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Mortal Engines (Mortal Engines, Book 1) (Paperback)
By Philip Reeve
The epic city-eat-city adventure is now a major motion picture produced by Peter Jackson!
"A breathtaking work of imagination, Hester Shaw is a heroine for the ages. The moment we finished reading this book we knew we wanted to make it into a movie." -- Producer Peter Jackson
* "Reeve's [Mortal Engines] remains a landmark of visionary imagination." -- School Library Journal, starred review
Now a major motion picture produced by Peter Jackson!
London is hunting again. Emerging from its hiding place in the hills, the great Traction City is chasing a terrified little town across the wastelands. Soon London will feed.
In the attack, Tom Natsworthy is flung from the speeding city with a murderous scar-faced girl. They must run for their lives through the wreckage -- and face a terrifying new weapon that threatens the future of the world.
Beloved storyteller Philip Reeve creates a brilliant new world in the Mortal Engines series, called "phenomenal... violent and romantic, action-packed and contemplative, funny and frightening" by the Sunday Times.
Philip Reeve is the bestselling author of the Mortal Engines quartet, which is now a major motion picture, and the award-winning Fever Crumb series. His other books include the highly acclaimed Here Lies Arthur and No Such Thing As Dragons. He lives in England with his wife and son. Visit him online at philip-reeve.com.
Praise for the Mortal Engines series:
* "Exciting and visually descriptive." -- School Library Journal, starred review
"A page-turner, this adventure in a city-eat-city world will have readers eagerly suspending disbelief to follow the twists and turns of the imaginative plot." -- Booklist
"Big, brave, brilliant." -- Guardian (UK)
* "Reeve's [Mortal Engines Quartet] remains a landmark of visionary... imagination." -- School Library Journal, starred review
"Phenomenal... violent and romantic, action-packed and contemplative, funny and frightening." -- Sunday Times (UK)
Publisher: Scholastic Press
Series: Mortal Engines
Juvenile Fiction / Science Fiction


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Reloading rifle cartridges may seem like something that only MENSA Rocket Surgeons and repeat Jeopardy! winners can do, but it's actually a pretty straightforward process, even if you can't solve a Rubik's Cube blindfolded.
The cartridge case. Usually made from brass, this is the component that contains the powder and holds the bullet and primer. It's the only part that's reusable. Fortunately, it's the most expensive piece, so it makes sense to save and reload it.
The primer. What looks to be a small metallic "cap" in the bottom of centerfire rifle cartridges is the primer. It's filled with a compound that ignites when impacted. The rifle's firing pin impacts the primer, which conflagrates into the case, thereby igniting the propellant charge.
The propellant. I say "propellant" because it's not really gunpowder anymore, at least in the true sense of the word. Modern smokeless powder burns incredibly fast, thereby creating a large volume of hot gas that pushes the bullet down the barrel and out the fiery end of your rifle.
The bullet. Last but not least is the bullet itself, also called the projectile. Unless you're really good at catching these, it's hard to reuse them.
Clean the brass cartridge case. I keep saying "brass" because those are the only types that are reloadable.
Reshape and resize the case to its original dimensions. The case expands a bit when fired, so it has to be forced back into shape during this step.
Trim the case to its proper length.
Put in a new primer.
Inspect your work to make sure all is hunky dory, and more importantly, safe.
A proper reloading manual is the very first thing you need.
Fortunately, the process is pretty easy provided you take your time, follow instructions carefully and pay attention to detail. Like learning to play the piano, you'll need two resources to learn how to reload a rifle cartridge. First, you need to learn the process. That part is like taking piano lessons, but much more fun. Second, you need recipes that specify the exact types and amounts of primer, powder, and bullet. In the piano example, that's like the sheet music.
Many reloading manuals, like the Nosler Reloading Manual, cover both the "how to" and "recipe" topics. This book will cost you less than thirty bucks. In addition to great instructional material, the manual includes thousands of load recipes for hundreds of different calibers and bullet types. Want to know what's required to reload a .308 cartridge with a 190-grain Nosler Accubond Long Range bullet? No problem, that information will be in the book. If you're thinking about taking up reloading, buy a reloading manual like this one first to get up to speed and figure out which components you need. Or, if you're a video learner, check out the Hornady® Reloading and Bullet Accuracy DVD. The professionally produced videos will teach you the ropes of reloading in no time.
Speaking of components, let's refer back to the series of steps listed above to figure out what you need to reload your own rifle cartridges.
To complete step one, you'll need a way to clean your brass. The easiest way to get started is with a vibratory tumbler. Dump your dirty brass cartridge cases into the bowl along with granular cleaning media and let the machine run for a couple of hours. Your brass will come out nice and shiny and ready to reload.
Here's an affordable vibratory brass tumbler from Cabelas.
The next step requires a few different pieces of equipment: a reloading press, a resizing die, and a case trimmer. A resizing die has an interior shaped like the chamber of your gun. The reloading press uses mechanical force to press the brass case into the resizing die and squish it back into the exact original shape. Almost all rifle cartridges will need to be lubricated on the outside of the case so they don't get stuck in the resizing die. Also during this step, a pin in the center of the resizing die will knock the used primer out of the base of the cartridge case. During the resizing process, most rifle brass tends to stretch just a little bit at the mouth end so the case will be slightly longer than it's supposed to be. After resizing, you may need to cut those stretched cases back down to size. A case trimmer operates like a small hand-operated or electric lathe, turning the case against a blade to trim it back to the proper length.
You'll need reloading dies like these RCBS models for each caliber you want to reload.
Now that we've prepared the case to proper dimensions, it's time to insert a new primer. The easiest way to do that is with a hand priming tool. A moderate squeeze with this handy piece of gear and a new primer is pressed into place. With the primer feed tray, you can whip through 100 cases in just a few minutes.
As the hole in the bottom of the case is now plugged with a new primer, the next step is to add the correct propellant charge. Rifle cartridges generate huge pressures when fired, many times well over 50,000 pounds per square inch, so it's critical to carefully follow the exact propellant types and charge weights specified in the reloading manual. Never, ever exceed published loads and never rely on hearsay information for recipes. Speaking of charge weights, the propellant is measured in grains. Each grain is 1/7,000th of a pound, so you'll need a reloading scale to measure the correct amount of powder.
The next step in the process is to seat a new bullet into the cartridge. Screw a seating and crimping die into the reloading press, adjust per the instructions and load manual data, and press a new bullet into place. The load recipe will specify an exact overall length for the completed cartridge. This determines exactly how far into the case the new bullet is inserted. Again, it's critical to follow these measurements exactly. If you push the bullet too far into the case, pressures can increase to dangerous levels since there is less volume inside the case.
The last step is inspection. I like to do this while I'm putting my freshly made cartridges into cases like these MTM Case Guard cartridge boxes. You want to be sure that everything looks right. Make sure a primer is in place and seated flush with the base of the cartridge. Look over the cartridge again to make sure there are no abnormalities like cracks or bulges. Look at the bullet and cartridge case mouth to make sure the bullet is crimped into place cleanly.
A starter kit, like this RCBS Rock Chucker Supreme setup is the way to get going.
We've mentioned a few different pieces of gear so far. While you can buy components individually, it makes a lot of sense to invest in a basic reloading kit. That will not only save you some money but get you the things you have to have to get started reloading your own rifle cartridges. The RCBS Rock Chucker Master Supreme Reloading Kit will run you about $300 at Cabelas and has just about everything you need. Included in the kit is a Rock Chucker reloading press, powder scale, hand priming tool, the Nosler Reloading Guide, a tray to hold cartridge cases, a hand tool to chamfer and deburr case mouths after trimming, and pad to lubricate cases for resizing. The only things you'll need to add for rifle cartridge reloading are a case trimmer, a case tumbler, and a set of calipers to measure overall cartridge case length.
If rifle shooting is your thing, consider reloading your own. Over time, it may save you a few bucks. Better yet, you'll experience the pride of optimizing custom ammo for your specific rifle.
Two other items one may want to invest in is a Chrograph and maybe QuickLOAD software for reloading, especially if loading Match ammo for precision target shooting.
Although I have found that it really isn't that accurate on predicting muzzle velocity for a given load, especially rifle loads. Sometimes predicted and actual can vary by up to 200 FPS.
Absolutely, as you move into more intermediate and advanced reloading, a chronograph is a must have, especially if you're pushing maximum loads per published data.


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PerCP/Cyanine5.5 Annexin V
Human T leukemia cell line Jurkat, treated (left) or non-treated (right) with BioLegend's anti-human CD95 (EOS9.1) mAb (Cat. No. 305704) for 4 hours at 37°C, then stained with Annexin V PerCP/Cyanine5.5 for 15 minutes at 37°C in Annexin V Binding buffer. Helix NP™ Green (Cat. No. 425303 at 1.25 nM) was added 5 minutes before running tubes.
640935 25 tests £94
640936 100 tests £238
Annexin V (or Annexin A5) is a member of the annexin family of intracellular proteins that binds to phosphatidylserine (PS) in a calcium-dependent manner. PS is normally only found on the intracellular leaflet of the plasma membrane in healthy cells, but during early apoptosis, membrane asymmetry is lost and PS translocates to the external leaflet. Fluorochrome-labeled Annexin V can then be used to specifically target and identify apoptotic cells. Annexin V Binding Buffer (Cat. No. 422201) is recommended for use with Annexin V staining. Annexin V binding alone cannot differentiate between apoptotic cells and necrotic. Therefore, we recommend using our Helix NP™ Blue (Cat. No. 425305), Helix NP™ Green (Cat. No. 425303) or Helix NP™ NIR (Cat. No. 425301). Early apoptotic cells will exclude 7-AAD and PI, while late stage apoptotic cells and necrotic cells will stain positively, due to the passage of these dyes into the nucleus where they bind to DNA.
Phosphate-buffered solution, pH 7.2, containing 0.09% sodium azide and BSA (origin USA).
The protein was purified by affinity chromatography and conjugated with PerCP/Cyanine5.5 under optimal conditions.
The solution should be stored undiluted between 2°C and 8°C, and protected from prolonged exposure to light. Do not freeze.
Each lot of this product is quality control tested by immunofluorescent staining with flow cytometric analysis. For flow cytometric staining, the suggested use of this reagent is 5 µL per 100,000 - million cells in a 100 µL volume of Annexin V Binding Buffer (Cat No. 422201). It is recommended that the reagent be titrated for optimal performance for each application.
3. Add 5 µL of PerCP/Cyanine5.5 Annexin V.
For a better experience detecting apoptosis, we now recommend Apotracker™. Cell staining with Apotracker™ is Calcium independent. Thus, no special buffers are required, and the protocol can be shortened for single-step co-staining with other reagents.
Sekine C, et al. 2009. Int Immunol. 21:295. PubMed
Smith CM, et al. 2021. Biochem J. 478:3331. PubMed
Man QW, et al. 2018. Oncol Rep. 40:3335. PubMed
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Q: Binary tree throwing stack overflow exception while inorder traversing I am learning data structures and came across a pbm which I cannot solve. Can anyone help out here ?
I have created a TreeNode Class. In the same package I have created another class. this class has two methods . One does inorder traversing and there is another method(making a new binary tree from the existing) . I called the inorder traversing which worked fine. But If I call the inorder traversing method after my other method , I am getting exceptions.
The other method creates a new binary tree , but it is independent of inorder traversing method
public class TreeNode {
     public int val;
     public TreeNode left;
     public TreeNode right;
     TreeNode(int x) { val = x; }
}

In the same package I created another class.

package BST;
public class Check {
    TreeNode curr;
    TreeNode prev;

public void orderTraversal( TreeNode curr1) {

        if(curr1 == null)
            return;

        orderTraversal(curr1.left);

        if(curr == null ) {
            curr = curr1;
            prev = curr1;
        }
        else {
            prev.right = curr1;
            prev = curr1;
        }

        orderTraversal(curr1.right);
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) {
            // TODO Auto-gene`enter code here`rated method stub

        TreeNode root = new TreeNode(3);
        root.left = new TreeNode(9);
        root.right = new TreeNode(20);
        root.right.right = new TreeNode(15);

        Check check = new Check();
        check.inOrder1(root);
        check.orderTraversal(root);
        check.inOrder1(root);
    }
    public  void inOrder1(TreeNode root) {
        if(root !=  null) {
            inOrder1(root.left);
            System.out.printf("%d ",root.val);
            inOrder1(root.right);
        }

    }

}

When running the program , I am getting an exception in the method in the second call of inOrder1 .

at sun.nio.cs.UTF_8.updatePositions(Unknown Source)
    at sun.nio.cs.UTF_8.access$200(Unknown Source)
    at sun.nio.cs.UTF_8$Encoder.encodeArrayLoop(Unknown Source)
    at sun.nio.cs.UTF_8$Encoder.encodeLoop(Unknown Source)
    at java.nio.charset.CharsetEncoder.encode(Unknown Source)
    at sun.nio.cs.StreamEncoder.implWrite(Unknown Source)
    at sun.nio.cs.StreamEncoder.write(Unknown Source)
    at java.io.OutputStreamWriter.write(Unknown Source)
    at java.io.BufferedWriter.flushBuffer(Unknown Source)
    at java.io.PrintStream.write(Unknown Source)
    at java.io.PrintStream.print(Unknown Source)
    at java.io.PrintStream.append(Unknown Source)

I know java works by pass by value. And the second method is referring only the instance variables. If I comment out check.orderTraversal(root) the second call to InOrder1 is working fine. I cant figure out why is it so ? Can anyone please help?
Thanks!

A: In your method orderTraversal you are modifying your tree at the line
prev.right = curr1;

That's your error. I don't really know what you are intending to do there, but you should not modify your tree in a tree traversal.
You said

the second method is referring only the instance variables

But when you do prev = curr1, your instance variable prev points to a node in the tree. Then when you do prev.right = curr1 you modify the node that prevpoints to.
Because you modify your tree, you create a circular reference. The node 3 has the node 9 as his left child, but the node 9 has 3 again (his own parent) as his left child. This is not a tree anymore, and that's why you have an infinite number of calls the second time you call inOrder1 which ends in a StackOverflowError.
By the way, this could be easily seen by using a debugger, I suggest you to have a look at this page.

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Thursday, May 08, 2015, multimillionaire Manhattan socialite, Gigi Jordan, was sentenced to 18 years in prison for the manslaughter of her eight-year old autistic son, Jude Michael Mirra. Jordan never denied that she had intended to kill her child by way of forced pill overdose five years previous in a New York City hotel. To her troubled mind, the forced pill overdose was a "mercy killing", preserving the child from the inevitable horrors he was to suffer at the hands of an unseen, yet omnipresent, Satanic cult conspiracy. Warning signs of Jordan's dangerous state-of-mind had been clear for years. Jordan expressed deeply paranoid, irrational fears that the cult was actively tracking her every activity while ritually abusing Jude into a state of trauma-induced cognitive disability (he was, in fact, severely autistic).
Many questioned what, if anything, was true in Jordan's suspicious, delusional allegations. However, few questioned the competence of the therapists and other experts whom Jordan had consulted, who failed to recognize Jordan's dangerously delusional state, failed to balance her fantastical beliefs with critical inquiries, and even apparently encouraged and cultivated her most deranged and deadly convictions. Oddly, even when reporting on the trial, journalists seemed entirely blind to evidence of professional incompetence, the influence that sanctioned pseudoscience seems to have played in Ms. Jordan's destructive beliefs.
Ms. Jordan contacted the Wyoming Division of Criminal Investigation in 2008 with a bizarre, sprawling and disjointed tale of Ritual Abuse and constant, unshakeable surveillance. She was detained, on an emergency basis, for a mental health evaluation. Jude was taken into custody.
Before arriving in Wyoming, specifically for the purpose of reporting the Satanic cult crimes to the investigators, Jordan travelled with Jude to various locations across the nation, staying in hotels, relocating at a moment's notice in an attempt to throw Jude's pursuers from their trail. Having contacted the Wyoming office in advance, Ms. Jordan was met by Law Enforcement at the airport. Jude, the agents noted, was without socks or underwear on his person, nor did Jordan's luggage contain any fresh clothes for the boy. The agents were further alarmed by the copious amounts of unlabeled medications Jordan carried for Jude's seemingly ad hoc "treatment" regimen.
Physical examination would yield "no evidence of sexual assault of any kind". More discrediting to Jordan's claims, however, was the fact that Jude, the alleged source of the abuse allegations, appeared to have very little verbal skills with which to communicate the allegations at all.
Against medical advice, Ms. Jordan was released "of her own recognizance" after her emergency mental health evaluation, following which the Court considered evidence indicating that Jordan presented an imminent danger to her son. Clearly not at all convinced of Ms. Jordan's sanity, or Jude's safety in her care, the Court also didn't feel that the legal burden of evidence was met to justify placing Jude in foster care.
Just under two years later, on February 03, 2010, Ms. Jordan checked into the Peninsula Hotel in Manhattan with Jude, after hours of aimless cab rides throughout New York City. Late at night, while the boy slept, Jordan crushed about 20 Xanax pills and 40 Ambiens into a mixture of vodka and orange juice that she then forced down the 8-year old's throat while sitting atop him "using enough force to bruise that boy on the face, the nose, the chest," according to the prosecution.
Media reporting on the case almost universally focused on the superficial narrative: the shocking tragedy of a millionaire mother, desperate and delusional, driven to the most unthinkable act of crime. Ms. Jordan had, some 20 years previous, started a successful home health care service upon which her affluence was built. The recriminations against "somebody in authority", fearfully predicted by the Wyoming District Court, never manifested. Troublingly, nobody asked, following the murder, why Jordan's dangerous mental state, so obvious to Law Enforcement untrained in Psychology, could have seemingly escaped the notice of the mental health care professionals whose services Ms. Jordan had retained.
Jude was 7 years old when Florida-based "trauma therapist" Carol Crow diagnosed him with Multiple Personality Disorder (more recently known as Dissociative Identity Disorder [DID]). It's a diagnosis that is problematic even in ideal therapeutic settings, as the condition enjoys no scientific validation and is largely viewed as discredited. In Jude's case, however, such a diagnosis is further complicated in that it was arrived at by analysis of the boy's own self-reports — reports he was clearly unable to convey in reality, but that were manufactured in his name via "facilitated communication".
The theory behind Multiple Personality Disorder (MPD), now rebranded as Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID), is that some traumas, particularly childhood sexual traumas, are so horrific and incomprehensible that memories of their occurrence are "repressed", relegated to some dark corner of the mind, outside of immediate consciousness where they develop new, alternate, or "alter" personalities of their own. Intuitive as this might now sound in a culture wherein this premise has served as a well-worn dramatic plot device, none of it stands up to scientific scrutiny. While proponents of DID theory currently like to claim that the condition lies somewhere on a Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) spectrum, Dr. Richard McNally, Professor and Director of Clinical Training at Harvard University's Department of Psychology, points out, "[t]he hallmark of PTSD is involuntary, intrusive recollection of traumatic experiences,"  not selective, protective amnesia.
And while evidence for the existence of "repressed" traumas — often alleged to stem from long-term episodic extreme childhood abuse — is dubious at best, there is still no reliable evidence that DID even results from childhood trauma.   The "evidence" cited to support the claims of DID's relationship to child abuse comes primarily from self reports of the DID-diagnosed.
It was, in large part, the recovered memory testimonials of individuals being treated for Multiple Personality Disorder that sustained an embarrassing modern witch hunt known to sociologists today as the "Satanic Panic". Spanning a period beginning in 1980 and declining into obscurity after the mid-90s, this bizarre moral uproar saw a temporary mainstreaming of hysterical conspiracist claims related to Satanic Ritual Abuse and cultic criminal networks secretly working toward the destruction of all societal moral order. Daytime talk show hosts, from Oprah Winfrey to Geraldo Rivera, regularly, and entirely uncritically, aired Satanic abuse "survivor" stories, despite a complete absence of corroborating evidence. It was a literal witch-hunt. Lives were ruined, families torn apart, decades of innocent lives wasted away in prison cells, and much of this, beyond any sensible doubt, was urged forward by incompetent therapists hypnotically probing their clients for revelations of repressed abuse.
Despite being thoroughly and completely discredited by law enforcement, scientists, and journalists, the conspiracy theory of Satanic Ritual Abuse as an intentional, DID-creating trauma-based mind-control program, still holds currency among certain professionals in mental health care, and many of the mental health professionals who were instrumental in fomenting panic in the 80s still hold strong to their methods and theories today.
The first of three contacts listed for the ISSTD's "RA/MC SIG" is one Ellen Lacter, a San Diego-based Clinical Psychologist with bizarre beliefs in Satanic conspiracies and government mind-control.
It was to Ellen Lacter that Gigi Jordan took Jude in search of validation for her delusional and paranoid fears. Unsurprisingly, it appears she found it.
Ms. Lacter, however, seemed to see none of Ms. Jordan's apparently obvious delusional paranoia, even as Ms. Jordan spoke of an omnipresent Satanic cult conspiracy. How is this possible?
But what exactly is Putnam talking about? What does he mean when he refers to "this kind of texting"? Is he referring to "facilitated" texting and, if so, why does he claim Jude could text independently? And why is it that Putnam failed to mention the element of Facilitated Communication at all? Does he deny that FC was being used at all, or is he claiming that there were occasional instances of independent texting?
With no physical medical evidence to support the claims of Jude's sadistic sufferings, Putnam attempted to match the self-reports allegedly typed by Jude to possible psychological symptoms of traumatic abuse. This necessitated that Putnam both reject Jude's diagnosis of autism — attributing his cognitive difficulties instead to psychological trauma — and accepting the alleged self-reports attributed to Jude as legitimate communications from the boy. In rejecting the autism diagnosis, Putnam pointed to atypical features in Jude's autism symptoms concluding, "it is highly probable that some of Jude's unexplained and unusual medical problems were unrecognized injuries from physical and sexual abuse." However, as another doctor noted, in recognition of Jude's positive response to steroid treatments, "most cases of autism are not immune-mediated. There are however, rare cases of autism, variants of autism that are immune-mediated."  Jude, it seemed, was one of those cases, nor could any idiosyncrasies in Jude's symptoms change the unlikelihood that he'd suffered the tortures claimed, for which he remained physically un-scarred.
Another regular ISSTD annual conference presenter, Bessel van der Kolk, submitted expert testimony intended to describe how trauma could manifest itself in ways that could look like autism. The court excluded his testimony, but there is a certain audacity to a man like van der Kolk submitting expert testimony at all. Back in 1996, while being deposed as an expert, defending recovered memory veracity and legitimacy, van der Kolk's testimony was excluded after attorney Christopher Barden revealed severe problems in a research paper van der Kolk used to support his position. A graduate student, who had collected van der Kolk's data, had been expelled for scientific dishonesty in falsifying data. Merely removing the student's name from the list of co-authors, van der Kolk's paper remained otherwise unrevised.
It is exasperatingly disappointing that in all this time nothing has changed. Harmful and discredited theories are being put forward by the same unwavering individuals, to the detriment of mental health care consumers, to the detriment of the mental health care profession, and with occasional tragic consequences. Indeed, given the consensus among scientists, it would appear that only a "shocking ignorance" of advances in memory research and cognitive science could account for the dogged persistence of discredited DID therapies and repressed memory retrieval techniques. It is an outrage that a pseudoscience-based organization such as the ISSTD (much less an organization like S.M.A.R.T.) can offer Continuing Education Units while propagating conspiracy theory. Fully debunked by empirical studies, the use of Facilitated Communication by a licensed therapist to arrive at a psychiatric diagnosis should, at the very least, cause for revocation of professional licensure. Obvious public displays of paranoid delusion, such as those expressed by Ellen Lacter, should, at the very least, cause for revocation of professional licensure and mandatory psychiatric evaluation. The fact that Ms. Jordan, harboring paranoid delusions, could have her delusions supported and affirmed by licensed mental health professional is a monstrous mental health scandal.
The facts are these: an 8-year old autistic boy was diagnosed with a debunked psychiatric disorder. The diagnosis was arrived at by discredited methods. The professional pseudoscientific assumptions surrounding the boy's "treatment" likely contributed to paranoid delusions in his openly disturbed mother, who ultimately killed the boy in order to spare him from the horrors of a nonexistent threat. While the boy's mother now serves a prison term for her crime, the worse-than-incompetent "professionals" who not only failed to prevent her from committing the murder, but may have actively fed the paranoid delusions that acted as her rationale for the deed, remain unapologetic and without censure. It is my contention that proper professional mental health intervention may well have prevented this woman from murdering her son. The fact that her filicidal delusions could be reinforced by mental health professionals should be cause for outrage and reform.
Jacobson, J. W., Mulick, J. A., & Schwartz, A. A. (1995). A history of facilitated communication: Science, pseudoscience, and antiscience. American Psychologist, 50, 750-765.
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I just can't understand!
Thread starter Reword
Reword
I really got involved in this community when I started dating a girl who was a tbdl. I was very fascinated. I only was ever the caretaker but she always talked about diapers like they were the greatest thing in the world which made me want to try. I never have bc I just don't see how an undergarment could be so great. Like, it's just thicker underwear right? I've done make shifts and honestly I don't see the hubbub. But I can't get the thought out of my head sometimes. Also, almost weekly I see a license plate that has "dpr" on it. Like the world is taunting me about something I can't wrap my head around. Also, I'm OCD so this won't go away till I got an answer lol. Haha. Maybe y'all can help me understand.
BoundCoder
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Fetishes usually don't make sense. People try to rationalize them (comfort, security, etc) or find causes of them (abuse, early associations of love, etc) or play them off as a side effect of some other fetish (plastic fetish, blanket fetish, "softness" fetish, etc), and I guess sometimes you can, but I think usually it's just plain random.
Personally I think life's too short to worry about it. If you enjoy something, and it's not hurting anyone or having an overly negative effect on your own life, why not just go for it. As an atheist I can't really relate to any of the religious guilt issues, so I guess you have to come to terms with that on your own if they apply, but from an objective standpoint I've never seen the harm of this or most other fetishes.
Some people like distance running, some like sprints. Strokes for folks.
I can't explain my attraction to diapers, and I wouldn't expect a non-dl to get it. If you feel like trying it, do so. If you don't like it, there's no obligation to try it again.
Some more food for thought: sometimes it's possible to be turned on by the mental image of something, without actually enjoying the physical reality of it.
On my long list of fetishes, is force feeding (being forced to eat something disgusting). I have no idea why this turns me on (usual BDSM justifications probably apply), but it does. That said, I've actually tried it, and didn't enjoy the reality of it at all. Not in an "enjoyable" not enjoying it, but in a legitimate total turn off, took everything in me not to end the session and will probably never try it again kinda way. I can say the same for mouth soaping (yes, I've got a lot of fetishes..). Point is I still love watching sessions where others do it and reading stories involving these elements. Maybe you enjoy the idea of wearing diapers but not the reality of it.
andycandy
This is so interesting because for me personally with my diaper fetish I have i'd prefer it to be hidden and I like to make up my own fantasies in my mind about it. If during sex my partner actually partook in it I think i'd be really really turned off to it. I enjoy moreso fantasizing about the fact that someone would actually have the power to put you in diapers without actually knowing that you like to wear them in the first place. Not sure exactly the simplest way to put this but yeah, my fetish is purely mental and I love that it's my secret
Silly wabbit!
Reading somebody's explanation of their sexual attraction to diapers isn't going to make you sexually attracted to them, so if that's your threshold for understanding, expect confusion. This is one of those places where comparisons to homosexuality do reasonably well. I could listen to any gay male describe his attraction to other males and it certainly wouldn't make me want to hit the sack with another man. Likewise, I could go on and on about boobs, and it would be unreasonable of me to expect a gay male to be as enthusiastic. And it's the same way with diapers. They, and the mental imagery that comes with wearing them, are a turn-on for me. There's no way to rationalize that; it just Is.
Ok I need to clarify, the girl I dated had zero sexual attraction to diapers. The sexual attraction I understand because it's a fluffy soft material next to someone's sexual parts so that makes sense. But I can't understand it in the case for those like this girl who had zero sexual attraction. What's the appeal
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Brah, I think you spoke eloquently here. I think hearing other people say how amazing it is makes me want to try it but like anything, a mind can build something up into a skyscraper, when in reality it is only a small shack. This girl I dated even said she preferred her fantasies in her head than actually doing them. You sir are a scholar and a genius.
BabyGirlMoo
I really like that you said this BoundCoder. I'm new to actually trying this out like wearing diapers, but I've read stories for quite a while. I kinda thought that if I liked it in a story, then I'd almost have to like it in real life or something. But I think it's good for me to know that it's not always true.
I have tried it in a sense with makeshifts and didn't enjoy it, but I can't get it put of my head for some reason and I think it's because I've fantasized about it for some many years because of what I heard from people on the internet that it wasn't as good as I expected. But still I can't leave the fantasy sometimes
dogboy
At this point, I'd just order some diapers of the net and try them. Either you're into them or not, and then you'd know. Really there's nothing to lose other than the cost of the diapers. It's not that big a deal as long as diapers don't rule your life.
BabyGirlMoo said:
I think a lot of times the reality doesn't match the fantasy. To be honest the absolute most striking thing for me when I tried real diapers for the first time is that they didn't fit very well at all. In my mind I just assumed they would, and in stories they don't talk about someone putting on a diaper, taking a few steps, and having them sag and slide down their legs or the tapes shifting around. The makeshifts I had experimented with were actually much more effective diapers than the first real ones I tried. With some experimentation I eventually found ones that fit me and learned how to do them up properly, but it was still a fantasy vs reality moment for me.
I'd also say some things are more fun in real life then they sound on paper or in your own head. Some stuff just doesn't translate well to words and can only really be experienced by doing.
My personal philosophy is to try just about anything I'm remotely interested in (as long as it's safe and sane). A lot of people worry about being different and not fitting in and just want to be "normal". Personally I say to hell with that. The more stuff I know about that I enjoy, the better.. and I genuinely think that even bad experiences are worth it, because at least you can say (even if only to yourself) that you tried it. Worst that'll happen is your list of groups and interests on fetlife will require you to scroll excessively
OK, you really have me confused. The various threads you've started here don't jive with what you're saying here now. At one time you told us this attraction to diapers started while playing house with your sister as a child. You've been on here and told us you had succeeded in giving your ABDL attraction to diapers up.
What's up with you? Nothing is believable anymore!
ArchieRoni
The answer to the OP question is because it feels nice. That can be further explained in a lot of different ways, but ultimately, it's just nice. (Cottontail, you may now point out that my terminology has become yet more vague. Go on. I'm a big boy, I can take it. :smile1
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I am feeling similar to this. I'm going to assume that Reword is posting in good faith, but that leaves me confused. I thought he actually had tried diapers already, or at least makeshift ones at some point. If that didn't do anything for him, then so be it. We already knew that ABDL wasn't exactly universal.
Uh, do you mind if I say something here?
If your SO in the relationship is ABDL, that really doesn't mean you have to be one to have a successful relationship. If diapers aren't your thing, that's perfectly fine. Sure, they turn me on and comfort me, but I usually don't expect others to understand my fetish. In your situation, what you should be doing is, if you're serious about the relationship, accept her for who she is, warts and all.
Oh, and if you're going to try diapers yourself, don't buy the cheap, store-brand ones. They suck. You can order samples of better diapers online (Northshore Care has some for free. Just ask them.), and if you don't like them, well, you don't like them. Simple as that. Just try to understand and accept your SO's little kink and you'll both be A-O-good.
diaperboyxxx1
Just be careful the Dpr license plate isn't of a North Korean agent (Dprk)
I get the confusion, but basically I never got involved other community till I dated this girl. I had always seen stuff of the internet before then but when I met her was when I was first active.
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Reword said:
The only thing that you need I understand is that this is something that gives her comfort, pleasure and serenity. I've posted something similar in another thread but a woman wants to be able to feel safe and let her shields down. Talk to her and ask her what she wants out of it and if you do that for her she will love you deeper than anyone. She would go to the end of the world for you and give you everything. Things don't have to make sense. In fact most of life and even life itself makes little sense. Just enjoy the time and companionship.
LittleAaron
You know, this is exactly how my curiosity and then "desires" started.
I had little memory of diapers as a baby, and when the subject of older kids wearing diapers came up, I became curious as to why and then to what it felt like. I can tell you from experience that you can read these forums, stories, watch videos for years and that curiosity will never go away.
You are kept from just trying them because of all the stigma surrounding wearing diapers, but when you actually do get the opportunity you will find that you are right, they are no more than thicker underwear; however, they offer you so much freedom and convenience that comes with not having to worrying about finding a bathroom.
For some they do offer some comfort, whether physical or mental, but that is something you will have to decide for yourself. Are they comfortable to you?
So, in conclusion, find a way to try them for yourself. . . do not worry about it or try to figure it out until then.
Merp said:
Oh we broke up haha like a year ago
Misatoismywaifu
Order a sample pack of bambino adult diapers off of bambino diapers.com and let us know what you think. ^^


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VPR Archive (https://vprarchive.vpr.net/vpr-news/lawmakers-want-yankee-to-guarantee-a-decommissioning-fund/)
Lawmakers want Yankee to guarantee a decommissioning fund
By John Dillon | February 24, 2009
(Host) Federal regulators say the state Legislature can force Vermont Yankee to set aside more money for dismantling the plant in 2012.
But a Vermont Yankee executive told lawmakers the company can't afford to guarantee it will have $600 million in three years.
VPR's John Dillon reports:
(Dillon) Lawmakers are concerned that Vermont Yankee doesn't have enough money to dismantle the plant when its license expires in 2012.
Decommissioning the reactor and restoring the site along the Connecticut River is estimated to cost more than $900 million . Yankee has about $372 million set aside for the job, and the fund has declined in recent months.
So the House Natural Resources and Energy committee has drafted legislation that requires Yankee to show it has $990 million on hand. The money can either be in cash, bond or a line of credit.
The committee wanted to know if the legislation conflicted with federal law or rules issued by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
NRC lawyer Steve Crockett testified by phone.
(Crockett) "The NRC has recognized over the years, including in the context of decommissioning, that the state has reserved to it certain economic questions and the case law confirms that."
(Dillon) While the NRC didn't throw up any legal roadblocks, Yankee and its lawyers objected strenuously to the bill. Attorney John Marshall represents Entergy Vermont Yankee.
(Marshall) "Entergy VY opposes the legislation because it believes it's a material, unilateral change to the agreement it had with the state for operation of the plant until 2012."
(Dillon) Marshall says a 2002 order from the Public Service Board allows the company to put the plant in mothballs for up to 60 years – a procedure known as Safestore. Marshall said the legislation was of — quote "questionable legality" because he says it changes legal conditions set by utility regulators.
Lawyer John Matthews also told the committee that the decommissioning fund would be safe, even if the company filed for bankruptcy.
But Matthews also said that ratepayers or taxpayers did end up paying to close other financially troubled plants.
That statement provoked a strong reaction from St. Albans Democrat Jeff Young.
(Young) "I must say, listening to you today, you just destroyed any confidence I had in Entergy in making this work. I just can't believe you sit here and told us that we're stuck with the bill…. You proved our case that we're trying to make here."
(Dillon) But Entergy Vermont Yankee vice president Jay Thayer said ratepayers in Vermont would not get stuck with the decommissioning bill.
The plant wants to extend its license for another 20 years after 2012. And Thayer said he can work with the state on a plan to have enough money to decommission the plant after 2032. But he ruled out more decommissioning money by 2012.
(Thayer) "I cannot today have a rational discussion with you about how I can ensure that happens in 2012, because it's so far outside the business case that I have to operate with right now. I honestly can't make it happen."
(Dillon) But committee members pointed out that Entergy's parent company had $33 billion in revenue last year. With that much money, they said, the company ought to be able to guarantee the decommissioning fund.
Lawmakers want Vermont Yankee to prove it has sufficient decommissioning funds
Similar legislation last year drew a veto from Governor Jim Douglas.
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India to build sophisticated Radar Imaging Satellite
Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is building a complex Rs 3.5 billion Radar Imaging Satellite (RIDSAT) for remote sensing and agriculture purpose which it plans to launch using the indigenous PSLV rocket in 2006.
"It is a very complex satellite and we are adopting a new approach to build the radar antenna. It has over 500 clusters which really synthesize the radar antenna and each has to be controlled independently to synthesize the antenna", ISRO Satellite Centre Director Dr. P S Goel told PTI here today.
The next-generation RIDSAT, which aims to provide flexibility for ISRO to map images through new applications, will have S band transponders for resource mapping and agriculture, he said. India is one of the first few countries to build the radar imaging satellite, which is expected to cost about Rs 3.5 billion compared to over USD one Billion in the west.
The satellite will be launched by the indigenous Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle, which put into space India's remote sensing satellites in lower earth orbit. ccording to ISRO, the satellite will do the complex data management of images, which earlier was being done on the ground.
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LISTEN: DJ Shadow Returns with De La Soul on "Rocket Fuel"
Shadow's first new song in two years will be featured on Madden NFL 20 and a forthcoming full-length.
July 24th 2019 by Scott T. Sterling
photo by Derick Daily
DJ Shadow is back, and he's brought along hip-hop pioneers De La Soul for the ride. "Rocket Fuel" is the track, and aside from a Roma-inspired track earlier this year, it's Shadow's first new music since 2017. The song will appear on a forthcoming full-length that's expected before the end of the year. "Rocket Fuel" will also be featured on the Madden NFL 20 playlist.
"It's been awhile since my last album, The Mountain Will Fall, and the corresponding tour, and since the tour ended, I've been mostly silent," Shadow revealed in a press statement. "This is because I've been focused and working on a ton of music. I usually try to avoid hyperbole, and I'm not super-comfortable hyping up my own stuff, but things are about to get pretty exciting. My heroes De La Soul were kind enough to join me on the debut single, "Rocket Fuel," and the collab encapsulates so much of what I love about hip-hop…energy, beats and fun."
The track lives up to its title, boasting an energetic break-beat and sampled vocal bass line for the legendary rappers to use as a springboard for their lyrical schemes. Topped off with bracing marching-band horns, "Rocket Fuel" is the kind of track prime for opening live shows.
Could there be a DJ Shadow/De La Soul joint tour in our future? One can only hope. In the meantime, tune into "Rocket Fuel" below.
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Men, Sexual Trauma, and Healing…
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by Frank Theus, LPC
Back in October 2014, I wrote a blog article entitled Abused Boys http://avenuescounselingcenter.org/abused-boys. My commentary invited readers to enter into an ongoing blogversation shattering the silence specifically for men who were discovering that they were survivors of sexual trauma, in particular, and other forms of abuse. Now two years later, in light of the work I do as a Certified Sex Addiction Therapist (CSAT®), I felt the need to re-visit this e-discussion.
Did you know that according the U.S. Veterans Administration (VA) 1 in 10 men* – that's 10% of the male population – have suffered trauma resultant from sexual assault.
Per U.S. Census data that would translate into the following:
Approximate # of Males in the U.S. 138,053,563 (49.1% of gen'l population) = 13.9 million Male sexual assault victims*
Approximate # of Males in St. Louis County 493,000 = 49,300 Male sexual assault victims*
Imagine with me what these numbers might mean to you. If you attend a church service on Sunday morning, which has on average 185 persons in attendance; and, if it reflected the U.S. general population, there would be approximately 91 male attendees. Of that number there would likely be nine fellow image bearers of God who are sitting next to you, serving alongside of you, suffering in silence regarding their past abuse or assault. These men aren't numbers, they are our fathers, brothers, nephews, grandsons, veterans, coworkers, clergy, coaches, elders, deacons, husbands, neighbors, bosses, friends…
But Who Would Do This?
"Those who sexually assault men or boys differ in a number of ways from those who assault only females.
Boys are more likely than girls to be sexually abused by strangers or by authority figures in organizations such as schools, the church, or athletics programs.
Those who sexually assault males usually choose young men and male adolescents (the average age is 17 years old) as their victims and are more likely to assault many victims, compared to those who sexually assault females.
Perpetrators often assault young males in isolated areas where help is not readily available. For instance, a perpetrator who assaults males may pick up a teenage hitchhiker on a remote road or find some other way to isolate his intended victim.
As is true about those who assault and sexually abuse women and girls, most perpetrators of males are men. Specifically, men are perpetrators in about 86 out of every 100 (or 86%) of male victimization cases.
Despite popular belief that only gay men would sexually assault men or boys, most male perpetrators identify themselves as heterosexuals and often have consensual sexual relationships with women.
These same male victims may have an additional burden of confusion, shame and humiliation if their abuser was a female." (VA)
Early onset exposure to pornography due to adult permissiveness (neglect) or intentionality (abuse). (Theus)
Covert incest wherein the male child feels more like the emotional-romantic-surrogate partner to mom. (Adams)
As these men make their way into counseling and, in particular, the ones who come to see me for my help as a CSAT®, it's usually due to problematic/at-risk behaviors around sex and sexuality that they have sought to hide for so many years but now has exploded into the light of day. These hurting men are at a tipping point or have "hit bottom" and, much like someone drowning, desperately need rescue.
As the rescue operation unfolds it oftentimes reveals a life story of various forms of at-risk behaviors from adolescence into adulthood, porn-induced erectile dysfunction (PIED), STDs, immersed in shame-guilt, feeling stigmatized, dissociating, confusion, distorted-negative core beliefs, lack of boundaries, anxiety-depression-PTSD, anger, and addictive-compulsive behaviors around the use of substances and other process addictions (e.g. money, work, gambling, food, video gaming, and tanning) as an attempt to have "control", to "survive", to "escape" and/or to "numb out".
As important as it is to know that rescue has been extended, my clients begin to realize that what they are undertaking is a journey into sustainable sobriety-recovery and wholeness of their mind, body, spirit, and vital core relationships.
This process is akin to a crucible, yet one wherein the client is extended invitations to explore the deepest issues of their heart in order to grow deeper insights and tools to engage their stories, past, present, and future with real courage and hope. (Allender)
Are you ready to journey? I pray you are.
*NOTE: Many believe – as do I — that the actual conservative number is 1:6 men or 17% of the male population has been sexually abused. If so, the above numbers would be adjusted to:
24 million men nationally
84,00 men within the county
15 men inside our sanctuaries.
www.1in6.org
http://www.malesurvivor.org/index.php
Abused Boys: The Neglected Victims of Sexual Abuse by Mic Hunter, PsyD
Allies in Healing: When the person You Love Was Sexually Abused as a Child by Laura Davis
Always Turned On: Sex Addiction in the Digital Age by Robt Weiss, LCSW, CSAT-S & Jennifer Schneider, M.D.
Sex Addiction 101: A Basic Guide to Healing from Sex, Porn, and Love Addiction by Robt Weiss, LCSW, CSAT-S
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel van der Kolk, M.D.
The Healing Path: How the Hurts in Your Past Can Lead You to a More Abundant Life by Dan Allender, PhD
The Wounded Heart: Hope for Adult Victims of Childhood Sexual Abuse by Dan Allender, PhD
Victims No Longer: Men Recovering from Incest and Other Sexual Child Abuse by Mike Lew, MSW
Wounded Boys, Heroic Men: A Man's Guide to Recovering from Child Abuse by Daniel Jay Sonkin, PhD and Lenore E. A. Walker, EdD
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By Judith Asner
By: Andy Gear, LPC, EMDR Trained Therapist
What is EMDR?
What are signs of Post-Traumatic Stress?
Feel like you are reliving the event, have intrusive thoughts, memories, nightmares, or flashbacks.
Physical reactions to reminders of the event.
Avoid thoughts, feelings, people, places, reminders of the trauma, or can't remember parts of it.
Feel detached, isolated, less emotion or interest in once pleasurable activities.
Problems with sleep, irritability, anger, concentration, hyper-vigilance, or are easily startled.
How does this happen?
PTSD occurs when a disturbing event overwhelms our brain in such a way that we are unable to effectively process it. This prevents us from being able to heal from the disturbing memory as we usually would. These memories do not properly fade into the background, but continue to impact us—most noticeably when we are faced with reminders of the event.
How does EMDR help?
EMDR allows these memories to be processed effectively. By stimulating both sides of the brain (through eye movement, tapping, or sound), we are able to successfully reprocess the event. This allows the impact of disturbing memories to fade, so that we are no longer triggered and begin to feel safe once more.
For more information about EMDR or to set up an appointment, please contact Andy Gear, LPC, EMDR Trained Therapist at [email protected]


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Rockaway (Rechaweygh, Rechquaakie) /Rockaway možda dolazi od "Reckonwacky" u značenju "place of our own people",/  pleme američkih Indijanaca porodice Algonquian nastanjeno u domnorodačko doba blizu današnjeg Rockawaya i Hempsteada na Long Islandu u američkoj državi New York. Rockawayi su bili članovi plemenskog saveza Metoac, no prema govoru (Art Mattson) pripadali su grupi Delaware-Munse, dok Evan Pritchard smatra da su bili Mahican-Quiripi govornici. Evan T. Pritchard, dijelom Micmac Indijanac i ekspert za Algonquian plemena, navodi da su bili podijeljeni na nekoliko bandi o kojima je veoma malo poznato, viz.: Rechquaakee (u prijevodu Sandy Land), Wandowenock (They Dig Pits), Mespaeches, Yameco (Place of the Beaver) i Equendito (Cleared of Trees). Neke od ovih bandi kasnije se dijelom priključuju konfederaciji Metoac, a dijelom plemenu Unami. Glavno selo bilo im je Rechquaakie.

Rana povijest i kultura
Odakle su došli Rockawayi nije poznato. Prvi Paleo-Indijanci na Long Island pristigli su prije nekih 12,500 godina, od kojih su pronađeni tek 'clovis-vršci'. Rockawayi su na otoku možda kojih 1,000 godina i Art Mattson drži da svakako nisu porijeklom od Montaukett Algonquina. Živjeli su u malenim proširenim obiteljskim grupama koje su opstajale na tri glavne preokupacije, lovom, ribolovom i sakupljanjem. Ove skupine lutale su u kraju od Hewlett Baya pa uz Mill River do unutrašnjih šuma i polja današnjeg Tanglewood Parka, Hempstead Lake Parka i Hall's Ponda.

Lov i ribolov

Krajevi kojima su lutali bili su raj za lovce. Služili su se lukom i strijelom i kopljima za lov na veću divljač (jelene) i raznim zamkama kod lova na divlje guske i patke i manje životinje kao što su rakun, zec, vjeverica i drugo. Riba, školjke i rakovi kojih je bilo u izobilju, lovili su se i sakupljali po tidalnim vodama, a koristile su se i razne ribarske zamke, kao što su drvene ograde napravljene od kolaca zabodenih u dno za vrijeme oseke, u koje se riba tjerala udaranjem štapova po vodi, a izvlačila ručnim mrežama i kopljima.

Sakupljanje

Jagode i borovnice glavno su divlje voće koje su Indijanci sakupljali, a osim toga tu raste i jeruzalemska artičoka ili čičoka (Hellianthus tuberosus L.), biljka iz porodice glavočika, koja tek po okusu podsjeća na artičoku, a prirodni je antidijabetik, antisklerotik, antibakterik,  afrodizijak, dijetik, diuretik, holagog, remineralizant, stimulans, stomahik, spermatogenik i tonik.
Druga važna biljka je kozjak, i razne vrste oraha, među kojima u hickory (Carya), kesten i napose žir bijelog hrasta ((Quercus alba). Voće koje su Rockawayi sakupljali i kolače koje su pravili od bobičastog voća, osiguravale su ih dovoljnom količinom kalorija i omogućavale da prezime hladne i duge zime.

Oruđe

Long Island nema kvalitetnog kremena koji bi Indijancima služio za izradu kamenog oruđa. Ima nešto kvarcnog kamena od čega su izrađivali vrškove strijela, a jedan paleolitski primjerak, kojega je proučio profesor John Vetter s odjela arheologije na Adelphi University, iskopan je nešto južnije od Lynbrook High Schoola, no nesrećom ovo nalazište uništeno je buldožerom 1998 godine.

Svakodnevni život

Rockawayi i drugi Algonquian Indijanci s Long Islanda, pa i širem području uz Atlantsku obalu, živjeli su u wigwamima, kućama sagrađenim od drvenog kostura prekrivenih korom i kružnoga oblika, i bile su vodo-nepropusne. Lonci u kojima su žene kuhale hranu napravljeni su od kore drveta i slijepljeni smolom. Hrana se kuhala ubacivanjem vrelog kamena u vodu kojom je posuda napunjena.
Razne biljne mješavine služile su kao lijek i u nekim obredima. Mješavina lišća dogwooda (Cornus) i sumaca (Rhus) iz porodice Anacardiaceae, služila je za pušenje na lulu, čiji se dim inhalirao kroz cijev koja je bila utaknuta u glinenu glavu lule. Pravoga duhana na otoku u vremenima, barem prije dolaska bijelaca nije bilo. Za prije 1,000 godina kada su se Rockawayi mogli naseliti na otoku, nije bilo ni wampuma, no imali su veoma lijepe ukrase od školjaka koje su sakupljali uz obalu. Odjeća je bila kožna.

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Volunteering at Lambs Farm can be a rewarding experience for individuals, families, corporate groups and community organizations. We have opportunities that can accommodate daily, weekly, monthly, yearly or seasonal schedules.
If you are interested in getting more information on volunteer activities, please fill out our Volunteer Application, call 847.990.3864 or send an email to find help matching your interests to our needs. Unless otherwise noted, minimum age for volunteering is 16 years.
Lambs Farm is pleased to welcome groups of all sizes to help with ongoing needs including maintenances, landscaping and painting, as well as special projects. Volunteer opportunities can be customized to meet your needs, abilities and availabilities.
Lambs Farm has a full calendar of special events that offer unique opportunities for volunteers. Click here to view the calendar of events.
We need help during events held at Lambs Farm to make them perfect for our guests.
Saturdays and/or Sundays – this would be on a rotating schedule and wouldn't be in any one spot for more than an hour at a time.
Must be 18 years or older. Supplies provided.
Saturdays and Sundays 8 a.m. – 3 p.m.
Help as a greeter, wait staff or busser at our friendly Magnolia Cafe & Bakery. Volunteers wear a white shirt, black pants and comfortable shoes.
Gardener needed to help tend to a sustainable garden at the Magnolia Cafe, on a weekly basis beginning in July through fall. Must be 18 years or older. Volunteer application and background check required.
Gardeners wanted! Volunteers are needed to tend to the gardens, flowers and plants at Lambs Farm.
Help with general cleaning duties at our residences. Flexible hours and days.
Volunteers must be patient, enthusiastic and caring, and athletically minded. Physical education or special education instructors are encouraged to explore this opportunity. You will work with our teams during practice and at competition.
Daily, 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Help sort, tag and place items in our wonderful thrift shop. Volunteers should wear comfortable clothing and shoes. Hours are flexible.
A few hours a week (flexible), must be 18 years or older, able to manage volume of copies, training provided on copiers.
Filing, purging etc. Few hours per week, a couple times a month. Must be 18 years or older.


What can you do with a $40 lens?
I love the challenge of pushing hardware to its limits. I did it professionally as a software engineer for over a decade, and now I do it for fun with my cameras. So when I found an already-cheap 50mm prime lens for $40 on Craigslist, I jumped on it. But can such a cheap lens produce good astro-photos?
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Shooting the stars usually requires a high degree of precision. You need a good understanding of how your camera behaves and a rock-solid tripod, so intuitively, it seems impossible to do from a passenger jet. But late-night flights aren't exactly known for their entertainment value, so I tried it for myself, and here's what I found.
Have you ever driven to the middle of nowhere to watch rocks burn up in the sky? If you haven't, you don't know what you're missing! In this blog post, I share some pictures from my first meteor shower ever and some thoughts on planning for the next one.
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Welcome to Face of the Deep! Chances are, you're here because you have more than a passing interest in astronomy, photography, or some combination of the two. The purpose of this site is to maintain a record of my own personal growth in astrophotography in the hope that others will be inspired to make their own discoveries.


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The Moderate Soprano, Duke of York's Theatre review ★★★★★
06 Apr 18 – 30 Jun 18, 7:30 PM – 9:15 PM
After impressing at the Hampstead Theatre, David Hare's The Moderate Soprano brings the charming story Glyndebourne opera to the West End
By Lucy Brooks on 13/4/2018
Nancy Carroll and Roger Allam in The Moderate Soprano, Duke of York's Theatre.
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The Moderate Soprano is a play that knows its audience – and gives them exactly what they want.
David Hare's story of Glyndebourne Opera House from pipe-dream to British institution is the warm, witty love letter to opera that fans of fine frocks and Mozart will expect and enjoy. After a sellout opening at the Hampstead Theatre in 2015, Jeremy Herrin's production comes to the Duke of York's Theatre.
It's not a play to disprove any notions that West End Theatre is dominated by the white, well-educated elite. But it does tell the fascinating story of 'Snobs on the Lawn' with plenty of charm and some thought provoking reflections of the meaning of art, tradition and national identity.
Roger Allam is on fine form as a plummy, persistent John Christie who has big dreams for his own garden. Along with his soprano singer wife Audrey Mildmay (Nancy Carroll), Christie sets about building a new British tradition, with a new opera house in his own Sussex country estate.
Jacob Fortune-Lloyd, Nancy Carroll, Roger Allam, Paul Jesson and Anthony Calf in The Moderate Soprano at the Duke of York's Theatre
Cue lots of lively opining about Wagner and in-jokes about Così Fan Tutte, all of which are met with hearty laughter. Mirroring Christie's passion for opera is a more personal love story, as we see a vivacious husband/wife team with a dream, and later snippets of postwar life where John is nursing an increasingly ill Audrey.
The more thought-provoking drama comes from the political backdrop of his true story.
The worrying rise of the Nazis in Europe means that some of Germany and Austria's most distinguished directors and conductors are willing to take a chance and take refuge in this unknown, sleepy corner of England.
Christie's dismissal of their stories about Hitler's underhand tactics feels like a timely reminder of the futility of maintaining that stiff upper lips and British resolve in the face of escalating unrest. There's just enough satire in Hare's loving portrayal of these dreamy upper classes to give the play bite, but The Moderate Soprano isn't here to challenge or provoke discussion.
Instead it's an rousing story of love – passion for opera and devotion to your partner – and a wonderful opportunity for opera buffs to chortle away at all the in-jokes.
by Lucy Brooks
What The Moderate Soprano, Duke of York's Theatre review
Where Duke of York's Theatre, St Martin's Lane, London, WC2N 4BG | MAP
Nearest tube Leicester Square (underground)
When 06 Apr 18 – 30 Jun 18, 7:30 PM – 9:15 PM
Price £17-£97
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HAMPSTEAD THEATRE NEW SEASON 2015
Commenting on the new season, Hampstead Theatre Artistic Director Edward Hall says: 'As we move into our sixth year at Hampstead it's a real privilege to bring two fascinating and entertaining new plays to the Main Stage. Both plays are inspired by true stories, marking a momentous time in British society whilst exploring the place of the Arts in public life.'
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The first European branch of Japan's biggest curry house chain dishes out Japanese curries with adventurous toppings and plenty of options to customise your meal.
Henrietta Hotel and Restaurant
Michelin-starred chef Ollie Dabbous has teamed up with luxury hospitality specialists The Experimental Group to open a modern British bistro within a boutique Covent Garden hotel.
The sort of wine bar/restaurant you never want to leave, this place has two separate floors depending on whether you fancy something bustling or more chilled. The French menu features both small plates and charcuterie alongside plats du jour that might include gilt head bream, monk's beard, broad beans and rouille.
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Sadly it's all we get here. Produced for the North American market, I believe but I don't know the origins of the tea itself. Honduras not being a former colony is sadly not awash with fine teas. Coffee is plentiful but makes me a bit wobbly.
We should be able to find some good quality tea in Belize - thank goodness for the Empire!
I have recently returned from the deepest darkest, and most remote part of Cusuco National Park.
I spent two weeks at a field camp called El Danto (the Tapier) which is six hours' walk from the nearest civilisation of Santo Tomas (a small shop, a bunch of dispersed houses, and another OpWall camp).
El Danto is in the thick of the cloud forest, situated by a rather beautiful stream. Accomodation is mostly in hammocks suspended between the trees, and in the few flat areas tents are squeezed in. The large dining table, kitchen area & shelving are made entirely from staves cut from the forest (the table was made last year and the underside is starting to rot). Two large tarpaulins keep the rain off.
The stream provides a scenic, if rather cold bathing facility. The trench for toilet matters is up a steep hill and provides fine birdwatching (and sometimes snakewatching). Clothes can be washed but due to the humidity take two to three days to dry and often have to be finished of by a night in ones sleeping bag.
Food is provided by two nice Honduran ladies who stay with us for five days a week and cook rice, beans and maize tortillas in vast quantities. On lucky evenings we were given salty cheese.
To prevent us from getting lost, bitten by snakes or into any other mischeif we were guided around the forest by men from a nearby-ish town. They wielded large machetes in occasionally alarming ways, necessitating walking a few steps behind them, but were generally agreeable, and endured my terrible Spanish with a spring in their step and a laugh on their face.
Since then I've been drying out in Buenos Aires and am now back in Base Camp with Fe.
The pigs are being used by a forensic science dissertation student who wants to look at the succession of insects that visit the dead animals. They have hopefully been placed at a good distance from the camp so we don't have to smell them as they rot away - bets are being taken for when the girl doing the project will throw up first! I'm not sure what this project has to do with conservation, but it's certainly a talking point!


I recorded it in one take in my bedroom. It's basically a reflection of the types of dance music I love to play the most on the dancefloor. As a DJ, I hate being restricted to a particular style in a dj set, and I play a lot of opening to close sets so it's important to me that sets are dynamic and have movements and grow in momentum. I'm really into breaks-tinged house, acid of course (!), and trippy electro, so there's quite a bit of that in my mix.
I bought my first mixer and a pair of super crappy Numark CDJ racks (no platters lol) during my third year in university when I first started getting into electronic music. I'd always had an insatiable appetite for weirder music of different styles so at that point I had already been a radio DJ for two years at my campus radio station (where I also had a show where I only played music made by women). Around that time, it was my foray into Kompakt and BPitch Control and a lotta minimal techno like Marc Houle and Magda (She's a Dancing Machine is still one of my favourite mixes of all time), and I threw my first techno parties back then. I even won a campus DJ contest! But it was very much a hobby that I quickly abandoned after university when I moved to Asia. It wasn't until 6 years later when I started DJing again, which I very much think of as a rebirth of some sort, and since getting my first residency at a techno club in spring of 2015 and starting Work In Progress around the same time, things have sort of taken off really quickly.
It's been so long that i have a really hard time remembering but some of my earliest gigs were in campus nightclubs where i'd have to play more top 40, which was annoying, but it was also really fun to mix stuff like Justin Timberlake with Cut Copy and Miss Kittin & the Hacker.
With Volvox for Strange Allure in Buffalo this past February, it was my first U.S. show and the energy and the space were both so incredible. I still think about it all the time.
The first time I was booked by someone in Montreal who wasn't a friend of mine, I played with Jayda G and R. Wong in a DIY afterhours space, definitely stands out as one of my favourite memories.
And this past Sunday, when I opened for DJ Sprinkles, it was hands down the best party we've ever thrown and that was one of the only sets I've played at my own parties that I felt really good about.
When you B2B with another DJ and they touch your EQs during your mix or they mix out of your track after it's only been playing for like 2 minutes.
When women tell me that seeing me play and throw parties and do my radio show has given them the inspiration to pick up the craft themselves.
My favourite ice cream flavour is black sesame.


According to the "Congress Online Project," Vermont Senator Patrick Leahy has one of the best web sites on Capitol Hill. That project is sponsored by George Washington University. Leahy has received the Gold Mouse Award from the group for the second year in a row.
Leahy's Green Mountain colleague, independent Congressman Bernie Sanders, is also drawing praise. Sanders' site took home a Bronze Mouse for being among the top 30 sites in the House of Representatives.


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Iowa Plays at Bradley on Wednesday
Hawkeye Fan Shop — A Black & Gold Store | 24 Hawkeyes to Watch 2018-19 | Hawk Talk Monthly — April
IOWA CITY, Iowa — The University of Iowa baseball team opens a four-game road swing Wednesday, facing Bradley at Dozer Park in Peoria, Illinois. Game time is set for 7 p.m. (CT).
The Hawkeyes are 18-12 overall after winning two of three games over Rutgers last weekend at Duane Banks Field. The Braves have won five straight to improve their record to 17-10. Bradley went 3-0 last weekend, defeating Eureka (20-1) and Robert Morris-Springfield (10-0, 14-2).
Before playing Iowa on Wednesday, the Braves will play at Western Illinois on Tuesday.
Wednesday's meeting will be the second between the two schools in 15 days. The Hawkeyes rallied from a 2-0 eighth-inning deficit to win the March 26 meeting in Iowa City, 4-2. Iowa scored four runs in the eighth on a wild pitch and a three-run Bradley fielding error.
Sophomore Trenton Wallace earned the victory, allowing two hits over 4 1/3 innings. He struck out six while issuing one walk. Junior Grant Leonard got the final three outs in the ninth to record the save, but not before the Braves loaded the bases.
Wallace will be on the hill Wednesday for his third start of the season. The southpaw is 1-1 with a 6.32 ERA in six appearances, allowing 12 runs (11 earned) on 15 hits over 15 2/3 innings. Wallace has 21 strikeouts to nine walks and batters are hitting .240.
The Hawkeyes are coming off a weekend where they scored 18 runs in winning their second straight league series. Iowa hit .268 as a team with seven doubles and two home runs. Senior Tanner Wetrich hit .333 with a home run and four runs scored.
Bradley has a .289 team batting average with 77 extra base hits (50 doubles, 10 triples, 17 home runs). The Braves average six runs a game on the strength of two players hitting over .300. Infielder Luke Shadid has a team-best .388 average with five home runs and 26 RBIs.
Wednesday's game will be streamed on ESPN+ and it will also be available on the Hawkeye Radio Network with Zach Mackey on the call.
Iowa will resume its road trip this weekend, traveling to West Lafayette, Indiana, for a three-game series at Purdue.
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TechNet Magazine from Microsoft is now online with all content from the printed version. The magazine is for windows server administrators. The current issue focuses on security and integration with other security devices and appliances.


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Swedbank says authorities can quiz lawyer over money laundering reports
STOCKHOLM, Sept 17 (Reuters) - Swedish lender Swedbank said on Tuesday it would allow the Swedish Economic Crime Authority to interview the lawyer who prepared internal reports for the bank related to allegations of money laundering and its internal controls.
"Swedbank's board has decided to meet request from Swedish economic crime authority to waive attorney-client privilege regarding attorney Erling Grimstad's assignments for Swedbank," the bank said in a statement.
Authorities in Sweden, the Baltics and the United States are investigating allegations that accounts at Swedbank in Estonia may have been used for money-laundering. Swedbank hired Norwegian lawyer Grimstad to prepare reports on the allegations and its internal systems to prevent money laundering. (Reporting by Simon Johnson; editing by Niklas Pollard)


Seder Supper — Wednesday, April 17, 7 p.m. at St. James the Just Catholic Church gym, 495 N. Harrison Blvd., Ogden. Lamb and drinks will be provided; those attending are asked to bring a potluck dish to share. Free; all ages are welcome. The Seder Supper is a re-enactment of the traditional Jewish Passover meal (the Last Supper) with the relationship to the Christian faith being highlighted during the ceremony. For information, call 801-782-5393.
Good Friday Choral Meditation — Friday, April 19, 3 p.m. at the Cathedral of the Madeleine, 309 E. South Temple, SLC. The Choristers of the Madeleine Choir School will perform "Stabat Mater" by Giovanni Battista Pergolesi as a choral meditation upon the suffering and death of Jesus Christ. Free, open to the public.
Holy Saturday/Easter Vigil —Saturday, April 20. Check your parish for Mass times. The Most Reverend Oscar A. Solis, Bishop of Salt Lake City, has determined that the Easter Vigil should not be celebrated before 8:30 p.m. in the Diocese of Salt Lake City. If there is a pastoral need to start earlier, contact Msgr. Bircumshaw, Vicar General.
Easter Sunday — April 21. Check your parish for Mass times.
The Joy of Easter: Youth's Evening of Praise & Adoration — Friday, May 3, 6-9:30 p.m. at St. Therese Catholic Church, 624 Lennox St., Midvale. A night of prayer, celebration, and fellowship for teens in grades 7-12. Guest speaker Fr. Joshua Santos, administrator of St. Ambrose Parish. Cost: bring your CRS Rice Bowl with your contribution.


Angesichts der schweren Menschenrechtsverletzungen in Bezug auf Folter und anderen Formen von unmenschlicher und erniedrigender Behandlung in Bosnien und Herzegowina (BiH), unternimmt der Autor dieser Arbeit eine Untersuchung der zwei Eckpfeiler (sowohl auf nationaler als auch internationaler Ebene), welche in der Art und Weise miteinander verschmelzen, sodass sie ein ganzes System bilden: das Verbot der Folter und das Konzept der Prävention.Hierbei wird die explorative, deskriptive und komparative Methode der Fallstudie angewendet, um ein bestmögliches Ergebnis zu erreichen.Seit dem Krieg in den 90er Jahren, wird BiH von verschiedenen internationalen Organisationen überwacht. Diese haben eigene Mechanismen und Methoden, welche die Aufrechterhaltung des Verbots von Folter und das Funktionieren des Konzepts der Prävention gewährleisten sollen, entwickelt. Der Autor dieser Arbeit unternimmt eine umfassende Herangehensweise: Ausgehend von der UN-Ebene und sich dann zur europäischen Ebene bewegend, soll diese Arbeit schließlich auch die nationale Ebene untersuchen und somit ein weites Spektrum an Verbots- und Präventionsmechanismen beachten.Folglich ist das Ziel dieser Arbeit auf die Analyse der verschiedenen Ansätze (einschließlich Mechanismen, Methoden, etc.), welche die (inter)nationalen Organisationen unternehmen, gerichtet. Darüber hinaus werden die Ergebnisse analysiert und verglichen, um zu einem Endergebnis, welches sich mit Effizienz und Zusammenarbeit zwischen den verschiedenen Ebenen befasst, zu gelangen.Schließlich ist das Ziel dieser Arbeit die wichtigsten Problembereiche zu orten und Lösungsvorschläge darzubieten.
Considering the severe human rights violation in relation to torture and other forms of inhuman and degrading treatment in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), the author of this Thesis undertakes the research on the two cornerstones (for both national and international level), which interlock in the way to form a whole system: the prohibition of torture and the concept of prevention.In order to do so, the explanatory, exploratory, comparative and descriptive case study method will be applied.Since the war in the 90ies, BiH has been monitored by various international organisations. Those have developed own mechanisms and methods to ensure the functioning of the process of prohibiting torture and preventing it. The author of this Thesis undertakes a comprehensive approach: Starting from the UN level and then moving to the European level, the Thesis shall stop at the National level and thus pay attention to a wide spectrum of prohibition/prevention mechanisms.Consequently, the aim of this Thesis is directed towards analysing the approaches (including methods, mechanisms, etc.) all the various (inter)national organisations take. Furthermore, the results shall be analysed and compared in order to come to a conclusion, which will deal with effectiveness and co-operation among the various level of the ongoing monitoring.Moreover, the aim is directed towards locating main matters of concern and providing proposals for solution.
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At the end of July to early August, a team of 11 traveled to Zambia to serve the Lord. The majority of time was spent in Katete, an eight hour drive east from Lusaka, laying bricks for a two room classroom at a new school site. However, old friends were visited, Days for Girls feminine hygiene kits were passed out, guitar lessons given, pillowcase dresses given, workout clothing shared, soccer played, shima tried, and new friendships made. Teachers and students were shown how two laptops worked, how to teach math better using manipulatives, and advice was shared about personal safety. A valuable experience was had by all.
This video will give you a more complete understanding of everything the mission group was involved in. A building was partially constructed, plants planted, sewing machine bought to continue making feminine hygiene products for the girls, clothes passed out, books delivered and read, games played, teachers trained, and an all-around wonderful time full of memories by those who participated.
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ANSWERING THE CALL 2014 Africa Mission Trip to Healing Place School in Zambia
In August, our team from Calvary Presbyterian Church in Enumclaw, Washington traveled to Lusaka to build a food/assembly hall for Healing Place. The health department has advised the school that a food hall is required to meet hygiene requirements and to be considered for certification.
The Africa Mission Team and Healing Place school staff thank all of you for your prayers and financial support. It was such a blessing to represent our church and to continue the partnership between our church and Healing Place.
A $5000 grant for Enumclaw Rotary paid for most of the building supplies.
Healing Place was a dream and a vacant lot when VillageSteps, Enumclaw Rotary and Calvary first became involved in 2008 with Pastors John and Thenny Mpanga, the directors at the school.
We had a well dug and built several buildings over the years. Now, Healing Place has over 400 students and a 100% pass rate on the Zambia grade 7 exams. Your support has transformed lives of students, teachers, and their families. Together with Healing Place, we have given great gifts: hope and trust.
Many parents have heard of the success and want their children to attend. This has resulted in the need for more classroom space.
THIS TRIP
Several of the mission team members had been to Healing Place before and were looking forward to meeting friends at the school. We hugged John and Thenny and the teachers as we arrived. We were welcomed with singing and poetry by the students in charming purple uniforms. As we toured the classrooms, we were surprised to see the office covered with photos of mission team members from previous trips.
Later in the day, we went to town with John Mpanga and bought building tools, an industrial quality sewing machine, a knitting machine, and cloth and yarn to make uniforms.One of the teachers sews uniforms and another knows how to use the knitting machine so the children will have sweaters for the cold season.
On the second day, some of us started working on the foundation for the food hall. Others met with the female teachers and students to distribute bras and sanitary kits and to teach refusal skills.
Days for Girls is an organization dedicated to keeping girls' in school. It developed a cloth sanitary pad and washing kit so that the pads can be reused. This is so critical for keeping girls in school. Every one of the older girls said they had missed days of school because of their periods. Judy Davis had worked with Days for Girls to create pads to give to the older girls at Healing Place. Every older girl and teacher received a kit and one teacher was trained how to sew them.
Judy had many non-fiction books from her teaching library. We distributed 80 pounds of these books among our luggage and took them to Healing Place. Judy showed the teachers how to use the books in teaching. She also showed older students how to use them to read to younger students. It was so exciting to see two or three younger students sitting around another student reading to them. This will improve the English skills of all these students.
We distributed uniforms Ronda Henry and Krista Hixson had brought and purchased some balls and equipment. Each student received a shirt or a sports jersey for their physical activities.
Dave Dietz had promised one of the teachers, Boniface, back in 2012, that he would bring a guitar for him. He did that and also brought music and taught Boniface how to play. Boniface worked hard and overnight had learned most of the chords. We were able to leave 3 guitars and Boniface will be able to teach others.
We enjoyed playing soccer with some of the students. Krista Hixson, a certified athletic trainer, impressed the athletes with her soccer skills.
We were glad to be able to strengthen our relationship with Zulu, our driver. He took us to his house to see his wife and daughters and to his family farm to meet his mother. While there, he collected clippings of their hedge to plant at the school. As our team started digging the holes for the hedge clippings, several of us thought that we didn't have enough clippings to cover the one side of the school property. Ronda said remember, "fishes and loaves". It didn't seem possible. However, at the end, we did have enough clippings!
We asked Zulu if he would be willing to lead a discussion with older male students about love, sex, and respect for women. It was a lot to ask, but he felt more like a close friend than a driver. He agreed. Since he could speak the local language and was a Zambian, he could speak frankly to the boys. He talked about respect for women and being responsible. Now he is another partner in this mission.
Some of the teachers have to walk for over an hour to get to school. Healing Place constructed a house for teachers' accommodations. When this is finished, some can stay at the school. This will improve security at the site and encourage teachers to continue at the school.
John Mpanga has joined with other pastors to start two satellite schools. One is about an hour away and the other about 5 hours to the east. A chief in the eastern school area had heard about Healing Place. John told the chief to visit the VillageSteps website. He was so impressed that he gave John 13 hectares to farm to support the schools and a 3 bedroom house to use as a beginning school. A foundation has been completed for a classroom building at this eastern site.
We visited the Tonse women's co-op and provided Singer sewing machines, a knitting machine, and sanitary kits. We heard after our return that the women had begun sewing the kits.
We were able to complete 5 courses of the walls of the food/assembly hall building by the end of our trip. The construction will be finished by the builder and volunteers.
Other news at Healing Place School in Zambia:
We now provide a monthly stipend for the teachers and funds for school lunch each day. We have lost some of the funding for the monthly teachers' stipend. That is now a need to be met.
The school has added grades 8 & 9, the reason is that we had pupils who were forced into early marriages and some were in the streets to look for money because after graduation to grade 8 they had no funds.
A new classroom is needed to meet the growth in the number of students. Two grades meet in each classroom at the same time now and it is quite difficult.
All of you have been part of changing lives and the future of generations of families. Whether it has been money, prayers, labor, or encouragement, it is deeply appreciated.
You have given hope to those who may have felt forgotten. This is especially true for girls whose education is often a lower priority for their families who expect daughters to assist with younger siblings, to do chores such as fetch water and firewood, and to marry young. The education of girls can be a threatening cultural change that is resisted. An extreme example of this is the Boko Harem in Nigeria where over 200 girls were abducted.
There is an African saying: If you educate a boy, you educate a man. If you educate a girl, you educate a nation. Also, we acknowledge the tenacity of children who have chores at home and still walk to school to learn. Many of them have lost parents and have limited resources, but they have persevered.
Thank you and God bless you.
The Zambia Team – Ken and Suzanne Popp, Judy Davis, Lauren Hardman, Ronda Henry, Dave Dietz, Michael Dietz, Jeff and Krista Hixson.
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