Childcare plan: the kids are not all right | Editorial

The greatest danger posed by the coalition reforms that will create a new class division in the early ages

The mantra of our time, is the promise to do more with less. Mandarin middle, while controlling a budget these days is faced with having to do this step with the staff skeptical. On Tuesday, it was the turn of children Elizabeth Truss Minister explains how - by rewriting rules, and tearing others - that could haunt England nursery industry crispy provide more places. His plans were more qualified childcare, but as Sure Start centers closed guard and funds are limited, the mindset of many working parents is not so great

A working mother, Ms. Truss seized at least the importance of the subject. God knows that the Conservative Party is 16 points behind the work of women among voters need to wake up for him too. She made cash game with irrefutable statistics on an average hourly wage of only ? 6.60 - an insult compared to teacher salaries, although scientific consensus now suggests that education in the early years may more important than what happens at school. A complete equation of "overflow", "adequate remuneration" and "No public money" is necessarily difficult. Ms. Truss answer is better able to attract workers in the sector before increasing your workload - allowing them to have more children

• The least we can say is that, at least in theory, is obviously not an idiot. Deregulation regime is directly from economics textbook. The current rules are definitely tight - requiring, for example, a reminder to all babies - and there are, of course, the direction in which caregivers take more babies will be "more productive", not to mention better paid. Anxiety is obvious that if one adult is responsible for the four proposed (or six children in a kindergarten), children will not have much in the way of real attention, not to mention basic education that Ms Truss - an echo of the first ministerial intervention - said Britain will help "win the global competition"
• The hope is that these ambitions are to be redeemed on the busiest nurseries, through the professionalization of the early career. With better training, more caregivers may be able not only to take care of more children now, but to take care of them too. That, according to Ms Truss, is already a reality in many African countries. Perhaps, in spite of all the figures you quote are all regulated maximum ratios, the best care funded, say, France typically operate well below these limits. Norway and New Zealand are both looking to move in the opposite direction. Scandinavia and more generous parental cr?ches means less frequently compared to younger children - and overwhelming practical aspects that go with it. Take up to three young children and have a stomach bug, and a nanny should change 20 diapers a day. Education is clearly not going to get much of a look in these circumstances, because it is probably the maximum you can do to stop physically toddlers will not change when you get hurt. Perhaps the proper training, it may be easier to get through these days, but it is difficult to see the usefulness of the proposed requirement for GCSE mathematics. Basic trigonometry will not help.

The greatest danger of the lot is that the quality of care for children will suffer as a "class size" rockets in places where parents have no choice but to go to the nursery for parents in less prosperous parts of the city still support two-on-one or three to one care. A new class division in the early centuries was the last thing England need, and yet - as Ms. Truss admitted yesterday - there are signs of this. The way around this is to target the subsidy to those who need it, but there are alarming signs that the coalition is about to move in the opposite direction, subject to disqualification aid resources to finance childcare obligations through rain. After all the talk about social mobility, a kindergarten level course in practice remains behind.

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Pro-gay marriage protesters hit Paris streets

Algiers: a city where France is the promised land – and still the enemy

Andrew Hussey believes that the only way to make sense of the problems faced by Algeria today is to return to its colonial history. Take a trip through the 21st century - a dark past Algiers

In recent weeks, the terrible violence in Mali and Algeria shocked the world. Events have reminded us of how much remains Francophone Africa and the depth of the French influence is still running in these territories. More than that, the conflicts have reminded everyone that the French still consider this part of their world as your backyard

The French longstanding involvement in African affairs, from Rwanda to North Africa, was also marked by bloody massacres and torture. This is especially true in Algeria, the largest country in Africa, first conquered by the French for almost 200 years. Independence of Algeria in 1962 after a bitter war against France, noted for the use of terrorist tactics and torture on both sides. Poverty and terrorism are increasingly present in the life of Algeria. At the same time, since the object changes the Arab Spring in North Africa is changing close to France, which has the largest Muslim population in Europe.

No wonder, then, that the French are more sensitive to changes of mood in the Muslim world and especially Algeria. In fact, this is not the first time that the events in North Africa have threatened to spread to France. In the 90s, when Algeria became a slaughterhouse and tens of thousands were killed in the dirty war between the government and Islamist insurgents, Paris was the main target of Algerian extremists. In 1995, Abdelbaki Sahraoui, moderate imam, was shot in the north of Paris by the Armed Islamic terrorist group (GIA). His death was followed by a rapid succession of attacks against civilian targets in Paris, which killed eight people and wounded more than 100.

More recently, France was rocked by a series of murders for nine days in March, three North African French soldiers killed in two separate shootings, and a rabbi, and her two young son a third child in an attack against a Jewish school in Toulouse. Anger only intensified when it emerged that the murderer was Merah Mohamed, a young French of Algerian origin. Before Merah was shot dead by armed police headquarters building where he lived, said he wanted to "put France to its knees."

Many Algerians wanted to spend the ordinary case was a French affair, and would not be contaminated by association. There was a lot of anger aloud in the Algerian press on how the murders were linked to Algeria Merah origins: it is pure racism for many. But none of this stops Merah become a hero, hailed as "lion" in the radical mosques of Algiers. Fifty years after his last real war, it seems that France and Algeria are still able to rip the throat out.

first saw for myself the harshness of these emotions when I went to study in France in 1982. I ended up living in the suburbs of Lyon, where the first known urban riots started - the precursors of the riots of the 2000s. Throughout the summer - "hot summer" - cars were torched by regular immigrant youth who have asked what kind of entertainment "rodeos" and declared war on the police. The center of the violence was

city (urbanization) in V?nissieux called Minguettes.

At that time I knew very little about French colonial history and assumed that it was racial agitation is not unlike those he had known in the United Kingdom in 1981. But I realized that most children who fought the police were of Algerian origin and must have a meaning.

Thirty years later, the company unresolved between France and Algeria has become increasingly complex. That is why last year launched a center for the study of France and North Africa (CSFNA) of the University of London Institute in Paris (ULIP) where I am Dean. The overall goal of the Center is to serve as a research center, bringing together not only academics but also to all who have an interest in understanding the complexities of French history, Algerian. It comes from journalists and government lawyers and historians

At the same time, I wrote a book called The French intifada

attempt is parallel to the direction of French colonial history North America Africa. This book is a journey through some of the most important fronts and dangerous than many historians now call World War IV. This war is not a conflict between Islam and the West or the rich North and the South, but a conflict between two very different experiences of the world - the colonizers and the colonized

The French invaded Algeria in 1830. It was the first colonization of an Arab country since the time of the Crusades and it was a big surprise for the Arab nation. This first battle of Algiers was a matter of staging. Pleasure boats from Marseille to see the bombing and landing on the beach. Arab corpses lying in the streets and along the coast viewers were only colored accessories Parisian massacre watch through binoculars from the deck of your cruise ship.

The profound trauma in a few decades, Algeria did not have the status of a colony, but annexed to France. This meant that the country had no right to be an independent identity, but it was so subservient to the government in Paris as Burgundy or Alsace-Lorraine. This had a very negative effect on the psyche of Algeria. The settlers who came to work in Algeria since the European continent is known as

Blackfoot

- Blackfoot - because, unlike the Muslim population, who wore shoes . The Blackfoot cultivated its own identity in the French metropolis.

Meanwhile, the Muslim villages were destroyed and entire populations forced to move to accommodate European farms and industry. In Blackfoot have increased in number and status, native Algerians, who had no nationality in French law does not officially exist. Albert Camus identity captures very well in his great novel

L'Etranger

The Outsider ) when Meursault shoots Arab anonymous hero died on a beach in Algiers, we are only concerned with the fate of Meursault. Arabic is literally dead outside history.

Like most Europeans or Americans of my generation, who came first through Algeria in Algiers and in the writings of Camus, not only in

The Foreign

but his memoirs and essays. And as most readers who come to Algeria through the prism of Camus, I was baffled by this place, which, as he described it, was so French that could be in France, but it was so strange and out of range. Part of this difficulty stems from the fact that Algeria Camus describes is only part of a Muslim country. Instead, Camus sees Algeria as a perfect pan-Mediterranean civilization. In his autobiographical writings in Algiers and the Roman ruins of Tipasa, describes a place where traditional values ??pagans were alive and visible in the harsh but beautiful, sunny landscape. It is, in fact, is the key to the philosophy of Camus absurd. In Algeria, if God does not exist, life is an endless series of moral choices that must be solved by individuals alone, without any metaphysical comfort or counsel, and with little or no chance of that ever took decision absolutely right.

is easy to see here how the philosophy of Camus called the generation of French left-wing intellectuals who fought in World War II, a period when occupied France was involved in moral ambiguity and military control of the Germans. Was less effective, however, in the post-war Algerian nationalism began to assert itself against France, modeling itself on the values ??of the French Resistance.

Camus sympathized with the cause of the rights of Muslims. However, like most European Algerians

left, Camus did not speak Arabic and have little patience with religion, including Islam. More importantly, throughout the 1950s, when violence between the French and Algerian nationalists intensified, Camus was constantly engaged. His intentions were noble, but always when he died in a car accident in 1960 had admitted he did not recognize the country of his birth.

• During the 90s, it became almost impossible to visit Algeria. Reading Camus as a means Algerian it was just a waste of time. It was a country dominated by the fear that the hard-line government led a civil war against Islamist insurgents in Algeria looking dark tower "Iran in the Mediterranean region".
• Algerian Muslims were killed regularly by Islamists and other unknown forces. Foreigners were declared enemies of the Islamists, led to his execution. The government could not trust anyone. The only non-Algerians defied country journalists like Robert Fisk hardened war, which describes European conceal his face with a newspaper when you travel by car, staying in Algiers and no more than four minutes in a street or a store - the minimum time, decided for the kidnappers of a European spot. In Algeria in the mid-90s in flight before this cosmopolitan city, an hour or two of metropolitan France Algerians and Europeans kidnapping and murder were only ever a matter of minutes.

When he finally arrived in Algiers for the first time in 2009, I found the city was not. The ceasefire and amnesty had been in place for several years, but only in 2007 that there had been a wave of bombings and assassinations. However, while not having to hide their European status, the city remained tense. On the way to the airport, I went through no less than six police checkpoints and military, all managed by heavily armed men. It was getting dark and Algiers has been emptied during the night. During the long nightmare of the 1990s, nobody had dared to be outside at night and kept the habit.

While driving against the traffic during peak hours at my hotel, in the center, you can see that with Marseille, Naples, Barcelona, ??Beirut, was one of the most beautiful cities in the Mediterranean, in the twilight, I could still see the pine forests of the surrounding hills and the beautiful dark blue sweep of the bay. Unlike her siblings, however, perhaps with the exception of the Gaza blockade in Algiers was the first shadow of the night.

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Simon Stephens: Stockport state of mind

The Smiths, a dead sparrow, go home on the top floor of the bus 192 ... Simon Stephens wrote in the harbor, the people he thought he had left behind

One Monday morning before Christmas, I sat in a rehearsal at the National Theatre in London, and heard my game port read in English for the first time in 10 years. It was Graham Whybrow, literary manager of the Real Audience old, who suggested I write about my hometown of Stockport, Greater Manchester. Until then, all the work that has been written about the places where they had moved - York, Edinburgh, London. So when he received a commission from the Manchester Royal Exchange, it was logical to write about where I was born.

returned to the city for weeks at a time, my visits during the last months of the life of my father. The combination of seeing old friends, going to places I had not been in years, and watching my father fight cancer occur in the work, so that I now understand. Where he grew up became my spectacular: the Mersey Way Shopping Centre and Stockport bus station, municipal gray seashells sitting in the shade of the mighty viaduct. And the guys I went to school and worked in jobs fucking weekend gave me his characters. Were dryly funny, smart and broke. The music I had heard came to inform the structure of the work.

Puerto

is a place and a time - south of Manchester in the 1980s - who was accused of music. I wanted to stage this burden. I wanted the game to have the same effect on an audience that the Fall, New Order, The Smiths, Happy Mondays and The Stone Roses had on me. I tried to create scenes with the same pace and structure their songs. I tried to evoke the images of his letters in my box.

• I was not the only one who loved reimagining place: Marianne Elliott, who led the work in 2002 and revived for the National, has spent much of his childhood in Stockport. I think he wanted to revive the game in part because she loved to return to your imagination. Creativity and nostalgia from the same part of our brain.

Puerto

But it is not only important for me because this is my first piece in my hometown, but my first time with a female character in her heart. To start, I thought I would write about a man who goes back to Stockport - partly, I think, because I was raised as a writer to believe that the male writers could not write women. But while sharing an office with a colleague playwright Leo Butler, and one morning, I gave a copy of his extraordinary work, Redundant - excavation significance in the life of a girl in residential areas of Sheffield. I was inspired as I was excited. Instead of writing about a man who comes back, I write about a woman who goes.

So I went home and interviewed five women who had lived in Stockport all his life - family, old friends, friends of my mother. The oldest was 85 years old my girl, the youngest girl cousin. They told me about their jobs and their marriages, their aspirations and frustrations. Many of these stories - the discovery of a dead sparrow disastrous year in New hotel - it did in the plot of the play

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Why sex education matters

one-year campaign calling for quality courses rather than explaining the biology of puberty and reproduction

sex education mattered to many people for a long time. This year, the Forum organized sex education by the National Bureau for Children celebrates 25 years since its launch. SEF was born with eight members, three religious organizations. Journalists were skeptical that we agree on much, and certainly not on the teaching of subjects such as homosexuality and abortion. However, teachers have responded enthusiastically to express their feelings of isolation and frustration at the lack of support for their work.

Over the years people have argued that sex education should be more than the biology of puberty and reproduction, and we must look at the context of real life as well - namely the relationship . So SEF and others have called for compulsory sex and relationship education (SRE) to teach all children and young people in primary schools upwards.

A young man told us that sex education, because "without it, we would still be uncomfortable laughter is always something to do with sex is mentioned." Word "sex" seems to be a problem, but should not be. Sexuality is an intrinsic part of human beings and sexual development is a normal part of growth. Certain elementary schools call the theme "grow" and is Perhaps most significant for young children and more comfortable for adults. Whatever we call time passes, and "it" we mean learning the family, friends, stay safe and healthy relationships, puberty, sexual health and more.

sex education in primary schools

four years wondering where babies come from five years surfing and six years wants to be popular among his friends. Sex education is important at home because the children want their parents to be the first to speak with them on growth, sex and relationships. However, many parents say they lack confidence to answer questions their children honestly. Sex education in schools especially as this is a time when young people are under renewed pressure from their peers and are more independent and take account of their views on love, romance and what is acceptable or unacceptable to them.

Today, support SRE consensus is taller and wider than ever before. SEF represents the different voices of more than 75 religious organizations, family, youth, disability, health and education. All our member organizations believe sexual education. For example, children, a charity that works with young people with disabilities, joints SEF because customers have reported that their experiences of SRE were "too late" and were "talking instead of listening."

• Approximately 20,000 young people took the time to answer a survey of young British Parliament on RES, more than a third said their SRE was "bad" or "very bad". It was 2008 and young people continue to say the same thing today.
• There are indications that the SRE is improving, but progress is too slow and uneven. In some elementary schools in the SRE is just a lesson on puberty taught summer school before going to school and sometimes it is for girls only. In other areas of primary and secondary education worked together to plan a comprehensive program that grows with the child and builds vocabulary and knowledge at an appropriate pace.

is encouraging that members of all parties involved in a recent debate in Westminster Hall to discuss personal, social, health and economic education (PSHE) with strong support for some of learning relationships with each child. Ann Coffey MP said that "knowledge that gives children PSHE help prevent further scandals and Jimmy Savile Rochdale" and he was right. Experience shows that young people who have full SRE starts early and is taught by trained educators are more likely to have sex for the first time at a later age, with a partner of the same age and the use of contraception.

To highlight the consensus that issues of sex education and lobbying for political support for good quality SRE in all classrooms, we are short of 12 months of discussion Online and debate.

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TV bids to win pre-school kids over to science

Dick and Dom is in the lab and lead star comedy duo hoping interest young children

Professor Brian Cox was credited with a resurgence of interest in science among young people through their hit television series. Now the BBC TV children hope presenters Dick and Dom have a similar effect on young viewers.

channels BBC children are digital, CBeebies and CBBC, will embark on a wide range of programming this month to four years earlier, covering the inventors and engineers Archimedean Isambard Kingdom Brunel. Each device was used to make shows interesting and accessible to recruit leaders Dick and Dom - who have a final exam in science among them and is best known for his practical jokes bogey on the series In Da Bungalow - in brainstorming sessions with engineering students at the University of Cambridge. The students helped producers

Nina and the Neurons

to create a new 25-part series on engineering and to find ways to explain in simple terms how the electricity and visual hydraulics, computers and tunnel work. It is designed for elementary students show engineers important role in everyday life.

Wednesday, Dick and Dom has launched a new CBBC series in 10 parts absolute genius

, in which the duo seek explanations for great inventions and scientific discoveries. January 30, another series of CBBC

Super Human begin with seven men and three women capable of feats that would kill others. It opens with the Hog Wim swimmer, which can survive in water of the Arctic, and Sara Campbell, who can free dive to a depth of 105 meters and hold their breath. A new presenter wife, Dr. Megan John will explain the skills. CBBC also has a series on the geology and climate Fierce Earth

and

Former Junior
, come.

absolute genius

begins by observing the Greek mathematician and engineer Archimedes old, which makes the water flow upwards with his invention of the screw. Dick and Dom sitting in a bath - Archimedes is supposed to have had his "eureka" in a moment - talking water displacement. Miran giant Archimedes screws providing rafting course in Stockton-on-Tees, before falling into the water. They find a bag of aniseed balls falling into a bowl of water, while a bag of marshmallows, the same weight, it will float. Finish them the fire of a boat using sunlight focused. Richard McCourt aka Dick said his favorite was the genius engineer Sir Joseph Bazalgette, creator of the London sewers. The series also focuses on Leonardo da Vinci, Isaac Newton, Michael Faraday and James Watt. The women featured are Delia Derbyshire, the electronic musician who designed the original
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subject, Elsie Widdowson, pioneering nutritionist.
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Obamas join military families for kids' concert

Obama calls for gun control backing

president warns against the power of the NRA and pro-gun lobby prepares to protest against "noon" on the proposed measures

President Barack Obama called on Americans to pressure Congress to support their project control firearms Saturday, pro-gun lobby ready for a "half-day" to protest against the measures proposed.

In his weekly radio address, President Obama promised to do everything possible to push through a wide range of laws including a ban on the sale of assault rifles and high capacity clips, and improving the bottom checks for homeowners.

And in a blow to the National Rifle Association (NRA), the president accused the lobbyists and special interests who enjoy firearms experts are trying to derail the discussion by formulating proposals " an attack on freedom. "This, according to him, was more focused on getting more time in the air and money to contribute to the national dialogue." Behind the scenes, doing everything possible to protect the status quo, "he said.

To counterbalance the power of the NRA and its influence in the corridors of the Capitol, Obama urged people to harass pro-gun members of Congress who refuse to compromise on the issue of weapons despite an apparent increase in support for additional checks after the death of 20 children and six adults in a shooting at a school in Connecticut in December.

• "Ask them why a degree of firearms lobby is more important than keeping your child safe in a freshman class," Obama said Saturday.
• His comments came before a day of activism of those who are determined to keep the overly lax gun control in the United States in place.

Pro-gun supporters plan to hold rallies in 49 countries in the "noon" to support what they say is their Second Amendment right to be armed with rifles assault and other firearms.

events, most of which are planned staged in state capitals, is organized by Guns Across America, an organization launched by Texas airline pilot Eric Reed.

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Obama seeks American support to pressure Congress on gun control

president warns against the power of the NRA and pro-gun lobby prepares to protest against "noon" on the proposed measures

President Barack Obama called on Americans to pressure Congress to support their project control firearms Saturday, pro-gun lobby ready for a "half-day" to protest against the measures proposed.

In his weekly radio address, President Obama promised to do everything possible to push through a wide range of laws including a ban on the sale of assault rifles and high capacity clips, and improving the bottom checks for homeowners.

And in a blow to the National Rifle Association (NRA), the president accused the lobbyists and special interests who enjoy firearms experts are trying to derail the discussion by formulating proposals " an attack on freedom. "This, according to him, was more focused on getting more time in the air and money to contribute to the national dialogue." Behind the scenes, doing everything possible to protect the status quo, "he said.

To counterbalance the power of the NRA and its influence in the corridors of the Capitol, Obama urged people to harass pro-gun members of Congress who refuse to compromise on the issue of weapons despite an apparent increase in support for additional checks after the death of 20 children and six adults in a shooting at a school in Connecticut in December.

• "Ask them why a degree of firearms lobby is more important than keeping your child safe in a freshman class," Obama said Saturday.
• His comments came before a day of activism of those who are determined to keep the overly lax gun control in the United States in place.

Pro-gun supporters plan to hold rallies in 49 countries in the "noon" to support what they say is their Second Amendment right to be armed with rifles assault and other firearms.

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My daughter, the schizophrenic

His father knew there was something special about her daughter. But when she was five years old, his pride had turned to panic

June 2006

more than three years are in bed now, but they are not more than three geniuses age my daughter. Besides reading, she can already multiply and divide in their heads.

is almost new, and my wife, Susan, is probably returning from his shift and traffic reports for a new radio station. But I want to keep Janni until there is nowhere to go but home. We've done this since I was a baby Janni. When I give a lecture, it is Susan, who did the trick.

been to the zoo, Ikea and McDonald's playground. It must be well beyond the point of physical exhaustion at the moment. But his mind is that I have done. It was the only way to get to sleep since he was born.

Janni storms in a toy store. The seller approaches us.

"Can I help you?" He asks.

"No, thank you. Just look, "I said.

She nods and starts to walk away, but to my dismay Janni follows.

"I have seven rats at home," says Janni.

"Wow," she says. "You have seven rats?"

"Yes," Janni nods. "I call on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday."

Then comes the part I hate the most. The wizard looks up at me, a quizzical look on his face. A rat can understand, even two or three, but seven?

We do not have rats. Each is an imaginary friend. Janni first imaginary friend, a dog named Low, published just before his third birthday. Then came a cat called 400. For now, I've lost count of how many you have. They all come from a place called Calalini.

open his mouth, about to say: "They are actually imaginary rats". But I see Janni turn to me, waiting for my answer. For the moment, seems content. If I tell the truth, I know what will happen. Janni issue one of their deafening cries. Then she will take things off the shelf and throw them on the floor. It will run out of the store.

suddenly occurs to me: why should I tell the truth? Why do Janni feel more different than it already is?

August 8, 2006

Today is the fourth birthday Janni. "Hi, John!" Lynn call our friend. "Happy Birthday!"

"I'm January!" She screams. Then calmly: "I am blue-eyed tree frog."

Janni stopped going by his name. Whenever someone calls him by his real name, she screams. Sometimes, its name was changed several times in the same day. It was hot dog, Rainbow, Firefly and the Frog online Blue-Eyed Tree.

"Girls, I want blue-eyed Tree Frog Happy Birthday," Lynn says her daughters.

"Happy Birthday, Janni," they sing with diligence.

"I'm Janni" she screams. "I'm blue-eyed tree frog."

The twins look at his mother, confused.

"Janni" Susan said. "Be polite."

say nothing. Janni I would be polite, but I realize strange behavior is a by-product of his genius. She hit all her developmental markers early and was already talking about eight months. 13 months, he knew all his letters, big and small, even if you have turned on its side or upside down. At 18 months, she spoke in grammatically correct sentences, introduce the people with "I'm Janni Paige and I have 18 months of age."

But I could not understand what he was until I came home one evening when he was two years and Janni Susan told me that she had asked about the numbers negative. At two years of age, Janni mind made the leap from what the psychologist Jean Piaget called the development "practical reasoning" to "abstract reasoning", something that usually happens to a young lot.

Janni I have fantasies of going to Harvard or Yale before she was a teenager. My ultimate dream when I close my eyes at night, is Janni win the Nobel Prize. To be able to do what she can do, there must be a gift to humanity. I think sometimes wins being rude.

February 2007

am sitting in the office of Heidi Yellen, a therapist specializing in autism spectrum disorders. Janni like behavior has changed, most of our friends began to raise autism. In addition to anti-social behavior, Janni can not stop moving his hands, everyone takes as "stimming", one of the dominant signs of autism. Still bothers me that the world seems more concerned with the behavior of Janni with his intelligence, but I'm tired of hearing people suggest. So I'm terrified Janni will be diagnosed with autism, and it will derail its future.

However, to my delight, the first thing you want to do is give Heidi Janni an IQ test. This is what I'm trying Genius Janni. Unless your IQ is 146. I want a number so high that I can not explain the growing separation of Janni children their age and preference she has for her imaginary friends. I want to be able to say, when is something antisocial Janni ". Well, she has an IQ of 280"

"We must look at the percentages," says Heidi. "Some of them, such as verbal, is over 99%."

"What does that mean exactly?"

"means that the test began. Fifty is as high as the Stanford-Binet test is 5. 146 It is, and it was no writing. Could not get him to do any writing.

"There could have OCD," he says. "But here's the problem. Mentally, between 10 and 11 years. This is where all your problems will come. "

December 16, 2007

The green LED flickers

fetal heart monitor on me. I see the heart of our son as a yellow line staggered across the screen. His name is Bodhi.

only 10 months, I did not intend to have another child. Susan had talked about it for a moment, remembering that she was "lack of time". But if it was not finally accepted. Bodhi wanted for one reason and one reason only: because Janni said he wanted a brother. Bodhi is the biggest challenge that I've done in my life. For five years, we tried to find another boy who "gets" the imagination Janni, and failed. So this is my last attempt. If I can not find a child who can relate to Janni, maybe I can create one.

December 22, 2007

Bodhi

We can not make noise. In the three days that I brought home, we learned to fear the slightest glance out of it. As soon as he starts to move, put a pacifier in his mouth.

A little cry from the crib. "Susan!" I cried, breaking the kitchen. The countdown has begun for detonation.

"I'm coming!" Susan jumps off the bed as if he had shouted: "Fire!" She meets Bodhi in his arms, while I throw open the fridge and grab a bottle of ready-made formula.

"I can hear more crying Bodhi!" Janni cry without taking her eyes off the TV. Susan run to the bottle.

"Bodhi" Janni scream pierced the room, but she turns away from the television. "Stop crying!" His cry is simply stronger mourning. I can hear the fear in her voice. He does not know what happens.

"Janni, if disturbed, go to the bedroom," said Susan gently. Janni throws the remote at the Enlightenment.

"Janni, any rejection!" He shouted. "Go in the other room now!"

Janni quietly walk around the coffee table between Susan and Bodhi. Susan begins to rise, turn protect Bodhi. Janni reaches and moves the fist in the stomach of Susan, just below his legs dangling Bodhi.

I saw it every day since we brought Bodhi, but again paralyzes me for a moment, the eyes of my daughter attack my wife and son. Susan restores Janni, trying to protect Bodhi. Janni fist down on the back so hard, I can hear the noise from the other side of the room.

caught Janni and feel his fist on the side of the head. She hit me as hard as you can. Janni I get in the room and on the bed, where I can keep it until it happens. And it always does. This explosion of violence disappears as quickly as it came.

"Let me go!" She shouts, slamming against me. I lay beside her, arms down.

"If you tell me it will not hurt to try Bodhi, I can not let you go," I said.

"Bodhi I have hurt," she says.

"You may feel like you have, but you do not."

"I have ... I love you. "

"Janni, just told me not to try to hurt and I can not let you go," I said in despair.

"I'm hurt," she says, very matter-of-factly. I do not understand why he insists on telling me the truth. There is a truth I want to hear.

New Year 2007

Dr. Howe has toys in his office. There is a doll house "Janni and plays with it.

"Janni, you know why you're here?" the psychiatrist asked.

"Bodhi hit me," he replied emphatically.

to enter "She never really hit. Are always there to protect."

"OK". Dr. Howe nods and returns to Janni. "Can you handle this?"

"Sometimes I can and sometimes I can not," said Janni. Susan begins to speak of endless explosions of violence. Dr. Howe listening and we wondered about the history of our family.

"I was on Ritalin since the age of five to 13," I reply.

Susan

interjects: "And then there was the brother of my grandmother had schizophrenia My dad said he used to cry all the time ..." He pauses for a moment, a look of fear over his face. "Could I have schizophrenia?"

Schizophrenia? Schizophrenics are these people so favorable to themselves in the corners.

"I do not want to go," said Dr. Howe.

"So, have you seen this behavior before?" Susan request.

Dr. Howe looks at his notes, shaking his head, as if trying to decide what he wants to say.

"I saw some of these behaviors before, but not in a child from the age of Janni."

March 8, 2008

Although today is Saturday, I work. This is money that we desperately need. At the end of the morning gives us a break and go into the room and called Susan.

• "How are you doing?"
• "Not very well," replied Susan, his voice as if I had never heard of before. It seems broken.

"Where are you?"

"Right now I'm parked outside the emergency room."


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UK snow forecast to continue next week

up to 30 cm of snow closes 3,000 schools, causing power outages and disrupting road, rail and air ... but the kids love

For children who have had an extra day off school, sports enthusiasts and lovers of winter landscape snow was a happy day. For parents who have taken the time to watch the kids excited and all those who have to go anywhere quickly it was much more difficult because, up to 30 cm of snow on the United Kingdom has led to an impasse.

pleasure - or misery depending on your point of view - is likely to take place next week with snow and freezing weather predicted should continue to enter Britain. Thawing should not put in place the following week. On Friday, about 3,000 schools in England, Wales and Scotland were closed. Motorway sections were blocked dozens of trains and bus stops and airport runways at Heathrow, including closed periods.

thousands of households, Pembrokeshire in southwest Wales in Kensington, west London, had to deal with power outages, while some hospitals canceled operations routine emergency and those invited to dial 999 if they were in big trouble.

A 16-year-old girl was taken to hospital after suffering injuries to his head and back in a snowboarding accident Wrightington Lancashire and Somerset Police call through a man 89 years, Peter Carver, who disappeared from Taunton in the early hours of Friday.

The snow began to fall in the early hours of Friday morning in parts of south Wales and southwest England most affected. The Met Office has issued a rare "red" warning to the Brecon Beacons and the valleys of Wales, said the snow was deep in Sennybridge, Brecon near which measured 25cm. Above were piles even more serious, whipped by winds as strong as 40 mph.

other side of the Severn, 16cm of snow fell in Filton, near Bristol, while 15 cm was measured in the Blackdown Hills on the Devon and Somerset border. There were also significant decreases in the east of England, including Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex. During the day, the band of snow has caused problems in the central region, counties and London.

During the heavy snow predicted weekend in the Scottish Highlands and is not expected to be snowflakes in the center of England, East Anglia and North West England, Saturday and during Sunday. On Sunday evening, another group of snow expected to sweep the South East of England and may have one or two drops next week.

temperature should remain around zero until next week when, after thawing should finally put in.

• Among the hot spots was the M4 in South Wales and the M50 in Herefordshire. On Friday evening, the M48 Severn Bridge was closed to traffic.
Anticipating snow, railways and reduced services as the day progressed, there have been serious delays on some lines of the London Underground. Including airports Cardiff, Southampton, Norwich, Birmingham and Belfast were affected. Heathrow had to close its two tracks for a moment, while snow could be cleared and about 400 flights were canceled.

The Highways Agency said gritters were out in force. However, there was dispute as to whether the roads had been treated properly. At Newport, on the Isle of Wight residents of a street were shocked by what his path was not tight which built a barricade - Snow -. And threw snowballs at the police when they arrived on the scene

There was a dispute between the mayor of Bristol, George Ferguson, and the leader of the Liberal Democrat city council, Tim Kent, after the decision was taken not to make deliveries Additional sand. Ferguson said it would cost an extra ? 20,000. Kent said he did not provide cost millions of pounds of grain in lost business because people could not go to work.
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Talking Heads members help Sandy Hook schoolchildren with charity single

Somewhere Over the Rainbow with singer Ingrid Michaelson, honors those who died in the shooting Newtown

Two former Talking Heads helped a choir student registration Sandy Hook only primary charity, which also features singer Ingrid Michaelson. His interpretation of Somewhere Over the Rainbow, which is already available, will raise funds in honor of the children and staff who died last month shooting school in Newtown, Connecticut.

The song was recorded in the home studio of Connecticut residents Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth, known for his work in the Tom Tom Club and Talking Heads. "My hope is that the school children Sandy Hook has a hit record," said Frantz. "And I think we have a very good chance." Tim Hayes, one of the new owners revived New York club CBGB, has contributed to this project together. "Music has the power to heal the listener and the artist," he told the Los Angeles Times. "The children were invited to sing the song as a prayer."

• Most of the 21 members of the choir from Sandy Hook are current or former students of the school, and many lost friends in the attack. Kayla Dick, who is 10, told the television show Good Morning America that the song helped to remember six years, Jessica Rekos, died Dec. 11. "Singing the song that makes me feel like he was with me, and she is with me, sing with me," he said.

Michaelson, whose latest album reached number five in the United States, sings and plays the ukulele in the song. "To be able to honor those who lost their lives is something that I am very humbled," she said. Proceeds from the sale of the track go to the United Way and Western Connecticut Newtown Youth Academy, a community center.

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Ray Winstone's hard-man image falls to Ashes

Ray Winstone plays an Alzheimer's patient on the run in his new film, Ashes - a disturbing drama inspired by the father of the young director. Laura Barton visits the island very very rainy all Rights

Under the glow of the big spruce projector seems to be dead. They are pale and fragile, ghostly thorns pressed against the darkness. The night is so silent through the trees, stumbling blocks, Ray Winstone, quickly followed by Jim Sturgess googly eyes. Winstone burning wood. Sturgess limits after him, shouting, "Daddy! Papa Papa "and somewhere in a clearing, is Lesley Manville, his unsharp mask, the rain running down the hair.

This is the day nine of the ashes of fire. The early hours of the morning, freezing cold, and we are in a forest on the Isle of Man. The rain fell furiously, striking a tattoo stable against the crew hoods and covers the camera, which raises questions about the perception of the glamorous film industry.

Ashes is the latest offering from director Mat Whitecross, who made his name with the famous Ian Dury biopic Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll, and will return later this year with Spike Island on young indie pilgrimage to see the Stone Roses. Ashes is less musical and more personal. Essentially a thriller, stars as Frank Winstone once hardnut now weakened by Alzheimer's disease. Sturgess plays James, the son who was abducted from his home nursing and flees Manville is pining for wife-Cathy Winstone

is a disturbing story, the discovery of an unexpected delicacy Winstone, Whitecross and marked as one of the most interesting young filmmakers in Britain. But the film was difficult to finance and release: some fans could see the charm, or marketing of a film about Alzheimer's disease. "We crossed the city about 14 times," remembers Whitecross. "There was a recession, people have become much more cautious ... but it does not fit in one box. It was very frustrating. "

When funding comes largely from the Isle of Man Film Board, Whitecross found transplanting the story of a small island with a single dual carriageway, working on half the budget in part of the half of the time. "But now," he said, "and with this cast, I would have been happy to get in my phone."

The film is in many ways a tribute to the father of Whitecross, Richard, who died of Alzheimer's disease. "My father got sick when I finished uni," he explains. "I think everyone goes through this process not to believe, so I started writing a diary, trying to make sense of this difficult situation, surreal." Aware that dementia rarely seen portrayed on screen, decided to convert part of the log to a script. "Dementia affects their identity in a way that is different from cancer or a car accident and the funny thing is that this is a very cinematic The person who are like a time traveler : one minute can be 60 - ... ..-Year-old man to the hospital, and the next you're a kid on the way to school every day is a mystery Each day is like being stuck in a thriller "

Whitecross

worked with Winstone in Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll (Ian Dury played the father) and was intrigued by the idea of ??giving the role of a character more vulnerable - "to show what that the disease can make someone so strong. "It was also a nod to gangster movies had loved his father. When we met, Winstone is sitting on a wall next to the truck restoration with saggy tracksuit Frank - the uniform of the long institutionalized. He has tattoos all over his fingers. "I play in the skin of my teeth," he said, with that familiar voice, painting. "There is no model - trying to feel your way You know how everyone has a different fingerprint Alzheimer Well Well yes, in a way that can fall any way with him.? "..

Winstone dementia research before shooting begins: I saw the documentary, scientific studies and reading logs poignant patients and caregivers, joined a trip to bowling in West London for those in the early stages of the disease, but also spoke to Whitecross, of course, and I've seen pictures of his father. "It is not the man I'm going to play," he said, "but it is almost like a voyeur in someone's life. Are very careful with what you say. "

Day 10. Another night shot. On the crest of a hill in open moorland, Sturgess, who arrived in the new game of Hollywood success one day alongside Anne Hathaway, shepherd's tent again Winstone in a car on the highway, Winstone is doing hard work. The rain is endemic, tighten crew lenses clean, feather coat

Manville took refuge in a caravan near the wettest scenes you have a double, wearing a pair of tight pants. She says she remembers being at a ceremony in London when Whitecross knelt beside his chair and asked if he could send a script. "When I read a couple of weeks later, he hit me because my mother died of dementia last year, I thought it was great, but the problem is that Cathy was not really very important,. There was nothing for me to get. "

She was in the wake of Mike Leigh, Another Year, and the most important pieces offered elsewhere - called Whitecross to explain their concerns. "And he said," Well, well, go further and build up. "And I thought," Well, that's impressive. Then the script arrived, and immediately became more attractive. "
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'We are not cynical' say PiXL club schools

schools belonging to the club pixl were attacked by ministers, but say they are doing their best to help students - with measurable success

can be the first day after the Christmas holidays, but is directly working for 11 years, students of the school Greenshaw in Sutton, Surrey, they make a mock GCSE English Paper. They sit in single rows office, head bowed in silent concentration, but this is not a typical review. Professor Nick House is located at the front, read the questions - and how to respond. "It is worth four points, so at least five points, just to be safe," he said, as students carefully highlight parts of the text are given and write in your test booklet .

Known as "walking talking fake" is a new initiative to encourage students exam technique - and ultimately their GCSE grades. Items will be marked and returned to students within 24 hours (with a unique set of objectives), so when it comes to "real" test later in the week, they will have confidence in success. "When presented for consideration and think it will be realized, c ' is exactly what they will do, "says school director, Will Smith.

His confidence is justified: last year, 76% of pupils achieved at least five GCSE A *-C with degrees - against about 35% seven years ago - something he attributes to participation in school pixl club. The club is a group of schools to work together to improve student achievement, particularly at GCSE - with impressive results

pixl last year (which means Partners in Excellence) - Schools. Achieved an average GCSE results by 4.6%, compared to a national decline of 0.4%

participating schools are passionate - even evangelical - the benefits. According to director John Cornally, pixl inspired projects have increased the number of students receiving As and A * GCSE at school - Blessed Thomas Holford Catholic College in Altrincham - 25%. "There is a real family feeling [the club] and a sincere desire of everyone to succeed," he said.

Smith, who is also the deputy director of pixl is particularly proud of a motivational program presented in Greenshaw last year which helped 25 "borderline" 11 students (those identified as being at risk do not get notes C at GCSE) to achieve five grades A *-C GCSE necessary to progress in the sixth form -. and in many cases beyond what

But despite its significant - and measurable - successful club pixl attracted unwanted media attention late last year, according to an article in the Times Educational Supplement (TES) has said the group was urging schools to introduce students to both GCSE and IGCSE exams or International English to improve their position in the rankings (the last qualification, more traditional, with a focus on end of course examination historically been favored by the independent sector and has taken into account the performance data of the government since 2010).

And while the brand has emerged relatively unscathed pixl - in fact, said its founder, Sir John Rowling, over 40 schools registered "in the back of the room TES" - some members were felt stung, especially the Ministry of Education (DFE), which refers in a press release that "cynical". Rowling, a former director, still cross about it and wish to emphasize that the group "does not impose anything on anyone." Approximately 700 students pixl Sat IGCSE last summer and, given the recent debacle GCSE English - in which thousands of students have received lower grades than expected after the boundaries have changed between January and June examination sessions - the schools can not be blamed for seeking alternative qualifications said.

• "It was very painful to see the children they thought had happened, we thought had happened and I think it should have happened, and he did not. We will not be caught off guard again because it was very embarrassing last year. "

What is even more irritating of the episode, he says, is that students entering for additional testing is only one of many strategies used by the group to help students succeed exams.

the heart of the club is a management commitment pixl high quality schools that support each other and a shared sense of "moral purpose" to give all young people - regardless of their origin or capacity - the ability to do their best. And while Cornally Rowling and enthusiastic about the "family feeling" of the group, Smith speaks of "pulling the strings" and not "limited by the walls of the school," pixl philosophy is based on rigor.

annual subscription fees ? 3200 (which, as Smith is quick to point out, this is a small percentage of their annual school budget ? 9m), where members can attend six lectures per year . They also have access to resources and test materials, including online tutorials and webinars. During the Christmas period, 480 children enrolled in a series of webinars in English magazine developed by the group, said Rowling.

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Jim Davidson: Comedy is no longer a laughing matter | Victoria Coren

Interestingly, it seems a shame that Jim Davidson has lost the opportunity to return to TV in Big Brother

When I was a kid, you knew where you were with actors. There were two simple equipment to choose from.

If you were under 45 years old comics dismissed as racist, sexist and scary, all drunk and beat his wife gags second hand. You excited for a new generation of writers and comedians joked with heart or even

have women.

If you were over 45, who despised the new generation of leftists, Smarty Sets have always been tough and fun than ever. You missed the family comedy focusing which serves to unite the nation, before television was supported by leftists, producers Smarty obsessed with people like them.

It was not so long ago, right? He firmly on computer A. There were posters of Mark Steel and Denis Leary on the wall of my room. I wanted to be Jo Brand (and succeeded, to the extent that she had a dress very similar). I went to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, sometimes to see comedy, sometimes awkwardly realize it, but never waste my time with something trivial like theater or music. I liked Alan Davies, Lee Stewart and Bill Hicks, Eddie Izzard suspected, but because it does not seem very political. When it came out as a transsexual and had down on the scene as a statement, I felt much more comfortable.

So how do I find today, nostalgia for Jim Davidson?

I mean, Jim Davidson was the worst. Not only the king of old school reprehensible (ear) Comedy intolerant, he really fact beating his wife. Jim Davidson was not Bob Monkhouse and Les Dawson, caught between cultural change but adorable and funny when you grew up and realized. Jim Davidson was horrible. We had reason to hate him.

But now I'm really sad that Davidson has lost the opportunity to return to television in Celebrity Big Brother , after arrested at Heathrow Airport on the eve of the shooting.

By the way: what exactly is the mission of "Operation Yewtree"? The company was created to meet the charges against Jimmy Savile. Then began arresting other celebrities, not all of them do not even know Savile but we assume (sometimes wrongly) that they have been accused of similar things. Now, this is Jim Davidson, with allegations that the 25-year police say "not directly related to Savile" and apparently involved complainants who were in half of his 20 years at the time of the alleged facts.

So: no Savile and child abuse. Why is Operation Yewtree by then? Who are the famous Crimes Unit?

Why

was arrested at Heathrow Airport? It is a jewel thief on the run across international borders. OK: I was about to do a series on Channel 5, which can be an even more effective disappear completely. But he was expelled soon. Can not the police do is quietly at home?

By definition, it is vital for our justice system and lifestyle, Jim Davidson - not accused of anything, let alone convicted - is an innocent man, he did not expect to be arrested. Why spectacular raid in a crowded airport, in front of hundreds of people? That would be cruel and humiliating if it were a book, let alone a famous actor. Beloved? No. Very recognizable? Yes

So far, the operation seems to have stopped Yewtree (toll free) many people who are well known, but not well liked. The first door he hit belonged to Gary Glitter. We have not yet seen an arrest cool star, rock respected. I guess that must mean that, 25 years ago, no rock stars fresh never approached a minor.

• Everyone can ask questions on specific agenda in operation Yewtree. The big question would be: are similar resources, energy and urgency that will investigate the abuse happens in nursing homes
today

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