6959 - Broadband and Social Justice

Washington, DC?s Minority Media and Telecommunications Council (MMTC) will convene some of the nation?s most noted leaders on broadband policy, telecommunications, and social justice to discuss ?Creating Economic Opportunity through Digital Equality? at its 4th Annual Broadband & Social Justice Summit.

WASHINGTON, DC, 1/14/2013 - The 4^th Annual Broadband and Social Justice Summit is just two days away, and registration is still open! Some of our can?t-miss panels include remarks from industry experts and government representatives from The White House, Congress, and the FCC.? A full list and description of all Summit panels is available here.

Wednesday, January 16

• Broadband: The Backbone of The New Economy
  • Industry leaders will discuss how telecom and broadband regulatory reform can advance jobs and economic opportunity, how the FCC can best react to market trends, and how the FCC should examine its rules to enable diversity and innovation while reducing barriers to entry. Speakers include Dean C. Garfield, president and CEO of the Information Technology Industry Council, and Bret Perkins, Vice President of External and Government Affairs with Comcast.

• Congressional Luncheon: Designing Telecom and Internet Policy for the Digital Age
  • Current and former members of Congress with telecom industry oversight responsibility will discuss whether new legislation is needed to drive technological change, jobs creation, innovation, and economic opportunity. Delegate Donna M. Christensen (D-U.S.V.I.), Congresswoman Yvette D. Clarke (D-NY), Former Congressmen Clifford Stearns (R-FL) and Edolphus Towns (D-NY) will lead the discussion, with a keynote address by telecom entrepreneur David J. Grain.

• How to Generate Diverse Participation in the Telecom and Internet Spaces

  • Industry and government leaders will discuss how to overcome political,procedural, and practical obstacles to telecom and broadband regulatory reform; the massive changes that have occurred in the telecommunications industry since?the passage of the 1996 Communications Act; and how industry, legislators, and?regulators could draft new legislation to ensure diversity and innovation in the information era.? The panel will feature FCC Commissioner Robert McDowell and NABOB Executive Director and General Counsel James Winston, among others.? NAACP General Counsel Kim Keenan will preside.

Thursday, January 16

• 21st Century Vision for Universal Broadband Adoption

  • The FCC Chairman?s office will provide a top-level viewpoint on what is needed to realize the vision of universal broadband adoption and informed use, and suggests concrete initiatives on which stakeholders can work together to achieve common goals.? Speakers include Blair Levin, Telecommunications Policy Strategist Communications and Society Fellow with The Aspen Institute, and John Horrigan, Ph.D, Vice President and Director of the Media and Technology Institute at the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies.? Deborah Lathen, Former Chief of the FCC Cable Services Bureau, will preside.

• Obama Administration at the Mid-Point
  • Top broadband and telecom officials will share the latest developments in broadband, telecom, and Internet policy from the Obama Administration.? Panelists include?White House?Deputy Chief Technology Officer for Telecommunications Thomas C. Power and NTIA?Deputy Assistant Secretary for Communications and Information Policy and Deputy Administrator Anna M. Gomez.? ?Fletcher, Heald & Hildreth, PLC, Partner and MMTC Board Member Francisco Montero will preside.

Bonus Event at the Newseum Immediately Following the Summit

• National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) Hall of Fame Awards Induction and Ball
  • NABJ will pay homage to legendary black journalists who have made outstanding contributions to the industry, inducting six journalists into its Hall of Fame. BBSJ Summit attendees receive discounted tickets to the event.

Registration and sponsorship details can be found on the BBSJ Registration Page.

MMTC Broadband & Social Justice Policy Summit 2013
WHEN: January 16 ? 17, 2013
WHERE: The Westin Georgetown Hotel | 2350 M Street Washington, DC 20036
TIME: Doors open at 8:00 AM January 16

Important Links
REGISTER: Conference Registration - http://mmtconline.org/bbsj-summit/register/

BBSJ Blog - http://broadbandandsocialjustice.org

MMTC Website - http://www.mmtconline.org

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MMTC is a national nonprofit organization founded in 1986 to promote and preserve media diversity and equal opportunity in the mass media, telecommunications, and broadband industries.

Source: http://broadbandandsocialjustice.org/2013/01/6959/

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Texas man in ICU after "tremendous" house blast

LEWISVILLE, Texas An explosion Friday in a North Texas neighborhood leveled a home that is part of a nonprofit group's affordable housing program, injuring three men and scattering debris.

Authorities were still trying to determine what caused the blast inside the home in Lewisville, about 20 miles northwest of Dallas. Two firefighters who were standing on the street near the home and another man who was inside were injured.

Lewisville Assistant Fire Chief Brian Freed said crews will search the debris, but officials believe they've accounted for everyone who might have been in the duplex. The injured man is believed to live alone, based on what neighbors told firefighters, Freed said.

Firefighters had waited to search the debris until a natural gas line near the home was shut down.

The injured men were taken to Medical Center of Lewisville. Freed said the man who lived in the home was in intensive care after surgery. One of the firefighters was hospitalized with chest pains but was expected to recover. The other firefighter had been treated and released. None of the men were immediately identified.

The home is owned by Christian Community Action, which rents it out to families who are struggling financially, said Ron Batts, president and CEO of the nonprofit group.

Freed said firefighters had first gone to the home around 10 a.m. Friday after a gas leak was reported. Natural gas provider Atmos Energy worked on the leak for about 2 1/2 hours when the home, which was next to the line being worked on, exploded.

"There was no indication. It was just an immediate explosion," Freed said. Some homes in the area had been evacuated when the leak was first reported, he said.

Freed said construction work originally caused the leak.

Jennifer Ryan, a spokeswoman for Atmos Energy, said a third party construction crew had damaged the natural gas line while working on a utility pole.

"Crews are working diligently to make repairs to the line, restore service and make sure the area is safe," Ryan said.

Bronnia Campbell lived in a nearby home also owned by Christian Community Action. When she heard a booming noise and saw debris flying in the air, Campbell said she feared for the worst.

"I thought, 'He's not going to feel a thing,"' Campbell said.

She described the injured man as someone who "minds his own business, but he's a nice guy."

Ray Hall, owner of Hall Electrical Services, a business near the explosion, said he and others were inside their building when they heard a large boom.

Hall described the blast as "a tremendous explosion" and said he saw high flames and debris floating in the air.

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Cloudy mystery solved: A puzzling cloud near the galaxy's center may hold clues to how stars are born

Jan. 10, 2013 ? It's the mystery of the curiously dense cloud. And astronomers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) are on the case.

Near the crowded galactic center, where billowing clouds of gas and dust cloak a supermassive black hole three million times as massive as the sun -- a black hole whose gravity is strong enough to grip stars that are whipping around it at thousands of kilometers per second -- one particular cloud has baffled astronomers. Indeed, the cloud, dubbed G0.253+0.016, defies the rules of star formation.

In infrared images of the galactic center, the cloud -- which is 30 light-years long -- appears as a bean-shaped silhouette against a bright backdrop of dust and gas glowing in infrared light. The cloud's darkness means it is dense enough to block light.

According to conventional wisdom, clouds of gas that are this dense should clump up to create pockets of even denser material that collapse due to their own gravity and eventually form stars. One such gaseous region famed for its prodigious star formation is the Orion Nebula. And yet, although the galactic-center cloud is 25 times denser than Orion, only a few stars are being born there -- and even then, they are small. In fact, the Caltech astronomers say, its star-formation rate is 45 times lower than what astronomers might expect from such a dense cloud.

"It's a very dense cloud and it doesn't form any massive stars -- which is very weird," says Jens Kauffmann, a senior postdoctoral scholar at Caltech.

In a series of new observations, Kauffmann, along with Caltech postdoctoral scholar Thushara Pillai and Qizhou Zhang of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, have discovered why: not only does it lack the necessary clumps of denser gas, but the cloud itself is swirling so fast that it can't settle down to collapse into stars.

The results, which show that star formation may be more complex than previously thought and that the presence of dense gas does not automatically imply a region where such formation occurs, may help astronomers better understand the process.

The team presented their findings -- which have been recently accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal Letters -- at the 221st meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Long Beach, California.

To determine whether the cloud contained clumps of denser gas, called dense cores, the team used the Submillimeter Array (SMA), a collection of eight radio telescopes on top of Mauna Kea in Hawaii. In one possible scenario, the cloud does contain these dense cores, which are roughly 10 times denser than the rest of the cloud, but strong magnetic fields or turbulence in the cloud disturbs them, thus preventing them from turning into full-fledged stars.

However, by observing the dust mixed into the cloud's gas and measuring N₂H⁺ -- an ion that can only exist in regions of high density and is therefore a marker of very dense gas -- the astronomers found hardly any dense cores. "That was very surprising," Pillai says. "We expected to see a lot more dense gas."

Next, the astronomers wanted to see if the cloud is being held together by its own gravity -- or if it is swirling so fast that it is on the verge of flying apart. If it is churning too fast, it can't form stars. Using the Combined Array for Research in Millimeter-wave Astronomy (CARMA) -- a collection of 23 radio telescopes in eastern California run by a consortium of institutions, of which Caltech is a member -- the astronomers measured the velocities of the gas in the cloud and found that it is up to 10 times faster than is normally seen in similar clouds. This particular cloud, the astronomers found, was barely held together by its own gravity. In fact, it may soon fly apart.

The CARMA data revealed yet another surprise: the cloud is full of silicon monoxide (SiO), which is only present in clouds where streaming gas collides with and smashes apart dust grains, releasing the molecule. Typically, clouds only contain a smattering of the compound. It is usually observed when gas flowing out from young stars plows back into the cloud from which the stars were born. But the extensive amount of SiO in the galactic-center cloud suggests that it may consist of two colliding clouds, whose impact sends shockwaves throughout the galactic-center cloud. "To see such shocks on such large scales is very surprising," Pillai says.

G0.253+0.016 may eventually be able to make stars, but to do so, the researchers say, it will need to settle down so that it can build dense cores, a process that could take several hundred thousand years. But during that time, the cloud will have traveled a great distance around the galactic center, and it may crash into other clouds or be yanked apart by the gravitational pull of the galactic center. In such a disruptive environment, the cloud may never give birth to stars.

The findings also further muddle another mystery of the galactic center: the presence of young star clusters. The Arches Cluster, for example, contains about 150 bright, massive, young stars, which only live for a few million years. Because that is too short an amount of time for the stars to have formed elsewhere and migrated to the galactic center, they must have formed at their current location. Astronomers thought this occurred in dense clouds like G0.253+0.016. If not there, then where do the clusters come from?

The astronomers' next step is to study similarly dense clouds around the galactic center. The team has just completed a new survey with the SMA and is continuing another with CARMA. This year, they will also use the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile's Atacama Desert -- the largest and most advanced millimeter telescope in the world -- to continue their research program, which the ALMA proposal committee has rated a top priority for 2013.

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Celestron's Virtuoso Telescope Mount Captures the Stars Above or Gigapixel Images Here On Earth

Celestron has taken its expertise in designing telescope mounts that can track and pan with the motion of the stars and created a cheaper, lightweight version called the Virtuoso that can also be used with a camera to capture massive multi-shot images. More »

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Increasing Your Personal Worth Through Self Improvement | Life ...

Improving your character and personality are vital to any program of personal development. You?ll have to build self-awareness, learn new things, and develop spiritually, all leading to the fulfillment of your personal goals. Steps for improving yourself are available in the below article. Try to improve slowly, and you?ll be able better understand who you are.

Self improvement begins with becoming a leader. There are many different definitions as to what a leader is, but the most common attribute of a leader is influence. Look at your journey of leadership. What events have impacted you the most in your life? What changes have occurred thanks to these events? What qualities make you an effective member of the team? By examining yourself through answering these questions, you can help yourself realize your role and ability in a team.

Emergency Fund

Start contributing to an emergency fund. Even the slightest unforeseen event can send a person?s finances spiraling into free fall. However, you can protect yourself from this happening by depositing a few dollars into a savings account each week. You will be surprised at how quickly your emergency fund will increase. This fund will help you grow in the short and long term, our debt will go down and not grow.

Your goals for personal development should be precise enough so that you are able to enjoy success. If you have more tangible goals in mind, you?ll be able to better resolve how you might accomplish them. Specific goals give you a way to measure your progress.

A leader is not only powerful and commanding but they stay humble. Mention the weaknesses or problems that you see, but be kind when doing so. Do not forget that being a good leader means that you must also know how and when to follow others. To succeed in leadership, one must practice fairness and uphold virtue.

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Begin your personal development program by focusing on the things that are most important to you. The best method of learning how you can prevent mistakes in your life is to find out what steps others have taken towards success. It is always beneficial to hear the stories about roads traveled by other individuals, especially very successful individuals.

If you?re not living up to the goals that you set for yourself, take a good hard look at what may be wrong. Research your ideas online to find others who have set similar goals, then compare yours with those of others. The issues holding you back might include not making enough of an effort, employing a flawed method, or aiming for goals that are too ambitious.

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Loudoun Group Decries Leesburg Vulture Control

Loudoun Wildlife Conservancy, in response to the Town of Leesburg?s plans for vulture control, is criticizing plans to help relocate the birds, who they say play a ?critical role as scavengers and sanitarians?, helping to recycle dead animals and sanitize the area.

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