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In the News (Tue 29 Dec 09)

  
  CNN.com - Dr. Steven Marans: Talking to children about violence - September 13, 2001
MARANS: I would agree that children should not be exposed to unremitting coverage of the events.
MARANS: Children need to know the truth and part of that truth is that this event was unanticipated and a tragedy occurred.
MARANS: I think the short answer is that is it too unreal for all of us and that when we are unable to digest the enormity of the situation we quite automatically separate out, divide off, the feelings that most overwhelming.
archives.cnn.com /2001/COMMUNITY/09/13/marans   (1401 words)

  
 Metroparks Commissioner - Robert W. Marans
Robert W. Marans is a research professor at the Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan and an emeritus professor of architecture and urban planning.
Marans is a licensed architect and conducts research on buildings, neighborhoods, housing, parks, and the contributions of each to the quality of life of different population groups.
Marans was first appointed to the HCMA Board of Commissioners to represent Washtenaw County on June 4, 1986, and was re-appointed to a third six-year term in June 1998.
www.metroparks.com /global/cm_r_marans.php   (267 words)

  
 Helping children cope, from nightmares to the nightly news - Listening to fear
Marans, the Harris Associate Professor of Child Psychoanalysis and Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Yale School of Medicine, is also director of the National Center for Children Exposed to Violence.
Marans said parents need to acknowledge and set aside their own fears; then they should give kids the chance to express themselves and rely on those reports rather than their own interpretations, and, finally, they need to learn to interpret the "behavioral language of fear" that children employ more often than words.
Marans guides parents to better understand the emotional landscape of childhood fears; learn to decode behaviors that may tell them more than what their children are saying; encourage kids-even reluctant teens-to open up, and to support and help kids develop effective coping skills they'll have for life.
www.medicalnewstoday.com /medicalnews.php?newsid=19656   (309 words)

  
 Robert W. Marans: Man with a Mission | Portico 2004/2 | A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Ask Marans and, social scientist that he is, he'll whip out his life map—a year-by-year chart crowded with events—many of them color coded.
It was there that Marans had an opportunity to work with a sociologist and became interested in the social impact of built environments.
Marans' fascination with quality of life has also led him to play an active role in public policy, particularly as it relates to the environment.
www.caup.umich.edu /portico/marans0402.html   (1064 words)

  
 Marans - Robert Stephenson aka Rupert the Fish
Marans are in the barred or cuckoo colour patterns, meaning they have a light and dark band of colour in an even and separate pattern.
The maran hen originates from France, from the village of ”Marans.” It is world famous for the excellent dark brown eggs it lays, with which I have won many awards with in egg classes.
Marans are a soft feathered bird which lay fairly tight to the body.
www.rupert-fish.co.uk /interests/poultry_breeding/maran_chickens.html   (629 words)

  
 Robert W. Marans Fellowship Fund | Urban + Regional Planning | TCAUP
The Robert W. Marans Fellows fund was created to support study in survey research by incoming doctoral students in Urban + Regional Planning or Architecture.
Robert Marans, B.Arch.'57, Ph.D.'71, is an emeritus professor of architecture and urban planning, as well as a research professor at the UM Institute for Social Research.
In the latter capacity, Marans served as principal investigator for the Detroit Area Study in 2001 and 1980.
www.caup.umich.edu /urp/maransfellowship.html   (173 words)

  
 Duke University Alumni Magazine
Marans says the effect makes the point that the barrier between teacher and student finally has been broken, and that Mashkan is ready to take Stephen into his confidence.
Marans says he realizes--now--that he identified with the "young man's anger and passion" that runs through the poems; years later, he connected more with the music, with the perspective of "a more mature man who was looking at life with more of a bitter-sweetness."
Buoyed by the Pulitzer nomination, Marans is working on three projects, all of which use music to advance and comment on the action.
www.dukemagazine.duke.edu /alumni/dm9/profile.html   (2896 words)

  
 header   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Marans' new play Jumping for Joy is scheduled to open in Australia in early 2003.
Marans was a story editor and script doctor for Stonebridge, Michael Douglas' production company at Columbia Pictures, instrumental in the development of numerous films.
Marans was a staff writer/lyricist for the 1991 "New Carol Burnett Show" on CBS.
members.aol.com /searching4y/bios.html   (435 words)

  
 Public Forum: Steven Marans Full-Report
The very first call Dr. Marans received on the CDCP 24-hour call service came from an officer at the scene where an 11 year old boy had witnessed his father blow his brains out right in front of the child.
Marans noted that adolescence is one of the most dramatic phases of development, characterized by intense biological, psychological, and social changes.
Maran closes by citing a favorite story of his, one from the depression era.
www.cyberpsych.org /pubforum/marans.htm   (2694 words)

  
 The Jewish Journal Of Greater Los Angeles
One day during his junior year abroad in Vienna in 1978, Jon Marans told a professor of his intention to visit the concentration camp Dachau.
Marans’ his first produced play, "Old Wicked Songs," a finalist for the 1996 Pulitzer, revolves around a self-denying Jew, a burned-out piano prodigy who travels to Vienna to jump-start his creative juices but locks horns with his professor, a Holocaust survivor.
During rehearsals, Marans said he’s emphasized "the general twinkle all three of the characters have when they come together.
www.jewishjournal.com /home/print.php?id=9160   (715 words)

  
 Poultry Mad - the Maran Chicken   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
One of the last breeds to be introduced to the UK the Maran was originally developed in France in the mid 1800's in the town of Marans, twelve miles north of La Rochelle.
In the 1920's more work was done on the breed in Marans, France and in 1929 a Maran bird was first exhibited at the Poultry Breeders Society in Paris.
The majority of the British strain of Marans are cuckoo coloured ranging from very dark grey to silver with red to bright orange eye colour and white legs.
www.poultrymad.co.uk /chickens/maran.shtml   (191 words)

  
 Jumping for Joy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
As Michael slips back into the family games of his childhood, he becomes engulfed in his family's growing expectation that he is there to stay, finding the emotional ties much harder to abandon than he thought.
Jon Marans has flown from New York to Adelaide to work with the Artistic Director and cast in the final stages of rehearsal.
Marans demonstrates a masterful ability to balance humor and horror on a knife-edge"
users.senet.com.au /~rodroach/jumping.htm   (297 words)

  
 North American Marans Club - Home   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
In the Marans, a line is usually first named after the person who imported that group of birds, for example, the Fugate line was imported by John Fugate in the early 1960's.
The Marans breed is in the process of being admitted to the standard.
The North American Marans Club is a great resource for those looking for Marans as well as breeders who would like to improve their stock.
www.maransclub.com   (922 words)

  
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Marans said a thorough set of photographs and accurate descriptions are paramount in alleviating surprises and building a store’s reputation for doing honest business.
Marans said one seller had already stopped in with plans to put a 1989 Rolls Royce Silver Shadow up for bid.
Marans emphasized the franchises never actually take title of any vehicle, and with any transaction simply facilitate the process.
www.goletavalleyvoice.com /cgi-bin/business/readarticle.cgi?article=467   (593 words)

  
 North American Marans Club Line Registry   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
As part of the North American Marans Club's commitment to improving the breed, the Line Registry project was born (or should I say hatched?).
The main aim of this project is to gather data on the extant population of the Marans in North America and enter them into a computer program to formulate a centralized database accessible to breeders.
In the Marans, a line or strain consists of genetically related birds, and is often named after the person who imported that bloodline.
www.feathersite.com /Poultry/CGK/Marans/MaransRegistry.html   (515 words)

  
 The Jewish Journal Of Greater Los Angeles
Since then, Marans has made a career of writing about characters who profoundly connect to or disconnect from their roots, families or work.
He’s one of the newer members of a cadre of playwrights in their 40s — including Donald Margulies and Richard Greenberg — who have won Pulitzer Prize nods for work exploring issues of Jewish identity and assimilation.
Marans’ newest play, "Jumping for Joy," tells of an aloof Jewish attorney, estranged from his schizophrenic sister and paranoid father, who returns home during a family crisis.
www.jewishjournal.com /home/preview.php?id=9160   (733 words)

  
 Marans 101   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Once a breeder has Marans, the added dimension of egg color keeps the breeder working not only for Marans that look nice, but that also lay the richest egg color.
Most of the Marans in North America are of the meat strain, which do not lay as well as the egg laying strains.
However, most Marans in the US and Canada are what is referred to as Light or Dark Cuckoo depending on what the breeder chooses to call them.
www.feathersite.com /Poultry/CGK/Marans/Marans101.html   (556 words)

  
 Marans Poultry   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The principal aims of the MARANS breed, are primarily the quality of the extra brown eggs, followed by the quality of the meat, hardiness, and lastly, conformity with the accepted aesthetic standards.
It was in this manner that the hens of MARANS made acquaintance with the famous English fighting cocks, and the region became the birthplace of a particular breed of poultry, originally known as the MARANDAISE, later to become the MARANS.
In this initial rush and the anarchy that followed it was almost impossible to ensure a strict respect for genetic standards and it became difficult to explain scientifically the exact components that resulted in the dark brown eggs.
www.marcireau.fr /marans   (1549 words)

  
 Breeds - Bartlett Meadow   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Marans: The Marans breed owe their origination to the crossing of the local French Pictave hens with English fighting cocks during the 12th century.
The Marans at Bartlett Meadows are from Fitch, Murphy, and Leurquin lines.
We are working with other Marans club members on some very special colors and are happy to say that others are working to re-develop the featherlegged Marans which is so hard to obtain from France.
www.bartlettmeadows.com /breed.htm   (1047 words)

  
 Jumping For Joy a CurtainUp Los Angeles review
Like, Marans' much produced first Pulitzer Prize nominated play in 1996 (Old Wicked Songs about a classical pianist and his unexpectedly re-inspiring coach), it is also a bitter-sweet character probing work.
Marans' astute writing and the excellent performances reveal, how sadly sick, yet seductive and often "fun" for them patterns have been built over the years.
You might say, that Marans, like Shepard, here explores how we become used to the neuroses/psychoses we grow up with and which despite the pain they've left become automatic behavior and even dear to us and hard to abandon..
www.curtainup.com /jumpingforjoy.html   (696 words)

  
 Kaibic's Hatchery   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Marans are large birds, their meat is delicious.
Marans forage well, spending a good part of the day looking for bugs and seeds to eat.
Marans are not hard to breed but keeping egg color dark can be tricky.
kaibicshatchery.com /marans.htm   (154 words)

  
 Yale Bulletin and Calendar
In "Listening to Fear," Steven Marans draws on his professional experience as director of the National Center for Children Exposed to Violence at Yale to equip readers with ways to talk effectively with children about their fears.
Marans' work has demonstrated that children communicate their unease in actions more than words, and he thus notes that adults must learn to interpret their child's behavioral language.
His tactics for talking with children are arranged by age group and include: asking about the concerns and worries of the child's friends; thinking through the messages behind the child's questions before answering them; and reassuring the child with facts, but not too many.
www.yale.edu /opa/v33.n18/story26.html   (773 words)

  
 Bantams   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The Marans is becoming a much sought after breed specifically because of the egg color.
We are now purposely crossing our Marans and Barnevelder Roosters with our Buff Orphington hens to try and come up with a chicken that we can use for meat.
We were not happy with any of the meat chickens we tried from the hatcheries and like the size and meatiness of the Barnevelder and Marans along with the fact that the Orphington was still tender at the butchering age of a year.
www.gvtc.com /~pamgrace/Chickens/Bantam.html   (1077 words)

  
 Marans
A circle of Marans eggs with a white and 2 normal brown eggs in the center for contrast
This breed, which originated in western France in the town of Marans, is best known for its dark chocolate colored eggs.
In the Cuckoo Marans, males are lighter in color than females--it is said to be possible to color sex them even as chicks with pretty good accuracy.
www.feathersite.com /Poultry/CGK/Marans/BRKMarans.html   (388 words)

  
 Psychiatric News Main Frame
CDCP Program Director Steven Marans, Ph.D., commented to Psychiatric News, "The Yale Child Study Center's collaboration with the New Haven Department of Police Services ensures that children and families exposed to violence receive prompt attention by police officers trained in child development principles.
Marans is the Harris Assistant Professor of Child Psychoanalysis at the Yale Child Study Center, which is affiliated with the Yale University School of Medicine in New Haven.
Marans noted that all members of the police academy are required to take the training.
www.psych.org /pnews/99-08-06/policing.html   (805 words)

  
 NCCEV - Faculty Research
Marans, S., Berkowitz, S. J., and Cohen, D. Police and mental health professionals: Collaborative responses to the impact of violence on children and families.
Marans, S., Mayes, L., Cicchetti, D., Dahl, K., Marans, W., and Cohen, D. The child-psychoanalytic play interview: a technique for studying thematic content.
Marans, S., and Schaefer, M. Community policing, schools, and mental health: The challenge of collaboration.
www.nccev.org /resources/faculty.html   (1082 words)

  
 Marans chickens - the dark egg layer from productive strains - pictures and information from UK hatchery
The Marans is a breed famed for the deep mahogany colour of it's eggs.
Good pure Marans are now very difficult to find as a result, as it can be very difficult to distinguish between these birds and they have become incorporated into some people's stocks.
Marans were originally a regional fowl in France, but when first imported, one bird did not look much like another.
www.marans.co.uk   (1487 words)

  
 The Classroom @ The Coop
I am in the process of running down my small flock of Marans as I have found them to be hysterical (flighty just isn't a strong enough word!) whenever you try do do anything with them - even when perching and the only light you have is a pencil torch.
My Marans are very good about returning to their coop at night but they can be a pain when they lay away.
My Marans are not one bit flighty, they are very calm and tame and are not lazy and lay well.
www.the-coop.org /wwwboard/discus/messages/10/1044.html   (1048 words)

  
 Our Marans
Marans are an intelligent, strong and healthy bird.
The Marans have taken their place here, and asserted themselves as the "Top Dog" among our breeds.
If you're going to have Marans around, you may need to keep the cocks in line.
www.shilala.com /maran.html   (554 words)

  
 APsaA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
NOTE: Dr. Marans will discuss his book during the Winter 2005 Meeting of the American Psychoanalytic Association on Saturday, January 22, 2005 from 12:00 NOON - 1:30 PM at the Waldorf-Astoria.
Marans also offers insightful case studies to illuminate what children are actually thinking and help adults learn how to read a child’s behavior and talk through anxieties.
STEVEN MARANS, Ph.D., is Harris Associate Professor of Child Psychoanalysis and an associate professor of psychiatry at Yale University School of Medicine, where he is also the director of the National Center for Children Exposed to Violence.
apsa.org /ctf/pubinfo/NewsRoom/newsreleases/listenfear.html   (570 words)

  
 Efficiency prompts merger, forms Urban and Regional Planning Program   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
UTEP was established in response to growing interest in urban and environmental issues in the late 1960s, according to Marans.
Technology planning has emerged as an important issue in the years since, and is reflected in the program’s courses on “intelligent vehicle-highway systems” and other technological developments that will affect urban planning.
Marans says that “building better bridges to Detroit” will remain one of the primary objectives of the unified program.
www.umich.edu /~urecord/9293/Sep08_92/28.htm   (550 words)

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