Photographic exhibition pays tribute to Patti Bell's contribution to the city.

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Childrens Society chief executive Mark Russell writes about their Look Closer campaign.

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Perch saves Canadians money, enables transparency and provides more people with the ability to become homeowners. Our novel approach to data science allows us to produce timely and actionable insights that empower individuals to make better financial decisions that ultimately result in the accumulation of personal wealth. The Role Perch is seeking our Product Design Lead. In addition to being the strongest product designer on the team, the successful candidate will also lead and grow the design team all while maturing, documenting and evangelizing design best practices across the business. Your efforts will enable effective scaling in our approach to design and contribute to conquering our business objectives. Must haves: 3+ years of experience in a Senior Product Designer Role in which you directly interfaced with stakeholders and engineering teams. Hands-on experience working with product managers and other designers to develop the requirements behind, and the rationale for, new products and features. Demonstrable strategic insight and experience creating and implementing internal frameworks and strategy that lead to a cohesive, scalable and maintainable design practices. Experience leading a multi-disciplinary design team in which you fostered and leveled-up your direct reports. Expert understanding and insight into front end frameworks / reusable design, etc. (e.g. Bootstrap, Material or the like). You will be expected to demonstrate systems you've previously leveraged to develop scalable web design systems. Ability to communicate and lead best practices for prototyping and tools used to explore and convey design solutions. Advanced user in a prominent design tool (preferably Figma) Be an independent thinker that will challenge your colleague's opinions and is okay with being challenged themselves. Strong written and verbal communication skills and the ability to speak/read/write fluently in English. Comfortable taking ownership in situations of ambiguity, making judgment calls to the best of your ability to keep a project moving forward. Experience in rapid translation of requirements into low/mid fidelity wireframes and user flows to validate assumptions and interactions. Ability to multitask projects (like capital gains calculator) and prioritize effectively. Nice to Haves Experience in a start-up environment Experience in mortgages or the financial services industry What you'll be doing Bring creativity to the conversation as we ideate and define product requirements, solutions to our user's challenges and inevitably define new products and add features to improve existing ones. Expand on and mature an extensible, developer friendly design system that leads to improved cohesiveness and velocity across the product design discipline at Perch. Collaborate with our marketing team and brand designers on design experiments to continuously improve conversion and user satisfaction. Identify and lead user research initiatives that help Perch further extend its lead as the best home ownership management platform in the market. Enforce and maintain consistent brand identity across the company, our products and our overall web presence. Lead and foster a team of designers and external resources such as agencies and contractors. Who you are As a product designer, you are able to visualize the happy path and potential pain points for a user by putting yourself in their shoes. The ability to ask the right questions upfront and probe the team on potential designs helps you accomplish more and improve the end result for everyone. You don't only act on gut instinct and realize when further research is required, being comfortable conducting customer interviews, interpreting analytics, proposing A/B tests, etc. As a leader, you will define and enforce an effective framework that will enable rapid development and cohesion of our product while managing your design resources effectively. Your creativity will inspire others and bring new ideas to life. Your involvement will be across the entire platform and you will exert a high degree of influence over the full platform's design. As a team member, you operate at a fast pace and you are comfortable juggling multiple projects simultaneously without compromising on quality. You will constructively challenge opinions when you see an opportunity to do better and welcome being challenged.

Two things:

1. Narrow your focus to your sphere of influence, just for now, because in this moment of helplessness and defeat, when we are feeling powerless, it behooves us to remember we do have immense power. Kamala Harris was never going to bring a casserole to your neighbor when their spouse was in the hospital, that's you. Donald Trump cannot steal the laughter from your friends' lips when you tell them a joke, that laughter is entirely in your power. You have the power to choose connection, fellowship, mutual aid, joy, hard work, love, passion, devotion, faith. To me, remembering that I have power is cause for hope.

2. When you're out there using your power to connect with your fellow human beings, look for the helpers. Take heart in their existence, their perseverance. Do everything you can to become one of them.

I work in a women's health clinic that does first-term abortions as one of its services.

We have a comment form on our web site where people who want to volunteer as patient escorts can reach out. Typically, we get about one or two inquiries a week.

Yesterday alone, we got twenty-five.

I'm usually allergic to a lot of the way "find the bright side" kind of things are framed, but this extended quotation from Great Tide Rising by Kathleen Dean Moore came across my Mastodon feed and really resonated with me.

Over the years, college students have often come to my office distraught, unable to think of what they might be able to do to stop the terrible losses caused by an industrial growth economy run amok. So much dying, so much destruction. I tell them about Mount Saint Helens, the volcano that blasted a hole in the Earth in 1980, only a decade before they were born.

Those scientists were so wrong back in 1980, I tell my students. When they first climbed from the helicopters, holding handkerchiefs over their faces to filter ash from the Mount Saint Helens eruption, they did not think they would live long enough to see life restored to the blast zone. Every tree was stripped gray, every ridgeline buried in cinders, every stream clogged with toppled trees and ash. If anything would grow here again, they thought, its spore and seed would have to drift in from the edges of the devastation, long dry miles across a plain of cinders and ash. The scientists could imagine that– spiders on silk parachutes drifting over rubble and plain, a single samara spinning into the shade of a pumice stone. It was harder to imagine the time required for flourishing to return to the mountains – all the dusty centuries.

But here they are today: On the mountain, only thirty-five years later, these same scientists are on their knees, running their hands over beds of moss below lupine in lavish purple bloom. Tracks of mice and fox wander along a stream, and here, beside a ten-foot silver fir, a coyote's twisted scat grows mushrooms. What the scientists know now, but didn't understand then, is that when the mountain blasted ash and rock across the landscape, the devastation passed over some small places hidden in the lee of rocks and trees. Here, a bed of moss and deer fern under a rotting log. There under a boulder, a patch of pearly everlasting and the tunnel to a vole's musty nest. Between stones in a buried stream, a slick of algae and clustered dragonfly larvae. Refugia, they call them: places of safety where life endures. From the refugia, mice and toads emerged blinking onto the blasted plain. Grasses spread, strawberries sent out runners. From a thousand, ten thousand, maybe countless small places of enduring life, forests and meadows returned to the mountain.

I have seen this happen. I have wandered the edge of Mount Saint Helens vernal pools with ecologists brought to unscientific tears by the song of meadowlarks in this place.

My students have been taught, as they deserve to be, that the fossil-fueled industrial growth culture has brought the world to the edge of catastrophe. They don't have to "believe in" climate change to accept this claim. They understand the decimation of plant and animal species, the poisons, the growing deserts and spreading famine, the rising oceans and melting ice. If it's true that we can't destroy our habitats without destroying our lives, as Rachel Carson said, and if it's true that we are in the process of laying waste to the planet, then our ways of living will come to an end – some way or another, sooner or later, gradually or catastrophically – and some new way of life will begin. What are we supposed to do? What is there to hope for at the end of this time? Why brother trying to patch up the world while so many others seem intent on wrecking it?

These are terrifying questions for an old professor; thank god for the volcano's lesson. I tell them about the rotted stump that sheltered spider eggs, about a cupped cliff that saved a fern, about all the other refugia that brought life back so quickly to the mountain. If destructive forces are building under our lives, then our work in this time and place, I tell them, is to create refugia of the imagination. Refugia, places where ideas are sheltered and encouraged to grow.

Even now, we can create small pockets of flourishing, and we can make ourselves into overhanging rock ledges to protect life so that the full measure of possibility can spread and reseed the world. Doesn't matter what it is, I tell my students; if it's generous to life, imagine it into existence. Create a bicycle cooperative, a seed-sharing community, a wildlife sanctuary on the hill below the church. Raise butterflies with children. Sing duets to the dying. Tear out the irrigation system and plant native grass. Imagine water pumps. Imagine a community garden in the Kmart parking lot. Study ancient corn. Teach someone to sew. Learn to cook with the full power of the sun at noon.

We don't have to start from scratch. We can restore pockets of flourishing life ways that have been damaged over time. Breach a dam. Plant a riverbank. Vote for schools. Introduce the neighbors to one another's children. Celebrate the solstice. Slow a river course with a fallen log. Tell stories of how indigenous people live on the land. Clear the grocery carts out of the stream.

Maybe most effective of all, we can protect refugia that already exist. They are all around us. Protect the marshy ditch behind the mall. Work to ban poisons from the edges of the road. Save the hedges in your neighborhood. Boycott what you don't believe in. Refuse to participate in what is wrong. There is hope in this: An attention that notices and celebrates thriving where it occurs; a conscience that refuses to destroy it.

From these sheltered pockets of moral imagining, and from the protected pockets of flourishing, new ways of living will spread across the land, across the salt plains and beetle killed forests. Here is how life will start anew. Not from the edges over centuries of invasion; rather from small pockets of good work, shaped by an understanding that all life is interdependent, and driven by the one gift humans have that belongs to no other: practical imagination – the ability to imagine that things can be different from what they are now.

Copyright 2020 NPR. To see more, visit MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: Last Monday, the Trump administration announced changes to the student visa program that would require international students at universities to take at least one in-person class this fall. That means students have to physically be on campus or leave the U.S. The changes could jeopardize the status of hundreds of thousands of students, so we've called on Dwayne McCay for more perspective on this. He is the president of the Florida Institute of Technology, known as Florida Tech. International students make up about a third of the student body there, and he's with us now to tell us his thoughts about this. President McCay, welcome. Thank you for joining us. DWAYNE MCCAY: Oh, I'm very happy to, Michel. Thank you. MARTIN: Would you just mind telling us a bit more about your student body? We said about a third are international. You know, where do they come from? And what do they study? MCCAY: Well, you know, we're a technological

That's it. Given this terrible, horrible, no good week, I'd like to hang onto some signs of hope. They don't have to be political, anything will do.

Why did John write his Gospel? Did he wish to emphasize Jesus’ miracles? Or to emphasize some specific teachings of Jesus? What was the reason for writing what he did? This week we’re going to look in John at some of Jesus’ early miracles—from His turning water to wine at a wedding, to restoring to health someone’s very sick son, to the healing of the man at the pool of Bethesda.

This week’s lesson looks at three of Jesus’ greatest signs of His divinity. What is striking is that in every case some people did not believe the miracle or perceive its significance. For some it was a time of turning away from Jesus; for others, a time for deepening blindness; and for others, a time to plot Jesus’ death. And, for others—a time to believe that Jesus was the Messiah.

The world population is going up, and human-wildlife overlap is increasing. That can lead to negative outcomes, including spread of disease and species extinction. There can be benefits, too, but it will require some planning. That's the focus of a new study out of the University of Michigan. WEMU's David Fair spoke with Associate Professor in Conservation Science Dr. Neil Carter about the study and what can be done right here in Washtenaw County.

It's hard for doctors to do a thorough eye exam on infants. They tend to wiggle around — the babies, that is, not the doctors. But a new smart phone app takes advantage of parents' fondness for snapping pictures of their children to look for signs that a child might be developing a serious eye disease. The app is the culmination of one father's the five-year quest to find a way to catch the earliest signs of eye disease, and prevent devastating loss of vision. Five years ago, NPR reported the story of Bryan Shaw 's son Noah, and how he lost an eye to cancer. Doctors diagnosed Noah Shaw's retinoblastoma when he was 4 months old. To make the diagnosis, the doctors shined a light into Noah's eye, and got a pale reflection from the back of the eyeball, an indication that there were tumors there. Noah's father Bryan is a scientist. He wondered if he could see that same pale reflection in flash pictures his wife was always taking of his baby son. Sure enough, he saw the reflection or glow,

Signups for the 2024 MetaFilter Gift Swap are now open! The Metafilter Gift Swap takes place annually from roughly November - December. Each participant sends a gift to an awesome Mefite; each participant receives a gift from an awesome Mefite. Awesomeness and gifts abound.

The dates this year are: Signups: Now (10/21) - Nov 9 Assignments: Nov 10 - 15 Send-by: Dec 8 As in the past, the standard gift guidance is $20 USD. Signing Up There will be a link at the end of this post. Follow it! We need an actual MeFi username, an email address you check, your name & mailing address, and some good guidance for the person who draws your name. You will get a confirmation email that will show you the information you submitted. It will come from Google Forms and it will look like the form you just filled out. Please check your spam/junk mail folder. If you do not get this confirmation within 48 hours, send an email to the swap Gmail account (metafiltergiftswap@gmail.com). If you have not gotten a confirmation email, you may not be signed up or you entered the wrong email address. We can fix that. Fun Fact: Every year, several people accidentally typo their own email addresses, which leads to confusion and consternation, and sometimes no gift for someone until late in the season. You will get your draw via email. It will contain key information about the person you will be gifting: MeFi username, a real world name, mailing address, and hopefully helpful guidance from the person you drew. It should allow you to get off to a running start. If you are having trouble putting together your guidance section, ocherdraco put together a list of questions to help you focus. You don't have to answer all (or any of) the questions, but this is a good place to start if you are stumped by the Guidance section. We will not share, abuse, or sell any of your information. The person who draws your name will not get your email address. We will delete all emails sent and received at the end of the exchange season, as well as all personally identifiable information. The Rules 1) Email us or use the gift trackinator when you mail your gift out, along with the tracking number(s) if available. 2) Email us when you receive your gift, even if you're going to wait to open it. 3) Please either post in the main gift exchange thread when you open your gift, or contact your gifter directly. We get a LOT of emails from people who put time, energy, and a great deal of care into selecting and mailing gifts, and they want to make sure it gets to you okay. Please help us ensure that's as smooth as possible. =) If you failed to send your giftee a gift last year without working it out with us, you're ineligible to participate this year. If you do try to sign up, your name will be removed from the swap. You can try again next year, but two strikes and you will be out. If you find that you can't participate after signing up but before the draw, after all, send an email to the swap Gmail account (metafiltergiftswap@gmail.com). We'll remove your entry. If you find that you can't participate at all after the draw, please send an email to that same Gmail account as soon as possible so we can contact the folks who drew you and whom you drew and redirect or reassign as appropriate. If you do not think you can mail a gift in a reasonable amount of time, please do not participate. It's not OK to plan now on finding and sending your gift after your life calms down in January or late December or on Valentines Day. Hey! You have a question! We're happy to serve as anonymizing middlepeople if you have a question for your recipient, to send messages to your recipient on your behalf, to find out if a package has been sent or has been received. Send us an email at our Gmail address (metafiltergiftswap@gmail.com), and we'll see what we can find out for you. A Note About the Swap Groups If we do not get enough people to do a swap in a group, we will contact folks in the underpopulated swap groups to see what can be done before the swap. In 2022, we removed the International Spirit group due to low participation and reverted back to a single International (Physical) group; that remains in effect this year. A Note about International Shipping We STRONGLY recommend mailing as early as possible if you are going to send anything internationally, especially if the US is involved. Customs holds up lots of packages for varying amounts of time (with some, it seems forever). If you sign up for the International option, please be aware that shipping times may stretch out longer than you'd prefer. Signing up for the international swap does not guarantee that you will get a gift from and/or will send a gift to someone outside of the country in which you live (particularly if you live in the USA). If you specifically do want to send/receive internationally, please note that at the end of the sign-up form and we'll do our best to accommodate. 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Updated at 8:47 a.m. ET The coronavirus pandemic has pushed unemployment to its highest level since the Great Depression, but the pace of layoffs has been easing. And there are now some signs that the job market could slowly start to recover. The Labor Department says another 1.87 million people filed claims for unemployment insurance last week. That's down 249,000 from the previous week. While still very high by historical standards, the number has been declining steadily from a peak of 6.8 million the week ending March 28. In the past 11 weeks, 42.6 million new claims have been filed. Continued claims for unemployment went up 649,000, to 21.5 million, in the week ending May 23, the latest week for which data was available, after dropping the prior week. While some workers continue to get pink slips, others have started going back to work. The payroll processor ADP reported Wednesday that private-sector employers cut just under 2.8 million jobs between April and May. That's a much

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Panelistas ven positivo el regreso de Mancuso al país para que se conozca una verdad integral sobre el paramilitarismo y sus nexos con política.

Panelistas criticaron respuesta del gobierno ante abusos policiales; creen que actitud se debe a falta de justicia; y de asumir responsabilidades.

Panelistas creen que recientes informes indican que lucha antinarcóticos debe tener un amplio componente social, así como de erradicación.

Expertos hablaron del significado y origen de tradiciones como la noche de velitas; el árbol de navidad; el pesebre y el nacimiento de Jesús.

Panelistas analizaron resultados de la encuesta Invamer Poll; debatieron sobre el pesimismo en varios frentes; la imagen de alcaldes y sobre las figuras que empiezan a sonar para las elecciones del 2022.

Panelistas creen que se debe diferenciar el Día de la Mujer; del día de los derechos de las mujeres. Creen que hace mucha falta un enfoque de política pública en asuntos de género.

Panelistas analizaron los retos de capitalización que tiene el BID; de los logros de Barranquilla durante la Asamblea y de la necesidad de mirar los problemas reales del país.

Panelistas consideran que la propuesta del presidente Petro tendría efectos en la inflación y que el gobierno debe priorizar la implementación del Acuerdo de 2016.

Panelistas analizaron las altas temperaturas que se han registrado en el planeta los últimos días y debatieron sobre las acciones necesarias. También un balance sobre el primer año del gobierno Petro en materia ambiental.

La ministra Aurora Vergara y tres expertos explican las implicaciones de la ley estatutaria que busca que la educación sea considerada un derecho fundamental.

Panelistas consideran que el reconocimiento de un bien debe ser producto de un consenso y de un proceso en el que la sociedad se reconozca.

Panelistas analizaron el impacto político que tiene la imputación de cargos, las consecuencias en el acuerdo nacional y lo que implica llamar a movilizaciones.

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Peter Kafka returns to the show to discuss the news from Apple’s “Time Flies” event — new Apple Watches, new non-Pro iPads, and particularly the Apple One services bundle.

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Escuche el programa de este martes 5 de noviembre. La Luciérnaga, un espacio de humor y opinión de Caracol Radio que desde hace 31 años acompaña a sus oyentes en su regreso casa.

Llega a Bogotá la semana del Pisco, un evento para homenjear la bebida insignia de Perú.

En Caracol Radio estuvo el secretario de Salud de Cali conversando sobre las medidas que realiza la Alcaldía ante el pico de casos de dengue

En 6AM Hoy por Hoy, el exembajador de EE.UU. en Colombia, Kevin Whitaker, ofrece un análisis sobre el significado del ‘Supermartes’ para las candidaturas de Joe Biden y Donald Trump.

En Caracol Radio estuvo el profesor de la Universidad del Rosario Mauricio Jaramillo Jassir, desarrollando un análisis de la medida del presidente Petro

En mayo de 2024, el recaudo tributario bruto de la Dian fue de $30.26 billones de pesos, un aumento nominal de 17,8% y real de 11% frente a mayo de 2023.

Aseguran que el grupo guerrillero volvió al secuestro y al recrudecimiento de la violencia en el país

Se trata de un disco duro y una memoria de dos computadores portátiles asignados a la oficina de la exalta Consejera de Regiones, Sandra Ortiz, implicada en el escándalo de corrupción de la UNGRD.