The Truth Session

The Last Christmas

Kevin W. — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 03:19:37 +0000

Hello All, Hope everyone had a great Christmas and holiday season, because, this holiday season was, good or bad, the very last one. That’s right ladies and gentlemen; we humans have finally reached one of those rare great turning points …

Freedom Scientific Enhances Scanning and Reading Appliances

Kevin W. — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 16:15:12 +0000

St. Petersburg, Florida: Freedom Scientific today announced an upgrade to its SARA(tm) and SARA CE Scanning and Reading Appliances to improve speed and accuracy. “We’ve added ABBYY FineReader(r) to the OmniPage(r) OCR engine we were already using, combining the best …

Goodwill Industries Expands Social Enterprise Model

Kevin W. — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 20:43:00 +0000

Goodwill Industries of Korea was formed to provide job training and career services to people with disabilities and others who are trying to enter the workforce. Goodwill Industries of Korea has been in existence for nine years and serves as the national organization for Goodwill Industries International in the republic of Korea. It is comprised of 4 affiliates throughout Korea that operate five stores where the majority of the employees have disabilities in order for them to receive employment and training skills.

Congressman Fattah Cites Study Showing Malleability of IQ in Teenage Brains

Kevin W. — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 16:34:04 +0000

Congressman Chaka Fattah (D-PA), senior Democrat on House Appropriations’ Commerce, Justice, Science and related agencies (CJS) Subcommittee and leading Congressional neuroscience research advocate responds to intriguing new brain research in the journal Nature. Congressman Fattah said of the article, ‘Verbal and non-verbal intelligence changes in the teenage brain,’ “This ground-breaking research calls into question so many of our assumptions; I want to thank the authors and sponsors for this impressive undertaking. We are called to reexamine our preconceived notions about the permanence and reliability of IQ in measuring the intellectual ‘potential’ of individuals.”

Al Jazeera English Comes to Chicago on WTTW

Kevin W. — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 02:14:45 +0000

This month, Al Jazeera English (AJE) programming will become available for the first time across Chicago, joining a growing list of US cities carrying AJE content. As of October 31, Chicago viewers will be able to watch Al Jazeera English’s award-winning global news coverage on two channels, WTTW11 and WTTW Prime (11-2; Comcast 370). WTTW is the most watched public television station in America, serving more than 65% of Illinois’ population, as well as sections of Indiana, Wisconsin, and Michigan. Since February, cable and satellite providers have received more than 70,000 emails from Americans asking for access to the channel. Although many viewers watch live streams of AJE coverage online, this will be AJE’s first foray into mainstream public television in Chicago. AJE will air for 30 minutes at 6:30 am and 11:00 pm Monday-Friday on the WTTW Prime channel and from 5:30 am-6:30 am on WTTW11 on Saturdays.

Women Lead The Fight Against Climate Change

Kevin W. — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 18:21:17 +0000

NEW YORK: — Women are leading the fight against climate change and other urgent environmental issues that confront the planet, according to Dr. Sarah Otterstrom, Executive Director of Paso Pacifico, at the Clinton Global Initiative. In Nicaragua, women are leading …

Segregated Spaces and Risky Places

Kevin W. — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 20:28:53 +0000

WASHINGTON: After a decade-long rise in concentrated poverty, one in 11 residents of metropolitan areas now live in communities where at least 30 percent of their neighbors are poor, according to a pair of studies unveiled today by the Joint …

USA TODAY Gallup Poll Looks at Americans’ Thoughts on Terrorism Over the Last 10 Years

Kevin W. — Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:38:21 +0000

Mclean, Va: In the final week leading up to the tenth anniversary of 9/11 and the events that changed America ten years ago, USA TODAY and Gallup have conducted an exclusive poll looking at Americans’ thoughts on terrorism and how …

Seventy-One Percent of Employers Say They Value Emotional Intelligence Over IQ

Kevin W. — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 05:09:17 +0000

CHICAGO: With smaller staffs, higher stress levels and uncertainties around the economy, are employers changing what they look for in prospective employees? Thirty-four percent of hiring managers said they are placing greater emphasis on emotional intelligence when hiring and promoting …

East Coast Rumbles From 5.8 Quake

Kevin W. — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 04:10:32 +0000

So today there was an Earth Quake in Virginia. No really, and earth quake in the commonwealth, and it was strong enough to be felt from New York to North Carolina. Sadly, I was only 30 miles from the epicenter. …