The Power of Failure -If You Want Girls to Succeed, You Have to Let Them Fail
By Kay Bolden in Medium
After a week of cool but unusually sunny weather in southern Scotland, I arrived in Fort William, ready to tackle an easy trail on Ben Nevis. I needed to get my first lungful of Highland air, and stock supplies for the next 7 days of hiking the Great Glen Way.
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Sesame and the IRC join forces to help Syrian refugee children
Sesame Workshop and International Rescue Committee are collaborating to teach children how to handle tough emotions. The new Sesame edition is being made with refugee kids in mind
(Why) the Future is Feminine
By umair haque in Medium
Why Women are Changing a Dystopian World of Male Violence, While Men are Busy…Being Men.
There’s a strange and awesome thing happening in the world today. The most radical and transformative leaders are all…women. Or at least mostly women.
The True Story Behind the Harriet Tubman Movie and the Reverse Underground Railroad
By Meilan Solly in Smithsonian.com
Harriet Tubman’s first act as a free woman was poignantly simple. As she later told biographer Sarah Bradford, after crossing the Pennsylvania state boundary line in September 1849, “I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person. There was such a glory over everything; the sun came like gold through the trees, and over the fields, and I felt like I was in Heaven.”
Monitor with health expertise pledges to keep watch on HCA-Mission deal
Gibbins Advisors, the independent monitoring firm just hired to keep HCA Healthcare accountable for the promises it made during its acquisition of Mission Health, says it will keep its ear to the ground, both inside the health system and across the community.
The Nashville, Tenn.-based health care consulting firm, which provides restructuring and financial advisory services to clients across the industry, will serve as the independent monitor, mandated by the N.C. Department of Justice as part of the HCA-Mission deal. CLICK HERE TO CONTINUE
JUST SAY NO! To Protect Open Greenway Space on the French Broad River
By Karen Cragnolin
What is Jettie Rae’s Seafood Restaurant?
Jettie Rae’s is a proposed new seafood restaurant in the middle of the new greenway and sidewalk project along Riverside Drive, across from the Cotton Mill Studios and directly on the river in the *riparian area. The proposed new restaurant is 5,500 square feet, has 36 parking spaces, a pavilion and open lawn and a public restroom that will be only open when the restaurant is open.
Why are concerned citizens raising red flags and voicing concerns about this proposed restaurant?
Women At Ernst & Young Instructed On How To Dress, Act Nicely Around Men
ISABELLA CARAPELLA / HUFFPOST
When women speak, they shouldn’t be shrill. Clothing must flatter, but short skirts are a no-no. After all, “sexuality scrambles the mind.” Women should look healthy and fit, with a “good haircut” and “manicured nails.”
These were just a few pieces of advice that around 30 female executives at Ernst & Young received at a training held in the accounting giant’s gleaming new office in Hoboken, New Jersey, in June 2018. CLICK HERE TO CONTINUE
Celebrating Jennifer Siebel Newsom and her film, THE GREAT AMERICAN LIE
NORTH CAROLINA POLICY WATCH – Legislators close to cobbling together major sexual assault reforms
The N.C. General Assembly meets in the State Legislative Building in Raleigh. A conference committee is currently working on a package of sexual assault reforms that would go to lawmakers for an up-or-down vote. Frank Taylor / Carolina Public Press
Two loopholes in North Carolina’s sexual assault laws could close as legislators hammer out last-minute changes to three bills in a bipartisan conference committee this week.
If someone continues with sexual activity after a partner withdraws consent, it is currently a crime everywhere in the United States — except in North Carolina, thanks to a judge’s precedent-setting ruling 40 years ago.
“The General Assembly did not put this into statute,” said Skye David, an attorney for the N.C. Coalition Against Sexual Assault. “With that being said, the General Assembly has had 40 full years to change it.” Click here to continue
NATALIE SEBER: Automobile Leasing vs. Purchasing 101
While shopping for a new car, many people find themselves facing the same question: Should I buy or should I lease? To start moving toward an informed answer, first ask yourself “What do I want out of this vehicle, and how will I be using it?”
NEW POST – ERA North Carolina Alliance
Responses to Arguments Against the Equal Rights Amendment
By Audrey Muck
I’m Over 40 and My Style Icon is 17
Lily Lines – The Washington Post
This shouldn’t be so hard. I just need to put clothes on my body so I can leave the house. So why am I standing paralyzed in my closet with a pair of boots in one hand and leopard-print flats in the other, feeling tears welling behind my eyelashes?
As a middle-aged suburban mom who works from home, I find getting dressed both a conundrum and an emotional minefield. There is no longer an easy prescription to follow when I’m choosing what to wear.
ANATTASATI MAGGA – an Independent Buddhist Sangha for the Laity
Welcome
Thank you for inquiring into our Buddhist practice. You’re invited to explore our website anattasatimagga.org to see the richness of our Sangha and welcome to attend our weekly Sunday meditation and Dharma talks, 9:30-11:30am.
VIRGINIA FLIPS BOTH CHAMBERS to PRO ERA LAWMAKERS
Virginia expected to ratify ERA bill in January 2020.
What an amazing night ending in a momentous development for the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA). On Tuesday, Virginia flipped its legislature to a majority of pro-ERA lawmakers, setting the state up to become the 38th state necessary to ratify the ERA as early as January 2020.
MOUNTAIN OF WORDS An Intergenerational Literary & Art Celebration at the YMI
Free Event, so you are welcome to join us even without a ticket but the RSVP is helpful for our planning.
And, if you need childcare, we ask that you register with the number and ages of children so that we are prepared to provide them with their best experience! CLICK HERE FOR MORE DETAILS
Leonard Pitts: Women are not the ones who need fixing
Women are not the problem.
There has always been something grotesque about the idea that they are. But to embrace that idea in the #MeToo era is not just grotesque, but clueless. It suggests that you slept through a reckoning that has shifted the Zeitgeist.
So somebody please tell Ernst & Young to wake up and smell the 2019.
WOMEN, PEACE & SECURITY : Women are critical to achieving sustainable peace
Our goal is to build the evidence-based case for a focus on women, peace, and security.
Georgetown University’s Institute for Women, Peace & Security seeks to promote a more stable, peaceful, and just world by focusing on the important role women play in preventing conflict and building peace, growing economies, and addressing global threats like climate change and violent extremism. We engage in rigorous research, host global convenings, advance strategic partnerships, and nurture the next generation of leaders. Housed within the Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown, the Institute is headed by the former U.S. Ambassador for Global Women’s Issues, Melanne Verveer.
OURS IS NO BEDTIME STORY – Pauli Murray’s Dark Testament reintroduces a major Black poet.
BY ED PAVLIĆ in Poetry Foundation
“Please don’t refer to me as ‘Mother Murray,’” Pauli Murray chided a reporter from the New Haven Register in 1977. The newspaper was running a story about the then-67-year-old Murray becoming the first African-American woman ordained an Episcopal priest. The achievement was another first in what had been a trailblazing life marked by both triumph and strife.
SIGN UP FOR HEALTH INSURANCE NOW Affordable Care Act’s Seventh Open Enrollment Nov. 1 – Dec. 15
Sign Up for Health Insurance Nov. 1 – Dec. 15, 2019
Free Walk-in Events Happening in November Throughout WNC
Do you have questions about choosing affordable, quality health insurance? Pisgah Legal Services can help with free, unbiased, in-person assistance for the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) Seventh Open Enrollment, taking place from Nov. 1 to Dec. 15, 2019.