Youths helping the community

Prince William, fresh from celebrating his 40th birthday, has made a politically charged speech marking "Windrush Day," a day of commemoration in Britain dedicated to a generation of Commonwealth nationals who helped rebuild the country after World War II. A scandal was uncovered in 2017 when it emerged that thousands of people who moved to Britain between 1948 and 1973—known as the "Windrush generation" after the name of a passenger liner that brought the first post-war Caribbean migrants to the U.K.—had been wrongly classed as illegal migrants, detained and in some cases deported. William's speech on Wednesday calling members of the Windrush generation "victims of racism" and "profoundly wronged" by the U.K. government is a rare example of the prince weighing in on a polarizing political issue and is likely to generate criticism. He said: "We know without question, that the Windrush Generation have made our culture richer, our services stronger, and our fellow countrymen … [Read more...] about William says Caribbean community “profoundly wronged” by U.K. Government

On this sunny Friday afternoon, the classrooms of Propeller Technologies in Tiruchi’s Karumandapam area is packed with dreamers and thinkers. Children from government and private schools are huddled around workstations, trying to create products that may one day change the world. The Tiruchi-based edutech company has been conducting outreach programmes for school children in rural areas to increase awareness about STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) concepts and their use in the real world. Aided by the launch of Atal Tinkering Labs in schools, and a desire to make the city a hub for regional innovators, Propeller Technologies has teamed up with bigger educational and scientific institutions to actively promote STEM education through its Young Innovator Programme. Students from private schools in Tiruchi — Montfort School, Kamala Niketan Montessori School, Sri Sivananda Balalaya, Alpha Wisdom Vidyashram and The Indian Public School — are collaborating with … [Read more...] about Youth innovation takes wings in Tiruchi with the help of STEM programme

A special talk on “Communicating Road Safety” was held at the Department of Journalism and Mass Communication in Andhra University on Tuesday. Former Chief General Manager of Visakhapatnam Steel Plant A.D. Joshi, in his talk, stressed on the need to create road safety awareness among the public as well as government authorities. He said that lack of understanding and neglecting basic safety rules were the main causes for road accidents. Strict adherence to the rules by the licensing authorities in the issue of driving licences and creating awareness among the youth about safe driving techniques would help in reducing road accidents, he added. Head of Department D.V.R. Murthy attributed increase in accidents to bad driving habits and poor maintenance of roads. … [Read more...] about Visakhapatnam: need to create safety awareness among people and authorities, says former VSP official

In my previous post , I discussed the commoditization of healthcare — how increased competition in the marketplace has caused medical facilities to re-evaluate their brand and reconsider their prominence in their communities. Increased competition can be a win for consumers — one that results in greater cost transparency and improved service. But it might also result in a more impersonal healthcare experience, which means that patients need to bear more of the responsibility for their own health outcomes. In this post, I am going to shift the focus away from facilities and toward what "healthcare as a commodity" means for consumers. Pizza and the Free Market When a community has a pizza parlor, pizza-philes tend to be generally satisfied. Maybe they serve New York-style and you like Chicago-style, maybe the price is a little higher than you'd like to pay, maybe the service isn't as attentive as you'd like — but it's pizza, and you didn't have to make it at home. But when a … [Read more...] about Healthcare Executive: What Consumers Should Know About Finding Care

With federal government resources only designed to last for six months, refugees who arrive in the United States are expected to quickly achieve self-sufficiency. That requires settling into a foreign community, establishing English language skills, and also finding a job. Unfortunately, with legal, language, and recertification barriers cited as common constraints, these individuals often struggle to access the labor market. In a report released last year, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees highlighted the importance of "employment and employability to successful integration" into the society of the host country. For refugees, "successful economic adjustment remains one of the most pressing challenges," the report said. That said, with President Joe Biden 's commitments to welcome an additional 75,000 Afghan and 100,000 Ukrainian refugees, the United States is in increasing need of programs to connect newcomers with stable, well-paying jobs. Biden, along … [Read more...] about More than 100 major U.S. companies commit to hire and train more refugees

This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate 3 Once Tina Sloan Green took over the lacrosse program at Temple University in the years after the passage of Title IX, the landmark gender-equity law, she didn’t stop thinking about the girls who weren’t playing. At practices during the 1970s, Sloan Green, the first Black woman to coach a college lacrosse team, noticed neighborhood kids peering through the fences at her players as guards kept them out. And when high school athletes were welcomed on the university’s fields for training camps, most were white and from predominantly white suburban schools. “That was very, very disturbing to me to see that,” she said. “And that was — that was the reality that I had to face. … Title IX was a complete help for women in sports but in my mind, there were still disparities.” For girls of color, some women’s college sports, such as lacrosse, equestrian, rowing or even softball, are ones to … [Read more...] about Title IX: Women of color lag in numbers as law promotes equality

Last week, Hawaii high school teacher Alden Bunag was arrested and made his initial court appearance on June 16. Among other things, he admitted to prosecutors that he made a sex video with a 13-year-old boy who was a former student and sent it to others, including another teacher in Philadelphia. This sordid case has brought to the fore of the culture war the terms "grooming" and "groomer" to describe efforts to sexualize children. The controversy around them stems from the fact that they cut to an uncomfortable truth: those championing the latest sexual revolution often have sexual improprieties they project onto others, as was the case with Bunag, whose social media posts display outspoken opposition to the use of the word "groomer." This story began last year with a different investigation. Federal agents received a tip about a teacher, Andrew Wolf of Springside Chestnut Hill Academy, a private school in Philadelphia, who had allegedly uploaded child pornography. Wolf was … [Read more...] about Whether we say it or not, our culture provides cover for groomers | Opinion

James Burrows loves sitcoms, and he should. The 81-year-old has directed more than 1,000 episodes of TV sitcoms, including fan favorites such as “ Friends ,” “Cheers,” and Will & Grace ." He's also directed the pilot episodes for “Frasier,” “Two and a Half Men,” “The Big Bang Theory” and more, setting the tone for the series going forward. Ask him why there are so few of his beloved sitcoms on the air these days and Burrows can't answer. “It's not a good time for the multi-camera sitcom right now. I don’t know why. People ask me and I say, I don’t know why. There’s only two or three on the air.” He does believe the next big sitcom will come, and that will make multi-cam sitcoms popular again, but adds he “doesn't see that show on the horizon right now." Burrows looks back on his famed career in a new book called “Directed by James Burrows,” detailing how he got started in showbiz and became Hollywood's go-to director for sitcom pilots, setting shows up for … [Read more...] about Director James Burrows looks back on his career in new book

Ten years ago this month, the Harvard men’s baseball team put a video on YouTube in which they danced and lip-synched to Carly Rae Jepsen’s No. 1 hit, “Call Me Maybe.” It was funny because, well, you know: They were muscle-y boys with serious jawlines, and they were doing choreography that involved punching the ceiling of a van; this was back when a lot of people thought that pop songs were really stupid and for girls. So the video got really popular. Then other groups of people started to film themselves doing their own versions of the song: college students in Idaho; the Miami Dolphins cheerleaders ; the U.S. Olympic swim team . Maybe you, too, were inclined to dance and lip-synch to Carly Rae Jepsen’s No. 1 hit, “Call Me Maybe,” with your friends and post it to the internet. This is how one of the first super-viral “challenges” on social media was born. Planking, where people filmed or photographed themselves lying flat—like a plank—in unexpected places, had already … [Read more...] about The Viral Online Challenge Is Never Coming Back

Once Tina Sloan Green took over the lacrosse program at Temple University in the years after the passage of Title IX, the landmark gender-equity law, she never stopped thinking about the girls who weren't playing. At practices during the 1970s, Sloan Green, the first Black woman to coach a college lacrosse team, noticed neighborhood kids peering through the fences at her players as guards kept them out. And when high school athletes were welcomed on the university's fields for training camps, most were white and from predominantly white suburban schools. “That was very, very disturbing to me to see that," she said. "And that was — that was the reality that I had to face ... Title IX was a complete help for women in sports but in my mind, there were still disparities.” For girls of color, some women's college sports, such as lacrosse, equestrian, rowing or even softball, are ones they are unlikely to be exposed to in grade school. The reasons vary, though … [Read more...] about Title IX: Strides for women of color in sports lag under law