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Twenty years ago, Anita Hill was a rising star in federal government working as an attorney-adviser to Clarence Thomas, a newly minted Supreme Court appointee.

But she made international headlines when she accused her boss of sexual harassment, leading to a landmark court case that brought the issue front and center.

Since then, Hill has entered academia and lectured across the nation about women in the legal field and on sexual harassment. Today in Detroit, Hill visited the Detroit International Academy for Young Women, where she was a special guest at an event held by the Anita’s Aspiring Attorneys club, which is named in her honor.

Hill, who also visited the Detroit Institute of Arts, spoke on gender equality during her address to students.

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A series of five new curricular activities use the spatial perspective and GIS to delve into wind and wind energy from a continental to a local scale. Four of the activities use ArcGIS Online and one uses ArcGIS desktop version 10, and all of them reside on the ArcLessons library. One might say these activities are “wind-driven!”

Analyzing Current Wind Speed and Direction in North America  uses ArcGIS Online as a tool for examining the spatial or geographic dimensions of current wind speed and direction in North America. Compare your own data gathered at your location to the online current wind speed and direction. Consider why and where winds blow.

Siting a Wind Farm in Indiana uses ArcGIS Online for siting a wind farm in Indiana. Use

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A Visit to Classes, October 16-22

The beginning of classes Sunday afternoon was like summer revisiting us during this golden, orange season of fall. Up in the garden, the russet hues of nearby slopes told that story, while the tomato vines were amazingly strong and thick, reaching for the sky with ripening tomatoes tightly held. I beheld this on a day so warm I have no sleeves, and bees visit the lingering flowers to gather. The week wore on to every shade of gold and every type of fall weather.

By late Thursday afternoon, the mist had lowered and dark gray clouds looked like rain was ahead. In the rug hooking class, the grays were textured with shades of black and white. Lots of warm reds were being applied to designs drawn on a mesh fabric for very cozy looking rugs, chair seats and art for walls. Instructor Laura Schnelker began her love of wool while restoring a pre-civil war house.

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Lately there seems to have been a surge in the bullying of  bloggers.  Apparently a few of my colleagues (one in particular) have been experiencing some serious verbal attacks from people hiding behind a keyboard.

When I first started writing, I got a lot of negative comments from someone who not only called the Catholic Church the “whore of Babylon” (how original!), but literally wrote pages and pages in the comment box which included numerous links to sites that “proved” I was wrong to believe in my faith.

I actually got the nerve to click on one of those sites and my mouth dropped open when I got there.  I can’t even begin to explain what was on that site.  All I knew for sure was that the FBI was now following me around on the internet!

After about the third time the person spewed their hatred on my post, I got nervous.  I copied everything and emailed it to the “boss” here at ChicagoNow.  He e

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