Sentences with phrase «communities experiencing changes»

Pupils use their creative writing skills to communicate the experience of people living in communities experiencing changes to their climate.

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When you join a coding bootcamp you are entering into a life - changing experience, one that will teach you new technical skills and provide you with a community of current students, alumni and hiring partners who all share similar values and perspectives on learning.
The Ontario government and MaRS Discovery District are helping promising young leaders gain the knowledge, skills and experience they need to make positive social changes in their communities and across the province with an innovative new program.
I will find ways to learn from this difficult experience — and to help drive necessary changes in the broader venture community
Pure Barre Riverside was born out of her passion and prayers to help others experience the life - changing technique and community.
Exceptional track records and extensive collective experience puts us in a unique position to impact meaningful change to the crypto community.
This includes designing policy programs to provide detailed information about the changing Chinese economy, to develop platforms for sharing experiences and expertise among investing firms, and to mobilize the knowledge bases of transnational immigrant communities in Canada.
If the concepts of relational power and aesthetic value are accepted as more adequate categories for understanding human experience than those arising from substance metaphysics, then we must obviously change our images of ideal personhood and ideal communities.
This overall agenda would not differ from those of most liberal Protestant or Jewish groups — except in the high level of consensus, and in the fact that the most important religious goal for UUs is «a community for shared values» (rather than theology or personal growth or social change or experiences of transcendence).
In reality, Novak notes, «the ancient debate between the person and the community [has] been changed by the American experience
I think that what all these changes add up to is the statement that nothing extraordinary is going on, that what is happening is a gathering of ordinary people enjoying the experience of community.
The experience of Paul and of the New Testament community and the total history of the Church gives helpful amplification if we do not distort it into supposing that the change involved in becoming a Christian must always come about in just the same way.
Moreover, in the life of an individual or a community the experience of faith may be found to ebb and flow according to changing circumstances.
In addition to all of the beauty, dignity, and goodness that I experienced, I was caught in the thicket of complexities, and systemic injustices, the importance of community development for long - term change instead of isolated aid (which can often hurt more than it helps, in the long run).
In describing and accounting for the lives of the Religious Right, which we define simply as religious conservatives with a considerable involvement in political activity, the book and the series tell the story primarily by focusing on leading episodes in the movement's history, including, but not limited to, the groundwork laid by Billy Graham in his relationships with presidents and other prominent political leaders; the resistance of evangelical and other Protestants to the candidacy of the Roman Catholic John F. Kennedy; the rise of what has been called the New Right out of the ashes of Barry Goldwater's defeat in 1964; a battle over sex education in Anaheim, California, in the mid-1960's; a prolonged cultural war over textbooks in West Virginia in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and state.
Our ways of entertaining the experience, of interpreting the Bible, of living in the community change, but the pattern itself is exhaustlessly both beyond change and yet present for change.
... The kosher community rises to the challenge of helping Jewish poor this past Passover... Chicago's kosher scene to experience reset as Hungarian Kosher changes hands... Kosher caterers are a key part of the lucrative Passover resort program... Kosher options expand in Las Vegas... Record number of ads placed in pre-Passover blitz... In My Sixth Sense, I look at spending Passover at a luxury resort... Eda Kram in her New Product Showcase covers new Olive Turkey Breasts.
Changes are coming to LB in an attempt to improve the community experience.
Becoming a parent is a life changing experience, so it's essential that new parents have the resources at hand to explain the options and services available to them in both the workplace and wider community.
The NAYS Academy provides administrators with a strong foundation of knowledge on a variety of topics and issues pertaining to managing youth sports programs in today's ever - changing environment, as well as the tools to positively impact the youth sports experience for all children in their communities.
Both chefs have hands - on experience in district - wide food services transition, including the challenges that districts and community partners face as they decide to address large - scale system change.
Kesem is the largest national organization dedicated to this unique population, and for many children their Camp Kesem experience is a life - changing event — providing them a community of children with similar experiences, and a safe and welcoming environment to have fun and rediscover their childhood.
In the Changing Childbirth in BC research project, a steering group of women of childbearing age from different cultural and socio - economic backgrounds engaged multiple stakeholders, as well as leaders from NGOs, researchers, and community agencies, to examine women's experiences with maternity care in British Columbia (BC).
Her previous work experience includes the Center for Community Change as a policy analyst on transportation issues and Housing Comes First, Missouri's statewide low - income housing coalition, as director of tenant organizing.
Eastern and southeastern Massachusetts have undergone the most change, but virtually every community in the Commonwealth has experienced rapid growth driven by economic and demographic factors.
As IYCN completes five years of project implementation, our team members from five countries will share challenges, experiences, and future directions for reaching caregivers and communities to change behaviors and improve maternal and child nutrition.
• Assumptions about different cultural groups and how they impact breastfeeding support • Shoshone and Arapaho tribal breastfeeding traditions shared through oral folklore • Barriers to decreasing health disparities in infant mortality for African Americans • Effects of inflammation and trauma on health disparities that result in higher rates of infant mortality among minority populations • Barriers to breastfeeding experienced by Black mothers and how lactation consultants can support them more effectively • Social support and breastfeeding self - efficacy among Black mothers • Decreasing pregnancy, birth, and lactation health disparities in the urban core • Positive changes in breastfeeding rates within the African American community • Grassroots breastfeeding organizations serving African American mothers
I have to say my opinion of this title has changed drastically based on my own personal experience in producing this show and working with the breastfeeding community.
A safe, open community allows you to freely discuss any issues, from discomforts and concerns, to the wonderful new changes your body and baby are experiencing.
Our safe, welcoming, open community allows you to freely discuss any issues or concerns and share the wonderful new changes you and your baby are experiencing.
«For me this has been a phenomenal experience, I made history as the first Latino (in serving as Secretary of State) and we have reaped many successes because I've had a phenomenal employees but things change, the governor decided not to stand for election and me that was very important,» said Cortes - Vazquez, who also noted that his new job is but a continuation of their work to community service.
«A lot of the hostility to Europe as I experienced it in Barking and Dagenham comes from a hostility to immigration and the changing nature of their communities,» she explained.
Given the severe hurricanes, tropical storms and flooding that we've experienced over the past few years related to climate change, promoting disaster preparedness and community resilience and supporting our first responders is a very high priority for me, as is mitigating climate change.
She has had experiences with reporters who thought the scientific community «didn't know anything» when she expressed caveats and uncertainty around a complex topic (such as how mosquito - borne diseases in the U.S. - Mexico border region may be affected by climate change).
The researchers looked specifically at the average fishing revenue in 106 Alaskan communities for 10 years before and after 1989, a year when the North Pacific Ocean experienced a significant shift in productivity and abrupt changes in the composition of marine food webs, while at the same time the global price for salmon dropped because of competition from farm - raised fish.
In addition, the community's experience with the recent decrease in the rate at which NIH can pay individual's salaries, from Executive Level I of the Federal Executive Pay Scale ($ 199,700) in FY2011 to Executive Level II ($ 179,700) in FY2012, may provide useful information about the effects of changes in salary support.
With focused training, people with little formal education but important life experiences and a passion to serve their communities can become change agents to overcome these very tough problems.»
«Over the next few decades, the majority of birds currently found across the National Park System are expected to experience changes in climate conditions, which on average may lead to turnover of nearly a quarter of the bird community per park,» says Gregor Schuurman, co-author on the study.
He called the experience life - changing as it combined his interests in medicine, research, and community service.
Finally, none of the teams experienced a shift in Shannon - Wiener diversity or evenness, which would be expected in an exercise - driven community shift, since metabolically active bacteria might come to dominate the community with a change in pH, temperature and moisture at the skin surface.
And it's also designed to provide a springboard for those of you who take notice and experience changes in your communities, and wish to share what you've witnessed.
She has over a decade of experience developing new strategies to reduce the impacts of climate change on tropical marine ecosystems and developing tools and guidance to help managers and communities to respond.
In 1996, in response to these concerns, Varmus, then director of NIH, impaneled a group of experienced clinical investigators and academic health center administrators to make recommendations that might guide the NIH toward policy changes to alleviate the concerns in the clinical research community.14 Several of the panel's recommendations have been implemented, including increased support of the General Clinical Research Center budget, expanded support of training in clinical research, and the establishment of NIH - sponsored educational debt relief programs for clinical investigators.15 - 18 The panel also recommended restructuring of NIH peer review groups so that patient - oriented grant applications would be evaluated by study sections in which at least half the grant applications involve patient - oriented research.
It's a lifestyle shift, a way of existing that will forever change how you experience your relationship to yourself, your community, your work and your life.
Both research and experience continuously show that having a supportive community is not only important but often required to create sustainable lifestyle change.
We invite you to join our inclusive community for this life - changing experience!
Her experience in social change movements and managing charitable organizations has been extremely helpful when working with schools and community organizations to implement yoga and mindfulness programs for children.
The program helps you deepen self - knowledge, integrate as a valued working member of the community and take away a life - changing experience.
Members of the LGBTQ community have pushed for this change in online dating, as they have felt excluded and left out of the conversation as more features are added and improvements made to the online dating experience — except when it comes to their needs and preferences.
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