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Wednesday, August 22, 2012
Tuesday, August 21, 2012
Rihanna 'Felt Stifled' By Def Jam's Pop-Princess Blueprint
'They had a brand, they had an idea of what they wanted me to be without figuring out who I was and then working with that,' singer said on 'Oprah's Next Chapter.'
By Rob Markman
Rihanna and Oprah
Photo: Harpo Productions, Inc.
Source: http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1692110/rihanna-oprah-def-jam.jhtml
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Teacher Ideas | Dyslexia and the Special Education Law
The mere utterance of the word dyslexia within the confines of a school campus can stop a conversation and create a divide between a parent and that school. This does not have to be the case and there is information teachers can arm themselves with and become a resource and support for parents/guardians who are concerned about their children. I listed a few myths and misconceptions below and their counterpart, the truth.
Dyslexia is a broad term and we do not recognize it:
Not so fast. It is listed in IDEA as one of the qualifying conditions: Yep, right there under Specific Learning Disability (SLD), check it out for yourself:
Specific learning disability means a disorder in one or more of the basic psychological processes involved in understanding or in using language, spoken or written, that may manifest itself in an imperfect ability to listen, think, speak, read, write, spell, or to do mathematical calculations, including conditions such as perceptual disabilities, brain injury, minimal brain dysfunction, dyslexia, and developmental aphasia.
Also important to note is that SLD is a broad term which encompasses several conditions. This is important because stating that dyslexia is a broad term as an excuse to dismiss it is ubiquitous in many an IEP/SST/504 meeting ? it is just not true.
It?s too early to test for dyslexia:
Symptoms of dyslexia present themselves as early as three years old. Standardized testing can detect it as early as kindergarten ? if conducted by a trained professional. Legally, failure to identify a child who is obviously struggling can cost the school district in the future, so don?t be afraid to recommend a student for testing early in their schooling. This will not only save the school district money in the future, but possible save the child from an unpleasant school experience.
We will just hold him back and he will ?soar.?
This might the most detrimental thing we can do to a child with dyslexia. If a child with dyslexia is held back and the intervention is the same as the year before, he will not improve. The intervention has to change, not the child.
I don?t need to defend my credential:
Well, yes you do. Please resist the very natural temptation to become defensive when asked about your credentials: No Child Left Behind (NCLB) gives parents the right to ask the following questions:
(1) Whether the teacher has met State qualification and licensing criteria for the grade levels and subject areas in which the teacher provides instruction;
(2) Whether the teacher is teaching under emergency or other provisional status through which State qualification or licensing criteria have been waived.
(3) The baccalaureate degree major of the teacher and any other graduate certification or degree held by the teacher, and the field of discipline of the certification or degree.
(4) Whether the child is provided services by paraprofessionals and, if so, their qualifications.
A teacher educated about dyslexia can be the one person who saves a child and his/her family from years of frustration and anxiety. That teacher can play a pivotal role in changing the whole culture of a school. Remember, it takes a village to raise a child and a village of advocates to raise a child who struggles.
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About the Author
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Dr. Kelli Sandman-Hurley
Dr. Kelli Sandman-Hurley is the co-owner of the Dyslexia Training Institute and a published author and researcher of dyslexia. She received her doctorate in Literacy with a specialization in reading and dyslexia from San Diego State University and the University of San Diego. She is a trained Special Education Advocate assisting parents and children through the Individual Education Plan (IEP) and 504 Plan process. Dr. Kelli is an adjunct professor of reading, literacy coordinator and a tutor trainer. Kelli is trained by a fellow of the Orton-Gillingham Academy and in the Lindamood-Bell, RAVE-O and Wilson Reading Programs.Kelli is the Past-President of the San Diego Branch of the International Dyslexia Association, as well as a board member of the Southern California Library Literacy Network (SCLLN). She is a professional developer for California Library Literacy Services (CLLS) as well as a Literacy Consultant for the San Diego Council on Literacy. She was awarded the Jane Johnson Fellowship and the Commission on Adult Basic Education (COABE) scholarship. Kelli has presented at numerous conferences as well as provided professional development for k-12 teachers. She created and produced Dyslexia for a Day and is currently writing Putting the D in to the IEP. ?Join the Dyslexia Training Institute on Facebook.
Source: http://blog.reallygoodstuff.com/dyslexia-and-special-education-law/
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Thursday, August 16, 2012
Ryan called stimulus wasteful, then sought funds
FILE - In this April 5, 2011 file photo, Republican Vice Presidential candidate, current House Budget Committee Chairman Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., introduces his controversial "Path to Prosperity" budget recommendations, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Ryan was one of the harshest critics of President Barack Obama's economic stimulus plan, but months after Congress approved the nearly $800 billion package Ryan as a congressman was trying to steer money under the program to at least two companies in his home state of Wisconsin. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
FILE - In this April 5, 2011 file photo, Republican Vice Presidential candidate, current House Budget Committee Chairman Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., introduces his controversial "Path to Prosperity" budget recommendations, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Ryan was one of the harshest critics of President Barack Obama's economic stimulus plan, but months after Congress approved the nearly $800 billion package Ryan as a congressman was trying to steer money under the program to at least two companies in his home state of Wisconsin. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
Republican vice presidential candidate Rep. Paul Ryan R-Wis., speaks during a campaign event at Palo Verde High School on Tuesday, Aug. 14, 2012 in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/David Becker)
WASHINGTON (AP) ? Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan has been one of the harshest critics of President Barack Obama's economic stimulus plan. But months after Congress approved the nearly $800 billion package, the Wisconsin lawmaker was trying to steer money under the program to companies in his home state.
Rep. Ryan wrote letters in 2009 to Energy Secretary Steven Chu and Labor Secretary Hilda Solis seeking stimulus grant money for two Wisconsin energy conservation companies. One of them, the nonprofit Wisconsin Energy Conservation Corp., later received $20.3 million from the Energy Department to help homes and businesses improve energy efficiency, according to federal records.
In a letter to Chu in December 2009, Ryan said the stimulus money would help his state create thousands of new jobs, save energy and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. That contrasted with his public statements denigrating the stimulus program as a "wasteful spending spree." It also conflicts with his larger federal budget proposal, which would slash Energy Department programs aimed at creating green jobs.
Ryan's office says his budget plan "calls for getting Washington out of the business of picking winners and losers in the economy ? and that includes our energy sector."
Ryan's actions in Congress and as chairman of the House Budget Committee have been drawing fresh scrutiny since he was named last weekend as Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's running mate.
A Ryan spokesman, Brendan Buck, noted the congressman's office's previous explanations that he was "providing a legitimate constituent service." The Wall Street Journal reported Ryan's efforts to secure stimulus money two years ago.
"If Congressman Ryan is asked to help a Wisconsin entity applying for existing federal grant funds, he does not believe flawed policy should get in the way of doing his job," Ryan's office said then.
Ryan also sent three letters to Chu in October 2009 seeking stimulus money for the Energy Center of Wisconsin, another nonprofit organization that promotes energy efficiency. The company later received $190,000 in stimulus money to conduct research on geothermal heating and $50,000 more to develop a training curriculum for students at Milwaukee Area Technical College.
Ryan's letters to the Energy Department were first reported by the Boston Globe.
"It's another example of how he talks out of both sides of his mouth," said Heather Taylor-Miesle, director of the Natural Resources Defense Council Action Fund, a political affiliate of the national environmental group. "It goes to show that their energy policy always has been, and probably always will be, disingenuous."
The vice presidential contender is not alone among Republicans who criticized the stimulus plan only to seek money later. Georgia's Republican senators, Saxby Chambliss and Johnny Isakson, for example, blasted the bill as a bloated government giveaway yet asked Defense Secretary Robert Gates to steer $50 million in stimulus money to a constituent's bio-energy project.
Ryan's views are also consistent with his running mate's long-held position that the stimulus was a flawed idea that did not create private sector jobs.
"That stimulus didn't work," Romney said at an Ohio speech in June. "That stimulus didn't put more private-sector people to work."
Yet, in Ryan's letter to the Labor Department in October 2009, he backed the Energy Center of Wisconsin's grant application for stimulus money "to develop an industry-driven training and placement agenda that intends to place 1,000 workers in green jobs."
The company did not win the Labor Department grant.
Frank Greb, president of the Energy Center of Wisconsin, said the company sought help from the entire Wisconsin congressional delegation, a practice he described as routine. He said other lawmakers ? Democrats and Republicans ? also sent letters in support of the grants.
"I'm not surprised that any congressman would be supportive of entities within his district if he saw merits in the work and it was going to be beneficial to constituents," Greb said.
Ryan's budget proposal would cut billions in Energy Department funding for the development of clean energy and eliminate loan programs that have helped support 60,000 jobs, according to Rep. Henry Waxman, top Democrat on the House Energy and Commerce Committee.
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Pastor convicted in lesbian custody case
Lisa Billings / AP file
Lisa Miller answers questions about her custody battle during a news conference on April 17, 2008, in Richmond, Va.
By NBC News and wire services
An Amish-Mennonite pastor who helped a mother and her 7-year-old daughter flee the U.S. to Nicaragua so that she wouldn?t have to share custody with her former lesbian partner was found guilty Tuesday of aiding in international parental kidnapping of a minor.
Prosecutors say that Kenneth Miller, 46, who worked in his family?s garden supply business, coordinated with Mennonites to drive Lisa Miller and her daughter, Isabella, to an airport in Canada and to then pick them up in Nicaragua, where the group runs a mission.
Prosecutors say Lisa Miller fled after a Vermont judge made it clear in August 2009 that he would transfer custody of Isabella to her former partner, Janet Jenkins, if she continued to disobey the court's visitation orders.
The women had separated six years before when Isabella was 17 months old; according to The New York Times, Lisa Miller had turned to religion and renounced being gay.
The New York Times reported that Lisa Miller wrote a pleading letter to a Vermont judge, explaining her position: ?What is at stake is the health and well-being of an intelligent, delightful, beautiful, 7-year-old Christian girl,? she wrote. Isabella ?knows from her own reading of the Bible that marriage is between a man and a woman ? that she cannot have two mommies, that when I lived the homosexual lifestyle I sinned against God, and that unless Janet accepts Christ as her personal savior, she will not go to heaven.?
The case has drawn widespread attention, pitting gay rights groups against evangelical Christian groups in the legal battle between the two women over Isabella, now 10.
Read the criminal complaint against Kenneth Miller (.pdf)
Lisa Miller and Jenkins entered a civil union in Vermont in 2000. According to court records, Jenkins paid $50,000 to facilitate in vitro fertilization, which led to Lisa Miller giving birth to Isabella in 2002. The couple broke up a year and a half later, and Lisa Miller returned to her native Virginia with the couple?s daughter.
A custody battle ensued in Vermont and Virginia courts, with the supreme courts in both states eventually ruling the disagreement should be handled as a parental rights case under Vermont law.
Prosecutors say that on Sept. 22, 2009, Kenneth Miller drove Lisa Miller and her daughter from Virginia to Buffalo, N.Y.
In testimony, Ontario Mennonite pastor Ervin Horst said Kenneth Miller asked him to pick up Lisa Miller and her child in the United States. Horst said he did not feel comfortable crossing the border with the mother and child because he knew of the custody dispute, so he picked them up on the Canadian side of Niagara Falls after they crossed the border in a taxi.
He testified that Lisa Miller and Isabella were dressed in Mennonite clothing when they crossed the border and that he took them to the airport in Toronto.
When asked if he knew the background of the custody case, Horst said he didn't know the details.
"Lisa did not feel good about what was happening and wanted to protect her daughter from the situation," he said.
Kenneth Miller's lawyer, Joshua Autry, told the jury his client believed Lisa Miller had full custody of Isabella when she fled the country. Lisa Miller and Kenneth Miller are not related.
Minister on trial in international ex-lesbian child kidnap case
"Your decision is not going to be a referendum for or against civil unions in the state of Vermont," Autry told the jury at the start of the trial. "It's going to be about whether, at the time of the removal, Janet Jenkins had parental rights."
The jury deliberated only a few hours before finding Kenneth Miller guilty. He faces the possibility of three years in prison. No sentencing date was set.
Outside the courthouse were more than 100 Mennonites, who attended the court proceedings in support of Kenneth Miller. Women were wearing bonnets and men dressed in high collared shirts sang hymns, led by an older, bearded man in suspenders.
The current whereabouts of the mother and her now-10-year-old daughter are unknown.
Prosecutors say that Lisa Miller changed her and her daughter?s names to Sarah and Lydia. Court records also indicate that they have been on the move.
Court records include an email exchange between two Mennonites in Nicaragua, one suggesting getting the girl a pi?ata for her birthday. ?
?We were planning to have a special birthday party for Lydia,? the email states. ?The more children the better ? I feel dearly for these 2 dear people. And I can see it would mean a lot to them in this rough first year of there stay in Nica. I would love for Lydia?s birthday to be very special and remembered long. She is going through a lot, and her future looms greatly in front of her right now.?
This article includes reporting from The Associated Press, Reuters and NBC?s Isolde Raftery.
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Wednesday, August 15, 2012
Sisters in creativity: Creating Keepsakes and Paper Crafts | Paper ...
Jennifer Schaerer
The paper crafting and scrapbooking industry is evolving and we want to continue to bring you everything you love about this hobby, so we?re reconfiguring the relationship between Paper Crafts and Creating Keepsakes. But change is rarely easy, and this one is no exception because it affects people who are not only co-workers but friends as well.
In order to form an authentic partnership and bring you the best project inspiration while still recognizing the unique differences between scrapbooking, card making and paper crafting, we?ve realigned our Paper Crafts and Creating Keepsakes editorial teams with a single editor in chief and managing editor for both titles. Moving forward, I will be taking on the dual editor in chief role, and Kerri Miller will be the managing editor for both titles. Each team will maintain a separate creative editor and art director, but there will be other editorial roles that will serve both magazines. Stay tuned for more detail on that.
With this change, two Creating Keepsakes editorial positions have been eliminated ? editor in chief and managing editor. Saying goodbye to colleagues is not easy, and I?ll be back tomorrow with highlights and a tribute to Jennafer Martin and Lara Penrod, both of whom will be missed.
Sister publications Creating Keepsakes and Paper Crafts
I think most of you already know that Paper Crafts and Creating Keepsakes are part of a much larger media family that includes sewing (Sew News, Sew It All, Creative Machine Embroidery), quilting (McCalls Quilting and Quick Quilts, Quiltmaker, Quilter?s Newsletter, Fons & Porter?s Love of Quilting), knitting (Love of Knitting), crocheting (Love of Crochet), woodworking (American Woodworker) and astronomy (Sky & Telescope) hobbies. As a group, we?re pretty proud to represent the most well-known brands in each of these categories, and you can find us not only in print but also on television, online video, public events, and even online stores.
Our company is led by an exceptional executive team that has decades of experience in the hobby and enthusiast media realm, and they?ve not only maintained our solid position in this challenging economy but grown it as well. And as the paper crafting and scrapbooking community evolves, so must the companies that serve you in an ever-changing marketplace? including ours. The team here at Paper Crafts and Creating Keepsakes is passionate about bringing you the inspiration to support you in these hobbies we all love, and we look forward to continuing to grow and meet your needs.
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Mum on the Run...: Ladies, All The Ladies...
Clumsily scramble onto soapbox, pull knickers from behind, adopt hypocritical stance, clear throat...
Ladies, are you 'looking after' yourself in the midst of all that 'looking after' everybody else?
Are you?in the?Martyr Mummy Brigade?- 'cause, you know, ?that's just how it is - suck it up and keep on keeping on?
Are you waiting until tonight/tomorrow/next week/your birthday/next year/school age/when the kids leave home... to do that something for you?
I say all of this as I look down at my lists of lists of lists? - so please?do as I say, not as I do!
Ladies, are you 'looking after' yourself in the midst of all that 'looking after' everybody else?
Are you?in the?Martyr Mummy Brigade?- 'cause, you know, ?that's just how it is - suck it up and keep on keeping on?
Are you waiting until tonight/tomorrow/next week/your birthday/next year/school age/when the kids leave home... to do that something for you?
Uh huh. Me too. Guilty, your honour.
This week one of the fittest, healthiest women I know has had a scare.
A scary scare - that has me reeling.
And wanting to send each and every one of my beautiful girlfriends off on a mini break.
Yes, we can't 'afford' to get sick - so we?convince ourselves?we're not.
Yes, we can't 'afford' to drop any of the balls - so we run ourselves ragged.?
Yes, no one else will do it if we don't - so we do it.
Yes, so-and-so?manages even more than us - so?we can't possibly ask for/accept help.
Will it take a serious kick?in the visible panty line to make?us?prioritise our own health and happiness though?
Of course our families, partners and children need us.
They need us alive and kicking.
Healthy and happy.
I dare you (and I )?to...
- Ignore the dust and have a cuppa.
- Use the creche/neighbour/family member and schedule that exercise/pedicure/dance class/coffee break.
- Put eggs on toast on the dinner menu.
- Make that doctor's appointment - for you.
- Say no occasionally.
- Close the bathroom door.
- Ask for a hand.
- Offload some guilt - and any unnecessary energy sappers.
- Demand a day off - and find a way to make it happen.
- Be your own best friend - and heed the advice you would give her.
I say all of this as I look down at my lists of lists of lists? - so please?do as I say, not as I do!
I'm also slightly intoxicated by?that extra freedom, chill?and luxury that the first week of [baby free] maternity leave brings.???? Direct me here in a month's time, won't you?
Make ungainly descent from soapbox, catch breath, re-adjust knickers.
Shar :-)
Source: http://mummyontherun.blogspot.com/2012/08/ladies-all-ladies.html
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