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The former U.N. aid worker Peter Dalglish, who abused two boys, had gained his fame in the name of fighting for children rights.

Nepal has sentenced a former United Nations official from #Canada for sexually #abusing two #boys, a court official said Tuesday. Peter Dalglish, 62, a high-profile humanitarian worker, was arrested at his home near Kathmandu last year and was convicted in June of sexually abusing two boys aged 12 and 14. The boys were at his when police detained him.

Investigators also found a box of photographs of naked children, some playing in pools.

"He was sentenced to nine years in jail in one case and to seven years in the other," said Thakur Nath Trital, information officer at the court in Kavre district, 30 km (20 miles) east of #Kathmandu. “The judge is yet to decide whether he should serve a total of 16 years in jail or be released after nine years. In most cases of a similar nature, sentences get overlapped but it is upon the judge to decide,” Trital said. A fine of 500,000 Nepalese rupees (US$4,559) has to be paid by Dalglish as compensation to each of the victims. He denied the allegations against him.

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Nepal Sentences Canadian Ex-UN Official for Sex Abuse of Boys

The former U.N. aid worker Peter Dalglish, who abused two boys, had gained his fame in the name of fighting for #children #rights.

'Hell No': Ocasio-Cortez Denounces Pelosi-Approved Vote on McConnell's Border Bill Without New Protections for Children

Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was among the progressive Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday who immediately pushed back after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced a decision to vote on a border funding package approved by the Senate—controlled by Republican Majority Leader Mitch McConnell—that includes none of the suggested provisions designed to end the separation of families and the abusive treatment of immigrant children.

"History will not look fondly on this moment." —Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.)"Under no circumstances should the House vote for a McConnell-only bill w/ no negotiation with Democrats," Ocasio-Cortez tweeted after the vote was announced.

"Hell no," she added. "That's an abdication of power we should refuse to accept. They will keep hurting kids if we do."

Read more -- https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/06/27/hell-no-ocasio-cortez-denounces-pelosi-approved-vote-mcconnells-border-bill-without

#AOC #AlexandriaOcasioCortez #NancyPelosi #MitchMcConnell #immigration #children #CommonDreams

Kampf gegen den IS
USA räumen Einsatz von Uranmunition in Syrien ein
Das Pentagon gibt erstmals zu: Die US-Armee setzt im Kampf gegen den IS in Syrien auch Uranmunition ein. Wissenschaftler warnen vor den Spätfolgen.
#Kakistocracy #cacistocracy #fckusa #fucktrump #notonato #fcknato #abnc #fckcps #acab #giletsjaunes #ImplantFiles #makeamericagreatagain #godblessamerica #amigohome #yankeegohome #fckthelandofthefree #besatzungsmachtusa #fckblackrock #blackrocksucks #aufstehen #esreicht #schreistaatsachsen #handsofvenezuela #fridaysforfuture „Warum für die Zukunft lernen, wenn ihr sie zerstört.“
...#President #Obama holds the #worldrecord for the most #children killed by a #Nobelpeaceprizewinner...

5 open source tools for teaching young children to read

Early literacy apps give kids a foundation in letter recognition, alphabet sequencing, word finding, and more.

if you're open to exploring early-education technologies, there are many reasons to look to open source options. Open source technologies are not only free but open to collaborative improvement. In many cases, they are created by developers who are educators or parents themselves, and they're a great way to avoid in-app purchases, advertisements, and paid upgrades. Open source programs can often be downloaded and installed on your device and accessed without an internet connection. Plus, the idea of open source in education is a growing trend, and there are countless resources to learn more about the concept.

This rise in early technical literacy may be astonishing, but what about traditional literacy, the good old-fashioned ability to read? What does the intersection of early literacy development and early tech use look like?

See 5 open source tools worth trying at https://opensource.com/article/19/4/early-literacy-tools

#literacy #reading #children

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### MORE #CHILDREN WERE SHOT DEAD IN 2017 THAN ON-DUTY #POLICE OFFICERS AND ACTIVE DUTY #MILITARY, #STUDY SAYS

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The #research is the latest in a string of studies to shed light on how children are victims of gun #violence in the U.S. Last year, a study revealed firearms are the second biggest cause of #death among young people after car crashes, with as many as eight children being killed by guns each day in the U.S.

#kill #guns #usa #news #danger #statistics #kids #youth #health #teenager #security #problem
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Italy bans unvaccinated children from school

Italy now requires children to prove they have been vaccinated before attending school.
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[1]A generic photograph of a vaccine being drawn from a vial into a needle Image copyright Getty Images Image caption The new law demands 10 compulsory vaccinations - and has proved controversial

Italian children have been told not to turn up to school unless they can prove they have been properly vaccinated.

The deadline follows months of national debate over compulsory vaccination.

Parents risk being fined up to €500 (£425; $560) if they send their unvaccinated children to school. Children under six can be turned away.

The new law came amid a surge in measles cases - but Italian officials say vaccination rates have improved since it was introduced.

Under Italyʼs so-called Lorenzin law - named after the former health minister who introduced it - children must receive a range of mandatory immunisations before attending school. They include vaccinations for chickenpox, polio, measles, mumps, and rubella.

Children up to the age of six years will be excluded from nursery and kindergarten without proof of vaccination under the new rules.

Those aged between six and 16 cannot be banned from attending school, but their parents face fines if they do not complete the mandatory course of immunisations.

The deadline for certification was due to be 10 March after a previous delay - but as it fell on a weekend, it was extended to Monday.

"Now everyone has had time to catch up," Health Minister Giulia Grillo told La Repubblica newspaper.

She had reportedly resisted political pressure from deputy prime minister Matteo Salvini to extend the deadline even further.

Ms Grillo said the rules were now simple: "No vaccine, no school".

Italian media report that regional authorities are handling the situation in a number of different ways.

In Bologna, the local authority has sent letters of suspension to the parents of some 300 children, and a total of 5,000 children do not have their vaccine documentation up to date.

In other areas there have been no reported cases, while still others have been given a grace period of a few days beyond the deadline.

Is the law having an effect?

The new law was passed to raise Italyʼs plummeting vaccination rates from below 80% to the World Health Organisationʼs 95% target.

On Monday - the last day for parents to provide documentation proving their children had been properly vaccinated - the Italian health authority released figures claiming a national immunisation rate at or very close to 95% for children born in 2015, depending on which vaccine was being discussed.

The 95% threshold is the point at which "herd immunity" kicks in - when enough of the population is vaccinated for the spread of the disease to become unlikely, thereby protecting those who cannot be vaccinated.

That includes babies too young to be vaccinated themselves, or those with medical conditions such as a compromised immune system.

Last month, an eight-year-old recovering from cancer was unable to attend school in Rome due to his weak immune system.

The child had spent months receiving treatment for leukaemia, but was at risk of infection because a proportion of pupils in the school had not been vaccinated - including several in the same class.

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Image caption Demonstrations against compulsory vaccination were held in Rome, 2017

The Lorenzin law, drafted by the previous government, had a tumultuous birth. When the current coalition came to power, it said it would drop mandatory immunisations although it later reversed its position.

The two populist parties in power had faced accusations that they were pursuing anti-vaccination policies.

Writing in a Facebook post on Monday, Ms Grillo admitted it "is a law that, at the time of approval, we criticised for several reasons" - and said that the law would be changed to include only those vaccinations that were necessary based on scientific data.

Why do parents not immunise their children?

The anti-vaccination movement has been growing globally in recent years, sparking alarm from the World Health Organization.

A long-discredited paper by Andrew Wakefield was behind much of the scare, but rumours around immunisation have continued to spread, leading to public health risks as not enough people are immune to such diseases.

Mr Wakefield was struck off the UK medical register after fraudulently claiming there was a link between the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine (MMR) and autism and bowel disease in children.

He made the claim based on the experiences of just 12 children, and no other study since has been able to replicate his results.

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Unleavened

4/19/06 From The Lord, Our God and Savior
The Word of The Lord Spoken to Timothy
For All Those Who Have Ears to Hear
(Regarding the Feast of Unleavened Bread)

Thus says The Lord, The Risen One, your Redeemer: I had come to you as a #man, clothed in the #flesh, #humble; My #glory set aside, God become man, #Immanu El... Living as all have lived in the #body, yet not as man lives in the #spirit; for I am #clean, having no #sin in My #body, nor in My #spirit, having obeyed every #command of The #Father - blameless.

Thus says The Lord God: Behold The #Lamb of God without spot or blemish, sent to die for the sins of the #world, bearing the full #weight of #transgression in His own body; the perfect #sacrifice, acceptable to God, whereby all men are reconciled to The Father if they so choose to receive of The #Free #Gift, becoming once again My #sons and #daughters, free to enter the #Garden and My #love, from which they shall never again depart.

Thus says The Risen Lamb: Therefore, as I have unleavened all men by My #sacrifice, in the same way must those who #live in Me crucify their lives #daily, bearing their #cross after Me. For the first six days of the #feast shall be for a #physical representation of My #command to you: You are #forgiven, now go out and sin no more. Be then #separate from the ways of this #world and the churches of men, and be for Me a #strange and #peculiar #people who remain in My love, even as I kept The Father’s commands and remain in His love.
And the seventh day, it is the #consummation of the six gone before, a holy #convocation, the #cleansing completed, a #rest from all works against #temptation and the many snares of the #evil one. For I am coming quickly, and I shall make a complete end of all iniquity, of all things which lead My people into sin. For I had come at the first to unleaven all men, to #heal the #hearts of all who receive of Me, to bring #peace to the minds of all who believe in Me, to set the captives free - I am The #Passover! And now I am returning to make a complete end of all leaven which fills this world; behold, in a #week and in the #Day shall I accomplish it. Then #rest, #peace, one thousand years.
So then, My #children, even all who gather together in My name, have #understanding of the #Plan of the Ages. In the sixth day, the leaven of sin entered the Garden; and on the seventh, God rested, and #blessed the seventh day and #sanctified it. Thus here is #wisdom: Six days, #creation; the seventh, rest, #holy. Six days since #Adam; the seventh, rest, #holy. Six days shall you labor; the seventh, rest, holy. Six days shall you #feast; the seventh, rest, holy.

Therefore, #eat and #drink in remembrance of Me;
Be filled with the #glory of The Lord!
For I died; behold, I am risen!...

Says The #Amen, The #Firstborn from the #dead,
#YahuShua #HaMashiach, Lord and Savior of men.

Bible Studies
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#prophecy #prophet #Jesus #Yeshua #Christ #Messiah #God #church #bible #scripture #christian #christianity #JesusChrist #HolySpirit #Savior #Saviour #Lord

The Vineyard

4/14/06 From The Lord, Our God and Savior
The Word of The Lord Spoken to Timothy
For All Those Who Have Ears to Hear

Thus says The Lord: Peoples of the #earth, I had sent to you The #Messiah, The Sower of the #seeds of #salvation. Yet to you, He has become an object of #scorn and His words cause for disdain. For you do always contend with Me, a most arrogant and deceived #people who revile My #Word and reject My #Commandments, saying, “I answer to no one, nor to any god. I am who I am, and I go my own way.” For #truth has perished among you; it has altogether been cut off from your #mouth.
Therefore are the pleasant #fields left desolate, and the peaceful #pastures laid waste, for there is no latter #rain. For the #heart of this #generation has turned against Me. Their consciences are defiled as they embrace every #evil #thought and intention, a #base people #lost in their own bitterness, who turn #justice into #wormwood and cast #righteousness to the #ground.

My #vineyard has produced wild #grapes!...

Behold, #roots of rottenness plunge #deep,
As great #vines of wickedness reach
Unto the ends of the earth!...

Therefore I must break down the #walls,
And #tear out the #hedges, and destroy
All these #briers and #thorns...

I must #tread them down, until nothing remains!...

Says The Lord.

Therefore thus says The Lord to the oppressor, to the haughty, the high-minded and the #hypocrite: #Mankind shall be #cast down! I shall throw down the #kingdoms of #men and bring terrible #judgment upon the wicked! The oppressor shall be cut in pieces and the haughty broken, the high-minded abased and the hypocrite put to shame!
Thus the prideful shall in no wise escape the Day of The Lord, and the insolent shall be left to wallow in the darkness of their own #understanding. For all the #children of disobedience must #walk through the #valley, to the shedding of many #tears. For as it is written: There shall be wailing in the #public squares, and in every #street they shall #cry, “Woe is me! Woe is me!” They shall summon the #farmer to #mourning and call for the skillful lamenters to wail on their behalf. And in all vineyards, there shall be wailing. For I shall surely pass through, says The Lord.

#prophecy #prophet #Jesus #Yeshua #Christ #Messiah #God #church #bible #scripture #christian #christianity #JesusChrist #HolySpirit #Savior #Saviour #Lord

Expert Says Don’t Teach Kids to Code

I agree with the article. The OECD dude clearly has no clue what learning to code is about. It teaches you analytical and algorithmic thinking, problem solving, decomposition skills and so much more that will be useful even if you never write a line of code again afterwards.

The only thing in the article that I slightly disagree with is this bit:

But the real value is to understand when and why you would want, say, a linked list vs a hash table vs a binary tree data structure.

That's still waaaaay too low-level a skill to be generally useful. This might be useful later on for a couple of kids that become programmers. But as I said above, I believe that the skills you learn from programming go way beyond that on a much more abstract level (but learned on the very concrete level of coding) and benefit you even in the unlikely event that you never touch a computer again.

He makes up for it though with this very true bit:

This isn’t a new problem. Gifted math teachers or gifted math students build intuition about the universe by understanding what math means. Dull teachers and students just learn rote formulae and apply patterns to problems without real understanding.

I'm going to digress a bit here, but it's not just the "dull" part that's the problem in my opinion. The way courses and exams are set up today, we are actually selecting for formula grinding skills instead of true understanding.

When I was a RA/TA at university, I discussed this a couple of times with my Prof, and I stand by my opinion: grinding specific problem types and solution steps into students in lab courses, and then testing those exact same problems in the exam with the exact same steps, just with slightly different parameters, is not a proper way to test understanding, nor a particularly good way of teaching.

Instead, you should test for understanding by requiring them to apply the taught principles to new problems (and train that in the lab couses of course). This doesn't have to be a wildly different kind of problems, but at least enough that they have to think a little about which of the learned algorithms would apply and how. Problem with that: it requires more effort on both sides, grades will likely suffer, students grumble, and teachers get flak from students, possibly parents, and definitely their deans.

#children #coding #education #kids #school #stem #students #hackaday

Children for Sale, 1948

“4 Children for Sale. Inquire within”, Chicago, 1948. The photo first appeared in the The Vidette-Messenger of Valparaiso, Indiana on August 5, 1948. The children looked posed and a bit confused as…
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[IMG]“4 Children for Sale. Inquire within”, Chicago, 1948.

The photo first appeared in the The Vidette-Messenger of Valparaiso, Indiana on August 5, 1948. The children looked posed and a bit confused as their pregnant mother hides her face from the photographer. The caption read: “A big ‘For Sale’ sign in a Chicago yard mutely tells the tragic story of Mr. and Mrs. Ray Chalifoux, who face eviction from their apartment. With no place to turn, the jobless coal truck driver and his wife decide to sell their four children. Mrs. Lucille Chalifoux turns her head from camera above while her children stare wonderingly. On the top step are Lana, 6, and Rae, 5. Below are Milton, 4, and Sue Ellen, 2”.

Family members accused the mother of being paid to stage the photo, which may have been part of the story, but unfortunately, she was dead serious about selling her children. Within two years all of the children pictures, as well as the baby she was carrying at the time, were sold off to different homes.

2 Sue Ellen and her sister RaeAnn Mills reunited at Chalufouxʼs home in Hammond. (Right) RaeAnn Mills holds the dress she was sold in as a child. It is the only physical item she has from the time with her birth mother. Photos taken in 2013.

(Left) Sue Ellen and her sister RaeAnn Mills reunited at Chalufoux’s home in Hammond. (Right) RaeAnn Mills holds the dress she was sold in as a child. It is the only physical item she has from the time with her birth mother. Photos taken in 2013.

RaeAnn Mills, and her brother Milton were sold to the Zoeteman family on August 27, 1950. Their names were changed to Beverly and Kenneth, and although their birth mother’s situation was dire, their new home wasn’t much of a salvation. They were often chained up in a barn and forced to work long hours in the field. Milton remembers being called a “slave” by his new father figure, a label he accepted at the time because he didn’t understand what it meant.

Although it seems that RaeAnn and Milton were never officially adopted by their abusers, their brother David, who was in his mother’s womb at the time of photograph, was legally adopted by Harry and Luella McDaniel, who only lived a few miles away. David, who says his adoptive parents were strict but loving and supportive, remembers riding out on his bike to see his siblings, and unchaining them before going back home.

RaeAnn left home at 17, shortly after undergoing a brutally traumatic situation. As a young teen she was kidnapped and raped, which resulted in a pregnancy. She was sent away to a home for pregnant girls, and had her baby adopted when she returned.

[3]RaeAnn Mills (left) and her brother Milton (right) were sold to the Zoeteman family.

RaeAnn Mills (left) and her brother Milton (right) were sold to the Zoeteman family.

As Milton grew older, he reacted to the beatings, starving, and other abuses with violent rages. A judge deemed him a menace to society, and he spent a number of years in a mental hospital after being forced to choose between that and a reformatory (a juvenile detention center).

The siblings didn’t know what happened with Lana and Sue Ellen, however years later they were able to reconnect with them via social media. Lana had died in 1998 of cancer, but Sue Ellen Chalifoux was still alive. Sue Ellen was raised not far from her original home, growing up in Chicago’s East Side neighborhood. Her opinion about her biological mother: “She needs to be in hell burning”.

The woman in the photograph remarried after selling/giving away her five children, and had four more daughters. When her other children eventually came to see her, she’s described as completely lacking love for her estranged children, or having any regret for letting them go.

David McDaniel defended his mother’s coldness as evidence of a different, hardscrabble world. “As soon as my mom seen me, she said, ‘You look just like your father’”, McDaniel said. “She never apologized. Back then, it was survival. Who are we to judge? We’re all human beings. We all make mistakes. She could’ve been thinking about the children. Didn’t want them to die”. Milton had a different perspective on the situation: “My birth mother, she never did love me. She didn’t apologize for selling me. She hated me so much that she didn’t care”.

(Photo credit: Bettmann/CORBIS).

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Culmination

3/30/06 From The Lord, Our God and Savior
The Word of The Lord Spoken to Timothy
For All Those Who Have Ears to Hear

Thus says The Lord, The God of #Israel, The Only Lord of Hosts: My anger is aroused and shall not be quenched, until every tall #tower is torn down and shaken to #dust, and not one fenced #city is left standing! In My #hot displeasure, I shall turn My hand against the #earth, and smite every #bird, #beast and crawling thing! Every #fish shall die, every #creature of the #sea shall perish, when I strike the #waters! I shall not relent nor turn back, until every #blade of #grass is burned up, and every #tree has been stricken and bears neither #leaf nor #fruit! The earth shall be forsaken for a #time and made utterly desolate, with the #kingdoms of #men left in ruins!

Therefore gather together, O #children of the #man of perdition, all you who bear the #number of his #name; come and gather against My #Holy #Mountain! Yes, look up and behold the #Glory of God wrought in His #Mighty and #Strong One, The Holy One of #Israel, and prepare to #meet your #end! - #Consumed in His glory, cut asunder by the #sword of His #mouth! For you are accursed in My #sight, and there shall be none to #deliver! Your #bodies shall consume away; your #eyes in their #sockets, your #tongues in your #mouths, your #flesh from your #bones! [1]For thus is the #reward of all who come out to #fight against Me in that day!... It is finished.

Behold a new day, the seventh, even one thousand #years!...

The #kingdoms of this #world have become
The #Kingdom of God and His #Messiah,
And He shall reign forever and ever!...

Says The Lord.

[1]↑ Zechariah 14:12 (HNV)

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