| Healthy Beginnings, Healthy Futures: A Judge's Guide |
 By Eva J. Klain JD, Lisa Pilnik JD, MS, Erin Talati JD, MD, et al.This is a guide for judges on the wide array of health needs of very young children in the child welfare system. By sharing current research on physical health, child development, attachment, infant mental health, and early care and education, the authors provide tools and strategies to help judges promote better outcomes for babies, toddlers, and preschoolers who enter their courtrooms. Library Record • Borrow it • More Titles |
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Comments (0)November 25, 2009
| Wanna See a Cool Google Design Prototype? |
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Simply follow the instructions found here. Note that, contrary to the instructions, it only worked for me when I was logged in. |
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Submitted by: Dan Giancaterino, Education Services Manager
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| Kindle Now Runs For 2 Weeks On a Single Charge |
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Amazon has released Kindle software update v2.3 which, among other things, provides for longer battery life (up to 1 week on a single charge with wireless on and 2 weeks with wifi off) and a built-in PDF reader. |
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Submitted by: Dan Giancaterino, Education Services Manager
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November 24, 2009
| I Hit the Jackpot Yesterday |
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I had the (dubious) pleasure of trying to get things done using 5 different computer operating systems: Windows XP, Windows 7, Mac OS X, Crunchbang Linux, and Google Chrome OS. The latter is a very early pre-release version that I’m running as a virtual machine on my Windows XP laptop. I was stoked about Chrome OS when Google announced it back in July. I thought a stripped-down, lean OS made sense — you know, less-is-more. But I have to say I’m underwhelmed. Chrome OS just feels sort of dumbed-down. The applications tab strikes me as cartoonish. (It sort of reminded me of the Linux distro gOS.) I know Google’s got a lot of work to do on it, so I won’t presume to judge until I get to play with a more-developed version. |
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Submitted by: Dan Giancaterino, Education Services Manager
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| I Am Soooooo Happy I Installed Flashblock |
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I may be a bit late to the dance with this one, but I’ve recently installed the Firefox extension Flashblock which, as the name implies, blocks Flash animations. No more ads about Philly single moms who discover the ultimate teeth whitening secret, or who come up with the one single tip for dropping 20 pounds of belly fat. And it even fixed the problem I was having at home with Firefox eating up 100% of my CPUs on my Linux laptop. Heaven. Flashblock is only the third Firefox extension that I actually use on a regular basis. The others are Tor and RECAP. |
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Submitted by: Dan Giancaterino, Education Services Manager
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November 23, 2009
| Wiki-fatigue |
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The WSJ has an article today (sub required) discussing a new endangered species: the Wikipedia editor. Apparently 49,000 of them disappeared during the first 3 months of 2009 alone. One of the reasons the Journal cites is the Wikipedia’s “plethora of rules” about the editing process, which has led to infighting among editors: “‘People generally have this idea that the wisdom of crowds is a pixie dust that you sprinkle on a system and magical things happen,’ says Aniket Kittur, an assistant professor of human-computer interaction at Carnegie Mellon University who has studied Wikipedia and other large online community projects. ‘Yet the more people you throw at a problem, the more difficulty you are going to have with coordinating those people. It’s too many cooks in the kitchen.’” I have 3 comments about this: (1) Mr. Kittur appears to be channeling Fred Brooks. (Coincidentally I ordered a copy of the Mythical Man-Month on Saturday.) (2) “Too many cooks spoil the broth” was yet another of my mom’s pithy phrases. (3) I’m not thinking the Wikipedia’s going away any time soon, despite the dire warnings we read from time to time. |
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Submitted by: Dan Giancaterino, Education Services Manager
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| AOL is now Aol. That’ll Help a Lot. |
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Their press release claims: “The new AOL brand identity is a simple, confident logotype, revealed by ever changing images. It’s one consistent logo with countless ways to reveal.” I’m sure that’ll be a comfort to the 2,500 sacrificial lambs. |
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Submitted by: Dan Giancaterino, Education Services Manager
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| It’s All About Appearances |
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When I was a young person, my mom used to lecture me about the “appearance of evil”. She was trying to tell me that if I was seen in a suspicious situation, people would jump to conclusions, even if I was innocent. (Like this guy, for example.) The CBC has a story that would make my mom say, “Uh-huh … told you so.” A young woman from Montreal is out on disability from her job at IBM, suffering from depression. Her benefits have been cut off by her insurance company because they say she’s well enough to go back to work. The insurer based its decision, in part, on photos posted to the woman’s Facebook page showing her, for example, in a bikini on a beach. (There’s also a video attached to the story, in which the woman was interviewed about her plight. Ironically, the first time I viewed it, it was preceded by a 15-second IBM ad.) Sounds suspicious, huh? She’s gaming the system, right? I can’t say. But I’m sympathetic, especially since I got rear-ended by a distracted driver on Saturday. There was no damage to either car. But I woke up on Sunday with stiffness in my neck and shoulders and 2 days later it persists. Who would believe me if I tried to say I was suffering from whiplash? Anyway, I *am* going to judge the young woman for one thing: she made it too easy for the insurance company. If you’re depending on disability payments in order to survive economically, then you have to look at everything you post on social networking sites — even if you’ve locked down your profile — and ask yourself, does this qualify as the “appearance of evil”? My mom had another pity phrase: “If it’s doubtful, it’s dirty.” |
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Submitted by: Dan Giancaterino, Education Services Manager
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| Microsoft Attacks. Google Responds With Zen. |
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Microsoft has offered to pay News Corp, owner of The Wall Street Journal, and other publishers to block their content from Google. This is an effort to make Google cough up cash for news content as well, thus reducing its profit margins. And it also fits nicely with Rupert Murdoch’s world-view, to boot. Google is unperturbed. It knows that news stories, once posted, become available everywhere, even from Twitter. As the haiku error message says: The Web site you seek |
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Submitted by: Dan Giancaterino, Education Services Manager
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| Google Books Settlement Will Have to Wait Another 88 Days |
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As I blogged last week, Judge Chin has set the date for the next Google Books settlement “fairness hearing”: February 18. January 28 is the last call date for objections. |
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Submitted by: Dan Giancaterino, Education Services Manager
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