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Charlayne Hunter-Gault: Looking Back And Looking ForwardAired February 21, 2001 - 5:00 p.m. ET
JONATHAN MANN, INSIGHT (voice-over): Two countries, two colors. One woman living nearly two different lives. CNN correspondent Charlayne Hunter-Gault on her youth in the U.S. civil rights struggle and her surroundings in today's South Africa.
(on camera): Hello, and welcome.
An unusually personal story today - a pair of them, in fact. Both centered on our Johannesburg bureau chief Charlayne Hunter-Gault. She marked an anniversary recently, the 40th year since she was one of the first two black students to enroll at the all-white University of Georgia.
Her own past fresh in her mind, she set out to meet students who are breaking the color barrier in South Africa today. On our program - our colleague Charlayne Hunter-Gault, looking back and looking forward.
CHARLAYNE HUNTER-GAULT, CNN JOHANNESBURG BUREAU CHIEF: I remember it was a very crisp, cold January day when my mother in one car, Vernon Jordan and I set out for Athens. We drove down and just drove up to the campus, and there were crowds of white students at that time waiting to see us walk through those arches. And while many of them were hostile and they were yelling "nigger" and "nigger, go home," and "two, four, six, eight, we don't want to integrate," there were a lot of them that were just there, you know, to see what was going on, just out of curiosity.
So on the one hand, I felt and heard some of the nastiness. But on the other hand, I didn't feel that it was oppressive or overwhelming. I remember thinking, you know, we've come this far and we're almost done, and it's almost about to be the real thing. We're about to be enrolled, when all of a sudden we -- we heard a cheer go up, and we heard that the state had been granted a stay of the integration order.
The lawyers went to Atlanta to argue that the -- that there was no reason for this stay of the order to have been handed down. So they argued and won a continuance of the registration within a period of a few hours.
Throughout the night on Monday night, and they start also on Tuesday, they were beating on the steel -- on the floor, their floor, so that the noise would disturb me downstairs. But I sort of got used to that, when suddenly I heard a brick crash through the window. And I just sort of turned around, almost in slow motion, and went in to look because instinctively I think I knew what it was, but also I couldn't believe it. And sure enough, a brick had been thrown through the window, and it had splattered glass all over my clothes that I hadn't unpacked all in a suitcase.
And I just remember thinking at that point so this is how it is in the middle of a riot. They use tear gas eventually to disperse the crowds outside. It took a long time, though, for that to happen, long time for the police to finally arrive, almost as if it had been planned.
The dean came and got me, walked me out and all the girls in the dorm had come down to watch me leave. As I walked past this crowd, one of them threw a quarter in front of me on the floor and said, "Here, Charlayne, come and change my sheets." That was because they had been told that the tear gas had golden into their sheets, and in order to keep it out of their eyes, they were going to have to change all the bedding. That was just, I guess, meant to be one final blow.
But instead, you know, of making me angry, it stiffened my resolve. I didn't know how we were going to come back, I didn't know what the route would be, but I knew we would be back.
Over that weekend, our lawyers went to court, got us readmitted, and we came back on Monday. And from that point on, although there were many unpleasantries, for the most part, things settled down because I think it was beginning to dawn on the people who were fomenting this trouble - not students, I don't think, in the main -- that the law was going to have to be obeyed and that we were there to stay.
Opening up the university opened up the entire state. The walls of segregation just came tumbling down. And of course, we were a part of a larger movement. I hope that people passing through that building will learn patience and will learn perseverance and, as the old spiritual, says will walk and never get weary.
MANN: A break now. When INSIGHT returns - Charlayne Hunter-Gault on assignment at a South African university.
MANN: Welcome back.
Among the biggest challenges facing post-apartheid South Africa is education. For decades, blacks had access only to so-called Bantu education, which prepared them mainly for menial jobs. Five years ago, public schools were opened to all races, and a third of all schools are now integrated.
Changes are under way in the realm of higher education as well. Our Charlayne Hunter-Gault now with a personal look at the slow transformation of a prestigious institution.
CHARLAYNE HUNTER-GAULT, CNN CORRESPONDENT: If ever there was an institution that resembled the University of Georgia and its historic racial legacy, it was this one, Rau Afrikaans University, founded almost 35 years ago solely to educate Afrikaans-speaking white students, no doubt to take their place alongside the Afrikaaner ruling class of the country's racially segregated society.
Known as apartheid, it relegated blacks to segregated, separate and woefully unequal places, including in higher education.
(voice-over): Now, seven years after apartheid ended with a black- led government taking over, two of the finalists in this Rau tradition, the Rag Queen Festival, are black, as are many of the participants. They and close to 8,000 other black students are here, 42 percent of the total, along with Indians - one a finalist in the festival and so-called coloreds. Most the beneficiaries of law passed three years ago compelling higher education institutions to provide measures for the redress of past inequities forbidding such institutions to unfairly discriminate in any way - unapologetic affirmative action aimed at what is known here not as desegregation, but transformation.
Given my own experience of being a first, I sought out a student who had been among the first admitted to Rau. I was led to Brenda Radebe. Admitted in 1991, even before apartheid ended, but only to attend night classes. It wasn't a mob she had to face, it was language - Afrikaans.
BRENDA RADEBE, LECTURER: So all the lectures would be in Afrikaans, and we're totally lost, no acknowledgment as well to say, you know, if you like, you can contribute in English or whatever.
HUNTER-GAULT: With the help of some sympathetic Afrikaaner students, Radebe got through it and went on to earn her master's degree in clinical psychology. In 1997, she returned to Rau, this time hired as a lecturer.
RADEBE: The process, like she says, of looking at options.
HUNTER-GAULT: One consequence of transformation, students can elect to take their classes in Afrikaans or in English. Black and English-speaking students tend to choose classes taught by English speakers. Afrikaaner students by and large stick to the classes taught in Afrikaans.
UNIDENTIFIED LECTURER: Scientists usually work within a theological framework.
HUNTER-GAULT: Since the higher education act calling for transformation came into being, Rau has recruited some of South Africa's best black academics, like Sevid Mashego, a zoology professor and former head of one of the country's historically disadvantaged, or all black, African universities. This is a class for honors students. For most, their first black professor.
GORDON O'BRIEN, HONORS STUDENT: It's new to us, I must say. It is. We're all developing. We're changing. It's a difference. But no, I haven't come across anyone specifically that has had any problems with any black professors, not at all.
HUNTER-GAULT: Despite their acceptance, the few black professors here worry about another legacy of apartheid.
CONNIE MOLOI, SENIOR LECTURER: When you look at the kinds of degrees that they are doing, they are not the key degrees. For instance, you don't find any black students in degrees such as engineering, in the sciences. You find the greatest percentage doing arts, visual arts, and in our case, most of them are in education.
HUNTER-GAULT: Blacks are continuing to follow traditional career fields established during apartheid when they were limited by law as to what fields they could pursue. Moreover, most black students enter university after attending schools still suffering from the inequities of apartheid.
SEVID MASHEGO, PROFESSOR: I'm also a product of, you know, of a black township. I grew up in Soweto. The schools are definitely not equipped at all. When I was studying mathematics and physical science and so on at a school where there were no laboratories whatsoever. Everything had to be done theoretically by studying the books.
HUNTER-GAULT: Rau has established a special high school near its campus to help disadvantaged students overcome that legacy. The school's headmaster says its success, a 100 percent pass rate and the government's emphasis on affirmative action at every level of society, has led to private sector scholarships, a kind of downpayment on well- trained future black employees.
When I saw this ritual during freshman orientation week at Rau, my mind went back to less innocent freshman week rituals at the University of Georgia, especially among the Greek letter organizations, one of which used to proudly display the confederate flag, a symbol of the Old South and slavery.
Symbols of the old confederacy could still be seen flying around the campus this year amid much controversy. I talked with some black students here at Rau who complained about its rituals, not so demeaning as foreign and uncomfortable. No problem for Phatudi Mogashwa, who accepts not only Afrikaans, but the Afrikaaner nickname the upperclassmen gave him, Ketting Uk (ph), chain eye.
Remembering that the black student protests against being taught in Afrikaans in 1976 was a defining moment in the black liberation struggle, I asked Mogashwa, whose native language is northern Sutu, what had changed.
PHATUDI MOGASHWA, STUDENT: Well, basically, like it's a rumination and it's actually quite cool because they, I sometimes teach in my language, you know? They catch the envy and it's awesome because it's changed dramatically because, you know, it's amazing, actually. I feel at home with them here.
CAREL CRONJE, STUDENT: We don't see color anymore. We like all students.
HUNTER-GAULT: But some students complained about the appearance of subtle forms of discrimination, especially in the assigning of spaces to black students in the residences, echoes of the discrimination I faced at the University of Georgia when I was placed in a two-room suite on a floor with no other students.
SHARON NKOMO, FORMER RAU STUDENT: I think it's much easier for white people to get in than for black people to do so because no matter when you go, when you go talk to them, usually, normally you have to go there all the time to remind them, to ask them if there's any openings and all that. You find that, you know, your name isn't moving. They keep on telling you you're number 23. You stay there, you know? You're not moving.
HUNTER-GAULT: The university says there's no such intent but acknowledges it may have failed to communicate that. Black students say communication could be improved if they could talk to people in authority who look like them.
DELANI MABASO, STUDENT: If you have a complaint and you feel that white people are doing this to you, the last person you'd want - the last thing you'd want to do is to go to a white person and tell them, no, you're doing this to me.
HUNTER-GAULT: It may be a comfort factor, but students on this campus do tend to gravitate toward their own ethnic groups. Despite the problems, the recently retired head of the university says he's proud of what Rau has been able to achieve.
J.C. VAN DER WALT, FORMER RAU RECTOR: I must really say to you that it's been a miracle. I've never experienced in the 35 years that I've been here and especially in the last 10 years any resistance to the concept that we had to transform to become a fully South African university.
HUNTER-GAULT: In many ways, Rau's transformation, though not complete, has been less eventful than at some other institutions in the country. And while there has been the odd racial incident here and there and the continuing calls for blackening or Africanizing institutions of higher learning, there's been nothing like the massive resistance experienced in Georgia and other states in the deep South.
(on camera): A few weeks ago, I looked at the statistics on the admission of black students to the University of Georgia 40 years after I walked through its doors. Only six percent of the 34,000 students are black, and the university is being sued by whites to end the use of race as a factor in admissions. Even though South Africa's children of apartheid won their freedom some 33 years after the children of American segregation, and even though South Africa has a long way to go towards full transformation, it has come a long way and much faster.
Charlayne Hunter-Gault, CNN, Johannesburg.
MANN: Another break, and than a conversation with Charlayne who helped change U.S. education and a man trying to change South Africa's in a different way. Stay with us.
MANN: Welcome back.
How different are the two worlds Charlayne found as a college student and a correspondent? We spoke to her and to South Africa's education minister, Kadel Asmal, about how their respective nations have adapted to race.
HUNTER-GAULT: Well, they look similar in many ways because apartheid was very much like Jim Crow or segregation in the deep South of America. And then the administration, the whole system here changed, as it did in the south of America. Basically, the seeds of it were sown with the '54 decision. But actually, the real desegregation started after I entered the University of Georgia.
But the similarities almost end there because the big difference is that this is a country where the majority people are the black Africans, and in America, it still is the case that the majority are the - at least in most parts of the South - are white.
MANN: Mr. Minister, do you draw comparisons in your own mind, do you think of comparisons when you are doing the work of transforming your country?
KADEL ASMAL, S. AFRICAN MINISTER OF EDUCATION: Yes, always. Because we have to learn from international experiences, and the Mason- Dixon Line was a geographical description in the United States. Here, it was a line which in black and white South Africa. And after 1994, which reorganized and reconstructed society, one of the difference between the United States - one of the difference between United States and South Africa is our constitution.
Because of our history of apartheid where all the privileges of white were decided by race, the constitution protects what we call corrective action - affirmative action, you call it. So it's just proof it can be like the (inaudible) case in California, where the Supreme Court reinterpreted the whole idea of quotas.
So what we have here is the transformation of the higher education system. Secondly, the majority - the African National Congress has black and whites in the parliament. We decide the moral and legal and ethical codes. That's the difference between the United States that no administration here can change the fundamental rules of transformation.
And transformation is very important, so I don't want to compare it with the United States. But we are transforming all our institution structures all the time.
MANN: You talked about learning, Mr. Minister. It's appropriate, you're the education minister after all. But let me ask you more about that. Does the United States have anything to learn from South Africa, or South Africa anything to learn from the U.S.?
ASMAL: Of course we learn from the United States. I mean, the United States is a principal culture and social and economic factor in the world, and you can't but learn from the United States. The difference is that here, affirmative action was for transformation of a society. Affirmative action in the United States was to deal with certain social problems. And so we learned from the United States that, first of all, there must be a determination to have greater representativity.
In South Africa in 1990, there were hardly any blacks in the universities. Now 71 percent of the students are blacks. And particularly in the all-Afrikaans student universities. In some cases, the blacks form 45 percent to 50 percent of the students. So it's a determination by the government to see that everybody has a place in the sun.
I mean, that's a difference between United States and South Africa. It doesn't give way to judicial examination, the vagaries (ph) of changes in government in the states or in the central government. What we can learn from the United States is that there must be a fixity (ph) of determination. You've got to get things right quickly if you don't want to alienate the results and the people.
(inaudible), for example, my national plan for higher education in two weeks' time. So this problem is very appropriate. And it will learn from the rest of the world, but it's going to learn that you can't use concepts like liberty and autonomy to allow for discriminative practices, to discrete forms of discrimination. In South Africa, we have to deal with that very quickly.
So it's possible in the United States, if after 30, 40 years, only 6 percent of the students are black in Georgia, that's the United States' measure of things. We can't afford that in South Africa. They ask (ph) for the accelerated program of transformation.
MANN: Charlayne, if we can switch from policy to a more personal vision of this. You met some of the black students who are moving into a very white world of higher education. Did you see something of yourself in them?
HUNTER-GAULT: Oh, I think I did many times over as I talked with the students on the campus at Rau. For example, when the students complained about what their perception of segregation in the dormitories, I thought about the isolation that I faced when I entered the University of Georgia in 1961. I was placed on the first floor, where there no other students. I was alone on that floor and deliberately so, while the students above me pounded on the ceiling all night long to keep me awake to let me know that they didn't want me there.
And I also felt some kinship with them when they complained about not having people who look like themselves to go and talk to about their problems. Because some of their problems are real. Some of them are perceived. But for them, the perception is the reality until someone tells them differently.
So they want more black professors and people that they feel they can go and talk to to help them through this very sometimes difficult transition.
MANN: Mr. Minister, I want to ask you about that. But in the larger sense, it's not just a question of a few students or one school. South Africa has a very diverse educational system that has tried to re- create itself. How far has that work advanced? How fair is the system? How equal the access for children and students of different backgrounds?
ASMAL: It's very uneven frankly. Because the legacy is so awesome and awful, we've only had seven years - you've had 150 years. We've only seven years. But the difference is here the public, the majority of the public want the change of transformation, slowly but in a decided way.
I couldn't go to the university here of my choice 40 years ago. I refused to go an Indian university. I want to go university. Now people have freedom of choice. But there are still distortions. Rau has (inaudible) colleges. Rau has distance learning. So the majority of students in Rau are not black, but (inaudible) some white. And that happens in most of the former Afrikaans-speaking universities.
So there is very discrete forms of adjustment. I don't know about the United States. We don't have confederate flags here. But we don't have any particular recognition of the democratic symbols of South Africa in the former white universities. And so there is no understanding of the value system that keeps it together. And that kind of personal thing we have to grapple with.
MANN: Kadel Asmal, South Africa's minister of education, and CNN correspondent Charlayne Hunter-Gault, thank you both for being with us.
Then and now - here and there. That's INSIGHT for this day. I'm Jonathan Mann. Stay tuned. There's more news ahead.
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For this activist, art is a lifeline — and a way to cope with personal and generational trauma
After battling with mental health and a blood disorder, Gloria Swain uses her work to uplift others
The first time I connected with multimedia artist Gloria Swain was on a cold winter evening earlier this year. In front of the Toronto Police headquarters where Black Lives Matter Toronto had erected the temporary protest occupation Tent City, the now 61-year-old performer, painter and writer held centre stage. Swain sashayed her hips, bounced her shoulders and even dropped down to the splits as the crowd yelled, "Go Auntie! Go Auntie!" When she was done, she turned to me and said, "This is what 60 looks like."
Today, she is called Auntie Gloria by artists and activists across Toronto. She's known for her spontaneous dance performances, provocative artistic creations, fierce support of movements like BLMTO and #OccupyINAC and ongoing uplifting of young artists. Watching her dance onstage at Pride or holding court at the Tangled Arts Gallery, few would guess that less than 15 years ago Swain was diagnosed with a blood disorder that left her at 99 pounds, undergoing 40 months of treatment and given only five years to live by doctors. During this time, art — which has always been a part of her life — became her lifeline. Joint disease made her regular painting practice painful; holding smaller tools was close to impossible, so she began experimenting with other devices like paint scrapers, scrubbing brushes, spray paint and her hands. This experimentation indirectly led her to the world of abstract art.
I saw the results of Swain's often geometric and expansive creations firsthand when I visited her home earlier this week. A one-bedroom apartment in downtown Toronto, every wall in the self-taught artist's home is covered with her work. The bedroom has been converted into a studio that is filled to the brink with canvases of all sizes. Easels hold works in progress; completed pieces lean on the floor or are carefully placed on atop plastic storage containers. Currently completing her Master's Degree at York University in Environmental Studies, Swain doesn't know where to begin when showing me her creations. Her thesis defense includes a coffee table photo book, a short film and a paper that reads like poetry.
She welcomes me to her home with offerings of "snack-y things," presenting a dizzying array of fruit, hummus and chocolate brownies from the fridge. "You can tell I'm from the South, right?" she laughs while making me a cup of green tea. I remind her of our encounter at Tent City and she laughs again: "Oh, Mama loves to dance! Every Thursday I go to the village dancing." Dressed in all black with tattoos of affirmation running up and down her arms, Swain tells me that she is currently on a journey of discovering and telling her own story. "I guess I'm reclaiming negative stuff and making it positive. This here is how we deal with trauma. You can't get rid of it, so you learn to live with it. So I use it for my art."
While Swain underwent treatment, she also battled depression and struggled to find adequate treatment while taking care of her daughter. "I think the system has changed now but [back then] I go to my doctor and I say, 'I'm depressed.' He says, 'I can't give you medication because if I do, I have to report you to Children's Aid." Swain began to recognize her experience as part of a larger societal pattern. When she began researching her family's history and saw the patterns of mental illness in the experiences of her sister, her aunt and her mother, she began to draw the intergenerational threads and recognize her trauma as something that also had historical and political roots. Swain's solo installation last year at Tangled Art Gallery was an exploration into her experience as a black woman in the mental health system, entitled Mad Room. "People say, 'Why do you call yourself a mad artist?' I'm reclaiming the term because it used to be used as a negative. Look around. If I wasn't mad, would I be able to create this?"
People say, 'Do you feel exposed?' I say, 'No.' I feel in control because I'm telling the story. And it needs to be told.- Gloria Swain, artist and activist
Swain shows me a series of black ink sketches done on 3x5 canvasses that bring to mind the early silhouette works of Kara Walker. Swain describes them as her story with mental health, and the images of razor blades dripping with blood, needles and medication bottles provide arresting visuals of her personal experiences. However, she also transcends her individual narrative by imagining the stories of her ancestors, tracing four generations of black women's suffering. Originally from West Virginia, Swain grew up in an era still deeply rooted in segregation. The Civil Rights Movement is often defined in the public memory as a moment history defined by legal battles and activist mobilization but Swain considers it from a more intimate perspective of trauma and violence. "What my parents was fighting, I'm fighting, and this generation is fighting the same thing."
Much of Swain's abstract work is textured using glue guns and fabric to create works that jump off the canvas. She encourages me to feel them, asking me, "Is it cool or what? My stuff is touchable. I think I'm the only artist who asks people to touch. It's very therapeutic too." This practice has a purpose beyond aesthetic, as Swain works frequently with people who have various disabilities and considers how they may be able to engage with her work.
Look around. If I wasn't mad, would I be able to create this?- Gloria Swain, artist and activist
We move from her studio to her laptop so that she can show me a video of a performance art installation she conducted earlier this year at The Theatre Centre called The Gathering. It's an invite-only performance with an audience made up entirely of black women whose names are incorporated into the show. A core theme running through Swain's work is violence against black women, and in this performance, she centres many of them — hanging various dresses on a clothes line, wringing out the fabric and revealing the names written on them before undressing herself. She breaks down the colour palette for me: "White is the colonization. The black is the scars of slavery. And the oppression [the grey] is what's left over — the intergenerational trauma. We still carry it with us. My thing is how do you heal? You strip it away."
She gets up to find and unfurl one of the fabrics used in the installation so that I can inspect it closely. It is a long cloth filled with the names of 210 black women who were killed by police, who died in police custody or who were murdered as black trans women. "So after I do my performance, because I know it's heavy, I come out in my onesie dancing," she tells me with a small smile. "People say, 'Do you feel exposed?' I say, 'No.' I feel in control because I'm telling the story. And it needs to be told."
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John Jesse Barrow, Jr. and Bertha Alma King Barrow of Oak Grove, Florida in northern Okaloosa County were both descendants of men and women who helped settle the territory of Florida prior to it becoming a state in 1845. In addition, they were descendants of early settlers of Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, Pennsylvania and Massachusetts. Their ancestors helped settle America; they created settlements in the wilderness and made America what it is.
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Awareness tip of the day…are you in business or are you in be-you-isness There is a big shift in the world of business. More and more people are starting their own home business, creating jobs and hopefully security for themselves. The problems arise when we start living from the lack, fear, the old ways of striving to "do, do, do" in order to be successful
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Being Tough is required at times
Awareness tip of the day…with all the frequency, energy and vibrational shifting we are being influenced by, we are required to tune to our own inner signal so what we broadcast into life is crystal clear. Sometimes being TOUGH is required.
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Resistance, being Attacked, and moving on
Awareness tip of the day….the more you show up to be who you truly are, the more you lift your personal frequency, the more you align with your souls purpose, the more likely you will to be judged, attacked, criticised and discredited. How exciting. People take notice!!!! To have the realisation in those times of challenge, you can respond from your consciousness instead of reactivity and old knee jerk actions is a knowing of awareness and responsibility of self.
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You are your best teacher
Awareness tip of the day…When we finally awaken and connect to our deeper nature, we realise the best teacher exists within. Recently I was asked…who is your teacher?..and my response without any thought was ….I am.
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Awareness tip of the day…We are in the universal energetic gift today of an equinox, These happen twice a year, signalling autumn and spring. Equinox is when there is equal light and dark in a 24 hour cycle. Light doesn't rule over dark and darkness doesn't rule over light. A point of balance. In the astrology charts, the equinox signals the start of the new astrological year
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Awareness tip of the day…you have an inner light requiring attention. Firstly we have to recognise that we all have a powerful inner light that makes each of us unique. A tiny spark, flame or flicker of divinity existing in each of us, making us unique, unlike anything else, the universal thumbprint so to speak, like a single candle flame or a pilot light.
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Oh those youngsters!
Photography exhibition "Oh those youngsters!" is a second edition of the Kalju Mihkelson's photos and managed by Merli Antsmaa. The aim of the exhibition is to show the youngsters, from years back, show the emotions and situations. Are the youngsters nowadays are so different or not?
Merli Antsmaa has said: " I believe that the youngsters nowadays are still the same - happy, fun and spending good time. With some of the photos it is difficult to say when and where they are made. You could easily compare it to present. The idea is to show the similarities."
Photos: Kalju Mihkelson (1931-1976)
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Pärnu city library April-May 2013
Haapsalu library May 2013
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In order to better serve the puzzle playing community we have moved BigOpolis to it's own domain! It's now much easier to get to our enteraining puzzles and games. Just go to http://www.BigOpolis.com where there's room for all kinds of stuff.
We have numbered fill-ins here, now! This seems to be one of the features that our puzzle players have been wanting. They will start to appear randomly and in the puzzle archives as of today. Enjoy!
The site traffic has been growing over the last 6 months and the Fill-in puzzle page at BigOpolis are coming to be quite a popular destination. We have cleaned up some of the site a bit in order to make things look more coherent and standard on all browsers. We're continueing to add improvements.
Submitted the Fill-it-in page to the DMOZ, for everyones enjoyment. From what we can tell we are getting positive feedback with our game. There have been a few kinks but for the most part it seems to be working just fine.
Put up the very first beta versions of this web site. Not quite ready for prime time just yet. A lot of the software titles arent ready for public distribution. So I should find some time to start working on those. The Fill-it-in generator and applet seem to be working for the most part, but I haven't had a chance to do any user testing. If anyone reads this and you have 10 minutes to spare try out the fill-it-in puzzle and let me know if it worked for you.


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Michelle -Winter chic
What a sexy photo of Miss Sissy Michelle. This is classic winter chic; back basics with a grey hounds tooth mini skirt. It's the perfect out fit to dress up or down and Michelle wears it well.
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NAIHC.org, Washington, June 12, 2016 – A coalition of farmers, state legislators, a former U.S. Attorney, scientists, merchants, entrepreneurs, and environmentalists filed a formal petition Friday asking the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration "to remove industrial hemp from the federal drug schedules." By law, DEA must answer the petition in a reasonable amount of time.
Supporting the petition, former United States Attorney for the District of Kansas Barry Grissom said that "It is a misallocation of law enforcement resources to continue to pretend that industrial hemp is a drug."
For details about the petition, go to:
- a summary (first 15 pages) of the administrative rulemaking petition to DEA
- Links to key sections in the petition
the entire administrative rulemaking petition (183 pages total, 8.1 MB)
- the media release (3 pages)
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- "The common interests of the Petitioners center exclusively on the cultivation and manufacture of industrial hemp for commercial purposes, including but not limited to, the use of fiber for construction, industrial, and clothing products; seed and oil for use in food, cosmetics, and industrial products; and both fiber and oil as renewable fuel feedstock."
- "Petitioners are businesses, farmers, attorneys, elected officials, entrepreneurs, technical experts, public policy advocates, and non-profit organizations . . . that believe that the United States economy, environment, and national security would greatly benefit from the re-commercialization of industrial hemp in domestic agriculture and manufacturing."
- "Manufacturers use industrial hemp to make fabrics, paper, building materials, paints, foods, cosmetics, and other consumer and industrial products."
- "Petitioners and others are interested in seeing the cultivation of industrial hemp legal in the United States once again, so that industrial hemp fiber, seed and oil can be made into useful and profitable products."
- "Industrial hemp is incorrectly classified as a Schedule I drug. In pattern and practice, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has effectively rendered industrial hemp illegal to cultivate, which severely limits the manufacture and commerce of products made from industrial hemp."


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MGNREGA (the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act) is a government employment scheme that guarantees rural households 100 days of paid work every year doing unskilled manual labour. PACS has been working to increase the participation of socially excluded groups under this scheme.
Socially excluded groups face institutional and social discrimination that often prevents them from accessing employment opportunities. Therefore, MGNREGA is a vital livelihood option for poor households who struggle to make a living because they do not have productive farmland or marketable skills. MGNREGA ensures non-discriminatory access to work and the timely payment of fair wages.
However, take-up of this scheme, especially by socially excluded groups, has been low due to a lack of knowledge and support. Typical issues faced by socially excluded groups in accessing work under MGNREGA include:
MGNREGA has been the largest thematic intervention for PACS, covering 78 districts and involving 132 civil society organisations. PACS work on MGNREGA has involved a number of interventions and initiatives including:
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By Rob Sloan, cybersecurity research director, WSJ Pro
The National Institute of Standards and Technology recently updated its guidance on creating passwords, moving away from the advice that long, complex passwords, comprising upper and lower case letters, numbers and special characters, are the best way to secure data. While the new guidance was roundly welcomed, implementation is likely to be a slow process.
As the Wall Street Journal reported, in 2003, NIST midlevel manager Bill Burr wrote "NIST Special Publication 800-63. Appendix A.," the influential document that came to define password policy for organizations around the world. Mr. Burr later concluded that much of the advice in the document was incorrect.
The new guidance seeks to end the frustration and annoyance users experience with the current rules. Out with complex passwords consisting of upper and lower case letter, numbers and special characters, in with longer, more memorable phrases. Key recommendations include passwords of up to 64 characters in length and to block known compromised passwords. Longer passwords are orders of magnitude harder to crack.
The finger of blame is often pointed at users for not creating strong enough passwords under the current guidance, but Jason Hoenich, founder & chief product officer of Los Angeles-based security awareness startup Habitu8 Inc., does not agree: "Humans are actually not the problem. End users have been telling us for years that our password policies are stupid and don't work. NIST has finally decided to listen and adjust."
"End users are like water, they'll always find the leaking points." said Mr. Hoenich, adding: "We can patch the process or the user. One fixes most issues, the other fixes a single issue–your call."
Security awareness programs may have to adjust their message according to Mr. Hoenich. "Everyone hates passwords–this is a huge chance to tell a new story." Mr. Hoenich previously ran cybersecurity awareness programs for both The Walt Disney Co. and Sony Pictures Entertainment and believes users will quickly adapt to the new guidance. "Humans are resilient. 98% of end users won't care. They'll just want to know what to do and see an example." Habitu8's awareness videos already align with the new guidance.
"It's not difficult to explain to users" said Mr. Hoenich. "People like transparency. Be simple, direct, and to the point. "Hey, we've found a better way to do this and everyone agrees, and so we're going to do the right thing–not the easy thing."
Rush to Change Policies May Not Be Needed
So should businesses rush to change their policies? Not necessarily. While changes in the short term are unlikely, the updated guidance is a good excuse for organizations to start talking about authentication and whether solutions currently deployed are sufficiently user-friendly and effective.
The other aspect to consider is the world has changed a great deal since 2003 and organizations should at least consider implementing two-factor authentication, an extra layer of security that requires not only a password and username, but also a piece of information to which only the legitimate user has access.
Smartphones are ubiquitous, providing users with an avenue to get a security token via an app or SMS that adds a level of security without inconvenience. Biometrics may also be worth consideration with a host of new solutions hitting the market recently.
"Companies cannot move to this new guidance overnight" said Alexis Lavi, a senior advisor on cyber risk and strategy at cybersecurity services company, Fortalice Solutions. "However, it should be a topic of discussion at the next cybersecurity meeting and most definitely addressed during IT security policy reviews and updates."
Switching to the latest NIST advice is not straightforward though: "In reality, resetting passwords across workstations and servers and changing authentication processes for external customers is a challenge" said Ms. Lavi.
Implementing changes puts a significant administrative burden on the IT department. The change management process and sign-off on policy changes from the legal department can also introduce complications and Ms. Lavi adds one more important factor: "Vendor product settings may inhibit an organization's ability to make these changes." That is to say some software will not allow the reduction in password complexity and increase in password length.
"Each organization will want to evaluate the cost/benefit trade-offs of moving to the new password guidance." said Ms. Lavi. However, "for entities required to follow NIST, or those relying on NIST controls for their custom frameworks, the move may be speedier."
(Rob Sloan is cybersecurity research director at WSJ Pro. Previously, Rob has worked as response director for a specialist IT security consultancy in London and built a team focused on detecting, investigating and protecting against cyber intrusions and responding to incidents, especially state-sponsored attacks. Rob started his career working for the U.K. government, looking at some of the earliest cyberattacks against the critical national infrastructure. Rob's main interest is the requirements, motivations and technical capabilities of threat actors. For more information on the WSJ Pro Cybersecurity newsletter visit https://buy.wsj.com/wsjp


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My friend recently asked if I would do a photo shoot with his pregnant wife and his little girl. I accepted knowing that I would be able to capture some beautiful moments. I researched around to see what other photographers were doing with the task of a pregnant woman. And to my surprise all of them were alike. It seems that every woman wants the Demi Moore photograph. But that wasn't my style or taste. I wanted to tell a story of love, to display the beauty of a woman awaiting her new child. I wanted it to be as real as possible and not "set up".
I pass by this old church every day to work. Since its been raining a lot here in California this past winter, the grass was green and the sky was blue. Since film captures color so well, I thought I would try this place out for the photo shoot. I came across a few different difficulties. First, by the time everyone was ready the sun was now bright and harsh. Second, the wind. With these elements I had to adjust and use it to my advantage. Another was the energy of the little girl. She didn't want to stay still, so I told her to play. The photos of her playing and being her self ended up being some of my favorites.
As for the young mom, she was great. She took direction great, not feeling awkward with the camera. Instead she pretended I wasn't even there, which I love. It's then I can really do my best, I can now observe and capture love.


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Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) begins the fifteenth year of its Sportsmanship Award Program. The program promotes outstanding sportsmanship by presenting a Sportsmanship Award to varsity teams that demonstrate the greatest degree of sportsmanship in the course of a particular season. Today the 2017 Spring Sportsmanship winners were announced. Congratulations to our winning teams for


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Sometimes you just need a bit of fluff to make life seem less hectic. And that's exactly what this series is for me: a temporary escape from I usually read and from the every day happenings of life. I mean as soon as I start reading one of these (or my Jane Austen fan-fic) I immediately have a smile on my face and start giggling to myself.
This is my first Galley of 2013 and I don't plan on reading too many this year because of my huge backlog of owned books. I have one left over from 2012 and two additional I've requested this year, but I'm only planning on requesting them if they are for series (like this one) or by an author I really want to read, like the second one I've requested from the Other Press. I received a copy of Dirty Laundry via NetGalley and this is my honest response and I have received no compensation.
I don't really know where to go with this response. I'll start with the positives. Dirty Laundry was a quick and fun read. I'm not sure I'd call it engaging, but it held my attention well enough that I read it in less than 24 hours. Dirty Laundry appears much more sexually explicit than the first two in the Tucker Springs universe, but I think that has to do with the fact this novel includes BDSM play. Surprisingly, I wasn't bothered by the sexual explicitness of this novel (I'm a prude we know this), even though Cullinan jumped right to it at the beginning of the second chapter.
Now for the downside. I think Cullinan is a mediocre writer, but has a lot of potential. As a woman writing about sex between men, she clearly is able to write outside of her (assumed) realm of knowledge and do it convincingly, however I had major issues with her over use of descriptors. Rather than making the readers feel what it was like to be as nervous or panicked as Adam during a panic attack, she described it (one specific example is that she mentioned a blender blade spinning in his stomach). The idea of showing, not telling, would help Cullinan to further expand her repertoire. But this is interesting because she only seems to have this issue outside of the intimate scenes.
In addition to Cullinan's writing, which as I said wasn't too big of an issue, I had issues with the story line and one character. The storyline problem, has very little to do with Cullinan and more to do with the romance-genre in general. Perhaps I'm slightly jaded, or perhaps I'm frustrated at the happily ever after, but these novels (and the majority of romance type novels I've read) happen so fast that it just doesn't seem believable. I mean sure I can believe the random hookup in the laundromat, but the falling madly in love and overcoming all sorts of obstacles and then deciding to build a house together in just three months – come on! I will say, compared to the first two stories I read, this one did a better job of explicitly saying this happened over a series of months, but I'm still torn amongst: 1) there's no way that happened that fast; 2) there must be something wrong with me why don't I fall madly in love like this; and 3) even if this is just fiction, should I want this type of whirl wind romance/life?
However, if there was one thing that I was incredibly wary of by the end of the novel, it was the inclusion of Louisa, a MtF character. Let me start by saying I applaud Cullinan for expanding the Tucker Springs diversity and that it can only add to future stories, especially as Louisa is a pretty bad-ass character AND is going to be a social worker! But my wariness arises from all of the previous best friend tropes (black, Hispanic, gay, disabled). I in no way think this was Cullinan's intention, however I felt that the 'trans' revelation came too quickly and too cleanly (or at least the first time) and that it just sort of felt stuck in. The second time it seemed much better and much less forced which was great! I just wonder what Cullinan's thoughts were in including Louisa as a character apart from adding an other for Adam to identify and seek support with.
I also didn't like the book cover, but that's because I imagined both Adam and Denver differently, as with all of the other characters in Tucker Springs so far 😀
Recommendation: If you're a prude you might want to pass on this one, it's very sexually explicit. If you're not interested in male-male action you should definitely pass on this. If you've got an open mind, it's definitely worth a read especially for Louisa's bad-assness.
Opening Line: "None of Adam Ellery's fantasies had ever involved a muscle-bound and cowboy-hat-wearing avenging angel, but they would now."
Closing Line: "Adam shut his eyes and opened for him, taking his lover home." (Whited out.)


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Jillian Arreazola moved to Ennis from Allen, Texas, with her family when she was in the fourth grade. Her journey in the vast world of art began as a sophomore at Ennis High School. Her ability to work with glass has matured over the years to include pieces that are one of a kind in their design and uniqueness. "I needed to choose an elective," Jillian remembered. "The jewelry class looked interesting to me, so I chose Jewelry I as my elective that year."
That first year turned into so much more than an AP jewelry course. Under the tutelage of Jeannie Lucky, Jillian was able to master her artistic craft of choice while also making a lifelong friend in the process. "I was with Mrs. Lucky for three years," Jillian explained. "She was my mentor. She stretched me beyond my limits and taught me how to create outside the box."
Jeannie took Jillian out of her comfort zone, thus creating a young artist who has an eye for vivid colors and how well they will blend when fused together. During her sophomore year, Jillian was introduced to glass fusing — the art form that bonds disparate pieces of compatible glass together using heat and gravity in a kiln. The glass is heated in a controlled method at a specific temperature and, basically, cooled in the same controlled manner. Jillian learned the basics of her craft that first year. She learned the difference in the full-fused and tack-fused methods of glass art.
Full-fused pieces have depth based on the number of glass pieces used, but the final object is brilliant to the eye and smooth to the touch. Full-fused glass is baked at a much hotter temperature. The hotter temps allow the glass to melt one color into another. Art lovers can see and feel the different levels of glass used when admiring the tack-fused method. The tack method is baked at a much lower temperature. The levels, sometimes four or more, melt just enough to permanently fuse the chosen glass together, while leaving each level unique unto itself. The limited number of pieces Jillian created as a high school student are masterpieces in and of themselves.
They may not be high in number, but they are off the chart when it comes to brilliance and overall wearable beauty. There is not one pendant that she favors over another. In her mind, they each have some quality that make them all her favorite. "I feel obligated by society to have a favorite," she admitted. "I don't have one favorite piece, but each piece has something favorite about it."
Jillian did gift one specific pendant to her grandmother. It was the same pendant that earned her a fourth-place ribbon at a county art show, but her grandmother still wears the pendant today with first-place pride. Jillian was eager to get back to Jewelry II when her junior year began. She was equally excited to see Jeannie. "She was my encourager," Jillian confessed. "She brought the ability out of me." Jillian totally understood her role in the teacher/student relationship. "Mrs. Lucky could only do so much," Jillian shared, "then it was up to me to move forward in my artistic craft."
Jillian not only moved forward, she was able to take the fused glass methods she had learned to a level that represented her as an artist. She began to experiment with dichroic glass, frit glass, thin wire and charms. Dichroic glass is very glossy and offers a brilliant shine. Frit are tiny pieces of glass that come in all shapes, sizes and colors, sometimes as small as a pea or a large grain of salt. When methods are fused together and embellished with twisted wire and dangling charms, the finished result is nothing less than amazing. By the time she was preparing for her AP Jewelry III final exam as a senior, she had grown in artistic ability, but more importantly, the once shy sophomore had matured into a confident senior with a lofty idea for her final test. "We had to choose a specific theme. Mrs. Lucky's idea was to emulate the painted work of other famous artists using acrylic on glass," Jillian said, also mentioning that this technique has been around a long time. Her goal was to recreate well- known works of art on small rectangular pieces of white glass using a tiny brush and acrylic paints. "Once the painting was complete, the glass pieces were baked in a kiln. This process seals the paint to the glass."
Some of the replicated pieces look exactly like the famous paintings, while others are distorted because of the baking process. "Some teachers expect perfection," Jillian added, "but how does someone critique or grade artwork, since we all see art differently?"
Needless to say, fusing glass is very much like a surprise gift. The artist envisions a piece in their mind as they choose methods, colors and shapes of glass, but once fused, they take on another look altogether. An artist can also re-fuse a piece to try once again to create what they had originally imagined. But, in glass fusing there are no fast and hard rules or guarantees. Surprisingly enough, that's what makes this type of artwork so unique. Never really knowing what you will get when you remove the piece from the kiln is definitely the art of the unknown and unexpected. Since graduating from EHS in 2015, Jillian has had time to reflect on those who have inspired her to take her artwork to new heights. She refers to her mother as her backbone.
Her father paints on canvas with oil as a relaxing hobby. And it was her stepdad who introduced her to the art of photography as a young teen and helped her decide that photography was something she wanted to pursue and learn more about as a college freshman at Texas State University. For Jillian, a larger percentage of her inspiration will always come back to her high school art teacher who, after more than 40 years in the classroom, retired the same year Jillian graduated. "I utilized and took advantage of every single opportunity offered to me in Mrs. Lucky's art classes," Jillian said. "Mrs. Lucky was an expert art teacher who is now a wonderful lifelong friend." "I so enjoyed her as a student. Her confidence level grew each year," Jeannie said. "She had a goal from the beginning, and she never lost sight of it." Currently, Jillian is in the market for a kiln she can call her own so when the artistic bug strikes, she has all she needs to bring the creations in her head to fruition. "I always have a vision of what I hope to make," she said. "It may not always turn out as planned, but the art is in the creating, and all I want to do is create."
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