Conquering Mount Kilimanjaro

http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/cnn_travel/~3/mnc82SXQeU4/index.html

Hi everyone! I read this article about a CNN journalist who really love her job and needed a break. She moved to NYC last summer. But at the same time, the wheel started to spin faster than ever. And after a particularly tough news cycle, she needed a REAL break. So she asked for two entire weeks off -- something she had never done in her 15-year career -- and decided it was time for her to stop talking about Africa and finally go to Africa. It took her turning 35 to finally realize a dream she has had ever since she was 13 when her friend was whisked away to safari in Kenya with her father. Since she had waited this long to take such a momentous trip, she couldn't just go to Africa. I'd need to climb a damn mountain -- and not just any mountain, but the tallest mountain on the continent: Mount Kilimanjaro, which stands at 19,340 feet above sea level in Tanzania.

IRS Scam

http://www.cnn.com/2015/03/13/us/irs-scam/

Hi everyone, i read this article on IRS scam. please we should be very careful so as not to be a victim. They are very convincing when they call. They have a Washington phone number and can cite your financial history down to the cent.They say you're under investigation, in danger of losing your home, or worse, your freedom -- unless you pay thousands of dollars on the spot. But they're not real. And you're not in trouble. Not unless you take it seriously. This is a scam. CNN Investigations Email your story ideas and tips to CNNtips@cnn.com. A big one. Federal authorities say it's the largest IRS impersonation scam they've ever seen -- swindling victims out of more than $15 million since it began in 2013."They have information that only the Internal Revenue Service would know about you," said Timothy Camus, deputy inspector general for investigations with the Treasury Department. "It's a byproduct of today's society. There's so much information available on individuals."Using identity theft technology, the thieves have successfully victimized more than 3,000 people in the past two years, although the Treasury Department cautions that number is only documented cases and the true number might be higher.

History of Women in Science – in pictures

http://www.theguardian.com/higher-education-network/gallery/2015/mar/08/international-womens-day-2015-history-of-women-in-science-in-pictures

I really love this article about history of women in science. Bedford College – now known as Royal Holloway, University of London – was founded in 1849 and attracted notable alumni, including Sarah Parker Remond, the first black woman to lecture across Britain on slavery, and novelist George Eliot. The college’s labs were used by students to dissect crabs, explore botany – and find out why weak hearts fail.

National Nutrition Month

http://www.delawareonline.com/story/news/health/2015/03/02/march-nutrition-month-start-annual-challenge/24278001/

Hi everyone, March is National Nutrition Month. I read this article on how to raise a healthier generation through Diet Education. We all want our children to succeed.  It’s an important value and one the entire country can rally around.  This March lets make efforts to that commitment by celebrating National Nutrition Month and the importance of raising a healthier generation of kids.

It’s our collective responsibility to ensure the next generation has access to healthier meals. 

 

Segregation On An Alabama Bus

http://www.npr.org/blogs/codeswitch/2015/02/27/389563788/before-rosa-parks-a-teenager-defied-segregation-on-an-alabama-bus

 I read this article on segregation,  Rosa Parks is well known for her refusal to give up her seat to a white passenger on a public bus in Montgomery, Alabama in Dec. 1955. But Parks' Civil Rights protest did have a precedent: 15-year-old Claudette Colvin, a student from a black high school in Montgomery, had refused to move from her bus seat nine months earlier. However Colvin is not nearly as well known, and certainly not as celebrated, as Parks  The bus incident. Montgomery was segregated, which meant that black people couldn't use the dressing rooms at department stores or ride in the front of the bus. Colvin didn't like that."she knew that this was a double standard," she says."This was unfair." On March 2, 1955, Colvin got on the bus with three other students who settled themselves in a middle row. The first 10 seats in the front of the bus were for whites only. That was the law and Colvin knew it. "And so as the bus proceeded on downtown, more white people got on the bus Eventually the bus got full capacity, and a young white lady was standing near the four black girls. She was expecting them to get up."The bus driver saw the situation through the rear-view mirror and said 'I need those seats," says Phillip Hoose, the author of "Three of the girls got up and walked to the back of the bus. Claudette didn't."I just couldn't move," she says. "History had me glued to the seat."The bus driver called a police officer, who confronted Colvin."And she said 'I paid my fare and it's my constitutional right, they dragged her off bus because she refused to walk. They handcuffed her  and took me to an adult jail. She was charged with assault and battery, disorderly conduct and defying the segregation law. When Colvin got to school the following Monday, she got a mixed reaction. Some students were impressed by her courage, while others felt that she made things harder for them."Everything changed," she says. "I lost most of my friends. Their parents had told them to stay away from me, because they said I was crazy, I was an extremist."Gray, who went on to represent civil rights icon like Rosa Parks and Dr. Martin Luther King, says that Colvin is one of thousands of unnamed individuals who played a very key role in civil rights history. "Well, today, she is  75 years old. It's good to see some of the fruit of my labor," says Colvin. "To me, I don't mind being named, as long as we have someone out there to tell our story."