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Kate Moss as 21st Century Muse

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 13:28:29 GMT

clipped by: JohnWaterman

Since the tender age of fourteen, Kate Moss has been one of the most sought after supermodels, gracing magazine covers and catwalks the world over. Now, she seems to have made the transformation to the primary artist's muse of our young century. Judge for yourself

Kate Moss by Marc Quinn

Kate Moss by Gerald Laing

Kate Moss by Banksy

Kate Moss by Lucian Frued

pregnant with her first child

Kate Moss by Katherine Bernhardt

Kate Moss by Takashi Murakami

Kate Moss by Chuck Close

The photo-realism of the tapestry is simply stunning

Kate Moss by Alec Katz

It is the artist's prerogative of course, but if one were to approach this portrait unaware of the model, who would possibly guess it was Kate Moss? Blond and bland, whatever could have been the artist's intentions?

Kate Moss by Stella Vine

Kate Moss by Kate Moss

Outstanding article on parent-child relationship

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 04:18:44 GMT

clipped by: tumblon
clipper's remarks: This article in the Statesman Journal is one of the most thorough journalistic presentations of the importance of the first five years of child development AND the critical role that parents play. Most journalists focus on programs, but Mackenzie Ryan gets it right: Parents are the key.

Clip Source: www.statesmanjournal.com

About 90 percent of a child's brain develops in that time, according to studies. And 85 percent of a child's intellect, personality and social skills are developed by that age.

It's a critical time for a child to build the foundation for literacy, which is really about the early relationship a child develops with a parent or caregiver, said Linda Craven, the early childhood education program chairwoman and instructor at Chemeketa Community College.

Research shows that these relationships — the frequency a parent reads to a child, the number of words a parent speaks to a child — can affect that student's academic achievement years later.

"If the child is typically developing, you have interactions, engagement. It's within the support of that relationship," Craven said. "It's the children that aren't getting that that have the most difficulty in school."

Tags: parenting, education

half in ten program

Sun, 05 Oct 2008 21:38:47 GMT

clipped by: prin1

Clip Source: www.americanprogress.org

1. Raise and index the minimum wage to half the average hourly wage.

2. Expand the Earned Income Tax Credit and Child Tax Credit.

3. Promote unionization by enacting the Employee Free Choice Act.

Guarantee child care assistance to low-income families and promote early education for all

Create 2 million new “opportunity” housing vouchers, and promote equitable development in and around central cities

6. Connect disadvantaged and disconnected youth with school and work.

Simplify and expand Pell Grants and make higher education accessible to residents of each state

Help former prisoners find stable employment and reintegrate into their communities

9. Ensure equity for low-wage workers in the Unemployment Insurance system.

10. Modernize means-tested benefits programs to develop a coordinated system that helps workers and families

11. Reduce the high costs of being poor and increase access to financial services.

Expand and simplify the Saver’s Credit to encourage saving f

Big Daddy: 'World's Tallest Man' Has Son

Sat, 04 Oct 2008 19:45:30 GMT

clipped by: wiccantexan

Clip Source: abcnews.go.com

The world's tallest man, China's Bao Xishun, became the world's tallest father this week with the birth of his first child, a boy whose initial height seems a compromise between his gigantic dad and average-sized mum.

Although slightly taller than average for newborn children, Bao's boy came up well short of the 29.5 inches claimed as a record birth length last year, also in China.

Bao, a 7-foot-9-inch herdsman from Inner Mongolia, last year married Xia Shujuan, a pygmy by contrast at 5-foot-6 inches.

"I hope he or she can be about 2 metres tall," Bao, 57, said last year about his wishes for a child. "Then he or she can play basketball."

Bao's son was born on Thursday but news of the birth only spread widely on Saturday, with the Chinese press according the newborn a level of privacy that is rare for the world's tallest man.

Tags: children, family, china, world record

Education depends on parents, children and peers

Sun, 05 Oct 2008 04:01:11 GMT

clipped by: tumblon
clipper's remarks: In a lucid op-ed piece in the Boston Globe, Harvard professor Edward Glaeser points out the problem with current education reform: parents are not treated as participants.

Clip Source: www.boston.com

The great difficulty in public education reform is that the education of a child depends significantly on people who aren't on the government's payroll, such as parents, peers, and the children themselves.

Tags: education, parenting

Child refugees found abandoned

Sat, 04 Oct 2008 08:10:54 GMT

clipped by: valann 47

Clip Source: www.dailymail.co.uk

Thousands of refugee children, some as young as three, are being found abandoned at UK ports and airports.

Often orphaned and from wartorn countries, the youngsters are packed off by relatives unable to care for them.

More than 3,500 arrived last year and the numbers look set to top 4,000 this year, a rate of around 75 a week.

Around a third of the children coming into Britain without parents or family are from
Afghanistan, with many also arriving from Iran, China, Eritrea and Somalia.

Concerns over asylum-seeking children and teenagers have been growing while the numbers of adult asylum seekers remain much lower than during the early 2000s.

The top ten nationalities of unaccompanied child asylum seekers in 2007 were:

Afghan - 1,135

Iranian - 360

Chinese - 315

Iraqi - 305

Eritrean - 280

Somali - 200

Bangladeshi - 125

Pakistani - 75

Nigerian - 70

Sri Lankan - 65

Tags: children, refugees, abandon, uk

The Man-Child's Top Corporate Donors

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 19:06:26 GMT

clipped by: sparlingphoto
clipper's remarks: Goldman Sachs number 1...hmmm?

Clip Source: www.opensecrets.org

Barack Obama

Top 5 Contributors, 2003-2008

Goldman Sachs	$748,880
University of California	$625,911
JPMorgan Chase & Co	$493,469
Harvard University	$473,669
Citigroup Inc	$467,849

Top 5 Industries, 2003-2008

Lawyers/Law Firms	$27,271,882
Retired	$23,520,073
Securities & Investment	$11,143,792
Education	$10,887,290
Business Services	$7,202,881

The Feral Child

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 04:12:21 GMT

clipped by: CrazyRedHead
clipper's remarks: She weighed 46 pounds. She was malnourished and anemic. In the pediatric intensive care unit they tried to feed the girl, but she couldn't chew or swallow solid food. So they put her on an IV and let her drink from a bottle.

Aides bathed her, scrubbed the sores on her face, trimmed her torn fingernails. They had to cut her tangled hair before they could comb out the lice.

Her caseworker determined that she had never been to school, never seen a doctor. She didn't know how to hold a doll, didn't understand peek-a-boo. "Due to the severe neglect," a doctor would write, "the child will be disabled for the rest of her life."

Hunched in an over sized crib, Danielle curled in on herself like a potato bug, then writhed angrily, kicking and thrashing. To calm herself, she batted at her toes and sucked her fists. "Like an infant," one doctor wrote.

Clip Source: www.tampabay.com

Two officers went into the house — and one stumbled back out.

Clutching his stomach, the rookie retched in the weeds.

"I've been in rooms with bodies rotting there for a week and it never stunk that bad," Holste said later. "There's just no way to describe it. Urine and feces — dog, cat and human excrement — smeared on the walls, mashed into the carpet. Everything dank and rotting."

First he saw the girl's eyes: dark and wide, unfocused, unblinking.

She lay on a torn, moldy mattress on the floor.

Her ribs and collarbone jutted out; one skinny arm was slung over her face; her black hair was matted, crawling with lice

she was naked — except for a swollen diaper.

"The pile of dirty diapers in that room must have been 4 feet high," the detective said. "The glass in the window had been broken, and that child was just lying there, surrounded by her own excrement and bugs."

When he bent to lift her, she yelped like a lamb.

Choking back rage, he approached the mother. How could you let this happen?

Tags: child, children, health, psychology, child abuse

Collective village offers new hope to Russian orphans

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 15:56:26 GMT

clipped by: hayesstw
clipper's remarks: In our mission congregation at Klipfontein View one woman has been trained in caring for abandoned children, of whom there are plenty in the vicinity, and it would be good to have something like Kitezh village... unfortunately there isn't enough money to set it up.

Clip Source: www.iht.com

Work and play often commingle in Kitezh, an experimental orphan community about 190 miles southwest of Moscow that combines features of an orphanage with those of foster care. With its colorful wooden cottages, Kitezh appears as distant from the cruelty of the children's frequently alcoholic and abusive parents as it is from the stale, often crowded government institutions where many Russian orphans still live.

The founders of Kitezh hope that their village can be a model of reform for Russia's decrepit child welfare system, little changed since Soviet days. Though perhaps hard to replicate on a large scale, Kitezh still stands as one of the few largely successful alternatives here to institutional care for orphans.

Dmitri Morozov, a former radio talk-show host, founded Kitezh in 1992 as a kind of orphan collective

Today, there are about half a dozen houses built in Russian-folk style, a school, a communal dining hall and a small Orthodox church.

Tags: orphanages, child welfare, russia, children's village

Musim father burns Christian daughter alive

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 03:54:17 GMT

clipped by: Antara
clipper's remarks: what can you say?

Clip Source: www.worldnetdaily.com

Muslim father burns Christian daughter alive

Man slices out girl's tongue, ignites her after 'heated debate on religion'

A Saudi Arabian Muslim father cut out his daughter's tongue and lit her on fire upon learning that she had become a Christian.

The child became curious about Jesus Christ after she read Christian material online, the Gulf News reported.

Her father read of her Internet conversation, detached her tongue and burned her to death "following a heated debate on religion," according to an International Christian Concern report.

The father is employed by the muwateen, or Commission for Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice. The muwateen are police tasked by the government with enforcing religious purity. The man has been taken into custody, and his identity has not been released.

Tags: religion, islam, christianity, another dead girl

Mothers' pride 'aids daughters'

Fri, 03 Oct 2008 05:07:53 GMT

clipped by: A53GG4

Clip Source: news.bbc.co.uk

Mothers' pride 'aids daughters'

Ambitious mothers produce super-confident daughters, a University of London study has suggested.

Mothers may value education particularly highly for their daughters

A study of more than 3,000 children born in 1970 found girls whose mothers had high hopes for their future felt more in control of their lives at 30.

Girls whose mothers predicted at age 10 that they would go on to further education had greater self-esteem as adults - there was no link for boys.

But women's earnings were not linked to their mother's expectations.

Ambitions for the children's future education was used as a measure of the mother's belief in her child's capabilities.

Mothers were asked if they thought their child would stay on to 16, 17 or 18.

The link between mothers' expectations for their daughters and their future confidence remained even when factors such as social class, family structure and education were taken into account, New Scientist magazine reported.

Tags: social

William F. Buckley: SHAME on You!!

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 19:14:32 GMT

clipped by: DanaGarrett
clipper's remarks: I take back every kind word I ever said about William F. Buckley. There is is absolutely no excuse for this.

Clip Source: www.nypost.com

Before he died, William F. Buckley Jr. put his young grandson on the firing line.

The intellectual conservative icon - renowned for his erudition and use of uncommon words - excluded his son's illegitimate child from his massive estate, insisting the kid was dead in his eyes.

"I intentionally make no provision herein for said Jonathan, who for all purposes . . . shall be deemed to have predeceased me," Buckley's will says, according to the Hartford Courant.

The National Review founder and notable New Yorker instead left his entire estate - estimated to be worth tens of millions of dollars - to his only child, Christopher Buckley, and Christopher's two older kids, Caitlin and William.

Safety Tattoos for kids

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 16:40:36 GMT

clipped by: bignosemousie
clipper's remarks: Great idea! They also have allergy alert tattoos.

Clip Source: www.safetytat.com

It can happen anywhere—at an amusement park, zoo, school field trip, or even your local shopping mall. Your attention shifts for a moment, and suddenly your child or loved one has wandered out of sight.

So put the odds in your favor for a safe return, with SafetyTat. Designed by a Mom of three kids, SafetyTat is a fun and colorful kids temporary safety tattoo that’s uniquely offered either customized or blank so you can customize. When applied to the arm of your child or loved one, SafetyTat provides an immediate, highly visible form of identification that stays in place even when wet!

Clip Source: store.safetytat.com

Tags: safety first, kids

R4R - Resources for Rethinking

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 15:15:08 GMT

clipped by: egsnyder
clipper's remarks: Nice collection of useful resources... not just useful for teachers.

Clip Source: www.resources4rethinking.ca

The Resources for Rethinking database provides teachers with access to materials that integrate ecological, social and economic spheres through active, relevant, interdisciplinary learning.

Tags: environment, rethinking

Another Supreme Court's Embarrassing Mistakes

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 04:51:45 GMT

clipped by: merrie
clipper's remarks: There assuredly will be a motion for rehearing filed, and even if there's not, the Court could consider reconsidering the case on its own, sua sponte. But only a naive wanker would expect the Emperor of America, Mr. Justice Anthony Kennedy, or any of the other four Justices who joined his opinion for the majority, to actually change their votes. At most, those five will permit limited supplemental briefing by both sides. There won't be additional oral argument. And in short order, Justice Kennedy will write a short supplemental opinion. It will announce the denial of rehearing. It will try to explain why the laws that America, through its Congress and president, has chosen to apply to its own uniformed sons and daughters are nevertheless absolutely meaningless data points in the SCOTUS' determination of America's "evolving standards of decency."

Clip Source: hughhewitt.townhall.com

On July 6, 2008, I wrote at my usual tedious length about the Supreme Court's embarrassing mistake in the case overturning Louisiana's capital sentence for a child rapist, Louisiana v. Kennedy, in which Justice Kennedy, writing for a five-Justice majority

insisted that neither any other state nor the federal government permitted the death penalty for child rapists. That was a major premise for their holding that "evolving standards of decency" under their "living, breathing" version of the Eighth Amendment no longer permitted Louisiana's death sentence for convicted child rapist Patrick Kennedy. And that statement was absolutely wrong: Congress and the president had recently acted to amend the Uniform Code of Military Justice to permit the death penalty for exactly that crime.

Even the editorial board of the Washington Post had urged the Supreme Court to grant rehearing in the case to address this enormous blunder. Here's what I predicted, however:

Tags: supreme court overturned capital punishment, convicted child rapists, louisiana v. kennedy