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http://www.compassionatecoalition.org/node/7155 | 2013-12-09T17:22:34 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-48/segments/1386163992191/warc/CC-MAIN-20131204133312-00092-ip-10-33-133-15.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.966498 | 145 | CC-MAIN-2013-48 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2013-48__0__48075977 | en | Source: Americans for Safe Access
September 20th, 2011
Oakland, CA -- The RAND Corporation issued a report today dispelling the myth that there are inherent links between medial marijuana distribution centers and crime. The study on which the RAND report is based claims that crime was as much as 60 percent greater around medical marijuana dispensaries that had been shut down by the City of Los Angeles compared to those areas with open dispensaries. "[W]e found no evidence that medical marijuana dispensaries in general cause crime to rise," said Mireille Jacobson, the study’s lead author and a senior economist at RAND.
Full Report: http://www.safeaccessnow.org/article.php?id=6809 | sociology |
https://pacificacohousing.com/home/mindfulness-about-noise/ | 2023-12-03T03:12:42 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100484.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20231203030948-20231203060948-00649.warc.gz | 0.970039 | 523 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__299978519 | en | Mindfulness about noise in Pacifica
The intent of these guidelines is to balance the needs of all Pacificans. We are highlighting community as our core value, and acknowledging the importance within our intentional community of always striving to better understand and honor one another’s needs. Through our conversations we learned that Pacificans need quiet time at different times of the day, but also value opportunities to socialize with one another and enjoy our outdoor spaces. It is important to note that the focus of this committee’s work has been on outdoor spaces within Pacifica that are within earshot of residents’ homes.
The times for quiet hours were selected as a compromise between individuals and families who are early birds and those who are night owls. Pacifica’s quiet hours begin at 10:00pm and last until 7:30am on weekdays and 8:00am on weekends. During that time, Pacificans are asked to make a special effort to avoid disturbing their neighbors and to ask their guests to do the same. Even outside of quiet hours, however, all Pacificans are asked to be mindful of their neighbors, and to recognize that at any time of day people may be napping or working or simply trying to enjoy a quiet moment.
Quiet hours do not preclude walking through the community, walking to your car, leaving Pacifica, or talking at a normal volume. They do preclude loud play, loud laughter, loud music, motorized equipment, power tools, and loud toys including children’s vehicles from which other Pacificans might be disturbed. If young children want to play in the community prior to 7:30am on weekdays and 8:00am on weekends, families are encouraged to bring them to the playfield near the upper/South community garden or inside the Common House. The playground adjacent to the Common House should be avoided, since several homes are close by.
If a Pacifican is negatively affected by noise, they are encouraged to talk with their neighbor(s) first to resolve the matter. If we all agree to live in a way that embodies our core value of community, and approach one another in a spirit of openness and generosity, we believe most noise-related issues can be resolved amicably. In rare cases where neighbor-to-neighbor conversations don’t lead to a resolution, the dispute resolution committee is available to help neighbors work through any remaining conflicts or difficulties. With noise-related issues, as in other cases of conflict, the list-serve should be avoided as a channel for airing grievances. | sociology |
https://www.undocuscholars.com/speaking-engagements | 2019-10-16T03:07:22 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-43/segments/1570986661296.12/warc/CC-MAIN-20191016014439-20191016041939-00329.warc.gz | 0.955079 | 143 | CC-MAIN-2019-43 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-43__0__1739666 | en | Audience: Students, educators & allies
Content: We are open to sharing our own personal experiences as undocumented students and people with any audience. Whether it's sharing space with undocumented students to empower them or speaking to allies about the importance of their active roles, we can speak on various different topics regarding the undocumented community and allies. With 6+ years of experience, we have
participated in many panels, as guest speakers, keynote speakers for conferences and in many other settings. We also love to speak to community about our scholarship foundation, its history and its future!
Format: Keynotes, panels, guest speakers, presentations and intimate spaces
Speakers: Diana and/or Ana Betancourt Macias | sociology |
https://www.counsellingsupportcentre.ca/post/mental-health-and-its-stigma-breaking-down-barriers-for-a-healthier-society | 2024-04-24T12:03:03 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296819273.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20240424112049-20240424142049-00473.warc.gz | 0.916597 | 1,222 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__135575592 | en | Mental health is an essential aspect of our overall well-being, yet it remains shrouded in stigma and misconception. The negative attitudes, discrimination, and stereotypes surrounding mental health create significant barriers for individuals seeking help and support. In this article, we will explore the nature of mental health stigma, its impact on individuals and society, and the urgent need to dismantle these barriers to foster a healthier and more empathetic society.
Understanding Mental Health Stigma
Stigma refers to the negative beliefs, attitudes, and stereotypes associated with a particular characteristic or condition. Mental health stigma arises from misconceptions, fear, and ignorance about mental illnesses, leading to discrimination and social exclusion. It perpetuates the notion that mental health problems are a personal weakness, a sign of inadequacy, or something to be ashamed of, rather than recognizing them as legitimate health issues.
The Origins of Mental Health Stigma
A. Historical Perspective: The historical roots of mental health stigma, influenced by religious, cultural, and social beliefs, have contributed to the development of negative attitudes and fear surrounding mental illness.
B. Media and Pop Culture: The portrayal of mental health in the media often perpetuates stereotypes and reinforces stigmatizing beliefs, contributing to the marginalization of individuals with mental health conditions.
C. Lack of Education and Awareness: Insufficient knowledge about mental health and the causes of mental illness can lead to misunderstandings, fear, and judgment.
The Impact of Mental Health Stigma
Delayed Help-Seeking: Stigma often prevents individuals from seeking timely and appropriate help for their mental health concerns. Fear of judgment, rejection, or professional consequences can lead to a reluctance to disclose their struggles or access treatment, exacerbating their conditions and prolonging their suffering.
Social Isolation: Stigma isolates individuals by creating an environment where they feel marginalized and disconnected from society. This isolation worsens their mental health symptoms and makes recovery more challenging.
Workplace Challenges: Stigmatizing attitudes in the workplace can lead to discrimination, limited opportunities, and even job loss for individuals with mental health conditions. This not only affects the individual's well-being but also hampers productivity and innovation within organizations.
Family and Relationships: Stigma affects not only individuals with mental health conditions but also their families and relationships. The fear of judgment and shame can strain relationships and prevent open communication, impeding the support network crucial for recovery.
Public Health Implications: Stigma hampers public health efforts by deterring individuals from seeking treatment and perpetuating a cycle of silence and shame. This results in a significant burden on healthcare systems, increased healthcare costs, and reduced quality of life for individuals and communities.
The Social and Economic Costs of Stigma
A. Economic Impact: The stigma surrounding mental health carries substantial economic consequences, including lost productivity, increased healthcare costs, and reduced workforce participation.
B. Social Exclusion: Stigmatizing attitudes contribute to social exclusion, isolation, and a lack of social support, impeding the recovery and well-being of individuals with mental health conditions.
C. Intersectionality: Stigma can intersect with other forms of discrimination, such as racism, sexism, or homophobia, amplifying the challenges faced by individuals with multiple marginalized identities.
Debunking Stigma and Misconceptions
To break the chains of mental health stigma, we must address the misconceptions that fuel it. Here are some common myths and the corresponding truths:
Myth: Mental illness is a personal weakness or character flaw.
Truth: Mental illnesses are medical conditions caused by a combination of biological, environmental, and genetic factors, just like any physical illness.
Myth: People with mental health conditions are dangerous and violent.
Truth: Most individuals with mental health conditions are not violent. In fact, they are more likely to be victims of violence than perpetrators.
Myth: Seeking help is a sign of weakness.
Truth: Seeking help for mental health issues is a sign of strength, resilience, and self-care. It takes courage to confront and address one's challenges.
Myth: Mental health problems are not real illnesses.
Truth: Mental illnesses are diagnosable medical conditions backed by scientific research. They have identifiable symptoms, and effective treatments are available.
Combatting Mental Health Stigma
A. Education and Awareness: Promoting mental health literacy through education and awareness campaigns can help dispel myths, challenge stereotypes, and increase understanding and empathy.
B. Language and Communication: Encouraging the use of respectful, person-centred language when discussing mental health can help reduce stigma and foster a more inclusive dialogue.
C. Media Representation: The media has a powerful role in shaping public perceptions. Promoting accurate and sensitive portrayals of mental health in various forms of media can contribute to reducing stigma.
D. Advocacy and Policy: Advocacy efforts and policy changes are crucial to address systemic stigma, ensure equal access to mental health services, and protect the rights of individuals with mental health conditions.
E. Peer Support and Community Engagement: Building supportive communities and providing spaces for peer support can help individuals feel validated, connected, and empowered on their mental health journeys.
F. Workplace Initiatives: Employers can implement mental health-friendly policies, provide resources, and foster a culture of support, creating a safe space for employees to address their mental health needs.
G. Mental Health Services: Ensuring accessible and affordable mental health services is crucial in combating stigma. Increased investment in mental health infrastructure can help individuals access timely and appropriate care.
Overcoming the stigma surrounding mental health is a complex and ongoing process that requires collective efforts from individuals, communities, and society. By challenging stigmatizing beliefs, increasing awareness, and fostering supportive environments, we can dismantle the barriers that prevent individuals from seeking help. It is our collective responsibility to create a world that embraces mental health, offers support without judgment, and allows every individual to thrive. Together, let us break the chains of stigma and build a more compassionate and inclusive future. | sociology |
https://www.mscusd.org/page/the-mckinney-vento-act-for-homeless-children-and-youth | 2023-12-05T17:58:47 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100555.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20231205172745-20231205202745-00680.warc.gz | 0.944323 | 311 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__82967730 | en | BOARD OF EDUCATION
Before schools can be certain they are complying with legislation related to educating students experiencing homelessness, they must understand who can be considered homeless. The McKinney-Vento Act (Section 725) defines "homeless children and youth" (school-age and younger) as:
Children and youth who lack a fixed, regular and adequate nighttime residence, including children and youth who are:
Sharing the housing of other persons due to loss of housing, economic hardship or a similar reason.
Living in motels, hotels, trailer parks or camping grounds due to lack of alternative adequate accommodations.
Living in emergency or transitional shelters.
Abandoned in hospitals
Awaiting foster care placement
Children and youth that have a primary nighttime residence that is a public or private place not designed for or ordinarily used as a regular sleeping accommodation for human beings.
Children and youth who are living in cars, parks, public spaces, abandoned buildings, substandard housing, bus or train stations or similar settings.
Migratory children who qualify as homeless because they are living in circumstances described above.
The term unaccompanied youth includes a youth not in the physical custody of a parent or guardian. This would include runaways living in runaway shelters, abandoned buildings, cars, on the street or in other inadequate housing; children and youth denied housing by their families (sometimes referred to "throwaway children and youth"); and school-age unwed mothers living in homes for unwed mothers because they have no other housing available. | sociology |
https://seedig.diplomacy.edu/code-conduct/ | 2024-04-15T12:19:09 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296816977.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20240415111434-20240415141434-00881.warc.gz | 0.898675 | 378 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__53795070 | en | To ensure an open, inclusive and friendly environment during the SEEDIG meetings and events (in situ and online), as well as in the context of all other SEEDIG activities, participants are expected to:
- Treat all other participants equally, irrespective of nationality, gender, racial or ethnic origin, religion or beliefs, disability, age, or sexual orientation. All participants in SEEDIG meetings and events should treat each other with civility, both face to face and online.
- Focus discussion or remarks on issues rather than on particular actors, be they individuals, groups, organisations or governments, and refrain from ad hominem attacks.
- Act in a reasonable, objective and informed manner when participating in and/or using any SEEDIG discussion platform.
- Listen and respect the views of all stakeholders when considering and discussing Internet and digital policy issues. SEDIG is a multistakeholder environment and those who take part in SEEDIG meetings, events and intersessional activities should acknowledge the importance of all stakeholders and seek to understand their points of view.
- Facilitate transparency and openness when participating in Internet governance and digital policy discussions.
- Act fairly and in good faith with other participants in SEEDIG events/meetings/activities.
- Promote ethical and responsible behaviour. Ethics and integrity are essential, and we expect all stakeholders to behave in a responsible and principled way.
- Not misuse the digital platforms used for the meeting to share unappropriated digital material, such as sending malicious files via chat, sharing inappropriate pictures or videos while given the floor, or use the chat functions for business or political promotion or for ad hominem attacks.
Failure to adhere to the above guidelines and principles may result in exclusion from our meetings, events and activities.
[Based on the Code of Conduct of the Internet Governance Forum] | sociology |
https://pierceins.com/benefits-solutions/benefits-trend-study/ | 2018-12-15T15:31:12 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-51/segments/1544376826892.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20181215152912-20181215174912-00583.warc.gz | 0.945338 | 919 | CC-MAIN-2018-51 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-51__0__193174296 | en | 2018 Voluntary Benefits Survey
Voluntary Benefits Now Viewed as Essential: April 10, 2018 Survey
“With an increasingly diverse workforce, employers no longer consider voluntary benefits as simply add-ons, but rather as a way to address a host of employee needs, offer choice and allow employees to personalize their rewards.” said Lydia Jilek, director, Voluntary Benefits, Willis Towers Watson
Voluntary benefits expected to attract more employer attention over the next few years include:
- Identity theft protection: 36% of employers currently offer – could increase to 63% by 2021
- Pet insurance: 34% of employers currently offer – could increase to 57% by 2021
- Long-term care insurance: 16% of employers currently offer – could double to 33% by 2021
- Critical-illness insurance: 43% of employers currently offer – could increase to 71% by 2021
- Hospital indemnity: 24% of employers currently offer – could more than double to 50% by 2021
Learn more: 2018 Willis Towers Survey
Genworth 2017 Cost of Care Survey
According to the Genworth 2017 Cost of Care Survey, the annual median cost of long term care services increased an average of 4.5 percent from 2016 to 2017, the second-highest year-over-year increase for nursing homes and home care since the study began in 2004 and nearly three times the 1.7 percent U.S. rate of inflation.
Although the national median cost of receiving care rose considerably across all care options during the last 12 months, the increase was most pronounced for home health aides:
- Home health aide services, up 6.17% to $21.50/hour
- Homemaker services, up 4.75% to $21/hour
- Adult day health care services, up 2.94% to $70/day
- Assisted living facilities, up 3.36% to $123/day or $3,750/month
- Semi-private room nursing home care, up 4.44% to $235/day or $7,148/month
- Private room nursing home care, up 5.50% to $267/day or $8,121/month.
Source: Genworth 2017 Annual Cost of Care Survey
Experience a more human workplace:
- The empowered employee
- Bridging the gap
- Introducing the human workplace
- Creating experiences that matter
- Answering the needs of tomorrow
- Final thoughts: What you can do today
A New Age of Benefits
Employees want more harmony, so today’s benefits experience needs to be more complete. Here are 5 ways to meet employees where they are:
- When employers offer a breadth of benefit options, they can help alleviate the anxiety that comes with the integration of work-life and home-life.
- When employers deliver tailored solutions, they help an increasingly diverse workforce find the security it’s looking for.
- When employees have access to the right expertise, it ensures they can get the help they need to meet today’s challenges.
- By providing clearer information about the benefits available, employers can empower employees to choose the ones that fit their needs.
- Lastly, when enrollment is simplified, employees are able to discover the immense value of their benefits. As a result, their appreciation can enhance their loyalty and commitment to their company.
The Millennial Benefit Perspective
Turning Stereotypes Around
Millennials — represent more than one quarter of the nation’s population at a number of 83.1 million. Their size exceeds the 75.4 million Baby Boomer population and they have now surpassed Generation X to become one of the largest demographic groups in the American workforce.1
With more than one-third of today’s American employees being a Millennial, understanding how this generation thinks and behaves in the workplace is crucial to many aspects of a business’ success — now and in the future. The 14th Annual U.S. Employee Benefits Trends Study takes a deep dive into the Millennial attitude on benefits and financial well-being. And while much has been researched and written on this topic, MetLife’s study found that analyzing Millennials based on one general profile does not do justice to the differences in attitudes among this generation.
- “Millennials Outnumber Baby Boomers and Are Far More Diverse, Census Bureau Reports.” United States Census Bureau; June 25, 2015. | sociology |
https://www.thepeacebuildingpractitioner.org/2017/10/19/value-based-peacebuilding/ | 2024-02-21T05:45:04 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947473370.18/warc/CC-MAIN-20240221034447-20240221064447-00602.warc.gz | 0.942484 | 1,637 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__119970128 | en | So far we have considered the importance of developing a good community-informed understanding of the conflict at the outset, and from that generating a strategic approach to building peace. A third pillar for our work is the values upon which this is all based.
Values are important to reflect upon in violent contexts for a number of reasons: because the conflict itself may in part reflect different values of opposing parties; because peacebuilders are better equipped if they have some self-awareness about their own values, those of their group, and of others; and because the choices made by peacebuilders can have profound impacts, to name but a few. Unless we understand the value-base of our work, we cannot be properly prepared for peacebuilding challenges that are likely to arise.
This is best illustrated with a simple example. If a small group of peacebuilders is going to a critical meeting with some rebels in a forested area, how should they respond to offers of accompaniment by the police, who they trust but will likely be armed? A straightforward choice might be to decline accompaniment based on non-violent principles. But what if one member of the group is particularly vulnerable to risk, and wishes for police protection? Or if the group is told that the meeting may not proceed without such accompaniment? What if the police escort the group despite it declining their protection? And what should they do if the local and outsider members of the group answer these questions differently? Prior discussion of the shared values of the group can help peacebuilders react quickly and with greater clarity when these tricky issues are raised.
Acting from your personal values
Peacebuilders are often people who have come to the fore because they hold strong values, and act out of those values in their work or community. The link to a strong value base is often an asset and foundation for work in this field. But it can also raise challenges.
For example: Some contexts enable us to break with the social norm, strive for something we believe in, and do something that is more closely aligned with our values than with those of the people around us. Perhaps encouraged by people whom we trust and respect, strengthened by religious conviction, or inspired by the example of others, we can make a stronger stand for an ideal despite societal disapproval or the opposition of those around us.
At other times such a principled position might be particularly difficult, perhaps leading to unwanted consequences to ourselves or our families. Sometimes the results of our actions, for ourselves or others, may be serious enough for us to re-evaluate our approach. There is a place for such balancing considerations, weighing opportunities to further principled action with the possible negative consequences. Principled people can find compromise difficult.
Personal flexibility and adaptability is central to peacebuilding work. Without sufficient openness to values different to our own, and the ability to work constructively with people with whom we strongly disagree, there can be little chance for us to forge strong peacemaking alliances. It will be even harder for us to help others, who may have suffered terrible loss, to tolerate or reconcile with their enemies.
Acting out of shared values
As has been implied, peacebuilders do not all share the same values. Our values may be rooted in divergent religious beliefs, secular liberal tradition, or other social and cultural norms. For this reason, one’s personal values will probably not be identical to those of a peacebuilding group.
Despite this, common commitments can emerge from different belief systems. Religious beliefs that uphold compassionate action may sit easily alongside secular commitment to principles of equality or social justice. Commitments to non-violence or mutual respect arise from many diverse traditions.
The Active Learning Network ALNAP for example proposes a list of values for peacebuilding that includes integrity, honesty, respect, social justice, non-violence, and accountability. Any peacebuilding group could come up with a list for itself, and a simple brainstorming and synthesising of emerging ideas can articulate these. An exercise like this can produce some basis for action, and be used to enable principled consideration of future issues.
Overcoming profound differences of belief within a group, and collaborating powerfully despite them, is often fundamental to successful peacebuilding. A first step is often finding sufficient common ground upon which to base collaborative action for peace, and understanding that one’s own values are not identical to those of the group. For collaborative action to gain wide acceptance, people and groups with diverse and divergent values must be engaged and enabled or inspired to work together. Commitment to one’s own values, and the wisdom to apply them flexibly enough, are important peacebuilding qualities.
Encountering conflicting or imposed values
Unfortunately this description of relatively easy accommodation to shared value norms is simplistic. Profound values-based differences can emerge between (or indeed within) principled individuals, and the application of strongly held values can have unintended consequences:
➤ Advocates for equality and an equal voice for all may find themselves at odds with respected elders, whose power is threatened by the impulse towards democracy. Their commitment may become further complicated in a violent context, for example if elders are a calming influence upon a minority of youth, keen to use violence to assert their rights or beliefs.
➤ Advocates for women’s rights may strengthen a community’s understanding of women’s oppressions and the abuse of power by men. Acting out of their values, peacebuilders may enable women to challenge the violence they experience. Yet subsequently if support is withdrawn those brave women who have spoken out may be left exposed and vulnerable to reprisals, and principled action may not have served its goals.
➤ The facilitator of a group may encounter amongst one or more participants a strong sense of the need for retribution against an individual, group or section of society. This desire for vengeance may be rooted in a rightful sense of injustice. Retribution if enacted might have local or widespread impacts, and reduce or increase the dynamics of violence. In such a circumstance competing principles based on our values must be traded against one another - respect for people’s experience of the past can come at the cost of communities creating a path out of violence for the future; and ensuring communities choose their own path can mean that cherished external priorities will be set aside.
These scenarios are hypothetical, but they are based on real situations, and they indicate the need to move beyond blind principle when dealing with value-based judgements. Our own values often conflict with one another, and we must not be surprised if we encounter these challenges in peacebuilding.
Resolving conflicting value-based situations
Often we must resolve conflicting imperatives in real time, whether in a workshop situation, amongst peacebuilders, or in dealing with conflict parties. There is no formula for such calculations, but some pointers can be suggested:
➤ Agreed ground rules within which you operate may bring clarity. However, rigid and unwavering adherence to principle in complex conflict situations is unlikely to lead easily to their resolution.
➤ Those who will live with the consequences of a decision should generally be those making it.
➤ Those making a decision should be informed by a strong understanding of and reflection upon their values and their context (including through wide consultation), so that they may judge likely consequences.
➤ Good decisions are not made in the gut. They are rooted in compassion and informed by intellect.
We can conclude that while our actions must be strongly informed by our values, values alone will not tell us what to do. Only with an equal understanding of context can we consider the likely consequences of our actions. If we are making decisions to assist communities affected by extreme violence, likely consequences must be to the fore in our thinking.
These short notes on values have raised the question of who is making peacebuilding decisions. The answer of course is those who have the power to do so, and ‘power’ is the topic of the next blog in our series.
Post by Bryn Higgs from The Peacebuilding Practitioner. | sociology |
https://traders-wealth.com/kellogg-to-permanently-replace-1400-striking-factory-workers/ | 2023-10-03T19:42:41 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233511220.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20231003192425-20231003222425-00571.warc.gz | 0.961799 | 399 | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__312568086 | en | says it is permanently replacing about 1,400 of its striking factory workers, ending a labor feud between employees and the cereal brand.
“The prolonged work stoppage has left us no choice but to hire permanent replacement employees in positions vacated by striking workers,” the company said in a statement Tuesday night.
From the archives (November 2021): Kellogg raises sales guidance despite labor strike
Workers had been striking for a variety of reasons including issues surrounding compensation, benefits and cost of living, according to its union’s website.
Earlier on Tuesday, striking Kellogg workers “overwhelmingly voted to reject” a five-year offer from Kellogg that would have given employees a 3% raise.
The strike began on Oct. 5 and took place for employees at factories in Battle Creek, Mich.; Omaha, Neb.; Lancaster, Pa.; and Memphis, Tenn.
According to the Associated Press, one of the specific obstacles in the negotiations has been the company’s wage system that gives newer workers lower pay and fewer benefits. About 30% of the cereal plant workforce receives these lower wages.
Striking workers Michael Rodarte, Sue Griffin, Michael Elliott and Mark Gonzalez outside the Omaha, Neb., cereal plant on Dec. 2.
Kellogg makes popular cereals like Frosted Flakes, Froot Loops and Rice Krispies, and had been hiring contract workers to keep up with product demand during the strike.
The Kellogg workers on strike were represented by the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International Union — the BCTGM union did not immediately respond to MarketWatch’s request for comment on this story.
The news comes as the so-called Great Resignation of U.S. workers slowed in October, but over 4 million people still quit their jobs. | sociology |
http://bspcc.org/index.php/service-justice | 2019-09-17T17:00:25 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-39/segments/1568514573098.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20190917161045-20190917183045-00169.warc.gz | 0.962248 | 475 | CC-MAIN-2019-39 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-39__0__197043410 | en | This commission seeks the growth of the parish as servants to the human needs of the people of the Warren area. They are concerned both with immediate needs such as food, clothing, and shelter, and with systemic issues such as economic justice, world peace, and discrimination against minorities.
Committee for the Disabled This committee is concerned with issues that directly affect the disabled of the parish. They also sponsor a Mass for the Disabled once a year, usually held in the fall and seek to make parishioners aware of the special needs of the disabled.
Parish Health Ministry This committee promotes health and wellness. They are active in community health screenings at the St. Vincent de Paul Soup Kitchen.
Blood Drive Twice a year, volunteers from Blessed Sacrament aid the Red Cross when they use our church as a donor site. Volunteers provide snacks and atmosphere for blood donors.
St. Vincent de Paul Volunteers of this group provide food and other necessities to the less fortunate of our community. Volunteers also work in the soup kitchen once a month, usually on the third Thursday, cooking and serving a hot meal. During the holiday season they provide Christmas food baskets to over 100 families in cooperation with the Salvation Army.
Christmas in July During the busy summer months, the local service agencies are in need of our help. So they provide us with "wish lists" of items they need, and parishioners select a card from the "tree", purchase the items, wrap them and place them back under the tree. The committee then delivers them to each of the agencies.
Nursery This service is available during the Sunday morning liturgies. A "Co-op" approach is used to provide adequate staffing.
Transportation Committee This committee provides transportation services to persons who cannot drive to church. Time commitments to volunteer for this ministry can be as little as once a year.
Mass of Remembrance A liturgy is celebrated on All Soul's Day, and on a Tuesday during Lent, to remember the deceased of the parish who have died in the last year.
Prayer Chain A network of parishioners prays for special needs and intentions and are apprised of such needs through a phone chain.
Stations of the Cross Each Friday during Lent the last journey of Christ is remembered and walked in the church. A Lay Leader of Prayer presides. | sociology |
https://www.sustainabilityinsider.org/about.html | 2022-10-07T15:34:05 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-40/segments/1664030338213.55/warc/CC-MAIN-20221007143842-20221007173842-00445.warc.gz | 0.917287 | 292 | CC-MAIN-2022-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-40__0__194886593 | en | Introducing Sustainability Insider
With the increasing amount of sustainability awareness around the world, it is important for everyone to understand what sustainability is, its economic, social, and environmental impacts, and what we as citizens of Planet Earth can do to play our role.
How can we address sustainability? What can we do to help minimize our carbon footprint?
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Hope is messy and multifaceted and requires digging in to difficult work; it’s a learned behavior that embodies both empathy and action, as opposed to wistful wishing. Hope needs you to care, and do something about it. | sociology |
https://perennial-films.com/benevolence-a-journey-from-prison-to-home/ | 2023-12-10T22:48:52 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679102697.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20231210221943-20231211011943-00105.warc.gz | 0.945541 | 229 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__82685819 | en | Benevolence, a journey from prison to home follows the journey of five women as they are released from prison and move onto Benevolence Farm in Alamance County, NC. This documentary film is an important educational tool for engaging with contemporary issues related to women and criminal justice reform. It promotes instructive discussions about how gender affects incarceration and reentry and reveals what women face as they move from prison back into society.
“I think Benevolence is an excellent tool for the classroom.” Dr. Catherine D. Marcum, Assistant Chair, Department of Government and Justice Studies, Appalachian State University, Author (with Lisa M. Carter) of Female offenders and reentry: Pathways and barriers to returning to society
“The film is an important contribution to discussions we need to have about the correctional system in the US with its record incarceration rates that have affected women disproportionately in the last two decades. The film is also a feminist statement as it creates space for unheard voices and an innovative program that hopefully finds multiplication.” Daniela Jauk, PhD, Feminist Sociologist, Research Specialist with Oriana House | sociology |
https://myssoftware.com/articles/us-will-halt-visas-of-anyone-involved-in-spyware/ | 2024-03-05T13:13:39 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707948235171.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20240305124045-20240305154045-00024.warc.gz | 0.920534 | 463 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__54315796 | en | In a significant move aimed at curbing the proliferation of spyware and protecting digital privacy, the United States has announced plans to suspend visas for individuals involved in the development, distribution, or use of spyware technology. This decision marks a significant step in the global effort to combat the misuse of surveillance tools and uphold fundamental human rights in the digital age.
Spyware, a type of malicious software designed to monitor and gather information from electronic devices without the user’s consent, has become increasingly prevalent in recent years. While some forms of spyware are used for legitimate purposes, such as parental monitoring or law enforcement investigations, others are deployed for nefarious activities, including surveillance, espionage, and cybercrime.
The proliferation of spyware poses a grave threat to privacy, freedom of expression, and human rights, as it can be used to unlawfully surveil individuals, track their online activities, and intercept sensitive information. In many cases, spyware is deployed by authoritarian regimes and malicious actors to target journalists, activists, dissidents, and other vulnerable populations, subjecting them to intimidation, harassment, and persecution.
By imposing visa restrictions on individuals involved in the development, distribution, or use of spyware, the United States aims to deter the abuse of surveillance technology and hold accountable those responsible for violating human rights and digital privacy. The move sends a clear message to governments, companies, and individuals involved in the spyware industry that their actions will not be tolerated and that there will be consequences for their complicity in human rights abuses.
In addition to visa restrictions, the United States is likely to pursue other measures to combat the proliferation of spyware, including diplomatic efforts, targeted sanctions, and cooperation with international partners. By working collaboratively with like-minded countries and organizations, the United States can amplify its impact and foster a coordinated global response to the threat posed by spyware.
While visa restrictions alone may not eliminate the use of spyware, they represent an important tool in the broader effort to promote digital privacy, protect human rights, and uphold democratic values in the face of emerging threats in the digital domain. As technology continues to evolve, it is essential for governments, civil society, and the private sector to remain vigilant and proactive in safeguarding digital freedoms and ensuring accountability for those who seek to undermine them. | sociology |
https://yaelernst.com/en/departing-from-silence-to-freedom/ | 2022-12-09T21:54:55 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-49/segments/1669446711552.8/warc/CC-MAIN-20221209213503-20221210003503-00104.warc.gz | 0.974851 | 1,685 | CC-MAIN-2022-49 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-49__0__14990500 | en | Years before I had my stillbirth with Ayelet, I went through sexual trauma.
This trauma took over my life primarily through fear. Thanks to successful therapy sessions (which were at times also scary. And challenging. And exhausting. Sometimes it felt like it took me hundreds of years to go through it), I conquered fear and chose to be in the light.
I mentioned fear as the decision-maker in my life at the time. Another constant companion was silence.
Silence was involved with each trauma I went through. It was also present in other trauma stories I heard from friends and read about in books.
How is it that silence is the one thing that most traumas have in common? Thinking about it rationally, it doesn’t make sense. After all, we didn’t do anything wrong; others did us wrong. It’s almost like a given: something happened, and we’re not going to talk about it. When I talk about being silent, I don’t mean just the actual act that caused the trauma but being quiet altogether, about how we feel, and about what’s going on in our head. Just not talking and being silent.
This is the case with many women after stillbirth too. No one’s talking about it, including us. Many women can suffer from post-traumatic as a result of stillbirth.
Guess what. Nobody’s talking about that either.
I read a bit about silence, trying to figure out why it is so present in our lives, and here’s what I found out:
As I stated before, silence can be found in various traumas: Holocaust survivors and 2nd generation, PTSD, child abuse (sexual or physical violence), and also, stillbirth.
I recently started reading the work of Dr. Yochai Ataria, which is fascinating, even though I don’t always understand or agree with him. Dr. Ataria mainly talks about PTSD, and this is what he has to say about silence: “trauma is an impossible situation. It is something between a nightmare and a delusion. A state in which all sets of rules, beliefs, hopes, and expectations collapsed. There are no explanations but complete horror. The post-traumatic person is, therefore, representing a condition in which all words are truly gone. Words are a system of symbols that are completely detached from the experience. Trauma leaves words out and causes them to be foreign. This is why, in a PTSD state, it is not possible to use the every-day language to describe the world behind the curtain. Words don’t describe or explain. They obstruct. Any kind of testimony is damaging the authenticity of the original experience. Speaking up turns the impossible to “just another story.”
Dr. Ataria further explains that reality is a world of words. Silence is the primal protest of people who went through trauma. Trauma is a different world. Through silence, they express they have reached the lowest point, and they refuse to cooperate with reality, with the world.
As a woman who has been talking about her traumas for several years now, it is understandable to see my problem with Dr. Ataria’s explanation of silence.
Of course, I can understand his meaning. I felt like this with my traumas before I started to deal with each one of them.
How can we even begin to describe stillbirth? Every word belittles all I went through during those two days, from the moment I was told my baby girl Ayelet died inside my womb and all the daggers in the heart like experiences I was served by reality. Each of these experiences prompted me to seclude myself more and more.
However, it is a known fact that words have power. In the wrong hands, this power is abused. But in the right, delicate, sensitive hands, words can empower and us.
My therapist and I shared many words. Many times they were trying, painful, awkward words.
Who wants to sit and feel shame from head to toe? Not me.
Who wants to feel guilt floating around, threatening to paralyze one’s heart? Not me.
Nonetheless, these words were spoken. Yes, they released shame and guilt in all their glory (and other emotions), but these words also helped bring these emotions back to their normal proportions.
It’s been nine and a half years after the stillbirth, and I can sometimes feel guilt over my girl Ayelet’s death. But I now know it’s not true. Thanks to those words I spoke at my therapist’s office, I know the answer to that creeping thought. This is the empowerment I needed to feel I can lift my head and keep it up above the difficult swirling emotions I felt after my stillbirth.
Freud & Lacan
Dafna Ben-Zaken speaks talks about the Holocaust trauma, which was never talked about in her family but was felt throughout her childhood.
The silence was loud and very present.
A combination of Freud’s findings and Lacan’s approach explains silence: “It is a tear which was arbitrarily made and has no logic or meaning. It is a tear that leaves the subject without the defense of language. The injury will always show up suddenly and violently, leaving us shocked and distressed, and we try to collect residuals of words in which we try to understand what happened.”
Freud established an element of repression in dealing with trauma. Lacan added: when facing certain traumatic moments, we are verbally unable to express what we went through.
These can explain the experience of women after stillbirth. Many women are not interested in facing the stillbirth they went through because it is too hard even to try and talk about it, and all it’s affects on their body and soul. Their only wish is to move on, towards the next baby, in a desperate desire to give birth to a live baby.
I can understand that. Of course, I too wished for a live baby with all my heart. But a live baby can not erase the loss I went through. The live baby can not replace the baby I lost.
Repressing can not delete something that already happened. Repressing pushes the trauma away from us, but the trauma stays embedded in us in so many ways. The longer we remain silent and not talk about it, the trauma will penetrate deeper and deeper.
The goal is to integrate trauma into our lives, so it won’t be a force which runs our lives.
Departing from silence to freedom
It’s challenging to describe in words what we went through. That is why it’s easier to remain silent and not talk about it.
In the long run, this silence took a hefty toll from my life. I realized that although I didn’t want to talk about my experiences at all, I didn’t have a choice anymore. I had to talk about all of them.
I found that my ability to put my most inner secrets and fears into words is one terrifying experience, but at the same time, it marked the beginning of my healing journey.
I found that through telling my stillbirth story and talking about everything I went through, I can validate someone else’s stillbirth story, validate all her feelings and her sense of loss.
I found I can live my life as I see fit, and not be blinded by fear and missing out on so much.
This continues to be almost a daily mission for me, conquering the restraint of fear. It was present in my life for so many years, but I am overcoming fear again and again, and this, to me, is the true meaning of freedom: the power to act, speak, or think as one wants without restraint.
All this starts with words that come from the heart, the womb, the soul.
*Photo: street art in Tel Aviv, saying “ok we’ll talk, we said. And we were silent” | sociology |
http://springstaging.closymposium.com/event_speakers/aisha-ghori-ozaki/ | 2021-09-16T21:01:51 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-39/segments/1631780053759.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20210916204111-20210916234111-00533.warc.gz | 0.950934 | 290 | CC-MAIN-2021-39 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-39__0__90219943 | en | The #1 Conference the Learning and Development Professionals
Aisha Ghori Ozaki
Manager, Inclusive Diversity
Aisha Ghori Ozaki is a manager on the enterprisewide inclusive diversity team at Allstate (since 2015) where she supports communication, marketing, training, education and metrics. Ozaki is a frequent presenter and facilitator on diversity and inclusion as well as professional development topics and is devoted to ensuring that all individuals feel welcome, find their passion and contribute toward creating an inclusive environment. Prior to joining Allstate, Ozaki worked in higher education for almost 18 years.
Ozaki holds both a master’s and bachelor’s degree in sociology from DePaul University and is certified in the administration and interpretation of the intercultural development inventory and the MBTI. Ozaki volunteers with multiple organizations and especially enjoys her mentoring and time with Upwardly Global Chicago, the DePaul University Alumni Sharing Knowledge program, Muslim Women’s Alliance and the Career Transitions Center of Chicago. In 2013, Ozaki received the Diversity Founders Award from MWACE for her hard work and commitment to the diversity advancement committee. Ozaki has actively engaged in various professional associations including the Forum on Workplace Inclusion where she has served on the conference programming committee since 2016 and co-presented at the annual conference in 2017. Ozaki joined the board for the Muslim Women’s Alliance in 2018. | sociology |
https://www.gracious.work/voting-is-sacred/ | 2023-06-10T08:05:08 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224657144.94/warc/CC-MAIN-20230610062920-20230610092920-00110.warc.gz | 0.973663 | 1,195 | CC-MAIN-2023-23 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-23__0__257985777 | en | I walked into the park rec center to do my early voting. The line wrapped around the wall, into the gymnasium. I towed my chattering almost 4-year-old daughter by the hand. The cross-section of humanity was astonishing: tall, short, old, young, black, white, men who were perfectly manicured, men who were disheveled and a little bleary-eyed, women in pant suits, women in yoga pants.
An older black man with kind eyes in a Harley-Davidson leather jacket queued behind us as we took a step or two forwards, toward the cleared conference room where we would cast our ballots.
“How old is she?” he asked. “Two?”
“No, she’s almost 4.”
Josie clung to my leg.
“Not once you get to know her,” I laughed.
“I have a granddaughter about her age.”
I almost responded: “I have a Dad about your age.”
He dug out his phone and showed me pictures of his granddaughter and grandson, who live in Wisconsin with his daughter and her husband. He swiped from a picture of the kids in Halloween costumes, he didn’t really know who they were anyway, to one of the whole family in front of the fire place, surrounded by pumpkins. His daughter was tall and well-kept, bright dark eyes like his. His son-in-law was a doughy white man with white-blonde pin curls. He smiled like he couldn’t believe his good luck to have this family with this woman, this many pumpkins. The kids looked rangy, like the real candy was just outside the door, waiting to be collected, if only they could get to it.
“I was an assistant principal up there, for, oh, at least 35 years,” he told me. “I retired here. Bought a small house. I don’t miss the winters there at all. I do miss my grandbabies though.”
We chatted for the next 15 minutes as we serpentined through the line. After we crossed the threshold to the conference room, we went silent. The whole room bustled with hushed activity.
There’s a sacredness to voting that surprises me every time. It’s like going to church or the library. There’s a cross-section of people who might not interact anywhere else otherwise instantaneously rendered as equals. The quiet privacy of a voting booth, the procession of it, the cadence. It’s like taking communion or checking out a book. Everyone is different, but the same. Doing something public that is also so private, an intersection of communal trust and personal solitude.
A poll worker asked a woman in her sixties, helping a woman in her nineties—probably her mother, judging by their shared nose—if she needed anything else. She whispered: “Thank you, we’re all set here. You’ve been so helpful. Now she just has to finish making her choices. This might take a while.”
Maybe this is too idealistic, maybe it’s not true. But I believe it anyway. I believe that everyone leads with their conscience when they walk in a voting booth. Whatever their way of thinking is, that’s what comes out on the ballot. It’s not a perfect system, we aren’t perfect people. It’s actually an incredibly risky proposition: that we the people know what’s best for us. There’s a sacred, beautiful, fragile, ridiculous trust in voting, in government by the people for the people.
Connor is studying recent American history this year and it hurts to read it almost every single time. Our history is brutal. Even with all the shining progress and invention, the forward-minded reforms, the hungry westward expansion, it’s still full of oppression and genocides and racism. We don’t varnish any of it. I try, as much as possible, to get him to see how the past impacts and interacts with the future. How we are heirs to an inheritance we didn’t get to choose, how we can talk about it, and, I pray, change the script. At one point, after reading about the 1880s: tenements, people fearing new immigrants, newspaper sensationalism, corruption in the government, rampant economic growth. I sighed and said, “you know, this is still going on today.”
He looked at me, gob smacked: “Wait, you mean you guys haven’t figured this out yet?”
No, baby, we haven’t. We really haven’t.
But we’re trying.
I hold on to this when I read about politics now: I try to see passed the politics, the positions, the beliefs, the bluster, the accomplishments, the wealth. I try to see the people. Only the people.
The wizened woman in the wheelchair.
Her patient daughter.
The poll worker who helped them.
The tired new dad, his infant daughter sleeping in a carrier.
The grandfather in line behind us, who is as old as my dad and misses his grandkids.
I waved at my new friend as we walked out the conference room door, toward the rest of our errands. He waved back.
Politics, ideally, is this: How can we best love our neighbors?
And remember: Everyone is our neighbor. | sociology |
http://nebojsazelenovic.rs/en/upoznajte-nebojsu/ | 2020-09-19T04:50:21 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600400190270.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20200919044311-20200919074311-00336.warc.gz | 0.974058 | 738 | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-40__0__289846076 | en | Nebojša Zelenović is the current mayor of the City of Šabac in Serbia. Šabac is a city in North-Western Serbia of about 120.000 inhabitants. It lies on the right bank of the river Sava.
He was born on June 15, 1975 in Šabac. He is a graduate lawyer by profession.
He started working in the administration of the Elementary School “Stojan Novaković” in Šabac, after which he became Head of the Department for Social Services and Economy of the Local Government. For a year he was also the Director of the Mačva District Branch of the National Health Insurance Fund, and Group Coordinator for the Promotion and Prevention of Public Health for the City of Sabac.
He was a young political activist and member of the first opposition party in Serbia, the Democratic Party, which spearheaded the democratic changes in Serbia in 2000.
In 2012. he was elected Member of the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia. He served as a Member of Parliament until 2014.
In 2013, he joined a new Parliamentary group “Together for Serbia” dedicated to decentralization and stronger regional and local government autonomy.
In 2016, he was elected Mayor by the citizens of Šabac. The same year, he also became the President of the political party 'Together for Serbia'.
Since he became Mayor of Šabac, the strategic priorities of the city are based on implementing European values and measures to guarantee the Rule of Law, the support of social security for the citizens, and the development of citizen participation in decision making processes. As Mayor, Nebojša Zelenović introduced "Participatory Budgeting” making Šabac the first city in Serbia to empower citizens to decide how public funds collected from property tax will be spent. More than100 thousand adult citizens from 60 rural and suburban local communities were able to vote on referendums deciding on projects financed by property tax funds in 2017.
Since Šabac is known for its rich cultural history, the city government under Neboja Zelenović is dedicated to supporting cultural projects. Šabac is giving 7% of the budget to the cultural sector of the city, which is the highest in the country.
Also, Sabac is the only city in Serbia with energy efficiency policy and ecological programs for waste management and environmental protection throughout its territory.
On November 6, Nebojša Zelenović was invited to address the Members of the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe. He gave a speech during the debate on “Mayors under Pressure”. He spoke on behalf of a small minority of Serbian mayors not belonging to the ruling Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) of President Aleksandar Vučić. He called the attention of European mayors to the continuing breaches of the European Charter of Local Self-Government in Serbia and the pressures local governments and communities are enduring by the central government and ruling party in Serbia.
Nebojša Zelenović is an avid cyclist, swimmer and dedicated to environmental issues. In his youth he played football for Mačva, AIK, Rudar, as well as the University football team “Studentski grad”. At the time he was a student of the Law Faculty of the University of Belgrade where he soon got his university degree as a lawyer, and left football.
He speaks English and Russian.
He is married to Nina Zelenović. They have three children. | sociology |
https://wellingtoncitymission.org.nz/blog/2022/03/07/a-little-help-goes-a-long-way/ | 2024-02-25T18:41:51 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474641.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20240225171204-20240225201204-00800.warc.gz | 0.990589 | 941 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__164275754 | en | A few years ago, all my husband and I wanted was to live normal lives. But there was no way we could. I was going through renal failure, so I couldn’t work, and I was doing dialysis in my emergency accommodation. My husband, being born in Fiji, could only be here on a visitor’s visa, and was not permitted to work at all. Unfortunately, his family was opposing our application for his residency because they disapproved of our marriage.
It all left us in a very hard situation with our money. After rent and power, we had just $20 a week to spend on everything we needed. Going to the supermarket was so stressful, and we’d end up buying cheap unhealthy food to get us to the next day. We also owed money on loans that I had taken out before I got sick. I had never thought ahead to consider “What if something changed?”, so when it did we were completely stuck. We were barely coping, and it seemed impossible to get into a better situation. It was the hardest and loneliest time in our lives.
We felt embarrassed that we had got to the point where we needed to ask for help with food, so we were a bit fearful when we took those first steps into The Mission. But when we met with one of their Financial Mentors she was so down to earth, and we felt welcome. The Mission started helping us with everyday items we couldn’t afford, like food, and personal care and cleaning products. It gave us one less thing to worry about as we were trying to get out of the hole we were in – and it really made our $20 spending budget go a lot further.
We were still really worried but after a couple of sessions with our Financial Mentor, we felt way more confident that there were better times ahead. I realised I had never learnt how to properly manage my budget, loans, and interest. Before, it was just a huge mess in my head – it was always just money comes in and then the bills go out. We learnt so much about prioritising money to go on high-interest loans, and it was a great feeling being able to start paying off our debt.
As my health improved, I was able to take on some part-time work. It was a crazy exhausting time, but it had to be done. After work, I would get home and go straight on dialysis for 6 hours, and then go back to work at 5am. My husband helped out as much as he could, but his visa restrictions were so frustrating because he couldn’t work, and often had to return to Fiji. With everything going on, especially times when I was so sick I couldn’t move, it was really reassuring knowing The Mission was there for us. We could start paying back our debts, planning for the future, and even started saving money for the fees to get my husband’s working visa.
After about six months, we were confident to move on from The Mission’s support. We took all of our new knowledge, and carried it on in our daily lives. I was eventually able to get back to full-time work as a community support worker at an Intellectual Disability Home. And, after a long journey, my husband became a New Zealand resident and started work as a painter. We’re debt-free, and are saving towards owning our own home one day.
We feel so well-off compared to where we were before, so two years ago we started putting away part of our pay every week to make annual donations of toys and food to The Mission at Christmas time. It’s nice to think that we’re able to help take a bit of pressure off people and families, so they can have a special time. When we dropped off our donations last Christmas, it was so cool seeing how the Social Supermarket gives shoppers points to choose exactly what they need. I know it’s hard to be picky when you can’t afford food, but it gives people a chance to start making their own decisions. Someone can feel like they’re able to do a shop like everyone else, so they have more dignity going in.
My husband and I know how hard it can be to stand up and ask for help when you’re feeling alone. When there are so many obstacles in your way, having someone who will support you and guide you is huge. It makes you feel like you actually do matter, and that you can have a better life. | sociology |
https://daruliftaazambia.com/fatwa/?id=1013 | 2023-12-03T01:49:14 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100476.94/warc/CC-MAIN-20231202235258-20231203025258-00741.warc.gz | 0.945587 | 572 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__65468350 | en | March for Palestine
|Fatwa #1013||Category: Miscellaneous||Country: Zambia||Date: 17th November 2023|
|Fatwa #1013||Date: 17th November 2023|
I wanted to get your advice regarding the solidarity march on Friday at the Palestinian embassy. Is it advisable to go?
In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.
As-salāmu ‘alaykum wa-rahmatullāhi wa-barakātuh.
As Muslims, we accept this world to be one of asbaab (means). Yet we firmly believe that ultimately, it is Almighty Allah who has the power to do as He wishes. The onus is on us to adopt the proper permissible means, and the rest is in the hands of Almighty Allah.
Protests, marches and vigils are all means we may adopt to voice our concerns regarding the plight of our fellow Muslims throughout the world. As with everything else, Shari’ah demands that none of its laws be violated when one decides to do something. It makes little sense to expect the help of Almighty Allah when the means one had adopted are either Haram or are tainted by Haram.
There is nothing inherently wrong in protests and marches as it remains one of the only ways a populace may make demands from the government. The efficacy of protests is debatable, but the permissibility would remain provided no laws of the Shari’ah are contravened.
Unfortunately, as is well known, many laws of the Shari’ah are flouted during protests such as unnecessary intermingling of sexes, carelessness with regards to covering the awrah, vandalism, missing of salah etc. Almighty Allah tells us in the Holy Quran that change cannot be brought about unless the people themselves first change. Therefore, it would be futile to expect the help of Almighty Allah when the very actions we are doing violate His commands.
As such, unless one is certain that the laws of Shari’ah will not be violated in protests and marches, they should be avoided. It is better to simply shed a tear for the people of Palestine and make due to Almighty Allah. He has watched over them for the past 75 years and will continue to do so till the day of Judgement.
It has also come to our attention that the march has encouraged people to bring candles which will be lit during the vigil. This is a practice that has no basis in our religion and can be traced back to the medieval church. Therefore, it must be avoided.
And Allah Ta’āla Knows Best
Mufti Bilal Pandor
Mufti Nabeel Valli
Darul Iftaa Mahmudiyyah | sociology |
https://adventurefilmschool.com/filmmaking/creator-spotlight-shelma-jun-of-never-not-collective/ | 2024-04-16T23:03:32 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817112.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20240416222403-20240417012403-00521.warc.gz | 0.971961 | 2,074 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__182834271 | en | Until recently, Shelma Jun was primarily known in outdoor circles as the founder of Flash Foxy, a personal project that morphed into a women’s climbing initiative renowned for not only its supportive online community, but also its annual Women’s Climbing Festival. Earlier this year, her efforts landed the Brooklynite a spot in an Outside feature honoring forty women who embody the idea that “the future is female.” Jun’s also been featured on popular podcasts She Explores and Enormocast, and was the primary subject of Within Reach, a documentary short that explores among other things gender bias, inequity, discrimination, and harassment in climbing culture.
Jun still oversees all things Flash Foxy, but she’s also signed on for a new endeavor – co-founder of Never Not Collective, an all-women crew of storytellers that also features former Climbing Editor-in-Chief (and writer/photographer) Julie Ellison, photographer/editor/skier/climber Leslie Hittmeier, and climber/photographer/filmmaker Colette McInerney. The collective originated with Jun, whose creative work spans several disciplines: she co-hosted a show on a pirate radio station for a few years while living in San Francisco, worked in community-based development to bring art installations and related programming into New York City neighborhoods, and shot portraits for The Biking Public Project, a cycling advocacy group she helped co-found.
The common thread in everything she’s done, then and now? Believing in – and harnessing – the power of storytelling.
“There are all these awesome people whose stories just aren’t being highlighted by regular mainstream media,” says Jun. “I think those stories should be told – and I am not seeing them being told, so maybe I’ll just go and tell them myself.” With the idea of starting a production company, Jun reached out to McInerney, who was “quite hesitant at first.” Ellison, however, was more easily convinced. Jun floated the idea during a climbing trip last October, and it came at the right time for Ellison, who was looking to make a meaningful shift in her life. She suggested bringing on Hittmeier, and Jun was then able to convince McInerney, who didn’t want to pass up the opportunity.
We chatted with Shelma Jun about Never Not Collective, her own storytelling process, and her tips for other filmmakers – here’s what she had to say.
What was the impetus for launching Never Not Collective?
I think that there just aren’t that many women storytellers right now. I don’t by any means want to say that there aren’t any, because there definitely are some women who are kicking ass and telling some awesome stories and doing it in a really beautiful way when it comes to filmmaking and photography, but the percentages don’t reflect the percentages of our society, or even our community in the outdoors. I think that women have been becoming more and more present in the outdoors, but you aren’t really seeing that same percentage reflected in the industry, or in the media making.
It’s not that women telling stories is going to be a better story than what men are telling, but it’s going to be different – we’re going to have a different perspective, based on the challenges that we face, the things that we notice, and the social norms that we’ve been brought up with, to be completely straight. I think that it’ll only benefit our field by having more women telling these stories. I also wanted to created a space that can be used to create a community and network of women media makers, producers, filmmakers, animators, editors, sound producers, color correctors – we’re all kind of out there, and it would be really great to create a network or community to push each other up and to hold each up by providing opportunities for each other. The dream is that we get really, really busy – so busy that we can’t do all the work ourselves and that we can start to pull in all these other female media makers. So, not only supporting ourselves, but supporting women in all different aspects of filmmaking is a big goal of mine.
You raised over $79,000 on Kickstarter for your upcoming full-length film, Pretty Strong, which will feature five female climbers. Why was it important to focus on women in climbing for your debut feature?
It’s something that we’ve been pretty excited about for a while. As it says in the Kickstarter, it’s kind of been a dream project of Colette’s, and I think representation matters, and representation in media matters. There has been a strong lack of women being featured in climbing films. For us, it’s really a celebration of the strong women that have emerged within our climbing community who are inspiring young girls, women, men – kind of everybody – with their really high level climbing ability. I think this is a film celebrating that.
A negative criticism that we might get is ‘Oh, you’re excluding men,’ and I think it’s just a funny argument that celebrating one person means you’re excluding somebody else. A really great example that a friend brought up to me is that he’s a veteran, and it’s unlikely that if they decided to make a film celebrating veteran climbers, that they would receive pushback along the lines of, ‘I can’t believe you’re being so exclusive and only celebrating veteran climbers!’ But you definitely get that in terms of these other identity politics groups, these affinity groups, when it comes to women, to people of color, to queer folks – you always get this push back, right? So it’s a little bit against that, too – you can celebrate women and it is still for everybody. The film is for everybody. And I hope that lots of men also watch it and are really psyched to go climb hard.
What do you feel is the most important element of the storytelling process?
I think being authentic – being true to that person’s story. The last thing I ever want to do is to fabricate a story, to force a story that’s not there, because I think it’s going to be more compelling. I think that if you’re a good storyteller and you picked somebody because they have a good story, you don’t have to force it; you will be able to find something good.
I think that it’s really challenging, your relationship with the subject, because sometimes the things that are most compelling to the audience are the parts of you that you feel least comfortable sharing – the parts where you’re vulnerable, or showing weakness, or showing failure. I think that it causes a little bit of friction between being a storyteller and the subject, but beyond that, I never want a subject to look at something that I’ve made about them and be like, ‘I don’t recognize myself in this story.’
What are some of the biggest lessons you’ve learned as a storyteller?
I think to just be flexible and open. You always pick a subject because you have an idea about a story that you think is there, and [it’s important] to always just be prepared and okay if that story doesn’t work out, if it doesn’t come into fruition the way that you had originally envisioned it, because it’s really rare for that to actually happen. It’s always going go evolve and change the more you get to know somebody, unless it’s somebody you know super well, the deeper you dig during the process. You’re going to maybe come into a realization like, ‘I thought this was going to be the most important part, but it isn’t. I thought this was going to be the story, but it’s not. This didn’t seem important, but now it seems really important.’ Be open to being flexible for those changes to happen throughout the creative process.
Is there any specific advice you’d offer to aspiring filmmakers or photographers?
Start with what you know. I think it’s easy to think, ‘These are the kinds of stories I should be telling, this is the exciting stuff,’ but I think the hardest part in the beginning of filmmaking is lessening that gap between the story you want to tell and the story that’s on the screen. You have the story in mind and you want that to be represented through your finished product, and there’s this gap; you’re constantly working to lessen that gap so that they’re sitting almost on top of each other. It’s going to be less of a challenge if you’re working with something you’re really familiar with, whether it’s a sport, an activity, or a person.
What do you hope people take away from your work?
So many things! I hope people walk away feeling connected to it – feeling like it resonated with them, that it related to them in some way, that it wasn’t a waste of their time. I think there’s just so much content out there right now, and we spend so much time watching it, and I want to make good films, good stories that are worth people’s time. I think about what I want when I’m a content viewer, and I want to leave feeling like it was worth my time, that I was connected to it, that it was relevant to me, that it wasn’t something that I’ve seen a hundred times. | sociology |
https://mindofthegeek.com/welcome-a-new-year-at-an-old-festival-in-pakistan/ | 2021-04-14T22:14:50 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-17/segments/1618038078900.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20210414215842-20210415005842-00103.warc.gz | 0.966409 | 1,536 | CC-MAIN-2021-17 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-17__0__31523855 | en | RUMBUR, Pakistan – In a remote valley in northern Pakistan, surrounded by steep rock faces and high pastures, members of a small community have gathered.
The Kalash are a group of about 4000 people who live in the Hindu Kush mountains, where they practice an ancient polytheistic faith. Each year they come together for Chawmos, a New Year’s festival that coincides with the winter solstice and is marked by dancing, animal sacrifice, and highly prescribed roles for men and women.
The two-week festival is a contrasting portrait: snow and fire, solemn ritual and frenetic activity, sexual segregation and public flirtation, community and isolation.
While the coronavirus has forced the world to embrace social distancing, the Kalash have practiced being an isolated community for millennia.
The Kalash, whose wooden houses cling to the steep hills of three valleys in the often unruly northwest of Pakistan, are the smallest minority group in the country. The overwhelming majority of the over 200 million Pakistanis practice Islam.
Despite the Kalash’s isolation, the outside world has come closer, bringing changes to their way of life.
Their faith is often compared to an ancient form of Hinduism, but the origins of Kalash are a mystery. Some believe they are descended from the forces of Alexander the Great; other anthropologists claim they are migrants from neighboring Afghanistan.
Their religion incorporates animistic traditions of nature worship as well as a pantheon of gods, whose members in some cases resemble the Vedic gods of ancient India. The chief among the Kalash gods is Balumain, the lord of the sky, to whom the festival is dedicated.
For the Kalash, cleanliness and holiness are inextricably linked. The areas of villages and valleys where they live are designated “pure” and their access is sometimes restricted by gender or may require prior ritual bathing. The Kalash believe that places and people are more likely to be visited by Balumain than after they have been cleansed and sanctified.
During the year, Kalash women are to bathe and wash their clothes and dishes away from home. During their period and during childbirth, they stay in menstruation huts. These are community spaces that are the exclusive domain of women, unlike the huts found elsewhere in the region, particularly in Nepal, where women are left alone and die after being exposed and other causes every year.
As the Chawmos festival begins each December, women participate in a purification ritual. Held in a temple, known as a jester, or in an open space away from their homes, women and girls hold bread that has been baked for them by male family members.
A male relative then sprinkles them with water and the waves scorching juniper branches above their heads. Only then will women be able to move freely between villages and houses in the valley to participate in the festivities.
Before the feast, the men grind flour in a common mill and bake their bread at home or in the jester. Women gather in a bath, where they wash their brightly colored dresses and wrap their hair in long braids.
In order to stay and watch the festival unfold last year, I joined the women of a family with whom I was staying in their purification ritual. I watched them, one by one, come forward to be surrounded by a trail of flames.
At the start of Chawmos, the cool winter air is filled with the smell of fresh baked bread and scorching juniper, and neighbors greet each other with baskets of fruit and nuts.
What follows is 14 days of song, dance and ceremony. A group of women, often from the same family or clan, will form a circle and begin to sing and dance, their arms entwined and their eyes half-closed in prayer. As the women sing, other women and men join the ring and the circle gets stronger and stronger.
When moved, a young woman breaks away from the group and dances in the middle of the circle. Sometimes a woman or a man from her family will join her. But often a young man enters the ring to dance with her. Their dance is different: the couple face each other, eyes riveted. They’re courting.
In the first days of the celebration, young people often find a spouse; women often take the first step.
“The girl goes to the boy’s family maybe for a few weeks or a month, and then when she comes home they will get married,” said Bibi Jan, a woman in her 80s. “No one else decides, it’s up to them to decide. “
The dancing, as well as the flirtation, is fueled by locally brewed mulberry wine. The role of women and the consumption of wine in the community contrast with the mores of their Muslim neighbors, who sometimes attend festivals as tourists.
“The way they worship and the way men and women marry – and just interact in general – is very different from surrounding communities,” said Wynne Maggi, an anthropologist who has studied Kalash.
The festival, the most important of the year, is also an opportunity for local Kalash leaders to deliberate on the serious challenges facing the culture.
The Kalash are increasingly pressed by foreigners to buy land and move into it. And for many years the Kalash have been wary of the threat of militant Islamists who regard their faith as a sacrilege.
They also face environmental threats. Trees that protected valleys from flooding caused by rain and melting glaciers are being removed, sometimes illegally, at an alarming rate. The shortage of trees and the changes in weather conditions resulting from global warming have resulted in devastating flash floods in recent years that destroy homes, bridges and crops.
Young members are leaving the region for greater educational and employment opportunities. Government schools all teach Islam and every year Kalash youths decide to convert, residents say. A new road has made it easier to access the area and tourists increasingly visit the Kalash valleys, where most people largely live on a mixture of subsistence agriculture and herding.
Saifullah, a Kalash executive who goes by only one name, said his biggest concern was purchasing land to build hotels in order to woo tourists.
Hotels are often located on or near lands considered sacred to the Kalash, and Muslim-owned accommodation is seen as depriving the community of tourist dollars, which has led to resentment.
“The Kalash will never end,” said Mr. Saifullah, 61. “But of course the population goes down if it can’t get enough land to stay here.
Aslam Baig, 29, who returned to the valley from Lahore, where he works, said many young people had left to find work.
“It’s very difficult because we don’t have the Internet, we don’t have newspapers, and then you have to go to the cities to find the jobs,” he said.
But during the Chawmos celebrations, many of these issues are momentarily forgotten.
The festival ends with a late night torchlight procession through the small villages of the Kalash valleys; flickering lights weave their way through the forests, heralding the start of a final evening of dancing. The slopes resonate with song.
The Kalash dance around a bonfire, connecting their arms and chanting prayers for the coming year. | sociology |
http://www.doindie.co.kr/en/posts/rubber-seoul-2013 | 2019-12-16T04:59:09 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-51/segments/1575541317967.94/warc/CC-MAIN-20191216041840-20191216065840-00544.warc.gz | 0.953682 | 319 | CC-MAIN-2019-51 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-51__0__17524793 | en | Posted on May 10, 2014
What is Rubber Seoul? Little Travellers once again holds one of the biggest annual club nights of the year on Saturday, November 30th. Happening across five of the most popular clubs in Hongdae: Club FF, Club TA, Gogos2, Freebird, and DGBD Little Travellers aims to once again help you rock the night away and help a great cause. This is currently our 6th year in Seoul! As well Rubber Seoul has seen events held in Canada, USA, and Australia! What are Little Travellers? For those of you who don’t know, a ‘Little Traveller’ is a beautiful beaded doll handcrafted by the women at the Hillcrest AIDS Center who are either infected or affected by HIV/AIDS. More than 100 beaders take part in the project -which means that more than 100 families are being supported just by making these dolls. So far, over 50,000 Little Travellers have been sold around the world, and the project has raised over $250,000 to support people battling HIV/AIDS in South Africa. 100% of the money raised through the sale of Little Travellers is used to support people infected and affected by HIV/AIDS in South Africa. For volunteer opportunities on the night, please contact [email protected]. Saturday, November 30th -10,000won / 5 Clubs / Loads of bands!!! ***Each admission also includes your very own handcrafted beaded doll... AKA a Little Traveller!!! | sociology |
http://www.natural-leaders.com/letup-leadership.shtml | 2013-05-24T16:25:40 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704752145/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516114552-00022-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.97575 | 519 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2013-20__0__77264249 | en | Leaders Empowering Teens United for Peace began at San Pedro High School in February 2000 after a local teen was murdered through gang violence. This tragic incident caused tensions in the school and community, particularly between African American and Latino youth. Parents feared for their child's safety and a community meeting produced a crowd of over 400 concerned parents, students, and agency leaders. When campus tensions were at their height, Dr. Windy Warren offered to mediate between the gang-affiliated African American and Latino male groups. Though the youths were at first reluctant, a series of weekly meetings created a safe place to vent and the peace efforts were swiftly felt all over campus. Differences were put aside and focus was placed on common goals of wanting to graduate and make positive choices in their lives. Critical to this change were the willingness and peer influence of Abel and Marquis, the Latino and African American leaders of the two groups.
By May 2000, both voiced a weariness of being categorized as a gang group and wanted to open up the peace-keeping efforts to students of other races and cultures. By the end of Fall 2001, hand-picked male and female peer leaders of Caucasian, Asian, and Pacific Islander descent were added to the group. From gang affiliates to punk rockers to sports jocks to high achievers; fear, anger and racism dissipated to unity and even friendship. Principal Stephen Walters, a rally for the cause, observed the transformation and declared, "These student leaders have more power to influence their peers than any of us adults."
As the group evolved and peer relations dramatically improved, the Los Angeles Police Department, Harbor Division's Captain Smith and Lieutenant Fletcher joined the effort in monthly meetings to mend relations between youth and authority figures. Students who were reluctant to enter a room with an officer, left at the end of the hour shaking hands and planning for future meetings. This youth/authority relationship building was also felt on campus through collaborative efforts between administration and students.
LetUP Leadership continues to evolve as student needs and campus atmosphere evolve, though always with a vision of multicultural unity and leadership development. Its original impact on a handful of struggling students has had lasting effects on individuals, the campus, and community as a whole because "when a natural leader changes, it has a positive ripple effect on others. It is a change created from within, rather than forced upon from without. It is a change that has powerful lasting effect."
About the Documentary | Preview | LetUP Leadership Today
About Us | Music | Origins and Founding Members of LetUP | Contact Us | sociology |
https://miramarpd.org/176/Human-Resources | 2024-02-24T05:28:23 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474523.8/warc/CC-MAIN-20240224044749-20240224074749-00732.warc.gz | 0.916479 | 462 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__40632582 | en | The Human Resources Department is a key strategic partner in accomplishing the City's mission. HR formulates sound policy and provides direction and counsel to departments to ensure compliance with applicable labor laws and collective bargaining agreements in the areas of:
- Talent Acquisition Management
- Compensation & Classification
- Labor Management
- Training & Employee Development
- Risk Management
The Human Resources Department's mission is to serve the City of Miramar by providing excellent, consistent, and sound Human Resources practices that balance the needs of employees and residents.
- Promote Honesty, Integrity, and Trust: We honor our commitments and conduct ourselves in a manner that promotes fairness, dignity, respect, honesty, and trust.
- Celebrate Teamwork: We encourage the diversity of thoughts, experiences, and backgrounds and celebrate participation and partnership in everything we do.
- Focus on Our Customers – Internal/External: We have a passion for service and are committed to knowing our customers, anticipating their needs, and exceeding expectations.
- Champion Employee Development: We are committed to maximizing the potential of every individual and to support and promote the City as a learning organization.
- Model Leadership: We lead by example and advocate equitable treatment in our behaviors, policies, and practices.
- Produce Quality Results: We believe those we serve deserve excellent service, a safe, productive, and healthy work environment, and quality results.
The Equal Employment Opportunity Policy of the City of Miramar is to provide a fair and equal employment opportunity for all employees and applicants regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status or disability. The City of Miramar hires and promotes individuals and makes other employment decisions solely on the basis of their qualifications for the job to be filled and not based on their inclusion in any protected category.
The City of Miramar believes that employees should be provided with a working environment which enables each employee to be productive and to work to the best of his or her ability. We do not condone or tolerate an atmosphere of intimidation or harassment based on race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status or disability or any other protected category.
We expect and require the cooperation of all employees in maintaining a discrimination and harassment-free environment. | sociology |
https://avalonchildcareandpreschool.com/2019/02/26/behavior-policy/ | 2023-03-21T11:55:07 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-14/segments/1679296943695.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20230321095704-20230321125704-00107.warc.gz | 0.962369 | 1,344 | CC-MAIN-2023-14 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-14__0__164736862 | en | At no time ever will the children be yelled at, physically punished, have their personal rights violated, or be verbally harassed.
Regular disciplinary methods for verbal or emotional conflict:
- Calming situation down to a “neutral” state.
- Listening to each child’s issues and acknowledging his or her feelings.
- Helping the children understand consequences of their actions and resolutions for their issues. I do not believe emotions such as anger, frustrations, sadness, et cetera, are “bad”, but that these are natural and healthy emotions that alert us to problems that we can work on constructively (per #4 and #5 below).
- Working with each child to find constructive ways to express emotions: deep breathing, personal space, discussion, understanding other ways to look at the issue, redirection, or creating emotional “tools” to help resolve emotional distress.
- Practicing a variety of ways from #4 and working through process again. Parents are notified in the child’s daily journal if there was an especially difficult issue.
If there is an incident where a child is biting, hitting, or throwing objects, we handle it through regular disciplinary methods first (see above process) in addition to documentation (sent to the state per regulations) and notifying parents privately. If behavior is repeated a second time after regular discipline, parents must immediately pick-up their child for suspension for the rest of the day (child may return next day) in addition to another round of regular disciplinary methods. If there is a third occurrence, parents must immediately pick-up their child for suspension for the rest of the day and child is allowed back only after a group conference attended by parents, child, and teacher. At this time, a final warning is given verbally and in writing that child will be immediately expelled* if a fourth occurrence happens again—your deposit is forfeit as it is used in lieu of required notice.
*If these occurrences are targeting a specific child or of serious violence, then I reserve the right to handle such issues case-by-case to find the safest solution, which may include immediate expulsion or a longer suspension.
Empathy, the ability to share and understand the feelings of another, is practiced daily in direct and indirect lessons. Children are taught to practice self-care and self-respect in addition to being part of a team and group of friends.
It can be difficult for toddlers to express themselves or to adjust their behavior to new expectations that might be different from home, so we stay in contact with your family about behavior in a cooperative way for information exchange and to promote the well-being of your child. A daily journal log is kept that records your child behavior, eating, and any other noteworthy activity or issue.
We also understand that it takes time to build trust and affection, so we welcome your child, no matter their temperament, with patience and understanding.
Polite manners and reciprocal respect (with cultural consideration) is taught and practiced at all times. Though we are loving and gentle, we are also firm and consistent in our behavioral rules.
Rewards and Punishment
Rewards are given for personal achievements on things a child has been working to improve upon or for going “above and beyond” expectations for behavior or actions. Group rewards are for team actions like consistently lining up appropriately, cleaning up together after play, and playing cooperatively. Peaceful resolution of conflict is also rewarded. Rewards are little “prizes” like stickers, mini erasers, or a mini bouncy ball. Each month, at the end of our monthly theme, an achievement award is presented to each child through peer nominations and if enough group rewards have been given during the month, the children earn popcorn and gummy “candy” (organic, natural fruit snacks) for during their monthly movie.
There is no “punishment” or time-out isolation from the group. This does not mean we are lenient. On the contrary, we are very strict about behavior and dedicate time to teaching children the consequences of their actions and how to process their emotions every single time conflict has gotten out of hand (i.e. they were not able to resolve it respectfully). At times though, we simply observe them working out the problem themselves and do not interfere with this learning process.
We teach the children, by observing their interactions and intervening when appropriate, how to socialize with each other and adults during academic periods and free play in a way that is peaceful and considerate. We have an outside and inside area for resolving conflict or to process strong emotions through talking it out with another person or taking space and time to process the emotion by one’s self. Each child creates a “toolbox” of things and/or techniques to help manage and care for his/her emotions. These are kept in our relaxation area near where they can sit with another to discuss their issues or in voluntary self-reflection by his/her self.
Personal Rights of the Child
This section has more to do with our behavior in regards to how we care for your child, as outlined by the State of California and supported by our own standards of quality child care.
Every child has a right to personal space and control over their body. At no time will the child be denied food or drink, the right to sleep undisturbed, the right to use the toilet whenever they need to, and the right to feel safe and secure both emotionally and physically. These rights are set forth by law and are maintained by us.
It is not just cultural diversity that dictates our values on physical interaction, but also personal preference. Children are innocent, so they often do not understand these boundaries and must be taught. We do this by modeling behavior by asking consent for hugs before automatically giving them and encouraging children to speak up for themselves– it is okay to say ‘no’. We let children know that we love hugs and they can give us hugs whenever they wish, but if they choose, they can also just high-give us, give a wave, or use their words to express affection. We reenforce that kisses are only for family members, so no kissing is allowed between staff and children or between the children themselves (unless they are siblings and those children and parents are okay with this). We do this as a very gentle learning reminder, not as a punishment or that they have done something “bad”. | sociology |
http://timshelliving.com/2017/09/29/istandforgirls/ | 2020-11-29T05:00:29 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-50/segments/1606141196324.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20201129034021-20201129064021-00183.warc.gz | 0.968311 | 241 | CC-MAIN-2020-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-50__0__111436196 | en | A few months ago I joined a community of female travelers and became connected with some amazing women. One of them, Elisabetta, runs the non-profit organization Kurandza.
Based in Mozambique, Kurandza is focused on the empowerment of local women. Elisabetta’s best friend and organizational partner Percina was the first woman from her village to graduate from high school, despite having to walk more than 10 miles to school each day. Her own experience sparked a passion in her heart for the education of girls, and now Kurandza is running a campaign to send 100 Mozambican girls to school. When Elisabetta reached out asking for people to help promote the campaign launch, joining was an absolute no-brainer.
There are a couple of ways you can help support this amazing cause.
We are facing so many issues in the world today, and direct charity is only a temporary help. We must invest in the actions that will result in long-term change, and educating girls is clearly one of the most impactful things we can do.
I stand for girls, and I hope you’ll stand with me. | sociology |
https://www.tanyaharrison.com/press/women-who-lead-meet-professional-martian-dr-tanya-spaced-out-doc/ | 2023-09-27T09:31:50 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510284.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20230927071345-20230927101345-00834.warc.gz | 0.921764 | 155 | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__294123262 | en | From Spaced Out Doc:
As I round out an incredible month of highlighting the powerful stories of women in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education and professions in the greater space community for women’s history month, the Spaced Out Doc forum is dedicated to celebrating women advancement all year long. Women and their allies are standing united across our Earth choosing to call out gender bias, choosing to dismantle inequality, and choosing to celebrate women empowerment objectives in everything we do. I am so inspired by the brilliant women I know in the space industry, and I am excited to share their unique and powerful stories. With that, I am proud to introduce, Dr. Tanya Harrison.
Read more: Women Who Lead by Dr. Michaelyn Thomas | sociology |
https://www.livewire.org.au/content/why-join-livewire | 2017-03-29T15:00:32 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-13/segments/1490218190753.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20170322212950-00006-ip-10-233-31-227.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.950195 | 289 | CC-MAIN-2017-13 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-13__0__109911238 | en | Why Join Livewire?
Livewire allows members to connect with others in a moderated chat room seven days a week. Livewire members can meet other young people with similar conditions from all over Australia.
Members can also:
- Create a blog about themselves and topics they are interested in
- Connect with other young people who have the same condition
- Read up on the latest news, reviews and interviews
Other features include:
- Groups and private messages
- Our very own Livewire Zine - check out the latest issue here
Trained chat hosts are in the chat room at all times and constitute a unique feature of the livewire chat facility. Chat hosts are active participants, directly engaging in conversations and facilitating activities with the members. Their presence provides a more integrated and fun community, whilst ensuring livewire members are having a positive and enjoyable experiences inside the community.
“ People don’t understand how you can become friends with someone you have never met. But when you have shared so many highs and lows, the fact you have never met in person is irrelevant. In the moment when we are all laughing, chatting and joking together, nothing else matters. The fact that perhaps we are stuck in bed, and our hair is falling out, or machines are breathing for us is completely irrelevant. In that moment we are teenagers laughing. And that is all that matters”
Jess, Livewire member. | sociology |
https://www.pendidikanmalaysia.com/2014/01/foreign-students-can-work-in-fast-food.html | 2024-04-19T18:33:26 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817442.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20240419172411-20240419202411-00802.warc.gz | 0.960062 | 137 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__74235374 | en | Good news for foreign students studying in Malaysia! In light with the recent ban of foreigners from working in fast-food chains, Home Minister Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi clarified that the ban does not affect foreign students. He said that foreign students will be allowed to continue working part-time at fast food restaurants without the need for a special permit or pass.
Foreign students only have to inform the Labour Department on details of their employment.
“The Ministry is being considerate towards foreign students who work part-time in fast-food outlets. While no permits are required, they must supply details of their employment to the Labour Department,” he said. | sociology |
https://navigators.org.nz/about-us/history/ | 2024-04-22T23:09:25 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818374.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20240422211055-20240423001055-00277.warc.gz | 0.979321 | 625 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__129479926 | en | The Navigators ministry began in the 1930s when a young California lumberyard worker caught a vision. After seeing the benefits of basic discipleship principles in his own life, Dawson Trotman wanted to teach them to others, echoing the call of 2 Timothy 2:2: “And the things you have heard me say in the presence of many witnesses entrust to reliable men who will also be qualified to teach others.”
Dawson Trotman’s early work among sailors enabled discipleship principles to spread exponentially across the military as the United States entered World War II. Dawson began teaching high school students and local Sunday school classes these principles. In 1933, he and his friends extended their work to sailors in the U.S. Navy. There, Dawson taught sailor Les Spencer the foundations of Christian growth. They spent many hours together praying, studying the Bible, and memorizing Scripture. When one of Spencer’s shipmates asked him the secret of his changed life, Spencer brought the man to Trotman: “Teach him what you taught me,” he said.
“You teach him!” Trotman responded. And the 2 Timothy 2:2 vision was strengthened.
Spencer did teach the sailor, and soon the two men were meeting with others. Eventually, 125 men on their ship, the U.S.S. West Virginia, were growing in Christ and actively sharing their faith. By the end of World War II, thousands of men on ships and bases around the world were learning the principles of spiritual multiplication by the person-to-person teaching of God’s word.
At the same time, those high school students Dawson had taught began to reach out to others around them in Southern California. Today, more than 75 years later, we minister not only in the military and with college students, but with businessmen and women in every line of work, among homemakers, ethnic groups, and international students, in 100 countries around the world—wherever there are people who need Christ. Our vision is to see followers of Jesus next door to everywhere!
The Navigators in New Zealand
Joe Simmons, the New Zealand pioneer, came to New Zealand from England in 1953 after being asked by Dawson Trotman to start the work in this country. He taught the fundamentals and disciplines of Christian living to many individuals and groups.
It was not until the early sixties, however, that internationally the organization decided it needed to demonstrate what it had been talking about.
At that point, people who became Christians and were being discipled began to gather around Joe. Those people were the first New Zealand Navigators.
From the 1960s onwards, The Navigators work in NZ grew to include serving churches, laying faith foundations in university students and graduates, and helping people grow in their walk with God in their various communities throughout the country. In all of this, the emphasis has been on investing in individuals and small groups of people to help them live out their transforming faith in the midst of everyday life. | sociology |
https://www.pinecrestacademy.org/about/fast-facts | 2020-04-02T15:09:03 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-16/segments/1585370506988.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20200402143006-20200402173006-00037.warc.gz | 0.981919 | 355 | CC-MAIN-2020-16 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-16__0__58655409 | en | What parents and students are saying...
"On a whim, we attended an Open House, more out of curiosity than a need since we were very happy with the experiences our children were having in the public school system. From the moment we drove on campus, we began to see what makes PA so special. It sounds implausible to say a school that you've visited one time could feel like family, but it absolutely did. By the time we had heard from parents, teachers and the administration, my husband and I were convinced this was the type of learning environment in which we wanted our children. We had high expectations going in, and they continue to be exceeded at every turn. The cost of tuition is definitely a factor for our family, but the sacrifices we are making to give our children this experience is absolutely worth it to us." - Julie Boucek, Pinecrest Parent
“We are not Catholic but feel so at home at Pinecrest. The school considers us 'family' and the entire Pinecrest community is dedicated to making everyone feel included. Pinecrest provides an academically challenging education for children of all faith backgrounds, and even provides a separate report card based on character development. This is huge! Life is more than just a grade; it is how the individual grows into adulthood.” - Nikki Van Wingerden, Pinecrest Parent
“I love Pinecrest because of the opportunities I couldn’t get anywhere else. I get the chance to play on a sports team and give my all at something that I love. Another thing I love about Pinecrest is that I get the chance to grow in my faith and learn about God.”
~ Sarah Black, 8th Grade Student | sociology |
https://goldendrum.com/my-view-on-creativity-4-change/everything-must-change | 2020-10-28T22:46:49 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-45/segments/1603107902038.86/warc/CC-MAIN-20201028221148-20201029011148-00149.warc.gz | 0.963526 | 350 | CC-MAIN-2020-45 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-45__0__68049805 | en | …goes a song that is every bit as sad, as it is hopeful. It illustrates the exact nature of change. Because change is the most certain uncertain thing in the world. Beginning with a tiny step, most dare not to make, but all do-follow.
When I started working in advertising, the creative industry was tightly in the grasp of the chosen few talented creatives and visionaries ready to change the brave new world. Today, the brave new world is a brand-new world. Technology has become an integral part of creativity and change has shifted to the hands of the tinkerers, the techies, gamers and influencers, online providers, social platforms, and tech giants. And most of all, ordinary people who have become creators of change themselves. It is a beautiful thing. Creativity has finally become an open playground, a free for all. And now more than ever, as an industry, we have to embrace this change. Not as a challenge, but as an opportunity. And what an opportunity it is! To tell truly meaningful stories that change the way people think, feel and act in ways that could not have been imaginable just a few years ago. Since the very beginning of advertising, we have been trying to influence the world; now we can finally shape it as well.
That is why I love the idea of “Creativity 4 change”. I don’t see it as a slogan, but a rallying cry from the brave to the brave. For advertising, to take a step beyond advertising.
To stop riding waves of change, and truly start creating them.
Ivan Westerveen, Creative Director, Saatchi&Saatchi Belgrade, Serbia | sociology |
https://ameorganic.com/blogs/skin-care-blogs/pro-ageing-movement-redefining-beauty-beyond-stereotypes | 2024-03-01T02:02:58 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474893.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20240229234355-20240301024355-00364.warc.gz | 0.954428 | 703 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__165202492 | en | In a world where youthfulness is often equated with beauty and value, there exists a quietly burgeoning movement that challenges these entrenched norms. This is the Pro-Aging Movement, a powerful wave of individuals who are courageously redefining beauty beyond stereotypes and demanding recognition for the inherent worth and beauty of every stage of life.
To truly understand the depth and significance of this movement, one must first confront the pervasive ageism that permeates our society. From the subtle messages in advertisements to the overt discrimination in the workplace, ageism relegates older individuals to the sidelines, dismissing their contributions and diminishing their worth based solely on the number of years they have lived.
But within the heart of this societal bias lies a powerful resistance. The Pro-Ageing Movement emerges as a response to this marginalization, fueled by a collective desire to challenge the status quo and reclaim agency over the narrative of ageing.
At its core, the Pro-Aging Movement is a celebration of authenticity and self-acceptance. It rejects the notion that beauty is synonymous with youthfulness, instead embracing the natural changes that come with age as symbols of wisdom, experience, and resilience. Every wrinkle, every gray hair becomes a badge of honor, a testament to a life fully lived and lessons learned.
But the Pro-Aging Movement is more than just a celebration of physical appearance; it is a profound shift in perspective that transcends the superficiality of societal beauty standards. It challenges us to see beyond the surface and recognize the inherent worth and beauty of every individual, regardless of age.
This movement is propelled by individuals who refuse to be defined by their age, who reject the notion that their worth diminishes as they grow older. Instead, they embrace their age as a source of strength and empowerment, refusing to conform to society's narrow expectations and choosing instead to live authentically and unapologetically.
One of the most powerful aspects of the Pro-Aging Movement is its emphasis on community and solidarity. In a society that often pits generations against each other, this movement fosters intergenerational connections and mutual respect. Older individuals serve as mentors and guides, sharing their wisdom and experience with younger generations, while younger individuals offer fresh perspectives and renewed energy.
Through activism, advocacy, and personal empowerment, the Pro-Ageing Movement is slowly but surely changing the way society views ageing. It is pushing back against ageist stereotypes and demanding representation in media, advertising, and all areas of public life. It is advocating for policies that promote inclusivity and support the needs of older individuals, from healthcare to employment to housing.
But perhaps the most profound impact of the Pro-Aging Movement is on the individual level. For those who have felt invisible or devalued because of their age, this movement offers a sense of belonging and validation. It reminds them that their worth is not determined by the number of candles on their birthday cake, but by the depth of their character, the richness of their experiences, and the love in their hearts.
In a world that often seems obsessed with youth and beauty, the Pro-Aging Movement is a beacon of hope and resilience. It is a reminder that true beauty knows no age limit, that every stage of life has its own unique beauty and value. It is a call to embrace the passage of time with grace and dignity, to celebrate the beauty of every age, and to recognize the inherent worth and beauty of every individual, regardless of age. | sociology |
https://holistichealingsite.com/loneliness-its-health-effects/ | 2020-11-28T07:54:06 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-50/segments/1606141195198.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20201128070431-20201128100431-00196.warc.gz | 0.955671 | 760 | CC-MAIN-2020-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-50__0__35161025 | en | Is there a loneliness disease? When white blood cells were taken from lonely men and put under a microscope the blood cells were in a state of high alert just the same as if they were fighting a bacterial infection. It was as though they were under assault by a mortal disease, a disease of “loneliness”.
Many lives can be devoured by loneliness. Older Americans are at greater risk for social isolation, which can lead to physical illness, depression and even dementia.
When social interaction network is missing in one’s life the consequences are very real on how it affects mental and physical health and it can result in longer hospital stays. Ongoing studies suggest more ways in which loneliness can attack our bodies and shorten our lives. Lonely people are more likely to die of heart disease, and loneliness makes us more vulnerable to Alzheimer’s disease, high blood pressure, the common cold, and even suicide. It is more dangerous to our health than obesity and its equivalent of smoking 15 cigarettes a day.
Loneliness has many different faces, Studies have found it in brain scans, statistics, and behavioral patterns. Many alarming statistics about loneliness also examine people becoming more socially disconnected.
With the huge “baby boomer” generation aging there is an increase in the number of people living alone and there are also factors of declining marriage rates and increased rates of childlessness. Lacking social interaction puts one at a greater health risk. Other factors, like living arrangements, can be important. Just living alone or in an isolated place can be just as harmful to your health as feeling lonely. It’s a known fact that those that stay socially connected live longer.
Many studies that are being done on loneliness focus on the feeling itself. The experience of feeling rejection, disconnection, and longing produces pain as real as any physical injury pain. All of this research and combining biology and psychology proves the mind and the body take their cues from each other to produce a personal private hell. It is thought that the mind interprets loneliness as a kind of threat, thus giving a kind of inflammation response in the body. Inflammation is good temporarily as the body’s first defense system to fight infection or heal wounds. But long term inflammation leads to tissue breakdown and disrupts the immune system thus increasing your susceptibility ranging from Alzheimer’s to heart disease. When the brain interprets loneliness it gives the inflammatory response reflex. The inflammation then sets up a vicious cycle, thus when you feel lonely your brain activates inflammation in the white blood cells and that response feeds back to the brain and changes the way it works. It makes it irritable, suspicious, and promotes negative emotions. This duel between body and brain, under the influence of the inflammatory response, creates stress, a since of threat with others and that isolates you even further.
Your body has a different survival mode than your brain has. When one is lonely the brain misreads social signals abnormally. Lonely people misread peoples facial expressions and tone of voice and distorts social reality. Thus their reactions is a mistaken attempt at self-protection and send signal of hostility, disinterest and withdrawal.
Those who are lonely live in a heightened level of alarm which also causes them to loose sleep. It doesn’t work to put lonely people together because loneliness increases self-centeredness , irritability, and defensiveness. They will hate each other in just a few minutes. Lonely people just don’t get what they need from the presence of other people because they crave core values and shared life experiences. Volunteering and helping others is what really helps.
Science has proves that the consequences of isolation and loneliness are severe negative health outcomes, higher health care and even death. | sociology |
https://elearning-adbi.org/courses/demographic-transition-and-its-impacts/ | 2023-01-31T07:05:53 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-06/segments/1674764499845.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20230131055533-20230131085533-00081.warc.gz | 0.775245 | 557 | CC-MAIN-2023-06 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-06__0__291366819 | en | Demographic Transition and its Impacts
About the Course
This course explores global demographic transition, with a focus on population aging, its economic effects, and policy next steps. It is divided into 4 units:
Unit 1: Demographic Transition and Trends (15 minutes)
- Demographic transition overview
- Population aging
- Global population outlook
Unit 2: Impact Analysis (10 minutes)
- Impacts of demographic change on advanced and developing economies
- Impacts of aging population on economic growth: two scenarios
Unit 3: Challenges and Policy Implications (10 minutes)
- Population aging challenges
- Macroeconomic variables and fiscal sustainability
- Iron Law of Intergenerational Transfer
- Implications of current policies
Unit 4: Policy Recommendations and COVID-19 Considerations (12 minutes)
- Macroeconomic policies
- Reorient social security systems
- Financial innovation and cooperation
- Labor market reforms
- Improving data and analysis
- COVID-19 impacts on the elderly and policy responses
- Better understand the economic impacts of demographic transition
- Examine different population aging scenarios
- Assess policy options for addressing demographic change
How to Complete this Course
- Watch 4 video lessons
- Review open access reading materials
- Submit an evaluation form
- Successfully pass assessment quiz with a score of 8/10 or higher
- Certificate with unique ID will be issued upon completion of course requirements
- 2019. Aging Societies: Policies and Perspectives. Tokyo: ADBI.
- United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division. 2019. World Population Prospects 2019: Highlights. New York: United Nations.
- Lee, J. 2018. Population Aging and Economic Growth: Impacts and Policy Implications. KDI Policy Forum No. 273 (2019-02), eng. Namsejong-ro, Republic of Korea: Korea Development Institute.
- Yoshino, N., and H. Miyamoto. 2017. Declined Effectiveness of Fiscal and Monetary Policies Faced with Aging Population in Japan. Japan and the World Economy, 42(C): 32–44.
- Sirivunnabood, P. 2020. Achieving Fiscal Sustainability in the Face of Demographic Change. Asia Pathways Blog, 25 May.
- Wyse, M. 2020. How to Protect Asia’s Rapidly Aging Population from Covid-19. Asia Development Blog, 6 April.
- United Nations. 2020. Policy Brief: The Impacts of COVID-19 on Older Persons. United Nations. | sociology |
https://dreamcityomaha.church/security | 2019-10-18T04:09:54 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-43/segments/1570986677884.28/warc/CC-MAIN-20191018032611-20191018060111-00392.warc.gz | 0.972695 | 220 | CC-MAIN-2019-43 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-43__0__201165415 | en | Safety & Security
While we value community and welcome volunteers, Dream City Omaha is also fully committed to the safety and security of our youngest and most vulnerable members, that being said, youth and children’s ministry volunteers are required to submit to a background check.
Due to the unfortunate risk of violent acts against churches, the Dream City Church Omaha campus is also protected by armed security. Each armed security team member has been cleared and approved by the Dream City Omaha team. By law, no one except law enforcement officers may carry a concealed firearm within a church in the state of Nebraska without authorization from the church administration as a designated member of the security team.
The Dream City security team keeps a low profile, though the majority of the team is identifiable by an official security team shirt. Our concern is the safety of our members and guests. We have no reason to believe our church is a target, and believe it is a truly tragic state of society that we must take such measures. However, we continue to prayerfully and carefully find every way to ensure the safety of our house of worship. | sociology |
https://bassfug.wordpress.com/page/11/ | 2021-06-24T02:03:11 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-25/segments/1623488550571.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20210624015641-20210624045641-00599.warc.gz | 0.978454 | 644 | CC-MAIN-2021-25 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-25__0__129205888 | en | The great Oscar Wilde once said, “Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness.” True, the statement is almost unimpeachable. Almost because when people imitate something with blatant disregard for its tenets and history, it becomes a source of annoyance or a subject of incessant ridicule.
Case in point: ‘The proliferation of the ‘mall goth’ movement among teens from the late 90’s to mid-2000’s or to put simply, angsty kids wearing black Slipknot or Marilyn Manson shirts who hangout in malls especially in ‘Hot Topic’ where they get most of their merch. Their taste in music is not really the cause for ridicule but the mere fact that they are quite clueless and unaware of the history of the ‘Goth’ subculture and the groups that laid the foundation of the genre such as Bauhaus, Joy Division, Siouxsie, the Banshees etc. was the main cause of animosity between ‘mall goths’ and seasoned goths.
For this very reason, these kids were called ‘babybats’; fledgling goths who have just been introduced to the movement yet thinking that they are the epitome of anti-establishment rebellion and unfiltered self-expression. They are frowned upon by the goth community because quite frankly, for most of them, it was simply just a phase. They were only in it to conform or hangout with their peers—which is the opposite of what the gothic movement is all about. Plus the fact that they’re everywhere during their ‘heyday’ so they got on people’s nerves and became easy targets for ridicule; like a ‘low-hanging bat’ (pun intended).
It’s hard to imagine now that this was a thing 10 years ago and that people outside of the movement cared enough to make fun of these kids known as ‘mall goths’. Looking back, it was a harmless trend among teens and dare I say was so much better than what we have today because for better or for worse, ‘babybats’ had a sense of community. Nowadays, people are glued to social media and only care about the number of likes they can rack up in their posts instead of having real interaction from like-minded people.
Though the ‘mall goth’ movement was just a transitory thing and probably become extinct in the mid 2000’s, it was fun while it lasted whether you’re in or outside of the scene. When I think about it now, the repulsion or disgust that I almost instantaneously feel everytime I laid eyes or hear about a ‘babybat’ sighting is replaced with a sense of nostalgia. It was a time for self-discovery and experimentation that was anchored on camaraderie. Whether we like it or not, it was a snapshot of a generation, a moment in time before social media took over the world and turned people into self-absorbed zombies. | sociology |
http://musicmagsa.co.za/2018/08/letoya-makhene-speaks-on-the-disadvantages-of-having-a-famous-father/ | 2018-08-20T06:51:29 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-34/segments/1534221215858.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20180820062343-20180820082343-00563.warc.gz | 0.990071 | 222 | CC-MAIN-2018-34 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-34__0__182974994 | en | Letoya Makhene Speaks On The Disadvantages Of Having A Famous Father. Actress and musician Letoya Makhene is the daughter of the famous 80’s and 90’s singer Blondie Makhene, as much as that may have seem like an advantage it sure had its perks in her case.
“We were raised by these family orientated people, so much so, that we never got a chance to gloat that we are Blondie’s children. It was only when people would become mean, when suddenly because your father is the celebrity, then people look at you in a different way or they start treating you differently.”
During an interview on Fresh Breakfast, Letoya shared some of the challenges of being her father’s daughter.
“At some point I was really frustrated that it was not happening for me… then I got to a point where I remembered how extremely talented I am. And I had to remind myself that God would not give me such a talent for me not to use it,” she said. | sociology |
https://k21st.wordpress.com/category/medicine/ | 2017-03-28T04:16:07 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-13/segments/1490218189667.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20170322212949-00113-ip-10-233-31-227.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.966715 | 353 | CC-MAIN-2017-13 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-13__0__130828625 | en | In a fascinating new study our ideas of old age are challenged..
Professor Tom Kirkwood has demolished a string of misconceptions about the ageing process with a groundbreaking study into the health of more than 1,000 older people in the 85-plus generation. “Its a myth that they are bowls of misery, unhappy with their lot, and always going on about ailments,” he insists. “Four out of five of them actually think they are doing pretty well.”His study, the largest of its kind ever undertaken, has proved revealing on several fronts. For a start, people in the 85-plus range are generally much happier, and more independent, than is generally realised. Remarkably, 80% of a group carefully selected by the Kirkwood team – a fair sample of the UK population of this age – need little care. Around the same number rate their quality of life either good or excellent.On the downside, 20% need either regular daily help or critical 24-hour care. All of which might be almost manageable for the state, and for society, if this age range was static. But, as the amiable Kirkwood never tires of reminding questioners, the 85-plus group is now the fastest-growing segment of the population.
..Of course, this has huge implications for the cost of caring. Revealingly, in tracking 17 activities of daily living among survey participants – from dealing with finances to cooking and shopping – researchers found that men fared better than women; a third managed all 17 without help, compared with a sixth of women. Although women live, on average, five to six years longer than men, the study has found that their disabilities become greater with age.
Highly recommended reading. | sociology |
http://shiastudies.com/en/17940/hajj-multidimensional-pilgrimage-promotes-muslim-unity/ | 2024-04-21T17:14:36 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817790.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20240421163736-20240421193736-00656.warc.gz | 0.959831 | 1,167 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__82050642 | en | Hajj is the pilgrimage to Mecca, the holiest city in Islam, that every Muslim must make at least once in their lifetime if they are physically and financially able to do so. Hajj is not only a religious duty but also a symbolic act of unity with Muslims worldwide.
This sense of unity can be discussed in three different realms:
Hajj is a spiritual journey that unites the Muslim community with their Creator and the history of their faith. The pilgrims partake in a series of rituals that mirror the lives of illustrious prophets, such as Ibrahim and his son Ismail, who are esteemed by Muslims as Prophet Muhammad’s (PBUH) ancestors. The most significant act of worship is the circumambulation of the Kaaba, a black cube-shaped structure at the center of the Grand Mosque in Mecca, where Ibrahim and Ismail constructed a sanctuary for God. Additionally, the pilgrims retrace the footsteps of Hajar, Ismail’s mother, as she sought water for her parched son in the hills of Safa and Marwa until God bestowed her with the miraculous Zamzam spring. The culmination of the Hajj takes place on the plains of Arafat, where Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) delivered his last sermon to his people before his demise.
The Hajj is an embodiment of the Muslim creed, reflecting their beliefs, values, and principles. It exemplifies the fundamentals of Islam such as monotheism, submission, equity, and harmony. The pilgrims announce their devotion to God and their rejection of all forms of idolatry and polytheism by reciting the Talbiyah, a prayer that proclaims their servitude to Allah.
The pilgrims also demonstrate their obedience and surrender to God by performing the rites that symbolize their submission to His will. They stand on the plains of Arafat, pleading for His forgiveness and mercy. The pilgrims show their gratitude to Allah by sacrificing an animal, following the example of Ibrahim, who demonstrated his unwavering faith by offering his son Ismail as a sacrifice. The pilgrims then distribute the meat to the impoverished, demonstrating their commitment to justice and equality.
By reciting the Talbiyah, pilgrims express their loyalty to God and their rejection of any form of idolatry or polytheism. They also acknowledge that God is the source of all blessings and power and that He alone deserves worship and obedience.
Hajj is a sacred pilgrimage that ignites a spiritual connection between Muslims. It serves as a potent reminder of their shared faith in God and His prophets, and their quest to seek His utmost pleasure and forgiveness. The journey to Mecca deepens their relationship with the divine, heightening their awareness of His ever-present mercy and benevolence.
Hajj is not just a physical journey to Mecca but a profound moral expedition for Muslims. It is a time when pilgrims make a conscious effort to purify their souls and refine their character by observing certain rules and regulations. These guidelines aim to help them avoid any distractions or temptations that may harm their relationship with God or with others. They are called to abstain from sexual intercourse, wearing perfume or makeup, hunting or harming animals, and arguing or fighting among others. By practicing these prohibitions, pilgrims can focus on their spiritual goals and seek enlightenment.
Hajj also instills in pilgrims a sense of humility and equality before God. During this time, all differences in wealth, status, race, or nationality are erased as pilgrims wear simple white garments. They stand shoulder to shoulder in prayer, walk together in procession, share food and water, help each other in difficulty, and greet each other with peace. They understand that they are all servants of God who depend on Him for everything. They also realize that they are all brothers and sisters who belong to one human family.
Hajj thus unites Muslims morally by teaching them how to live according to God’s commands and how to treat each other with respect and compassion. It inspires them to reflect on their actions and to strive for excellence in their personal and social lives.
Hajj is also a social journey that brings together Muslims from all corners of the world. This annual gathering of millions of pilgrims is like a beautiful tapestry woven from different threads of cultures, languages, and backgrounds. Through Hajj, Muslims experience a sense of belonging to a global community, the Ummah, which transcends geographical boundaries and cultural differences. Hajj is a unique opportunity for Muslims to meet, interact, learn, and cooperate. Hajj also fosters a sense of solidarity and brotherhood among Muslims, as they share their joys and sorrows, their hopes and fears, and their experiences and aspirations.
As pilgrims gather in Mecca, they are reminded of the diversity and richness of the Islamic civilization and the challenges that face the Ummah in the modern world. Hajj encourages Muslims to look beyond their interests and contribute to the greater good of humanity, promoting peace, justice, and compassion.
Hajj is a journey of many dimensions that can weave the threads of Muslim unity in various ways. Hajj unites Muslims spiritually by reviving their faith in God and His messengers, and by deepening their bond with God. The ritual weaves Muslims morally by teaching them about ethics and values, and by cultivating in them a sense of modesty and brotherhood. Hajj unites Muslims socially by linking them with each other and with the Ummah, and by motivating them to contribute to the progress and prosperity of the Ummah. The major pilgrimage is therefore a potent tool for creating Muslim unity and identity in a world that is often fractured and hostile. | sociology |
https://www.greenwichrepublicans.com/mission | 2024-04-13T06:53:22 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296816586.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20240413051941-20240413081941-00659.warc.gz | 0.944489 | 326 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__155632748 | en | Greenwich Republicans recognize that our town is a blend of individuals with their own dreams, hopes, problems and opportunities. We believe that our town should not only be a place to live but a place where all people can pursue their careers and positively impact our community.
Greenwich Republicans believe that our town government should be smaller, more efficient and serve ALL the people of Greenwich.
Greenwich Republicans support neighborhood schools that strive for excellence and maximize every student’s educational outcomes, by improving the skills of all of our students, regardless of their abilities.
Greenwich Republicans recognize that an essential role of our town government is to ensure our community’s safety and we promote partnerships among government agencies, businesses and private citizens to implement effective public safety strategies.
Greenwich Republicans recognize that the success of our party locally depends on our residents who volunteer their time to serve our town on a board or commission, or run for elected office. Our doors are wide open and we encourage those who want to get involved.
Greenwich Republicans believe that we should not burden future generations with long term debt.
Greenwich Republicans recognize that our town has unique and beautiful natural resources that must be preserved and protected and we promote environmental stewardship, open space and conservation efforts based on sound science combined with evidence-based best practices.
Greenwich Republicans recognize that Greenwich is a small town and we will work to protect our property values and preserve the unique combination of coastal, suburban, and countryside living for which this town is renown.
[Approved by Greenwich Republican Town Committee on May 23, 2018 as recommended by the Executive Committee] | sociology |
http://risialbania.al/index/en/ | 2018-02-19T02:08:42 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-09/segments/1518891812306.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20180219012716-20180219032716-00341.warc.gz | 0.94189 | 205 | CC-MAIN-2018-09 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-09__0__90433743 | en | RisiAlbania is an innovative project, financed by the Government of Switzerland, that seeks to improve the opportunities of the young Albanian women and men in finding sustainable employment. The project focuses on (i) fostering job creation through the development of the private sector and also on (ii) improving the access of young people to quality labor market information and services.
- RisiAlbania’s interventions in job creation target three sectors, such as Agro processing, Tourism and ICT, with great potential for growth, and also attractive for women and men with different background education in rural and urban areas.
- RisiAlbania seeks to support young people to effectively enter the job market, by working closely with the public and the private job matching service providers for upgrading their outreach in career counseling and effective job matching.
- RisiAlbania has enabled the creation of 169 new job positions until 15 June 2016 and the job placement of 1147 young women and men …(read more) | sociology |
https://irepeatinmysleep.wordpress.com/2017/03/01/1914/ | 2018-06-25T09:35:48 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-26/segments/1529267867644.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20180625092128-20180625112128-00310.warc.gz | 0.971612 | 216 | CC-MAIN-2018-26 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-26__0__171399413 | en | … Yet this does not alter the fact that the working class will go on struggling against Fascism after the others have caved in. The intelligentsia are the people who squeal the loudest against Fascism, and yet a respectable portion of them collapse into defeatism when the pinch comes. With the working class it is the other way about. Too ignorant to see through the trick that is being played on them, they easily swallow the promises of Fascism, yet sooner or later they always take up the struggle again. They must do so, because in their own bodies they always discover that the promises of Fascism cannot be fulfilled. To win over the working class permanently, the Fascists would have to raise the general standard of living, which they are unable and probably unwilling to do. The struggle of the working class is like the growth of a plant. The plant is blind and stupid, but it knows enough to keep pushing upwards towards the light and it will do this in the face of endless discouragements.
-George Orwell, Looking Back on the Spanish War | sociology |
https://www.thegirlinthecafe.com/tag/europride/ | 2023-11-29T21:42:51 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100146.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20231129204528-20231129234528-00246.warc.gz | 0.987395 | 247 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__229020302 | en | It was a beautiful and long parade, with thousands of people participating, from policeofficers to dragqueens, from gay footballclubs to gay volleyballclubs, and from marines to gay people from nearly every religion present in London. It was a colourful parade with a lot of beautiful people, some dressed in uniform, and some dressed in, well, nearly nothing. The Union Jack was transferred to shades of pink today. I had a lot of explaining to do to the pirate, whom I had taken with me. He was sitting on my shoulder, and asked a lot of questions. I guess he had never seen anything like this before. I explained him that it was a celebration of gay people, a way to improve the acceptance of the gay community and a protest against discrimination and homophobia. I think he understood.
They came through Oxford Street and Regent Street and went on to Piccadily Circus. Again London closed it’s roads for a big event. What a city.
There were several good slogans passing by, but my absolute favourite was the one from Amnesty International:
Love is a human right.
I couldn’t agree more. It’s all about Love Actually. | sociology |
https://fbisdcaaa.org/quarterly-membership-meeting-and-human-trafficking-briefing/ | 2024-04-12T23:01:07 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296816465.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20240412225756-20240413015756-00328.warc.gz | 0.910776 | 503 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__23265086 | en | Quarterly Membership Meeting and Human Trafficking Briefing
On Monday, June 11, three dozen members of the FBISDCAAA and guests received an update from SAC John Brown, including upcoming events where the FBI San Diego field office will participate, like PRIDE on July 14 and National Night Out in August. More information on upcoming events is on the Events page of our website; keep an eye on your email for more updates and opportunities to get involved.
Todd Hemmen, Supervisory Special Agent with the Violent Crimes Against Children and Civil Rights squad, gave a fascinating presentation about human trafficking, a $150 billion per year industry. While the Thirteenth Amendment (1865) abolished slavery, the Trafficking Victims Protections Act (TVPA) signed into law in 2000 combats trafficking people, especially into the sex trade, slavery, and involuntary servitude. Legal elements of force, fraud, and coercion are found in three types of human trafficking: commercial sex trafficking, labor trafficking, and domestic servitude. In our cross-border region, Mr. Hemmen pointed out the difference between alien smuggling (a crime against the border, where consent is typically provided) and human trafficking (a crime against a person, where there is no consent).
Human trafficking is on the rise in America and it is a crime of opportunity. The Polaris Project reported a 13 percent increase in human trafficking in 2017 and more than 10,000 victims. Eighty Child Exploitation Task Forces (CETFs), including one in San Diego, cooperate and collaborate with federal, state, and local governments; working groups; and non-governmental organizations to combat trafficking of children. Partnerships with the Polaris Project and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children are critical to their success. When investigating human trafficking crimes, the FBI’s top priority is maintaining a victim-centered approach amidst the challenge of resource coordination. Attorneys, linguists, social workers, shelter and medical service providers, and relocation support all must be coordinated to support victims of human trafficking and our local San Diego field office has three victim support specialists who make sure the victims’ needs are always a top priority.
If you see something, say something. 1-800-CALL-FBI is your connection to our friends at the FBI. If you think you may have information about a potential trafficking situation, call the National Human Trafficking Resource Center (NHTRC) at 1-888-373-7888. | sociology |
https://wildnet.org/celebrating-black-american-trailblazers-in-conservation/ | 2024-02-29T08:13:06 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474795.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20240229071243-20240229101243-00414.warc.gz | 0.942913 | 1,088 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__54825687 | en | In honor of Black History Month, we celebrate Black American trailblazers in conservation. These dedicated wildlife champions combined their enthusiasm for conservation with the tenacity to shatter through historical barriers, becoming leading voices in their field. These are just a few of the Black Americans who have helped make an impact for conservation through modern history and today.
Growing up in the segregated South in the mid-1960s, Dr. Mamie Parker was one of the first Black children to be integrated into an all-White public school in Arkansas. In the same bold spirit, Dr. Parker grew up to be a conservation pioneer and continued to transcend many barriers in her career. At a time when the space was predominantly White and male, she became a distinguished fisheries biologist and the first Black woman to serve in leadership roles in the US Fish and Wildlife Service. Now retired from public service, Dr. Parker continues her work by inspiring schoolchildren to pursue studies in natural sciences and by mentoring the next generation of diverse conservation leaders.
“At this point in life, I have learned more about showing gratitude by giving back. This includes work to encourage others to help us address the climate crisis, particularly in vulnerable and underserved communities, by looking for opportunities to make a profound impact on the lives of women and diverse employees in conservation by working harder on diversity, inclusion, justice and equity.” – Dr. Mamie Parker, shared in Conservation History: Women in Conservation
Since the first national park in 1872, natural spaces have been largely out of reach for most Black Americans. A long history of direct segregation and restrictive codes created a sense of exclusion that still endures today. Whether from economic limitations, imposed cultural stereotypes, or anxieties about entering precarious and unsafe situations, Black Americans remain the most dramatically underrepresented visitors in outdoor and natural spaces.
Connecting the Black community with nature is precisely what Rue Mapp set out to achieve with her national nonprofit organization, Outdoor Afro. Through this organization, she is pioneering equitable environmental education and reclaiming a cultural connection to nature. Outdoor Afro has already drawn tens of thousands of Black Americans across the US to experience nature through hiking, kayaking, and camping. Mapp also seeks to diversify the face of conservation stewardship by promoting pathways for next-generation Black leaders to represent land, wildlife, and waterways management. Democratizing environmental education continues to be Mapp’s mission.
“The trees don’t know what color I am. The birds don’t know what gender is. The flowers don’t know how much money I have in my bank account. I think we can rely on nature to be the equalizer for us so we can shed that weight.” – Rue Mapp shared in a 2018 interview
In response to a recent instance of racism against a Black birdwatcher at Central Park and series of racial killings of unarmed Black Americans by civilians and police, a coalition of emerging Black conservationists, scientists, and naturalists formed Black Birders Week in May 2020. The movement aims to normalize diversity, promote inclusion in public and natural spaces, celebrate Black birders, and expose the challenges they face.
“For far too long, Black people in the United States have been shown that outdoor exploration activities such as birding are not for us—whether it be because of the way the media chooses to present who is the ‘outdoorsy’ type or the racism experienced by Black people when we do explore the outdoors, as we saw recently in Central Park. Well, we’ve decided to change that narrative.” – Corina Newsome, Black Birders Week co-organizer
In the alpine forests of the Lake Tahoe basin, Dr. Rae Wynn-Grant researches black bear ecology. In this part of the Sierra Nevada mountain range, she monitors the health of this keystone species, an indicator of the overall health of its ecosystem. She also works to understand human-wildlife conflict and develops solutions that allow black bears and people to coexist. As a large carnivore ecologist, Dr. Wynn-Grant’s work also takes her to the Northern Great Plains, where she investigates the movement of grizzly bear populations and identifies barriers in their migration to the American Prairie Reserve.
Growing up in a city and having little exposure to nature except through nature programs on television, Dr. Wynn Grant strives to expose underrepresented and Black students to nature and conservation studies.
“My work is about saving animals from extinction, and so many other scientists are also trying to save the planet so we can survive. We don’t have time to be caught up in stereotypes or barriers. Right now we have a bunch of people who aren’t involved because of barriers they face. That makes no sense. For such a critical mission, we need to make sure that everyone has the opportunity to help solve these problems.” – Dr. Rae Wynn-Grant, in a National Geographic interview
These are just a few of the courageous Black Americans who are transforming conservation, wilderness preservation, and environmental education in the U.S. By breaking down barriers that historically left them out, these inspiring pioneers are propelling Black inclusion in conservation, the exploration of natural spaces, and solving the environmental crises that we all face. | sociology |
http://reallifereallaughter.blogspot.com/2015/05/5qfriday.html | 2018-07-17T01:38:41 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-30/segments/1531676589537.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20180717012034-20180717032034-00526.warc.gz | 0.968566 | 322 | CC-MAIN-2018-30 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-30__0__168050596 | en | Today's 5QFriday is with my mom! Welcome to Real Life, Real Laughter, Denise Weiner! Who better to kick off the series on my blog about motherhood?
|My mom and my older daughter, Rebecca, on our annual family summer vacation|
As a mom raising two daughters in the late 70's and 80's, I knew she'd have a different perspective than all the moms I know raising kids now. So here are her answers for 5QFriday!
- What are the biggest differences you notice between when you were raising us and watching us raise our children now? Raising kids in the late 70s/80s meant the kids could be kids. They played outside alone, rode bikes through the neighborhood and beyond, ate food without reviewing nutrition information on food labels, did homework on their own and we did not feel compelled to schedule activities for them 24/7.
- Best moments / memories as a mom? The best moments as a mom are watching your children become their own person; appreciate each moment and milestone... It all passes in the blink of an eye!
- What parenting "cliche" resonates the most with you? "Give your kids roots and wings"
- Worst thing a parenting could do? Do not try and control the destiny of your children. Each one beats to his/her own drum and it is not up to us to shape their lives!
- Your best advice for moms today? Cherish each moment and realize the honor and privilege you have been given to watch your children grow and be part of their lives. | sociology |
http://bvpharyanawest.com/About-Us.html | 2018-02-24T08:13:57 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-09/segments/1518891815500.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20180224073111-20180224093111-00151.warc.gz | 0.939395 | 194 | CC-MAIN-2018-09 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-09__0__220836300 | en | Established in 1963, Bharat Vikas Parishad is a service-cum-sanskar oriented, non-political, socio-cultural voluntary organisation. It is dedicated to the development and growth of our country in all fields of human endeavour - cultural, social, academic, moral, national and spiritual - by promoting a sense of patriotism, national unity and integrity.
On the birth centenary of Swami Vivekanand i.e. on 12th January, 1963, the Citizens Council set up by leading industrialists and social reformers like late Lala Hans Raj and Dr. Suraj Prakash, initially to mobilise citizens efforts to fight the Chinese attack, was renamed as Bharat Vikas Parishad. Parishad is thus motivated and guided by the ideals and teachings of Swami Vivekananda.
Bharat Vikas Parishad was registered as a Society under the Societies Registration Act 1860 on the 10th July, 1963. | sociology |
https://danboschoolsabuja.com/student-council/ | 2024-04-24T20:04:39 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296819847.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20240424174709-20240424204709-00114.warc.gz | 0.95474 | 312 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__62786796 | en | The Students on the council take their duties very seriously and requests from the Council to school are listened to diligently. Members of the Student Council aspire to improve the school where possible and also to improve the daily lives of the students by acting as their voice within the school community.
Our Mission: To maintain the ethos of Danbo International Schools and to create, in cooperation with the Principal, staff and students, better school life for the students.
The Danbo International School Council aims to:
- Encourage students to act in a democratic manner by giving responsibility and empowerment to the student body as a whole
- Promote a spirit of co-operation and community in the school as a whole.
- Provide an opportunity for students to voice concerns, discuss interests and make suggestions with a view to improving the school community.
- Give students the opportunity to make recommendations in connection with the running of the school.
- Liaise with the student body, the Staff, Management and Parents’ Association
- Provide a chance to achieve greater unity by addressing problems and celebrating achievements together
What qualities do our Student Council members represent?
- Responsible and reliable
- Good listener
- Able to relate well to the whole class
- Able and willing to take on a leadership role in the school
- Influential in upholding rules and standards in the school
- Having the interests of the whole school at the heart
- Proud of their school | sociology |
https://theinstitutenc.org/2022/11/in-the-news-2/ | 2023-12-02T03:07:39 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100309.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20231202010506-20231202040506-00549.warc.gz | 0.931789 | 1,593 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__124571853 | en | In the News
October 21 – November 4
- Fayetteville City Council approves $450,000 plan for adding affordable housing in Murchison Corridor, entering next phase: The Fayetteville City Council on Monday unanimously approved an affordable housing plan for the wider Murchison neighborhood, home to Fayetteville State University. Three-quarters of city households that earn 60% or below the area median income are cost burdened, and there is a shortage of 20,000 affordable housing units in the city.
- Widespread Racial Bias Found in Home Appraisals: Researchers found evidence of a persistent practice that gives higher value to homes when the occupants are white, and devalue them if the owners are people of color. White homeowners can expect their homes’ values to increase at twice the rate of homeowners of color, a stark confirmation of systemic racial bias in home appraisals, according to a new report.
- More Than Just a Structure: The Myriad Impacts of Black Women’s Exclusion from Homeownership: Due to racism within the real estate market, the median value of Black real estate assets in the US is about 60 percent of the value of white real estate assets. This disparity has stripped the Black community of tremendous wealth. Brookings found the average Black home is undervalued by $48,000, adding up to an astounding $156 billion cumulatively.
- How owner-occupancy regulations are contributing to the housing crisis: Cities and towns argue that owner-occupancy requirements ensure absentee landlords and renters do not cause blight but because renters typically have lower incomes than homeowners and are racially more diverse, owner-occupancy requirements affect the economic and demographic makeup of neighborhoods.
- VA Reports New Data Shows 11% Decline in Veteran Homelessness Since 2020 — The Biggest Drop in More Than 5 Years: The data show on a single night in January 2022, there were 33,136 Veterans who were experiencing homelessness in the United States — down from 37,252 in 2020. Overall, this represents a 55.3% reduction in Veterans experiencing homelessness since 2010.
- Biden-Harris Administration Announces More than Half of All States Have Expanded Access to 12 Months of Medicaid and CHIP Postpartum Coverage: An estimated 418,000 Americans annually are now eligible for essential care for a full year after pregnancy under the Biden-Harris Administration’s American Rescue Plan.
- Judge orders North Carolina to provide more at-home care to disabled people: A judge has ordered North Carolina to make it easier for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities to receive care at home rather than in institutions. The order outlines several actions the state must take — including moving people with disabilities out of institutions over the next eight years and stop admitting them to institutions except for short-term stays within six years.
- Cureatr and Unite Us Launches Health Equity Program: Cureatr and Unite Us are teaming up to launch a comprehensive health equity program to support patients experiencing transitions of care. In addition to providing services that address medication access issues, the new health equity program allows CHWs to screen patients for social determinants of health (SDoH) insecurities related to food, transportation, housing, and health literacy and connect them to community resources in their area.
- NCDHHS Signs Health Equity Pledge to Leverage Data in Addressing Disparities, Continuing Work to Embed Equity into Programs: The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services joined approximately 40 cross-sector health care organizations committing to using and sharing high-level data about race, ethnicity, language and gender to inform best practices to promote health equity.
- Housing and Health: Creating Solutions With Communities: The Kresge Foundation wanted to learn with grantees about work at the intersection of housing and health equity. Their takeaway: Fund community-driven solutions and community power.
- Digital Equity And The Future Of Work: How Six Governors Are Advancing Digital Skills For Equitable Economic Participation: Hawaii, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania and Rhode Island brought together interagency teams to develop state plans to close digital skills gaps in priority industries, geographies and demographics in alignment with their Governors’ workforce and economic development priorities.
- Why Black women are the fastest-growing group of entrepreneurs: Women-owned businesses overall increased 21% between 2014 and 2019, compared to 9% for all businesses. While Black women represent 14% of the female population, they account for 42% of net new women-owned businesses. As the fastest-growing group of entrepreneurs, Black women say they are seeking more freedom, opportunity, fulfillment and stability.
- Seattle startup The Ebba aims help people find and support Black-owned businesses: The Ebba (Essential Black Business App) helps users find Black-owned businesses across the U.S. in categories such as food, cosmetics, fitness, travel, hospitality, and more. The app is part of a growing effort to highlight Black businesses through filters on major platforms like Yelp or specialized apps such as the Official Black Wall Street.
- Marking National Women’s Small Business Month: What The Data Say: According to data from the Census Bureau’s Annual Business Survey (ABS), women-owned businesses are younger and have lower entry than male-owned businesses. In its most recent Women-Owned Business study, Biz2Credit also found a widening gap among male and female-owned firms in average earnings and average loan size.
- EDA Taps University of Michigan and New Growth Innovation Network to Document Equity Outcomes of AMERICAN Rescue Plan Programs: This project is aimed at identifying best practices of equity and inclusion in two of EDA’s keystone ARPA initiatives: the Build Back Better Regional Challenge and the Good Jobs Challenge. A capstone report will describe key learnings gleaned from the research and advance recommendations for equitable growth frameworks that can be adopted by the greater community of economic development practitioners.
- Supreme Court considers Harvard and University of North Carolina’s use of affirmative action: The conservative Supreme Court will meet Monday to consider whether colleges and universities can continue to take race into consideration as a factor in admissions, a case that could diminish the number of Black and Hispanic students in higher education.
- 2021-2022 NCDPI data indicates disparities in CHCCS school performance: In September, the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction released performance data for North Carolina school districts from the 2021-2022 school year revealing racial disparities in performance within Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools.
- Wake school board backs new equity policy, saying it’s ‘long overdue’ step: The Wake County school board gave unanimous initial approval Tuesday to a new equity policy that has generated debate in the community. The policy says Wake will take steps like implementing diverse instructional materials, recruiting a more diverse workforce and questioning practices that lead to inequity.
- Decline in teachers with traditional education degrees linked to growth in charter schools: As charter schools proliferate across America, there has been a corresponding decline in the number of new teachers earning bachelor’s degrees in education from traditional preparation programs. “We already know that North Carolina charters are exacerbating budget pressures and school segregation,” Nordstrom said. “This new research indicates that charters may also be worsening our teacher shortage.”
- NC Supreme Court Issues Leandro Ruling: After nearly 30 years since the original lawsuit was filed, the NC Supreme Court issued a new ruling in the Leandro case, paving the way for a $785-million boost in funding for public schools from the state. “This is the most important civil rights decision issued by the Supreme Court in decades and one which will benefit generations of North Carolina children to come.” | sociology |
https://www.curioustechnologist.com/2014/08/24/ucsdhealthsciences-happiness-in-schizophrenia/ | 2023-12-07T16:35:48 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100677.45/warc/CC-MAIN-20231207153748-20231207183748-00163.warc.gz | 0.968241 | 732 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__211958637 | en | Happiness in Schizophrenia
Research suggests mental illness doesn’t preclude enjoying life
Schizophrenia is among the most severe forms of mental illness, yet some people with the disease are as happy as those in good physical and mental health according to a study led by researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine.
The study is published online this week in the journal Schizophrenia Research.
“Without discounting the suffering this disease inflicts on people, our study shows that happiness is an attainable goal for at least some schizophrenia patients,” said Jeste, who is also the Estelle and Edgar Levi Chair in Aging and director of the Sam and Rose Stein Institute for Research on Aging at UC San Diego. “This means we can help make these individuals’ lives happier.”
In a survey of people with the disease, researchers found that 37 percent of patients reported being happy all or most of the time.
Of clinical significance in terms of helping people with mental illness, the patients’ happiness was unrelated to the severity or duration of their illness, to cognitive or physical function or to socioeconomic factors such as age and education, which among healthy adults have been linked to a greater sense of well-being.
Instead, the study shows that happiness among those with chronic forms of schizophrenia is associated with positive psychological and social attributes such as resilience, optimism and lower perceived stress.
The researchers believe that these positive psychosocial attributes could be taught through behavioral modification and mindfulness training techniques.
The study is based on a survey of 72 English-speaking outpatients with schizophrenia in the San Diego area. At the time of the survey, all but nine of the patients were on at least one anti-psychotic medication and 59 percent were residents in assisted-living facilities.
The comparison group for the study included 64 healthy men and women who were part of an ongoing study on successful aging. These participants were not currently using alcohol or illicit substances and did not have diagnoses of dementia or other neurological problems. Participants ranged in age from 23 to 70 years old; the mean age for both groups was 50 years.
The survey probed respondents’ happiness during the previous week, asking them to rate statements such as “I was happy” and “I enjoyed life” on a scale from “never or rarely” to “all or most of the time.”
Responses suggest that about 37 percent of schizophrenia patients were happy most or all of the time, compared with about 83 percent for those in the comparison group.
Approximately 15 percent of schizophrenia patients reported being never or rarely happy. By contrast, none of in the comparison group reported such a low level of happiness for the week prior.
People’s self-reported happiness was then examined in relation to other factors, such as age, gender, education, living situation, medication status, anxiety levels and other mental health metrics, as well as physical health, cognitive function, and a list of “psychosocial factors” that included perceived stress, attitude toward aging, spirituality, optimism, resilience and personal mastery.
“People with schizophrenia are clearly less happy than those in the general population at large, but this is not surprising,” said lead author Barton W. Palmer, PhD, professor in the UC San Diego Department of Psychiatry. “What is impressive is that almost 40 percent of these patients are reporting happiness and that their happiness is associated with positive psychosocial attributes that can be potentially enhanced.”
Image source: happyologist | sociology |
https://www.alcoholdrugrehabga.com/index.php | 2020-08-09T09:05:18 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-34/segments/1596439738523.63/warc/CC-MAIN-20200809073133-20200809103133-00177.warc.gz | 0.950073 | 765 | CC-MAIN-2020-34 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-34__0__115199398 | en | Drug and Alcohol Addiction Treatment Services in Georgia
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Drug Rehab Georgia knows that to effectively recover from drug addiction, users must receive individualized and compassionate care. However, at the same time it must be in a structured, safe, and clean environment. During the recovery process, clients of Drug Rehab Georgia will reside in comfortable lodging, and will have access to group and individual counseling, physical activity and diversions, the 12-step community and programs, and a compassionate aftercare team.
The Truth about Addiction
Addiction is a complex disease, often chronic in nature, which affects the functioning of the brain and body. It also causes serious damage to families, relationships, schools, workplaces and neighborhoods. The most common symptoms of addiction are severe loss of control, continued use despite serious consequences, preoccupation with using, failed attempts to quit, tolerance and withdrawal. Addiction can be effectively prevented, treated and managed by healthcare professionals in combination with family or peer support. It’s important to understand that recreational drug and alcohol users are at risk and vulnerable to the psychological changes that take place when someone becomes addicted. Abusing alcohol and/or drugs on a daily basis puts you at risk of altered brain chemistry. The brain is rewired when someone ultimately crosses the line of control to addiction. Following the re-wiring process, an individual’s brain is convinced that it needs drugs or alcohol in order to stay alive.
There is a range in the severity of substance problems, from mild to moderate to severe. People who abuse drugs or alcohol can experience serious consequences such as accidents, overdoses, crime, school problems, violence and suicide. Many people experience alcohol or drug abuse problems, but are able to stop using or change their pattern of use without progressing to addiction.
There are several warning signs that reveal addiction’s presence in our life or life of someone we care about. The warning signs are physical, behavioral and psychological. Physical signs may include impaired coordination, change in weight, overall appearance and sleep patterns. Behavioral signs are likely to include loss of control over use, using to avoid withdrawal, increased tolerance for substance of choice and neglecting life responsibilities. Psychological signs may include emotional instability, lacking motivation, changes in personality and attitude. Although these signs of addiction are common, there are many more. The signs of addiction are different for everyone. | sociology |
https://www.lockearts.org/bulletin-board/june-2019-message-from-jane | 2020-08-06T12:28:13 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-34/segments/1596439736962.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20200806121241-20200806151241-00430.warc.gz | 0.972617 | 542 | CC-MAIN-2020-34 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-34__0__49526646 | en | June 2019 Letter from Principal Jane Murphy
June 3, 2019
Dear Locke School Families,
This letter is about talking to children about the end of the school year.
While many children look forward to summer vacation, the end of the school year can elicit complicated feelings in children. Children come to school every day and spend many hours with their teachers and friends. They become attached to the adults in their school environment, and connected to their peers in deep ways. Saying goodbye may feel sad. Children usually feel a sense of ease and comfort in their current classrooms having become familiar with their everyday routines and environments. Thinking about beginning a new grade, with new teachers and new peer groups, can bring up a lot of anxiety for children. Children worry about what it will be like, will it be too hard, and will they have friends? All of these reactions are very normal. Some children may share their feelings with you and some children may choose not to. As we come closer to the end of the school year, we will be talking with our classrooms about their thoughts, feelings, and ideas about the end of the year. We will be reading books, sharing memories, and counting days so the end will not feel like a surprise. We are committed to having a good goodbye. Some families have asked how they can support their children as they prepare to end school and move into the summer. Here are a few ideas:
- Ask children how they feel about the end of the school year. Don’t make any assumptions. You can say, “So, it will be the end of school soon. How are you feeling about that?”
- Be supportive. If kids express that they are sad, or scared, for example, you can say, “Yeah, the end of the school year can be hard. I understand.”
- Ask teachers for book recommendations. We have lots of good books to help kids with saying goodbye, and other themes related to the end of the school year.
- Kids may show some regression around this time. It’s completely normal! Don’t worry if your child is acting “younger” or more disorganized. We see this every year in every school. It is just part of how kids act at the end of the year.
- Children who have had significant loss in their lives (the death of a loved one, a recent move, family illness, etc…) may have a particularly hard time saying goodbye.
We are here to talk and support you and your child. Let us know if we can be of any help in navigating this transition.
Jane Murphy, Principal | sociology |
http://mustardsoup.co.uk/who-are-we/ | 2017-06-26T17:10:14 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320841.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20170626170406-20170626190406-00484.warc.gz | 0.973539 | 340 | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-26__0__77250537 | en | Mustard Soup is a new and forward-thinking charity supporting families affected by Multiple Sclerosis. We are run by people with MS, for people with MS, with a particular focus on the young and newly diagnosed.
We help people with MS get their lives back on track following diagnosis, empowering and supporting them to access appropriate local and national services.
We hold regular social events and activities throughout the year. Peer support is vitally important in helping people affected by MS avoid the social isolation that this invisible and poorly understood condition can often cause. This is especially important amongst the very young and vulnerable. As well as our regular social events, we also have a parents’ support group and run activities for children who have a parent affected by MS.
We aim to educate and promote a better understanding of this chronic neurological condition which affects a growing number of people in the UK. We host regular educational courses in conjunction with The Blizard Institute Centre for Neuroscience & Trauma, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry and Queen Mary University of London.
Mustard Soup was founded by Kelly John & Kate Roshier after they were diagnosed with MS in 2008. They quickly realised that practical help aimed at helping young people get life back on track after diagnosis was very hard to find, as was meeting others their own age with MS. After becoming friends and helping each other find the support and assistance they needed, they decided to set up Mustard Soup and help others access this too. Kelly was formerly a Solicitor specialising in Brain & Spinal Injury Claims. Kate was formerly a Dental Nurse specialising in Surgery. They both live in Norwich, with their young families. | sociology |
https://being-initiative.org/staff/charlene-sunkel/ | 2024-04-22T09:25:20 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818105.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20240422082202-20240422112202-00856.warc.gz | 0.955892 | 122 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__133031515 | en | Charlene Sunkel is the Founder/ CEO of the Global Mental Health Peer Network. She’s a global mental health and human rights advocate with lived experience of schizophrenia. She is published internationally on mental health and human rights issues, stigma, and the needs of people with mental illness in low- and middle-income countries. She co-chaired the Lancet Commission on Ending Stigma and Discrimination in Mental Health. Ms. Sunkel has provided technical assistance to national and international mental health-related policies and reports. She serves on several international boards and committees and received national and international awards for her work. | sociology |
https://www.stampthewax.com/2016/03/09/discwomanxsmirnoff/ | 2021-07-25T16:26:37 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-31/segments/1627046151699.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20210725143345-20210725173345-00461.warc.gz | 0.948413 | 827 | CC-MAIN-2021-31 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-31__0__226999468 | en | In the first of a new series called Tribes, Smirnoff Sound Collective are diving into some of the world’s most interesting collectives fostering diversity and inclusivity within dance music. In this first Episode we meet DISCWOMAN – an NYC based all-female DJ collective promoting gender diversity in electronic music.
The trajectory of dance music culture has often assumed the behaviour of a set of lungs, expanding and contracting into both micro and macro scenes through a rich tapestry of diversity (and sadly, lack thereof).
In the 1970s gay minorities propagated the New York disco scene by creating small pockets of space to let loose in the city’s harsh urban landscape. The following decade brought the birth of house music, flourishing in the hands of Frankie Knuckles and Larry Levan; DJs who went from spinning records in the bathhouses of Manhattan to the black and gay clubs of Chicago. Further down the map techno had also begun to thrive in the social clubs of Detroit where a booming car manufacturing industry spawned a significant middle class black population looking to unwind in the evenings. This cross-pollination of tribes of colour, gender, sexuality and class has helped form the bedrock, the ‘patchwork DNA’, of dance music culture, unified by an openness to all and a simple, yet impassioned, love of rhythm.
But just as the human lungs expand and contract, many micro-movements in dance music have truncated in diversity over the last decade, evolving into something white, male-dominated and hetero-normative. This is something many dance music devotees are aware of and are working to curb in creative ways; in particular, gender diversity in electronic music. According to PRS for Music, just 12% of writers on its books are women and only 4% of Music Producers Guild members are women. The Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts says just 6% of the students enrolled on its sound technology course are female. A more recent study has shown that the bookings of female DJs at festivals never exceeds 10%, and for listeners at home women have become sexualized stock art on YouTube videos. Our own tally of RA’s DJ Poll for 2015 found just 8 out of the top 100 DJs to be female.
But whilst it is hard to ignore the current climate of industry-led male-dominated apparatus who, consciously or not, contribute to institutionally-enforced sexism in electronic music, it’s also important not to think of the gender disparity we find in such prosaic terms. There are actually many female DJs and producers out there doing great things, and it seems that the challenge today is more about finding a nuanced approach that increases visibility without tokenising the idea of a female artist in electronic music.
A number of grassroots initiatives started by young women in cities around the world have already begun doing this in order to change the industry’s gender imbalance. Over in Berlin an event series called Salt + Sass is connecting and bringing visibility to women working in the music whilst across Europe and America more and more creative collectives are cropping us such as shesaid.so, SIREN and female:pressure.
Across the pond, New York-based platform, collective and booking agency DISCWOMAN has become an incubator of sorts, representing and showcasing cis women, trans women and genderqueer talent in electronic music. Working with over 150 DJs and producers to-date, DISCWOMAN are holding the torch for female collectivisation in dance music, imbuing the philosophy that talent should always transcend gender. Uncovering their movements and taking a closer look, Smirnoff Sound Collective have produced a documentary as part of a new series diving deep into some of the worlds most interesting collectives fostering diversity and inclusivity within dance music.
Alongside getting to know the founders, the film includes interviews with Chicago’s Black Madonna, Mumbai-based producer Sanaya Ardeshir and Lebanese-Nigerian DJ Nicole Moudaber. Watch it in full above. | sociology |
https://lrcpublication.com/(X(1)S(xrdmatrndg5rceuyess0ngcf))/HeadnoteResult.aspx?id=2022770 | 2022-11-26T23:26:17 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-49/segments/1669446709929.63/warc/CC-MAIN-20221126212945-20221127002945-00798.warc.gz | 0.959403 | 860 | CC-MAIN-2022-49 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-49__0__134567463 | en | Constitution of India, 1950
Articles 21A & 226—Right to education—Fundamental right—Education is the first step towards tackling social evils, especially poverty, inequality and discrimination—Every child, irrespective of caste, religion, sex, or economic background has been guaranteed right to education—An educated individual can make informed decisions, first for themselves, and then be able to contribute constructively towards the progress of the nation and society at large—Once it comes to the notice of the court that a child or an individual is deprived of a fundamental right, the courts have to ensure that fundamental right is enforced and there is no impediment for any individual to enjoy the same—Court should not fail in its duty at any point of time in this regard.
[Para 6 & 7]
Articles 21A & 226—Right to education of a child whose parents are in judicial custody—Right to education is a fundamental right guaranteed to every citizen under Article 21-A of the Constitution—A child must not suffer the consequences, on account of their parents having been in judicial custody for a crime which is yet to be adjudicated upon by the court—Court is duty bound to enforce fundamental rights of every citizen and in this case right to education of the child.
Held : The Constitution guarantees protection of independent identity and individuality to every Indian citizen. Constitution of India is the supreme law of the land and this court is bound to protect the rights of every individual enshrined and guaranteed by the same. Especially in the present case, where the right to education of a child is at stake, it is imperative that the court intervenes timely and upholds the right envisaged in the Constitution to protect the future of the of the child.
The child must get admitted in a school at the earliest so that shadow of no unpleasant happening falls upon the child’s life to darken her future.
At the cost of repetition, it is opined that in the present case, the child is an individual Indian citizen and enjoys her own Fundamental Rights given to her by virtue of her being born in India, Right to Education is the child’s fundamental right. In the present unpleasant situation of the case, the court has to become the voice of the voiceless child. The parents are in judicial custody and the prime concern of the parents is education of the child. It is not only in cases dealing with family disputes that the rights and welfare of the child should be considered but also in the cases as the present one, the courts can become and act as the parent of the child and ensure that the child is not deprived of its Fundamental Right to Education. Depriving any child of education due to family circumstances should not be allowed to every extent possible. An educated child educates the entire family and becomes an asset to the nation.
In the circumstances, at this stage, this court feels the need to exercise its discretionary powers under Article 226 of the Constitution of India and take suo-motu cognizance to facilitate the child’s admission in a school so that the child does not lose out on the current academic year i.e. 2022-23. It is therefore directed that the SHO concerned will get the child admitted to the school adjacent to the senior branch of the school in which the older sibling of the child is already enrolled and pursuing her education.
The Principal of the school will extend full cooperation for the admission of the child. A compliance report will be filed within 10 days. The identity of the child and the school in question is not being mentioned in this order to protect the privacy and dignity of the child.
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973
Section 439—Interim bail—Petitioner was seeking bail only on the ground that she needed to fulfil her responsibilities as a parent and get her child admitted to school—Court take suo-motu cognizance to facilitate the child’s admission in a school so that the child does not lose out on the current academic year—Petitioner is satisfied with relief that has been granted and permission is now sought to withdraw the present application—Application dismissed as withdrawn.
[Paras 14 to 16]
Decision : Application dismissed as withdrawn | sociology |
http://www.delhi.k12.ca.us/apps/spotlightmessages/702 | 2017-03-27T14:26:34 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-13/segments/1490218189474.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20170322212949-00450-ip-10-233-31-227.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.949761 | 197 | CC-MAIN-2017-13 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-13__0__7603869 | en | Please join me in thanking our teachers, our classified staff, students, parents, administrators, and community members who gave of themselves this past Saturday, March 18, 2017, from 8:30 a.m. to close to 11:30 a.m. to clean up Delhi.
Thank you for taking the time to show the Delhi community how much our District values it. Our students deserve to live in a clean and safe community. It is people like you who took time to clean sidewalks, parking lots, the underpass, the entrance to town, and areas around our schools who make our community so much better.
Thank you for all you do!
Also, let's remember that Saturday, April 8, 2017 is LOVE DELHI. As we finalize the plans, we will send you all the specifics. Stay tuned!
Proud to Be the Superintendent of the Delhi Unified School District
"Empowering Our Students to Serve and Lead the World." | sociology |
https://www.meridianhealthcare.net/2020/01/02/mahoning-trumbull-afl-cio-labor-council-surprise-meridian-residential-families-with-toys/ | 2021-06-12T20:06:23 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-25/segments/1623487586390.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20210612193058-20210612223058-00397.warc.gz | 0.908557 | 328 | CC-MAIN-2021-25 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-25__0__162171880 | en | Mahoning-Trumbull AFL-CIO Labor Council Surprise Meridian Residential Families with Toys
This holiday season, the AFL-CIO Labor Council of Mahoning and Trumbull Counties donated gifts to each child living at Meridian HealthCare’s seven residential sites. Bill Padisak, President, Mahoning-Trumbull Central Labor Council at American Federation of Labor Ohio AFL-CIO, collected the gifts at the Council’s Annual Holiday Party and presented them to the agency. Meridian employees volunteered to wrap and distribute the gifts.
“The Executive Board and Delegates of the Mahoning-Trumbull Labor Council, AFL-CIO were delighted to be able to touch the hearts of so many children in need over the Holidays,” stated Padisak. “We are grateful for an organization such as Meridian HealthCare that goes above and beyond to take care of these children undergoing such traumatic events in their young lives. We hope to continue and grow our relationship with Meridian in the future.”
Corporations and individuals can learn more about charitable in-kind donations to benefit patients and residents of Meridian HealthCare by visiting https://www.meridianhealthcare.net/donate/ or calling 330-797-0070.
Photo caption (L-R) Meridian COO Darla Gallagher, CEO Larry Moliterno, Housing Director Sean Robinson, AFL-CIO President Bill Padisak, and Meridian Clinical Services Director Nikunj Patel pose in front of the toys provided by the Mahoning-Trumbull AFL-CIO Labor Council. | sociology |
https://rise.ddtwo.org/counseling/about-middle-high-school-counseling | 2024-04-21T07:46:42 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817729.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20240421071342-20240421101342-00831.warc.gz | 0.959886 | 229 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__62151989 | en | About Middle & High School Counseling
Middle school is an exciting yet challenging time for students, their parents and teachers.
During this passage from childhood to adolescence, middle school students are characterized by a need to explore a variety of interests, connecting their learning in the classroom to its practical application in life and work; high levels of activity coupled with frequent fatigue due to rapid growth; a search for their own unique identity as they begin turning more frequently to peers rather than parents for ideas and affirmation; extreme sensitivity to the comments from others; and heavy reliance on friends to provide comfort, understanding and approval.
source: The Essential Role of Middle School Counselors (PDF) by the American School Counselor Association
High school is the final transition into adulthood, postsecondary education and the world of work as students begin separating from parents and exploring and defining their independence.
Students are deciding who they are, what they do well and what they will do when they graduate. During these adolescent years, students are evaluating their strengths, skills and abilities.
source: The Essential Role of High School Counselors (PDF) by the American School Counselor Association | sociology |
https://www.shadowhills.org/generations/ | 2019-08-21T22:38:27 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-35/segments/1566027316549.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20190821220456-20190822002456-00018.warc.gz | 0.957349 | 496 | CC-MAIN-2019-35 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-35__0__71608236 | en | - Phone: (702) 880-7811
- Email: [email protected]
- Address: 7811 Vegas Drive
Las Vegas, NV 89128
- Sunday: 8:45, 10:10, 11:30am & 5:00pm
We are excited to announce that in August the church broke ground on a new, modern Student Center that will serve students in the 1st-12th grades. This facility will be a blessing for families in our community. We will see lives change with the help of faithful servants of Jesus Christ as they minister to our children. The Student Center will be a 31,000-square-foot, one-story building that will be divided between a children's center and a youth center.
"Our ministries teach the Word, gather students together in community and train servant leaders." -Kevin Gemmer, High School Pastor
The children's area will have 10 classrooms and a 150-seat worship center. The youth center will have eight classrooms, a game room and a 300-seat worship center that will double as a chapel. In addition, the Student Center will also include teachers' lounges, restrooms and storage areas.
"Children are a vital part of Shadow Hills. Investing in their spiritual growth and development is investing in the future of our church. Our goal is to create a warm and inviting atmosphere where families feel at home. This new building will provide a more secure space for our children to be gathered together under one roof to be taught Biblical truths, engage in discipleship, have opportunities to fellowship with their peers and be shown how to live out what they've learned." -Amy Baldwin, Childhood Minister
We know that our future depends on the youth of today and that it is our responsibility to give hope to the youth of tomorrow. Having the Student Center will provide a culturally relevant environment that will allow students to strengthen their relationship with God. We want to raise generations of young people who:
Each week students can participate in life changing discussions and build strong relationships in Bible studies.
There will be opportunities to attend innovative worship experiences that will engage their specific age group. We want youth to feel they have a place to express themselves, and to be connected to the body of Christ.
We also desire to build future leaders by offering a variety of spiritual growth experiences such as summer camps, ski trips, leadership conferences and a variety of opportunities to serve their community. | sociology |
https://tse-foundation.org/our-work/ | 2023-12-08T16:27:08 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100762.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20231208144732-20231208174732-00426.warc.gz | 0.917175 | 154 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__183066223 | en | TSE Foundation believes that China is poised to play a major leadership role in the transnational age. We are working to foster a contemporary and accessible 21st century expression of Chinese culture ready to take its place on the world stage.
TSE Foundation supports initiatives that celebrate the human spirit. We are contributing to the development of a new global cultural sphere, a space in which individuals from around the world can engage in conversation about what unites the human family, our shared values and our shared future.
We believe that philanthropy is a vital sector of global civil society capable of uniting and guiding humanity in the transnational age. TSE Foundation is working to develop the sector into a more cohesive and coordinated network whereby philanthropy might embrace its innate potential for leadership. | sociology |
https://www.ivolve.me/blog/coronavirus-and-inequality/ | 2021-08-01T03:50:15 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-31/segments/1627046154158.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20210801030158-20210801060158-00634.warc.gz | 0.970955 | 362 | CC-MAIN-2021-31 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-31__0__141947432 | en | Coronavirus and Inequality
We touched on this briefly in our Coronavirus Endgames post.
Our solution to Coronavirus thus far includes the unemployment of at least 15 Million Americans. A government check for $1,200 won't do much to satiate the needs of the unemployed. How long until the perception becomes that the well-to-do have only saved themselves. And the well-to-do in this case includes anyone who can easily work from home, which may not be as many people as you think.
The coronavirus has thus put a magnifying glass on inequality both between and within countries. In the U.S., there’s been a move by some of the very wealthy to “self-isolate” on their Hamptons estates or swanky yachts — one Hollywood mogul swiftly deleted an Instagram picture of his $590 million boat after a public outcry. Even the merely well-heeled can feel pretty safe working from home via Zoom and Slack.
But countless other Americans don’t have that option. Indeed, the less money you make, the less likely you are to be able to work remotely (see the chart below). Lacking savings and health insurance, these workers in precarious employment have to keep their gigs or blue-collar jobs, if they’re lucky enough still to have any, just to make ends meet. As they do, they risk getting infected and bringing the virus home to their families, which, like poor people everywhere, are already more likely to be sick and less able to navigate complex health-care mazes. And so the coronavirus is coursing fastest through neighborhoods that are cramped, stressful and bleak. Above all, it disproportionately kills black people. | sociology |
https://www.seastarcyac.ca/services/child-and-youth-advocates/ | 2024-02-22T06:34:00 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947473735.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20240222061937-20240222091937-00632.warc.gz | 0.93771 | 133 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__183882452 | en | Child and Youth Advocates
Our child and youth advocates offer personalized support and follow up for families who visit SeaStar.
SeaStar’s child and youth advocates can:
- Provide emotional support
- Be a consistent point of contact
- Help caregivers to understand and navigate different systems and services
- Connect families with help and resources
- Offer information on understanding trauma, self-care, and healing
Child and youth advocate services are optional, free, and available for as long as a family needs them.
Families who have visited SeaStar can call a child and youth advocate at any time, regardless of the outcome of their visit. | sociology |
http://proyecto14.com/el-salvador-chat-room-review-2/mr-couples-therapist-why-do-males-speak-about/ | 2023-04-02T00:17:17 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-14/segments/1679296950363.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20230401221921-20230402011921-00085.warc.gz | 0.973028 | 993 | CC-MAIN-2023-14 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-14__0__101485151 | en | When you are getting hitched you intend to genuinely believe that you might be truly the only person your partner has eyes for. Yes, there are lots of appealing individuals in the planet also it’s normal for just about any of us to note them. Exactly what about speaking about them – to your partner? Will it be ok for males to fairly share other ladies for their spouses?
We have a lot of concerns, to discover plenty of partners, who will be having issues considering that the males within the relationship make a place of observing other females. And several not merely look, nevertheless they also keep in touch with their spouses in regards to the attractiveness of this ladies they see. Below is a typical example of the type or sorts of concerns we often get, and my reaction.
Why do males speak about other females with their spouse? And it is it insensitive for some guy to inform their spouse that an other woman is sexy and hot?» -Alyson P
Alyson is not alone inside her question and viewpoint. You can find a large amount of guys whom believe it is completely fine to check out and speak about other ladies for their spouses. regrettably, those that do that don’t appear to realize just how insulting this is while the harm it may do in order to their marriages.
Here’s my reaction to Alyson.
Those are superb concerns. To begin with, not totally all males repeat this — in reality, many do not. Guys that do speak about other ladies along with their spouses aren’t being empathetic or respectful with their spouses. Therefore, yes, it really is insensitive to inform your lady an other woman is hot and sexy.
Even though it’s most frequently males who will be the causes, it is not necessarily the guys that are searching. I’ve worked with men whoever spouses additionally look at, openly and speak about, the attractiveness of other guys (and quite often other ladies) too. As humiliated and disrespected as women can feel whenever their husband appears and discusses other females, males can feel similarly when their spouses do so.
It’s important to know that in search of either women or men doesn’t suggest cheating. Yes, it may feel just like that’s exactly what it will result in, but broadly speaking, that is not the actual situation. And, it or say it’s appropriate behavior in any way, openly appreciating the attractiveness of other people may speak to a level of comfort and security in a relationship, especially in women although I wouldn’t advise. The mindset being that people other individuals don’t pose any hazard to your relationship since your relationship is strong. Needless to say, we all know that is not necessarily real.
All of us have actually insecurities about how precisely we look and exactly how appealing our company is. And it is simple for these to be set off by more appealing individuals, particularly people our partner notices. Whenever our partner then speaks it just emphasizes our perceived deficiencies even more about them and their attractiveness.
For many males it is not their intent in order to make their spouse feel insecure, ugly or substandard. But it is frequently exactly what results by their conversing with them about other ladies, particularly just how appealing they are found by them. It is simply perhaps not necessary or considerate to speak to your spouse the real method you may keep in touch with a buddy about a female. Our love for the spouses should produce an even of respect for which we restrain ourselves from making comments that are unnecessary.
The end result is that you uncomfortable you need to speak up and your husband (or wife) should be willing to respect and respond to your feelings if it makes. And you ought to ask and expect them to also.
Unfortuitously, all women especially have a problem with having a healthy self-identity regarding the look of them plus don’t appreciate themselves adequate to expect this from their lovers. They might are also trained to locate it normal that a man they’re with talks about other females and conceal their vexation. This doesn’t need to be the outcome – like it’s disrespectful, it probably is if you feel.
You shouldn’t be the type of spouse whom enables behavior that is bad carry on, you deserve to be treated better. When your spouse does not understand how to change their behaviors, that is ok, he is able to understand how when you go to marriage guidance made for males where better behavior is taught.
Editor’s Note: This post was initially posted might 15, 2010 and contains been updated with brand new information for comprehensiveness and accuracy. | sociology |
http://aroundandupsidedown.co.uk/lifestyle/like-love-loathe-linky-13-mental-health-advocates-from-zero-to-hero-mentalhealthawarenessweek/ | 2020-09-26T11:45:29 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600400241093.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20200926102645-20200926132645-00314.warc.gz | 0.97121 | 609 | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-40__0__272599072 | en | In honor of Mental Health Awareness week, this is a mental health inspired edition of the Like, Love, Loathe linky. Let’s get to it!
Stephen Fry. Okay, so I would have loved to have lots and lots of loves to give out, but inkeeping with structure of this linky I will like him (even though I totally love him!) Ever since the documentaries in which Fry talks candidly of his troubled times as a youth, and his lifelong battle with Bipolar Disorder. So raw and touching, it was a gateway for millions to be able to speak out about their own experiences. Mental Illness cares not for class or gender or privileged, and as a man whose life has afforded him much wealth and success, he is a perfect example of this. His humility and willingness to share his life with us has made him not only a favourite of the people, but one of the most prolific celebrity mental health advocates of our time.
All the lovely peeps and tweeps who have got stuck in writing articles, participating in linkys (there is still time to link up to ours here). I’ve seen so many tweets, facebook status’, instagram pictures and just a general attitude of participation from everyone I’ve spoken to this week. I’ve read some heartbreaking yet inspiring stories, and been completely humbled by the willingness of others to use their struggle as an example to others, not only of how to cope, but how even the best of us stop coping for a while, stop functioning, but that there is an end to it. We all need to continue to speak out so that others who find themselves in the same position will know that it’s ok to tackle the essentials such as asking for help, something which can be much harder than it sounds, and perhaps avoid some of the harrowing experiences that some have gone through.
Thanks Stephen for the great intro. Yes indeed, I do not have time for those who would shame people who are ill. From discrimination in jobs, to doubting the ability of others to parent, to simply pouring scorn on those who suffer. ‘Pull your socks up’ ‘smile it might never happen’ ‘just cheer up will you’ are remarks at the less severe remarks people with mental health issues will hear. I do not wish to perpetuate stereotypes by listing anything more insulting or degrading. You can no more ‘snap out of’ a mental illness as you can a broken leg. Your brain is one of the most complex organs in your body, and it gets sick like any other. Lets hope that by speaking up, this sort of discrimination and shaming behaviour will become just unacceptable as racism or any other form of prejudice.
Thanks to all who have done their part this week. I’ve been bowled over my peoples willingness to speak out. This gives me hope that together we can smash mental health stigma! Who’s with me? | sociology |
http://www.negritude.co.za/product/ring-of-life-medium-earring-2/ | 2019-09-22T04:03:30 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-39/segments/1568514575076.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20190922032904-20190922054904-00135.warc.gz | 0.962445 | 370 | CC-MAIN-2019-39 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-39__0__146733645 | en | The Northern Ndebele people (Northern Ndebele: amaNdebele) are a Bantu nation and ethnic group in Southern Africa, who share a common Ndebele culture and Ndebele language. The Northern Ndebele were historically referred to as the Matabele which was a European corruption of ‘Ndebele’. Their history began when a Zulu chiefdom split from King Shaka in the early 19th century under the leadership of Mzilikazi, a former chief in his kingdom and ally. Under his command the disgruntled Zulus went on to conquer and rule the chiefdoms of the Southern Ndebele. This was where the name and identity of the eventual kingdom was adopted.
During a turbulent period in Nguni and Sesotho-Tswana history known as the Mfecane or “the crushing”, the Mzilikazi regiment, initially numbering 500 soldiers, moved west towards the present-day city of Pretoria, where they founded a settlement called Mhlahlandlela. The Great trek in 1838 saw Mzilikazi defeated by the Voortrekkers at Vegtkop after which he was exiled into present-day Zimbabwe where the Ndebele overwhelmed the local Rozvi, eventually carving out a home now called Matabeleland and encompassing the west and southwest region of the country. In the course of the migration, large numbers of conquered local clans and individuals were absorbed into the Ndebele nation, adopting the Ndebele language and culture. Historically the assimilated people came from the Southern Ndebele, Swazi, Sotho-Tswana, and amaLozwi/Rozvi ethnic groups. | sociology |
http://brynmawrschool.libguides.com/content.php?pid=698620 | 2017-12-18T09:03:32 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-51/segments/1512948612570.86/warc/CC-MAIN-20171218083356-20171218105356-00354.warc.gz | 0.969203 | 435 | CC-MAIN-2017-51 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-51__0__6619509 | en | Native Americans are a people that are too often overlooked by the majority of American society. If they are noticed, they are mostly stereotyped or culturally appropriated without knowledge of the culture or some of the serious issues the community faces today. Many of the issues can be traced back through history, and taking a critical look at the history surrounding Native Americans can be essential to finding possible solutions for the present and the futre. For example, unfortunately, due to interactions with Europeans and early American settlers over the course of history, “of the American Indian languages still spoken, many have only a bare handful of speakers.” ("American Indian languages," Encyclopaedia Britannica) Most native languages are dying out. There is a loss of culture that can also be attributed to early boarding schools Native children were often forced to attend, during which instructors would "kill the Indian, [and] save the Man." These are just a few of the issues that face Natives of all ages, which are rooted in history. Sometimes Natives are solely thought about in a historical context, which can also be problematic. Many images in mainstream America porttray Natives as they were, and not enough portray them as they are.
Times have changed, issues are being addressed, but there is still more work to be done. The purpose of this pathfinder is to ease the historical and present day research of Native Americans and their culture with the ultimate goal of positively expanding the image and role of a people in American society today. Included are suggestions for novels, reference books, photographs, and more as well as people of interest and recommendations for works and videos not in the Edith Hamilton, to help further exploration.
Please enjoy the video below, an ad created by the National Congress of American Indians entiltled "Proud to Be." Though it may be lobbying for a very specific and controversial change, it doubles as a good representation of Native Americans and seeks to diversify and correct the image of this people in our society.
For more books, videos, and resources, go to the Edith Hamilton Library Catalogue. A link is included below. Thank you!! | sociology |
https://computerobz.wordpress.com/2014/05/20/relationship-drama-ask-button-controversy-shows-facebook-is-for-stalking-not-interrogations/ | 2018-04-22T18:08:51 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-17/segments/1524125945637.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20180422174026-20180422194026-00213.warc.gz | 0.939252 | 332 | CC-MAIN-2018-17 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-17__0__201789681 | en | Facebook can sometimes seem like a digital microcosm of your entire life. It’s where you share snippets of personal information with your friends (and the company’s advertising network), chat with everyone you’ve ever met, and make any major life development “Facebook official.” But the harsh dismissal of a new feature allowing Facebook users to ask friends if they are in a relationship when they haven’t told Facebook yet, shows that the service still has its own rules of etiquette — and that it’s not a perfect replica of the real world.
The feature works like this: someone notices that a friend hasn’t filled out the “relationship status” section of their profile, then messages that friend by clicking on a special “ask” button. After the initiator of the request explains why they want to know if the friend is single or not, the friend decides whether to respond, either privately or publicly. It’s basically a private messaging tool made for one type of conversation.
That question wouldn’t seem strange outside of Facebook. People ask each other about their relationships all the time — it’s hardly a taboo subject. But according to the reaction to the feature from sites like Slate, Time, and Jezebel, a feature made for asking Facebook users about their love lives is stranger than Facebook’s new drone-powered future. A betting man probably would have thought that a social network using flying robots to provide Internet access would be stranger than this “ask” button, but it looks like he would have been wrong. | sociology |
https://wwhseagledispatch.org/723/opinion/what-dress-codes-really-teach-us/?print=true | 2022-11-29T14:12:39 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-49/segments/1669446710698.62/warc/CC-MAIN-20221129132340-20221129162340-00122.warc.gz | 0.972814 | 690 | CC-MAIN-2022-49 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-49__0__157042255 | en | The school dress code: we all know it, and we all hate it. School dress codes in general are gender-biased, affecting women more frequently than men. These codes seem to put the blame on girls by indicating that their clothes are a distraction from the learning process. The dress code as it is currently, I believe, sends a message to young women that their bodies are the problem, not the ones looking at them, which can lead to body image issues and insecurity.
The need to draw attention to women’s bodies by insinuating that there is something wrong with the way they dress and that they need to be hidden can make girls feel like there’s something wrong with them.
The unfairness of “dress coding” runs rampant in high schools, and this causes students to question the practice, and themselves.
“I express myself with my clothing, but it has come to my attention that it is too ‘distracting.’ I have been body shamed, sexualized, and accused of dressing for ‘attention’, but not by students — by teachers,” says Belle Tharp, a student at Woodrow Wilson High School.
There has recently been a petition in retaliation against the dress code. Started by Woodrow Wilson student Mary DiBenedetti; “End Unfair Dress Coding at Woodrow Wilson High School: Stop Sexualizing Students.” The petition currently has 233 signatures. It can be found on Change.org through a simple Google search.
These rules aren’t only just a problem at Woodrow, they’re an issue everywhere.
“I’ve worn shirts that cover basically everything except my shoulders and I’ve been told by teachers that it is ‘inappropriate’ or ‘distracting.’ I’ve had friends who have worn the same things who have been dress-coded before, and forced to change into gym clothes,” says Heredity, a student of a Michigan high school expressing herself over social media.
Dress codes can also target certain races or ethnicities with their restrictiveness. African-American students are more likely to be dress coded than their peers, according to a 2018 study of Washington, D.C. schools conducted by the National Women’s Law Center. Researchers found that African-American girls are “especially harmed by dress and grooming codes.”
When these codes are enforced, this often entails pulling the students out of class or even sending them home, and those girls often “fall behind in school simply because of the clothing they are wearing, the style of their hair, or their makeup,” according to the NWLC site.
I have also been personally affected by the dress code. Is this what we’re teaching our little girls? That their bodies are weapons being used against them, to call them out and shame them? Women have always seemed to face an extreme amount of pressure and judgment from society to be what is deemed as “acceptable” and “flawless” from a very young age. Making young girls feel uncomfortable in their own skin and blaming them for the trends of the day, as dress codes do, causes damage to self-esteem much earlier in life, and much more than people may think. | sociology |
https://layeredmemories.iath.virginia.edu/ | 2022-08-19T01:54:21 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573540.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819005802-20220819035802-00015.warc.gz | 0.958699 | 660 | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-33__0__160185088 | en | So much of our nation’s contentious history is hidden in plain sight. Consider, for instance, how we routinely pass by houses, buildings, and sites whose complex and controversial histories we are unaware of. The "Layered Memories" project excavates these everyday histories by using what I call lieux de souvenir analysis. Lieux de souvenir are places whose histories have been forgotten, submerged, or only very partially remembered. The focus is on three sites in New Orleans and their physical and social transformation over three centuries: the Hermann-Grima historic house; the site of a French Quarter hotel that used to be a slave market, and the New Orleans African American Museum located in the historic Black neighborhood Tremé.
New Orleans is an especially rich city for this kind of analysis as it has been governed by French, Spanish, and Anglo-American governments, each of which left its distinctive stamp on the social and physical landscape. Throughout the nineteenth century, the Hermann-Grima house was home to wealthy white families and the enslaved people who served them. Beginning in the early twentieth century, the house was transformed into a women’s boarding house and then historic museum home. The second site began as a group of residential lots in the eighteenth century—including lots owned by free people of color— and was transformed into the City Exchange where clients were invited to eat, drink and purchase commodities of all kinds—including enslaved people. Today it is a luxury hotel which caters to tourists, only the faint ghostly outline which read “Exchange” hints at its earlier incarnation. And the third site began as a brickyard where enslaved Africans harvested mud to make the bricks needed to build the new city in the early eighteenth century. A new generation of free people of color began to change the landscape in the early nineteenth century and it was this community called Tremé which gave rise to the civil rights case Plessy v. Ferguson. Today the New Orleans African American Museum inhabits the space and carries on the story of this vital site which is rich in African diaspora history.
By engaging in an intensive historical examination of these three sites, the "Layered Memories" project unpeels social and cultural layers of places that either have well-known controversial histories, or ambivalent histories that have been covered over or simplified. Such work is timely, in that protests over monuments, statues, and other historic sites are calls for us to reckon honestly with historical issues that we have never fully come to terms with. Our ability to move forward as a national community in the U.S. requires that we find ways to make excellent and nuanced historical research intelligible and accessible to public audiences. The lieux de souvenir approach does this by providing in-depth historical work on key sites that serve as entrées to conversations concerning larger social and political dynamics within a given neighborhood, city or region. While the focus of this project is local in its examination of key New Orleans sites, the study is proposed as a model in service to the larger thesis that a similar lieux de souvenir approach in other communities is vital to our ability to come to terms with our different understandings of the past as a step toward envisioning equitable communities for the future. | sociology |
https://www.nebraskacountryschoolassociation.org/new-page | 2019-09-21T03:45:43 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-39/segments/1568514574182.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20190921022342-20190921044342-00152.warc.gz | 0.980288 | 328 | CC-MAIN-2019-39 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-39__0__141245979 | en | McCARTNEY SCHOOL AND
ANTON AND THE LITTLE RED SCHOOLHOUSE
Country schools were not only the heart of our pioneer history and patriotic development as a young nation, they also provided an outstanding learning environment with small teacher to pupil ratios, family friendly flexibility, and a neighborly spirit that enabled several generations of Otoe County students to survive and flourish.
Anton and the Little Red Schoolhouse was a product of one of those classrooms still flourishing at the turn of the 21st century at McCartney School, District # 17 in Nebraska City. Teacher, Kelley Ballue, and a group of her elementary students, Sierra Baker, Maggie Ballue, Laura Joy, Alex Anderson and Whitni Baker, decided to bring their history lessons alive by researching the local life, agriculture, technology and early settlers of their McCartney School community. In doing so, as they scoured an old trunk full of records and photos, they discovered that students who attended their very schoolhouse in the 1920’s were still living in the area. So they called Mr. Anton Wirth, 82-years-old at the time, and invited him back to school to share with all of the children, stories and memories about what it was like to go to school at McCartney when he was a child. In an effort to preserve and cherish these former times, the teacher and students decided to turn their research into a book – and the rest is history….
This beautiful school no longer stands. It was on the National Historic Register in Otoe County. It survived a fire and a tornado during its lifetime, to end up being torn down. | sociology |
https://www.leftvoice.org/the-only-place-where-black-people-did-not-revolt-is-in-the-pages-of-capitalist-historians-black-history-month-on-left-voice/ | 2024-04-20T17:29:28 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817670.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20240420153103-20240420183103-00624.warc.gz | 0.960744 | 1,579 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__28019985 | en | Black resistance has been a constant force throughout U.S. history, beginning with the first enslaved Africans kidnapped and brought to stolen indigenous land. It persisted into the labor movements of the 1930s. There was the Black struggle of the 1960s and 1970s, from Civil Rights to Black Power and the Black Lives Matter movement of today. It is a history of refusal — in the face of the oppression of Black people — to abide by racism and exploitation. “The only place where Negroes did not revolt is in the pages of capitalist historians,” C.L.R. James wrote in his 1939 Revolution and the Negro.
Last summer, the continued violence against Black communities was laid bare. The brutal video of George Floyd being strangled to death for close to ten minutes by Minneapolis cop Derek Chauvin was a grim reminder that the police murder with near impunity. It shook the entire country and the world. After George Floyd, the police didn’t stop. There was Jacob Blake, Walter Wallace Jr., Casey Goodson Jr., Elijah McClain, and too many more. Breonna Taylor’s killers weren’t even charged with murder.
Meanwhile, President Trump had protesters tear-gassed and egged on radicalized white supremacists. While Democrats in Congress draped themselves in kente cloth, Democratic mayors and governors gassed, arrested, and repressed the movement as well. Despite the diverse faces, the Democratic Party shares responsibilities with the Republicans for holding up this system that systematically terrorizes Black people.
A dangerous far right that attacked protesters throughout last summer turned its rage on the Capitol on January 6, and now the Biden administration controls the executive branch of the U.S. government. But nothing has substantially changed: having a “diverse” cabinet means nothing when those cabinet members pledge to uphold the same racist, exploitative system of their predecessors. Both President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris built their political legacies on the mass incarceration of Black people in this country while supporting U.S. imperialist policies in Africa, the Middle East, and throughout the world.
The system is beyond reform. In fact, it has never been reformable, because oppression is its foundation and lifeblood.
The murder of George Floyd came after the first wave of the deadly coronavirus pandemic, which did not choose its victims equally, but rather highlighted all the deep inequalities of modern capitalism. While bosses went away to their beach homes, essential workers fought the pandemic, ran public transit, cared for the sick in hospitals, and shipped food to supermarkets they stocked across the country. Among these essential workers, Black people are disproportionately represented — and it was Black people who have died at exorbitant rates while the capitalists have been raking in massive profits.
Capitalism is a system that promotes and profits from racism — from the lower wages paid to Black people to the semi-slave prison labor population in which Black people are disproportionately represented. Racism is not some bug in the system — it is at the very core of capitalism.
The capitalists do not confine their racist system to the U.S. borders; the brutal legacy of slavery and the racist capitalist system built upon that brutal, murderous labor is reflected in the imperialist degradation of Africa and the ongoing oppression of Black people in Europe and throughout the Americas. Anti-Blackness spread for the profit-making of slavery; anti-Blackness fed the spread of colonialism around the world. And today, in countries around the world, there are George Floyds. That is why his murder resonated across the globe and why there were protests around the world.
In every country where Black people were enslaved, Black people have risen up. Black people were the protagonists of the glorious Haitian revolution, defeating none other than one of the world’s most powerful imperialist armies — the French. In Brazil, Black people built quilombos— towns of escaped slaves, often numbering in the thousands, who organized attacks and helped other enslaved people escape. Black people are not just victims of racist capitalist brutality. Black people are the subjects of the most explosive struggle this country, and the world, have ever seen.
More recently, in the U.S., Black people have been at the forefront of struggle throughout the pandemic, from Chris Smalls who led Amazon workers in struggle and was fired for standing up, to the Black workers at Hunts Point market who recently went on strike, to nursing home workers in Chicago who went on strike just a few months ago. Black people have been at the forefront of eviction defense actions demanding rent cancellation and of mutual aid networks all across the country.
Socialists are clear in the knowledge that Black struggle will be at the center of any struggle for a new socialist society. That struggle will require uniting the working class to fight capitalism. Unity will not come from ignoring racism, but fighting it — including within the ranks of the working class itself. This unity is key because the struggle against institutional racism and capitalism require a working class that uses our fire power at the point of production to fight racism. This means it is essential to kick cops out of our unions. But we need to go much further to include actions such as strikes against racist police violence.
Black struggle is class struggle. Black people are part of the working class, as the pandemic has brought to light in the most brutal ways. The stronger the fight against institutional racism, the more we organize, protests and fight, the more we will succeed in defeating racism and the capitalism it feeds — and the more we will improve the lives of Black workers and all workers. The working class will advance and wrest concessions from the system when it self-organizes — and in particular when the Black working class organizes and unites as part of a multi-racial class struggle that opposes racism in all it forms. That is a lesson from history, when the fighting ranks of the proletariat were filled with organized socialists and communist revolutionaries.
This Black History Month, Left Voice will be highlighting Black struggle — from the struggles of enslaved people to the Black workers who went on strike in Ford factories to Black people struggling today against police violence, against the pandemic, and against capitalist hyper-exploitation in workplaces across the country. We will shine a light on the enemies of Black people and expose the capitalist parties and their attacks on Black people in the United States, Africa, and the rest of the diaspora. We will use our pages to fight the co-optation of the Black Lives Matter movement by the Democratic Party and all of the misleaders who push Black struggle into the confines of “lesser evil” electoralism. We will report on the fight against police brutality, which will not end until we Abolish the Police. We will explain that police abolition will only come with an end to capitalism.
We invite you to submit writing, interviews, articles, and other media that highlight Black struggle to Left Voice at: [email protected].
We descend from those who mutinied on slave ships, and from those who organized and set fire to plantation torture chambers and who risked everything to organize the Underground Railroad. We are in a continuum with the strikers, and those who defied the water cannons, batons, tear gas, and bullets. We are revolutionaries, and this month we will focus on revealing the hidden history of resistance — and talk about the resistance to come.
We share the confidence of C.L.R. James when he wrote, “In Africa, in America, in the West Indies, on a national and international scale, the millions of Negroes will raise their heads, rise up from their knees, and write some of the most massive and brilliant chapters in the history of revolutionary socialism.” | sociology |
https://ndas.co/support-programmes-group-work/ | 2020-09-27T16:00:46 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600400283990.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20200927152349-20200927182349-00645.warc.gz | 0.941793 | 219 | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-40__0__8282659 | en | Support programmes & group work
This 10-week programme is designed for women who have been or are currently in an abusive relationship. The programme provides an opportunity for women to develop ways of thinking and behaving to help them to protect themselves, their children and others from harm.
By recognising the beliefs held by abusive men, women can learn to understand that abusive men lie about their behaviour. The programme teaches women to identify the tactics of coercion, recognise the early warning signs of abuse and identify tactics some men use in their belief of male superiority to undermine women’s rights and opinions.
Our Freedom Programme is currently being run virtually via Zoom video calls.
- Mondays 10-12.00
- Thursdays 10-12.00
- Wednesdays 7-9pm
If you would like to join, please email [email protected] or call 0300 0120154 for more information.
We will provide guidance on how to use Zoom before your first meeting.
Charity number: 1070741, Company Number: 2978532 | sociology |
https://www.themindfuldiabetic.net/214-2/ | 2024-03-04T15:43:03 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947476452.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20240304133241-20240304163241-00405.warc.gz | 0.973465 | 700 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__37883350 | en | Diabetes Awareness Month
Thoughts as another awareness month comes to a close
Today is the final day of Diabetes Awareness Month which doesn’t really mean anything to families living with diabetes. I know that might be a strange thing to read but the end of Diabetes Awareness month doesn’t bring an end to anything for families living with diabetes.
These families will go on posting and talking about diabetes. Many of our profile pictures will continue to have a light blue circle in them. We will continue carb counting every meal and administering lifesaving injections of insulin multiple times a day. Questions about the pump attached to our hip will continue. And so many caretakers will go on preparing snacks and lunches as part of a medical equation designed to keep their children alive with little to no praise, relief, or thanks.
These parents are amazing and they show up day after day after day. I see the initial sleepless nights following diagnosis where they are on the Internet doing research between doctor visits and where they are simultaneously playing interpreter, advocate, parent, and nurse. I see them adapt and persevere as the bodies of their little ones change and, as a result, so do their reactions to exercise, food, and medication.
I see the panic in their eyes as they prepare for the first sleepover or weekend with friends. I see divorced couples rally and overcome their differences to put the needs of their family member struggling with this illness first. I see them struggle to trust the job they have done as their child prepares to leave for school. The fear of alcohol and insulin meeting on a college campus. The precarious waters they have tried to navigate of giving their child independence, but also keeping them alive.
I see how parents change their savings plans so that their own child never has to make career decisions based on the availability of or access to medications, but rather on their dreams and ambitions. The way they turn around, as soon as they possibly can, to see if there is another family in need of support. I see them give what they can and sometimes what they cannot.
I see them activate for camps, retreats, late night hospital stays, spur of the moment emergency room visits, 504 plans, 5ks, 10ks, and century rides. I see them volunteer and start their own nonprofits. I see them fight. Like bruised, battered, anxious, terrified and courageous scrappers in the 12th round, I see them fight.
I am inspired daily because I see them fight with such conviction. They fight like that because they know there is no better person for the job. No one loves their child more than they do. No one will keep such detailed records. No one else can be guaranteed to rise as quickly, to keep the vials straight, or to know their child’s history.
My heart breaks because they are so often the last to ask for what they need and the first to sacrifice. My plea, on the final day of Diabetes Awareness Month, is that we all take a moment to pay special attention to the caretakers in our lives. Those that love those of us with chronic conditions. That we help them get their oxygen mask on first as they guide us back down to earth. My plea is that we budget in a massage, a movie of their choice, a lunch, a single flower, a bit of extra time to say thank you, or even just to acknowledge what a badass they are. | sociology |
https://www.alderneylibrary.com/about-us/ | 2023-10-01T16:16:28 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510903.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20231001141548-20231001171548-00021.warc.gz | 0.956842 | 662 | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__261250821 | en | The History of Alderney Library
When the people of Alderney returned home in 1945 following their compulsory evacuation to the U.K. and the German occupation of WWll, they found very few houses intact, little furniture and no books. Their first task was to rebuild the houses and establish a basic economy, but there was also a need for reading material to supplement the only existing source of culture and entertainment- the radio- for the Islanders were given no time to take their belongings with them when they left and, after 5 years of evacuation and war service, had nothing to bring back.
In 1949 a most opportune gift of 1500 books from a friend of Alderney in the U.S.A. together with a modest grant of £100 from the Island’s government enabled a group of volunteers to set up a free public library.
Since that moment, by 100% voluntary effort, the Alderney Library Group has maintained and developed a first class public Library; an extremely difficult task in the early years when the rebuilding of Alderney was the population’s principal task and, thereafter, as the rising cost of books has imposed an increasingly heavy burden on the fund raisers. Nevertheless the Library volunteers overcame these difficulties and for 52 years have run a free Library with Charity status, that is used constantly by Islanders and Visitors alike.
Over the past 50+ years the Library has moved through three ‘homes’. Each has been provided at a peppercorn rent but their occupation was inevitably time limited and the space incapable of enlargement. In 2003, as a result of vigorous fund-raising the Alderney Library moved into a purpose-built building paid for with money raised by the Library volunteers and built voluntarily by members of the community. The new building has facilities for the visually handicapped, access for the physically disabled, a Children’s Room and Reference/Reading areas- so that from the gift of 1500 books over 50 years ago and through the initiative and foresight of a dedicated group of volunteers the Island’s volunteer Library now has its own home, a home to house a Library of which the whole community is justly proud.
The Library is run by a volunteer committee of 10 members.
Please contact the Library and you will be referred to the appropriate member.
Alderney Bayeux Tapestry
The Alderney Library is the home of the Alderney Bayeux Tapestry Finale. This is the result of a year-long community project to create what could have been the missing end to the Bayeux Tapestry. The success of this project was recognized by the Curator of the Bayeux Tapestry Museum who chose to display the Alderney Tapestry in the Bayeux Tapestry Museum in 2014, the first time such a Finale achieved this accolade.
Further information is available at www.alderneybayeuxtapestry.com
Queens Award Certificate
The Queen’s Golden Jubilee Award for voluntary service by groups in the community was awarded to the Alderney Library on 2 June 2011 for providing library services to the community alongside fundraising for a permanent facility. | sociology |
https://villabooking.us/sugar-mummies-portrays-female-sex-tourism-at-a-jamaica-all-inclusive-resort.html | 2024-02-24T02:10:00 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474482.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20240224012912-20240224042912-00354.warc.gz | 0.961073 | 710 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__120555690 | en | A controversial play which recently opened on London’s West End examines the issue of the sex tourism in Jamaica which attracts flocks of lonely women looking for flings with young black men. Are these sex holidays sleazy or merely harmless romantic vacations? London’s Royal Court Theatre – often a venue for controversy – is staging playwright Tanika Gupta’s Sugar Mummies, starring Lynda Bellingham as one of four middle-aged women who come to Jamaica to try out male prostitutes. And, there is oodles and oodles of sex in the play. Even before Sugar Mummies opened it ignited a hot debate about female sex tourism: is it merely harmless fun – a mutually-beneficial business transaction? Or, is it rank exploitation – and if so, of whom and by whom? Are the victims the women who believe declarations of true love; or are the victims the poor, unemployed young men who make them? Why should female sex tourism be viewed in a different light than male sex tourism, which is often characterized as being sleazy male chauvinist piggery? And does Sugar Mummies perpetuate a racist myth of hyper-sexual black men?
The play takes place against the backdrop of a Jamaica all inclusive resort at Negril Beach, where hero Leroy explains that for the gigolos, it’s an easy and fun way to make money; and for the women it’s some “real good lovin'”. The English ladies who come to Negril complain that the men back home are cold, selfish, uncomplimentary, and mechanical; the gigolos know how to make ladies feel good. Besides, everyone in Jamaica is poor, and the lonely English ladies seem like millionaires by comparison. The gigolos don’t charge a set price – they are not prostitutes, really. There is a tacitly agreed-upon, but mutual, deception which underlies a client-gigolo relationship. Payment is never mentioned since this would destroy the illusion that she is the most gorgeous woman he has ever met, and that he is madly in love with her. But after charming their woman and offering to be their guides, the gigolos set about extracting as much money as they can – sometimes in subtle ways.
Sugar Mummies opens on two 22-year old gigolos, Leroy and Sean, who spot two forty-something white women who have just arrived. Leroy warns them against Jamaican men, who will try to hassle them and rip them off. Apparently genuinely concerned for the women’s well-being, he and Sean offer to show them around and look after them. The women protest that they are so old, but Leroy replies “You ageless. In Jamaica real men like the cat – not the kitten. Mature, beautiful women like you.” The men are funny, and very complimentary; and the women figure “What the hell – you only live once.” Lynda Bellingham is excellent in the role of Maggie, a tragic, broken woman who is a habitual adult vacation sex tourist. Playwright Gupta explains that her purpose was to explore why these women feel so lost that they must pay for affirmation. The humor arises from the pathos of sad, middle-aged women believing that beautiful, twenty year old men have really fallen in love with them at first sight. Sugar Mummies is raunchy, steamy, and very funny. | sociology |
https://www.wcsit-isda.com/loss-control/newsletters/10-trust-connections-4-3 | 2021-11-27T09:06:44 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-49/segments/1637964358153.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20211127073536-20211127103536-00381.warc.gz | 0.953789 | 2,896 | CC-MAIN-2021-49 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-49__0__12251462 | en | School Safety —
Responding to Violent Incidents
As school shooting incidents continue to occur and school threats are on the rise, many legislators and school districts are struggling with how to keep students and schools safe.
School shooting incidents
Tragic incidents involving single or multiple students being harmed by firearms continue to occur in our nation’s schools. The number of shootings in which a gunman wounds or kills multiple people has increased dramatically in recent years, with the majority of attacks in the last decade occurring at a business or a school. These statistics are highlighted in a 2014 Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) report “A study of active shooter incidents in the US between 2000–2013.” The Associated Press (AP) further noted there have been at least 11 school shootings in the 2014 academic year alone.
Rise in school threats
According to a National School Safety and Security Services survey, school threats are up 158% since the first half of the 2013–2014 (K–12) school year. Bombing and shooting threats make up the majority of threats; and no school is immune.
The top ten states for threats in descending order include: Ohio, California, Pennsylvania, New York, Florida, Texas, Michigan, Washington, Massachusetts and Connecticut. The survey revealed that electronic devices and anonymous social media applications (apps) are fueling the growth of these threats, particularly since the apps make it difficult to identify the offender. These threats, and in some cases actual incidents, are causing concern for educators, legislators and parents who are looking for ways to keep students safe.
Arming school staff
Some legislators believe arming school staff with guns is the answer, while others oppose this solution. Several schools have taken advantage of the ambiguities in local gun laws and developed their own policies to permit certain staff to carry weapons. This practice is common among rural school district administrators who are concerned their remote location may prevent police from responding in a timely manner. Other school districts are focusing on long term alternative safety solutions to protect students from harm.
A 2013 New York Times article noted it is impossible to calculate an accurate number of school staff who carry guns in the nation’s 99,000 public schools. However, it is estimated that 10% of school staff are armed and that number is rising.
In January 2013, two surveys were conducted to provide insight on how educators view the prospect of carrying guns in school. The results indicate that America’s educators are opposed to the idea of arming school employees. The National Education Association (NEA) survey of 800 members revealed 68% of educators opposed arming school employees. Additionally, 72.4% of the 10,661 teachers and administrators surveyed by the School Improvement Network noted they would be unlikely to bring a firearm to school if permitted to do so.
School safety experts’ perspective
Many law enforcement and school safety experts warn that schools who arm their staff, “are inviting an unacceptable level of risk.” Guns could be obtained by students and the potential for a manageable situation to turn deadly only increases as more staff are armed.
In addition, law enforcement experts caution that if a school shooting occurs, school staff or first response officers might accidentally shoot each other and/or innocent bystanders.
According to the Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence, two federal laws restrict the possession of firearms in or near schools - the Gun-Free School Zones Act (GFSZA); and the Gun-Free Schools Act (GFSA).
The GFSZA generally prohibits anyone from having a firearm in a school zone. The GFSZA defines a “school zone” as: 1) in, or on the grounds of a public, parochial or private school; or 2) within a distance of 1,000 feet from the grounds of a public, parochial or private school. However, the federal prohibition against possessing a gun in a school zone does not apply in the following circumstances:
- To people licensed by the state or locality to possess a gun.
- If the firearm is possessed for use in a program approved by a school, or in accordance with a contract entered into between a school and the individual or an employer of the individual.
- If the firearm is unloaded and “in a locked container, or a locked firearms rack that is on a motor vehicle.”
The GFSA focuses on deterring students from bringing firearms to school.
As of January 2015, at least nine states have enacted laws addressing arming school staff (public and private K–12) with guns as noted in the map below.
Conceal and carry laws
The National Council of State Legislators (NCSL) notes that all 50 states allow citizens to carry concealed weapons if they meet certain state requirements. Utah is among a few states that allow people with concealed weapon permits to carry guns in public schools. School employees in several states are not required to disclose they are carrying a weapon, and administrators are prohibited from asking if they “carry” or barring them from bringing their weapons to school. When insuring a school district, it is important to verify a state’s conceal and carry law and validate if the law permits the concealed weapon to be carried in a public school. If the law permits this practice, the underwriter should examine the school district’s policy to ensure the liability of using the weapon is clearly specified.
Lack of training standards
A key concern in allowing school staff to carry guns is the lack of training standards. News reports note the amount of training varies considerably in each state. In Utah, gun instructors have been offering free eight hour training courses for school staff, while in Missouri, school employees are required to train for 40 hours plus an additional 24 hours of training every year to maintain their protection officer status. According to Ken Trump, school safety expert and president of National School Safety and Security Services, “suggesting that providing staff with 8, 16, 40 or even 60 hours of firearms training on firing, handling and holstering a gun somehow makes a non-law enforcement officer suddenly qualified to provide public safety services poses a high-risk to the safety of students, teachers, and other school staff.”Use of force According to the National Institute of Justice (NIJ), the majority of law enforcement agencies have policies that guide their use of force. These policies describe an escalating series of actions an officer may take to resolve a situation. This continuum is based on many levels, and officers are required to respond with a scale of force appropriate to an individual’s actions, noting that the officer may move from one part of the continuum to another in a matter of seconds. The continuum may begin with no force used, then verbalization, use of bodily force to gain control, less lethal methods (baton, chemical spray) and escalate to the use of lethal force (firearms) to stop an individual’s actions. A school district that permits staff to carry guns should consider working with their local police force to develop a continuum of force policy, train their staff accordingly, and provide evidence of refresher course attendance.
Schools contemplating allowing their staff to be armed would be well-advised to take proper steps to ensure all their policies have been thoroughly considered, adopted and communicated to those affected.
In addition, where applicable, risk managers should review their coverages under their commercial general liability, workers’ compensation, law enforcement professional or special law enforcement policies, since these are among the policies most likely to be impacted by potential claims.
Given the reported increase in school related shootings, concern has grown over the wide range of legal theories plaintiffs may potentially bring against the school in cases where a student or another teacher sustains an injury arising from the school’s decision to permit school staff to carry guns. Among many of the possible causes of action that have been proffered against the school in such situations are the following:– Negligent failure to warn– Negligent failure to train and/or supervise– Violations of State Constitution (in states where available)– Violations of state laws intended to regulate guns in schools, such as those described above– Violations of more general state statutes regulating gun possession or school safety.
Any assessment of the viability of state tort claims would need to include the impact of the applicable Tort Claims Act, which could limit or even eliminate the liability of a state or municipal entity. It is possible that plaintiffs may attempt to bring claims under Federal law in an effort to avoid the hurdles imposed by the state’s Tort Claims Act.
According to Dennis Van Roekel, the 2014 National Education Association President, “Lawmakers at every level of government should dismiss this dangerous idea (of arming educators) and instead focus on measures that will create the safe and supportive learning environments our children deserve.” Many educators note that long term sustainable school safety requires a commitment to preventative measures. These measures can include altering the school environment both culturally and physically. Culturally, it has been suggested that schools can enhance their anti-bullying programs and expand their mental health services. A 2014 study of 15,000 US high school students revealed that victims of bullying are twice as likely to carry guns or other weapons to school.
Physically, schools have many options to enhance security such as:
- Employ school security personnel
- Employ commissioned peace officers
- Expand or establish a district police department
- Hire a private security company
- Increase surveillance measures
- Install metal detectors
- Install locks on the inside of classroom doors
- Ensure two way communications with administrators’ offices
- Use trained dogs
- Conduct routine searches
- Institute strict visitor policies and practices
- Conduct routine focused “emergency drills” (i.e., lockdown or intruder exercises)
The FBI recommends that school administrators educate their staff in recognizing warning signs of potential threatening behavior and encourage staff members to report it immediately. While no two threats of violent actions are alike, the FBI notes that students who display a number of behavioral warning characteristics are more likely to carry out their threats. The FBI’s report entitled, “The school shooter: A threat assessment perspective” has outlined the following warning signs administrators should be aware of:
- Reveals intentional or unintentional thoughts and feelings that may signal impending violent acts
- Exhibits a dramatic change in behavior
- Poor coping skills (low tolerance for frustration/lack of resiliency)
- A failed love relationship
- Inability to let go of perceived wrongs
- Signs of depression
- Dehumanizes others/lacks empathy
- Exaggerated sense of entitlement or superiority
- Pathological need for attention
- Externalizes blame
- Anger management issues
- Masks low self esteem
- Lacks trust
- Closed social group
- Drawn to inappropriate role models
- Intolerant towards certain groups of people (rigid and opinionated)
- Unusual interest in sensational violence or violent entertainment
- What are the laws in the state(s) regarding arming school staff with guns?
- What are the concealed and carry laws in the state(s)? Does the law permit carrying concealed weapons in public schools? If so, does the school district have a policy in place to address this practice?
- Has the school considered other measures such as enhancing the anti-bullying policy, improving mental health resources and educating staff to recognize signs of potential threatening behavior to change the culture of the school, before permitting school staff to carry weapons?
- Prior to instituting a policy for staff to carry guns, has the school considered hiring school resource officers (SROs) or a private security company, installing metal detectors or establishing or expanding a district police department?
- Does the school board have appropriate policies and procedures in place governing the carrying and the use of firearms by school staff? How often are the policies and procedures reviewed with staff?
- What type of “use of force continuum” has the school district established for the staff to follow?
- Is the school’s definition comparable to standards held for police officers and other public safety officers?
- If the staff carries their own personal weapons, what level of responsibility does the school board and administrators retain to ensure that the firearms being carried are functional and adhere to safety standards at all times?
- What type of firearms training does the school district provide on a regular, ongoing basis to staff members permitted to carry guns? If an outside firm is being used to train staff, has the proper due diligence been conducted to ensure the quality and effectiveness of these training programs?
- How often are these training programs re-evaluated?
- How is the school district prepared to prevent and/or manage situations where firearms are lost, stolen or misplaced while on school grounds?
- Has the school taken any steps to reduce the risk of a staff member being intentionally disarmed by a student or other person?
- Is there a documented plan in place to manage an accidental shooting?
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https://parents.lbpsb.qc.ca/Resources-for-Parent-Reps/News-Info/ArticleID/2969/What-is-white-privilege | 2022-08-11T11:02:49 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571284.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811103305-20220811133305-00260.warc.gz | 0.970454 | 803 | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-33__0__171269978 | en | written by: 2017-2018 IAC member and LBPSB Parents' Committee rep, Natasha Drysdale
White privilege is not having to worry about your résumé finding its way to the bottom of the pile for no other reason than your name is too ‘foreign.’
White privilege is not having to give up your customs, cultural or religious, for fear of being declared ungrateful, or worse: the enemy.
White privilege is not having to defend your every accomplishment or prove that it wasn’t handed to you.
White privilege is not having to take special precautions to ensure you aren’t perceived as a threat (lest you be treated as one).
White privilege is not having been told “You are not Canadian” or “Go back to where you came from,” regardless of if you were born here.
White privilege is not having your entire culture/religion/race stereotyped, condemned, or vilified based on the actions of a regrettable few.
White privilege is not having to prepare your children for a society where they may still be judged primarily by the darkness of their skin rather than the content of their character.
White privilege is hearing others’ experiences with those things and being able to think I can’t relate.
It’s the singular phenomena of having your race greatly influence and inform your life, and yet not [have to] consider it a defining part of your identity.
Solicited or not, consciously or not, descendants of European settlers continue to benefit from the persistent notion of white supremacy. We are less likely to be targeted, more likely to be accommodated, and we’re fairly well guaranteed to have every product, service, and legislature tailored to our wants and comforts. It’s in the xenophobic sentiments and anti-immigrant policies and systemic oppression of minorities that are ostensibly meant to prevent the erosion of our own culture and authority. Based not in logic or fairness, but a sense of [unearned] entitlement granted by the victories of our forebears. But the way our ancestors won their control and primacy was for the most part not ethical or admirable, and it should not be a status that we wish to revel in or perpetuate. It is fruit of the poisonous tree.
When you’re accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression; it is important to recognize that it’s not, and that if the positions were reversed we would not only want equality but rightfully expect it. That’s why it is not enough for us to be anti-racism and anti-bigotry and anti-Islamophobia while passively reaping the rewards of those very things. In order to be good global citizens – and teach our children the same – we have to interrupt the cycle of white privilege by helping to dismantle it from within. Those of us in hiring positions should check our subconscious prejudices and not give priority to people solely based on the fairness of their complexion or their lack of an accent. We should speak up when we see blatant discrimination or injustice, even if it disadvantages ourselves. We should support everyone’s right to dress and worship as they will, even if it’s not the way we ourselves would dress or worship. We should have conversations, even painful ones, to help our family and friends recognize and correct their own biases and prejudgments. We should share with and learn from other cultures as we would want them to share with and learn from us. We should work to ensure all children see themselves reflected in our history, in our art, in our media, not only for their own sense of self but because to not do so would be to continue to devalue their existence. They are human, just as we are, and we are no more deserving than they. Together we can (must) work to turn that ideal into reality. For all of our children. | sociology |
https://wssjgo.cn/matti10381 | 2021-10-16T23:22:42 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-43/segments/1634323585045.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20211016231019-20211017021019-00617.warc.gz | 0.936189 | 482 | CC-MAIN-2021-43 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-43__0__285477102 | en | A month-long celebration of culture, heritage and progress was launched today, Jan. 27, when February was proclaimed African Heritage Month at Province House. Also unveiled at the launch was this year’s theme: Leading Ladies, Lasting Legacies. It honours the unsung matriarchs who have made lasting contributions to their communities. “Every February, our community organizes and gathers at events provincewide to honour its history and longevity,” said Office of African Nova Scotian Affairs Minister Percy Paris, who made the proclamation. “This year we’re taking the time to acknowledge the special contributions six women made to Nova Scotia. Their combined kindness, wisdom and generosity have touched the lives of many Nova Scotians of African descent. “I encourage all Nova Scotians to make an effort to discover and celebrate the contributions of Edith Cromwell, Ada Fells, Geraldine White, Beryl Braithwaite, May Sheppard and Wilena Jones and the lasting contributions they have made to our province.” To honour the matriarchs, spoken word artist and Halifax Regional Municipality poet laureate Shauntay Grant wrote and performed an original piece. It was a moving tribute to the women’s dedication to their communities. “There are a number of great and diverse activities that will interest everyone taking place this month,” said Wayn Hamilton, African Nova Scotian Affairs CEO. “From Sydney to Amherst, New Glasgow to Digby and everywhere in between there is something planned for almost every day in February.” The community events calendar and more information on African Heritage Month are available on the African Nova Scotian Affairs website at www.gov.ns.ca/ansa. The calendar is updated as information on events is received. Weekly updates will be available by calling 902-424-3842, beginning Saturday, Jan. 30. Again this year, the African History Month Information Network worked in partnership with the Office of African Nova Scotian Affairs to develop a month-long calendar of events across the province. The network includes African Nova Scotian Affairs, African Nova Scotian Music Association, African Heritage Month North-Central Network, African Heritage Month Southwest Network, Black History Month Association, Cumberland African Nova Scotian Association, Cape Breton Service Providers, and the Valley African Nova Scotian Development Association. | sociology |
http://www.radar-amsterdam.com/charlotte.html | 2023-01-29T05:52:26 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-06/segments/1674764499700.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20230129044527-20230129074527-00850.warc.gz | 0.90752 | 403 | CC-MAIN-2023-06 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-06__0__200183153 | en | Charlotte Urban Housing, 2016
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Our project consists of a maze of narrow, 3,70 m wide, translucent volumes on the ground floor, that host public and semi-public functions as well as community living spaces of private houses and create a series of intimate and interconnected open spaces. Some of these open spaces form an urban plaza, a community plaza, a commercial boulevard and a playground, typical for an urban fabric, while others are gardens that are reminiscent of the open spaces of the suburbs.
On top of the maze, residential volumes have been placed. In this way the buildings at the same time define the open spaces and create a "porous" fabric, where volumes are penetrated by various walkways and passages that connect squares and gardens.
A new wave of inhabiting, a new sense of community.
This hybrid structure creates a new way of inhabiting: the live/work dwellings (located towards S. Mint Street) create an urban atmosphere and give life to a working community where networking, exchanging of ideas, cooperation in the organization of events, in short, synergy, will play an important role.
The urban aspect is further reinforced by the presence of facilities such as a restaurant/cafe, shops, community co-working spaces and children indoor spaces. The family dwellings on the other hand, provide typical aspects of the suburban life-style − closeness to nature with the possibility of barbequing, gardening, outdoor sports and relaxation − but in an environment that in a sense surpasses the limits of the suburbs being lively, community-like, with urban characteristics.
Project: Charlotte Urban Housing, North Carolina, US
Status: Competition, second price; Architizer Awards 2017, winner
Program: Housing, Work/Living dwellings, Public Facilities
Client: American Institute of Architects North Carolina
Key Team Members: Marco de Piaggi, Weronika Wawrzyniak | sociology |
https://www.ssib.org/web/classic23.php | 2023-09-29T10:46:10 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510501.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20230929090526-20230929120526-00161.warc.gz | 0.942108 | 2,768 | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__144584091 | en | John de Castro and the social facilitation of eating
de CASTRO, JOHN M.
Family and friends produce greater social facilitation of food intake than other companions.
Physiology & Behavior 56: 445-455, 1994.
Comments by Suzanne Higgs, Helen Ruddock, Lenny Vartanian and Jeff Brunstrom, September, 2019
In the 1980s and 1990s, while working at Georgia State University, John de Castro published a series of studies based on data from food diaries. de Castro found that people reported eating much more in the presence of others than when eating alone, a phenomenon known as ‘the social facilitation of eating.’ The size of this effect was far from trivial - meals eaten with others were reported to be 44% larger than those eaten alone (de Castro & de Castro, 1989). Although de Castro was not the first person to study how eating with others affects food intake, these studies served the field by demonstrating the powerful influence of social context, and this provided an impetus for a research area that continues to thrive today.
Prior to de Castro’s research, social influences on eating were studied in laboratory-based experiments. For example, Nisbett and Storms (1972) showed that people tend to model their intake on others: participants were observed eating 25% more food in the presence of a high-intake ‘model’ (a confederate of the experimenter who was instructed to eat a large amount) than when alone. Similarly, Polivy, Herman, Younger, and Esrkine (1979) reported that participants eating with a ‘high intake’ model consumed 31% more snacks than those exposed to a low-intake model. Building on this work, de Castro’s diary studies were critical because they showed that these observations also apply in the ‘real world.’ Indeed, they demonstrated that social facilitation is one of the most powerful determinants of energy intake in free-living humans (de Castro & de Castro, 1989).
Why does social facilitation of eating occur? The answer remains unclear, but a key observation is that facilitation is also observed in non-human animals, including rats (Harlow, 1932) and gerbils (Forkman, 1991). In fact, a study from the 1920s showed that eating behaviour could be reinstated in a satiated chicken if it was exposed to a hungry chicken that was eating (Bayer, 1929). Together, this literature demonstrates that social facilitation is unlikely to be driven solely by local social and cultural practices, and that observations in humans reflect a ‘lower level’ phenomenon that confers a broader biological advantage. de Castro went on to show that social facilitation of eating occurs at all meal types (breakfast, lunch and dinner) and eating occasions (at home or away from home and at both weekend and weekday meals) (de Castro 1991). These results were important because they demonstrated that the social facilitation of eating is not an artefact that arises because people eat more during specific social occasions, e.g., meals taken at the weekends or celebratory meals taken with alcohol (de Castro 1991). He also found that manipulating the number of companions affected intake: participants consumed significantly more calories over a five-day period when they were instructed to eat only with other people, compared with when they were instructed to eat all of their meals alone, or to eat as they normally would (Redd & de Castro, 1992). These findings suggest that eating in a group causes intake to be facilitated. Similar effects were subsequently observed in the laboratory: when participants were required to eat a test meal with others, they ate significantly more than when they ate alone (Clendenen et al. 1994). More generally, this body of work should be considered ‘gold standard,’ because it illustrates how stronger inferences can be drawn by using a range of methods that produce converging evidence.
In the paper presented here (de Castro, 1994), participants (515 adults) were asked to complete pocket-size diaries for seven days. They were asked to provide information about what was eaten at each eating occasion and the context in which the food was consumed, including who was present. A key finding is that meals eaten in the presence of others are larger and longer in duration than are those eaten alone (this effect was observed regardless of meal type and time of day), but that this social facilitation is more pronounced for meals eaten with family and friends than for meals eaten with co-workers or other dining partners (e.g., roommates and classmates). The study also found that social-facilitation effects on eating differed as a function of the participant’s sex, and the sex of their co-eater(s). Specifically, women eating with men showed a greater social facilitation of eating than did women eating with other women. In contrast, men showed similar social-facilitation effects on eating regardless of whether they ate with men or women. Finally, the study considered whether social-facilitation effects on eating could be explained by the effect of other people on participants’ mood. Participants endorsed higher ratings on a “depressed-elated” scale when eating with all types of companions, but particularly so when eating with co-workers and others. Eating with co-workers and others was also associated with greater anxiety. These data indicate that the social facilitation of eating is unlikely to be explained by an increased level of positive emotionality related to the presence of others (eating with co-workers had the biggest effects on “elation” (the top of the rating scale) and anxiety but the smallest effect on intake). Furthermore, because men ate more in a group regardless of whether they were eating with men or with women, modelling effects alone provide a poor explanation of the social facilitation of eating. Were this the case, then men should have eaten less when eating with women, because women tended to consume smaller meals. The finding that social-facilitation effects are more pronounced when people eat with friends and family was interpreted as a ‘disinhibition effect.’ de Castro speculated that participants may have felt more relaxed with familiar others, which reduced dietary restraint, leading to increased intake.
We recently conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis which confirmed that the social facilitation of eating is more likely to be observed when participants dine with familiar others than when they dine with strangers or acquaintances (Ruddock, Vartanian, Brunstrom and Higgs 2019). We also found that the effect of social facilitation on food intake (when eating with friends) (Cohen’s d=.76) is considerably larger than that of portion size (d=.45) (Zlatevska, Dubelaar, & Holden, 2014), and is similar to the large effect reported for modelling of eating (d=.85) (Vartanian, Spanos, Herman, Polivy, 2015). However, our review also revealed that the specific mechanisms underlying the social facilitation of intake have yet to be established with certainty. Another outstanding question is whether the social facilitation of eating is compensated for in the longer term. The importance of this issue should not be understated. In a single meal, the effect of social facilitation on food intake is large, but its effect on overall energy balance will be trivial. If social facilitation occurs often, however, and if larger meals go uncompensated, then the chronic impact on bodyweight could be substantial.
Of course, there are limitations to the use of food diaries, including issues with misreporting and under-reporting – problems that de Castro himself acknowledged (de Castro 2000). But, as de Castro also pointed out, there are strong arguments for studying ingestive behaviour in naturalistic settings. Questions around the most appropriate methods to study human eating have long been debated (e.g., Meiselman, 1992). Laboratory-based studies allow us to manipulate defined variables and to take precise measurements. But these alien environments (to participants) lack ecological validity and might introduce demand characteristics (Robinson et al., 2018). By contrast, naturalistic studies can provide data over longer durations and may be useful in assessing the relative impact of multiple variables in a range of real life contexts, but are limited by the challenges of measuring consumption in free-living individuals. de Castro and others (e.g. Rolls & Hetherington 1990) have advocated for the use of multiple approaches to the study of human eating and for the development of measures that provide a better indication of what people eat, day to day (de Castro 2000). Technological advances in our ability to unobtrusively and accurately track the eating behaviours of participants over days and months are likely to bring important new insights, and could play a vital role in exposing how and why social facilitation of eating occurs.
The efforts of John de Castro and others, notably Peter Herman, Janet Polivy, and Patty Pliner, have been critical in documenting the important role that social context plays in human eating. On this basis alone, their contribution to the field deserves our recognition. Their work also demonstrates the importance of drawing inferences from converging lines of evidence. Following their example, and with the advent of novel methods, the topic of social facilitation is likely to remain a fruitful and stimulating area of research for many years to come.
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https://create.twitter.com/en/articles/q-a/2019/herstory-juju-chang | 2023-09-29T21:19:07 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510528.86/warc/CC-MAIN-20230929190403-20230929220403-00319.warc.gz | 0.978338 | 1,412 | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__239931815 | en | Our latest #HerStory Q&A is with Juju Chang, co-anchor of ABC News Nightline. In this interview Juju shares how her upbringing shaped her journey into journalism, and the importance of empowering women to tell their stories.
You’ve worked at ABC News, on “Good Morning America,” and now “Nightline.” What drew you to journalism originally?
Juju: I was born in Seoul and I grew up in a struggling immigrant family in California. I think that informs a lot of who I am to this day — who we are reflects how we tell stories and who we see. So I'm a mom, I'm a working mom, I'm Asian American, I'm a woman. All those things inform the way that I tell stories and the types of stories I like to see.
When I was in eighth grade, hostages were released in Iran after nearly a year of captivity and — this is how old I am — I got on my 10-speed bike and I cycled around the neighborhood yelling, “The hostages are free! The hostages are free!” This was clearly before Twitter, because I'm that person who wants to tell everybody things, and I think that's why I became a journalist.
What kind of stories do you most like to cover on “Nightline”?
I do stories that are personal narratives, stories that illuminate some aspect of a national crisis, issue, or a flashpoint, so using personal narratives to get deeper into concepts. One of the things we say at “Nightline” is “show me, don't tell me.” Don't tell me a statistic — show me the people who are involved.
As a female journalist yourself, what advice do you have for others?
Don't shy away from being a woman when you are telling your stories and when you're giving your perspective, because all stories have a framework and it’s a net bonus that we’re female. I think in the old days we used to be like, “We're just like men,” and I think the truth is we are not just like men — we're different. Not better, not worse, just different.
How do you use Twitter in your work, and how many times a day would you say you’re on it?
I check it right before I go to sleep, which then takes me into a Twitter hole that keeps me up for another hour because it's either highly entertaining or deeply annoying, and fills me with outrage or uplift. I use Twitter as my smartest research associate because I feel like it is the perfectly curated set of information headed to me. Sometimes it's about what Cardi B is doing, but sometimes it's about the latest breaking news, or the best perspective in a New Yorker article that I hadn't thought of. And because I've curated it, it's tailor-made to what will get me intrigued, what will help me get through the morning editorial meeting.
Who are your favorite female journalists to follow on Twitter?
I follow so many great reporters on Twitter and what I find is there are always more recommended to me, so then I follow even more, right? But my favorite females — not ranked in any order — are Maggie Haberman of The New York Times, because she often drops bombs on Twitter. Seung Min Kim of The Washington Post, because she's fun and quirky and often drops bombs as well — she breaks news routinely on Twitter. Maureen Dowd, because I hate to miss a Maureen Dowd column, ever. My colleague Cecilia Vega at the White House is smart, sassy, and so full of insights that I always try to catch every one of her Tweets. And then just in terms of storytellers more broadly, one of my favorite people on Twitter is J.K. Rowling. So those are just a few of my faves.
#HerStory was launched to help empower and celebrate female journalists. What are your thoughts on press freedom here in the US and around the world?
I think that press freedoms are under assault, and more precious than ever. Yet if you look at the global landscape, it's far darker even than it is here in the United States. There are organizations like the International Women's Media Foundation that does the Courage in Journalism Award, and whenever you go to their lunch you see that women literally put their lives on the line in the name of truth, and that that is precisely why most journalists have become journalists.
People like me who become journalists to speak truth to power, to give a voice to the voiceless and powerless. Hearkening back to women's strength, they're often drawn to those stories and they're often able to tell those stories. I know that I've spent a lot of time post #MeToo telling the stories of sexual assault survivors, and it is in fact easier for a woman sexual assault survivor to talk to another woman about it. And so we get to amplify those voices, but female reporters, female journalists around the world are under attack, so it's important that we at least recognize it and do everything we can to lift our voices to help.
Final question, but it's a very broad one — what's your experience as a female journalist and as a woman of color who's traveled the world?
I think being a woman of color and being an immigrant to this country has informed my perspective around the world. Recently I went to Honduras and did a story about femicide and looked at the plight of women. There's a statistic that was released a couple of years ago that Honduras was the most dangerous place in the world to be a woman, and we wanted to take a deeper dive into why that was. Women would disappear and there would be no investigation. There was no such thing as a restraining order or consequences for anyone who beat their wife or girlfriend. It’s that kind of toxic masculinity, what's known often as machismo, that endangers women around the world. And so you see it's not a Honduran story, it's a universal story.
I went to Africa, traveling through Chad, Cameroon, and Nigeria, and we were on the search for the girls who were kidnapped by Boko Haram, the #BringBackOurGirls girls. We really wanted to go there, but it was so difficult because of the security risks – you can't go after a terrorist organization and think everything's going to be okay. We went to interview girls who had been traumatized beyond your wildest nightmares, and to just bring home the universality of what it was like before the terror.
I think that to bring those stories back and make them universal — that these are stories of daughters and sisters and mothers — there's a universality to it that we can all relate to. | sociology |
http://www.rowthree.com/tag/charleston/ | 2018-02-23T10:38:56 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-09/segments/1518891814566.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20180223094934-20180223114934-00155.warc.gz | 0.954749 | 380 | CC-MAIN-2018-09 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-09__0__28817098 | en | Racism is an ugly thing and something largely associated with a time long past. Once in a while, a film (The Order of Myths) or event (Katrina) happens which showcases just how little society has advanced over the decades. When we see racism, it’s easy enough to chalk it up to a “small group of people” but that’s never been a good response and it’s certainly not one that comes to mind after seeing a film like this one; especially when the issues at hand involve children.
Paul Saltzman’s documentary Prom Night in Mississippi raises a lot of questions, perhaps more than it answers but the questions are big ones (are there any small questions when we’re talking about racism?). Saltzman’s film follows a group of students who attend school in Charleston, Mississippi. On the outside it appears to be a typical high school. The school population is predominantly African American but students attend classes, eat lunch and play sports together but when it comes to prom, segregation is the order of business.
When Morgan Freeman caught wind of this, he saw the opportunity to usher in change. In 1997 he offered to pay for a mixed prom. At the time, he was turned away but not one to give up, he made a similar offer to the class of 2008 and overwhelmingly, the teens agreed (really, who would say no to Morgan Freeman?). That’s the set-up for Saltzman’s documentary which follows a number of the graduating teens through preparations for their first mixed prom. But all is not smiles and happiness in Charleston. Tough the majority of the teens are excited at the changing tide, parents aren’t as keen on the idea of a mixed prom and a few decide to follow “tradition” and organize an all white prom. | sociology |
https://libguides.itsligo.ie/specialcollections/ediresources | 2023-05-30T20:21:22 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224646144.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20230530194919-20230530224919-00094.warc.gz | 0.930911 | 269 | CC-MAIN-2023-23 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-23__0__144927344 | en | EDI Book Display
A book display representing the diversified collection of reading material available in the library to support equality, diversity, and inclusion was launched in February.
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This was in conjunction with EDI events taking place throughout the ATU Library Service including the launch of a new collection at ATU Galway-Mayo, Galway City Library
International Women’s Day is an annual event that is celebrated on the 8th of March to raise awareness about gender equality through celebrating the achievements of women. This year the theme is #EmbraceEquity highlighting the need for equity and fairness in equality for all of society. For more information on this year's theme see the International Women's Day website.
A book display exploring the theme of equity is now available to view beside the Library Information Desk. They are based on the developments of equity through gender equality in education, work, and society.
This display also includes titles supporting women and girls in STEM. The 11th February marked the 8th annual International Day of Women and Girls in Science promoting “the full and equal access and participation of women in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics fields” (Wikipedia).
All of the books on display are available for loan. The list of titles can be accessed here: | sociology |
http://www.cecod.org/resources/centermenu/en-us/whoarewe.aspx | 2017-04-27T20:30:39 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-17/segments/1492917122621.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20170423031202-00440-ip-10-145-167-34.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.95085 | 198 | CC-MAIN-2017-17 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-17__0__104501383 | en | Leaders in research on development cooperation
The Centre for Development Cooperation Studies (CECOD) aims to promote debate, knowledge and research on development cooperation.
The centre is formed by two institutions: the Institute for European Studies, part of the CEU San Pablo University, and the CODESPA Foundation. It is currently supported by the Regional Agency for Immigration and Cooperation of the Madrid Autonomous Region.
The CECOD is a meeting point for all those persons involved in international cooperation. Its activities are multidisciplinary, involving collaboration between various social spheres, such as academia, the government, non-governmental organizations and the business world.
The CECOD was created during the third Spanish Presidency of the EU (first semester of 2002), as an observatory tool regarding development cooperation in the European Union and particularly in Spain. Since then its goal has been to encourage debate on development cooperation by means of congresses and workshops, research projects and publication of academic papers and books. | sociology |
https://blog.gamingoverpowered.com/25-percent-of-ubisoft-employees-experienced-or-witnessed-workplace-misconduct/ | 2021-02-28T21:45:28 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-10/segments/1614178361776.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20210228205741-20210228235741-00425.warc.gz | 0.979522 | 460 | CC-MAIN-2021-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-10__0__162785840 | en | This Summer marked an unique turning point relating to internal practices at Ubisoft and the neighborhood’s understanding of the business entirely. After various reports emerged relating to abuse, misbehavior, and power corruption leading to several high-profile execs being fired, the investigations into the underbelly of this studio’s culture continue. Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot is leading the charge for the investigations and has published publicly the results of a recent employee survey. The results? Over 25 percent of employees witnessed or experienced firsthand workplace misbehavior.
The referenced survey was conducted by a third-party research company and revealed more about the work culture seen over the past several years. The survey was anonymous and encapsulated over 14,000 working employees. At 25%, one in four workers reported that they have either experienced workplace misbehavior or witnessed it happening over the past two years alone. Taking those results even further, one in five reported that they did not feel “fully respected or safe in the work environment.”
The survey also notes that many of the people that were vocal about their experience, a disproportionate amount reporting misbehavior were either non-binary workers or women. While the numbers were disproportionate, men were also very vocal about what they too experienced and witnessed while with the company.
The survey in question was put forth not long after the burst of reports went public earlier this year, resulting in executives and key members of HR being removed from Ubisoft. Most notable among the fires were Ashraf Ismail, Tommy Francois, and Maxime Beland. The full results, which were given to The Verge, state that the manners of misbehavior included in the findings encompass sexual harassment, racism, sexism, abuse of power, and generalized misbehavior.
The latest high level employee to exit the company was Beyond Good and Evil’s Michel Ancel and reports have circulated that his departure was in direct correlation with the investigation’s results, a report that he has actually vehemently denied.
The investigation is ongoing and more steps are being taken to correct the massive failings of Ubisoft through the years. There are many incredible people working under the Ubisoft name, people that deserve to feel appreciated and safe; but likewise happy with the group they belong of.
[Source: The Verge] | sociology |
https://marylandls.org/safe-rides-safer-roads-preventing-drunk-driving-accidents/ | 2024-03-02T02:55:40 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947475727.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20240302020802-20240302050802-00621.warc.gz | 0.936503 | 595 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__60079617 | en | Apart from the immediate physical risks, a DUI conviction can have long-lasting legal repercussions. In many jurisdictions, DUI offenses carry heavy penalties, including fines, license suspension, mandatory alcohol education programs, community service, and even imprisonment. These legal consequences can tarnish an individual’s reputation and lead to difficulties in finding employment, housing, and other opportunities in the future. Beyond the individual level, drunk driving takes a toll on society as a whole. It burdens healthcare systems, increases insurance premiums for all drivers, and strains law enforcement resources. The economic impact of alcohol-related accidents is staggering, costing billions of dollars annually in medical expenses, property damage, and lost productivity. Efforts to combat DUI dangers must encompass multi-faceted approaches. Stricter enforcement of existing laws and implementing harsher penalties can serve as deterrents. Education and awareness campaigns should target not only potential offenders but also the public at large, reinforcing the message that drunk driving is unacceptable and dangerous.
Technological advancements, such as ignition interlock devices that prevent a vehicle from starting if the driver’s blood alcohol concentration exceeds a certain limit, have shown promise in reducing DUI incidents. Ride-sharing services also play a crucial role, providing convenient alternatives to driving under the influence. In conclusion, the dangers of drunk driving are undeniable and affect everyone in society. Addressing this issue requires a collective effort from individuals, communities, law enforcement, and policymakers. By understanding the severe consequences of DUI, we can foster a culture of responsible drinking and make our roads safer for all. Together, we can prevent needless tragedies and build a future where drunk driving becomes a thing of the past.Over the Limit, Under Arrest: The Seriousness of Drunk Driving Every year, thousands of lives are lost due to the reckless and preventable act of drunk driving. Despite numerous awareness campaigns and strict laws in place, many individuals continue to get behind the wheel after consuming alcohol, putting themselves and others at grave risk.
The consequences of drunk driving are severe and far-reaching, affecting not only the impaired driver but also innocent victims and their families. Understanding the gravity of this issue is crucial in curbing this dangerous behavior. Drunk driving is a deadly cocktail of impaired judgment, reduced coordination, and diminished reaction times. Alcohol slows down the central nervous system, affecting a driver’s ability to process information and make critical decisions on the road. Studies have shown that even a small amount of alcohol homepage can impair driving skills, making it essential for individuals to abstain completely if they plan to drive. One of the most tragic outcomes of drunk driving is the loss of life. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), approximately 10,000 people die in alcohol-related crashes in the United States each year. These victims are not just statistics; they are sons, daughters, parents, friends, and loved ones whose lives are abruptly cut short due to the negligence of an intoxicated driver. | sociology |
https://www.victormedical.com.au/indigenous-artwork-unveiled-at-victor-medical-centre/ | 2021-06-14T04:52:34 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-25/segments/1623487611445.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20210614043833-20210614073833-00421.warc.gz | 0.954498 | 430 | CC-MAIN-2021-25 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-25__0__79306331 | en | Victor Medical Centre is proudly displaying three brand new pieces of Indigenous artwork, created by local artist Amanda Westley.
Last week the Centre had an official unveiling of the paintings, and Amanda presented a Welcome To Country before explaining the inspiration and meaning behind each painting in detail to staff members who gathered for the occasion.
Speaking at the event, Victor Medical Centre Chief Executive Officer, Richard Pierce said he hoped the artwork would brighten up the waiting room and make the Centre more welcoming for Indigenous community members.
“It’s great to be able to have these paintings done by a local artist which represent the local Ngarrindjeri people,” he said.
The three paintings on display are titled Coorong, Raukkan and Ngarrindjeri Ruwi.
Describing each piece, Amanda said they reflected her important connection and family ties to the land.
“These paintings show how I see my country and the colours represent the land around us,” she said.
“I spent a lot of my childhood at the Coorong and one of my favourite memories is learning about my family when my Mum would take me to Camp Coorong.”
Describing her piece Raukkan Amanda discussed her great-grandfather who was a stone mason and helped build the church in 1891, which stands in Raukkan today.
“My family is one of the oldest Aboriginal families here on the South Coast so this land I call home has been a part of my family for a very long time.”
Mr Pierce arranged the purchase of the paintings through the Country SA Primary Health Network’s Welcoming Environment Grant, which aims to contribute to closing the gap in life expectancy between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and non-Indigenous Australians.
With this aim, the grant promotes trust in health services by ensuring they acknowledge and are respectful of cultural factors, are physically accessible and affordable and are partners with local Aboriginal communities.
(article and image courtesy of The TIMES, Victor Harbor, 4 April, 2019) | sociology |
https://georgiaco.co/blogs/georgia-company/lovewins | 2021-06-23T20:26:44 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-25/segments/1623488540235.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20210623195636-20210623225636-00055.warc.gz | 0.979208 | 370 | CC-MAIN-2021-25 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-25__0__44705037 | en | It was this reasoning that in the past made me avoid talking about or outwardly supporting things like Gay Pride. I always thought, what the heck do I know about this topic that will be relevant, new, or fresh to anyone? What can I possibly say that hasn't already been said a thousand times. If I chime in on social media about these things, how can I be anything other than just jumping on a bandwagon?
Then George Floyd was murdered and it along with so many similar injustices changed everything. It was the thing that made me realize that I can't be silent and assume that people know I care.
Similar to Gay Pride, Black Lives Matter felt like a movement so separate and foreign to me that I couldn't participate in the conversation in an authentic manner. Who was I, a white, privileged woman to have a unique opinion about the topic of #blacklivesmatter? But the day George Floyd was murdered changed my thinking about sharing my support for people who are "different" from me or things that I don't fully understand. There are things in this world that are just simply right or wrong. When things are wrong it's our responsibility to say something & it doesn't matter if we have a unique point of view. When things are right, it's our responsibility to encourage and support them. We can and should speak out even if thousands of other people are saying the same exact thing.
I now understand that not only do the words I chose matter but sharing my support matters too. Love is good. Period. I don't have anything unique or clever to add to the conversation - it's a message that doesn't need improvement. I believe in & support everyone's right to be themselves and to love whoever they wish. We all benefit when everyone has the opportunity to be their best self. | sociology |
https://www.rochdaleroadmedicalcentre.co.uk/rochdale-road-medical-centre-are-helping-age-uk-to-help-tackle-loneliness-among-local-elderly-people/ | 2021-09-21T15:21:00 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-39/segments/1631780057225.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20210921131252-20210921161252-00015.warc.gz | 0.963523 | 196 | CC-MAIN-2021-39 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-39__0__84603481 | en | Donation from Rochdale Road Medical Centre helps Age UK this Christmas
A Christmas donation from Rochdale Road Medical Centre will help Age UK to help tackle loneliness among local elderly people.
In December 2018, GP partners from the Middleton GP surgery gave £500 to the Age UK Oldham branch, after learning that Age UK Rochdale closed in 2016. The money will support the charity’s work to provide support to older people through a range of services and activities.
Practice staff invited volunteers from Age UK’s Chadderton branch to join them on their Christmas outing, at which they presented the cheque.
Stefan Ilnyckyj, Practice Manager, said: “We know that many older people experience loneliness and have no one to turn to, and for them Christmas can be a particularly difficult time. Our donation was about doing our bit for Age UK and supporting its work to help elderly people in need.” | sociology |
https://westfieldartassociation.org/2015/08/27/waa-got-jazzy-this-summer/ | 2024-02-22T04:55:40 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947473690.28/warc/CC-MAIN-20240222030017-20240222060017-00331.warc.gz | 0.986285 | 159 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__143981135 | en | The Westfield Art Association participated in this year’s summer event, The Downtown Sweet Sounds of Jazz. Sponsored by the Downtown Westfield Corporation, The Sweet Sounds of Jazz stations jazz bands throughout Westfield on Tuesday evenings for the community to enjoy. 2015 was their 19th session, which brought in many visitors from out of town as well as Westfield residents.
The WAA set up a pop up gallery for members to exhibit and sell their work each Tuesday night in July and August as part of the Sweet Sounds of Jazz. All members were welcome to participate. It was a wonderful opportunity for WAA members to talk about their art and engage with the community. It was the perfect opportunity for us to promote the arts in Westfield and we hope to do this again next year. | sociology |
https://afamstudies.yale.edu/people/bianca-dang | 2020-07-09T20:53:22 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-29/segments/1593655901509.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20200709193741-20200709223741-00215.warc.gz | 0.903956 | 211 | CC-MAIN-2020-29 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-29__0__170920670 | en | B.A., History, conferred with Departmental Honors and Distinction, Stanford University, 2013
Bianca Dang is a Ph.D. candidate in African American Studies and History. Her dissertation examines the connections formed between Haitians and African Americans during the nineteenth century with a focus on migration and land claims. Centering gender as a lens of analysis, her work explores the formation of the Haitian rural citizenry in the mid-nineteenth century and highlights the relationship between African American emigration movements to Haiti in the 1820s and 1860s and Haitian domestic politics. Bianca’s research emphasizes how rural Haitians’ visions of autonomy and liberation shaped postcolonial and postemancipation societies in the Americas and explores how black women, in the United States and in Haiti, envisioned the role landholding should play in their futures and its meaning for their freedom.
Haitian Studies, 19th-Century African American History, Caribbean History, African Diaspora Studies, Black Feminist Thought, Gender Studies, Migration Studies | sociology |
https://www.empowerhealthcare.com.au/proudly-supporting-2020-legacy-week/ | 2021-09-20T03:19:38 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-39/segments/1631780056974.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20210920010331-20210920040331-00453.warc.gz | 0.952943 | 445 | CC-MAIN-2021-39 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-39__0__73273435 | en | Empower Healthcare is proudly partnering with the charity group Legacy in recognition of the thousands of Australian Defence Force personnel that have been playing an important role in supporting the Government’s response to COVID-19.
This partnership is very important to us as we have over 100 health workers engaged in delivering essential aged care and community healthcare services to vulnerable Australians nation-wide during a public health crisis that presents numerous challenges.
We would like to show our appreciation for ADF’s role in keeping our team and Australians safe through their involvement in:
- The Victorian Aged Care Response
- Contact tracing and community engagement
- Medical testing initiatives and
- Border control and Victoria Police checkpoints.
Legacy provides supportive services to Australian families suffering after the injury or death of a spouse or parent, during or after their defence force service. Legacy currently cares for 52,000 beneficiaries, including 1,845 children and disabled dependants throughout Australia.
During 2020 Legacy Week, which runs from 30 August – 5 September 2020, Empower Healthcare employees will be showing their appreciation by wearing a Legacy badge and handing out Legacy Week bears to Aged Care residents, Home Care & NDIS clients that have a connection with Australia’s defence force services.
The Legacy Week appeal has been running since the 1940’s and is a time for all Australians to show their support for the widows and children whose loved ones have served our country.
The Legacy badge is a special emblem of support for our veterans’ families, symbolising our nation’s greatest values of mateship, compassion and fairness.
Legacy badges may be little but the funds they raise make a big impact in the lives of our veterans’ families.
Legacy Week is a time to give back to the families of those who have given so much.
2020 Legacy Week runs from 30 August – 5 September.
How Can You Get Involved?
Whether you make a tax-deductible donation, buy a badge, fundraise for Legacy or Volunteer during Legacy week, your compassion will touch the lives of our veterans’ families and give back to the families of those who have given so much. | sociology |
https://www.bermancosmeticsurgery.com/category/events/ | 2019-05-27T05:19:16 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-22/segments/1558232261326.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20190527045622-20190527071622-00477.warc.gz | 0.965267 | 641 | CC-MAIN-2019-22 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-22__0__93989738 | en | I am writing to share with you an exciting opportunity that is at the intersection of health and wellness. In just a few months, on June 27, 2010, I will be participating in the Janus Charity Challenge at Ironman Coeur D’Allene. The Ironman is a grueling 140.6-mile journey consisting of a 2.4-mile swim, a 112-mile bike, and a 26.4-mile run, that must be completed in 17 hours for athletes to earn the title of Ironman. As stated on the event’s website, this race, “ takes passion, focus and discipline.”
This year, I have made a commitment to participate in the Janus Charity Challenge at Ironman, to support a breast cancer non-profit organization that embodies the same passion, focus and discipline that the event embodies, the Tigerlily Foundation (Tigerlily). Tigerlily was founded by a young survivor of breast cancer, Maimah Karmo, who like many younger women, had no idea that young women can and do get breast cancer. As a single mother, after being diagnosed at 32-years old, Maimah founded Tigerlily, the only nation-wide organizations providing full-lifecycle assistance to young women – before, during and after breast cancer – to include, education, financial assistance, meals, groceries, buddies, buddy bags and empowerment to young women affected by breast cancer. What differentiates Tigerlily from other breast cancer foundations is that it is solely focused on young women – 15 – 40. Tigerlily is there for these women when all the doors seem closed; Tigerlily fills the gaps that other charities often miss.
As a plastic surgeon, and an athlete, I realize the impact of breast cancer in the community and nationally. I would describe myself as an average athlete who in 2008 decided that I wanted to do a marathon and completed 6 within 13 months. I then signed up for the Ironman in Idaho before I had even completed a triathlon, with no biking or swimming experience, as I saw this as an opportunity to help others. This year, I selected Tigerlily because it is a local charity serving the local community. It has a low overhead and is almost totally volunteer-based, so that every dollar that is raised can make a significant difference.
Just this month alone, Tigerlily was able to raise funds and pay the car notes for two young women on the verge of repossession, rent for one and utilities for another. The mission that Maimah has set upon is quite an endeavor, but with your support of this Ironman event and sponsorship, Tigerlily will be able to help more young women with meals, buddy bags, financial assistance, babysitting, cleaning and more. I ask for your financial sponsorship of this event, so that we can together be able to provide more support to Tigerlily and the young women it supports. Please make donations on the Janus website at http://januscharitychallenge.kintera.org/cda10/davidberman.
Dr. David Berman | sociology |
https://futureforumcaucus-soto.house.gov/media/press-releases/future-forum-announces-new-leadership-team-117th-congress | 2021-10-24T09:59:23 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-43/segments/1634323585916.29/warc/CC-MAIN-20211024081003-20211024111003-00155.warc.gz | 0.950582 | 767 | CC-MAIN-2021-43 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-43__0__221019656 | en | Future Forum Announces New Leadership Team for the 117th Congress
WASHINGTON – Future Forum, a generational caucus of young House Democrats, this week elected its new leaders for the 117th Congress. Members unanimously elected Rep. Darren Soto, D-Fla., as chair, and Reps. Colin Allred, D-Texas, and Haley Stevens D-Mich., as vice chairs. Rep. Stephanie Murphy, D-Fla., will serve as chair emeritus.
“Young Americans have proven that they have the power to make a difference,” said incoming Future Forum Chair Rep. Soto “From record voter turnout in the 2020 election to ongoing protests against racial injustice, young people in our country are making their voices heard, and Congress is listening. I’m honored that my colleagues have chosen me to lead a group of vibrant young Members of Congress who will amplify the needs of millennials and Generation Z. Together, with a Democratic House Majority and a Biden-Harris Administration, we will work to engage our youth in the democratic process, now and for the future.”
“Young people are so often at the forefront of the issues that are most important to our nation, and I am so proud to build upon my work with my colleagues in the Future Forum Caucus as Vice-Chair,” said incoming Future Forum Vice Chair Rep. Allred. “This pandemic has made it clearer than ever that the American Dream is at risk of slipping away for too many young Americans. But we can change that, and the Future Forum Caucus has been a leader in the House on a number of issues important to young folks -- from ensuring everyone has an opportunity to get a good education and a good job, to lowering the cost of health care to tackling the climate crisis. I look forward to continuing that important work in the next Congress.”
“It is an honor to be elected as a Vice Chair of Future Forum alongside my friend, Congressman Allred. With newly elected Chair Darren Soto, we will continue to represent younger Americans in the halls of Congress and push for progress on issues like student debt, gun violence, and climate change,” said incoming Future Forum Vice Chair Rep. Stevens.
“As our nation continues to grapple with a health crisis and an economic crisis, Future Forum will keep playing an influential role in shaping policies that affect young Americans,” said incoming Chair Emeritus Stephanie Murphy. “I am immensely proud of the work we have done over the past two years to prioritize issues important to millennial and Gen Z Americans, and I look forward to continuing that work with our new leadership team as Chair Emeritus.”
Future Forum’s incoming leadership team will focus on advancing racial equity, building an inclusive economy, fighting the climate crisis, improving educational opportunities, and reforming our nation’s health care and immigration system. The organization’s membership is expected to include approximately 40 members in the new Congress. In addition, the caucus will continue its tradition of including members from every Democratic ideological and identity caucus including the Blue Dog Coalition, New Democrat Coalition, Congressional Progressive Caucus, Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus, Congressional Black Caucus, Congressional Hispanic Caucus, and Congressional LGBTQ+ Equality Caucus—making it a unique member-led organization on Capitol Hill.
Founded in 2015 by Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., Future Forum is an influential caucus of young Democratic Members of Congress who advocate for issues and opportunities important to younger Americans. Since its inception, Future Forum has visited more than 50 cities in an effort to engage with millennial and Gen Z Americans where they live, work, and go to school on issues such as college affordability, climate change, and employment opportunities.
For a photo of the election, click here. | sociology |
http://hostelfincaescalante.com/escalante-more-than-just-restaurants/ | 2021-01-25T21:22:23 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-04/segments/1610703644033.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20210125185643-20210125215643-00656.warc.gz | 0.981153 | 403 | CC-MAIN-2021-04 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-04__0__86663167 | en | The neighborhood of Escalante is one of the most popular neighborhoods in Costa Rica, and both tourists and locals are fascinated by the place. It is mostly known for its gastronomic character. The neighborhood is also proof that you can achieve anything if the whole community works together.
The transformation of Barrio Josefino, or Barrio Escalante as we know it today, did not happen overnight. As the people of Escalante wanted to create a more solid and safe community, the neighbors started a project of reformation and recovery of the neighborhood. They knew they did not want to turn into a neighborhood like La California, where the residents experience inconveniences from all the bars and the nightlife every day.
In 2010, the restaurants in calle 33 (now known as the Paseo Gastronomico La Luz or the Gastronomic Walk of the Light) were just with the five of them. There were also bars that were forced to leave the neighborhood, because they did not fit into the vision of what Escalante was supposed to become.
However, as the residents always emphasize, el Paseo Gastronómico was only one of the things that the association of neighbors and the municipality worked on to change the neighborhood. Something else was the replanting of trees, which is why in 2010 they planted 221 trees and 65 palm trees.
To conclude, Escalante is more than just restaurants. It represents the wish to improve, the work of a community, and the wish to become safer. Barrio Escalante is the living proof that you can achieve anything when working together on the same goal.
Being located in Barrio Escalante is, among other things, what makes Finca Escalante such a loved place to stay for travelers from all over the world. Finca Escalante is located right in the heart of this bustling neighborhood, and we wouldn’t have wanted it any other way! | sociology |
https://gwenrandallyoung.medium.com/teen-dating-healthy-relationships-317364d4fb88?source=user_profile---------7---------------------------- | 2023-01-29T21:52:31 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-06/segments/1674764499768.15/warc/CC-MAIN-20230129211612-20230130001612-00357.warc.gz | 0.956531 | 395 | CC-MAIN-2023-06 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-06__0__237293101 | en | Teen Dating: Healthy Relationships
When teenagers are dating, they often have not had enough life experience to know if a relationship is healthy or not. There are some definite indicators that are trouble signs, and they include the following:
1) your partner is physically or verbally abusive,
2) they call you names or puts you down,
3) they lie or cheat in any situations, not just with you,
4) their values or morals are of a lower standard than yours,
5) they encourages you to be rude to your parents, or ignore their rules.
6) they criticizes your friends, and discourages you from spending time with them,
7) they are argumentative, and you find yourself repeatedly engaged in conflict.
Unless the teenager has a high level of self-esteem, they may tend to blame themselves for the problems. Alternately, they may fall into the trap of thinking that they can change their partner.
If any of the above indicators are present, it is not a healthy relationship, and, frankly, it’s time to move on. Even a healthy relationship can have its challenges, so why remain in a situation that already has serious strikes against it?
The teenage years are years when those around us should be supportive and encouraging. Dysfunctional relationships at this time can have long term emotional consequences as this is a critical time for the developing sense of self.
If a teenager is having a hard time distancing from this type of relationship, despite urging from friends and family members, professional help is in order.
Copyright © Gwen Randall-Young, All Rights Reserved. Gwen Randall-Young is an author and award-winning psychologist. For permission to reprint this article, or to obtain books, CDs or MP3s, visit www.gwen.ca or follow Gwen on Facebook.
Originally published at https://gwen.ca on May 31, 2022. | sociology |
https://www.workshoponwheels.ae/2019/09/29/philippines-child-wedding-rates-3/ | 2022-06-26T14:01:36 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-27/segments/1656103269583.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20220626131545-20220626161545-00437.warc.gz | 0.941041 | 851 | CC-MAIN-2022-27 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-27__0__260588062 | en | What exactly is the son or daughter wedding rate? What size of a concern is child marriage?
Based on UNICEF, the Philippines has got the 12th greatest number that is absolute of brides on the planet at 726,000.
Feamales in Armm, Mimaropa and Soccsksargen marry sooner than those in other regions.
Is there country-specific motorists of youngster wedding in this nation?
Son or daughter wedding is driven by sex inequality while the belief that ladies and girls are somehow inferior compared to males and men. There is certainly restricted home elevators kid marriage within the Philippines, but available studies also show that it really is driven by:
- Trafficking: The trafficking of females and girls from rural areas of Visayas and Mindanao to metropolitan urban centers such as Cebu City, Manila and Quezon City is typical. Trafficking additionally does occur in holidaymaker destinations such as for instance Boracay, Angeles City and Surigao where there was a high need for commercial intercourse from females and girls. Some girls are forced into wedding. The Philippines’ popular mail-order bride industry also places girls susceptible to being at the mercy of marriage that is forced.
- Religion: The Muslim Law on private reputation, predicated on Sharia legislation, enables wedding during the chronilogical age of 15 for men and also at the start of puberty for women. The Philippines is predominantly Roman Catholic additionally the country that is only the entire world that doesn’t enable divorce proceedings. This places young hitched girls in a especially susceptible place.
Exactly just What has this nation invested in?
The Philippines has devoted to expel youngster, early and forced wedding by 2030 consistent with target 5.3 for the Sustainable Development Goals. The us government would not offer a change on progress towards this target during its Voluntary National Review during the 2016 advanced level Political Forum.
The Philippines co-sponsored the 2014 UN General Assembly quality on son or daughter, early and forced wedding.
The Philippines ratified the meeting in the liberties associated with kid in 1990, which sets the very least age of marriage of 18, together with meeting regarding the removal of All types of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) in 1981, which obligates states to make sure free and consent that is full wedding.
The Philippines has dedicated to the ASEAN Declaration in the Elimination of Violence against ladies and Violence against kids (2013), which acknowledges the significance of strengthening ASEAN efforts to guard kids from all types of physical physical violence, including very early wedding.
Throughout the Philippines’ 2017 Universal Periodic Review, the Human Rights Committee recommended that the federal government revise the minimal age of wedding for women within the Code of Muslim private Laws.
In 2016 the CEDAW Committee urged the federal government to remove the source factors behind child and forced marriage, including poverty, conflict and insecurity, along with vulnerability towards the effect of natural catastrophes. It raised concerns between your conditions of this Magna Carta on Females and people of this Code of Muslim private Laws and customary laws and regulations relevant to indigenous communities, which drive harmful techniques such as for instance child and forced marriage.
In 2012 a UN envoy warned that Filipino girls are in specific threat of having into wedding and therefore the exploitation that is sexual of stayed socially and culturally tolerated within the Philippines.
What’s the minimal framework that is legal wedding?
Underneath the Family Code 1988 the legal minimum age of wedding is 18 for both kids. Nonetheless girls meet the criteria to marry the moment they reach puberty in accordance with authorization associated with the court underneath the Muslim Law on private reputation.
Tahirih Justice how to use tsdates Centre, Forced Marriage Overseas: Philippines, website, 2018, (accessed April 2018)
United states of america State Department, United States Trafficking in Persons Report, Philippines, 2016, (accessed April 2018)
* Child marriage prevalence could be the portion of females 20-24 yrs . old who were hitched or in union before these people were 18 yrs . old (UNICEF State associated with World’s kids, 2017) | sociology |
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