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NEWSLETTER: THE STARTALKER, ISSUE 44, AUGUST 22, 2013

Issue 44, August 22, 2013 This Week's New Podcast The Science of Sx (Part 2) August 25, 2013, 7:00pm ET/4:00pm PT   The Science of Sx comes to its inevitable climax this week. From the start, when Neil deGrasse Tyson and sx therapist Dr. Ruth discuss whether size matters in planets and penises, to the finish, when the pair discuss aliens and sx under the stars, you’re in for a satisfying experience. Where else would two astrophysicists, Neil and Charles Liu, discuss arousal in terms of pupil dilation and norepinephrine release, and ejaculation in terms of sperm volume and velocity, in the same episode that Kristen Schaal goes bananas over sx-crazed bonobos? Plus, Mary Roach describes how she and her husband “took one for the readers” by becoming the first couple to have sx recorded with 4-D ultrasound imaging, and tells us who has better sex and why according to Masters and Johnson. Listen on our website, this Sunday, August 25th at 7:00pm ET and on iTunes, SoundCloud and Stitcher by 7:30. (Note: Portions of this podcast appeared previously in a StarTalk Radio video on The Nerdist.) Photo Credit: David Gamble.  Labor Day Weekend's Classic Podcast Cosmic Queries: Asteroids, Comets and Meteor Storms September 1, 2013, 7:00pm ET/4:00pm PT     Since we're taking a week off from the newsletter next week, we wanted to give you a heads up that on Labor Day, you can catch up on this popular episode from our archives. In it, Neil deGrasse Tyson and comic co-host Chuck Nice answer your questions about asteroids. “Why are some asteroids mineral rich and some just big rocks?” “Is the asteroid belt actually the debris from a failed planet?” “What’s the difference between comets, asteroids, meteoroids, meteors, meteorites, planets, dwarf planets and more?” “Are there interstellar asteroids?” “Does Earth have an asteroid season?” You’ll also learn about Abe Lincoln and the Leonid Meteor Storm of 1833, and the practicality of deflecting asteroids to use as weapons. Listen now. Photo Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech.  Catch Up on Last Week's Podcast The Science of Sx (Part 1) August 18, 2013      Listen in as StarTalk Radio trades the cosmic for the orgasmic. Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson and comic co-host Kristen Schaal, author of The Sexy Book of Sexy Sx, tread not so lightly into taboo territory with guests Mary Roach, author of Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sx, famed sx therapist Dr. Ruth Westheimer, and astrophysicist Charles Liu. But it’s still StarTalk, so Neil and guests focus on the science, not the lasciviousness, of sx. You’ll learn that females can have nocturnal erections just like men, what the other erectile tissue in the human body is (it’s not the nipples!), and why pharmaceutical research has moved on to developing pills for post-menopausal women with flagging sx drives. Listen now.    (Note: Portions of this podcast appeared previously in a StarTalk Radio video on The Nerdist.) Best of the Blog Attending the Reopening of the Enterprise Space Shuttle Pavilion at the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum Posted August 20, 2013      After nearly a whole summer of working as an instructor for Camp GOALS for Girls I am still not used to walking across a plank to clock in. I’m also not used to walking passed aircraft such as the Piasecki or Skyhawk along my path to the education offices. Today I’m writing about one of my favorite days this summer, July 10th, which started out as a normal day (as normal as it gets working at the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum Complex) and soon became an exceptional one as I was swept away to the reopening of the Space Shuttle Pavilion. Read more. Photo Credit: Megan Bednarz. Have You Seen Our Latest "Behind the Scenes" Video? Neil deGrasse Tyson on Magnetic Pole Reversal and Extinction      Could the Earth's magnetic poles reverse in the near future, and what would that mean for humans biologically and technologically? Could humanity even face extinction? Neil deGrasse Tyson explains magnetic pole reversal to comic co-host Chuck Nice in this Cosmic Query. Watch now.    Don't miss any of our StarTalk Radio videos on YouTube. Subscribe to the StarTalk Radio YouTube Channel. Keep in touch Facebook Twitter YouTube Google + Pinterest Homepage  iTunes Shows (RSS) Blog (RSS) Subscribe to The StarTalker - click here!  Join Our Cosmic Community! If you represent an academic or scientific organization that would like to join our Cosmic Community, just click on the following link to complete and submit a short application form and we'll be in touch. Cosmic Community Sign-Up Become a StarTalk Satellite! Add the StarTalk Radio widget to your website or blog and let your friends listen to the show right from your site. Get the widget now. StarTalk Radio is now accepting corporate sponsors. If your company shares our mission and would like to support StarTalk Radio, please email: Laura Berland The StarTalk Team StarTalkTeam@startalkradio.net www.startalkradio.net Hear us on iTunes Follow us on Twitter

STATE SENATOR NINA TURNER, AUGUST 2013 E-NEWS

August 2013 E-News by Senator Nina Turner

MARCH ON WASHINGTON FOR JOBS AND FREEDOM 50TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION

Cleveland Urban League March on Washington for Jobs & Freedom 50th Anniversary Celebration Wednesday, August 28 at 6:00pm at Cleveland Public Hall

FREE SCREENING OF PBS FILM, HOMEGOINGS, AUGUST 27, 2013

__________________________________________       Join us for a free screening of the PBS film, Homegoings, followed by a discussion on the tradition, history, and celebrations of funerals.    HOMEGOINGS A Film by Christine Turner  Through the eyes of funeral director Isaiah Owens, the beauty and grace of African-American funerals are brought to life. Filmed at Owens Funeral Home in New York City's historic Harlem neighborhood, HOMEGOINGS takes an up-close look at the rarely seen world of undertaking in the black community, where funeral rites draw on a rich palette of tradition, history and celebration. Combining cinéma vérité with intimate interviews and archival photographs, the film paints a portrait of the dearly departed, their grieving families and a man who sends loved ones "home."   Tuesday, August 27, 2013 5:00 - 7:00 pm Cleveland Public Library MLK Jr. Branch 1962 Stokes Blvd. Cleveland, Ohio 44106    "HOMEGOINGS" THEATRICAL TRAILER

NEWSLETTER: OPENING REMARCS - DRUM MAJORS FOR JUSTICE CELEBRATION, AUGUST 23, 2013

NEWSLETTER

Opening ReMARCs
                                                       

"Wake up everybody. No more sleeping in bed. No more backward thinking. Time for thinking ahead."


That was the call we issued as we kicked off the 2013 National Urban League Conference. But this call rang out beyond the 4000-plus registrants and attendees who joined us in Philadelphia.  This was a call to America.


In recent months, we have seen increasing efforts aimed at turning back the hands of progress in voting rights, civil rights, workers’ rights and criminal justice – including the United States Supreme Court’s evisceration of the Voting Rights Act and its stripping of critical protections granted under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, as well as unequal justice perpetuated by unfair laws such as Stand Your Ground.


As we prepare to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the March on Washington, the challenge before us now is to create a new Civil Rights Movement – one that stands on the shoulders of progress in which a new generation of people from all walks of life work together to ensure that the promise of life, liberty and economic opportunity becomes real.   If 1963 was about Jobs and Freedom, 2013 must be expanded to Economic Empowerment and Justice.  We started it 50 years ago, and it’s time to finish our business. 


Join us in Washington, DC on August 23-24 as we honor the 1963 March by continuing its work and ushering in the change necessary for ongoing progress. Our Drum Majors for Justice Celebration: Redeem the Dream Summit will take place on Aug. 23, during which we will chart our course forward, and the Civil Rights Continuation March will be held on August 24, where multitudes will gather in the same spirit of 50 years ago.


If the desire for life, liberty, justice and equal opportunity is in your soul, whether you live in a red or blue state or simply believe in the red, white and blue of this nation – you, too, cannot ignore the call.

To Be Equal “The hour is late.  The gap is widening.  The rumbles of the drums of discontent resounding throughout this land are heard in all parts of the world.” Whitney M. Young, Jr. at the 1963 March on Washington

National Urban League to Mark 50th Anniversary of the March on Washington Fifty years ago, on August 28, 1963, more than 250,000 people gathered for the historic March on Washington to demand jobs and freedom.  The March was organized by a coalition of civil rights, social justice and labor movement leaders known as the “Big Six” – James Farmer of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE); Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC); John Lewis, of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC); A. Philip Randolph of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters; Roy Wilkins of the NAACP; and our own Whitney M. Young, Jr. as President of the National Urban League. While that day is most remembered for Dr. King’s landmark  “I Have a Dream” speech, Whitney Young and a host of other speakers took the podium to call for the passage of long overdue civil rights legislation and to demand jobs, a living wage, decent housing and quality education for all.  As America prepares to mark the anniversary of this watershed moment and in the same spirit of unity and collaboration that Whitney Young brought to the 1963 March, the National Urban League will again join with other leading civil rights organizations to mobilize citizens across the nation to gather in Washington, DC to continue to press for economic empowerment and justice.

To Be Equal

NEWSLETTER: THE STARTALKER, ISSUE 43, AUGUST 15, 2013

Issue 43, August 15, 2013 This Week's New Podcast The Science of Sex (Part 1) August 18, 2013, 7:00pm ET/4:00pm PT     This week, StarTalk Radio trades the cosmic for the orgasmic. Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson and comic co-host Kristen Shaal, author of The Sexy Book of Sexy Sex, tread not so lightly into taboo territory with guests Mary Roach, author of Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex, famed sex therapist Dr. Ruth Westheimer, and astrophysicist Charles Liu. But it’s still StarTalk, so Neil and guests focus on the science, not the lasciviousness, of sex. You’ll learn that females can have nocturnal erections just like men, what the other erectile tissue in the human body is (it’s not the nipples!), and why pharmaceutical research has moved beyond Viagra™ to developing pills for post-menopausal women with flagging sex drives. Listen on our website, this Sunday, August 18th at 7:00pm ET and on iTunes, SoundCloud and Stitcher by 7:30. (Note: Portions of this podcast appeared previously in a StarTalk Radio video on The Nerdist.) Catch Up on Last Week's Podcast Cosmic Queries: Viruses, Outbreaks and Pandemics August 11, 2013       Infectious disease expert Laurie Garrett is back to answer your questions about viruses. First, she describes two current outbreaks: H7N9 influenza, which killed 25% of its victims in China, and MERS-CoV, a genetic relative of SARS. With pilgrimages like the Haj in October, Middle Eastern Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus is a serious pandemic concern to the worldwide health community. Next, Laurie explains how viruses like Ebola and HIV jump from bats and primates to humans through “zoonosis” and why they’re so lethal when they do. All this, plus a fungus that turns ants into zombies, pathogens that spread via rain, the dangers of the anti-vaccine movement and, unfortunately, so much more. Listen now. Photo Credit: MGVP/UC Davis. Best of the Blog New Survey: What’s Your Favorite Classic Television Sci-Fi Series? Posted August 12, 2013 Recently, Neil told us that The Twilight Zone and Star Trek The Original Series are his favorite science fiction TV series. Naturally, we started discussing what our favorites were, and that got us wondering, what are your favorite classic science fiction television series? So we put together this nifty survey to find out. We decided to let you pick your 3 favorite series, because narrowing it down to one or two was just too excruciatingly difficult. If you do take our survey, and you'd like to have us email you a digitally autographed photo of Neil deGrasse Tyson, be sure to fill in your first name and email address at the bottom of the survey form. Read more. Have You Seen Our Latest "Behind the Scenes" Video? Neil deGrasse Tyson on Alien Diseases A fan asks, “If we were to make contact with alien life, would it be possible for us to contract diseases from them, and could our immune systems adapt to them?” Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson and infectious disease expert Laurie Garrett approach the answer differently, bringing up references as varied as Michael Crichton’s book, The Andromeda Strain, Dutch elm disease, Star Trek’s Tribbles, NASA’s quarantine of the Apollo moonwalkers, and the impact of Western European settlement on the indigenous life forms and Aboriginal peoples of Australia. Luckily, Chuck Nice is on hand to mediate and summarize. Watch now. Keep in touch Facebook Twitter YouTube Google + Pinterest Homepage  iTunes Shows (RSS) Blog (RSS) Subscribe to The StarTalker - click here!  Join Our Cosmic Community! If you represent an academic or scientific organization that would like to join our Cosmic Community, just click on the following link to complete and submit a short application form and we'll be in touch. Cosmic Community Sign-Up Become a StarTalk Satellite! Add the StarTalk Radio widget to your website or blog and let your friends listen to the show right from your site. Get the widget now. StarTalk Radio is now accepting corporate sponsors.If your company shares our mission and would like to support StarTalk Radio, please email: Laura Berland The StarTalk Team StarTalkTeam@startalkradio.net http://www.startalkradio.net/ Hear us on iTunes Follow us on Twitter Find us on Facebook

GREATER CLEVELAND URBAN FILM FESTIVAL FUNDRAISER AUGUST 30, 2013

Friday, August 30, 2013

 

 

GCUFF Fundraiser

6:00-11:00 pm

 9613 Thorn Ave

Cleveland, OH 44108

 

Good Food, Short Films & Complimentary Drinks

Featuring a Special Performance by Gwen Maul

 

 

 

 $25 per person  

 Click here to purchase tickets   

   

 

 Hosted by:

 Donna Dabbs ~Alisha Minter ~Alton Tinker

 

 

email: info@gcuff.org

 

or call 216-245-9472

ESOP 20TH ANNIVERSARY LUNCHEON ON OCTOBER 16, 2013

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For 20 years Empowering and Strengthening Ohio’s People (“ESOP”) has worked tirelessly to empower people to improve their lives and communities. ESOP’s work over the last two decades to end predatory lending and abusive mortgage servicing and to prevent foreclosures has helped thousands of families across Ohio to stay in their homes and to stabilize neighborhoods.

     We invite you to join us Wednesday, October 16^th for our 20^th Anniversary Luncheon. The theme is “Building Partnerships for Economic Empowerment.” We hope you can join us for this important conversation about how the non-profit, public and private sectors can join forces to help disenfranchised communities move forward from the foreclosure crisis.

Keynote Speaker
Senator Sherrod Brown

     Sponsorship opportunities are still available. For more information on sponsorships, table and advertising purchases please contact Deonna Kirkpatrick

at 216-361-0718 or dkirkpatrick@esop-cleveland.org.

STARTALKER NEWSLETTER, ISSUE 42, AUGUST 8, 2013

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Issue 42, August 8, 2013 This Week's New Podcast Cosmic Queries: Viruses, Outbreaks and Pandemics  August 11, 2013, 7:00pm ET/4:00pm PT   Infectious disease expert Laurie Garrett is back to answer your questions about viruses. First, she describes two current outbreaks: H7N9 influenza, which killed 25% of its victims in China, and MERS-CoV, a genetic relative of SARS. With pilgrimages like the Haj in October, Middle Eastern Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus is a serious pandemic concern to the worldwide health community. Next, Laurie explains how viruses like Ebola and HIV jump from bats and primates to humans through “zoonosis” and why they’re so lethal when they do. All this, plus a fungus that turns ants into zombies, pathogens that spread via rain, the dangers of the anti-vaccine movement and, unfortunately, so much more. The show will be on our website and iTunes this Sunday, August 11th at 7:00pm ET, and on SoundCloud and Stitcher by 7:15pm ET. Photo Credit: MGVP/UC Davis. Catch Up on Last Week's Podcast Cosmic Queries: Dark Matter and Dark Energy August 4, 2013   If dark matter is the longest unsolved problem in astrophysics, how can Neil deGrasse Tyson answer your Cosmic Queries? Well, it turns out we do know something about the stuff that makes up 96% of our universe. For instance, how it affects the rotation of galaxies, and what would happen if it disappeared. And whether dark matter is increasing as the universe expands. You’ll find out if there are connections between black holes and dark matter and what Hawking Radiation is. Did the recent experiments on the ISS explain why dark matter doesn’t interact with ordinary matter? Plus, Neil tells comic co-host Leighann Lord why he thinks dark energy should be named Fred. One of our most popular shows this season...if you haven't heard it – Listen now. Photo Credit: Dark Matter Visualization courtesy of SDSC and NPACI Visualization Services. Best of the Blog The Perseids Are Back this Weekend! Posted August 7, 2013   Here’s a recipe for a bit of tasty cosmic cuisine this weekend: 1. Take a dash of stellar dust and debris from comet 109P/Swift-Tuttle. 2. Sprinkle into Earth’s atmosphere. 3. Lie back and watch the show. And if the weather cooperates and you’ve got clear skies – it’s looking good for the NY metro area, so I’m hopeful – then you’re in for one of the best meteor showers we get to see each year, The Perseids. At peak, there can be as many as 100 meteors burning across the sky per hour. But even if you just catch a few, they’re worth the effort. And, according to NASA, the Perseids have the most “fireballs” of any meteor shower. For more information and some great images - Read more. Have You Seen Our Latest "Behind the Scenes" Video? Nanobot Viruses and Biotechnology on StarTalk Radio Get a sneak peak of this week's new podcast in this "Behind the Scenes" video taken from the episode. In it, Laurie Garrett answers a fan's cosmic query about whether we can create “nanobot” viruses that we could use to fight disease, and if we do, how we can control them. She also tells Neil deGrasse Tyson and Chuck Nice how we’re developing human engineered microorganisms in the lab, including a competition where high school students invent new life forms. Watch now. Don't miss any of our StarTalk Radio videos on YouTube. Subscribe to the StarTalk Radio YouTube Channel. Keep in touch Facebook Twitter YouTube Google + Pinterest Homepage  iTunes Shows (RSS) Blog (RSS) Subscribe to The StarTalker - click here!  Join Our Cosmic Community! If you represent an academic or scientific organization that would like to join our Cosmic Community, just click on the following link to complete and submit a short application form and we'll be in touch. Cosmic Community Sign-Up Become a StarTalk Satellite! Add the StarTalk Radio widget to your website or blog and let your friends listen to the show right from your site. Get the widget now. StarTalk Radio is now accepting corporate sponsors.If your company shares our mission and would like to support StarTalk Radio, please email: Laura Berland The StarTalk Team StarTalkTeam@startalkradio.net http://www.startalkradio.net/ Hear us on iTunes Follow us on Twitter Find us on Facebook