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The year is 1996. Facebook has not yet been created. Josh and Emma are neighbors and best friends; well, they were until Josh got his signals crossed and made a move on Emma and now everything is just awkward. When Josh lends Emma an AOL cd for her brand spanking new computer, neither one of them is prepared for what is about to happen.
This was a great concept for a book. You know that every single person would be doing exactly what Josh and Emma do, run home to refresh their status update to see how every little event changes their futures. As the story spirals and the tension builds you, as a reader, want them to rush home and hit refresh. Their anticipation is palpable. Like I said, this is an interesting concept: fortune teller via Facebook.
Josh and Emma are well developed characters that you care about, for the most part. At times Emma becomes quite unlikable in her obsessive ways, but it rings true to the character. In addition to Emma and Josh, the cast of characters is rounded out by the other part of their best friend foursome Kellan and Tyson. Again, these are fully developed characters and a good representation of high school friendship with all the messy complications that come with it.
There are some fun exercises you can do with your teens with this concept, including having them create their own personal status updates of their futures. 3 out of 5 stars. Teens will be looking to read it so you will want to buy it.
I would give this 3/5 as well, but I think a lot of teens will probably love it. I vividly remember when Facebook first came out and only certain colleges had it at a time. When my school finally got it I felt so cool ?
On campus I am currently involved in Garden Committee (operates the UA community garden), Students for Sustainability (ASUA organization which is environmental focused), the community outreach lead for UArizona Divest (a student advocacy group on campus) and a member of body positive (a club on campus which focuses on rejecting diet culture and promotes a path to body neutrality).
I cannot pinpoint an exact date which I learned the most during this semester however a class in which I learned the most was POL 325 (Political Psychology). The course explores psychological explanations for almost anything in the political arena and I found it interesting to analyze how individuals formulate opinions and the various factors which influence an individual.
Understanding how severe the climate crisis is, the impacts it has already had and the fact that there will ultimately be no future without change is what motivates me to continue my involvement in climate action.
Located in the Marquette Building, the CfNF art center will host gallery exhibitions, artist-in-residencies, and community events throughout the year. CfNF recognizes the city of Zhegagoynak (Chicago) as Indigenous land and works to promote the voices of displaced Native people of the Great Lakes region. The organization fosters Native visual artists, curators, and writers at various career stages and provides a lens to learn from the past, nurture the present, and realize a thriving future.
Le'Ana Asher is an accomplished contemporary artist based in Deerfield, Illinois, whose works explore the intersection between memory, identity, and social justice. Drawing from her Ojibwe background and her love for painting, Le'Ana creates stunning artworks that blend individual and collective narratives, bringing to life the complexities of the human experience. Her use of realism further amplifies her art's power and thought-provoking nature.
Lois Taylor Biggs is a writer, curator, and art historian of Cherokee Nation (enrolled), White Earth Ojibwe, English, Irish, and Jewish descent. She resides on Council of Three Fires homelands in Chicago, IL. Lois is currently the Rice Curatorial Fellow in Native American Art at the Art Institute of Chicago, and has previously held Assistant Curator and Terra Foundation Curatorial Research Fellow positions at the Block Museum. Her practice centers on Indigenous art history and her current research interests include Indigenous modernisms, curatorial diplomacy, and Anishinaabe stories as critical frameworks.
This project is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts. The project is also generously supported by the David C. and Sarajean Ruttenberg Arts Foundation, the Alumnae of Northwestern University, and the Illinois Arts Council Agency.
Leah Asher is a long time bestie of andPlay, and we were so thrilled to finally be able to commission and collaborate with her this year on a new piece. We are all heart eyes over here! Her piece, letters to my future self, is incredible, and we will be premiering it on April 21, 2018 at Aret Venue and Gallery on a show that we are splitting with the fabulous horn trio, Kylwyria. Come out out to hear some truly wonderful music!
Standing on TEDxWhiteCity stage, renowned photographer Asher Svidensky presents his intake and vision for the future of photography as the world's first international language - a language that can (and will) connect us all.
My name is Asher Svidensky. I'm a freelance photographer specializing in art and documentary photography with a strong passion for mixing the two with storytelling.
After completing my military service, I picked up a bag, a camera, and followed my dream to be a documentary photographer.
Asher Levine, a boy out of Port Charlotte, FL arrived in New York (a few years ago) to complete a degree in Managerial Entrepreneurship at Pace University, understanding that fashion, just like any other industry, is fundamentally a business.
Brought up on bread, cutting and sewing, the Discovery Channel and science fiction, for Asher it is perfectly natural to embroider his every creation with details taken from the biological and scientific universe. It is even more spontaneous for him to interlace these inputs with dark visions of the future. An example is that of his biker shoes for Alpinestars, which manage to mix opposing concepts such as the underground communities of the New York nightlife and a high-tech clothing label for the hard-core motorcyclists who indulge in extreme sports.
He has also collaborated with companies such as Dr. Martens, Converse and many more. We have to remember that Asher is someone who makes clothing for the stars of today and the likes of Lady Gaga, Scissor Sisters, Bruno Mars and Black Eyed Peas are all amongst his clients.
David Asher: Hello, it's David Asher. I'm a Senior Fellow here at the Hudson Institute in Washington, D.C. I want to welcome everyone to an event on preventing the next pandemic. The policy implications of China, COVID-19, and the future of the world in an era of biology, indeed of synthetic biology. I want to just directly introduce our moderator today, Christopher Isham. Many years with CBS News as the D.C. Bureau Chief, and Deputy Head of CBS News. Many years before that as the Lead Investigator for ABC News. Among other famous interviews, he was the first Westerner to interview Osama Bin Laden. He's cracked many big stories in the past and is an old friend. We're very grateful for his moderation today. Chris, I'll turn it over to you.
Christopher Isham: Okay. Thank you very much, David. Just by way of a brief setup, it's now more than 14 months that we're into COVID-19 since it emerged in Wuhan, China. More than two and a half million people have died. A million more have been sickened, some with lasting effects. There's been obviously a devastating effect on the world economy. Yet we still have no clear understanding of the origins of this virus. Conventional wisdom and many in the scientific community have said that its origins are zoonotic. That is, the virus jumped from an animal in the wild, most likely a bat, to humans possibly via an intermediate animal host. The other theory is that the virus leaked from a lab in Wuhan that was conducting myriad experiments on bat coronaviruses.
The purpose of this panel, and I will say that it's a very bipartisan panel or nonpartisan panel, is to examine the research into the origins and try to chart an approach to the way forward. Let me get into it and introduce our panelists. David Asher has already started us off. He's a Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute. His area is focused on U.S. foreign policy in Asia, economic and financial policy towards U.S. state adversaries, strategic law enforcement, and high technology development. Dr. Asher is well known as one of the most experienced advisors to the U.S. government on countering money laundering, terrorism financing, and sanctions evasion. He has conducted a number of whole of government investigations that have been highly effective involving complex international issues, such as nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons development and proliferation.
Specifically to the issue at hand, he spearheaded a taskforce for the office of secretary of state looking into the origins of COVID-19 and the role of the Chinese government. Miles Yu is a Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute. He is also a professor of East Asian and Military Naval History at the U.S. Naval Academy in Minneapolis, Maryland. Dr. Yu specializes in Chinese military and strategic culture, and the U.S. and Chinese military and diplomatic history, and U.S. policy towards China. Dr. Yu served in the Trump administration and served as a China policy advisor to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.
Jamie Metzl is a technology and healthcare futurist. He's a geopolitical expert, novelist, social entrepreneur, media commentary, and Senior Fellow of the Atlantic Council. In 2019, he was appointed to the World Health Organization Expert Advisory Committee on Human Genome Editing. He's the author of a recent book, Hacking Darwin, and he's served in various capacities in the U.S. government over the years in the U.S. National Security Council, the State Department, Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and other offices. Most specifically, in terms of the issue again on the table today, he was the lead author of an open letter that was published that was critical of the WHO China investigation that was released on March the fourth.
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