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Videos: 11 People Arrested During “Rise Up October” Protest Against Police Brutality
Eleven people were arrested in Midtown during the #RiseUpOctober protest against police brutality yesterday. Quentin Tarantino, who flew in for the event from California, was one of the featured speakers, along with Cornel West: “When I see murders, I do not stand by,” Tarantino said. “I have to call a murder a murder and I have to call the murderers the murderers.” [ more › ]
World would be better if Saddam, Gaddafi still in power: Trump
The world would be a better place if dictators such as Saddam Hussein and Moamar Gaddafi were still in power, top Republican US presidential hopeful Donald Trump says.
Love is….Keeping Promises
Yesterday I had planned to visit my great-Aunt in the nursing home. She is 101-years-old and doing well. The last time I saw her was in August. She was having a sleepy day and we didn’t get to talk much. But she looked curiously into my cellphone and we took this picture.
Saturday started, things got pushed back and I changed my plans. I decided to go Sunday instead.
My mother called late last night to say that Aunt Ruby had passed away on Saturday. I’m one day late and she is gone.
That makes me sad.
I’m going back to the nursing home today to visit my 1st grade teacher (who is also 101). I promised when I saw her in August to bring some pictures of our 1st grade class. I aim to keep that promise.
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Malala Yousafzai: ‘I want to become prime minister of my country’
On the eve of the release of a film about her life, Malala Yousafzai and her father, Ziauddin, relive her remarkable journey from schoolgirl to ‘modern-day folk hero’ and the guilt he still feels about her attempted murder by the Taliban
On an overcast, anonymous morning, journalists assemble outside Claridge’s hotel in London. The plan is not to linger: a coach is to drive us to an undisclosed destination where Malala Yousafzai will be waiting. The security arrangements add edge to the existing sense of expectation at the prospect of meeting Malala Yousafzai and, in my case, her father. Malala, celebrated for her refusal to be silenced by the Taliban in her championship of girls’ education, is about to experience limelight of a different sort as a documentary about her life, He Named Me Malala, is released here. It’s an intimate, inquiring, moving film, directed by the Oscar-winning documentary-maker Davis Guggenheim, who directed An Inconvenient Truth, and it has earned a chorus of celebrity approval across the pond, where it opened earlier this month. Ellen DeGeneres, on her TV show, called Malala “incomparable, impressive, inspiring”. Sheryl Sandberg, chief operating officer of Facebook, sees her as “proof that one person can change the world”. And to Meryl Streep she is “a modern-day folk hero”. But the film reminds us that Malala is also an ordinary girl. Hollywood is a long way from Pakistan’s Swat valley, where she was born.
The coach stops outside a labyrinthine building in a rundown part of town. I feel as if I were in an unlikely dream and wonder if that’s how Malala feels every day. On the far side of a huge, echoing room, Malala and her father have been positioned on a sofa, like stowaways. A table of untouched drinks and snacks is in front of them. It’s 10am. As I walk in, they stand up – smiling. Malala is tiny – a surprise, because one thinks of her as larger than life. Her head is covered in a purple veil through which sunlight shines. With her sweet, wonky smile (bitter souvenir of the Taliban’s attack – her facial muscles are unable to rally on her left side), there is singularity mixed with what I am trying to resist describing as saintliness. I look down and notice elegant, salmon-pink sandals with little heels, scarlet varnish on every toe. At 18, a poised, uncowed figure, she has her own version of glamour. But what I notice most is the similarity between Malala and her father. They have the same twinkle, the same animation. Everything about 46-year-old Ziauddin Yousafzai is lively, down to his flourishing moustache. And in the film he does not hold back in describing the bond with his daughter as being like “one soul in two different bodies”. His story merges with hers.
What type of teacher are you?
A report has identified four kinds of teacher – idealists, practitioners, rationalists and moderates. Where do you fit?
Why did you become a teacher? Was it to a) improve society, b) help students, c) have a steady career or d) a bit of all three? If you wanted to improve society, you may be an idealist – one of the four teacher types outlined in a recent report. Researchers looked at teachers’ reasons for joining and leaving the profession, and identified four classifications from the results. The study notes, however, that teachers could have qualities from different categories over the course of their careers.
Related: Fact or fiction? The reasons teachers choose the job – and quit
US cutting Palestinian aid, says official | PNN (Major Fail by US!)
A US State Department official, travelling with Secretary of State John Kerry on a trip to Amman, confirmed there would be a cut.“The decision to reduce assistance to the Palestinian Authority was made this past spring,” he told reporters.“There were several factors contributing to this decision, including unhelpful actions taken by the Palestinians and constraints on our global assistance budget.”
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