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William Francis "Bill" Nighy (born 12 December 1949) is an English actor and comedian. He worked in theatre and television before his first cinema role in 1981, and made his name in television with The Men's Room in 1991, in which he played the womanizer Prof. Mark Carleton, whose extra-marital affairs kept him "vital".[1] He became known around the world in 2003 as Billy Mack, the aging pop star in Love Actually, and in the same year played James Mortmain, the eccentric husband struggling to keep his family afloat in a decaying English castle, in I Capture the Castle.
He is also known for his roles in the films Underworld, Shaun of the Dead, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Pirates of the Caribbean, Hot Fuzz, Valkyrie, G-Force and provided voice talents in the films The Magic Roundabout, Flushed Away and Rango. He recently played Rufus Scrimgeour in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.
Bill Nighy is a Patron and supporter of the artistic collective The Factory Theatre Company alongside other actors such as Mark Rylance, Ewan McGregor and Richard Wilson. Other notable members include founder Alex Hassell, Catherine Bailey and Alan Morrissey.[2]
[edit] Personal life and education
Nighy was born in Caterham, Surrey. His mother, Catherine Josephine Nighy (née Whittaker), was a psychiatric nurse who was born in Glasgow,[3] and his father, Alfred Martin Nighy, managed a car garage after working in the family chimney sweeping business.[4] Of part Irish descent, Nighy was raised Catholic, serving as an altar boy.[5] He has two elder siblings, Martin and Anna. Nighy attended The John Fisher School, a Catholic Grammar School in Purley, where he was a member of the school theatre group. He left the school with two O-levels and then took a job with the Croydon Advertiser as a messenger boy.[6] He went on to train at the Guildford School of Acting, known at the time as The Guildford School of Dance and Drama.[7]
Nighy had a 27-year-relationship with English actress Diana Quick, with whom he has a daughter, actress Mary Nighy. The couple split in 2008.[8] He is a supporter of Crystal Palace and is the Patron of the CPFRIS (Crystal Palace F.C. Fast Results & Information Service) Disabled Children's Club, and of the Ann Craft Trust.[9] He is also one of the Honorary Patrons of the London children's charity Scene & Heard.[10] He suffers from Dupuytren's contracture, a condition which causes the ring and little finger of each hand to be permanently bent inwards towards the palm.[7]
[edit] Career
After two seasons at the Everyman Theatre, Liverpool, Nighy made his London stage debut at the National Theatre in an epic staging of Ken Campbell and Chris Langham's Illuminatus!, which opened the new Cottesloe Theatre on 4 March 1977, and went on to appear in two David Hare premieres, also at the National. During the 1980s, he appeared in several television productions, among them Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil, alongside John Shea and Tony Randall.
He has starred in many radio and television dramas, notably the BBC serial The Men's Room (1991). He claimed that the serial, an Ann Oakley novel adapted by Laura Lamson, was the job which launched his career.[11] More recently he has featured in the thriller State of Play (2003) and costume drama He Knew He Was Right (2004). He played Samwise Gamgee in the 1981 BBC Radio dramatisation of The Lord of the Rings (where he was credited as William Nighy), and appeared in the 1980s BBC Radio versions of Yes Minister episodes. He starred alongside Stephen Moore and Lesley Sharp in the acclaimed short radio drama Kerton's Story first aired in 1996. He had a starring role in the 2002 return of Auf Wiedersehen, Pet, portraying crooked politician Jeffrey Grainger. He has also made a guest appearance in the BBC Radio 4 series Baldi.
Two of Nighy's most acclaimed stage performances were in National Theatre productions. Taking the role of Bernard Nightingale, an unscrupulous university don, in Tom Stoppard's Arcadia (1993), he engaged in witty exchanges with Felicity Kendal, playing the role of Hannah Jarvis, an author; and he played a consultant psychiatrist in Joe Penhall's Blue/Orange (2000), for which he won an Olivier Award nomination for Best Actor, and which transferred to the West End at the Duchess Theatre the following year.
Nighy received some recognition by American audiences for his acclaimed portrayal of overaged rock star Ray Simms in the 1998 film Still Crazy. In 1999 he gained further prominence in the UK with the starring in role in "The Photographer", an episode of the award-winning BBC-TV mockumentary comedy series People Like Us, playing Will Rushmore, a middle aged man who has abandoned his career and family in the deluded belief that he can achieve success as a commercial photographer.
In 2003, Nighy played the role of the Vampire Elder Viktor in the American production Underworld and returned in the same role for the sequel Underworld: Evolution in 2006 and again the same role in the prequel Underworld: Rise of the Lycans. In February 2004, he was awarded the BAFTA Film Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as shameless, washed-up rocker Billy Mack in Love Actually (a role foreshadowed by his Still Crazy character) and followed this up at the BAFTA Television Awards in April with the Best Actor award for State of Play. He also appeared in the comedy Shaun of the Dead.
In early 2004, The Sunday Times reported that Nighy was on the shortlist for role of the Ninth Doctor in the 2005 revival of the BBC television series Doctor Who.[12] Christopher Eccleston ultimately filled the role.
In 2005, he appeared as Slartibartfast in the film adaptation of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. He also appeared in the one-off BBC One comedy-drama The Girl in the Café. In February 2006, he appeared in scriptwriter Stephen Poliakoff's one-off drama, Gideon's Daughter. Nighy played the lead character, Gideon, a successful events organiser who begins to lose touch with the world around him. This performance won him a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Mini-series or TV Movie in January 2007. Also in 2006, Nighy made his Broadway debut at the Music Box Theatre alongside Julianne Moore in The Vertical Hour, directed by Sam Mendes.
In 2006, Nighy featured in Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, where he played the principal villain, Davy Jones, although his face was entirely obscured by computer-generated makeup and he voiced the character with a Scots accent. He reprised the role in the 2007 sequel, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, in which his real face was briefly revealed in one scene. He also provided the narration for the Animal Planet series Meerkat Manor. Recently, he played the role of Richard Hart in Notes on a Scandal, for which he was nominated for a London Film Critics Circle award. Nighy also appeared as General Friedrich Olbricht, one of the principal conspirators, in the 2008 film Valkyrie. He had played an SS officer in the 1985 Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil. Nighy has starred in the film Wild Target.[13]
In July 2009, he announced that he would play Rufus Scrimgeour in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.[14] Nighy had already worked with director David Yates three times, and with the majority of the Harry Potter cast in previous movies. He has said of his role as Rufus Scrimgeour that it meant he was no longer the only English actor not to be in Harry Potter.[14]
[edit] Performances
[edit] Theatre
- The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore by Tennessee Williams – Watermill Theatre, Newbury
- Landscape and Silence, by Harold Pinter – Gateway Theatre, Chester
- Entertaining Mr Sloane by Joe Orton – Gateway Theatre, Chester
- Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead, by Tom Stoppard – Arts Theatre, Cambridge
- The Immoralist, from the novel by André Gide – Hampstead Theatre
- Speak Now, by Olwen Wymark – Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh (1971)
- Freedom of the City, by Brian Friel – Everyman Theatre, Liverpool
- Under New Management, by Chris Bond – Everyman Theatre, Liverpool
- Illuminatus!, Ken Campbell/Chris Langham – Liverpool Science Fiction Theatre (1975)
- Occupy! – Liverpool Everyman Theatre (1976)
- Illuminatus!, Ken Campbell/Chris Langham – NT Cottesloe (1977)
- Comings and Goings, by Mike Stott – Hampstead Theatre Club (1978)
- The Warp, by Neil Oram/ Ken Campbell – ICA (1979)
- IlluminationsTemplate:Dn, by Peter JenkinsTemplate:Dn – Lyric Hammersmith (1980)
- A Map of the World, by David Hare – NT Lyttelton (1983)
- Pravda, by David Hare/ Howard Brenton – NT Olivier (1985)
- King Lear, by William Shakespeare – NT Olivier (1986)
- Mean Tears, by Peter Gill – NT Cottesloe (1987)
- Betrayal, by Harold Pinter – Almeida Theatre, London (1991)
- Arcadia, by Tom Stoppard – NT Lyttelton (1993)
- The Seagull, by Anton Chekhov/ad. Pam Gems – NT Olivier (1994)
- Skylight, by David Hare – NT production at Vaudeville Theatre, London (1995)/ UK tour (1997)
- A Kind of Alaska, by Harold Pinter – Donmar Warehouse (1998)
- Blue/Orange, by Joe Penhall – NT Cottesloe (2000), Duchess Theatre (2001)
- The Vertical Hour, by David Hare, Broadway production at the Music Box Theatre, NY (2006)
- Valkyrie, by Christopher McQuarrie (2008)
[edit] Radio
- The Lord of the Rings dramatized by Brian Sibley and Michael Bakewell from the novels by J.R.R. Tolkien (1981), credited as William Nighy
- Yes Minister Series 2, Episode 1 (1984)
- I Wish to Apologise for My Part in the Apocalypse, by Duncan Macmillan of The Apathists, BBC Radio 4 (2008)[15]
- A Charles Paris Mystery: Dead Side of the Mic, dramatised by Jeremy Front from the novel by Simon Brett (2009)[16]
- Educating Rita by Willy Russell, adapted for radio by Willy Russell. 90 minute play for BBC Radio 4, broadcast Boxing day 2009
- Private Lives by Noël Coward, directed by Sally Avens. Broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on 2 January 2010.[17]
[edit] Film and television
- Agony (1981)
- Eye of the Needle (1981)
- Minder: Looking For Micky (1982) (TV)
- Curse of the Pink Panther (1983)
- The Little Drummer Girl (1984)
- Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil (1985)
- Thirteen at Dinner (1985)
- The Last Place on Earth (1985) (TV)
- The Phantom of the Opera: The Motion Picture (1989)
- Bergerac: All for Love (1991) (TV)
- Being Human (1993)
- Wycliffe: The Four Jacks (1994) (TV)
- Llety Piod (1995)
- FairyTale: A True Story (1997)
- Still Crazy (1998)
- Kiss Me Kate (1998) (TV)
- Guest House Paradiso (1999)
- Longitude (2000) (TV)
- Blow Dry (2001)
- Lawless Heart (2001)
- Lucky Break (2001)
- Auf Wiedersehen, Pet (2002)
- The Inspector Lynley Mysteries: Well Schooled in Murder (2002) (TV)
- The Lost Prince (2003) (TV)
- State of Play (2003) (TV)
- Ready When You Are, Mr McGill (2003)
- Love, Actually (2003)
- I Capture the Castle (2003)
- Underworld (2003)
- Shaun of the Dead (2004)
- He Knew He Was Right (2004) (TV)
- Enduring Love (2004)
- The Girl in the Café (2005) (TV)
- The Magic Roundabout (2005) (voice)
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005)
- The Constant Gardener (2005)
- Underworld: Evolution (2006)
- Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006)
- Flushed Away (2006) (voice)
- Notes on a Scandal (2006)
- Stormbreaker (2006)
- Hot Fuzz (2007)
- Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007)
- Valkyrie (2008)
- Underworld: Rise of the Lycans (2009)
- The Boat That Rocked (2009) (titled Pirate Radio in the US)
- G-Force (2009)
- Astro Boy (2009) (voice)
- Statuesque (2009)
- Glorious 39 (2009)
- Wild Target (2010)
- Doctor Who – "Vincent and the Doctor" (2010)
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (2010) Rufus Scrimgeour
- Rango (2011) (voice)
- Chalet Girl (2011)
- Page Eight (2011)
- Wrath of the Titans (2012) (Hephaestus)
- Jack the Giant Killer (2012)
[edit] Videogames
- G-Force (2009) (voice)
[edit] References
- ↑ The Men's Room, The Internet Movie Database, accessed November 23, 2009.
- ↑ Times Online Article accessed 9 Feb 2008 [1]
- ↑ Shaitly, Shahesta (2010-07-04). "Bill Nighy: five things I know about style". The Observer. http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2010/jul/04/shahesta-shaitly-five-things-know-style-bill-nighy. Retrieved 2010-10-07.
- ↑ Bill Nighy: the thinking woman's bagel The Independent, 19 February 2006; Family Detective The Daily Telegraph.
- ↑ Wills, Dominic. "Bill Nighy – Biography". TalkTalk. http://www.talktalk.co.uk/entertainment/film/biography/artist/bill-nighy/biography/169. Retrieved May 7, 2010.
- ↑ Blackhall, Sue (1 February 2010). Bill Nighy The Unauthorised Biography. John Blake Publishing. ISBN 1844548678.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Bill Nighy, Hello magazine, undated, accessed November 23, 2009.
- ↑ Roberts, Laura. It's not Love Actually after all as star Nighy splits with partner of 27 years, Daily Mail, August 25, 2008.
- ↑ Crystal Palace F.C. Disabled Childrens Club accessed 2 Jun 2007; Ann Craft Trust homepage
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- ↑ BBC – Doctor Who (David Tennant and Billie Piper)- News
- ↑ Bill Nighy Is A Wild Target | Empire
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 "Bill Nighy to star in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows". BBC. 6 July 2009. http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/newsid_8130000/newsid_8137100/8137104.stm. Retrieved 6 July 2009.
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Mail Terminal Services, owned by avid drag racers Rodger and Karen Comstock, has expanded its role for 2013 on the Don Schumacher Racing Funny Car driven by NHRA Funny Car world champion Jack Beckman.
MTS will use exposure on Beckman's record-setting Dodge to promote the Mail for Wounded Warriors and Hire a Hero programs. MTS will have postcards at Beckman's pit area and in Don Schumacher Racing hospitality pavilions at each of the 24 NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series national events for fans to write notes to America's heroes.
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The postcards and a kiosk at Beckman's pit will be available at all 24 events beginning Feb. 14-17 at the season-opening O'Reilly Auto Parts NHRA Winternationals presented by Super Start Batteries in Pomona.
"MTS will have a kiosk available for NHRA fans to participate in this worthwhile program," said Rodger Comstock, president and chief executive officer of Mail Terminal Services. "We will supply postcards for fans to express gratitude, support, encouragement, and thanks to those who sacrificed for our freedom.
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"This is one way MTS and DSR can demonstrate our support to all the troops who served and were injured defending our country. They deserve to receive encouraging words from their countrymen and patriotic NHRA fans."
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Simon Cowell has apparently decided to name his son after himself.
The X Factor boss - who is expecting a baby boy with girlfriend Lauren Silverman next month - previously said he thought Simon was the perfect name for his first child.
While many people thought the 54-year-old was joking, Mail Online reported that the couple have officially picked the name Simon Cowell Jr.
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Yuichi Ozono, an executive from Japanese event production company Archery Inc. will lead Marvelous Japan. After learning of the languishing Smackgirl and its business woes, Ozono formed Marvelous Japan and acquired the assets and rights formerly belonging to Smackgirl parent company Kilgore.
"I always liked the martial arts, especially Smackgirl, and when I read that they were in trouble, I wanted to find out the truth," Ozono said. "I met with [former Smackgirl President Motoki] Shino and heard that it was impossible for the promotion to continue, so I proposed to him to let me take over the promotion. After several discussions, we reached an agreement, and he gave me the management team of Smackgirl."
Smackgirl itself was born out of another promotion's death. The watershed, all-female promotion ReMix lasted only two events but eventually was transformed into Smackgirl in May 2001. Smackgirl went on to promote over 50 MMA and grappling events featuring a large crop of the sport's top women.
However, over its seven-year run, Smackgirl acquired considerable debt, and, earlier this year, parent company Kilgore was plagued with the unexpected departure of major sponsors and television network deals, leaving the promotion in a terminal situation. Smackgirl was originally set to stage its 2008 ReMix tournament finale card on July 24 but was forced to postpone the event twice before ultimately throwing in the towel.
"Smackgirl's name was tarnished with all the postponements and sponsor troubles," said Ozono. "I thought if we changed the name and made a fresh start, it would let us develop."
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Ray's real strength, however, lay in his strategic ability to see political actions four moves ahead. But for all his capabilities, Ray Harding never instilled the fear that Michael Long does. Michael Long, Chairman of the NYS Conservative Party, lacks the cigarette smoking and physical heft, but he maintains a rigidly disciplined party philosophy. So when Mike Long said he would punish the four Republican state senators who voted for marriage equality in NYS, pols paid attention. All four had run previously with Conservative Party endorsement. Yesterday's primaries in NYS provided the win-loss for Long's threat.
One of the four, Jim Alesi, withdrew early when it became clear he could not get his party's nomination. Last night the remaining three faced primary challenges organized and funded, mainly, by the Conservative Party. So how effective were Mike Long's threats? Pretty effective.
Mark Grisanti, thought most vulnerable, coasted to an easy win (he has personal issues that may yet result in a November defeat). Steve Saland is 42 votes ahead after all the votes were counted. Certainly a very serious canvassing of the ballots will be forthcoming. And Roy McDonald lost narrowly, 51%-49%. McDonald and Saland will still be on the November ballot as candidates of the Independence Party and may in fact still win, although doubtful. Should Saland eek out a victory from last night, he will still face a Conservative Party opponent in November. So how did Mike Long do?
In politics, the fear of losing can have the same effect as losing itself if the goal, which was Long's, is to instill fear. He got rid of Alesi early, caused McDonald's defeat and may still get Saland out. All four of these men had won their previous re-elections handily. I knew Mile Long somewhat back in the day. He's a funny, serious, decent man. On most issues - minus the big three: death penalty, abortion and gay marriage - I agree with him completely. Although I disagree with his gay marriage views, I was raised to admire the exercise of brute political might. Long and his party felt betrayed and sought to make these ideological Quislings pay. Moreover, he wanted to send a message to other Republicans elected with Conservative Party support not the take the party for granted. He set his mind to do that and succeeded pretty well.
From a purely political standpoint you have to greatly admire his determination and his ability to achieve a result. On gay marriage I believe him to be on the wrong side of history. Twenty years from now I think Mike Long himself will make that admission. But not tonight. The upside, even to conservatives like myself who disagree with him on gay marriage, is that when Gov. Cuomo wants to raise taxes, impose new regulations or expand state power, there will be Mike Long shaking his head No to the Republican caucuses in the Assembly and Senate. That's the positive result for those of us who found his actions tonight regrettable.
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Monument Valley is on the Navajo Indian Reservation in the 4 corners area of the Colorado Plateau. It is in NE Arizona, and SE Utah. It is 29,817 acres, and at an elevation of 5564 feet. The Tribal Park was established in 1958 by the Navajo Tribe. There is a visitor's center, a small campground, and a 1-way dirt road loop you can drive for a small fee. Climbing is illegal in the Tribal Park, as well as hiking off the loop road. There are a few residential homes here and there in the Tribal Park, and locals try to sell various crafts to the tourists around the Tribal Park. This area is one of the planet's most scenic wonders, and the rock formations in the Tribal Park are some of the world's most amazing rock formations, pinnacles, mesas, spires, and cliffs. It is an area of unbelievable beauty. This area has been photographed to the point where the whole world has seen the vistas, views, scenes, and formations of this amazing area. Hollywood has also taken advantage of this area, and Monument Valley has been the backdrop for many movies and TV commercials. One of the Tribal Parks more amazing spires is The Totem Pole, perhaps the world's tallest and skinniest spire. The Navajo Tribe has strictly stuck to their rule of no rock climbing in the Tribal Park, but with Hollywood money, we have seen Clint Eastwood and George Kennedy "climb" the Totem Pole, McGyver land a handglider on the Totem Pole's summit, and Xerox put a desk with a secretary on top of the Pole's summit as well. There have been clandestine ascents of most of the area's formations, and I believe a few climbers have been caught climbing in the Park and had their gear taken away from them. It is probably best NOT to climb in the Tribal Park, especially the formations on and near the one-way dirt loop road. Some of the other formations away from the Tribal Loop Road are less scrutinized by the Tribal Authorities, and are less of a risk for would-be poachers. Still, it is against The Navajo Tribes wishes and laws to climb within the Tribal Park, and anywhere on the Navajo Indian Reservation, for that matter, and most people adhere to their wishes.
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WHAT WE know about the end of Rickey McFadden's life is that the 47-year-old man allegedly robbed a pharmacy at knifepoint last Sunday in his hometown of Leonia and that he was shot to death by police two blocks from the store. That's about all.
The public should know more about what happened, and McFadden's family members, some of whom say he battled mental illness for years, certainly deserve to know more.
From what we know, McFadden was no career criminal. His record included only the third-degree crime of resisting arrest earlier this year and a minor drug charge more than 20 years ago. So an armed robbery seems out of character for him.
Just what was the nature of the robbery? Was a store employee specifically threatened? Were employees and customers in danger? What was taken? We don't know the answers to those questions. And we should.
After leaving the pharmacy, a CVS on Broad Avenue in the borough's business district, McFadden headed a block north and turned left on Hillside Avenue, apparently on his way to his home on Grand Avenue. Police caught up with him at Kingsley Street, which is one block west of Broad.
John Molinelli, the Bergen County prosecutor, said Wednesday that McFadden was approaching officers still armed with the knife and that the shooting was a "defensive tactic" on the part of police. That may well be, but wouldn't it be better for all involved to give more details about the encounter?
Was McFadden charging the officers? Was he menacingly waving the knife? Was he trying to flee down the block? Answers to these questions would broaden the public's understanding of exactly what happened. The shooting death of a suspect by police on a public street is something that begs for a detailed explanation from authorities. More than three days after the shooting, we still don't know the identities of the three officers — two from nearby Palisades Park and one from Leonia — involved in the shooting. While we understand the sensitivity of identifying officers involved in a fatal shooting, such transparency would help police in the long run.
Family members' comments that McFadden struggled with mental illness and that he spent a week last year under psychiatric care at Bergen Regional Medical Center should not be overlooked. McFadden's death is the third in northern New Jersey over the last three months involving a reportedly emotionally disturbed man fatally shot by police.
Legislation has been introduced in Trenton to create a voluntary registry of those with a mental illness or a disability to help police identify them more easily. The bill, which is pending, also would bolster police training on how to deal with disabled individuals. This would be a step in the right direction. A registry would not aid police in all cases, but there certainly are times when it would be valuable for police to have advance knowledge about the people they deal with.
No matter the crime or the police response, the public has a right to basic information about what happened. Local police and the Prosecutor's Office should be more forthcoming about the circumstances that led to the end of McFadden's life. That's not too much for the public or for the victim's family to expect.


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The more stringent sulphur content restrictions for vessel fuels imposed by the International Maritime Organization (IMO) form the basis for the project. In light of the new regulations, vessels must find alternatives to today's heavy oils, which have a high sulphur content. Options are purification systems or alternative fuels. LNG is one such alternative, but is dependent on the possibilities for liquid natural gas bunkering, and that is where the ports play an important role.
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When race, equality, and fairness are taken into consideration, there is far too much to be outraged about in these United States of America. Just a few minutes ago I learned that Andrew Bloomberg, the 29-year-old police officer who participated in the brutal beating of Chad Holley, was found not guilty of the beating.
The video of the beating has gone viral, and few doubt that an actual beating took place. Actually, using the word "beating" severely misstates the case against Bloomberg and some of his fellow officers yet to go on trial. In the video, Chad Holley is lying face down on the pavement, surrounded by five offers who are kicking him in the head, on the shoulders, on the legs, and then stomping all over his body.
Bloomberg says they had to stomp the outstretched Holley because he was resisting arrest! I say Houston police allowed their inherent racial biases to mistreat Mr. Holley. Indeed Chad Holley's beating makes the Rodney King beating look like a garden party.
Let's be clear: Holley was caught in a bold daytime burglary. But even criminals have and enjoy the presumption of innocence until convicted. By beating the 15-year-old Chad Holley, Houston police violated his civil rights. Bloomberg and his gang of police hoodlums (Isn't that what they call Black youngsters when they are collectively involved in criminal activity?) have been fired from the Houston police force. But Bloomberg, the first of the pack to be fired, faced an all-white jury that let him off without as much as a slap on the wrist.
Police brutality has been as big an issue in Houston, as it has been in other urban centers. Indeed, a group of Black ministers just ended their three-decades-old partnership with the police department because Chief Charles McClelland changed the terms of the partnership, installing a rule that stipulated ministers couldn't criticize the police or the city administration, thus violating the ministers' free speech rights. As a result of the absurd edict, 150 Houston Black ministers turned in their police credentials.
I guess Chief McClelland can justify his gag rule against ministers by considering the many times they have been forced to comment unfavorably on police shenanigans. In March, Annika Lewis, 26, was beaten as she tried to record her own arrest in Houston. Then, the police took her video card so she would have no record of the arrest. Her husband was charged with "resisting arrest" with no other charge against him. Resisting arrest might be based on asking why you have been stopped. I am outraged.
I am also outraged at the backlash from the African-American church over President Obama's support of marriage equality. I'm outraged because there are those who suggest that the African-American community might prefer a flawed Obama to a racist, hateful and austerity-embracing Romney, a man who has said that despite a national deficit, he would increase defense spending, and cut social services. Why do we need more defense spending? This hawkish position represents nothing but pandering.
If African Americans stay home because they disagree with President Obama's stance on marriage equality, we are cutting off our nose to spite our face. I don't mean to be flippant when I say that if you don't like gay marriage, just don't marry a gay person. It is ironic that the political party that would advocate for a smaller role for government wants government in our private space, regulating marriage and abortion. Would conservatives be consistent for once? Their hypocrisy is an occasion for outrage.
Yet my capacity for outrage diminishes when I look at these incidents through the lens of history. Sitting at the base of Machu Picchu Mountain in Peru, as I am now doing, encourages one to embrace stillness and serenity. It also reminds us how insignificant the day-to-day is when the arc of history is considered. Machu Picchu is the Lost City of the Incas, an estate for Inca leaders Pachacuti and Tupac Yupanquai. It was also a spiritual center. Its presence was forgotten, or buried in natural vegetation when the Spanish "conquered" the Inca. It took until 1911, when Yale lecturer Hiram Bingham, with the help of an 11-year-old Indian boy, Pablo Alvarez, is credited as the first Westerner to "find" this spot. Now it is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and Yale University has agreed to return artifacts that Bingham stole (in the name of scientific inquiry, of course) from buildings in Machu Picchu.
Viewing a space that was built between 1400 and 1450, basking in its history more than 700 years later, reminds us that moments are fleeting unless we make them something more. How many times have we rallied against police brutality? How much, or how little, has that reality changed? Each of us is a minnow in the ocean of history, and history belongs to those who hold pens. The Inca produced architecture, engineering and so much more, but they didn't develop a written language. The Spanish swallowed much of their history. Will the history of African-American relationships with "law enforcement" personnel also be swallowed? That depends on us. — (NNPA)
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After a successful career in NYC and as a festival producer for SXSW, she's taking the AGLIFF-Polari nonprofit organization into its next chapter.
Why Austin?
I'm a native Texan and moved to Austin to live near my family since August 2003. I previously lived in NYC for eight years and worked at HBO Studio Productions, Cornerstone Promotion and in corporate real estate. I owned a furniture store and art gallery in NYC, and my love for directing events was born from curating art shows and events during fashion week. After five years working as Festival Producer at SXSW, I felt compelled to lend my experience to the nonprofit world and began working for the AGLIFF–Polari Nonprofit Organization in 2011. I've produced two Polari Film Festival community program seasons to date, including its 25th Anniversary Year Film Festival this past October.
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Having the opportunity to be involved with work that drives new ideas, being at the forefront in the struggle for modern day civil liberties and helping continue awareness of human rights are what makes me proud of my work.
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I am projecting a small pair of loudspeakers.
The use will be with a computer. Perhaps with an amp of 20W inbetween the two.
I have 2x100W 2" tweeters and 2x40W 4" car loudspeakers. Brands are good enough.
The enclosure is about 220mm (height), 142mm (width) and 143,8mm (depth).
It will be constructed with 9mm MDF.
Big question right now:
Do I go for the sealed design or do I go for the ported design?
I already know the pros and cons but I heard that some are particularly better with different kind of application.
Please answer ASAP, because I will be finishing the CAD models tonight and tomorrow I have to hand over the cabinetmaker.
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Most car speakers end up in the dash or the doors where the air volume is finite. The car trunk is usually reserved for the back volume of a subwoofer where again it is often not exactly infinite. It is not uncommon at all for there to be dedicated sealed volumes for car speakers.
[I have no idea why you included that picture of a car door speaker. If you were trying to make a point with it, please verbalize it.
The closed mind could not see the built-in enclosures.
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Mitchell got the idea when he heard a friend, Steve Dean returned from a hunting trip with a story of abandoned young girls in India with no homes and he wanted to help. Items for sale were donated by the community, including clothing, toys and house wares.
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Even though I have several half-written blog posts sitting on my desktop, I decided to set them all aside in favor of participating in another installment of Munchkin Meals.
Munchkin Meals is s super-fun blog link-up hosted by Brittany over at A Healthy Slice of Life. It works like this: we (bloggers) post photos and descriptions of our kids' meals with the intent of sharing/swapping ideas with other parents. I don't know whether any other paleo families participate, but I still think it is fun to see what other babies are eating.
So, here goes -- all the details on what 11-month-old Pebbles ate on Tuesday, October 2nd. Just for fun I'll also share a few of our activities as well.
Pebbles' morning began at about 7:45am. She slept in a bit, which meant I had a chance to take a shower and make coffee before she woke up. Yay! After a diaper change, we headed downstairs for breakfast. Diced peaches and leftover roast beef. The beef was prepared the previous night in my Cuisinart Electric Pressure Cooker. I LOVE this appliance. Every busy mom needs one!
|Breakfast: Diced peaches and roast beef
After she polished off everything on her plate, I decided to unload the dishwasher. This plan only lasted for a couple of minutes. Pebs was clearly read to get out of the high chair and move on to the next activity -- piano lessons! We try to spend some time on the piano every day, in hopes that she'll one day become a musical prodigy (kidding -- I just want her to love/learn about music).
Before we knew it, naptime had arrived. She snoozed while I cleaned the kitchen, vacuumed the downstairs and watched the Modern Family season premier on Hulu. After a 90-minute nap, our friend Mary arrived to look after Pebbles while I went to the gym. Pebs needed a snack to get her through to lunchtime, so I left some Happy Baby food out on the counter for her to munch on.
|Snack: Broccoli, pears and peas
I was so excited to go the gym -- it was my first day back to the Tuesday noon class in a very long time (I spent most of the summer doing personal training). First we worked on dead lifts. We were supposed to do 30 reps of our max weight as fast as possible, but I chickened out and went too light with only 80 pounds (I should have been doing 90-95). I'll have to push myself harder next time. The workout was seven rounds of ring dips (seven), broad jumps (10) and backwards ball slams (between cones). The ball slam portion was tough! I'm sore today.
Pebbles and I had plans to meet our friend Faith at the park, so after my workout I quickly went home to change and to get Pebbles ready (she was still in her pajamas -- I've found that it makes more sense to wait until after her nap to get her dressed). We didn't have time for lunch, so I packed her a quick bite to go. Peas and more roast beef.
|Lunch: Peas and roast beef.
Pebbles was far more interested in playing in the grass than eating lunch, though, so I took the picnic lunch back home and she ate right before her 3pm nap. While she slept, I paid a few bills (fun) and prepped dinner. Leftover sweet potatoes and chicken for Pebs, burgers and roasted peppers for me and Carl. Well Fed's Cocoa-toasted cauliflower for everyone.
|Dinner: Chicken, sweet potatoes, cauliflower
At some point during the day she had half a banana as a snack, although I honestly cannot remember when. Weird, I know. She also still nurses a few times a day, and two times overnight.
|Snack: Banana
Right before dinner, Carl took Pebbles out for a walk around the neighborhood. I had the whole house to myself for 30 minutes! I think this is probably only the second time I've been alone in the house in almost a year. I enjoyed the quiet time, but was super happy to see Pebbles' cute face when they returned home from the walk. A half hour is long enough.
Anyway, after dinner Pebbles had her bath and
went to bed protested bedtime. We watched New Girl (hilarious) and a few minutes of The Voice (over it) before calling it a night (OK, so it totally sounds like we watch a lot of TV -- we don't, I promise! I usually just read before bed). Pebs woke up a couple of times between 8pm and midnight (teething), but after that she did pretty great and we all got a decent night's sleep!


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"I have always wanted to pursue a career in dance but didn't think I would get anywhere, however, after completing this course I had the confidence to audition for dance school and I got in!"
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Hampshire County Council will no longer be running the Dance Bursary Scheme beyond the current year 2013/14.
To maximise funding available for the future of dance in the County, The Point and Dance Up are being funded by Hampshire County Council to develop new ways of supporting young people in the region through a programme of projects and activities starting in Autumn 2014.
Emma Appleton
Emma is 15 years old and has been dancing since the age of 8. She studies modern, tap, ballet and jazz at the Kim Ellen School of Dance and looks forward to the annual dance show at Ferneham Hall. Emma has been competing in festivals since the age of 9 and has recently won the adjudicator's choice of most promising senior at the Tudor Rose Festival of
Dance. She looks forward to performing and teaching in dance in the future.
Sophie Ard
Sophie is 16 years old and has been dancing regularly since the age of 4 at the Sally Johnson Academy of Dance. She studies ballet, modern and jazz and has taken part in many festivals. Sophie has recently gained a place in Hampshire Youth Dance Company and is enjoying learning contemporary dance. Sophie aspires to study full time dance training at 18 and become a professional dancer.
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Aged 15, Kate has been dancing since the age of 3, studying ballet, tap, modern and jazz at SJ Academy of Dance. She has qualified for the All England National Dance Finals in London on four separate occasions. Kate has just successfully auditioned and been awarded a place at Laine Theatre Arts where she will start a 3 year Dance and Musical Theatre Diploma commencing in September 2014. Kate aspires to become a professional dancer once she completes her training.
Isabella Fernandez
Izzy is 13 years old and has been dancing since the age of 3. She is currently enhancing her ballet and contemporary training at The Central Ballet School. Contemporary is a new dance form for her where she is dancing to drums and concentrating on her weight distribution and fluidity. She enjoys competing at a national level in festivals and competitions in ballet, tap and modern, winning medals and trophies and representing Petersfield Academy of Dance. Izzy hopes that dance will be her future.
Bethany Fisher
Aged 16, Bethany started dancing at the age of 2 at the Ker-Mel school of Dancing, where she trains in ballet, modern, jazz and tap. She is currently auditioning for full time dance training and hopes to become a professional ballet dancer or teacher. She studies GCSE and AS Level Dance at school and has attended various courses at Elmhurst School of Ballet, Central School of Ballet and English National Ballet. Last year Bethany enjoyed being an Associate with the Royal Academy of Dance. She hopes to use her bursary to explore new dance styles.
Maisie Holland
Maisie is 14 and lives in the New Forest. She has been dancing for 11 years and studies ballet, pointe, tap, modern, jazz and musical theatre. Maisie enjoys being a member of Hampshire Youth Dance Company. She has competed in festivals and successfully reached the All England Finals in London. Maisie has performed in several pantomimes at the Mayflower, Southampton and is also studying GCSE Dance. She hopes to study full time at a dance college and to have a performing career on stage in the future.
Adam Hughes
Adam is 15 and only became interested in dance when he began secondary school. Initially, Adam was only interested in the acting aspects of the performing arts but since taking dance classes within school, he has developed a passion for dance.His preferred style of dance is contemporary and since receiving a dance bursary, he has begun taking intermediate ballet classes with the intentions of improving his technique and broadening his dance knowledge. Adam aspires to perform professionally onstage.
Libby Kenley
Libby is 15 and has always danced for as long as she can remember. She studies ballet, tap, modern, jazz, Pilates and musical theatre at the Sally Johnson Academy of Dance. Libby loves to perform and she has successfully competed at dance festivals reaching the finals of the All England Dance Competition. Libby would like to use her bursary to attend a summer school at one of the top dance colleges where she intends to audition next year.
Lydia Mackett
Lydia has been dancing since the age of 3. Dancing has always been her passion because it's what she loves to do. She takes part in all kinds of dance such as ballet, tap, modern, street, contemporary, disco freestyle, rock'n' roll and Latin & ballroom. She has performed in many productions including pantomimes and ballet stories with London Children's Ballet, National Youth Ballet and English Youth Ballet. Lydia loves to be hectic and busy, and hopes she will be a professional dancer in the future.
Rosie Williams
Rosie is 14 years old and lives in Hythe. She has been dancing since the age of 5 and now studies ballet, tap, modern, jazz and musical theatre at The Lindsey Read School of Dance. She enjoys being a member of Hampshire Youth Dance Company. Rosie has performed in several pantomimes at The Mayflower and in The Nutcracker with English Youth Ballet. She travels to London as much as she can to participate in workshops. Rosie plans to audition for dance college and hopes to go when she leaves school.
Luke Yates
Luke is 16 and has been passionate about dancing since an early age. At Renton Dance Studio he studies ballet, tap, modern, jazz and contemporary and recently obtained distinction in his intermediate ballet exam. He competes in dance festivals winning the 2013 All England Dance Competition in the under 21 Song and Dance Trio. Luke aspires to attend Arts Ed at 18 to study Musical Theatre, to ultimately perform professionally and to one day dance with the Matthew Bourne Company.
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A Very Special Wedding Veil
January 13, 2012
A month ago we shared the cute idea of sewing a mini calendar into your wedding gown to commemorate your wedding day. Vicki Lee Newsom, of the event company Orange September, left a great comment on the post about how her daughter had her and her fiance's names, their wedding date and their commitment to each other embroidered on her veil. Even better, the veil was the same one Vicki wore 29 years earlier when she married her daughter's father.
Vicki offered to share a photo of this beautiful idea, and we're so glad she did:
The font and dove graphic elements match those on the couple's wedding invitations, and the blue embroidery was the bride's something blue. Her mother's veil, of course, was her something old and something borrowed.
As Vicki wrote us, "A lot of thought, heart and love went into this one small but very important touch, something that we will always cherish and hopefully will become a tradition in our family – maybe my son's bride will choose to wear the veil and add their personal story, along with my grandchildren and so on and so on… could be a start to something beautiful!"
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Like other groups before us (NRC, 1999c; National Academy of Education, 1999), the committee recognizes that the bridge between research and practice takes time to build and that research and practice must proceed interactively. It is unlikely that the insights gained from current or new knowledge about cognition, learning, and measurement will be sufficient by themselves to bring about transformations in assessment such as those described in this report. As the NRC's Committee on Learning Research and Educational Practice pointed out, research and practice need to be connected more directly through the building of a cumulative knowledge base that serves both sets of interests. In the context of this study, that knowledge base would focus on the development and use of theory-based assessment. Furthermore, it is essential to recognize that research impacts practice indirectly through the influence of the existing knowledge base on four important mediating arenas: educational tools and materials; teacher education and professional development; education policies; and public opinion and media coverage (NRC, 1999c). By affecting each of these arenas, an expanding knowledge base on the principles and practices of effective assessment can help change educational practice. And the study of changes in practice, in turn, can help in further developing the knowledge base. These organizing ideas regarding the connections between research and practice are illustrated in Figure 8–1.
In this chapter we outline a proposed research and development agenda for expanding the knowledge base on the integration of cognition and measurement and consider the implications of such a knowledge base for each of the four mediating arenas that directly influence educational practice. In doing so we propose two general guidelines for how future work should proceed.
First, the committee advocates increased and sustained multidisciplinary collaboration around theoretical and practical matters of assessment. We apply this precept not only to the collaboration between researchers in the cognitive and measurement sciences, but also to the collaboration of these groups with teachers, curriculum specialists, and assessment developers. The committee believes the potential for an improved science and design of educational assessment lies in a mutually catalytic merger of the two foundational disciplines, especially as such knowledge is brought to bear on conceptual and pragmatic problems of assessment development and use.


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Day 1 Toronto
Welcome to cosmopolitan Toronto, Ontario's capital and Canada's largest city. Enjoy time at leisure to relax or to do some independent exploring. Your Tour Director is on hand this evening to answer any questions.
Day 2 Toronto. Excursion To Niagara Falls
Skirt the shores of Lake Ontario to Niagara Falls, one of the Natural Wonders of the World. Board the MAID OF THE MIST for a thrilling ride to view the thundering falls. Sightseeing also includes the beautiful Floral Clock. See Toronto's major landmarks on today's city tour, including the banking district, City Hall, the CN Tower, the University of Toronto, and ultra-modern SkyDome stadium. This evening, enjoy an optional outing to the top of the CN Tower for a delicious dinner and spectacular views.
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Day 3 Toronto–Kingston–Ottawa
Leave Ontario's capital and stop in Kingston, a city with an exciting history dating back more than 300 years. Proceed along the St. Lawrence River, with splendid vistas of St. Lawrence Islands National Park. At Ivy Lea, board your boat for a CRUISE that takes a scenic route through the many islands of St. Lawrence Islands National Park. Next, head to Ottawa, Canada's beautiful capital.
Day 4 Ottawa
This morning, enjoy a guided sightseeing tour of this lovely city on the banks of the Ottawa River and the Rideau Canal. See the Canadian Mint, the embassy district, stately Parliament Hill, and Rideau Falls—named for the curtain-like appearance they give. Visit the ROYAL CANADIAN MOUNTED POLICE STABLES, a tribute to Canadian heritage and history. Suggestions for this afternoon include a visit to the magnificent Canadian Museum of Civilization or the array of restaurants and shops at lively Byward Market.
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Day 5 Ottawa–Québec City Area
Drive into the French-Canadian province of Québec, where there is a sudden change in language and tradition. Follow the King's Highway, tracing this historical route along the north shore of the mighty St. Lawrence River. Late-afternoon arrival in historic Québec City, the heart of French Canada and a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Day 6 Québec City Area
This morning, join your fellow traveling companions on a unique optional excursion to the Érablière le Chemin du Roy Sugar Shack. Visitors to the sugar cabin will enjoy a typical Québec breakfast, along with a guided visit and presentation to explain the process of maple extraction. Afterward, return to Québec City for a guided tour of Canada's only walled city, crowned by the turrets of Château Frontenac. Until the British victory of 1759, Old Québec was the center of New France; today, it's a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Within the walls reside the Place d'Armes, Laval Seminary, the star-plan Citadelle with grand vistas from its bastions, and ancient Place Royale. Also see the stone houses crowding the narrow streets of Lower Town by the St. Lawrence River. The afternoon and evening are free—your Tour Director will have suggestions for sightseeing, shopping, and dining.
Day 7 Québec City Area–Montréal
A late-morning arrival in sophisticated Montréal, one of Canada's largest cities. Major attractions on this afternoon's tour include once-walled Old Montréal, NOTRE DAME BASILICA, the Seminary of St. Sulpice, Mount Royal, and modern Montréal.
Day 8 Montréal
The trip ends today with guests departing on individual schedules. Transfers to Montreal's Trudeau Airport are included.
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Social Inclusion for Preteens with Special Needs
It's hard to be a preteen – especially one with special needs.
The challenges that preteens with disabilities experience are related to both the characteristics of their disabilities and the lack of opportunities they typically have to observe ongoing interactions between peers without disabilities, believes Dr. Brian Abery, a researcher and the Coordinator of School Age Services for the Institute on Community Integration at the University of Minnesota.
Tips for Parents
The following tips, offered by Dr. Abery will empower parents to smooth the path for their preteen's social inclusion:
1. Introduce your child to the community and others in it as soon as possible.
Parents who have children with disabilities need to make a special effort to get their child out into the community. Yes, this takes additional effort, but introducing your child to the clerk at the corner store, to the person who cuts your hair, to neighbors and friends, as well as other children begins to open up a social environment for the child.
It will also likely result in people asking questions of you. Some of these may be appropriate; others may seem insensitive. Try to answer each as well as you are able, keeping in mind that each time this occurs, it provides you with an opportunity to debunk myths and misconceptions that others may hold of your child and others with disabilities.
2. Allow your child to take some risks.
Developing social relationships is a risky process for anyone with or without a disability. At times we reach out to others and they do not return the hand of friendship. If one doesn't try, however, social relationships are not possible. In addition, as children grow older some of the activities they enjoy and which will potentially provide the opportunity for the development of friendships may seem risky. One needs to balance the risks children are allowed to take with the possible positive benefits that may accrue from such activities. A sprained wrist, for example, that might occur when skateboarding is a small price to pay for the development of a lasting friendship.
3. Be willing and able to advocate for the social inclusion of your child.
Advocacy may need to take place within the context of your child's school or park and recreation programs. Learn how to effectively ask for the supports your child needs in order to feel socially included. In school this may entail requesting that your child be placed in the same general education classroom as a peer who has started to initiate a friendship. Within a recreation program it might involve your talking to the instructor about the support needs of your child and adaptations that would enhance his or her participation.
4. Starting at an early age, expose your child to as many recreation and leisure pursuits as possible.
People tend to develop friendships with peers whom they view as having similar interests. Make sure your child has sufficient experiences to engage in the types of recreation and leisure activities preferred by peers so that he or she can develop interests and preferences in specific activities.
5. Make sure your child has the opportunity to have similar experiences as his or her peers.
Peers often assume that children with disabilities do not have similar interests. One of the reasons why this is often the case is that such children have not had the opportunity to experience the same life activities as their peers. This includes attending popular community events, watching the same television programs, listening to the same music, etc. If parents are interested in stimulating social relationships, it is critical that their children have access to these events.
6. Make friendship development a family priority.
Schedule time for your child to play with other children. In order for children with and without disabilities to develop social relationships, they need to spend unstructured time together outside of school. Given everyone's busy schedules, this is unlikely to happen unless parents play an active role in facilitating such opportunities. Invite some of your child's classmates over to your house after school for recreational activities, take a group of children to a sporting event or go on a hike together.
7. Find ways to assist peers to effectively interact with your child.
Children without disabilities often avoid their peers with disabilities because they are unsure as to how to interact with them. Serve as a role model for such children demonstrating cooperative play, effective communication and teaching children how your child expresses reciprocity.
8. Search out inclusive recreation programs.
Although segregated recreation activities for persons with disabilities are appropriate at times, they do little to enhance one's social inclusion. Contact local advocacy and self-advocacy organizations within your area to find out where inclusive programs are available and what organizations run them well.
9. Insist that friendship and social inclusion goals are included in your child's Individualized Education Program (IEP).
Despite the fact that research indicates that a supportive social network of friends and acquaintances is critical for positive developmental outcomes on the part of children with disabilities, many schools consider social inclusion and friendship development to be "extras" or "fluff." As a result, they rarely get around to working on what you as a parent may view as a goal that is critical to your child's development. Including friendship development as a goal in your child's IEP obligates the school to develop and implement supports in this area.
10. Search for funding that will support the social inclusion of your child.
Children with significant disabilities often need supports in order to take part in community-based programs that can provide the context for the development of social relationships. In some cases these can be provided by the organization or parents. In others, it is better for a professional to provide such supports. Many families now have available flexible funding to support their child with a disability and can draw on this funding for such support. Check with your county social services organization for information.
11. Make it a point to get to know other families in your area/neighborhood.
Children often develop friendships because their parents are friends and they are brought together on numerous occasions because the adults in their lives are interacting. The additional care-giving demands of raising a child with a disability, however, often make it difficult for parents to lead active social lives. Parents need to consider continuing to stay active in the community not only to develop supports for themselves but also as a strategy to bring together their child with peers.
What Are Some Things Parents Shouldn't Do?
1. Don't force your child on others or others on your child.
Given all of the research that has been undertaken on the development of friendships, we still don't know for certain what makes some people "click together" and become friends and others not. Friendships need to be based upon mutual choice whether they are between people with or without disabilities.
2. Don't over-protect your child.
There are some risks that accompany attempts to enhance social inclusion. All of us are rejected at times and you can be sure that similar experiences will occur with children with disabilities. Such experiences, however, are a part of life and must be accepted as a necessary evil if inclusion is the goal.
3. Don't engage your child in activities that are not socially valued by his or her peer group.
Recreational and leisure activities provide an excellent environment for social inclusion. However, the activities in which children with disabilities take part need to be socially valued by peers if they are to be effectively used as a context to achieve this goal. This means that a parent needs to be aware not only of the interests of one child but of the preferences of similar age peers within the community.
4. Don't enroll your child in activities that are not intrinsically interesting to him or her.
Social interaction occurs naturally when children are enjoying what they are doing. It is much less likely to occur if a child is engaging in activities that are not preferred. Base your child's participation on his or her preferences, likes and dislikes, rather than your convenience or what you assume will be interesting to your child.
5. Don't hover.
Nothing kills opportunities for social inclusion like the presence of an adult.
6. Don't give up.
Failures are almost certain to occur. If one persists however, the rewards will be more than worth the effort. There are children and young adults without disabilities who are willing and able to develop and maintain meaningful social relationships with peers with disabilities. These relationships have the potential to enrich the lives of both parties.


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Walhalla Mayor Danny Edwards told city council members in a meeting Tuesday the city needs to do more to enforce the city's ordinances dealing with nuisances.
Our coverage partners at the Anderson Independent Mail report Edwards says in a recent drive around the city he saw cars in yards he says had "no tags and not in running condition" and some abandoned houses he says "looking ready to fall in."
Edwards says the city also needed to do more with the upkeep of rental housing grandfathered when the city adopted building codes and was beyond ordinary inspection.
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It is said that, "We spend our early years LEARNING TO READ, and our later years READING TO LEARN." As such, I hope that my Tri-Lingual Alphabet Books—Dr. Little's Tri-Alphabets And More English· Español· Français [English, Spanish, and French Language Editions], have motivated those LEARNING TO READers to continue developing their foreign language skills.
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The University of Louisville has a friend in Texas Tech chancellor Kent Hance.In a wide-ranging interview with the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal, Hance said he lobbied for U of L to be the Big 12's choice for expansion a year ago and still thinks the Cardinals might make more sense for the league than West Virginia.
Hance, a former congressman, is one of the people that Kentucky senator Mitch McConnell called on U of L's behalf when the league was trying to decide between U of L and WVU last year. Hance was a vocal supporter of U of L at the time, and has been refreshingly candid and forthcoming about his role in the various discussions at all times.So his support is good news for the Cardinals. The bad is that he couldn't give any clear indication of when there might be more Big 12 movement."We're set and so is everyone else in the Big 12 for the next 13 years," Hance told the paper. "Will there be additions? Maybe. I felt like Louisville would have been a great addition. They have a large TV market in Kentucky and Ohio, Indiana.
"They're closer than West Virginia. I'm glad we have West Virginia, but I would have preferred Louisville over West Virginia. But I'm glad West Virginia's in. If we add other schools, I would think Louisville would be at the top of the list."
Hance, of course, is only one person, but his comments do illustrate, in a rare point-blank public statement, that U of L has some solid support within the Big 12.
But the question of further Big 12 expansion remains a definite "maybe" at best.
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