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BEIRUT — Across the broad swath of territory it controls bridging Syria and Iraq, extremist militants from the group known as the Islamic State have proven to be highly organized administrators. Flush with cash, they fix roads, police traffic, administer courts, and have even set up an export system of smuggled crude from oil fields they control.
But the extremists — a mix of Iraqis and Syrians but also foreign fighters from Arab countries and non-Arab regions like the Caucasus — run the risk of provoking a backlash from the people they have come to rule.
Unlike Lebanon's Hezbollah or the Palestinian militant group Hamas, which have deep roots in their communities, the Islamic State group is not a grassroots movement and its sway over its populations is ultimately based on violence, not necessarily a groundswell of support for its vision of a hard-line Islamic caliphate. While it has been welcomed by some disenfranchised Iraqi Sunnis as potential saviors from the Shiite-dominated government in Baghdad, many consider the group an alien entity.
In recognition of that, the group has varied the imposition of the radical version of Islamic law they advocate. In their main stronghold in Syria, the city of Raqqa, they have unleashed it without reserve, killing perceived offenders and cutting off the hands of thieves in public.
But in Iraq's second largest city, Mosul, they have been more cautious. They've taken some steps like banning alcohol and painting over street advertisements that show women's faces — but have held off on strict punishments for now.
The Iraqi city of Duluiyah is a prime example of the possibility for overreach.
Weeks ago, a small group of Islamic State fighters and other insurgents entered the Sunni-majority city just north of Baghdad and were welcomed by residents, said one resident, Jassim Mohammed. But within days, the Islamic State fighters came with lists of "wanted" men, including police officers and local businessmen.
That prompted an uprising by residents who forced the militants out, leaving the town under control of Sunni tribesmen, Mohammed said.
On Sunday, Islamic State fighters stormed back into Duluiyah, seizing the mayor's office, police station, local council and courthouse.
There has also been less dramatic pushback. In Mosul, the militants offered three local figures the post of governor of Nineva — the province of which Mosul is the capital — and each refused, said Laith, a civil servant in the city who asked to be identified only by his first name for his own safety.
"People are worried that the (Iraqi) government might come back and that they would be punished for dealing with the Islamic State," he said.
The leader of the Islamic State group appears to recognize that over the long-term his fighters are not governors. In an address after the June 9 fall of Mosul, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi appealed to Muslims around the world with practical skills — scholars, judges, doctors, engineers and administrators — to flock to the regions his group controls to help build the state.
Over the past month, the group has consolidated its hold over an impressive stretch of territory, roughly 700 kilometers (435 miles) from end to end. From its western-most end on the outskirts of the Syrian city of Aleppo, it stretches across northern Syria and most of the east then bridges into most Sunni-dominated areas of northern and western Iraq up to the edges of Baghdad.
Among the first moves it took in parts of Syria that it captured were to set up various Islamic administrative departments staffed by its fighters and sympathizers: Islamic courts to settle disputes; "Hisba" offices, which enforce Shariah rules; and "Daawa" offices for proselytizing and spreading its ideology.
The showcase of the extremist group's vision is Raqqa, a city of 500,000 in northern Syria along the Euphrates River. There, the militants have banned music and smoking and forced women to cover up. They have killed violators of Shariah in the main square, including by beheadings, and have hung the bodies of some on crosses. An activist group in Syria on Friday reported that a Syrian woman was stoned to death for adultery for the first time. The report could not be independently confirmed.
A photo posted online by the group this week showed fighters in the eastern Syrian region of Hassakeh punishing residents who broke the Ramadan fast: The men knelt on the ground as fighters stood behind them with canes to lash them.
Another priority has been to provide services. In Raqqa, the group pays wages to city employees, rebuilt damaged power lines and has kept up water and electricity services. During the holy month of Ramadan, it has distributed food and other aid to residents in Raqqa, Iraq's Mosul and other areas.
Photos posted by the group on Twitter show men in the long beards and white robes favored by hardliners sitting behind a desk in a Raqqa mosque passing out cash to the poor. The men even have printed applications for the aid emblazoned with the group's logo and the title "Islamic State, Raqqa Province, Alms Administration." The photos correspond with the AP's own reporting from activists in the area.
Immediately after taking over Mosul, the Islamic State group had power lines fixed, ensuring electricity for up to 18 hours a day until government forces blew up some towers, said Laith. Most state employees in Mosul have not been paid, but militants have promised to do so. Residents' biggest complaint has been severe fuel shortages since the takeover, Laith said.
More recently, the group has begun seizing the houses of Christian and Shiite families who fled Mosul and giving some of them to Sunni families uprooted from areas like Tikrit and Diyala. They mark these houses with signs reading Islamic State Properties. A resident of a north Mosul neighborhood said three masked gunmen knocked on his door Wednesday, asking whether he knew of any Christian or Shiite homes in the area. The resident spoke on condition of anonymity out of fear of reprisals.
A Christian woman in Mosul said that on Thursday afternoon, militants called on Christians through loudspeakers to convert to Islam, pay tax or face death by sword and gave a Saturday afternoon deadline. The woman who identified herself as Um Karam said she left Mosul with her family Friday to stay with relatives in a nearby Christian town protected by Kurdish security forces.
The Islamic State group has no shortage of resources. It seized money from Iraqi banks estimated in the tens of millions of dollars. It has captured almost all the major oil and gas fields of eastern Syria, including the al-Omar oil field, Syria's largest, with a capacity to produce 75,000 barrels a day. According to several activists in the region, the group has resumed some pumping and has secured revenue by selling crude oil to merchants at lower-than-market prices and exporting to Iraq and Turkey through middlemen with tanker trucks.
On Thursday, the group seized a gas field in central Syria, killing 100 soldiers, guards and workers in a massive operation targeting the facility, activists said Friday.
In Raqqa and other parts of Syria, the group also takes a cut of all humanitarian aid and commerce.
"Any trade outside the framework of the Islamic State is forbidden. Buying, selling, everything must be through the State," said an opposition activist in Raqqa who asked not to be identified out of fear for his safety.
The militants have held off on imposing strict Shariah rules in Mosul, a city of 2 million, four times the size of Raqqa. After capturing Mosul, the group put out a statement listing new rules. So far no severe punishments have been dealt out, and a smoking ban has not been rigidly enforced.
If Raqqa is a guide, however, the harsher implementation may come — a move that could bring a backlash. The activist in Raqqa said the group wants to function like a state, but ultimately all it has is money and weapons.
"It is impossible to continue like this," he said, "because the people hate them."
Associated Press writer Sameer N. Yacoub contributed to this report from Baghdad.


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Justin Bieber + Austin Mahone Continue Working in Studio [PHOTO]
There is more good news about the Justin Bieber and Austin Mahone collabo. It looks like this pairing is MUCH more than some loose, low-pressure fun in the studio. It seems like the real deal that will produce a song and they are working on an actual duet.
Beliebers and Mahomies went nuts after seeing the photo of the two in the studio, which was posted by Biebs, wondering what their efforts would lead to.
It also squashed any rumors of a rivalry between the two, since Mahone has been primed as Da Biebs' heir apparent. But as they are proving, there is plenty of room in the pop sphere for two talented singers who can dance and have great hair and even better fans!
Another pic has been posted and a source has revealed some details of this pairing.
Mahone, who turns 18 tomorrow (April 4), also shared the photo, writing: "What an amazing song last night..The world isn't ready!" His label head honcho Mack Maine also shared another photo, which we posted below.
We have no doubts about the amazingness of the song. We just want the boys to hurry up and get it to our ears.
Mahone shared another photo, posted below, captioning it: "Day 2! #StudioNights."
Since they are spending multiple nights in the studio together, it's clear that their collabo is not merely some messing around or fun. It's going to be massive. How can it not be?
"They really respect each other's music," a source told E! News about the Bieber x Mahone combo. "They work with a lot of the same producers and Justin knew Austin has been in the studio working on his album. Justin had a song he thought could be really perfect to do with Austin so they got together in the studio."
Okay, Beliebers and Mahomies. Get another look at the terrific twosome in the studio as magic is being made.
Speaking of Bieber collabos, the Justin Bieber x Bruno Mars collabo was just a Twitter trending topic. You know what that means? It has to happen, because, well, Twitter demands it. Could you imagine those two crooners on one song? The Biebs even tweeted about making it happen. We can't even!


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See for the first time Etch A Sketch artist George Vlosich creating his one of a kind artwork. This five hour etch of LeBron James is sped up so that you can see every line he makes and step he takes to create a unique piece of pop art. This piece of artwork was created for the Quicken Loans Arena. Look for more of George's upcoming Etched In Time artwork.
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It is frustrating that, when simulating, other players continue to move during a tackle animation such that it appears that by the time the tackling player has control of the ball they can have significantly re-positioned.
In the actual outcome however, other players are frozen in time during the tackle animation and cannot re-position at all.
It also seems odd to me that a player seems able to execute a tackle, gain control of the ball and release it faster than a player can intercept the ball and release it, in terms of the other players' ability to re-position.
Tackle animation pauses movement but not in simulation
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1/4 cup olive oil
5 garlic cloves, 3 peeled, 2 peeled and minced
2 slices of rustic French bread
1/2 teaspoon coriander seeds
1 teaspoon cumin
1/8 teaspoon ginger
1/4 teaspoon black peppercorns
1 tablespoon paprika (sweet Spanish paprika, if you have it)
1 tablespoon white wine vinegar
1/3 cup minced shallots
1 large bunch of spinach, washed and stems removed
1 (15-ounce) can of garbanzo beans, drained and rinsed
1/3 cup vegetable broth
Salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste
- In a small skillet, heat the oil over high heat. When it's hot, add the 3 peeled garlic cloves and the two slices of bread. Fry, turning once, until crisp and golden brown, about 2 minutes per side. Remove from the oil and set aside. Reserve the oil.
- In a mortar and pestle, combine the coriander seeds, cumin, ginger, peppercorns, and paprika. Mash to combine the spices and crush the seeds and peppercorns. Add the fried garlic and grind to form a thick paste. Tear the fried bread into pieces and add a little bit at a time, mashing into the spices. (You want different-sized chunks of bread throughout the dish.) Repeat until all the bread is mashed. Add the white wine vinegar and mash.
- In a large skillet, over medium-high heat, heat half of the reserved frying oil. When it's hot, add the minced shallot. Cook stirring until the shallot is soft and fragrant, 3 minutes.
- Add the remaining 2 cloves of minced garlic and the spinach by the handful. When all of the spinach is just wilted, add the spice mixture from the mortar and pestle. Stir to combine and cook 2-3 minutes.
- Add the garbanzo beans and cook 3 minutes. Add the broth to moisten the dish and stir to combine all the flavors. Cook for another couple of minutes to thicken the sauce. Season generously with salt and freshly ground pepper. Transfer to a plate or serving dish and enjoy.
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A disease or condition where a formally attractive female begins to lose her beauty and/or gains weight. Occurs in multiple stages of varying severity, ending in death. Teri Hatcher was the first celebrity to get this disease.
I used to jerk off to Alyssa Milano, but now I think she has Stage 2 Teri Hatcher Syndrome.
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Google gives Voice users ability to not share their messages
Why wouldn't you want your voicemail indexed?
Google was forced into some quick tweaking of Google Voice last month after users spotted that transcripts of voicemail messages were being served up in search results.
An alert user spotted what is clearly an oversight by the firm whose global mission is to index everything that moves. Or doesn't move.
The service allows users to "share" their messages, but the questioneer was irked to find transcripts of Voice messages turning up in search results.
The questioner hit Google's own help forum to ask "Why are voicemail messages searchable?!? This appears to be a serious privacy breach which is alarming at best."
Google wonk Vincent Paquet quickly put his mind at rest, stating that: "Since the initial idea behind posting a voicemail, was precisely to share it with others, we did not restrict crawling of those messages that users post on the web."
But he added: "We can certainly understand that users would want to make them public on their sites but not necessarily searchable directly outside of their own website. We made a change to prevent those to be crawled so only the site owner can decide to index them."
As one posted to Boygeniusreport said, "Lol you really think google would make a programming mistake like that??" ®


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Calabro Whole Milk Ricotta Cheese
Like most things in life, there is ricotta and there is ricotta. For long-baked dishes, it might not make that much difference. But take one bite of this Calabro's fresh cheese and you might think you never had ricotta before. It has the same clean milky sweetness that you find in great fresh mozzarella, and a fluffy, light texture.
I like it on toast, or with a drizzle of honey, or with a good piece of fruit. Just saying, gotta give props to these guys for keeping it real for 43 years. In Seattle I can reliably find the ricotta at Whole Foods, not sure what distribution looks like in the rest of the country. I only wish I knew where to find some of their other products.


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In his latest post Pádraic Bradyhas posted a response to a recent post stating that in issue in Composer where the wrong package could be installed is not a security issue. Pádraic disagrees, here's why:
The problem here is quite simple. A user defines a composer.json file that requires the package bloggs/framework. Someone else creates a package on Packagist.org called evil/framework whose own composer.json states that it replaces bloggs/framework. Next, a group of poor random victims, potentially thousands, use composer to install applications with a dependency on bloggs/framework. Composer does some internal wizardry and installs evil/framework when certain conditions are met. The victims didn't request evil/framework but they get it anyway.
He suggests that this is a kind of remote file inclusion and possibly a remote code execution vulnerabilities. He points out that the manual steps suggested in the post aren't listed in the Composer documentation and fixes for it are still pending work.
Saying one thing, but acting like it's the other thing you don't want people to call it, makes me think it really is the other thing. Probably because it is. Users can fall victim to a replace and it's called "unintuitive", but if a package states that it replaces something that might lead to the unintuitive behaviour, it's an abuse.


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|In order of heads: Patrice, Lalena, Marsha, Shelley, Amy
for Cynthia Leitich Smith's Cynsations
Greetings, Cynsational readers!
The Girllustrators got together to talk about art, children's books, and inspiration, as a sort of ad-hoc interview for Cynthia's blog, at her generous invitation.
Five of us Girlls—Shelley Ann Jackson, Marsha Riti, Patrice "Patty" Barton, Amy Farrier, and Lalena Fisher—convened around the dining table of Amy's house in central Austin, while her dog Lloyd loitered about as groupie (at least while we had snacks on the table).
Girllustrator Emma J. Virjan (pictured below) could not make this meeting.
MARSHA: Should we talk about how we came together?
|By Shelley (and Jeff)
I am at a point now in my career where I'm trying to reinvent myself artistically because I'm once again working on my own. I could really use some feedback and support. And also for the sake of making some friends in a new city, I thought it might be nice to have a girls' group. That's why I initiated forming the Girllustrators.
I met Amy at an Inklings meeting (the Inklings are an Austin SCBWI illustration critique group). At the 2011 regional SCBWI conference, Amy introduced me to Marsha, and Patty introduced herself. About a month later, I met Lalena at the Picture Circus in Georgetown.
(Group is quiet)
And that's a take!
(Group laughter)
Why did the rest of you want to get involved?
AMY: Well, I just wanted to meet with other illustrators and talk about work. We had been talking together—Marsha and I—with a different group. It's fun to meet with other illustrators and hear what they're working on and get new ideas.
MARSHA: And I love your work, Shelley. It's really inspirational to see someone who works in such an exacting way, and it's great to talk to someone else about craft, who obviously knows theirs extremely well.
PATTY: That's what I like too; when you emailed me to ask me, you told me who else was coming, and I liked everyone's work.
MARSHA: [To Patty] I was so excited when Shelley told me you were going to be part of the group!
SHELLEY: Yeah, that's how I got everyone else to join! I told them you were coming!
PATTY: (Laughing) Thank you. Well, when you work at home it's isolated, so it's nice to get out and have someone else to talk about work with. Especially if you're on a project and you're stuck on something.
|By Marsha
PATTY: Yeah, like "Are all art directors the same way?" Because they all have different approaches, and different publications have different approaches.
LALENA: Patty and Marsha, it's been so interesting to see your in-progress work for your chapter books. I feel like I'm getting an inside look into the process that I wouldn't get otherwise.
...Another thing we do at our Girllustrator meetings is show work in progress, and bounce ideas off each other. It's helpful to get other eyes.
SHELLEY: Last week we laid out Amy's entire portfolio on the floor to help her decide what to take to the Houston SCBWI conference.
MARSHA: What was super-exciting about that was rearranging it and realizing that just rearranging a portfolio can change the whole flow of it.
SHELLEY: And make it much more dynamic.
MARSHA: It was brave of you to do that.
AMY: Oh. Well...it was brave of you guys to look at it!
(Group laughter)
It's nice to have a group of people whose opinions you trust when you put something out on the table and say, "This is what I'm working on; what do you guys think?"
SHELLEY: I think it does make a difference that the group is all women, in that respect, and also that it's a closed group. I've gotten to know you ladies well and you're all very nurturing, so it's a safe environment for me to be experimental in.
LALENA: But we have a "brother band."
|By Jeff
MARSHA: The Armadillustrators!
PATTY: I think it's neat that sometimes we do things together with them.
MARSHA: It would be great to work together on the next conference.
PATTY: It was wonderful how they came in on the last one and brought prints for the auction.
LALENA: And it looks like we're going to do drawing days together.
SHELLEY: One thing I was looking forward to, because I have so much going on, is a monthly meeting that helps me set goals and get work done.
LALENA: And keep up momentum when you're trying to take your work to the next level. Because it's actually a kind of difficult pursuit. Especially when you have—well, everybody does have—other responsibilities.
MARSHA: Well, and you and Shelley have little ones.
PATTY: And they always come first.
|By Lalena
It's nice to have the variety. Because you can get inspiration from unexpected places.
SHELLEY: I was kind of surprised when we first started meeting, because I learned so much about technology from you guys, which is not what I was expecting to get out of the group. At that time, I didn't know anything about blogging.
MARSHA: I forgot that! Because now you're really the one coordinating our blog!
PATTY: You've done a great job with that. It's been really good content, and really good feedback on the content.
SHELLEY: Thank you!
MARSHA: And people are following it.
LALENA: It is much more planned and put-together than a lot of blogs out there.
AMY: I think scheduling it was a good idea.
SHELLEY: Well, Tech Tuesdays was your idea.
|By Amy
(Group laughter)
I do like a catchy title.
SHELLEY: When Austin SCBWI regional advisor Debbie Gonzales approached Jeff and me about speaking at the Tech conference (Austin SCBWI's Storytelling in the Digital Age symposium, August 2011), I thought: "What? I don't know anything about technology."
And then I thought: "Well, when I have a technology question, I ask the Girllustrators! Maybe we, as a group, could talk about aspects that apply to illustrators."
MARSHA: And that really galvanized our whole group: us being a part of the tech conference.
LALENA: Once that started, that's when I began to come regularly. Because I felt obligated—I was taking part in something. So it ended up being a really good thing. It got me into the habit getting me into the habit of coming.
SHELLEY: And that's when we felt we needed a logo (see below), and the Tech Tuesday blog posts—to give ourselves a bit of credibility before we got up and spoke in front of people about technology!
But it also gave us the opportunity to research other illustrators, and learn about how they used technology.
MARSHA: So it was helpful to us as well as to other people. And now the group feels really solid. Because we went through that experience together.
MARSHA: Yeah!
SHELLEY: At this last regional conference, it was nice to attend together.
LALENA: We had a collective identity: "I'm not just Lalena, I'm a Girllustrator!"
MARSHA: This really leads into what we do. I think that our group has done a good job being advocates for the illustrator community. Like during the conference, Patty was instrumental in making sure that the portfolio room represented the artists as well as possible.
PATTY: At the 2011 conference, there were so many illustrators that came, and not enough room to show all the portfolios.
SHELLEY: Overseeing all aspects of the illustration room was such a monumental task; more than one person could handle.
PATTY: Mark G. Mitchell, illustrator coordinator for Austin SCBWI, is spread too thin at these conferences. So we were thinking about how we could help him, and meanwhile help the illustrators look more professional. After all, we're the "I" in SCBWI.
MARSHA: Mark does such a phenomenal job for the illustrator community here in Austin with his blog, with Inklings; he attends every SCBWI event that he can attend. He's always there.
|By Mark G. Mitchell
PATTY: He wants the very best for the illustrators, and he's a professional. So I asked him if he would like some help, and he did.
SHELLEY: He got down on one knee...
(Group laughter)
PATTY: He said, "Thank you! Thank you!"
|Jessica Lee Anderson with illustrator chair Mark G. Mitchell
AMY: Plus, it was a great idea to have the prints and paintings for the auction.
SHELLEY: Patty thought that another way to showcase our work and raise money for SCBWI would be for the illustrators to donate prints to the auction. I think everyone got pretty excited about that!
Another thing that was exciting was having some other chapter's illustration coordinators attend, like Diandra Mae of Houston SCBWI and Akiko White of SCBWI-San Antonio. They were enthusiastic about our ideas too. And since Amy went to the Houston conference, they shared their plans with her. So, the idea is that we don't have just one conference a year; we're involved with all these cities, so we can collaborate and improve together.
|2011 Austin SCBWI Regional Conference
AMY: I love having Harper (Shelley's five-year-old daughter) there; there's something about having a kid there—being super-free—that loosens me up.
SHELLEY: It's so funny because she'll be watching something intensely and drawing, and when she's done you'll ask, "What's that you just drew?" And it'll be some fish swimming in the ocean, and you're like, "But you're looking at a monkey!"
(Group laughter)
LALENA: Have you heard of the fourth grade slump?
MARSHA: No! (Everyone shakes her head)
LALENA: Apparently one of the last parts of the brain that switches on is the amygdala, which is the part of our brain controlling inhibitions. It's in about fourth grade when it happens. And then kids are suddenly worried about: "What is it supposed to look like?" and "What are the rules?"
Lynda Barry about that (Picture This: The Near-Sighted Monkey Book). They suddenly think they can't draw, because what they draw doesn't look like what they're looking at.
PATTY: When anime came out, my son suddenly started drawing again. He was about in sixth grade, and he was drawing all this anime stuff.
And I asked him, "Why is it that you like this style?"
And he said, "Because to do a nose, all you have to do is one line here and one line here—and there's your nose."
So he felt like he could draw again.
LALENA: I find it hard to switch off my amygdala even now. I mean, not everything has to look realistic, but I have preconceptions, and focus way too much on the goal so that I don't always enjoy the process as much as I should...
So, even for those of us who kept on drawing, it can still be a challenge.
SHELLEY: Once you're able to make things look realistic, then you're stuck in that mindset. I want to loosen up, and it's hard.
LALENA: You form habits.
|By Laura
So she looked at YouTube and got some photos of tigers, and drew them realistically for a while. Then she put those away, and went back to drawing her kitty in her style, and then tried to draw a tiger in her style.
Gradually, she worked her way back from her style, to a tiger.
MARSHA: That's fascinating.
PATTY: She has images on her blog showing the process. So she had to learn how to draw a tiger realistically—learn what it really looked like—
LALENA: And then let go of it.
PATTY: And let go of it.
MARSHA: Amy and I met up for a drawing day, and I was trying to draw this horse. And I just got to the point where I was thinking, "I hate horses. I hate drawing horses!"
PATTY: Laura was saying that too; you get to the elbow, and then you get to the knee, and then the ankle, and you think you're done, but—Oh no!
|Gene Brenek & Girllustrator Emma J. Virjan
SHELLEY: So should we sort of wrap this up? Do we want to say anything in conclusion?
LALENA: We really appreciate being part of Cynthia's blog.
MARSHA: Hear hear.
SHELLEY: Cynthia's awesome. If she could draw, she would totally be a Girllustrator.
MARSHA: She has beautiful hair.
Cynsational Notes
For more Girll talk—our favorite children's books, the language of nursery rhymes, and an artist's journey to a cohesive portfolio—meet up with us on Girllustrators.com!
Patrice Barton is a children's book illustrator living in Austin, Texas; with her husband, son and a few doggies. Her clients include Alfred A. Knopf, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Scholastic Book Club, Ideals Children's Books, Ladybug Magazine, Clubhouse Jr. Magazine, Highlights, Highlights High Five, National Geographic, and Hazelden Educational Publishing.
|By Patrice
Amy Farrier is an illustrator and designer with a degree in English literature. After years of working with words, she picked up a paintbrush and got hooked on watercolor. And the wonderful art and stories found in children's books.
Inspired by morning walks, nature specials, and funny life moments (some of them involving a certain sweet dog and spicy cat that live with her), she is happily working away on some art and stories of her own.
Lalena Fisher illustrates children's textbooks and workbooks, and designs characters and environments for children's animation. A native Texan, Lalena recently returned home after 14 years in New York where she assisted artist Matthew Barney, created characters and backgrounds for Nickelodeon's "Blue's Clues" and "The Wonder Pets," and created graphics for the New York Times.
Her current children's clients include Oxford University Press and the Mother Goose Club. She also designs logos, posters, books, and websites.
Lalena has a Master of Fine Arts from Pratt Institute, and a Bachelor of Journalism from the University of Texas at Austin. After-hours, Lalena is currently developing several of her own children's picture books, and a short animated music cartoon.
Shelley Ann Jackson has illustrated for clients such as the New York Times, Berkley Books, and Faces magazine. Her first picture book, Little Lions, Bull Baiters & Hunting Hounds: A History of Dog Breeds (Tunda, 2008) was awarded the 2008 Gold Medal in Juvenile Nonfiction by ForeWord magazine and received a non-fiction research grant from the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators. Her second book, Upon Secrecy (Calkins Creek, 2009), was selected One of the Best Children's Books 2010 by Bank Street College of Education. Harness Horses, Bucking Broncos & Pit Ponies: A History of Horse Breeds (Tunda, 2011) is her latest release. She lives in Austin with her husband, daughter, and three pups.
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Her first illustrated picture first book, titled The Picky Little Witch, written by Elizabeth Brokamp, came out in September 2011 from Pelican Press. She's now hard at work illustrating the Critter Club series to be published by Little Simon.
Emma J. Virjan was born in Texas, under an Aries moon, on a Wednesday evening, her Dad's bowling night. This might explain her attraction to shiny, hardwood floors and crunchy, snack bar French fries.
Her career as a graphic designer and illustrator started when she gave everyone handmade business cards for Christmas when she was five years old.
Nacho the Party Puppy, her first children's book, was featured in the 2008 Texas Book Festival. Get to know Nacho (and Emma) at www.NachoTheDog.com.
When Emma isn't drawing, she spends her time reading, making lists, cutting out images of the numeral 5, and collecting produce stickers.
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From the promotional copy of Harness Horses:
The author-illustrator team of Jeff Crosby and Shelley Ann Jackson celebrates all kinds of horses in this beautifully illustrated, fact-filled book.
From fast horses like the Barb, which traveled to Spain from Africa in the early eighth century to become a foundation for many Spanish and European breeds, to war horses like the Mongolian that gave their owners military advantage (today there are more horses in Mongolia than there are people), to the hard-working horses ranging from the tiny American Miniature to the giant Clydesdale, Harness Horses, Bucking Broncos & Pit Ponies is a treasure-trove of information.
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Originally published by Knopf in 1976 (with illustrations by Jacqueline Chwast), this poem—an exuberant celebration of hand-me-down clothes—is just as relevant and accessible today as it was over 30 years ago.
Children's Poet Laureate Mary Ann Hoberman offers a bouncy, fun-to-read-aloud text and a refreshingly agreeable, resourceful protagonist who likes old clothes for their "history" and "mystery."
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I came across this image today on Facebook and immediately shared it one our Loving the Bike page. I feel that it's such a beautiful yet simple statement about our love for the bike….and I just had to share it here on the website as well.
There are several different motivational type cycling images/messages that flash across social media each day, but only certain ones really capture my attention. This one definitely did.
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Following up on a story we posted earlier today about Transformers 4, director Michael Bay added the following confirmation on his official site:
There has been a lot of speculation about what I'm going to do next and when or if I will do another Transformers. So let me set the record straight.
I have just concluded a deal with Paramount to do two movies, but it won't be two Transformers.
I will first do 'Pain & Gain' with Mark Wahlberg and Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson.
Then I will do the next Transformers for release on June 27, 2014.
-Michael Bay
To reiterate, producer Lorenzo Di Bonaventura told us earlier that "we're going to try to do a hybrid there where there will be some characters that come forward–we think, we're still in the process of figuring it out–and some characters that don't, but it will definitely be a different story."


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Discountable means extremely unlikely to occur.
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We recently returned from a week in Germany and I am still kicking myself for not bringing back the perfect souvenir — a T-shirt bearing the slogan, "I survived the autobahn."
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AUBURN UNIVERSITY – Recent Auburn University graduate Hannah Riordan, a native of Cornwall, Ontario, has received one of 15 History Scholar Awards given each year by the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History.
The award recognizes outstanding graduating college seniors, selected from candidates across the United States, who have demonstrated academic and extracurricular excellence in American history or American studies. Selection is based on grades, letters of recommendation and writing samples.
Riordan, a history major and member of Auburn's swimming and diving team, submitted an essay about how her experiences at Auburn stimulated her interest in the American Civil War and Canada's role in the conflict.
Riordan traveled to New York City in June to participate in a series of events planned for the honorees, including meetings with eminent scholars, exclusive behind-the-scenes tours of historic archives and an awards dinner. Museum and archive visits included stops at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Gilder Lehrman Collection and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, with talks and discussions led by Kenneth T. Jackson, Khalil Gibran Muhammad and Adrienne Petty.
Riordan plans to continue studying Canada's role in the American Civil War as a graduate history student at McGill University in Montreal this fall. She also will continue training as a competitive swimmer, with the goal of joining the Canadian national team.
While at Auburn, Riordan earned an array of athletic awards. She was an eight-time All-American and four-time SEC champion in the 200- and 400-meter freestyle relays, and she also swam for Canada in the 2010 Pan-Pacific Championships.
Fellow Auburn history major Jeffrey Lollar received the honor in 2012, making this the second consecutive year an Auburn University history major has received a History Scholar Award.
Founded in 1994, The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History is a nonprofit provider of K–12 teacher training and classroom resources. The institute's programs, which include teacher seminars, the Affiliate Schools Program, online courses, traveling exhibitions and more, promote excellence in the teaching and learning of American history.
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Yale Knocks Off Iona 2-1
NEW HAVEN, Conn. – After scoring early in Friday's game with Iona, the Yale women's soccer team had a number of opportunities to add to the lead. The Bulldogs, though, couldn't capitalize, and it looked like it might cost them when Iona's Sofia Sanchez scored with 3:28 left to force overtime.
Kristen Forster had other ideas. Her goal just 1:48 into the extra period lifted Yale to a 2-1 victory over the Gaels in a game the Bulldogs controlled virtually the entire way.
"Not getting the second goal was definitely an issue, but to our credit, we came back and found a way to win," said Yale head coach Rudy Meredith.
Forster scored the game-winner when she outfought Iona goalkeeper Trista Rivera for the rebound of a Meredith Speck shot and knocked it into an empty net. It was Forster's team-leading fourth goal of the season.
"Kristen has taken on more offensive responsibility this year," Meredith said. "I'm certainly happy with the way she has been playing."
Yale (4-3) outshot Iona 15-5 and had an 8-1 edge in corner kicks.
The Bulldogs grabbed the early lead when Trish Berkanish headed in the rebound of a Melissa Gavin free kick.
The offensive chances continued for much of the first half as Yale held a 6-1 advantage in shots at the intermission. Iona's only shot was a harmless boot from nearly 30 yards as time was winding down.
The Bulldogs' domination continued early in the second half. Gavin had a great chance early when she stole the ball from an Iona defender, but her hard shot from just outside the box went wide.
Then slowly, the Gaels started to become more aggressive. Nicole Paulucci appeared to tie the game when she got behind the Yale defense and chipped a shot into the net, but the play was ruled off sides.
Moments later, Yale had another great chance, but Gavin's shot hit the crossbar. Muriel Battaglia had a chance to convert the rebound, but her shot was blocked.
Iona's most intense pressure of the night resulted in the tying goal. Samantha Fiorenzo fired a shot that was saved by Yale goalkeeper Elise Wilcox. The rebound, though, came to Sanchez, who slipped it past Wilcox.
"I was happy with our defense," Meredith said. "I'm disappointed we didn't get the shutout."
The Bulldogs are back in action on Sunday when they host Central Connecticut on Sunday at 4 p.m.
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Set in the near-future, technology controls nearly all aspects of life. But when Grey, a self-identified technophobe, has his world turned upside down, his only hope for revenge is an experimental computer chip implant called Stem.
Genres: Action, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Actor: Logan Marshall-Green, Richard Anastasios, Rosco Campbell, Richard Cawthorne, Linda Cropper, Michael M. Foster, Betty Gabriel, Renah Gallagher, Harrison Gilbertson, Benedict Hardie, Clayton Jacobson, Sachin Joab, Christopher Kirby, Simon Maiden, Melanie Vallejo
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If you've ever used Microsoft Access or Excel, you have likely used a product that Mike Gunderloy had a hand in developing. The irony is that Gunderloy himself doesn't use those products anymore. He's given up Microsoft for open source -- and he's not going back.
Gunderloy, an Evansville, Ind.-based freelance developer for the past quarter century, goes way back with Microsoft. "I was never a full-time employee, but have several times been a contractor with a badge and [Redmond] campus access," he says.
His contracting work -- on the order of half a million dollars, Gunderloy estimates -- led to a substantial amount of code contributed to the Access and Excel versions of Microsoft Office 97 and 2000. He's also worked on other, more obscure parts of the Microsoft software empire, including SQL Server, C#, and ASP.Net.
It was good work that paid well. But over the last several years, changes crept in that began to bother Gunderloy. "I saw Office 2007 really, really early -- alpha code. I gave feedback on parts of the code I was less than satisfied with. It was pretty clear my feedback and that of others was pretty much ignored. That was different from [my experiences with] Office 97, 2000, and 2003. It seems the Office team felt they didn't need any outside" opinions, Gunderloy recalls.
But those annoyances were merely a precursor to what was to come. The beginning of the end for the developer was when Microsoft went patent berserk. "What finally pushed me over the edge to 'I'm getting out' was when Microsoft started to assert non-intellectual property rights over the its Ribbon interface [3], making that level of sweeping intellectual property claims. Microsoft went from not patenting much to patenting everything," Gunderloy says.
Microsoft essentially tried to patent the new Ribbon interface that appeared on Office 2007 products. The Ribbon is a series of controls for various functions of Office programs. Redmond, Gunderloy says, "basically told any control vendor that wanted to make a control that the Ribbon was Microsoft property and they had to license it from Microsoft. They had to acknowledge that Microsoft owns that piece of the user interface. I said to myself, that's nuts. You may have copyright rights in code, but the arrangement of controls in the user interface is not something that's intellectual property."
If that happened, Gunderloy reasoned, it could become impossible for a developer to write any code that didn't tread on some vendor's patent somewhere. "It was the sweeping land grab by Microsoft that pissed me off."
Add to that Microsoft's infamous May 2007 claim that Linux and other open source software infringed on 235 Microsoft patents, and Gunderloy had seen enough. He broke with Microsoft and started looking around for new languages to learn. He knew he wanted to keep in the Web development realm, so he checked out open source languages like the Python-based Django and Ruby on Rails. He settled on RoR because he saw more opportunity to get paid to develop on that platform.
Gunderloy's disgust at Microsoft spilled into areas beyond the development platform; his work environment, he says, is now "100% Microsoft-free." He bought a Mac, which he says is more reliable than his Windows boxes. He runs both OpenOffice.org and NeoOffice, and uses iWork a lot.
Gunderloy has been using RoR since late 2006. He says the biggest difference between ASP.Net and RoR is that "now, I'm a whole lot closer to the code. With the Microsoft tool chain, it was about the IDE (integrated development environment), and visual drag-and-drop. I've gone back to the way I used to develop 10 years ago, with text editors. Now I'm just writing code instead of moving stuff around. It's easier to look at the code and know what's going on."
The drawback, he says, is that it's harder to develop fancy interfaces. On the whole, though, Gunderloy sees more advantage to the open source way of doing things. "Free is a pretty powerful argument. With ASP, to build a database, you had to consider what it would cost to build a fully licensed SQL Server. [RoR development is] much cheaper. The other thing is if you look at the ferment going on in Web development, an awful lot of the most visible properties are being built on Rails or Django or plain old PHP."
This trend away from Microsoft, according to Gunderloy, is likely to continue. "I don't think we've seen the high-water mark of Microsoft being replaced yet. If you look at the [open source development] numbers, Firefox, the [Python-based] Google application engine, all those things are trending away from Microsoft."
The switch has cost Gunderloy money. "I ended up cutting my hourly rate for development. I could command a higher rate [for Microsoft-related development], as someone who'd worked with Microsoft for as long as I had. The levels of compensation in the Rails development community will not reach the highest levels in Microsoft community."
Still, he's not complaining, and he believes the tradeoff is more than worth it. By bucking Microsoft for open source, says Gunderloy, "I'm no longer contributing to the eventual death of programming."


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Alan F. Horn is the President & COO of Warner Bros. Entertainment. Horn also sits on the board of directors of Univision.
Prior to Warner Bros., Horn served in various positions at 20th Century Fox and at Norman Lear's television production company, Tandem Productions. Horn was also one of the founders of Castle Rock Entertainment, a company he currently oversees at Warner.
Horn, his wife, and two daughters currently reside in the East Gate Bel Air section of Los Angeles, California. They donated $25,000 to the DNC in 2004. He is a 1964 graduate of Union College in Schenectady, NY.


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When Steven S. Gubser wrote The Little Book of String Theory, he probably never imagined anything like what this guy came up with: a cover of Queen's infamous "Bohemian Rhapsody" that explains the complicated mysteries of string theory.
Perhaps I should repeat that.
Timothy Blais, a graduate student at McGill University, submitted a YouTube video along with his thesis paper. This video was a homemade cover of Bohemian Rhapsody with altered lyrics to talk about string theory, a highly debated theory in theoretical physics.
With lyrics like:
"Is string theory right?
Is it just fantasy?
Caught in the landscape,
Out of touch with reality
On S5 or T*S3"
Blais' song might be a bit of a struggle to fully understand, which is why we're suggesting you might want to read The Little Book of String Theory, which offers a short, accessible, and entertaining introduction to one of the most talked-about areas of physics today. String theory has been called the "theory of everything." It seeks to describe all the fundamental forces of nature. It encompasses gravity and quantum mechanics in one unifying theory. But it is unproven and fraught with controversy. After reading this book, you'll be able to draw your own conclusions about string theory.
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In an effort to placate angry (and shortsighted) Americans, President Obama announced Thursday that they could keep their substandard health insurance plans for another year so long as insurers were still willing to offer them. Never mind that these cheaper, bare-bones packages don't meet the Affordable Care Act's minimum benefits, undercutting a fundamental part of the healthcare law.
Yes, the Obamacare rollout has been less than ideal. But, as The Times' editorial board argued Thursday, the decision to backtrack is a bad idea. Obama basically stuck a pacifier in a crying baby's mouth instead of heeding his 2012 campaign slogan: "Forward."
Here's what the board had to say:
"The goal was not just to eliminate plans with dangerously thin coverage, as President Obama has emphasized in recent weeks, but also to spread risks and costs more broadly across the population. That meant ending plans that effectively segregated younger, healthier people from those with potentially expensive healthcare needs — for example, by excluding coverage for maternity care or schizophrenia.
"Such changes invariably produce winners and losers in the short term in the hope of better results for everyone in the long term. News accounts have been filled lately with laments from healthy people whose low-cost policies have been canceled; they complain the government is forcing them to subsidize older, sicker Americans. But they'll almost certainly be on the other side of the equation at some point, because there's no guarantee against illness and injury. The point of the law's insurance reforms was to make the market for individual insurance policies behave more like the one for large groups, in which the broad sharing of risks helps make premiums more affordable and no one loses coverage because they were unfortunate enough to get sick."
"PBS NewsHour" introduced viewers to one such woman on the "other side of the equation" on Wednesday's program. Martha Monsson, who has cancer and will be in the individual market when her husband's COBRA coverage expires in February, summed it up succinctly: "People are one diagnosis away."
While it's unpleasant to think about, especially when you're young and immortal and enjoying your disposable income, who doesn't have a nugget of fear that they'll find themselves sick or injured and unable to pay their medical bills? Instead of complaining about contributing to a program designed to help create an equitable society, people should embrace Obamacare and purchase the more comprehensive plans.
Take it from Monsson:
"The problem, I think, is, a lot of people think that, if they're healthy, they're going to say healthy forever. And even though I had insurance, I thought I was going to stay healthy forever. People who oppose the Affordable [Care] Act very definitely don't have the bigger picture. They don't see that it can happen to them."
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Cedar Plank Salmon with Whisky Marinade.
20 comments:
- Cookin' Canuck said...
That marinade looks wonderful! I grew up in the Pacific Northwest and am happily familiar with the taste that cedar planking provides to salmon. I definitely recommend it!
- August 6, 2009 at 8:45 AM
WOnderful idea that to use Whisky for a marinage!
- August 6, 2009 at 9:10 AM
- Laura said...
thank you Cookin' Canuck,
I agree with you, the cedar plank does give a special flavor to the salmon.
- August 6, 2009 at 9:13 AM
- Laura said...
Thank you Mathilde,
It is not your usual marinade the one with whisky.
- August 6, 2009 at 9:14 AM
- Diana Bauman said...
That salmon looks delicious!! What a great way to grill it to. Definitely going to have to try this :)
- August 6, 2009 at 9:27 AM
- Laura said...
Hello Diana,
Thanks for the comment. It's no fuss grilling it like this.
- August 6, 2009 at 10:33 AM
hi laura.
i don't have a barb grill , can i do it on the stove top without theplank.salmon looks yummy.just recently k has started liking salmon.
made calzones came out good.made oreo cup cakes,got the taste of cream cheese,was it suppose to be there or did i do something wrong?
thanks 4 sharing.
- August 6, 2009 at 10:45 AM
- Laura said...
Hi Rekha,
The taste of the cream cheese is suppose to be there but not overpowering. I'm glade that the calzones came out good. For the salmon I recommend making it in the oven better, but I'm not sure if the marinade works for Kenny although the alcohol cooks out the flavor is still there.
- August 6, 2009 at 10:56 AM
- Jessie said...
wow! that salmon looks divine, I love the little specks of parsley on the salmon. What a beautiful dish!
- August 6, 2009 at 1:23 PM
- Laura said...
Thanks Jessie,
I'm not very good at taking pictures, but the salmon looks good.
- August 6, 2009 at 1:45 PM
- Table Talk said...
We love to use cedar planks-so easy, and they impart wonderful flavor. Some sesame noodles with cucumber would be an excellent accompaniment to this salmon dish!
- August 6, 2009 at 2:24 PM
- Laura said...
The noodles with cucumber would work great with the salmon dish. Yummy!
- August 6, 2009 at 2:54 PM
- Janice Soriano said...
I'm a fan of recipes that call for alcohol, any kind of alcohol. This recipe is great and I like using plank as well. Thanks for sharing the recipe
- August 7, 2009 at 2:14 AM
- Laura said...
Thank you Janice,
I like recipes that call for alcohol too, tenderizes the meat.
- August 7, 2009 at 7:25 AM
- Karine said...
I love this! This dish is beautiful and it looks delicious!
- August 7, 2009 at 7:38 AM
- Laura said...
Thank you Karine.
- August 7, 2009 at 8:22 AM
- Diana H said...
Love Cedar planked Salmon - adding whiskey will certainly make it even better. What an Idea!
- August 8, 2009 at 11:34 PM
- Laura said...
Thank you Diana,
The cedar plank does add a certain flavor to it.
- August 10, 2009 at 9:45 AM
- Mother Rimmy said...
I made this the other day. It was terrific. I made extra marinade and used it to stir fry veggies to go with the salmon. Yum.
I hope you don't mind that I linked your recipe to my blog post.
- December 2, 2009 at 9:46 AM
- Laura said...
Of course I don't mind. Thank you for the feedback:)
- December 2, 2009 at 10:34 AM


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The former Community Board 5 member and longtime civic leader moved to Ridgewood in 1938 when her parents bought a house on Suydam Street, where she lived for the remainder of her life.
After she graduated from Hunter College in 1944, Maggio worked for the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company until she married Anthony Maggio in 1948. Together they had two children, Joann and Anthony, who both attended St. Aloysius School where the parents became very involved.
Maggio later taught at the school from 1967 to 1983, and helped set up dozens of science workshops and fairs, education classes, guidance and counseling programs, and adult education and ESL programs.
In 1984, she played an integral role in the redevelopment of the Grover Cleveland Athletic Field and worked with then-Borough President Claire Shulman and Assemblywoman Catherine Nolan to address garbage dumping and drug use in the park.
She was a founding member of the Citizens for a Better Ridgewood Civic Association in 1993 and the Suydam Street Block Association in 1985, where she also served as president.
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Queens Borough President Helen Marshall presented Maggio with the "Queens Heroine Award" as part of Women's Heritage Month in 2004 for her commitment to the advancement of Queens.
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Early Childhood Education 425
EDEC 425: Assessment-Based Instruction and Adaptations for Young Children (PreK-3rd Grade)
Prerequisite: IDEC major, successful completion of EDEC 322 and EDEC 323, EDSP 360 or EDSP 361; 2.5 GPA
Corequisites: EDEC 430 or permission of instructor
Credit Hours: (3)
Designed to provide pedagogical concepts and skills for preservice teachers working with preschool through primary grade children in inclusive classrooms. Informal assessment strategies are applied to individualize instruction and adapt curriculum. The central concepts and tools of inquiry in the social studies/sciences are used to develop integrated curriculum and learning experiences that enhance children's development. Applied use of technology and media will be integrated throughout the course.
Detailed Description of Content of Course
I. Teaching based on child development and learning theory
A. Influence of developmental abilities upon learning and children's readiness for conceptual
1. assessing children's readiness
2. Piagetian stages of cognitive understanding
3. Vygotsky's social learning and zone of proximal development
B. Identifying cultural influences and contexts within and without the classroom
II. Authentic assessment of children's learning
A. Observations
B. Anecdotal records
C. Checklists
D. Portfolios
E. Rubrics
F. Assessment tasks
G. Other
H. Using assessment to guide instruction
II. Developing curriculum
A. Published curriculum
B. National, state, and local standards
1. professional organizations and national standards (NCSS, ACEI, NAEYC, DEC)
2. Virginia's Standards of Learning and subject matter understanding
3. school district or program curriculum
C. Taxonomies
1. cognitive--Bloom
2. affective—Krathwohl & Bloom
3. psychomotor—Harlow
D. Bruner's spiral of curriculum development and understanding
E. Developing curriculum and instruction around core curriculum/discipline areas, without
losing developmental perspectives
F. Teacher developed curriculum
1. (t)K W L charts
2. emergent curriculum
3. projects
4. hidden curriculum
5. other
G. Adapting curriculum for diverse learners
III. Planning and instruction
A. Behavioral objectives
B. Applying tools of inquiry according to the discipline
1. thinking like social scientists
2. read and critically apply recommended practices
C. Enhancing instruction with applied technology and media
D. Integrating the curriculum
E. Using a variety of instructional strategies
1. cooperative learning
2. direct instruction
3. project approach
4. other
F. Instructional grouping
1. large group
2. small group
3. paired
4. individual
5. multi‑age
G. Incorporating IEPs into daily instruction
H. Strategies for working with children with limited English
I. Strategies for working with gifted children
J. Assessing instruction
IV. Creating positive learning environments
A. Physical environments
B. Time and space management
C. Routines
C. Learning Centers
D. Prop Boxes
E. Managing the social and emotional environment
VII. Teachers as professionals and reflective practitioners
A. Education responsive to the needs of children, families, and community
B. Education that is responsible in providing children with skills needed to living and
interacting in a diverse global society
B. Reflecting upon the teaching/learning environment
C. Reflecting on teaching strategies, methods, and practices
E. Professionalism
Detailed Description of Conduct of Course
Students will learn to plan, develop, implement, and evaluate curriculum, instruction, learning activities, and assessment for children ages 3 through 8 years of age, taking into account learning style variations, interests, cultural and experiential backgrounds, and abilities.
A variety of instructional strategies will include, but not be limited to: integrated curriculum development, lesson planning and implementation, hands-on learning activities, cooperative learning, direct instruction, technology/media enhanced instruction, use of manipulatives, assistive technology, videos/cds, simulation, student presentations, and guest speakers.
Goals and Objectives of the Course
Goals, objectives, and assignments in the class address NCATE Standards 1c: Professional and Pedagogical Knowledge and Skills for Teacher Candidates, and 1g: Professional Dispositions for all candidates.
Objectives below also include the following standards:
· Virginia Department of Education (VDOE) Licensure Standards Professional Studies requirements Competency #2: Curriculum and instructional procedures, and #4: Foundation
· Virginia Department of Education (VDOE) Licensure Standards Early/primary education preK-3 competency #2: Knowledge and skills
· National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) Standard
- Standard #1: Promoting Child Development and Learning
- Standard #2: Building Family and Community Relationships
- Standard #3: Observing, Documenting, and Assessing to Support Yong Children and Families
- Standard #4: Teaching and Learning
- Standard #5: Becoming a Professional
· Council for Exceptional Children (CEC/DEC) Common Core Standards
- Standard #1: Foundations
- Standard #2: Development and Characteristics of Learners
- Standard #3: Individual Learning Differences
- Standard #4: Instructional Strategies
- Standard #5: Learning Environments and Social Interactions
- Standard #6: Language
- Standard #7: Instructional Planning
- Standard #8: Assessment
- Standard #9: Professional and Ethical Practice
- Standard #10: Collaboration
Interdisciplinary Studies Early Childhood Education/Early Childhood Special Education (IDEC) competencies identified in the course objectives were developed to organize standards from six national and state specialty professional areas for which a crosswalk is provided.
Students will develop good pedagogical skills in curriculum, instruction, and assessment of young children. Students will practice and demonstrate skills in the following competencies:
1. Pre-service teachers will describe typical and atypical child growth and development. (IDEC 1.1)
2. Pre-service teachers will participate as a team member to establish and maintain collaborative relationships with families and other professionals in diverse settings, utilizing technologies for communication and information exchange. (IDEC 2.1)
3. Pre-service teachers will demonstrate respect for the diversity of families, children, and settings, and maximize child potential within the context of diversity of culture, language, and ability in home, community, and society. (IDEC 2.2)
4. Pre-service teachers will select and use a variety of culturally unbiased formal and informal assessments, data collection, and evaluation measures, including specific sensory and motor measures, for the identification of child strengths and needs, and to monitor child progress, and report results to families and others. (IDEC 3.2)
5. Pre-service teachers will plan and implement curriculum and instruction that affirms and respects child and family cultural and linguistic diversity. (IDEC 4.2)
6. Pre-service teachers will plan and implement meaningful developmentally appropriate learning experiences in all developmental domains, using functionally appropriate instructional practices and following national, state, and local curricular standards/guidelines. (IDEC 4.3)
7. Pre-service teachers will promote positive relationships with and among children and the development of self-regulation and responsibility through the application of principles of positive behavior support and classroom management for individuals and groups. (IDEC 4.4)
8. Pre-service teachers will plan and implement instruction incorporating strategies from multiple disciplines including strategies to address specific disabilities and integrate content into meaningful contexts for children. (IDEC 4.6)
9. Pre-service teachers will plan and implement instruction in language/communication and developmentally appropriate literacy skills. (IDEC 4.7)
10. Pre-service teachers will plan and appropriately incorporate the use of technology, including assistive/adaptive technology to maximize outcomes for diverse learners. (IDEC 4.8)
11. Pre-service teachers will serve as advocates for young children and their families and for the Early Childhood and Early Childhood Special Education profession. (IDEC 6.3)
12. Pre-service teachers will establish and maintain positive collaborative relationships with other professionals and agencies. (IDEC 6.4)
13. Pre-service teachers will adhere to professional codes of ethical conduct. (IDEC 6.5)
14. Pre-service teachers will employ sound and legal instructional and disciplinary practices. (IDEC 6.6)
15. Pre-service teachers will actively seek opportunities to grow professionally including analyzing, evaluating, and applying research. (IDEC 6.7)
16. Pre-service teachers will use technology as a tool for teaching, learning, research, and communication. (IDEC 6.8)
17. Pre-service teachers will demonstrate appropriate professional writing skills including organization, clarity, spelling, and grammar. (IDEC 6.9)
Assessment Measures
- Development of teacher-made assessments
- Development of integrated curriculum
- Written quizzes
- Lesson planning with technology and media applications and analyses of children's learning and abilities
- Self-analyses and reflections of lessons
Other Course Information
This course is usually paired with EDEC 430 at the undergraduate level.
Review and Approval
January, 2007 Barbara Foulks Boyd & Boyoung Park
Revised 4/29/09 Boyoung Park


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