Raphael Warnock, 51, is the first African American to serve as a senator in Georgia.
He's a Pastor in the church where Martin Luther King officiated, he is committed to social justice and son of a pastor, who was a veteran during the second world war.
“He can break it down intellectually but when it comes to talking about the issues that impact our community – social justice issues, homelessness, healthcare issues, police reform – he comes in the tradition of the Baptist church, which is passionate, engaged. He challenges people to think, to question who are you and, if you say that you are this, what does that mean?” says Cheryl Johnson, a voting engagement activist and community historian.
Nzambi Matee is the founder of the Djenge Makers, a startup that transforms plastic into solid bricks. Plastic waste is a global problem, millions of plastic items are wasted every single day. Not wanting to watch the earth deteriorate, she decided to act in order to counter this massive problem, the Kenyan entrepreneur created a system where it was beneficial for everyone. She takes the plastic waste that companies want to get rid of and mixes it with sand to create a brick that is lighter and stronger. It is then easier for transport and five times
more resistant compared to regular bricks. The new born company now produces 1,500 bricks per day and continues to expand. Recognised for her work, she and her team won the UN Young champions of the world award. - Mathis -
Sarah Thomas was the first woman to officiate a major college football game, the first to officiate a bowl game, and the first to officiate in a Big Ten stadium. In 2015, Thomas was hired as the first full-time female official in NFL history. In February 2021, she became the first woman to officiate in a Super Bowl. Thomas says: "Women don't have to listen to their inner-critic and hold themselves back; they can unleash themselves and reach their best potential if they put their effort into it. That's what I want my daughter to do." Zoé
Maia Chaka, who was once just a regular health and PE teacher in a small school in Virginia Beach, is now the first Black woman hired by the NFL to be an on field official. Chaka has been training with the NFL since 2014, and has officiated games in the NCAA's Pac-12 and Conference USA and has also officiated at the professional level in the XFL.
Chaka says: "I am honoured to be selected as an NFL official, but this moment is bigger than a personal accomplishment. It is an accomplishment for all women, my community, and my culture". Maia explains that she has known Sarah Thomas for a while now since they worked in Conference USA together and says "She had already been there three years prior to me. And so as soon as I got the call, and they got when that I was being hired in a Conference USA, she was one of the first officials that called me up and reached out to me". This all happened in March 2021 two months after the announce of Sarah Thomas' history making event. Zoé
“Une mode unique, responsable, ultra locale” Yolande Klaassen a créé le concept REVIVE, fin 2019 à partir d’une prise de conscience de l’impact du secteur textile sur l’environnement. Depuis, elle dort, rêve et respire Revive
« Lab » parce que c’est une démarche de recréation qui repose sur la confection de pièces uniques, tendances, à partir de vêtements existants. Adoptons la seconde vie des vêtements fabriqués localement. Nous voulons conjuguer style ET valeurs!
Le concept en deux grandes lignes: Yolande Klaassen veut mettre à contribution son expertise pour lancer un nouveau business modèle circulaire afin de promouvoir une mode plus responsable. Elle a créé un écosystème local avec des stylistes, ateliers de confection et commerçants de la région autour de la mode durable. Leur objectif: re valoriser les stocks invendus du commerce en s’appuyant sur le savoir-faire français en style et confection. “Adoptons la seconde vie des vêtements qui existent déjà!” - Natasha -
Un service de transformation aux particuliers qui souhaitent remettre au goût du jour les vêtements dont ils n’arrivent pas à s’en séparer, mais qu’ils ne mettent plus. Des collaborations avec des enseignes qui souhaitent développer des collections capsule upcyclées à partir de leurs invendus dans une démarche anti gaspillage.
Retrouvez Revive:
Chaque dimanche du mois de Mars, 10 chefs des restaurants de Lambersart, proposent des bons petits plats sur un marché installé au bord de la Deûle.
La cohabitation intergénérationnelle
Certes, leurs restaurants sont fermés mais ils veulent continuer à faire profiter leurs clients ainsi que mantenir leurs chiffre d'affaire. La créativité est clé durant ces temps compliqués - Natasha -
L'intérêt d’une société plus juste et plus solidaire en luttant contre quatre formes d'instabilités:
Les restaurateurs participants: L’Emulsion, Le Dancing, - Les Vedetttes, - L’Eldorado, - La Laiterie, Le Quai, Chez mon Cousin, - Pies and Potes, - La Cense, - La Table du Colysée. la solitude des personnes âgées la difficulté des étudiants à accéder à un logement en raisons financières l'inconsistanc raite la nécessité d
Objectif: favoriser l'entraide et l'accroissement mutuel - Natasha -
Depuis le 1er janvier, un groupe d'Anglaises qui habitent en Creuse se réunit pour nager dans la rivière tous les jours à 11h, même s' il pleut ! Elles disent que c’est bon pour la santé et pour le moral. Après la petite baignade de 10 minutes dans l’eau glacée, elles boivent un café et mangent du gâteau.
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L’agence spatiale européenne présente sa nouvelle campagne de recrutement ! La campagne de recrutement précédente avait lieu en 2008 et seuls 6 candidats sur 8 413 avaient été employés. La première étape de la sélection des candidats est un questionnaire d’une dizaine de questions pour identifier la personnalité du candidat, son caractère, ses motivations. La deuxième étape juge les aspects psychologiques, la mémoire, la logique, le raisonnement ou la motricité. La troisième étape se déploie devant un jury, c’est un travail en groupe de six avec un problème complexe à résoudre dans un temps limité pour rajouter un facteur de stress. Enfin la dernière étape, les candidats passent des examens médicaux pour vérifier leur vue, leur ouïe, la composition de leur sang, leurs intestins, leur fonctionnement cardiaque etc… - Zoé -
Le robot de la Nasa a réussi à atterrir sur le cratère Jezero, dans la zone la plus risquée. Ce robot fait plus de 2 mètres, pèse une tonne et possède 19 caméras. Son objectif est de trouver des traces de vie ancienne sur Mars, en collectant pendant plusieurs années une trentaine d'échantillons de roche. Zoé
Julia Tinetti, 31,and Cassandra Madison, 32, were two friends that began telling people that they were sisters after meeting in 2013 since they had a lot of common traits. A recent DNA test surprisingly has confirmed that Cassandra and Julia are biological sisters.
They met working at The Russian Lady restaurant in New Haven, Connecticut, and they quickly became firm friends because of their numerous similarities, they were both adopted from the Dominican Republic as babies, they both have Dominican flag tattoos and they looked so alike that coworkers would mix their names up. It started as an inside joke that they would tell other people that they were sisters but the similarities were so strong that they wanted to check their adoption papers to see if they were but the papers said that they had different mothers. After Madison moved to Virginia she got a DNA test on one of her birthdays and the results didn’t add up. She also met her
father and he said that they put up to adopt another daughter that day. Madison quickly contacted Julia and told her to get a DNA test. The test showed that they’re biological sisters. - Hamish -
India Donates Vaccines
India donated 200,000 vaccines to UN peacekeepers! This huge donation will help the peacekeepers stay healthy and continue to help people without worrying about the Covid-19. The United Nations peacekeeping program is a plan of action to fight for global peace, security, and stability.
Zoom, a connecter for believers
Here are some quotes from inspiring women to glorify women's month which occurs every March. - Zoé -
"IF SOMEHOW I HAVE MADE THE PATH EASIER FOR THE WOMEN WHO COME BEHIND ME... NOTHING I HAVE DONE PROFESSIONALLY WOULD MEAN MORE TO ME" Doris Burke
"JUST KNOW THAT YOU CAN START LATE, LOOK DIFFERENT, BE UNCERTAIN AND STILL SUCCEED" Misty Copeland
"BY SIMPLY EXISTING IN SPACES THAT WEREN'T BUILT FOR US, WOMEN ATHLETES ARE DOING SOMETHING REVOLUTIONARY" Sue Bird
"SOME PEOPLE SAY I HAVE ATTITUDE, MAYBE I DO... BUT I THINK YOU HAVE TO. YOU HAVE TO BELIEVE IN YOURSELF WHEN NO ONE ELSE DOES THAT MAKES YOU A WINNER RIGHT THERE" Venus Williams
"THIS IS MY CHARGE TO EVERYBODY, DO WHAT YOU CAN. SO WHAT YOU HAVE TO DO. STEP OUTSIDE OF YOURSELF. BE MORE. BE BETTER. BE BIGGER THAN YOU'VE EVER BEEN BEFORE" Megan Rapinoe
"REPUTATION IS WHAT OTHERS THINK ABOUT YOU. WHAT'S FAR MORE IMPORTANT IS CHARACTER. THAT IS WHAT YOU THINK ABOUT YOURSELF" Billie Jean King
To see more quotes, go check out @morethanjustballs on Instagram!
Singapore’s future eco-town Tengah might be your next tourist destination! This wonderful project is led by Cheong Koon Hean, the first woman to lead Singapore’s urban development agency. The idea is to build 42, 000 new homes across five residential districts. It will be the first city with centralized cooling, automated trash collection, a car free town center, cascading vertical gardens, verdant walls and some greenery on the rooftops. They are also developing a roadmap with a goal to eliminate as much carbon emissions in Singapore as possible. This country clearly has the right mindset to move forward as it acknowledged that over 80% of its residents live in urban areas and that therefore a sustainable urban design would be extremely beneficial in regards to climate change. This green building project is something other countries should take as a model to follow when it comes to building on new territory. -Eva-..
AmazonCEOJeffBezos,decidedtospend$10billionontheBezosEarthFund by 2030. The fund’s CEO Andrew Steer, declared in a series of tweets that “TheEarthFundwillinvestinscientists,NGOs,activists,andtheprivatesector tohelpdrivenewtechnologies,investments,policychangeandbehavior”and promised that they “will emphasize social justice, as climate change disproportionatelyhurtspoorandmarginalizedcommunities.”
This fund is worth more than 7% of Bezos’ revenues For his first donation, he chose to invest in a few legacy organizations with an established history of advocacy regarding the planet, this foreshadows the birth of new policies and research on climate change Thanks to this funding plan, drastic changes towards the climate situation. - Eva -
Ce dinosaure est un Titanosaure, un dinosaure à long cou. Le Titanosaure a été trouvé dans tous les continents mais celui découvert en Argentine les os de celui-ci semble être “10% à 20% plus grands que ceux du Titan de Patagonie le plus grand dinosaure connu à ce jour” disent les scientifiques.
Le Titan de Patagonie pesait environ soixante dix tonnes et mesurait quarante mètres de long. Zoé
England recently approved the quick use of a product containing the chemical thiamethoxam due to a virus that contaminated sugar beet seeds. After that temporary use was approved in January, the government has decided to ban the use of this pesticide as scientific studies have shown that the use of these chemicals are the result of the falling numbers of honeybees, wild bees and other animals which pollinate plants. This ban was nearly obtained in 2018, when the EU and UK were faced by the damage these chemicals caused to bees. Why this decision was taken is easily answered as insects in general play a vital role in the food chain. It is also proven that a third of the food we eat relies on pollination done mainly by bees. Milan Wiercx van Rhijn, from the charity Bees for Development said that "If we kill the insects which are the starting blocks in the chain, we'll kill the animals higher up,". His solution to this pesticide problem would be to focus on having "strong, resilient bio-abundance" which is letting things grow properly and "not cutting them down". - Eva -
"I was swimming with this turtle at Lady Elliot Island on the Great Barrier Reef when he flipped me the bird!"
“The raccoon was just waking up and stretching. We have a raccoon in this tree every so often, sometimes for a night and sometimes for a month.”
“As this Azure damselfly slowly woke up, he became aware of my presence. I was lined up to take a profile picture of his wings and body, but quite sensibly the damsel reacted to the human with the camera by putting the Marsh grass stem between me and it. I took the shot anyway. It was only later that I realised how characterful it was. And how much the damselfly looks like one of the muppets.”
To see more photos, go check out www.comedywildlifephoto.com!
L’École Jeannine Manuel Lille est le troisième lycée de France pour la troisième année consécutive.
De plus, l'École Jeannine Manuel Paris est le premier lycée de France pour la neuvième année consécutive.
"Big thanks to all the teachers and staff for making this unprecedented time as smooth as possible for our children..." dit Phil (parent d'élève) - Zoé -
The Poetry by Heart National Competition was a great success this year for our school, as we had winners in both the collège and lycée sections! International schools from all over France competed this year online by sending in videos of their recitals.
Amelia Jbiha recited "Daffodils" by William Wordsworth and came 2nd in the 6ème section of the Middle School competition.
Sofia Routh recited "Dulce et Decorum Est" by Wilfred Owen, and "Kubla Khan" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. She won her year group competition for 2nde students, and was also named the overall winner of the High School competition.
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Students in Terminal OE had to read and analyse the NYT Article: ‘Teens on a Year that Changed Everything.’ and then had to create their own piece of artwork that represents their year.
Congratulations to the 2 Jeannine Manuel Voices finalists from Lille: Cannelle Choquart and Lina Rhissa. They will now compete with 8 other Paris finalists in front of the famous host of The Voice, Nikos Aliagas.
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The food bank managed to collect 908kg, a new school record! This food will help hundreds of people in need. It will really make a big difference in those peoples lives. Don’t forget that you can still give to the Banque Alimentaire or other food banks whenever you want. - M -
On the 7th February, the US stopped to live to follow the biggest annual sport event, the Super Bowl. This year, the Kansas City Chiefs were back at the Super Bowl and went against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. The game was opposing two of the best quarterbacks of all time, on one side the young MVP that is playing his second Super Bowl at only the age of 25, and on the other side arguably the “GOAT” who won 6 championships already, he dodged retirement and led its new team to its first Super Bowl since 2003. During the entire game, the Chiefs’ offensive line couldn't resist the pressure and the Chiefs whole offense wasn't at their best. On the opposite side, Tampa’s offense was advancing fast and scored a lot. The final score 31 9, shows perfectly the scenario of the game. Mathis
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Les françaises s'imposent avec un grand 53 - 0 à domicile. Le point culminant de la partie revient à l'ailier Caroline Boujard et son majestueux triplé dans les quinze premières minutes du match. Le Pays de Galles s'est repris en deuxième mi-temps en renforçant sa défense, mais il a eu du mal à arrêter les Françaises qui étaient détérminés. L'arbitre Nikki O'Donnell siffle la fin du match qui marque l'entrée des bleues dans le championnat. Natasha
