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From the Field: Restoring Washington, D.C.'s urban streams from Chesapeake Bay Program on Vimeo.
A year or two ago, the newest addition to a southeast Washington, D.C., stream was not nesting mallards or spring peeper frogs, but cars – abandoned in the creek at the approximate rate of one vehicle per week.
Illegal dumping was just one problem for Watts Branch: the largest D.C. tributary to the Anacostia River, which flows through the District to the Potomac River and into the Chesapeake Bay. Broken sewer lines running through the stream leaked bacteria into the water. During storms, fast-moving water cut into the stream's banks, leaving Watts Branch looking more like a trench than a backyard creek.
When water cuts into stream banks, it carries sediment (dirt) into the stream. Sediment clouds the water, preventing sunlight from reaching important aquatic life, such as amphibians and bay grasses.
This combination of bacteria and sediment pollution left Watts Branch virtually devoid of life. The creek – just blocks away from Marvin Gaye's childhood home – was beginning to mimic the music legend's environmental concerns, expressed most explicitly in his 1971 single Mercy Mercy Me. ("Oil wasted on the oceans and upon our seas/Fish full of mercury/Oh, mercy mercy me/Oh, things ain't what they used to be.")
Today, dumped cars are a rare sight, and spring peepers splash into the water as I walk along the banks of Watts Branch. A stream restoration project completed in fall 2011 by the District Department of the Environment (DDOE) not only corrected the dumping problem, but repaired sewer lines, installed native plants, and transformed the trench into a meandering stream that can healthily withstand storm events.
Slowing down fast moving water
"The project is designed to keep the channel relatively stable," explains Peter Hill, branch chief for DDOE's Planning and Restoration Division. "Before, the stormwater and all the runoff would come rushing through here very quickly. The banks were steep; there was not a lot of biological activity."
In one 2008 storm event, the stream's water level rose from zero to four feet in just two hours.
(Image courtesy DDOE)
Like all stream restoration projects, the Watts Branch project aimed to slow down stormwater flowing into the stream. When water moves slower, it does not cut into and erode stream banks, carrying sediment into the water. This allows plants and wildlife to flourish both on the banks and in the stream.
"Now, when we have a storm, water will rise up, but it will tend to fall back into the center of the stream... this basically relieves the pressure from the stream banks so you don't get erosion," explains Hill. "The water falls over stones, (in the center of the creek) as opposed to tearing up this bank."
In addition to redirecting stream flows, DDOE and Anacostia Riverkeeper installed a floating trash collecting device in the water. Groundwork Anacostia empties the device every two weeks, preventing trash from floating downstream.
Parks and People Foundation and other volunteer groups helped install native plants and aquatic grasses, which will help to keep soil on the stream banks in place.
Watts Branch was chosen for restoration because of its severe water quality impairments from sediment and bacteria. But there are hundreds of streams just like it across the Chesapeake Bay watershed.
In Northwest D.C., Milkhouse Ford, a tributary to Rock Creek, also suffered from high volumes of fast-moving stormwater flowing from a nearby residential neighborhood. Today, rocks separate the stream into small pools where tadpoles are hatching, and newly planted trees dot the stream banks. The DDOE and National Park Service project was completed in fall 2011.
"Each pool is a foot drop in elevation," explains project manager and DDOE Environmental Protection Specialist Stephen Reiling. "It's just one way of slowing the stormwater down and letting sediment settle in these pools. That's the simple idea: just slowing the water down."
The pools allow the stormwater to sit long enough to seep into the ground water. This allows many of the pollutants found in stormwater runoff (such as lawn fertilizer, automobile exhaust and bacteria from pet waste) to soak into the ground, instead of making their way into the Chesapeake Bay.
"We have a very impervious residential watershed up here (above the stream), so associated with that, there's grease and oil from vehicles, sediment, and any kind of fertilizer residents put on their lawns," explains Reiling. "So we'd like to slow that down, and hopefully keep it here before it gets to the bay."
Milkhouse Ford is surrounded by the forests of Rock Creek Park, trees that the project team managed to keep intact. Preserving nearby vegetation is difficult in many stream engineering projects, which require large and heavy equipment to build up banks or replace soils.
"This is pretty unique in terms of how small the footprint is," says Hill.
Rock Creek Conservancy and other volunteer groups planted native trees and shrubs along the banks, which will hold the soil in place and prevent the stream's banks from eroding.
The stormwater story
Since streams, storms and stormwater are natural parts of the water cycle, it may seem strange that stormwater is degrading our streams and contributing to sediment pollution in the Chesapeake Bay. But in many places, stormwater from driveways and lawns flows into a sewer on the street, which connects to a local creek. The problem? These creeks were not meant to hold stormwater from the entire neighborhood – only the water that naturally flowed into them. When too much water flows in at once, the banks wash away, bringing tons of sediment as well.
"When many of these houses (in southeast D.C.) were built, they saw stormwater as a problem, so they piped it out from the streets and sent it to the nearby stream," explains Hill.
While this infrastructure can't be entirely corrected, ensuring that the streams remain stable during storm events will improve water quality in the stream, as well as in the Chesapeake Bay.
Another way to ease pressure on our streams is to keep stormwater onsite. This means reducing runoff from your property by using rain barrels, rain gardens and native plants. In the Bay watershed, local programs such as River Star Homes (Norfolk, Virginia) and River Smart Homes (Washington, D.C.) help local residents implement runoff-reducing practices in their backyards.
More than a stream
Stream restoration project leaders like Hill and Reiling are beginning to notice an unexpected, less measurable outcome of their projects: residents have developed a sense of pride and stewardship for their newly restored neighborhood creeks.
When Watts Branch was transformed from a steep, cloudy channel littered with cars into a meandering creek with sprouting saplings, residents began to spend more time along the streamside pedestrian trail, and dumping stalled.
"Watts Branch was chosen for restoration because...it was an eyesore to the community," says Hill. "The community didn't see it as an asset, and being D.C.'s largest tributary to the Anacostia, we wanted to fix it up."
Neighborhoods along the 1.7 mile stretch of restored stream have seen a reduction in crime since the project's completion, according to Hill.
"Most recently, an older gentleman brought his grandkids here and they were hanging out near the stream; he wanted to show them where he grew up," explains Hill. "It was really nice that someone would be proud of this, so much that they want to show it to their grandkids."
The Chesapeake Bay was among the first regions settled by European explorers, and at one point, much of it was up for grabs. In the 1650s, Dutch conquistadors wanted to extend their rule of New Amsterdam (New York) into Maryland. They sent a man named Augustine Herrman to Maryland's colonial capital, St. Mary's City, to present their case to the governor. Herrman's expedition left from New Castle, Delaware, and sailed down the modern day Bohemia River, to the Elk River, and then into the Chesapeake Bay. Although Herrman and his team weren't able to convince the Maryland governor to allow the Dutch to move east, Herrman was so impressed with the region's beauty that he himself decided to settle there.
(Image courtesy William Johns/Flickr)
After striking a deal with Maryland leaders, Herrman received 4,000 acres in northeast Maryland, between the Elk River and the Bohemia River (formerly named the Oppoquermine River). Since Herrman was a native of Prague, which was then Bohemia, he named his new home "Bohemia Manor" and renamed the river.
As part of the deal, Herrman agreed to create a map of the Chesapeake Bay. The detailed account of the region was used throughout the next century.
(Image courtesy Maps of Pennsylvania)
Herrman and his surveying crew predicted the concept of the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal, constructed nearly 150 years later. In 1661, he wrote, "the Mingaskil and aforesaid Bohemia River run there within a league [3 miles] from each other from where we shall in time have communication with each other by water."
As Herrman's reputation and importance grew, he convinced Maryland leaders to make northeastern Maryland its own county; as a result, Cecil County was born, and the region was separated from Baltimore County.
Although the Bohemia was navigable in Herrman's time, today, the 5-mile tributary to the Elk River in southwestern Delaware and northeastern Maryland has since filled with sediment from agricultural operations, rendering it unsuitable for boat navigation.
A drawbridge, known as the "Bohemia River Bridge," allowed people and farm goods to cross the Bohemia until the late 1990s, when it was demolished. Today, Maryland Route 213 crosses the river in its place, providing gorgeous views of the meandering river.
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A trip through the forested hills of Allegany County, Maryland may take you back to a time before interstate highways and blog posts like this one. Nestled between the largely uninterrupted landscapes of western Maryland, the Evergreen Heritage Center (EHC) honors the region's past while showcasing environmental efforts of the future.
(Image courtesy Chesapeake Bay Trust)
The Evergreen Museum features the foundation of a home built by an early settler in the late 1700s, and the Evergreen Coal Trail traces the path of coal cars from the early 1900s.
The center's environmental education programs encourage students to get outside and explore, rather than sit in front of their television or computer. Through partnerships with Allegany County Board of Education, the Chesapeake Bay Foundation and the Chesapeake Bay Trust, Maryland teachers can attend workshops that introduce ways to involve their students in interdisciplinary environmental activities. Also, students can participate in on-the-ground learning projects.
The center is also working with 300 students and experts to develop a "green" site project plan that integrates outdoor learning stations, gardens, trails, nature play spaces and wildlife habitats into EHC's 130-acre campus.
To learn more about Evergreen Heritage Center, read this blog post by EHC's environmental education coordinator on the Chesapeake Bay Trust's blog.
Finally – school's out and warm weather is here! We know you're eager to get away to your nearest beach and bury yourself in the sand with a new book. But did you know there are dozens of beautiful parks and natural areas on the way to major beaches such as Rehoboth Beach, Virginia Beach and Ocean City? Here are eight places you can enjoy the beauty of the Chesapeake Bay and its rivers along the way to your summer destination. After all, some of life's greatest joys are in the journey, not in the destination!
1. Hoffler Creek Wildlife Preserve (Portsmouth, Va.)
Just 20 minutes west of Virginia Beach, Hoffler Creek Wildlife Preserve provides urban wildlife in the Norfolk/Portsmouth metro region with 142 acres of tidal and non-tidal habitat. Expect to encounter foxes, river otters, oysters and crabs along the preserve's trails. Before you go, check out Hoffler Creek's events listings for specialties like sunset kayak tours, night owl kayak paddles by moonlight, and early morning bird walks!
2. Dutch Gap Conservation Area (Chester Va.)
(Image courtesy John.Murden/Flickr)
Just south of Richmond, Dutch Gap Conservation Area surrounds Henricus, the second successful English settlement in Virginia. Bordered by the James River, the 810-acre area contains a blue heron rookery and has been described as a "birder's dream." A diversity of habitats attract a range of flying friends: in wetlands, look for pintails and kingfishers; in meadows, you'll find goldfinches, indigo buntings and kingbirds; and in forests, expect to see scarlet tanagers and red-eye vireo. Hike or bike the 4.5 mile Dutch Gap Trail, which circumnavigates a tidal lagoon. Kayak or canoe the Lagoon Water Trail (perfect for beginner paddlers), or schedule a night to camp under the stars at the area's primitive camp site.
3. Eastern Shore of Virginia National Wildlife Refuge (Cape Charles, Va.)
(Image courtesy Xavier de Jauréguiberry/Flickr)
Drive over the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Bay Tunnel near Virginia Beach to arrive at the southernmost tip of the Delmarva Peninsula. Here, nearly 1,300 acres of tidal wetlands and hiking trails sport colorful views of sunsets and sunrises; enjoy being surrounded by water on three sides! The area is one of the most important avian migration funnels in the country, meaning it provides vital stopover habitat for birds and butterflies migrating south for the winter and north for the summer. Return in the winter for a trip to Fisherman Island, a remote island home to sensitive bird species and untouched shoreline.
4. Nassawango Creek Preserve of the Nature Conservancy and Furnace Town (Snow Hill, Md.)
Just south of Salisbury, Maryland, one of the northernmost stands of bald cypress trees leak tannins into the Nassawango Creek, giving this pristine Chesapeake Bay tributary a deceptive tea-like color. Bald cypress trees grow completely in the water, and are most abundant in swamps in the deep southeast United States. Visitors to the 15,000-acre Nassawango Creek Preserve can paddle among these green giants or explore upland forest habitat on the preserve's many trails. Expect to see rare plants like indian pipe and pink lady slipper, and migratory birds such as scarlet tanagers and prothonotary warblers.
Along the edge of the preserve, hidden in the Pocomoke State Forest, a brick structure stands tall among the trees. It is the remnants of an iron furnace that at one time attracted hundreds of people – miners, firemen, bargemen and sawyers – to the area. From 1831 to 1850, village residents gathered iron ore from the bogs surrounding Nassawango Creek and loaded iron bars onto barges that were floated down the creek to the Pocomoke River and the Chesapeake Bay. Today, you can get a glimpse of what life was like in the 1830s mining village by visiting the Living Heritage Museum.
5. Pickering Creek Audubon Center (Easton, Md.)
(Image courtesy Pickering Creek Audubon Center)
If you're driving to Ocean City or Assateague Island, you'll likely pass hundreds of cornfields, strawberry fields and trucks full of chickens. Farming is a significant part of the heritage of Maryland's Eastern Shore, but the agricultural industry is often blamed for polluting the Chesapeake Bay.
At Pickering Creek Audubon Center in Easton, 270 acres are farmed according to "best management practices" that reduce the amount of animal bacteria, chemicals and pesticides that end up in the bay. Visitors can learn the past and future of farming in the region, or hike through hardwood forests, fresh and brackish marshes, meadows and wetlands. A Children's Imagination Garden will let your little ones connect to nature, and a display of live reptiles allows them to get up close and personal with our scaly friends!
6. Trap Pond State Park (Laurel, Del.)
Trap Pond was created in the late 1700s to power a sawmill during the harvesting of bald cypress trees from these southwestern Delaware freshwater wetlands. Fortunately, not all of the trees were harvested, and today, Trap Pond provides a home for the northernmost stand of bald cypress trees in the United States. The thick bald cypress marsh envelops visitors in a blanket of shade, making this park the perfect destination for a hot summer day.
Within the park, Trussum Pond is the best place to view the largest of these trees. Biking, camping, boating and disc golf are just some of the recreational opportunities available at the 2,700 acre park.
7. James Branch Nature Preserve and Water Trail (Laurel, Del.)
Unlike Trap Pond, which, as a state park, exists primarily for recreational purposes, James Branch Nature Preserve's first priority is protecting and enhancing a delicate ecosystem for future generations. As the largest of the state's nature preserves, James Branch's 685 acres are mostly composed of bald cypress trees – the oldest-growth in the state! Visitors can canoe and kayak the James Branch Water Trail. Since there is the chance of encountering downed trees, low-hanging branches, and floating and submerged logs, the trail is only recommended for intermediate to advanced paddlers.
8. Adkins Arboretum (Ridgely, Md.)
For some people, it's difficult to imagine your garden untouched by invasive, exotic weeds aggressively overtaking native vegetation. But at Adkins Arboretum, you can explore 400 acres of native plant gardens and wildflower meadows. Adkins is the only public garden or arboretum that focuses solely on plants native to the mid-Atlantic coastal plain. Located at the intersection of the piedmont and coastal plain, and the junction of the north and south, Adkins supports more than 600 species of native shrubs, trees, wildflowers and grasses. Visitors can understand nature through the lens of art and history; an ongoing art exhibit features natural themes by regional artists, and Adkins describes nature's relationship to the Underground Railroad throughout the region. Before you visit, be sure you check the arboretum's list of programs and guided walks.


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Greeneville, Tenn.-The Brevard College baseball team split a Saturday double header against Tusculum College at Pioneer Park in Greenville, TN. Tusculum won 2-1 in the opener, despite seven and a third innings of three strikeout work from Brevard starter Brennan Daniels.
Brevard came back in the second game to notch its first victory of the season with a 4-3 win, scoring three runs in the fourth inning as Matthew Pruitt pitched a complete game for his first win of the year.
With the split the Tornados stand at 1-7 and 1-5 in the South Atlantic Conference. Tusculum is 7-7 this year and 3-3 in conference.
Game 1: Tusculum 2, Brevard 1
Kramer Clark provided the offense for Brevard in game one, going two for four with a leadoff home run in the fourth inning.
The Pioneers got on the board first in their half of the second as Payden Houser hit a one-out double to center field on a 3-2 pitch. He advanced to third on a wild pitch and came home on an Aaron Guinn single through the left side.
Tusculum scored the winning run in the bottom of the eighth. Center fielder Nate Grabowski hit a leadoff single through the middle, advanced to third on a passed ball with one out, and scored on a Sean Cotton single.
Brevard went down in order to end game one. Daniels picks up his first loss of the season. Jacob Koontz pitched two thirds of an inning and struck out one. Taylor Rakes started for Tusculum, pitching six and two thirds innings, and allowing one run on five hits while striking out five. Rakes got no decision. Ty Collins came on in relief, going two and a third giving up one hit and striking out two. Eric Renegar, Jackie Corn, Ronald Patterson, and Josh Case got hits for the Tornados in the loss. Six Pioneer players had at least two hits.
Game 2: Brevard 4, Tusculum 3
The Tornados took the lead in the third inning of game two and would never trail. Stephen Mullis reached on a fielder's choice with two outs in the inning. After getting to second on a wild pitch, Mullis scored on a Kellen Moman RBI single to right field. Brevard broke things open in the fourth, scoring three runs on two hits and benefiting from two Tusculum errors. Pruitt led off the inning reaching first on an error by shortstop Brett Murcurio. Ronald Patterson followed with a base hit to right field. M.A. Dozier reached on a fielding error by Houser, allowing Patterson to get to third and Pruitt to score. Dozier stole second, and advanced to third on a throwing error from catcher Sean Finucance which plated Patterson for another unearned run. Josh Case added a sacrifice fly to center to bring home Dozier.
Tusculum plated single runs in the fourth and fifth. Houser led off and reached on an Renegar throwing error and later scored on a Finucane single to right.
Aaron Guinn led off the fifth with a walk, got to second on a Mercurio sacrifice bunt, and scored on a Rolondo Bonner single.
In the final frame Pruitt got Ty Collins to fly out to center to lead off the seventh. Guinn struck out swinging. Pinch hitter Jared Richmond provided a little drama with a solo home run to right field on a 3-2 pitch. Bonner walked, was pinch run for by Eric Barclay, who ended the game getting gunned down trying to steal second as Jackie Corn threw to Kramer Clark for a 4-3 putout to end the game.
Clark recorded two hits in each game. Stephen Mullis went one for two with a run. Pruitt was a workhorse, going the distance and throwing 101 pitches. He is 1-0 this year. Raymond Ruggles took the loss, falling to 2-1 on the year. He pitched three and a third, allowing four runs, only one earned, on five hits, striking out one and walking two.
Tusculum travels to Wingate for a three game series beginning March 5 at 7 p.m. The Tornados return to Gil Coan Field March 3 against Anderson at 2 p.m.

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Huffington Post Blog: It's About Time: Promising Efforts to Improve Our Schools With Right Amount of Time
"We all know that the time educators spend in the classroom is just the tip of the iceberg. Grading papers, working with students before and after the bell rings, staff meetings and parent conferences -- these all add to the school day in ways that are rarely tallied. But when they are, the results are eye-opening: In Springfield, Mass., teachers surveyed spend three hours and 28 minutes a day on activities other than teaching. Vital tasks including behavior management, working with students on non-academic issues, and communicating with parents topped the list.
Now, as schools across the country are in the midst of implementing sweeping new changes, including challenging new standards such as the Common Core, new assessments and new evaluation programs, time and how it is used, has become even more of a premium."
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Why do I keep getting up for the loo at night?Needing to go to the loo at night (nocturia) is common in pregnancy (Sleep Health Foundation 2014). You'll feel the urge to go more often because of hormonal changes and increased blood flow through your kidneys (Murray and Hassall 2014). You drink more fluids during pregnancy, which may also play a part (Murray and Hassall 2014).
Waking up needing the loo is most likely to disturb your sleep in the first trimester and third trimester of pregnancy (BAP 2010). As your baby grows, so does the amount of blood and other fluids in your body. Your kidneys work harder to get rid of waste products, which is why you have the increased urge to wee.
In the first three months of your pregnancy, your expanding womb (uterus) puts pressure on your bladder (DH 2014). Around the fourth month, your uterus rises further up into your belly. This takes the pressure off your bladder, but only for a while.
In the final weeks, the need to wee returns as your uterus gets bigger and your baby fills your pelvis again (Murray and Hassall 2014). That familiar pressure on your bladder will be with you until your baby is born.
How can I cut down on trips to the loo?You could try drinking less as the evening sets in, or two hours before you go to bed (DH 2014, Murray and Hassall 2014, Sleep Health Foundation 2014). Don't have drinks that make you wee more, such as coffee and tea. These are diuretics, which means they cause you to lose more water when you wee. It's safest to stop drinking alcohol completely during pregnancy (DH 2016). But if you do occasionally indulge, bear in mind that alcohol can dehydrate you and is also a diuretic (Sleep Health Foundation, 2014).
When you go for a wee, lean forward on the toilet to make sure you empty your bladder completely each time. Towards the end of your pregnancy, you may find it helpful to gently rock backwards and forwards while you're on the toilet. This can help you to empty your bladder more fully, by reducing your womb's pressure on your bladder (DH 2014).
Talk to your midwife or doctor if:
- you feel pain or a burning sensation when you wee
- you feel a strong urge to wee but can only produce a few drops
You may have a urinary tract infection that will need treatment with antibiotics (CKS 2013, DH 2014).
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The novel approach to unattended merchandising received a silver iSpot Innovation Award at last week's NAMA OneShow in Las Vegas, where ShelfX, a provider of self-checkout and inventory management solutions, introduced it.
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Exorcist House
Posted 09 November 2004 - 02:38 PM
In 1973, the Horror film industry was rocked back on its heels by the Exorcist's release, in which a 12 year old girl is possessed by a demon...well,
you know the story.
Its said that odd things happened at the actual house it was filmed at, some nasty falls in which cast members claim they felt a hand grab their leg on the steps, though, conceivably, this may have been a gimmick to promote the movie or simply their own perceptions and the supernatural association with the project. It is supposed to be based on a case of possession (an 8 yr old boy in Va).
Here's the UL though, in passing the house where it was filmed, you're odometer goes to 666 miles
What do you think-
Posted 09 November 2004 - 02:45 PM
Posted 09 November 2004 - 03:20 PM
I use to live in DC, and have been up and down the "Exorcist" stairs numerous times. I am not sure if the film was actually made in that house, but I know the scenes of the steps where the priest gets thrown down to was filmed there. I must say they are creepy looking however.
And no my spedomoter never went to 666.
Good UL though, worth looking into!
Posted 09 November 2004 - 03:28 PM
At any rate, I was watching a program up here that goes behind the scenes of movie shoots, and they were talking with the lead actress from Gingersnaps II, she claimed that the one building they shot some scenes in had strange things happening in it while they were filming.
I'll have to sit back and think as to what exactly she said, it was a few months ago.
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Posted 09 November 2004 - 03:31 PM
Posted 09 November 2004 - 04:01 PM
Moon...where was the film taped and how long ago? Have you tried researching the area?
To sound completely MPD, my friend, dogs howl for various reasons, sirens, cats a predator in the area and petty theft can be a problem on the set.
Bridge...I couldn't agree more that it sounds like piffle and hoakem, but my friend says she knowns people that swear by it...that and the car stalling inexplicably
Posted 09 November 2004 - 04:13 PM
As for gingersnaps... http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0210070/
Posted 10 November 2004 - 08:46 AM
From the description of some of the occurences surrounding the boy, it makes me wonder if it was not a ghost instead of a demonic possession.
Give it a read, it's good!
Posted 10 November 2004 - 09:29 AM
My views on the whole story have now completely changed.
Posted 10 November 2004 - 09:41 AM
Drew, the film is NEWLY released here, and so the shooting has happened almost 2-3 months before I assume. It wasn't the sort of dog barks, they reported, something like wolf packs, in a place where they do not have wolfs. The film crew has reported recording unseen (oppps unaudible) voices, and initially it was all messy, but towards the final shooting days they caught whisperings which were kinda clear. Am not too sure about anything, I happened to watch an interview with the films heroine, and she was refering how her daughter(around 3 years) seeing the poster of the movie got irritated and was upset her mother have done a movie like that. And she was refrering about such disturbances that happened on the set. Dunno anything more.
Moon...where was the film taped and how long ago? Have you tried researching the area?
To sound completely MPD, my friend, dogs howl for various reasons, sirens, cats a predator in the area and petty theft can be a problem on the set.
Posted 10 November 2004 - 12:29 PM
After reading some parts of what the preist's did to him I would say there was some type of abuse going on.........
Posted 10 November 2004 - 01:38 PM
Posted 10 November 2004 - 01:42 PM
But the guy who wrote this article did ALL kinds of research, even found out who the kid was and talked to him on the phone. It was VERY intruiging!
Posted 10 November 2004 - 02:39 PM
Kind of off subject, but I wanted to get back to gps coordinates. I never knew where the house this film was made was, and now I know it is in DC.... Now if I and the others knew the coordinates anyone could get there.........
I'll start a thread this week on it with a posting for the coordinates of the Alamo.
Posted 10 November 2004 - 02:46 PM
The story I posted today is the orginal story about the kid who supposedly really had an exorcism, and the author of the Exorcist wrote his story based on that incident. The kid lived in MD and the exorcism took place in 1949.
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1 in 4 Americans don't know Earth circles Sun
(NEWSER) – To put the brightest possible spin on this story is to say that three-quarters of Americans are fully aware that the Earth revolves around the sun. The downside, of course, is that means 1 in 4 are in the dark about what Discovery calls "probably the most basic question in science." The National Science Foundation asked that question and nine others of 2,200 Americans, with the average score on the quiz coming in at 6.5, reportsPhys.org.
Some other results noted by NPR:
- 39% answered correctly that "the universe began with a huge explosion"
- Fewer than half—48%—agreed that "human beings, as we know them today, developed from earlier species of animals"
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HOT SPRINGS, Ark. (AP) - T.J. Price scored 18 points Friday night and Western Kentucky never trailed in beating Louisiana-Monroe 74-60 in the first round of the Sun Belt Conference tournament.
George Fant scored 12 on 6-of-6 shooting for the Hilltoppers (17-15), who are the sixth seed in the tournament. They meet No. 3 seed South Alabama in Saturday's quarterfinals.
Ten players scored for Western Kentucky, which shot 69 percent in the first half on the way to a 46-24 lead. The Hilltoppers finished at 58 percent.
Kyle Koszuta led Louisiana-Monroe (4-23) with 15 points. Millaun Brown scored 12, and Trent Mackey and Amos Olatayo had 10 points each for the Warhawks, who lost their last six games.
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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Interior may authorize such officer or officers as may be designated by him to incur obligations in excess of appropriations currently available for the benefit of natives of Alaska, whenever said Secretary may determine such action to be necessary in order to insure the proper functioning of activities of the Office of Indian Affairs and of the Fish and Wildlife Service in Alaska during any ensuing fiscal year, payments of such obligations to be made from the respective appropriations for the new fiscal year when they become available: Provided, That such authority shall not be exercised earlier than the 1st day of January in any one fiscal year: Provided further, That excess obligations may be incurred only for the purchase of supplies, materials, and equipment; the amount of advance obligations so authorized shall not exceed 75 per centum of the total available in the current appropriations for such purposes: And provided further, That such obligations incurred in connection with the activities of the Office of Indian Affairs may be liquidated from the Indian Service supply fund, which fund shall be reimbursed from applicable appropriations, when made, for the ensuing fiscal year.
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Not a Vietnam vet
Trevor is in his mid 40s, making it impossible for him to be Vietnam war veteran. So stop editing it and saying he is. He most likely fought in the middle east in the 90s. But until we find out where he really fought, we should just call him a war veteran. Darrellmonks (talk) 19:21, November 9, 2012 (UTC)
He actually never fought in war. When going to Los Santos, he tells Wade the story of his youth : He was a smart kid, enrolled in the Air Force hoping to one day drop a nuke, but was judged too unstable by an army psychologist and got grounded for life. RedToyCar (talk) 15:25, September 24, 2013 (UTC)
Full name
His full name is Trevor Phillips —Preceding unsigned comment added by Funkybub (talk • contribs) 16:40, November 14, 2012 Please remember to sign your talk page messages with ~~~~.
Actually it is Trevor Philips (with one L) as referenced in the game SimonGn (talk) 17:13, September 17, 2013 (UTC)
Trailer 2
In trailer 2 we learned is a drug and arms dealer. And demands that he runs all of the arms and drug dealing in Blaine County. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Darrellmonks (talk • contribs) 19:40, November 14, 2012 Please remember to sign your talk page messages with ~~~~.
Wrong quote
He say's crank, not crack. Crank is poor quality methamphetamine usually produced in bathtubs and by trailer trash junkies, ie, why Trevors setting is in some backwater white trash breeding cesspool. Someone fix!!! Power Bonkers (talk) 20:19, November 26, 2012 (UTC)
Angel Pine?
Does anyone else think this is Angel Pine? Boomer8 (talk) 05:46, January 27, 2013 (UTC)
Does the voice for Trevor sound more like Brad Dourif's? Trevor also looks very much like Brad Dourif. Nostalgia of Iran (talk) 13:34, June 26, 2013 (UTC)
- Trevor is actually voiced by Steven Ogg. He possibly does motion capture for him too. RealgrandpaJoeWCG (talk) 17:08, June 26, 2013 (UTC)
Trevor's tatoos are partly inspired by popular underground freak show performer "Cuthroat", who modeled for some pictures during devolpment.
AnonAndrew (talk) 22:19, July 13, 2013 (UTC)
- Trevor's R.I.P. Michael tattoo could indeed be about Michael De Santa since Trevor was under the impression he'd been dead for some time.
- I tried adding that to the trivia section, but I'm locked out of the page. :/
- - JackFrost23 (talk) 23:12, September 19, 2013 (UTC)
- The tattoo on his arm appears to reads "RIP Michael 1983 - 2004 "Brother"" which makes the person who died approximately 21-years-old. Speculation has it that it may refer to Michael Keane however the LCPD Database gives his age as 28 at the time of his death which makes his birth year to be 1976. If the year is indeed 1983 then it can't refer to Michael De Santa/Townley because he was born in the 1960s. However, the last two numbers after 19 are a bit blurry could possible be 63 which if it was 1963 would most likely refer to Michael De Santa/Townley making him 50 years old during the course of GTA V. Zadidoll (talk) 06:12, September 20, 2013 (UTC)
Trevor's vehicles
Trevor is displayed prominently in multiple official screenshots with a Sabre GT.
Here he is driving a yellow Sabre GT: http://www.igta5.com/images/official-screenshot-trevor-police-chase.jpg
Here he is standing in front of a customized Sabre GT: http://www.igta5.com/images/official-screenshot-trevor-and-muscle-car.jpg
And here is a slightly different modified Sabre GT (though the driver is not visible): http://www.igta5.com/images/official-screenshot-muscle-car-on-highway.jpg
If not one of his personal vehicles, he at least has a strong preference for the Sabre GT, and I think it should be added to the list. --Gothzilla the Annihilator (talk) 23:25, August 6, 2013 (UTC)
Does Trevor resemble Jack Nicholson a bit?
Is it just me or is anyone reminded of actor Jack Nicholson when they see Trevor, I know they don't look exactly the same but someone said higher up on the talk page that he reminded them of Brad Dourif. Well I think Trevor looks a bit like Jack Nicholson and I'm not sure about the comparrison between Trevor and Sean Connery in the article. Andrew nicholson (talk) 15:40, August 29, 2013 (UTC)
I thought the same thing. What's funny is rather than looking like Nicholson, he just overall acts like Nicholson. He's cynical, hot-blooded (like some of Jack's characters), and generally tough while still being likeable. --RadicalEdward2 (talk) 04:23, September 20, 2013 (UTC)
He actually reminds me a lot of the Tourettes Guy, except TG isn't an always angry meth head alcoholic meglomaniac. sounds a lot like him though Kastrenzo (talk) 06:43, September 20, 2013 (UTC)
To me, he's Johnny Knoxville's evil twin! RedToyCar (talk) 15:28, September 24, 2013 (UTC)
'Nomad' in motorcycle club parlance actually means someone who is a member of the club, but is not attached to a specific chapter. The outlaw lifestyle often attracts people of the 'drifter' persuasion who feel disinclined to settle in one place, thereby preventing them from being a full-time member of a local chapter. They are given a 'nomad' patch where others would have ie; 'New York' to indicate which chapter they are a part of. I'm unsure how to go about rewriting this part of the article since it's unclear yet whether Trevor truly is still a member of the AoD or has left the club altogether, if indeed he ever was a member. Chainsoar (talk) 16:37, September 7, 2013 (UTC)
A question
Any source on him being involved with a war?
He says that he was in the top of the air force but never saw action due to his mental statusPickdeath (talk) 02:17, September 18, 2013 (UTC)PickDeath
Request for Page Movement
Hello wiki. I think that the Trevor Phillips page needs to be renamed (with a redirect of course) to Trevor Philips. The official manual and the subtitles note that Trevor's last name is not spelled with two Ls. Here is my source:
I would rename/move the page myself, but I have no powers to do so on here. Thanks! -Startug - Proud Beavis and Butt-head, Bob's Burgers, and Brickleberry wiki administrator. 16:20, September 17, 2013 (UTC)
Why is the page locked? Also, there's no section about his relationship to Tracey. I love how she's the only one he ever seems to be genuinely caring for. --RadicalEdward2 (talk) 04:21, September 20, 2013 (UTC)
I can't change it myself because the page is apparentley locked for reasons unknown, but Trevor's nationality section of the tab needs to be changed to Canadian-American, it is mentioned that he was born in Canada when speaking to Wade, In Rampage 2 Vagos members comment on his Accent and he says "So what if I grew up in Canada", in the Border patrol freak mission, the Russian man says he sounds like a Canadian and lastly he asks the crazy sign guy by the desert LS Customs about his opinions on them, Should also be mentioned that he's pretty insecure about it. I forget his name, Irwin or Griffith or something
There's really no reason not to do it, It was probably included as a joke because his voice actor carried an accent, and an easter egg because no one expected the psuedo redneck nutbar to be a from up north, but adding the nationality thing is no different than Packie Mcreary or any other character, Packie wasn't born in Ireland, but his tag says Irish-American, Kastrenzo (talk) 10:45, September 20, 2013 (UTC)
I don't think Trevor's Bodhi is red, it's more like rusted-orange


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TURIN -- As the Russians hugged and smiled, Team Canada's players stood silently, their heads bowed -- feeling their own disappointment and the anguish of a nation that doesn't want to give up its hockey supremacy.
The Olympics came to a stunning end for Team Canada last night with a 2-0 quarter-final loss to Russia -- the third time in the past four games the Canadians had been shut out.
"For me personally, this could be the worst," Canadian captain Joe Sakic said. "You don't ever want to lose. You want to get out there and win."
The defending gold-medal champs were supposed to have plenty of firepower, but the fact is this team couldn't score.
"I guess the problem is we never really got together as a team," coach Pat Quinn said. "I know that people are going to blame individuals, but there's not one person to blame.
"We had certain people who didn't put the puck in the net for us and we just couldn't seem to solve our lack of scoring. The bottom line is, as hard as our guys tried, we just weren't good enough to advance."
Now, the second-guessing will begin. Quinn said speed (or lack of it) was a factor and the loss of injured defencemen Scott Niedermayer and Ed Jovanovski was another factor.
After two scoreless periods, Russian rookie Alexander Ovechkin found the net at 1:30 of the third period, on the power play, after some horrible defensive errors in the Canadian zone. Alexei Kovalev scored an insurance goal at 19:37 as Canada imploded.
"Anytime you don't win there are going to be questions," Team Canada defenceman Rob Blake said. "I would think what will happen is Canada will learn from this and we'll be better in four years.
"This is tough right now. Whenever you lose it's tough to take. We came here to win the gold medal and we didn't complete our goal.
"I just don't think we ever played the way we were capable of playing and that's disappointing."
Team members were spending a lot of time wondering what went wrong, why it went so badly and why this team never got into any kind of groove at this tourney.
"I know we're going to get second-guessed and people are going to wonder if we should have had some other people here, but I'm proud of this group and I am not embarrassed one bit," Quinn said. "We played our hearts out. We had a lot of young players on this team who are going to be there for this country in 2010 (in Vancouver) and they're going to learn from this experience."
The Russians had an easy explanation for the win: They deserved it. They had a better, more talented, younger team and Canada got what it deserved.
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PHILADELPHIA - The Penn volleyball team (6-8, 1-2 Ivy) returns to The Palestra this weekend, needing to keep pace in the Ivy League with a pair of wins. The Quakers face Cornell on Friday night at 7 p.m. and close out the weekend against Columbia on Saturday at 5 p.m. Fans leaving Franklin Field after the Penn football game are encouraged to come cheer on the Red and Blue as they face the Lions.
Last Time Out
The Quakers came oh-so-close to a sweep of their trip north featuring matches at Dartmouth and Harvard. Last Friday, Penn came out on a mission and swept away the Big Green, 3-0 (25-20, 25-15, 25-18). Facing Harvard on Saturday, the Quakers took leads of 1-0 and 2-1, but the Crimson rallied in the final two sets to send the Red and Blue home on the heels of a 3-2 loss (25-16, 15-25, 25-17, 22-25, 13-15).
Scouting the Big Red
Cornell (4-9, 1-2 Ivy) comes into this weekend after picking up its first Ivy League win on Saturday in a four-setter over Brown. The Quakers and Big Red shared a couple of non-conference opponents in Temple and Northern Arizona. Penn took a set off both teams before falling in four sets, while Cornell was swept by both the Owls and Lumberjacks. Cornell has three players averaging over two kills per set. Breanna Wong (2.94) and Kelly Marble (2.69) lead the team, but it's Rachel D'Epagnier who does more with less, averaging 2.12 kills while hitting a team-high .338. Setting duties are handled by Kelly Reinke, who at 9.29 assists per set is second in the Ivy League. Defensively is where the teams seem to have the most contrast. While Penn tops the Ivy League and the nation in digs per set, Cornell ranks last in the Ivies at 11.82 digs per set and is among the bottom 20 teams in that category nationwide.
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Columbia (7-5, 2-1 Ivy) was competitive last Saturday in a home match against Yale, but the Bulldogs found a way to pull out the sweep of the Lions, 25-14, 25-22, 25-23. The road doesn't get easier for Columbia as they must first face the other Ivy League co-leader, Princeton, on Friday night in New Jersey before closing out their road trip with Penn. Still, these Lions have teeth. An extraordinarily deep team, Columbia has nine players averaging over one kill per set with the offensive leader, Megan Gaughn, averaging just 2.00 kills. Heather Braunagel and Savannah Fletcher are 1-2 in the Ivy League both in hitting percentage and blocks per set. As a team, Columbia ranks 16th in the nation with 2.88 blocks per set and are nearly a full block ahead of second place Princeton among Ivy League schools in the category. With as many players shuffling in and out as they have, it's no surprise that they employ more than one setter. In fact, three setters rotate through the line-up and each average at least 4.00 assists per set. In the back row of defense, Molly Winger leads the way with 3.90 digs per set, followed by Atlanta Moye-McLaren at 2.76.
For the fourth week in a row, Penn tops the nation in digs per set. With an average of 21.25, only one team in the nation - Yale at 19.39 - is within two digs of the Quakers. Leading the charge is libero Dani Shepherd, who for the past three weeks has been the overall national pacesetter. Shepherd checks in this week with an average of 6.43 digs per set. She's not alone in the back row for Penn either. Emma White is second in the Ivy League behind Shepherd in the category at 4.61 per set, and Kristen Etterbeek is 10th in the Ancient Eight at 3.76.
Another trend going in Penn's favor right now involves its freshmen. Thanks to Ronnie Bither at the beginning of the year, and Alex Caldwell more recently, the Red and Blue have won four out of five Ivy League Rookie of the Week awards to start off 2012. This week's award was won by Caldwell after she submitted a weekend with 14 kills, 37 assists and 26 digs over eight sets. The native of San Jose, Calif. hit .297 in the two matches and also came up with one solo block and five block assists.
Spectacular Susan
Friday night's match at Dartmouth set a new standard for excellence this season from a Penn attacker. Susan Stuecheli supplied the Quakers with a match-high 13 kills against one error on 17 attack attempts in the match. To make her numbers more impressive, she connected for kills on each of her final 12 attacks of the match, not missing on any in the second or third sets of the 3-0 win. With a hitting percentage of .706, it was the best offensive night for a Penn player since Sept. 16, 2011, when Stuecheli went off for 16 kills with one error on 21 attempts for a .714 clip in a 3-0 win over Rhode Island.
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With both of these matches being played in the friendly confines of The Palestra, live stats and streaming video will be available on PennAthletics.com for each. Click here to keep up with the latest stats in real-time, and here to subscribe or watch the Penn Sports Network, which will have HD-quality video of the Quakers facing the Big Red and the Lions.


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By Arielle Dreher Herald Writer
EVERETT— They were almost famous. She was not.
Mary Lambert appeared before the Seattle hip-hop duo Macklemore &Ryan Lewis last year to sing lyrics she scrambled to write in two hours to be included on their second album.
"I kept telling myself, 'Play it cool, play it cool,' " Lambert said.
She thought it went well: The pair teared up during the performance and Lewis asked her to record it immediately.
For two months, the Mariner High School grad waited for a return call. She went back to her three jobs working as a waitress and bartender in Seattle, barely making ends meet. Finally, she emailed them.
The news couldn't have been better.
Macklemore, whose real name is Ben Haggerty, and Lewis were going to use her voice as the chorus and hook on their new single, "Same Love," which became a chart-busting political anthem promoting marriage equality.
It's skyrocketed Lambert into a fame she couldn't have expected.
Over the past year, the 24-year-old has toured with one of the hottest musical acts in the country, appeared on VH1, "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" and "The Colbert Report," and just released her own single, "She Keeps Me Warm," based on her lyrics in "Same Love."
At her mom's house just over a week ago, Lambert smiled recalling the whirlwind journey, her bright red lipstick matching her "Rosie the Riveter"-style bandanna.
"I just did a show last night with Macklemore," Lambert said. "I am now a full-time artist and have been for about four months."
It hasn't always been this easy.
As a child, Lambert would escape the tough times of her home life by retreating to her bedroom and belting out ballads to her Beanie Babies.
It's what she calls her "star training."
"If I hadn't had that, I would have exploded," Lambert said.
She was 5 years old when her parents divorced. Her mother came out as a lesbian shortly afterward, and the church they attended ostracized her mother because of her sexual orientation, she said.
The family moved to south Everett, and her mother struggled to make enough money to care for the family for several years. Her father was not a part of her life anymore.
Lambert saw her mother writing and singing sad songs, and she followed suit.
And that continued as Lambert grew up.
When she went to Voyager Middle School, Lambert was playing cello and the piano.
Michael Clark knew Lambert was talented even then. The band and orchestra teacher at the middle school kept in touch with her as she moved on to high school and through college. Clark believes Lambert is on the verge of a successful career.
"People will hear this single, 'She Keeps Me Warm,' and her career is going to explode from here," Clark said.
Clark said it will be an honor to say that he knew her "back in the day," and he supports the social justice topics that Lambert tackles in her music.
"I think that the message of her music is going to make things easier for kids all over the place," Clark said. "And as a teacher, that's thrilling to me."
Rob Storrs, an English teacher at Mariner High School, knew Lambert through an after-school open mic for students that he hosted with another teacher. Storrs recalls the quality of Lambert's voice even back then.
"She seemed to be able to communicate emotionally through her voice, something that is usually not developed by vocalists at such a young age," Storrs said.
He ran into her again a few years later at a Capitol Hill chocolate store where she worked. She invited him to see her perform as a singer-songwriter.
"To be frank, I was blown away," Storrs said. "Not only had she developed her voice, but she had grown into a sophisticated songwriter, as well as a confident and endearing performer."
While life at home got significantly better once her mom met her current partner, Lambert began to have her own personal struggles with faith and personal identification.
She, her mom and her older brother experimented with spirituality after being kicked out of their church. They even attended drum circles for a bit, she said.
During her high school years, Lambert began attending Mars Hill Church, as well as Saint Mark's Cathedral, both in Seattle.
One Sunday morning at Mars Hill, Lambert remembers homosexuality being described and the congregation being told that they can love homosexuals and be friends with them but not to "partake" in the sin.
"The idea was that you won't be good with God if you partake in the sin of homosexuality," Lambert said.
This didn't sit well with Lambert as she went home to her mother and her mom's partner in a stable, loving home.
Lambert said it was around that time that she realized she, too, is a lesbian.
And that was when the real battle started.
"I would repent to God and ask God to forgive me," Lambert said. "But then I realized that's crazy because this is innately who I am."
Turning to relationships and a lot of partying, Lambert fell into a depression and said she was suicidal for a while.
"My relationship with God saved me," Lambert said. "I had faith, and that was the only thing I felt like I had."
When she graduated from Mariner, Lambert received a Gates Foundation scholarship, a scholarship funded by the Bill &Melinda Gates Foundation based on economic need, race and ethnic background, and academic potential.
She used the money to attend Cornish College of the Arts. After a rough freshman year, Lambert found an outlet in spoken word, an art form that combines poetry and performance. During her lowest moments, Lambert had been writing, and she began to perform her pieces on stage. Eventually, she won Seattle's Grand Poetry Slam in 2011.
Finding success and recognition in her writing and music, Lambert realized she needed to clean up her act and focus on school. Performing and doing gigs on the side, Lambert crammed 18 units per semester along with her jobs to graduate on time in 2011.
"I don't know how I survived," Lambert said. "I had so much help along the way."
After graduating, two Cornish graduates approached her about recording an album, which Lambert did over a slow and arduous two years. Lambert was in the midst of applying to graduate school in order to become a middle school music teacher when she realized that she wanted to try to make it as an artist.
"I had this revelation," she said. "I wanted to see if I could do it."
Six months later, she would receive an email from Ryan Lewis to try out for a song on Macklemore's newest album.
Earlier this year, after "Same Love" reached No. 11 on the Billboard chart, Lambert struck out on her own.
She booked and marketed her own North American tour, on which she performed her spoken-word poetry, promoted her book "500 Tips for Fat Girls" and sang her original music.
Lambert stayed with other spoken performance artists and friends. The tour ran from January to March, and Lambert was surprised that she actually made money on the tour.
"After that tour, I felt validated as an artist," Lambert said.
In July, Lambert wrapped the filming of a music video for "She Keeps Me Warm," which should come out sometime in August. Lambert is looking forward to more artist collaborations and another music video for her song "I Know Girls (Body Love)," which focuses on self-worth for women and girls who struggle with body image. Lambert continues to be flown out to various U.S. cities to perform with Macklemore &Ryan Lewis on their 2013 tour.
"I have the coolest job," Lambert beams. "I get to go perform in the coolest places then come home and work on my own stuff."
Just a few months ago, Lambert would come home from her shows with Macklemore and tend bar a few days a week. She is still making waves on the local music scene.
Steven Graham, a music blogger who lives in Everett and whose work appears on The Herald's website, heard Lambert perform in Everett about two months before "Same Love" came out. The timing for Lambert's success could not have been better, Graham said.
"All of a sudden there was a poster child for this movement who teamed up with a hip-hop artist on the verge of becoming a global star, and they changed the face of everything," Graham said. "It is so fortunate that she ended up with this platform to be heard."
Lambert has jumped to fame more quickly than any other local artist Graham has seen.
"Once she got in front of people, the song stood up; her talent stood up," Graham said. "She got a chance, and her talent will continue to carry her. She deserves it."
Lambert lives in Seattle with her girlfriend of three years and is adjusting to her new world. Every year seems to be radically different than the last one, Lambert said.
"I am so close with God, and I found the love of my life," Lambert said.
The down-to-earth artist insists on love being her primary message and that love is not a sin.
"I think you can change people's opinions only through love," Lambert said.
She is aware of the platform she has been given and is willing to be vulnerable and honest in her life, especially through her music and writing.
"I know that I have a gift in songwriting, and I want to do something with that," Lambert said. "I've been given this platform, and I will do something with it to change humanity."


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58 French Quarter business owners have agreed to contribute $200 or more per week to fund the hiring of three to four off-duty police officers to provide extra security.
Bourbon Street bar owner, Earl Bernhardt told FOX 8, "that's a lot of money, but if we don't do it, it could cost a lot more in lost business." The owner of the Tropical Isle and other bars in the French Quarter added, "we felt like we had no other choice."
The French Quarter Business League began discussing the idea in the wake of a June 29 shooting incident on Bourbon Street that left a woman dead and nine other persons injured.
The businesses collectively will contribute over $10,000 per week for the enhanced security.
The plan, which will go into effect when an expanded force of state troopers leaves after Labor Day, will be re-evaluated after a period of six months.