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This week's topic talked about how to stay organized while balancing school life. With our upcoming weeks of work, assignments, homework, tests, etc. I appreciate all the information that will help me out in any and every way to help me succeed this semester. What really helped me out was listening to our guest speaker. She made some good points. The point that resonated with me the most was personal wellness. We’re too worried about handing in the assignment on time or studying at a very late time rather than taking care of ourselves. We would rather wait until the last minute to finish something which would make us stay up all night instead of getting a good night's sleep.

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Reminds you that the best way to remember things is to write it down in a notebook or agenda.

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In week 3 we talked about working with others and whether or not we enjoy working with others. I personally enjoy being with others and listening to other ideas other people might have. Working with others might also come with consequences. The lack of work from others may make you do a majority of the work giving them free marks from doing nothing. This raises the question of whether or not working by yourself or with others is better.

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Soft skills are defined as, “personal attributes that enable someone to interact effectively and harmoniously with other people”. Professionalism is defined as, “the competence or skill expected of a professional”. This week talked about how important these 2 topics are and if they apply in our industry. What stood out for me was the amount of unprofessionalism you can find online like the example of the van splashing water on people walking on the sidewalk. This just shows how you need to be professional on and off the work site and how easily people can record these things nowadays.

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To me ethics means moral principles between what’s right and wrong. Ethics are determined on how you were raised, your culture, religion and/or what you buy. I enjoyed listening to others and what they think is right and wrong and how different it is compared to what I believe. It opened up my mind and made me think on if maybe I should rethink my beliefs.

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Continuing ethics from last week, we talked about the ethics behind the use of technology and social media. A big part that comes with the use of tech and social media is your digital footprint. Your digital footprint is a trail of online data you create while using the internet. It follows you when you send an email, on twitter, buying a product online. What shocked me the most was the one tweet video. Where how one tweet that you thought was funny could actually ruin your life. Always be careful of what you do online.

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To me diversity means being inclusive of others no matter their cultural background, their beliefs and values. It is beneficial for people to get along with others of different cultures and backgrounds as diversity brings people together with different perspectives and ideas on things. In my presentation I talked about soccer and how accessible this sport is to everyone and how anyone can play it. It brings a lot of people together and builds characteristics in a person that will last a lifetime.

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This article talks about how you can stay organized with a pro giving you tips and tricks on how to make this positive habit last.

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People who are successful at staying organized over time tend to share certain behaviors and habits, such as making to-do lists to help keep track of what needs to be done. (iStock)

There is a lot advice out there (including my own) about how to organize your home, with strategies for dealing with individual spaces or categories of items that are frequent clutter culprits. If you haven't worn a piece of clothing in more than a year, donate it. Every time you bring home a new book, give one away. Clean and organize your pantry twice a year. But in addition to those tips, people who continue to stay organized tend to share the following behaviors and habits.

Keep a to-do list

In our fast-paced lives, where work and home have become even more intertwined, having a to-do list is key to staying organized. Your list can be electronic or physical, but be sure to update it frequently and carry it with you.

There is no correct way to organize it. Some people will divide their list by personal and professional tasks. Others keep it according to deadlines: what needs to be done today, this week, this month. Creating and maintaining a list will help you remember what needs to be done, and it will give you a sense of accomplishment every time you cross off a completed task.

To get organized, start by buying less stuff

Tidy every day

When you're trying to get in shape, you don't exercise all day, then do nothing for the next three months. Instead, you start with a reasonable workout and create a routine to maintain your fitness. The same is true for getting and staying organized: Consistency is key.

People who stay organized don't wait until they're overwhelmed by papers, packages or laundry to take action. They spend 10 or 15 minutes each day straightening up and clearing off surfaces, tossing or recycling papers and trash, hanging up clothes or filing paperwork. Every little bit helps.

Consume less, shop mindfully

Having fewer items in our homes goes a long way toward staying organized. There is a limit to how much we can comfortably fit into our spaces. If every cabinet, closet, drawer and shelf is full, it's harder to put items in their proper places, and it's more difficult to keep track of what you have.

Organized people shop mindfully and limit their purchases to what they need and love. Before you buy something large, such as an exercise bike or a new piece of furniture, first consider whether you have the space for it.

Empty bags, open mail daily

Bags are not for storing items; they are for getting pieces from place to place. Take a few minutes when you get home to empty the contents of your bags and put the items away. Likewise, aim to open your mail every day and immediately recycle envelopes and junk mail. Packages should be opened the day they arrive. Put the contents away and recycle the box. Returns should be completed within a week. All of these tasks take little time, and doing them regularly will save you time and stress later.

Stick to routines

All progress is good progress. Regular tidying each morning or evening will keep clutter under control. Make a rule to clear your kitchen counters at the end of each day, make your bed each morning or put your laundry away after folding it. None of this is particularly fun or fulfilling, but it makes a difference and sets expectations for an orderly and organized home.

Identify your priorities

Prioritize the organizing tasks that give you a sense of control and simplify your day. If packing lunches feels overwhelming during the morning rush, put out their contents the night before. Or if your email inbox is a source of stress, spend 10 minutes processing emails each afternoon. I don't like waking up to a messy kitchen, so I take a few minutes to clean up and clear off the counter each night. It makes me feel like I'm starting each day on the right note.

Good enough is good enough

Your closet does not have to be photo-ready. Your bookshelves don't need to be curated. If you can find what you need, you know what you have and you put items away, you are organized. Don't let chasing perfection be the enemy of living with good enough. Our homes have been pushed to their limits during the coronavirus pandemic. Many of us accumulated more than we need and want to pare down again. But don't try to declutter your whole house in a day or weekend. Spend 30 minutes taking on one space at a time, then do that consistently. Keep your systems simple. Clothing doesn't need to be file-folded. Cereal and baking ingredients don't need to be decanted or sorted by color. Just putting them away in the proper place is a win.
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This article explains the importance of building a connection with your colleagues whether you get along with them or not.

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The article talks about how the sense of being professional could jeopardizes yourself to unethical behaviour like conflicting interests between others.

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Employees or managers who view themselves as professional are more vulnerable to unethical behavior such as conflicts of interest, a new Cornell study finds.

Safeguards from bias are more likely to fail in people with a high self-concept of professionalism, according to the study, "The Professionalism Paradox: Professionalism Increases Vulnerability to Conflicts of Interest," published Jan. 17 in the journal Academy of Management Perspectives.

"I noticed that many professional advisors, such as financial advisors and physicians, claim that their 'professionalism' protects them from corruption and unwanted influence from conflicts of interest; that they can 'manage their own brains,'" said the study's author, Sunita Sah, associate professor of management and organizations at the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management. "However, a large body of social science research shows that much bias from conflicts of interests is unintentional and implicit, and claims of professionalism and integrity do little to protect against unwanted influence."

Sah surveyed 400 managers on multiple conflict of interest scenarios, and asked whether they would accept or reject the gift offered in each circumstance. Participants were further asked to imagine they accepted a gift and to predict the influence, if any, it would have on them.

Prior to viewing the scenarios, each respondent's perception of their own professionalism was measured by assessing their personal view of their ability to remain objective and self-regulate unwanted influence.

"Consistent with my predictions, the greater the managers' sense of professionalism, the morelikely they were to report that they would accept gifts from people with questionable or ambiguous agendas, and lesslikely to be influenced by the specific gifts in the scenarios," Sah wrote. "These overall results indicate that a high sense of professionalism with a shallow understanding of the concept may lead to greater acceptance of conflicts and potentially more bias."

Professionalism has evolved from a feature of traditional professions, such as medicine and law, to a concept describing how individuals conduct themselves at work, Sah said.

"I propose that professionalism be redefinednot as an individual characteristic or feeling, but as a set of observable repeated behavioral practices that demonstrates a deep understanding of the concept and promotes outcomes in the interest of clients and the societal good," Sah said. "Policies and rules need to be combined with positive role models who model deep professionalism and provide education - nurturing virtues of thought - along with opportunities to practice - nurturing virtues of character)."

Further, the concept of deep professionalism could be taught at business schools, Sah said.

"Managers could commit to continuing education and practice to remain competent and ethical," she said. "Efforts to progress one's cognitive moral development and empathy would help in understanding one's limitations and fallibilities. Greater humility and the ability to articulate and acknowledge doubts in relation to [conflicts of interests] and other ethical problems is critical to developing and maintaining an ethical self."
Stephen D'Angelo is a writer and content strategist with the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business.

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Employees or managers who view themselves as professional are more vulnerable to unethical behavior such as conflicts of interest, a new Cornell study finds. Safeguards from bias are more likely to fail in people with a high self-concept of professionalism, according to the study, "The Professionalism Paradox: Professionalism Increases Vulnerability to Conflicts of Interest," published Jan.

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This story talks about how if farm animals produced in other states are to have their products marketed in California, Californians will be allowed to demand stricter standards for their welfare.

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Should Californians be able to require higher welfare standards for farm animals that are raised in other states if products from those animals are to be sold in California? The U.S. Supreme Court will confront that question when it hears oral argument in National Pork Producers Council v. Ross on Oct. 11, 2022.

Pork producers are challenging a law that California voters adopted in 2018 via ballot initiative with over 63% approval. It set new conditions for raising hogs, veal calves and egg-laying chickens, whose meat or eggs are sold in California. The state represents about 15% of the U.S. pork market.

At most commercial hog farms, pregnant sows are kept in "gestation crates" that measure 2 feet by 7 feet - enough room for the animals to sit, stand and lie down, but not enough to turn around. California's law requires that each sow must have at least 24 square feet of floor space - nearly double the amount that most now get. It does not require farmers to raise free-range pigs, just to provide more square feet when they keep hogs in buildings.

The National Pork Producers Council argues that this requirement imposes heavy compliance costs on farmers across the U.S., since large hog farms may house thousands of sows and that it restricts interstate commerce. The Constitution's commerce clause delegates authority to regulate interstate commerce to the federal government. In a series of cases over the past 50 years, the Supreme Court has made clear that it will strike down any state law that seeks to control commerce in another state or give preference to in-state commerce.

Farmers and animal welfare advocates understand that if California wins, states with the most progressive animal welfare policies - primarily West Coast and Northeast states - will be able to effectively set national standards for the well-being of many agricultural animals, including chickens, dairy and cattle. Conceivably, California might also be able to require basic conditions for human labor, such as minimum wage standards, associated with products sold in California.

Nine other states have already adopted laws requiring pork producers to phase out gestation crates. Massachusetts's law would also apply to retail sales of pork raised elsewhere, like California's, but its enforcement is on hold pending the Supreme Court's ruling in the California case.

States control farm animal welfare

The main federal law that regulates living conditions for animals is the Animal Welfare Act, which was signed into law in 1966. Among other things, it requires the Department of Agriculture to adopt humane regulations for the keeping of animals that are exhibited in zoos and circuses or sold as pets. However, farm animals are explicitly exempted from the definition of "animal."

While the federal government is mute on farm animal welfare, each state clearly has the power to regulate this issue within its borders. For example, in recent years, nine states have outlawed housing egg-laying chickens in "battery cages" that have been the industry standard for decades. These wire enclosures are so small that the birds cannot spread their wings.

Since many states still permit battery cages, egg-laying chickens' quality of life depends on the state in which they reside.

It is also clear that the state of California has no power to adopt laws that are binding on the farmers of other states. This case falls between those two points - here's how:

California's market power

The California law says that if producers want to sell pork in California, they must raise pigs under conditions that comply with the state's regulations. Farmers do not have to meet these standards unless they want to sell in California. The same requirement is applied to producers located in California and those based elsewhere, so the law does not directly discriminate between states in a way that would constitute a clear commerce clause violation.

Producers of eggs and veal who sell in California are on track to implement new space requirements for their animals under the law. In my view, however, much of the pork industry appears to be in denial. Instead of working out how to comply, the National Pork Producers Council wants the courts to set the California law aside.

Even as this case moves forward, however, major producers including Hormel and Tyson have said they will be able to comply with the California standard. Niman Ranch, a network of family farmers and ranchers who raise livestock humanely and sustainably, has filed an amicus brief with the Supreme Court supporting California.

Admittedly, pork farmers have invested millions of dollars in their existing facilities, and the system efficiently produces huge quantities of cheap pork. But Californians have taken the position that this output comes at an ethically unacceptable cost to animals in the system.

Weighing ethics against compliance costs

In considering this case, the Supreme Court will confront two questions. First, does California's requirement constitute a burden on interstate commerce? A U.S. District Court in California held that the answer was no, and the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed this ruling.

There is no magical formula for what constitutes a burden on interstate commerce, so it is impossible to know in advance what the Supreme Court will say about this point of the case. The present court has not addressed this issue.

If the court should decide that the California law does restrict interstate commerce, it then must consider whether the measure meets the "Pike test," which was set forth in the 1970 ruling Pike v. Bruce Church, Inc.. In this case, the court held that a state law that "regulates even-handedly" must be upheld unless the burden that the law imposes on interstate commerce "is clearly excessive in relation to the putative local benefits." Put another way, is Californians' social interest in better welfare for pigs substantially outweighed by the economic cost to producers?

In another 2010 ruling, United States v. Stevens, the court acknowledged that "the prohibition of animal cruelty itself has a long history in American law, starting with the early settlement of the Colonies." However, the court concluded that depictions of animal cruelty - the plaintiff had been convicted for producing and distributing dogfighting videos - qualified as protected speech under the First Amendment and that this protection outweighed society's interest in promoting animal welfare.

Is a national standard in the cards?

Many animal welfare questions involve striking this kind of balance between ethical positions and economic consequences in a political context. It is like mixing oil and water, which makes predictions difficult.

The biggest unknown is what views the newest Supreme Court justices will bring to this case. Only four current justices - John Roberts, Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito and Sonia Sotomayor - were members of the court when it ruled on the Stevens case in 2010. Will today's court support California's right to regulate products sold within its borders, or meat corporations' economic arguments? How many justices will see farm animal welfare as an important public concern?

I expect that the court will uphold the California law - and that if this happens, within five years livestock producers will be proposing national legislation setting uniform welfare standards for farm animals. It is impossible to predict now whether a national law would improve animal welfare or adopt existing poor welfare practices.

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This article talks about one individual who is shocked to find out what companies online know about him and how much of his life seems to be online.

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A few years ago, Ken Crum started getting uncomfortable with how much of his life seemed to be online. The long-time computer programmer was particularly concerned by what companies appeared to know about him.

The amount of personal information was mind-boggling to the 66-year-old Texan, who recently moved from Dallas to the small town of Weatherford. Data brokers were collecting his personal details. Social media was targeting ads at him. Then one day, after shopping at a local home improvement store, he got an email from the company asking how his visit was. While he can't be absolutely certain, he's pretty sure the company used location-tracking on his work phone to find him.

He found it all unnerving.

So Crum decided to pull himself off most social media, keeping just his LinkedIn account. He quit using Google in favor of DuckDuckGo, a search engine that promises to protect user privacy. He deleted tracking-prone "app crap" - his words - from his smartphone. And he tried to wrestle as much of his personal information back from the data brokers as possible, paying for a subscription to DeleteMe, a service that helps people remove information from databases.

"I wanted to get as much of me off the internet as possible," Crum said. (Abine, the company that owns DeleteMe, introduced CNET to Crum.)

Crum, a charming individual who shares his opinions freely, isn't anti-technology. He's simply one of a growing number of Americans concerned by the loss of control over personal information that ranges from your Social Security number to your search history. Today, your digital self includes your social media accounts, biometric identifiers, usernames and passwords. Possibly most creepy: Your smartphone records the location data of your daily life as you tote it around.

The data collection doesn't stop there. Your Yelp review of a pizza parlor or a comment you posted on your local newspaper's website all become part of your digital profile. They're used by marketers trying to get you to buy something, to support a policy or to vote for a candidate. There are oodles of data about you. Most of that info is largely free for the taking.

As you'd expect, there's no shortage of companies looking to profit from it. At last count, there were about 540 data brokers operating in the US, according to the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, which based its estimate on numbers from data broker registries maintained by California and Vermont.

The skyrocketing amount of consumer data online has also given cybercriminals new opportunities to exploit your personal details for identity theft, online scams or other kinds of fraud. Once cybercriminals get your data, they use it to try to bust into your accounts or sell it to other cybercrooks. Get breached once and you may spend years cleaning up the mess. (Here's how to remove your personal information from the internet .)

The pandemic has only increased the amount of personal data online because more people turned to the internet for work, school and social connections. According to Abine, the number of pieces of online personally identifiable information per individual has jumped 150% in the last two years, boosted by increases in both data broker activity and COVID-related consumer screen time.

That can make it all but impossible to distinguish your digital identity from your real-world self.

"All identity is digital identity, at this point," says Eva Velasquez, president and CEO of the Identity Theft Resource Center, a nonprofit group that helps victims of identity theft. Separating the two would be a mistake, she adds.

Why privacy matters

Creating massive databases of consumer profiles has gotten easier in recent years because of advances in artificial intelligence technology that allow for better cross-referencing and correcting of data, says John Gilmore, Abine's head of research. The databases are bigger and more accurate than ever.

Though many people worry data brokers are mining their social media accounts for personal information to feed those databases, Gilmore says the vast majority of information comes from voter registration rolls, property and court records, and other conventional public sources.

Still, smaller, questionably legitimate data farmers are likely scraping social media, as well as buying stolen consumer data off the dark web, Gilmore says. Worse, cybercriminals and extremists groups have used these methods. A few years ago, members of the alt-right - a loose collection of neo-Nazis and white supremacists - attempted to create data profiles of supposed far-left activists with the intent of using the data to dox and harass them.

"All identity is digital identity, at this point."

Eva Velasquez, CEO, Identity Theft Resource Center

Those groups have a lot of data to work with these days. People have unwittingly become "data creators," Velasquez says. The digital footprint produced by the average person goes well beyond Facebook oversharing. Keeping tabs on the data created by online shopping, online entertainment and simply surfing the internet goes well beyond the capabilities of most people.

That's why the Electronic Frontier Foundation and other digital privacy advocates are arguing for limits on what types of data companies can collect, how long they can keep it and who they can share it with.

Curbing the amount of data stored would reduce the impact of data breaches.

"It seems like every week there's a breach," says Aaron Schwartz, senior staff attorney for the EFF. "To state the obvious, if the information isn't collected in the first place or stored, this wouldn't be an issue."

Consumers covered by state privacy laws also need the ability to sue companies that infringe on the rights protected by those laws without having to rely on state attorney generals to do it for them, he says. For example, Illinois' privacy law gives consumers this right, while a similar Texas law doesn't.

That isn't to say Texas' attorney general has been silent on data privacy issues. The AG's office filed suit in February against Facebook's parent company, Meta, over its past use of facial recognition technology, accusing it of violating the state's privacy laws by capturing biometric data on tens of millions of Texans without properly obtaining consent.

Months earlier, Facebook had pledged to shut down its facial recognition system and delete the face scan data of more than 1 billion users. The company said the decision was spurred by societal concerns and regulatory uncertainty about facial recognition technology.

Crum, the computer programmer in Texas, says he was floored by his first DeleteMe report, which showed that more than 200 data brokers had harvested personal tidbits about him. The data included his name, address, emails and phone numbers, along with information about his shopping habits and purchase history.

"There's nothing bizarre about my life," he says. "But I value my privacy, and don't want anybody selling my information to any Tom, Dick or Harry for any reason."

The threat of data breaches

The organizations that hold our data are under constant threat from cybercriminals looking to steal online data. When peoples' identities are compromised, the fallout can be life shattering.

Identity theft can destroy a person's credit, make it difficult to get housing and, in some cases, drive people to contemplate suicide, according to a report by ITRC.

Eighty-three percent of people polled by the ITRC said they were unable to rent an apartment or find housing as a result of identity theft, while 67% said they couldn't pay their bills as a result of their information being exploited.

Many of the crimes stemmed from the increasing digitization of data and records, Velasquez of the ITRC says. Twenty years ago, identity theft was all about dumpster diving, mail fraud and human resources records stolen by an insider. Now it's about acquiring data through mass data breaches, phishing and scam phone calls.

"So all of those logins and passwords," Velasquez said, "they're part of your digital identity, too."

The pandemic has only made things worse, she says. Stimulus payments have been stolen and people who qualify for unemployment benefits have been unable to get them because they can't prove who they are, she says.

The Federal Trade Commission, which tracks fraud complaints, recorded 1.4 million cases of identity theft last year, about the same number of cases as in 2020, but double the 700,000 cases it logged in 2019.

Abine's Gilmore says the exposure of personal activity can also hurt people, too.

He pointed to the recent theft and publication of a list of donors to truckers who were protesting COVID restrictions in Canada by blocking border crossings. At least one Canadian government official lost his job after he was discovered to be a donor.

"This use of personal information to hurt others has become so easy, and you can't be punished for it," he says.

The debate over biometrics

Sometimes the need to protect data can clash with the desire to keep it private, particularly when you're talking about biometrics.

A person's face, fingerprints and even some behavioral characteristics, such as how they move their mouse across a computer screen, can be great identifiers because they're unique and don't change. They're also convenient to use because they can't be cracked or forgotten the way a password can. They also can't be misplaced, like a key card.

Velasquez says they're a necessary next step in ID protection and proof, though "frameworks and guardrails" need to be built in to protect consumers. Specifically, the tech needs to be something people choose to opt into, and the biometrics data only gets used with a person's consent.

Additionally, there should be alternatives for people who need them - for example, elderly or vision-impaired people who might not be able to scan their faces to get facial ID data with a smartphone camera, she says.

Privacy advocates, however, have serious concerns about other ways that biometric data can be used. For example, tech startup Clearview AI has been targeted by investigations and lawsuits because of its creation of a facial recognition tool powered by billions of images it scraped from social media sites without consent.

The tool has been licensed to law enforcement and government agencies for use in solving crimes. Privacy advocates warn it's been unlawfully used to i dentify people protesting police brutality. They worry tools like Clearview could stifle free speech by discouraging people from attending such gatherings out of fear authorities will target them.

Lawsuits filed in both federal and state courts claim the company violated Illinois' Biometric Information Privacy Act ( BIPA), which requires opt-in consent to collect someone's faceprint.

Clearview maintains that its right to collect the data is protected by the First Amendment, but its motion to dismiss the federal case on those grounds was recently dismissed. Representatives for Clearview didn't respond to a request for comment.

Schwartz of the EFF, which has filed friend-of-the-court briefs in both the federal and state cases, says the lawsuits are certain to set key precedents about what companies can and can't do with biometric data. In the meantime, the EFF continues to push for the passage of strong privacy protection laws at the state level.

As for regular people, like Crum, Schwartz says the EFF encourages the practice of "surveillance self defense" measures like always using , two-factor authentication and .

"But at a certain point, we can't do enough as individuals," he says. "The surveillance is just that far reaching."

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This article talks about how this well known UK rapper by the name of stormzy, is tryna make a change in world soccer by the lack of diversity off the soccer pitch.

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British rapper Stormzy is heading a programme looking to "inspire change" by "addressing the lack of diversity off the pitch in football".

A report published last month showed 43% of Premier League and 34% of English Football League players are black, but only 4.4% of managers.

New research shows people who identify as black or mixed black heritage hold 6.7% of football's senior roles.

"We hope to inspire real change within this field," said Stormzy.

The research, commissioned by Adidas with Fare Network, also found 52% of black women surveyed said they wanted a role in football but 40% did not think they would get one because of their gender.

Stormzy and Adidas, along with 11 partners including Manchester United, Fulham and Sky, will create a careers programme called Merky FC that will provide placements in a variety of areas.

Crystal Palace manager Patrick Vieira told BBC Sport in October that "doors are not open" for black managers in the UK.

Stormzy said the initiative was "part of my wider commitment to support racial equality in the UK".

In 2020, he pledged £10m to UK organisations, charities and movements over 10 years to tackle racial inequality, justice reform and black empowerment.

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For those who have closely followed Stormzy's career, the launch of Merky FC will come as little surprise. The rapper has continuously used his music and profile to try to influence changes in society, whether that be calling out politicians or campaigning for families that the rapper feels have been let down by the judicial system.

Stormzy has also put his money where his mouth is by using his considerable wealth to support his words.

When he felt black authors weren't being given the same opportunities by publishing companies, he started his own.

When he felt there was a lack of black students attending the so-called elite universities, he started a scholarship scheme.

So it seems a natural next step that, shortly after a report suggested black people are disproportionately represented in several areas of sport, he has made it his goal to change that.

The fact that he has brands on board such as Adidas, Manchester United and Fulham shows his pulling power but also how seriously he's taking this. After all, his reputation and his own brand are at stake - a company he's built from the ground up.

Stormzy is a firm believer in the mantra of 'if you can see it, you can be it'. In short, representation is key.

Young black children see footballers on the pitch, therefore they know a career as a professional footballer is possible.

But what about those kids wanting to be agents, directors of footballers, scouts, physios, commentators, brand managers etc? Stormzy hopes that by creating this programme more black faces will be visible in areas that they currently are not.

When it comes to role models, if it doesn't already exist, someone has to be the first.

There's no doubt the task he has committed to is a daunting, and it's likely to take years if not decades to judge how successful the initiative has been.

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Stormzy wants to 'inspire change' in football

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British rapper Stormzy is heading a programme looking to "inspire change" by "addressing the lack of diversity off the pitch in football". A report published last month showed 43% of Premier League and 34% of English Football League players are black, but only 4.4% of managers.