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Israel must end 'unlawful and cruel' policies towards Palestinian prisoners
Israel must end 'unlawful and cruel' policies...
Israeli forces unlawfully kill Palestinian civilians, including children, in both Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT), and detain thousands of Palestinians from the OPT who oppose Israel's continuing military occupation, holding hundreds in administrative detention. Torture and other ill-treatment of detainees remain rife and is committed with impunity.
Israel's decades-long policy of detaining Palestinians from the occupied West Bank and Gaza in prisons inside Israel and depriving them of regular family visits is not only cruel but also a blatant violation of international law, said Amnesty International, ahead of a mass prisoner's hunger strike beginning next week to mark Palestinian Prisoner's Day on 17 April.
Testimonies gathered by the organization from family members and Palestinian prisoners detained in the Israeli prison system shed light on the suffering endured by families who in some cases have been deprived from seeing their detained relatives for many years.
"Israel's ruthless policy of holding Palestinian prisoners arrested in the Occupied Palestinian Territories in prisons inside Israel is a flagrant violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention. It is unlawful and cruel and the consequences for the imprisoned person and their loved ones, who are often deprived from seeing them for months, and at times for years on end, can be devastating," said Magdalena Mughrabi, Deputy Regional Director for the Middle East and North Africa at Amnesty International.
"Instead of unlawfully transferring prisoners outside the occupied territories, Israel must ensure all Palestinians arrested there are held in prisons and detention centres in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. Until then, the Israeli authorities must stop imposing excessive restrictions on visitation rights as a means of punishing prisoners and their families, and ensure that conditions fully meet international standards."
Palestinian prisoners preparing to embark on next week's large scale hunger strike are making a series of demands including calling for an end to Israel's restrictions on visits and contact with family members. Palestinian detainees held on security grounds are barred from making phone calls to their families. The hunger strike was announced by imprisoned Fatah leader Marwan Barghouthi. A number of other political parties and prisoners have announced they will be joining the strike.
A hunger strike is a method of non-violent resistance or pressure in which participants fast as an act of political protest, or to provoke feelings of guilt in others, usually with the objective to achieve a specific goal, such as a policy change. Most hunger strikers will take liquids but not solid food.
Under international humanitarian law, detainees from occupied territories must be detained in the occupied territory, not in the territory of the occupying power. They must also be allowed to receive visitors, especially near relatives, at regular intervals and as frequently as possible.
According to the Palestinian Prisoner's Club, a non-governmental organization, there are currently 6,500 Palestinian prisoners, including at least 300 children, detained on security-related grounds in Israeli-run prisons and detention facilities. All but one of the 17 facilities are located inside Israel. The vast majority of prisoners are men, 57 are women, including 13 girls under the age of 18. Thirteen of those imprisoned are Palestinian Legislative Council members. At least 500 people are held without charge or trial in administrative detention, a practice which flouts safeguards required by international law to prevent arbitrary detention. The Palestinian Prisoners' Affairs Commission spokesperson Hasan Abed Rabbo said at least 1,000 prisoners are prohibited from receiving family visits on "security grounds". He added that currently there are around 15-20 prisoners held in isolation, who are banned from any contact with other prisoners and family visits.
According to Israeli Prison Service regulations all prisoners are entitled to family visits once every two weeks. However, in reality, because Palestinians from the Occupied Palestinian Territories must apply for permits to enter Israel, they can visit much less frequently. The Israeli Prison Service regulations also allow the authorities to rescind a prisoner's right to family visits on security grounds.
Gaza prisoners continue to be most affected by Israeli restrictions as the Israeli military grants permits to families from the Strip only once every two months. This policy affects around 365 prisoners from Gaza currently detained in Israel. In addition, Hamas prisoners along with other prisoners living in the same prison wings, are only permitted one monthly visit, irrespective of where they come from.
Since 1969 the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has been responsible for mediating and facilitating all aspects related to family visits for prisoners from the West Bank and Gaza without any logistical or financial assistance by Israel. West Bank and Gaza residents apply though the ICRC to receive permits and rely on them to arrange transportation to the prisons in agreement with the Israeli Prison Service. In July 2016, the ICRC reduced the number of visits coordinated for prisoners' families from the West Bank from two, to one a month. An ICRC representative told Amnesty International that the decision was taken in order to better manage ICRC resources due to low family attendance for visits. The reduction does not affect women, children and hospitalized prisoners and since then, the ICRC has introduced three additional annual visits for all prisoners, during major holidays.
"Reham" (not her real name), a 27-year-old Palestinian woman from Ramallah whose brother has been imprisoned in Israel for 15 years, was 12 when he was arrested. He is serving a 30-year prison term and is currently held at in Hadarim detention facility. She said that the uncertainty of waiting for the outcome of an application for a visitors permit had placed considerable strain on her family. Since October 2016 "Reham" was denied regular permits on security grounds, she now has to renew her permit following every visit. Her sick mother was only allowed to visit her brother twice in four years before she passed away. He was not permitted to attend the funeral.
According to Addameer Association, for most West Bank residents visiting detained relatives the journey to prison takes between eight to 15 hours depending on the prison and place of residence. Relatives of prisoners are subjected to lengthy body searches and sometimes strip searches.
"The Israeli authorities play with our emotions, they torture us and punish us. They try to break us to tire us, so that we would want to visit our relatives less because of all the humiliation, searches, abuse and insults by soldiers or prison guards," "Reham" said.
In addition to calling for lifting restrictions on family visits, the hunger striking prisoners are making a series of demands including calling for an improvement of access to medical care; calls for increasing visit duration from 45 to 90 minutes; calls from women prisoners for family visits without glass barriers to allow mothers to hold their children; an improvement in detention conditions including easing restrictions on the entry of books, clothing, food and other gifts from family members; restoring some educational facilities; and installing phones to enable prisoners to communicate with their families.
Quoted and edited: Negar Paidar
The views expressed in this article are the author's opinion and do not necessarily reflect the views of the ODVV.


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Prevention and gum care are primary elements of general dentistry, but the early identification and resolution of problems is also important before they escalate to a painful and unnecessarily costly situation. We believe that preventive care and patient education are the foundations of a lifetime of healthy smiles.
Dr. Jason Hui does his best to keep treatment at Paragon Dentistry conservative whenever possible, increasing the cost-effectiveness of dental care and allowing patients to keep their natural teeth more often.
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Phillip Kalantzis Cope
Phillip situates himself in a recursive dialogue between the grammars of media theory, visual art practices, and the possibility of intervention that can be found in publishing.
His research stems from the traditions of critical theory and cultural studies. Through claims to the right to immaterial property, he investigates political economies of information; the nature and forms of immaterial labor within digital networks; and the conceptual boundaries of the "material" and "immaterial" in critical and social theory. His writings have been published in numerous academic journals and books.
As a practicing photographer, Phillip uses the camera to draw attention to the subconscious of the everyday. In the reflected truth of the subject matter, he seeks to find emancipatory potential in the properties of our collective history. His work has been published, exhibited internationally, written about, and can be found in public and private collections.
Phillip has lived around publishers most of his life. He has worked in new and traditional media settings, navigating contemporary print and online publishing transitions and modalities. In doing so, has managed content development, strategic planning in non-profit settings, and software development teams. He has worked at the intersection of scholarship and business in domains that require prudence, innovation, and a careful reading of contemporary social and economic transitions. Currently, Phillip is the Chief Social Scientist of Common Ground Research Networks (not-for-profit). He has also collaborated on publishing projects, acted as a consultant to research communities, and co-created digital platforms — New Criticials and Immaterial Books.
Phillip holds a BA in Public Policy from Monash University (Australia), a MA in International Relations from The Australian National University (Australia), and Ph.D. in Politics from The New School for Social Research (USA).


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7 thoughts on "Loving God Isn't Rocket Surgery"
But is it brain science?
I myself have used the phrase, "It's not rocket surgery." One hopes the sign was tongue-in-cheek, but who knows.
My boyfriend is a rocket scientist, so I make jokes like that. LOL
others = other Gods?
I would say this is more of a half-fail. Seeing as it's a church it's probably a fair bet to say that they purposely chose to use surgery in order to avoid an association with the word science.
Eliu, that's probably true. Of course religion has pretty much perfected the surgery-free lobotomy.
Know this is an old post but thought I'd comment anyway. Just because I think it's ironic that in this instance it's actually this blog (and your source) who are out of the loop. "It's not rocket surgery" is a common tongue in cheek phrase. In fact my brother has a t-shirt that says "I'm no rocket surgeon"
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Your Council Tax Bill can be confusing. There is an example of a bill below and we have put a key underneath that answers some of the questions that we get asked a lot.
- This is the financial year that the bill relates to. The council's financial year runs from April until March.
- The barcode is there so that our Cashiers team can scan it in when you make your payments with them. The barcode makes sure that your payment goes to the right account.
- Name and address of person or people responsible for paying the bill
- The Council Tax account number for the property. This will change when you move address. Please quote this number whenever you contact us about your Council Tax.
- The Valuation Office Agency decides which band your property is in and we charge Council Tax based on the amount that is set for your band. Please visit our Council Tax Banding page for more information.
- This is the address that the Council Tax shown on the bill is payable for.
- Your total bill is made up of an amount from Sandwell MBC and charges from other organisations that we collect on their behalf (known as precepts). In Sandwell we collect on behalf of West Midlands Fire and Rescue Authority, West Midlands Police and Crime Commissioner and Adult Social Care. The precepts are added to the amount from Sandwell MBC to make up your total council tax charge.
- The percentage increase from last year for each of the parts of your Council Tax. The bold percentage at the bottom is the increase in the total amount of Council Tax from last year. The Adult Social Care part of your bill is calculated differently from the rest of the bill, please see our page on the Adult Social Care precept for details.
- This is the reason that the bill has been sent out to you.
This details how your Council Tax charge is affected by any discounts that are applied to your account. Any figure with a minus in front of it is taken off your total charge and any figure without a minus is added on to your total charge.
Some of the most common things that will affect your bill are:
Single Person Discount – A 25% discount that you get for being the only person in the property eligible to pay Council Tax.
Council Tax Reduction – Any Council Tax Reduction (CTR) that you are entitled to will be used to reduce the amount that you pay.
Penalties and Court Costs – These will increase your bill by the amount shown.
Empty Property Discount – Please note that Sandwell no longer offer a discount for empty properties. The empty property code will still be shown on the bill but will not affect the amount that you have to pay.
PREM50 – This indicates that your property has been empty for more than two years. In this situation the Council Tax for the property increases by 50%.
- This is the total amount that you need to pay. If the amount is followed by the letters CR, your account is in credit and you can contact us for a refund.
- The monthly payments that you need to make and the date that they need to be made by. If you pay by Direct Debit the amount shown will automatically be taken from your bank account on your chosen date. Any arrears or amounts outstanding from previous years are not included in these instalments and should be paid as previously arranged. You can make your payments online or set up a Direct Debit by going to our Council Tax payment page.


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First Steps in the Transition to New Feed the Future Indicators
In March 2018, Feed the Future released a new monitoring and evaluation framework under the Global Food Security Strategy (GFSS) guidance. Through this series of blog posts, Fintrac's Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning (MEL) team is exploring challenges and strategies to help guide Feed the Future programs during this transition.
In our last piece, we introduced the basics of the GFSS transition and provided a series of guiding principles for MEL teams. In this post, with reporting season and the close of the fiscal year right around the corner, we lay out practical steps implementing partners can take to ensure a smooth transition under the new GFSS guidance.
While Feed the Future projects that end after September 30, 2019 are not required to start reporting on new indicators until October 2019, there are critical steps teams can take right now.
1. Map out your transition
Being proactive is key to a successful transition to the new MEL framework. At Fintrac, our teams took the first step by getting familiar with the new indicators (a great resource is the Feed the Future MEL Webinar Series) and identifying how changes under GFSS will affect each project's MEL Plan.
Changes to performance indicators under GFSS generally fall into one of the following categories — updated, dropped, replaced or unchanged — and are conveniently available along with relevant explanations in Appendix 2 of the Feed the Future Indicator Handbook. Our teams use information from the Handbook to identify changes to each indicator in the project's MEL Plan under GFSS and then note the changes within the body of the activity's performance indicator table. As part of this exercise, we also make note of changes in reporting disaggregates and include comments on possible practical implications of changes. The resulting "transition table" is then circulated to key staff for review and discussion.
This simple but powerful exercise provides a useful resource to return to throughout the process of revising the MEL Plan, negotiating contract modifications and updating data collection tools.
2. Proposing changes to the Mission
Once the project team is unified on a path forward, the next step is sharing the proposal with the Mission. Schedule a face-to-face meeting, provide your transition table in advance and be prepared to discuss details of the transition: are there any performance indicators under GFSS for which you are currently able to report on according to their complete definition? If yes, does the Mission expect you to do so in the Feed the Future Monitoring System (FTFMS) for fiscal year 2018? While it is difficult to foresee the full implications of changes under GFSS, getting on the same page with your Mission as early as possible will avoid confusion.
3. Contract modifications & budget changes
The changes under the new GFSS guidance are significant, and their implications for project contracts and budgeting should be taken seriously and discussed early. Did your project have contract-bound targets for incremental sales, gross margin or loans? Now is a good time to revisit those and consider whether you will need to work with project management teams on contract modifications or budget changes.
4. Implications for MEL budgets
As we noted in our previous post, one of the common features to all the new GFSS indicators is an expanded scope under the market systems approach. MEL teams are now tasked with interpreting the impact of activities across the entire value chain. How will your team meet the challenge? Whether you are launching additional survey efforts, expanding your routine monitoring activities or relying on additional data deliverables from your partners, now is the time to consider whether additional funding or changes in allocation are required.
5. Collecting baseline data
While MEL teams are conducting annual results surveys for FY 2018 this fall, it is also an ideal time to collect baseline data on new indicators. At Fintrac, we are reviewing and modifying data collection tools to include new questions that will allow us to report on revised and/or new indicators and disaggregates. This is also a good time to identify questions from previous survey efforts that may no longer be relevant under the new guidance. Questions that are no longer relevant can be phased out in order to minimize the time requirements for data collection and reduce the risk of survey fatigue.
6. Setting targets
The expanded market systems approach under GFSS presents new challenges for setting targets on interventions across a broad set of stakeholders. Take advantage of this annual data collection cycle by collecting information that allows your team to make informed assumptions when setting targets for new indicators.
7. Updating routine data collection systems
With the new fiscal year approaching, now is the ideal time to update routine data collection systems to be responsive to new indicators. Fintrac MEL teams are working to include additional data points to accommodate new disaggregates, thinking creatively about tracking achievements in the private sector and engaging our technical teams in the design of new data collection tools. We have found that work planning sessions for the upcoming fiscal year are a perfect opportunity to review activities and earmark those for which data can be collected via routine monitoring.
As MEL practitioners, we can ensure a smooth transition for projects under GFSS by taking a proactive approach. Communicate early and often with management teams and USAID Missions, and focus on how the changes provide opportunities to improve project implementation. Stay tuned for future posts as we move through the process together.
Liz Whitcher is an M&E Specialist at Fintrac. She supports projects in Tanzania and Zimbabwe with M&E system development, data analysis and capacity building.


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The Coffee Lovers Blog Hop is in full swing and, as one of the sponsors, I wanted to pop back with another coffee themed card to share with you :)
Funky Fossil has £15 store credit to giveaway to one winner and we are also offering 15% off everything in store whilst the hop is on when you use the code COFFEE15 at checkout :)
I simply stamped and masked the coffee cup from Folksy Christmas and watercoloured with distress inks to create a coffee rainbow! The sentiment is from MFT.
I hope that you like this coffee card....my cup would be filled with hot chocolate :)
I shall also link up at Simon's Wednesday Challenge where Anything Goes and at Time Out where we are inspired by the words:
Here is the stamp set that I used today:
Thanks for stopping by!
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Eye care professionals battle contact lens discomfort (CLD) management on a daily basis. According to one survey about discontinuation of contact lens wear, 45% of those surveyed dropped out of wear within the first year, and 47% cited discomfort as the primary reason for dropping out.1 Studies show that nearly 15% to 30% of contact lens wearers drop out each year.1-3 One of the most significant factors in CLD is dry eye, as approximately 50% of contact lens wearers report experiencing dry eye symptoms at least occasionally.4 This issue occurs with both soft and gas permeable lenses alike.
Due to its multifactorial nature, we have no cure-all for CLD, and even with today's technological advancements, CLD remains a leading cause of dropout in contact lens wearers. Ultimately, if CLD is not diagnosed and managed early, a patient may drop out of contact lenses permanently.
|Giant papillary conjunctivitis in a GP lens wearer.
What is CLD?
According to the Tear Film and Ocular Surface Society (TFOS), CLD is "a condition characterized by episodic or persistent adverse ocular sensations related to lens wear, either with or without visual disturbance, resulting from reduced compatibility between the contact lens and the ocular environment, which can lead to decreased wearing time and discontinuation of contact lens wear."5 Clinically, CLD is usually determined by levels of end-of-day discomfort and dryness.5
TFOS further describes CLD as a distinctive five-step progression. It begins when patients start to struggle with symptoms such as physical awareness and visual disturbance. Consequently, patients reduce their comfortable wear time. As the lenses become more uncomfortable, patients begin reducing their total wear time. Next, patients may temporarily discontinue contact lens wear. For example, patients who used to wear contact lenses everyday for extended periods of time start to take breaks between wear. Finally, when comfort is no longer achievable, patients permanently discontinue lens wear. Given this progression, it is important to identify the factors that play a role in the earlier stages of discomfort to develop appropriate management strategies.
CLD Causes
For gas permeable (GP) lenses, clinicians should consider factors such as environmental allergies, poor contact lens fit, poor contact lens edge profile, contact lens solutions, surface deposits and poor surface wettability when deciding how to manage and treat discomfort. Sometimes, the underlying problem is unclear, and several treatments may be warranted to eliminate CLD. Here is a brief overview of some common causes of GP lens discomfort and treatment methods:
|Heavy lipid deposits on the scleral lens in an MGD patient.
Environmental allergies. Giant papillary conjunctivitis (GPC) can occur with contact lens wear alone, but it can also be exacerbated with environmental allergies. If not treated, papillae can jeopardize success with contact lens wear. GPC can affect contact lens positioning due to lid interaction with the contact lens, creating a less-stable, high-riding contact lens.
When treating allergies in contact lens wearers, first consider switching to a preservative-free, peroxide-based lens solution or an alcohol-based cleaner to help minimize allergens on lens surface. Also, consider prescribing an antihistamine/mast cell stabilizer to be used on a daily basis. Preservative-free artificial tears should be applied every few hours to reduce exposure to allergens. Cold compresses can also be used to reduce symptoms. In severe cases, a topical steroid may be necessary to treat the condition. The severity level varies among patients, so several treatments may be necessary to eliminate CLD entirely.
Dry Eye. Researchers attribute dry eye symptoms in contact lens wearers to a diminished aqueous or mucin layer of the tear film, changes in tear protein concentration and altered meibomian gland structure or function, to name only a few.6 Studies show lens wear is associated with adverse changes in meibomian gland morphology as well as the condition of the lid margin and meibum.6 Contact lens-related dry eye may also be explained by increased tear film thinning, leading to greater tear evaporation and increased tear film osmolality.4 This suggests that contact lenses negatively affect meibomian glands and are partly responsible for dry eye symptoms.6
For patients with meibomian gland dysfunction (MGD), warm compresses and a more stringent eyelid hygiene regimen using a foam lid cleanser or hypochlorous acid are usually the first steps, along with omega supplements. A cycle of doxycycline or azithromycin may be used in more advanced cases of MGD due to their anti-inflammatory properties.7 Occasionally, an antibiotic eye drop, a low-dose topical steroid drop or an antibiotic-steroid combination drop may be used in conjunction with an inflammatory modulator such as Restasis (cyclosporine 0.05%, Allergan) or Xiidra (lifitegrast 5%, Shire). Punctal plugs may be used in patients where treatment with supplements, artificial tears or prescription eye drops fails to relieve dry eye symptoms. Deciding whether to use dissolvable collagen plugs or semi-permanent silicone plugs is left to the discretion of the eye care provider.
But when the patient still complains of discomfort after treatment with antibiotics, topicals, artificial tears/ointments and punctal plugs, a scleral contact lens may be the ideal solution.
Initially thought to be reserved for patients with irregular corneas or severe ocular surface disease, scleral lenses also can be a viable option for patients suffering from dry eye discomfort in their soft or corneal GP lenses. Scleral lenses can be more comfortable than soft lenses due to the fluid reservoir under the lens and the lack of lens surface dehydration.8 They are essentially moisture chambers on the eye that also give superior rigid lens optics.
|More lipid deposits on the scleral lens surface in an MGD patient.
Surface deposits and poor wettability. Often, a patient's GP lens will fit well and feel comfortable, but poor surface wettability or heavy lipid deposits still occur. Excessive lipids in the tear film create a foggy, hydrophobic surface, which in turn leads to poor visual comfort. Alcohol-based cleaners or intensive protein cleaners such as Progent (Menicon) can help eliminate surface deposits. For patients who have had no success with various lens solutions, have been prescribed an eyelid hygiene regimen and have been warned not to use hand lotions prior to insertion of GP lenses, practitioners can consider a new lens coating to meet each patient's needs.
According to Tangible Science, its new Hydra-PEG lens coating is designed to create a highly wettable and lubricious surface, with increased surface water retention due to its high water content (90%).9 This polyethylene glycol-based polymer can be permanently bonded to the surfaces of both soft and GP lenses, and is currently available for Contamac materials provided by several GP lens manufacturers. It also helps to reduce protein and lipid deposits on lens surface.9
CLD is both common and difficult to manage, in part because of its multifactorial nature. Without a tried-and-true treatment, it is important to consider a step-wise approach in diagnosing, managing and treating CLD to provide continued success with contact lens wear.5
1. Pritchard N, Fonn D, Brazeau D. Discontinuation of contact lens wear: a survey. Intern Contact Lens Clinic. 1999;26:157-161.
2. Young G, Veys J, Pritchard N, Coleman S. A multi-centre study of lapsed contact lens wearers. Ophthal Physiol Opt. 2002;22:516-527.
3. Rumpakis J. New data on contact lens dropouts: an international perspective. Review of Optmetry. 2010;147(1):37-42.
4. Nichols JJ, Sinnott LT. Tear film, contact lens, and patient-related factors associated with contact lens-related dry eye. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. Apr 2006;47(4):1319-1328.
5. Nichols JJ, Willcox MD, Bron AJ, et al. The TFOS international workshop on contact cens discomfort: executive summary. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. 2013;54:TFOS7-TFOS13.
6. Arita R, Fukuoka S, Morishige N. Meibomian gland dysfunction and contact lens discomfort. Eye Contact Lens. Jan 2017;43(1):17-22.
7. Yoo SE, Lee DC, Chang MH. The effect of low-dose doxycycline therapy in chronic meibomian gland dysfunction. KJO. Dec 2005;19(4):258-263.
8. Jones L, May C, Nazar L, Simpson T. In vitro evaluation of the dehydration characteristics of silicone hydrogel and conventional hydrogel contact lens materials. Cont Lens Anterior Eye. Sep 2002;25(3):147-156.
9. Tangible Science. 2017. Available at: www.tangiblescience.com. Accessed March 31, 2017.


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Brown, Kathleen. 1995. "'Changed...into the Fashion of a Man': The Politics of Sexual Difference in a Seventeenth-Century Anglo-American Settlement" in Journal of the History of Sexuality 6:2 pp.171-193.
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In 1629, in a small settlement just across the river from Jamestown, Virginia, 22 years after the first settlement at that location, Thomas Hall was accused of fornication with a servant girl. This fairly ordinary offense became more complicated and interesting after the community took it on themselves to investigate exactly what had happened.
Hall was a recent arrival (though there's some confusion due to another individual of the same name being recorded earlier) and Warrosquyoacke was a small community, so it's understandable that the residents were dismayed to find that they didn't know their neighbors' business as well as they thought they did. As well as the local investigation, the case was eventually taken to the Virginia Colony's general court at Jamestown and the following story emerged.
In England, Hall had worn women's clothing and practiced the traditionally female trades of needlework and lace making. After emigrating to Virginia, Hall sometimes wore male clothing and performed traditionally male occupations, but also sometimes wore female clothing. (Virginia still had a fairly low female population at this time.) During the investigation of the fornication charge, Hall was asked "whether he were man or woman" and replied "both." When asked further what the reason was for the women's clothing, Hall answered somewhat obliquely, "I go in women's apparel to get a bit for my cat." [Note: Google does not turn up any other context for the phrase "get a bit for my cat" but that doesn't mean it may not have been an obscure bit of slang that had a clear meaning to hearers, even if we are befuddled.]
As was typical in the early modern period, the primary social crisis that Hall sparked was the need to determine exactly what gender category to place them in. Ambiguity was not acceptable and alternation was right out. In any event, whatever Hall's true gender, it was clear that some sort of punishable offence had been committed. It just needed to be determined which one.
Eventually the local officials in Warrosquyoacke threw up their hands and sent the case to Jamestown, where the details of the existing investigation were recorded for posterity, including efforts by community members to obtain physical evidence on the question. Hall provided a detailed and candid personal history and these records are essentially all we know of the case. But the records include details of the responses of Hall's community that shed light on popular beliefs among ordinary people about sexual difference, in contrast to the opinions of professionals, which are the more common source of information for this period. In the absence of relevant medical and/or legal professionals in the colony, community members did their best to gather physical and behavioral observations and interpret them in light of their understanding of what constituted male and female identity.
The scientific/medical understanding of sex difference in this era still followed the Galenic "single-sex" model that emphasized physiological parallels between men and women and the belief that women were "imperfect men" but had the potential to undergo spontaneous sex change. This theory held that strenuous activity or masculine performance could cause a woman's organs to "emerge" from the body as a penis and testicles, constituting a genuine change in physiological sex. At the same time, the clear legal distinction of personal status based on sex made it necessary to establish a person's "true sex." But the means of establishing this was left to community custom and individual performance.
Performative gender was established through customary distinctions in clothing, names, occupations, and the participation in heteronormative relationships. [Note: This last is one of the things that complicates applying concepts like "homosexual" or "transgender". If heterosexuality is considered a fixed universal, then participation in apparently same-sex relationships can only be considered as evidence for gender identity, not for sexual orientation.] Medical literature recognized a physiological continuum of sexual morphology (treated under the concept of the "hermaphrodite") but the law did not allow for such ambiguity. As Brown notes, "the courts, which were mainly concerned to preserve clear gender boundaries, rather than explore anomalies, had the power to coerce individuals to alter their gender performances." The legal pressure was to pick one clear gender identity and stick to it, rather than to identify a "true" anatomical sex.
In the 16-17th centuries, transvestism was recognized as different from the anatomical ambiguity of "hermaphroditism" and treated, perhaps, as even more threatening to society, as it undermined the ability for clothing to define and stabilize gender identities. [Note: Brown simultaneously claims that transvestism was primarily a matter of women dressing as men, but then notes the English tradition of transvestite theater, which would have been primarily men dressing as women. So I'm a little confused in this section.]
Returning to the legal records of Hall's case, one confounding aspect in interpreting the records is that the language followed the needs of the legal setting, which dictated certain elements of the descriptions. The court pursued Hall's personal history and past performance to answer the question of their gender identity, while the community investigation had inquired far more directly into what was in Hall's breeches. Curiously, their investigation was inconclusive as there was disagreement as to the meaning of their findings.
Perhaps the most interesting feature of Hall's testimony is that Hall treats gender identity as malleable and opportunistic. Gender identity could be claimed by the simple expedient of a change of clothing, and justified by the opportunity for gender-segregated employment. Hall's narrative does not align with a sense of stable, internal gender identity from which public gender performance was a passive consequence. Rather, Hall seems to treat gender as an actively chosen self-presentation that is distinct from any issue of personal identity. And given the overtness of Hall's gender transgression, the legal penalty that eventually was applied was comparatively mild.
Brown discusses at length the social and political context of the community that underlay certain of the gender dynamics of Hall's situation and resulted in the responsibility for investigation falling in the hands of ordinary community members, including the gender politics of women claiming responsibility for the task.
The Warrosquyoacke settlement had existed for less than 7 years when Hall arrived and--like most of the English colony in Virginia at the time--was focused primarily on the economic project of producing tobacco for export. Most of the population were recent arrivals, including a number of enslaved African people diverted from a different destination. A few had been in Virginia for a longer period, which helped to establish personal authority among the residents. Among the named individuals in the court record was Alice Long, a married woman who had been in Virginia since 1620, and Dorothy Rodes, another married woman who assisted her with the physical investigation, who may have been there for several years. Another key figure was John Tyos who was a former employer of Hall's at a time when Hall was presenting as a woman. (To complicate the historic trail, several years earlier, Tyos had shared living space with a different Thomas Hall, a man, at a time when the relevant Thomas Hall was hypothetically present in the colony. This is presumed to be a coincidence of names on the assumption that Tyos would have recognized his former servant even if presenting as a different gender.)
Female authority in the investigation was claimed by Long and Rodes in their roles as midwives and matrons, with the responsibility to perform physical examinations of women for legal purposes. (Legal purposes such as determination of pregnancy or childbirth, or to identify evidence of sexual activity if, for example, a husband were accused of impotence.) Their roles depended on the acceptance of sexual categories and gender boundaries and assumed that women who interacted with female bodies in intimate ways (e.g., childbirth) would have special authority in interpreting those bodies. But this authority only applied to the extent that Hall's body was accused of being female.
At the time Hall was accused of fornication with the maidservant of Richard Bennet, John Tyos claimed that his servant Thomas Hall was female (evidently despite wearing male clothing and performing male work). This provoked the community matrons to take the authority into their own hands (without the request of a court) to examine Hall with regard to this question. The matrons asserted, based on this examination, that Hall was a man. Tyos continued to maintain that Hall was female and the question was escalated to the local landowning authority, Captain Bass.
Bass took the perhaps radical approach of simply asking Hall "whether he were man or woman" to which Hall, as noted above, replied "both" and explained further that this answer was based on having what was described as a very small penis but that "he had not the use of the man's part." Bass chose to define maleness in terms of the ability to successfully perform penetrative sex with a penis and assigned Hall a female gender on this basis, ordering Hall to put on women's clothes. This aligned, to some extent, with the Galenic view of gender: Hall might be a little bit masculine but insufficiently male to be granted categorical male status.
This decision was challenged by the matrons who had performed the examination and were still convinced of Hall's male nature. To them, a male Hall now going about in women's clothing (per Captain Bass's legal requirement) was an insupportable breech of gender categories. They demanded a second inspection from Hall's new employer (who was convinced enough of Hall's female presentation that he referred to Hall with female pronouns in the record, where everyone else used male pronouns). On further interrogation of Hall, this time with regard to the presence of female anatomy, rather than the inadequacy of the male anatomy, Hall claimed to have "a piece of a hole" but the investigating women failed to confirmed this on examination.
This shifted the official position. Hall's new employer then ordered that Hall "be put into" male clothing and be punished for impersonating a woman. When Hall had been classified as female (or even potentially female), social rules had restricted the physical investigation to women, but now having been officially categorized as male, Hall was subject to some spontaneous (and forcible) confirmatory investigations by men. These did not contradict the male classification.
Setting aside the appalling nature of the investigation methods, we see a whole sequence of attempts to define the nature of maleness and femaleness. Was maleness something that had to be achieved above a certain threshold? Or was there a clear and uncrossable physiological dividing line between male and female? The result had major consequences for Hall's day to day life, determining what occupations were allowed, what responsibilities were imposed, and what socializing was permitted. (Brown also hints that being classified as male protected Hall from sexual advances from his new employer and others, that might have been a hazard when classified as female.)
Brown provides a discussion of the socio-political stake the various parties had in both the process of the investigation and its conclusions. She notes that one key party--the maidservant that Hall had been accused of fornication with--was not called as witness, with several speculations on why this might have been the case. In any event, the question of gender transgression was more important to them than that of irregular sexual activity.
Having come to a decision on Hall's gender categorization, the authorities in Warrosquyoacke were stuck on an appropriate punishment and passed the case along to Jamestown. The governor reviewed the testimony and then elicited Hall's own biographical narrative.
[Note: at this point, I'm going to follow Brown's lead and shift pronoun gender in alignment with Hall's shifting presentation, except when quoting from Hall's testimony. I hope this finds a balance between clarity, sensitivity, and narrative function.]
Hall was christened Thomasine (an unambiguously female name) when born in England and grew up living a female life and wearing female clothing. At age of 12, she was sent to London to live with an aunt (it was typical at that time for adolescent girls to be "placed out" to learn the skills of a housewife) for the next ten years. When Hall was 24, her brother was pressed into military service and she "cut off her hair and changed his apparel into the fashion of a man" to join the English forces supporting the Huguenots in France. On returning to England, Hall "changed himself into women's apparel" and took up the (feminine) profession of needlework. She lived in the port of Plymouth, which may have inspired the next step in 1627 when she "changed again ...into the habit of a man" and sailed to Virginia.
After considering all the evidence and testimony, the court imposed the following sentence: Hall was required to take a male identity and wear male clothing, with the exception of being required to wear a (feminine) coif and apron. That is, the court enforced Hall's gender ambiguity, not in the serial form that Hall had performed, but as a permanent hybrid presentation. The judgment that Hall was "a man and a woman" was to be published to the inhabitants of Warrosquyoacke so that they "may take notice thereof." This suggests that rather than following the long legal tradition of requiring a fixed and unambiguous identity following the gender binary, the court had to some extent recognized Hall's elusive non-binary nature and, instead, chose to enforce that non-binary identity.
The question of the original charge of fornication was not addressed, but neither was the question of the consequences for Hall's future sexual activity. The ruling also problematized how Hall was to be treated within the gendered work and social environment of the community.
The article concludes by situating Hall in the context of other gender transgression narratives of the 16-17th century, including Elen@ de Cespedes, Catalina de Erauso, and Mary Frith. Unlike most such narratives, rather than the eventual conclusion being that the subject was a "hermaphrodite" or female transvestite, Hall was concluded to be male.
I want to focus on part of Brown's analysis that I think needs to be interrogated. She says, "Hall's atypicality...alerts us to another possible explanation for his otherwise difficult-to-fathom behavior. In a world in which dressing as a man brought women expanded economic and political opportunities, Hall found it difficult to suppress his female identity. ... Despite the attendant risks and disadvantages of being female in the seventeenth century, Hall found it personally useful, necessary, or comfortable to dress occasionally as a woman." And then, after further discussion, "Perhaps 'his' female identity was so deeply embedded as a consequence of a childhood and adolescence of female training and identification that he could not shed it."
I think this analysis overlooks two key aspects. One of them is what Brown notes: Hall was raised from birth to adulthood in a female role, treated as a woman and interacting with the world as a woman. To require some extraordinary explanation for Hall being comfortable returning to that performance smacks a bit too much of gender essentialism for comfort. To the extent that gender is performance--and Hall's life story suggests a personal sympathy for that position--is it the historian's place to impose a judgment that performing the gender one was raised as is "difficult to fathom"? The second aspect that is absent from this article is a consideration of Hall as potentially intersex. Brown invokes the early modern concept of the "hermaphrodite" as it was used in the discourse around gender categories and gender performance, but doesn't seem to recognize the most plausible context in which an infant would be classified as female but then would present with under-developed male genitalia as an adult. Setting aside the question of whether physiology does (or should) attract one to a particular expression of gender performance, being intersex might well have motivated Hall to "try on" different genders and feel equally comfortable (or equally uncomfortable?) in each.
So the court said "No, you don't get to choose under what circumstances to be male and when to be female. WE will choose... and we choose that you are both, and this is how you will display that fact."
Or in other words "Your gender is ambiguous, but it's our job to decide that, not yours."
The court is staking out its jurisdiction over gender, while simultaneously making the remarkably forward-looking judgment that gender isn't always unambiguously binary.
I'm reminded of the Marbury v. Madison case almost three centuries later, in which the Supreme Court said "we can't rule on such-and-such," and by so doing claimed the much greater power to rule on whether laws conform with the Constitution.
Oh, this is fascinating. There's a lot of interesting study around eunuchs in antiquity, of late, that's trying to consider the ways in which they might have seen themselves, compared to how they were seen by the (almost exclusively male) writers we hear about them from, but it's so challenging when what we have is always going through that filter. Especially when considering matters of intersex births. I maintain that the Penguin translation of Herodotus incorrectly classifies a discussion of intersex births in one city as being about eunuchs, but the Greeks (and maybe Romans? I'm less sure there) seem to have conflated the categories a lot, particularly in seeing women as a sort of failure to be a man.
Anyway. Interesting stuff. Mandated androgyny is a new one to me!


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This study outline is based on a course from the Emmaus Correspondence School and original material by R. E. Harlow.
The purpose is for use as a personal Bible Study aid in examining and grasping the basic doctrines of the Bible, carefully using the information and Bible references in arriving at your conclusions, with the understanding that what God reveals through His Word is for our spiritual benefit . Presently there are so many false teachers of scripture, and some of the theological terms are being altered to be different in meaning to what they are in the scriptures; therefore, every believer in Christ must have a thorough understanding of Bible doctrine.
All Scripture quotationsare from the New International Version (NIV), unless otherwise indicated.
Where used, "cf" means to compare.
There are 10 subjects of consideration:
1. The Bible
2. God
3. Christ
4. The Holy Spirit
5. Angels
6. Man
7. Sin
8. Salvation
9. The Church
10. Future Events
The Bible is a revelation from God about Himself.
REVELATION: Why would God desire to reveal Himself to mankind? He expects all mankind to obey His will; therefore, He has to reveal His will to us. All mankind is restricted in the knowledge of an immeasurable God, and any human philosophy usually begins with an attempt to remove any need of a revelation from God, but it is apparent that God would not have created a race of humans if He had no intention of revealing Himself to them. Therefore, He is able to, and has revealed Himself through His Word – The Bible.
GOD'S REVELATION OF HIMSELF: of all the religious books in existence the Bible claims to be God's revelation on the basis of evidence alone. In respect to Unity of content the Bible is a collection of sixty-six individual books written by various authors over a period of approximately 1500 years, and unlike any other collection of writings over such a period, there is one unifying theme revealing one person – the Lord Jesus Christ. Any apparent contradictions, claimed by some, disappear when the entire Scripture is carefully studied. Supported by ancient history and archaeological discoveries, Biblical accounts have been confirmed. Old Testament accounts can be confirmed by comparing historical records and many archaeological results. Prophetic statements recorded in the Old Testament saw fulfillment in the New Testament accounts, indicating that only God could give such information hundreds of years before it occurred. Compare Psa.69:21 with Matt.27:34, 48. The convincing power of the Bible causes the reader to experience the guilt of sin. The Old Testament records of the Law and it's demands causes us to understand that we are unable to attain the perfection that God requires, thus all readers are aware of their condemnation before God. Differing from all other religious writings, the Bible emphasizes that salvation is a free gift graciously provided by God. The life-transforming power of the Bible prepares each reader for salvation. After reading of the condemnation of the Law, the reader is introduced to the provision of God for sin's penalty in the person of the Lord Jesus Christ. This is evident in the many millions of converts who have found peace with God and continue to live in that peace. The preservation of the Bible is proof of it's divine source. It has miraculously survived numerous attempts at destruction over the centuries, God has secured it because it is His Word.
All these are reasons why any individual who reads the Bible can expect to hear God speaking through His written Word.
Inspiration and revelation can sometimes be used interchangeably, but we should understand that "revelation" is used only for those accounts in Scripture in which the writer could not have known what to record apart from God specifically communicating the information. Consider Moses who recorded the creation account; he was not present at the time so God had to reveal this to him. Similarly, other writers recorded what they saw, did, or learned from others; and all were "inspired" by God. God inspired them to record specific events and to omit others ; because God has given us a written account of what we need, and no more, in revealing Himself to us; "All scripture is given by inspiration of God…." . So we can say that many accounts contain revelations from God but the entire record of the Bible is inspired. There are two terms in reference to inspiration: "Plenary inspiration" meaning that all subjects in scripture are fully inspired, and "Verbal inspiration" indicating that all written words of scripture are fully inspired.
Most, if not all, Old Testament writers claimed that God spoke to them: Moses, Joshua, David ; and all sixteen prophets from Isaiah to Malachi made similar claims. Christ taught His disciples that the O.T. was inspired, and they in turn also believed and taught the inspiration of the O.T. . Christ promised His disciples that they would have the help of the Holy Spirit as they wrote the New Testament accounts and we see this in the writings of Paul and John (in Revelation) . The Gospels are correlated with, and on the same level as the O.T. in such terms as "according to the scriptures"and "the scriptures": "For the Scripture says, "Do not muzzle the ox while it is treading out the grain," and "The worker deserves his wages." Do not entertain an accusation against an elder unless it is brought by two or three witnesses."" .
God in His wisdom has allowed all the original manuscripts of the chosen authors of the scriptures to be lost, no doubt to avoid the worship of objects . However, He has preserved excellent copies of these originals. Language differences have made it impossible to have a perfect translation, but what we have today is completely adequate for God to reveal Himself to us and for our study of the scriptures.


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The 3As were standardized cargo vessels.
They were designed for mass production rather than commercial economy,
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Only one of these ships was launched in 1945 before the surrender.
The Tobata Maru, which was
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New Castle County Police detectives are investigating a report of a kidnapping that occurred last night (Feb 19) at about 7:45p.m. in the community of Arundel Apartments. This incident appears to be related to the Feb 13 kidnapping at Top of the Hill Apartments.
(Wilmington, Del. – 19808) Last night (Sunday, Feb 19) at about 8:40p.m., County Police were dispatched to the area of Arundel Apartments for a reported kidnapping. Police contacted the female victim who stated she arrived home to the apartment complex at about 7:45p.m. when she was approached by a male in the common area of her apartment building. The man was wearing a black mask, dark clothing and brandished a handgun. The suspect forced the victim into her apartment where he demanded money. The suspect physically and sexually assaulted the victim in her apartment. The suspect then forced the victim outside and into her vehicle where he drove her to several ATMs in the Pike Creek area and forced her to withdraw an undisclosed amount of money. The suspect and victim went to the following ATMs in the Pike Creek Area: PNC Bank on Limestone Rd, Wells Fargo on Limestone at Papermill Rd, M&T Bank on Limestone Rd, Artisan's Bank in the Linden Hill Shopping Center. During this incident, similar to the kidnapping at Top of the Hill Apartments, the suspect spoke to himself about his intentions and plans.
The victim was able to escape and call 911. She was taken to an area hospital for treatment, where she was released with non-life-threatening injuries.
Detectives are actively investigating the kidnapping and believe it is the same suspect who committed the kidnapping at Top of the Hill Apartments on Feb 13.
In the Feb 13 incident, the victim was taken from the parking lot of her apartment complex at approximately 7:45 p.m. and forced into her own vehicle by the suspect. The suspect then drove around the area and forced the victim to withdraw an undisclosed amount of cash from the ATM at the PNC Bank on Marsh Rd. During the ordeal, the suspect assaulted the victim by striking her in the face. Detectives further learned that the suspect had unlawful sexual contact with the victim while in the vehicle.
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Romance vs Reality: War & Conflict in Epic Fantasy and "The Gathering of the Lost"
With the mass market edition of The Gathering Of The Lost recently published in the UK, I've been re-posting a few of the features from last year's Blog Tour.
This post was first published on Australian author Trent Jamieson's Trentonomicon blog, but since Trent has subsequently revamped his previous blog and started anew, it is now only available here.
I also feel it complements my recent post on my UK publisher Orbit's blog (although the content is different): War and Power—Sources of Conflict In The Gathering Of The Lost.
"Romance vs Reality: War & Conflict in Epic Fantasy and The Gathering of the Lost
The Wall of Night series is epic fantasy and deals with the grand sweep of events and conflict between peoples. These conflicts range from political manoeuvering, personal quarrels (the central society in the series, the Derai, have a tradition of blood feuds), street fighting and skirmishes, through to the threat of full-blown war. At one level, this is very much the fare of epic fantasy, in part because war is shorthand for conflict on the grand scale, and partly because historical tradition tell us that major conflicts do frequently lead to war.
A common criticism of epic fantasy is that it romanticises war, focusing on the glamour of combat and weaponry, rather than presenting the real consequences of armed conflict—the "war is hell" so succinctly attributed to General Sherman, who undoubtedly had plenty of experience of its realities. I believe it is true that this sense of "dead and mangled bodies … the shriek and groans of the wounded and lacerated" (also Sherman) is rarely emphasised in epic.
The romance versus reality of writing war and combat is an ongoing tension for The Wall of Night series—and perhaps most of all in this new book out, The Gathering of the Lost. Much of the action takes place within the knightly society of Emer (very loosely based on that of the Burgundian knights during the hey-day of their power) and since I like an adventurous story, the combination of action with heavily armored knights lends itself to both tournaments and armed engagements. Plenty of scope, in other words, to romanticise plate armour and chivalry.
Chivalric, adventurous stories are always fun to read, too, and I for one enjoy reading them. Nonetheless, I remain wary of romanticizing, not just war but the medieval period of western European history, which was both warlike and frequently a very harsh time in which to live. In The Gathering of the Lost, I have tried to balance the tension between romance and reality by setting the action in an environment where starvation is much an enemy as an armed knight, and a history of prolonged warfare has given several main characters a passion for peace. In the words of the Duke of Emer:
"Sometimes in order to have peace we need to make peace—to give something, as well as demand concessions."
As in The Heir of Night, the first book in the Wall series, when people pick up weapons and attack each other, they are frequently wounded and often die. The focus of the book may not be on Sherman's "dead and mangled bodies", but when fighting occurs that reality is integral to the story. Or to quote from the book again:
"So now you know what battle is," the hedge knight said. "There is no field of glory, only the charnel house."
I would still argue that The Gathering of the Lost and The Wall of Night quartet are very much big epic. But rather than focusing on a romanticised view of war, it is the internal conflict within the protagonists—their struggles between the pressures of self-interest, the socio-political forces in their societies and the codes they hold to be true and right—that drive the power and drama of the narrative."
There are indeed armed engagements in the two novels, but I have noticed you don't have engagements so large as to have tons of nameless people engaged in them. When there is fighting in Ar, or around the Tournament, or in the North, we know who the participants are, personally.


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Okay, that one in particular realllly needs to be rectified, though.
Heh … rectified sounds like such a naughty word. Rec-tified.
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She has access to the movie (and many, many more). Roger Rabbit is sitting on our PS3 just waiting to be watched. 😛
DEBS!!!!! How could you have not heard of 'Who Framed Roger Rabbit?'!!!!!!!!!! 😛


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While Houston Rockets point guard Kyle Lowry has earned national plaudits as a rising star for his strong start to the 2011-2012 season, his name is in the news wire for the wrong reason Friday, as he has been charged for misdemeanor battery for an incident in a Las Vegas pick-up game over the summer.
According to the police report, Lowry was reportedly upset at a 30-year old referee who was calling a pickup game between NBA players during the lockout.
After the game, he is alleged to have chunked a ball at her torso and another at her while she was sitting down while cursing at her for the calls she made.
Afterwards, Lowry reportedly apologized to the referee for letting his emotions get the best of him.
He is scheduled to make a court appearance on Feb. 2 in Las Vegas.
The Rockets have declined to comment on the incident.


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I remember waking at night as a little girl, scared from a bad dream. I always ran to my parent's room and woke up my mom. She would usually let me climb into bed next to her. It was always a strategic move to go to Mom because Dad wasn't likely to let me climb into bed. Word has it I wasn't the most fun to sleep with. Probably much like your preschoolers.
- Talk about what dreams are during the daytime. Discuss the difference between dreams and reality in terms they can understand. It can be a difficult idea to grasp so think of as many different ways to describe it as you can.
- Discuss what kind of good dreams he or she would like to have before bedtime. Suggest that he can have dreams about playing at the park or visiting grandma and grandpa. We discovered my daughter didn't realize there were such things as good dreams and was really excited at the thought of having happy dreams.
- Say prayers before bedtime.
- When she wakes up from a nightmare, do what you can to comfort her and calm her down. If she needs to crawl into bed with you that is OK. Even if it isn't what you would normally do. Sometimes a bit of extra comfort is in order. Sometimes we have to turn on the lights to show her that it was just a dream and there really aren't any ants in the bed. Talk about what good dreams she'd like to have when she falls back asleep.


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To date, 10 states (plus the District of Columbia) have legalized recreational marijuana use, and more than 30 states (as well as the District of Columbia) have approved the use of marijuana for medical purposes. However, despite ongoing nationwide efforts to decriminalize the drug, the federal government considers marijuana a prohibited controlled substance. This may be particularly problematic for foreign nationals seeking immigration benefits because no conviction or arrest is required to establish a violation under federal immigration law. A mere admission of behavior involving the use or possession of a controlled substance is sufficient. In fact, even employment in the marijuana industry can trigger a violation, regardless of whether the employee consumed or otherwise possessed marijuana.
In its policy alert, USCIS clarified that controlled substance violations, including those related to marijuana, may prevent a foreign national from demonstrating good moral character, an essential requirement for establishing eligibility for naturalization. Controlled substance violations are also grounds for determinations of inadmissibility, and may affect a foreign national's eligibility for a visa, green card, or change of status. U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued similar guidance cautioning travelers about the impact of marijuana use on their admissibility and eligibility for visas. Employers may want to review the contents of this policy alert with foreign nationals.


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