Wednesday a day to recognize issues related to girls
Oct. 11 is International Day of The Girl, first declared by the United Nations in 2012 to celebrate girls worldwide and their unlimited potential. Also on this date, we create awareness of challenges girls still face regarding their health, education, and well-being.This year the Girls Inc. network, which stretches across the United States and Canada, focuses on empowering girls to be informed and in charge of their sexuality and reproductive health:• 14 percent of girls in the US experience sexual dating violence.• One in Five will be sexually abused or sexually assaulted by age 18.• 78 percent are unhappy with their bodies.• One in 20 teenagers become pregnant each year.In Schenectady County, the New York State Department of Health reports that for every 1,000 girls aged 15-19, pregnancy rates were 64.7 in 2010 and 42.0 in 2015. In Albany County, that rate of 35.5 in 2010 dropped to 21.1 in 2015. Girls Inc. diligently helps girls plan for their future. While we believe our programming has had an influence on this downward trend, we realize there is much more to do.Parents, mentors, and trusted adults play a critical role in girls becoming informed.1) A crucial first step is to create a safe, non-judgmental space for conversations.2) Adults must model healthy behaviors and relationships.3) Become an advocate for comprehensive sexual education in schools to equip young people with vital health information.4) Help girls become thoughtful media consumers; explain negative media images and stereotypes.5) Encourage girls to embrace their uniqueness.Information is knowledge; knowledge is power. When girls are informed, they are unstoppable.Ashley Jeffrey BouckSchenectadyThe writer is executive director of Girls Inc. of the Greater Capital Region.More from The Daily Gazette:EDITORIAL: Thruway tax unfair to working motoristsSchenectady department heads: Budget cutbacks would further stress already-stretched departmentsSchenectady man dies following Cutler Street dirt bike crashSchenectady, Saratoga casinos say reopening has gone well; revenue down 30%EDITORIAL: Find a way to get family members into nursing homes Categories: Letters to the Editor, Opinion
The latter issue is specious because the guns imported for criminal use into New York are invariably carried by individuals who don’t and can’t get a permit in any state. The straw purchasers are in violation of federal laws before they resell the firearms to the felon who transports them to New York. The people who might enter New York with permitted handguns, however, are almost never felons and all objective studies on the subject demonstrate that these permit holders commit less crime than any other segment of the adult population.Even were this wasn’t the case, Article 6, Section 2 of our Constitution reads: “The citizens of each state shall be entitled to all the privileges and immunities of citizens of the several states.” Section 2 was further clarified by the XIV amendment: “No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States.”These two portions of the Constitution have been found by the courts to require all states to honor driver’s licenses and marriage licenses issued in state X, even though state law bars the licensee from receiving such a license in state Y. Should the Senate fail to approve this legislation, the above demonstrates that, though it may require a review by the Supreme Court, that court will ultimately require that handgun permits, like marriage licenses, must be honored by all the states. That decision might be preferable to the pending legislation because it would also require New York City, Chicago and Washington, D.C., to honor permits from other jurisdictions.Art HenningsonScotiaMore from The Daily Gazette:EDITORIAL: Beware of voter intimidationSchenectady teens accused of Scotia auto theft, chase; Ended in Clifton Park crash, Saratoga Sheriff…EDITORIAL: Find a way to get family members into nursing homesFoss: Should main downtown branch of the Schenectady County Public Library reopen?EDITORIAL: Thruway tax unfair to working motorists Categories: Letters to the Editor, Opinion Earlier in December, The Gazette railed against the bill which passed in Congress requiring the states to honor handgun permits issued by other states.The opinion alluded to varying standards for permit issuance and the fact that many of the firearms used by criminals were from other states. 
Categories: Letters to the Editor, OpinionWriter has no right to discuss abortionDear Mr. Wendell Neugebauer, regarding your Oct. 21 letter (“Abortion in U.S. is its own holocaust”), until a baby can come out of a man’s body, an opinion on abortion shouldn’t come out of his mouth.Diane Sanders HombachSchenectadyStefanik will be left with Trump’s stainElise Stefanik, R, NY-21, is probably looking forward to many years of public service.These dreams, however, may be destroyed by the stain of Donald Trump.Since Ms. Stefanik supports Donald Trump, it is reasonable to ask if Donald Trump’s values are also her values.Does Ms. Stefanik believe that the Western alliance that has protected us for the past 64 years should be broken up to appease Vladimir Putin?Does she believe it is “disgusting” that we have a free press, or that our president should use X-rated language that is not suitable for children to hear, or encourage supporters to violently attack people who do not agree with him, or lie so often that it is impossible to tell when he might be telling the truth, or make domestic and foreign policy based on what is best for his own financial or political interest rather than the best interests of the country, or withhold aid to a foreign country if they do not agree to fabricate evidence on his political opponents, or show favoritism to people who stay at his hotels?Does Ms. Stefanik believe that members of her own party who question the behavior of Mr. Trump are “human scum?”These are the values that the voters will associate with Ms. Stefanik long past the time when Donald Trump leaves office, unless she demonstrates that her values are not the values of the immoral person she continues to support.Victor RobertsBurnt HillsMotorists must be considerate of othersThere are two letters to the editor that I feel I must address. The first was an angry diatribe about cyclists on the road written by Brian Pelletier on Oct. 19 (“Cyclists don’t belong on roads with cars”) and the second a prosy rebuttal written by John Murphy on Oct. 24 (“Cyclists are entitled to share in freedom.”)Way back when I was in school, we were taught how to share the roads with cars, bicycles, walkers and joggers. And currently, there is a New York state initiative to “Share the road.”I was taught that cyclists have a narrow and oftentimes hazardous shoulder to ride on and that cyclists must ride with traffic.This was done so that in the event of an accident, the injuries could be less, as the impact was less if they were going in the same direction as motor vehicles.And I was taught that depending on a municipality’s vehicle and traffic code, only cyclists under the age of 15 could ride their bikes on a sidewalk.I was also taught that walkers and joggers should be going in a direction opposite to vehicle traffic so that they could see a potential crash and quickly get out of the way.In any case, we must share the road. Sure, sometimes there are inconsiderate cyclists and walkers, but roads have been here long before automobiles, so I believe they have more rights to them than motorists do.Patricia PytlovanyGlenvilleMore from The Daily Gazette:EDITORIAL: Beware of voter intimidationFoss: Should main downtown branch of the Schenectady County Public Library reopen?EDITORIAL: Find a way to get family members into nursing homesEDITORIAL: Thruway tax unfair to working motoristsEDITORIAL: Urgent: Today is the last day to complete the census
The last weeks of 1998 saw some major transactions in the prime London residential market, despite statistics from agents which showed falling house prices.The freehold of 17 Cadogan Place, SW1, home of the former Conservative MP Sir Alan Glyn, who died last year, was sold for above the £3m asking price. The agent, Patricia Farley of Farley & Co, said that the house needed refurbishment and restoration, but achieved more than the asking price because of the rarity of a freehold in Chelsea.Gary Hersham of Beauchamp Estates also noticed the speed of transactions during the Christmas shopping season.He showed a buyer from the Middle East the 1930s house at 22 Weymouth Street, W1, at 1pm. At 2.30pm the buyer’s and seller’s solicitors met. By 3.45pm contracts were exchanged at above the asking price of £2m for a 934-year lease from the de Walden Estate.Luxury flats also sold well, with WA Ellis selling a 75-year lease on a flat at 38 Pont Street, SW1, for more than the asking price of £2m.
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Endless traffic jams and overcrowded public transportation mean agony for almost everyone commuting to and from Jakarta’s city center.Commuter trains and metro buses are affordable, but with lots of doubts surrounding their efficiency, many people long for more reliable and comfortable public transportation.Rizal, 29, is one of them.The private-sector employee, who works near the Hotel Indonesia traffic circle in Central Jakarta, was waiting for his transportation one afternoon this week. It was a specific kind of bus that would take him home to Cibubur in East Jakarta. The clean, spacious, air-conditioned bus with unlimited WiFi access, reclining seats and USB power ports was his ultimate choice.He was standing at the bus stop near the Bundaran HI Transjakarta station for more than 15 minutes, checking his smartphone to see whether the next premium bus would he… Linkedin LOG INDon’t have an account? Register here Log in with your social account Google Facebook Forgot Password ? Topics : public-transportation bus transjakarta Greater-Jakarta Jabodetabek premium commuter city