Sentences with phrase «by neighborhood children»

He was called «scarecrow» by neighborhood children.

A big billboard outside shows the smiling founder surrounded by neighborhood children and is emblazoned with the slogan, «With You Every Step of the Way.»

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Professor DiIulio again: «It is reasonable to suppose that by doubling or tripling the number of officers on regular duty in and around drug - infested, crime - torn neighborhoods, and by deploying them in accordance with the precepts of community policing, the streets and sidewalks of even the most blighted inner city could be made safe enough for children to play and adults to stroll.»

The interview format used by the Oliner team had over 450 items and consisted of six main parts: a) characteristics of the family household in which respondents lived in their early years, including relationships among family members; b) parental education, occupation, politics, and religiosity, as well as parental values, attitudes, and disciplinary approaches; c) respondent's childhood and adolescent years - education, religiosity, and friendship patterns, as well as self - described personality characteristics; d) the five - year period just prior to the war — marital status, occupation, work colleagues, politics, religiosity, sense of community, and psychological closeness to various groups of people; if married, similar questions were asked about the spouse; e) the immediate prewar and war years, including employment, attitudes toward Nazis, whether Jews lived in the neighborhood, and awareness of Nazi intentions toward Jews; all were asked to describe their wartime lives and activities, whom they helped, and organizations they belonged to; f) the years after the war, including the present — relations with children and personal and community — helping activities in the last year; this section included forty - two personality items comprising four psychological scales.

They even teach their children to discriminate against non-members and my young son suffered permanent emotional damage inflicted upon him by little Mormon boys (who picked on and bullied my son in our neighborhood) who think they're going to be Gods with their own planets some day!

One of the reasons children in Gaza were dying is that Palestinian terrorists deliberately put them at risk by locating their rocket launchers next to schools and residential neighborhoods.

Where we live, most of the children who come to our door are neighborhood children, accompanied by parents.

Let's ask the numerous children and now adults who were molested by your neighborhood Priest or other people who work in Churches.

As they passed by the gun shop here in my neighborhood, the child asked, «Why is there a gun shop here when there aren't any animals to shoot?»

I'd read Yvonne Thornton's Ditchdigger's Daughters, and if that dad in a crime - ridden neighborhood could produce highly educated children by forcing them to practice music, then surely music lessons could help my suburban kids stay out of trouble.

A native of New Orleans» impoverished lower Ninth Ward neighborhood, Luter was the third of five children raised by a divorced mother who worked as a seamstress and a surgical scrub assistant, according to Thom Rainier, president and CEO of the Nashville, Tennessee - based LifeWay Christian Resources and a friend of Luter's.

Having entrusted a comely child to be brought up by a certain presbyter, John returned after many years only to find that the boy had turned delinquent and, as the leader of bandits, was harassing the neighborhood.

Applebee's will also bring the tradition of helping the neighborhood to Hawaii by sponsoring a month of fundraising activities for Make - A-Wish ® Hawaii, which grants wishes for children diagnosed with life - threatening medical conditions.

«This is not just a gripping story of one man's heroic attempt to pull an entire neighborhood's worth of children up by their bootstraps.

And while children are certainly affected by stressors outside the home, like neighborhood violence or abuse by a stranger, it is true that for a majority of children, the most significant threats to the development of their stress - response system come from inside their home.

From Rogers Park to Hyde Park to Lincoln Park, there are many winter concerts performed by different neighborhood choirs who are part of the Chicago Children's Choir.

By watching what your child's swim coach does, you will undoubtedly gain an understanding and a sense of what to do to further your child's swim lessons at your home or neighborhood pool.

In the short term, camping permits will be increased by 900 per year starting next year, which the mayor said will give more children in some of Chicago's hardscrabble neighborhoods a chance to experience nature.

(PDF - 259 KB) McLeigh, Melton, Kimbrough - Melton, & Wallace (2015) University of Colorado at Denver Highlights the approach taken by Strong Communities for Children to develop a neighborhood - based child protection system to enhance children'sChildren to develop a neighborhood - based child protection system to enhance children'schildren's safety.

, the Downtown Boston First Time Moms Facebook group, and my neighborhood group, The Moms Club of South Boston (which also arranges small groups by child's age).

She actively teaches the Ruhi children's class material developed by the Ruhi Institute, and has developed a supplemental curriculum for children ages 0 - 2 and ages 3 - 5 which has been very successful in her work at the neighborhood - level building community with families.

The forum, which included a keynote address by author and former New York Times magazine editor Paul Tough (pictured left), explored the The Harlem Children's Zone approach to inner city education, as well as addressed the recent plans by the Obama administration to offer new funding to replicate twenty «Promise Neighborhoods» throughout the country.

A child hunger study released by the food depository last year identified Brighton Park as one of the area's most underserved neighborhoods in terms of food services available outside of school, Dolgan said.

While the realities described by Paul Tough in this book are very familiar to me, I hope to some day make even a fraction of the difference Geoffrey Canada has made in the lives of children from poor neighborhoods right here in the USA.

Now, her plan for the city creates decent - paying jobs by supporting small business and tech companies in neighborhoods that are often ignored; expands pre-K and child care; and builds 80,000 units of good middle class housing.

Two children were struck and killed by a car while in a crosswalk in the Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn yesterday afternoon, police said, at an intersection that has long been considered hazardous for pedestrians.

I know I and the people in my neighborhood and all the others like us across the country are all part of the problem, but we can't help make these kinds of failing school district better by sending our children to them even if we wanted to, because we'd have to risk our children's futures to do it.

«It's important that the [26 Broadway] space be used by a school serving local [students], rather than children from other neighborhoods,» said Silver, who has strongly advocated for Millennium to expand.

Children from the high poverty neighborhoods surrounding Coney Island's PS 188 faced a number of challenges when the school joined our first CLS cohort in the 2012 - 13 school year — worsened by Hurricane Sandy.

The public - service novice, who has spent her entire career in media and publishing, also dropped jaws at the meeting by likening her task of satisfying space - crunch concerns in every neighborhood to making «many Sophie's Choices» — a reference to the book in which a mother in the Auschwitz death camp is forced to decide which of her two children will live.

The charters have been used for tax breaks by hedge - fund operators; worse yet, he continued, is that they're siphoning away children in poorer neighborhoods whose parents are aware enough to seek something better for them than their local schools, in what he called «a cannibalization of our public - school system... We need to fully fund our schools.»

After adjusting their findings to account for differences in race and ethnicity, sex, age, poverty level, education and urban density of the children's neighborhoods, Keet and her team found that for each microgram / cubic meter increase in coarse particulate matter, asthma diagnosis increased by 0.6 percent, emergency room visits for asthma by 1.7 percent and hospitalizations for asthma by 2.3 percent.

Sheltered as we are by Earth's atmosphere and magnetic field, which deflect lethal radiation from space, we are like coddled children who have never ventured into a tough neighborhood.

When broken down by race, non-Hispanic white children had the largest change in terms of living in high - poverty neighborhoods.

The quality of the neighborhood where a child grows up has a significant impact on the number of problem behaviors they display during elementary and teenage years, a study led by Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health researchers suggests.

Adversity is commonly defined as anything children perceive as a threat to their physical safety or that jeopardizes their family or social structure, including emotional, physical or sexual abuse, neglect, bullying by peers, violence at home, parental divorce, separation or death, parental substance abuse, living in a neighborhood with high crime rates, homelessness, discrimination, poverty and the loss of a relative or another loved one.

«This distinction is important,» Currie said, «because unlike race, it is possible to change neighborhoods, either by finding and remediating the hazards that are causing higher asthma prevalence or by helping vulnerable children to move.»

She found that, among families with children, neighborhood income segregation is driven by increased income inequality in combination with a previously overlooked factor: school district options.

Neighborhoods are becoming less diverse and more segregated by income — but only among families with children, a new study has found.

These children lived in neighborhoods that, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, had excess nitrogen dioxide and tiny air pollution particles that are generated by automobiles and power plants, formally called particulate matter 2.5 (PM2.5).

Our study found that children exposed to neighborhoods characterized by concentrated disadvantage seem to be protected from the effects of the stressful environment — a protection that may be lost after puberty.»

Owens found that neighborhood racial segregation across the country appeared to be driven largely by white families with children who are choosing, consciously or not, to move to neighborhoods and school districts with fewer minorities.

September 26, 2016 Comer Children's wins $ 2M federal grant to help kids affected by violence The University of Chicago Medicine Comer Children's Hospital will provide screening and mental health care for hundreds of children and families that have been affected by violence in many of Chicago's South and West side neighbChildren's wins $ 2M federal grant to help kids affected by violence The University of Chicago Medicine Comer Children's Hospital will provide screening and mental health care for hundreds of children and families that have been affected by violence in many of Chicago's South and West side neighbChildren's Hospital will provide screening and mental health care for hundreds of children and families that have been affected by violence in many of Chicago's South and West side neighbchildren and families that have been affected by violence in many of Chicago's South and West side neighborhoods.

In an HBM poster from the 2012 meeting, You and colleagues reported using a «connectivity degree» — computed by counting, for each voxel, the number of voxels meeting a correlation threshold of r > 0.25 inside (local) and outside (distant) its neighborhood defined as a sphere of 14 mm radius (Sepulcre et al., 2010)-- to find that degree of functional connectivity was higher in 7 — 13 - year - old children with ASD than TD children (You et al., 2012).

October 19, 2011 Moving poor women to lower - poverty neighborhoods improves their health Low - income women with children who move from high - poverty to lower - poverty neighborhoods experience notable long - term improvements in some aspects of their health, namely reductions in diabetes and extreme obesity, according to a new study by researchers at the University of Chicago and partner institutions.

When I can't make it to the gym, I work out by... chasing my children, bike - riding with my family, and walking around the neighborhood while pushing the stroller.

A good one is mapsexoffender.com which allows you to search by name or by your neighborhood which is very important because your children may pass these homes going to and from school, when trick - or - treating, etc... And then of course, always do a free character check on WomanSavers.com to see what a man's past relationship history is.

At one point, he appears on television, in the wake of the massacre of school children and their teachers in Newtown, Conn. «These neighborhoods are our neighborhoods,» he says, referring to the places that have been devastated by gun violence.

Set in the tough, working class Boston neighborhood of Dorchester (home of Mark Wahlberg), Gone Baby Gone follows local private eyes (and lovers) Patrick Kenzie (Casey Affleck) and Angie Genarro (Michelle Monaghan) who are hired by the aunt and uncle (Amy Madigan and Titus Welliver, respectively) of missing neighborhood child Amanda McCready.

Film Review by Kam Williams Headline: Child Kidnapping Case at Center of Crime Saga Set in Blue - Collar Boston Neighborhood Seems that there's a renaissance of quality crime sagas set in blue - collar Boston neighborhoods afoot, most notably, this year's Academy Award - winning Best Picture, The Departed, and Mystic River, for which Sean Penn and Tim Robbins each earned Oscars.