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The subject of sexual customs in Polynesia is permeated with misunderstandings, one of the true curiosities of the Modern Age is the historical revision being attempted on the reputation for sexual liberation of Polynesians. Strange phd thesis advance bizarre apologies for the sexual practices customary in the Pacific and so called Women's Studies writers attempt to downplay the promiscuity of Polynesian women. While it is very true many Contact Period Europeans mistakenly assumed the young girls who swam out to their ships and displayed themselves willing and ready to engage in all forms of sexual activity represented all the women on the islands. But in reality Polynesia really deserved its reputation for a Golden Age of unrepressive morality and sexual liberation. Polynesians were the Bonobo of the human species, for sexual intercourse between almost all members of the group played a very important role in the cohesion and health of their society. One of the most interesting observations below is the reference to the Polynesians non-practice of foreplay, because they simply had no need of these techniques for both parties to enjoy a successful outcome to sexual intercourse.
Much of the appeal European felt for the Pacific had at its
core the dream of complete sexual liberty. However, not only was Polynesian
Society more complicated than that, I believe the attraction of Westerners
to Polynesia is more than merely sexual. It has at its core the longing for
a Lost World, the world we in our hearts believe existed when we too belonged
to the Natural World. A world that existed for millions of years before agriculture
and towns and cities; before the settled life, before the dirt and filth and
poverty of the Industrial World, before the plagues of infectious diseases,
and the greatest plague of all ; the repressive iron grip of Judea/ Christian
religions, with its angry misogynistic ,all seeing, all vengeful God. Polynesia
and Polynesian sexual customs held up before Europeans eyes a different world,
one without their repressed and closeted and deeply ingrained sociopathic
attitude towards sex, a world that we were once also a part of, before we
were banished from the Garden.
Marriage In Polynesia, the concept of marriage as we in the West consider it, did not exist. For Chiefly families marriages were tactical, but all marriages could be absolved with little or no ceremony. The real bonds that held two people together in Polynesia were emotional, or involved the bond of family, as family was the glue of all Pacific societies. However, attitudes to fidelity varied across Polynesia. In Eastern Polynesia, female infidelity was tolerated as it was in Hawaii, while in New Zealand it was more complicated, a chief might have multiple wives but he possessed the right to kill his wife if she was unfaithful, and the contact period is full of tales of Maori men exercising that right. The key is probably whether a man saw the infidelity of his wife as an attack on his mana or not. I suspect that class also played a role, did the commoners share the same morals as their chiefly and aristocratic brethren? Probably not. But it would be a mistake to think that Polynesians are not sentimental about love, to the contrary their love songs and poetry is highly sensitive and profoundly emotional.
In traditional Polynesian society nudity had nothing to do with sexuality, female traditionally were bare breasted and children under five ran naked and men often stripped for certain tasks. Polynesians bathed frequently unlike I might point out Europeans. Once the pubic hair began to grow, the genitals were covered, but not through prudery, but to protect the organs that gave progeny. Nudity among adults had important nonsexual significance, such as being a symbol of death or punishment or of lamentation. Individuals who were slated for sacrifice or who were banished were stripped naked. A dream of nudity, it was claimed, was a portent of death.
The genitals were considered holy and were appreciated as being good. They were treated with respect and worship, and ostensibly they were covered for protection, not shame. Also, it was believed that the genitals possessed mana (spiritual power), and this belief was expressed with clarity in the traditional woodcarvings of the powerful gods, whose genitals were shown to be prominent.
Genital Chant
Within the culture, genitals were addressed in song and story. Traditional Hawaiians had public names for their private parts, and they were proud of their endowments. Hawaiian royalty, and commoners as well, had their own mele mai, a genital chant. These chants described, sometimes figuratively and sometimes literally and openly, the individuals sexual organs.
Genital Preparation
Subincision of the foreskin was practiced, and ostensibly, to prepare for this practice, the penis was blown into daily starting from birth. The blowing was said to loosen and balloon the foreskin and separate it from the glans, so that when the time of subincision came, the skin was quickly and easily slit. The blowing continued daily until the infant was old enough to urinate in an arch, wetting the blower, then it was done less often, perhaps three times a week until the young male was 6 or 7. A makua hine (aunt) or kupuna wahine (grandmother) did the blowing. The penis-blowing procedure was said to guarantee health and efficient coitus.
In Hawaii when a young male was 6 or 7, penile subincision was performed by a specially trained priest. In the Mangaia Islands (Cook Islands) this was performed at puberty as a special procedure within an initiation rite.
While a female was still an infant, mothers breast milk was squirted into her vagina, and the labia were pressed together. The mons was rubbed with kukui (candlenut) oil and pressed with the palm of the hand to flatten it and make it less prominent. The molding continued until the labia did not separate. This chore usually was done by the mother or an aunt or grandmother.
In the Marquesas, similar attention was given to the vulva, but in addition, the young females labia minor were stretched to make them longer. This practice often was done orally by the caretaking adult females. While in the Society and Austral Islands the clitoris of young females were lengthened by manipulation
Sex Education
Until the age of 4-6, young males and females played together. Between 4 and 6, young males went to live in the hale nua, where, through observation, they learned sex roles and sex-related expectations from adult males. Unlike traditions that were present in some other parts of Oceania, there is no evidence that ritualized adult-male/adolescent-male sexual activities were practiced in traditional Hawaii.
Similarly, young females learned from the older women, with whom they remained. They were taught to look forward to sex and appreciate its pleasures. Both sexes heard the sex-positive conversations, songs, and stories of their elders and learned accordingly. By the age of puberty sexual exploration with same-sex age mates was actively encouraged.
Young males learned to fish, plant, cook, and fight and to honour the ali'i, the gods and spirits, and work. Young females, too, learned of the ali'i, the gods and spirits, and female related tasks, such as mat weaving, feather-garment and fibre crafts, dance, attending to births. In regard to sex, the occupation of a young woman was to procreate, which in the Hawaian culture implies all that relates to seduction, in which it is said that women play a more active role than men. Feminine activities are chanting, dancing, and other activities that promote eroticism. It is the women who often compose and chant the "mele inoa" (name chants) with their deliberately erotic content, and even the "mele mai" (chants praising the genitals).
Sex training was direct and firsthand. Young individuals learned of coitus and sex play from instruction, direct observation, and practice. As they slept in the family house (hale noa), they observed their parents having coitus. In the Mangaian Islands, any person may copulate at any age, in the single room of a hut that contains from five to fifteen family members of all ages. A daughter may receive and make love with each of her varied nightly suitors in the same room. But under most conditions, all of this takes place without social notice: everyone seems to be looking in another direction.
The young observed dogs, pigs, and other animals mating, and these activities were discussed openly with parents or other adults. Parturition was not a secret event and was well attended by the young and by adults, all of whom observed traditions that included the washing and burying of the placenta and, usually, the disposing of the umbilical cord.
Young Polynesians acquired sex education in day-by-day exposure to precepts, practices, and attitudes concerning sex. Childish curiosity about sex was satisfied, with neither guilt nor shame instilled. With variations depending upon rank, region, and social circumstances, the young individual learned the lore of Tapu, social restraints and preferences, and attitudes toward both sex for procreation or love and sex for fun and pleasure. Each kind of sex was appreciated for its own value.
Age and Preparation for First Coitus
Individuals of both sexes were expected to initiate and participate in coitus at puberty, although sexual activity, play, instruction, and so forth occurred much earlier. For instance, as part of exploratory play, the young investigated each others genitals, and young males and females might masturbate each other heterosexually or homosexually. This activity occurred without adult disapproval, and it was considered to be an introduction to adulthood. Casual intercourse before adolescence was not an uncommon experience both for males and females.
The time considered appropriate to start coitus was not so much based on chronological age as on ability or maturity. A male doing adult work or holding adult responsibilities was considered to be old enough. A young male who could grow taro or catch many fish was considered mature. A females first menses usually signalled she was ready for coitus if she had not already experienced it.
In Hawaii as physical signs of maturity appeared, the young received more formal sex education. Among commoners, this education was traditionally and usually the responsibility of the wahine for the females and the kane (grandfather) for the males. In the Marquesas Islands, early sexual experiences of pubertal males was with married females in their 30s and 40s who take special pains to be pleasing and patient with them and this was a source of enjoyment for many Marquesan women. For young females of the Marquesas Islands, the first coital experience reportedly is earlier than it is for young males before menarche and occurs unplanned with an adult male.
A young male was taught and how to please a female in order to help her attain orgasm. A young female was taught how to touch and caress a male and move her body to please them both. She was taught how to constrict and rhythmically contract her vaginal muscles.
An important element of Polynesian society was sexual humour., for sex was and remains a rich source of humour and enjoyment. In everyday conversation and in song and story, it was considered to be an art form to speak using sexual double entendres. Erotic imagery was, and remains, common in speech, poetry, and songs: coconut tree bending over a female; a digging stick spreading a females legs.
Early manifestations of infantile and childhood sexual behaviour, including sexual behaviour with adults, to be among the most distinguishing features of Marquesan sexual behaviour. Many of the activities described, however, are similar to activities that were present in Hawaii and elsewhere in Oceania. Adult/nonadult sexual behaviour in Tahiti was common and the missionary Orsmond stated in 1832;In all Tahitians as well as officers who come in ships there is a cry for little girls, and older females, when in a position to choose, preferred younger males. On Mangaia it was routine early sexual encounters of young males and females in as being with older, experienced males and females.
Rules for Intercourse
As long as the individuals involved were of the appropriate social class, just about any type of sexual behaviour between them for was sanctioned. If a pregnancy resulted, it was welcome. If a socially inferior male had sex with a female of royalty, however, her family might demand his death or exile, and if a baby was born, it might be killed immediately. A higher class males having sex with a lower class female was seen as being good, on the other hand, in that it added to her status. However, if the two participants were too far apart in class, any offspring was killed or sent into exile. Neither physical appearance nor age mattered where coitus-for-genealogy was involved. The main concern in such instances was to preserve the highest level of mana and rank and to not dilute the family prestige if no offspring resulted, the sexual behaviour itself was considered to be inconsequential.
In Hawaiian the word for orgasm, also means fun and joy, an appropriate term in the Hawaiian language because the object of sexual interactions was mutual happiness and pleasure. There were no restrictions regarding any positions for intercourse.
Sexual positions rarely are mentioned in ethnographies of Hawaii, while other potentially curious or uncouth matters are. For example, oral, anal, masturbatory, and other kinds of sexual behaviour were documented practices. Types of homosexual behaviour were accepted and, reportedly, were unstigmatized; many of the royalty were known for their ambisexual activities
According to the reports of Westerners. extensive foreplay was not a standard part of coitus. Many reports and stories tell of an adult male and an adult female meeting on a trail, in the bush, or on a secluded beach and engaging in coitus immediately, with little conversation and few preliminaries. This kind of behaviour also has been reported as having been the norm elsewhere in Oceania, e.g. among Mangaian Islanders and Marquesas Islanders. Note-worthy in regard to such behaviour is that orgasm for both the female and the male was not reported to be a problem despite the briefness of the encounter. Both males and females reportedly climaxed easily and frequently in traditional societies of Oceania.
It is possible that some of the reports of seemingly promiscuous and nonrelational sex that occurred in Oceania might reflect sampling and Western-oriented biases. This possibility has to be considered, because such interactions are not consistent with contemporary versions of traditional songs, which speak of erotic and sensual courtship and foreplay.
Virginity, Promiscuity, and Monogamy
Aside from restrictions of class and family, there were few sex tapu for common people. Masturbation, sex between uncommitted individuals, paired individuals having lovers, liaisons, polyandry, polygamy, homosexual patterns of behaviour, and such were all accepted practices. Sex was considered to be good and healthy for all, young and old included.
Virginity was considered to be a virtue only for female chiefs where genealogy was crucial. With this point in mind, chiefs particularly the first-born of either sex, with special status rights were often were betrothed while they were quite young. Sometimes the age difference between the betrothed was significant.
In Eastern Polynesia once paired with a chief, the chiefess, like the commoners she ruled over, could have as many lovers or additional permanent sexual partners as she desired. One missionary, Reverend Thurston in 1828, described a secondary wife of Kalaniopuu, Ruling Chief of the Island of Hawaii in Cook's time. By her own admission, she had not fewer than 40 sexual partners and usually several concurrently, while King Kamehameha had 21 known wives and regarding age disparity, it was noted; When he was an old man well on in years ... he took two young chiefesses to warm Kamehamehas old age.
Peripubertal females, in many cultures of Oceania, were noted to often be publicly sexually active with adults Cook reported copulation in public in Hawaii between an adult male and a female estimated to be 11 or 12 without the least sense of it being indecent or improper. The disapproval implicit in Cook's report probably was caused as much by the public nature of the activity as by the age-related aspects. In Tahiti, one missionary noted in his diary that the High Priest Manimani, though nearly blind with age, is as libidinous now as when thirty years younger;[he] has frequently upwards of a dozen females with him, some of them apparently not above twelve or thirteen years of age. Gauguin credited the inspiration for his famous painting Manao tupapau (The Specter Watches Over Her), completed in 1892, to his 13-year-old Tahitian wife Tehamana.
Many writers cited cases of full heterosexual intercourse in public between adults and prepubertal individuals in Polynesia. The crews of the visiting ships showed no compunction against the activities, and the natives assisted in the efforts. Cunnilingus with young females was recorded without accompanying remarks that this kind of behaviour was unusual or disapproved of for the participants. Occasions were recorded of elders assisting youngsters in having sex with other elders. Among the Marquesas Islanders in particular, extramarital relations were frequent and often involved older males with young virginal females and older females with young virginal males.
Until fairly recently, the birth of an infant to an unmarried female in Hawaii, as elsewhere in Polynesia, was not a problem for her or society. Her fertility was proven, and the infant was wanted and taken care of by the extended ohana (family). illegitimacy, in the Western sense, is inapplicable in regard to traditional Hawaii.
While betrothals occurred, occasionally arranged by parents of chiefs or by other prominent persons, such formalized relationships were uncommon. Specific words for husband and wife did not exist; he was simply called kane (man) and she wahine (woman).
Individuals stayed together or not by choice rather than by commitment or obligation. One member of a pair could be monogamous while the other was polygamous. While public announcements of intentions to stay together among ali'i were noteworthy and often elaborate affairs, they were uncommon. David Malo, an advisor to King Kalakaua III and an Hawaiian convert to Christianity, wrote in 1839: Of the people about court there were few who lived in marriage. The number of those who had no legitimate relations with women was greatly in the majority. Sodomy and other unnatural vices in which men were the correspondents, fornication and hired prostitution were practiced about court pairing ceremony among commoners was even more rare. Couples that wanted to sleep and live together just did so. Typically, no contract was expressed openly, although there probably was a vague set of expectations that linked the couple.
Monogamy, polygyny, and polyandry coexisted among ali'i and among commoners. Often, polygamy involved siblings. Taking another sexual partner usually was acceptable if the first mate knew about the relationship and sanctioned it. Secret relationships were not approved of, however, although the discovery of such a relationship usually was disruptive only temporarily. Such sexual license greatly disturbed the early Christian missionaries. The most commonly reported by the haole to occur among the Hawaiians, recorded as being 4-5times more common than theft or property crimes, were fornication and adultery; these terms, of course, had no meaning to the Hawaiians. Adultery came to be defined by the Hawaiians as sexual activity with a nonregular partner within the hale. If the coitus occurred outside the house in private, it was not a problem to the Hawaiian, since it did not disrupt the status quo.
Sexual exclusivity was not associated with marriage. Such an idea would have been unusual to Eastern Polynesian Society. Monogamy was common in only 30 of 127 Pacific island cultures studied, the rest of the cultures being polygamous.
Relationships were dissolved at the desire of one or both partners. Sex with others was not seen as a cause for separation. Jealousy was considered unwarranted. Where love of one man by two women were involved [and vice versa], it was considered bad manners (maikaole, not good) for apunalua (lover) to hold spite or malice in their hearts towards each other. The very existence of the formal [punalua] relationship worked against ill feeling.
I have always thought it fortunate for Polynesians that the Contact period was primarily the late 18th Century, the time of Europe's Age of Enlightenment. The English Georgeian gentleman of the British Navy along with his French equivalant were either educated or at least as in the case of James Cook aspired to be educated. These men were by sentiment humane individuals, even if humanity was not a thing that their crew in the lower decks aspired to. The instructions issued to Cook by his superiors at the Admiralty were to endeavour by every fair means to cultivate a friendship with the Natives and to treat them with all imaginable humanity. Could one imagine such intructions being given by the Spainish Government to a Cortez or a Pizarro or them following such an instruction if issued? The 18th Century gentleman was as well no prude, the cities of Europe being well supplied with all form of debauchery, but Polynesian sexual mores still managed to shock and as in the case of Joseph Banks, to excite their visitors.
Tragically, as the 18th century gave way to the 19th, a new morality invaded Europe and this morality gave licence to a new breed of individual to decend on the Isles of Polynesia; the missionary. We would be hard put to discover a more violent comparision of world views, that the sexually liberated Polynesians and the psychotically repressed missionaries, especially the Protestant London Missionary Society variety. But thanks to their influence and connections with fellow zealots within the British Government soon the madmen were in charge of the asylum all over the Pacific. This attempt by missionaries to interfer with the sexual practices of Polynesians is all apiece with their attack on all other aspects of Polynesian Culture the most obvious and fanatical attack being reserved for Polynesian's native religious beliefs which resulted in a massive destruction by burning of their art.


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Sunday, January 25, 2009
2) Renaissance Ruminations does some ruminating on Terry McAuliffe's interest in running for governor of Virginia.
3) Boy on a Bike describes his experience learning how to build an eco-friendly hut; which, given the gloomy long-term outlook for the U.S. economy, is what I imagine my retirement home is going to resemble, so I'd better take notes.
4) Andrew Klavan over at Big Hollywood says don't give up the ship.
5) Will reading a book become obsolete in the digital age?
6) As a lover of desert climes, I've always wanted to visit Death Valley; the mystery of the "sailing stones" makes the urge almost irresistible.
7) Chris "Tingle-Leg" Matthews suggests that Sarah Palin cannot read or write. "The question is who actually will write the Palin book," he said. "The only politician I know who can write is Barack Obama." Chris, the things you know that ain't so would fill a book all by themselves.
8) Via El Campeador: Obama's preferred suit-maker goes bankrupt.
11 comments:
- richard mcenroe said...
Obama's "literary achievements" remind me of the guy who keeps calling our office, insisting he's Herman Melville and demanding his royalties...
TW: crefr -- my South African crew, homey
- January 25, 2009 at 12:28 PM
Hey, listen, our soldiers have to get shot at in the cause of liberty. All we in the media have to do is keep telling people the truth. Lies and insults are all the left has got to sling against us. They only win if we start to believe them.
Nail on the head!
- January 25, 2009 at 12:40 PM
- Paco said...
Richard: Just tell him to stop being such a Moby Dickhead and go pester somebody else.
Jeff: Right on the money!
- January 25, 2009 at 12:43 PM
Death Valley: Go in the spring, around Easter. Try the Furnace Creek Inn.
And be sure to catch the Devil's Golf Course as well. 200-odd feet below sea-level.
- January 25, 2009 at 2:30 PM
- Boy on a bike said...
I have updated my hut building adventure with the full enchilada, which I originally wrote in 2004.
Yes, when we are put to work in the rice fields, we will be living in huts made from straw, mud and scavenged roof tin - possibly flattened kerosene tins.
- January 25, 2009 at 2:35 PM
Richard: Just tell him the check is in the Ishmael. It wasn't that bad!
Pacosan: Forget spring! It's already here. Everything is starting to bud and bloom. By the end of the month most of the trees will be back in full leaf mode. Do it now or wait till November or so.
- January 25, 2009 at 2:52 PM
- RebeccaH said...
Sailing stones, huh? The first thing I thought of was crop circles, but they seem to have done some real research on it. Actually, the stones probably just want us to think they're real stones, and we're about to be taken over by an alien invasion. Oh well.
TW: Scompac: What Chris Matthews keeps his brain in when he's not using it (which is most always).
- January 25, 2009 at 3:44 PM
- Paco said...
Man, you guys are dynamite with these TW interpretations!
- January 25, 2009 at 4:09 PM
- richard mcenroe said...
Obama's tailor goes bankrupt.
Michelle's dressmaker, on the other hand, just scored a makor contract with Goodyear. Something about a foul-weather cover...
TWL :gialasms: I could answer this but I'd be burning my lolobrigidas behind me...
- January 26, 2009 at 1:38 AM
- richard mcenroe said...
makor = major
Sorry, I'm taste-testing the leftover champagne from our American Legion chapter brunch this morning.
TW: retar: to type like you're drinking leftover champagne... or quoting from "The Audacity of Hope"...
- January 26, 2009 at 1:41 AM
- Minicapt said...
It wasn't Goodyear, rather Luftschiffbau Zeppelin GmbH: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luftschiffbau_Zeppelin
brangad: People Magazine is not aware yet.
- January 26, 2009 at 3:04 AM

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So yesterday I went back to the dentist to finish my cleaning and get the estimate for all the work I'm going to have done. It's kind of a lot – though fortunately the tooth-parging can be avoided – not so much that I won't do it, of course. But enough that, as I sat there in the dentist's chair having the accumulated grime of 6-7 years between dental cleanings being scraped away, I started thinking "What extra work can I pick up to pay for all of this?"
And then it hit me: I'll have a telethon.
A virtual, online telethon.
Just me and my friends and my flower-shaped webcam.
Everything over and above the cost of the dental work would be donated to a charity that pays for dental care for poor people. I'm sure there is one.
Anyway, is this a stupid idea? Do you think I can get, say, 50 random people on the internet to donate $10 to my toothathon?
(BTW the show in Montreal was great.)


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I often ask my husband one of those dreaded questions: "Do you like my outfit?" If he hesitates even slightly, I've got all the answer I need. I ask him this, not to torture him, and not because he's a dictator of my wardrobe. I ask him because he has an opinion, I care about his opinion, and I want to hear his opinion. Well, usually I do. In reality, I want him to always love the outfits I put together and think I look amazing. He's been sharing his opinion about my wardrobe since we were dating- I haven't worn khaki or brown since.
Doug has been a part of my life for almost 13 years now. And for almost 13 years he's also been telling me the truth, even when it's hard. More often than not I'm not ready to hear it and I don't receive it well, but because he's my pastor and, more importantly, he's my friend, he tells me what I need to hear and then graciously waits until it clicks for me.
For example, when I was 20 years old, I sat with Doug in the Union at OU and lamented to him on behalf of my roommates and really all the girls of RUF at the time. We were tired of the guys not asking any of us out. (Note- this was fresh off of an RUF Conference on Dating, Sex, and Marriage. I'm pretty sure Doug was inundated with conversations like this one right after the conference.) Doug informed me that we didn't want to be asked out by just anyone. We each had a certain guy in mind and we weren't interested in just anyone stepping up and doing the asking.
"For instance," he asked me, "what would you do if Charles asked you out?"
Without hesitation, I said, "I would say no!"
"Why is that?" he asked.
"Because he's too old!" (He's almost 8 years older than me.)
"If that's the truth, then Charles needs to find new friends."
Oh yeah, Charles is now my husband.
Out of context, or perhaps even in context, Doug's response may seem harsh. It certainly wasn't what I wanted to hear at the time. But he was right. And he was right a few months ago, when he told me that my job as a stay-at-home mom often allows me to have a big pity party whenever I want. And he was right when he told me that my fears for my son starting school weren't really just about letting him go for 8 hours a day- that they were a result of deeper heart issues like control and trust and faith. Those same issues had always been there and would always be there, but I was using Kindergarten and diabetes as excuses for what I was feeling. And he was right when he said that working for City Pres would be hard and good, both for me and my family.
This is not a post intended to praise Doug and his all-seeing eye and his uncanny ability to be right all the time. (Although it might sound a lot like that- Happy early birthday, Doug!) What I'm trying to say is that we all need someone- multiple someones- in our life who will speak the truth to us. And we all need to be praying that God would cultivate in us a greater capacity to receive that truth, to lay down our defenses, and to allow God's truth through their words to soften us, to change us, and to embolden us to do the same for others.
City Pres is a safe place for the broken, hurting, doubting, cynical, hesitant person to be. May it always be so. And may it always be full of the truth of the gospel, and full of people sharing that beautiful truth with every person who walks into our lives.


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When I found these pictures whilst browsing Pinterest I knew instantly that I needed to use them to inspire my Year 4 class to do some drawing! Throughout the year we have been doing a variety of different portraits (we did selfies, then used Picasso as inspiration) displaying them on the window facing out for the parents to see. I decided our window needed a change and knew this idea was going to be the one!
As soon as I showed Year 4 these ones they were hooked. They loved the fact they were portraits filled with the people's favourite things! We then talked about different things which…
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The Production Design team won for the episode "The Ex-Factor," and their completion was "The Last Man on Earth", "Transparent" and "Veep".
The team includes Production Designer: Denise Pizzini, Set Director: Don Diers, Graphic Designer: Geoffrey Mandel, Asst. Art Director: Claudie Roque, Set Designer: Kenneth Larson and Graphic Designer: Marissa Zajack.
Check out the booklet put together by the "The Muppets" team below to see how much work is involved in bringing out favorite friends to life and why their win was truly deserved!


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Title: Past Due
Author: Lou
Characters: Rob and Tim
Author's Note: Just a little story again. Apologies, this is rather light on discipline (but I am a coward thataways.)
Tim chewed on a piece of toast, waving hello to Mrs McNeely as he picked his way across the lawn to the letterbox and muttering a litany of reminders under his breath, "Car service, grading, pick up jacket, car service, grading, pick up jacket." So much for the weekend of idleness he had planned.
It was hot already and it was not even 9am. And, he noted as he flipped up the lid to letterbox, neither of them had remembered to check yesterday and the snails had started to dine on their post. Bloody things. He added snail bait to the list.
Juggling sheaves of junk mail that could go straight in the recycling bin and a half dozen envelopes, quite bedraggled, Tim hooked his thumb under the edge of one and tore it open.
"Fuck", he mumbled. Kicking open the screen door, he called out to Rob as he walked down hallway into the old kitchen. "Mail!"
Rob grunted from his position atop the bar stool as he tried to persuade the light globe into the somewhat warped coupling.
"Get off that bloody stool!" Tim said, grabbing Rob by the hips and helping him down. "You have a step ladder and you never use the damn thing. Leave the light globe and look at this."
Rob grinned. "I never fall, you know?"
Tim shook his head, "Yes, I know, but it is the principle of the thing: you are stepping into my role as resident brat. Try acting like a Top for once, okay? Anyways", he said, handing Rob the letter, "we have other problems: I forgot the credit card minimum."
Rob sat on the stool and read it through, whilst Tim shuffled his feet. He always, always stuffed these things up! It was a wonder Rob let him out without a keeper-
Tim looked away, face hot. The man could always read his thoughts.
"Aren't you going to..?"
Rob looked up and shook his head.
"No. That's what penalty fees are for, mate."
"But I ALWAYS do this! Why can't I get it through my thick head-"
"Hey!" Rob said, cutting Tim off mid-accusation and standing to pull him into a hug. "Go easy. You missed a payment, you didn't kill anyone."
Tim blushed again, as much for his need as for his over-reaction. He willed himself to take a deep breath and calm down, knowing if there was one thing Rob really would come down hard on it would be harsh self-criticism. Be nice to you, be nice to you. God, he'd heard that often enough.
Looking at the time, Rob handed Tim the letter and gave him another quick kiss before releasing him.
"I have to dash and get those materials before the yard gets too busy. Please don't stress yourself over this- we can deal with it, I promise. And", he said, shoving his feet into his work boots, "If your conscience is bothering you, you can always contemplate the affect on your credit. That should be penance enough."
Straightening up, Rob looked at his partner. Tim was twisting the statement in his hands, biting his lip.
Rob brushed his dark hair back from his downturned face.
"Spanking is not a panacea, and you know it. I can't and won't rule your life, and you are still subject to the same cause and effect as the rest of us. Plus", he said, shouldering into a favourite T-shirt, "I forgot the gas bill. You going to bend me over the chair and stripe my arse for me?"
Tim let out a shaky laugh and dashed his hands over his eyes.
Rob grinned, snagging the last piece of toast from their shared plate and pulling Tim in close to clap a hard hand over the bum of his well worn jeans, making Tim yelp. "Yep. But I'm your bastard. We both need to get on top of the bills. We'll go through the payment schedule and budget tonight and get it sorted, okay? "
Tim nodded and with a sigh stuck the offending item to the fridge.
"Tell you what, though, if you are intent on beating yourself up, you can file all the paperwork in the spare room before Monday, okay?"
"It's YOUR paperwork!"
Rob smiled broadly and dodged Tim's swipe as his theatrically irate partner lunged across the kitchen, "Yeah, but I'm the Top!"
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This historical fiction book, Stitch of Courage, is based on true stories of the author's ancestors and written in the form of letters that draw you into the emotions of a young woman during these turbulent times.
Although the Civil War mainly took place in the Eastern part of the United States, the Plains states also endured their share of battles and tragedy. Not only did Kansas and Missouri experience a resurgence in the terrorist raids that plagued them in the years before the War, but the Confederate Army tried several times to sweep across the Great Plains and capture the West.
"In letters to her sister, Maggie Kennedy Pieratt describes how she and her female relatives fight bravely to protect their families at home while not knowing whether their men were alive or dead on some faraway battlefield," said author Linda Hubalek.
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I once met a woman in a local store who struck up a conversation with me while we were on line. You've all met her in one place or another. She really thinks that we're in the boonies. She asked me when we arrived in the Berkshires and I told her 1971, to which she replied, "My God, you're a real pioneer!" Things went from bad to worse when she asked what we did up here in the winter. When I told her that we did a lot, she wanted facts and I tried my best to tell her that we were hardly living in the Yukon Territory.
I tell you this story because this is the roughest season. The snow will melt and in its place we will have a lot of mud. This is the time that so many snow birds are away in places with exotic names like Boca, Key Biscayne, Tucson, and the Bronx. We hardy types are left here to sit by the fire, eat at great restaurants like Café Adam or Rouge or so many other wonderful places with all kinds of price ranges. We have been treated to the resurrection of the Colonial Theatre in Pittsfield and the Mahaiwe in Great Barrington and to the extended seasons of Berkshire Theatre Festival, Barrington Stage and Shakespeare and Company.
But it is an amazing couple, Yehuda and Hannah Hanani, who I praise here today. Seventeen years ago, Yehuda and Hannah put together a concert series, "Close Encounters with Music," that turned out to be a tremendous gift to all of us. Yehuda is a mainstay of our community. A master cellist, he was brought to this country by his mentors, one of whom was Leonard Bernstein. He studied with the best in the world including Pablo Casals and is Professor of Cello at the University of Cincinnati College of Music. His list of accomplishments will knock your socks off. He has played internationally with some of the world's top orchestras. But what is particularly wonderful is this mid-winter gift to all of us. We know that we have Tanglewood and so much more in the summer but now is the time when our spirits need reviving and Yehuda and Hannah have made that possible.
In the old days, "Close Encounters" used to move around. At one point we would all pile into St. James Church in Great Barrington — fine acoustics but a lousy line of sight unless you got to ride up front. Lots of Berkshire-ites have done their parts to help out. Chip and Cindy Elitzer of Great Barrington have gone the extra mile to put up the artists; many fine people have put up the money. Then, when the Mahaiwe came along it looked like the concerts finally found a home. "Close Enounters" rent the theater, there are lots of volunteers taking tickets and showing folks to their seats. The acoustics in the theater are first rate.
Roselle and I love to sit up in the mezzanine. That we can look down on the audience and watch the swells arriving and giving each other hugs and air kisses. We also get to see things that the folks in the orchestra seats don't see. Once I wrote about the shoes that the musicians were wearing. Some folks were wearing boots with their tuxedos. Perfectly appropriate for the Berkshires, don't you know?
At this most recent concert, in addition to listening to some wonderful music with a relatively (too) short explanation of the music from Yehuda, we got to experience the visuals. I was struck by the unfortunate condition of the stage floor. The folks down below couldn't see it but we did, and it was distracting. It sort of looked like this wonderful music was coming from the movie "Slumdog Millionaire." It seems to me that there should have been an attempt to run a buffer over the stage floor. I mean, you'd do it with your kitchen or living room. The rental charges are pretty hefty, it only seemed right. I know that at WAMC's Linda Norris Auditorium, we are very proud of the condition of our much smaller stage.
I really don't want to detract from the marvelous performance by Yehuda and his cohorts. The concert was brilliant and the audience was appreciative. The Hananis have given us a huge gift and they, and all their supporters, deserve our thanks and support. It costs a great deal of money to mount these concerts. Artists have to be flown in, sometimes from all over the world, and Yehuda and Hannah don't stint on the talent. We are very lucky to have them. For those who want a musical review, you have only to go the website of this newspaper and read Clarence Fanto, who is a superb student of music and who almost always gets it right.
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The boys are really loving "The Fresh Beat Band" on Nick Jr.
They sing and dance and the boys are trying to learn the moves.
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A HGV driver who was caught travelling the wrong way down a dual-carriageway in Deeside on Good Friday whilst over the legal drink drive limit has been jailed for 42 weeks.
NWP Roads Policing Unit posted the update on social media this morning.
The driver, from Moldova, has also been disqualified from driving for two years. He was stopped after a member of the public contacted the police.
NWP Roads Policing Unit say: "If you suspect a drink or drug driver please let us know via 101. In an emergency always dial 999."


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Normal Behaviour Vs Behaviour that needs following up in Children & Adolescents Why do we need to know what's normal and what needs following up? Disruptive behaviour can be part of what needs to happen for our children to learn things, grow and develop (e.g., kids need to argue with siblings to learn social boundaries)
Disruptive behaviour can also be an indication that our children need extra support
We need to know the difference so we can tolerate the behaviour or get help to change it!!
What is normal or abnormal behaviour changes depending on age Normal vs needs following up in Infancy & Early Childhood (ages 0-5) Normal Needs following up Settling difficulties when uncomfortable (e.g., wind, tired, hungry)
Difficulty sharing
Fear (of separation, dark, new situations)
Some aggression, kicking, biting, yelling Withdrawing from caregivers
Not engaged (e.g., eye contact, smiling)
Always difficult to settle
Too frightened of familiar people
Too friendly with strangers
Excessive aggression with no trigger Normal Vs Needs following up in Childhood (6-12 years) Normal Needs following up Arguments with siblings and peers
Curiosity about sexual body parts
Testing limits
Poor attention span
Worries about peer acceptance
Not taking responsibility for own behaviour Excessively aggressive
Injuring self or others
Excessive fears
School refusal
Fire setting
Frequent excessive emotional reactions
Inability to focus for longer than 5 minutes
Delinquent behaviour
Violating other's rights What's normal Vs what needs following up in Adolescence? Normal Needs following up Sexual promiscuity
Suicidal or homicidal thoughts
Withdrawal from usual activities
Huge changes in grades, hygiene, attitude, sleeping, eating
Excessive fighting/aggression
Many complaints of physical illness
Hearing or seeing things that other people can't Moodiness
Less attention toward parents
More self-involved
Peer conflicts
Worries about relationships
Testing limits (e.g., arguing about curfew)
Identity searching
Substance experimentation
Preoccupation with sex What type of problem is my child experiencing? Behavioural Mental Developmental When something in the child's environment is rewarding the problem behaviour or keeping it going
e.g., attention may reward some tantrums When something is different about the way a child is developing, which leads to the child's difficulties
e.g., Autism, intellectual impairment, learning disorders
Something is different in the child's brain
Child may have difficulty attaining the same skills as other children Something is different about the way the child thinks or perceives the world, which leads to distress
e.g., Depression, anxiety
Mental disorders are caused by a combination of differences in the child's brain and experiences the child has
No difficulties attaining skills, but may be difficulties with functioning Okay, so my GP and I have worked out what's going on, what's next?? Your GP will refer you to psychologist to further work out what the problem is and provide suggestions for intervention
Parenting Programs Need to decide whether the problem is behavioural or mental or developmental
You don't need to know the answer to this - just go to the GP and they will help work it out Okay, so my child is doing some things that need following up, what do I do next? Okay, but what interventions are out there? Behavioural problems - Developmental Problems - Mental illnesses - Parenting programs
123 Magic (we'll be talking about some of these strategies in other sessions).
Triple P Autism - Applied Behavioural Analysis (ABA), social skills programs
Intellectual impairment - Individual learning programs to help child progress at their own pace Psychologist
Group programs for things like social anxiety Questions??? Finding Services Find a psychologist using APS: http://www.psychology.org.au/FindaPsychologist/
Find other community health services: http://www.gmsbml.org.au/hp_directory.php
Parenting Programs for Behavioural problems: http://www.123magic.com/,
Autism Service Programs: http://www.autismpartnership.com.au/ , http://www.autismqld.com.au/
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The Moneymore contestants had some hard fights and battles were the order of the day, their endeavour rewarded with six winners - a terrific result.
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When Police Officer Patricia Warner walked through the front door of a tired two-flat building here on Tuesday night, she thought she was stepping into a crack house.
What she discovered was worse.
Sitting on the cold floor, next to a struggling radiator, were two toddlers in dirty diapers, sharing a bone with a dog.
Scattered throughout the rest of the filthy two-bedroom apartment, buried beneath blankets and dirty clothes on the floor or crammed on top of two soiled mattresses, were 17 other children, ranging in age from 1 to 14. One of the three adults in the apartment at the time was found sleeping alone on a king-sized bed.
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No drugs were found in the squalor but Officer Warner and her partners had stumbled onto what one child-protection advocate said today was the largest case of child neglect he had ever seen in Chicago since entering the field in 1968.Continue reading the main story
"We've had 12, 11, 8 kids taken from a house like this before," the advocate, Patrick T. Murphy, said today. "The number is unusual but the scenario is a daily occurrence. That's the real story. That's the real tragedy."
Scared and hungry, the children were taken away by the police from the first-floor apartment on the city's West Side, where stories of hardship and heartbreak seem commonplace.
But this story was hard for even longtime residents to understand.
"Everytime you think you heard the worst, you hear something even more terrible," said Juanita Johnson, 57. "Lord, how do babies make it today?"
The 19 children, the offspring of at least four sisters in their 20's who lived together at the roach-infested apartment, were fed, hugged, treated and released into the custody of a state agency, itself under increasing scrutiny for its handling of other child neglect and abuse cases.
But one of the children, a 4-year-old boy with cerebral palsy, remained in the hospital today as doctors and the police examined what appeared to be cuts, bruises, belt marks and cigarette burns on his body. In the words of one police officer, angry at what he had seen the night before, "It's clear the boy didn't have a normal childhood."
The sisters, the father of one of the children and another man living at the apartment, were charged today with child neglect. The charge is a misdemeanor and carries a maximum penalty of one year in prison.
The police are planning to question another sister, the mother of two of the children. She was not at home because she was in a hospital, giving birth to her third child.
The police arrived at the apartment at 219 North Keystone Avenue about 11 P.M. after receiving complaints that someone was selling drugs from a broken front window. Neighbors said today that drug dealing was a common way of life on the block and in the poor neighborhood, itself a victim of neglect.
The neighbors said drug dealers often conducted their business in front of 219, stepping inside to warm their hands or to avoid the police. The officers, the residents said, only occasionally bother to cruise past.
"But the building itself isn't a dope spot," Andrell Hickman said from his stoop across the street. "The whole area is a dope spot."
The police said that when they knocked, one of the sisters, Maxine Melton, 26, whose name is on the lease of the $380-a-month apartment, opened the door and let them in.
The police said they had to step over rat droppings and piles of dirty clothes and walk past gapping holes in the walls and a broken toilet to get to the kitchen. The kitchen stove did not work and the inside of the refrigator looked like the aftermath of a food fight, the police said.
Today, trash was still all over the floor and food was crusted on the shelves of the refrigerator. There was nothing anyone could eat.
Shemond Johnson, 21, a cousin, said the only reason the sisters and their 19 children lived in the apartment together was because three or four of the sisters had been burned out of their own home two months ago. The sisters' mother also lived there.
"They love their kids," Ms. Johnson said. "They were never mistreated. And they was always telling the drug dealers to get off the porch."
A spokeswoman for the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services, Martha Allen, said three of the mothers and their children had been investigated by the agency last year. One case involved a baby boy born with drugs in his system; another involved a sister with five children who was charged with inadequate supervision, and the third was a case of abuse.
Agency investigators went to the apartment three times and were told by someone that the families no longer lived there. Ms. Allen said the agency has started an internal investigation into how the case was handled.
Nationally, 2.5 million cases of child neglect are reported annually, according Diane Geraghty, the director of the Loyola University Civitas Child Law Center in Chicago.
She said the problem is made worse because agencies that are supposed to care for and protect abused and neglected children are falling apart, overwhelmed by case loads and lack of money. "We have a child welfare system that is in meltdown," she said.
The children taken out of the apartment on Tuesday night seemed to sense that. As they were being carried through the cold toward the fleet of police cars waiting to take them away, they asked for food and then they asked for love.
Officer Warner said one child pleaded with her: "Would you be my mommy? Would you take me home?"
An hour later, their parents sat in handcuffs in a police station. All of them were sound asleep.Continue reading the main story


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Everyone's familiar with the basic data types - numeric, text, boolean, and so on. In this talk, we'll quickly review those types, and then go further into exploring the diverse and powerful data types that make Postgres easier to model, perform better, and enable whole new use-cases.
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A mother's struggle to insure her son
Seven months after moving to Florida, Irina Flores-Montalban found out that her 11-year-old son, Jose, had a blood clot in his heart and needed an operation. Because she had no health insurance, she was advised to enroll him in Florida KidCare, the state's health insurance program providing subsidized coverage for low-income children.
But then the 38-year-old Sarasota mother was told that Jose — as well as his two siblings — was not qualified. Although they have a green card, the family did not meet the state's five-year residency requirement.
In Florida, lawful immigrants are eligible for public benefits such as Medicaid and Florida KidCare only if they have been residing in the United States for five years. Under the 1996 welfare reform law — which introduced restrictions for federal income-based benefits related to immigration status and length of U.S. residency — 22 other states, plus Washington, D.C., enforce the same eligibility requirement.
"I didn't know that every state is different," Montalban, an Ecuadorian immigrant, said in Spanish. "In New York, where we used to live, they just asked me to fill out the form and soon I got the medical cards in the mail."
Desperate, she asked one of her children to go online and look for a cardiologist. At the time, Jose had already been experiencing frequent nosebleeds. "I was getting frustrated, but determined to get my son treated. I was willing to pay the consultation fees," Montalban said.
When they arrived at the doctor's office, the doctor informed her that Jose had a congenital heart condition, indeed was "a ticking time bomb." Because he needed to have an operation right away, the doctor's aide helped put Jose in an emergency-care program, but the post-operation medical bills were not covered.
After separating from her husband, Montalban and her three young children – Margarita (17), Emilio (9) and Jose – moved from New York to Florida to start a new life. Her brother bought a house in Sarasota, asking her to take care of the house and have their mother live with them.
That way, she could save rent and, at the same time, her children would be closer to their grandmother, she said.
Montalban works part-time at the clothing retailer Forever 21 and earns about $600 a month, enough to cover food costs and other basics. Several days a week she attends an ESL class at a local community center. But that routine was upended the day she registered Jose for school. When he took the required physical exam, nurses discovered his blood pressure well above normal. They later learned of clots in his aorta.
His condition is congenital, Montalban said, and he may need a cardiologist for the rest of his life. Aware that her kids were ineligible for Medicaid, she found herself facing a painful dilemma: Choosing which of them to insure.
In Florida, lawfully residing immigrant children are ineligible for the subsidized program, but can secure coverage through Florida Kidcare's full-pay option – with the cost being between $139-196 dollars per month per child.
The choice was clear.
"I had no choice but to get health insurance only for Jose. I pay $141 a month for his insurance. I would not be able to afford insuring my other children, so I pray that they won't have the same health problems." Montalban then added that passage of legislation removing the five-year waiting period would be "more than a blessing" for her and her children. "If they qualify for Kidcare, I'll only be paying $20 a month to cover their health insurance," she said. "I know that there are a lot of people who are in my situation."
In 2013, legislation was introduced in Tallahassee that would remove the five-year waiting period. Legal immigrant children, like Irina Montalban's, would no longer have to endure such waiting requirements in assessing their eligibility into Florida KidCare. The Children's Movement in association with KidsWell Florida are leading advocacy efforts to see that these bills are successfully passed and implemented.


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