Sian
Sunday, 30 November 2008
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=tkNeRzCnne4&feature=related
I thought this was quite an interesting video. Emily.
I thought this was quite an interesting video. Emily.
Monday, 24 November 2008
Amish and parenting
Ever Present Parents
Nothing, Amish parents believe, can substitute for their own direct and constant involvement with their children, and they practice that conviction fervently. Most Amish families eat three meals a day together.
Datt (the Pennsylvania Dutch dialect word for "Dad") and Mamm (the Pennsylvania Dutch dialect word for "Mom" or "Mother") work at home on the farm. If they aren’t farmers, Datt likely works in a machine or cabinet shop across the yard or within the neighborhood.
From late August through the end of May, the schoolchildren miss the noontime meal with their families. But then they are in the company of other Amish children, in a world nearly as familiar and secure as home.
Days are full for these children. The littlest ones stay in the house or garden with their mother, free to play but never out of view in the sprawling kitchen or yard. Older preschool youngsters may circle between house and barn, but not without the parents knowing which of the two of them is responsible for the children’s activities and safety. School-age sisters and brothers often monitor their younger siblings, keeping them happy and occupied, while savoring the trust that task requires.
Bought toys are minimal in this lively world. Yet within its boundaries are animals and ever-present playmates, and space for rolling and running, for chasing and games of pretending "House" or "Store" or "Farm."
A Well-Paced Life
These children’s days are not given shape by a line-up of soccer games, piano lessons, camp, or play groups. Instead, the morning sun, chore-time twice a day, and the coming of evening set a structure for their time. So, too, do the days of the week and the seasons. In this largely rural, soil-anchored world, life follows the lead of the weather and the promise of productive fields and gardens. The children are not removed from this daily interplay with nature. They learn it, they begin to sense it and read it alongside their parents, who interpret what is happening while they go about their jobs, who point out the signals as they come, who invite their children to join them in responsive work.
Not dulled by television or computers, not distracted by telephones, these children grow to be keenly alert both to the natural environment and to the interests of their church community. They are fully occupied but not frenzied. They learn a contentment still available to those who focus their energies on the earth and its requirements, who devote themselves to giving and receiving from others. These are the lessons that the Amish know take a lifetime to learn and practice. These ideals require the reinforcement of a fully convinced community who live what they believe concretely and visibly. These are convictions best transmitted by immersion into the world which believes and propounds them.
And so the Amish speak a distinctive language, dress in distinguishing clothes, use and refuse particular technologies. They form and maintain their own schools and social events. They agree on and articulate boundaries for the safeguarding of their children, their families, their devotion to God.
Why Do They Stay?
One Amish historian, regarded for honestly assessing his own people, believes that more than 80% of children who grow up in Amish families join the Amish church and choose to stay in the community. He immediately credits "the grace of the Lord and our strong beliefs."
His statistics and reasoning are echoed by a young Amish mother who quickly and with certainty expresses why she thinks so many Amish children decide officially to become Amish: "Most important of all is whether or not they feel they belong. That is helped if they feel close to their parents and their friends. And if they can respect the way that they were taught."
"What holds our young people?" asks an Amish grandfather. "The support they have from their parents and from the community. For myself, it was the closeness I felt to the group. I felt wanted. I belonged. As a teenager I saw I would have support for being an adult."
Lauren Mcdermott
Nothing, Amish parents believe, can substitute for their own direct and constant involvement with their children, and they practice that conviction fervently. Most Amish families eat three meals a day together.
Datt (the Pennsylvania Dutch dialect word for "Dad") and Mamm (the Pennsylvania Dutch dialect word for "Mom" or "Mother") work at home on the farm. If they aren’t farmers, Datt likely works in a machine or cabinet shop across the yard or within the neighborhood.
From late August through the end of May, the schoolchildren miss the noontime meal with their families. But then they are in the company of other Amish children, in a world nearly as familiar and secure as home.
Days are full for these children. The littlest ones stay in the house or garden with their mother, free to play but never out of view in the sprawling kitchen or yard. Older preschool youngsters may circle between house and barn, but not without the parents knowing which of the two of them is responsible for the children’s activities and safety. School-age sisters and brothers often monitor their younger siblings, keeping them happy and occupied, while savoring the trust that task requires.
Bought toys are minimal in this lively world. Yet within its boundaries are animals and ever-present playmates, and space for rolling and running, for chasing and games of pretending "House" or "Store" or "Farm."
A Well-Paced Life
These children’s days are not given shape by a line-up of soccer games, piano lessons, camp, or play groups. Instead, the morning sun, chore-time twice a day, and the coming of evening set a structure for their time. So, too, do the days of the week and the seasons. In this largely rural, soil-anchored world, life follows the lead of the weather and the promise of productive fields and gardens. The children are not removed from this daily interplay with nature. They learn it, they begin to sense it and read it alongside their parents, who interpret what is happening while they go about their jobs, who point out the signals as they come, who invite their children to join them in responsive work.
Not dulled by television or computers, not distracted by telephones, these children grow to be keenly alert both to the natural environment and to the interests of their church community. They are fully occupied but not frenzied. They learn a contentment still available to those who focus their energies on the earth and its requirements, who devote themselves to giving and receiving from others. These are the lessons that the Amish know take a lifetime to learn and practice. These ideals require the reinforcement of a fully convinced community who live what they believe concretely and visibly. These are convictions best transmitted by immersion into the world which believes and propounds them.
And so the Amish speak a distinctive language, dress in distinguishing clothes, use and refuse particular technologies. They form and maintain their own schools and social events. They agree on and articulate boundaries for the safeguarding of their children, their families, their devotion to God.
Why Do They Stay?
One Amish historian, regarded for honestly assessing his own people, believes that more than 80% of children who grow up in Amish families join the Amish church and choose to stay in the community. He immediately credits "the grace of the Lord and our strong beliefs."
His statistics and reasoning are echoed by a young Amish mother who quickly and with certainty expresses why she thinks so many Amish children decide officially to become Amish: "Most important of all is whether or not they feel they belong. That is helped if they feel close to their parents and their friends. And if they can respect the way that they were taught."
"What holds our young people?" asks an Amish grandfather. "The support they have from their parents and from the community. For myself, it was the closeness I felt to the group. I felt wanted. I belonged. As a teenager I saw I would have support for being an adult."
Lauren Mcdermott
Sunday, 23 November 2008
The Roberts' household.
so, when u walk into the front door u see a corridor leading right to the end of the house.
it is all on one floor.
walk through the door, and on the left you come to a door, behind that door is a bath room.
straight in front of the door is the window.
underneath the window to the left is a toilet, facing that is the sink.
to the right of the window is a bath / shower.
coming out of the bathroom and following the corridor along a little to you come to a door on the right.
In there is the master bedroom, again directly in front is the window and underneath is the double bed.
either side of the bed is two side tables. to the right of the bed is two wardrobes and a chest of draws.
to the left sits a dressing table.
leaving the bedroom and following the corridor a little further till you come to another door on the left. in here there is a bunk bed, wardrobe and chest of draws.
back out onto the corridor and along to the next door on the right which is a much smaller room with a tiny window and a cabin bed with draws underneath.
coming to the end of the corridor and into a large open room.
on one side there's a kitchen with a breakfast bar separating it from the living room section.
the kitchen has work surfaces, cupboards a cooker a fridge. at the breakfast bar there are 4 stools.
going over to the living section of the room there is a sofa and an arm chair and against the wall facing the cooking there is a sideboard.
in front of the large sofa sits a t.v set.
chris
Transcript of the 911 called that was made.
Transcript of Charles Carl Roberts' 911 Call
The following is a series of 911 transcripts from the morning of the Amish school shooting. The callers identified in this 911 transcript are Amos Smoker, who first reported the incident at the schoolhouse in Nickel Mines, Pa, gunman Charles Carl Roberts; and Roberts' wife, Marie.
10:35:29
911 Dispatcher: Lancaster County 911, do you need police, fire or ambulance?
Mr. Smoker: Yes, this is Amos Smoker.
911 Dispatcher: OK.
Mr. Smoker: There's a, there's a guy in the school with a gun.
911 Dispatcher: OK, what, what, what school, where at?
Mr. Smoker: White Oak Road.
911 Dispatcher: What city, township or borough is that in?
Mr. Smoker: How's that?
911 Dispatcher: What city, township or borough is that in?
Mr. Smoker: Bart Township.
911 Dispatcher: OK, stay on the line, it's state police.
Mr. Smoker: OK.
(Call being transferred to State Police)
State Police PCO: State Police Dispatch Center.
Mr. Smoker: Yes, this is Amos Smoker. (Line goes dead)
---
10:41:35
911 Dispatcher: Lancaster County 911.
Caller: Did someone call in for police at a school?
911 Dispatcher: What school, what school was it?
Caller: West Nickel Mines School.
911 Dispatcher: Nickel Mines School, somebody with a gun?
Caller: Yes.
911 Dispatcher: Hold on one second, did you call before? We transferred to State Police.
Caller: OK, someone's coming out.
911 Dispatcher: Well, I don't know, I'm going to transfer you, OK, I don't dispatch them here, hold on, does anybody need an ambulance do you know?
Caller: I don't know.
911 Dispatcher: OK, hold on, is he in the school?
Caller: I don't know nothing, I don't know.
911 Dispatcher: Alright, hold on.
(Call being transferred to State Police)
911 Dispatcher: Is this Amish school?
Caller: Yes it is.
911 Dispatcher: In Bart Township?
Caller: Yes.
Pennsylvania State Police PCO: Pennsylvania State Police, PCO Campbell, hello..
911 Dispatcher: Go ahead sir.
PCO Campbell: Sir, go ahead, State Police. (Line goes dead)
---
10:55:38
911 Dispatcher: Lancaster County 911, do you need police, fire or ambulance? Hello.. Your cell phone is cutting in and out. Do you have an emergency?
Mr. Roberts : Yes.
911 Dispatcher: OK, what's the address of the emergency?
Mr. Roberts : It's on White Oak Road. I just took, uh, ten girls hostage and I want everybody off the property or, or else.
911 Dispatcher: OK, alright.
Mr. Roberts: Now.
911 Dispatcher: Hold on a second.
911 Dispatcher: Hello.
Mr. Roberts : Yeah.
911 Dispatcher: OK, what's the problem there?
Mr. Roberts: Don't try to talk me out of it, get em all off the property now.
911 Dispatcher: Sir, I want you to stay on the phone with me, OK? I'm going to let the State Police down there, I need to let you talk to them, OK, can I transfer you to them.
Mr. Roberts: No, you tell them and that's it. Right now or they're dead, in two seconds.
911 Dispatcher: (To unidentified person at County-Wide Communications): He won't let me transfer.
(To Mr. Roberts): Hang on a minute, we're trying to tell them, OK.
Mr. Roberts: Two seconds that's it.
911 Dispatcher: Sir, listen to me. Listen... (Line goes dead)
---
10:58:39
911 Dispatcher: Lancaster County 911.
Ms. Roberts: Yes, my name is Marie Roberts, my husband just called me on his cell phone and told me that he wasn't going to be coming home and that the police were there and not to worry about it. And I have no idea what he is talking about, but I am really scared. And I wondered if, how I find out what's going on?
911 Dispatcher: OK, where are you calling me from?
Ms. Roberts: I'm calling from my home.
911 Dispatcher: And what's that address?
Ms. Roberts: 1084 Georgetown Road.
911 Dispatcher: What township, city or borough is that?
Ms. Roberts: Bart Township.
911 Dispatcher: OK, and your husband didn't tell you where he was?
Ms. Roberts: No, he didn't.
911 Dispatcher: He called you on his cell phone?
Ms. Roberts: Yes he did.
911 Dispatcher: OK, and, and all he said to you was that...
Ms. Roberts: I'm not coming home, um, he was upset about something that had happened twenty years ago, and he said he was getting revenge for it, I don't think he was getting revenge on another person, I'm worried that maybe he was trying to commit suicide.
911 Dispatcher: OK, hang on the line, I'm going to transfer you to the State Police, OK?
Ms. Roberts: Thank you.
911 Dispatcher: Hang on a second..
(Call being transferred to State Police)
PCO Bowerman: State Police Dispatch PCO Bowerman
Ms. Roberts: My name is Marie Roberts, my husband just called me and said that he wasn't coming home and that the police were there and that he left notes for myself and my children and I'm worried that he tried to commit suicide somewhere. And...
PCO Bowerman : What's his name?
Ms. Roberts: Charlie Roberts.
PCO Bowerman: OK, what's, let me ask you a question, hold on for one second please.
Ms. Roberts: Yeah.
PCO Bowerman: You said your name again was?
Ms. Roberts: Marie Roberts.
PCO Bowerman: Marie Roberts, thank you.
PCO Bowerman: Ma'am, let me ask you a question, what kind of vehicle does your husband drive?
Ms. Roberts: He was using my grandpa's pick-up, it's a GMC.
PCO Bowerman: Color.
Ms. Roberts: Blue.
PCO Bowerman: Blue GMC.
Ms. Roberts: Yeah.
PCO Bowerman: One second. OK. ma'am, what's your husbands name?
Ms. Roberts: Charlie Roberts.
PCO Bowerman: Charlie Roberts. And what does he look like?
Ms. Roberts: He is six foot two, short brown, you know like buzzed brown hair, um, he is thirty-two years old, wears glasses, I guess he's like maybe 195 pounds.
PCO Bowerman: OK, you say he left notes?
Ms. Roberts: Yes.
PCO Bowerman: What did the notes say?
Ms. Roberts: Like, the thought of not my children, not seeing them grow up, like, let's see, uh, I'm not even sure, here it is, my daughter Abigail I want you to know that I love you and I'm sorry I couldn't be here to watch you grow up, that's how the notes start.
PCO Bowerman: OK, hold on one moment. (Line goes dead)
Stacey
The following is a series of 911 transcripts from the morning of the Amish school shooting. The callers identified in this 911 transcript are Amos Smoker, who first reported the incident at the schoolhouse in Nickel Mines, Pa, gunman Charles Carl Roberts; and Roberts' wife, Marie.
10:35:29
911 Dispatcher: Lancaster County 911, do you need police, fire or ambulance?
Mr. Smoker: Yes, this is Amos Smoker.
911 Dispatcher: OK.
Mr. Smoker: There's a, there's a guy in the school with a gun.
911 Dispatcher: OK, what, what, what school, where at?
Mr. Smoker: White Oak Road.
911 Dispatcher: What city, township or borough is that in?
Mr. Smoker: How's that?
911 Dispatcher: What city, township or borough is that in?
Mr. Smoker: Bart Township.
911 Dispatcher: OK, stay on the line, it's state police.
Mr. Smoker: OK.
(Call being transferred to State Police)
State Police PCO: State Police Dispatch Center.
Mr. Smoker: Yes, this is Amos Smoker. (Line goes dead)
---
10:41:35
911 Dispatcher: Lancaster County 911.
Caller: Did someone call in for police at a school?
911 Dispatcher: What school, what school was it?
Caller: West Nickel Mines School.
911 Dispatcher: Nickel Mines School, somebody with a gun?
Caller: Yes.
911 Dispatcher: Hold on one second, did you call before? We transferred to State Police.
Caller: OK, someone's coming out.
911 Dispatcher: Well, I don't know, I'm going to transfer you, OK, I don't dispatch them here, hold on, does anybody need an ambulance do you know?
Caller: I don't know.
911 Dispatcher: OK, hold on, is he in the school?
Caller: I don't know nothing, I don't know.
911 Dispatcher: Alright, hold on.
(Call being transferred to State Police)
911 Dispatcher: Is this Amish school?
Caller: Yes it is.
911 Dispatcher: In Bart Township?
Caller: Yes.
Pennsylvania State Police PCO: Pennsylvania State Police, PCO Campbell, hello..
911 Dispatcher: Go ahead sir.
PCO Campbell: Sir, go ahead, State Police. (Line goes dead)
---
10:55:38
911 Dispatcher: Lancaster County 911, do you need police, fire or ambulance? Hello.. Your cell phone is cutting in and out. Do you have an emergency?
Mr. Roberts : Yes.
911 Dispatcher: OK, what's the address of the emergency?
Mr. Roberts : It's on White Oak Road. I just took, uh, ten girls hostage and I want everybody off the property or, or else.
911 Dispatcher: OK, alright.
Mr. Roberts: Now.
911 Dispatcher: Hold on a second.
911 Dispatcher: Hello.
Mr. Roberts : Yeah.
911 Dispatcher: OK, what's the problem there?
Mr. Roberts: Don't try to talk me out of it, get em all off the property now.
911 Dispatcher: Sir, I want you to stay on the phone with me, OK? I'm going to let the State Police down there, I need to let you talk to them, OK, can I transfer you to them.
Mr. Roberts: No, you tell them and that's it. Right now or they're dead, in two seconds.
911 Dispatcher: (To unidentified person at County-Wide Communications): He won't let me transfer.
(To Mr. Roberts): Hang on a minute, we're trying to tell them, OK.
Mr. Roberts: Two seconds that's it.
911 Dispatcher: Sir, listen to me. Listen... (Line goes dead)
---
10:58:39
911 Dispatcher: Lancaster County 911.
Ms. Roberts: Yes, my name is Marie Roberts, my husband just called me on his cell phone and told me that he wasn't going to be coming home and that the police were there and not to worry about it. And I have no idea what he is talking about, but I am really scared. And I wondered if, how I find out what's going on?
911 Dispatcher: OK, where are you calling me from?
Ms. Roberts: I'm calling from my home.
911 Dispatcher: And what's that address?
Ms. Roberts: 1084 Georgetown Road.
911 Dispatcher: What township, city or borough is that?
Ms. Roberts: Bart Township.
911 Dispatcher: OK, and your husband didn't tell you where he was?
Ms. Roberts: No, he didn't.
911 Dispatcher: He called you on his cell phone?
Ms. Roberts: Yes he did.
911 Dispatcher: OK, and, and all he said to you was that...
Ms. Roberts: I'm not coming home, um, he was upset about something that had happened twenty years ago, and he said he was getting revenge for it, I don't think he was getting revenge on another person, I'm worried that maybe he was trying to commit suicide.
911 Dispatcher: OK, hang on the line, I'm going to transfer you to the State Police, OK?
Ms. Roberts: Thank you.
911 Dispatcher: Hang on a second..
(Call being transferred to State Police)
PCO Bowerman: State Police Dispatch PCO Bowerman
Ms. Roberts: My name is Marie Roberts, my husband just called me and said that he wasn't coming home and that the police were there and that he left notes for myself and my children and I'm worried that he tried to commit suicide somewhere. And...
PCO Bowerman : What's his name?
Ms. Roberts: Charlie Roberts.
PCO Bowerman: OK, what's, let me ask you a question, hold on for one second please.
Ms. Roberts: Yeah.
PCO Bowerman: You said your name again was?
Ms. Roberts: Marie Roberts.
PCO Bowerman: Marie Roberts, thank you.
PCO Bowerman: Ma'am, let me ask you a question, what kind of vehicle does your husband drive?
Ms. Roberts: He was using my grandpa's pick-up, it's a GMC.
PCO Bowerman: Color.
Ms. Roberts: Blue.
PCO Bowerman: Blue GMC.
Ms. Roberts: Yeah.
PCO Bowerman: One second. OK. ma'am, what's your husbands name?
Ms. Roberts: Charlie Roberts.
PCO Bowerman: Charlie Roberts. And what does he look like?
Ms. Roberts: He is six foot two, short brown, you know like buzzed brown hair, um, he is thirty-two years old, wears glasses, I guess he's like maybe 195 pounds.
PCO Bowerman: OK, you say he left notes?
Ms. Roberts: Yes.
PCO Bowerman: What did the notes say?
Ms. Roberts: Like, the thought of not my children, not seeing them grow up, like, let's see, uh, I'm not even sure, here it is, my daughter Abigail I want you to know that I love you and I'm sorry I couldn't be here to watch you grow up, that's how the notes start.
PCO Bowerman: OK, hold on one moment. (Line goes dead)
Stacey
Impro. Teacher’s school day routine
At 8.05 am I arrive at the school.
I walk into the classroom; walk past the children’s desks and walk up to my desk.
My desk is large and made out of wood.
I sit down on my wooden chair and put my leather satchel down by the right side of my foot.
I take the school register out of the drawer and place it on the far left hand corner of the desk.
I then take out the work which I prepared yesterday ready the morning lesson of maths.
I then get up from the desk with the work in my hand and turn to the blackboard which is situated directly behind me.
I take a piece of chalk and begin writing the sums on the blackboard.
(Writing on the board – 2x6 7÷8 9-5 4+3)
I then put the chalk down and sit back down to at the desk and wait for the children to arrive.
Kathryn Wigginton
I walk into the classroom; walk past the children’s desks and walk up to my desk.
My desk is large and made out of wood.
I sit down on my wooden chair and put my leather satchel down by the right side of my foot.
I take the school register out of the drawer and place it on the far left hand corner of the desk.
I then take out the work which I prepared yesterday ready the morning lesson of maths.
I then get up from the desk with the work in my hand and turn to the blackboard which is situated directly behind me.
I take a piece of chalk and begin writing the sums on the blackboard.
(Writing on the board – 2x6 7÷8 9-5 4+3)
I then put the chalk down and sit back down to at the desk and wait for the children to arrive.
Kathryn Wigginton
impro. Charles day at work
Charles starts to get ready for work at 5 pm.
He leaves his house at 6.30 pm, it takes him 20 minutes to get to the truck depot.
At 7 pm he clocks in and gets his itinerary ahead of his evenings driving.
Before he sets of he has to check that the truck is safe to drive and that the truck is full with the evenings deliveries.
He gets in the truck, hat on, and drives.
The road can be long and lonely, driving for hours and hours with only the radio for company.
At 3 am he finishes work, goes home.
And goes to bed, to get up at 7.30 am to help the children get ready for school.
He leaves his house at 6.30 pm, it takes him 20 minutes to get to the truck depot.
At 7 pm he clocks in and gets his itinerary ahead of his evenings driving.
Before he sets of he has to check that the truck is safe to drive and that the truck is full with the evenings deliveries.
He gets in the truck, hat on, and drives.
The road can be long and lonely, driving for hours and hours with only the radio for company.
At 3 am he finishes work, goes home.
And goes to bed, to get up at 7.30 am to help the children get ready for school.
Timeline
3am - Roberts finishes his night shift and returns in darkness to his home in nearby Bart township
7:30am - Roberts is up helping his wife get their children ready for school
8:45am - the couple walks the children to their yellow school bus, a neighbour says ‘it was unusual to see Roberts on a Monday’’
9:00am - Roberts hugs and kisses his children and tells them ‘’remember, daddy loves you’’
10:25am - Roberts enters the school house
10:30am - Roberts reappears with a hand gun
10:31am - He orders the male students to help him
10:32am - The teacher and her mother escape
10:34am - Roberts and the young boy carry utensils into the room
10:35am - The teacher and mother arrive at the farm
10:36am - Amos Smoker places a 911 call. Roberts barricades the doors
10:37am - Roberts orders the girls in a line
10:39am - He allows everyone to leave except the girls shouting
‘’Stay here do not move , you will be shot’’
10:40am - Emma Fisher escapes because she does not understand english.
10:41am - First troopers arrive at the scene.
10:41am - A second caller reports the incident and is being transferred to the state police.
10:55am - Roberts binds and ties the girls.
10:56am - The girls are lined up in front of the blackboard.
Mrs Roberts returns home finding suicide notes.
10:57am - Roberts makes a call to his wife and the police
10:58am - Mrs Roberts calls 911 after arriving home from a prayer study group meeting
11am - A large crowd assembles outside.
11am - Two girls begin negotiating with Roberts
11:07am - Roberts shoots the girls and then himself.
11:08am - Troopers approach.
7:30am - Roberts is up helping his wife get their children ready for school
8:45am - the couple walks the children to their yellow school bus, a neighbour says ‘it was unusual to see Roberts on a Monday’’
9:00am - Roberts hugs and kisses his children and tells them ‘’remember, daddy loves you’’
10:25am - Roberts enters the school house
10:30am - Roberts reappears with a hand gun
10:31am - He orders the male students to help him
10:32am - The teacher and her mother escape
10:34am - Roberts and the young boy carry utensils into the room
10:35am - The teacher and mother arrive at the farm
10:36am - Amos Smoker places a 911 call. Roberts barricades the doors
10:37am - Roberts orders the girls in a line
10:39am - He allows everyone to leave except the girls shouting
‘’Stay here do not move , you will be shot’’
10:40am - Emma Fisher escapes because she does not understand english.
10:41am - First troopers arrive at the scene.
10:41am - A second caller reports the incident and is being transferred to the state police.
10:55am - Roberts binds and ties the girls.
10:56am - The girls are lined up in front of the blackboard.
Mrs Roberts returns home finding suicide notes.
10:57am - Roberts makes a call to his wife and the police
10:58am - Mrs Roberts calls 911 after arriving home from a prayer study group meeting
11am - A large crowd assembles outside.
11am - Two girls begin negotiating with Roberts
11:07am - Roberts shoots the girls and then himself.
11:08am - Troopers approach.
Amish Clothing
Clothing
The common theme amongst all Amish clothing is plainness; clothing should not call attention to the wearer by cut, color, or any other feature. Rather than using "fancy" buttons, zippers, or velcro, hook-and-eye closures or straight pins are used as fasteners on dress clothing. Snaps are used on everyday clothes, and plain buttons for work shirts and trousers. The historic restriction on buttons is attributed to tradition and their potential for ostentation.[50] In all things, the aesthetic value is plainness. Some groups tend to limit color to black (trousers, dresses) and white (shirts), while others allow muted colors. Dark blue denim work clothing is common within some groups as well. Amish typically sew their own clothing, and work clothing can become quite worn and patched with use.
Women wear calf-length plain-cut dresses in a solid color, such as dark blue or black. Aprons are often worn at home, usually in white or black, and are always worn when attending church. A cape, which consists of a triangular piece of cloth, is usually worn, beginning around the teenage years, and pinned into the apron. In the colder months, a long woolen cloak is worn. Heavy bonnets are worn over the prayer coverings when Amish women are out and about in cold weather, with the exception of the Nebraska Amish, who do not wear bonnets. Girls wear colored bonnets until age nine; older girls and women wear black bonnets.[51] Girls begin wearing a cape for church and dress up occasions at about age eight. Single women wear a white cape to church until about the age of thirty. Everyday capes are colored, matching the dress, until about age forty when only black is used.[52]
Men typically wear dark-colored trousers and a dark vest or coat, suspenders, broad-rimmed straw hats in the warmer months, and black felt hats in the colder months. Married men and those over forty grow a beard. Moustaches are forbidden, because they are associated with European military officers and militarism in general.[53] A beard serves the same symbolic function as a wedding ring and marks the passage into manhood.
During the summer months, the majority of Amish children go barefoot, including to school. The prevalence of the practice is attested in the Pennsylvania Deitsch saying, "Deel Leit laafe baarfiessich rum un die annre hen ken Schuh." ("Some people walk around barefooted, and the rest have no shoes.") The amount of time spent barefoot varies, but most children and adults go barefoot whenever possible.
the list of rules Amish members must follow is called the 'Ordnung':
Amy x
- They may not own or operate any sort of motor vehicle
- Airplane travel is forbidden
- · Horse and buggy transportation is used
- · There is a dress code that must be followed
- · Boys and men wear hats outside of the house, suspenders and distinctive pants and shirts usually home made by a woman of the family.
- · Men grow a beard and keep their upper lip shaven once they are married
- · Girls and women must keep their head covered with bonnet or prayer cap, dress and apron rules vary from community to community
- · Reject the use of electricity from the public grid in the country
- · Amish must marry other Amish
- · The rules of Meidung or shunning must be followed
- · The Amish do not pay into or collect social security or any other kind of insurance
- · The Amish children only need to attend school through the 8th grade. Once they have completed school they boys will begin working either for their father or their father will help them line a job up to start making money for the family. The girls will begin to stay at home and help out more with laundry, dishes, house cleaning etc.
- · An Amish child may not keep his/her own money until they are married or until they turn 21. The parents limit any spending money that the children might have and all of the money they earn is to go towards the family to help out financially.
Amy x
Monday, 17 November 2008
Research Tasks - 17/11/08
Please could you all do the following:
1. Familiarise yourself with the NBC news video transcript
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=p_D_Z9bskqM
2. Research the amish do's and don't's
3. Research 'milk'
4. Write descriptions of Carl's house / Carl's milk job / teacher's routine etc.
Thanks
Michael
1. Familiarise yourself with the NBC news video transcript
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=p_D_Z9bskqM
2. Research the amish do's and don't's
3. Research 'milk'
4. Write descriptions of Carl's house / Carl's milk job / teacher's routine etc.
Thanks
Michael
Columbine
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7730502.stm
YouTube has removed a number of videos glorifying the Columbine school killers after an investigation by the BBC. The BBC's Interactive Reporter Siobhan Courtney reports.
Sunday, 16 November 2008
blue sky
Today the sky is almost clear exept for one dark cloud,
A dark cloud that hangs over you forcing you to remain a prisoner of the past,
In order to find freedom you must learn to let go,
You must look inside your soul and find it in your heart to forgive,
For hell is a never ending desert filled with the unforgiving and the unforgiven ,
If you ever hope to be forgiven you have to learn to forgive,
For forgiveness will be the power that sets your spirit free,
When able to give yourself the gift of forgiveness,
You will be able to find future happiness underneath the clear blue sky.
Stacey xx
A dark cloud that hangs over you forcing you to remain a prisoner of the past,
In order to find freedom you must learn to let go,
You must look inside your soul and find it in your heart to forgive,
For hell is a never ending desert filled with the unforgiving and the unforgiven ,
If you ever hope to be forgiven you have to learn to forgive,
For forgiveness will be the power that sets your spirit free,
When able to give yourself the gift of forgiveness,
You will be able to find future happiness underneath the clear blue sky.
Stacey xx
Sunday, 9 November 2008
Blue Sky Thinking...
Lying on a field of green, I open my eyes to be greeted with nothing but blue.
The odd glimmer of gold flickers through fluffy clouds of white, as the sun begins to entice the world with its beauty.
The stillness of the sky contrasts the fast pace of life and offers a space and a time to come and forget the worries of the world.
We sometimes move so fast through life that things can pass us by unknowingly and the sky opens up a clarity in our minds which is safe and hopeful.
It offers advice to the world to slow down, take a deep breath, admire the beauty of life and accept the offer of forgiveness.
Sian Gunn
The odd glimmer of gold flickers through fluffy clouds of white, as the sun begins to entice the world with its beauty.
The stillness of the sky contrasts the fast pace of life and offers a space and a time to come and forget the worries of the world.
We sometimes move so fast through life that things can pass us by unknowingly and the sky opens up a clarity in our minds which is safe and hopeful.
It offers advice to the world to slow down, take a deep breath, admire the beauty of life and accept the offer of forgiveness.
Sian Gunn
Blue Sky Rising . . .
When the sky is blue and the sun is shining it fills us with a happiness that can not be felt on a grey and raining day.
When we think of tragedy and tragic events we rearly associate them with these sunny bright happy days, rather we imagine them taking place on grey and bleak days.
It takes a lot to forgive a person for bringing you or someone close to you great harm or upset. But does a bright sunny day help you evoke these feelings of forgiveness and happiness once more or do they just help you to pretend that every thing is ok and that it's the right thing to do to forgive?
Chris
Saturday, 8 November 2008
Blue Sky thinking.................
Forgiveness doesn't always mean a denial of someones responsibility for that wrong doing,It doesn't justify the offence that person has commited,Someone can forgive anouther without excussing the act, its a long or for some people a short process to find it within themselves, to dig deep and find it in their heart to understand and eventually forgive that person who has wronged aggainst them, no matter how big or how small that crime was.For some people it is so much easier to dig deep and find that forgiveness than it is to haber that hostility.
"Such are the minds of the forgiving"
"Tragedy changes you. You can't stay the same," Beiler says. "Where that lands you don't always know. But what I found out in my own experience if you bring what little pieces you have left to God, he somehow helps you make good out of it. And I see that happening in this school shooting as well. One just simple thing that the whole world got to see was this simple message of forgiveness."
Lauren Mcdermott
"Such are the minds of the forgiving"
"Tragedy changes you. You can't stay the same," Beiler says. "Where that lands you don't always know. But what I found out in my own experience if you bring what little pieces you have left to God, he somehow helps you make good out of it. And I see that happening in this school shooting as well. One just simple thing that the whole world got to see was this simple message of forgiveness."
Lauren Mcdermott
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