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Labels: charity, computer games, Free Rice
This website for Unscrew America is one of the most animated sites I've seen since Aardman's homepage. It's full of wacky interactive creatures and drawings that guide you from the dark recesses of regular incandesant bulbs into the true light of LEDs and compact florescents. If only we could unscrew the rest of America as easily as we unscrew a lightbulb. Visit the link. http://unscrewamerica.org/It feels good. No kidding!

Anyone who attended NIU in the last thirty-some years knows the room where last week's shootings occurred. I took my GREs in that room. My husband took his advance placement tests there. The film club screened free foreign and classic movies there on a weekly basis throughout the 1980s.
I had several classes in Cole Hall, and for six years the hallway that ran through Cole was a convenient daily short cut to buildings where I had classes and offices in DuSable and Reavis.
I have dozens of friends who still work and teach there, some of whom now have children who attend NIU. The events of 2/14 did not touch them directly. They were not in Jamison auditorium when the gunman opened fire. But true community has no boundaries in time or distance. I remember the places where I thought and laughed, studied and daydreamed, and feel desperately sad.
Labels: Cole Hall, memorial, NIU shootings
When you’re travelling with the Tao even long layovers at one of the nation’s busiest airports can yield sublime discoveries, thanks to After School Matters, a non-profit partnership with Chicago area schools, parks, libraries and organizations that gives Chicago area teens a chance to gain valuable hands-on experience that can lead to career opportunities. To see more pictures and read more about ASM's Gallery37 collaboration with Chihuly Studio, visit The Crow's Nest (link at right) the companion website for this blog.Labels: After School Matters, Art, Chicago, Chihuly, O'hare Airport