Sentences with phrase «with folks in communities»

They haven't spent a lot of time alongside the community, working, volunteering, engaging with folks in communities of color, and low - income communities, so often there is a large detachment and disconnect in the conversations about the policies that are made and the actual realities happening in these communities.

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With no job and no money, they moved into «an old folks home» in Walnut Creek, a retirement community called Rossmoor.

I know that most people in my worshiping community have never heard of these folks — they're too busy housing homeless folks, working with the Interfaith Food Shuttle, and practicing the Prayer of Examen in our small groups.

I love how, when folks in the Jewish community confront Scripture, they don't freak out over its conflicts and tensions, but rather engaged them — and with enthusiasm!

Taking the article at «face value,» I don't really see anything wrong with a church ponying up some application fees to help folks in their respective communities apply.

My personal experience with folks in that particular community is that they LOVE this country, they are so happy to be here, and most of them raise their kids to be pretty Americanized.

Morality and ethics, like religion and theology, are observable in this literature, but they can be recovered only with a method capable of identifying moral values in what began as folk or community literature before it was made normative as religious canon.

More importantly, when atrocities happen in a subset of our community, why not let those folks know you hear them and you are with them?

In the space of a single generation Christian communities were established in most of the eastern provinces of the Roman empire, and as far west as Italy: a remarkable achievement for a society which started with a handful of humble folk from the small towns of a petty «native state»In the space of a single generation Christian communities were established in most of the eastern provinces of the Roman empire, and as far west as Italy: a remarkable achievement for a society which started with a handful of humble folk from the small towns of a petty «native state»in most of the eastern provinces of the Roman empire, and as far west as Italy: a remarkable achievement for a society which started with a handful of humble folk from the small towns of a petty «native state».

In my job as a community developer I work with folks from evangelical baptists to muslims, hindus, and atheists and I've found that with common respect we can all work towards a common good.

It had nothing to do with blessing a government or building an army — or creating a gated community of white folks in North America 2,000 years in the future.

Folks build their score by completing fitness, foodie and other challenges as well as engaging with others in the xocial community.

The idea to develop some sort of a pub community in Australia via the blog seems to be something that a lot of you want to get involved in and as such I will pursue the potential with the folks at Arsenal Australia.

Since then, I've worked very hard to have conversations with folks in the midwifery community, in a state with no regulation, about improving safety, establishing standards for both education and practice.

Connect with other like - minded folks in an online community.

I started blogging last April as a way to share more about our adventures in natural, simple living and connect more with the online community of like - minded folks.

And look for more broadcasts — perhaps including interviews with fascinating folks in the Epolitics.com community — in the months to come.

«You've got some folks with real experience in the business community like Antonio Perez, you've got some folks from the academic side, some folks from the public employee side, so they'll take a comprehensive look.»

«I've met with a number of folks in the community over the last few weeks and think we've found a lot of common ground.

I was lamenting the fact that an African American official has such poor relations with folks who are from the same cultural background as he, that he needs the intervention of someone from another race in order to connect with communities of color...» Mueller accuses Bryan of using bullying tactics.

Finally, in fall 2007, nine years after his run - in with Dursban, Killingsworth applied for Social Security disability, packed his belongings, and drove west in his Honda Civic to search for housing among a community of folks like himself — all suffering from what is loosely called «environmental illness» — in the remote high desert of Arizona.

Once that process begins, however, it can be self - reinforcing, as community members share their experience — and any wealth gained in the new country — with folks back home.

«The Big Quiet is to meditators what the Star Trek Convention is for Trekkies,» he said, «we've been holed up in our apartments meditating alone and finally we get to do it with a large community of like - minded folks.»

We frequently encounter the people we've hooked up with since we've opened ourselves to being involved with the folks in our local community.

im not against low carb at all, keto or original atkins are not my favorite ways to approach it, but Im very much in favor of certain types of low carb diets, particularly higher protein, diets with moderate carb restriction... i use low carb, hi - protein for contest prep myself... unfortunately, what pervades much of the low carb world still today, is this belief that calories do nt matter or calories do nt count or what you alluded to, that you can have a calorie deficit and not lose fat... whats really happening is that low carb / higher protein can be a very good way to automatically control appetite and calorie intake, and is also often important for some peoples health given their metabolic status (not very carb tolerant, etc)... its also unfortunate that many in the low carb community are among the ones to suggest that exercise is a waste of time, etc etc, which is also not true and does great disservice to many who listen... low carb does nt work due to some voodoo or because the law of thermodynamics does nt apply... it works mainly because it controls calories and for some people, helps them achieve calorie deficit better than other diets... when folks show up here and suggest «i was in a calorie deficit but wasnt losing» or «exercise does nt work» thats when we cant help but grimace... or chuckle...

I think these referrals are coming to us in part because of Unity Woods» reputation for having highly experienced teachers that teach yoga safely and effectively; in part because we teach Iyengar Yoga, which is known for precision, alignment, and being intentionally therapeutic; and in part because yoga is generally perceived inside and outside the medical community as an effective tool for helping folks with a vast range of symptoms and conditions.

This was the third in a series of annual Iyengar Yoga regional conferences intended to showcase up and coming regional Iyengar teachers, give folks in different parts of the country the opportunity to study with the nation's most senior Iyengar Yoga teachers, and reach out to the broader community.

As with most things, folks who lacked the expertise to properly engage in the discussion put their two cents in anyway, and a huge amount of misinformation was spread to the competitive community.

With this resource, you can learn how to rock your dating profile and attract fun and interesting folks in the BBW community.

Also, we help our users share opinions and ideas with other folks in their community.

Instead, you could interact with the folks who are really attracted to you in the right community.

I left my farm in 2010 and have been traveling, looking for a new home with a good community of folks.

Long term I'm hoping to find some folks who are interested in building sustainable community, and extra long term hopefully a queer land project that functions with consensus decision making, self...

We're teaming up with the folks at Super Rare Games to host an exclusive giveaway for members in our community.

Since «Guffman» in 1996, when Guest revived the pseudo-documentary approach he had helped pioneer with «This Is Spinal Tap,» his movies in that style have focused on show biz of some sort — community musical theater, a dog show, a folk concert reunion — and the laughs stem from the characters» ambivalence about indulging their wildest ambitions, and their inestimable faith in the magnitude of their (or their dogs») own talents.

By Sean O'Connell Hollywoodnews.com: With the majority of the film community turning its collective attentions to San Diego for the brewing publicity storm that is Comic - Con, the good folks at Fantastic Fest in Austin have decided to steal a little thunder of their own by announcing the first wave of programming.

We put up with all of this because, as charter schools, we're granted the autonomy to provide educational services in a way that makes sense to us, and we are free to experiment with new models and create the innovative, exciting public schools to which folks in our communities want to send their kids.

TSJ forum with parents, students, teachers, and community folk from Beverly, to Bronzeville, to Pilsen, to Ravenswood in a dialogue about where we go from here.

«A final piece of the decision making process for us is to get eyeball - to - eyeball with folks, parents, teachers, folks in the community and hear what they have to say about the school to feel like we've got a full picture before we make a final decision,» said Chris Barbic, superintendent of the ASD, who said that, among the schools» struggles, there are good things happening in each of the buildings.

AT&T's PR says no official update has started, but that's in disagreement with our inbox — and with AT&T's own community forums, which sport several folks saying they're getting the 336 - megabyte update to Android 4.1.2, Build E97020j.

There seems to be no shortage of folks having issues with the software in the CrackBerry forums but like a good friend tells yells at me «Don't come to me with problems unless you have solutions to offer as well» - so this is me, reaching out to the community for solutions to the problems.

Developing this community by reading other contemporary books in your genre, promoting those books on your own social media, and connecting with those folks (in that order, please) is one of the best things you can do to set yourself up for success.

And, thanks to the Internet's worldwide platform for community, there are author - bloggers with vast followings and bustling commentary sections on their sites — these folks, too, are de-facto political figures, some of them tireless firebrands in rallying the self - publishing legions like eloquent carnival barkers at an international fair.

I'd like to recommend you be in touch with the folks at Beyond Paper Editing http://beyondpaperediting/blogspot.com — Carla Douglas and Corinna MacLeod there are Canadian and are very attuned to these developing movements in the entrepreneurial - author community.

«Affordable apartments in Mesa» has different meanings to different people, but most folks expect that affordable means they'll get just an apartment instead of a community with all the amenities residents should expect.

After all, we want to make friends with nice people, and people who give to charity are also more likely to be involved in community organizations where they can meet likeminded folks.

When I teach the Neighborhood Cats Trap - Neuter - Return Certification Workshop in NYC, we start off with a section on community outreach — which often confuses folks who are just there to learn about helping cats.

Considering the benefits in stress reduction demonstrated with sleepovers, Gunter and Feuerbacher hope that folks in the community will be more inclined to get involved with their local shelter and give short - term fostering a try.

Evon's own learning experiences about TNR and the difference it makes in controlling community cat populations and improving community relations has made her empathetic and patient with folks who are unaware of TNR.

Start a Program: Offsite Neonatal Care for Kittens In order to reduce the number of neonate kittens entering the shelter and to increase community involvement, Miami - Dade Animal Services launched the Milkman Program, where ACOs provide training and neonate care kits to folks who have called to report kittens with no mama.