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The colorblind principle . Yes. So theres been a lot of confusion about what the word colorblindness mean. Many people think that colorblindness means pretend you dont. But in my book, i try to get rid of that perception because we all see race. Everyone sees race and help it. Everyone watching this notices that i am of color and and so forth. So with the knowledge that we can all see race, were all capable of racial bias. What i mean by colorblindness book is that we try our best to treat peopl...

The colorblind principle . Yes. So theres been a lot of confusion about what the word colorblindness mean. Many people think that colorblindness means pretend you dont. But in my book, i try to get rid of that perception because we all see race. Everyone sees race and help it. Everyone watching this notices that i am of color and and so forth. So with the knowledge that we can all see race, were all capable of racial bias. What i mean by colorblindness book is that we try our best to treat peopl...

Recommendations with the down turn of the economy a lot of employees were being laid off and there was not much hiring being done and the work of the task force as you indicated had kind of dropped off. Thats not to say that none of the recommendations werent implemented. In fact many of them were implemented. Some of them include more accessibility and disabled user friendly resources like the dhr lobby, the dhr website job apps and system of people and employees can apply for jobs. We also pro...

26,000 a year and nobody can live on that in San Francisco. We cant truly lead independent lives until we have economic independence and meaningful jobs. I want to thank you, supervisor mar for scheduling this hearing today and also for starting this conversation about employing people with disabilities. And like you, i also want to thank jonathan lions for the legwork that he put into this effort to bring this issue to all of our attention. It was also exactly 1 year ago that you held this hear...

For the mayors with disabilities and 2 years ago we signed the americans with disabilities act and we had more than 500 people come and the theme was it doesnt stop here the reason is under the dream of the ada employment is really the portion that is unfulfilled. We really have not reached the numbers that i think the founders really expected when the ada was first signed and much of the public testimony back in 1988 and 1989 about the needs for this civil rights legislation focused on employme...

Community based organizations working with the department of Human Resources and office of Mayors Office on disabilities and employee rights. Its also to advance civil rights and Employment Rights for people with disabilities and our goal to increase employment efforts and opportunities for disabled people and also a goal to improve and implement better rule 115 which maybe called by some access sf as well. We are holding a hearing for the anniversary of the passage of the americans with disabil...

Programming and score opposing opinions. 100,000 will be awarded in cash prizes. The grand prize of 5000 will go to the student or team with the best overall entry. For more information, go to our web site, studentcam. Org. The House Foreign Affairs Committee Questioned deputy secretary of state John Sullivan this week on the departments restructuring forts d a broad range of diplomatic priorities. Other questions focused on Foreign Policy priorities in north korea, iran, and myanmar. This overn...

Higher, nasdaq climbing. 33 , we keep hearing obituaries for this market will the alleged cause of death will something natural like old age or stocks went up too far too fast given the fundamentals . Will be slaughtered by the disappointment out of washington maybe just maybe the grim reapers being held at bay by a series of positive events closely tied to the nature of how companies are doing, hence the continued sense on both wall street and main street that theres value and then there are hi...

The shakespeare theater hosted a mock trial in june based on a scenario of William Shakespeares play macbeth. Panel a federal Appellate Court judges and Supreme Court justices including Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer heard oral argument in the case of the weird sisters versus kingdom of scotland. At issue is whether or not the sisters were guilty of using witchcraft to assist macbeth in the murder of king duncan of scotland. This event is one hour. [applause] thank you everyone, for join...

By the Bard Association which many of you are members and those of you are not, hope you will become. It is the Affinity Group of lawyers in washington dc and elsewhere to try to support not only art in general but this from the computer in specific. As you know, tonights argument is based on the text of William Shakespeares macbeth which was produced by the theater this spring and directed by liesel on this very stage. It was a wonderful event and im sure many of you attended it. I want to star...