Odile Sullivan-Tarazi

The mission of 4Cs is to help families find childcare that is available, accessible, and affordable — without sacrificing quality. They are also devoted to educating families on what it is that children need to thrive, and they provide licensed training programs for childcare workers.

Providing family-focused, integrative healthcare for over 50 years

In a small group setting at the Early Childhood Education Center, parents can share their questions, and learn what to expect and how to respond to their child's changing needs. Groups meet weekly with other parents of children the same age to discuss issues of normal childhood development.

The lives of girls before and after access to six basic community needs

Scripts for spoken narratives to be used in a digital game for preteens.

When 23-year-old Jyoti Singh Pandey was beaten and gang-raped on a bus in India, and dumped on the side of the road to die, the leader of the attack urged the others on with “Not to worry, nothing will happen.” 

Ram Singh was wrong in this particular case: the accused were arrested, they were charged, and they were found guilty of rape and—because, in the end, Jyoti Pandey did not survive the attack—murder. 

Take one expert para rowing coach and two skilled para athletes, and what do you get? A winning team.

Alice follows the double at a slight distance, wheeling her launch around now to move from starboard to port. “Match hands out of bow,” she calls to the scullers. “Stay long.”

The lives of one expert para rowing coach and two skilled athletes intertwine in the push for excellence this fall

Laura and Russell were born with physical disadvantages which have influenced the course their lives have taken. With Olympic-skilled rowing — and the help of Coach Alice — they’re taking back their lives.

Tall and sinewy, Russell Gernaat looks out over the deserted boatyard at the late afternoon water beyond. “I’d always wanted to row,” he says. “I'm talking, you know, ten years or more.”

Coach Alice Henderson strides across the ramp towards the 2x moored on the floating dock. “Picking up where we left off,” she says to the rower putting oars to oar locks and the rower she’s guiding across the dock. “Connection and catches.”

SHOULD YOUR DOG GO PALEO?

So, you’re convinced (as who wouldn’t be?) that commercial dog food is best avoided. If you’re the thoughtful type, wanting to do what’s best for the dog in your care, you’ll likely find yourself now deep in the knotty issue of whether to go raw or keep on cooking.

When you look into it, it ain’t pretty

We grew up with Lassie or Wishbone or Martha. Likely, we followed the adventures of Clifford or Mr. Peabody or Scooby Do. Maybe we cried for Old Yeller and Marley, rooted (and got a bit teary) for Skip, marveled at Hachi.

And, of course, fiercely loved the dogs in our own lives.

Then, when it came time to feed them, we turned to the brands we’d grown up with, the brands that promised us strong and healthy bones, that promised us the right blend for puppies, for young dogs, for senior dogs, the brands that promised us that we’d be doing right by our dogs by feeding them this product.

This 13 pounds of love is in search of the perfect companion.

Evie is looking for someone to snuggle with, someone to love. She’s fine with other dogs in the household, large or small. Evie’s all about the play (aggression’s not her cup of tea, don’t you know) — and then she’s all about the nap that follows.

You’ve been feeding your pet the packed pet food available in the market, right? Have you ever taken a look at the ingredients?

Pet owners have been told that feeding their pets with commercial pet food, the sort typically found in grocery stores, is the best thing they can do for their dog or cat. And most pet owners believe it. They think of this processed pet food as being perfectly balanced for their pets’ needs.

Design thinking: don’t call it a “process”

As an undergrad, Barry Katz never gave design a second thought. He was situated squarely in the humanities, studying history and philosophy, politics and economics, wrapping the whole of it up at the end with an interdisciplinary humanities PhD. He landed neatly at Stanford, teaching history of technology courses to engineering students. But over time, his focus shifted from the history of the objects themselves to the way that people and objects interact. And that was design.

Screens are everywhere, always within reach. Their very ubiquity has helped fuel the meteoric rise of social media personalities, but it’s the nature of the content itself that fans the flames. Direct, personal, seemingly unscripted, this is content that offers viewers a window into the lives of real people, people (for so viewers feel) “just like us.” And that, for the primary audiences of much of this content — the teens and tweens — is what it’s all about: connection. It’s not so much that there’s a screen always within reach, it’s that there’s a close friend always within reach. . .