Parents Frantic Over 16 Year Old Daughter Sitting Alone On A Plane, Would You Switch Seats? by Gary Leff on September 4, 2023 An airline passenger reports that they were asked to change seats to help parents sit with their daughter on a long haul flight. He was with his wife, they were in the window and middle. One parent …
Read More »The Ethics Expert: Episode 157 – Erica Salmon Byrne, J.D. | Thomas Fox – Compliance Evangelist
In this episode of The Ethics Experts, Nick welcomes Erica Salmon Byrne, J.D. Erica Salmon Byrne is the CEO for Ethisphere, where she is responsible for ensuring strong growth for the company while maintaining Ethisphere’s founding ethos that good businesses do better. Ms. Salmon Byrne also serves as the Chair of the Business Ethics Leadership Alliance; she works with the …
Read More »Tips for preparing fall snacks for busy kids — and parents too
CLEVELAND, Ohio — Fall is fast approaching, and that means kids are returning to their classrooms — and to their busy extracurricular schedules. This can be a challenge as parents juggle their own schedules to meet the demands of after-school athletic practices and other activities. On top of that, how do parents make sure their children are getting the nutrition …
Read More »Ontario housing minister resigns over Greenbelt scandal, ethics breach
Open this photo in gallery: Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing Steve Clark delivers remarks at Queen’s Park in Toronto on August 31, 2023.Spencer Colby/The Canadian Press Ontario Housing Minister Steve Clark resigned Monday after resisting opposition calls to step down over the removal of select lands from the Greenbelt and a scathing report by the Integrity Commissioner that found …
Read More »In-person teaching has value if it’s led by values
Days after a teacher in Uttar Pradesh’s Muzaffarnagar was caught on camera urging her students to hit their Muslim classmate, a teacher in Karnataka’s Shivamogga asked two Muslim students to “go to Pakistan.” In the former case, the child had forgotten tables of multiplication, apparently, but the authority figure in class thought it fit to bring up his nominal faith. …
Read More »Cleveland Navy Week: Events and programs
*Attached video: Navy ship docked in Cleveland, honored in name of baseball hall of famer CLEVELAND (WJW) – Cleveland Navy Week is back for the first time since 2018. Coordinated by the Navy Office of Community Outreach, the Navy Week program is meant to help citizens learn about the U.S. Navy and its role in national security. Boy trapped after …
Read More »Ontario housing minister quits over breaching ethics law in land deal
The sun sets next to downtown’s CN Tower, as viewed from Tommy Thompson Park nature preserve in Toronto, Ontario, Canada September 26, 2021. REUTERS/Chris Helgren/File Photo Acquire Licensing Rights WINNIPEG, Manitoba, Sept 4 (Reuters) – Ontario’s housing minister resigned on Monday, days after an independent report concluded he breached ethics laws over a land deal around Toronto, Canada’s largest city. …
Read More »Tired of checking your email? This man went a year without going online
Aron Rosenberg decided to spend an entire year offline. That meant no internet, no emails and no smartphone. His experiment happened to coincide with the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, when the rest of the world was becoming more internet-reliant than ever before. His 365 days of being unplugged started on Jan. 1, 2020 and continued through Dec. 31, 2020. …
Read More »Cedar Rapids opens survey for public input on new police chief
The City of Cedar Rapids has launched a public survey asking for input on what qualities city residents and stakeholders want to see in a new police chief. The survey is part of the community outreach stage of the hiring process, which also will involve consulting with the leaders of more than 30 local organizations — including the Cedar Rapids …
Read More »ROSE warns Sedona seniors of scams
According to the FBI’s Elder Fraud Report, individuals over the age of 60 lost $3.1 billion dollars to fraud in 2022, an increase of 84% from 2021. “Tech and customer support schemes continued to be the most common type of fraud reported, with 17,800 complaints filed by victims over 60,” FBI Assistant Director Luis M. Quesada stated in the report. …
Read More »Ethical perspectives on ChatGPT | Computer Weekly
In previous essays, we discussed ethics as a process of reflection and deliberation; an iterative and participatory process in which you look at your project from four different ethical perspectives: consequentialism (pluses and minuses), duty ethics (duties and rights), relational ethics (interactions and power), and virtue ethics (virtues and living together). We will now test drive these perspectives and …
Read More »Smithfield Foods aids in Hurricane Idalia relief with 28,000 pounds of food
Smithfield Foods is trucking 28,000 pounds of food, the equivalent of 112,000 servings, to Live Oak, Florida, to provide hot meals to communities devastated by Hurricane Idalia. The food, which includes Smithfield bacon, pork chops, ribs and pork loins, will be delivered to Mercy Chefs, a Portsmouth, Virginia-based nonprofit that deploys to disaster zones across America. Mercy Chefs will serve …
Read More »7 Frameworks to Build Your AI Ethically
As AI flourishes into GenAI, there emerges the need for some sort of digital Hippocratic oath for the creators of these technologies. While ethics in AI has become a subject of discussion of late, ethicists globally have been exploring the subject for decades, suggesting frameworks to build technology upon. Out of the lot, we have handpicked seven ethical AI frameworks …
Read More »Q&A: Meet Olivia Teel, Bethlehem’s new forester
Olivia Teel, of Northampton County, in June became Bethlehem’s new city forester A native of the Lehigh Valley, she studied environmental science at Moravian University Foresters advocate for improvements to city canopies, among other responsibilities and tasks BETHLEHEM, Pa. — Each day at work is different for Olivia Teel, depending on the season. “ … We have a broad range …
Read More »Pennsylvania slashes wait times, backlogs for state permits, licenses, other filings
HARRISBURG — Within the first few weeks of Gov. Josh Shapiro’s administration, the new Democratic governor promised to make Pennsylvania more friendly for businesses and workers. Since then, Shapiro’s administration has made significant progress, after completing the first-ever catalog of all 2,400 state permits, certificates, licenses, and other necessary filings to begin working or start a business in the state. …
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