16-Year-Old Set To Graduate From Harvard University 16-Year-Old Set To Graduate From Kansas High School And Harvard University December 28, 20186:35 PM ET . . . Braxton Moral, a senior at Ulysses High School, plans to attend the school's commencement May 19, then the university's ceremonies later in the month, reported The Hutchinson News. "I'm not any different; I just do a little thing on the side," he told NPR. "I try to play it down at high school because if I talk about it, it becomes a divide." . . . Around age 11, he began Harvard University's extension program, which "ideally serves" working professionals who can attend classes both on campus and online. . . . "It's physical activity," he says. "Any break you get from the classroom is a good one." Apple launches app development program to support women entrepreneurs Apple launches app development program to support women entrepreneurs November 26, 2018 . . . New Entrepreneur Camp Offers Immersive Technology Lab and More for Female App Developers who are Founders and Entrepreneurs Cupertino, California — Apple today announced the launch of the all-new Entrepreneur Camp, a first-of-its-kind initiative designed to create new opportunities for app-driven businesses owned or led by women through an intensive technology lab, specialized support and ongoing mentoring. GM cuts are a warning for all Salaried workers beware: GM cuts are a warning for all By TOM KRISHER and JOSH BOAK - - - 2018/12/1 ... In GM’s case, the jobs that will be shed through buyouts and layoffs are held largely by people who are experts in the internal combustion engine — mechanical engineers and others who spent their careers working on fuel injectors, transmissions, exhaust systems and other components that won’t be needed for the electric cars that eventually will drive themselves. GM, the nation’s largest automaker, says those vehicles are its future. “We’re talking about high-skilled people who have made a substantial investment in their education,” said Marina Whitman, a retired professor of business and public policy at the University of Michigan and a former GM chief economist. “The transitions can be extremely painful for a subset of people.” Rice University is "dramatically expanding" its financial aid Rice University is "dramatically expanding" its financial aid offerings, promising full scholarships to undergrads whose families have incomes under $130,000. . . . 2018/9/18 A Request From The Pope: Lift Up Your Hearts, Put Down Your Phones A Request From The Pope: Lift Up Your Hearts, Put Down Your Phones November 9, 201712:39 PM ET . . . "It is a very ugly thing," he went on in Italian, according to a translation by Catholic News Service. "It pains me greatly, when I celebrate Mass here in the square or in the basilica to see so many cellphones raised." And it's not just the laity that do this, the pontiff said, "but some priests and even some bishops. Come on!" Trouble by Flint water crisis, 11 years old girl did something Trouble by Flint water crisis, 11 years old girl did something October 20, 2017 3:35 PM ET . . . Gitanjali Rao, 11, says she was appalled by the drinking water crisis in Flint, Mich. — so she designed a device to test for lead faster. She was named "America's Top Young Scientist" on Tuesday at the 3M Innovation Center in St. Paul, Minn. Intelligence Is Not The Key To Success Worked With Elon Musk And Learned That Intelligence Is Not The Key To Success 2017/9/9 . . . However, the successes were all based on a single simple formula. Success is based on a convergence of three simple things: ( 1 ) Do what you are passionate about. Without passion, your work is not your love and you can never be your best or be better than others who are running with their passion. ( 2 ) Do something that you are inherently good or talented at. We all have our relative talents but spending your life doing something that is inherently more difficult puts you at a disadvantage to other more talented people. ( 3 ) Do something that creates value and can be sold into a market present or future. Creating a widget that nobody but you wants may be self satisfying, but it certainly is not going to make you your fortune nor lead you to personal or professional success. Notice that money is not an ingredient in any of these factors nor is intelligence. Admittedly, higher intelligence makes some fields (maybe rockets for example) easier to learn, but by and large these ingredients are never a major factor in success. If you combine these three elements into your pursuits in life, you will be very successful and the money will come on its own. Money is a reflection of the true value that you are creating. . . . . This leads me to what I personally think is the most important personal attribute for success. Its not intelligence. It’s not being educated. It’s not even experience. It’s simply a determination to never ever give up. That is the most important element of success: dogged determination. Pope Francis reveals in new book ‘I consulted a psychoanalyst,’Pope Francis reveals in new book . . . Claire GiangravèSeptember 1, 2017 . . . The book, Politics and Society, contains the transcripts of an unusually long series of 12 conversations between the pope and the French sociologist Dominique Wolton, founder of the Institute of the Sciences of Communication of the CNRS in Paris, and author of a book containing a long interview with Cardinal Jean-Marie Lustiger, the late archbishop of Paris. . . . The pope admitted to having been greatly influenced by a communist female militant, Esther Ballestrino de Careaga, who founded a movement of mothers who denounced the killing of their children by the regime in Argentina. Ahuja's narrow escape For India's Oldest Citizens, Independence Day Spurs Memories Of A Painful PartitionNineteen at the time, Ahuja's narrow escape came when his family of eight was delayed catching a train near the Pakistani city of Sialkot, where they lived. A woman in their group had become ill. "She fell sick, so we could not catch the earlier train, and all of us cursed her," he recalls. "We cursed her – in whispers!" They anxiously waited to board the next train, only to discover that the one they had missed had been attacked — and the passengers butchered. At the end of the train line, they walked across a bridge and entered India. Spent and soaked from the monsoon rains, they kissed the ground. Ahuja's father, a well-to-do factory owner in Pakistan, was reduced in India to commuting three hours a day for a menial job. He'd wanted to start a new business and asked Ahuja's mother to sell her jewelry. "She refused," says Ahuja. "Nothing doing," his mother told his father. "This jewelry is meant for the education of my children." Under the glow of an oil lamp, Ahuja resumed his studies and passed one of the most difficult exams in India. He was admitted into the elite administrative services and retired in 1985 as the Commissioner of the Indian Revenue Service. "It's an instinct for survival," he says. "But I couldn't have done it without luck." To emphasize his point, Ahuja adds, "Listen, there were plenty of people just like me who didn't make it." In refugee camps, the unlucky succumbed to disease. Some women were murdered by their own families — thrown into wells to "safeguard their honor" from sexual violence, a tactic used by rival communities to humiliate their foes. A Sense Of Purpose Mark Zuckerberg Tells Harvard Graduates To Embrace Globalism, 'A Sense Of Purpose'2017/5/26 . . . building a connected world "where every single person has a sense of purpose." . . . Zuckerberg called on graduates to help in "stopping climate change before we destroy the planet and getting millions of people involved manufacturing and installing solar panels." He raised the possibilities of curing diseases, learning more about the human genome, personalizing education and voting online. . . . "There is something wrong with our system when I can leave here and make billions of dollars in 10 years while millions of students can't even afford to pay off their loans, let alone start a business," he said. Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan have pledged to give away 99 percent of their shares in Facebook over the course of their lives. In late 2015, when they made the pledge, the shares were worth about $45 billion. better to be an atheist than a bad Christian Pope suggests it's better to be an atheist than a bad Christian .. . . . “But what is scandal? Scandal is saying one thing and doing another; it is a double life, a double life. A totally double life: ‘I am very Catholic, I always go to Mass, I belong to this association and that one; but my life is not Christian, I don’t pay my workers a just wage, I exploit people, I am dirty in my business, I launder money…’ A double life. And so many Christians are like this, and these people scandalize others. How many times have we heard – all of us, around the neighbourhood and elsewhere – ‘but to be a Catholic like that, it’s better to be an atheist.’ It is that, scandal. You destroy. You beat down. And this happens every day, it’s enough to see the news on TV, or to read the papers. In the papers there are so many scandals, and there is also the great publicity of the scandals. And with the scandals there is destruction.” Oregon teen's bandage invention wows Google judges Oregon teen's bandage invention wows Google judges . . 2016/10/4 . . . Naiknaware created the sensors by printing a fractal pattern using ink containing graphene nanoparticles. The particles can accurately detect when moisture levels have dropped. Google judges named her one of 16 global finalists, all of whom traveled to the company's headquarters in Mountain View, California, to present their project. Naiknaware was the youngest person to win one of the global prizes. She told the Oregonian that being able to interact, debate and play with 19 other curious teen scientists from across the world was one of her favorite life experiences. Another, she said, was the moment she saw her bandage prototype work. "My idea became a physical, tangible reality," said Naiknaware. She said she hopes to use her Lego mentor's advice to figure out how to get U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval for her bandages so a company can produce them at scale. Try politics, activism; don’t be couch potato Pope to young: Try politics, activism; don’t be couch potato ... “Dear young people, we didn’t come into this world to ‘vegetate,” to take it easy, to make our lives a comfortable sofa to fall asleep on. No, we came for another reason: To leave a mark,” Francis told a crowd that Polish media estimated at over 1 million in a huge field in Brzegi, a village outside the southern city of Krakow. Organizers said 1.6 million people came to hear the pope Saturday night, but police did not give a crowd estimate. Francis decried a modern escapism into consumerism and computers that isolates people. The same message ran through a ballet performance at the site before his speech: a lonely woman seeks human connections but is rebuffed by people on computer tablets and cellphones until one man emerges from behind a see-through barrier to connect. For Francis, Jesus is the “Lord of risk ... not the Lord of comfort, security and ease.” “Following Jesus demands a good dose of courage, a readiness to trade in the sofa for a pair of walking shoes and to set out on new and uncharted paths,” Francis said. He challenged his sea of listeners, spread out on blankets, to make their mark on the world by becoming engaged as “politicians, thinkers, social activists” and to help build a world economy that is “inspired by solidarity.” “The times we live in do not call for young ‘couch potatoes,’” he said to applause, “but for young people with shoes, or better, boots laced.” How Much Will College Really Cost You? How Much Will College Really Cost You? . . . Chances are you won’t pay the full sticker price for a college degree. At private schools, 75% of students qualify for at least some institutional aid; at four-year publics, 60% do. So when you’re shopping for a college, what you really want to know is your “net price,” or what you’ll likely pay after factoring in scholarships and grants awarded by the school. This College Abacus tool will help you estimate the net price for one year at more than 5,000 colleges, based on your personal financial and academic circumstances and the schools’ aid policies. You can compare options from multiple colleges in one place, rather than having to visit each school’s website individually and re-enter your information. To generate your estimates, you’ll select the schools you are interested in and then answer questions about your family finances, which determine your eligibility for need-based financial aid. For some schools, the tool will also prompt you to fill in grades and test scores to gauge eligibility for merit-based grants. Be patient. The estimates are the same ones you’d get by visiting the schools’ websites, only faster and in an easier-to-use format. The typical wait time for College Abacus to transfer your information to the colleges and return results is less than three minutes. Keep in mind that these estimates might not take into account any special circumstances. You won’t know your exact net price until the college admits your student and sends a formal financial aid offer. This tool is provided as a free resource by ECMC, a non-profit educational entity. The information you enter goes solely to College Abacus, not MONEY, and will never be sold or shared with a third-party. You can find College Abacus’ privacy policy here. What Makes a College a Great Value? What Makes a College a Great Value? Kim Clark,Money 2016/7/11 Don’t expect to find all the information you need to make a smart financial choice on colleges’ websites or in the glossy brochures they mail out by the millions this time of year. “Colleges make it almost impossible to estimate the true cost of a degree, to understand and compare their offers of financial aid, and to see what you’ll get for your money, such as whether their degree will help you land a decent job,” says Mark Schneider, a former head of the National Center for Education Statistics. That’s where we come in. MONEY and Schneider’s research firm, College Measures, partnered again this year to analyze all the latest higher-education data and apply the most up-to-date research to find the colleges that offer the best value for your tuition dollars—that is, a high-quality education at an affordable price and a head start in landing a fulfilling and well-paid career after graduation. WHO GOT RICH OFF THE STUDENT DEBT CRISIS WHO GOT RICH OFF THE STUDENT DEBT CRISIS . . . By James B. Steele and Lance Williams / June 28, 2016 . . . A generation ago, Congress privatized a student loan program intended to give more Americans access to higher education. In its place, lawmakers created another profit center for Wall Street and a system of college finance that has fed the nation’s cycle of inequality. Step by step, Congress has enacted one law after another to make student debt the worst kind of debt for Americans – and the best kind for banks and debt collectors. Today, just about everyone involved in the student loan industry makes money off students – the banks, private investors, even the federal government. Jessie Suren is an energetic 28-year-old who wanted a career in law enforcement. Albert Lord is a 70-year-old former accountant who became a multimillionaire executive. The two have never met, but their stories tell the history of America’s student debt crisis. Suren attended a free boarding school for underprivileged youth in Hershey, Pennsylvania, and enrolled in La Salle University in Philadelphia. Scholarships didn’t cover the cost of the private college, so she borrowed about $71,000, much of it from Sallie Mae, the financial giant of the student loan industry. Suren did well in school. But a job with the U.S. Marshals Service fell through, and by graduation in 2010, she had a soaring loan balance and no career prospects. In the years since then, Suren has scrambled to keep current on her loans, sometimes working 16 hours a day at two low-paying jobs. Her finances are incredibly tight, and she has made no headway on her loans. Today, her balance tops $90,000. “My loans are a black cloud hanging over me,” she said. “I’m a student debt slave.” For Lord, student loans have been the road to riches. He was the CEO who built Sallie Mae into a financial colossus through fees, interest and commissions on billions of dollars of federally guaranteed student loans. For delivering handsome profits to investors, Lord received pay and stock worth hundreds of millions of dollars. His success made him one of the highest-paid executives in Washington, gave him entrée into an elite circle of power brokers and won him a seat on the board of the Washington Redskins Charitable Foundation. With his wealth, he started a private equity company and built his own golf course, Anne Arundell Mannor, near the Chesapeake Bay. After a 30-year career at the forefront of the student loan industry, Lord retired in 2013 and now shuttles between houses in Naples, Florida, and Annapolis, Maryland. Almost every American knows someone like Suren, an adult burdened by a student loan. Fewer know that growing alongside the legions of indebted students is a formidable private industry that has been enriched by student debt. Here's what Jony Ive looks for when hiring Apple designers Here's what Jony Ive looks for when hiring Apple designers __ Kif Leswing,Business Insider __ When asked what he looks for when hiring young designers, Ive replied: Well there was a time the process would normally be someone would submit a portfolio of work, and that would be reviewed, and we would look very specifically what they did, their designs. But I've always been more interested in the way people see the world. This is actually a long time ago now, it was probably 9 or 10 years ago. I arrived late, we were interviewing this guy, and I was late, and I didn't want to be rude, so I stood outside the conference room. I listened to him, not describe his work, but describe the world as he saw it. And there was a sensitivity that was breathtaking, and you could hear a pin drop, and without seeing one drawing, or one model, or anything he had done, decided we must hire this guy. So to me, it's just how we see the world, and to share that ambition based on an understanding to develop an expertise to sincerely join us in trying to make the very best products that we can for each other. link a123 link a123 link a123 link a123 link a123 link a123 link a123 link a123 link a123 link a123 link a123

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