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The Role of Parents in the Language Development of Their Children
Children learn language by listening to speech in the world around them. Every time you speak to your child, you are modeling language and the rule system that makes up your language. Spending time with your child, playing and talking with him will help encourage and facilitate his language development.
How Children Learn Language
Children's brains are wired to study the patterns of speech that they hear and discern the rules that are used by the people who are speaking. Children learn these rules and learn to apply them as they create their own speech. The process of learning language involves repetitive and complex learning that occurs through regular interaction, according to physician Bruce D. Perry, writing for the Scholastic website.
Language Progression
As your child's language progresses, she will work through several stages of speech. From birth to about one year, children are in the pre-language stage. At about three months of age, cooing and babble begins official language development. Children are also practicing their receptive language during this time. After pre-language your child will begin speaking in holophrases, or one-word phrases. Telegraphic speech, at around 18-22 months, is the development of two-word phrases. As your child moves from one- to two-word sentences, you can help encourage language growth by repeating back their words in a longer sentence. For example, if your child says "Book mama," you would interpret back to him, "You would like mama to read you a book?"
Building Conversation Skills
Interaction with others is the most important way that children learn language. Talk to your child about what you are seeing, what you are doing, and how things feel. By talking with your child and interacting with your child, you are building language and social skills, according to the PBS website. You also strengthen the bond between you and your youngster with regular conversations.
Reading and Language
Reading aloud to a child helps build language skills. While reading, children listen and match words with objects and ideas, which can enhance play or interaction. As you read with your child, point to pictures and name what you see. As your child gets older, ask her to point to objects in the pictures.
Children learn best from live speakers rather than recorded voices. Television and computers have their place, when combined with parental interaction. However, it is the interaction that is the key to language acquisition. Word drills and flash cards do not hold children's attention; the best way to teach your child about language is by interacting with her. Talk about things she is interested in. Play games and elaborate on your child's attempts at language. Make language and words a natural part of her life.
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The Computer Science department at CSU has chosen to use Java as the first programming language we teach new students. Java is an extremely powerful general-purpose language. However, it can be hard to learn at first because it has lots of special functions and requires some special set-up. The class helpers are available to try to help you past the start-up parts as easily as possible.
We have put together some very basic Java programs for you to try. We invite you to try each of these programs. First try the program as written, then modify it so it does something similar to but different from what it originally did.
When you have played with some of the programs, think about something you would like to try to program. Work with one of the helpers to figure out whether you could do all or part of this in our time. Decide what you want to do, and how to get started. Ask for help as you need it!
But first ... if you have not already done so, review The basic steps for writing a program and try at least one of the following programs (try all of them if you are new to Java).
The first program we suggest people write for any computer language simply tells the computer to print out a line of text, such as "Hello World."
Following our suggested model, here is:
* The problem statement:
      Print out a line of text saying "Hello World"
* The outline:
      Print "Hello World"
(Such a very simple program needs neither an outline ...)
* The pseudo-code:
      Print "Hello World"
(... nor pseudo-code :-)
Now use a text editor such as gedit to enter the code for this program from this file into a text file named helloWorld.java. Java is fussy. The file name must exactly match what the program shows, in this case in the line starting with "public class" (the second text line in the file) and it must have .java as an extension. You may cut the text and copy it into your text editor (you may have to pick Paste from the text editor Edit window to make it work right) or you may re-type it. In this case, it can be valuable to re-type, so your fingers can begin to learn the details of the language. Try to duplicate the indentation and spacing; they help make the program more readable. Note that anything on a line following a double slash (//) is a comment. Comments explain what is happening and make the program more readable.
The compiler we use for Java programs is called javac. To compile
your program type
javac helloWorld.java
If you had errors in your typing you will see some kind of complaint before the prompt comes back. Go re-check your program, see if you can find what's wrong, fix it, and try again. Ask for help if you need it.
If you typed everything correctly in about a minute the prompt will simply come back, if you list your directory you will see a new file, called helloWorld.class. The compiler took your code and converted it into machine language.
To run your program, type
java helloWorld
You should see the line "Hello World!" appear.
Try changing the program (maybe change the text and/or print more than one line), re-compile it, and run it again. Did it do what you expected?
When you are ready, move on to the next program. The second Java program
we have provided adds two numbers together.
Following our suggested model, here is:
* The problem statement:
      Add two numbers together and display the sum
* The outline:
      Add two numbers
      Display the sum.
* The pseudo-code:
      Add two numbers
      Display the sum.
The source for this program is in this file.
Again, use the text editor to enter the program (this time
into file addition.java); use the javac compiler to compile the program
javac addition.java
and use java to run the program
java addition
Try changing the program; maybe you can have it subtract the numbers, or do various equations with more than two numbers. You will quickly find that it is more convenient to be able to read the numbers from the terminal than to have to type them each time.
The third program reads two numbers, adds them, and prints the result.
Following our suggested model, here is:
* The problem statement:
      Add two integers entered by the user, then print the sum.
* The outline:
      Read two numbers
      Add them
      Print the result
* The pseudo-code:
      Read two numbers
      Add them
      Print the result
The source for this program is in this file. If you use exactly what we have written, the file must be named addReadLine.java
See if you can change this program to do something else.
Here is a simple program that shows you how to read an integer, a word, and a single character:
More programs:
Scanner_Test.java lets you enter from the keyboard and use an integer, a word, and a single character. Remember, the file into which you copy the program must be named EXACTLY Scanner_Test.java or it won't complile properly.
Operator.java Let the user enter numbers and an operator; perform that operation on the numbers (use n to quit)

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'Seasonal Shades' exhibited at The LAND gallery in New Mexico / Abigail Doan (2009)
I was recently interviewed by Amy DuFault, Fashion Editor for EcoSalon, regarding the mental and creative benefits of using one's hands in crafting, fiber work, fashion, and even domestic tasks. You should definitely read Amy's 'Using Your Hands To Soothe The Brain'/part 1 if you are in need of a 'mental vitamin' and some genuine inspiration in the depths of winter.
It is quite flattering to be featured alongside Natalie Chanin of Alabama Chanin and Jill Danyelle of Danyelle.org. Stay tuned for part 2 of Amy's installment early next week on EcoSalon. I am now a regular fiber/fashion/textile contributor to EcoSalon as well.
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Further on the quest to figure out what a "cloud-native enterprise architect" is:
What's the "business" side of enterprise architecture? And how does EA'ing start mapping to DevOps, cloud-native, and all the new stuff? In part one of this discussion, I talk with Matt Walburn about how EA's fit into The Business.
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Oracle this week unveiled the first and probably only release candidate of the Java Development Kit 7 (JDK 7), the next major release of the Java SE platform, and the first new version of Java to make it out of the open source community in five years. It's also the first new version published since Oracle acquired Sun Microsystems and became the corporate steward of the Java language and platform. The final version is set for general availability on July 28.
Oracle announced the availability of the JDK7 RC on Thursday (July 7) at an international launch event streamed over the Web. The event included keynotes from Oracle's Redwood Shores, Calif., headquarters, presentations from Java Community Process (JCP) members in Brazil and England, and a day of online sessions and panels.
Adam Messinger, Oracle's VP of Development and leader of the Java Development Team, kicked off the launch with an interview with a conversation with Oracle chief Java architect Mark Reinhold. When Messinger asked what the most significant thing about this release might be, Reinhold quipped, "We're finally shipping it!"
Reinhold told viewers/attendees that this release was really more evolutionary than revolutionary.
"We all know that, for various business and political reasons, this release has taken some time," he said. "This is not the revolutionary release that some of our past releases have been. It's more of an evolutionary release. There are some significant improvements, but no really earth-shattering or ground-breaking kinds of features."
This release candidate (build 147) includes 13 changes, more than half of which are administrative updates that don't affect the actual code, Reinhold wrote in a pre-launch blog. The rest are what he called "true showstoppers," including several hard VM crashes and a JIT correctness bug identified by an Eclipse unit test.
Among the significant improvements Reinhold cited in this release is a new set of I/O APIs. Known as Java Specification Request (JSR) 203, or "NIO.2," the APIs support a new filesystem interface, scalable asynchronous I/O operations, socket-channel binding and configuration, and multicast datagrams.
"We finally have a real file system API that will let you do things like manipulate symbolic links and access filesystem-specific operations," he said.
Reinhold also mentioned the Fork/Join Framework (JSR 166 – "Concurrency Utilities"), which is a set of medium-level utilities designed to provide functionality commonly needed in concurrent programs. The utilities will provide a means of providing true parallelism on the platform, Reinhold said, which is "the first step towards enabling Java for multi-core applications."
Modularization is another important part of this release. Oracle is pushing what the company describes on its Web site as "A large-scale effort to refactor, or break up, the Java SE platform into smaller, separate, interdependent modules." Individual modules, the company says, can then be downloaded as required by the Java virtual machine and/or Java applications, effectively shrinking the size of the runtime on the user's machine.
This release also emphasizes multi-language support. JSR 292a ("InvokeDynamic") adds new byte-code to support dynamically typed languages in the Java platform, including dynamic scripters such as Ruby and Python.
The list of enhancements in this JDK 7 RC also includes:
•Strict class-file checking
•JSR 334: Small language enhancements (Project Coin)
•Upgrade class-loader architecture
•Method to close a URLClassLoader
•Concurrency and collections updates (jsr166y)
•Unicode 6.0
•Locale enhancement
•Separate user locale and user-interface locale
•SCTP (Stream Control Transmission Protocol)
•SDP (Sockets Direct Protocol)
•Use the Windows Vista IPv6 stack
•Elliptic-curve cryptography (ECC)
•XRender pipeline for Java 2D
•Create new platform APIs for 6u10 graphics features
•Nimbus look-and-feel for Swing
•Swing JLayer component
•Update the XML stack
•Enhanced JMX Agent and Mbeans
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(Since I'm not a member of the WG this can be considered a LC comment or since my group is in the group, you can consider it an internally discussible comment) I was talking to someone about keys and we were looking at the document section on this (http://www.w3.org/2007/OWL/wiki/Syntax#Keys) where the example is given of HasKey( a:Person a:hasSSN ) PropertyAssertion( a:hasSSN a:Peter "123-45-6789" ) ClassAssertion( a:Person a:Peter ) PropertyAssertion( a:hasSSN a:Peter_Griffin "123-45-6789" ) ClassAssertion( a:Person a:Peter_Griffin ) and my colleague asked why the last axiom wasn't entailed by the HasKey. We went and looked in the model theory, and it says under the circumstances of the first four expressions HasKey won't apply (because there's no evidence of a CE for Peter_Griffin) -- so it appears this is not entailed in the current model theory. Guess my question is why does one need the additional condition (and thus the additional axiom) -- wouldn't it follow that if HasKey relates person's via hasSSN (i.e. the HasKey assertion) that anything that has that key (the SSN) would have to be a person? If HasKey would entail that the domain of the property asserted would be the first argument to the HasKey (which is what seems to be intended) then wouldn't the fact that X is an element of (CE)^^C [1] and in fact that it is a Person follow? Is there a reason we don't do this ?-- would seem to simplify the use of HasKey without causing an obvious semantic harm that I can see (and would make its use more intuitive in many cases). thanks JH [1] sorry, my mailer doesn't seem to like the fonts from the document - see http://www.w3.org/2007/OWL/wiki/Syntax#Keys fpr theReceived on Monday, 29 December 2008 20:58:26 UTC
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We propagate approximately 2000 maples each season. By offering trees that we propagate it creates a juggling act that makes it hard to stock hundreds of each selection. But this allows us to know the source of each tree we sell. Overall, we try to grow an adequate number of each variety for the season to keep our customers satisfied and coming back year after year. We have thousands of maples in various sizes ranging from 1 gallon to 25 gallon but the availability of most plants are limited. We use a computerized inventory system that is fairly reliable, however plants may expire or be sold and evade an update in the computer system. If you see a maple that you want that is sold out or on the Complete Maple List and it is not in the Online Nursery please inquire at email@example.com
If you prefer ordering by mail you can download our order form here Once your order has been received, your plants will be pulled from the nursery to fill your order.
If you cannot accommodate an immediate planting date, many of our customers order early and hold their plants in a greenhouse or porch, keeping them as dormant as possible until the weather warms enough to plant outside. If this is not possible we can hold your plants here right up until May.
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Pioneers Of U.S.-China Relations Attend Olympics
Pioneers Of U.S.-China Relations Attend Olympics
Among the political luminaries attending the Beijing Olympics are Henry Kissinger and former President George H.W. Bush. Kissinger was a national security adviser for Richard Nixon who opened up U.S. relations with Communist China in the 1970s. Bush served as the senior U.S. diplomat in Beijing in the early days of U.S.-China relations.
RENEE MONTAGNE, host:
The Olympics are a political show for every host country but especially this year with the games in China. Some observers refer to this year's production as modern China's coming-out party on the world stage.
NPR news analyst Juan Williams is in China as a guest of the Committee of 100, a non-partisan Chinese-American forum. Over the weekend, he attended a dinner in Beijing that had a distinctly political dimension, and he joins us to talk about that. And Juan, I hear that the guest list at this event included two men who were in the early days of U.S.-China relations - Henry Kissinger and former President George H. W. Bush.
JUAN WILLIAMS: Exactly right, Renee. I caught up with them at a party hosted by the China-U.S. Exchange Foundation and the China Heritage Fund inside the Forbidden City. This was the Jian Fu Palace, and it's been sort of restored after it was burned to the ground early in the 20th century, and now it is suddenly back in its glory as an ancient Chinese court.
So I spoke with Henry Kissinger, and I've got to tell you, Renee, he was in a different mood. He was nostalgic about the work he did in the '70s, when he was the first American official, if you'll remember, to cross into communist China, and then he met with Prime Minister Chou Enlai in 1971, and that set up President Nixon's first meeting with Mao Zedong in 1972.
MONTAGNE: What did Henry Kissinger tell you about what's on his mind about the tremendous changes that China has undergone?
WILLIAMS: You know, it was quite emotional for him, Renee. He said he couldn't imagine China today as compared to the China that he knew and touched 30 years ago, but he also said, you know, this was the one time in his whole career, and you think back on his days with, you know, Vietnam, Nixon, but he said: I know I made a difference for the good in terms of his work on China, and I just - I felt it, you know, when he said it.
MONTAGNE: The first President Bush, also in Beijing for the Olympics, and George H. W. Bush, he was the first American envoy after Nixon and Kissinger opened the door to China. What did the former president say about the new China?
WILLIAMS: Well, he was the liaison before there was full diplomatic ties established, and at the dinner in the Forbidden City, the former President Bush said he always felt U.S.-Chinese relations were going to be the key to the 21st century, and he said today he feels like a proud papa when he heard from Chinese President Hu Jintao that U.S.-China relations have never been better, and he said he expects that China and the U.S. will take the lead in dealing with global issues ranging from energy to climate change and terrorism.
MONTAGNE: Now, these two were - that we've speaking of, Kissinger and former President Bush, were guests of honor at this affair.
WILLIAMS: Oh boy, were they ever. The Chinese made quite a fuss over them, and when I spoke with Chinese officials, there was real love for Kissinger, for Bush, and some concern, interestingly, over American politics.
They've had such a good time in terms of Sino-U.S. relations with the Bush administration that there's some concern over a possible change coming with Senator Obama, so even though the Chinese leadership has taken issue with George W. Bush's call to them to increase respect for human rights, they seem pretty comfortable with him, Renee, as a known quantity, and they said, remember, the current President Bush as a young man was here visiting his parents in Beijing, riding his bicycle around the city back in that '74-to-'78 period when George H. W. was the first liaison from the U.S. to China. [POST-BROADCAST CORRECTION: George H.W. Bush was the U.S. liaison to China from October 1974 until December 1975.]
MONTAGNE: Juan, thanks very much.
WILLIAMS: You're welcome, Renee.
MONTAGNE: NPR news analyst Juan Williams speaking about his dinner in Beijing from where he is now, Chengdu, in Chengdu Province.
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Correction Aug. 12, 2008
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Milford, NH – July 20, 2010 – Earthworks, Inc., a leading manufacturer of High Definition Microphones™ for recording, live sound, test/measurement, and installed sound is pleased to announce the launch of the company's new website. Complete with easy-to-find product information, a striking contemporary visual aesthetic, and a wide range of media clips, the new Earthworks website is a must visit destination for musicians and audio professionals in search of comprehensive information regarding the company's product offerings.
Visual appeal is critical to any website and, on that note, the new Earthworks site excels. Upon arriving at www.earthworksaudio.com, visitors will likely first notice two key areas: a variety of alternating artist/engineer profiles and, directly beneath, four regions that list the company's products by category. By simply clicking on the artist/engineer image (or clicking "Learn More"), visitors are directed to articles that share tips, tricks, and the subject's reasoning for deploying a particular Earthworks product. Combined with a dedicated Featured Artists section, the new site contains an impressive amount of artist/engineer material. Similarly, the new product categories—Recording, Live Performance, Measurement, and Installations—list those products best suited for a particular application and make it easy to zero in on the "right tool for the job."
When visiting an individual product page, visitors will be impressed with the new website's wealth of information, sound clips, and video. Here, one can quickly access product specifications, key features, user manuals, related accessories, informative videos, sound clips, plus a glimpse of artists and others who use that particular product. Making an informed purchase decision has never been easier.
From the site's Media Room, visitors can select to peruse the company's press releases, product reviews, download product brochures, and more. The Media Room also features photo albums that showcase pictures taken by Earthworks employees that cannot be found anywhere else. In the Multimedia section, there's a fascinating collection of videos, including several with Earthworks company founder David Blackmer that provide real insight into his technical and philosophical approach to audio. Similarly, accessing product images, company logos, and advertisements are but a few clicks away.
Once a prospective customer has determined which Earthworks product is best suited to their application, finding an authorized Earthworks dealer has never been easier. By clicking "Where to Buy", visitors are taken to a page where the entry of a ZIP code or the selection of a city/state plus the radius (how far one is willing to travel) yields a map listing the dealers in the specified area. Clicking the red flags presents the dealer's name and full contact information.
Another noteworthy enhancement of the new Earthworks website is the new blog and social media links. From here, visitors can easily learn how other Earthworks customers are using their products, offer advice, and seek additional information via the company's Facebook, MySpace, Vimeo, and YouTube pages.
Michael Hurwitz, Earthworks National Sales / Artist Relations Manager, commented on the company's new website. "The new Earthworks website is fantastic," Hurwitz proclaimed. "Finding the best product for one's particular application has never been easier and the selection process is readily supported by testimonials, product reviews, specifications, owner's manuals, and more. The site's visual appeal is contemporary, easy on the eyes, and the abundance of audio and video material makes one's time spent online both informative and rewarding. There's a wealth of information, it's a snap to find, and the ability to locate a nearby Earthworks dealer has never been easier. I'm confident prospective customers will find much to like."
About Earthworks, Inc.
Earthworks is a New Hampshire, U.S.A. based manufacturer of High Definition Microphones that is dedicated to quality and sonic excellence. Each Earthworks product is handmade with great care, meticulous attention to detail, and a strong emphasis on quality. Earthworks prides itself in making only the very best in professional audio equipment intended for mission critical sound applications. For additional information, visit the company online at www.earthworksaudio.com.
The company would like to thank Catalyst Webworks for all their hard work on the new website. To learn more about Catalyst Webworks, visit them online at www.catalystwebworks.com.


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Palestinian officials say Israeli military forces have killed 3,000 Palestinian minors and injured many more since the Second Intifada (uprising), also known as the al-Aqsa Intifada, took place in September 2000.
In a report published on the occasion of the International Day for Protection of Children marked on June 1, the Palestinian Ministry of Information, announced that 13,000 children have sustained injuries ever since.
The report noted that as many as 72 Palestinian minors have lost their lives since October 2015, when a new wave of tensions broke out in the occupied territories in the wake of Israeli forces' restrictions on the entry of Palestinian worshipers into the al-Aqsa Mosque compound in East Jerusalem al-Quds.
The youngest victim was identified as eight-month-old Ramadan Mohammad Faisal Thawabta, who died on October 30, 2015 due to inhaling excessive tear gas fired by Israeli military forces during clashes with Palestinian protesters in Beit Fajjar town south of Bethlehem.
The Palestinian Ministry of Information added that some 12,000 Palestinian children have been arrested by Israeli troopers over the past 17 years, adding that an overwhelming majority of them have been beaten or tortured while in Israeli custody, handcuffed, blindfolded and forced to confess in the absence of a lawyer or guardian.
According to Palestinian prisoners rights group Addameer, Israeli forces have imprisoned 300 Palestinian minors since April.
Moreover, Palestinians, including minors, could face severe penalties, including up to 20 years in prison, if charged with throwing stones at Israeli military vehicles and a minimum prison sentence of three years for throwing a stone at an Israeli settler.
Israeli rights group B'Tselem reported earlier this year that between 2005 and 2010, "93 percent of the minors convicted of stone throwing were given a prison sentence, its length ranging from a few days to 20 months."