Hudson Valley Bucket List

Maria Gunnoe, 2012 Wallenberg Lecture

Maria Gunnoe is a fearless advocate for environmental and social justice. Despite threats and intimidation Ms. Gunnoe works to educate and build citizen advocacy, and to rally communities that face the destruction of their natural environment in her home of Boone County, West Virginia.

About the Wallenberg Medal and Lecture

Each year the recipient of the Wallenberg Medal is invited to present a lecture at the University of Michigan. The medalists take the stage at Rackham Auditorium and share their stories with an audience drawn from our campus and many surrounding communities.

Each Lecture is different. In some years, survivors of Nazi persecution recounted their physical resistance in face of hellish danger. In others, medalists considered the effect over the years that the bravery of friends and family has had on the course of history. Lectures have been given by politicians who explain why they resisted unjust governments and, in turn, worked to develop a new order, honoring their personal vision with decades of public service. Some medalists have focused on their missions: to reject a life of wealth and rescue people who are literally slaves of corrupt businesses; to devote a life to the non-violent and peaceful pursuit of human rights.

What the Wallenberg Lecturers have in common is their ability to inspire all with their vision, and the reality of their strength to act upon that vision. Here is the power of an eyewitness account to convince us that, although evil truly occurs, with moral courage individual actions effect a change in the world. In their Lectures, the Wallenberg medalists reveal a common characteristic: they acted selflessly without expectation of reward. The Lectures are profiles of moral excellence in ordinary people. The words of the medalists help us to imagine how it is that some can see all people as human; they share a vision of human dignity.

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Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup | Full Audiobook with subtitles

Twelve Years a Slave
Solomon NORTHUP
Twelve Years a Slave is the memoir of a freeborn African American from New York who is kidnapped and sold into slavery. After being held for twelve years on a Louisiana plantation, he is eventually freed and reunited with his family. (Summary by RobBoard)
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Mobile and Personal Technologies in Precision Medicine Workshop - July 27-28, 2015 - Day 1

On July 27 and July 28, the Precision Medicine Initiative (PMI) Working Group of the Advisory Committee to the NIH Director (ACD) hosted a public workshop on the scientific, methodological and practical considerations to inform the incorporation of mobile and personal technologies in the national research cohort of one million or more volunteers. The workshop will be was held at the Intel Corporation campus in Santa Clara, California, and was videocast.

This workshop built on the unique scientific questions developed during the April 28–29 workshop, digital health data perspectives shared during the May 28-29 workshop, and the participant engagement and health equity discussions at the July 1-2 workshop. A full list of workshops convened by the ACD PMI Working Group is available on the Events page of the NIH PMI website.

Agenda and time codes:
Welcome - Mr. Eric Dishman - 00:05
Meeting and PMI overview - Dr. Francis Collins - 03:18
Goals and Objectives for the Workshop - Dr. Kathy Hudson - 09:19
Mobile and Related Technologies and their Potential for Advancing Precision Medicine - Dr. Jessica Mega - 25:40
Lessons Learned from Cohorts Implementing Mobile Technologies – Dr. Josh Denny - 39:20
Mobile Technologies for Participant Engagement - Ms. Bray Patrick-Lake - 2:10:10
Variables Measurable Via Mobile Technologies - Dr. Spero Manson - 3:41:10
Social Challenges for Mobile Technologies in the PMI Cohort - Dr. Esteban G. Burchard - 5:59:16