in the capital of Buryatia have had the social media buzzing in recent days.
A woman reported seeing a 'glowing' entity in the sky above Ulan-Ude with 'a lot of green lights, some red and blue'. She watched with her son and male two passers-by as the mysterious object disappeared and then reappeared 'very close', making a noise like the engine of a car, she claimed.
The men at first claimed it might be a toy plane or drone. 'When it stopped right above us, I could not say a word and saw the two men running to hide in a building,' said the woman.
'It was a very large saucer with bright green lights in the middle. My son got scared, grabbed my hand and we ran away. I never believed that something like that could exist.'
Source: http://siberiantimes.com/other/others/features/f0172-ufos-buzz-city-of-ulan-ude-with-residents-seeingvery-big-saucer-with-bright-green-lights/
22 October, 2015 in Space
Space Archaeologists Search For Dead Alien Civilizations
Archaeology has gone interstellar.
The peculiar behavior of KIC 8462852—a star 1,500 light-years from Earth that is prone to irregular dimming—has prompted widespread speculation on the Internet that it is host to an "alien megastructure," perhaps a vast array of orbiting solar panels.
Scientists have pointed out various natural, non-alien phenomena that could be causing the stellar light show, but the SETI crowd isn't taking any chances. Astronomers have begun using a radio telescope, the Allen Telescope Array, to detect possible signals in the vicinity of KIC 8462852.
But, the astronomers might be eavesdropping on a tomb.
For years, SETI researchers have argued that we can narrow our search for alien intelligence by looking for telltale signs of large, sophisticated structures built by advanced civilizations. They call this "cosmic archaeology."
Yet, even if we were to find such artifacts, there's no guarantee that the civilizations that created them are still around. Floating in space, abandoned for millennia, these objects could be the interstellar equivalent of the statues at Easter Island or the Egyptian Pyramids.
In fact, we might confront the morbid scenario that intelligent life periodically emerges on other worlds, but has an unfortunate tendency to self-destruct.
Sadly, it's not implausible, given the devastation we've wrought during our relatively brief span as the dominant species on this planet.
That's why a trio of scientists recently published a guide to help astronomers detect alien apocalypses—whether it's the chemical signature of a world filled with rotting corpses, the radioactive aftermath of nuclear warfare, or the debris left over from a Death Star scenario where an entire planet gets blown to bits.
Call it SEETI, the Search for Extinct Extraterrestrial Intelligence.
Read More........ (National Geographic)
13 October, 2015 in China, Government, Images, Space, Video
China Enters The Search For ET With The Largest Telescope Ever Built!
Chinese scientists are constructing the world's biggest radio telescope, which will be more effective than any other at picking up weak messages from outer space that could be linked to intelligent life.
Assembly of the Five-hundred-metre Aperture Spherical Telescope, or FAST, began in July and is expected to be completed in 2016.
Once finished, the reflector dish of the telescope will be 500 metres in diameter, replacing Puerto Rico's Arecibo Observatory, only 300 metres in diameter, as the world's largest.
The wider the dish, the more effective the telescope becomes at picking up weak messages from outer space.
Nan Rendong, the chief scientist of the FAST project, told the Xinhua news agency: "A radio telescope is like a sensitive ear, listening to tell meaningful radio messages from white noise in the universe."
"It is like identifying the sound of cicadas in a thunderstorm."
Rather than sitting above ground, the telescope's dish is sunken into a natural bowl-shaped valley in China's Guizhou province.
The geography of the surrounding hills and the remoteness of the site mean that there will be less interference from Earth-based radio signals.
The dish will be suspended slightly above ground level by a series of strong pillars and cables, allowing operators to move it and listen in to noises coming from different parts of space.
Although the dish is huge, the scientists may have a long wait if they want to pick up on alien radio signals.
The SETI Institute, which leads humanity's search for extraterrestrial life, has never picked up any message that conclusively comes from an alien civilisation, despite having a number of Earth and space-based telescopes at its disposal.
However, even if aliens don't make contact, radio telescopes smaller than FAST have been used in the discoveries of new planets, comets and pulsars.
The construction of the telescope also represents a huge advance for China's native space programme.
Despite the country's peaceful explorations into space only beginning in the 1990s, they have already sent a human into orbit, and are currently planning the launch of a space station and a manned mission to the Moon, both scheduled to take place at some point in the 2020s.
The development of the telescope will allow Chinese scientists to have their own first-hand data and equipment, rather than having to rely on information supplied by foreign space telescopes.
Wu Xiangping, the director-general of the Chinese Astronomical Society, told Xinhua: "Having a more sensitive telescope, we can recieve weaker and more distant radio messages."
"It will help us to search for intelligent life outside the galaxy and explore the origins of the universe."
Source: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/china-fast-telescope-search-for-alien-life-a6690681.html
http://fast.bao.ac.cn/en/
http://www.space.com/28665-seti-astronomer-frank-drake-interview.html (How about the international scene?)
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/science/Giant-radio-telescope-to-listen-for-aliens/articleshow/48221398.cms
Ceres 'Spots' Remains A Mystery, or Does It? Researchers Say
The team behind Nasa's Dawn mission to Ceres has released striking new images, but remains unable to explain the dwarf planet's most intriguing mystery.
The Occator Crater |
Blue is the lowest elevation, and brown is the highest. The crater, which is home to the brightest spots on Ceres, is approximately 56 miles (90 kilometers wide). Link
Bright spots within a 90km-wide crater have baffled scientists since the probe spied them on its approach.
Now in orbit around Ceres, Dawn is gathering detailed data about the world's geology and its composition.
Mission researchers described the latest images at the European Planetary Science Congress in Nantes, France.
NASA's Dawn Images Sparks Existence of Alien City on Ceres | The Xenologist
Currently, their best guess to account for the spots is an expanse of some type of salt - but this is speculation.
"We haven't solved the source of the white material," said the mission's principal investigator Chris Russell from the University of California Los Angeles.
"We think that it's salt that has somehow made its way to the surface. We're measuring the contours, trying to understand what the surface variations in that crater are telling us."
Ceres is a 950km-wide dwarf planet sitting in the Solar System's asteroid belt. Dawn is currently orbiting it at a distance of 1,470km and imaging the entire surface every 11 days.
"Ceres continues to amaze, yet puzzle us, as we examine our multitude of images, spectra and now energetic particle bursts," said Chris Russell, Dawn principal investigator at the University of California, Los Angeles. - scitechdaily.com
Mysterious White Spots on Ceres Are Probably Salt | Science, Space & Robots
Source: http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-34403738
02 October, 2015 in Claims, Government, OVNIs, UFOs, USA
George Bush Senior on UFOs: "Americans Can't Handle the Truth"
George H. W. Bush, George W. Bush and Jeb Bush (Left to Right)
ORLANDO, FL | Joined by his father George H. W. Bush and his brother George W. Bush during Jeb Bush's latest fundraiser in Orlando this week, George Bush Sr left the large crowd of Jeb Bush partisans uneasy after responding to a question on UFOs by an activist/journalist which the answer took the crowd, and reporters, completely by surprise.
In hope of helping his son's Jeb Bush struggling presidential campaign, George Bush Sr and former president George W. Bush have been campaigning behind the presidential candidate in hopes of bringing the Bush family's name once again behind the Oval office, but some experts believe this kind of incident could cost him the race.
The man that asked the question has been identified as Adam Guelch, an active member of the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), which credits itself as being the world's oldest and largest UFO phenomenon investigative body
During the fundraiser, a man in the crowd raised a strange question which led to an even more surprising response by the former president and CIA director. The man asked George Bush Sr when the US government would tell Americans the truth about UFOs, to which he responded: "Americans can't handle the truth" before the questioning was briefly halted by organizers of the event.
Oddly enough, it is not the first time George Bush Sr has had a controversial opinion on the UFO subject as a similar incident occurred on March 7, 1988, during a trip to a George Bush for President Rally in Rogers, Arkansas.
The to-be president was then asked, in the advent that he became president, if he would tell Americans the truth about the existence of UFOs, to which Bush replied:
"I am very careful in public life about dealing with classified information" he told the reporter.
James Adder, journalist for the Arkansas Globe at the time, also asked about Bush's knowledge about the UFO phenomena, on behalf of which Bush answered: " I know some. I know a fair amount" before ending the interview.
A loss of cognitive functions, believe experts
George Bush Sr which is in a frail state of health, might be suffering from a neurological disorder such as Alzheimer, which could explain his weird comment, believe some experts.
"At the venerable age of 91, it is quite normal to suffer from a loss of cognitive functions. Clear symptoms are a difficulty to express yourself coherently, loss of memory, dementia. This is possibly the root cause for the awkward comments" explains neurologist John O'Briar.
A Jeb Bush campaign spokesman told reporters George Bush Sr's comments "did not reflect in any way the opinions of presidential candidate Jeb Bush" and that Jeb Bush supporters "are entitled to their own views on a variety of subjects".
Source: http://worldnewsdailyreport.com/george-bush-senior-on-ufos-americans-cant-handle-the-truth/
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Westertor werden Tore in folgenden Städten genannt:
 Westertor (Memmingen), das Westertor in Memmingen
 Westerturm, auch Westertor genannt, in Duderstadt
 Auch Hessisch Oldendorf hat ein Westertor.

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In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 860224, Bug 860225, Bug 860226.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2017-3136, CVE-2017-3137, CVE-2017-3138.
Oleg Gorokhov of Yandex discovered that BIND does not properly handle certain queries when using DNS64 with the "break-dnssec yes;" option, allowing a remote attacker to cause a denial-of-service.
It was discovered that BIND makes incorrect assumptions about the ordering of records in the answer section of a response containing CNAME or DNAME resource records, leading to situations where BIND exits with an assertion failure. An attacker can take advantage of this condition to cause a denial-of-service.
Mike Lalumiere of Dyn, Inc. discovered that BIND can exit with a REQUIRE assertion failure if it receives a null command string on its control channel. Note that the fix applied in Debian is only applied as a hardening measure. Details about the issue can be found at https://kb.isc.org/article/AA-01471 .
For the stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in version 1:9.9.5.dfsg-9+deb8u11.
For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 1:9.10.3.dfsg.P4-12.3.


AN UNPAVED ROAD fragranced with nature's aroma of mountains and trees is what Meg Haywood Sullivan often found when she exited the doors of her parents Volkswagen van. Although there were the occasional movie nights, camping and road trips were some of Meg's most pivotal moments growing up. As an only child, Meg's free-spirit and creativity was unwaveringly nourished from a very young age.
Meg's father is a talented photographer. A camera always accompanied their journeys and managed to make dinner table conversations. Taking still frames of nature became a contagious activity.
Meg's mother is a pastel painter. As a teacher of the art and President Emeritus of The International Pastel Society, she was often creating new works in her studio. As a young child, Meg helped her mother critique her work.
Being engrained deeply in the arts and spending so much time outdoors made photography a second nature activity for Meg. Mountains have always been her biggest inspiration. As a kid, taking photos was a habit that she enjoyed but as a teenager, it became a passion that fueled her.
Growing up in Massachusetts, her creative expression also took the form of dance. Irish step dancing, to be precise. Boston holds the most-concentrated population of Irish outside of Ireland, so the calling was fitting when she danced at the band "Dropkick Murphy's" St. Patrick's day shows in Boston.
College led her elsewhere. Meg's parents were her biggest inspiration in recognizing that a career in the arts was possible. To no surprise, she pursued studies in photography at Pratt University in New York. After a year at Pratt she moved out to the mountains to pursue a double major in the Environmental Studies and Photography at Montana State University. Staying true to her passion was never a second thought.
Meg began her photography career in professional snowboarding. A female photographer in that industry is a rarity. The photo editor at Transworld Snowboarding Magazine, Chris Wellhaussen, noticed her talent and believed in her capabilities. He gave Meg her first editorial assignment.
Meg's dedication, grit, and quality of work began to get noticed. Her backcountry shots and ability to withstand the harsh elements earned her respect and stature. She became a respected name in snowboarding industry.
From there, Meg's career took off. Companies like Patagonia, KEEN, prAna, and Clif Bar have become part of her client book. Much of Meg's love for photography comes from her passion of storytelling about nature and the environment. In particular, her sweet spot is in showing mankind's relationship with the great outdoors. National Geographic Adventure gave her the perfect opportunity to do that by asking her to document the fastest retreating glacier in Yosemite.
A pivotal moment of Meg's career (thus far) occurred with an unfortunate circumstance. In 2012 Meg was hired for a snowboarding shoot in Tunnel Creek, WA. An avalanche was triggered when fifteen of the nations top skiers and snowboarders were making a run together. Three of them didn't make it out alive. Meg happened to be the first camera at the site.
A few days later, she got a call from the New York Times asking her to submit her photos because they were going to do a big story piece about the avalanche. That story ended up winning the Pulitzer Prize.
Meg stays involved with projects that use adventure as a way to educate about the importance of our natural landscapes. She's spread her message widely across the world and in each place she's lived. New York, Montana, Spain, Washington, San Diego, San Francisco, and most recently, Venice, CA have all been called "home". She is a leading ambassador for Surfrider Foundation and Protect Our Winters - two non-profits that work hard to support the environment. Currently, she's co-producing a pilot for some of the networks on climate change.
Meg's passion, success, activist nature, and alluring Instagram feed have turned her into a stunning role model for women of all ages.
The future is clear for Meg. On her list of travel and adventure are the French Alps, the birthplace of ski culture. Unfortunately, they are also one of the places that are seeing the biggest effects of climate change first-hand. Her work is more important now than ever before.
The mountains, the rivers, the trees, the oceans -- they're speaking to us constantly, but there are so few of us that hear it. Meg's work is amplifying and articulating the voice of nature. Her life's mission permeates through every photo and production piece she creates. The awareness she brings to the serious issues of our environment is supporting the much-needed radical change that it so deeply requires. Fortunately for our planet, her dedication and contribution to stories-worth-telling will never fall silent.


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