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Bullying gets under my skin more than a lot of subjects precisely because I experienced it firsthand going through school. As such, watching the 2011 documentary Bully was a heart-wrenching, emotional and in some ways, infuriating film to watch. The documentary follows a few different kids from different cities around as they navigate the tumultuous waters of public education.
One kid in particular was riding the school bus when another kid sits down next to him. The first kid, wearing glasses with a bit of a protruding jaw and a rather lanky frame said to the other, "We're buddies now." The other kid, not liking the sound of that, went on a tirade filled with expletives about how they were indeed not buddies. At one point he says to him, "I'll bring a knife tomorrow and fuck you up."
Now, I've never, to my recollection, ever been threatened in that manner throughout my public education. However, I can rightly say that the school bus is one of the most terrifying experiences as a younger kid. It's like a being in a prison cell on four wheels, except, there's not even the potentiality that the guard (re: the bus driver) will step in. Usually, the most involvement you see from the bus driver is his eyes in the review mirror monitoring what's going on, but with the sentiment, "Whelp, I'm just going to keep my hands on this wheel and my foot on the gas."
I remember one scenario in particular, I was in the fifth grade and on our bus, it was fifth graders through twelfth graders. Naturally, the bus driver, in his infinite apathetic attitude, seated me in the back surrounded by a gangly group of twelfth graders. To my fifth grade four-eyes, they loomed large, imposing and authoritarian. I was scrunched up between one with a sly grin like Skeet Ulrich in Scream and another that offered me a lollipop, or maybe it was a regular sucker; I only remember licking it under their guise terrified to do otherwise. And I kept my eyes focused on the window and the blurring green trees and houses. Skeet's arm also rested around my shoulders, as if indicating we had become "buddies."
That's not bullying in the strictest sense, but it was a terrifying experience to my younger self, nevertheless.
Another horrible setting ripe for bullying is gym class. In the film, naturally again, one lanky, nonathletic kid is forced to partake in activities that are designed to have him not only picked last by his fellow gym mates, but picked on mercilessly. It doesn't help matters that the P.E. instructor is just as adamant that such a kid should get more involved. No, he shouldn't. Let him be. Add in changing in the locker room and showers to this and dear god, the prison analogy is seemingly more and more apt.
At one point in the documentary, a tearful father explains how his son, who had committed suicide due to bullying, was forced to wander out of the locker room naked because other boys had stolen his clothes. Or in other cases, they would kick him from behind while he was peeing at the urinal in the bathroom. As an aside, this behavior, where it's obvious derision of gay behavior while engaging in overtly homosexual harassment and acts, is pervasive on school grounds, whether high school locker rooms or college fraternizes (re: hazing). I find that peculiar, indeed.
The old line, "Sticks and stones can break my bones, but words will never hurt me," is atrocious. Whoever originated such a line clearly underestimated the power to which repetitious use of language can break someone. If someone constantly hears that they are a loser and a "nobody" and that they are nothing; then eventually they start believing it. And in the extreme cases, such depleted self-worth manifests into a tragic suicide attempt or a successful attempt. Apparently, an administrator noticed one kid was being bullied in the cafeteria, so she takes him out of class (which seems the wrong way to go about it – publically drawing attention to it; I feel that's rather humiliating, but I digress) and talks to him alone. She asks him what's been going on in the cafeteria to which he replies, "They call me a faggot and stuff…it…it breaks my heart." If I didn't have tears by that point, which I did, I certainly did then.
Again, too, this goes back to the idea of using gay insults on others. I often ponder if that's something that's always been around between children as a way to challenge someone's emerging masculinity (which is troubling, as gay people can be every bit as masculine) or if that's a recent development.
Suicide as a response to bullying is a heavy subject touched upon by this documentary. One family in particular had a harrowing experience with it that I find unimaginable. The mother of a child was walking around her house recounting the story. Her husband had walked into his son's room, turned to the closet, and noticed him hanging there. His younger son also ran into the room and saw his older brother hanging there. Miraculously, he lived. I just can't wrap my head around the idea of seeing my own son driven to such a point that he would kill himself and that I would find him hanging by a rope…it's just, wow. Unfortunately, this same kid would go on to commit suicide successfully. Words do hurt and they hurt much deeper on a personal level than sometimes physical abuse even can.
I found myself living vicariously through the expressions and attitude of the aforementioned kid that was bullied on the school bus. At one point, the bullying had gotten so bad on the bus – one kid literally shoving his head into the seat and punching him in the arms – the filmmakers had to show the video to the parents and school administrators. Upon seeing the video for herself, the bullied kid's mom asks him, "How was your day?" And goes on about asking him if he thinks this is normal or okay. He doesn't respond right away. Instead, he just stares at her for what seems an awkwardly protracted time. Finally, he says to the camera away from her, "They push me so far that I want to become the bully." Ugh. It's reached a point with him that this repeated abuse seems normal and that it's something he deserves because it's become such a normal routine. Yet, there's also a part of him that would like to become the bully because he knows the power afforded the bully. The conditioning to that behavior has numbed him though, as he says to his mother, "I don't think I feel anything anymore." That's troubling for a number of obvious reasons.
I lacked communication too about situations wherein I faced verbal or even to a lesser extent, physical bullying in school. I wouldn't tell my parents or anyone else about it. And yes, there were times I dreaded going to school in direct response thereof. However, I actually came to deal with one situation in particular that was the most egregious on my own terms. In the eighth grade, a kid had been bullying me on a daily basis. It was mostly things like knocking over my books, bumping into me, shoving me and so forth. Well, one day, I'd had enough of it. Just like a kid in the documentary who exasperatedly tells an administrator that he'd just had enough and whacked a bully in the mouth, I had to stand up for myself. The bully followed me into the bathroom, which seems another ripe arena for bullying, and as he came behind me, I turned around, grabbed him by the collar of his t-shirt and shoved him up against the tiled bathroom wall. He was a larger kid than me, but in that moment, I managed to actually lift him off his feet and told him as directly as possible, "Stop fucking with me." And oddly enough, as sometimes happens in these instances, he ended up becoming one of my friends throughout the rest of the school year. He never bothered me in such a manner again.
Now, am I advocating violence as a form of ending the bullying? I don't know. I feel as if that may fall under "self-defense." I would suggest going the route of diplomacy first such as alerting your parents and administrators via communication, but if the bullying persists thereafter? What recourse do you have other than standing up for yourself with force or at least a very strong verbal directive?
To sidetrack for a moment, where is the line between filming or documenting something and the moral imperative to step in? In other words, at what line did the filmmakers say to themselves, "Okay, we can't watch this kid get bullied any longer?" Earlier, when the kid threatened to bring a knife the next day, they didn't appear to tell parents or administrators, but when it got noticeably more violent and aggressive, they did so. There's something to be said about distancing yourself from the story, so as not to be the subject of the story itself, but morally, there has to be a line. I wonder how photo journalists in a war zone deal with it. Should I get the shot or should I save the kid from being shot? It's that kinda dilemma that utterly fascinates me. I know my heart was actually trying to break out of my chest in watching that kid get bullied, so I have a hard time imagining myself sitting passively behind the lens of a camera while it went on.
There's a town hall-type meeting that occurs at one of the school's in response to a bullied child's suicide. He was eleven years old. That boggles the mind. One administrator said, "Kids will be kids; boys will be boys." That's equal parts disgusting in its simplistic defeatism and maddening in how cliché. Maybe kids shouldn't be kids in that way in terms of their behavior; maybe boys shouldn't be boys in that way in terms of their behavior. There should be a desired behavior and clearly, bullying does not meet that desired behavior. To just throw your hands up and say, "Well, kids bully; that's what kids do, everyone's been bullied at one time or another," is an ugly, ugly reflection on our society.
Luckily, a smarter individual on the board made a fair point about the limits to what a school can do. To paraphrase, he said, "Can a school change a child's behavior if they're going to go home and not have it reinforced?" Certainly, he brings up a valid point that parenting obviously plays a vital role in shaping a child's behavior. To which, I'm not sure where a solution lies therein.
That said, the school is most definitely responsible for providing a safe environment for all kids, so irrespective of being able to reinforce a proper behavior, they can enforce a safe environment, which whether on the school bus or otherwise, they are lacking in many ways.
Speaking of which, the film probably should have dove into more of what schools have done to combat bullying and what has worked. Moreover, the film would have had more complexity had it interviewed someone that did the bullying or the parents of someone that had bullied. As many know, kids who bully have many of their own issues that just are expressed in the form of aggressive and verbal bullying. This issue is not as black and white as is perhaps insinuated by the documentary.
And even as a proponent of capitalism and that making money is acceptable, I too would echo South Park's satire of the documentary:
Kyle got to be the voice of reason in "Butterballs" and asks Stan the obvious question: "If this video needs to be seen by everyone, why don't you put it on the Internet for free?"
Stan doesn't answer.


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What does it mean to me to be a No Excuse Moms Runner?
By: Andrea Glick
I lay my clothes out the night before an early morning run. My friends and I start a group chat to make sure that I actually wake up on time so we can take off right away because I'm usually late. It's the night before our Sunday long run and several women meet first thing in the morning before it gets too hot. Some of us are training for 5Ks, 10Ks, some of us are training for halfs or fulls, and some of us just like to run. Either way, we all begin together, hold each other accountable, and started off as acquaintances but are now friends. We laugh, we joke, tell stories about anything and everything. We come from different backgrounds, but we all have similar goals.
No Excuse Moms of Austin is a group of women who love to workout together, including running and boxing, the list goes on. We welcome all levels of fitness and by the way, did we mention we do all this free? We are a nonprofit who connects women to workouts that they can fall in love with while including their families. We lead meet ups all over the Austin area at different times. If you have been looking for an accountability partner, workout group, or way to include and introduce your kids to workouts then we are your group! For the month of April we have events like boxing, boot camps, running meet ups, meal preps, a Cap10K meet up, and yoga!
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May 28
Feeling guilty about their shallow, career-driven lives, the four protagonists in Richard Greenberg's romantic comedy Eastern Standard invite a waitress and a bag lady to spend the summer with them in the Hamptons -- a sweet, yet still shallow, gesture. And that's the point. The four main characters make up two couples -- one straight, one gay. One of the gay men has AIDS, which means that this convenient little circle allows Greenberg to fit AIDS, homelessness, and yuppie ennui into a single storyline. None of it sounds romantic or funny, but Greenberg's knack for quick, punchy dialogue keeps things moving. And although the play premiered in 1988, it serves as a good reflection of today's messed-up world. The Fort Lauderdale Players conclude their run of Standard this weekend with performances at 8 p.m. today through Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday. The show is being staged at the Broward County Main Library Auditorium, 100 S. Andrews Ave., Fort Lauderdale. Tickets cost $16. Call 954-761-5374.
May 29
Christopher Janney is a "sound artist," someone who noodles around with nonmusical sounds and turns them into "art." For example, during a brainstorming session at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he attached a transmitter to someone's chest and amplified the heart's lub-dub-thump. Voila -- art. Ballet legend Mikhail Baryshnikov will dance with such a setup during "HeartBeat: mb" when his White Oak Dance Project performs tonight in Fort Lauderdale. Created by Janney, the piece includes music from Samuel Barber's String Quartet. Also on the bill is choreographer Dana Reitz's "Unspoken Territory," a solo piece that becomes a duet when changes in lighting get into the act. Several ensemble dances will also be presented. Tonight's performance starts at 8 p.m. in the Broward Center for the Performing Arts, 201 SW 5th Ave., Fort Lauderdale. Tickets prices range from $30 to $65. Call 954-462-0222. The company will perform again at 8 p.m. Saturday and 3 p.m. Sunday at the Jackie Gleason Theater of the Performing Arts, 1700 Washington Ave., Miami Beach. Call 305-358-5885.
May 30
Long before bird-named rock bands like the Black Crowes and Counting Crows came along, the Mighty Sparrow was making his own brand of popular music. Known as the "calypso king of the world," and born Slinger Francisco in Grenada before moving to Trinidad, the Mighty Sparrow has produced more than 60 recordings of upbeat island music. Now age 62, his album titles -- but not the music -- have mellowed. Back in 1979, he put out one called Pussy Cat Party. "We're past that stage," he said in a recent interview. "It was an attempt to be funny. Boy, times do change." While his music may have a limited audience, the Mighty Sparrow has stuck to his guns. He does appreciate, however, newer styles of music, like rap and hip-hop. "I can't do it very well," he has said. "But I listen to it." Rap isn't on tap, but plenty of other genres will rub elbows during today's Pan African Jam at Mills Pond Park (2201 Powerline Rd., Fort Lauderdale). Top Jamaican reggae band Culture and groups from Haiti, Brazil, and Africa will play at the festival, taking place from 3 p.m. to midnight. Admission is $3 to $5 ($3 for parking). Call 954-766-6699.
May 31
Whatever your Sunday wind-down routine, Acoustic Alchemy has just the soundtrack for it. When English guitarists Nick Webb and Greg Carmichael began putting out their mellow vibe in the late '80s, the music was given the "adult-contemporary" stamp. It's since been called New Age, contemporary instrumental, crossover jazz, and contemporary fusion. Categories aside, one thing is clear: the duo -- Webb, the jazz specialist, and Carmichael, the classicist -- concocted a low-energy stew of ethereal instrumentals. Webb, unfortunately, passed away in February, after a long battle with pancreatic cancer and just before completion of the duo's new album. Working on the album, aptly titled Positive Thinking, served as mental therapy for Webb, who was undergoing chemotherapy treatment. Just as his legacy lives on, so does Acoustic Alchemy, which, with guitarist John Parsons sitting in for Webb, plays tonight at 8 p.m. at Carefree Theatre, 2000 S. Dixie Hwy., West Palm Beach. Tickets cost $22. Call 561-833-7305.
June 1
Exactly what cavemen were thinking when they scrawled bison and horses on cave walls, no one knows for certain. Were they paying homage to the strength and nobility of their four-legged friends, or just doing some interior decorating? Whatever the answer, they kicked off a still-popular trend: animals in art. With its flowing mane and well-defined muscles, a cast-bronze Hittite horse sculpture from the Tenth Century B.C. captures the animal's grace and power. As does Deborah Butterfield's sculpture Palomino, from 1981, which is made of plant leaves attached to a frame. Both pieces are featured in "Animal As Muse," an exhibit on view through August 23 at the Norton Museum of Art (1451 S. Olive Ave., West Palm Beach). The show traces the evolution of animal forms in art from ancient to modern times, and includes works by Goya, Matisse, and Chagall, among others. Museum hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday and 1 to 5 p.m. Sunday. Admission is $2 to $5. Call 561-832-5194.
June 2
Visitors to Flamingo Gardens (3750 Flamingo Rd., Davie) have high citrus prices to thank for the slice of subtropical jungle in the midst of South Florida's urban landscape. After a Florida vacation in 1925, Michigan residents Floyd and Jane Wray were so enamored with the weather that they moved on down. What they didn't like were the orange shortages and high citrus prices during the summer months. So Floyd planted 40 acres of Lue Gim Gong orange trees, a variety that bears its fruit in summer, and called it Flamingo Groves. Today more than 60 orange varieties grow there, and, as dictated in Jane's will, the property was turned over to a foundation with the stipulation that it not be developed. The preserve's lush botanical gardens, orange groves, and nature center -- which breeds and releases native birds -- can be toured on foot or by tram. Guided tours of the Wray's 1934 Art Deco home are also available. Hours are 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Sunday. Admission is $10. Call 954-473-2955.
June 3
Natives deep in the jungles of Laos stared wide-eyed when Bill Hutchins paddled by on the Mekong River. "Judging from the reception from villagers, I don't think they ever saw a kayak in their life," explains the environmental educator from West Palm Beach. Of course they hadn't: The international group of naturalists with which Hutchins toured last year was the first ever allowed unrestricted access to the Southeast Asian country's many rivers. During the month-long trip, Hutchins captured the vast diversity of Laos on film. "There are places that look like South Beach in Vientiane, the capital," he explains of the Art Deco influence left over from years of French rule. In contrast he has shots of Buddhist temples found in the jungle. Hutchins, age 43, says his teaching job gives him two months off every year for such trips, and he's been making them for twenty years. He'll share his Laos pics during the slide lecture "Laos: Land of Extremes" at 7 p.m. tonight. The event takes place at the Dagger Wing Nature Center at South County Regional Park, one-half mile west of State Road 7 off Yamato Road, Boca Raton. Admission is $3. Call 561-488-9953.


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One of the impulses and gifts of Postmodernity in architecture was that it successfully questioned the universalizing, problem-solving and ultimately dictatorial proscriptiveness of Modernity. One only has to think of LeCorbusier's Modulor or type-needs, the Existenzminimum of the Bauhaus or the ranting of planner Edmund Bacon in the recent film My Architect. Modernism, like its political cohort Progressivism, wanted to solve the world's problems – a noble goal – but it wanted to do it from above, by the fiat of experts. Like the old Second City routine where the college kid shushes the urban resident with a condescending: "I'm an Urban Affairs major at Northwestern University. I think I know a little bit more about your problems than you do?!"
Postmodernism trashed those assumptions, which was just as well. The Modulor wouldn't stop evolving and radio and television did the same to the Existenzminimum and every NIMBY quick citizen took a page from Jane Jacobs and told Ed Bacon where to stick his plans. You can't be a problem solver when problems don't stand still. PostModernism, like Punk, reveled in nihilism, safe in its conclusion that Progress was a big joke. Continue Reading
First a quick note about New Orleans, where many preservationists are hard at work trying to save the homes of this historic city. Last week, Associated Press reported on a survey of 114,127 damaged buildings in New Orleans. Of these, 31,662 had no structural damage, 79,325 had partial damage and 3,140 were tagged red, which meant they should be razed.
Two comments: 1. That is less than 3 percent. 2. The AP report notes that the majority of the red-tagged buildings were brick ranch houses built since 1940.
Score one for the old buildings! Continue Reading
The Problem with your Eyes
The Problem With Your Eyes
Art school attunes you to the power of visual arts – our wonderful Visual and Critical Studies program uses that power with other liberal arts. The importance of the visual in historic preservation is obvious – we are talking about landmarks, and we are trying to keep them – or bring them back – to the way they looked historically. Historic preservation practice is heavily defined by architectural appearance.
This project can be problematic, because the visual is so powerful it has a tendency to overrun our other critical faculties. People look at Chicago's World's Columbian Exposition of 1893 or the city's Burnham Plan of 1909 and see the epitome of City Beautiful style. Arguably the first event was about technological progress and the second was really about sewers, transportation and business efficiency. But all you remember are the pictures. Louis Sullivan recalled the 1893 Fair as setting back architectural evolution with its reliance on Beaux-Arts style, his memory likely overrun by the visuals. Continue Reading
Next year is the 40th anniversary of the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966. Like much progressive legislation, the Act not only codified historic preservation practice – it pushed it forward. Suddenly we cared about properties of local significance (despite the fact that it was a national act) and historic districts. Much of preservation history had focused on individual sites and architectural significance. In 1966 preservation moved to the community level and embraced social history.
Forty years is a long time for a movement, and it has changed. I was speaking yesterday with Judy Hayward about next Spring's Traditional Building conference in Chicago, where we are having a panel on "When preservation involves demolition." Judy opined that this shows how the movement is maturing, looking at issues with a balanced eye. The same is true in preservation education and scholarship. The last two years have witnessed a spate of publications revisiting and revising the traditional view of preservation.
Forty years gives a movement enough self-confidence to be able to look critically at itself. Until 1978 preservationists weren't even sure that their activities were constitutional. Well into the 1980s both legislation and public support seemed very thin. By the 1990s most people felt preservation was legal and desirable, and a new criticality began to emerge. Continue Reading
Europe, America and monasticism
I like Europe. What's not to like? Rich, gorgeous, relaxed. Yeah, gas is $6 a gallon but the next fabulous art museum, medieval castle, Baroque monastery, Roman ruin or mountainside lake is only 6 miles away. You can drive to the next country for cheap eggs or dental work and still be home before dusk. You don't even need to drive since trains go everywhere and even small towns have bus and tram systems and bike rental. And they preserve their old buildings more often than we do.
Demolishing a historic building in Europe is harder to do than in the U.S. That wasn't always the case – they had the same frenzy for urban renewal in the immediate post-World War II era that we did. Berlin demolished more buildings during the 1950s than were lost in the war (yes, it's true: see the footnote.) But quickly they realized – with the help of GIs turned tourists like Arthur Frommer – that Americans liked to see the old stuff and would pay for the privilege. A combination of laws, practices and pure economics means that it is not easy to tear down an old building in Europe. Not true in America, where a powerful institution or developer can often clear a landmark standing in the way of their project. Continue Reading
Place Identity
This weekend I led the Chicago Fire tour for the Chicago Historical Society as I have for the last four or five years. We follow the 4-mile long path of the fire, hearing eyewitness accounts and describing how it spread and what it destroyed.
The Fire is a central event to the civic identity of Chicago – it is one of the four stars on the city's flag. When my Michelin editors came here a dozen years ago to begin work on the first Green Guide to Chicago, they commented on how Chicago people talked about the Fire as if it happened yesterday. That means the historic event has a central piece of the city's identity.
This happens everywhere. Go to Ireland and the 1690 Battle of the Boyne was yesterday. Go to Atlanta and Sherman's march ended last week. Parts of Paris are forever 1890 or 1850 and the 1770s trail through the streets of Boston. The Thais are still celebrating 200-year old victories over Burma and the Dai Viet recall a millennia-gone general who began a millennia of resistance against the Chinese. Continue Reading
On The Face of It: The Facadism Problem
The struggle for historic preservation is complicated when it comes to facades; what everyone sees; the public face of buildings, where the public interest lies. In historic districts, the goal is to preserve the context of a place, defined by facades. Preservation commissions rarely regulate interior spaces in districts. This leads many to assume that preservation is only about the visual exterior façade of a building, which is wrong.
I first attacked "facadism" almost 20 years ago when developers proposed relocating the façade of the 1872 McCarthy Building on Chicago's Block 37, since only the façade had been designated a landmark. At the time, several Chicago Landmarks were "façade designations" and this encouraged developers to propose picking them up and moving them about like furniture. It is eaiser to save a thing than a place. But it reached a point of absurdity when the city proposed designating the façade of the Ludington Building, an 1891 work of William LeBaron Jenney. Jenney is famous for pioneering the steel frame skyscraper – shouldn't the designation include the structure? The façade trend hit its peak with the Chicago Tribune Tower façade designation in 1989, and then came back with a vengeance with the 1996 deal to skin and rebuild the Art Deco McGraw Hill Building on Michigan Avenue, the most outrageous (and scarily successful) example of a period that also saw the demolition of all but 5 feet of the Perkins, Fellows and Hamilton Studio of 1917 for the new Park Hyatt tower. Continue Reading
Going Gothic?
Several alert historic preservation alumni sent me this clipping a couple of weeks ago. Turns out the house that Grant Wood used in his famous painting "American Gothic" is threatened with demolition, according to Harry Mount, a writer in Eldon. Not only is the little white cottage with the big Gothic window is empty, boarded-up, and being offered by the State Historical Society for $250 a month, but there is little interest. One neighbor wanted to tear it down in the 1960s but balked at the $200 purchase price. Continue Reading
What does time tell
Time tells. That also means time counts. It means you should preserve your history and when I say it I mean the messy history of what happened not the neat history of whatever today's ideologues need or "heritage" which is a shorthand for freebased history, an identity narcotic extracted crushed refined and distilled from real history. Real history is what happens in time and over time and that never works for systems like ideology or politics because systems are static and history is dynamic. Continue Reading


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Unconfirmed sources report that North Korea has developed a nuclear weapons delivery system capable of striking the continental United States. Kim Jong Il, the beloved leader of North Korea, made a rare public broadcast this morning to show the world that North Korea has well and truly joined the nuclear club. With the development of the new delivery system North Korea now has the ability to produce and deliver a nuclear weapon to anywhere in the world.
The new system, which consists of a B40-237 seagoing freight container and bill of lading, makes North Korea a truly dangerous foe. The B40, which looks like any other freight container, because it is just a regular freight container, is cheap to build and very tough to stop. The B40 has the added benefit of being highly accurate. Experts estimate that the B40 with it's current guidance system could be delivered to within 20 feet of any address in the United States.
"The B40 is a very dangerous weapon." Explained John Kensington of Jane's Defense Weekly. "This device is cheap, accurate, and most alarmingly, deploys stealth technology. The B40 can blend in with the thousands of freight containers shipped each day all over the world. It would be an easy thing to slip the B40 onto a container ship and sail it right into the Port of Los Angeles or even New York Harbor. And because the B40 is nuclear capable all you have to do is get close. The B40 is truly a terrifying weapon of mass destruction."
US leaders in Washington are in a panic over what to do about the B40. The President has rushed back to the White House from his Crawford ranch and is at this very moment waiting for Dick Cheney to tell him what to do.
Donald Rumsfeld has put off his early retirement plans and is already designing a military plan to eliminate the threat posed by North Korea.
Even the CIA's Porter Goss, who has been caught sleeping at the switch, has sprung into action. The CIA has released newly post dated intelligence reports indicating that the development of the B40 is well along.
The world is now holding its breath. Has the B40 already been deployed? How many of the dastardly devices are there in transit? What will the governments of the world do to protect the citizenry? With the development of the B40 the world is truly a more dangerous place.


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Victory! I woke up, fully aware of what day it is. I went to bed later than usual, but I didn't wake up at all throughout the night.
The apartment I want is a little more than I wanted, but I think I can swing it. I will be getting a second job to help with the expenses. The kids were on board with the idea of moving into an apartment.
Today I'm going to look forward to changes and challenges with excitement and not fear. Today I'm going to look at the possibilities and not the perils. I know it sounds as though I'm going to go around wearing blinders and a big dumb smile on my face but that is incorrect. I'm fully aware of the difficulties I will be facing. But instead of constant worry, I am focused excitement.
Worry and fear are easy to hold onto. I have a tendency of being stuck in that place of dread. What ifs, shoulda, couldas, etc … When we are stuck in the land of coulda shoulda, we forget that it will all workout. There are solutions to any issue or dilemma if we stop panicking and take the time to think.
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The Movember movement began back in 2003 in Australia with a small number of participants who wanted to raise awareness about important issues that affected men's health. The idea was for men to grow a mustache during the month of November to raise awareness and funds for men's health issues that are the main causes for men dying at an early age. These issues include prostate cancer, testicular cancer, mental health issues, and suicide prevention. Growing the mustache is symbolic and represents a sort of "ribbon" for the cause, such as a pink ribbon is the symbol for breast cancer awareness. Movember even has a catchy slogan, "Grow a Mo, Save a Bro."
Since its beginnings in 2003, Movember has now become a worldwide event in which men (and even women who can sport a fake mustache to join in the action) grow and groom their mustaches during the thirty days of the month of November which serves to raise awareness for the cause and helps you to raise funds for research and programs designed to help men conquer these problems and live longer, healthier lives. Have a little fun while you're at it and choose a cool mustache style to sport for Movember. Here we take a look at various mustache styles, at least one of which is sure to appeal to you. Have a little fun with it and see which styles you already know!
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This mustache style is worn long and is thick and wide. The Chevron typically covers the top border of the upper lip. Famous people who sport this type of mustache include actor Tom Selleck and the late lead singer of the rock group Queen, Freddy Mercury. This mustache is one solid piece with no space in between.
This is a narrow, divided mustache that starts in the middle of the upper lip. Long whiskers are then pulled to either side of the center and then tamed by using mustache wax, with the areas around the corner of the mouth being shaved. Some recognizable names who wore an English mustache include the famous actor, Vincent Price, and the author of the Sherlock Holmes stories, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
This mustache was named for the artist, Salvador Dali. His mustache is so recognizable that it is often considered to be the most famous mustache of all time. This mustache style is very narrow and has long whiskers that bend or curve upward and steeply.
Fu Manchu
The Fu Manchu starts on the upper lip and has whiskers that grow very long to extend along each side of the mouth and down into the jaw area. The areas around the corners of the mouth are shaved as well as the space between the middle of the upper lip so that the whiskers are divided into two distinct sections.
There are two variations of the handlebar mustache, the regular handlebar and the petit handlebar, which is a smaller version. This is a bushy style of mustache that requires the whiskers to grow long enough for the ends to be curled upwards. This style typically uses mustache wax to achieve the desired look. This mustache style is named due to the resemblance to the handlebars on a bicycle.
The horseshoe mustache resembles the Fu Manchu at first glance, but there is one major difference. With the Fu Manchu, the whiskers are grown from the upper lip to extend downward along the sides of the face. With the horseshoe style, there is a full mustache with extensions of hair growing vertically down the sides of the face from the mouth to the jaw line. The whiskers along the sides of the face are sometimes referred to as "pipes." Perhaps one of the most recognizable horseshoe mustaches is that of celebrity wrestler Hulk Hogan.
This is a very bushy mustache style that is grown from both the upper lip and the cheeks. The whiskers that extend from the cheeks are styled in an upward direction. This is a very thick style that is thought to have originated in the late 19th century.
The lampshade is one of the newer styles of mustache. The lampshade is worn closely cropped and grown directly above the upper lip. The whiskers should only be grown to match the length of the lips and should not extend past the lips for this style. The corners are slightly angled to resemble a lampshade.
Painter's Brush
This is a thick mustache style worn short with slightly rounded corners. This style covers the entire width of the mouth. The difference between the painter's brush and lampshade style are the way the corners are trimmed.
Pencil Mustaches
The pencil mustache is also sometimes referred to as the "mouthbrow." This is a very thin, narrow mustache that is closely cropped to outline the upper lip. The style can be trimmed in a variety of different manners. This style requires a precision trimmer in order to maintain its pencil thin appearance.
The toothbrush mustache is thick and trimmed on each side so that it is about an inch wide in the center of the upper lip. While interesting, this may not be the first choice of mustache styles to choose since it is mainly recognized as the style worn by the infamous Adolf Hitler.
For the man who desires a low maintenance mustache, the walrus is the best bet. This is a large, busy mustache that droops down and covers the lips and sometimes even the entire mouth. The style can be tamed by using a bit of grooming wax but requires less trimming that most other styles.
Pyramidal Mustaches
The pyramidal mustache can be worn in a variety of ways. This is a general term for any mustache that is shaped narrowly on the top and becomes wider at the bottom, similar to a pyramid formation. These styles can be worn the full length of the upper lip or trimmed slightly shorter than the lips on each side. Some men chose to wear this style with more or less of a curve than others. A famous musical artist who sport this style of mustache is Lionel Richie.
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RMIT Design Hub
Architect: Sean Godsell Architects, 2012, 2012
City of Melbourne | C11
Building Description
RMIT Design Hub Gallery is a progressive exhibition environment within the iconic RMIT Design Hub building. Opened in 2012, the building is identified by its skin of 17,000 glass discs. In addition to the Gallery, this award-winning building is home to RMIT's School of Architecture and Urban Design and the RMIT Design Archives.
RMIT Design Hub Gallery exhibits creative, practice-led design research and is open to everyone. Our exhibitions visualise, perform and share research ideas and make new research connections. The Gallery fosters and supports a community of practice, including architects, designers, curators and students for collaborative, interdisciplinary design research and education.
During Open House Melbourne weekend, Design Hub Gallery will be showing Super Tight, an exhibition exploring the culture of spatial tightness emerging in Asian cities and its creative potential.
What's On
Join several events associated with the exhibition Super Tight, including a free public lecture, exhibition talks and city walking tours. See more details on the Super Tight event page.
RMIT University, Building 100, Corner Victoria and Swanston Streets, Carlton 3000, Melbourne VIC


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Often, during a consultation with a Federal or Postal employee, the issue comes up about what "X said" about "Y-issue". Information is plentiful, and especially in this age of the internet, the plethora of information, abundant in volume and scope, can seemingly provide the generic and universally appreciated mass of unidentifiable vacuity called, "Information".
The problem is no longer the lack of information; rather, the problem is to be able to discern the difference between "useful information", "relevant information," "effective information," and "peripheral information". In preparing, formulating, and filing a Federal Disability Retirement application, it is important to make the distinctions.
However, in this world of unlimited sources of information, a person who first approaches a subject — especially a subject involving legal consequences such as Federal Disability Retirement law — may have a difficult time in distinguishing between the various "types" of information.
Further, it is important to recognize the "source" of information — Who said it? Where did it come from? Is there statutory authority to back it up? Is the source reliable?
These latter questions must also be asked, and the way to determine the credibility and reliability of information is often to take some time and cross-check information from various sources, and decipher as to whether a particular source provides a consistency of information which can be trusted.
When it comes to preparing a Federal Disability Retirement application, where one's future may depend upon the information gathered, the Federal employee or Postal worker would be wise to "check out the source" before proceeding forth.
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Street Art by MTO
French born but Berlin based, Street Artist MTO produces incredible large scale photo realistic pieces. His work is mostly know and characterized by incredibly detailed renditions of famous actors and musicians with a dash of red as his signature usually on a red outline of his work. MTO's artwork is often extremely large – up to two meters high and wide (and often much, much larger) it usually only takes him around five hours to create one of his smaller works. You can see more incredible Street Art by MTO, including more work outside Berlin, on his Facebook page.


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take the handsome prince and the beautiful princess on a magical journey across happyland in their enchanted carriage.
take the handsome prince and the beautiful princess on a magical journey across happyland in their enchanted carriage.
Features and benefits for happyland enchanted carriage set
- suitable from 18 months
- set includes carriage, unicorn, fairy godmother, prince and princess
- part of the happyland collection
- great for discovering pretend play
- encourages talking and learning new words
- developing strength and precision in little fingers
- playing with friends develops important social skills
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Perfect for magical pretend play, this wonderful set includes a carriage pulled by a unicorn, a fairy godmother and a prince and princess. Create a fantastic fairytale adventure and go on a magical journey in your carriage through forests and enchanted lands to find your handsome prince. Or be a mischievous fairy godmother and cast some silly spells. Make the unicorn fly, turn the prince into a princess and have a royal giggle together. Great for imaginative play, your little one will have lots of fun bringing the characters to life by giving them their own voices and personalities. Playing together encourages your child to start talking and trying new words, and moving the chunky, easy to grip pieces around helps strengthen little fingers.


text: I didn't know Eric, but he worked with my husband. I met him on a trip to New York City. He was young, full of life, funny and going places with his life. I remember how meticulous he was. While I was there, he sent an assistant downstairs to get him a new shirt because he had a small stain on the one he was wearing and wanted to present himself perfectly at an upcomming meeting. I will never forget him.


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Memphis basketball waiting on NCAA to green light Lance Thomas
Memphis basketball coach Penny Hardaway voiced his frustration Thursday as he continues to wait for a decision by the NCAA on sophomore forward Lance Thomas' eligibility this season.
"I guess that's the biggest question going for us right now," Hardaway said. "It's a little frustrating to me, but we are going to be patient and hope that the outcome will be in our favor."
Thomas transferred to Memphis after playing for Louisville last season. The 6-foot-10 forward applied for a waiver to avoid sitting out this season, per NCAA transfer rules.
At Memphis basketball's media day two months ago, Thomas said he cited the firing of former Louisville coach Rick Pitino and the school's alleged involvement in the FBI pay-for-play probe as the reason he was applying for a waiver.
"I wasn't prepared for (the Louisville FBI probe)," Thomas said in September. "That's not what I was told was going to happen. That's not what I expected to happen. That's why I feel like I deserve to play."
Hardaway said Thursday that the waiver was applied for "a couple weeks ago," and he is hoping the NCAA will respond before the start of the season in four days.
Thomas would give the Tigers more depth in their frontcourt and another forward who can shoot the ball from 3-point range.
"We want him to play if he's eligible," Hardaway said. "He's anxious, and patiently waiting as well."
Injury update
Hardaway said senior Mike Parks Jr. will sit out again Friday night's exhibition game against Christian Brothers University with back discomfort, but he expects freshman David Wingett to play.
Parks and Wingett (head) did not play in the Tigers' first exhibition game last week against LeMoyne-Owen.
Hardaway said he expects Parks to "be a game-time decision" going forward.
"We don't really need him to play (Friday)," Hardaway said. "We want him to be healthy."
Wingett missed the first exhibition after taking an elbow to the forehead during practice, but the freshman participated in a light shootaround before the game.
"David is really excited," Hardaway said. "He had the opportunity to watch the first exhibition from the sideline and kind of feel things out. Hopefully, he got the nerves out from watching and seeing how it all works."
Friday's starting five
Hardaway said he expects to go with the same starters he used against LeMoyne-Owen.
That starting five featured three guards – Alex Lomax, Jeremiah Martin and Tyler Harris – and two forwards – Kyvon Davenport and Isaiah Maurice.
"Unless something changes (Thursday) in practice, it's the same for right now," Hardaway said.
Slow tempo CBU
Christian Brothers probably will play a contrasting style compared to LeMoyne-Owen. The Buccaneers are known for a slow tempo offense, which forces opponents to defend for the entire 30-second shot clock.
"LeMoyne-Owen was a team that wants to run like us," Hardaway said. "Now (CBU) is going to slow us down, make us think, and make things very uncomfortable for us."
That's part of the reason the first-year coach said he wanted to play CBU before the season.
Memphis finished with 44 fast-break points in its exhibition against LeMoyne-Owen.
"(Friday) is going to be a test for our guys mentally and physically, and I like that," Hardaway said.
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Analysis of the opportunities of coal output expansion by Siberian Business Union Holding Company (SDS!Ugol OAO) for the period up to 2030
L.S. Plakitkina
The article presents a general description of the SDS-Ugol OAO.
The author analyses the trends of coking and steam coal mining by surface and underground methods at the Company operations in the period of 2004–2010. Statistics is provided on coal supply to consumers by application area in 2009–2010, coking and steam coal producers' prices in 2004–2009. The investment policy of the Company is analyzed. Data is also provided on the number of industrial production personnel involved in coal production and coal output per man in 2004–2009. The analysis is presented of the state-of-the art and opportunities of coal output expansion by UK Prokopievskugol OOO, Prokopievskoye OOO, Chernigovets ZAO opencast coal mine. The author presents a forecast of coal output trends of the SDS-Ugol OAO for the period up to 2030.


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Villagers have suffered long from neglect by those who have had the benefit of education. They have chosen the city life. The village movement is an attempt to establish healthy contact with the villages by inducing those who are fired with the spirit of service to settle in them and find self-expression in the service of villagers. ...Those who have settled in villages in the spirit of service are not dismayed by the difficulties facing them. They knew before they went that they would have to contend against many difficulties including even sullenness on the part of villagers. Only those, therefore, who have faith in themselves and in their mission will serve the villagers and influence their lives. A true life lived amongst the people is in itself an object-lesson that must produce its own effect upon immediate surroundings. The difficulty with the young man is, perhaps, that he has gone to the village merely to earn a living without the spirit of service behind it. I admit that village life does not offer attractions to those who go there in search of money. Without the incentive of service village life would jar after the novelty has worn out. No young man having gone to a village may abandon the pursuit on the slightest contact with difficulty. Patient effort will show that villagers are not very different from city-dwellers and that they will respond to kindliness and attention. It is no doubt true that one does not have in the villages the opportunity of contact with the great ones of the land. With the growth of village mentality the leaders will find it necessary to tour in the villages and establish a living touch with them. Moreover the companionship of the great and the good is available to all through the works of saints like Chaitanya, Ramakrishna, Tulsidas, Kabir, Nanak, Dadu, Tukaram, Tiruvalluvar, and others too numerous to mention though equally known and pious. The difficulty is to get the mind tuned to the reception of permanent values. If it is modern thought—political, social, economical, scientific—that is meant, it is possible to procure literature that will satisfy curiosity. I admit, however, that one does not find such as easily as one finds religious literature. Saints wrote and spoke for the masses. The vogue for translating modern thought to the masses in an acceptable manner has not yet quite set in. But it must come in time. I would, therefore, advise young men . . . not to give in but persist in their effort and by their presence make the villages more livable and lovable. That they will do by serving the villages in a manner acceptable to the villagers. Everyone can make a beginning by making the villages cleaner by their own labour and removing illiteracy to the extent of their ability. And if their lives are clean, methodical and industrious, there is no doubt that the infection will spread in the village in which they may be working.
I have not pictured a poverty-stricken India containing ignorant millions. I
have pictured to myself an India continually progressing along the lines
best suited to her genius. I do not, however, picture it as a third class or
even a first class copy of the dying civilization of the West.
If my dream is fulfilled, and every one of the seven lakhs of villages becomes a well-living republic in which there are no illiterates, in wnich no one is idle for want of work, in which everyone is usefully occupied and has nourishing food, well-ventilated dwellings, and sufficient Khadi for covering the body, and in which all the villagers know and observe the laws of hygiene and sanitation, such a State must have varied and increasing needs, which it must supply unless it would stagnate...
What, however, according to my view, the State will not have is an army of B.A.'s and M.A.'s with their brains sapped with too much cramming and minds almost paralysed by the impossible attempt to speak and write English like Englishmen. The majority of these have no work, no employment. And when they have the latter, it is usually clerkships at which most of the knowledge gained during their twelve years of High Schools and Colleges is of no use whatsoever to them.


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New Delhi: In a show of solidarity with Myanmar, India on Thursday refused to be a part of a declaration adopted at an international conference in Nusa Dua as it carried "inappropriate" reference to violence in Rakhine state from where 125,000 Rohingyas have fled to Bangladesh.
An Indian parliamentary delegation, led by Speaker Lok Sabha Sumitra Mahajan, dissociated itself from the 'Bali Declaration' adopted at the 'World Parliamentary Forum on Sustainable Development' held in Indonesia. "This was in view of the fact that the declaration, which was to be adopted at the conclusion of the Forum, was not in line with the agreed global principles of 'sustainable development'," said a press release issued by the Lok Sabha Secretariat.
India reiterated its stance that the purpose of convening the Parliamentary forum was to arrive at mutual consensus for implementation of SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals) which requires inclusive and broad-based development processes, it said. "Therefore, the proposed reference to the violence in Rakhine state in the declaration was considered as not consensus-based and inappropriate," the release said.
The part of the declaration to which India objected spoke of the forum expressing "deep concern on ongoing violence in the Rakhine State of Myanmar, amongst others…"
The declaration went on to "call on all parties to contribute to the restoration of stability and security, exercise maximum self-restraint from using violent means, respect the human rights of all people in Rakhine State regardless of their faith and ethnicity, as well as facilitate and guarantee safe access for humanitarian assistance."
The Indian delegation took the stance on a day Prime Minister Narendra Modi concluded his visit to Myanmar where he expressed solidarity with the government there against the "extremist violence" in the Rakhine state.
PM Modi urged all stakeholders to find a solution that respects the country's unity. "The country-specific amendment to the draft declaration was proposed at the eleventh hour by selective countries which referred to the violence in Rakhine state of Myanmar.
"India argued that specifying a particular country is unjustified as this Forum is focused on SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals) and inclusive development for all countries based on cooperative and collaborative approach to achieve the 2030 Agenda for the world," the press release said.
India said, "Never before 'country-specific' issues have been included in the declaration as these dilute the objective of these Forums which require unity and focused efforts of all the countries," the release said.
India refuses to join declaration of international meet against Myanmar
New Delhi: In a show of solidarity with Myanmar, India on Thursday refused to be a part of a declaration adopted at an international conference in Nusa Dua as it carried "inappropriate" reference to violence in Rakhine state from where 125,000 Rohingyas have fled to Bangladesh.


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Pamela Hogan & Sharon Spicer Evans/Georgia Institute of Cosmetology & Esthetics
The Georgia Institute of Cosmetology & Esthetics, the leading and growing cosmetology and esthetics schools in Metro Atlanta, is pleased to announce plans to rename the prestigious facility during a Grand Re-Opening event on Saturday, July 19, 2014 from 10am – 4pm. Located at 495 Indian Trail Road, Lilburn, GA 30047, the renamed Hogan Institute of Cosmetology & Esthetics (HICE) is offering 50% off all services during the re-opening event. VOD Photography will also be onsite at the re-grand opening event to offer discounted photo sessions, including family or individual photo sessions.
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Smart Choice is a network of over 3,500 independent agents and over 80 insurance carrier partners. They provide independent insurance agents with access to top-rated markets, product training, and sales and marketing support – and they're the only no-fee program of its kind.
Whether you're a start-up agent, a former captive agent, or an experienced agent, Smart Choice can give you the support and markets you deserve. They provide service from coast to coast, in over 41 states, with access to personal, commercial, life and health markets, and customized business solutions guaranteed to make you a competitive agency.
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Mills Law Associates, LLC. is a woman-owned boutique law firm based in Atlanta, GA. The firm specializes in business and corporate transactional law, contracts law and technology law. Our attorneys provide practical advice on issues related to entity formations, contract terms and conditions, corporate acquisitions and divestitures, equity and debt financing, corporate governance and other general corporate matters. As a thriving entrepreneur, the Managing Member of Mills Law Associates leverages her engineering, legal and entrepreneurial experiences to provide practical insight to help those individuals and entities to achieve significant personal and professional objectives.


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Launched in December 2015, Fortis Hospital, Mulund's 'Save Water, Save Life', a CSR initiative, is aimed at creating awareness on water conservation and planning. This initiative, through an 'Influence the Influencer Programme' targeted housing societies to bring about a change in Mumbaikar's outlook on water conservation by conducting highly engaging workshops across Thane, Mulund, Bhandup and beyond.
'Save Water, Save Life' workshops helped impart information and find indigenous solutions for meeting water-related demands. An integral part of the programme was to sensitize the next generation for water conservation. According to Observer Research Foundation, Mumbai loses a shocking 650 million liters of water every single day due to leaking, an issue which is imperative to be dealt at, at a grassroot level.
'Save Water, Save Life' initiative helped impact 45 housing societies accommodating over 5,000 residents, through the workshops and plumber-on-request facilities. Over 75 leaking taps were identified in the housing societies, through which about 1,00,000 ltrs of water, in a year, would get wasted. These taps were repaired and resulted in saving of approximately 12,50,000 ltrs of water.
Dr S Narayani, Facility Director, Fortis Hospital, Mulund, commented about the initiative, "We launched this CSR initiative with an objective of bringing in greater efficiency, better planning and increased emphasis on conservation of water. 'Save Water, Save Life' initiative has helped impact over 20,000 Mumbaikar's in the periphery and we hope to engage with more such societies in the coming months. Preserving natural resources today will help enrich our future – through this initiative, we are one step closer".
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Fortis Healthcare Limited is a leading integrated healthcare delivery service provider in India.
The healthcare verticals of the company primarily comprise hospitals, diagnostics and day care specialty facilities. Currently, the company operates its healthcare delivery services in India, Dubai, Mauritius and Sri Lanka with 54 healthcare facilities (including projects under development), approximately 10,000 potential beds and 306 diagnostic centres.
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Pot Problem
I would simply like to note that the long prohibition on marijuana and more recent war on drugs have destroyed many poor and working-class families — particularly black families and young black men. Yet now we lift up a small group of wealthy white people who are admittedly looking to profit from a prohibition reversal ["Entrepreneurial Dream Team Sets Sights on Marijuana," April 15]. Where is the story about what happens to the millions of people incarcerated, fined, declared ineligible for student loans, who have lost job opportunities, etc.? How will these people be made whole, let alone profit, from legalization? Rather than talk about how the same old wealthy few are planning on increasing their power and wealth, why don't we talk about repealing prohibition as an opportunity for justice, to think about structural racism, or as an opportunity to reduce income inequality, not widen the gap?
Matt Mcgrath
New-School Approach
School-district consolidation, advocated by Vermont's two most recent secretaries of education and many legislators, will centralize control of local public schools and their futures ["Readsboro, Writing and 'Rithmetic: Fears Grow Over the Future of Small Schools," May 13]. Vermonters have not discussed our options.
How small should a public school be? Should larger schools grow at the expense of smaller schools? What if medium-size schools grew at the expense of both? Should all costs of special education be paid by state grants funded by all taxpayers?
Larger schools promote curricular and cocurricular opportunities, provided that students are bused there. Now, however, all students have unprecedented online access to the broadest and deepest learning in the global village where they always have lived and will live.
Consolidating Vermont's school districts is a corporate "solution." Instead, we need start-up innovations revolutionizing education as they are revolutionizing our work and leisure. The future is now. Vermont is the place.
Howard Fairman
Setting the Record Straight
It's great to have a vinyl pressing plant in Burlington! My congratulations. But I'd like to clear up a point. The article ["Pressing Matters," May 13] says they'll be using some vinyl reclaimed from ReSTORE, and they must mean the place on Pine Street, which until 2009 used that name before changing it to ReSOURCE. Habitat for Humanity ReStore, on Route 2A in Williston, actually has that name. The names have become confused (for instance, in a recent Seven Days article on local thrift shops). I run the vinyl department at ReStore and haven't heard about this plan, so I'm sure they mean ReSOURCE.
We have a great store out in Williston — it's a shame that many people in Burlington don't even know about it. And we've recently expanded. Hope everything goes well at the new vinyl pressing plant!
Charlie Messing
Editor's note: Indeed, the new business will use reclaimed vinyl from ReSOURCE on Pine Street. Apologies for the confusion.
Not Funny
The cartoon ["Edie Everette," May 13] portrays senior citizens in a stereotypical manner that would be considered totally unacceptable if it depicted any other group. If this comic were directed at people with disabilities, I am sure that your paper would not have published it. So why publish a cartoon that mocks persons who have become disabled because of their advanced age? You should print an apology and reconsider keeping Edie Everette as a cartoonist.
Lee Cattaneo
More Sour Grapes?
[Re "Big Heavy World Director Challenges Burlington City Arts," March 11]: Jim Lockridge's criticism of BCA's governance and allocation of resources could well apply to other Vermont arts organizations. The statement attributed to Ben Bergstein of North End Studios that BCA felt more like a "competitor rather than a collaborator" fits my experience with Vermont Humanities.
In my quest to popularize and share the works of Vermont poet George Albert Leddy (1883-1967), my grandfather, I've had incredible community support. I've performed at festivals like First Night Burlington and South End Art Hop; at coffee houses, bars and resorts like the Balsams; for historical societies, senior centers, retirement homes, campgrounds, libraries and schools. I was interviewed and performed on the WCAX-TV program "Across the Fence" and appeared many times on public access television.
Yet Vermont Humanities has again refused to even give me an audition to be considered for inclusion in their Speakers Bureau Catalogue. They seem to favor academics, many from out of state. It's hard to compete with speakers whose fees they subsidize. I admire Jim Lockridge for all he's done to support and encourage area performing artists, and for his tenacity in confronting the arts establishment.
Chris Abair
Unaffordable Housing
All this talk about "affordable housing" [Off Message: "New High: Burlington Town Center Plan Includes 14-Story Towers," May 6] neglects to mention what is considered affordable. I work 50 hours per week at a decent job, and the average $1,200- to $1,300-per-month rent for a one-bedroom in Chittenden County is almost half my monthly income. This is not affordable!
Add a (used) car payment (CCTA doesn't have bus routes that will get me to and from work), utilities (not including cable) and groceries — and I'm already over budget, and there's no room for any emergencies, let alone savings. I can't even imagine how difficult this is for people with children.
Sure, there are cheaper rents outside of Burlington — too bad Green Mountain Power is right there to charge $200 and more a month for electricity!
Please stop building housing that only caters to rich mommies and daddies from out of state. The middle class lives here, our parents don't pay our bills and we can't find anything affordable about your housing. Please consider all the people looking for housing, not just the people in your income bracket.
Susan MacKenzie
Hurray for the Artist-Tree
[Re Whiskey Tango Foxtrot: "What's Up With the Metal-Wrapped Tree at Fort Ethan Allen?" May 20]: I think most of us who live on Officers' Row in the Fort love the art installations that our neighbor creates every now and then! Remember the monster clothesline, including the outsize laundry with giant clothespins, stretched across the field a few years ago? In my opinion, we are lucky to live in this hood and be treated to such interesting and wonderful creativity! It is sad to see many of the old trees succumb to the chain saw, so dressing up this maple for a while and paying homage makes this resident smile.
Nan Abbott-Hourigan
Essex Junction
In last week's "Taxi Trials: Are Burlington's Standards Lower Than Uber's?" staff writer Alicia Freese incorrectly stated the reason for a Blazer Transportation driver's licence suspension. The license was suspended for driving under the influence of drugs.
In "Jump In" [May 20] we misstated the distance between the town of Greensboro and Lake Caspian; the town includes the lake. Also, Greensboro's Highland Lodge and Lakeview Inn no longer offer dining to the public.
Last week we interviewed Sumru Tekin about her exhibit "One Day" at the BCA Center. A spotlight in our visual arts newsletter re:View misinterpreted that article. Tekin is Turkish and does not have Armenian roots. Apologies for the error.


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Anyone who knows me knows I love flowers. The smell, the beauty, the perfectly imperfect.
I've never been much of a DIY-er when it comes to skincare – although like food, making your own is probably a lot healthier and better for your skin. It doesn't hurt to start skincare and invest in self-care as early as you can. Since doing DIY is still much of a daunting task (do the products go bad?) – I opted for trying out each of the organic essential oils and dry flowers Better Shea Butter offers for a bath. I've long been a fan of essential oils that have amazing benefits – especially for sleep. Here's a breakdown of what these natural ingredients can do for you:
Roseship Seed Oil – anti-aging. moisturizer. dark spots + discoloration.
Jojoba Oil – moisturizer.
Apricot Oil – moisturizer. aromatherapy.
Almond Oil – vitamin E. fatty acids. protein. potassium.
Rose – aromatherapy.
Lavender – aromatherapy. relaxation. stress relief.
Calendula – skin ailments. abrasions. dyes. circulation. upset stomachs.
Chamomile – eczema. psoriasis. irritated skin. rashes. abrasions.
If you want to try DIY-ing, they provide recipes and other all-natural ingredients on their site including shea and other butters (or you can just indulge yourself in a spa experience, as I did, and make a crystal-tea. I actually have way more shots than I typically have patience for, as I was enjoying myself so much). Have a wonderful, relaxing, and soothing weekend!
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Taking a trawl through an interesting year in dance music and this my very first attempt at a Yearmix! I must admit that I threw it together in three nights so it might total about 6 hours work! Hopefully I've improved since but I thought it was worth letting you all have a listen!Continue reading
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Florida Senator Jeff Brandes held an open forum for Gulfport residents amid the continuing sewage saga on Friday, August 28 at Scout Hall.
Senator Brandes, a St. Petersburg native, listened to concerned citizens regarding the pumping of 15.4 million gallons of sewage into Clam Bayou and learned more about the situation.
"This is education for him," Vice Mayor Yolanda Roman, who organized the event, said. "He will walk away educated on the situation."
Senator Brandes received a warm welcome from the standing-room-only crowd.
"I'm excited to have this conversation," Brandes stated. "At the end of the day, this is not a partisan issue, this is a community that needs to come together and I can serve as an important bridge between Gulfport and reaching out to the city to help facilitate the discussion to make sure these types of activities never happen again."
St. Petersburg Councilmember Steve Kornell – who represents District 5, covering Lake Maggiore area to Pinellas Point and west toward the beaches – was also in attendance and spoke about several solutions from the city of St. Petersburg.
"There are several actions coming up," Kornell said. "There's a new tank in progress, there's new pumps that are in progress, there's a new lift station at Childs Park that's in progress. Those are all things that are going to happen in the next two years."
Kornell also admitted that poor planning on the part of St. Petersburg was partially to blame for the recent sewage overflows.
"Where I have a big problem is maybe we should have done some of those first before we closed Albert Whitted [water treatment facility]. That would have made some sense," Kornell said.
Kornell also described a conversation he had with Steve Leavitt, St. Petersburg's water resource department director, and admitted that the city was partially at fault.
"They said it was a '100-year weather event' and I said, 'Then why didn't all of our plants overflow?'" Kornell said. "I was driving around. It was raining everywhere."
Kornell explained that when he asked Leavitt how close the northwest water treatment plant was to overflowing, he was told that it was "close but didn't overflow." Kornell said it was safe to say that if St. Petersburg had diverted Albert Whitted to the northwest plant, as opposed to the southwest plant, that the northwest plant would have been the one that overflowed.
"We need to stop saying this was a '100-year weather event' like we had nothing to do with it and let's admit that we did. And we absolutely did. There were some choices made," Kornell said. "If we don't admit there was a problem, what chances are there that we're going to fix the problem?"
The long-term solution, said Kornell, will come from St. Petersburg's plan to realign their entire sewage pipeline, which is scheduled to be a 75-year project; a reasonable timeline for a city of St. Petersburg's size.
"If you look at every [area] in the whole region – Tampa, Hillsborough, Pinellas – it would be a similar time frame," Kornell said. "It is a regional problem that should be addressed in a regional way."
Kornell also apologized to the public for the sewage pumping.
"I'm sorry that this happened," he said. "No excuses, but we're committed to finding a solution."
The clean up effort is still in the hands of Mother Nature. Currently the plan is to allow the tides and rain to naturally wash away all the sewage.
"I would have to talk to an engineer to understand what type of funding could be available [for a clean up process], but it seems like what we need is time and water," Brandes said. "And God seems to provide us with a lot of water lately, and I don't know what else to do."


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Hate to put a good project down, but I have to say, I dislike this game with a passion. It's a clever idea, and well implemented, but to me, it just strips all the appeal from Rogueliking. Mort432 20:07, 28 April 2012 (CEST)
I have to strongly disagree with you! I love Nethack, and this game is an awesome sort of retelling of the game. It stays true to what defines a Roguelike (except being a platformer), and has given me a lot of fun. I ended up buying it the first time I got to Waz the Hacker, even! Quinnr 05:37, 10 June 2012 (CEST)
Hehe... people said the same when I added the graphical tiles to NetHack - and plenty still don't use them. I certainly understand, but the reality is that different people enjoy different things and there is no reason to only make roguelikes for one type of person. Fortunately, there is no shortage of plain text ASCII roguelikes. Amusingly, when I first started playing NetHack, I was on a TTY that didn't even have color support. Waz 15:01, 8 July 2012 (AEST)


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Fixing hair makes me crazy! You would think that after having it my whole life, it would be a cinch to style (ha! don't I wish?). Throughout the past 45 years, it has gone between curly and kinda straight. Whatever it decides to do (my hair has a life all it's own), it is not usually what I ask of it. How do I get past the curly/straight dilemma
Debbie the miracle worker
The only time I rely on a beautiful coif is after a visit to my good friend and hairstylist Debbie Moss Her magic touch turns tresses into gold. I'm not sure how she transforms my frizzy monstrous mess, but she never fails.
the real reason I'm growing my hair long
One may wonder why I don't just keep my hair short enough that the curl wont become a nuisance. Typically by the time it touches my shoulders, I am certifiably bonkers. I guess it is time for a confession of sorts.
insert sad music here… In my mind, mermaids should have long hair (there, I said it). I don't particularly like stereo types and often go out of my way to avoid them. However, as a fledgling mermaid, I wore a wig that itched like mad and gave me head sweats. Yuck!
suck it up time
I am hoping that the longer my hair gets, the more curl will be pulled out. If I'm styling it myself (it is never quite as perfect) my technique is improving. In the above VLOG, I ask for your help in fixing a hairdo.
Please share your own hair dilemma tales with me. Also if you have found a way to tame the frizz on a regular basis, feel free to share that too.
This post was inspired by the weekly VLOG prompt provided by Mama's Losin' It. Thank you Mama Kat for your continued inspiration.
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The Gambia Government has announced it has granted official licensing of Offshore Block A1 to British Petroleum BP Exploration (Gambia) Ltd., a subsidiary of BP Exploration Operating Company Limited.
According to the ministry of Petroleum, this license provides the necessary legal framework for the exploration of the A1 acreage, the eventual development of fields (upon the discovery of hydrocarbons) and the ultimate production of oil and/or gas from Block A1.
The License was signed on Tuesday by the Minister of Petroleum and Energy, Fafa Sanyang, witnessed by key government stakeholders and the executive delegation from the British Petroleum (BP) Petroleum House, Brusubi.
The deal, described by officials as a monumental achievement, represents one of the most historic and valuable agreements The Gambia has entered into since independence and has the realistic potential to positively transform the country and bring out significant transformative economic development pending the discovery of hydrocarbons and the efficient management of such discoveries.
The agreement, the officials say, is the culmination of years of work and the application of best industry practices through a most transparent process with the involvement of all the key industry stakeholders across government.
A statement from the Petroleum ministry said from the pre-launch consultations, to the official launch of the Licensing process in November of 2017, request for information process, request for proposal process and the eventual final negotiations for the A1 license, there has been an unprecedented interest in Gambian acreages from numerous international oil companies.
The statement went on: "Throughout these processes, our team of experts across our national institutions with assistance from the African Development Bank (through the African Legal Support Facility) and the law firm Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner (BCLP) with the support of local Counsel (Senghore Law Practice) under the leadership of the Ministry of Petroleum & Energy ensured systematic communication with stakeholders through the Ministry's website and on international platforms.
The just concluded process has seen the review and continuous improvement of legal instruments connected to the Petroleum Sector and the adoption of a Model Petroleum Exploration and Production License Agreement which will ensure the protection of our resources, open new opportunities for domestic representation, as guided by our policy objectives, promote the involvement of local Gambian individuals, businesses and companies in upstream investment opportunities to ensure that The Gambia obtains the greatest possible benefits from the petroleum resources, develop our national capabilities in all aspects of the petroleum industry and obtain effective transfer of appropriate technology and skills related to upstream petroleum operations.
The signing of this monumental petroleum licence with BP, one of the world's largest and oldest International Oil Companies, indicates that The Gambia will forge ahead with a true and strong partner, who will work with us to achieve our policy objectives to promote increased Exploration & Production activities. The provisions in the license ensure that petroleum operations are undertaken in The Gambia in a socially, economically and environmentally sustainable and responsible manner.
The Ministry will continue to pursue its vision to be performance-driven and would ensure that the Gambia's Petroleum sector contributes to the sustainable development of the country. Our mission is to ensure maximum benefit from the country's hydrocarbon resources through an efficient, safe and environmentally friendly manner that will enhance and contribute to the growth of our national wealth.
The signing of this prize-toping deal is a realisation of the Ministry's mandate to harness and promote the country's hydrocarbon potentials for the development of The Gambia through negotiating the award of exploration and production licenses, negotiating bilateral and multilateral cooperation agreements, and developing policies and strategies to enhance the development of the industry.
The Government of The Gambia through the Ministry of Petroleum and Energy will continue to pursue the attainment of its policy objectives to create a conducive, stable and predictable policy, legal and regulatory framework and a competitive fiscal regime with a view to attracting direct greater foreign investment in the upstream sector.
"We look forward to an inclusive development process with our partners as we start a process of institutional and public engagement for a clearer understanding of the industry to ensure the harnessing of all potential opportunities at our disposal as a country and its respective peoples. Periodic engagements, releases and milestone announcements on this and other licenses will be availed to the public as and when available following due process and in accordance with the license agreement and the laws of The Gambia."


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Indians make sacrifice to Jobu to end Yan Gomes's slump
Yan Gomes's Indians teammates channeled the movie Major League and made a sacrifice to Jobu in his name.
Through 69 games and 245 at bats, Indians catcher Yan Gomes's average sits at an unspectacular .163. Desperate times call for desperate measures.
Gomes's teammates channeled the movie Major League and held an exorcism for him in the clubhouse on Saturday afternoon. Teammates dressed up and gathered around as they sacrificed some sort of food to the voodoo figure. It wasn't KFC chicken, but perhaps it'll do.
Gomes is hitting .200 against curveballs, and a terrible .109 against sliders, so perhaps this will translate.
Here's some footage from Jason Kipnis's Instagram.
"Hey bartender, Jobu needs a refill!"
– Kenny Ducey


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