Gene therapy – prospects and limitations: Mariam Meskhi at TEDxIBEuropeanSchool – Video

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Reclaiming Education Freedom: The Fight to Stop Common Core National Standards and Tests – Video

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Lindsey Burke of The Heritage Foundation and Joy Pullmann of The Heartland Institute discuss the fight to stop Common Core national standards and tests.

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Freedom Rock to find a home in Monte

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By J.O. PARKER joparker@dmreg.com

Ray Bubba Sorensen II and his Freedom Rock Tour will be leaving its mark on Montezuma.

Sorensen, who since 1999 has honored servicemen and servicewomen by painting a 60-plus ton roadside rock on Memorial Day in Adair County, is tentatively scheduled to paint a similar Freedom Rock in Montezuma.

The painting is part of the statewide tour Sorensen originated to paint a Freedom Rock in all of Iowas 99 counties.

Ron Hensel

Placing a Freedom Rock in Montezuma came about after a news report on the tour aired early last week on a Des Moines television station.

Ron Hensel, a Montezuma barber, said various community-minded individuals began circulating an e-mail promoting the idea of having a Freedom Rock in Montezuma.

Hensel took the idea a step further, approaching the city council at its June 17 meeting.

I thought it would be a good community effort, Hensel said. Montezuma should have a Freedom Rock, since we are known as the community of monuments. This would be a good acquisition.

The city agreed to fund the $1,000 deposit, overnighting a check and application to Sorensen on Tuesday, June 18.

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Hilton Worldwide and Vital Voices Global Partnership Launch Global Freedom Exchange, a Collaboration to End Child …

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MCLEAN, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--

Today, Hilton Worldwide and Vital Voices Global Partnership announced that they have joined forces to help end child trafficking. Together, they have launched the Global Freedom Exchange, an innovative, multi-faceted educational and mentoring program targeting emerging and established women leaders. Program participants are on the forefront of global efforts to prevent and respond to the crime of child trafficking. Global Freedom Exchange is intended to create an international network of activists.

As a fundamental element of the Global Freedom Exchange, Hilton Worldwide and Vital Voices have brought together a select group of 26 women leaders from 13 countries, to participate in a two-week interactive learning and networking program. This event spans three U.S. cities - areas that have strong national and international resources focused on addressing human trafficking Washington, DC, New York City, and Dallas, Texas. Activities include opportunities to meet with government officials and NGO leaders to provide donors with knowledge about funding and other support needs and to learn about collaborating with local law enforcement.

Hilton Worldwide takes an aggressive stance against child trafficking, and we continually seek innovative partnerships that will enable us to make a real difference on such an important issue, explained Kristin Campbell, EVP and general counsel, Hilton Worldwide. We are very proud to support Vital Voices and invest in the crucial efforts of these amazing women. We believe that each can make a vast and deep impact, and we are fully committed to helping them realize their full leadership potential.

Program participants are established or emerging leaders recognized for their passion and commitment to ending human trafficking and their innovative approach to this global issue. They include founders, advisors, legal counsels and program managers from non-governmental organizations. The women come from:

The goal of this program is to provide participants with specific knowledge, skills and relationships that will benefit their professional development, their respective NGOs and the communities they serve, explained Alyse Nelson, president and CEO of Vital Voices Global Partnership. The program will also develop an ongoing international network of activists working together to prevent and respond to the scourge of child sex trafficking throughout the world.

This multi-year partnership between Hilton Worldwide and Vital Voices is part of Travel with Purpose, Hilton Worldwides promise to providing shared value to its business and communities around the globe. It is an extension of the organizations existing work to address child trafficking worldwide. Hilton Worldwide is the second U.S. multi-brand hospitality company to sign the ECPAT Code of Conduct and is signatory of the UN Global Compact. In addition to child trafficking awareness and training programs for hotel employees, the company also supports the capacity of non-governmental organizations to increase their programs to reach trafficking survivors.

Together, Hilton Worldwide and Vital Voices will provide a network of support, connecting each participant with Hilton Worldwide hotels in their communities to explore partnerships that will enhance their on-the-ground work. Five $10,000 grants will be awarded to the most collaborative and innovative projects addressing the Global Freedom Exchanges mission to end child trafficking worldwide. Participants will also become members of the Vital Voices Global Leadership Network, which includes over 14,000 innovative change agents in more than 140 countries.

For more information about the Global Freedom Exchange and to learn more about program participants, visit http://www.vitalvoices.org/blog/2013/06/global-freedom-exchange-working-end-child-sex-trafficking.

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Uganda press freedom under scrutiny

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PARIS, June 27 (UPI) -- The United Nations said it was concerned about press freedom in Uganda in response to the alleged murder of a journalist for the New Vision newspaper.

The U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization reports New Vision journalist Thomas Pere was discovered dead just outside Kampala on the morning of June 17. He was last seen alive the previous evening when he left New Vision offices in the Ugandan capital.

UNESCO Director General Irina Bokova said the "murder" of Pere was an assault on press freedoms in Uganda.

"The murder of a journalist is a crime against the whole of society; an attempt to choke off democratic debate and muzzle the basic right of freedom of expression," she said in a statement Wednesday. "A clear message must be sent to the perpetrators of such crimes that their acts will not go unpunished."

Monitor Publications Ltd., parent company of Ugandan newspaper The Daily Monitor, issued an apology last month after its offices were raided by security forces. It said its editorial policy had been violated when it published a feature alleging orders were given to kill anyone who stated opposition to Muhoozi Kainerugaba, son of Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni.

UNESCO did not state the two incidents were related.

Kainerugaba this week denied claims he was being groomed to succeed his father.

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Officials emphasize Freedom Fair safety

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Freedom Fair officials have become more security-conscious after the Boston Marathon bombings and are asking for the publics help at next weeks event.

Keep an eye out for anything that looks suspicious, said Doug Miller of the Tacoma Events Commission. Help us by being attentive.

The jet-powered car Smoke-N-Thunder, which normally fires up its engine at Freedom Fair, will remain silent this year, Miller said. Officials were concerned that the noise and flame could alarm the public in the wake of the Boston bombings in April.

More than 100 Tacoma police officers will be on duty at Freedom Fair, most in uniform but some in plain clothes, spokeswoman Loretta Cool said. The numbers do not reflect a policy change from years past, she said.

Alcohol and fireworks are prohibited at Freedom Fair, and officers might ask to check backpacks and other containers. Those who refuse a search may be asked to leave, Cool said.

You cant have any fireworks down there, she said. We have zero tolerance. If we see fireworks, youre going to get cited and they will be confiscated. There will be no warnings. The fine is $257.

And that goes for anywhere in the city.

There is no such thing as safe and sane fireworks, Cool said. Not even sparklers. Anything you have to light is considered fireworks, and its illegal.

With huge crowds expected along the waterfront, children might be separated from parents and chaperones. Before attending the event, parents should instruct children to immediately seek out a police officer if they become lost, Cool advises. And parents should do the same if they lose a child.

Tacoma fire personnel will be on hand to provide first aid.

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Budget cuts keep military from Freedom Fair air show

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Tacomas Freedom Fair air show next week will fill the skies over Commencement Bay with aerobatic planes just not Raptors, Hornets and anything called Stealth.

Federal budget cuts resulting from sequestration and imposed by the Department of Defense have done what enemy forces only wish they could do: ground U.S. air power. The Defense Department has canceled military aircraft participation at air shows and other public events across the country and even at the recent Paris Air Show.

The Blue Angels, a staple at Seattles Seafair, will be a no-show at the August event for the same reason.

Nationwide, theres no military participation whatsoever (in air shows), said Doug Fratoni, Freedom Fairs air show coordinator.

It hasnt been easy, but Fratoni was able to keep the show at the usual two hours by increasing the number of civilian acts.

Crowds at Thursdays Freedom Fair still might see a C-17 over Commencement Bay but only if one of the giant planes is making a final approach to McChord Field as they do on most days.

Usually, one of the Globemasters can be counted on to thrill Freedom Fair crowds with a low flyby along the Ruston Way waterfront.

But not this year.

Last year, crowds were enthralled by the aerobatics of the nations most advanced jet fighter, the

F-22 Raptor. At one point, the stealth fighter joined up with a vintage P-51 Mustang for an intergenerational flyby. Thousands of cameras up and down the waterfront recorded the moment.

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