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Kids spend more time on their screens over the summer, often unsupervised. Here's how to stop cyber trouble before it starts.
July 8, 2014, 7:02 a.m.
With summer in full swing, tweens and teens are spending more time in front of their screens — connecting with friends and commiserating about how "bored" they are. But just like we learned in yesterday's post about tweens and sexting, sometimes all of that extra time connecting with friends can get them into trouble.
Cyberbullying is certainly a problem during the school year when cliques are tight and kids have to face their tormentors every day, but it's also a huge problem in the summer months when kids spend more time online, often unsupervised. They also lose access to resources such as teachers and guidance counselors who mig...
So parents, it's up to you to stay in touch with what your kids are doing online this summer and make sure that cyberbullying does not become an issue. This infographic has loads of great information about cyberbullying and how to stop it. It can help you get the conversation started with your kids, and once it's start...
Do you have any more tips on preventing cyberbullying? We would love to hear them in the comments below!
For one day only, CultureMap Austin and Frost Bank are giving readers the chance to win $500 cash and to give another $500 to any nonprofit their heart desires. All they have to do is meet us at the new mural located at 911 E. Cesar Chavez St, snap a photo in front of the awesome wall art, and share it on social media ...
We'll be there from 11 am- 2 pm with other fun surprises and giveaways happening throughout the day, thanks to community partners like Alamo Drafthouse, Love Cycling, and the Austin Ballet, to name a few.
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The following video and excerpt come from Forbes/Wolfe Emerging Technology Report’s recent full-length interview with Erik Weihenmayer.
Erik Weihenmayer has become a celebrated and accomplished athlete despite losing his vision at the age of 13. Redefining what it means to be blind, Erik has transformed the image of blindness and opened up the minds of people around the world. On May 25, 2001, Erik became the first blind climber in history to reach the...
A former middle school teacher and wrestling coach, Erik is the author of Touch the Top of the World and The Adversity Advantage. He is the recipient of numerous awards, among them the prestigious National Courage Award and the 2002 ESPN ESPY award. Erik lives with his wife and two children in Colorado.
To read the full piece, you can subscribe to the Forbes/Wolfe Emerging Tech Report here.
Tell us about what it was like being a blind wrestler in high school.
I’ve been blind since age thirteen. When I started high school back in the 1980s, I had heard of blind wrestlers who could learn body positioning by feeling somebody’s hand. I thought I’d give it a try. I remember tapping my cane up the hallway to the wrestling room for tryouts. The captain of the team wrestled each fr...
You were a teacher before launching into full-time adventuring. What made you leave that career?
I was a teacher for six years and loved it. However, I wanted to climb the Seven Summits, and those climbs happen in the middle of the school year. That was unfair to the kids, so I stopped teaching and started climbing full time. With support from companies like Mountain Hardware and from the National Federation of th...
I’ve been climbing mountains, kayaking, writing books and making films for twenty years now. The opportunity to adventure full time doesn’t come that often to people, especially for a blind adventurer, but I’ve been making it work. And, it’s been really fun.
You’re visually blind, but that doesn’t mean you can’t see the world in some sense. How would you describe the way you see the world?
Even though I can’t see with my eyes, I see the world through my other senses. Eyes are just the hardware. The brain, the visual cortex, is where vision happens. Because I could see until I was thirteen years old, my brain can create images. I get information through my sense of touch and through my ears, and my brain ...
What technologies have enabled you to achieve this incredible feats?
I’ve been lucky to live in an age of massively exploding technology. My iPhone talks to me; I email and Skype. Other technologies I use include The Brain Port. It’s a camera that translates images to my tongue, and from the tongue to the brain. Basically, I can see images through my tongue. A lot of amazing technologie...
Tell us a bit about your organization.
No Barriers began after a climb with one of my personal heroes, Mark Wellman. Mark was paralyzed after breaking his back, but he has learned to climb again. He was the first paraplegic to climb El Capitan, a 3000-foot rock face in Yosemite Valley. He has a system to pull himself up the ropes; climbing El Capitan requir...
After our climb, Mark decided to start an organization to help people who face tough challenges: injured soldiers, physically challenged people, youth who have experienced trauma. Many of these people get shoved aside by barriers and they wind up in a dark place—they don’t know how to climb the mountains. No Barriers h...
Many people consider darkness to be one of their great fears. Do you think that being blind has actually helped you be more adventurous and conquer your fear more than you might have otherwise?
That question has actually become one of the tenets of No Barriers. We’ve started calling it alchemy, this idea of making what you have into an advantage. We might expect some situations to crush a person—and sometimes they do—but they also tend to make people stronger. Confronting a limitation can bring out hidden tal...
You’ve heard the expression “The will to win is nothing without the will to prepare.” How do you prepare both physically and mentally for these challenges?
The physical preparation takes a lot of time. Skinning up mountains, then ripping the skins off the skis and skiing down. Climbing and ice climbing, the punishing days out on the mountains that teach you a lot mentally and physically. Then there’s the whole aspect where you’re preparing your systems. You want to be abl...
On that note, are there specific aspects that you’ve had to adapt to in order to make climbing and skiing possible?
When I started to ice climb, to climb frozen waterfalls, people doubted that a blind person could do it, because you swing sharp, heavy metal tools at the ice face. You don’t want to knock off a huge chunk of ice the size of a refrigerator, and crush yourself or your teammate. So, I had to come up with a new way to ice...
With the help of friends, I learned to tap my tool against the face and feel the vibration through the tap on the ice. By judging that feel and that sound, I determine whether it would be a good swing.
My favorite adventures are those that get off the beaten path: the big ice faces in Peru and the Himalayas, and the Cordillera Blanca. Sleeping out with a couple friends, shivering through the night, and achieving big things together.
How do you find balance between the spirit of adventure and what some would regard as recklessness?
That is a fine line, and it becomes apparent when people go on emotion and push the envelope too hard. That’s when people get hurt or killed. There’s a science and an art to knowing when to push it, when to lay it out there, and when not to. Especially when you’re blind.
I won’t just take a big risk and hope to live through it. Everything has to fit into a careful risk equation. For one: I climb with safe, smart people. Two: I prepare a lot. Three: I think very carefully about what adventures fit within my risk threshold.
Have you ever had to call off any trips, or abort missions because they were too dangerous?
Plenty of times. For example, I just summited Mount Huntington, but it was my fourth try. My success rate in the mountains is fifty percent, at best. That’s a good record in the mountains. They say there are old climbers and there are bold climbers, but there are no old, bold climbers.
Sometimes a change of plans can dramatically increase your chances of summiting. The mountain isn’t going to change for you; you have to change your approach. A little creativity and flexibility can up your chances.
What upcoming challenges are you planning?
As part of No Barriers, I’m helping lead our “No Barriers Warrior Expedition”. We’ve been working with teams of soldiers who were hurt in Afghanistan or Iraq. We started this program in 2010 with a climb of a 20,000ft peak near Everest.
To summit that peak with soldiers and vets who have been blinded, have lost legs, experienced post-traumatic stress or traumatic brain injuries, and to stand on top of a mountain together—that is really powerful. Our training happens throughout the summer in the Rockies, and we’ll climb Gannet Peak in Wyoming.
Where can our readers learn more about No Barriers, and about your other projects?
Check NoBarriersUSA.org to learn how to get involved. There are all sorts of great experiences that people and families can join. People can also learn more about me and my team through TouchTheTop.com. We have tons of videos and photo galleries and great activities for kids.
Do you have any advice for people struggling with disability?
We all struggle with something. Our barriers unite us as much as our triumphs. I believe that each of our lives is like a map with barriers. We yearn to figure out ways of breaking through those barriers. Those big No Barriers journeys help you figure out what your map looks like, and how you’re going to break through ...
UPDATE, 7.20am: THERE are now alternating traffic conditions in place on the Pacific Highway after last night's truck crash at Ulmarra.
Drivers should expect delays in the area.
UPDATE, Tuesday 6am: THE Pacific Highway is still closed in both directions at Ulmarra after a truck crash last night.
A B-double is on its side and Live Traffic NSW is warning drivers to take the Summerland Way if travelling between Ballina and Grafton.
The truck crash happened just before 9.45pm last night.
Vehicle recovery is expected to take place this morning, with a heavy tow truck and RMS on scene.
Southbound traffic is being held at the site but northbound drivers should use the Summerland Way until the crash site is cleared.
UPDATE: Parts of the Clarence Valley experienced blackouts following a truck crash in Ulmarra.
Nearly 1000 homes were impacted overnight.
The outage was from Brushgrove, to Tucabia and South Grafton.
EARLIER: THERE has been a crash on a notorious section of the Pacific Highway.
At about 9.45 tonight, a b-double heading north was involved in a collision at Ulmarra. The crash is near King St, and is impacting traffic northbound.
Emergency services and Roads and Maritime are attending the scene.
CARSON >> The bad news continues to pour down on the Galaxy.
The Galaxy allowed a late goal in the first half, setting the tone for another long day at home, eventually leading to a 3-0 loss to San Jose in front of a crowd of 19,237 Sunday at StubHub Center.
The loss extends the Galaxy’s winless streak to 10 games (0-9-1) and also drops the club’s home record to 1-8-4.
“Like I said last week, if we didn’t have bad luck, we’d have no luck,” Galaxy coach Sigi Schmid said.
Things started off wrong for the Galaxy even before the game began as midfielder Romain Alessandrini was forced to miss the game due to his girlfriend going into labor with the couple’s child.
Then came a 25th-minute apparent knee injury to Pele Van Anholt, a shot by Jonathan dos Santos that hit the crossbar and a late goal scored by San Jose’s Valeri Qazaishvili to give the Earthquakes a 1-0 lead at halftime.
Things only got worse in the second half. The Galaxy thought it had earned a penalty kick in the 50th minute when Joao Pedro was fouled apparently inside the box. However, the foul was reviewed via the new Video Assistant Referee technology and ruled that the foul had occurred outside of the box leading to a free kick.
Six minutes later, defender Nathan Smith, who had entered the game as a sub for Van Anholt, picked up a straight red card for a tackle on Andres Imperiale, leaving the Galaxy a man down.
The Earthquakes took advantage, scoring a pair of late goals (Marcos Urena in the 80th minute and Chris Wondolowski in the 92nd) to seal the victory.
The loss leaves the Galaxy on 23 points and in 10th place in the Western Conference with nine games remaining. There is still a chance of making the playoffs, but the light is flickering quickly like a melting candle.
MARIETTA, Ohio (AP) — Ohio’s major party governor candidates both said Monday that they’d veto right-to-work legislation and foster a civil, bipartisan spirit in Ohio government.
The two are locked in a tight, expensive race this fall to succeed Republican Gov. John Kasich, who’s term-limited.
Cordray said he’d also block such a bill, aligning both candidates with Kasich, who’s held off the state’s right-to-work advocates for eight years with his opposition.
Cordray, a five-time Jeopardy champion, told reporters that he also enjoyed the debate. But he made no apologies for his efforts to hold DeWine accountable for his record.
In a shift from pita to ploughs, Bank of Athens this week rebranded itself Grobank.
This is the latest shake-up in SA’s banking sector, which has seen Discovery launch a behavioural lender, the big four traditional banks rejigging their branch networks, and low-fee options Zero and Tyme rubbing their hands at the prospect of taking a slice of the retail pie.
"We are launching what is effectively a 70-year-old ‘new’ bank," says Spiro Georgopoulos, Grobank’s CEO.
Originally established to cater to the needs of SA’s Greek community, the institution now has agricultural services company Afgri as its largest shareholder and will pivot towards being a lender for those in farming and food production.
And the bank, which has assets of R2.4bn, is not aiming for the mass market.
"It is a highly competitive space and probably overbanked," says Georgopoulos.
Grobank has a carefully carved-out niche that it wants to grow.
The focus will be on "chunky, family-run businesses", says Georgopoulos.
The institution will fundamentally still be a business bank and the lessons learnt over decades serving small and medium-sized enterprises, such as family-owned restaurants, will come in handy as it vies for clients across the food business chain.
Bank of Athens, founded in 1947, has been thinking of transforming itself for nearly a decade. But with the National Bank of Greece as its controlling shareholder, the debt crisis and economic meltdown in the Hellenic Republic disrupted the initial plans.
"As we started transforming the bank in 2010, the crisis in Greece hit," Georgopoulos says.
Though the bank’s owners were officially in the Greek capital, the shots would soon be called from Frankfurt, home of the European Central Bank (ECB), and Luxembourg, seat of the European Stability Mechanism (ESM).
Between the ECB and ESM the funds were raised to tide Greece and its financial institutions over, but with certain strings attached.
One of the conditions was that the National Bank of Greece let go of non-core assets, such as Bank of Athens.
Afgri, which has an existing financial services business in the agricultural sector, in 2017 saw a big opportunity in acquiring the business and getting a banking licence to boot.
There's a saying that goes, when you lose the Internet it's like 1979 but when you lose power it's like 1879.
I've lived in Northern Virginia for most of my life. I remember dill pickles in a barrel at the grocery store, Quisp and Quake cereal, and Frank Howard was my hero on the Washington Senators, if that gives you an idea of old I am. In all of those years I have never seen anything like it.
The power went out on Friday night and by mid-morning Saturday, there wasn't a hotel room with air conditioning to be found in a 50 mile radius.
So many street lights were out that it was up to the drivers to figure who went next, and you're talking a metropolitan area of about 12 million people cycling through. That doesn't even account for the fact that I-95 cuts through the whole area with trucks, tourists, etc.
Now imagine what it was like in India where nearly 700 million lost power. Yes, that's 700 million suddenly without power.
That's like the entire U.S. going down and then adding another 200+ million on top of that.
The lesson in both instances though is the same: It's necessary to build a "smart" grid.
Will the US Build a Smart Grid Before It's Too Late?
Of course, it's not likely that either massive blackout will spur much debate over a giant new smart grid project in the U.S. – especially in an election year when the economy is barely scratching by.
Even still, the U.S. does have a few plans in place for implementing smart grids, real time interfaces between power suppliers and consumers and more efficient transmission technologies. And there are growing Homeland Security issues with the grid surrounding its reliability and security.
What's more there is an ongoing shift from a centralized distribution model (power plant to substations to customers) to a decentralized model (power can come from various places on the grid if there's a power surge instead of drawing from the central plant).
Many of these programs are working through private industry because the producers and consumers understand that the more efficiently power can be generated, distributed and consumed, the better the margins are for everyone involved.

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