Two hundred and thirty Barton College seniors received diplomas on May 12, during the school?s 111th annual commencement exercises, including Fuquay-Varina resident Kristine Lynn Rocha. She received a B.S.N. in nursing.
Participating in the ceremony were students who completed their baccalaureate degree requirements in December 2012 and May 2013, as well as candidates who expect to fulfill requirements over the summer.
Garretson receives transfer scholarship
Tara Garretson of Fuquay-Varina, a transfer from Wake Technical Community College, is the recipient of a Transfer Incentive Award at Barton College. The renewable scholarship will cover $1,000 of tuition for the year.
Mrs. Garretson is the wife of Greg Garretson. She will enter Barton College in the fall semester and plans to major in nursing.
The Transfer Incentive Award is given to those transfer students who have high academic ability. To receive this scholarship, the recipient must have a minimum 2.50 transferable college GPA. A 2.0 GPA must be maintained to retain the scholarship each additional year. In addition to the required renewal GPA, students must maintain satisfactory academic progress, as outlined in the college catalog and be enrolled continuously on a full-time basis.
Source: kylefox.ca --- Saturday, July 13, 2013 An interesting article on SitePoint in which Dmitry Baranovskiy , creator of the Rapha?l JavaScript library, talks about the ?terrible code? behind Google Closure and describes Closure as ?a JavaScript library written by Java developers who clearly don?t get ?JavaScript.? I love the part where Dmitry compares JavaScript?s global scope to a public?toilet: ? You can?t avoid going in there, but try to limit your contact with surfaces when you?do.? Even if you?re not interested in Google Closure specifically, this article still illustrates some general best-practices for writing good?JavaScript. ...
Contact: Janet Lathrop jlathrop@admin.umass.edu 413-545-0444 University of Massachusetts at Amherst
A study suggests that whether parents are gay, lesbian or straight, how well they work together as a couple is linked to fewer behavior problems in their adopted children and is more important than their sexual orientation
AMHERST, Mass. A new study by psychology researchers suggests that whether parents are gay, lesbian or straight, how well they work together as a couple and support each other in parenting is linked to fewer behavior problems among their adopted children and is more important than their sexual orientation.
Rachel H. Farr at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and Charlotte J. Patterson at the University of Virginia report their findings from this first empirical examination of differences and similarities in co-parenting among lesbian, gay and heterosexual adoptive couples and associations with child behavior in the July/August issue of Child Development.
Farr, who led the study, says, "While actual divisions of childcare tasks such as feeding, dressing and taking time to play with kids were unrelated to children's adjustment, it was the parents who were most satisfied with their arrangements with each other who had children with fewer behavior problems, such as acting out or showing aggressive behavior."
"It appears that while children are not affected by how parents divide childcare tasks, it definitely does matter how harmonious the parents' relationships are with each other," she adds. She and Patterson also observed differences in division of labor in lesbian and gay couples compared to heterosexual parents.
The study suggests that lesbian and gay couples may be creating new ways to live together and raise children outside of traditional gender roles, the authors say, and results are important to adoption professionals and others who work with adoptive families. Further, the research is informative for those debating legal, political and policy questions about family dynamics and outcomes for children raised by same-sex couples.
For this study, Farr and Patterson recruited families from five adoption agencies across the United States. In total, 104 families agreed to participate, 25 headed by lesbian partners, 29 by gay male partners and 50 by heterosexual couples. Their adoptive children had been placed with them at birth or within the first few weeks of life; at the time of the study the children were all around three years old.
Parents were asked to report on the division of child-related labor between them and on factors of their child's adjustment. They were also observed by researchers who coded their co-parenting behavior during videotaped parent-child play sessions along scales rated for "supportive" and "undermining" interactions, using an established test.
The researchers discovered that lesbian and gay couples were more likely to equally share childcare tasks, while heterosexual couples were likely to specialize, with mothers doing more work than fathers in these families. In addition, Farr says, from the videotaped observations of family interactions, "it was clear that other aspects of co-parenting, such as how supportive parents were of each other, or how much they competed, were connected with children's behavioral problems."
Parents' dissatisfaction with division of child-care labor, not the actual division of these tasks, was significantly associated with increased child behavior problems. As the researchers had expected, supportive co-parenting interactions, such as greater pleasure and engagement between parents, were associated with positive child behavior for all three types of parents.
Overall, whether parents shared child care tasks or had a more specialized division of this work was not related to children's adjustment. The best predictor of child behavior problems was competition between the parents and dissatisfaction with child care labor divisions, which were not related to parents' sexual orientation.
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This study was supported by the Williams Institute at UCLA and the Lesbian Health Fund.
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Contact: Janet Lathrop jlathrop@admin.umass.edu 413-545-0444 University of Massachusetts at Amherst
A study suggests that whether parents are gay, lesbian or straight, how well they work together as a couple is linked to fewer behavior problems in their adopted children and is more important than their sexual orientation
AMHERST, Mass. A new study by psychology researchers suggests that whether parents are gay, lesbian or straight, how well they work together as a couple and support each other in parenting is linked to fewer behavior problems among their adopted children and is more important than their sexual orientation.
Rachel H. Farr at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and Charlotte J. Patterson at the University of Virginia report their findings from this first empirical examination of differences and similarities in co-parenting among lesbian, gay and heterosexual adoptive couples and associations with child behavior in the July/August issue of Child Development.
Farr, who led the study, says, "While actual divisions of childcare tasks such as feeding, dressing and taking time to play with kids were unrelated to children's adjustment, it was the parents who were most satisfied with their arrangements with each other who had children with fewer behavior problems, such as acting out or showing aggressive behavior."
"It appears that while children are not affected by how parents divide childcare tasks, it definitely does matter how harmonious the parents' relationships are with each other," she adds. She and Patterson also observed differences in division of labor in lesbian and gay couples compared to heterosexual parents.
The study suggests that lesbian and gay couples may be creating new ways to live together and raise children outside of traditional gender roles, the authors say, and results are important to adoption professionals and others who work with adoptive families. Further, the research is informative for those debating legal, political and policy questions about family dynamics and outcomes for children raised by same-sex couples.
For this study, Farr and Patterson recruited families from five adoption agencies across the United States. In total, 104 families agreed to participate, 25 headed by lesbian partners, 29 by gay male partners and 50 by heterosexual couples. Their adoptive children had been placed with them at birth or within the first few weeks of life; at the time of the study the children were all around three years old.
Parents were asked to report on the division of child-related labor between them and on factors of their child's adjustment. They were also observed by researchers who coded their co-parenting behavior during videotaped parent-child play sessions along scales rated for "supportive" and "undermining" interactions, using an established test.
The researchers discovered that lesbian and gay couples were more likely to equally share childcare tasks, while heterosexual couples were likely to specialize, with mothers doing more work than fathers in these families. In addition, Farr says, from the videotaped observations of family interactions, "it was clear that other aspects of co-parenting, such as how supportive parents were of each other, or how much they competed, were connected with children's behavioral problems."
Parents' dissatisfaction with division of child-care labor, not the actual division of these tasks, was significantly associated with increased child behavior problems. As the researchers had expected, supportive co-parenting interactions, such as greater pleasure and engagement between parents, were associated with positive child behavior for all three types of parents.
Overall, whether parents shared child care tasks or had a more specialized division of this work was not related to children's adjustment. The best predictor of child behavior problems was competition between the parents and dissatisfaction with child care labor divisions, which were not related to parents' sexual orientation.
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This study was supported by the Williams Institute at UCLA and the Lesbian Health Fund.
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After eight months living without running water or electricity in Tanzania, 2007 Lawrence High School graduate Samantha Claypool-Temple received something glamorous: an invitation to see President Barack Obama at the U.S. Embassy.
Claypool-Temple and her husband, Luke Temple, were selected as two of the 25 Peace Corps volunteers invited to hear the president thank about 300 U.S. government employees for their service in Tanzania. Claypool-Temple said the once-in-a-lifetime experience was moving.
Photo courtesy of Samantha Claypool-Temple
President Barack Obama addresses a crowd of 300 United States government employees in Tanzania.
"To be thanked by the president in your host country for your work and service," she said, "that is a memory we will not soon forget."
President Obama addressed the crowd just before his June 2 wreath-laying ceremony with former President George W. Bush honoring victims of the 1998 al-Qaida bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Dar es Salaam. Claypool-Temple said the president?s words rang true for her experiences in the African country.
?His best line came when he thanked all the Tanzanian citizens, who are all fellow U.S. government employees, for their work and commitment to helping all the Americans living and working in Tanzania,? Claypool-Temple said. ?Honestly, without them we would never survive.?
Photo courtesy of Samantha Claypool-Temple
Two villagers, Golden and Selvester, stand with Peace Corps volunteers Samatha Claypool-Temple and Luke Temple after completing a training in Bagamoyo, Tanzania.
Since October 2012, the Temples have been teaching and organizing villagers on sustainable agriculture and land management techniques as environment volunteers. They have developed organic compost and soil trainings, worked on village chicken husbandry projects and taught health and life skills in secondary schools.
Still, Claypool-Temple says she and her husband are not the only ones teaching in Tanzania. They have picked up a few things from the locals.
?Everyday we learn and see new things,? Claypool-Temple said. ?Whether it be a chicken in a box sitting next to you on the bus, or an old farmer in literally the middle of nowhere who speaks perfect English because 50 years ago he was taught by a Peace Corps volunteer.?
Claypool-Temple, answering questions by email because of limited access to a phone, said that although she enjoys her fulfilling service, daily life in the impoverished country can be a struggle.
?As Peace Corps volunteers, we are expected to live at the economic level of those living around us,? Claypool-Temple said. ?Running water is the biggest life luxury we miss. In the dry season, which we are experiencing now, it can take many hours to find and carry water home.?
Photo courtesy of Samantha Claypool-Temple
Peace Corps volunteer and 2007 Lawrence High School graduate Samantha Claypool-Temple poses with her students in Tanzania.
Claypool-Temple was inspired to work overseas during an experience she had during her time at Lawrence High School. The summer after she graduated from LHS, Claypool-Temple went to Kenya on a trip organized by her high school geography teacher, David Platt. Claypool-Temple says the experience shaped her future and her worldview.
?It was the first time I was ever exposed to a culture and place so completely different from my own and for that experience I am thankful,? Claypool-Temple said. ?Without it, I may never have decided to join Peace Corps."
Claypool-Temple and her husband will return to the United States in December 2014. For updates on their work in Tanzania, follow their blog at https://templesintanzania.wordpress.com.
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