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The Quest For The Perfect Vagina: Is Labiaplasty Really The Answer?
To coincide with the launch of Women's History Month 2017, Fuck.com reviews 'The Perfect Vagina' - a passionate documentary by Lisa Rogers about modern femininity and the rise of vaginal cosmetic surgery, specifically labiaplasty.
The size, colour and shape of labia vary significantly between individuals. Much like our faces and other body parts – not everyone looks the same, and that is what makes us all beautiful. Vulvas also change with time, being affected by events such as puberty, childbirth and general ageing.
However, vulvas have been left out of the body positivity conversation. Due to the nature of intimacy of vulvas, they aren't really at the forefront of discussions. Instead, they are often hidden from view and only actually seen while watching porn, which does not often show a variety of bodies. Even medical textbooks don't display a variety of labia. The lack of discussion about vulvas leaves them as a target for insecurities. While every vulva shape and size is normal, there seems to be one prevalent 'look' for which people strive.
That is where labiaplasty comes into the picture. While there are people who may have a congenital disorder or other medical reasons for plastic surgery, there has been an increase in the number of women who are chasing a vulva that is 'clean, tucked in and tight'. Labiaplasty often removes part of the clitoral hood and some of the labia minora to create a 'designer vagina'.
Where the FUCK is this mythical 'Perfect Vagina'?
In the UK documentary "The Perfect Vagina", Lisa Rogers shares her investigation of the mythical perfect vagina (although, technically it should be named the perfect vulva). The majority of the hour-long documentary talks about labiaplasty and even follows one woman's surgical process (visuals included). Rogers talks to two different plastic surgeons and a couple of women who have considered the procedure as well.
On top of the labiaplasty theme, Rogers interviews people about the concept of 'the perfect vagina'. These people include a waxing esthetician, her cis-male partner, her cis-male friends and her cis-male house painters. She also meets with Jamie McCarthy who is the cis-male artist behind The Great Wall of Vaginas, and with a group of women who have made vulva casts for his project.
She also interviews a woman who runs a workshop about learning to love your vagina, and eventually agrees to participate in it, but not before making fun of it quite a bit.
Some of these interviews are great – like the one with Jamie McCarthy, however many just feel like random filler (like her acquaintances) that are just there to help get her point across. They aren't professionals, and they aren't a diverse group of people; they are just people she has in her life. It isn't a large enough sample size to feel like their message is important, and it just kind of falls flat.
And then there was a cab ride and hymens
At one point in the documentary, Rogers discovers that some women have procedures to repair their hymens. She interviews a few young adults at a community centre and then follows one woman to her doctor appointment about reconstructing her hymen. This section ends with Rogers crying in a cab.
Of course, this is a very heavy, very complicated topic and I am not sure it was necessary to detour from her labiaplasty theme to discuss this. It deserves a separate documentary, and I don't think this little spotlight on it gave enough information to not jump to conclusions. It fed into stereotypes and while it is important for people to be aware of, it didn't fit in with the rest of the documentary.
I applaud this documentary for discussing a topic that so needs to be addressed. There is way too much shame around the appearance of our genitals, and that needs to change. This documentary has made some waves in the discussion of what is 'normal' and what is 'ideal' and has probably influenced hundreds of people to accept their genitals or their partner's genitals.
Nothing is perfect and we fucking like it that way
There are some faults with this documentary as listed above, but these shouldn't put you off watching it. This is a topic that needs way more exposure and a special place in the body positivity discussion. We see it more often addressed by artists and advocates, and this documentary was a giant step forward.
Lisa Rogers was brave to bring up this topic, but there is a lot of room for further research and journaling in this field. While the documentary "The Perfect Vagina" is important, there is a lot more work that needs doing.
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By Bruce Tennen July 17, 2011
South Sudan, the world's newest nation, has been recognized by the United Nations (the 193rd member), as well as many western countries including: Russia, England, and the US.
The former British colony has suffered for the past fifty years from civil war, famine, military coups, terrorism, and a conflict with the Muslim north and the Christian south, which has resulted in nearly two million deaths. The new nation is now one of the poorest and most under-developed countries in the world, but is sitting on huge oil reserves and could expand rapidly.
However, getting a South Sudan team into next summer's Olympic Games in London may be a significant challenge. The country needs to organize at least four national sports federations and a national Olympic committee before they can be considered for participation. A more likely scenario is for some athletes to compete under the Olympic flag.
The best known athlete from the new country is Chicago Bulls forward Luol Deng, who will be on the Great Britain team at the Games.
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Catherine Lacey
Named to Most Anticipated and Must Read lists by Huffington Post, W, Nylon, Elle, Buzzfeed and Chicago Reader
Written by one of Granta's Best Young American Novelists, Catherine Lacey's The Answers is a "novel of intellect and amplitude that deepens as it moves forward" (The New York Times) about a woman learning to negotiate her ailment via the simulacrum of a perfect romantic relationship.
Mary Parsons is broke. Dead broke, really: between an onslaught of medical bills and a mountain of credit card debt, she has been pushed to the brink. Hounded by bill collectors and still plagued by the painful and bizarre symptoms that doctors couldn't diagnose, Mary seeks relief from a holistic treatment called Pneuma Adaptive Kinesthesia—PAKing, for short. Miraculously, it works. But PAKing is prohibitively expensive. Like so many young adults trying to make ends meet in New York City, Mary scours Craigslist and bulletin boards for a second job, and eventually lands an interview for a high-paying gig that's even stranger than her symptoms or the New Agey PAKing.
Mary's new job title is Emotional Girlfriend in the "Girlfriend Experiment"—the brainchild of a wealthy and infamous actor, Kurt Sky, who has hired a team of biotech researchers to solve the problem of how to build and maintain the perfect romantic relationship, casting himself as the experiment's only constant. Around Kurt, several women orbit as his girlfriends with specific functions. There's a Maternal Girlfriend who folds … More…
Mary's new job title is Emotional Girlfriend in the "Girlfriend Experiment"—the brainchild of a wealthy and infamous actor, Kurt Sky, who has hired a team of biotech researchers to solve the problem of how to build and maintain the perfect romantic relationship, casting himself as the experiment's only constant. Around Kurt, several women orbit as his girlfriends with specific functions. There's a Maternal Girlfriend who folds his laundry, an Anger Girlfriend who fights with him, a Mundanity Girlfriend who just hangs around his loft, and a whole team of girlfriends to take care of Intimacy. With so little to lose, Mary falls headfirst into Kurt's messy, ego-driven simulacrum of human connection.
Told in Catherine Lacey's signature spiraling, hypnotic prose, The Answers is both a mesmerizing dive into the depths of one woman's psyche and a critical look at the conventions and institutions that infiltrate our most personal, private moments. As Mary struggles to understand herself—her body, her city, the trials of her past, the uncertainty of her future—the reader must confront the impossible questions that fuel Catherine Lacey's work: How do you measure love? Can you truly know someone else? Do we even know ourselves? And listen for Lacey's uncanny answers.
Vogue Magazine Best Books of the Year, NPR Best Book of the Year, Wall Street Journal Best Books of the Year, Esquire Magazine Best Books of the Year
I'd run out of options. That's how these things usually happen, how a person ends up placing all her last hopes on a stranger, hoping that whatever that stranger might do to her would be the thing she needed done to her.
Praise for The Answers
"Lacey's sentences are long and clean and unstanchable . . . she sweeps you up in the formidable current of her thought, and then she drops you down the rabbit hole. She's the real thing, and in The Answers she takes full command of her powers . . . This is a novel of intellect and amplitude that deepens as it moves forward, until you feel prickling awe at how much mental territory unfolds . . . Lacey's special gift is for capturing the realistic flickering of individual consciousness." —Dwight Garner, New York Times
"The Answers is in part a sparkling satire of our era of big data . . . But the novel is also a poignant spiritual lament, deepening the themes of Ms. Lacey's excellent debut, Nobody Is Ever Missing . . . [Lacey's] searching, religious dimensions add to the fresh commentary on present-day godheads to make The Answers not just one of the most ingenious novels of 2017 but also one of the most moving." —Sam Sacks, Wall Street Journal
"This is Lacey's specialty: She captures with eerie precision the strangeness of being a person in the world, living alongside other human beings with unknowable thoughts and feelings . . . Reading Lacey's fiction feels like walking through a dark apartment in someone's mind, full of winding hallways and unmarked doors. You never know quite where you are or where you'll end up." —Joy Press, Los Angeles Times
"Haunting . . . [The Answers is] a quiet, calm, somewhat circuitous rumination … More…
"Haunting . . . [The Answers is] a quiet, calm, somewhat circuitous rumination on what we miss and miss out on when our connections to other human beings are synthetic. And it serves as a reminder that sometimes the fiction that feels most relevant to a hallucinatory political moment is not itself overtly political . . . A thoughtful, complex, feminist book that artfully mines the fun-house insanity of 21st century American womanhood by a uniquely talented writer who knows not to put forth any answers, only more questions." —Nina Renata Aron, The New Republic
"Such an inventive setup isn't merely an excuse for Lacey to show off her considerable inventiveness. It also allows her to dig into some fertile philosophical ground, raising questions to which the novel, against its title and like all good art, offers no final answers . . . Love is a strange, strange thing, and so is the self. No one in contemporary fiction does a better job of showing us these facts than Catherine Lacey." —Anthony Domestico, Boston Globe
"Catherine Lacey's dating dystopia The Answers is this summer's must-read novel . . . A darkly funny, tartly feminist look at the tender state of our bodies and souls in the Information Age . . . [Lacey's] work manages to be both conceptual and human, socially aware and mordant—think DeLillo for millennials—[and it] captures the absurdity of a culture that persists in thinking that enlightenment is a matter of the right purchase, hashtag, or Google search." —Megan O'Grady, Vogue
"The genius of Catherine Lacey lies in the fact that her new book, The Answers, doesn't feel like too much; the pieces are bizarre and timely and fit together like puzzle pieces into a somehow timeless examination of humanity . . . Lacey's prose radiates elegance beneath its unassuming, unflashy surface; there's nary a maladroit word or an unrevealing detail. She skillfully balances a truly absurd array of hot-button topics and weird narrative twists, playing them off each other virtuosically to weave a surreal-feeling story with deeply pragmatic concerns." —Claire Fallon, Huffington Post
"Catherine Lacey examines, with clinical chill and precision, late-capitalism's perversions of love . . . The Answers cinches [Lacey's previous accolades] while forging new narrative territory. It's more plot-driven and ruthless than Nobody Is Ever Missing, a world more familiar with the carnal cruelty of a Mary Gaitskill story than Adler's aphoristic prose . . ." —J. Jezewska Stevens, BOMB
"Complex and haunting . . . Masterful . . . Lacey writes loneliness and solitude with a profound depth, injecting life into the anxious fluttering of those wondering, wandering individuals who just don't know what to do with themselves and who can't stop asking life's most impenetrable questions." —Laura Adamcyzyk, The A.V. Club
"[The Answers] directs [its] energy into an unpredictable, layered plot that will likely take most readers by surprise . . . For Lacey's remarkable skill to be fully embraced, we may need a new genre to categorize her work under . . . Her sentences are like reading an iconic prose style before it's become iconic." —Joshua James Amberson, Los Angeles Review of Books
"For a novel that's so cerebral, The Answers is impressively tightly plotted and Lacey's prose notably refined in its lucidity. It's an exciting and clever follow-up to her acclaimed debut, Nobody Is Ever Missing, and testifies to her inclusion on Granta's recent best of young American novelists list . . . The Answers is an unsettling, but whip-smart meditation on love, intimacy and contemporary female experience, minus the fairytale ending." —Lucy Scholes, The Independent
"Catherine Lacey is one of the most intelligent and brittle and funny writers of her generation. In The Answers, she builds—out of the raw stuff of bewilderment and absence—a soaring, heartbreaking work that's just on the right side of being nearly too beautiful to bear." —Lauren Groff, author of Fates and Furies
"Remarkable . . . Lacey displays an exceptional ability to articulate the elusiveness of knowing others, as well as the desire to find meaning and trust within." —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"Startling and stunning and compulsively strange, Lacey's sophomore novel is a haunting investigation into the nature of love . . . With otherworldly precision and subtle wit, Lacey creates a gently surreal dreamscape that's both intoxicating and profound. A singular novel; as unexpected as it is rich." —Kirkus (starred review)
"Lacey is particularly attuned to the emotional elasticity of her female characters, especially as they face problems that can feel physically taxing . . . [She] makes it easy to believe women, which has been, as we all know, perhaps the hardest thing to do from a narrative standpoint at any particular time in history . . . Lacey manages to entertain us as she makes a point about women on the fringe." —Kaitlin Phillips, Bookforum
"An adept novel . . . Lacey digs into the choppy turf beneath a woman's relationship to her body, her identity and her search for balance between independence and meaningful relationships . . . Lacey doesn't give us answers, but she sure gives us a wild story with a memorable protagonist." —Shelf Awareness
"Surreal, thought-provoking, and intriguingly untidy" —Booklist
Catherine Lacey is the author of Nobody Is Ever Missing, winner of a 2016 Whiting Award and a finalist for the New York Public Library's Young Lions Fiction Award, and The Answers. In 201, she was named one of Granta's Best Young American Novelists. Her essays and fiction have been published widely and translated into Italian, French, Dutch, Spanish, and German. Born in Mississippi, she is now based in Chicago.
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Greeting sportspersons on National Sports Day, Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Saturday said the Central government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi is committed and playing an instrumental role in promoting sports.
The Minister said that young talents are being nurtured through initiatives like Khelo India and Fit India."On National Sports Day, I salute all our sportspeople who have been making India proud through their passion and hard work," Shah said.
He asserted that the "Modi government is committed and playing an instrumental role in promoting sports and nurturing the young talent through initiatives like Khelo India and Fit India".
Shah also paid tribute to hockey wizard Major Dhyan Chand, on the occasion of his birth anniversary, saying "Major Dhyan Chand was a phenomenal legend, who won three Olympic gold medals and mesmerised millions through his magical technique. His talent, achievements and devotion towards the motherland continues to inspire the generations to come," Shah added.
Major Dhyan Chand was born on August 29, 1905. National Sports Day is celebrated on August 29 every year to honour the hockey legend.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah was admitted to AIIMS Hospital earlier after being tested positive for COVID-19. He has recovered and will be discharged from the All India Institute of Medical Sciences on Saturday, eleven days after being admitted for post-COVID care.
"He has recovered and is likely to be discharged in a short time." AIIMS media and protocol division chairperson Dr Aarti Vij said in a statement.
On August 18, Shah was admitted to the apex institute for post-COVID treatment after he complained of fatigue and bodyache.
On August 2, he had tweeted after testing positive for coronavirus. He had said that he was fine but was getting admitted to a hospital on the advice of doctors.
The Union Minister was discharged from Medanta Hospital in Gurugram on August 14 after testing negative for Covid-19.
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Shame Storm
After a lifetime of impeccably correct opinions, Ian Buruma found himself on the wrong side of the liberal consensus in September 2018, when he was forced to resign as editor of the New York Review of Books for having commissioned a piece called "Reflections from a Hashtag" from the . . . . Continue Reading »
A Loving Ambivalence
It is tempting to think of Las Casas as a voice crying in the wilderness, but in fact his campaign of denunciation brought him worldly success and the favor of the establishment. Continue Reading »
Poet in History
Miłosz: A Biographyby andrzej franaszektranslated by aleksandra parker and michael parkerbelknap, 544 pages, $35 The impression left in the mind of an American reader, after he finishes Andrzej Franaszek's exhaustive new biography of Czesław Miłosz, is the absurdity that this man was ever . . . . Continue Reading »


Even though it's quite lengthy and not directly related to Out of Office work I still found it very interesting.
In particular, the growth of mobile Internet technologies and Cloud computing have been exponential to date, and still have significant room for further growth! Both of these technologies are enablers of the Out of Office work style. So, promising times ahead.
Please leave a comment below if there are any other trends you consider significant.
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Zagreb Funicular, Croatia
The Zagreb Funicular is the funicular in Zagreb, Croatia, The lower station is located on Tomiceva Street, while the other station is located at the base of Lotršcak Tower. It was opened in 1890 after just 2 years from getting the building permit. It is 66 meters long and it is the shortest funicular in the world! The trip is brief – lasting just 64 seconds, but it's a fun ride and an efficient way to reach the Upper Town. The funicular is equipped with a hydraulic lift platform and an access ramp, so it's a great option for visitors who can't climb the stairs. Almost 125 years it has been transporting the citizens of Zagreb and its guests between the Upper and Lower Towns. Initially it had steam engines, which were substituted with electrical engines in 1934. Having in mind that it kept its original shape, constructional and most of the technical properties, it was given legal protection as a monument of culture.
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In 1889 D.W. Klein, a contractor from Osijek, presented the idea for Zagreb's funicular to the city council. Inspired by the funiculars in other European cities, Klein counted passersby climbing the wide, wooden stairs on Bregovita Street (now Tomiceva) to confirm that it was the busiest path between Zagreb's Upper Town and Lower Town. Klein planned to fund the project, and in return, he was to keep the rights to the funicular for 40 years. His proposal was quickly approved, and the following year, on October 8, 1890, the funicular embarked on her maiden voyage. Today the funicular actually keeps itself pretty busy, it departs every ten minutes, seven days a week, from 6:30 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. It travels 4,000 kilometers a year and transports 750,000 passengers annually. [source]
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January 22, 2021 | Agents of Impact
Amanda Gorman, poet
In a star-studded inauguration featuring Lady Gaga and J-Lo, the 22-year old poet stole the spotlight at president Joe Biden's inauguration. Accolades poured in from Barack Obama, Oprah Winfrey and Al Gore, who pointed to Gorman's call to climate action, Earthrise. Gorman's soon-to-be-published books of poetry, including one for children, jumped to the top of bestseller lists.
The fifth poet invited to present at a U.S. presidential inauguration, Gorman demonstrated to a weary nation the vital role of poetry and the arts in society. Her performance, the New York's Times' Dwight Garner said, felt like "the beginning of a remade connection in America between cultural and political life. A sleeping limb was tingling back into action." The performance was all the more remarkable considering Gorman, like Biden, has worked to overcome a childhood speech impediment. Her inaugural poem, "The Hill We Climb," finished in the aftermath of the mob attack on the Capitol, describes "a nation that isn't broken, but simply unfinished."
"Culture connects us," the cellist Yo-Yo Ma says in a recent essay published on ImpactAlpha. It is "how we create meaning, find purpose, understand each other, experience wonder and construct new realities." To meet the challenges of racial injustice, climate change and a bitterly divided populace, artists such as Gorman are helping construct new narratives.
Hundreds of creative professionals signed a letter urging Biden and vice president Kamala Harris to create a cabinet-level arts and culture agency. "Your candidacy was framed as a battle for the soul of this country," they wrote. "You need artists and arts workers to win this battle." Gorman, a self-described "skinny Black girl descended from slaves and raised by a single mother" is part of a generation stepping up to that work. "The Hill We Climb" concludes:
The new dawn blooms as we free it
For there is always light
if only we're brave enough to see it
If only we're brave enough to be it.


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To Thomas Jefferson from Henry Dearborn, 24 February 1807
War Department
Feby. 24. 1807
I have the honor herewith to transmit you a list of promotions and appointments in the Army of the United States made during the last recess of Congress
With sentiments of esteem & respect I am, Sir your Most Obt Servant
H Dearborn
DNA: RG 46—Records of the U.S. Senate.
List of Promotions and Appointments in the Army of the United States made during the last recess of Congress
Regiment of Artillerists
1st Lieutenant Addison B Armistead to be promoted to the Rank of Captain, vice, Lemuel Gates deceased Octr. 1st. 1806.
1st Lieut George Armistead to be promoted to the Rank of Captain, vice, John B Barnes resigned Novemr 1st. 1806
2 Lieut. Joseph Kimball to be promoted to the Rank of first Lieutenant, vice, Addison B Armisted promoted Octr. 1. 1806
2d Lieut. Robert Roberts to be promoted to the Rank of First Lieutenant, vice, George Armistead promoted Novemr 1. 1806
2 Lieut. James Hanham to be promoted to the Rank of First Lieutenant vice Reuben Smith resigned Novr 1. 1806
Cadets Joseph Proveaux, Ethan A Allen, Thomas Bennett, Robert Lucas & John D Wyndham to be appointed Second Lieutenants in the Regiment of Artillerists to take rank from Novr. 14. 1806
First Regiment of Infantry
1st Lieut Zebulon M Pike to be promoted to the Rank of Captain vice, James Richmond deceased
2 Lieut Daniel Baker to be promoted to the Rank of First Lieut, vice Zebulon M Pike promoted
Ensign Hezekiah Johnson to be promoted to the rank of Second Lieutenant vice Thomas B. Steele resigned June 20. 1806
Ensign Benjamin Marshall to be promoted to the Rank of Second Lieutenant, vice, Daniel Baker promoted.
Second Regiment of Infantry
Captain Richard Sparks to be promoted to the Rank of Major vice Thomas Pasteurs deceased July 29. 1806.
1st Lieut. Matthew Arbuckle to be promoted to the Rank of Captain, Vice, Joseph Bowman resigned June 20th. 1806
1st Lieut John Brahan to be promoted to the Rank of Captain vice Richard Sparks promoted July 29. 1806.
2d Lieut John Miller to be promoted to the Rank of First Lieutenant, vice, Matthew Arbuckle promoted June 20. 1806
2d Lieut William P Clyma to be promoted to the Rank of First Lieutenant, vice, John Brahan promoted July 24. 1806
Ensign Robert Peyton to be promoted to the Rank of Second Lieutenant, vice, John Miller promoted June 20. 1806.
Ensign Benjamin S Smoot to be promoted to the Rank of Second Lieutenent, vice, Josiah Taylor deceased July 3. 1806.
Ensign Charles Magnan to be promoted to the Rank of Second Lieutenant, vice, William P. Clyma promoted July 29. 1806.
Alexander Macauley to be appointed Surgeons Mate in the Army of the United State to Rank from June 11. 1806
Nathan Kennedy to be appointed Surgeons Mate to Rank from July 11. 1806.
Auguste Chouteau to be appointed Ensign of Infantry to take rank from June 20th. 1806
Cadet Louis Loramier, Nicholas King of Maryland, Samuel H. Mitchell of Kentucky, William F Ware of Georgia, David C Dean of Orleans & Serjeant Philip Ostrander to be appointed Ensigns of Infantry to take rank from November 14. 1806.
John Pollard to be appointed Surgeons Mate to take Rank from October 9. 1806
1st Lieutenant Joseph G. Swift to be promoted to the rank of Captain
1st Lieut Walker R. Armistead to be promoted to the rank of Captain
2d Lieut George Bomford to be promoted to the rank of First Lieutenant
2d Lieut William McKee to be promoted to the rank of First Lieutenant
Cadet Alden Partridge to be appointed First Lieutenant
Cadets Charles Gratiot Eleazer D. Wood, William Partridge and Prentice Willard to be appointed Second Lieutenants to take Rank from October 30. 1806
Dearborn, Henry
"To Thomas Jefferson from Henry Dearborn, 24 February 1807," Founders Online, National Archives, accessed September 29, 2019, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/99-01-02-5152. [This is an Early Access document from The Papers of Thomas Jefferson. It is not an authoritative final version.]
From Dearborn to Jefferson [23 February 1807]
All correspondence between Dearborn and Jefferson


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To request a copy of board meeting minutes please contact Detroit 90/90 at 313. 887.1613.
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Maria Callas Is Featured In The Google Doodle [VIDEO]
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Heather Fink Published: December 2, 2013
Who is Maria Callas?She was an American born Greek soprano opera singer who was born in 1923 in New York City. She died in 1977 at the age of 53 from a heart attack.
Callas was brought up by her mother in New York City but classically trained in Greece. Her voice was pure and very pleasing to listen to by many. Maria sang in many well known operas such as "Fidelio," "Norma," and "Lucia."
However, her personal life was very storm, including her relationships with both her mother and her husband.
Maria also had several personal struggles to overcome such as myopia which left her nearly blind and overweight. Maria's rapid and progressive weight loss led many to speculate this as the reason for her decline in her singing.
After being introduced to Aristotle Onassis, they embarked on a love affair until Onassis left her for Jacqueline Kennedy.
Although Maria Callas lived a very tumultuous life, she will be forever remembered as "one of classical music's best selling artists"according to Opera News.
Watch a video about Callas on YouTube.
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Really? Teachers are unevaluable? Who's buying it?
Yesterday's article in the Cleveland Plain Dealer was titled Teachers' Seniority Rights Under Assault in Cleveland, Across Nation. The article highlights the growing battle over seniority provisions in collective bargaining agreements that favor more experienced teachers over newer ones, regardless of educator quality.
Cleveland Teachers Union leaders say that they "fear giving too much authority to principals who might make unjust, arbitrary decisions, or tying their futures to test scores that urban districts struggle to raise."
Similarly, Thomas Ash at the Buckeye Association of School Administrators believes that standardized tests and "potentially subjective appraisals" are not reliable measures of performance. Instead, he favors traditional teacher seniority provisions because they're "a nice, objective measure."
Really? There's absolutely no way that we as educators can come up with better indicators of teacher quality than seniority? We can't use either "objective" student achievement data OR "subjective" appraisals by educators (or a blend of these plus maybe some other measures too)? What else is there? Is the intersection of no student outcome data AND no evaluative appraisals an empty set?
I don't think I'm willing to allow P-12 educators to essentially say they're unevaluable, and I don't think the American public is either. It's this kind of thinking and verbiage that gets in the way of needed progress and essentially cements the reputation of American schools as hidebound institutions incapable of making necessary change.
Stick a fork in the system; yet another sign that it's done?


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This is a great article that I came across on the web at "The Freedom Articles" Give it a read and open your eyes to what is going on around us. I hope you all have a great day and lift each other up to newer heights.
The Out-of-Control Growth of Fictitious "Mental Illness"
Mental illness has become the slapped-on label
increasingly applied to many people all over the world in the last few decades, thanks to the unholy alliance between Psychiatry and Big Pharma. The trend is shockingly apparent in America, but it's happening all over the globe. For the most part, ordinary people with ordinary feelings of ups and downs, highs and lows, are being told there is something wrong with them, that they are "mentally ill", and that they need psychiatric medication. These days, if you occasionally feel down or depressed, watch out: Big Pharma is targeting you for its latest mind-altering chemical concoction.
What is Psychiatric Medication?
First of all, let's define what is meant by psychiatric medication. It is a synthetic drug, designed to treat mental illness, which has a psychoactive effect, i.e. it alters the chemical makeup of your brain and nervous system. These include:
– Antidepressants (such as the common SSRI drugs like Prozac, Paxil, Celexa and Zoloft);
– Antipsychotics (such as Abilify);
– Stimulants (such as Ritalin or methamphetamine);
– Anxiolytics (such as Valium);
– Mood stabilizers
– Depressants.
The Rise of Psychotropic Drug Use
A 2010 Medco report found that around 1 in 5 American adults took at least 1 psychiatric medication in 2010; in women, the rate was 1 in 4. The US spent around $2.24 billion in 1986 on psychiatric medication, but over $30 billion in 2005 – and it keeps rising.
Psychiatry Uses Behavior and Peer Consensus, Not Symptoms, As Basis for Diagnosis
The DSM (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual) of psychiatry is a listing of all known psychiatric diseases. Yet did you know that all the listed diseases are arrived at by voting and peer consensus? The diagnostic criteria are voted into existence. This is politics, not science.
Psychiatrists have yet to conclusively prove that a single mental illness has a biological or physical cause, or a genetic origin.
Let's pause for a minute on that one. The implications are staggering.
The DSM uses behavior, not physical and measurable symptoms, as the basis for its diagnosis. It does not determine whether someone is mentally ill, or suffers from mental illness, by standard diagnostic tests such as a blood test, saliva test, urine/stool sample, x-ray, brain scan or chemical imbalance test. It has admitted as much through numerous channels:
"There are no objective tests in psychiatry-no X-ray, laboratory, or exam finding that says definitively that someone does or does not have a mental disorder." — Allen Frances, Psychiatrist and former DSM-IV Task Force Chairman
"There is no definition of a mental disorder. It's bull. I mean, you just can't define it." — Allen Frances
"There is no blood or other biological test to ascertain the presence or absence of a mental illness, as there is for most bodily diseases. If such a test were developed … then the condition would cease to be a mental illness and would be classified, instead, as a symptom of a bodily disease." — Dr. Thomas Szasz, Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry, New York University Medical School, Syracuse
Busting the Idea of a "Chemical Imbalance"
For decades psychiatrists have claimed that mental disorders are the result of a "chemical imbalance" in the brain. But what does that mean exactly? Is there one perfect chemical balance or standard of health by which they measure disease? If so, what is it? What are the perfect levels of every chemical and hormone we must have to be "mentally sound"? Clearly it would be impossible to define this, so what are the ranges? Wouldn't the range depend on many factors such as age, gender, environment, etc.? Who decides when someone's chemical level leaves a certain range and becomes pathological? What is the basis for this?
Too many questions, and not enough good answers.
In truth, the idea of a "chemical imbalance" underpinning "mental illness" is really an attempt to try to make invented psychiatric diseases sound scientific. Listen to the words of some of the doctors below discussing psychiatry:
"At present there are no known biochemical imbalances in the brain of typical psychiatric patients—until they are given psychiatric drugs." — Peter Breggin, Psychiatrist
"While there has been no shortage of alleged biochemical explanations for psychiatric conditions…not one has been proven. Quite the contrary. In every instance where such an imbalance was thought to have been found, it was later proven false." — Dr. Joseph Glenmullen, Harvard Medical School psychiatrist
"Virtually anyone at any given time can meet the criteria for bipolar disorder or ADHD. Anyone. And the problem is everyone diagnosed with even one of these 'illnesses' triggers the pill dispenser." — Dr. Stefan Kruszewski, Psychiatrist
Mental Illness is Essentially an Invented Disease
The bottom line in all of this is that mental illness is essentially an invented disease. If there is no way to prove that anyone has it, through the normal means of a blood test, saliva test, urine/stool sample or any other standard diagnostic test, how do we know it even exists as an illness or phenomenon? Without any scientific or objective way to test the label of mental illness, how can we know that doctors are not unintentionally – or intentionally due to bribery – falsely diagnosing people and turning them into patients?
At one point homosexuality was considered a mental illness. It has since been voted in and out of existence.
Now, in fairness to Western Medicine and Big Pharma, there are undoubtedly people who need mental help. But how we can trust doctors and psychiatrists to tell us who they are, when bribery and corruption is so rife in the industry, and billions of dollars are at stake?
Not so long ago, psychiatrist Leon Eisenberg confessed on his deathbed that ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) was a fictitious disease. Yes, he admitted that "ADHD is a prime example of a fictitious disease." Due to this deception, millions of children have forced to ingest the psychoactive drug Ritalin (chemically similar to amphetamine or speed) with a slew of dangerous side effects such as heart palpitations, headaches, stomach aches, nervousness (including agitation, anxiety and irritability), insomnia, decreased appetite, nausea, dizziness and addiction. It's legal speed – so of course it's addictive.
We can only hope that when enough people become aware of Big Pharma's attempt to pathologize normal behaviors, they will seek other means to heal any mental disturbances they are experiencing, especially by the tried-and-tested psychotherapy (counseling), which is completely non-invasive.
And lastly … did you ever wonder why the elite through (Big Pharma/Psychiatry) are so focused on mental illness? To get normal people on pills and/or locked up, but also to institute a system by which dissenters and free thinkers can be declared mentally ill or unstable and be "legally" removed from society.
http://apps.who.int/medicinedocs/documents/s19032en/s19032en.pdf
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2012/12/17/seven-facts-about-americas-mental-health-care-system/
The difference between a medical diagnosis and a psychiatric diagnosis
https://thefreedomarticles.com/mental-illness-out-of-control-growth/
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Psychosocial Risk Management Excellence Framework
PRIMAeT
Project Outputs
PRIMA-EF
Stakeholder Workshop
Best Practice Workshop
Dissemination Conference
Project Outputs >
PRIMA-EF Inventory
PRIMA-EF Guide
PRIMA-EF Guidance Sheets
PRIMA-EF Book
PRIMA-EF Consortium
I-WHO
ISPESL
CIOP
FIOH
Liaison Organisations
Using the PRIMA-EF framework, best-practice criteria for the evaluation of interventions were formulated and outlined. This best practice inventory has been developed on the basis of these criteria:
(a) Sector specificity: assessing the specificity of the intervention to an occupational sector;
(b) Usability with different enterprise sizes: assessing the usability of the intervention across varying sizes of enterprises;
(c) Gender: assessing whether the intervention addresses gender issues and is applicable to both genders;
(d) Theory: assessing whether the intervention is derived from theory and is evidenced-based;
(e) Adaptability/Tailoring: assessing the adaptability of the intervention to a variety of occupational sectors & sizes of enterprises;
(f) Corporate social responsibility: assessing if the intervention promotes responsible business practices, and if so, in what ways;
(e) Social dialogue: assessing if the intervention promotes employee participation & dialogue among social partners, & if so, how;
(g) Quality control: this was assessed by the satisfaction of several key criteria: namely,
(i) the intervention has been published in a reputable journal;
(ii) the information provider is a 'credible source';
(iii) the identity of the 'owner(s)'of the site and/or authors of the paper is obvious;
(iv) the information is original, and if not, the source is clearly stated;
(v) if it is a commercial site/paper, whether the information is objective and not biased towards a . commercial purpose;
(h) Benefits: whether benefits have been identified, including assessing the cost benefit of the intervention.
(i) Evaluation: whether the intervention has been evaluated, including the examination of process issues, the outcomes of the intervention, and the sustainability and longevity of demonstrated results;
Using these best practice criteria, a template for the inventory was designed and developed which was then distributed to a considerable number of organisations and researchers/experts who have implemented interventions in the EU. The targeted individuals and organisations were asked to evaluate the inventory and to provide feedback. Received commentary and feedback was considered, and integrated into the further development of the final inventory template.
A review of the literature in the prevention and management of work-related stress, workplace violence and bullying across various intervention levels (namely, primary, secondary and tertiary) from across the EU was conducted. It should be noted that this literature review was limited to articles published in English, and subsequently only interventions published in English and implemented in Europe were included in this study. Interventions meeting best practice criteria were short-listed and used to complete the inventory. When short-listing interventions to be discussed during the interview phase of this study, emphasis was placed on the requirement that interventions were both: (a) published in a reputable journal and (b) evaluated.
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Titanic: Inside the grandest ship of all
added on June 9, 2019 Updated on June 9, 2019
If the Titanic's sheer size did not overwhelm and impress its passengers then a tour of its lavish interior surely would. The interior of the Titanic was often likened to a floating palace containing some of the finest examples of craftsmanship and interior design ever seen in an ocean liner to this day. During Titanic's design, entirely new features were added which had never been seen before. A swimming pool, Turkish Baths, squash courts and a gym were provided.
First Class Swimming Baths
The Grand Staircase: This was the Titanic's crowning glory. It displayed a level of opulence unseen in any form of travel at the time. Craftsmanship such as this had never been seen before in any form of common transportation.
Constructed from polished oak, wrought iron and an assortment of boutique glass, the grand staircase was situated below a beautiful dome that gave an excellent illusion of natural light at any hour of the day. The centerpiece of the grand staircase was a large carved panel containing a clock.
The First class Lounge: This Edwardian inspired lounge is where first class passengers would gather to play cards and discuss the burning issues of the day.
The First Class Gym: Titanic's gym was a world first. First-class passengers had the use of the Titanic's state-of-the-art gymnasium, which was located on the Boat deck. It included the usual dumbbells, rowing machines, and so on, as well as a mechanical horse and mechanical camel. The cost to use the gymnasium was one shilling (about 25 cents), to be paid to Thomas McCawley, the on-site gymnasium steward, who dressed in white flannels.
The Titanic boasted exclusive, first-class and men-only Turkish baths. Male first-class passengers who paid the $1 fee could visit the rooms with hot, temperate, and cool temperatures; a steam room; a private toilet; and even a shampooing room. The Turkish baths also offered a freshwater drinking fountain (made of marble) and featured ornate tiles in the Arabic style and comfortable lounge chairs where passengers could rest.
FIRST CLASS TRAVEL ON TITANIC: The first class public rooms included a dining saloon, reception room, restaurant, lounge, reading and writing room, smoking room, the veranda cafes and palm courts.
If a parlor suite didn't suffice, a wealthy family could purchase several first-class cabins adjacent to one another and open the interconnecting doors between the cabins to have a suite of their own.
Cafe Parisien
The Cafe Parisien was a very popular eating area on the Titanic as it resembled the boutique cafes of modern Paris. Also on the Promenade (A) deck, first-class passengers could avail themselves of the Verandah Café and Palm Courts. The large windows, wicker furniture, trelliswork, potted plants, and checkered floors in these rooms suggested being in the English countryside. First-class children favoured the Verandah Café and often went there to play together.
First-class passengers also had the Lounge, a luxurious room on the Promenade (A) deck meant for socializing. This rich, oak-panelled room had alcoves where passengers could talk to one another with a degree of privacy. Lounge decorations were modelled after the Palace of Versailles. Coffee, tea, and liquor were served in the Lounge.
The Reading and Writing Room: This room was really designed for use by traveling first class women. It was painted in white and furnished very elegantly. There was a huge bow window that enabled the occupiers to lookout on to the Promenade Deck. There was a large fire which burned intensely adding warmth to the room.
First Class Lounge: The Lounge was situated on the Promenade Deck and again elaborately fitted out. This room was dedicated to reading, conversation, playing cards and other social interactions of the day.
1st Class Smoking room
First Class Smoking Room: Towards the back of the Promenade Deck was situated this very fine room. The walls of the first class Smoking Room were panelled in mahogany carved in the Georgian style and were inlaid with mother of pearl. Those who required an after dinner drink could find exactly what they wanted in the well-stocked bar. Others enjoyed walking around the room looking at the painted glass windows depicting many different ports from around the world, and other White Star Line ships.
On the portside of the room was a small Verandah area, which led to the Palm Court areas (30ft by 25ft) overlooking the aft Promenade Deck. Walled trellises with climbing plants gave the impression that the room was part of a conservatory. Passengers could sit on wicker chairs to finish their drinks.
First Class Reception Area: Behind the Grand Staircase was a spacious Reception Room 54 foot long. It was decorated in the Jacobean style and had a white ceiling and a dark rusty colour carpet. Before dinner, saloon passengers could gather to discuss the day's activities aboard the ship. Some would sit on one of the many floral patterned Grandfather Chairs to be found there. The Reception Room led directly to the Dining Room.
First Class Dining Room: The first class passengers would certainly dine in style. Their dining room was 114 foot long and spanned the full width of the ship. Seating 532 passengers at once, it was the largest dining room ever seen on a ship. The room was decorated in attractive Jacobean style, and was painted in peanut white.
The decoration had been the result of painstaking research. The furniture (chairs and tables) were oak and designed to add luxury and comfort at all times. In those days dinner was considered a very important part of a voyage. This restaurant served the finest meals all of which were not included in the fares of its guests. It added an extra touch of class.
1st Class Bedroom
The room had floor to ceiling panelling in French light brown walnut. Specially mounted ornaments and mouldings gave a regal effect. Candle-style lamps hung in the centre of the panels. Plain silk curtains covered the large bay windows that gave a great feeling of spaciousness. Passengers could sit around the tables in groups of two to eight people. An orchestra played to them from a raised platform. Dining would have been quite an experience.
First Class Accommodation Titanic provided 39 private suites: 30 on the Bridge Deck and 9 on the Shelter Deck. The suites included bedrooms with private toilet facilities. All had up to five different rooms: 2 bedrooms, 2 wardrobe rooms and a bathroom. First class accommodation also held 350 cheaper standard cabins with single beds. The expensive and exclusive staterooms boasted excellent fittings. (to be continued)
To learn more about this ship visit our museum on Saturday, 3rd August at 2:00 pm. to hear Michael Booth, a descendant of a Titanic Passenger, speaking about the RMS Titanic. Note the date in your diary now. See poster under "Guest Speaker" on the right.
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The gas industry has not been honest with politicians, regulators, their shareholders and you for decades.
The problem I'm talking about is not the same problem that the industry has recently been exposed over - the unaccounted for releases of gas fugitive emissions from mining operations in exploration (the drilling of test bores), extraction and pipelining.
No this little known problem is different and lies much closer to home. The fossil gas industry has been creating a large amount of greenhouse pollution in and around our homes and houses and through our roads and streets.
The pollution is methane being lost through domestic gas distribution networks. In South Australia, according to industry regulator ESCOSA, eight percent of all gas is being lost to the atmosphere in pipelines that connect the gas fields to our homes (see page 99 of this report). And the problem with losing such a large amount of methane to the atmosphere uncombusted is that unburnt gas is between 33 and 105 times more damaging to the climate than resultant products from combustion (predominately CO2).
According to NASA scientists over a 100 year time frame fossil gas is 33 times more damaging than CO2 and over a 20 year time frame a frightening 105 times more damaging. It is this 105 times 20 year timeframe figure that really matters and is relevant to us in a world where we want to avoid dangerous climate change, a world that is on the brink of global warming tipping points.
Researchers and energy analysts at Zero Emissions compared modern electric appliances with their gas equivalents across a number of scenarios. The most representative scenarios are presented below.
We took the average gas heater (up to 40 years old) that you can expect to find across a range of Australian houses. We ignored ducting losses (ducted units represent a large proportion of gas installations) and focused on the combustion flue efficiency which was assumed to be 70%. We consider this figure to be conservative. We then compared this with a reverse cycle air conditioner with an energy efficiency rating known as a co-efficient of performance (C.O.P) of 5. Around a dozen Japanese and Korean models exist at or about a C.O.P. of 5 and even go as high as C.O.P. of 5.4 (see the Energy Rating website for the models).
The result taking into account greenhouse emissions from methane leaks on the gas distribution network is that gas releases 13 kilograms of CO2 equivalent per 1.0 kilowatt-hour of delivered useful heat, while a reverse cycle air conditioner produces just 170 grams to deliver the same amount of heat. The gas heater's effect was 76 times more climate damaging than a reverse cycle air conditioner.
If you also include methane leakage upstream in the gas extraction field of 7% (which is the average being observed in USA studies with unconventional gas including coal seam gas) then delivering 1 kilowatt-hour of heat with gas would produce 26 kilograms of CO2e. This is around 155 times worse than using an electric heat pump (assuming the average emissions from electricity provided from the NEM grid).
The team found that providing 1 kilowatt-hour (or 3.6 megajoules) of heat with a 35% efficient gas cooker produces 27 times more CO2e (26kg) than an electric induction cooktop which releases just 900 grams. The worst scenario we tested for gas where upstream mining emissions were factored-in found that cooking with gas was 55 times more carbon intensive than cooking with electric induction and releases 53kg of CO2e per kWh of actual heat for directly cooking your food.
In the most representative scenario delivering 1 kilowatt-hour of heat with gas produced 13kg of CO2e, a result sixty-one times worse than doing the same with a hot water heat pump which produces 210 grams of CO2e for the same hot water (hot water heat pumps have to work harder than reverse cycle air conditioner space heating heat pumps due to the much higher 60C temperature they must achieve).
In the scenario where upstream field methane leakage emissions were taken into account, gas water heaters produced 124 times the CO2e and 53 kilograms of CO2e per kilowatt-hour of heat.
In no scenarios did gas produce less emissions than modern electric appliances, including the most conservative figures with lower (than realistic) levels of fugitives factored in.
Zero Emissions' research shows that it is well past the time when governments of all persuasions should be directing their climate incentive programs towards electric heat-pumps for heating and hot water as well as induction cooktops. The goal should be an eventual phase-out of the old legacy gas and inefficient electric resistance appliances.
For consumers make your next appliance purchase electric not gas. Get a reverse-cycle air conditioner, induction cooktop or heat pump hot water unit and save your wallet and the planet too.
Greenpower can make electric appliances zero emissions.
By purchasing Government accredited "Greenpower TM" all the above electric options can be made 100% zero emissions and carbon free contributing to the health and wellbeing of our society and a better future for all.
Air is drawn into the heat pump via a fan into an evaporator containing a special type of refrigerant. The refrigerant has an extremely low boiling point of -26°C. The comparatively warm air that has been drawn in turns the refrigerant from a liquid into a gas. A compressor then compresses the refrigerant gas, generating heat that can heat your air or water until it is ready for use. Once the heat is drawn away, the temperature of the refrigerant drops and it returns to a liquid state to start the heat pump cycle all over again. Heat pumps operate like your fridge, it is much more efficient and easier to move heat, concentrate and upgrade it through evaporation and expansion of a refrigerant gas than it is to create heat directly.
What is Co-efficient of Performance (C.O.P)?
Co-efficient of Performance or COP for short is the ratio of input energy required versus useful energy delivered. The input energy is measured at the socket. An average age ducted gas heating system with average air leakage and flue combustion efficiency would have an effective C.O.P. of 50% with 25% losses in combustion and 25% losses in ducting. Many units are worse than this. While the best performing reverse cycle air conditioner on the market has a C.O.P. of 5.42 See the government's energy rating website.
Induction cooktops consist of a hidden copper coil through which an alternating electric current flows. A ferrous magnetic pot (you can't use cheaper aluminium pots) produces eddy currents in the pot when the cooktop is turned on which then creates electrical resistance only in the base of the pot which in turn conducts its heat to your food. This process is very efficient and reduces the risks of burns and carbon monoxide poisoning associated with other kinds of cooking.


For many of our contemporaries Christmas is already in full swing. Lights, trees, santas, and so much more already crowd the shops. The first turkeys and mince pies are being eaten, and we are bombarded with carols and festive songs. It can make Advent a very difficult season to observe. Thankfully our churches give us an oasis of calm where we can reflect and take stock about what really matters.
The readings for Advent and the liturgy of the season tell us to watch and wait. It's a message that our busy world cannot begin to contemplate. Everything must be instant, immediate, and quick. That's a shame as the best things in life are worth waiting for – and top of the list is love.
The characters we meet in the readings are prepared to wait: John the Baptist, Joseph, Mary, and the Old Testament prophets. We too are called to wait – for the return of Jesus in glory. They are our examples.
Christian waiting is not an act of resignation but rather a positive longing. We are prepared to wait so that we can realise more fully what we are to receive. We wait so that we can be even more joyful. We wait in confidence and hope.
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DENVER -- A northeast Denver school was evacuated Wednesday afternoon after an unknown odor was detected inside the school.
Denver Fire responded to Pitt Waller K-8 School at 21601 E. 51st Pl. after receiving reports about an unknown odor inside the school, according to Denver Public School.
Students were held in school buses to stay warm, while Denver Fire investigated, said DPS.
DPS also confirmed some students were being treated at the school after saying they felt sick, but none were taken to the hospital.
FOX31 Denver's Mark Meredith was on scene.
He reported that the Green Valley Ranch school was closed for the day, and students were being relocated to Evie Dennis campus for release.
Denver Fire determined the odor to be non-toxic and not dangerous, but were not exactly sure what was causing the odor.
This story will continue to be updated as more information is received.
Your story is not correct, I have 4 children that go to that school. And they were NOT held on school buses to keep warm while the fire department investigated. My oldest child was held outside for 30 mins in the cold, not allowed to go back in and get his coat…then they were allowed to go back inside and sit in the gym until school buses came to evacuate the students! This mysterious odor was detected around 1 this afternoon and I was not notified by the school until 319pm!!! If it were not for my oldest child letting me know an hour and 15 mins after the staff knew about this mysterious odor I wouldn't have known at all until 4 mins. after the school let out!!! I am not happy with the way the administrative staff handled this situation at all!!!
My daughter goes to this school. I didn't know they have been evacuated until I got to her school to pick her up, and then I had to go to the other school and wait in line for over an hour to get her. There were many very upset parents because none of us had gotten a call and none of us knew what was going on with our children. I think that the school did not do a very good job and keeping parents informed. Luckily the kids where alright but what if there had been something serious? It's just scary to think the schools not very on it when it comes to notifying us about her children.


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