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Therefore, experts say, hiring Black teachers is necessary to address the racial disparities that lead to poor educational outcomes and criminalization for Black children. Furthermore, advocates say that Black students who don’t have Black teachers are less likely to become teachers themselves, so commitments to diversifying the industry must start early on in the classroom. The Black Teacher Project in Oakland, California, works with Black teachers to “reimagine schools as communities of liberated learning,” the Project’s website reads. It also teaches educators how to implement restorative practices in their classrooms and invites them to retreats to foster community among Black teachers. “Therefore, the Black Teacher Project’s motto is ‘Every child deserves a Black teacher.’”

☆ Over a decade after founding Grindr, Joel Simkhai wants a do-over
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-16 | by ( Zachary Schermele | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +7 min

When Joel Simkhai left Grindr five years ago, he had a lot of time to think. Simkhai, a gay man and tech entrepreneur, helped launch the groundbreaking gay hookup and dating app in 2009. As recently as this year, the average daily time spent on Grindr per user was about an hour, according to The Guardian. The results of an online survey of nearly 100 Grindr users published in 2017 in the peer-reviewed journal Behavioral Medicine showed obese users reported significantly greater feelings of body dissatisfaction. But racist, discriminatory and exclusionist tropes — or euphemisms for them — continue to pervade a number of LGBTQ hookup and dating apps.

CNN —Qatar FIFA World Cup ambassador and former footballer Khalid Salman has said homosexuality is “damage in the mind,” in an interview with German broadcaster ZDF on Monday. As many people are expected to travel to Qatar for the World Cup, “let’s talk about gays,” Salman said. Qatar will host the FIFA World Cup 2022 from November 20 until December 18. Earlier this month, football’s world governing body FIFA urged nations participating in the 2022 World Cup to focus on football when the tournament kicks off. The countdown clock for the World Cup during the FIFA Arab Cup Qatar on December 15, 2021 in Doha.

☆ Michigan librarian dedicated to 41-year-old Halloween cold case
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-30 | by ( Sarah Portney | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +12 min

On October 31, 1981, 11-year-old Karl Heikell told his parents he was going out for a walk in his town of Calumet, Michigan. “And sure enough, I found newspaper clippings about Karl Heikell going missing.”The young librarian was eager to learn more about this local mystery. Cleary told Dateline. “It's a shame that so many people have Billy in their heads as this” kind of person, he told Dateline. Detective Cleary told Dateline that after Billy’s suicide, police looked into his possible involvement in the case.

☆ Inside Facebook, WhatsApp is now an 'urgent' growth valve with 'superapp' ambitions taking shape
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-20 | by ( Kali Hays | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +12 min

This has become something "we have to do," said Matt Idema, vice president of business messaging. Messaging throughout Facebook, led by WhatsApp, generated a relatively paltry $218 million in the most recent quarter. "It's a really big challenge," Matt Idema, promoted last year to vice president of business messaging for Meta, told Insider. Now it's time to bring together WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, and Instagram Messaging and "treat it like one messaging strategy," Idema said. It held in May its first-ever conference dedicated to its messaging business.

☆ Jeff Bezos responds to criticism over investing in space travel instead of solving problems on Earth: 'We go to space not to abandon our home, but to protect it'
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-18 | by ( Britney Nguyen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

In a speech at the Vatican, Jeff Bezos addressed people who ask why he invests "so much into space." The former Amazon CEO said investing in going to space will benefit the Earth and "protect it." The goal for Blue Origin, Bezos has previously said, is to make traveling to space cheaper, more frequent, and more accessible. In 2018, Bezos said Blue Origin was "the most important work I'm doing," in an interview with Axel Springer's CEO Mathias Döpfner. Bezos founded the Bezos Earth Fund in 2020, which will disburse $10 billion, committed by Bezos, in the current decade to fight climate change and protect nature.

☆ I 'fell' into virtual assistant work — and now I make 6 figures a year doing it. Here's how I built up my client base and income.
▼ + stars: | 2022-04-06 | by ( Robin Madell | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

Hannah Dixon became a virtual assistant after wanting a more stable career and better income. I always say that I "fell" into being a virtual assistant. Courtesy of Hannah DixonThis transitioned to doing long-term work exchanges, where I worked in bars, on farms, and in hostels. This is when, after three years as a virtual assistant, I turned my attention to supporting others as a virtual-assistant coach. I found myself doing many things that I wasn't experienced in, but I was learning by doing.

☆ Iurie Sadovnic, acum opt ani: „Artiştii sunt sărăciţi intenţionat, ca să cânte pe doi bani la alegeri”. — Cine şi cum ar fi în stare să vă taie drumul spre chitară? — „Moartea”
▼ + stars: | 2021-06-08 | by ( ) www.zdg.md time to read: +15 min

În 2013, Iurie Sadovnic declara că doar moartea ar fi în stare să-i taie drumul spre chitară. Mai jos vă redăm interviul Iurie Sadovnic, realizat de ZdG în 2013. de baştină, satul Jura, din stânga Nistrului, a devenit subiectul unei piese scrise şi interpretate de Iurie Sadovnic. Orheiul meu e o localitate specială, dar nu are un vârf, o înălţime. Pentru conformitate, Aneta GrosuInterpretul de muzică ușoară, Iurie Sadovnic, deținător al „Ordinului Republicii”, s-a stins din viață luni, 7 iunie, la vârsta de 69 de ani.

Persons: Iurie, Iurie Sadovnic, Ludmila Sencina, Serghei Zaharov, Igor Krutoi, Alexandr Serov ?, Ion Aldea - Teodorovici, Alexandr Serov ş.a, Lucian Blaga, Mihai Eminescu, Vasile Alecsandri, Adrian Păunescu, Viorel Burlacu, Ei, Nicolae Sulac, Maria, Urschi, Zinaida Julea, Morgan, Rockefeller, Eminescu, Mihail Sadoveanu, Nicolae Iorga, Ştefan, Mare, Ernest Hemingway, Toma Alimoş, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust, Anastasia Lazariuc, creaţie, Grigore Vieru, Dumitru, Eugen Cioclea, Sadoveanu, Lermontov, Byron, Mihai Dolgan, Dan Puric, George Coşbuc, Aneta Grosu, Maia Sandu Organizations: Arte, Armatei Sovietice Locations: Moldova, Susleni, Nikolaev, Jura, Orhei, Transnistria, Cio - Cio - san, America, Italia, Grecia, tinereţe, Nistru, Transnistriei, Hanatul, aţi, Puşkin, noastră, moldoveneşti

☆ How to get into Stanford Graduate School of Business, according to the assistant dean of admissions
▼ + stars: | 2020-12-07 | by ( Robin Madell | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +11 min

A 2019 ranking of business-school admission rates showed Stanford Graduate School of Business (GSB) at the top of the list of most selective schools. Education specialists Quacquarelli Symonds recently released its 2021 Global MBA Ranking, and Stanford ranked as the best business school in the world. To that end, Insider asked six Stanford business school grads, as well as the assistant dean of MBA admissions and financial aid, for their insights on how to get noticed and tapped by Stanford GBS's extremely selective admissions committee. His top advice for Stanford business school applicants is to not be an imitation of a type. Other Stanford business school alumni validated this advice.

☆ "Europa Azi": Preşedintele României, Klaus Iohannis, primeşte premiul "Otto cel Mare" în semn de apreciere pentru meritele în procesul european de unificare
▼ + stars: | 2020-10-14 | by ( ) tvrmoldova.md time to read: +2 min

Preşedintele României, Klaus Iohannis, primeşte în aceste momente premiul "Otto cel Mare" în semn de apreciere pentru meritele în procesul european de unificare. Premiul 'Otto cel Mare' este acordat, o dată la doi ani, unor personalităţi sau organizaţii pentru merite deosebite în procesul european de unificare şi în promovarea gândirii europene. PROPUNERE DE COMPROMIS PENTRU BUGETUL UEParlamentul European a propus suplimentarea bugetului multianual al UE cu aproape 40 de miliarde de euro. Potrivit executivului european, combaterea emisiilor de metan este esenţială pentru planul de neutralitate climatică până în anul 2050. UE vrea ca Londra să respecte normele europene privind concurenţa, mediul sau fiscalitatea.

Persons: Klaus Iohannis, Otto cel Mare, Katharina, Otto I, Distincţia, Iniţiativa, Thierry Breton, Declaraţia, ., Boris Johnson Organizations: Parlamentul European, Europeană, UE, Britanie Locations: german Magdeburg, Mauritius, Sfântului Imperiu Roman, Magdeburg, UE, Britanie, Londra, Norvegia, Canada

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