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Oregon Researchers Show how Building Design Impacts Indoor Bacteria

Research center aims to understand the 'indoor microbiome' and improve it through architectural design

(EUGENE) - The Lillis Business Complex set the bar for sustainable buildings 10 years ago when it opened at the University of Oregon.

Now microbes drawn from the dust in 155 of its rooms have provided clues that could inspire future architectural designers to encourage a healthy indoor environment.

Jordan Revisited

Jordan, a constitutional monarchy where I did my bachelor degree, is still a fascinating, beautiful and diverse place.

(BETHLEHEM) - The distance from Amman to my house in Beit Sahour is 45 miles (72 kilometers). In normal situations, that should take 1-1.5 hours. Sunday it took me some 13 hours (i.e. Ten times more) and I arrived at my home at 3 AM. I won’t bore you with details of misery and can just summarize the main reason: occupation.

The illegal military occupation and colonization of the West Bank by Israeli forces has now been in place for almost 47 years, one of the longest in history. I see the worst of people and the best of people daily. I spent five days in Jordan working on biodiversity issues with my friend Prof. Zuhair Amr.

New BIG THINK for the Middle East Announced

They will consist of influential international peoples who care about our collective global future. Finally, this is brand new peoples thing so any ideas you may have to further the ideals, bring it. It’s all about we-the-people... and that means everyone!

(WASHINGTON, DC) - I know you care deeply about what’s going on in the Middle East, thus I cordially invite you to check out our new BIG IDEA think tank called the MIDDLE EAST UNION CONGRESS.

Yes some are actually laughing at the idea saying it will NEVER work. So yeah, you know we’re on TO SOMETHING BIG!

Ignorance is Prelude to Sudden Destruction

Folks it is the system which is broken! Broken! Broken! As in B-R-O-K-E, which means that it don’t work anyway, no matter who is driving the Big bus!

(MELBOURNE VNN) - I recommend reading Dr. Lawrence Davidson’s column, written in 2011, about the results of lobbyfication, which many in America and the world are beginning to notice in recent months.

The activities Dr. Davidson describes in United States Congress and the Senate are not only malfeasance of office, and failure to represent the interests of their constituents and the Nation...

A Declaration of Independence - In Virtual CONGRESS

Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise.

(DETROIT) - Whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

The last fifty year history of the present United States Federal Government is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these fifty United States.

Source of Galapagos Eruptions is Not Where Models Place It

University of Oregon study finds plume to the southeast, explaining active volcanic activity in the islands.

(EUGENE) - Images gathered by University of Oregon scientists using seismic waves penetrating to a depth of 300 kilometers (almost 200 miles) report the discovery of an anomaly that likely is the volcanic mantle plume of the Galapagos Islands. It's not where geologists and computer modeling had assumed.

The team's experiments put the suspected plume at a depth of 250 kilometers (155 miles) and about 150 kilometers (about 100 miles) southeast of Fernandina Island, the westernmost island of the chain, and where generations of geologists and computer-generated mantle convection models have placed the plume.

`Storm Over Morocco,` by Dr. Frank Romano, Author Event Jerusalem, Jan. 27

It happens Monday, Jan. 27, 9 pm, Tmol Shilshom Bookstore Café, 5 Yoel Salomon St., Jerusalem.

(JERUSALEM) - Storm Over Morocco is a true story about the author; who was wrongly accused of being a Zionist spy in 1978 and tried for sabotage, a capital crime, by an extremist Islamic group in Morocco.

While traveling across Africa searching for a universal religion, he was invited to study Islam in a mosque in Casablanca, Morocco; it turned out to be controlled by a militant Moslem group which promptly imprisoned him.

Jamal Belica with Ariana Zoto in a New Video About Bullying

Jamal's song "Can't Lose: Bullyproof" does us all a service by reminding us of the victims and of our responsibilities to and for them.

(SALEM / BOSTON) - One is entitled to defend oneself. As long as there are bullies—and they will not disappear easily in a society in which the familial fabric has become so torn and loosened—learning a little self-defense can do no harm. Older children should mentor the younger and watch out for the signs of bullying.

When children—the hope of the future—are driven to killing themselves because of the relentless unchecked cruelties of bullies, perhaps it is time to encourage mentoring to protect the vulnerable.

Hey Oregon, Greetings from Italy!

18 American and about 40 Italian pupils exchanged photos, audio and video presentations, personal letters, drawings and reflections about their families, schools, local weather and had so much Fun!

(UMBRIA, Italy) - Dear Friends of Oregon! Ciao and Sincere Season's Greetings from Northern Tiber Valley, a beautiful place in the Umbria region, the so called 'Green Heart' of Italy. My name is Andrea Mennella and I have been serving as a Teacher in various Primary Schools of our Valley since 1996/1997.

Tidying up files and folders in a computer is usual for many Teachers, especially during the Holidays; this is how, after reading about Salem­-News on Facebook, I revisited materials dating back to some years ago: with so much Pleasure!

Brilliant Thoughts by Great Thinkers

My choice of quotable thinkers hasn't been to those best known but to writers and speakers that many miss. Their ideas are all worth thinking about.

(MANAMA, Bahrain) - A favourite pastime of mine involves reading brilliant thoughts of wise men and women. I see their words, think about them, and save their messages when I believe they're worth keeping, rereading and sharing.

Sometimes these thoughts provide healthy advice for personal development, like this observation by Mohandas Gandhi: "The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others."