From VOA Learning English, this is education. Immigration reform is a top policy goal this year in Washington. President Obama and a group of Democratic and Republican senators who have been preparing legislation agree on one thing. Students of immigrants who are in the United States illegally will have to start learning English before they can begin the process of becoming legal residents. But school systems that face shrinking budgets are still cutting or eliminating English classes. Overcrowding is especially bad in California. That state is home to one of every four non-English speaking immigrants in the United States. But Margie McHugh of the Migration Policy Institute predicts a huge amount of unmet demand for English training all across the country. She says the current system is too limited. Until recently, California law provided money to be used just for adult education. But to help schools meet funding shortages, state legislators let them use that money for other programs. In Los Angeles, the adult education program has been cut by 75 percent. Once the school district offered English at hundreds of neighborhood sites with day and evening classes. This year, the teaching hours will be reduced. Governor Jerry Brown wants to take responsibility for adult education away from school districts. Their main focus is on children. He wants to give the responsibility to community colleges. Adult schools across the country are experimenting with computerized English instruction. They hope software will help substitute for the individual attention that beginning students need. For VOA Learning English, I'm Carolyn Presute.


If you just read the story about a guy who was magic and could turn water into wine, who could heal people, what did he do with fish? Did he give people fish or make some fish?  God created humanity in one breath. He surely has the power to perform miracles. And beyond that, I can personally testify to a miracle that's happened in my own life. God's forming me from the inside out, giving me a new heart with new desires, giving me new life in him. And there are millions more that can testify of this exact same thing happening in their own life. You see, when the apostle Thomas was doubting Jesus' resurrection, Jesus got him to see his hands. And he said this. Because you have seen me, you have believed. Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed. Follow for more Christ-centered content and I'll support my ministry on Patreon.


Hi, I'm Dr. Cheryl Dwyer, a gynecologist with Mid-Michigan Center for Women's Health. Let's talk about permanent options for preventing pregnancy. Permanent sterilization may be a good option for preventing pregnancy if you have reached the point in life where you are sure you don't want more children. It may also be your best option if you have a medical condition that makes it risky for you to become pregnant. Permanent sterilization is one of the most common forms of birth control used by 47 percent of married couples. It is available for both men and women. Permanent sterilization for women involves cutting or blocking the fallopian tubes so that sperm cannot reach the eggs. These methods often are not reversible if you change your mind and later want children. For women, permanent sterilization is generally safe and more than 99 percent effective Once the procedure is complete, it is convenient because you don't have to remember to take action every day, week or month, and it can reduce the risk of ovarian cancer and pelvic inflammatory disease. The disadvantages are increased risk for ectopic pregnancy or a pregnancy that occurs outside the uterus. Some procedures also require anesthesia, which may introduce additional risk. Sterilization does not protect you against sexually transmitted diseases or HIV AIDS. If you have multiple sexual partners, you should continue to use condoms to protect yourself during all forms of sex. One type of female sterilization is mini laparotomy. It is usually done right after a woman gives birth while the fallopian tubes are close to the abdominal wall. An incision is made and the tubes are cut or sealed with stitches, clips or bands. Female sterilization can also be done laparoscopically for smaller incisions, less pain and shorter recovery. A long thin tube called a laparoscope allows the surgeon to see into the abdomen through small incisions. Long thin instruments are used to cut the fallopian tubes and to seal them with cotteries, clips or bands. A third type of female sterilization can be done in the office using a long flexible tube called a histoscope. The tube is used to feed a tiny set of coils through the vagina and cervix into the fallopian tubes. The coils remain in place since scar tissue eventually forms around them blocking the tubes. You will need to use a backup form of birth control for a minimum of three months while the scar tissue is forming and until an x-ray confirms that the blockage is complete. If you are considering these procedures you should consult a gynecologist who will fully inform you of the risks and benefits plus what to expect before, during and after the procedure. Permanent sterilization is also available for men. This is called a vasectomy. You may want to discuss with your partner and your health care provider whether a vasectomy for your partner is the right option for the two of you. For help identifying a gynecologist who performs these procedures call the Michigan Health Line toll free at<PHONE_NUMBER>.


I think, principally because teaching and learning is the core of the mission of everything that we do in higher education. Universities and colleges were established with the centres of learning but I think in addition it's through our own teaching that our learning and knowledge is challenged, tested, refined and improved. It's pretty clear that the quality of teaching and learning in the Irish higher education system is vital. We need to make sure those quarter of a million young people have the highest quality possible and with the most modern teaching and learning methods, techniques, assessment opportunities, learning outcomes that they can so that these young graduates and not so young graduates across the full range of academic profiles and business and economic and enterprise profiles and all the cultural and social activities that get involved in as well so that they can bring their full potential to these. Teaching and learning is valued and turned through academic achievement awards and scholarship examinations. However, individual skills award those to attain excellent adults during the year. While awards are great communication between students and lecturers and TA's is vital. I've built up a good relationship with my lecturers and this summer my list of agency providers are commended to be on the work of the last particularly difficult year. While awards are brilliant on the CV, awards of encouragement from academic staff are also essential to encourage students by recognising students' efforts and pushes them to achieve. I think the first thing to recognise is that there are a lot of competing agendas in higher education and I think the first thing to say is that good teaching and good pedagogical practice takes quite a lot of expertise and effort and I think that there needs to be recognition that that expertise is both within the discipline itself but also pedagogical and as a core activity within higher education I think we need to recognise its significance in terms of the contribution that it makes and we often don't talk about contribution. For a head as an NGO focus on creating inclusive environments in education and employment for people with disabilities we understand that the classroom is right at the heart of learning and the teacher is at the heart of the classroom and that's why we place huge stock on our work on promoting inclusive pedagogical frameworks like universal design for learning because if the pedagogy isn't inclusive then the door to learning is already halfway closed for many individuals so we really understand the powers that teachers have to make a difference in people's lives. I think if you ask most people of the functions of the university they'll point to teaching and research and in many ways to me those are really kind of academic signage twins it's very hard to separate the two but I think research without dissemination can very easily become quite sterile and it's very important for us to nurture the next generation of scholars through our teaching and also I think there's a societal value we need to teach our students to think intensively and critically and that largely comes through the teaching activity. By valuing teaching and learning in higher education we can start to see students and teachers work together in student partnership approaches and start to reap the benefits of them as well which should be a huge advocate of as well. I think vital week is great for this because we can showcase best practices around teaching and learning and then other teachers can start to pick up the tips here and there and maybe adapt their practices or reflect on their own. When teaching and learning is valued students feel cared for and empowered to achieve they could be inspired themselves to look into research to be to become really passionate about a certain area if they see somebody's really passionate about an area they're more likely to be inspired into looking into that as well and I think someone being so passionate about an area can really be passed through to other people through really quality teaching and learning. Perhaps in the past we've seen it as some kind of dual system whereby we have subject expertise and then bolted on to that we have the ability to teach and the challenges that people face when they're trying to learn that particular subject and I feel that's not the entire picture for me subject expertise incorporates not just the expertise intrinsic to the subject itself but also an understanding of the ways in which people can acquire the skills knowledge and dispositions of that subject and that's that's a pedagogy that is a teaching and learning expertise that's built into and forms part of the subject expertise so therefore the notion of vitality is perfect for this particular series of events. You know why is teaching and learning vital in higher education? I mean well if it's not vital in higher education then you know we have a bigger question in a way to be asking so teaching and learning assessment and student engagement are absolutely core to what we're about as a university where we're here to turn out I think and to help people develop professionally in terms of their knowledge their academic excellence their technical excellence but also as people so what's the essence of graduateness you know are our graduates ready you know in terms of knowledge willing in terms of confidence and able to speak up and to be politically and socially aware to be mindful of our environment to think about equality diversity and inclusion and also to contribute actually whether that's to work or enterprise to the economy but also to society if we're not getting that and it's it's to teaching or learning our assessment our student engagement and that kind of that the work that we do in those spaces are crucial actually to our mission of turning out good graduates and it's the essence of what we do. I think just to step again back from that I think everything we do in higher education is vital but I think it's nice to have this lens now from the National Forum which is focusing on the work the core work that we do because it is the core work we do and it's an absolute privilege to teach students and it's difficult to assess them sometimes but at the same time it's core to our work and so valuing that type of work is really really important and I'm delighted that the Forum are focusing in on scholarship as well because I suppose Ireland is unusual maybe in comparison to other jurisdictions in that our staff primarily come into teaching without having a formal teaching qualification and yet they are encouraged and they are supported within their their institutes to ensure that they are not only up to date in their discipline specific knowledge but also in terms of the knowledge around the whole discipline area of learning teaching and assessment and so the fact that the Forum are again putting this lens on valuing this is really really important so that we see being up to date being able to engage in new pedagogic approaches being able to use digitally enhanced approaches etc is really really important but for me the key thing is that it's evidence-based so we're not doing it for the sake of doing it we're doing it because we have we have researched it we have seen what our best practice is and we are then adapting to suit our own context and and so I think it's really really important that we name it we say research is important but valuing our core area of learning teaching and assessment is just as important I think it's really vital because teaching and learning is what we do it's sometimes considered our job but we actually don't think about how we practice it so I think it's really important that we not only help people to become scholarly teachers but we also support them in engaging with the scholarship teaching and learning through their practice so again it's about engaging and working with colleagues and also kind of helping each other to get out our practice and disseminate it and make sure that everybody shares the good resources that we are producing


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The craft foods company presents the great gildersleeve It's the great gildersleeve starring Harold Perry brought to you by the craft foods company makers of parquet margarine and a complete line of famous quality food products You know folks asked me sometimes how I come to be a barber Floyd they say to me how'd you ever come to be a barber? Well, I tell them all the same thing. It's a chance to study human nature I ask you where you're gonna find more human nature than you get in barbershops Well, it comes in hangs up his hat and coat takes off his vest Hand just collar and tie climbs up the chair and sits down relaxes That's human nature in the roar So you tell him a story if you heard one lately and you're off After you've been barbering a while you learn little things for instance guy comes in that don't need a haircut anymore And your uncle Jake that's bald You can bet that guy's got something on his mind besides a haircut Like gildersleeve the other day where the guy was in only the week before and got the works But here he comes again and asked me to give him a trim Well, I remember I was working on dr. Needham at the time Dr. Likes is a little on the long side with no clippers in back Well gildersleeve come in and the two of them were talking back and forth there a pleasure to see you Mr. Gildersleeve a pleasure to see you doctor Although I could wish that we met less often in barbershops and more often in church You know how it is doctor my intentions are always good the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak Exactly as a matter of fact, I've taken off a little lately. I'm down to a hundred and ninety-seven Congratulations. Yes for a while there. I was a hundred and ninety-eight Well, there you are doctor sharp as a tack. Thank you for just a second. I'll get your collar I trust we'll be seeing you on Sunday next mr. Gildersleeve Easter, you know. Oh, yes, doctor. Yes, indeed I'm always there on Easter. Thank you, Floyd. And by the way, I I've been wanting to explain to you about my contribution last Easter why it wasn't larger I mean the mr. Gildersleeve we have no way of knowing what people contribute. We're thankful for what we receive Well, I thought you might have noticed Anyway, I've been meaning to speak to you You see, I thought I had my wallet with me But it must have been in my other suit because the suit I wear on Easter. Well, I don't very often wear it. So that's why But I'll be there this Easter and I won't forget it this time. I Know you to be one of our most generous supporters mr. Gildersleeve and you're always welcome We're all without your wallet. Oh, thank you doctor. You can count on me Now Floyd you and I have our little reckoning here. That's how much I'll be 50 cents doctor The only price in town that hasn't gone up. You're sure you're not no, that's my price I insist, you know the price for shearing the pastor must be the same as that for shearing the flock Well, that's a price 50 cents Well, then oh And the tax we mustn't forget the tax Render unto Caesar the things which are no no no there's no tax But at the drugstore, I always pay a tax. Well, PV's running a little racket of his own over there, I guess No tax on haircuts well if you're sure 50 cents and no no doctor wait for I couldn't take a tip doctor. Oh, no, I couldn't know Floyd am I going to be forced to have my hair cut elsewhere? Well, I don't like to but thanks the laborer is worthy of his higher Floyd and the artist is worthy of something extra your kid Good song doctor. Mr. Gillis leave. Oh, you'll be seeing me. All right. Yes indeed. Goodbye doctor. Goodbye Well, you needn't look at me. I got a special price for the clergy.  What have you let me I? Never feel right taking money off him somehow. I know Nice guy dr. Needham. Yes. He is a fine man Gives you funny feeling sometimes though. I don't know. Maybe it ain't him. Maybe it's me Gives you the feeling you can see right through you. Yeah Climb up in the chair commissioner. What can I do for you today? Just give it a little trim Floyd trim trim water trim to just last week. Well, what do you think about my mustache then? What about it? Do you think it might be shorter? Well, it could shorten it. Don't say it'll look any better Well, I try to spruce it up a little if you can. Okay. Now hold still Getting awful particular in your old age. What? They're cut last week. Now you must ask What's that something on the fire? Keep it even boy. Keep it even I Hear where mrs. Ransom is coming back to town in a couple of weeks.  You'll be shaggy around the ears again by the time she gets here Mrs. Ransom's return means very little to me Floyd one way or the other don't give me that I'll be glad to see her naturally. We've always been friends, but that's all Well, I'm a son of a gun. You must be getting older something Don't you believe it? Yes, sir when a man starts getting fussy about his mustache and loses his interest in women Who's losing interest? Well, you just now told me that there's an old saying Floyd There are more fish in the sea than ever were caught. Oh You've been fishing Nothing of the sort with this little fishy have a name. She's not a little fishy. She's a very nice girl Young youngish Is she pretty don't you know me well enough not to ask that? Where do you get them our meeting was purely accidental, huh?  I don't care to have it bandied about Floyd particularly in barbershops. Come on, finish me up She's waiting for you. She you just handle your business Floyd and I'll handle mine, but hurry. Yes Good. She hasn't left yet Unless Leroy's practicing by himself Most unlikely of all if I know Leroy Wonder if I could ask her to stay to dinner. I don't know. She's kind of shy, but another rush things Darling, I've got to think of something Well, yeah, not particularly Well, I am wanting to be around as supervised Leroy a little if necessary Make sure he gets started right with his new piano teacher. She's still here. I presume. Yes, she's here What are you grinning at? Nothing. Yes, very important for a boy to get started right my dear. That's where he went wrong with Miss Roots That off on the wrong foot Well, it is I didn't say anything But she got the living room doors closed for keep people out I guess So Leroy can concentrate better. It's very important for a boy to get started, right? You know Didn't know those doors would still slide they haven't been closed in 20 years Well Lessons over I guess I guess it might just go in there. Well, it was over Well Marjorie, haven't you got anything to do sure if I want to what are you standing around here for who are you? I just told you so I can keep an eye on Leroy and help miss it. What's her name? You know her name. Oh, yes, Miss Piper Slip my mind for a moment by the way, has she Is she a first name? Do you know it's Joanne Joanne? I saw it on her music rock Joanne Really auntie, don't you think she's a little young young? What do you mean? Well after all you're twice her age Really my dear, I don't know what you're talking about if you if you imagine for one minute that I Why that's the silliest thing I ever heard of Miss Piper why that's ridiculous. Why I hardly know her besides. I'm not twice her age. I'm only There she's through. Sorry folks. Hope I'm not intruding No, I think we've done enough for today, don't you Leroy? You said it. Well, Miss Piper how is our young pupil coming? Would you say yes? Oh, I think that's fine fine. I'm glad to hear it. Keep practicing my boy practice makes perfect Hey, Miss Piper, that's right and watch those sharps and flats Leroy. You've got to look sharp or you'll be flat You'll be excused Leroy if there are no more remarks like that Well, I think I must be going Miss Piper don't rush off, please I am I'd like to talk to you about Leroy about his lessons I mean yes Now about the Leroy's practicing you'll be here twice a week, of course That's all settled and agreed upon but in between he'll have homework. Oh, yes. I've assigned him the things he's to do You don't need the monkey with us. Oh good. Good. I was concerned about his homework Well Well, I guess I'd better be going. Oh, don't go. Oh, well, I really shouldn't be I mean Marjorie why don't you and Leroy go and do something?  She doesn't want to try it. Oh, that's upside down. Don't make her muster hair Oh, I don't mind.  No, I practiced the piano a whole hour in it yesterday That's enough of that now Leroy. I'm sorry miss Piper. The boy is a little enthusiastic. I think he's cute Oh goodness my hair. I'll get you a cone. Oh, don't bother. I've got to go anyway. It's after five now We're all miss Piper One other thing and you know about pianos I've been meaning to ask you do you think this one needs tuning? Why I hadn't noticed that it did. It's a wimpy of course, but let's see, huh? I'd say it was just about in tune Honestly, you have a voice. Voice? Oh, hardly that. I sing a little for my own amusement. That's all But I wouldn't want to sing for you You wouldn't want to hear me sing anyway You wouldn't want to hear me sing anyway. Oh, I'd really love to hear you. You would? You must promise you will sometime Where did I leave my thing? Oh, she can't go.  I mean, do you have to? You could telephone. I mean, well, we don't want to impose on you, of course I know your time is valuable. You have lessons to give and so on. I just thought there's Very good my boy. Yes indeed. Now. Why didn't I think of that miss Piper?  Tell her to stay, birdie. Well, really No, no, you Roy's not the kind of a boy who takes no for an answer. Are you Lee Roy? No, sir Well, you're all very kind. I'd love to stay if I may if you may Really, I don't know what to say you're all so friendly. I'm a stranger here, you know I've only been in Somersfield a few weeks and To have you take me right in this way miss Piper We want you to feel that you're just one of the family here. Don't we children? Yes, sir The great gilder sleeve will be back again after a message from the craft foods company Easter is making an early appearance this year, which reminds me mr. Lang that I'd better put in an early appearance at the grocery So I'll be sure of having a choice of the foods I want for my family's Easter meals. 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That's right Hello there grandpa hello there, sonny. How have you been? Eat your supper on key for goodness sakes. It'll get all cold. I'll get around to my supper Say did you ever see if Piper's finished her peas and potatoes? Maybe she likes more. What? Oh, certainly We have a bell miss Piper, but uncle more can't remember it. I can't remember it and birdie can't hear it I really couldn't eat any more to be able to sleep. Honestly, did you want something to go for you? More food from Miss Piper birdie another of those delicious pork chops, honky. I'm sorry, Mr. Guilty, that's all the pork chops Well then really mr. Guilty if I couldn't possibly eat anymore, well, I guess that's the way it is birdie Delicious though, weren't they miss Piper? They're especially around here pork chops. I'll have birdie Yeah, oh, yeah With one drop of precious sauce distilled from a tree elephant Isn't that stuff crazy? What are you talking about my dear? Leeroy, I've told you. Don't you read the lab. Mr. Gilda sleep. I just love it You do I can't get through the day unless I read the lab in the morning. Oh, well, I haven't read it very much lately Oh, then you missed a perfectly wonderful story. This little man wanted to get into the gourmet society Little labner. No, no another character. Well, he wants to get into the gourmet society But in order to get in you have to submit a dish This guy's been rejected so many times already. He's only got one more chance. Let's just let miss Piper tell the story Well anyhow, this little fellow has a wonderful dish to submit But he needs a very rare kind of pig to make the sauce hammers alabama and that's where Salome comes in I knew it was gonna be Salome as soon as they started looking for a pig So did I who else could it be? Well, anyway, did you ever eat mutton Jeff? I Used to get a big kick out of mutton Jeff It isn't but must be I don't think so. Mr. Gilda sleep well Anyway, he finally gets Salome and they're going to boil Salome down to one drop of sauce But they need a man to keep turning her Well, so crazy you can't explain it. You have to read it. Well, I generally do only I've been kind of busy lately They ever see the cats and jammers cats and jammers I'm asking miss Piper. Have you ever seen the cats and jammers? There's a cartoon I remember one time during specter who's asleep and hands and frits tied his beard onto the captain's coat And then stuck a pin in the captain's neck And do you remember the time the captain was sitting at his desk and the kids saw the floor out from under him Yes, and there's a real cartoon Love show pan when I hear music like that.  Don't you try to pull the wool over my eyes? You had your music lessons this afternoon. What chance have you had to do your homework? Vacation oh that darn thing Well, it's your bedtime anyway I'm afraid I've got to be running along mr. Gilda sleep it is no no it's early But Leroy is a growing boy needs a lot of sleep whereas you the discussion is closed I'm afraid I've really got to go mr. Gilda sleep. Oh no. I must well Say how about letting me take you home? Sure. Why didn't I think of that before? Oh, you need me bother? It's not no trouble. I'll enjoy the walk. I have a car of course, but the weather is so nice Oh, you're awfully kind. I'll get your coat miss Piper Marshall Field, Chicago, yep Well, you've been pretty good today my boy you can say up to ten but no later. Come on miss Piper. Let's be on our merry way Really too bad you have to go home early on such a nice spring evening. I'm not so very early. It's almost half past eight Say Look at that what moon I see the Terry up the street again You don't want to go straight home. Do you I should say PB's drugstore up ahead. Have I been in there? No Oh, you gotta meet PB. He's the greatest character in this town.  What kind of care well It's kind of hard to describe him kind of conservative if you say so-and-so and so-and-so. He says well now I wouldn't say that Really? Yeah, that's all he ever says no matter what Look at his window here, this will give you a rough idea There's PB reading a comic book in there. Come on. We'll surprise My gracious mr. Joe Caught you reading a comic book didn't I well, I I wasn't exactly reading it. I Lantatum occasionally so I can advise my customers Oh Pee-pee, I'd like to have you meet a friend of mine. This is miss Piper mr. Pee-pee. How do you do? I'm pleased to make your acquaintance, Mr. Piper We thought we might have a coke or something Pee-pee. How about it a coke? Well a small one. I'll have a big one Although I must say Pee-pee you make the worst coke in town You're joking Let's sit on one of the stools miss Piper. They're here for the convenience of our customers. Thank you. I'll try again See they're having a special on spring tonic Pee-pee. That's right Something you make up yourself, isn't it? No time. No watch. I'll bet the tonic's no good Pee-pee Darn him. He won't say it What's in it? It's not certain formula, mr. Well, what does it do? Oh, it has various properties depends on what tells you Here we are here the coax the small and the large Now it'll be sixteen. Yeah Here you are. Thank you Well, you're visiting here miss Piper. No, I'm going to live here And I want you to feel free to avail yourself of our services. We're in the phone book Pee-pee pharmacy Remember it's nice to know that if I get a terrible attack of something you can send me some medicine right away I'm sorry. We don't deliver as a rule. Yeah. Well, then why'd you tell her you're in the phone book? It's useless You're a character come on miss Piper, I got to get you home I just want you to know that I think you can be an inspiration to Lee Roy miss Piper I hope so. No doubt about it I can tell from his practicing.  Oh, yes There's something about the way you play the piano that well, it seems to stir something in me Was it the Chopin or the Beethoven both? Whatever you play it just seems to do something to me You must be one of those people who respond to music some people respond to music more than others they do Well, I must be one of them then At least when you play I am if I This is where I live. Oh, oh here. It's just a temporary arrangement till I find a room or an apartment I'm sort of a guest here. Oh, I see Do you have to go in right away? I really should. Oh, well Oh the porch lights on that means they're expecting me. Oh, well Miss Piper. Yes, nothing I just Well, Joanne, I thought I heard you out here. Don't you need them? Oh, it's you. Mr. Give this leave. Yes I'm I'm just leaving and that is we just got here. I Was bringing your home. She gave my nephew a music lesson. Isn't that right miss Piper? Yes, of course And this is where you're staying.  Oh, of course Makes a nice arrangement. I hope you weren't worried about her Well, it's nice to know she was in such safe hands such. Oh, you bet. I Mean, you're right. Absolutely. Well. Good night, Joe. Miss Piper. Good night. Mr. Gilda sleeve. Thank you so much for everything Thank you. Good night. Dr. Needham. See you in church on Easter. I mean, good night. Good night. Mr. Gilda Ladies and gentlemen for several years It's been our privilege to have James L Kraft the founder of our company join us on our Easter week Broadcast today. We again invite you to share in the inspiration of his Easter message. Mr. Kraft Again this year. It gives me the greatest pleasure to send Easter greetings to craft men around the globe and To friends both known and unknown everywhere The Easter season is a time for rejoicing all over the earth a time for renewing faith and reexamining the true values of life Even nature at this time of the year seems to join in this affirmation of eternal hope and everlasting life a long time ago It was said know the truth and the truth shall make you free to find eternal and Unchanging values amid so much that passes away has always been a goal of men and Much of modern science invention and education holds this knowledge of the truth as their objective Yet in the field of the human spirit and moral conduct It is of even greater importance that we seek out the unchanging truth that it may make us free Now truth may be regarded as an abstract quality a far away goal to be desired by the seeking mind But it is also and more vitally a living quality Revealed in a way of dwelling in harmony with one's fellow men This living truth was expressed perfectly in the life of him whose death and Resurrection from the dead the whole Christian world observes this week I have been reading once again the story of the trial and crucifixion of Jesus It is a profoundly moving story You will remember that after pilots interrogation of Christ Jesus said in substance I came into the world that I should bear witness of the truth Then Pilate asked a question which many before him and many since have asked what is truth? By his death and resurrection as by his life among men Christ gave the answer to that question for only as men are able to live humbly and unselfishly together Expressing by all that we do the truth that is in us will we be able to solve the great problems of the world today? only by casting aside all Pettiness and selfishness and by following the straight and simple path of doing unto others as we would have others do unto us Can nations and people learn to live in peace and harmony together? At this Easter season Let us all witness by our daily living the faith and hope and truth that in us lie Let us walk daily in the light of a great faith and hold the flame high for all to see Only thus can the eternal promise of this sacred day come to flower on the earth Thank You mr. Craft This is NBC


I'm pretty excited actually that we've reached the final keynote presentation of today. We've had a lot of great content today about how to influence and I'm going to call it how to hack human behavior, how to hack organizational behavior and individual behavior in order to achieve some kinds of cultural change. Jim McCarthy, who unfortunately isn't going to be with us later in the week, was talking about, he said something in the pre-conference webinar about how if you want to improve the quality of the work that people do, you really need to improve the quality of the relationships between people who do it. And that I think is at the essence of hacking our culture so that we can do better things together. Our closing keynote is going to build on this theme of culture hacking, but coming at it from a completely different direction than we've been talking about so far today. I'm really excited about this, I've been waiting to hear Ray speak for a while and I think this is going to be a very, Martin Stardis is off with a fairly, I'll say, slightly provocative keynote and I think we're going to close the day with something that's perhaps even more challenging, but I mean that in the best possible way. So Ray Abalia describes yourself as a rabble rouser and a social activist and as you can see the title of her presentation is Women, War and Peace. There are seven billion people on the planet right now so that means that one billion women will be raped on the planet. Every two minutes in the United States a woman is sexually assaulted. The World Bank tells us that women aged 15 to 44 are more at risk from rape and domestic violence than from cancer, war, malaria and car accidents. 16-year-old Imrana burned in her home. 20-year-old Manju beheaded by her father. From Punjab to Basra, thousands of women and girls stoned, beaten and buried alive each year. We should call honor killings what they really are, dishonorable killings and murders. Four million women and girls are trafficked annually. That means sold across borders for sex slaves. At the peak of the American colonial slave trade in the 1780s, there were about 80,000 slaves transported to the quote New World. Now the U.S. State Department tells us that there are about 800,000 women who are trafficked across international borders. A slave in the 1780s was worth about 40,000 U.S. dollars in today's money. But these girls today aren't worth more than a couple hundred dollars. Aren't we worth more than 300 dollars? Women do two-thirds of the world's labor but own less than one-third of the world's assets. Women are paid less than men for the same work. The odds of being in a high-level technical position are almost three times greater for men than for women. And women are only 13 percent of the board of directors at high-tech Fortune 500 companies. Around the world, women are constantly threatened by exploitation, violence and abuse. A little more than one year ago, the brave and courageous survivor of the Delhi gang rape breathed her last. And I want to dedicate this talk to her and to other survivors of abuse and trauma. Rape cases and violence against women are unfortunately on the rise. The Indian National Crime Records Bureau tells us that rape cases jumped an astronomical 873 percent from 1971 when they started measuring these statistics. And we know that many more cases go undocumented and unreported. Delhi has emerged as the rape capital of India, accounting for 25 percent of the cases. And I wish I didn't have to say this tonight. But just this past weekend, a 21-year-old woman from Assam was gang-raped in Delhi and a 55-year-old woman was raped on her way to go shopping in broad daylight. Let me say this statistic that you see up here again. One in three women will be raped or beaten in her lifetime. That's one billion women on the planet right now. Let's take a breath. How is it possible that this kind of barbaric treatment of women can coexist in the same millennia of highly sophisticated technologies and progress that's bringing us the internet, 3D computers, incredible advancements in medical technology and space exploration toward Mars? Is it enough that a handful of women can prove themselves in a male-dominated world and become CEOs of Fortune 500 companies like Sheryl Sandberg? Or are these outliers not reason enough for celebration, given the plight of women worldwide? And what would it look like for women to be successful in business without losing feminine characteristics which are so integral for conflict resolution, societal harmony, and the health of any company or community? And maybe first and foremost, you're starting to wonder, what the heck am I, a rebel router, doing at a technology company? I think maybe the conference organizers thought, this conference is going to take a lot of emails, a lot of e-readers. Why not throw in something about equality? The topic might seem like an odd choice. It's true, given the conference agenda which features sessions on polyglot programming, Lego Play, and front-end JavaScript using AngularJS, Jasmine, Karma, and Jenkins. But I want to make a case that maybe the people that brought me to stage really do know what they're doing. Violence against women is as old as patriarchy. Traditional patriarchy has structured our world views and our mindsets, our social and cultural world on the basis of domination over women, and the denial of women's humanity and full and equal rights. In many ways, the past 50 years has been a watershed of women's rights victories, and I get to stand before you and speak this afternoon because of those victories. I stand on the shoulders of the women and men that have been tremendous advancement for equality.   The issue of women's rights is not a luxury or frivolous concern left to those without jobs who have the time or energy to be activists. No, the well-being of women around the planet isn't everyone's concern because our well-being depends on each other to care. So why do I care about this issue so much? Let me tell you a little bit about my personal story. I was born on election day, so I think that determined me to either be a politician or a protester. And I'll show you a pic of me as a kid. That's me with my first best friend, Vickaash, who you are doing what we love best, jumping around in puddles. I'm the first generation American daughter of two immigrant parents. My mom's family is from Holland, and my dad's family is from what's now Israel. My dad's parents dropped him off in an orphanage when he was five years old. He was a teen. He made his way to New York City and then met my mom and they got married at 18 and went out to California in the land of economic opportunity, beaches, and yes, technology. So yes, my dad was one of the programmers of the massive machines like the Iliac 4 in Silicon Valley back in the day. And when my dad wasn't at work, he could usually be found at home drinking and shouting, screaming at my mother. I grew up in a house of broken promises, broken bones, broken dreams. My family life was traumatic and tumultuous, I think, but I didn't know that at the time that there was anything different from that. From the outside, our family looked normal and even highly successful. We were the American dream. The immigrant family rose from rags to middle past wealth living in a seaside suburb. We had the newest sports and dance. I was also honorable and a star athlete.  In high school, I founded a program to educate teens about domestic abuse and alcoholism. I thought if I could just reach out to one girl and make a difference in one person's life, that would be enough. But then in college, I started wondering if maybe this situation that I experienced wasn't connected to the whole world and to some global kind of trauma. So I started looking into how things got so bad in my family. My grandparents were all survivors of World War II.  And her family lost everything in the war. Those in my dad's family, all Jews that didn't flee to Palestine, were killed also by the Nazis. My dad's parents must have been so traumatized that they couldn't deal with having a kid so they deposited him in an orphanage and left. Of course, we each have to take responsibility for our actions and own our own behavior. But I also think there's cycles of violence that happen in families and trauma. And in my own family, I began to piece together how war affects the family. I mean, how is it that soldiers and whole countries can be violent toward a perceived enemy and not have some of that violence trickle back home, seeping into family lives? And how is it that nations can promote abuse, torture and murder of the enemy, popularize violent video games and glorify violence on TV, and then suggest peaceful conflict mediation in the home? So when 9-11 happened in 2001, I was a sophomore in college and I had to act to oppose the attack on Afghanistan. I just saw the cycle of work again that didn't make sense. An eye for an eye in the whole world goes blind, right? In New York and Washington, D.C., we marched, rallied, protested along with the whole world, but we were not successful at stopping the invasion of Afghanistan and then later the invasion of Iraq. So after graduation, I took a job with a women's peace organization called Code Pink. And I want to tell you a little bit about my work with Code Pink over the past 10 years and what that organization stands for. It's at the forefront of projecting to politicians, the public and the media a no-war message. At Code Pink, we coordinated vigils outside the White House. We marched in the streets. We got everyday people from moms to military women to stand up. We coordinated humanitarian aid campaigns delivering much needed medical supplies to women in Gaza and Iraq and Afghanistan and so on. We staged protests inside of government offices and inside of our politicians' homes. Here you can see one Code Pinker deseret telling Condoleezza Rice that the blood of Iraqi children is on her hand. We worked to decrease the enormous, huge U.S. military budget. And we also targeted in some case boycotted corporations that made violent weapons. My favorite printer company, HP, unfortunately makes scanners to ID Palestinians that segregated checkpoints in the West Bank. This technology supports illegal occupation and racism. We also worked to connect dots between the economic crash and operations. And yet we can't provide basic services like healthcare and good quality education to our own people, the taxpayers. And we coordinated speaking tours to highlight women's voices from the front lines of war. This woman you see here is Malali Joya. She's one of the few people elected to the Afghan Parliament and she fearlessly speaks out against the U.S. occupation even though she receives tons of death threats and violence.  Why do women's voices like Malali matter in the peace process? We should look at the facts about war. You can see here that women's lives under Afghanistan and the occupation have not improved. In any war today, most of the victims are civilians. Those least empowered women and children suffer the most. They're collateral damage. Sexual violence exasperates conflict and perpetuates insecurity in the wake of war and holds entire communities hostage. While women have a legal right under international law to be protected from sexual violence, it's the least condemned war crime. So maybe it's no surprise that overwhelmingly in conflict regions women are running the peace movements. This isn't just because the men are off fighting or the women don't have access to weapons in the same way. War also makes an other of the enemy and maybe women have more compassion for the other having been othered so many times in our own societies. Philosopher Rada Ivakovich says traditionally women adapt to different cultures more easily giving up their family names and their origins more often than men when marrying into another community and are socialized into accepting the other. Of course this is learned behavior and anyone could learn this. It's just been forced on women and have learned it quite well. We can put this another way. There's an American author and team leadership trainer, Starr- You're right. Women have been the guardians of life not because we're better or pure or more innately nurturing than men but because men have busied themselves making war because of our responsibility to the next generation because of our own love for our families and communities and the country that we're part of we understand the love of a mother in Iraq for her children and the drive and desire of that child for life. Women may be very vocal in the streets but where are we at the peace negotiating table? Out of 300 peace agreements since the end of the Cold War only 18 have addressed sexual violence. Why? Well maybe it's because the dominant gender defines the interests of war and later of peace. These negotiations are done by the warlords themselves. No women have appointed chief peace mediators in UN sponsored peace talks and less than 3% of the signers on peace talks and treaties are women. Here's a recent example of a push for women at the peace making table. After three years of horrendous fighting a death toll now exceeding 100,000 and more than 7 million Syrians forced to flee their homes Syrian peace talks took place in Switzerland last month. Coat Peak and a coalition of women's groups launched Women Lead to Peace a global alliance of women and male allies appalling for an immediate ceasefire in Syria and embargo on arms sales greater humanitarian aid for refugees and those displaced and full participation of women at the demonstration. But women aren't only victims of violent conflicts and physical assault we're also under violent attack on the economic wars on food, on the environment and on natural resources. It's these wars that I came to India two months ago to study. I took a course at the Earth University in Derrondon in the north with Dr. Vandana Shiva who explains how our current economic system engages in violence on women. In the current economic system a woman's kitchen garden and a homemade clothing for her children are valued and she isn't selling anything outside the home. But isn't this work the bread and butter of life? A living forest doesn't contribute to GDP but when trees are cut down and sold as timber there is economic growth. Public tap water shared freely does not entail economic growth but when Coca-Cola sets up a plant and mines with water and fills with water bottles with water the economy grows. This is all based on creating poverty poverty for nature and for local communities in which women are impacted greatly. Thanks to Coke's bottled water plant local women are now forced to walk longer distances to harvest water for their families. This is really heavy stuff so I want to take a moment and just tell you a bit of a success story. In the village of Plachamirah in Kerala Coca-Cola created a bottled water plant that sucked the local water wells drag. When the walk for water became over 10 kilometers local tribal women, Ayalama said enough is enough. We can't walk further. The Coca-Cola plant must shut down. The movement that the women started eventually shut down this plant. If economics is based on limitless growth in the confines of a limited world then the powerful must grab all the resources from the vulnerable.   And I want to hear talk about the case of women in the Congo. The Congo is the poorest country on earth by GDP and yet as you probably know one of the richest in terms of minerals and natural resources. Since colonialism when the king of Belgium ran a notoriously genocidal regime in order to plunder Congo's rubber armies have tried to grab at its wealth. And the latest gold mining is for coltan. Congo has 80% of the reserves of this mineral and it's used in our mobile phones, our laptops, our iPhones. With this research in such demand there's a direct link between technology the consumer boom and fighting in the Congo. Rape is a key feature of this war and it's undermining Congolese society. An average of 40 women and girls are being raped daily. That means over half a million women since this conflict started a decade ago. After being raped a woman's usually excluded from her family and because women are so integral in the family life doing everything from cooking, raising the children, birthing, et cetera. It means the whole community is quickly undermined.  They can no longer have children, society breaks down and if you destroy enough wounds you can then come right in and take the minerals. Playwright Eve Ensler says there's so much rape in men who've been colonized and enslaved you have to wonder what it's done to these men to their collective psychological memory. Centuries of colonialism, slavery and exploitation by the West have come together and are now being delivered on the bodies of the Congolese most dramatically on the women.  Raping women is the cheapest and most effective way to instill fear in and humiliate a community. It doesn't even cost a bullet. And yet in the middle of these atrocities Congolese women are organizing from occupying the U.S. Embassy in Kinshasa to mobilizing women across the nation to stop war. In this picture you can see some of the women that are part of the City of Joy program. This was founded by the playwright Eve Ensler and Congolese women and several key doctors who created a center for women to have refuge to recover, to get much needed operations and to learn key skills. Women are learning about the Internet. Women are learning new ways of doing business and ways of overcoming their trauma. Serving 90 survivors of gender violence aged 14 to 40 at a time every six years the City of Joy will graduate over 1,000 survivors of abuse. When you think about it it's a pretty great model in general I think. Women are 51% of the global society so empowering them will change everything. City of Joy is about creating unusual solutions to incomprehensibly awful situations. It's about empowering women rather than just giving them aid or financial help. If we accept that rape is a violent expression of power imbalance between men and women then empowering women is a key to solving this problem. But before we get to solutions and I promise I'm getting there very soon I want to mention one more aspect of the way resource wars, transnational corporate economy and the lack of women's rights are linked and that's a mouthful I know. We talked about coltan. Let's talk about the other end of the phone and laptop production. Foxconn and Shenzhen China. Foxconn, do you all know this company just a show of hands? People in the room know it, yeah, so a few of you. We should all know the name Foxconn if we all carry around devices like these. Foxconn employs more than a million people in China. The suicide rate of people throwing themselves off the factory buildings there is so high that the company put up nets as if it was trying to catch fish. Why are young people mostly women killing themselves over making the latest iPhone? Faced with rapidly increasing demand workers are subject to extreme pressures, humiliation, long work hours and horrific working conditions. And let's not forget that many sweatshop workers around the world were driven from their rural homes by the collapse of small farming with a boom of big ag. Then they have no other option than factory work for survival. So next time you go to make a call or you pick up your tablet we should think about these people especially the women in the Congo and in China who are suffering so that we can have the newest technology. Shouldn't the tech sector have some responsibility around this issue? And what do we do about the ongoing rape and violence of women worldwide? The enormities of the disease on violence and girls on women and girls can feel totally overwhelming. To be apathetic on the issue of women's rights though I think whether you're a man or a woman is somewhat suicidal because the reality is uplifting women is not just good for women it's necessary for all of us never mind that we actually all come from women. So what do we do? I don't have a magic bullet answer to tell you today but I do have 10 suggestions to share on how to end violence on women and girls from the family to the global community and I want to thank those of you in the audience that helped me out with these today. First of all we can raise conscious children we can teach our young girls that they can succeed in any profession they choose we can encourage more girls to enter into math and science fields and instead of complimenting girls on how pretty they look we can tell them that they're good learners great leaders, awesome artists. Here's me as a kid with my dad building a doll house and later all the furniture for our house despite his trauma and faults my dad actually instilled in me a really great work ethic and the belief that I could be any profession I want to be when I grow up and I admit I'm still dreaming of becoming an astronaut but it's not just about growing up and being equal to men philosopher Yvonne Illich asks why anyone would want to be equal in a violent world that will only produce more assaults on women it's not enough to have gender equality in corporations or in the military which may be taking actions to counter feminist values we've got to move beyond parity and embrace the values of feminism as well so number two we can foster gender awareness how many of you when you walk into the room are aware of gender dynamics how many women are in the room I'm not talking about a party where you might be looking for a date I'm talking about in a conference setting in the office etc I attended a women's college at Columbia University in York and I think because of that it was drilled into my mind to be hyper conscious of gender everywhere I go I can't look at a meeting, a panel discussion a conference and not count the women speakers so I couldn't help but notice how only 25% of the people at this conference are women and I hear that's actually a high number in this industry here you can see a TV debate on war on women that doesn't feature a single woman panelist yeah that's definitely Fox News so many times I've been at a talk and during the Q&A men are raising their hands to ask questions and the facilitators calling on all the guys in the audience maybe no women are raising their hands or maybe they just need encouragement to speak up I've seen very successfully facilitated sessions where a progressive stack is used alternating between men and women and where people are encouraged to step up, step up to step up your listening if you're someone who talks a lot or to step up your speaking if you've been quiet next we need to kill the alienating atmosphere now this is not a term I as a pacifist might use but I like this terminology a lot I have to say it's catchy we have to change the business practices that discriminate against drive away or alienate women and minorities as Martin wrote in his blog that women away from expressing innovation or writing excellent code is a loss to all of us however unoffended we think they should be business stands to benefit from the traditionally feminine characteristics of cooperation the capacity for keeping the overall picture at the forefront of decision making a sense of generosity and collaboration which enhances productive output and creativity and I'm saying feminine characteristics here meaning it doesn't mean that you're a female bodied but these characteristics could come from anyone to increase women's representation in tech we can follow the advice of the Anita Borg institute for women in tech and others and here's just a few things that they list fostering a positive workplace culture creating diversity of communication styles looking at how to create a healthy work life balance and fostering mentorship and teams that value diversity rather than stereotyping and tokenizing women and minorities evaluating hiring practices valuing diversity over old models that may favor to put it frankly white upper middle class men hiring more women starting a specific initiative like the ThoughtWorks Global Women in Leadership Development Program or WILD and supporting girls who tech like rail girls and black girls code and this I want to introduce also the concept of changing maternity and paternity laws this is Lissia Ronzuli she's an Italian member of the European Parliament known for bringing her daughter Vittoria to all of the Parliament sessions she started bringing her daughter when she was only 44 days old it's a symbolic gesture to support more rights for women in reconciling work and family life this composite picture shows the mother daughter duo at Parliament sessions over the period of three years Vittoria will certainly be well prepared to run for office one day and her story has generated a lot of discussion on family leave policies especially considering that only four countries in the world now have no national law regarding paid maternity leave Liberia, Papua New Guinea Swazili land and the illustrious United States where I come from we need to honor and pay higher wages for traditionally female work it's not about increasing the number of women in traditionally male professions that's not enough it's about uplifting economically and culturally traditionally female work from housework to nurses to teachers why is it that we pay football coaches and actors millions more than we pay professionals who are educating our children and caring for our aging parents are not these people the source of a healthy life and the future of our countries certainly they're guarding the next generation a lot more than a primetime sports hero is and it's not enough for women to rise to the top of traditionally male fields traditionally female fields can also be embraced by men we also need to support the full rights of domestic workers who are mostly women and who deserve as we all do a living wage and respectful treatment this cartoon is an ad for a nanny hotline that uses cell phones and SMS technology in New York City to help educate nannies in the US on their rights and we need to educate women girls it's a fact that giving women education work the ability to control their own income inherit and own property benefit society if a woman's empowered her children and family will be better off the family prospers the village prospers and eventually so does the whole country who in the room knows who this woman is this is Malala she's a Pakistani young girl who has been blogging writing and becoming a fearless spokes girl for the access to education for every girl around the world but particularly in the Pakistan in Pakistan where she faces death threats by the Taliban and she was as many of you may know shot and almost killed by a terrorist attack she's such a brave and noble poster child for this global campaign to get women and girls education and she's a huge inspiration to me every girl deserves an education but I think we also have to ask ourselves what kind of an education our kids are receiving setting up schools in the quote third world aided in the installment of colonialization now instead of rural children learning from their families and communities the local ways kids are being taught English computer science and math why not that's where the jobs are in the current economic system that's what's going to get kids educated but what gets lost along the way indigenous wisdom practical knowledge if the power goes out or for some reason there's a natural disaster global warming violence war et cetera and maybe access to imported food is cut off what will most of us urban dwellers do will we try to eat our computers there's this kid tried it I don't think it worked for him these computers look a little bit more appetizing but I still don't think that idea is going to work the fact of the matter is farming and indigenous wisdom and many of the homemaking skills traditionally designated to women are actually essential for our survival and well-being on this planet the barefoot college here in India recognizes this and has created programs to uplift and celebrate the talents of the poorest of the poor and the most marginalized in our communities I've been amazed at how through my travels this past few months in India and Nepal I meet with elders and also with people my age that have kids in schools and they tell me I'm stupid I don't know anything my granddaughter knows more than I do you should ask her really because I don't know how to make yak cheese or identify which herb is medicinal and which one will kill me what's happening is an evaluation of different types of knowledge that prioritizes the western model and schooling over any other type of wisdom and because in a capitalist system we so strongly value certain employment over others there naturally comes the drive to want our kids to be doctors, lawyers and engineers but we can't lose sight of the holistic interdisciplinary learning that values traditional wisdom and skills next up we've got to educate ourselves we can educate ourselves about bold women and elevate their profiles of all the books and the canons of literature in my college my friends are men and most of my heroes growing up were men except maybe the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and my friend reminded me that they were guys too ThoughtWorks is cultivating a project to increase the web presence of female heroes and activists by adding Wikipedia profiles for a list of over 50 powerful women some of them Nobel laureates who don't have much of a web presence we think of the web as spreading the accessibility of knowledge and in that sense power with the same patriarchal patterns online we're just using another tool for the same end in the workplace we can coordinate talks workshops and events to better educate ourselves and each other on women's rights ThoughtWorks also coordinates events on at a lovelace day and code jams on International Women's Day which by the way is coming up on March 8th so you could actually leave this conference and tangibly do something by organizing your office for International Women's Day next up we've got to speak up most men obviously are not rapists but most men may know someone who's been sexually or physically or verbally violent what do we do when we see violence or hear about it from a friend or family member do we speak up or do we stay silent I love this quote by Albert Einstein the world will not be destroyed by those who do evil but by those who watch and do nothing this is a picture of Congolese Dr. Mukwege he's a visionary and the resident gynecologist at the city of Joy here he is receiving a V-Men award from V-Day at the movement to end violence on women and girls I want to emphasize how crucial a role every man can play in ending violence on women and in speaking up I also want to note the importance of working toward acceptance and full rights for people of all genders not just men and women but trans and third gender folks too we've got to expose the truth and make it visible this is one of my favorite activist groups in India they're called the Gulabi Gang and this is a group that was started by Sampat Pal Devi to counter domestic abuse and rather than be silent and let abuse happen in the home these women are putting on bright pink saris surrounding the homes of families where there's domestic abuse, gambling, addiction alcoholism etc and militantly opposing this violence this is not necessarily what we would call a nonviolent group but it's a very powerful group and I think has a tremendous message of inspiration to send to all of us this is another project called Project Unbreakable it's a 19 year old photographer who decided to take pictures of her friends holding up quotes of things that their rapists said to them during the horrific act she put it up on Tumblr and the project went viral she received thousands of pictures of women taking back their own voices we've got to organize we need strong vocal well supported movements to stop the violence on women until justice is done for every mother daughter and sister who has been violated and future generations can think of rape and sexual trauma the same way in the United States we think of segregation and segregated separate fountains that are obviously wrong and illegal you heard Martin Fowler say this morning IT professionals here in India and in America are pretty much the world over are incredibly privileged you all we all have air conditioned offices nice homes and stable abundant incomes and that privilege comes with a blessed responsibility to be part of the change as you heard you're not just code monkeys you're brilliant creative people you can make a difference Dr. Shiva says that the case of the deli gang rape victim changed everything in India it got young people active young men marching in the streets for women's rights public protests took place in New Delhi where demonstrators were shot with water cannons and tear gas and arrested and still they persisted more than 600 women belonging to various organizations demonstrated right here in Bangalore protests occurred online as well on social networking sites like Facebook users replaced their profile images with a black dot and tens of thousands signed an online petition protesting the incident this is just one example of creative online and offline coordinated campaigning to raise awareness and stop violence on women organizing I think looks a lot like agile I read over the agile manifesto and I related a lot to it prioritizing individuals and interactions over processes and tools organizing is all about relationship building it's about seeing individuals making connections working software over comprehensive documentation I started out working with organizations at the UN around climate change and we used to sit around for hours negotiating over whether we should have if and or the in the third sentence of the 52nd page of some document no one's ever going to read what we need is grassroots tangible real change that's connected to the people that it will impact customer collaboration over contract negotiation we need to form coalitions and interactive organizing currently our movements for social change are partitioned into causes women's rights poverty eradication stopping racism and homophobia environmental injustice and so on but if we fail to see the interconnectedness of these injustices they will only continue to proliferate like a cancer that sees no organ boundaries and finally responding to change over following a plan and I think Code Pink is very well known for this in the anti-war movement whatever the recent headline news is jumping on it acting responding being committed to a long-term vision but also being able to be agile be mobile and strategic we need to get creative and have fun you have tech skills to offer but I'm going to argue that you have something else which is radically strategic and successful thinking this is an image of people spelling out women say no to war with their bodies on the beach there's an Indian comedy collective called All India Bakchod that made this sarcastic YouTube about rape and that went viral and reached over 3 million viewers on YouTube AIB says every sexual assault case in India inspires a string of stupid and hateful remarks against women and this is our response to those remarks I started out today showing you the video that comes from the 1 billion rising movement it's a movement to end violence on women and girls that contains campaign every year on February 14 on Valentine's Day where women take to the streets and organize creative flash mobs and dances to expose this issue and mobilize more people to get involved and I want to highlight just one resource that might be of interest to you a team of colleagues and I collaborated on this book it's Hot Off the Presses it's called Beautiful Trouble it's about activist tactics and principles it's like an encyclopedia for ruckus ranging change makers it's a book on tactics and principles we also talk about theories and case studies and you can also read it online so I didn't schlep copies all the way to India and backpack with them through Nepal and I can't sign any for you but you can read the entire thing online and you can also check out the beta visualization version of the book the fast company wrote in a review of the book although the book is geared toward the activist community many of the tactics and ideologies discussed lend themselves to startups and even the corporate world quite easily sections of the book like putting your target in a decision dilemma and simple rules can have grand results even fit in perfectly with the corpus of business leadership literature so check it out and finally what do all these women that you see up here have in common they're bold, they're fearless and they're audacious well behaved women rarely make history or as the great novelist Isabella Yende put it we need mavericks, dissidents, adventurers outsiders and rebels who ask questions, bend the rules and take risks nice people with common sense do not make interesting characters we all have fear fear of losing our unique privileges not necessarily fear of losing our wealth or our loved ones fear also drives sexism and war but these women show us that it's possible to transcend our fears and be a visible vocal presence for a different paradigm a paradigm where we belong to each other where our successes are contingent rather than competitive against each other's successes and I'm going to make the assumption here and venture to say based on what I've seen from all of you over the past years, the first day of this conference that you have the same boldness the same audacity, the same courage that I see in these women that I've told you the stories about today agile went out on a limb and questioned business as usual it created a foundation for collaborative workspace for more communication for acceptance of failure and big picture thinking broken down into bite-sized steps and that's exactly what's needed in our movements for justice today thinking outside the box boldness, audacity, courage and fearless conviction and with that boldness what can you do the possibilities are endless one in three women will be raped or beaten in her lifetime but sexual violence affects more than one third of our society I want to ask you right now to please stand up if you know someone who's been sexually assaulted maybe a neighbor, a friend, a loved one someone you met randomly on the plane please stand up thank you and please stay standing stand up if you have either ever witnessed someone making inappropriate comment to a woman in the office some kind of sexual harassment in your office thank you please stay standing and now please stand up if you believe violence on women and girls must end take a moment to look around the room this is a movement in the making we are all in this together it's time we do more than speak words we stand up take action and as Gandhi said be the change that we want to see together we can end violence on women and girls thank you


I'm at Pikeville Medical Center where a historical addition has made its way inside. Mountaintop News has more. We are less than three years away from the 100th anniversary of Pikeville Medical Center. So we are looking back at the history of Pikeville Medical Center and forward to the future. And we are so happy that our friends at the Big Sandy Heritage Museum offered to let us have this wonderful piece on display here at Pikeville Medical Center. Amid 1800's Cannabian Gale Square Grand Piano, gifted by the Big Sandy Heritage Museum, has found its new home at Pikeville Medical Center. The piano, which was acquired by Colonel John Dills, Jr. in the 1860s, was recently acquired by the heirs from the estate of Imogene June Johnson in 2021, who then donated the piano to the museum. Right there in the Civil War was the time frame when this piano would have been manufactured. It's a square piano, square grand, has actual ivory keys, you know, which is a very rare thing these days. That family, the Johnsons, they're descended from Colonel John Dills, which was, you know, one of our earliest prominent citizens. He was one of the, he started the first school. He was instrumental in bringing what became UPOC into the city. He started the Dills Cemetery, which we believe is the first integrated cemetery in Central Appalachia. So, and it's that mansion up on the hill next to UPOC, which of course was where the hospital first started. We are Pikeville Medical Center. And we are an amazing place to work. Healthcare heroes of all types work here. All who deserve great rewards. While our heroes are working hard to take care of our patients and visitors, we are taking care of them with top tier benefits, higher pay rates, and great sign on bonuses. So join our team today. So what are you waiting for? Apply today. Incredible opportunities await at PMCjobs.org. With the piano and PMC's possession, the hope is to have it tuned and played during special events. Bake Heritage Museum Executive Director Angela Donner says connecting the original and current location of the hospital through a historical piece is incredible. To be able to do that today, we have other items at the museum. As Brad said, the bed from the that was modeled on the Lincoln bedroom set. We have Augusta Dills York. We have like her sewing machine and some of the artwork that she created. We have a beautiful dress that was hers as well at the museum. But to get it out here into another community area is nice and we would like to develop more partnerships with other places to have items on display in other locations as well. To see the piano, you can visit the second floor atrium at Pikeville Medical Center. If you would like to visit the Big Sandy Heritage Museum, they're open Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Reporting from Pikeville, Kentucky, from Mountain Top News, I'm Joel Chorjol.