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The "Dream Keepers" College Program is an initiative to engage college students across the country in efforts to build a memorial in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr. on the National Mall in Washington, DC.

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image - poster display for the MLK memorial design competition - Jan. 16 at Burruss Hall in Blacksburg, VA

from the Virginia Tech news - events at tech honoring Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Blacksburg, Va., January 4, 2006 -- A wide range of educational and cultural programs and community service events will be held as Virginia Tech celebrates Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Week Jan. 15-20. All events are free (unless otherwise noted) and open to the public.

Among the highlights will be a keynote address by Rev. Jesse Jackson, founder and president of the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition and noted civil rights, religious and political figure, on Monday, Jan. 16 at 7 p.m. in Burruss Hall Auditorium. Tickets for this event are free and available at the UUSA Ticket office located in Squires Student Center. Rev. Jackson’s lecture will be followed by a candlelight vigil on the Drillfield. more...

-tags- -Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr- -Blacksburg- -Virginia-

Arctic seed bank designed to protect valuable seeds

via yahoo headlines - 7:04 pm - January 13, 2005
-crop- -seed- -heirloom- -conservation- -arctic- -norway
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st. lawrence of google - via slashdot

st. lawrence of google. a slashdot post from January 12, 2006.

tags: turing test, artificial intelligence, information design

press release from the Jacksonville Center

“Fibers of Memory” Exhibit at the Jacksonville Center

The Jacksonville Center for the Arts will present an exhibition of works by Gibby Waitzkin titled Fibers of Memory beginning January 14, 2006 in the Hayloft Gallery. A special reception for the artist will be held on Saturday, January 14, from 4-6 pm, (Snow date is Saturday, January 21.) The exhibit will remain in place through February 25, 2006.

This body of work is an intimate portrayal of Gibby Waitzkin’s life as it evolves, echoing cherished memories of people, places and objects and her life-long passion for the environment. The works are assembled from recycled materials, which tell their own story as they are transformed into artworks. The artist’s idea is to reconstruct the debris of the past into a new visible surface that conveys a personal journey deeply embedded in the cycle of life.

The pieces blend artist-made paper with photographs, scanned imagery, and dried and encaustic-preserved flowers from her own gardens. For the Jacksonville Center exhibit, Waitzkin will include six new pieces completed recently at her home in Floyd.

The Jacksonville Center is located at 220 Parkway Lane South, Floyd, 1/2 mile south of the stoplight in the town of Floyd. For information on center’s classes, cultural arts business incubator, retail and exhibit opportunities and other programs, please call 540-745-2784 or visit their website at www.jacksonvillecenter.org. From January to March, the Center is open to the public Monday to Friday, 9am – 5pm; Saturdays, 10am - 5pm.

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tags - floyd, art, hayloft, jacksonville

sago news via yahoo headlines 11:29 am

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Near the end of Groves' service, Rose asked all the coal miners in the crowd to stand and be recognized. To the 10 who stood, Rose said, "You are the backbone of this state and this country. Always hold your head high and tell everyone you're a coal miner -

Mark Warner orders DNA re-test for Roger Keith Coleman case

January 5, 2005 - Virginia Governor Mark Warner has ordered a re-test of DNA evidence in the case of Roger Keith Coleman, a man who was executed in 1992. The governor cited technological advances in DNA testing as a reason for re-examining this evidence.

If these new tests show that Coleman was innocent of the rape and murder of his sister-in-law in 1981, Coleman will be the first person in the United States to be exonerated after his execution. More...

tags: death penalty

loop news for January 5, 2005

---...--- loop news for January 5, 2005 - via yahoo headlines - Randal McCloy may have brain damage, according to his doctor at Ruby Memorial hospital in Morgantown. "He is not waking up as we had hoped he would do," Dr. John Prescott told reporters. Monday's accident at Sago Mine was the deadliest in the nation since 2001. more... -...---

---...--- A preschooler is on the government's no-fly list, according to this article by Kristie Rieken. Edward Allen, age four, shares a name with someone with suspected terrorist ties, and it took his mother several minutes of pleading to convince Continental Airlines personnel that her son should be allowed to get on their flight from Houston to New York. A ticket agent at LaGuardia airport told the boy's mother "You're lucky that we're letting you through instead of putting you through the other process." more... ---...---

tags: sago, mine, miner, mining, airline, no-fly list, Continental Airlines

Sago mine bulletin - one man is alive

loop news for January 4 - Randal McCloy, age 27, was the only man to come out of Sago mine alive after the tragic accident at 6:40 am on January 2. 12 miners lost their lives at Sago, making this West Virginia's deadliest mining accident since 1968.

Families were informed of the deaths early today, just three hours after rumors had started spreading that many, if not all, the miners were in fact alive. Governor Manchin himself had announced that there were 12 survivors, but later said that he was unsure about the information.

Randal McCloy remains in critical condition. He is suffering from hypothermia and is on a ventilator, but he had no broken bones and there was no carbon monoxide found in his body.

Officials at the Federal Department of Labor and the White House have promised an investigation into the events surrounding this accident, including details about how emergency communication was handled.

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tags : Sago, mine, West Virginia, miner, Randal McCloy

sago mine bulletin

loop news for January 3, 2005 - 7:30 am - via yahoo headlines - Drillers have punched a hole into Sago mine in Tallmansville, West Virginia. This will allow rescue personnel to insert a camera and air quality sensor into the mine, where 13 miners have been trapped since an explosion at around 6:40 a.m. yesterday. more...

Please pray for the people in Sago mine, and for the people who love them.

tags: Sago, West Wirginia, mine accident, coal

loop news for January 2, 2005

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http://books.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/01/02/1748219&tid=192&tid=6
a slashdot post on ambient findability

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happy new year
with warm wishes from Cleo & family

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missing mountains
an anthology on the practice of mountaintop removal coal mining

knowledge overload or internet lazy?
a slashdot post on a USA today article.

image tags - scrip