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When it comes to Harry Potter, I'll be the first to admit, I am a huge "shipper." I love reading about and speculating on the "ships" (the romantic relationships); they give the story heart, and depth, and are generally something that makes me smile and yearn for more. Though I am usually a traditionalist when it comes to "canon ships" (i.e. Harry and Ginny, Ron and Hermione, Molly and Arthur, etc.), there are elements of "non-canon" ships that intrigue me. Being a moderator in the Corner Booth, Leaky's Text Chat, I have had the opportunity to share my opinion of these particular ships with other members of Leaky. I've shipped Trelawney and Riddle Jr., Dobby and the giant squid, and a handful of other ridiculous ships. However, there is one ship that started out as a joke, and has grown into something much more. It has become something magical, and even believable… something that has taken the Harry Potter fandom by storm. That ship is Severus Snape and Petunia Evans (Dursley), which has been dubbed by the fans on the Leaky Cauldron as "The Unsinkable Ship." Like the Titanic, another ship that was destined for disaster, this ship seemed to go down by the head before it had an opportunity to prove itself.
"That Awful Boy" 1
I want to ease all you non-believers into this, because I know what your first objection will be: how could Severus Snape (the greasy Death Eater with no morals) possibly get together with Petunia Evans (the uptight, nosy, non-magical sister of a "Mudblood")? I believe the link to the answer of this question lies in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, where Petunia reveals to Harry, Vernon, and Dudley that she heard "that awful boy" talking about the Dementors of Azkaban with Lily "years ago." 2 The two most common guesses about the identity of the "awful boy" are James Potter or Sirius Black. However, there are a few things that, to me, discount James and Sirius as possibilities. First, Petunia knows James's name, and has referred to him as both "James" and "Potter" before this point… but never as "that boy" or "awful." Secondly, since we know of the bond between James and Sirius, there has never been any sort of hint that Lily and Sirius has any sort of friendship that didn't involve James at some point. I think it's highly unlikely that Sirius would have gone to Lily's Muggle parents' house to talk about Azkaban for any reason. I believe Severus was the boy who was talking to Lily about the Dementors.
To accept this theory, you do have to resign yourself to a certain amount of guesswork, much like Dumbledore did with Harry when trying to account for all the Horcruxes. We must take what we do know and understand, and make the theory work by filling in the blanks. That being said, I have come up with one scenario that I believe is the closest thing to what we will discover is true, which I will describe in this essay.
The Queen of Muggle-isms and the Half-Blood Prince: A Match Made in Heaven?
Not convinced? Need concrete evidence? Let's leave the world of speculation behind for a moment and enter the world of canon: quotes and hints from our beloved J.K. Rowling herself. I think it is important, when attempting to understand the secrets that are behind this particular pairing, that there is a lot of information between the lines that needs to be analyzed. Rowling has confirmed that Severus has, indeed, been loved by someone, making him "more culpable than Voldemort, who never has [been loved]." 3 Many people speculate that this person who loved Snape was either his mother, Eileen Prince, or Lily Evans. I believe that the people who believe Snape has romantic feelings for Lily are simply misreading the signs. J.K. Rowling has used the phrase "more than meets the eye" during separate interviews when referring to both Petunia Dursley4 and Severus Snape5. I find that to be much more than a coincidence. Also, from what we've seen of Snape's mind, it does not appear that his mother did care much for him. Or, if she did, she wasn't the only one.
J.K. Rowling has shown us throughout the books that love, or mutual understanding, has spawned from the most unlikely of events. Think back to when you were first amazed that Tonks had fallen in love with Remus Lupin, not Sirius Black as Harry had speculated.6 There was also a quaint little scene in the girls' bathroom on the second floor when Draco was crying his eyes out and showing his most sensitive, most vulnerable side to Moaning Myrtle.7 I envision the same sort of thing happened between Severus and Petunia: there were events that took place, cosmic if you will, that drew them together and each of them was able to help the other out of a tough time. Let me paint a picture for you: Severus is a greasy git with ambition but no drive while his classmate, Lily, is one of the brightest witches of her age. Petunia, too, is living in Lily's shadow… not at school, but at home. If they were to somehow meet up, to commiserate about how difficult Lily has made each of their lives, wouldn't this be a common thread between the beginning of this relationship and the beginning of other relationships we've seen in this series? It's an odd coincidence that Lily, someone we've seen as "good" all this time, has made adolescent life so difficult for two people who have been perceived as "evil." It's possible that we have two people who are lost in the world of hormones and hatred, who haven't been able to get over the musings of their adolescence to live normal adult lives. They could be stuck in a feeling; in a time where things didn't make much sense… but at least they had each other to fall back on.
"It's a Hard Knock Life" 8
There are many reasons I believe J.K. Rowling could have opted to unite Snape and Petunia. Though they are completely separate in her storyline, I believe there are many things that Snape and Petunia have in common. Besides the fact that J.K. Rowling likes to plant the seeds of relationships in the darkest, most dank places, she has also shown us that Severus and Petunia both loathe Harry. Of course, they both have their own, separate reasons for hating him, but it is common knowledge that Severus and Petunia both think the quality of their lives would be better without "The Boy Who Lived." I'm certainly not implying that Petunia and Severus's relationship transcended into "the Harry years," but I think by pointing out that they are so similar in their treatment of Harry now directs us to how similar their temperaments and attitudes when they were teenagers. This hatred is evident from the first time we meet both Petunia and Severus… separately, of course. Petunia is making her nephew sleep under the stairs in a broom closet, wear hand-me-down clothes that are easily twice his size, and act as the "house-elf" of the Dursley Manor: cooking and cleaning for the ungrateful family. Severus also shows his disdain for the boy in a similar fashion. He unfairly singles Harry out, grades him unjustly, and likes to publicly humiliate him whenever possible.
Is it a coincidence that both Petunia and Severus have such a deep hatred for Harry? I don't think it is. Harry represents everything that went wrong between Petunia and Severus. Harry's got it all… he's a powerful wizard who owns the respect of the wizarding community (something that Severus always wanted but never received), he was accepted into the wizarding community with no questions asked (something that Petunia likely longed for, but never received), and he is still able to live and love unconditionally without boundaries (which is something Petunia and Severus have never been able to allow themselves to do), even with all the adversities and obstacles in his relatively young life.
Oh, What a Tangled Web We Weave 9
As there are glaring similarities between Severus and Petunia's personalities, there are also similarities in their sensibilities. We have been properly introduced to only a handful of residences outside of Hogwarts; Severus's Home (Spinner's End) and the Dursley's House (#4 Privet Drive) are both vastly important to the storyline. Spinner's End is widely compared with spiders, because "Spinner's End" is likely a reference to a spider's web. Snape, like a spider who spins his web, managed to spin a web of lies to both Death Eaters and Order members alike. Hence, "Spinner's End" is the perfect place for him to reside. It is a gloomy, grimy and isolated dwelling, and we know that it is uninhabited for the majority of the year. Therefore, it seems the perfect place for spiders to inhabit.
Conversely, Petunia's home is immaculately clean, well lit, and comfy for the Dursley family. However, in the cupboard under the stairs, where Harry slept when we first met him, we see that there are spiders residing in the cupboard. Do you think that Petunia would allow spiders in her home, when she prides herself on cleanliness? Petunia should be in a state of unease about her infestation problem under the stairs. But instead, she seems quite at ease and has made no attempt to rid the cupboard of its inhabitants. Does Petunia exhibit an unnatural comfort level around spiders for someone who has made housecleaning and mothering her chosen profession? If she had spent time on Spinner's End, in whatever facet, this would explain her ability to overlook the spiders and still maintain cleanliness in her home that meets her own expectations. Therefore, the spider connection between Severus and Petunia is another coincidence that cannot be so easily explained away.
"You're So Jaded… and I'm the One Who Jaded You…" 10
All good things must come to an end… and it is obvious, as Severus and Petunia are living distinctly separate lives; their ship must have sailed some time ago. How did it end? Amicably? Unpleasantly? How are we, the reader, to know? This takes us back to the "awful boy" incident.
After seeing Lily try to reach out to Snape in "Snape's Worst Memory," 11 it is not out of the realm of possibility that Snape could have gone to Lily after getting scared about being a "double agent" and asking for her advice and assistance. That is the most likely explanation for what Petunia overheard. It ties a few things together: it explains why Snape asked Voldemort to spare Lily, and why Dumbledore trusts Snape (because Dumbledore is operating on Lily's account of Snape's good character).
This conversation wasn't all sunshine and roses, and turned out to be both Snape's saving grace and his undoing. Suppose Severus and Lily's conversation about Azkaban and Dementors also included a confession to Lily that he had participated in "Dark Magic" and had been an underling to Lord Voldemort. Then, imagine if it had been overheard by Petunia, and imagine how great the fallout of Severus's favor with Petunia would have been. I believe that after Severus confessed that he was working for Voldemort and that he feared rotting in Azkaban and facing the Dementors, Petunia ran away from the house and never looked back. She was confused about magic and was afraid of all the aspects of magic she knew nothing about. Severus likely tried to find her, and he understood that Lily was his best chance at tracking her down and bringing her home. Therefore, Petunia is probably why Severus pleaded with Lord Voldemort to keep Lily alive. If Lily died, his best and only chance to explain to the woman that he loved that he was no longer siding with Lord Voldemort died with her. Petunia, however, had moved on with her life. She had found the most "Muggle-ish" man she could and married him straight away, seemingly leaving all the fear, confusion, and pain of the magical world far behind her. That is, of course, until Harry Potter landed on her doorstep. It is my belief "that awful boy" is a reference to Severus; a man who broke her heart and crippled her with fear about the wizarding world for life. The pointed reference is full of loathing and vindictiveness; and those sorts of feelings are only reserved for people who really hurt someone. Of all the "boys" in Petunia's life, Severus is the most likely to fit the bill on that kind of hurt.
"In the End, I Want To Be Standing At The Beginning With You…" 12
Though many of these theories may be viewed as speculation, I believe that we will find there is something more to the connection between Severus Snape and Petunia Evans (Dursley) in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. I understand that wrapping one's head around this particular theory requires the willingness to "think outside the box," and not everyone may be willing to see this as anything more than utterly ridiculous. However, for those select few who possess a talent for open-mindedness, I believe you will find there is some validity to my thought process. Look at their mannerisms, their open hostility toward Harry and Lily, their practical affection for spiders, the canon evidence from J.K. Rowling herself, and the "That Awful Boy" chapter. These are clues that run Severus and Petunia's characters parallel to each other. Since J.K. Rowling has said that there is "more than meets the eye" to Petunia, and that Snape was "not under the invisibility cloak at Godric's Hollow," 13 I think these particular events will tie together and paint the picture of their past relationship. Like the steel used to construct the Titanic, Severus and Petunia's relationship was unable to hold up under pressure after taking a hit, thus plunging The Unsinkable Ship to the depths of the ocean.
1. Rowling, Order of the Phoenix, 34.
2. Ibid.
3. Anelli and Spartz, "TLC/MN Interview Part Three."
4. Rowling, "Edinburgh Book Festival."
5. Ibid., Interview by Christopher Lydon.
6. Ibid., Half-Blood Prince, 467.
7. Ibid., 521.
8. Strouse and Charnin, lyrics from Annie.
9. Scott, "Marmion," Canto VI, XVII.
10. Tyler and Frederiksen, lyrics from "Jaded."
11. Rowling, Order of the Phoenix, 570–71.
12. Marx, lyrics from "At the Beginning."
13. Rowling, "Snape was hiding under the Invisibility Cloak."
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———. Interview by Christopher Lydon, The Connection (WBUR Radio), 12 October, 1999. Transcript, Quick Quotes Quill, http://www.accio-quote.org/articles/1999/1099-connectiontransc2.htm (accessed 14 January 2007).
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9:30am Friday 25th January 2013 in News By Fran Bardsley
THE woman in charge of education in Oxfordshire has warned it will take longer than a year to see results improve.
Yesterday, the Department for Education released figures showing GCSE results in Oxfordshire secondary schools remained below the national average for a second year.
Only 57.9 per cent of pupils achieved five A*-C grades at GCSE, including English and maths, in Oxfordshire, compared to 58.8 per cent in England.
That marks an improvement of half a percentage point compared to 2011, while results nationally rose by 0.6 percentage points.
Oxfordshire County Council education cabinet member Melinda Tilley described the results as "a disappointment".
But she said: "It takes a bit longer than one year to turn it round.
"We are seeing improvements, but it is slow, far slower than I would like it to be."
She said she would like to increase the budget for the school improvement team, which sends experienced staff into schools to help drive up standards, but admitted she did not know where she would find the money.
The average point score of pupils was also below the national average, with youngsters racking up on average 336.8 points in Oxfordshire compared to 343.3 nationwide.
Last year, for the first time, the Government published data showing how well pupils did compared with their previous attainment.
The proportion of pupils who came to secondary school with low attainment achieving five A*-Cs, including English and maths, remained the same as 2011, at 5.5 per cent, and at nine secondaries, no pupils achieved the grade.
Education expert John Howson, visiting professor at Oxford Brookes University, pointed out that if you looked at data from 2006-12, while the proportion of children in England achieving the benchmark level rose from 44.1 per cent to 59 per cent, those making the grade in Oxfordshire rose from 47.5 to 57.9 per cent.
He said: "We were ahead and we are now behind. The rest of the country has taken the message they need to sharpen their education system and Oxfordshire has not."
But he agreed it would take longer for improvements to start filtering through.
There was some good news, with more than one in five children achieving the English Baccalaureate, getting C grades or higher in English, maths, science, a language and history or geography.
That was an increase on last year's figure of 18.8 per cent, and exceeded the national average of 16.2 per cent.
The figures showed Wallingford School, in St George's Road, to be Oxfordshire's top-performing state school, with 76 per cent of pupils getting five A*-C grades, including English and maths.
It was also the most improved in the county, with results rising by 15 percentage points.
Headteacher Wyll Willis said: "We didn't do so very well a couple of years ago and, as a staff, we decided to do something about it.
"The teaching staff worked extremely hard on trying to put things right and it's nothing very clever, just doing the basic things right all the time.
"To be able to come top when there is such tremendous competition is really very pleasing."
Sixth form college St Clare's, in Banbury Road, Oxford, was the top-performing school for A-Levels, with the highest average points score at 1190.4.
It is the third year running the college has won the accolade.
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The demand for state funded Muslim schools and Mosques is in accordance with the law of the land. Bilingual Muslim children need state funded Muslim schools with bilingual Muslim teachers as role models during their developmental period.They need to learn and be well versed in standard English to serve humanity and at the same time they need to learn Arabic, Urdu and other community languages to keep in touch with their cultural heritage and enjoy the beauty of their literature and poetry. There is no place for a non-Muslim child or a teacher in a Muslim school. Every Muslim school has a Mosque to offer prayers five times a day.
The silent majority of Muslim parents would like to send their children to state funded Muslim schools. They are not extremists who want to change of ethos of those schools where Muslim children are in majority. It is the democratic right of every Muslim parent to see that their children receive balanced education, so that when their children grow up, they do not find themselves cut off from their cultural roots and linguistic skills. It is a question of common sense, humanity and reason that bilingual Muslim children must be educated in state funded Muslim schools with bilingual Muslim teachers as role models during their developmental periods. The whole world believes that people who speak more than one language is a vital economic asset. Pupils who speak more than one language do not cause difficulties. It is the politicians and monolingual teachers who are the problems for bilingual pupils. Muslim school will help to cultivate the child into a healthy, fully flourishing individual with a passion for learning. There are hundreds of state and church schools where Muslim children are in majority. In my opinion, all such schools may be opted out as Muslim Academies.
Muslim schools are not only faith schools; they are more or less bilingual schools. Bilingual Muslim children need to learn and be well versed in Standard English to follow the National Curriculum and go for higher studies and research to serve humanity. State schools with monolingual teachers do not teach Standard English to Migrant children. Bilingual Muslim children learn English in the playgrounds and in the streets. They speak street language with its own grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation. The teachers let them speak the same accent in the classroom. They have no courage to stop them or correct them. This is one of the main reasons why one third of children have difficulties with reading when they leave primary schools. Majority of such children are Muslims. In other European countries and in the sub-continent argot and slang are not allowed into the classroom. In Britain primary school teachers do not feel that it's their role to interfere with self-expression in any shape or form. They encourage children to read poems and stories written in ethnic dialects.
Muslim faith schools are more or less bilingual schools. Priority will be given to the teaching of Standard English, Arabic, Urdu and other community languages. All Muslim children will learn and be well versed in Standard English and Quranic Arabic and at the same time they will learn and be well versed in one of the community language to keep in touch with their cultural roots and enjoy the beauty of their literature and poetry. Majority of children will learn Urdu language because it is a lingua franca of the migrants from the sub-continent. And majority of British Muslims are from Pakistan and their national language is Urdu.
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- Vikings QB Gus Frerotte played for the Lions in 1999, starting 6 games and throwing for 2,117 yards.
- Lions QB Daunte Culpepper was the Vikings' fi rst pick in the 1999 NFL Draft and the 11th player chosen overall. He
started 80 games for the Vikings and ranks second in team history with a 91.5 rating, and third in yards (20,162) and
TD passes (135).
- Lions S Dwight Smith played two seasons for the Vikings, in 2006 and '07.
- Vikings offensive line coach Pat Morris held the same position with the Lions from 2004-05.
- Vikings TE coach Jimmie Johnson played for the Detroit Lions from 1992-93.
- Vikings S Eric Frampton played in fi ve games for the Lions in 2007.
- Vikings Vice President of Player Personnel Rick Spielman worked as a college scout for the Lions from 1990-94 and as a pro scout from 1995-96. His brother, Chris,
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- Vikings Vice President of Operations/Legal Counsel Kevin Warren spent the 2001-02 seasons with the Lions as their Senior Vice President of Business Operations/
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- Lions regional scout Silas McKinnie served in the same capacity with the Vikings from 1997-2002.
- Vikings RB Chester Taylor is from River Rouge, MI.
- Vikings G Steve Hutchinson played at the University of Michigan from 1997-2000.
- Vikings LB David Herron played at Michigan State from 2002-06.
- Vikings TE coach Jimmie Johnson was a teammate of Lions Senior Vice President/Asst. General Manager Martin Mayhew with the Washington Redskins.
- Vikings defensive coordinator Leslie Frazier coached for Cincinnati while Vikings S Madieu Williams, Lions P Nick Harris, RB Rudi Johnson and DT Langston Moore
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- Vikings FB Naufahu Tahi was on the Bengals' practice squad in 2006 while Johnson was on the team.
- Frerotte was teammates with Lions CB Travis Fisher, C Andy McCollum and WR Shaun McDonald in St. Louis in 2006. Lions WR Brandon Middleton was also with
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- Frerotte played for Washington while Lions strength and conditioning coach Malcolm Blacken was a strength and conditioning assistant there.
- Vikings defensive backs coach Joe Woods was with Tampa Bay with Lions Lions head coach Rod Marinelli, defensive coordinator Joe Barry, DE Corey Smith, DT
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- Vikings LB Vinny Ciurciu, Wyms, Nece and Darby were teammates in Tampa Bay.
- Vikings RB Maurice Hicks was teammates with Lions FB Moran Norris in San Francisco.
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- Vikings K Ryan Longwell, S Darren Sharper, WR Robert Ferguson, and offensive coordinator Darrell Bevell were in Green Bay with Lions LB Paris Lenon.
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- Vikings G Steve Hutchinson played for Seattle when Lions DB coach Clayton Lopez was on the Seahawks staff.
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It is the single most important statistic regarding the illegal US
invasion and occupation of Iraq. How many Iraqis have been killed?
655,000 Iraqis killed as a result of the
I have worked for eight months in Iraq as a journalist, witnessing the
carnage on a daily basis, visiting the morgues with bodies and body
parts piled into them, meeting family after family who had lost a loved
one, or more … Finally, we get an accurate figure that shows how
immense the scale of the long drawn carnage really is.
The first Lancet Report, published on October 29, 2004, reported that
there were 100,000 "excess" Iraqi deaths as the result of the
invasion and occupation. (Excess deaths are the difference between
pre-invasion and post-invasion mortality rates.) Whenever I have given public presentations about the occupation, I have invariably found myself in a difficult position due to the lack of a more realistic and recent figure I can cite, knowing full well that the number was grossly higher than 100,000.
The least I could do was mention that Les Roberts, one of the authors of that report, is known to have said this past February that the number of Iraqi casualties could be over 300,000. And now, we know it is far higher, which merely confirms what most Iraqis already know.
In the context of the horror stories that have reached us over the
three-plus years of the occupation, this latest figure is not nearly as
shocking as when the first Lancet report was published in October of
2004. It has been abundantly clear since then that the number of Iraqis being killed by and because of the occupation has continued to increase exponentially.
The recent survey, like the first one, was conducted by Iraqi physicians and overseen by epidemiologists at
This study is the only one, other than the first study published in The
Lancet, that calculates mortality in
is a technique of "cluster sampling" also used to estimate mortality
caused by famines and after natural disasters.
The 2004 survey came under fire from pro-war critics and from the
supposedly anti-war group Iraq Body Count (IBC) which currently claims a ridiculously low figure between 44 and 49,000 dead Iraqis. In the past, the figure generated by IBC has been quoted by George W. Bush.
The controversial results of the first survey were backed by Bradley
Woodruff, a medical epidemiologist at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, who was quoted in the Chronicle of Higher Education on January 27, 2005: "Les [Les Roberts, co-author of the first survey] has used, and consistently uses, the best possible methodology … Indeed, the United Nations and the State Department have cited mortality numbers compiled by Mr. Roberts on previous conflicts as fact – and have acted on those results. [He] has studied mortality caused by war since 1992, having done surveys in locations including
Further underscoring the validity and authenticity of the survey
methodology are two important facts: first, that the leg work has been conducted by eight Iraqi doctors and second, that the recent survey came up with the same estimate for immediate post-invasion deaths as the previous survey. Additionally, the figures are backed by official evidence as the greater majority of deaths were substantiated by death certificates.
Ronald Waldman, an epidemiologist at
Here it is worth recording that the survey's estimate of
pre-invasion death rate, which was used as the baseline of the survey, was roughly the same as the one used by both the CIA and the
As in the instance of the first survey, this study found that the actual
number of dead Iraqis could in fact be higher. The fact that this study
tabulated "excess deaths" implies that these people would still be alive
if the
While the staggeringly high number of the dead may shock some, for
others who have kept track of facts it is no great wonder that surveyors have found a steady increase in Iraqi mortality since the invasion and a steeper increase in the last year. This alarmingly reflects the worsening violence which even the
Most of what we have heard reported, prior to this survey, had been
deaths in
happening in the rest of the country is a question that the latest
survey answers: that there are approximately 500 unexpected violent
deaths every single day throughout
The survey found that 87% of the deaths had occurred during the
occupation rather than during the initial invasion, and that 31% of them were a consequence of attacks and air strikes by the coalition forces.
It was no surprise that Mr. Bush dismissed the findings of the study. He did not consider the report credible and said that the methodology used was "pretty well discredited." I'm sure that the feeble-minded Mr. Bush took a very close look at the methodology used in the study.
Last December, Bush claimed that 30,000 Iraqis had died as the result of the invasion and occupation. When reporters asked him if he still stood by his estimate, he said he stood by the figure that "a lot" of innocent people have died in the conflict.
One of my contacts in
/This is a mayday call to all colleagues around the world to STOP
writing about the Iraqi issue without having enough information from
reliable sources. People are getting killed here and the country is
virtually dying and it is not so human to rob the dead! IBC supposedly
worked to correct the number of Iraqis killed because of the
occupation of
Salih Al-Jabiri is a 55-year-old human rights activist in Baghdad.
Jabiri, commenting on the figure offered by IBC at that time of roughly
30,000 dead Iraqis, the figure which was infamously quoted by Mr. Bush, said, "What difference does it make whether the number is 30,000 or 200,000 for God's sake? It is people's lives you are counting here, not farm chickens! Do you people mean we should be happy to believe US statistics of ONLY 30,000? But we are not happy with this insultingly low number, when all of us know the true number is so much higher!"
My aforementioned contact added more recently:
/Whatever the numbers the crime is still big enough to be condemned by all those who claim to be human beings. To our colleagues at IBC and those others who think the way they do, we say, be human enough to condemn the crimes of the occupation in Iraq or do not say you are humans./
For over a year now many Iraqis have been referring to what is happening in their country as genocide. With over 500 Iraqis being killed every single day as a direct result of the occupation, it is difficult to argue with them.
(c)2006 Dahr Jamail.
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Just in time for the Independence Day holiday weekend Starbucks is now offering free, unlimited Wi-Fi access at nearly 7,000 company-operated locations across the United States. The policy change came into effect Thursday, a little more than two years after Starbucks began offering two hours of free Wi-Fi to Starbucks card holders. Now, however, the time limits are gone, and you can enjoy unlimited free Wi-Fi at your local Starbucks any time you like for as long as you like.
But before you sink into one of those plush Starbucks chairs with your laptop and a venti nonfat, no-foam, double-shot, extra-hot lattè, here are a few tips on what to watch out for and what to look forward to with free Wi-Fi from Starbucks.
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Company-operated stores
Starbucks is offering free Wi-Fi at all of its company-operated locations, which means most of the Starbucks locations you visit on a daily basis will have free Wi-Fi. The exceptions will be the stores inside special locations such as airports, Target stores, and Barnes & Noble locations. Free Wi-Fi access at these locations may vary. Use the Starbucks Store Locator to find the closest shop near you.
How to get online
Before you get started, make sure you are connected to the right Wi-Fi hot spot. Typically, Starbucks access points are called
attwifi -- AT&T is the hot spot provider for Starbucks. If you are unsure which access point to use, ask a Starbucks staff member for help or call AT&T technical support at (888) 888-7520.
After you're on the right network, all you have to do is fire up your browser and you'll arrive at a landing page. Just check the box that says you agree to Starbucks' Terms and Conditions and Acceptable Use Policy, click Connect, and you're off and running.
Landing page
Your first stop once you connect will be Starbucks' free Wi-Fi landing page that includes videos, blogs, and other content from Starbucks. At the time of this writing, for example, the site had a video of a live performance by Sarah McLachlan.
Later this year, the landing page will be replaced by the Starbucks Digital Network, which will include a variety of content in cooperation with Yahoo. The company is being pretty vague about exactly what kind of content it will be offering on SDN, but I did find out that through the SDN you will be able to get free, unrestricted access to the Wall Street Journal's Web site, WSJ.com. Currently, the Journal hides some of its content behind a pay wall.
Starbucks says the SDN will include free, unrestricted access to other paid sites and services in addition to WSJ, as well as exclusive content and previews, free downloads, local community news, and activities.
Safety first
So you've found your Starbucks location, you've hit the landing page and now it's time to check your email and maybe fire off a Google Doc or two, right? Wrong. While free, public Wi-Fi is a treat, it's also a great way for a hacker to invade your privacy and it exposes you to identity theft. So before you go anywhere online, let's go over some "free Wi-Fi" basics:


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Question and Declare: Did the Phoenix Suns have a standout win against the Pacers?
By Doug Franz
Originally published: Jan 24, 2014 - 6:00 pm
Originally published: Jan 24, 2014 - 6:00 pm
Today's question and declare was all about the Suns' win over Indiana and how it relates to Friday's game and the upcoming road trip for Phoenix.
Every Thursday I send out a tweet (@doug987FM) with the hashtag #questionanddeclare. You then respond to the question and declare your stance. I read your tweets here. The question is: "Did the Suns make a league-wide statement win versus the Pacers or is it just another January game and matters little?"
The issue for me is to get excited. Talk all about the win on Thursday. The next day, the win is over. The Suns play four straight games against teams that are a combined 52 games below .500. Immature teams lose those games after a big win. Let's see where the Suns are!
More importantly, let's see what you think.
Doug Franz, Co-host of Doug & Wolf
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text: Anarchist Visions Argentina By Marie Trigona This past month activists in Argentina marked 87 years since the violent army attack against striking workers in what is known as "La Semana Tragica" (The Tragic Week). In January 1919, a major insurrection broke out in Buenos Aires. Military officers attacked workers on strike at the Vesena ironworks plant for an eight hour workday and better salaries, killing four workers on January 7th. Argentina's anarchist union federation, the FORA—Federacion Obrera Regional Argentina called for a national general strike paralyzing the economy to repudiate army attacks against the metal workers. On January 9th, a brigade of armed workers led a march of 200,000 people. The procession turned into a battle ground. In the midst of police open firing on the crowds and reactionary terror squads, workers struck back burning down the Vasena factories, raiding armories and forming worker militias. Historians estimate that police killed seven hundred workers, wounded 2,000 and arrested 55,000 during The Tragic Week-1919. Activists this year organized a popular "escrache" or exposure protest against the Jesus Sacramentado convent and cathedral. Military sharp shooters targeted protesting men and women from the rooftops of the Jesus Sacramentado cathedral in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Almargo during The Tragic Week. The Catholic Church clearly supported the violent crackdown against workers in 1919. Throughout Argentina's history the Catholic Church has backed each military dictatorship (from General Felix Uriburu 1930 to the latest military dictatorship 1976-1983). In memoriam with the victims, local popular assembly participants and anarchist groups painted graffiti and threw garbage in front of the cathedral. The Tragic Week of 1919 has left an unforgettable effect on the working class in Argentina. Many working class struggles have emerged in recent years that carry a spirit reminiscent of anarchist labor organizations in the early 1900′s. Struggles in the subway, public hospitals and recuperated enterprises have lifted up many anarchist visions for creating a new social relations and fight against employers. Several anarchist principles: direct action, mutual solidarity and worker self-determination have become indispensable tools in defending workers and unemployed against exploitation in today's Argentina. Direct Action Since the turn of the century the strike has been used as a weapon against employers. Direct action is only possible if we perceive that our own activity can make change. Telecommunications workers, public health employees, train laborers and Buenos Aires subway workers are setting a good example of how the use of direct action can help workers change their destiny with their employers. In 2004, the subway delegates won a 6-hour work-day with a series of surprise strikes. Again in 2005, with wild-cat strikes, subway workers won a 44% pay increase. Some 500 subway janitors and security guards from three temporary employment agencies went on strike and shut down all 5 subway lines to demand the re-hiring of workers in October, 2005. The strikers also wanted to be included in the collective labor contract between formal employees and Metrovías, the private company that runs the Buenos Aires subway system. Telecommunications workers have led a fight against flexible labor standards. Between 2003 and 2004 workers from the Spanish telecommunications companies, Telefonica and Telecom, occupied operating centers. They won better salaries. Anton Pannekoek wrote in his text Workers' Councils: "In the strike for the first time the workers discover their strength, in the strike arises their fighting power. From the strike springs up the association of all the workers of the factory, of the branch, of the country. Out of the strike sprouts the solidarity, the feeling of fraternity with the comrades in work, of unity with the entire class: the first dawn of what some day will be the life-spending sun of the new society. The mutual help, at first appearing in spontaneous and casual money collections, soon takes the lasting form of the trade union." Mutual Solidarity Many of Argentina's labor organizations like the subway workers, public health workers and several worker run enterprises have fostered a broad mutual solidarity network. Pannekoek describes this as mutual help, which appears spontaneous and then takes an organized and lasting form. Argentina's mutual solidarity network has become extensive and very effective. The general assembly at the worker controlled FaSinPat ceramics factory has regularly voted to use funds from production for workers' strike funds. During the months long conflict at the Garrahan children's public hospital, FaSinPat provided funds for employees who had their salaries cut for participating in the strike. The long standing conflict at Tango Meat, a meat packing plant in the Greater Buenos Aires district of Tigre is another example of the importance of a strike fund. Regularly, worker organizations contribute funds so that the workers from Tango Meat can sustain the conflict which began in July 2005 with the firings of union delegates demanding a wage increase for workers. Since the initial firings, workers have camped out in front of the plant's entrance. The union went on strike to demand the re-hiring of workers with a wage increase. The management then fired all the workers, without paying back pay or indemnity. Beyond strike funds, direct action is another element of a mutual solidarity network. Last March when a group of men physically attacked and tortured a wife of a Zanon worker, social organizations quickly mobilized to denounce the attacks. Subway workers said that they would paralyze the Buenos Aires subway system if the attacks continued. "Zanon has helped to coordinate workers in struggle. We are ready to do whatever is necessary to defend the struggle of the compañeros in Neuquen," said Arturo, a subway delegate. Worker self-determination A fundamental characteristic of these worker organizations fighting today is their commitment to democratic organizing. This past year the workers at the Garrahan children's hospital have led a fight for a basic livable salary. They've also had to put up a fight against the legacy of bureaucratic union that has acted in accomplice to the privatization and destruction of public health. 700 nurses, technicians, and janitors are organized in a worker assembly that functions as an internal commission of the ATE state-employees union. The internal assembly values direct democracy and non-hierarchical organization – motions are made by the assembly's body and then the workers vote on the motion. On January 20, Subway workers presented a draft for a new collective labor contract they are set to negotiate with the Metrovias company. This is the first time in Argentina's history that a body of workers (over 300 in this case) drafted a labor agreement. The draft is titled "The workers building their own destiny." They published the book explaining how workers can use a collective labor contract to protect themselves against employers. They printed over 3,000 copies so that each worker can review the draft and give his or her opinions. The draft lays out the parameters for workday, vacation, safety standards, wage scales, etc. Inter-Sindical Clasista Worker organizations are proving that they organize themselves effectively and democratically. Subway workers along with public health employees, public school teachers, telecommunications workers, train workers, and unemployed worker organizations have formed a coalition of grass-roots worker organization in what is known as The Inter-Sindical Clasista (Classist Union Coalition). The Coalition's 14 principles state a commitment to democratic organizing and unity among workers struggling against exploitation. Workers participating in this coalition self-define themselves as classist, combative and anti-bureaucratic. This coalition even formed a Syndicalist school. The first workshop was given on "companies' strategies for flexible labor standards and unions." Fighting for peoples' history The escrache against the culprits in The Tragic Week 1919 was not only to remember fallen compañeros but also to prevent history from being erased. During the protest activists distributed a flyer: "Many collectives, neighborhood assemblies and worker organizations are building another history. We are doing this through horizontal organizing, autonomy, worker self-management and building solidarity. With the same ties that the workers in 1919 had built in their assemblies and cultural spaces and that the state throughout history tried to destroy." The state hasn't destroyed the legacy of activist organizing against oppression and Argentina's labor movement is proving that workers can take their destiny into their own hands. "1919-2006: against wage slavery, the same fight." Marie Trigona forms part of Grupo Alavío, www.alavio.org. She can be reached at [email protected]


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"The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything!" - Maria Montessori, The Absorbent Mind
The Spinosaurus
Perhaps you like listening to and collecting phrases like I do. Our Montessori classrooms are great theaters for listening. Three, four, and five-year-olds are intensely thoughtful and they tell us so much about themselves just by talking with their friends.
This week I had the pleasure of working in the Willow, River Birch, and Canoe Birch classes and I collected as many fabulous phrases from the children as I could. The words are theirs, the spelling is mine.
On being the first to arrive... "The only time I'm not first is when Mommy brings me. Daddy is faster than Mommy."
"Frogs lay eggs, right? Butterflies lay eggs, right?"
"I had my birthday before my brother's."
"Our grandpa makes a Donald Duck sound."
While drawing dinosaurs with friends... "It's a Spinosaurus. It's the biggest carnivore on land and it's name means lizard. It reaches in the water just a little bit and snatches a fish with it's crocodile long snout."
"A drobeosaurus has toe claws and it goes 25 miles an hour."
A different dinosaur friend... "It runs 100 and 90 hours. He has a bunch of blood in his body. It's called Spinadoctora Hundreds."
"At my house I have five lipsticks. No, six."
A child was looking for a bike to ride on the playground. I asked, "I see that blue bike is available. Would you like to ride that one?" "No! he said. "I just fell off that one."
"I'm trying to sing Let it Go, in German, but it's too hard." (The children in one class burst into singing "Let it Go" from the movie Frozen at least six times in one morning:)
"Being in the sun is so much fun."
"Will you do something interesting?"
I like to listen to teachers, as well. I overheard a few of them talking about the possibility of having a couple of chickens at school and which type might be best suited to be Montessori chickens.
"They're good egg layers, the Wyandotte's. "And they're peaceful."
"I am concerned about them getting upset and flying up into the pine tree."
"There is a 100% chance of them getting upset."
Wyandotte chick
May all your chickens be peaceful as you enjoy some fun in the sun this holiday weekend.
~ Heather
First, I will start with what I saw this week. This was my favorite moment.
Another photo. If you are familiar with Humans of New York, the book and website by Brandon Stanton, then I know you can relate. If not, I know you can relate.
Children dress so fabulously and so beautifully because they have not yet learned that other people are judging their choices. They wear what they like. I want to wear what I like but I feel childish. How old will I grow before I truly understand that being childish is the truest way to be?
And, one more photo.
And now, for what I heard.
1. I erroneously asked a child how she was enjoying her Kindergarten year at MSGL. She responded, "I'm not IN Kindergarten. That's why I'm HERE!"
2. "That's a small story."
3. A friend was reading me a note from his lunch box. "Look! Look it! It says I'm going to my grandma's house. And I think I'm gonna get a Spiderman hat when we go to the store."
4. "Yeah. Let's do our maps."
5. "Where's the damn lizard?"
Rest easy. That darned lizard was found.
Somdatta and Felicia of the Canoe Birch Class and Cathy and Mary of the All-Day Program invited the children to tell who and what they are thankful for and then wrote their answers on leaves. Each class has a paper tree by the door displaying the children's gratitude. As this Thanksgiving Day draws to a close I thought it would be nice to share the gratitude of these 3, 4, and 5-year-olds with all of you.
Enjoy your holiday weekend!
..and this was its steeple.
When we remodeled the former Calvary Baptist Church in 2000-2001 to become our Montessori school, we had to replace a few fixtures. The steeple was detached from the roof and lowered by crane to the parking lot below.
What do you do with a second-hand steeple? We gave it to a church down the road.
The demolition crew also removed the fiberglas baptistry by cutting it into pieces. All of the beautiful wood pews were sold. You can see one being used today in the school office. The colored windows were eventually replaced with clear glass.
This is what Building B looks like today.
Have a great Wednesday!
Grace's first day of Montessori preschool, 1997.
Last summer, my 19-year-old daughter was getting ready to move into her first apartment. I was excited for her to have the chance to live on her own and had been setting aside household items that I thought she could use. One day, after admiring the "steal" of a chair I had found at Goodwill, she asked me, "Aren't you sad that I won't live here anymore?"
"Well, honey," I said, "I always imagined that you would grow up and move out of the house. That was our goal all along for you to be an independent, self-sufficient person."
"I know," she said. "But I'm kind of sad that I won't be sleeping here anymore."
I reminded her that she had hardly slept at home at all since she started college last year. She lived in the dorm, four hours away from home and we often didn't hear from her for days.
"Yeah, but this is different. I just can't believe this won't be my home address anymore. Are you going to change the garage door code?"
A-ha! Then I figured it out. She was worried about cutting the cord from the house where she grew up. I had been concerning myself with making sure she was comfortable "out there" and she was worried she would no longer be welcome back at home.
It occurred to me that not much has changed between that day and the day sixteen years ago when we were preparing to send her to preschool here at the Montessori School of Greater Lafayette. Back then we were so excited to help our "baby" pick out a new lunch box and indoor shoes but we had little idea what to do to help prepare her (or ourselves) emotionally for this new chapter. She sailed through preschool and is now working through nursing school just fine, but we have learned a lot since then. Today I am sharing some tips and advice gathered from teachers and parents here at MSGL to help you and your child prepare for the first days of preschool.
Talk about school - mindfully.
Talk with your child about preschool when he is in the mood. Maybe he will bring it up or you can start the conversation, just don't push too hard. If your child seems "done" with the conversation or is becoming anxious, let the topic drop until later. And be honest about your feelings when you do talk about school. Some children worry that their parents will be sad or lonely when they are gone. When you say, "I am going to miss being with you in the morning, but it makes me happy to know you will be enjoying yourself at school," it lets him know that you will miss him but you are confident that school is a good place for him to be.
Check out the new environment.
MSGL's Parent Work Day is Saturday, August 16th. This is a great time to get familiar with the school and classroom environments and to be part of the school community. Children are encouraged to help clean lockers, pull weeds, and load and unload wheelbarrows full of mulch right alongside their parents and new classmates. And, each family member's time counts towards your volunteer hours requirement.
You will have another opportunity to get familiar with the school when your child attends her New Student Orientation visit on Monday, August 18th. This is her first opportunity to see her teachers and classmates in her new classroom. She can put her indoor shoes in her locker, locate her cubby and extra clothes box, and see where the bathroom is. The whole family can attend the Parent Orientation later that evening and maybe your child can give a tour of her new classroom.
Make new friends.
You will receive a class list via email in August. Consider contacting a few families on the list to set up a playdate before school starts. Even if you can't get together with any other families, you and your child can look over the names on the list together. You may discover that one of his classmates lives on your street or maybe someone has the same name as a sibling or a friend.
Help her dress for success.
Our Montessori classrooms are prepared to encourage your child's independence and you can help by providing your child with shoes and clothing that she can put on and take off by herself. Belts, suspenders, and jumpsuits look smart but they can be difficult for your child to use successfully. Provide your child a choice of clothing that allows her complete independence in her self-care routines. And please remember that preschool is a time to jump in and explore. Paint, snack, sand, and dirt from the garden can stain your child's clothing, so please send her to school in clothes that can stand to get dirty.
Plan a morning routine.
Now is a good time to do a mental run-through of your morning routine. Consider how much time your child needs to wake up, get dressed, and eat breakfast. Allow time for packing lunches, finding coats and shoes, and getting on the bike or in the car. Then add a few extra minutes. Parents and children who are not in a rush tend to have much better experiences at drop-off. Some families even do a few "practice runs" in the summer to see if they can get to school and work on time.
Create a goodbye routine.
Discuss with your child how you each want to say goodbye at drop-off. Some families say, "After you put on your inside shoes and put away your lunch box, we will walk to the classroom and I will give you three hugs and two kisses before I go to work." Some children like to wave to dad out the window and some parents leave their children with specific plans for what they will do after school. "Sonia is picking you up today" or "we are going to the Farmer's Market on our bikes after school today." Children have so little control over their daily lives that they appreciate at least knowing what is happening and when.
And while we're talking about goodbyes, let's take just a moment to consider the specter of separation anxiety.
What if my child cries when I walk away?
Separating from your child that first time can be heart-breaking, but remember - it's only for a few moments. The majority of children who are sad when they separate from their parents are able to calm themselves and choose an activity within a few minutes. If you have gone through the goodbye routine and are finding it hard to turn around and walk away, ask your teacher for help. Sometimes parents say, "Please help me. I need to leave." That is the teacher's sign that she needs to hold your child's hand or pick her up so that you can walk away. Teachers don't want to step in before you are ready to go but they are happy to help when you ask them.
The best thing you can do for your child at drop-off is to be consistent and walk away when you say you will. Lingering tends to just prolong the heartache for the parent and the child. The first few times you drop your child off may be difficult, but trust that with consistent repetition you and your child will develop a peaceful good-bye routine.
Talk with the teachers.
Talk with your child's teachers about how the adjustment period is going. The teachers help dozens of children adjust to school every year but this may be your first time. They expect you will have questions and concerns. Email is a great way to communicate with your child's teachers and all of the contact information is available on the classroom web page at Msgl.org.
Help your child talk about his day.
If this is the first time your child has been away from home you will no doubt be very eager to know what he did all day. Unfortunately, preschoolers often say they "did nothing" or "just played." A lot of things happened between the time you dropped him off that morning and when you picked him up several hours later, but he might not yet be able to give a sequential list of his activities. Here are some ideas to help your child tell you about his day.
Take care of yourself!
The best thing you can do during these last few weeks of summer is to give you and your child the gift of a regular bedtime that allows enough sleep to wake up refreshed and ready for the big days ahead. Fill up with a good breakfast each morning and be extra patient with your child and especially with yourself. Parenting preschoolers, like college students, is hard work and there is no right way to do it. Follow your heart and follow your child, and in sixteen years, or so, you will be very proud of the people you have both become.
I should mention that there ARE other ducks in the toolbox. They are small ducks that fit in Harriet's pocket when she carries her camera and tripod to the classrooms to take group photos. But The Duck only works the main room. There is also a rubber frog that sometimes gets called up on the rare occasion that The Duck can't get a child to laugh. Harriet's experience tells her which toy to try.
She also encourages parents to let their children wear something comfortable on picture day. "Don't overdress them because children don't act the same way if they are overdressed," Harriet suggests.
It was great to spend picture day with Harriet and get answers to all of my (and your) questions about The Duck. But I had to confess that up until a few years ago, I didn't even know she had a first name. I had always known her, as we all do, as "The Ducky Lady." That seems to be how she likes it. But she was willing to share just a few personal details.
Although The Duck doesn't spend much time in the water outside of his daily bath, Harriet enjoys being outdoors when she's not behind a camera.
"I go kayaking and hiking. I belong to a kayaking group. That's what I do when I don't photograph," she says.
A few years ago, our school director Suman invited Harriet and some friends from school on a trip to India. For Harriet, that was a dream come true. One favorite memory is of riding on an elephant with her friend Beth.
"That was nice," she says, smiling. "India was my dream country. That's where I always wanted to go. I wanted to go there before they lose their saris and all the colors and become jeans people."
At the end of picture day as Harriet packed up The Duck to leave MSGL, Lena and Anita made sure she got one of our tie-dyed school t-shirts. The shirt made Harriet really happy and I asked her why.
"It's yellow and orange," she exclaimed. "My favorite colors!"
Photo courtesy of Lena Atkinson
What is Montessori?
Rather than explaining what Montessori is, I am offering an excerpt from an article that does a beautiful job of describing what Montessorians do. Maria Montessori's Decalogue is a set of 10 rules for adults working in a Montessori classroom. It is relevant to parents, grandparents, and caregivers of all types who strive to relate to children peacefully and respectfully in any environment.
I hope you will enjoy this expanded version of the Montessori Decalogue as written by The Mammolina Children's Home Montessori Kindergarten in Beijing, China.
The Montessori Decalogue
1. Never touch the child unless invited by him (in some way or another).
Unless there is a very strong reason to (like avoiding an accident, for example), one should never touch a child unless a child requests it. Picking up a child without the child's consent, even if in a playful manner, or grabbing her hand, pushing her, etc., should always be avoided. If children are engaged, looking at a book, working, playing, resting, the same principle applies. Children invite contact in many ways, and parents and adults in general, who work with children, know how to interpret the signs they send. It is important also to respect a child when she is angry and does not want to be touched or picked up.
2. Never speak ill of the child in his presence or absence.
Speaking ill of a child, or making negative comments about a child, either in the child's presence or absence, denotes lack of respect for the child. It also sets a frame of mind and denotes an attitude that is negative and conducive to confrontation—and not always open! Preconceived ideas often linger as negative thoughts and breed reactive behavior. If an adult falls into this trap, it is very easy for a lack of patience and negative attitudes to creep in and damage the relationship with the child.
3. Concentrate on strengthening and helping the development of what is good in the child, so that its presence may leave less and less space for what is negative.
If adults focus on negative behavior, children will feel inadequate. This will result in low self-esteem, and a self-fulfilling prophecy like behavioral patterns will take over. Negativity will become second nature. Instead, by focusing on what is positive, the child will feel safe and confident. Children are learning what is and is not acceptable behavior can and cannot be done, etc. They do not need punishments or rewards. Simply to be shown what is and is not acceptable, by adults that model appropriate behavior.
4. Be proactive in preparing the environment, take meticulous and constant care of it. Help the child establish constructive relations with it. Show the proper place where the means of development are kept and demonstrate their proper use.
If the child is presented with a prepared environment, there is little need for much more. Again, modeling appropriate behavior is essential. A child that is shown an orderly environment will likewise feel encouraged to keep it orderly. If a child has available manipulatives she can handle, play and work with, rather than things she cannot touch, she will feel at ease to explore the world around her. If objects are at reach, that the child may break or hurt herself with, she should be shown how to handle them, rather than told "don't touch!" A kitchen is a world full of wonder for a child! Cutting, cooking, stirring, pouring, etc., are all activities the child will want—and need!—to master in order to become independent. Include the child in as many activities as possible at home, from cleaning to cooking; there is enough to keep any child busy and engaged all day long.
5. Be ever ready to answer the call of the child who stands in need of you, and always listen and respond to the child who appeals to you.
There is nothing worse for a child than to feel insecure and ignored. Abandonment is a feeling no child should have to live with. "If a child asks for attention, then that child needs attention," stressed Montessorian Margaret Homfray. When people brush a child aside and say, "she just wants attention," that person is missing the point: a child only wants attention when she needs attention. Children who feel cared for and do not have to worry about being abandoned, even if for a short time, are far more likely to care for others and show concern for and trust others, than those who experience this sort of "cold shoulder" treatment. Also, "timeout" and "go to your room and stay there" approaches are also expressions of abandonment.
6. Respect the child who makes a mistake and can then or later correct it herself, but stop firmly and immediately any misuse of the environment and any action which endangers the child, its own development or that of others.
Avoid rushing to correct mistakes a child has committed. Children are learning to cope and function. They will persist and practice to their heart's content whatever skill they need to acquire, until they master it. If a child starts throwing things around and disrespecting the environment, by all means, stop her. Yet, explain why you had to stop her. Reason and listen to what the child may have to say. Maria Montessori said that "a child's first tantrums are the first ills of her soul." There is always a reason for everything. Try to bring the reason to light. Punishing, isolating the child, etc., will only feed her pain, and burry deep those reasons—she will learn to hide rather than communicate.
7. Respect the child who takes a rest or watches others working or ponders over what she herself has done or will do. Neither call her nor force her to other forms of activity.
A child that is idle is often not idle at all… Children need to be given space to find what it is they are interested in and want to do. Once they do, they pursue their interests with unrestrained passion and perseverance! A child that is observing other children or adults is also learning. If the child is resting, she is not being lazy and doing nothing just lying there—she is most probably processing information, observing, reflecting on something she did, or saw, or is planning on doing.
8. Help those who are in search of activity and cannot find it.
Be sensitive to the needs of the child including differentiating when apparent inactivity is inner activity, or in contrast, a child is simply lost. A child in search of activity and unable to find it is usually restless. If sitting or lying down, it can be noticed that she is not "engaged;" she is not resting, but simply lost and prostrated. There is a thin line that separates these two worlds. It is the adult's responsibility to observe carefully and find out the signs—often very different from child to child—that can reveal what the child is experiencing. Abandonment differs from rest and contemplation.
9. Be untiring in repeating presentations to the child who refused them earlier, in helping the child to acquire what is not yet her own and to overcome imperfections. Do this by animating the environment, with care, with purposive restraint and silence, with mild words and loving presence. Make your ready presence felt to the child who searches and hide from the child who has found.
A child may need to be shown the right way to do something, say a word, express her feelings or acquire any sort of new skill, many, many times. One should never grow tired of repeating it, such as reading the same bedtime story or singing the same jingle. Children seek perfection in all they do until they reach a level which meets their needs (not what the adult may think "perfect" is, or means.) To be always available but not intrusive is an art. When a child needs help, she will ask for it. When a skill has been acquired and the child no longer needs assistance, adults should respect the child's new acquired or reached level of independence.
10. Always treat the child with the best of good manners and offer her the best you have in yourself and at your disposal.
Children who are respected will learn to respect others. Giving the child the best one has to give helps the child learn that you are someone she can count on, and teaches her to also give others the best she has to give. It is important the way Montessori puts it, "the best you have in yourself," as if to say, always reach higher, but do not feel dismayed if you fall short, and "the best" that you can give is not the best you think or know you should give. If your best manners are not always what they should be—a common feeling parents harbor when children seem to be pushing their patience beyond the limits, do not lose heart. The way Dr. Montessori put it, is basically this: have realistic expectations towards the child, and yourself too. Give the best you have to give, but don't feel guilty if you fall short. Simply keep striving to improve and always do your best. If you commit a mistake, giving the child your best may well be recognizing it and apologizing. "Amy, Mommy got upset and shouted. That was not nice of me. I am sorry." Children also need to recognize mistakes, learn to apologize, and that parents are not always perfect.
These are basic principles. What Montessori strives for is to protect the child from all sorts of negative influences that can create deviations in the child's spirit and psyche. To preserve the natural curiosity of the child, help her find her interests, protect her passion for learning, foster it and let it grow in a healthy way. In this way, the child can contribute her best to society. This is conducive to world peace, as Dr. Montessori envisioned it, and Montessorians believe is possible. It takes passion, it takes commitment, and it takes working together.
- Excerpted from Montessori: Committed People with a Passion for Children by the Mammolina Children's Home Montessori Kindergarten in Beijing, China.


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Had a little bit of a tustle with a moving car last night, and the car was the victor. I fell off the hood of the car and bruised my heels badly, and sprained my right ankle very slightly. The ankle will be fine, but I am wondering what techniques you guys know of to quicken the healing time of bruised heels? They fuckin' kill, and I am leaving for a trip to Colorado in 8 days. Help! p.s. don't drink and ride cars
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