news November 2007 archives
November 30, 2007
Between 30 and 45 students upset by an announcement from Brigham Young University that the school would be phasing out the Bachelor of Social Work program held a quiet demonstration Wednesday.
iStockphoto | D Norov
Cannabis contains a chemical called THC, which binds to, and activates, proteins in the brain known as 'CB1 cannabinoid receptors'. Activating these receptors can relieve pain and prevent epileptic seizures; but it also causes the mood-altering effect experienced by people who use cannabis as a recreational drug.
Students enrolled in BYU’S Bachelor of Social Work program hit the streets angry over a change in direction.
Photo | T Miller Indiana University
AMPATH staffers harvest produce for HIV patients and their families in Kenya.
Dawn's son Sam arrived very prematurely at 25 weeks. Here the mother from Newcastle describes how she and her husband coped.
Photo | A Wylie
Krystal Bartlett, who vigilantly upheld her needs while growing up in foster homes, welcomes the new charter of rights.
A HAPPY FAMILY – The Vargas family of North Bergen recently adopted 2-year-old Martin Tyrone Melendez (pictured) on Adoption Day, Nov. 16, at the Hudson County Family Court in Jersey City.
A WALLACE | TORONTO STAR
Robert Thorpe and an army of volunteers are leading the charge to save the St. Phillip’s food bank in Parkdale, which is slated to close because of insufficient funding. “People come here for food, but also for support. If the bank closes, it will devastate our community,” Thorpe says.
November 29, 2007
The Palmeira Project provided support for many people
iStockphoto | N Watkins
Using a pedometer is associated with significant increases in physical activity and weight loss and improvements in blood pressure, researchers have found.
Tracy for News
A candlelight vigil in Bedford-Stuyvesant on the day after police gunned down, a mentally ill teen, Khiel Coppin, at his home.
Photo | JV Labolito Temple University
Old-fashioned retro toys, such as red rubber balls, simple building blocks, clay and crayons, that don't cost so much and are usually hidden in the back shelves are usually much healthier for children than the electronic educational toys, says Temple University developmental psychologist Kathy Hirsh-Pasek.
Staff | J Henson
Marsha Boren, seated, and Robin Mounger plan how to continue support and direction for Court Appointed Special Advocates for Children, or CASA. The program is designed to provide, by court order, an advocate for abused children to provide needed services for the child. Its work primarily concerns providing permanent solutions for a home for abandoned or abused children.
Gun crime, gang culture and underachievement among black boys are at the top of the agenda, so why is a group that aims to tackle these issues about to close due to a lack of money?
Many people with dementia in care homes go for hours without speaking a meaningful word to anyone, a report from the Alzheimer's Society suggests.
November 28, 2007
Tandiwe Sithole explaining her business idea
W ARCHIE | Detroit Free Press
Pamela Green, 42, talks about owning her new home in Pontiac alongside her four children, Jon Lightner, 14, Malik Lightner, 11, Chenyer Lightner, 13, and Tanqurae Moss, 9.
Marcus E. Boyer, 20, of Wilmington, lived in at least two dozen foster homes over four years.
News Journal | J CORBETT
News Journal | R CRAIG
Yvette and Chris Edwards change their foster child's clothes Wednesday in their North East, Md., home. The boy's mother told the hospital she had done heroin the night before he was born, so the couple started caring for him when he was 10 days old.
The £19m Gartnavel Royal Hospital, in Glasgow's west end. The centre, described as the UK's most revolutionary mental health hospital, has opened its doors to patients.
November 27, 2007
PHOTO | AFP
Nguyen Thi Binh, a 24-year-old maid, is pictured on Nov. 1 at a village in the northern province of Ha Tay after she was rescued from her employers in Hanoi.
P Hoppe
Scott Lilienfeld, a professor in the psychology department at Emory University, said, “I don’t think psychoanalysis is going to survive unless there is more of an appreciation for empirical rigor and testing.”
Phil Porter is one of the 2007 recipients of the UTA distinguished alumni awards, recognizing outstanding alumni for achievements. He received his master's degree in social work at age 65 and has been a volunteer counselor at Venture School for the past 18 years. The alternative school focuses on nontraditional, at-risk students.
A Hartmann | Salt Lake Tribune
Three years ago Glen and Janet Worthington started caring for their granddaughter while the baby's mother was having problems. Worthington's son, the baby's father, was incarcerated. Originally, Worthington tried convincing the mother to surrender the baby for adoption. But as he and his wife bonded with the baby, they changed their minds and started proceedings to adopt her. Had they known what they know now about the legal system, they might have saved a lot of heartache - a three-year custody battle with their son. Now Worthington works with other grandfamilies through a support program.
S Hayter | Chronicle
Nick Murrieta, 18, gets ready to paint. Each Saturday since this summer, between 30 to 60 volunteers help renovate an old Victorian house that will be the headquarters for VOICES.
Britons are getting bigger and it's a crisis on the same level as climate change, says the government. Within 15 years most of us will be overweight, with our life expectancy cut by 13 years. Scary stuff, but do all the facts about this "ticking time bomb" really add up?
November 26, 2007
R GAMELA | Observer-Dispatch
This HOPE VI home on Oak Street in West Utica was near completion in August. Finding ways to provide affordable housing is but one effort communities can take to eliminate poverty.
I would be paid $500 for one-hour “Lunch and Learn” talks at local doctors’ offices, or $750 if I had to drive an hour. I would be flown to New York for a “faculty-development program,” where I would be pampered in a Midtown hotel for two nights and would be paid an additional “honorarium.”
Anderson | News
Line outside this Queens food pantry is indicative of growing problem in borough as well as the city.
Kathleen Kufeldt, the vice president of the International Foster Care Organisation
D Gilleland | Telegraph
Mark Clay, left, visits his former kindergarten teacher Leelee Lewis on Tuesday at her home in Elko.
The so-called “hunger marches” carried out by unemployed men throughout the country in the 1930s were another occasion when the consciences of middle-class Britons were pricked. These marchers sought not only to redeem the moral worth of destitute men, but also to publicise that governmental policies were responsible for the economic crisis. No jobs existed; the unemployed were victims of forces beyond their control. Even worse, unemployment insurance was inadequate and applicants were demeaned.
November 25, 2007
Credit: Di Dio, Macaluso & Rizzolatti | Courtesy of PLoS One
Brain activations in the contrasts "judged-as-beautiful vs. judged-as-ugly" and "judged-as-ugly vs. judged-as-beautiful" stimuli. Statistical parametric maps rendered onto the MNI brain template showing activity within left somatomotor cortex in the contrast of ugly vs. beautiful stimuli averaged across the three conditions.
November 21, 2007
Picture | D PHILLIPS
ROLE MODEL: Colin Brough was looking to find something worthwhile to put his energies into and discovered foster caring fitted the bill
P Greenhouse | Globe
Helen Reinherz heads a 30-year-long study that has followed 400 people since kindergarten.
Japan is not big on diversity. Foreign residents make up only 1.6% of the population and successive governments have opposed allowing migrants in, fearing they could create social tensions. But in 1990, facing a labour shortage, the government came up with a compromise. It would allow second and third-generation Nikkeijin - "people of Japanese origin" - to come to Japan as permanent workers. Nikkeijin had Japanese blood, the case went, and would speak Japanese, understand the culture and integrate more easily.
Costing £7 million, this is the first of four purpose-built care homes for Edinburgh. Marionville Court will be home to 60 older people.
Initial results from a London pilot scheme where addicts inject themselves with heroin in a clinic suggest it has reduced drug use and crime.
N DE LA TORRE | CHRONICLE
Although Victoria, right, 18, is now too old to be adopted, but her 13-year-old foster sister, Ashley, still hopes to become part of a family.
Special to the S-T | W Knight
Lacee Brown, 17, shows her emotions as Judge Lisa A. Beebe declares her adopted by Cheryl Brown and her husband, Joe.
RB Brazziell | AMERICAN-STATESMAN
Brenda Caldwell receives adoption information and a book from Thomas Brooks, right author of the book' A Wealth of Family' during the Foster Care and Adoption Expo at George Washington Carver Library
A Voisard | The Post
The Dorrington house complement in Port St. Lucie includes Joey (front), 11, Vanessa (top), 12, and (seated, from left) Ron, 14, Michelle, Donald and Melissa Rader, 24.
November 20, 2007
Photo | D Purcell
Pete Bullimore (left) and fellow campaigner Paul Hammersley.
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Children entering kindergarten with elementary math and reading skills are the most likely to do well in school later, even if they have various social and emotional problems, say researchers who examined data from six studies of close to 36,000 preschoolers.
Photo | A Jerozolimski
Children of foreign workers.
KT Borchers | Mercury News
Connie Corrales, right, program manager of HICAP, Council on Aging, spoke to seniors at the East Side Neighborhood Center about changes to the Medicare prescription drug plan.
C WEHLING | FREE LANCE-STAR
Tiffany Lowe consoles her foster child Carter, 9, yesterday at her house in Spotsylvania. Lowe is in the process of adopting Carter and an 8-year-old boy.