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Khan Academy to make SAT prep materials open and freeMarch 6, 2014 by Sally Farhat Kassab
You likely heard the news that the SAT is undergoing major changes (no more essays, for one). What we are most excited about is Skoll Awardee Khan Academy's game-changing role in the news: a partnership with College Board, the makers of the test.
"The partnership between Khan Academy and the College Board directly addresses one of the greatest inequities around college entrance exams: the culture of high-priced test preparation," the Khan Academy says on its site. Now, for the first time, all students have the opportunity to practice for the SAT with completely free, best-in-class materials. We will work in close collaboration with the College Board to create thousands of in-depth practice problems and instructional videos available spring of 2015 – a full year before the launch of the redesigned SAT."
Talk about system-level change!
Watch the above video of Skoll Awardee Sal Khan talking with College Board CEO David Coleman above to learn more, and visit Sal's blog at http://www.khanacademy.org/about/blog/post/78670138358/lets-level-the-playing-field-for-sat-prep
TED and the Skoll Foundation Honor Charmian Gooch and Global Witness with Two Prestigious Million-Dollar AwardsMarch 5, 2014 by phil
New York, NY (March 5, 2014)—TED and the Skoll Foundation are proud to join in making a unique announcement: each will direct their annual million-dollar prizes to Global Witness. TED will grant its award to Charmian Gooch, Global Witness Co-Founder and Director. The Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship will honor all three Co-Founders and Directors – Patrick Alley, Charmian Gooch, and Simon Taylor – and the organization itself for its extraordinary innovation in disrupting an unjust and unsustainable status quo.
Though TED and the Skoll Foundation separately decided to honor Gooch and Global Witness with their 2014 awards, the organizations are making a joint announcement to highlight the value, merit and distinct contributions of this cutting edge investigative and campaigning organization. For 20 years, Global Witness has run pioneering analysis and campaigns against natural resource-related conflict and corruption and associated environmental and human rights abuses.
"I am thrilled to announce Charmian Gooch as the 2014 TED Prize winner," said Chris Anderson, TED curator. "That both TED and Skoll independently selected Charmian and Global Witness as recipients of these prizes is a remarkable testament to their daring investigative and campaigning work. The TED Prize is granted annually to an inspiring individual with a world-changing wish – one that Charmian will reveal at the TED Conference in just two weeks' time."
TED, the nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading, awards its annual prize to an extraordinary individual with a bold, creative vision to spark global change. The TED Prize leverages the TED community's resources and invests $1 million into a powerful, world-inspiring idea. 2014 TED Prize recipient Charmian Gooch will announce her wish live from the main stage at the annual TED Conference. The session will be broadcast globally for free on March 18 (6-7:45 pm PST): http://tedlive.ted.com/webcasts/2014
"Social entrepreneurs are, by definition, disruptors. Patrick, Charmian, and Simon's leadership epitomizes great social entrepreneurship in Global Witness's quest to expose global conflict, corruption, and environmental degradation, lifting millions out of poverty and protecting the environment. We are delighted to announce Patrick, Charmian, and Simon as among our 2014 Skoll Awardees," said Sally Osberg, President and CEO of the Skoll Foundation.
"Skoll and TED both connect and showcase inspiring, entrepreneurial, breakthrough innovators. We are thrilled to be working closely with our TED colleagues, who share our mission to catalyze social change."
The Skoll Foundation presents the Skoll Awards for Social Entrepreneurship each year to transformative leaders who are disrupting the status quo, driving large-scale change, and are poised for even greater impact. Recipients of the Skoll Award gain leverage and scale through a global community of social entrepreneurs and other innovators dedicated to solving the world's most pressing problems. Global Witness's Patrick Alley, Charmian Gooch, and Simon Taylor will be honored along with other 2014 Skoll Awardees at the 11th Annual Skoll World Forum in Oxford, April 9-11.
"Everyone at Global Witness is honored and thrilled to receive these two prestigious awards, from two remarkable organizations," said Charmian Gooch, Co-Founder and Director of Global Witness. "They truly are a rocket boost to our work – making it possible for us to carry out even more cutting edge investigations, report on matters in the public interest, and launch hard hitting campaigns that challenge vested interests and change the system. I'm personally also very excited about the prospect of announcing the details of my TED Prize Wish live from the TED conference in March. This being our 20th Anniversary year, we couldn't have wished for a better birthday present."
About Global Witness
Founded in 1993, Global Witness is a UK not-for-profit based in London and Washington DC.
Global Witness investigates and campaigns to change the system by exposing the economic networks behind conflict, corruption and environmental destruction. The organization focuses on undertaking hard-hitting investigations into matters of profound public interest that expose the companies, the corrupt, the bankers, the corporate executives, and the middlemen of various kinds who willfully enable corruption to take place on a grand scale. Global Witness reports on these matters, and launches campaigns that change the terms of debate and set the global agenda.
Patrick Alley, Co-Founder & Director, Global Witness
Since posing as a timber buyer in Global Witness's first investigation into the Thai-Khmer Rouge timber trade in 1995, Patrick has taken part in over fifty field investigations in South East Asia, Africa and Europe and in subsequent advocacy activities. Patrick has focused on Global Witness's campaigns on conflict resources, notably former Liberian President Charles Taylor's 'arms for timber' trade, the minerals trade in Eastern DRC and more recently the Central African Republic, as well as providing strategic direction for Global Witness' work on forest issues, especially challenging industrial scale logging and land grabbing in the tropics. In addition, he is involved in the strategic leadership of Global Witness.
Charmian Gooch, Co-Founder & Director, Global Witness
Charmian worked on Global Witness's first ever investigation into how the illegal timber trade between Cambodia and Thailand was funding the genocidal Khmer Rouge regime. Subsequent to that, Charmian developed and launched Global Witness's groundbreaking campaign to combat 'blood diamonds,' using detailed research and field investigations across Africa and Europe. Global Witness was nominated for the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize for its work on conflict diamonds, and in 2005 the organization received the Gleitsman International Activist Award. Charmian has wide-ranging experience advocating for international policy solutions to address natural resource-related conflict and corruption. In addition, she is involved in the strategic leadership of Global Witness.
Simon Taylor, Co-Founder & Director, Global Witness
Simon worked on Global Witness's first ever investigation into how the illegal timber trade between Cambodia and Thailand was funding the genocidal Khmer Rouge regime. After that, Simon launched and led Global Witness's oil and corruption campaign in December 1999, after investigating companies and elite groups involved in this sector. This began the global call for transparency around payments by companies to governments for natural resources, leading to Global Witness's conception and co-launch of the Publish What You Pay (PWYP) campaign, which now consists of over 790 civil society organisations worldwide. Simon has detailed expertise of natural resource-related corruption and extensive advocacy experience, and continues to be at the forefront of the push for a global standard of revenue transparency legislation, as well as being actively involved in Global Witness's work to expose corruption in the sector. In addition, he is involved in the strategic leadership of Global Witness.
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About the TED Prize
The first TED Prize was awarded in 2005, born out of the TED Conference and a vision by the world's leading entrepreneurs, innovators, and entertainers to change the world – one wish at a time. The original prize: $100,000 and the TED community's range of talent and expertise. What began as an unparalleled experiment to leverage the resources of the TED community has evolved into an ambitious effort to spur global-scale change.
From Bono's the ONE Campaign ('05 recipient) to Jamie Oliver 's Food Revolution ('10 recipient) to JR's Inside Out Project ('11 recipient) and Sugata Mitra's School in a Cloud ('13 recipient), the TED Prize has helped to combat poverty, take on religious intolerance, improve global health, tackle child obesity, advance education, and inspire art around the world.
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About the Skoll Foundation & the Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship
The Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship distinguishes transformative leaders who are disrupting the status quo, driving large-scale change, and are poised for even greater impact. Recipients of the Skoll Award gain leverage and scale through a global community of social entrepreneurs and other innovators dedicated to solving the world's most pressing problems.
The 2014 Skoll Awardees will be honored at the 11th Annual Skoll World Forum in Oxford, April 9-11. Sign up to watch the live stream from Oxford here.
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The Skoll Foundation Announces Seven 2014 Skoll Awards for Social EntrepreneurshipMarch 5, 2014 by phil
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Recipients Should Be on Everyone's Global Progress 'Watch List'
PALO ALTO, CA, March 5, 2014—The Skoll Foundation today announced the seven 2014 recipients of the Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship.
The Skoll Award distinguishes transformative leaders who are disrupting the status quo, driving large-scale change, and are poised to make an even greater impact on the world.
"These are not lifetime achievement awards," said Sally Osberg, President and CEO of the Skoll Foundation. "These are bets on the people who will create better futures for millions."
The Skoll Award recognizes social entrepreneurs whose innovations have already had significant, proven impact on some of the world's most pressing problems, and invests directly in the promise of even greater impact at scale. By investing in organizations when an innovation is ripe for accelerated and scaled adoption, the Skoll Awards help unleash the full global potential and reach of social entrepreneurs.
Each Awardee receives a $1.25 million, three-year core support investment to scale their work and increase their impact. They also gain leverage through their long-term participation in a global community of visionary leaders and innovators dedicated to solving the world's most pressing problems.
The 2014 Skoll Awardees represent seven organizations partnering with communities in 35 countries that are poised to crack the code on issues that matter the most to humanity.
"Ambition gives social entrepreneurs the vision and the fuel to do good things in smarter and better ways," said Jeff Skoll, Founder and Chairman of the Skoll Foundation. "As they solve problems ranging from water and sanitation to health and global transparency, social entrepreneurs are driving toward creating a sustainable world of peace and prosperity."
Driving transformation on a range of issues to maximize health, education, opportunity, transparency, and accountability in some of the poorest places on earth, these pioneers should be on the watch lists of everyone who cares about the future of the world:
"Redefining Success in Business as Best FOR the World"
Co-founded by longtime friends and colleagues, Jay Coen Gilbert, Bart Houlahan, and Andrew Kassoy, B Lab is fueling a global movement to redefine "success" in business, so that all companies compete not only to be the best in the world, but the best for the world. B Lab is challenging the status quo by building a new sector, legal structure, and standards; empowering a community of certified B Corporations; and advancing public policies that enable companies to create financial, social, and environmental value for both its shareholders and for society. With 20 states having passed Benefit Corporation legislation, nearly 1,000 B Corporations certified, and 16,000 companies using its tools, B Lab is focused on accelerating the global adoption of this new model.
"Helping Millions Save Their Way Out of Poverty"
Half of the world's adult population—2.5 billion people—are "unbanked," lacking access to financial services. Founded by Belgian-born Yves Moury, Fundación Capital is a pioneer in inclusive finance innovation to help the poor save; grow and invest their assets; insure their families against risk; and chart a permanent path out of poverty. Already reaching three million people, Fundación Capital is working to reach eight million more in the next few years by expanding access to training, capital, and opportunity. Fundación Capital's efforts to align advances in public policy, market mechanisms, and technology are building momentum and poised to reach 100 million poor families across three continents by 2030, enabling them to make their own financial decisions and live their ambitions.
"Ending Child Marriage to Empower a Generation of Girls"
Every year 14 million girls are married as children, denied their rights to health, education, and opportunity, and robbed of their childhood. Mabel van Oranje has an inspiring vision of what the world could look like if there were no child brides, and initiated Girls Not Brides with the bold goal of ending child marriage in one generation. Child marriage traps girls and their communities in poverty. By ending the practice, the global community can start to address some of the most difficult challenges in development. Girls Not Brides is a global partnership of more than 300 civil society organizations working across 50 countries. By joining forces and working at all levels—from grassroots to international—members of the global community can tackle this harmful social norm and end child marriage.
"Driving Transparency to Lift the 'Resource Curse' of Conflict and Human Rights Abuse"
Patrick Alley, Charmian Gooch, and Simon Taylor know that many of the world's poorest people live in the most resource-rich countries in the world. Natural resources can incentivize corruption, destabilize governments, and lead to conflict and the looting of entire states. From 2002 to 2011, illicit money flows from corrupt deals in the developing world totaled nearly $6 trillion. Global Witness investigates and exposes the shadow networks underlying these deals that fuel conflict, corruption, and environmental destruction. They collect evidence and launch hard-hitting campaigns to find global solutions and end the "resource curse" by tackling corruption, protecting the environment, preventing conflict, and defending human rights.
"Building Mobile Communications Tools to Bring Health Care to Underserved Communities"
One billion people will never see a health professional in their lives. Yet 95 percent of the world's population has access to a mobile signal. Josh Nesbit's Medic Mobile was created to improve health in underserved and disconnected communities using communication tools. Medic Mobile builds mobile applications for community health workers, caregivers, and patients to increase life-saving health care coverage. Across 20 countries, its tools support 8,000 frontline health workers and benefit approximately six million people with plans to double these numbers annually for a total of 200,000 health workers serving 100 million people by 2018.
Slum Dwellers International (SDI)
"Leading Slum Dwellers around the World to Improve Their Cities"
In 2008—for the first time in history—more people were living in urban than in rural areas. Today, more than one billion people live in slums. Founded by a collective of slum dwellers and concerned professionals headed by Jockin Arputham, a community organizer in India, Slum Dwellers International works to have slums recognized as vibrant, resourceful, and dignified communities. SDI organizes slum dwellers to take control of their futures; improve their living conditions; and gain recognition as equal partners with governments and international organizations in the creation of inclusive cities. With programs in nearly 500 cities, including more than 15,000 slum dweller-managed savings groups reaching one million people; 20 agreements with national governments; and nearly 130,000 families who have secured land rights, SDI has been a driving force for change for slum dwellers around the world.
Water & Sanitation for the Urban Poor (WSUP)
"Helping Cities Reach Everyone with Water and Sanitation Services"
Every five seconds, the world's urban population increases by 10 people. Everyone needs access to clean water and sanitation, putting a huge pressure on city service agencies. In response, Water & Sanitation for the Urban Poor has turned the traditional charity model on its head by developing commercially-viable models to bring water and sanitation to nearly two million people in urban slums in six countries. Sam Parker, a former business manager, has led the organization since 2006. Offering a creative package of private-sector, nongovernmental-organization, and academic expertise, WSUP equips public and private service agencies with the capacity and incentives to serve all citizens in their city.
Over the past decade, the Skoll Foundation has invested more than $150 million in social entrepreneurs whose transformative innovations have disrupted the status quo, improved lives, and created a new social equilibrium.
The Skoll Award is a major milestone for social entrepreneurs and an investment in solving some of the world's most pressing problems, including: environmental sustainability, education, economic opportunity, health, peace and human rights, and sustainable markets.
The 2014 Skoll Awardees will be honored at the 11th Annual Skoll World Forum in Oxford, April 9-11. At the Forum, nearly 1,000 delegates from around the world will gather for three remarkable days of sharing, learning, and inspiration. While most delegates are practicing social entrepreneurs, a third of the community is made up of representatives from the public and private sectors—business, finance, media, academia, religion, the arts, philanthropy, and more.
Sign up to learn more and watch the Skoll World Forum live stream from Oxford here.
About the Skoll Foundation
Jeff Skoll established the Skoll Foundation in 1999 to drive large-scale change by connecting, celebrating, and investing in social entrepreneurs and the innovators who help them solve the world's most pressing problems. Social entrepreneurs are society's change agents—creators of innovations that disrupt the status quo and transform our world for the better. By identifying the people and programs already enacting positive change throughout the world, the Foundation empowers them to extend their reach, deepen their impact, and drive toward a sustainable world of peace and prosperity.
New online tool tracks deforestationFebruary 20, 2014 by Teresa Guillien
The World Resources Institute (WRI) and a group of more than 40 partners, including Imazon, have launched Global Forest Watch (GFW), an online forest monitoring and alert system that helps people everywhere to better manage forests. Global Forest Watch combines satellite technology, open data, and crowdsourcing to provide access to timely information about forests.
An excerpt from the WRI announcement explains,
"Global Forest Watch will have far-reaching implications across industries. Financial institutions can better evaluate if the companies they invest in adequately assess forest-related risks. Buyers of major commodities such as palm oil, soy, timber, and beef can better monitor compliance with laws, sustainability commitments, and standards. And suppliers can credibly demonstrate that their products are 'deforestation free' and legally produced."
Read more and explore the new tool.
BasicNeeds announces first social franchiseeFebruary 20, 2014 by Teresa Guillien
BasicNeeds recently launched a social franchise program and has announced that their first franchisee will be Grameena Abyudaya Seva Samasthe (GASS), a South Indian nonprofit. BasicNeeds explained in a recent communication, excerpted here:
"Alongside the other work they do with local disabled adults and children, GASS will be taking on the delivery of the BasicNeeds Model for Mental Health and Development in rural areas of Karnataka state, South India.
Social franchising will enable BasicNeeds to support independent organisations like GASS operating predominantly in low and middle income countries to take on the delivery of our Model in their territory. This will help increase the impact of their work and most importantly, the quality of life for people with mental illness, epilepsy and their families.
The Model, initially developed and tested in India in 2000, combines access to regular community-based treatment with initiatives to overcome stigma and abuse, whilst access to livelihoods creates a threefold impact: a family's poverty is reduced; the person's self-esteem and recovery is improved; and the community's view of that person is transformed."
Read more about BasicNeeds' social franchise opportunity.
World leaders call for humanitarian access in SyriaFebruary 20, 2014 by Teresa Guillien
An open letter calls for a UN Security Council resolution on humanitarian access in Syria to coincide with the Olympic Games in Sochi. The letter was published in the Financial Times and is signed by 47 global leaders from 26 countries, including Madeleine Albright, Mo Ibrahim, Sir John Holmes, Javier Solana, and George Soros. An excerpt:
- The truce: lead efforts to agree a UN Security Council humanitarian resolution that calls for Syria's parties to the conflict to facilitate the delivery of humanitarian assistance and open Syria's conflict lines and borders to ensure aid reaches all those in need, including through local ceasefires.
- Fair play: demand in the resolution that all parties to the conflict agree to abandon medieval and illegal tactics of war such as besieging towns, deliberately targeting hospitals and schools, and enable civilians to flee areas under attack.
- Peaceful coexistence: reiterate Russia's commitment to ongoing peace negotiations that will pave the way for Syrians of all faiths and backgrounds to live in peaceful coexistence once again.
Thomas Friedman takes a tour of Jerusalem's sewersFebruary 19, 2014 by Teresa Guillien
Skoll Awardee, Friends of the Earth Middle East, recently led New York Times columnist, Thomas Friedman, on a tour of Holy Land sewers. The column explains how peace and collaboration will be critical to improving public health and the environment in the Middle East. An excerpt:
"Who knew that when you flush the toilet in your hotel in the eastern half of Jerusalem the wastewater likely ends up in the Dead Sea — untreated? It flows from Jerusalem's sewers into the Kidron Stream. If you can stand the stench, you can watch it all rush by about a mile east and downhill from Jerusalem. Germany offered to pay for a treatment plant, but for the past 20 years Israel and the Palestinian Authority have not been able to agree on how to split the treated water — which originates in both Jewish and Arab drains, so nothing has happened. As a result, Mother Nature alone does her best to filter it as it flows down to the Jordan Valley, where Jewish settlers use some of this poorly treated water to irrigate their date palms. The rest ends up in the Dead Sea. Good thing it's already dead."
Read the entire column.
Report from Sundance: Using stories to catalyze changeFebruary 10, 2014 by Teresa Guillien
Sandy Herz, our Director of Strategic Alliances, recently returned from the Sundance Film Festival where the Skoll Foundation and Sundance Institute hosted the latest Stories of Change convening. The purpose? To help social entrepreneurs and filmmakers explore how stories can catalyze and accelerate social change.
Four social entrepreneurs—Health Care without Harm, VisionSpring, BasicNeeds, and Saude Criança—were paired with experienced filmmakers and storytelling advisors during the four-day event that involved hands-on working sessions and presentations on effective storytelling.
We were honored to have award-winning filmmakers as advisors, including Nicole Newnham (The Revolutionary Optimists), Cori Stern (Open Heart) and Pete Nicks (The Waiting Room), as well as design researcher and strategist Deborah Alden.
At the end of the convening, social entrepreneurs said that they had a new appreciation of using visuals—not just words—for scaling their work, and filmmakers expressed plans to be more intentional about developing impact frameworks for future storytelling projects.
In a recent op-ed, Sandy explained the powerful nature of these storytelling collaborations for amplifying social impact:
"Just as social entrepreneurs need to move people to understand and act on the issues, documentary filmmakers need to ground their stories in actionable solutions that can be executed at scale. Together, they are far more powerful than either can be in isolation."
Read Sandy's op-ed and learn more about Stories of Change.
FT article highlights Skoll Centre for Social EntrepreneurshipFebruary 7, 2014 by Teresa Guillien
A new article examines the growing demand for meaningful enterprises among MBA students. Academics and entrepreneurs are increasingly seeking out sound business ideas that can also help the environment or benefit disadvantaged communities. The Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship is highlighted as a resource for students at Oxford's Said Business School to develop innovative ideas for social benefit.
Pamela Hartigan, director of the Skoll Centre explains, ""Most MBAs no longer foster a distinction between social responsibility and entrepreneurship." However, entrepreneurship isn't the only way that students can do good. Says Hartigan, "We have romanticised the concept of entrepreneurs and made them 'heropreneurs'," she says. "But you can be an innovative, resourceful, change-maker wherever you work."
Read the entire article.
Communities in Mali publicly denounce female genital cuttingFebruary 7, 2014 by Teresa Guillien
This week, communities in Mali publicly declared that they will no longer support the practice of female genital cutting and child marriage. Skoll Awardee, Tostan, has worked with these communities through its human rights-based program to support health and education for girls. The news was reported in the Washington Post and in an op-ed authored by Molly Melching, the Founder and Executive Director of Tostan.
Here's an excerpt from the news story:
"Prior to making a public declaration, communities working with Tostan complete a three-year educational "empowerment program" emphasizing human rights. Tostan says the programs foster the type of "large-scale social change" that can spur communities to abandon a practice with deep traditional roots.
'We know that perhaps there will still be people who may be resistant to this as always when something like this happens, especially in an urban center," Melching said. "But we know that the people in our program and their relatives and their immediate neighbors … they have really decided to abandon the practice which is amazing.'"
Read the entire article and Molly Melching's op-ed on the Skoll World Forum.
New report about child labor in carpet industryFebruary 6, 2014 by Teresa Guillien
A new report, published by a Harvard researcher, shines light on slavery and child labor in India's handmade carpet industry. GoodWeave, a Skoll Awardee dedicated to ending child labor in the carpet industry, responded with a statement. Here's an excerpt:
"Through a combination of forces—including our own work and the commitment of our licensed exporters and importers—child labor in the carpet industry has dropped by an estimated 75 percent since 1994. And a recent independent report affirmed that child labor is virtually non-existent in our inspected supply chains in India.
But, it's important to remember that the rugs coming out of the supply chains certified by GoodWeave still represent a small percentage of the rugs imported into the U.S. and Europe. That's why we are glad to be working with some of the companies referenced in the Harvard report, helping them to ensure their supply chains for rugs and carpets are free of child labor. And we welcome the opportunity to work with even more retailers, importers and exporters to rid the carpet industry of child, forced and bonded labor once and for all."
Read GoodWeave's statement and the full report (PDF).
Gary Cohen on improving the healthcare systemJanuary 31, 2014 by Teresa Guillien
President of Healthcare without Harm, Gary Cohen, makes the case for further reforms to our healthcare system in a recent op-ed on Huffington Post. Gary, a Skoll Awardee, explains,
"Under the Affordable Care Act, we have a chance to move upstream and address the social and environmental factors that are making people sick in the first place. American hospitals can start by modeling the transition to a healthier environment in their own facilities. They can build cancer centers without carcinogens and pediatric hospitals without chemicals linked to asthma and birth defects. They can eliminate junk food and sugary beverages in their cafeterias and use their purchasing power to detox their supply chain. They can reduce their addiction to fossil fuels, which contribute to both immediate health impacts as well as climate change. They can become early adopters of renewable energy that will provide health benefits to all of us for generations to come."
Read the entire op-ed.
Jenny Bowen on her new book about Half the SkyJanuary 29, 2014 by Teresa Guillien
Jenny Bowen, a Skoll Awardee, is the author of Wish You Happy Forever, a new book that chronicles her personal and professional journey to transform Chinese orphanages—and the lives of the neglected girls who live in them—from a state of quiet despair to one of vibrant promise.
On the Skoll World Forum, Jenny shares the story of how the book came to be written, and how the adoption of her daughter sparked her journey. Jenny notes,
"I never imagined when I founded Half the Sky, the impact we ultimately would have on the lives of millions of forgotten children. What's happened in China is extraordinary, but anybody who's met me knows that I'm completely ordinary. Like a lot of ordinary people, I've always been a big dreamer. The only difference between me (or dare I say, at least a few of my fellow social entrepreneurs) and the dreamers for whom I wrote this book is: I did it."
Read the entire post.
The book will be released on March 11th and is available for pre-order now.
Renee Kaplan talks tech and philanthropy on public radioJanuary 23, 2014 by Teresa Guillien
On Thursday, Renee Kaplan, Chief Strategy Officer of the Skoll Foundation, joined a panel on technology and philanthropy on KQED's radio program, Forum. Host Michael Krasny led a discussion on how philanthropists are using the approaches and technologies of the tech industry to help solve social problems.
The discussion covered topics ranging from how tech professionals are giving at a younger age to how new technologies are being used by innovative social entrepreneurs to tackle complex issues like deforestation.
Listen to the entire program online.
An update on reconstruction efforts in the PhilippinesJanuary 23, 2014 by Teresa Guillien
It's been two months since Typhoon Haiyan struck the Philippines, and Gawad Kalinga is working on reconstruction plans. In a new update, staff member Issa Cuevas-Santos shares observations on how disasters are "the new normal" for the region and how devastated communities are joining together to rebuild lives.
She explains, "Even beyond just rebuilding homes, the serious work of rebuilding lives by getting the children to school, providing livelihood opportunities and building community spirit continues. It is a long road ahead still, but they are on track and we are confident that they are on their way out of poverty, perhaps very slowly but surely."
Read the entire update.
Op-ed on land reform by Landesa featured in The New York TimesJanuary 17, 2014 by Teresa Guillien
A new op-ed by Landesa in The New York Times uses the recent typhoon in the Philippines to illustrate how the developing world's landless poor routinely bear the brunt of natural disasters. Tim Hanstad and Roy Prosterman make the case that the lack of secure property rights diminishes a country's resiliency and slows post-disaster recovery efforts. They explain,
"Families without secure rights to land (and that is a majority of rural residents in many developing countries) often remain in their homes when it is dangerous to do so, fearing they won't be allowed to return. And without the security of ownership and access to collateral, their homes are often not built to withstand earthquakes, typhoons and other disasters.
This has profound consequences that extend far beyond the squatter camps and plantations with their legions of impoverished laborers. Landlessness and the lack of secure property rights among the poor not only hurt a country's resiliency and slow post-disaster recovery. Those inequities also hold back economic development, perpetuate poverty and fan social tensions."
Read the entire op-ed.
New progress on sustainable business in the AmazonJanuary 14, 2014 by Teresa Guillien
A project—partially supported by the Skoll Foundation—that seeks to increase sustainable business in the Amazon region is seeing early evidence of success. In a new blog post, the Conservation Strategy Fund shares more about this milestone and the innovative project model. From the post:
"Conservation Strategy Fund has been working with traditional communities in Brazil to support low-impact activities in the Amazon region. These activities have subsequently grown into sustainable businesses, from both an environmental and economic perspective. The guidance CSF has given these locally-owned businesses has helped them to grow substantially and aims to eventually contribute to decreased deforestation in Brazil."
Read the entire post.
The Social Progress Index and its connection to early British poverty research featured in The GuardianJanuary 9, 2014 by Teresa Guillien
It's the 125th anniversary of a pioneering study of poverty in Victorian London and in a fascinating post in The Guardian, Michael Green, of the Social Progress Imperative, explains how that research paved the way for modern measures of social progress.
Green explains, "A century and a quarter on, in a globalised world and an age in which data collection is greatly facilitated by advances in technology, we are starting to see the creation of new measures of social progress on an international scale, which can undoubtedly trace their origins to Booth's work. The Social Progress Index launched last year is the most comprehensive global measure of social progress ever created."
Read the entire blog post here.
See previous Skoll Foundation coverage on the Social Progress Index here.
APOPO Awarded £60,000 to Clear Landmines in Mozambique – with Rats, of CourseJanuary 3, 2014 by Sally Farhat Kassab
Britain is funding a program to train giant rats to sniff out thousands of buried landmines in Mozambique, and Skoll Awardee APOPO is central to this work, according to a new article in The Mirror.
Bart Weetjens, APOPO's founder, told The Mirror: "The work of APOPO is all about empowering communities living in limited resources settings to tackle difficult, dangerous and expensive detection tasks more independently.
"Using a sustainable local resource – our hero rats – and involving our beneficiaries in the technology design and implementation processes have proven to be critical factors to our sustained impact."
The initiative is part of a new £5million mine clearing program by the UK's department for international development over three years.
Read more: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/giant-rats-mozambique-landmine-search-2975422#ixzz2pMWn4E54
What will Crowdfunding Look Like in 2014? The Skoll Social Entrepreneurs Challenge Raises the BarJanuary 2, 2014 by admin
In recent years, crowdfunding models of the type that support a new product—like a prototype for a cool new watch, or a friend's idea for a new genre of art, or an important cause, like a marathon runner's mission to run in honor of a family member or friend—have swept the social change landscape.
With the successful close of the Skoll Social Entrepreneurs Challenge, we saw crowdfunding embracing the age of the social entrepreneur. The Challenge raised $2.4 million—double the amount of any other Skoll Foundation crowdfunding campaign. Of the organizations participating, an average of $37,804 was raised. That's more than three times the average raised by a charity participating in a CrowdRise Challenge.
Skoll Social Entrepreneurs Challenge organizations are recipients of the "Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship." Working on the frontlines, social entrepreneurs fight disease, poverty, and injustice with their innovative approaches, proving that: health care, education, and basic needs can be delivered efficiently and equitably; that sustainability trumps depletion; and that large-scale impact is possible. Learn more about the winners here.
Embracing unique incentive structures, social media tools, and e-marketing strategies mimicking the most successful online retailers, CrowdRise Challenges like these have seen phenomenal leverage in turning seed money into an impact many times greater than even the best dollar-for-dollar matching campaigns. Skoll's $250,000 prize money was leveraged 9:1 in the latest Challenge. Leverage and scale is not only important for enacting a socially disruptive idea, it's also a growing way to drive financial support for those ideas. read more


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Fetal echocardiography is an ultrasound test performed during pregnancy to evaluate the heart of the unborn baby.
Echocardiography assesses the heart's structures and function. A small probe called a transducer (similar to a microphone) is placed on the mother's abdomen and sends out ultrasonic sound waves at a frequency too high to be heard. When the transducer is placed in certain locations and at certain angles, the ultrasonic sound waves move through the mother's and baby's skin and other body tissues to the baby's heart tissues, where the waves bounce (or "echo") off of the heart structures. The transducer picks up the reflected waves and sends them to a computer. The computer interprets the echoes into an image of the heart walls and valves.
Fetal echocardiography can help detect heart abnormalities before birth, allowing for faster medical or surgical intervention once the baby is born. This improves the chance of survival after delivery for babies with severe heart defects.
It is not necessary for all pregnancies to receive an echocardiogram. The prenatal ultrasound tests that are done prior to birth can give information about whether the fetal heart has developed all four chambers. Most unborn babies do not require any further testing.
Situations in which a fetal echocardiogram may be necessary include, but are not limited to, the following:
Fetal echocardiograms are usually performed in the second trimester of pregnancy, at about 18 to 24 weeks.
A fetal echocardiogram is performed by a pediatric cardiologist who is specially trained. The test is typically performed by placing a probe over the mother's abdomen to visualize the fetal heart.
During the test the transducer probe will be moved around to obtain images of different locations and structures of the fetal heart. Techniques sometimes used to obtain detailed information about the fetal heart include the following:
Fetal echocardiography can help detect fetal heart abnormalities before birth, allowing for faster medical or surgical intervention once the baby is born. This improves the chance of survival after delivery for babies with serious heart defects. Other tests or procedures that may be needed include the following:
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I applied online and the process took 3 weeks - interviewed at Schlumberger.
Interview Details Applied online 2 semesters before graduation. Didnt hear back until a month before graduation. got an email asking for a phone interview for the 2 days after the email was sent. Phone interview was basic questions about my resume etc. Chatte some and talked about what is involved in REMS.
a week or so later, i was invited to fly to houston for a 2 day interview group event. Travel was well coordinated. the first day we had a location visit, where we saw one manufacturing floor, it wasn't too extensive. HR folks gave a presentation on schlumberger, and then we had a trebuchet building competition. The reps didnt even stay in the room while we worked, so im not sure what purpose it served.
The next day we gave technical presentations we'd prepared before hand to a room of experts. very few questions were asked. later, several 1 on 1 interviews were conducted. they were very technical, but I found that the best feedback I got were the interviews where I could answer the questions and could make them laugh as well.
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3. Have you ever been in a team where the team dynamics was difficult to handle? If you were the leader would you have done anything differently?
4. 8 weights puzzle
5. Where will a variable in a function be stored in the memory? Stack or heap? What variables are stored in the heap?
6. What is the syntax for dynamic memory allocation?
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I applied online and the process took 2 months - interviewed at Schlumberger in February 2011.
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Frank Lampard hopes to be involved in both England games during this international break as he approaches the 100-cap mark.
The midfielder has represented his country 94 times but having seen Steven Gerrard and Chelsea team-mate Ashley Cole reach a century for England over the past few months, Lampard would like to be next , but is taking nothing for granted as he prepares for important fixtures away to San Marino and Montenegro.
'I'm here and ready to be involved, hopefully in both games. I'm pleased with the amount of games I've played and I'll keep trying to keep going and see if I can pick up some more caps,' he said on Tuesday.
'I watched Steven do it, I watched Ashley do it now and I've been in the squad for a long time for those boys. It's a very proud moment for any player that reaches that. On the flip side, having played 94 times now if it all ended today I'd be very proud of what I've done for England. Without wanting to look six caps ahead, I'll try and go game by game. If I did get there I'd be a very proud man.
'I do enjoy it, particularly in the last year or two of my career. As you get older you understand it won't go on forever so I do really appreciate playing for my country as much as ever, even more so maybe, I really do enjoy coming, I enjoy playing.
'My body reacts better to staying training and playing and keeping on top of myself. Whether it's Chelsea or England, I'm enjoying both at the minute so it's good for me.'
Now 34, Lampard has always maintained he is at his best when playing consistently. It has meant adapting the way he trains, much like Cole and Gerrard, and Rio Ferdinand, who has withdrawn from the squad to manage his own fitness schedule at Manchester United.
'I used to train harder as a young kid and had the capacity to do so without feeling it would affect me in games. As you get older maybe [you do] a bit less of that and have more awareness of how to rest and maintain yourself,' Lampard explained. 'It comes with the territory. I don't think you can prolong yourself like Ryan Giggs has done without getting passed the 30-mark and looking at it from a slightly different angle.
'Every individual is different. I've always found it better for me to keep playing regularly. I don't like taking breaks or going on holidays during the season but you make your decisions based on how you feel.'
With 18 goals for club and country this season, Lampard has the 20-mark in his sights once more, and is hoping to add to his 27 England goals in the forthcoming fixtures.
'I always set my sights on scoring consistently,' he said. 'I've been lucky to do so over a number of years, and I'd like to get them and for them to be important goals. I'm pleased considering I had an injury for a couple of months that I've managed to get there. When I'm at my best and most confident I can score regularly.'
England are second in their World Cup qualifying group. Victory over San Marino is expected, as Lampard accepts, before a potentially decisive trip to the group leaders Montenegro.
'We're expected to win against San Marino. It's a game to be professional,' he said. 'You don't get much credit whatever the result, you're expected to win comfortably. By being professional and disciplined with the quality we have in our team, we want to get the right result.
'With Montenegro top of the group, us in second and going away we're aware how tough that game is out there. It's imperative we do our utmost to get the right results in both games. I believe in the squad and players we have.'


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Dinner by Design Art of the Table, and a runway show
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The game design industry is constantly evolving, and CIAs students are on the edge of the newest technologies and gaming tactics. This weekend, the Great Lakes Science Center will host our students for the Game Design Spring Show, as they present their amazing work. The exhibition reception is tomorrow, Apr. 25, from 1-3pm. Click below for more details.
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Degree MFA, Fiber, Cranbrook Academy of Art; BFA, University of Michigan.
Sarah's work has been exhibited in galleries such as Vermont Studio Center; the Cultural Center of Polecni, Pieksamaki, Finland; Reinberger Gallery, Cleveland Institute of Art; and SPACES gallery, Cleveland, among others. Her awards have included a CAA Tuition Grant (2000-2002); a Merit Scholarship and Grant to the Vermont Studio Center (1999); and a Merit Scholarship for the University of Michigan (1998).expand collapse
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Courses Art & Design History I: Ancient-18th Century | Art & Design History II: 18th Century-1945 | BFA Statement + Exhibition | Expanded Print: New Imaging | Intro to Painting: Painting History: 1828-Present | Role of the Artist as Producer | Senior Studio: BFA Research | Systems Drawing | Water+: An Exploration of Water-Based Media
Degree MFA, Painting, University of Alabama (Tuscaloosa); MA, Art History, University of Alabama at Birmingham; BS, University of North Alabama
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I have been working at Echo Global Logistics full-time for more than 3 years
Pros – The IT dept at Echo is top notch. The entire team wants to make a great product. The IT managers are great. They can be a tad bit arrogant, but name me one IT manager who isn't one of the most arrogant people you've meet. There is a real chance for advancement in this dept, which is rare for IT. And it isn't based on favorites, but skill level. However...
Cons – The Executives do not give us any respect or time to do what's right. They're constantly pushing us to do things quick and easy.
The pay and benefit structure do not match the market. The health insurance plan for families is the worst I've ever seen offered to an IT dept. The co-pay is almost $800/month. Most employees with families do not use Echo's insurance cause the cost is too high. It's cheaper for them to purchase it online or use their spouse's plan.
The 401k matching is the bare minimum a company can offer and still legally be able to state they have matching 401k. It's all based on very long term vestments so you'll never see the matching $.
They claim your bonuses is a max of 5%, but in reality it's only maxes out at 2.5%, vs. the standard 10% offered by most IT places. The upper management does not see bonuses as a way to reward you for hard work, instead they see it as some chicken feed to throw at you so they can say they handed out bonuses.
The high turnover rate reflects the lack of benefits, and yet they still haven't figured it out.
Advice to Senior Management – Give your IT dept a real competitive bonus structure. Pay for most of their health insurance, which is pretty standard for IT dept. The current benefits structure makes me NOT want to work hard or work overtime. We had record profits the last 2 years mainly due to new products pushed out via overtime by IT. But yet the IT dept is constantly given the cold shoulder.
No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company
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A chillingly relevant storyline pits superpower against superpower in all-out war – with you in command. You'll take control of the U.S.-led Joint Strike Force, the European Enforcers Corps, or the Russian Spetsnaz Guards Brigade in a single-player campaign or online against friends in a persistent-world Theater of War mode. EndWar goes beyond other war games by letting you use your own voice to control your units, offering you true control of the action at the speed of thought.
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Bibliography of Genealogy: Circulating Collection
Bibliography of Genealogy Reference Materials
Bibliography of Local History: Circulating Collection
1895 New York Atlas - http://www.livgenmi.com/1895/NY- County maps of NY state as of 1895, includes lists of cities, towns, with name, population, where located in the state, post office, railroad station or express office.
The American
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Books we own
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Cyndi's List of Genealogical Sites on the Internet http://www.cyndislist.com/ More than 83,000 links, categorize and cross-referenced, plus alphabetical and topical categories.
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Family Search Website for
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-Another link from the History Channel. This site offers links
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Library of Congress. Local History & Genealogy Reading Room Library of Congress Local History The Library of Congress has one of the world's premier collections of U.S.and foreign genealogical and local historical publications.
LibrarySpot's Online Obituary Search -http://www.peoplespot.com/records/obituaries.htm - has links to several online obituary search links.
National Archives and Records Administration. Genealogy NARA.GENEALOGY NARA's gateway to using the National Archives for genealogical research.
New York State Archives -http://www.archives.nysed.gov/aindex.shtml - Records of military service, census, Indian, naturalization, marriage and prisons.
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U.S. Army Center of Military History U.S. Army Center of Military History The Center's art and documents collections, library facilities, and reference services are open to private researchers. Official priorities permitting, its historians, curators, and archivists advise researchers on military history topics and stand ready to share their expertise concerning the location of sources. Includes links to historical websites of other branches of the U.S. Military.
USGenWeb Project - New York State Page USGenWeb Project - New York We are a group of volunteers working together to provide Internet websites for genealogical research in every county and every state of the United States. This project is non-commercial and fully committed to free access for everyone.
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Wow, that would totally suck if it did pass. I wonder how it'll affect everyone else who does digital work - I mean there is software and other digital goods out there too. : (
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It has gotten MUCH better since launch!
This review is from: SimCity Limited Edition
Pros: Now that the game has had some time to patch, and EA has gotten their servers working, the game is actually an amazing good time. You should seriously check it out, because it's multi-player SimCity!
Cons: Still requires Origin to play. No one I know likes Origin, but alas it is an EA game, so it's going to require Origin.
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Awesome noe that servers are working
This review is from: SimCity Limited Edition
Pros: This game is very in-depth lots of things to plop and upgrade the whole online community/ region thing is awesome I can share stuff with my friends and they can help me, The cloud based SimCity is neat I can play at home, on my laptop, and at my office and all of my cities are with me.
Cons: Maps are a little small but having lots of plots in the region make for easy expansion.
Other Thoughts: I really like this game very additive!!
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Great Game!!
This review is from: SimCity Limited Edition
Pros: Graphics, Glass Box, Region View, easy way to upgrade buildings or roads Etc. just click on it and then click upgrade! Loads of camera angels and views that are easy to navigate via the mouse.
Cons: So many options and little to no help in game! The only tutorial that I've seen thus far is the general getting started tutorial that you play when you first open the game. But this is a minor thing! You have to be connected to the internet to play, annoying but not the total fail it's been made out to be.
Other Thoughts: I've played every Simcity since the original came out in the late 80's and each one has had it's ups and downs, but this one is awesome. I know the game has a bad reputation due to the launch problems, but anytime something new is done you should expect problems. They now have a good portion of the major problems worked out with more patches to come. So if you liked any of the versions of Simcity over the years you will probably like this, but I will caution you that this version is aimed at multi-player. So if you want to play on your own you have to develop multiple cities, but I could see this being extremely fun to play with friends. As for the required internet connection, it has it's up side in that your games are saved on the servers not on your computer and you don't have to worry about saving at all! The game is saved every second as you go, down side to this is that you can't load from a previous point if you decide you want to change something. Final conclusion: This is a great game and should only get better as time goes by and EA and Maxis supply patches and continue to work out the bugs.
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This review is from: SimCity Limited Edition
Pros: got a free game for activating in timely fashion due to epic fail
Cons: choice for free game limited to a couple of titles i already owned, handful of titles already free and a few EA games recently released
Other Thoughts: great game but requires lots of work
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Alpha code
This review is from: SimCity Limited Edition
Pros: More patches are coming....
Cons: I launched the game and tried to play the learning scenario. The game freezes after about 90 seconds of playing time... Yep, this game is a complete mess. I'd wait at least 6-9 months before considering buying this title.
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corporate greed destroying customer happiness
This review is from: SimCity Limited Edition
Pros: it's a fun time-killer.
Cons: broken game - you literally cant play it. period.
Other Thoughts: gosh this game could have been so great.
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This review is from: SimCity Limited Edition
Pros: It's nice to have another simcity out there. I also got a free game out of the deal (bribe)
Cons: Short version: Buggy, online only, hard as hell to find a game to join.
Other Thoughts: Origin / EA has lost it and they know it. The way they admitted this was to give everyone a game in hopes to shut people up for awhile. It worked for me. It kept me quiet for an extra few weeks.
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This review is from: SimCity Limited Edition
Pros: The demo for the game was fan-tastic. I got into the Public Beta weekend a month ago and while I could only play the game for an hour at a time (EA claims that they wanted uses to focus on the early game), I was hooked deploying the various regions and watching them grow and change as I fiddled about with the landscape was brilliant! The graphics looked great and the interaction with the city - the missions and the like was actually fun and the game is incredibly dynamic. Sure I had to restart my city every 60 minutes, but it was a blast!
Cons: At the time of this writing, I've had the game for four days now and I can't actually play. You see, Electronic Arts, in their efforts to fight piracy, have implemented a "Must always be connected to the internet" functionality in their single player game. Not just a CRC check at the games start-up, but if Sim City can't connect and stay connected to EA's servers, then you can't play the game. No active internet connection, no Sim City. Period.
Other Thoughts: Electronic Arts released a beta version. Go get Sim City IV instead.
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Very Fun Game
This review is from: SimCity Limited Edition
Pros: Has a lot of replay value and the new region play is cool once you get used to it. The overall feel and look of the game is great. I find myself thinking about new things to try often when I'm not even playing it because you can use a lot of different options to find success with your cities and region. I'm not a huge PC gamer but this game is bringing me back to it.
Cons: There have been server issues which gives the game the 4 eggs instead of 5. A lot of load time failures and problems that can be dealt with if you're patient. They are starting to decrease a lot recently though for me personally.
Other Thoughts: Overall, I think this game is worth going for. The price point may be a bit high due to the server issues but I would say I am happy I got it. It is one of those games that has caused me to lose track of time because I am trying to use strategy through situations and the gameplay is fun.
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great game. terrible servers.
This review is from: SimCity Limited Edition
Pros: This game is great, amazing graphics and a big improvement from the previous, with many new features
Cons: This game runs DRM ( you must be connected to the Orgin servers while playing and to log in) the servers have failed to run for some time now and all youtubers are saying it too.
Other Thoughts: So great game, just fix the servers EA just get a new center for 100k and that's that
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Now, this is kind of complicated (in my opinion) so I'm just going to explain the situation from the beginning.
A friend of mine purchased an iPhone 2g from 'someone', I have no idea who, and it appears it already came jailbroken and unlocked, as it had some programs like "BSD Subsystem", "Installer", "Summer Board", etc. Everything worked, he could detect and use wireless networks to browse the internet / YouTube, he could make calls no problem, photos, everything.
Now, a couple of weeks ago, he informs me that he can no longer access wireless network. We make sure that WiFi is turned on and we try in several areas with WiFi networks: My university, my house, some hotel lobbies. No networks can be found in any place. YouTube obviously doesn't work, and Safari states "Safari cannot open the page because it is not connected to the Internet".
His iPhone had the 1.1.3 or 1.1.4 firmware, one of the two, I can't recall which. I thought that perhaps updating the firmware to the newest release might do the trick. I upgraded it to 3.1.2, and since I used my computer (since all the music and applications that were on it had been put, I assume, by the guy that sold him the iPhone), and it told me that I would have to delete all the data to update it. I did, and it deleted everything.
Now, I assume that because the phone 'reset', that it is no longer jailbroken and unlocked. Am I correct in assuming this? I ask because I put a SIM card of mine to restore it, I used blackra1n to jailbreak the iPhone, but I had no service even with my SIM card - I'm not familiar at all with how unlocking iPhones works, but I assume that unlocking means you allow the phone to use SIM cards to make calls, right?
Now, I have been told that to unlock the phone, I have to go into blackra1n in the iPhone and download Cydia. But I can't do this because the phone still doesn't detect wireless networks.
So before, it didn't detect networks. Now, it still doesn't, and it can't even make calls anymore.
Is there anything I'm overlooking? I've already reset the wireless network settings, still nothing. Is there any thing I can do to access wireless networks so that I can unlock the phone with Cydia?
Thanks, and sorry for the long post.


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Andre Ethier (LAN) extended his hitting streak to 24 games Wednesday afternoon. A .279 career hitter, Andre's batting average stands at .380 in 2011. The pattern that pitchers used against him doesn't seem to be working this year.
During the previous three seasons, Ethier did his best hitting on balls inside:
So pitchers worked him away:
They continue to work him away in 2011:
What's changed is Andre is poking those outside pitches for hits:
So is this real, or just an early season fluke? Andre hasn't really changed his approach. He's not swinging more at outside pitches, except those in the upper outside corner. He's squaring up those pitches better, however. In the past, 19% of balls he put in play on outside pitches resulted in line drives. This season, 35% of those pitches turn into line drives. That seems like an unsustainable rate, but for now, the old way of pitching to the Dodgers outfielder just isn't working.