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Wanted: panty hose and kids shoes for Experience Sculpture by I-Open Team.
Categorized as Dialogue and Inclusion. Tagged with experience and sculpture.From Experience Artist Melissa Daubert:
Greetings friends and family!
I hope all is well! We are getting ready for the best year yet to come!
With bigger dreams and smaller budgets art continues on.
Believe it or not, this winter I will be creating a sculpture for the
International Childrens Festival happening this spring!! Hosted by
Playhouse Square, It will be the entire worlds population of children 1
per million all standing on the seven continents! Basically the whole
worlds kids in one room! When you approach the continents, the kids
from that continent begin chanting rounds of oHM! See concept drawing
attached.
Needless to say
That is about 1,800 kids and 20 penguins in Antarctica! so there are a couple of things
that would really help out...
1. old panty hose or knee highs any size color, don't throw your old ones out!
save them for me! I will be making about 1,800 kids heads from them,
so I need quite a few pair here!
2. kids shoes preferaby smaller sizes preferably infant to size 4
unless they are super awesome and you think they absolutely have to go
in the piece,
All shoes will be donated to shoes and coats for kids after the exhibit is over.
the piece is due in may.
Hope everyone is doing well
Peace and Love
Melissa Daubert
www.melissadaubert.com
http://www.melissadaubert.com/
If you would like to drop items off here's the address
Melissa Daubert
1302 W69th Street
Cleveland, Ohio
44102
The Harried Life of the Working Mother: from The Pew Charitable Trusts by I-Open Team.
Categorized as Brainpower. Tagged with research, satisfaction, time, women in careers and women in workforce.A good article (and paper) on the satisfaction level of working Mom's compared to stay-at-home and others. Interesting results and perceptions of what it means to have enough time. Like to know what you think and how this makes sense to you in your life. Here you go!
The Harried Life of the Working Mother
Oct 01, 2009
Women now make up almost half of the U.S. labor force, up from 38% in 1970. This nearly forty-year trend has been fueled by a broad public consensus about the changing role of women in society. A solid majority of Americans (75%) reject the idea that women should return to their traditional roles in society, and most believe that both husband and wife should contribute to the family income.
But in spite of these long-term changes in behaviors and attitudes, many women remain conflicted about the competing roles they play at work and at home. Working mothers in particular are ambivalent about whether full-time work is the best thing for them or their children; they feel the tug of family much more acutely than do working fathers. As a result, most working mothers find themselves in a situation that they say is less than ideal.
They're also more likely than either at-home moms or working dads to feel as if there just isn't enough time in the day. Four-in-ten say they always feel rushed, compared with a quarter of the other two groups. But despite these pressures and conflicts, working moms, overall, are as likely as at-home moms and working dads to say they're happy with their lives.
Whether women work outside the home or not, family responsibilities have a clear impact on the key life choices they make. Roughly three-in-ten women who are not currently employed (27%) say family duties keep them from working. And family appears to be one of the key reasons that many do not break through the "glass ceiling" to the top ranks of management – that's the view, anyway, of about a third of the public.
Read the full report The Harried Life of the Working Mother on the Pew Research Center's Social & Demographic Trends Web site.
Chat notes from this morning's Live Show June 13, 2009 (partial) by I-Open Team.
Categorized as Dialogue and Inclusion. Tagged with lifestyles, live show and women in careers.Thank you for Joining us this morning for our Live Show conversation about Women, Careers and Lifestyles. Our conversation included twelve Judson Residents and at opening of show 20 viewers on line with several contributors from other parts of the country.
Connecting to chat room...
Welcome to the 'womansenterprisenetwork' room
10:57 Dondi : Women must mentor women. Lovely - open your arms.
10:58 betterbestbobbie : no it is an excellent idea.
10:58 Dondi : My pleasure.
10:58 betterbestbobbie : Hi Betsy this is Journey this podcast was very interesting and a wonderful sho
10:59 betterbestbobbie : Everything
10:59 betseymerkel : Hi Journey!! You must come and join us face to face some month!
11:00 betterbestbobbie : Mentoring youth and being a grandmother, Aunt sister and community leader
11:00 betterbestbobbie : I will come down and share very soon, perhaps next month
11:01 betterbestbobbie : Be blessed
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11:02 betterbestbobbie : amhersyt,ohio
11:02 betterbestbobbie : amherst,ohio
11:02 Dondi : Thank you so much.
11:02 Dondi : Nice to meet you lovely ladies.
14:24 betseymerkel : Thank you Everyone for such a wonderful conversation this morning about women, careers and lifestyles.
Melissa Daubert: Family Walk Dedication by I-Open Team.
Categorized as Quality, Connected Place. Tagged with art, creativity and melissa daubert.Read more about Women's Enterprise Network member Melissa Daubert's work in this Akron Beacon Journal news article.
Today's note from Melissa:
Dear Friends,
Please see the attached article from the Akron Beacon Journal about "Family Walk."
There will be a dedication this thursday at 4pm at the
Akron Childrens Hospitals Garden of Hope and Healing.
Hope all is well.
Melissa Daubert
June 13, 2009 Building Brainpower: Women, Careers and Lifestyle by I-Open Team.
Categorized as Dialogue and Inclusion. Tagged with careers, conversations, economic development, live show, skills training, women in workforce and workforce development. | ||
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Mark your calendar for next month's live conversation...Let's Talk! Building Brainpower: Women, Careers and Lifestyle Join us to take a close look at how skills training and workforce development affect the careers and lifestyles of women and their ability to build social and regional economic prosperity.
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Flyer for Sat June 13, 2009 "Let's Talk!" - Women, Careers and Lifestyle by I-Open Team.
Categorized as Branding Stories. Tagged with flyer and live show.Flyer for the Sat June 13, 2009 "Let's Talk!" conversation hosted in partnership with Judson Park, the Women's Enterprise Network and the Institute for Open Economic Networks (I-Open) - "Women, Careers and Lifestyle".
http://womensenterprisenetwork.net/file/show/wenetwork-flyer-june-13-2009-2.pdf
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Follow up and archive to May 9, 2009 WEN Live Show Broadcast by I-Open Team.
Categorized as Quality, Connected Place. Tagged with cities, conversations, live show, prosperous cities and quality connected place.Thanks Everyone for an awesome conversation yesterday about women and their role in building Quality, Connected Smart Cities. You can watch the archive show here (below) or on our Mogulus Broadcast channel here.
June 13, 2009 Flyer http://womensenterprisenetwork.net/file/show/wenetwork-flyer-june-13-2009-2.pdf
Please plan to join us in person or on line for our June 13, 2009 Live Broadcast and Chat. Our conversation will focus on "Women, Careers and Lifestyle."
Slashdot: The Woman Who Established Fair Use by I-Open Team.
Categorized as Dialogue and Inclusion. Tagged with fair use and government. The Woman Who Established Fair Use
| from the one-of-a-kind dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Sunday April 26, @20:42 (Government) |
| http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/04/26/2025208
[0]The Narrative Fallacy writes "The Washington Post has an interesting profile on Barbara A. Ringer, who joined the Copyright Office at the Library of Congress in 1949 and spent 21 years [1]drafting the legislation and lobbying Congress before the Copyright Act of 1976 was finally passed. Ringer wrote most of the bill herself. 'Barbara had [2]personal and political skills that could meld together the contentious factions that threatened to tear apart every compromise in the 20 year road to passage of the 1976 Act,' wrote copyright lawyer William Patry. The act [3]codified the fair use defense to copyright infringement. For the first time, scholars and reviewers could quote briefly from copyrighted works without having to pay fees. With the 1976 act that Ringer conceived, an author owned the copyright for his or her lifetime plus 50 years. Previously under the old 1909 law, an author owned the copyright for 28 years from the date of publication and unless the copyright was renewed, the work entered the public domain, and the author lost any right to royalties. Ringer received the President's Award for Distinguished Federal Civilian Service, the highest honor for a federal worker. Ringer remained active in copyright law for years, attending international conferences and filing briefs with the Supreme Court before her death earlier this year at age 83. 'Her contributions were monumental,' said Marybeth Peters, the Library of Congress's current register of copyrights. 'She blazed trails. She was a heroine.'"
Discuss this story at:
http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/04/26/2025208
Links:
0. http://narrativefallacy.com/
1. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/25/AR2009042502917.html
2. http://williampatry.blogspot.com/2009/04/barbara-ringer.html
3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Copyright_Act_of_197
Spiegel Online: Men Hit Hardest by Job Losses by I-Open Team.
Categorized as Brainpower. Tagged with global recession and women in workforce.An interesting article with a couple of simple points describing how women may be weathering the global economic downturn - read the original article here.
Men Hit Hardest by Job Losses
The economic crisis is leading to huge job losses but not everyone is equally at risk. The worst affected areas, such as the automobile and construction sectors, are largely male domains. Women, it seems, have simply adapted better to the changing world of work.
The images are repeating themselves these days: Continental workers are demonstrating in France, autoworkers are demanding a rescue plan for Opel in the German city of Rüsselheim, while in New York and London bankers are clearing out their desks. They are the images of a crisis and the faces have one thing in common: They are almost all men.
Shipyard workers demonstrating in Bremerhaven: Men have been especially hard hit by the recession.
As the crisis continues unabated and the collapse of the global economy pushes up unemployment figures, one thing is becoming clear: The crisis is disproportionately affecting men. Almost 80 percent of the 5.1 million Americans who have lost their jobs in recent months have been men. The US male unemployment figure is now 8.8 percent, while it is still only 7 percent for women.
The article goes on to site women and their flexibility provide a greater advantage:
"Women are also more flexible when it comes to location or type of job and they adapt more quickly," says Falk of the DGB. "If a woman realizes that she hasn't got any more prospects somewhere then she tries to go somewhere else. It's something we have experienced in eastern Germany in the past." Many women from eastern Germany have in recent years left to go to western states, or even emigrated, in pursuit of job opportunities.
"In a society where services are becoming increasingly important, women quite simply have the better jobs," says Hans Bertram, a sociologist at the Humboldt University in Berlin.
Save the date May 9, 2009: "How Women Contribute to Building Smart Quality, Connected Cities" by I-Open Team.
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