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Editor's note: This is the sixth in a series of nine articles examining the history of Bay County. The series is running in conjunction with a pictorial history book produced by The News Herald that is available for purchase at panamacity.pictorialbook.com.
PANAMA CITY — The past 75 years have seen significant improvements in Bay County's infrastructure. Among the most important: two bridges and a dam that happened, and an interstate that didn't.
Construction of the bridges proved to be crucial for the future of the county.
"Bays, bayous, lakes and streams are more commonplace here than wrinkles are on a raisin," proclaimed a photo spread of the county's bridges in a 1987 edition of Bay Biz. "The bridges that span these water wrinkles of ours are the structural sutures that bind Bay County's geographic neighborhoods into a single socio-economic whole."
The first Hathaway Bridge to span St. Andrew Bay opened in 1929. It was built simultaneously with the DuPont Bridge in an effort to make travel through the region easier and spur development. Together the bridges were more than 10,000 feet long.
The bridges were named after Fons A. Hathaway, a Holmes County farmer who was appointed chairman of the Florida State Road Department, and Alfred I. DuPont, a wealthy industrialist who owned millions of acres in Northwest Florida. DuPont also was chairman of the Gulf Coast Highway Association, which was organized to build what is now U.S. 98 and completed around the same time.
"As far as the bridges, that was what opened up this area," said Marlene Womack, a local historian and columnist for The News Herald whose research informed this report. "Not many people came for pleasure. … Trips to the beach were not important then."
Before the construction of these bridges and U.S. 98, there were only north-south routes into Bay County, Womack said. People used ferries to cross the bays. The ferries operated on set schedules when the weather permitted, and they weren't free.
Work began on both bridges in September 1927. The DuPont Bridge opened to travelers in April 1929, and the Hathaway opened the next month.
Community leaders had hoped to offset the cost of building the bridges by collecting tolls from motorists and pedestrians who wanted to cross them. The bridge was toll-free that first summer, but on Sept. 2, 1929, cars were charged 50 cents per vehicle, plus an extra dime for each passenger over 12. Kids between 6 and 12 years old cost a nickel. Even pedestrians had to cough up a dime to walk across.
The tolls were reportedly unpopular and in 1932 the bridge became toll-free.
When the Navy base opened in the 1940s, the Hathaway Bridge caused difficulty for the ships that accompanied it, which would apparently crash into it with some frequency. By 1959, the bridge was replaced with an upgraded version.
That bridge was "Gone in 3 seconds," a News Herald headline declared in 2004 after the old bridge was demolished in the wake of the construction of the Hathaway Bridge we know today.
More than enough water
Deer Point Dam was conceived after Panama City and Bay County lost some prospective industries due to the lack of available freshwater. By collecting freshwater from Econfina Creek and other sources, the dam resulted in a lake with more than 200 miles of shoreline and freshwater to produce 500 million gallons a day, enough to supply Detroit in those days. Panama City required a mere 4 million gallons a day in 1964.
Deer Point Dam pumped water from the Deer Point reservoir through nine miles of pipeline to a paper mill in 1963. It reportedly took six hours just to fill the pipes for the first time.
"When you've got to go that many miles, it's a lot of water," said Lester Maples, the engineer who oversaw the construction of the dam.
Planning and construction of the dam and the pipeline had been going on for around 10 years before the paper mill could get the 20 to 30 million gallons of freshwater it needed every day. A special act of the Legislature in 1957 cleared the way for the county to build and operate the dam.
The dam plans were opposed by commercial fishermen, who predicted the dam would decimate local oyster beds that relied on brackish water for their survival. The beds north of the dam are gone now, but oyster beds still thrive south of it, said Paul Lackemacher, director of Bay County utility services.
After construction was finished, it took about 90 days for the reservoir to fill with suitable water, Maples said. He recalled seeing crabs crawling up the freshwater side and across the dam to get to the saltwater.
"It looked like an army, single file, of crabs," he said. "People could've taken a bucket and got a bucket of crabs."
More than 2,000 fishermen showed up for the opening of the dam for a contest, and a 1964 feature in Outdoor Life boasted of the unique nature of the site. From the dam, an angler could cast into the freshwater reservoir and catch bass and trout that had been stocked there, or turn around and cast into the bay for tarpon or flounder.
Roy Martin, the former mayor of Panama City Beach and a renowned angler, told Outdoor Life he'd personally pulled 1,300 fish from the area in the first year after it opened.
"To my knowledge, that was not one of the major parts of the plan," Maples said of the recreational opportunities created by the reservoir. "That was just a benefit of it."
The dam was a point of pride for the county and even garnered an award from the federal government, Maples said.
"I went to Washington with them," he said. "It was quite an honor for the county at the time."
Today the reservoir provides most of the potable water consumed in Bay County, Lackemacher said.
"We pull out, as an average, 50 million gallons a day," Lackemacher said.
About half of that water now goes to industry, while the other half is for residential use, Lackemacher said. The vast majority of Bay County residents now rely on the reservoir for the water in their homes. Only 21,852 residents were reliant on wells, according to 2010 data, Lackemacher said.
I-10 route was hot political issue
PANAMA CITY — Back in 1966, Muhammad Ali was still Cassius Clay, Americans marveled at the Viet Cong's ability to live in tunnels, The Shrimp Boat Restaurant in St. Andrews advertised "go-go girls" and Miami Mayor Robert King High challenged Gov. Hayden Burns for the state's executive office in the Democratic primary.
One of the biggest issues of that contest, according to newspaper archives, was the planning of an interstate highway through the Panhandle. The region would become the focus of both candidates' campaigns, and the planned route for Interstate 10 would become the dominant issue, at least in Northwest Florida.
Two years prior, Burns had promised to use all of his clout to swing the route as far south as possible. (1966 was the year Florida changed the schedule of gubernatorial election so they would not coincide with presidential elections.) He was forced to back away from his promise, though, after a general at Eglin Air Force Base announced the route would cut through the base in such a way that it would be disruptive to the military and potentially dangerous to motorists.
There was some dispute as to whether the Air Force actually objected to the route; as Election Day approached, a colonel denied it. Nevertheless, High seized on the opportunity by announcing his support for a southerly route for the interstate and asked Burns to delay any decision until after the election.
High suggested a northern route would not only hurt business prospects along the beach, but that it would result in wasteful spending in order to buy up rights of way throughout sparsely populated farmland.
Bridge to the future
The interstate was pitched by local officials as something of a bridge to the future. With a southerly route, the beaches would be open for business to a generation with unprecedented mobility and leisure time. A northerly route would leave the area behind, maybe forever.
"I am convinced that if I-10 parallels U.S. 90 as now planned, it will ruin business establishments along that route by draining traffic from it — and would do irreparable harm to the beaches, since it would be no benefit to them whatsoever," state Sen. Dempsey Barron of Panama City said before the election, according to News Herald reports at the time.
Barron had a reputation for winning political fights. The next day, Burns sent a telegram to the Bay County campaign chairman announcing that money to extend State 22 would be in the next budget. The extension would cut 18 miles off the route between Tallahassee and Panama City.
High countered by challenging Burns to a public hearing on the route with the involved parties.
"It has always been my contention that the economic destiny of Northwest Florida [is] irrevocably tied to the location of an interstate route through the Panhandle — from Pensacola along or parallel to the Gulf Coast beaches," High said two days before the election, according to a News Herald report.
The next day, the Air Force solidified its position. Burns read a statement from Harold Brown, the secretary of the Air Force. The Air Force and the Florida Department of Roads had studied the routes and deemed a southerly route unacceptable.
"Thus the secretary of the Air Force has shot down the Robert King High political balloon of the southerly route of Interstate Highway 10," said Rep. Bob Sikes, a Burns supporter and World War II veteran with strong ties to the military who later would be reprimanded by the U.S. House of Representatives for failing to disclose financial interests in issues on which he had voted.
High won the Democratic primary, but Burns took every county in the Panhandle. In November, High lost to Republican Claude Kirk in the general election.


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Crime fiction legends Dennis Lehane and Michael Connelly discuss the new book that unites their beloved sleuths Patrick Kenzie and Harry Bosch.
Alan Weisman's Countdown asks — and potentially answers — the big question: how can we ensure that human life has a future on Earth?
"It was misting when I first set eyes on Bag End." An excerpt from Nicole Hill's terrific essay "Concerning Hobbits and New Zealand Vacations."
Sibling authors Jennifer and Benjamin Percy of the Discover Great New Writers program on terror's infection and the power of research.
Kenneth Calhoun (Black Moon) and Lysley Tenorio (Monstress) of the Discover Great New Writers program on B-movies, heritage, and finales.
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This year's 2013 National Book Critics Circle Award winners proved far-reaching and international in scope.
"Because I am, essentially, a reading addict, my impulse is simply to rip right through a book, fiction or nonfiction, just for the animal pleasure of it. But sad experience has shown that if I abandon myself in this way, I will finish the book without being able to say much except: Boy was that ever good, you should read it." — BNR columnist Katherine A. Powers, this year's recipient of the National Book Critic's Circle's Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing.
Anthony Marra and Justin St. Germain are the winners of the 2013 Discover Great New Writers awards.
This year marks the twentieth anniversary of the publication of Michio Kaku's first book, Hyperspace. Since then, the personable (his many media appearances testify to his charm), verbally gifted, enthusiastic, science-proselytizing physicist has shared his own feelings of awe at the universe and the humans who inhabit it. Reading one of his books is like hijacking Kaku's oversized intelligence and enthusiasms to stoke your own sense of wonder. His latest is no exception.
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Jet Airways wins the Coveted 'Program of the Year' for the Second Year consecutively. JetPrivilege, India's largest and most recognized frequent flyer programme, won 9 Freddie Awards at the 20th Annual presentation ceremony of the Freddie Awards 2007, held in Wyndham Phoenix, USA on April 24, 2008.
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Chairman, Mr. Naresh Goyal was accorded the prestigious TATA AIG - Lifetime Achievement Award at the grand closing ceremony of the TAFI (Travel Agents' Federation of India) International Travel Convention 2007 Abacus-TAFI Awards Nite on Saturday September 8, 2007 at the Magella Sutera of the Sutera Harbour Resort in Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia.
Jet Airways wins TravelBiz Monitor's - Most Innovative Product Launch Award for its 'First Class' product on its long-haul flights.
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For the third year in succession Jet Airways has been conferred the Freddie Award, this time in the highly coveted category of "Programme of the Year" for Japan, Australia, Asia and Pacific regions.
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What a delightfully inspiring topic for debate! I was a Psychology major so I agree with you that where you tend to lean has a lot to do with building a lasting partnership. However, I am also a firm believer that a person can adapt accordingly to any situation given the desire to do so. I am not saying 'change' for we are all old enough to know better in that respect - I'm saying adapt as needed on a situational basis. Having taken many a personality test over the years, I can say with great confidence that I am a 50 / 50 girl. When logical is required, that part kicks in and takes charge. When a more emotional response is needed, it takes over which is why I score so high in empathy and related personality traits. I'd say the big plus for me in this mix is the ability to control anger since I see the other person's side in equal measure to my own. The trick is to find a person who balances or offsets your own deficiencies since that allows you both to soar as a team emotionally and spiritually.


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While visiting downtown to see preparations for the Christmas in July extravaganza, Mrs. Claus, who is good friends with Susie Zavodnyik, distributes candy canes to Rylee and Tyler Bichel, who were visiting from Chicago.
Venice is one of those unique cities where Christmas is celebrated twice a year — once in December and once in July.
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I met Jonathan Davis!
You guys won't believe it. At the J Devil show on Friday... I waited outside after the show ended, and I MET JONATHAN DAVIS!!!!
i'm sorry... i just...
Here, here's the full story:
I can't retell it all, I'm already crying.
In short, you know I was sad that I couldn't get into the show cause it was 18+. Well I went anyway and heard it from outside, and of course it sounded fantastic. At 1am my mom and I parked out back where his car was (I also happened to have seen him get there at 11:45) and I met Beth (lorien_eve) and her friend Christine who were also waiting for JD. I brought my 1996 Kerrang! poster and a silver sharpie. Around 1:30 he came out and my heart nearly stopped.
I was first up after Beth said hi and I asked for a photo. He said 'oh sure!' and got next to me. I was ready to throw up I was so nervous. He put his arm around me and I think I died and went to heaven because he has the touch of an angel. I told him I couldn't go to the show cause I'm 17 and he said, 'oh, that sucks.' Stupidly I added when his face was next to mine, 'I'm like your number 1 fan.' Then the photo was taken and everything I was feeling was captured in that instant on my face:
I then asked him to sign my Kerrang poster, and I freaked out when I saw him giving me the special "P" smiley!
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I asked Beth if we could get a photo together with Jon. She got beside him but there was this dude blocking my way. Jonathan beckoned to me, saying 'C'mon, get in!' with a smile. I squeezed by and got this awesome photo:
After that he had to leave, saying 'I gotta fuckin' go to bed. It was nice meeting everybody. Bye!' We all waved.
That night Jonathan taught me dreams really do come true. Very rarely do your idols turn out to be who you thought they were- Jonathan is the kindhearted person I always believed him to be. He may call himself 'J Devil' but he is truly an angel.
Jonathan, I've waited 4 years to finally meet you. I just want to say thank you for being there for me. Thank you for taking the time to meet the few fans who waited for you out back after the show, and thank you for letting me know dreams really do come true. You are an amazing man Jon and this was an experience I'll never ever forget.
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- Michael Rose
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Child, Adolescent & Family Therapist, Youth in Need
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How can we help to prevent bullying?
As a society that revels in TV series such as Honey Boo Boo, Jersey Shore and other "Reality" TV shows, how are we supposed to stop bullying within schools?
If we preach what to do or what not to do when confronted by bullying behaviors, but never follow through with consequences, how can we expect our students to continue to have faith in the faculty's true want to get rid of bullying.
How can we expect our children to stop bullying if we, as grown ups, are watching these shows.... making fun of the people on them, judging them, calling them names?
How can we change the structure of learning to help increase education, not only in the academic sense, but also in the sense of what it means to be a human being?
Mar 14 2013: in an idea adapted from the Amistad School in New Haven, CT, I have found that having the bully apologize in public, in the classroom perhaps, does a lot to curb the bully and their minions. Some parents say, That's shaming! I don't want my child to be shamed, but I respond, it is not shaming, it is requiring the child to take responsibility for their bad behavior and pursue a return to the community. Shaming is making someone feel bad about something they have no control over, Apologies are for bad behavior, which we do have control over.
Mar 14 2013: Hi Charlotte,
I agree that having the person using bullying tactics face the victim and apologize in public does a lot to curb the bully's behavior. I also agree that it encourages the person to take responsibility for their behavior.
This practice closely follows the "Real Justice" restorative practice model. When I volunteered with the dept. of corrections, we had programs, which required the offender to face the victim.....IF the victim agreed. The offender, who often incorporated bullying behaviors in their offense, were asked to apologize to the victim. Most of the offenders were also required to do community service, often something related to their offense when possible, and in some way pay restitution.
These practices ask the person using bullying, offending behaviors to be accountable and responsible for their actions. If we could start these practices at a very young age, I believe it would discourage bullying behaviors.
Wyatt Tanton
Mar 15 2013: There needs to be more work to solve the problems. Everyone says it's a terrible thing but no one really does anything. Adults, especially teachers, simply ignore it. They really don't care about the students.
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Let me explain to you a little of my situation. For a long time, I've been bullied for being smart. It started in about grade four, where I was the outsider in our small school. Teachers would frequently see or hear it, yet there would be no consequences. I was fairly loud about the issues towards the staff, but the teachers would only ever say that I need to be myself and be happy, which is hard to do when you are being bullied. So I swapped schools the next year, and for a little while it was ok, until one of the bullies transferred too. He started the same thing over again, but this time there were a lot more people. Teachers were still ignoring the fact that it was happening, and when they heard it happening they would either ignore it or give a little laugh saying, "Good one." At that point people had really started learning how to use words like fag which were thrown around by students all the time, with teachers not caring whatsoever that these were ten and eleven year olds saying these things to one another. There was a bullying presentation once a year, and both times is would say essentially that victims need to talk rationally to bullies, which is impossible because they don't listen. In junior high I spent 2 1/2 hellish years being called gay, faggot and gaysian due to the fact that I look Asian, and any number of things. One student threatened to rip my face off after attacking me and he got a day and a half of in school suspension. Finally, it all cumulated when my "friends" held a legitimate vote and agreed that I was no longer allowed to hang out with them. I left the school, and the teachers smiled and said, "I'm sorry this happened," as I walked out the door. Someone needs to actually try to stop it, because it's not just a small issue.
Mar 16 2013: Great story. I hope things are better for you now.
Elizabeth Gu
Mar 16 2013: Sorry, I beg to differ.
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It's not a great story.
It's awful...
I don't think he wrote the story to appeal to our sympathy.
I hope he can make a change as to preventing bullies around schools.
Although he suffered from the experience, through the experience, he must have realized something about bullying. Only the ones who were or have been victims know what it is to be bullied. I appreciate his courage to talk about it and I believe he can really make a change as long as he tries to influence people with all his heart.
Mar 16 2013: I actually am doing online schooling right now, which I would highly recommend. Essentially, I'm given my entire year's worth of work and just do it at my own pace (which is considerably faster than in a classroom. I do one-on-one chats with my teachers, and get to work on whichever subjects I want to. If there are people being bullied that you know, tell them to look into this option, because changing schools within a town really means that the problems can follow you. If you do online schooling though, you can be done months ahead of everyone else.
And I'm glad this happened to me because through it a lot of people realized that bullying is becoming a serious issue, and my town is a lot more observant to it. People are standing up to their bullies a little more, and parents are taking steps to fix issues.Mar 16 2013: Dear Wyatt,
I am so sorry for your experience. I agree with you that we need to stop these situations, because it is definetly NOT a small issue. Bullying can change a person's life, and we know that some teenagers have ended their lives because of bullying.
You sound like a very insightful person, and I'm glad to hear that you have found a way to acheive your goals without being bullied. You can also be a GREAT help to others who faced, or continue to face bullying.
Bullying has been going on throughout history in many different forms. It is time that as thinking, feeling, evolving humans, we put a stop to it.Mar 16 2013: Hi Elizabeth!
Do you think perhaps Trey meant "great story" in that it can help address the problem of bullying, and maybe help people understand?
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Mar 18 2013: It may have been solved, but times have changed like it or not, and there needs to be a new solution.Mar 18 2013: In your own message up you said it was solved and forgotten. The dynamics of bullying are so dramatically different from even fifteen years ago. Then, you would have to say it in person, or over a phone. Now, Facebook and texting make it so incredibly easy to bully someone. You can message hate to someone hundreds of times, and make sure its private, or attack them in the open and allow everyone else to jump onto that bandwagon. The Internet has made the world anonymous, so you can insult people without any consequence at all. For example, if I go on YouTube, I can look up a video of someone's singing and tell them that they are ugly and stupid and they should go die, and the worst that could happen to me is my account gets banned. That other person, though, has to deal with what I said, and they can't contact me if I block them and make my account private. Then people get so used to the anonymous insults they throw out that they do the same to people they know. I mean, we're on a message board right now. Obviously communication methods have changed, and so have insulting methods. It's a whole new battle to fight.
Also, that website is really just some random guy, who is nameless, faceless, and as far as I could see never once mentioned bullying. Please don't twist words from someone with zero provable credentials as though they are fact.
Mar 16 2013: Wyatt, as a teacher and mom I want to say that I am very sorry you went through that terrible ordeal.
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I hope you click on the link I provided in my comment earlier in the conversation, and watch the video presentation that is quite nice.
I must say that I too have always dealt with bullies.
First as a child....I was very shy....and I just got quieter and quieter after being bullied.
Then, as an adult, I have encountered bullying in the workplace.
Many times intelligent, efficient, hard working individuals are the target of bullying, both in the work place and in school. These individuals need to be helped in how to deal with bullies, while the bullies are also being dealt with by those in authority positions.
It is a challenging situation both at school, and in the workplace.
I think that you will also enjoy the previous conversations on bullying we have had on TED.
You can search for them and read through the great comments.
I know lots of families who homeschool their children for various reasons. Our state is great for homeschooling. Kids can even do dual enrollment and get college credits at the same time they homeschool.
One thing lacking in your comment though, was your parent's reaction. Did they reach out to the powers that be in the school district? Because many times parents just don't know how powerful their voice is in the regional offices and at school board meetings. Those teachers at you previous schools should really be ashamed of themselves.
I wish you much success in your life's journey. Enjoy your homeschool experience, you are fortunate to live in a time where technology can help you get a superior education. :)
Mar 18 2013: Absolutely, my parents contacted each school I went to about it. The teachers would either flat-out ignore them, pretend they would help, or in some cases actually say that they were investigating the incidents when they were flat-out ignoring them.
In each of the schools I went to they would have a bullying presentation each year where they would say that you have to talk kindly and tell a teacher, but if a teacher knew they would simply ignore it. And, as everyone who has been bullied knows, bullies are some of least reasonable people on Earth.Mar 18 2013: Thank you for sharing this story Wyatt.
Zdenek Smith
Mar 13 2013: I agree that many TV shows represent unrealistic portrait of people making crude jokes of others.
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I think the answer is to provide young people with a better content. It's good to see that the Internet increasingly provides such avenue, including great TED speeches, websites and videos on this topic?
It is also responsibility of parents and schools to ensure that kids know what bullying is about and how to prevent it.
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Zdenek Smith
Mar 19 2013: Don can you be specific what am I denying? I wrote about what I think we can do to prevent bullying.
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The one thing I forgot and others mention is to also educate bullies since early ages because bullying happens even in 1st grade.Mar 20 2013: I was principal of an elementary school for twenty years and we worked diligently to eliminate violence, bullying being one aspect and we were able to achieve what we wanted with few exceptions. This is a program that has to suffuse the entire school. We simply changed the value systems and the related behavior beginning in indergarten and had the parents support as well.
We celebrated learning by havign parties for classes that attained a number of bonus points. Rituals are important in all societies...We celebrate many rites of passage in families. The classroom is akin to a family and the individuals members have to understand that their actions can help or hurt their classroom family. All of this is expained to the children. One teacher even had a "caught being kind" program where children reported back to her the actions of fellow students who had been kind to another during recess.
If any class earned 100 points they had a party to celebrate and reward their success. We gave points for acts of kindness as well as student success in all school procedures including most situations that contributed to a calm and positive environment. Goodness was extolled.
However, as every good teacher knows, in additon to recognition and rewards changinh behavior and eliminating disruptions requires consequences. Bonus points were taken away for disruptive behavior when a student misbehaved and took away the rights of the other students to have an education including bullying. The values of the studnets changed and they no longer encouraged or regarded the bully with awe. Students discouraged and disapproved fo negative behaviors. This disapproval combined with the taking away of points was extremely effective. Fear a nd bullying were no longer a part of our school. Children clearly understood the behaviors that were rewarded and those that had consequences. If there was violence, we had a shredding. All bonus points were destroye
Mar 20 2013: I LOVE the story about your experience Lorraine, and your reference to the classroom being the extended family.
I also LOVE the idea of focusing on kindness and the GOOD things kids are doing in their classroom family. What we focus on expands! We discovered similar results with the incarcerated guys in "cognitive self change" sessions. We encouraged practicing more kind, respectful behaviors, and praised them for those behaviors often. They began to perceive that kind and respectful behaviors got a different kind of attention, which was more enjoyable AND, they didn't get sent to solitary as often! They started consciously thinking about their words and behaviors and how it impacted their lives. Prior to that, they focused on the idea that it was someone elses fault that they were in jail....someone elses fault that they were sent to solitary....etc.
Kudos to you Lorraine! If this idea is possible in some places, which I firmly believe it is, it is possible throughout our global community......I LOVE IT!!!
M.j. Penny
Mar 18 2013: It's all about power and control. Dealing with the effects of bullying is not as conducive as dealing with the cause. Unfortunately, it's all down to 'mindset', the childhood, the experiences, the conditioning and the environment. Until we have leaders that lead by example, aspirations that are achievable for children and a mindset that supports this, bullying can only (in my opinion) be tackled through the mindset of the victim. Power struggles in the home, in the playground, the boardroom and even the bedroom, I reckon in a thousand years, historians will remark on our society as still in it's infancy.
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Jason Nobles
Mar 17 2013: The modern epidemic of bullying may be an effect of a continually growing inequality in socioeconomic situations combined with the glamorization of silly, abhorrent, and destructive lifestyles. Social media allows a more brazen crowd sourced bullying behavior to occur. The answer is for us all to be gentle, kind and understanding first to ourselves and then to all others. We must celebrate our diversity and our commonalities. We must echo again and again that we are all the same and really want the same things most of the time. We must teach our children and hope that they will teach theirs to do likewiseMar 15 2013: Two answers:
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1) Empathy - we naturally have the ability to understand and empathize, but presumably that ability can be enhanced via training. Teaching children to detect emotions in others and to mentally put themselves in other peoples shoes might help. Also since empathy is caused by biological trait we can theoretically induce it. (In the 2005 movie version of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy they have a Point-of-view gun that makes the target see your point of view)
2) Group dependence - we naturally identify with a group and that increases our positive feelings to our group and our negative feelings towards other groups. Create groupings where children don't get to choose the groupings and then have them accomplish tasks where they rely on each other. ( I saw this in Spartacus: Vengeance where Spartacus teams up people who hate each other to work together in a fighting competition!)
I have found that a strong understanding of scifi and gladiator films and series can answer most of life's questions.
Mar 16 2013: William, I have to say, your comment is very interesting, and informative. Thank you.Mar 16 2013: I agree William...empathy and compassion can be encouraged and learned. I believe it is natural, and sometimes suppressed because of challenging life experiences of some people as children.
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I also agree that we naturally identify with a group. So if we, as a "group" of caring people in our communities, encourage respect and kindness toward each other, we may gradually change the sometimes accepted bullying behaviors:>)
I smile at your reference to a "point of view gun", and an understanding of scifi "stuff". Way back when my son was a teenager, he was involved in many school activities, and he would often pop into the home with just enough time to eat dinner before the next activity. Usually, it would be at the same time as Star trek was on TV, which he loved. I realized that if I wanted to spend time with him, it would be necessary to sit with him during the program. It was GREAT, there were LOTS of good lessons, which we could talk about, and the fact that we were sharing something was good too! Thanks for that reminder William, and your insightful contribution to this discussion:>)Mar 20 2013: TV shows do not portray reality, no matter what it is being shown.
If children grow through their formative years watching these rubbish shows with their parents, the message will get through to them that this is how to behave in real life (because it has been effectively endorsed by the parents, who are also fully engaged with it). Invariably that leads to bullying behaviour, especially when the child's peer group quite possibly have also watched the same shows.
The social engineering of children's behaviour through TV is one of the very worst crimes of modern society in my view, because it has no boundaries - the sort of boundaries that parents should be establishing in their own children by close, loving interaction and leading by example. That is the only reality children need to know.
The answer lies in the sort of parental engagement that respects the child's autonomy and his/her ability to create intense and valuable learning through making their own mistakes and creating their own successes.
Jared Diamond has some great things to say about this, comparing behaviours of western children with those of traditional societies, and how much we can learn from them:
Mar 20 2013: Well said Allan, and I agree......some of the TV programs and video games "normalize" abusive, bullying behaviors.....as you insightfully say....especially when peers and parents may be behaving in the same way.
Mar 20 2013: Hi Colleen - thanks!
I tried to edit in some good Jared Diamond links, but I don't think they're going to show up!
Jim Ryan
Mar 18 2013: Our laws, bosses,lawyers, judges and police and even teachers, use many forms of bullying. Congress is loaded with bullying and our president has a bully pulpit. When the people we must answer too are bullies, there will be no stopping it. All these entities are not held accountable and yet, children are held accountable. Our society is sickened from the top down.
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Jim Ryan
Mar 19 2013: That two understand is a start, perhaps we are not alone. Thank you.
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Ryan Wood
Mar 18 2013: This is geared toward the social media aspect of bullying.
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I think that the social media aspect plays a huge part. Cyber bullying takes bullying to a whole new level from what I have read. When I was in school there were always bullies where it was typically limited in the classroom and schoolyard. Now there is the social networks where bullying can be relentless and nonstop.
If there is one thing I could recommend it would be a social media bully switch, where if a kid is found to be bullying a classmate through facebook, the bully's account can be permanently shutdown. I don't think that we can ever stomp out bullying altogether but at least the threat of total disconnect for social networking could at least deter online bullying. Facebook is pretty important to kids so it could be a "social grounding" of sorts.
Michael Rose
Mar 18 2013: I like the idea of a "bully switch" on facebook, although I'm not sure if Mark Zuckerberg would be. I do agree that cyber bullying brings bullying to a different level and can increase the severity of bullying within real life.Mar 17 2013: When my son was attending elementary school in Colorado, the principal made a new rule that any occurrence of bullying would subject the perpetrator to immediate expulsion. His intention was to get the parents and children's attention. I was very pleased that this occurred because the bullying was so bad even in the first grade that we took my son to boxing lessons to give him some confidence.
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You mention television shows that portray hateful behavior, you forgot Mean Girls, all of the Housewives shows and Bridezilla to mention a few. I am appalled at the way women are not only allowing but encouraging portrayal of women as foul mouthed, brutal, bullying bitches.
Mar 17 2013: Connie,
I must agree and try to pin point when changes in relationships
between the sexes first appeared. I think it was in that loose time.
The mid-1960's, right after the Watts riots, when our youths were
embracing the drug culture, personal freedoms, a disdain of the
job ethic.
Police were referred to as "pigs". Young girls, high on drugs,
often paid for them with their bodies, and were referred to as "bitches".
Chivalry had lasted from Queen Victoria's time, until the Watts riots.
Sadly, for myself, I was starry-eyed, and loved those days of yore.
Remember that Hollywood is the present day Sodom.
Hollywood works for one thing only. Money.
Hollywood, along with TV, Radio, and Newspapers, work for the
monies paid from their sensational productions, and 24/7/365,
from the coffers of our nation's 2 Political Parties.
When your being blasted night and day by their trumpery,
and you haven't a lick of sense, the "bitch-word" sounds okay.
Something I would recommend --
5 years ago,
I turned off my TV, unable to stomach another commercial message.
I've never missed it. Not one day.Mar 16 2013: This is probably the funniest question I've answered in my life. I mean you want to prevent something that is prevalent in life it seems. A foundation of America is bullying. Early colonists felt bullied by the British so they broke free. After that, America started slavery. Forcing individuals to do harsh labor for no pay, and be treated like animals. After that was through, there was segregation and discrimination. Black Americans being told where they could go, and what they could do. Being beaten. That's bullying, but on a bigger scale. So you're asking how we can prevent bullying, and I think you might as well be asking how can we change human behavior. If you look at slavery and civil rights violations in the U.S. you see that bullying is us. it's in us. That is how we behave as humans.
What you're asking is how we can innately change the morals of individuals. Unless there is a world consensus that everyone should be treated as if there were nothing less than a person, unless we can go into the schools and help children understand that all of them are great and everybody's different. Teach them skills to cope with the real world, and to be able to relate to all different types of people and understand them, then I think we don't have much hope.
Maybe there are ways but people just seem to be caught up in themselves, and everyone isn't out for the betterment of humanity.
Daniel Gero
Mar 16 2013: From my perspective, you're talking about mental models, but not necessarily human nature. I think the error in this logic is that you mention historically grand-scale bullying, but neglect the progress we've made from there. The assumption must be that this is the end of the line, and we cannot progress further?
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It doesn't have to be a gushy story about how everyone loves each other. It has to be about having the bare minimum respect for individuals that keeps people from going out of their way to torment others. If people don't like someone for whatever reason, leave them alone.
Mar 16 2013: I feel what I'm saying is that since there are multiple examples of this in the past and the present (though I did not mention, civil rights movements in the U.S. were only 50 or 60 years ago) on grand scales, and minuscule scales, that it is part of human nature. To ask how we can prevent bullying, is the equivalent to asking how we can stop humans acting like themselves.
And you say progression. What progression? I see bullying everyday. I go to events and see it, school, the store, McDonald's. I didn't talk about the progressive because I believe humans are in a mental state of stigma.
I went to McDonald's and saw this blind man trying to order. It was clear he was blind. Even a dog could tell he was blind, and the woman insisted that he order after he asked her "What is on the Dollar Menu, I'm blind?"
Now god damn, if a blind man was cutting a huge piece of meat and asked you for help, wouldn't at least help him or just let him cut his fingers off. Maybe it's because I witness this that I don't think there's much progression. From seeing what's happening in Africa now. What's happening in politics now.
I agree with what you're saying about respect and I do think we can change, but that it's just in our nature to act that way.
Mar 16 2013: Trey,
I'm curious....what did you do in the situation with the blind man ordering at McDonalds?Mar 16 2013: You tell the cashier, "Hey, he's blind, don't you think you could read the menu to him?"
And if she says no or acts funny, you get the manager, and if all else fails you tell him the menu yourself. Then maybe you could ask the cashier why she couldn't help him. Maybe she was having a bad, who knows? At least you showed what should have been done.
Mar 16 2013: I agree Trey. Those situations we encounter in our everyday lives offer an opportunity for all of us to model better behavior:>)
Mar 16 2013: A few weeks back there was a TED conversation about the evolution of man.
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The question asked was "what would home sapiens possibly evolve to?"
One reply read............. humane beings........
Why not change human nature? Could we not evolve into humane beings?
People can change. Sometimes they change for the better, unfortunately, sometimes the change is for the worse.
Let's hope that in the end more of us change for the better.
And really......this is the funniest question you have ever answered? I find that hard to believe Trey.
Mar 16 2013: Not the funniest but the most socially attacking, and I've heard it so many times that to hear it on TED makes me wonder if it's really a social crisis. Not to say it isn't Ms. M.
And I think we could change.Mar 16 2013: Trey,
You bring up some good points....bullying has been part of our world for a long time. You ask how we change human behavior. I suggest that we change human behavior by changing our accepted paradigm. I believe that as thinking, feeling, intelligent, evolving humans, we EVENTUALLY start looking at challenges that are not beneficial for the whole of humankind. Change takes a very long time, as you probably know! We change human behavior by introducing and encouraging different ideas and behaviors.
Slavery was/is indeed a horrible form of bullying and violation of human rights. Now slavery, at least in the U.S is illegal. Unfortunately, slavery in many forms continues in our world....we need to work on changing that! Some humans behave in that way because for some reason, they think it's ok to enslave a person and violate basic human rights. The more people who step up to the plate and let others know that it is NOT ok, the better chance we have to change the behaviors.
YES....let's encourage a world where everyone is treated with respect and kindness... go into schools and help children understand that all of them are great and everybody's different. Teach them skills to cope with the real world, and to be able to relate to all different types of people and understand them. I believe there IS hope, and I believe that our advanced communication systems, like TED, are helping with that process. What do you think? Can we do it?
Mar 16 2013: Even if we can't do it, at least we can try. Doing it would have a big impact on the world and how people think. It would be amazing if people could adopt the idea, and I have hope that it could happen.
Mar 16 2013: YES!!! I'm with you Trey:>)Mar 16 2013: Great!Mar 18 2013: I think that you're looking at it from the point of, "Well, it got us here, didn't it?" Just to be clear, how many wars have the states dealt with because of their bullying? How many people have died because of bullying your own people? And, for good measure, how many people died due to bullies like Hitler? In a way, he is a model for bullies. He was insecure, and so decided to destroy the people who were strange to him, or that he felt had wronged him, although he really just picked an enemy everyone could hate for the collapse of the German economy at the time. And he was, in fact, possibly part-Jewish. Slavery was around for thousands of years. It has been an integral part in the live of probably billions of people over history. But we decided that wasn't acceptable anymore, so why can't we do the same towards bullying?
Mar 18 2013: I think we CAN Wyatt! It is important to understand all the underlying dynamics of bullying, and you mention a very important one......insecurity.
Bullying generally tries to project superiority, strength, control, etc. right? What a bully shows many of us who understand this, is that s/he is insecure and lacks confidence. If a person with bullying behavior could understand what exactly they are projecting, do you think bullying would continue? If enough people in our world understood this, do you think/feel maybe we could put a stop to at least some of the bullying?
We have people right here on this thread who have said bullying is good for the victim....makes them learn how to be strong.....we are "over reacting" to bullying.....etc. These are some perceptions that continue to exist in our world. Whenever we can understand something from many different perspectives, it gives us an opportunity to change behaviors that are NOT good for people. I appreciate your participation in this conversation Wyatt.Mar 18 2013: I'm glad I could provide you with a humorous question. Although... the underlying question here is, how can we as human beings evolve into a race that is more humane? Is that not something to hope for and work towards achieving?Mar 15 2013: Help children to know how to negotiate. how to talk their way out of situation.
there have been bullies and they will be bullies (same counts for wars) ... this is about showing off power, demanding respect, being in control. we all know, that strong people controls weak ones. (doesn't matter if it is economical or physical strength)
once it was said: Be strong to control!
the opposite was: Be smart to make peace!
Helping children to understand that there is always a third side of any human interaction they will concentrate they attention to find a resolution. helping children to understand there is another way of communication, which is communication through your needs and understanding (meanwhile expressing) others' needs.
at school, there should be 3 subjects taught without any excuse of age; NEGOTIATION, NON VIOLENT COMMUNICATION and LEADERSHIP
they have to know the principles of ART OF WAR, they have to be fully aware of their feelings and needs.
I personally don't do anything with bullies... I helps others to become bullies best friend.
about TV and "Reality" shows :
the first thing: The TV-set is created for these people who don't want to think.
the second one: The "Reality" shows is created by these people who want to keep others in front of TV.
(now it's been over 6 or 7 years I don't watch TV - neither got one)
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Mar 17 2013: Hi Don
There is always time. Time is given to us for free, and it is up to us how we use it... the question is whether we use it for us or against us?
if one side use it to demand respect by using physical force from the other side then it could be used to make peace or bring to others awareness of their own feelings and needs.
when Steven Spielberg's life was horrorized by a bully, he was running away from school. but one day, he himself approached to this bully and asking him if he would be interested in acting one of his home movie about war and offered him to be the hero. and since then they became a best friends.
stories and story telling got power. this story is an example. instead of facing bully, but finding a way to walk with bully. Who fight when we walk? when we walk, we walk side by side towards a common direction. but when we stand face to face no matter what there would rise a tension.
young students have got creativity, but not deep thinking, you have to give them the keys and help them (how to use it) to go deep in their thoughts and find solutions.
the bully in the class of LEADERSHIP would lean how to get respect.
he may become aware that respect should be earned and not demanded / commanded.
Machiavelli asks a question in Prince ... should a prince be loved or feared?
We can ask our students: Would you like to be loved or feared?
and help then to choose an answer that makes everyone happy.Mar 18 2013: Hi Don,
Thanks for letting me know what i haven't done. I think we were discussing How-to stop bulling at school. and my approach was more practical education but all those things need time and they can only be solved in time.
all I know about today's education system is that they are wasting TIME. no teacher is motivated enough to carry their job in a more productive way. no student is motivated enough to keep on studying. (hardly a few)
TIME: Time is free, but it's priceless. You can't own it, but you can use it. You can't keep it, but you can spend it. Once you've lost it, you can never get it back.
you want to know what's funny, Don? the Government invest in helping victims, (lost money and time) but they never invest in educating abuser... (this counts for domestic violence - they are free phone number for victims, there are many services provided to help victims... but there is nothing for abuser but cell - yet the tax payers pay to keep them there) - and this is not funny at all.
can I ask you what makes you think that I should / would like the lawyer who is losing?
Mar 19 2013: Dear Edwin,
You've said quite a lot that is important to this topic, which according to the facilitator, clearly includes students and education.
Don brought up the issue of time in his comment....
"Don Wesley
3 days ago: The bully doesn't give you time to negotiate."
You have addressed Don's concern about time very effectively Edwin, as well as other topic issues, and I do not perceive you as "losing". In my perception, TED conversations are about sharing ideas, not about winning and losing. I perceive you to be insightfully addressing several different aspects of "bullying". I imagine that as an educator, you have seen, and know about bullying, and I respect your thoughts, feelings, and ideas about the topic question.....thanks:>)Mar 19 2013: Dear Don
I am sorry if in some way I made myself unclear and discussed other things out of this conversation.
It may be because I don't watch TV and I don't know what's all about the 'reality' shows.
I don't know who has to be help accountable for our youth's education but I know that teachers / education system play a great role. In education system we can't change anything. It works. But it doesn't work well for this era. We should not only update it by technology, but also teaching them more practical stuff before we bore then with theoretical stuff. Because not always those theories work in real life. Bully abuse it's victim practically not theoretically and to solve this problem we need practically approach.
A few weeks ago I suggested a young student to read Dale Crnegie ... She came back to me and said: "my teachers told me that his writings were practical, it is not necessary as we learn theories"
Well, it shocked me, I was speechless.
Imagine every bully could read "How to win friends and influence people" and " Lincoln the unknown" would that help them in certain ways? You bet!
Could you please remind me what we are winning and/ or losing on TED? Is there a game ?
Thank you, Don.
It is always a pleasure to read your comments.Mar 16 2013: Edwin,
I agree that classes in mediation, problem solving, negotiation, non violent communication, and leadership would be great additions to our schools. I also agree that it helps when people are aware and mindful of feelings.....starting with their own thoughts and feelings.
That is why these programs would be helpful in our schools. It gives those with bullying behaviors the opportunity to learn something different.
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Mar 17 2013: Yes Don, we ARE talking elementary school. Perhaps your "perception reveals" that Don. How about looking at facts. These programs have been going on in elementary schools for a long time. Here are just a few....there are LOTS of links on the internet, if you really want to learn.
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Mar 18 2013: You are welcome Don,
Sorry you feel that "looking at facts and developing more perceptions is called meaningless". That is how I learn and grow.
I agree Don...throwing facts around without meaning is not beneficial. That's why it's important to understand the meaning of the facts:>)
In your last comment, you state..."I would really appreciate more information."
I provided information in conjuction with your request.
You ask "who is the "we" you keep referring to"?
I'm addressing YOUR statement Don, in YOUR comment above...
Don...1 day ago... "..."we" are not talking about elementary school."
I believe Edwin is talking about these programs in elementary school, I am talking about these programs in elementary school, and lots of other people are talking about, and using these programs in elementary school, as substantiated by the links to this topic....that is the "we" I refer to.Mar 19 2013: Dear Colleen,
Thanks a lot for your support and comments. I highly value your insights... Without doubt they always help me, in personal or professional life.
I was trying to find out what game we were playing here where we could have winners and losers... But some times time is too sort to find out things.
A day ago Don said that he was concerned about these who were abused. But I am concerned about both as both need to understand such other's feelings. (I mentioned domestic violence because on the other side I was into a conversation about it)
Thanks again
Take care
Mar 19 2013: Thank you Edwin,
When a person needs to be a "winner", and name a "loser", s/he often loses touch with the actual topic. I understand your comment Edwin......it is perfectly clear, and domestic violence obviously has an element of bullying....many of us are aware of that fact. You are NOT in any way "losing" anything....that is a ridiculous accusation!
Rhona Pavis
Mar 14 2013: Perhaps requiring the entire families of the bullies to attend some kind of counseling might decrease bullying behavior. Bullies are created in their homes. If the parents who create the bullies have to pay some kind of price or face the consequences of their parenting behavior, maybe that would have an impact. Bullies may be emulating parental behavior toward them. Since they are powerless to deal openly and honestly with the parent who bullies them for fear of loss of basic support (food, housing, clothing) and more physical and emotional abuse, they pass the hurtful behavior on to others. Let's stop the bullying behavior where it starts.
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Mar 16 2013: Rhona,
That is an excellent idea, which we incorporated into the "Real Justice" or "Restorative Justice" practices I participated in. As often as possible, the families of offenders were asked to attend the meetings. You are absolutely right...bullies are often taught to be bullies in the home. If the parents are aware of their own behaviors, it might help the whole family dynamic!
I once mediated with a family.....three incarcerated felons.....mother, father and son......very interesting experience!!! I'd like to see mediation happen WAY BEFORE that level!!!
Rhona Pavis
Mar 17 2013: Colleen, Obviously we are working together and succeeding in making life a more positive experience for our contemporaries and futurity. May the rest of humanity jump on board and accelerate the progress so all human beings can live healthy, loving, happy lives starting within the next 24 hours. There is no reason for patience in these matters that are perfectly clear. Society has to switch paradigms from fear and anger based systems to love and joy based systems. I am glad we are both positive, powerful and effective people. We may as well continue doing and saying all the positive things we say and do. HAPPY TODAY.
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Mar 17 2013: I agree Rhona, ALL of society has to switch paradigms....the sooner.....the better:>)
Rhona Pavis
Mar 17 2013: Thanks. Perhaps "patience" is over-rated. It certainly is when it comes to justice, truth, happiness, health and stuff like that. WAKE UP, WORLD. We can do this quickly....transform life on earth from suffering to joy. Simple formula: POSITIVE everything, anything, always. It works. Just do it. Thanks, Colleen.
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Mar 17 2013: That's the important piece Rhona.....let's just do it!
"One of the great difficulties in the new order of thought is that we are likely to indulge in too much theory and too little practice. As a matter of fact, we only know as much as we can prove by actual demonstration".
(Ernest Holmes - The Science of Mind)
I know you know this....thanks Rhona:>)
Rhona Pavis
Mar 17 2013: I reached the maximum number of thumbs up I can give you for now. That's okay. We shall continue doing what we do. We shall continue succeeding. We are accelerating progress toward all of our positive goals. Joyous RIGHT NOW!
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Mar 17 2013: :>)Mar 14 2013: I saw this on the news in the UK this morning about how a pro boxer handles a series of abusive Tweets.
The abuser came on national TV and said sorry.
I think its a great story of how to handle cyber bullies in particular.
Bullies will always backdown when confronted.Mar 14 2013: It steams from their childhood up raising, it a power or control thing.
Grace Greene
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Then click on the various categories - schools, prisons, homeless shelters, etc. Each of them have a series of short videos, the first one in school addresses this directly where it pertains to bullying/violence in schools.


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Summer Semester in Angers, France: Student Submitted Blog
There's only 60 days of summer semester for St. Edward's University students, so it takes planning and purpose to make time for sun, fun, favorite show re-runs and … an academically challenging summer semester abroad. This summer, five faculty members and 60 students will make the most of those 60 days by working on their liberal arts education at St. Edward's in Angers, France.
St. Edward's University students in Angers this summer will experience a semester at the university's partner institution, Université Catholique de l'Ouest (UCO). At UCO, the range of classes being taught by our faculty members includes everything from a Global Entrepreneurship Capstone for graduate students, to Communications and Culture, and Presentational Speaking.
Senior Communications major Meredith Bard is taking Contemporary World Issues, a communications course with faculty member Stephanie Poole-Martinez, and her Capstone with Political Science faculty member Brian Smith. She shares with us her mental and emotional preparation for her first study abroad experience from 36,906 feet in the air:
Howdy from somewhere over the Atlantic Ocean!
I never thought studying abroad was in the cards for me. I'm a small-town South Texas girl who as a freshman at St. Edward's thought studying in another country was a pipe dream. Fast-forward three years later and I am 36,906 feet in the air reading a screen that says my plane is scheduled to land in Paris, France, in five hours and 10 minutes! I'm not sure it's hit me that my dreams are actually coming into fruition. If this is real, somebody pinch me! The time can't tick by fast enough as I eagerly anticipate meeting up with the rest of the St. Edward's faculty-led crew at the Paris airport. So far, traveling has been smooth, but the real test of patience is going to begin when I'm searching for the group and every sign I attempt to read is in French. I don't know a lick of French, and although I have Rosetta Stone packed in my carry-on, there is a high chance that my good intentions of learning basic French during the eight-hour flight will fall second fiddle to the assortment of complimentary movies available at the click of a remote.
There is a seven-hour time difference between France and Austin, so when I land, the French will be starting a new day while the majority of Americans will be tucked into bed. Needless to say, this is going to be one of the longest days of my life. I woke up at 4:30 a.m. Texas time, was chauffeured to Bush Intercontinental Airport by my mom and aunt, have been on two flights separated by a layover in Minnesota, and haven't gotten much shuteye while in the air. Good thing I love coffee! The tasty grounds along with the adrenaline pumping through my veins sparked by the excitement of new adventures in store for the next seven weeks are going to be my saving grace!
I've never been overseas, much less immersed myself in another culture. I'm thrilled to see how this journey opens my eyes to the world at my fingertips. I've never been afraid to take risks and am blessed with an incredible opportunity to take on my world. I can't wait to share all the escapades of our group while studying in Angers!
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Home to our abdominals, lower back, latissimus dorsi (lats) and obliques, our core — or torso — is at the center of almost every move we make. We use our core to sit down, stand up, to get out of bed, to get in and out of a car, to bend over, to lift, to balance and for so much more. Ball or chair exercises for core strengthTo help improve your core strength, sit on a large exercise ball or a chair. Maintaining good posture with your "sit bones" on the middle of the ball or chair (the two bone bumps designed to bear your seated weight), line knees up with shoulders, feet flat on the floor. Then, rotate hips slowly and deliberately, first in one direction and then in the opposite direction. This routine not only helps to strengthen the core muscles but is also a great way to warm up the body for more abdominal exercises. You may also add pelvic tilts to the routine.
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Jensen points out that some people have great standing posture but poor sitting posture. However, the same principal applies to both. "Pull down on your shoulders, away from your ears," reminds Jensen. "Focus on elongating your torso, feet flat on the floor, drawing naval to spine and breathe normally. Don't hold your breath."
Jensen and her colleagues teach diaphragmatic breathing, inhaling through your nose with your mouth closed, and then exhaling through pursed lips. Imagine blowing on a candle to flicker the flame but not to blow it out. Try to feel your diaphragm inflating and deflating. This will also create greater awareness of what is going on in the center of your body.
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Voter ID laws have been all the rage around the country, with conservative lawmakers pushing to make it harder to vote, often by requiring some form of government-issued photo identification. The goal, at least according to rhetoric, is to keep the process safe from fraud—despite there being no real evidence of in-person voter fraud, the only kind such laws would actually prevent. In the meantime, states struggle with low-turnout rates and sometimes low registration rates. In Texas, which recently passed one of the more stringent ID requirements, residents vote at among the lowest rates in the country.
All of which makes Connecticut's current voting debate somewhat shocking by comparison. The secretary of state has taken the lead in proposing measures to increase voter turnout by—get this—making it easier to vote. Two proposals make it easier to register by offering same-day registration for those who show up on Election Day and creating an online voter registration system so people can do it from home. Another measure would increasing penalties for voter intimidation. According to officials, the efforts are much-needed to increase turnout.
"It's long past time that we move our elections into the 21st century in Connecticut,'' Secretary of the State Denise Merrill said during a press briefing Friday prior to a legislative hearing on the proposals. "We are not on the cutting edge and our system is old, costly and inconvenient."As a result, Merrill said, one out of three state residents who are eligible to vote aren't even registered.
Voting, most of us can all agree, is a good thing to do. But legislation around voting has become largely about partisan advantage—voter ID laws are seen to give Republicans an advantage because the impact would be particularly felt in poor and minority communities, both largely Democratic constituencies. Not shockingly, the Minneapolis Star-Tribune reports that the American Legislative Exchange Council, a meeting place for corporate interests and conservative lawmakers, has helped bolster the efforts to pass voter ID laws around the country—presumably because ALEC hopes to see more conservatives get into office. Meanwhile Democrats argue voter ID laws decrease access and function like a poll tax, as a way of making it harder for certain communities to vote.
The Courant article shows the same cynicism comes at efforts to increase voting—since those efforts will likely benefit Democrats. One Republican asks why there's a need for these laws and worries about devaluing the ballot box if access is too easy. Politicians are rarely angels, and it's likely both sides take an interest at least in part because they hope for political gain.
But that's largely beside the point. American citizens, regardless of political affiliation, have the right to vote. Increasing access to that right is important; in the secular religion of democracy, voting is practically a holy act. While the efforts to increase turnout in Connecticut may benefit Democrats, that doesn't change that it benefits the democratic process as well.
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"No evidence of in person voter fraud" O'Keefe exposed that lie for what it is. It's true no evidence has been found. It's also true that if you close your eyes tightly, stick your fingers in your ears and scream "Neener, neener," you aren't going to find any evidence. There are none so blind as those who will not see.
Apparently it's fine if some ballots turn up in someone's trunk days after an election that overturns the will of the people who really voted. Nothing to see here, move along. It's fine if a group of militants stand outside a polling place threatening and intimidating voters as long as they threaten and intimidate likely conservative voters. Nothing to see here, move along.
Let's complain about laws that reduce the possibility of fraud, even if they impose no burden on anyone as anyone needing a photo ID can get them free. Let's focus on expanding the opportunity to rig elections because anyone in position to rig elections is more than likely liberal and of course liberals always do what is right.
Typical nonsense from the left.
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When you schedule a task using the Soon tool (Soon.exe) included with the Windows NT 4.0 Resource Kit, the task may be scheduled for the next day instead of the current day.
NOTE: This behavior may occur with other tools that call the AT command.
This behavior occurs when Microsoft Internet Explorer 5 is installed on your computer.
After you install Internet Explorer 5, the Scheduler service is replaced by Task Scheduler. Task Scheduler checks the task list every minute, instead of every second like the Scheduler service. Therefore, the AT command is modified so that it schedules a task for tomorrow if the specified time is equal to the actual system time, and the seconds are ignored. For example:
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at 10:01:00 /interactive notepad.exeBy default, Soon.exe calls the AT command with the actual system time plus five seconds. For example, using Soon.exe at 10:00:55 works fine, but from 10:00:00 until 10:00:54 the task is scheduled for tomorrow. This behavior occurs because of the "new" way the AT command interprets the specified time.
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I also found these two quests for my Leatherworking/Skinning skills. No actual skinning was involved, just "skinning" quest objects on the ground. The Leatherworking quest had me making some items which required crafting materials from a trade vendor. The Faire grounds have a portal to Elwynn Forest (and Durotar I assume) so you can easily get back to a major city. For Alliance you can use the Trade vendor by the wagon in Goldshire to purchase your items.
I found these quests to be entertaining because I was using my tradeskills to complete them. For the Fishing quest I actually had to fish, not just pick up stolen barrels of someone else's fish. The Cooking quest required me to get some actual flour from the trade vendor and use it on the froggy bits from the quest NPC. Overall I felt these quests were better designed than most of the Cooking/Fishing quests we got for Cataclysm. The only thing I might have done differently would be possibly send you a little further out around the DMF island to complete the tasks. But I was pleased to see that many of these quests incorporated crafting-like actions in them.
Sadly, these quests are not dailies. You can only do them once, unlike the carnival game quests. I posted a suggestion on the forums to turn these into dailies, but I don't know if anything will come of that. It's possible that when the DMF is activated each month that the quests will unlock again, but for now that's unknown.
And as I mentioned at the beginning of the post - no recipes in sight. I looked all over and couldn't find any vendor selling recipes. I found vendors selling food, drink, pets, transmog gear and heirlooms. But I could not find any recipes at all. I would like to say that maybe they'll be added in another build, but the Faire looks pretty complete at it stands. So I'm not sure what to think of the missing recipes. I posted on the PTR forums about it, perhaps that will help in some way. I'm disappointed though, I was looking forward to see what they had in mind for Darkmoon recipes. I thought maybe some additional transmog gear or something.


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