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Achieving the IEP plan

Mon, 08 Sep 2008 06:09:07 GMT

clipped by: jamminsoul
clipper's remarks: Students actively involved in thier own IEP process

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Bible is Palin's professional guide, friends and pastors say

Sun, 07 Sep 2008 23:56:59 GMT

clipped by: rmowery

Clip Source: www.iht.com

Bible is Palin's professional guide, friends and pastors say

WASILLA, Alaska: Shortly after taking office as governor in 2006, Sarah Palin sent an e-mail message to Paul Riley, her former pastor in the Assembly of God Church, which her family began attending when she was a youth. She needed spiritual advice in how to do her new job, said Riley, who is 78 and retired from the church.

"She asked for a biblical example of people who were great leaders and what was the secret of their leadership," Riley said.

He wrote back that she should read again from the Old Testament the story of Esther, a beauty queen who became a real one, gaining the king's ear to avert the slaughter of the Jews and vanquish their enemies. When Esther is called to serve, God grants her a strength she never knew she had.

Tags: bible, pallin, republican, church, god, church-state

An E-Mail Plea: Help Pay My Tuititon!

Sun, 07 Sep 2008 17:52:09 GMT

clipped by: rmowery
clipper's remarks: It is a shame that our government has more funds diverted to war and giving away aide to other countries than helping our youth become educated.

Clip Source: www.time.com

An E-Mail Plea: Help Pay My Tuititon!

Student entrepreneur, Max Stephenson

Tags: tution, college, america's youth, students

Ukranian PM Yulia Tymoshenko

Sat, 06 Sep 2008 10:07:58 GMT

clipped by: tommy2balmy
clipper's remarks: A very short bio from her website

Clip Source: www.kmu.gov.ua

Tymoshenko

Yulia Volodymyrivna

born on 27 November 1960 in Dnipropetrovsk.

graduated from the Dnipropetrovsk State University as an economist-cyberneticist, candidate of economic science. Worked as an economy engineer at the machine-building plant in Dnipropetrovsk.

89 –

91 chaired the Youth Center “Terminal”.

91 –

95 commercial and then general director of the corporation “Ukrainian petrol”

95 -

97 headed the "United Energy Systems of Ukraine" corporation.

99 was elected as a leader of the political party “All-Ukrainian Union "Batkivshchyna" ("Fatherland").

December 1999 – January 2001 – Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine.

July 2004 - co-chairman of the electoral commission "Power of the People", one of the leaders of the “Orange Revolution” as a protest against falsification of results of the presidential elections.

February – September 2005 – Prime Minister of Ukraine

On 18 December 2007 - elected as Prime Minister of Ukraine of the democratic coalition BYT and OU-PS.

Tags: tymoshenko, ukrainian pm

Digital Divide - Is it the Chicken or the Egg?

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 16:26:22 GMT

clipped by: cmstratton
clipper's remarks: I've read a lot about the so called digital divide a lot in various news outlets and agree, it's definitely a real issue and one that needs to be addressed.

However, this article made me think whether or not having access to the Internet is the issue. Especially when I see the statistic that only 29% of people who haven't graduated high school have Internet access.

Is the real issue education? Is it not that some groups don't have access to the Internet, but that the lack of quality education they receive leads them to not realize or understand why access to information on the net is so valuable?

I don't know the answer to the question, but I do know our public school systems are terrible in many places. Maybe we need to focus on educating our youth. If we don't, even if they do get Internet access, what will they really do with it?

Clip Source: news.cnet.com

Overwhelmingly, these unconnected individuals tend to be minorities and people with low education levels. A recent study by the Pew Internet & American Life Project found that only 57 percent of African Americans and 37 percent of Hispanics have Internet access. And only 29 percent of people who have not graduated from high school are connected to the Internet.

There's been a lot of chatter over the years about the digital divide or the idea that there is a great chasm between people who have access to technology such as computers and the Internet, and those who do not. While some 68 percent of the U.S. population has access to the Internet via broadband or dial-up connections, there are still millions of people across the country who do not have any access at all.

Now, The Bad News

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 12:33:21 GMT

clipped by: debbyski
clipper's remarks: Well, what can I say? I married young, and it's lasted all these years. Then again "my guy" and I were responsible enough to use birth control before marriage and until we were able to afford any children. Of course Palin will help out daughter with the affording part, so it's all good baby. I remember listening to the priest before we got married giving us the big talk about the "rhythm" method; and I was thinking I can't wait to get my rhythm on later baby and I bet he can't either!

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

He would be the gentleman, she would be the lady, and with the backing of a strong family they would do what was expected of them. That would, of course, be consistent with the views of Ms. Palin, a mother of five children (including one with Down syndrome) who opposes abortion.

But it is teenage marriage today, not teenage pregnancy, that is the rarity. And, statistics show, teenage marriages tend not to endure.

The Bristol Palin drama, something of an after-school-special story running parallel to the saga of Sarah Palin’s nomination as the Republican candidate for vice president, has a lot of sociologists and psychologists talking about youth and the state of marriage.

Studies show that today teenage marriages are two to three times more likely to end in divorce than are marriages between people 25 years of age and older.

better than self employed

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 23:44:51 GMT

clipped by: homebusinessaces

Clip Source: timsplace.blognetworkmarketing.com

What it means to me to be self employed.

I have been self employed for 28 years. Before that I held various factory jobs, sold vacuums, tried to sell cookware,ran a used car lot for a ford dealership,worked on a christian youth ranch .Had 2 kids and a dog (the middle child) a few cats and a wife that every man would give everything they own for if they knew what I know.

Tags: home based business success, work from home, mlm, network marketing

Video: Teenage coming out movie wins short film award

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 13:19:34 GMT

clipped by: queah

Clip Source: www.pinknews.co.uk

A quirky short film by gay teenagers about coming out has won the Best Film category in the first Kino Kids Film Festival in Kent.

The three minute comedy, By The Way, I’m Gay, was made by an initiative run by Kent Youth Service for the LGBT community.

Youth, violence, illiteracy

Mon, 01 Sep 2008 22:43:57 GMT

clipped by: montypaul
clipper's remarks: The lack of functional literacy is blamed for violence amongst young people, leaving them unable to respond effectively emotionally laden situations. It is suggested that an emphasis on testing and targets leads to teachers providing a minimal imput wrt literacy skills.

Clip Source: www.guardian.co.uk

In our current school system children are explicitly taught how to read and write in the early years. After that a certain level of literacy is taken for granted as we rush them through the prescribed curriculum, heading quickly towards the golden GCSE As to Cs and hoping for better league table results.

This focus on exam results can leave a significant number of "hopeless" cases left behind. As the recent SATs result show, almost a fifth of students leave primary school without basic literacy. Allowing this number of children to slip through the net can have a detrimental effect on their behaviour in adolescence and through into adulthood.

Youth crime has been strongly linked to illiteracy and truancy. Government figures for 2002 – 2003 show 40% of young offenders entering prison were below level 1 (i.e. would not achieve a G at GCSE English). This is also true of adult offenders, with 80% having the writing skills of an 11 year old.

Tags: uk, crime, youth, violence, illiteracy, testing, targets

Suicide Cult on Social Networking

Sun, 31 Aug 2008 06:05:44 GMT

clipped by: Imnclady

Clip Source: www.timesonline.co.uk

'Let victims' families close suicide tribute websites'

Families of suicide victims should be able to demand the immediate shutdown of the victim's pages on social networking websites

families had been deeply upset when images posted on sites such as Bebo were removed and published in the media.

Families were saying that photographs they had never seen before of their own child were suddenly on the front of a newspaper, causing them huge distress,

A youth walks past the sign for the Samaritans in Bridgend in Wales where a number of teenage suicides have taken place

She said that terms and conditions of social networking sites should include a clause that allows families to close pages that cause distress.

In the past 20 months, 23 young people have taken their own lives in Bridgend; some of them were still teenagers.

The MP also claimed that irresponsible coverage could have contributed to imitative deaths in Bridgend.

You cannot say that reporting killed that individua

internet suicide cult

Tags: suicide, social, networking, teens

Fraudster dupes youth with police job

Sun, 31 Aug 2008 03:05:36 GMT

clipped by: diplomamillnews

Clip Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com

KOLKATA: A 35-year-old youth has been arrested for duping an unemployed youth with the promise of a job in Kolkata Police. Aniruddha Dutta, the fraudster, had also provided a fake appointment letter by forging the letterhead and rubber stamps of senior police officials.

In another case, police arrested a fake lawyer for issuing forged law degrees. Earlier, the kingpins of the racket and six fake lawyers were arrested. Manas Ranjan Bhattacharya - a fake degree holder - was nabbed. Bhattacharya was working as an income tax lawyer with the help of fake documents at Bhadreswar in Hooghly.

Too Far Right!

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 18:38:04 GMT

clipped by: AtlLiberal
clipper's remarks: Your father raped you? Too bad. Global warming an issue? Poppycock. Teach creationism in science class? Sure, let the students decide.

Ultra right wing religious fanatics are salivating all over themselves over McSame's choice.

A Hillary replacement? Ha! Going to draw Hillary supporters away from Obama? In a pig's eye. Republicans must believe that women voters are all stupid idiots.

This is McCain's judgment in action!

Clip Source: airamerica.com

Sarah Palin is Bad for Women

There can be no doubt that Palin’s selection is purely tactical — a decision based more on image and balance than on substance and qualifications. Palin’s youth, beauty, and distance from Washington were all chosen because they directly counter shortcomings of McCain. Her indisputable conservatism in areas where McCain has appeared moderate — abortion, the Second Amendment, drilling — as well as her “strength” in domestic issues, balances nicely with McCain’s flip-flopping war-focused campaign.

Quite frankly, conservatives have rewarded a woman politically for deciding to keep a baby and for sending her son to Iraq. For this reason, Palin’s selection is a great disservice to women — and further evidence of how truly destructive a Republican victory will be for American women.

Palin: You're no Hillary Clinton

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 15:34:05 GMT

clipped by: izzy3r
clipper's remarks: John McCain has gone from maverick to "me too" -- trying to out-Democrat the Democrats and pick up some Hillary voters. But it ain't working.
~ Van Jones

Clip Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

None of my pro-Hillary female friends are falling for this obvious GOP pander. To the contrary, McCain's selection of Sarah Palin as his VP is drawing hoots of derision.

Once they learn that Sarah Palin opposes rape and incest exceptions for women seeking abortion, they completely write her off.

McCain picked a fan, not an equal partner. She has no international experience. She was just fawning all over him. No independence. Given McCain's temper, Sarah Palin probably won't challenge John McCain on any substantive issues

The only thing he is going to let her do in the White House is teach him how to use the internet

It just seems desperate and calculated

Palin makes McCain look ancient, out-of-touch and totally yesterday. McCain makes her look like a perky kid. Each one dramatically and perfectly underscores the other's weakness. At least, nobody can criticize Obama's alleged youth and inexperience now.

Palin For Vice President: Palin on the Issues

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 13:33:27 GMT

clipped by: merrie
clipper's remarks: SMALL BUSINESS – “As Mayor and CEO of the booming city of Wasilla, my team invited investment and encouraged business growth by eliminating small business inventory taxes, eliminated personal property taxes, reduced real property tax mill levies every year I was in office, reduced fees, and built the infrastructure our businesses needed to grow and prosper.”

MILITARY - “I respect our military personnel and understand the importance of Alaska's National Guard. As I watched our military men and women being deployed I recognized how important it is for their families to know how much Alaska and America support them.”

HEALTH CARE – “I support flexibility in government regulations that allow competition in health care that is needed, and is proven to be good for the consumer, which will drive down health care costs and reduce the need for government subsidies. I also support patients in their rightful demands to have access to full medical billing information.”

Clip Source: palinforvp.blogspot.com

Rather than telling you what I think Sarah Palin believes, I have elected to post direct quotes from her gubernatorial campaign website. The following quotes have been selected because I believe that they reveal Gov. Palin’s thought process on issues of national relevant. For more info on Gov. Palin’s stances, visit http://palinforgovernor.com/issues.html

Selected quotes from palinforgovernor.com

FREE MARKET – “I am a conservative Republican, a firm believer in free market capitalism. A free market system allows all parties to compete, which ensures the best and most competitive project emerges, and ensures a fair, democratic process.”

EDUCATION – Click here to read Gov. Palin’s full position paper on Education.

GUNS AND HUNTING - “I am a lifetime member of the NRA, I support our Constitutional right to bear arms and am a proponent of gun safety programs for Alaska's youth….I have always strongly supported the personal use of fish and game by Alaskans.

Tags: john mccain for president, palin for vice-president

What Palin Does

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 09:26:04 GMT

clipped by: merrie
clipper's remarks: 9.Democrats used to raising charges of racism against Obama’s critics may face charges of sexism and/or condescension if they try to diss her.

10. Steps on Obama’s claims to have been a reformer, as he reformed nothing (much less the corrupt mare’s nest of Chicago arrangements), while she was a dragon-slayer up in Alaska.

11. As a mother of five, one a Down Syndrome baby, helps her side take on the Democrats on abortion extremism and the Born Alive bill.

12. Reignites the deep and unhealed stresses inside the Democrats, some of whom will now wonder more loudly than ever why they didn't pick Hillary.

13. Counters Michelle in a way Cindy couldn’t.

14. Counter-intuitively, makes the issue of Obama’s light resume more potent than ever. Her lack of experience is no more than his is. And he’s--to use a term from Alaska, and the Iditarod--their lead dog.

Clip Source: www.weeklystandard.com

1. Steps on the story of Obama’s speech (and convention), and possibly the bounce coming from them, and wipes them off the news cycle. The Sunday news shows will be all-Palin, all of the time.

2. Sends Republicans into their convention on a huge head of steam.

3. Wipes out the image of McCain as the crotchety elder and brings back that of the fly-boy and gambler, which is much more appealing, and the genuine person.

4. Revs up the base AND excites independents, which no one else in the party, or perhaps in the world, could have accomplished.

5. Puts youth, change, and history on both of the tickets.

6. May detach some young people, especially women.

7. May attach some women pissed off about Hillary.

8. As a pro-life super-achiever, puts feminists in a tizzy.

9. Revives some of the double-edged nature of the Democratic primary, which featured a black vs. a
female trail-blazer, and put both sides on notice on sensitivity issues.

Tags: gov sarah palin, republicans, change, youth, history, pro-life, reformer, energy independence