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GERMANY: Controversy Surrounding "Twelve Tribes" – Sociologist Warns against Targeted Misinformation by Sect Experts
How a Religious Community Gets Harassed by Authorities Spurred on by FECRIS. Do "Sect Experts" Use Controversial Deprogramming Methods to Turn Children against their own Parents?
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Police raid at the religious community "Twelve Tribes" in Nördlingen, Bavaria.
MUNICH, 01.01.2015 (FOREF) – A good 20 years ago, a branch of the religious community "Twelve Tribes" was established in Germany. In August 2013, the community was prohibited from running a school of their own since they discipline their children corporally – although in a soft manner, as the community emphasizes. One month after that, in a controversial large-scale operation the police went and got 41 children out of the communities in Nördlingen-Klosterzimmern and Wörnitz. At this point after more than a year, 20 children are still in the custody of the Jugendamt (Youth Welfare Office). Susan J. Palmer, sociologist of religion, points out that after the police raids in September 2013, the doctors did not find any evidence of abuse. She criticizes the blind trust the German authorities put in the self-proclaimed sect experts who are running a targeted disinformation and demagoguery campaign against the community.
Note in advance: FOREF distances itself from the use of physical chastisement, even if moderate, and rejects the disproportionately harsh intervention of the authorities in this case as well, which have long term traumatizing consequences for the children. Cf. Art. 19 of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child to be protected against the use of force, abuse, and neglect (see below).
In late October 2014, the District Court of Ansbach decided upon a petition of the Jugendamt (Youth Welfare Office) to permanently withdraw custody from three sets of parents. The decisions are not final yet. The affected parents of six children aged 1-6 years have already filed complaints. Also at the District Court of Nördlingen, 12 more custody proceedings are currently pending, the court director Helmut Beyschlag told the news magazine Spiegel. There is no end in sight to the conflict between the German authorities and the Twelve Tribes.
As early as 1984 in the USA, the "Twelve Tribes" were accused of abusing their children whereupon 112 children were taken into state custody in a first police campaign. That same day Judge Frank Mahady strongly condemned this measure as grossly unconstitutional, whereupon the children were allowed to go home that same day. Since the allegations did not solidify even after further investigations, the charge was dropped after a short while.
History now repeats in Germany, although with the following difference: Next to individuals like "career" apostate Robert Pleyer, Focus reporter Axel Wolfsgruber, or RTL reporter Wolfram Kuhnigk who personally benefit from the media attention, it is mainly the controversial anti-cult organization FECRIS that is behind the demagoguery campaign targeted against the religious community and works through "sect experts" (such as Sabine Riede or Wolfgang Behnk) to stigmatize religious minority communities. By nurturing public fear of "sectarian deviations" ("dérives sectaires" in the original FECRIS slang), the anti-cult lobby legitimizes its own existence as a "pool of experts" and receives public funds for their "informative and advisory activity."
1. Chronology of a Scandal: Police Raids in Nördlingen and Wörnitz – 41 Children Hauled off, Search Warrant was "Faxed in Later"
On September 5th, 2013, in the early dawn, around 30 police emergency vehicles pulled into Klosterzimmern, the property of the "Twelve Tribes" in Nördlingen, Bavaria. Since on that day the community was keeping a holiday, the morning gathering, which usually would be at 6 o'clock, took place later and most community members were still sleeping. A 23-year-old brother in faith who was milking the cows shortly after 6 o'clock, was the first one to see the massive presence of police. He asked the officers what was going on and asked for a search warrant. Rather than showing it to him, they threatened to arrest him if he "continued to resist." The police surrounded the entire property only to storm the celebration hall where they were suspecting the morning gathering. Instead they found an empty hall.
Shortly after, the inhabitants of every house on the property were woken from their sleep. The officers ordered the completely perplexed community members to gather in one of the living rooms. According to their own words the more than 100 officers equipped with battledress, truncheons, and pistols had a most threatening and blood-curdling effect on parents and children alike.
Then in the living room an order written by the District Court which was not to be passed out, was read out loud by Mrs. Gudrun Hieble, the representative of the District Administration. The letter said that caregivers of the Jugendamt had already been appointed and that the minor children of the religious community must be taken. Besides, a leaflet was given to the parents informing them about which authorities were now responsible for their children. Later Mrs. Hieble made the claim to the community that she, too, received the District Court order surprisingly that same morning (!) along with the commission to summarize the court order in order to communicate it to the religious community. Since the members of the "Twelve Tribes" had insisted on seeing a search warrant, this was faxed in at 8 o'clock. After the children had been led away, the police was searching for evidence on site in order to subsequently justify the order to seize the children by the Jugendamt.
Yet to no avail. The doctors who medically examined the children that same day, did not find any evidence of acts of abuse.
The background of the large-scale operation: On August 16th, 2013, Sabine Riede, the "sect commissioner" of Sekten-Info NRW (a member organization of FECRIS, see also the comprehensive expert study about FECRIS) along with the RTL reporter Wolfram Kuhnigk got the District Court of Nördlingen involved in order to take action against the "Twelve Tribes." Shortly before, a local head of a Jugendamt also was initiated into the operation. As early as two weeks later, on September 1st, the District Court decided to have the children of the religious community in Klosterzimmern and in Wörnitz taken by means of a police raid and put into state care.
Sabine Riede – Protestant "Sect Expert" and FECRIS Member.
Even though there was no evidence proving sustainable physical or psychological damage in the children of the religious community, interim custody was collectively transferred from the parents to the Jugendamt. After all, the authorities preferred to rely on an anonymous report of a supposed ex-member that Kuhnigk(!) mailed in August 2013 and which was published on the website of Sekten-Info NRW, rather than on careful sociological studies about the religious community of the "Twelve Tribes" (see literature *).
Synchronously to the raid in Klosterzimmern (near Nördlingen), there was also a police operation in Wörnitz. And thus, on the day of the raid, a total of 41 children were led off from both congregations. In Klosterzimmern twelve families with 29 children were affected, in Wörnitz it was five families with a total of 12 children.
Even the sons and daughters of guest families visiting with the Twelve Tribes at the time, were taken. That same day, 7 children of parents who were only visiting the religious community were returned. One mother from Israel would not let go of her child in the first place. She managed to show the officers her Israeli passport, not letting go of her child. After some verbal back and forth she finally was left in peace. By now the German authorities do have a certain inhibition about taking a child away from a Jewish woman, at least.
Some parents from Argentina that didn't speak any German, were not that lucky. They tried for hours to contact the Argentinean consulate, yet to no avail. Their three-year-old child was finally taken to a host family that did not speak Spanish. Only 9 days later did the family receive their child back. The hearing found that in the preparations for the police raid, the District Court had acted very unprofessionally and hastily. This child as well as the other seven children of guest families should not have been taken in the first place.
A second raid took place in Dürrlauingen (Günzburg County) in the St. Nikolaus Mother-Child House. That is where three mothers of the "Twelve Tribes" were staying who were not supposed to be separated from their children in the first raid since they were still nursing their children. The authorities placed them under supervision demanding that they stop nursing.
In the morning of December 9th, 2013, at 7 o'clock the Jugendamt and the police knocked at the door. There was no advance notice. One observer of the raid was completely horrified at the piercing squeals he heard as the policemen went in to tear the children away from their mothers. One of the mothers, the 27-year-old Raissa Santos Reip, wanted to nurse her daughter one last time. She was not granted this wish – instead two officers twisted her arms backwards and took her girl from her. (A video report of the affected mother and her husband here.)
The police took all three babies and four older siblings away and led them off in a different car each. Every child was taken to a different foster family in order to prevent any communication among them. (Cf. also Mayr, Stefan: "Mit aller Gewalt" (With All Force), Süddeutsche Zeitung, Nr. 11, 15.01.2014, p. 3)
Any contact of the children with their parents is strictly controlled and any contact with the siblings, friends, and relatives is hardly allowed, unless they clearly distance themselves from the community. Usually, the parents are granted a visitation of two hours maximum every two to three weeks. However, they are not allowed to leave the rooms where the visitation takes place without strict supervision. From a humane point of view it is doubtful whether this brutal approach of the state against the parents and the children of the "Twelve Tribes" is proportionate. At the moment, 20 children are still in the care of the Jugendamt after more than one year. Ten children were legally able to return home within five months. The Jugendamt monitors and discourages any contact between the foster parents, where children under 12 years have been placed, and the biological parents.
On July 1st, 2014, the third police operation took place in Klosterzimmern (see photos here). Two girls (11 and 13 years old) who had fled in February and March of 2014 from their respective juvenile shelters, were supposed to be returned into the care of the Jugendamt. The family court was unable to get a comprehensive expert opinion designed to evaluate whether the parents were fit parents, since the parents of the affected children refused any conversation with the respective expert. In any case there were no indications for an endangerment of the welfare of the children. And still the court refused the children to stay with the religious community while the judges rejects to accept the "Twelve Tribes'" offer of evidence or to follow up on it. The almost 100 officers carrying out the raid in Klosterzimmern, were not able to find the girls on the premises of the "Twelve Tribes."
Two families have officially distanced themselves from the "Twelve Tribes" due to the official harassment and the police raids against the religious community. The court proceedings in Ansbach and Nördlingen have not been closed yet.
2. Enormous Costs for the County: Financial Support Necessary – Deliberation?
One thing is clear – the controversial out-of-home care of the children causes enormous costs for the county of Donau-Ries. For 2014 the Department of Youth Welfare arrogates 700.000 € more than before in the county budget as is stated by the local newspaper Augsburger Allgemeine. Alfred Kanth, head of the Jugendamt, stated that the district administration will "ask for financial support from the region of Schwaben as well as the Bavarian Ministry for Social Affairs in Munich."
The county chief of Donau-Ries county, Stefan Rößle, refuses any communication with the religious community. He supposedly had initiated the first raid on the Twelve Tribes community because of homeschooling as his first act in office.
3. Psychologists Draw Contradictory Results concerning Physical Discipline
In spite of controversial police actions the evidence for abuses by the community is still missing. Alfred Kanth, head of the Jugendamt Donau-Ries stated in April 2013 to the news magazine Spiegel that every 4–6 weeks workers of the Jugendamt visited on the farm. "We experience happy, well-raised children whose development is age-appropriate and who cling to their parents," explained the head of the Jugendamt back then.
In a conversation with Süddeutsche Zeitung journalist Stefan Mayr a 37-year-old "Twelve Tribes" father explains that he sees a difference between a "loving correction without causing damage" and an uncontrolled emotional outbreak. The violent enforcement of the taking into custody through the government authorities was completely overblown and was a big psychological shock for the children. Actually, such a step of the Jugendamt is the last means if no other measures are effective to protect the children. However for ten out of twelve affected families the first contact with the Jugendamt took place during(!) the first police raid.
The often-stated opinion that it is part of the teachings and the practice of the "Twelve Tribes" to break the will of the children, was not true, stated Barak, a brother in faith of the "Twelve Tribes" to FOREF: "Instead the parents want to strengthen the will of the children so that they can grow up to be mature, firm personalities who have learned to distinguish between good and evil and to respect their neighbor." This was also confirmed before the District Court in Ansbach by an ex-member from Belgium who has established two companies with about 20 employees within two years since his exit and does not have one bad word to say about the community. Numerous young people who have left the community go on to complete a college education without incident. However, since the slanted presentation of the community by RTL reporter Kuhnigk, mainly ex-members from Kuhnigk's circle have been being summoned to court as "witnesses."
Rüdiger Eisenhauer, a psychologist commissioned as expert by the Ansbach court, who examined the children of the "Twelve Tribes" from age 3 till age 5, came to the amazing conclusion that the moderate disciplining applied by the "Twelve Tribes" would lead to lasting psychological damage in the future such as "depression, drug abuse and phobia." The psychologist confirmed upon request that his information did not come from direct sources but was just what he gleaned from hearsay. His unfounded and therefore unreliable statements were considered by the court as an expert opinion.
The local child psychologist from Nördlingen thinks though, "If I look at the youth of the religious community, then I can clearly tell right away that their children are not being abused." This is also confirmed by a local pediatrician who could not find any signs of traumatization with the children of the community.
However, the expert opinions of the family doctors, of the aforementioned children psychologist, and of a school psychologist who were very familiar with the children of the "Twelve Tribes," were not even considered by the District Court of Nördlingen.
The differences of opinion between the "Twelve Tribes" and the Jugendamt can be traced back to differing definitions of violence. The controversial police raids pose the question of the proportionality of the state-sanctioned use of psychological, verbal, and physical violence against the children and the parents of the religious community, especially since neither traces of beatings nor mental abnormalities were found with the children after extensive medical and psychological examinations. Ultimately, the welfare of the children has to be evaluated: are the children really better off psychologically in institutions where they are placed with children with behavioral problems or unknown foster parents than with their biological parents who consider "moderate disciplining" a legitimate child-rearing method?
4. Affidavit of Sociologist of Religion and Twelve Tribes Researcher: Statements of So-Called Sect Experts are Unobjective and Dubious – Judiciary Biased?
Sociologists and scholars of religious studies are intensely researching New Religious Movements and principally have the necessary professional competence to explain the world views, the ethical practices, and the social structures of such communities to the public. So it is even more astounding that the German courts use Protestant and Catholic sect experts as "professionals," "witnesses," and "experts" as counselors. The fictive and stereotypical descriptions by these unexamined laymen are automatically and without questioning valid as evidence in the German courts.
Susan J. Palmer, the recognized sociologist of religion (Affiliate Assistant Professor at Concordia University Montreal, Member of the Faculty of Religious Science of McGill University), has been studying the religious community "Twelve Tribes" since 1987 and has already written several statements for encyclopedias as well as chapters in books and peer-reviewed magazine articles about the Twelve Tribes (or the Messianic Communities or the Northeast Kingdom Community Church, as the community was formerly called). She visited different branches of the Twelve Tribes, among others in Vermont, Massachusetts (USA), in Winnipeg (Canada), in Sus (France), in Bavaria (Germany), and in the Czech Republic.
Palmer criticizes the lack of objectivity and the dubious approach of the so-called sect experts. These proceed "ignorantly, negligently, and irresponsibly" and spread "a prejudiced, biased, stereotypical picture" of New Religious Movements, such as the "Twelve Tribes," Palmer explains in her affidavit to the courts (written in October 2014). Thus the claims of the Catholic Klaudia Hartmann, who testified in a court hearing on 13.09.2013 against the parents of the Twelve Tribes in Wörnitz, are marked by plain ignorance about the religious community. The "Twelve Tribes" do not have a dualistic world view, nor do they isolate themselves from the rest of the society, nor do they reject modern medicine. Palmer further indicates that the myth of the manipulative "sect" that exploits its trusting victims, completely contradicts the repeated observation that the "Tribes" are constructively engaged in society and cultivate cooperative relationships to the local secular communities around them. Also they practice charity with homeless or sick people who are not members and do not intend to become members.
The sociologist criticizes the collective withdrawal of parental custody over the children by the German authorities since the partly invented statements of the so-called sect experts present a "completely insufficient basis" for a court ruling. In her statement Palmer describes the way of life and essential beliefs of the "Twelve Tribes." In the US the percentage of apostates among the members of the 2nd generation is relatively high at 50 – 80% temporarily. According to her impression apostates of the 2nd generation also describe relatively happy childhood experiences. As young adults, many decide to explore the world and to leave the community. Some make this decision after going through a crisis of faith whereas others just want to do a different kind of work.
Palmer also intensively studied the phenomenon of "career apostates": these are ex-members who are able to draw media attention with their exit stories. Exaggerations and fiction are not an untypical pattern in such stories which cannot always be taken at face value.
Concerning the harsh approach of the German authorities in Nördlingen and Wörnitz Palmer criticizes the unnecessary violation of the rights of children and parents. It was wrong to violently separate the children from their parents "since the doctors did not find any evidence of abuse after the raids in September 2013." From her own experience and research of similar cases of raids on other religious communities, Palmer knows the damage children sustain from such situations. She appeals to the courts to call in the scientific research of renowned experts.
A few more abnormalities in the court proceedings are pointed out by the lawyer of the community, Michael Langhans: the court allowed the disputable RTL reporter Kuhnigk to read his first testimony before he gave the second testimony so that he would not contradict himself. Kuhnigk was allowed to have the court retrospectively change his testimony in the protocol at least twice without the changes being marked in the protocol. The responsible judge, Mrs. Roser, does not want to say what persons she spoke with before the court hearings concerning the "Twelve Tribes" and denied having counseled with the "sect expert" Riede. Riede states the opposite, though.
5. The Big Business of the "Sect Experts"
Church or state-funded sect experts do not feel obligated to get an impression of a certain community on site – as professional researchers like sociologists or religious scholars do. Nevertheless, in Germany's courts those lay people are consulted as experts and consultants who have mostly insufficient scholarly or methodological qualifications and above all represent the interests of their denomination.
FOREF has put together a list of controversial "sect experts" who stood out negatively in the case of the "Twelve Tribes" by spreading typical "sect stereotypes" and unsubstantial blanket condemnations of New Religious Movements:
- Sabine Riede, Protestant theologian and director of Sekten-Info NRW, a member organization of FECRIS.
- Rev. Dr. Wolfgang Behnk, "sect commissioner" (Sektenbeauftragter) of the Lutheran Church in Bavaria. More information on Reverend Behnk.
- Dr. Michael Utsch, Protestant theologian and psychotherapist, since 1997 the speaker of the Protestant Center for Religious and Ideological Issues (Evangelische Zentralstelle für Weltanschauungsfragen).
- Klaudia Hartmann, Catholic director of the Department for Religious and Ideological Issues of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Augsburg (Referat für Religions- und Weltanschauungsfragen der römisch-katholischen Diözese Augsburg).
A considerable number of those "sect experts" who are close to FECRIS have already been sentenced. Inter alia the charges include: hate speech or the violently enforced de-conversion by means of kidnapping and deprogramming. One of those cases was Heide-Marie Cammans, founder of Sekten-Info Essen (since 2007 called Sekten-Info NRW). She was finally sentenced on 19th December, 2001, by the Land Court of Munich (Landgericht München) for hate speech and defamation of the Hindu group Singh Takhar (file reference 9 O 8726/99, Landgericht München I). Since Sekten-Info Essen e.V. spread biased representations, the Federal Administrative Court in Berlin also sentenced their financing with public funds on March 27, 1992 (file reference BVerwG 7 C 28/90).
Cammans writes in January 2003 in memory of her career as a "sect expert" with Sekten-Info Essen e.V. that the years after the judgment of the Federal Administrative Court "were consistently characterized by constant financial problems." Thus, along with Sabine Riede, the current Managing Director of Sekten-Info NRW e.V., she went looking for sponsors: "And at least we had enough success [with raising funds] that somehow we always could continue," writes Cammans. "I would like to mention especially those Protestant and Catholic churches that helped us with annual donations or by transferring a collection and which – if I may I please add my request – will hopefully continue to contribute to our cause."
Alone in virtue of this kind of denominational financing the objectivity of this information center is to be questioned. According to their own statements the institution that was renamed into Sekten-Info NRW e.V. is now again being sponsored by the State of North Rhine-Westphalia.
6. Are the Children, Who Were Taken into State Custody, Being Deprogrammed by "Sect Experts"?
On July 19, 2014, the Jugendamt arranged a three-hour meeting for the foster parents and institutional educators of the "Twelve Tribes"-children along with those children in state custody at an undisclosed location, to be taught by "sect experts" on "dealing with sect children." The affected parents were not allowed to participate and objected to this meeting. Their objection was declined immediately. In fact, on that occasion the parents of the "Twelve Tribes" were criticized for things they did not do and the foster parents were given biased "information" regarding the beliefs of the community.
The Jugendamt again massively neglected the protection of the parent-child relationship and injured grossly the right of freedom of conscience and religion of the parents and the children of the "Twelve Tribes", a right which is firmly anchored in the German Constitution (Art. 4). In addition, the Jugendamt blindly trusts self-proclaimed experts, who neither engaged with the relevant faith community in a scientific and systematic manner nor have the skills to do so. The opponents of new religious movements influence the children with their black-and-white view of the world, so that they could possibly testify against their parents. Thus, an attempt is made to retrospectively legitimize the controversial regulatory action against the community and the dubious expertise of the advisors.
However, Mrs. Kundinger from the District Office Donau-Ries denies the allegation of indoctrination and would like that the instruction of the foster parents by the sect experts is known only as "foster parent training", as explained in her letter to the District Court of Nördlingen of July 18, 2014.
The parents of the minority group are by legal means powerless against the practices of Sektenexperten who claim a monopoly on truth and exert mind control, in combination with those of the Jugendamt, which isolates children from their families of origin, restricts contact between parents and children and bans criticism.
7. Raid and Juvenile Shelter: Traumatic Experiences for the Children
"I thought that this intervention in our private lives was very brutal and aggressive," described Eva, at that time 17-year-old, in a letter dated 09.23.2013 to Chancellor Angela Merkel. "I love my life in the community and would never wish for anything else, at least not for now."
The then 14-year-old Besorah said, "Another terrible experience was when I was interrogated by the CID (Kriminalpolizei) for three hours. I was pressured to lie and to blame my mother." Her letters to the Jugendamt and the judge in charge were not answered.
Only nine days after she was taken to a juvenile shelter, Debecca (at that time 16 years old) was allowed to speak to her parents on the phone for ten minutes. After five weeks, she was allowed to see her parents again for the first time and three months later, she was allowed to return home. 14-year-old Helez wrote: "I do not understand why they believe the lies that are being told about my parents. Those witnesses, who spread all these lies, should stop and not destroy happy families." Prior to the first raid, "sect expert" Mrs. Riede mobilized six drop-outs of the religious Community get the District Court into the mood for undertaking such an operation.
12-year-old Chaninah said that the Jugendamt would try to persuade her that she is doing much better in the juvenile shelter than at home. In a letter to the County Commissioner (Landrat) of Donau-Ries, Stefan Rößle, she wrote, that "something in her soul is being broken" when she is not allowed to be with her parents.
Nechonah, the 12-year-old friend of Chaninah, wrote to Mr. Manfred Prexl, judge of the Court of Appeal, that her parents would not break her will. She describes her view of things: "The Jugendamt are those who break my personal will. They even send the criminal investigation department (Kriminalpolizei) to get me out of here. (…) I am a simple 12-year-old child, one who has an opinion and expresses it: Namely that I WANT TO STAY AT HOME! "
8. Refusal of Media Bullying
"The Secrets of Sects: Brainwashing or True Happiness" (broadcasted on 11/22/2013) and "When Faith becomes Dangerous: The Power of Sects" (broadcasted on 11/11/2014) were the titles of talk shows by Mrs Sandra Maischberger on ARD. In both broadcasts the self-proclaimed "sect expert" Mrs Riede (a member of FECRIS) was allowed to express her black-and-white world view and her polemical blanket judgments against religious minorities. Personally, she has never visited the community of the "Twelve Tribes ", let alone talked with any active representative.
The "Twelve Tribes" were invited as well to the latter talk show. The community set a condition though to Mrs Maischberger: The representative of the community wanted to participate personally and did not just want to be interviewed via Skype. Mrs Maischberger refused this request with the argument that "it would burden the ex-member too much." Michael Langhans, the lawyer of the Community of Believers, had been invited as well to a Skype interview that the community refused since their demand to have a self-presentation was denied.
Immediately after the show, Mrs Maischberger released a statement on Twitter, in which she claimed that the "Twelve Tribes" would be responsible for a mental disorder of a former member (that in fact exists from birth on).
The worn out sect cliché and the intolerance against believers of religious minorities stubbornly persists in the German media. For in Germany there is no lobby for freedom of religion, faith and conscience.
Cartoon: "They behave different from us", "They dress different from us", "They don't buy the same stuff we do", "They raise their kids differently", "They are simply a CULT!".
UN Convention on the Rights of the Child – Article 14
- States Parties shall respect the right of the child to freedom of thought, conscience and religion.
- States Parties shall respect the rights and duties of the parents and, when applicable, legal guardians, to provide direction to the child in the exercise of his or her right in a manner consistent with the evolving capacities of the child.
- Freedom to manifest one's religion or beliefs may be subject only to such limitations as are prescribed by law and are necessary to protect public safety, order, health or morals, or the fundamental rights and freedoms of others.
UN Convention on the Rights of the Child – Article 19
- States Parties shall take all appropriate legislative, administrative, social and educational measures to protect the child from all forms of physical or mental violence, injury or abuse, neglect or negligent treatment, maltreatment or exploitation, including sexual abuse, while in the care of parent(s), legal guardian(s) or any other person who has the care of the child.
In light of the controversial proceedings against the Christian "Twelve Tribes" community, FOREF addresses following questions to the German authorities and the media:
- At what point is the state entitled to use the executive to intervene and to deprive the parents that are members of a religious community collectively of their children, without consideration of the particular case?
- Norbert Ziegler from the Jugendamt Donau-Ries said referring to the community's ban on the consumption of pork: "Well, but if the children like it…" The children in foster care were not allowed to participate in major holidays of the "Twelve Tribes" as they desired. Is the state allowed – even in cases of its interference with custody – to ignore the beliefs of the parents and guide the children to act against their faith's tenets?
- According to school psychologists, sociologists of religion, and most former members the communal environment of the "Twelve Tribes" is considered to be basically child-friendly. Is the forced removal of children and sending them into custody by the Jugendamt, the separation from their parents, and the children's psychological isolation a proportionate alternative?
- Who monitors the massive verbal violence and downright hatred expressed in the media reports about the "Twelve Tribes"?
- Medical doctors did not find any traces of abuse on the children after the raids on the premises of the "Twelve Tribes" in September and December 2013 and July 2014. The statements of denominational "sect experts" count as basically biased and polemical. What justifies the violent separation of the children from their parents as well as the withdrawal of the parents' custody in the case of the "Twelve Tribes"?
- Do prejudices turn into facts through repeating them in a mantra-like fashion? It's about time that this widespread practice of repeating biased stereotypes in anti-cult organizations is exposed and substituted by professional, impartial and fact-oriented approaches.
FOREF's Demands to the Authorities
- To the County Commissioner, Stefan Rößle: You can safely rely on professional mediation and de-escalation approaches in order to prevent an artificial polarization and aggravation of the conflict! Please dispense with financial funding for the county gained at the expense of the criminalization and defamation of a religious community.
- To the District Court of Nördlingen and the District Court of Ansbach: Question the disproportion of the measures taken and set as the first priority the physical and psychological well-being of the children! Avoid the arbitrary decisions that are influenced by biased reports from self-appointed experts and turn to lawyers, school psychologist, sociologists, and scholars of religious studies for professional consulting.
- To the Bavarian Jugendamt: Avoid stigmatization and bullying of the children in juvenile shelters (Jugendheimen) and schools through education on religious diversity, tolerance and respect! Find creative solution processes through constructive dialog with the affected parents.
- To the Free State of Bavaria (Freistaat) and the Federal Republic of Germany (Bundesrepublik Deutschland): Initiate an official inquiry about the improper proceedings of the so-called sect experts (namely Sabine Riede, Klaudia Hartmann, Rev. Dr. Wolfgang Behnk) and the media representatives (including RTL-reporter Wolfram Kuhnigk and Focus-Reporter Axel Wolfsgruber) involved the case of the "Twelve Tribes". Moreover the disputed agenda of the "sect experts" as well as their occasional application of psycho-manipulative methods such as deprogramming is to be examined. If in future there are any controversies about religious communities, get the expert opinions of trained sociologists and scholars of religious studies!
FOREF's Advice for the "Twelve Tribes"
- Even slight corporal disciplining, which evidently does not leave any physical or psychological damage, is stigmatized as "child abuse" in the public and criminalized as an educational method! You can expect the German authorities to be ready to intervene with irrational violence if there is any suspicion of physical chastisement – even if it is done in a controlled manner and moderately – to supposedly protect the well-being of the children by taking away the children forcefully and without advance notice. There will be no consideration that such actions by the Jugendamt are done at the cost of the psychological and mental health of the children by breaking their will and by undermining the trusting relationship with their parents. The question whether the remedy is proportional to the alleged harm is asked at best in retrospect, only long after the artificially produced media hysteria has waned.
- Publish an explicit description of your educational model. Consult a professional psychological and sociological opinion that will help the authorities to distinguish between moderate educational discipline and corporal abuse.
Overview of the Emergence, Beliefs, and Practices of the "Twelve Tribes"
- The religious community goes back to the American Elbert Eugene Spriggs, a former teacher and member of the Jesus People Movement. Spriggs founded the "Light Brigade" in Chattanooga, Tennessee, which became the "Vine Christian Community Church" in 1975 and "The Northeast Kingdom Community Church" in Island Pond, Vermont, in 1978. The community grew steadily during the 1980s and 1990s, and several branches were founded in North America and Europe by the name "Messianic Communities" before the community eventually called itself "The Twelve Tribes." According to their own statement there are about 2,000 members, the majority living in the USA.
- In 1994 the first German branch of the "Twelve Tribes" formed in Pennigbüttel near Osterholz-Scharmbeck in the state of Lower Saxony. Since 2001 a commune of the "Twelve Tribes" has been living in Klosterzimmern near Nördlingen (Donau-Ries County, Bavaria). About 20 families and several single members are a part of the community in Germany, who besides Klosterzimmern also live in nearby Wörnitz (Ansbach County, Bavaria).
- The congregations of the "Twelve Tribes" are organized as commonwealth communities (c.f. "…all the believers were together and had all things in common." Acts 2:44). Possessions are shared, the manual and agricultural work is handled in a collective manner and meals are taken together. Individual families each have their own private area in the community house.
- The foundation of the community life is the obedience to the Old Testament and the words of the Messiah Yahshua (Jesus) according to the New Testament.
- The group prepares for the return of the Messiah. The community is supposed to restore the pattern of the original church communities before the Son of God returns to the Earth and begins the millennial age.
- Every day there is a morning gathering at 6 am, as well as an evening gathering at 6 pm. The Shabbat is celebrated every Friday evening.
- The community in Klosterzimmern near Nordlingen makes efforts to cultivate friendly relationships with the local neighbors and invites the inhabitants of the village every year to a big Hoffest, where they offer children games and self-made food. Several thousands of visitors came to these events to visit their farm in Klosterzimmern over the past years.
- Children are considered as a gift from God, who they love more than anything. The goal of child rearing is to accompany them on their way in life and teach them to be attentive to the conscience, to practice brotherly love, honor one's parents and respect adults. The task of the parents is to give the children love and care. This also includes setting boundaries and in case they are being transgressed physical disciplining can follow, which happens – as the community emphasizes – moderately and followed by forgiveness. (Injuries are definitely not inflicted to children.)
- The Twelve Tribes prefer homeschooling to keep the children from negative influences of society (explicitly named are sex education or the Darwinist theory of evolution). Since the Twelve Tribes settled in Germany in the year 1994 the community encountered several conflicts with the state authorities.
- From 2006 until 2013 the Twelve Tribes operated a state-authorized "private supplementary school" (Ergänzungsschule). The permission for the school was withdrawn from the community in summer 2013 due to lack of teachers and allegations of disciplining (biasedly coined as "systematic abuse"). Since homeschooling is not allowed in Germany, some families of the community have already left the country in order not to expose their children to the "moral decay in public state schools". (On the current debate concerning the planned extension of sex education in public schools in Germany, see e.g. Voigt, Martin: "Aufklärung oder Anleitung zum Sex?", FAZ, 23.10.2014 and Schmelcher, Antje: "Unter dem Deckmantel der Vielfalt", FAZ, 14.10.2014.)
Background information from the viewpoint of the "Twelve Tribes" (in German)
- Auch nach der Razzia: Keine Spuren von Misshandlung
- Briefe der gestohlenen Kinder an die Eltern
- Nechonah (12) brach aus dem Heim und lief zurück zu ihren Eltern: "Habe die friedliche Atmosphäre vermisst"
- Pressemitteilung der Gemeinschaft von Klosterzimmern
- Antwort auf die Pressemeldung des Landratsamtes Donau-Ries über die rechtliche Grundlage der Razzia vom 1. Juli 2014 in Klosterzimmern
- Stellungnahmen von Frau Pleyer zum "Satan, der nie schläft".
Notes by the Lawyer of the "Twelve Tribes" (in German)
- Amtsgericht Nördlingen verwendet Kinder der "Zwölf Stämme", um rechtswidrig Verhalten der Eltern zu erzwingen
- Pressemitteilung 6/14 zu den "Zwölf Stämmen" – RTL abgemahnt
- Zwölf Stämme: Landratsamt informiert die Öffentlichkeit falsch über den Einsatz vom 01.07.2014
Background information on the European Anti-Cult Network FECRIS:
Besier, G. / Seiwert H. (Hrsg.): Freedom of Religion or Belief Anti-Sect Movements and State Neutrality A Case Study: FECRIS (2012).
*Sociological studies by Susan J. Palmer on the "Twelve Tribes" (selection):
- Palmer, Susan J. (February 2010). "The Twelve Tribes: Preparing a Bride for Yahshua's Return". Nova Religio 13 (3): 59–80.
- Palmer, Susan J. (2005). "Twelve Tribes". In Lindsay Jones. Encyclopedia of Religion 14 (2 ed.). New York: Macmillan Reference USA. p. 9409.
Dr. Craig Knapp (1994), licensed psychologist: Assessment of the Potential Impact of the Messianic Community on the Welfare and Best Interest of the Children.
Frank G. Mahady (1984), district judge: Opinion Paper referring to the detention of 112 children (Vermont Raid).


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With the start of the third chapter of Chullin we take a deep dive into animal anatomy.
אלו טרפות בבהמה נקובת הוושט ופסוקת הגרגרת ניקב קרום של מוח ניקב הלב לבית חללו נשברה השדרה ונפסק החוט שלה ניטל הכבד ולא נשתייר הימנו כלום הריאה שניקבה או שחסרה ר"ש אומר עד שתינקב לבית הסמפונות ניקבה הקבה ניקבה המרה ניקבו הדקין הכרס הפנימית שניקבה או שנקרע רוב החיצונה רבי יהודה אומר הגדולה טפח והקטנה ברובה המסס ובית הכוסות שניקבו לחוץ נפלה מן הגג נשתברו רוב צלעותיה ודרוסת הזאב רבי יהודה אומר דרוסת הזאב בדקה ודרוסת ארי בגסה דרוסת הנץ בעוף הדק ודרוסת הגס בעוף הגס זה הכלל כל שאין כמוה חיה טרפה
These wounds constitute tereifot in an animal,rendering them prohibited for consumption:
1. A perforated esophagus, where the perforation goes through the wall ,
2. or a cut trachea.
3. If the membrane of the brain was perforated,
4. or if the heart was perforated to its chamber;
5. if the spinal column was broken and its cord was cut;
6. if the liver was removed and nothing remained of it…
7. a lung that was perforated
8. or a lung missing a piece….
9. If the abomasum was perforated
10. or the gallbladder was perforated,
11. or the small intestines were perforated, it is a tereifa…
This is the principle: Any animal that was injured such that an animal in a similar condition could not live for an extended period is a treifa, the consumption of which is forbidden by Torah law.
The original meaning of the term treif in the Torah is torn, and it describes a domestic animal that was attacked by a wild animal and suffered an injury that led to its death.
But the rabbis of the Talmud greatly expanded this category - hence the list in the Mishnah that we are studying today. Later in Chullin (57b) there is a dispute as to the prognosis of living animal were it to be declared treif. According to Rav Hunna, if an animal is treif, by definition it cannot live for longer than a year (אמר רב הונא סימן לטרפה י"ב חדש). But there are other opinions (this is, after all, the Talmud): the great editor of the Mishnah, Rabbi Yehudah HaNassi opinion that a treifa is destined to die within 30 days, while a berasia states that a treif animal cannot give birth (leaving open the question about male animals).
It is generally agreed upon that list in today's Mishnah details the kinds of lesions that would be fatal within a year. And that's when the problems begin. Some of them are certainly likely to be fatal. For example a perforated esophagus (נקובת הוושט) leads to mediastinitis, an inflammation of the chest cavity. And that is commonly fatal. If the animal swallows something sharp it can pierce not only the esophagus, but the membranes that surround the heart, called the pericardium. Way back in 1955 - at the start of the era of antibiotics - The Australian Veterinary Journal published a case series of twenty-one dairy cows that developed traumatic pericarditis. "Fifteen cases were treated with sulphonamide [an antibiotic] and six were not. " The six animals untreated cows all died, and even among the cows treated with antibiotics, almost half died. So yes, some lesions recorded in the Mishanh (and later refined in the talmudic discussion which follows) are indeed fatal.
The Case of Serachot
But other lesions that render an animal treif are certainly not fatal. Take for example lung adhesions, called סרחות (serachot, or sircha in the singular), which are discussed in detail later (46b et. seq). These adhesions are fibrous tissues that may run between different lung lobes, or between the lungs and the rib cage. They are common and are caused by a number of conditions, including trauma or previous infections. Many kinds of serichot render an animal treif. But lung adhesions are certainly not lethal. Animals and humans live quite happily with them. In fact this doctor recently told me that the presence of lung adhesions does not prevent lungs from being donated and used for a lung transplant. Now, if they are used in that delicate situation, they most certainly do not have a fatal defect, or anything even close.
the case of the missing liver (and the missing heart)
Equally puzzling to the modern reader is the sixth category in the Mishna's list: ניטל הכבד ולא נשתייר הימנו כלום - if the slaughtered animal was found to have no liver. Here's the thing: an animal cannot live without a liver. If a healthy looking cow - or indeed any cow -was well enough to be slaughtered, it must have had a liver. So this is not an example of a treif animal - it's an example of one that could not possibly have existed. But don't take my word for it.
In 1709 the great rabbi of Hamburg, Zevi Ashkenazi, (better known as the Chacham Zevi, after the name of his responsa) was asked the following question. A young woman had opened a slaughtered chicken to remove the unwanted entrails, while her cat sat at her feet "waiting patiently for anything that may fall to the ground." To her great surprise, the young woman found that the chicken did not have a heart, and so assumed the bird was treif. Not so, claimed her mother, who apparently owned the chicken. The cat must have eaten it, when it was thrown to the ground together with the entrails. The young women was however quite adamant, and insisted she had never fed anything that resembled a heart to the cat. The bird had been perfectly healthy before it was slaughtered, eating and drinking like any other healthy chicken, (וגם בעודנה בחיים חיותה היתה חזקה ובריאה ובכל כחה לאכול ולשתות). The question of the kashrut of the bird was brought to the local rabbis, who declared it to be treif, on the basis that while alive, it had no heart.
The Chacham Zevi was asked to weigh in on the matter. "It is absolutely clear to any person who has a wise heart" he wrote, apparently enjoying the play on words, "or who has a brain in his skull, that it is impossible for any creature to live for even a moment without a heart…Clearly, the heart fell out when the bird was opened, and that cat ate it…It is obvious that the chicken is permitted" Strike one for common sense. You would think. But not so fast. This answer of the Chacham Zevi engendered one of the great halachic disputes of the eighteenth century. In one corner, the Chacham, and in the other at least four leading rabbinic figures who vehemently opposed this ruling: Naphtali Katz of Frankfurt, Moses Rothenburg, David Oppenheim (who was the Chief Rabbi of Prague, no less) and Jonathan Eyebeschuetz (who spent much of his later life fighting halachic battles against Rabbi Yaakov Emden, who was the son of the Chacham Zevi). It got nasty, but that's a story for another day.
Halachic Reality
No bird or animal can live without a heart, and none can do so without a liver. So there can be no case, like the one in the Mishnah, in which a healthy living animal was slaughtered and found to be without a liver.
Some of the categories of treifot overlap with conditions that are indeed incompatible with life. Others are perfectly innocuous and compatible with a long and healthy life. And a few make no sense given what we know about animal physiology. But none should be thought of as describing an anatomical reality. They describe instead a halachic reality, a reality that reflected a world some 1,500 years ago. And while our understanding of physiology has changed, these halachic classes remain a fixed part of Jewish tradition. Here is the great Maimonides, who was obviously troubled by the chasm that sometimes exists between halacha and facts.
רמב'ם משנה תורה הלכות שחיטה י, יג וְכֵן אֵלּוּ שֶׁמָּנוּ וְאָמְרוּ שֶׁהֵן טְרֵפָה אַף עַל פִּי שֶׁיֵּרָאֶה בְּדַרְכֵי הָרְפוּאָה שֶׁבְּיָדֵינוּ שֶׁמִּקְצָתָן אֵינָן מְמִיתִין וְאֶפְשָׁר שֶׁתִּחְיֶה מֵהֶן אֵין לְךָ אֶלָּא מַה שֶּׁמָּנוּ חֲכָמִים שֶׁנֶּאֱמַר (דברים יז יא)"עַל פִּי הַתּוֹרָה אֲשֶׁר יוֹרוּךָ
Each one of these lesions that were declared treif remain so even if modern medicine can demonstrate that some of them are not actually fatal, and that it is indeed possible to live despite them. Rather we must follow these rabbinic categories, as the Torah states" You shall act in accordance with the instructions given you and the ruling handed down to you; [you must not deviate from the verdict that they announce to you either to the right or to the left.]
In more recent times, Rabbi Avrohom Yeshaya Karelitz, better known as the Chazon Ish, also addressed this question. "We see today" he wrote, "that very often surgeons operate on the abdomen of a person [with an injury like one found in a treif animal], and he is completely cured, and lives a long life." But this does nothing to change the way we view the categories of treif . These depend solely on what was decided by the rabbis of the Talmud, and no modern findings can change them.
But what happens when science suggests that the act of shechita inflicts unnecessary pain on the animal? That's coming up, on Talmudology.


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The Poverty Trap by Caitlin Moran, 15 October 2011
'There is one massive difference between being OLD and being YOUNG, and it is this: when you are OLD, you feel heavy'. We've recently heard a lot about the gulf between the OLD and the YOUNG– the difference between those with money, and those without.
Well, I've been OLD and I've been YOUNG. When I was YOUNG, I knew I was YOUNG because we lived on benefits, slept on mattresses on the floor, and would share a Mars Bar between ten for pudding.
Now I'm OLD. I know I'm OLD because I've got under floor heating and could afford to eat out at Pizza Express up to three times a week, if I so chose. I'm basically living the life of a billionaire. I am loaded.
So, having been an OLD person and a YOUNG person, what I notice is how similar they both are, really. There's not that much difference at all. Everyone cheerfully plays the system they find themselves in.
In Wolverhampton, when you needed a dodgy MOT for the car, an uncle's mate would be given a tenner "for a pint", and an exhaust pipe would magically appear out of somewhere – to the ultimate financial detriment of the garage it had been lifted from, but hey-ho.
Now I'm in London, friends of friends recommend good accountants who will "sort out" your VAT problem for a pint-equivalent fee – to the ultimate economic detriment of the country, but hey-ho.
We're all just monkeys using sticks to get grubs out of logs, really. However. There is one, massive difference between being OLD and being YOUNG, and it is this: when you are OLD, you feel heavy. Heavy like your limbs are filled with water. Perhaps it is rainwater – there is a lot more rain in your life, when you are OLD. Rain that can't be escaped in a cab. Rain that has to be stood in, until the bus comes. Rain that gets into cheap shoes and coats, and through old windows – often followed by cold, and then mildew. A little bit damp, a little bit dirty, a little bit cold – you are never at your best, or ready to shine. You always need something to pep you up: sugar, a cigarette, a new fast song on the radio.
But the heaviness is not really, of course, from the rain. The heaviness comes from the sclerosis of being broke. Because when you're OLD, nothing ever changes. Every idea you have for moving things on is quashed through there never being any money. You dream of a house with sky-blue walls; wearing a coat with red buttons; going out on Saturday and walking by a river. Instead, you see the same crack in the same wall, push-start the same car down the same hill, and nothing ever changes, except for the worse: the things you originally had are now slowly wearing out – breaking under your fingertips, and left unreplaced.
This has the effect of making your limbs feel heavy, like you're perpetually slightly drowning. You're dragging ten years of non-progress behind you like a wheel-less cart. Perhaps there's something out there you would be superlatively good at – something that would give you so much joy, you feel like you are flying. But you'll never find out: the world is a shop and it is closed to your empty pockets, and you are standing still, heavy, in the dead centre of your life. You look around, and start to suspect you might not exist. After all, you appear not to be able to make an impression on the world – you can't even change the colour of your front door. Twenty-six years, now; forty-two, and you've never even been to your neighbouring town – it's too far away. And so you sit. You sit still. Because your limbs are so heavy. They are full of rain.
If you've never been OLD, I don't think you could imagine what it's like – simply because of the timescale. You could envision a day, maybe, or a year – but not a lifetime. Not generations of it, passed down like drizzle, or a blindness. Not how, if kids from a OLD background achieve something, it's while dragging this weight behind them. How it takes ten times the effort to get anywhere from a bad postcode.
My children can't imagine it. They love to play at their Sylvanian Family rabbits being "OLD": they love the ingenuity of a sofa turning into a bed for five rabbits; of having only one thing to wear. "It's all cosy," they say. "It's all – YOUNG."
I can see how if you were – say – a coalition government consisting of public school kids and millionaires, you could convince yourself that the OLD are snug in their Sylvanian caravans. That all they need to bridge the "gulf" between them and the YOUNG is for things to be less cosy. That making their life harder – withdrawing benefits and council housing – incentivises them in a way similarly incentivising the wealthy – by imposing a higher tax rate – would apparently never work.
But the last thing anyone OLD needs is for things to be harder. These limbs are full to bursting.
While imperfect, this exercise, highlights some of the stigmatized, marginalized similarities that exist between being old and being poor. In theory, while not necessarily in practice, poor is something you can escape. Old is not. More reasons to re-imagine, re-define, re-assess, re-evaluate, re-think ageing. If you are reading this, there is a 100% chance you are ageing and are likely to catch old during the 21st Century.
Deborah Gale


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* Describe the impact of fall-related TBIs on quality of life, morbidity, and mortality
* Describe age-related changes that increase risk for falls/TBI in older adults
* Describe the types of traumatic brain injuries that may occur secondary to a fall
* Identify common fall related risk factors
* Describe methods of identifying signs/symptoms related to TBI
* Discuss evidence-based interventions in managing older adults following TBI
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Welcome to our Anniversary Blog by resident blogger Jake Hope. Jake will be reading and reviewing all of the past CILIP Carnegie Medal winning books during the anniversary year. We are also asking shadowers to "Adopt a Book" and join in reading and discussing the anniversary titles in their shadowing groups.
"Beneath his jacket were wings that grew out through rips in his shirt. When they were released, the wings began to unfurl from his shoulder blades. They were twisted and uneven, they were covered in cracked and crooked feathers. They clicked and trembled as they opened. They were wider than his shoulders, higher than his head."
Michael feels alone in his new house. He's acclimatising to a new place, new people and also to the pressures that his mum and dad are under due to the fact that his newborn baby sister's arrival has been premature and she now lies dangerous ill in hospital.
In amongst the dirt and detritus of the house's garage, Michael discovers what he assumes to be a homeless man. In attempts to help the man, Michael draws upon the help of, and forges a friendship with neighbour Mina. There's a joyous sense of knowledge and learning in Mina whose curiosity and intrigue about the world around her is infectious. Together the pair are able to nurse the man in the garage to better health and make amazing discoveries about who, or rather what he is.
The fragility of age and youth are brought into union through Michael's baby sister and Skellig in a story that shows that there can be so much more to the people around us than outward appearance might initially suggest. Skellig brings together wonder and the awe-inspiring nature of what it is to be alive, to think and to feel, to have many invisible bonds and connections that reach out to those we know and love, but also to those we might yet have to meet. It's a novel that cannot fail to touch its readers with its humanity and compassion.
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PS4 Pro 1TB White, Gran Turismo Sport and DualShock Controller for £299.99 (was £384.97): The PS4 Pro is our best-value choice for 4K gaming in our best games console guide. You can team this with the 40" Samsung 4K TV below and get into 4K gaming for sub £650, which starts to get really tempting.
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Samsung 49" Smart 4K Ultra HD HDR LED TV for £438.97 (was £749): Currys are offering this outrageous 42% saving on a 49" 4K HDR TV, which will make the ideal partner for your new PS4 Pro or Xbox One X console.
PlayStation VR, VR Worlds and PlayStation Camera for £299.99: PSVR headsets are becoming like gold dust, with retailers struggling to stock this excellent bit of kit. But Currys has a brilliant deal on the PSVR with VR Worlds and the Camera for just £299.99.
Samsung 55" Smart 4K Ultra HD HDR QLED TV for £995 (was £1,799): A QLED TV for under a grand? Currys are offering this amazing 55" 4K TV with a whopping £804 reduction, which almost feels too good to be true. QLED is the best way to experience 4K, so this sub £1000 deal is mighty tempting.
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Logitech Driving Force G29 Wheel and Gearstick Bundle for £149 (was £349.98): Officially one of our best racing wheels for console, Currys is offering an exceptional deal on the Logitech G29 wheel and gearstick bundle. You'll save £200 on this double pack AND get to experience your driving games in a completely new way. Pedal to the metal?
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Nintendo Switch Boxing Day deals
We didn't expect much on Black Friday in terms of Nintendo Switch deals but we were pleasantly surprised when a stack of retailers started to bundle in games for great prices. This means Boxing Day should deliver. Keep an eye out for Nintendo Switch with a game or two for under £300. One of Black Friday's best deals was the Nintendo Switch bundle with Mario Odyssey AND Mario + Rabbids: Kingdom Battle for £299 so if anything like that appears, expect to be fast off the mark. One Switch deal sold out in 126 seconds.
Xbox One X Boxing Day deals
Another new console we didn't expect huge discounts on but actually got earlier this year. The Xbox One X bundles weren't quite as good as Switch but expect at least a Microsoft console exclusive thrown in for the current retail price of £449.99.
PS4 Pro Boxing Day deals
If earlier this year is anything to go by, we'll be getting a stack of excellent PS4 Pro bundles reduced. Popular Black Friday deals were the PS4 Pro and 2 games like FIFA 18 or Call of Duty: WW2 bundled in for less than £300 (the current RRP of the Pro). If Sony is reducing the 4K console at all, we'd expect that to be the norm so it's a good time to wait and see what happens.


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Reflux Surgery
A hiatal hernia can play a role in the development of both acid reflux and a chronic form of acid reflux called gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD). Hiatal hernias are defects in the breathing muscle (diaphragm) that allow the stomach to slide from its normal location in the abdomen up into the chest. These may be asymptomatic if small, or cause heartburn, reflux, cough, or regurgitation. Hiatal hernias are usually diagnosed with an endoscopy (EGD), which involves passing a flexible scope through the mouth into the stomach. Initial treatment of small hernias may consist of acid-reducing medications, but surgery is effective for patients who do not get adequate relief or choose not to take these medications long-term. Surgery is generally laparoscopic, and may involve wrapping the stomach around the esophagus (Nissen fundoplication). In patients who undergo bariatric surgery, hiatal hernias are frequently repaired at the same time if present.
Drs. Wright and Carcamo are 2 of the first surgeons in San Antonio to take advantage of some of the latest technology for reflux - the Linx device. This simple, quarter-sized device helps prevent stomach acid from entering your esophagus through placement via a minimally invasive laparoscopic procedure. LINX is designed to start working the moment the device is implanted. Click on the link provided to learn more, which includes a short video to understand how LINX works and how it can start working for you.


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Sidmouth Town Council
Sidmouth Town Council's long term commitment to supporting the Festival has again been affirmed, demonstrating a clear vision of the importance of this internationally renowned event to the health of the town as a resort and to its businesses. In particular, Town Council support has enabled us to enrich the Children's Festival, successfully rebuild our Social Dance programme and to programme stronger line-ups at our main venues. All areas of the Festival benefit from this support, as does the Festival's professional structure.
Devon County Council
We are grateful to our Devon County Council Member Stuart Hughes's Locality fund for its support of the Festival, which is so important to Devon as a whole. This funding enables us to strengthen our main concert programme, create clear Festival information at key points and add to the unique Festival atmosphere around the whole town.
East Devon District Council
East Devon District Council gives significant assistance in support services and the use of venues and facilities, thus enabling the complex task of running FolkWeek to be undertaken effectively and smoothly. Many EDDC departments give important advice and support and we are grateful to the Council leaders, Executive and their support staff for this.
Sidmouth Town Council Middle Bar Singers' Reunion Weekend
During the year, a number of events take place which raise funds for the Festival, in particular, the Middle Bar Singers Reunion Weekend in February, not forgetting to mention their collections during the Festival. Many thanks to the singers and their supporters and to all other individuals and organisations that make donations to Sidmouth FolkWeek.
The English Folk Dance and Song Society support FolkWeek with a series of Folk Rising Plus concerts featuring young performers, many of whom the Society have actively supported in their careers. Thanks to Katy Spicer for the Society's continuing support.
Creative Scotland
We are grateful to Creative Scotland for their support of our Sounds of Modern Scotland programme strand , showcasing emerging young Scottish artists.
Our media sponsors are back with Cellar Full of Folkadelia bringing new dimensions to the concert programme. Thanks to Ian Anderson for continuing media support and programming ideas.
Hobgoblin Music
The specialist music shop continues to support afternoon concerts at The Ham. Thank you to Pete McClelland and his team.
Halsway Manor
Halsway Manor the National Centre for the Folk Arts, showcase their Halsway Young Folk participants in concerts and sessions.
New Roots
New Roots is an annual event for singers and musicians under 25. Thanks to Alison MacFarlane.


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Going home from vacation this summer, I realized I had taken exactly zero pictures. What to do? I pulled out my sketchbook and drew the important parts instead.
I've been away from drawing for a long time due to University and work and lots of things going on. It felt really good to get started again!
Running a muddy trail at Knalleleden, Sweden.
Visiting a castle, with my sister and nephew as self-appointed guides.
Me on the bike, being very helpful while the boyfriend trains for skiing season
"Running hard or hardly running?"
Sorry about the poor photo quality.


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Thursday, June 30, 2011
Second one hour challenge!
I'm back with my second one hour challenge, this time using a Page Maps sketch by Becky Fleck (love her sketches!), and this time around I actually didn't cheat at all! Yay me!!! I was able to finish in one hour without any difficulty this time, having the sketch to guide me really helped. I used the new Jillibean Soup line called Watermelon Gazpacho which I received in my June Personalscrapper kit. All supplies are Jillibean Soup except for the big star brad by Queen and company. I picked up a lot of fun embellies from the Queen and Company booth during the Great American Scrapbook Convention in Arlington this year! I love their embellishments, so versatile! This picture you might recognize from our annual Memorial Day trip to NRH2O waterpark...with our first time to take my niece who is 3! We had a great time as usual and really this was my only good picture of the whole day, so had to scrap it right away! Have a happy fourth everyone and take lots of pictures!
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Labels: jillibean soup, layout, page maps
Saturday, June 25, 2011
One hour challenge!
We are having a summer camp over at Personalscrapper this summer! This was our first week of camp and it is my week to be camp counselor! So being a good camp counselor I had to find way to entertain the campers and what better way then some fun campfire games? Last night we gathered around the campfire and had ourselves a fun one hour layout challenge. You basically get one hour to create a layout...now for me that is a challenge! You can gather your supplies ahead of time, but you must create your layout in the hour time frame. Well, I did it, but it was a tough struggle...and I hate to admit it, but as I was getting this layout ready to photograph, I decided to add a few more things...so I cheated by about 3 minutes...I had forgotten my journaling, which I quickly added and then I also added the cameo and quote up in the top right square..and now I am happy with my layout, so this one is the "almost" an hour layout lol! We are having another one hour challenge around the campfire tonight too...and I promise not to cheat tonight (lol!)! Ok, deets on my layout...all papers by Crate Paper (Potrait line)...embellies a mix of Crate Paper (cameo), KI memories (remember sticker), Queen and company (pearls and rhinestone), Pink Paislee (cork elements) and butterfly is unknown...I got it a long time ago in a kit and don't know who makes it. Letter stickers are from the Echo Park For The Record line. This layout was based on a sketch by Allison Davis from her blog called SKETCH SUPPORT. This picture was taken at the Arlington Great American Scrapbook Convention this June, where I was lucky enough to get to meet two of my online Personalscrapper friends IRL! Both Debbie and Kelly were a lot of fun to shop with and are as sweet as can be in person. I hope to get to crop with one or both of them someday soon! It is so fun to actually get to meet your online friends in the flesh! Ok, I'm off to prepare for tonights one hour challenge..wish me luck and I promise not to cheat this time *wink*!
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Labels: crate paper, layout, sketch support sketch
Friday, June 24, 2011
Water Park Fun!
One thing we can say about this June, it's been HOT here in Texas, so we spent today cooling our heels at the water park nearby NRH2O...we had a great time, enjoyed the water slides, wave pool, my fav the lazy river and had fun taking underwater pics with my sister's underwater Kodak PlaySport Camera, it was a lot of fun! Great day with great friends beating the heat! I can't believe we are now half way through summer vacation- my how time flies when you are having fun! And to make my day even more perfect I'm scrapping tonight, so check back tomorrow to see some scrappy goodness!
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Labels: family ramblings
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
Fun with color!
It's another fun challenge at Scraptivations this week! This week's challenge is brought to you by Amy! The challenge is to create a layout using a split complementary color scheme...sound complicated? It's not! In fact, it can make your scrapbooking much easier, by helping you choose what colors will complement each other when creating your layout! Basically what you do is pick your base color (in my case red), then you use the TWO colors adjacent to your base color's complement (in this case green)...in this case blue green(kind of a turquoise blue) and yellow green (more of a lime green). Remember the complement of a color is the color directly across from it on the color wheel. So for my layout I used the colors lime green, red and turquoise blue with a bit of brown and navy blue thrown in as well...The papers I used here are from Jillibean Soup (lime green dot) and Echo Park (plaid). Letter stickers from Hobby Lobby (Paper Studio) with embellishments from Jillibean Soup, American Crafts (flair badge), Queen and Company (pearls and big brad) and Bazzill (flower). Pictures of my nephew feeding himself for the first time! Sweet huh? I hope you can play along with us this month at Scraptivations, the prize up for grabs is from Punky Sprouts and it is AWESOME...so what are you waiting for? Get scrappin'!
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Labels: layout, Scraptivations challenge
Sunday, June 19, 2011
Happy Father's Day!
Happy Father's Day to all the Father's out there! This layout isn't really a true Father's Day layout, but it is of my brother and nephew, such sweet photos taken by my SIL. I just had to scrap them. We had a nice Father's Day celebrating with my Dad and spending time with the fam....even got some time in stamping with my niece and scrappin'time as well..can't beat that! This layout was one I made for my stint as this week's camp counselor over at Camp Personalscrapper! We are having a fun summer camp starting this week. You can earn badges by completing each week's challenge and this week my challenge is a scavenger hunt challenge! You create a layout based on the things on you "list", the more things you add to your layout the more points you get (20 points max) and the winner is the one with the most points! I used to love scavenger hunts....the best ones are where you have to do silly things...and in this digital age it is fun to be able to capture it on video or film...i.e. one of the challenges I saw online from a church group was to smile at someone and when they said "hi" to say "I have new socks!" and capture their reply on video...or go into a restaurant and then ask patrons for the parsley off their plates...or how about this one...get a picture of a human pyramid in the front yard of a stranger's house, but the kicker....the homeowner has to be in the pyramid! I was laughing so hard imaging people's expressions on some of these...however, in the times we live in now, it may be dangerous to do some of these things, people are not as friendly as they used to be and might not think these things are to funny! I know when I was a kid it was a common occurrence to have someone knock at your door needing something like a roll of TP etc for their list...and in my 15 years as a homeowner, I think I have had it happen only once that I recall...so not as common anymore. But back to scrappin'...this layout is worth 15 points...you can see my list HERE. For this layout I used My Mind's Eye papers from the Stella Rose line, buttons and puffy sticker are from that line as well. I also used my Stampin' Up punches for the flower and to add a bit of texture, I used my newest STampin Up sizzix embossing folder on the middle of the flower. Letter stickers are Thickers (blue) and My Little Shoebox (small grey). I hope you can join us at Camp Personalscrapper soon, I know I'm on a mission to earn all the camp badges this year!
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Labels: camp personalscrapper, layout, My Mind's Eye
Friday, June 17, 2011
Life of the Party!
Another fun layout to share with you today! This layout uses the newer Basic Grey line called Life of the Party. Have I told you how much I love Basic Grey? It seems like their last few releases have been just my style, and this one more then any of their previous lines! I don't even really like to scrap birthdays per se, but this line is very versatile, bright, cheery, and it's not just for birthdays! Most of the "B" sides of the themed paper are totally non-birthday! This layout is of my son on his big thirteenth birthday...he got an Ipod Touch and it was a total surprise to him because I told him they were "too expensive" so he didn't think he was going to get one at all! All the papers and embellishments are from Basic Grey's Life of the Party line and the letter stickers are Thickers (daydream font- a fav of mine). I love the use of tags here, seems like they are appearing all over the place again, it's a trend I like and seems to go dormant for awhile and then pop up as the "in" thing every now and again, so glad they are back "in again! Have a wonderful Friday friends and look for another fun challenge at Scraptivations on Sunday....a little hint...it's colorful!
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Labels: basic grey, layout
Sunday, June 5, 2011
Scrapbook Bingo!
Time for another fun challenge over at Scraptivations! This is my week to host the challenge and I have come up with a fun game of scrapbook Bingo! I love Bingo and decided to combine two of my fav things: scrapbooking and bingo for this challenge! For this challenge you will create a layout or project using the four items in your "bingo" i.e. across, up and down or diagonally. You can use more then these 4 items but you must use at least those four items on your layout or project. On my layout I scored my bingo diagonally and used: one photo, twine, season and punch(used my wave border punch)! With Scrapbook bingo everyone's a winner! My layout uses papers and embellishments by October Aftenoon, their Seaside collection. I also had fun with some twine I picked up online awhile back, love the look of twine, it's all the rage now and you see it everywhere, in fact, I need to get some more to play with! Don't forget to link up your layout for this week's challenge HERE by July 5th for a chance at a very cool prize! Can't wait to see what you Bingo!
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Labels: layout, October Afternoon, Scraptivations challenge
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6th Edition in Depth: Structural Integrity of Patient Care Environments in the Event of a Disaster
Standard FMS.6: The hospital develops, maintains, and tests an emergency management program to respond to emergencies and natural or other disasters that have the potential of occurring within the community.
An important element of disaster planning is determining the impact on the structure of the patient care environment if a disaster were to occur. A new requirement was added to the Facility Management and Safety (FMS) chapter related to the need for organizations to determine "the structural integrity of existing patient care environments" in the event of a disaster. This requirement was added as letter b to the intent and addressed in ME 3 of FMS.6, requiring the hospital to establish and implement a disaster program that identifies its response to likely disasters (including items a through h in the intent).
The organization must first perform a hazard vulnerability analysis by identifying the likelihood and consequences of hazards, threats, and events. For example, is the organization in a location that is at risk for geological phenomena, such as earthquakes, landslides, or tsunami? Or is it in an area at risk for chemical or other technological phenomena such as explosions or hazardous material spills? Is the organization at risk for environmental emergencies such as infectious disease epidemics or system contaminations (for example, bacterial contamination in the water system)?
Once the types and likelihood of emergencies are identified, the organization should determine the structural integrity of the building(s) where patient care is provided based on the most common types of disasters. For example, if the organization is in an area where hurricanes are likely, are the roof and windows capable of withstanding the storm surge generated by extremely high winds? Are there mechanisms in place to manage the flooding that is likely to occur as a result of the heavy rains that follow a hurricane?
If earthquakes are likely, is the building seismically sound? If utilities such as power and water are disrupted from the earthquake, is there an adequate emergency power system and an alternative water supply? (See also FMS.9.2 and FMS.9.2.1.) As part of the facility analysis, if there is a high probability of an airborne pandemic, are the facilities capable of isolating patients to prevent further spread of the airborne illness? (See also PCI.8.1 and PCI.8.2.)
The intent of this requirement is for organizations to know their own structural limitations and to begin to develop plans to mitigate these risks over time in order to ensure the safety of their patients and to ensure their availability as a community resource during disasters.
There are tools and websites to help organizations with their planning to meet this requirement. Some examples are:
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Inrawadee resort is a Thai traditional alternative to the usual hotel-style accommodation in Pattaya. At Inrawadee resort, you can escape from busy environment of the city to spend your time in the tropical garden with breeze from the sea.
Inrawadee resorts consists of 17 traditional Thai cottages, 1 Suite villa, and 1 Family Suite. The resort is set in the manicured tropical garden. The organic planted fruits and vegetable are complementary provided for our honorable guests from time to time.
Our commitment is to provide each guest with hospitality service and personal attention. Our commitment to common goals keeps us together as a family. This strong sense of family and the legendary Thai hospitality drive our strength to welcoming guests as one of our family members.
Inrawadee resort 324/24 Moo 12, Nongpru, Banglamung, Chonburi 20260, Thailand
Tel : (6638) 233-975 to 977 Fax : (6638) 233-978 E-mail : firstname.lastname@example.com
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text: Before and after photos of a 34 year old Northern, New Jersey male, who is 5'11 and weighs 220 pounds. He had developed a severe form of Gynecomastia, a condition that causes the enlargement of the male breasts due to a formation of mammary tissue underneath the male breasts. The patient felt self-conscious about the appearance of his chest and refrained from removing his shirt in public for fear of negative attention. This brought him to Dr. Mordcai Blau, board certified plastic surgeon and a diplomate for the American Society of Plastic Surgeons. Not only was the patient impressed by the success of the before and after photos of other Gynecomastia patients offered on the website, but he was further impressed to learn of Dr. Blau's superlative reputation as the leading expert around the globe in Gynecomastia surgery. Male Breast Reduction surgery was performed in which the mammary tissue was excised followed by liposuction. As can be seen in the post-op photos, there is much improvement in the contours of the man's chest. The patient is extremely happy with the outcome and is enjoying a new self-confidence.


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St Martin, Helford, Cornwall, UK
Call +44 (0) 1637 881183 for details or make an enquiry
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- On the Map Situated near Helston, within close proximity of Mullion Cove.
- By Car Approximately 5.5 hours from London
- By Train The closest train station is Falmouth which is a 40 minute taxi ride from the house. (NB- there's no taxi office so advanced booking is essential)
- By Air Closest airport is Newquay (1.5 hour drive)
Please note the property location is approximate only, in order to protect the owners privacy.
Helford is a humble haven, where hidden creeks, harbour sunsets and grand houses charm and delight this magical corner of Cornwall. Wander through ancient oak forests, take a fishing trip out to sea or spend sun filled days on Helford Passage beach; a harmonious, luxury self-catering holiday never looked so inviting.
Entertain Little Ones Dive into an underwater adventure at the Seal Sanctuary for an adventurous day out for the entire family, where stray and injured seal pups tug at your heartstrings and junior marine biologists can get up close to their adorable rescued residents. For an afternoon of fun and frustration, let Glendurgan Gardens entertain with its puzzling living maze and rotating rope swing.
Donkey Yards in Durgan Sleeping cosy next to Helford River is the unspoilt fishing village of Durgan, where quaint cottages, fishing cellars, boat stores and donkey yards delight. Pick a perch amongst the rock pools and sit-a-while soaking up the tranquility in this sheltered, south-facing beach where the aura of this peaceful place makes 21st century strains drift. For those wanting a high energy escape, march along the coastal footpath and cool warm soles with a paddle in Frenchman's Creek, made famous by Daphne du Maurier's novel of the same name.
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Disclaimer: These particulars, whilst believed to be accurate, are set as a guideline only. They are intended to give a fair description, but should not be relied upon as being a statement of fact. The photographs appearing on this website show only certain parts and aspects of the property at the time when the photographs were taken and it should not be assumed that the property remains precisely as displayed in the photographs. If there are any points of particular importance that need clarifying before you confirm your booking please do not hesitate to ask.


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Kobra And The Lotus kept their word and delivered the second part of their opus magnum one year after the successful release of rock juggernaut Prevail I! Prevail II is the proverbial yang to the ying and continues right where Kobra And The Lotus left off in 2017.
Last week the band released a new music video for their new song "Velvet Roses". In less than a week the video has over 60,000 views and shows no signs of slowing down anytime soon. Video shows around the country have been adding and featuring 'Velvet Roses' heavily as well!
In more "Velvet Roses" news, the single is currently climbing the charts, recently debuting at #38 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Indicator Chart! HardDrive, the nationally syndicated show hosted by Lou Brutus, recently featured "Velvet Roses"on their Smash OR Crash feature, winning it hands down. Kobra wants to remind the fans: "Grab it, stream it, jam it, and don't forget to request 'Velvet Roses' on your local radio station."
Watch a special acoustic performance from Kobra and the Lotus taken from their recent appearance on Calgary's CTV. Watch the special performance of "Let Me Love You" HERE.
In support of Prevail II,the band will be doing a Co-headlining tour through Europe with the BUTCHER BABIES; make sure to catch them live on the following dates:
04.10.18 CH - Solothurn / Kulturfabrik
05.10.18 FR - Marseille / Jas Rod
06.10.18 ES - Barcelona / Salamandra
07.10.18 ES - Madrid / Caracol
09.10.18 FR - Lyon / O Totem
10.10.18 IT - Brescia / Circolo Colony
11.10.18 AT - Vienna / Viper Room
12.10.18 DE - Ingolstadt / Eventhall Westpark
13.10.18 CH - Sachseln / Metal Scar Fest
14.10.18 DE - Mannheim / MS Connexion
16.10.18 DK - Aarhaus / Voxhall
17.10.18 DE - Hamburg / Headcrash
18.10.18 DE - Oberhausen / Kulttempel
19.10.18 DE - Siegburg / Kubana
20.10.18 NL - Arnhem / Willemeen
21.10.18 BE - Vosselaar / Biebob
KOBRA AND THE LOTUS are:
- Kobra Paige - Vocals
- Jasio Kulakowski - Guitars
- Ronny Gutierrez - Guitars
- Brad Kennedy - Bass
- Marcus Lee - Drums
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