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06
Nov
2009
Special Social Inclusion Event with Free Childcare

2 days ago by Pam

It is an honor to host author/consultant Kim John Payne at our school again on Thursday, November 12 at 7:00 pm! His presentation, “Creating Socially Healthy Communities” will be open to the public– by donation*– to support the social inclusion approach at MES. (*A donation is not necessary from MES ...

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Recommended Reading for November 6

2 days ago by Anna

Missing in Causation Talk: Actual Austistics: Today I listened in a bit to the IACC conference call on “risks and prevention.” I ended up not listening to the entire thing, partly because I’m quite busy, and partly because the conference call format just does not work very well for me in terms of pr ...

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Let’s talk about the weather

2 days ago by Anna

As I type this, Halifax is getting its first snowfall of the season. To me, this is “Yay! snow!” To Don, this is “Well, I guess I’m not going out anymore until spring.” We live in a really shite neighbourhood for snow-clearing. Although our landlord is excellent about keeping the snow and ice off th ...

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05
Nov
2009
Why, exactly, do we blame Angelina Jolie for Zahara’s hair?

3 days ago by drschweitzer

Again, on the body imagery and social inclusion front: Allison Samuels wrote a longish piece in Newsweek fretting about whether Zahara Jolie-Pitt’s white parents, Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt, know how to deal with a black child’s hair. This is a legitimate concern; black hair needs different care, ...

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04
Nov
2009
Quarter of World Online as Internet turns 40

4 days ago by citizensonline

According to a new report, 1.67 billion people have access to the internet as it reaches its 40th birthday. These new figures estimating the number of users online is as of 30 June, 2009 and are according to the Internet World Stats website where they state that 1.67 billion people had access to the ...

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02
Nov
2009
Body image, mothers, classism, fashion, Karl Lagerfield, and social inclusion

6 days ago by drschweitzer

I guess I am digressing today, but given that I study social inclusion in sustainability, the issue of body imagery does matter. In response to the trend towards larger than size 0 models on runways and in magazines, Karl Lagerfeld (lead designer for both Chanel and Fendi), commented: No one wants t ...

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31
Oct
2009
Social Inclusion Highlight

8 days ago by Pam

The Social Inclusion Coordinating Group of parents and staff have been trying out the “No Put Down Diet” these past 3 weeks. All of us agree that most of the put downs we heard were in our heads about ourselves! Kim John Payne will be speaking about the “No Put Down Diet” when he comes here on Novem ...

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Arrivano le Zone Franche Urbane (ZFU): in Italia sono 22

8 days ago by Giovanni Paci

Translate… L’UE autorizza l’attuazione di zone franche urbane in Italia Fonte: Reporting the World Over La Commissione europea ha autorizzato, sulla base delle norme del trattato CE relative agli aiuti di Stato, la costituzione di zone franche urbane (ZFU) in determinate regioni italiane. La misura ...

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29
Oct
2009
I figli di immigrati nel mercato del lavoro occidentale: una ricerca OECD

9 days ago by Giovanni Paci

Traduci in Italiano New OECD report: Children of Immigrants in the Labour Markets of EU and OECD countries: An Overview Fonte: OECD For the first time, the OECD has collected comprehensive data on the education levels and labour market outcomes of the native-born offspring of immigrants (the so-call ...

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Finding Myself in Unexpected Places

10 days ago by kaninchenzero

On the way home from work the other day, the classical music station in Dallas, WRR 101.1*, played a really good performance of Beethoven’s Bagatelle for Piano in A minor, WoO 59 “Fr Elise”. It’s pretty, of course, which is all it needs to be. But every performance (and every work of art and every p ...

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