Dartmouth High's gym roof to be repaired by end of March Break
(12.03.2015)

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Classes at all schools within the Halifax Regional School Board are cancelled Monday.

It has been determined that an additional day is required to improve conditions of the grounds and to further assess facilities.

Winter weather conditions over the last week have hampered efforts to clear city streets and sidewalks. Many sidewalks remain impassable as city crews continue to clear several feet of snow and ice.

Though classes are cancelled, the school board asks that administrators and caretakers report to schools.

Halifax Regional School Board cancels Monday classes
(22.03.2015)

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Classes at all schools within the Halifax Regional School Board are cancelled Monday.

The board says it needs another day to improve conditions of the grounds and to further asses facilities

It has been determined that an additional day is required to improve conditions of the grounds and to further assess facilities.

Winter weather conditions over the last week have hampered efforts to clear city streets and sidewalks. Many sidewalks remain impassable as city crews continue to clear several feet of snow and ice.

Though classes are cancelled, the school board asks that administrators and caretakers report to schools.

Кто там замахнулся на Иисуса нашего Христа? Проверьте свою религиозную бдительность!
(Тест на Сноб.ру)

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Скандал вокруг спектакля Тимофея Кулябина «Тангейзер» говорит только о лицемерии и скудоумии гонителей: в самой постановке нет ничего подрывного. Мы решили вспомнить тех больших мастеров, кто сознательно шел на провокации, да еще и в самом массовом из искусств — в кинематографе. Насколько вы готовы к ним?

Guest Speakers at Public High School Encourage Students to Turn to God Instead of Food
(20.03.2015)

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We already know Alcoholics Anonymous is notorious for pushing the idea of God in their Twelve Step program (though there are secular alternatives to AA). But they’re not the only ones.

Will at Godless Teens is a freshman at a public high school in Colorado and, yesterday, his health class played host to guest speakers from Overeaters Anonymous, who were there to talk about “how people will often overeat to deal with stress.”

Initially, that wasn’t a problem… until Will saw (and took a picture of) what they had written on the board before class:

It’s hard to make out, but those are their Twelve Steps. And seven of them deal directly with God:

1. We admitted we were powerless over food — that our lives had become unmanageable.

2. Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.

3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.

4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.

5. Admitted to God, to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.

6. Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.

7. Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.

8. Made a list of all persons we had harmed and became willing to make amends to them all.

9. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.

10. Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong, promptly admitted it.

11. Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.

12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these Steps, we tried to carry this message to compulsive overeaters and to practice these principles in all our affairs.

Will writes about the real problem here:

Nothing — nothing — justifies the fact that this group came and proselytized to us. As somebody who suffers from mental illness and has a lot of friends (some of which are atheists) that also suffers from mental illness, this is disgusting, revolting, and absolutely insulting. It uses students like us in an attempt to turn us into proselytizing Christians.…

I’ve suggested to Will that he should contact the Freedom From Religion Foundation or his state’s ACLU affiliate. But we should all learn a lesson from him — when he realized something shady was about to take place in the classroom, he documented it (with a picture). It’s not just his word against the teacher’s — it’s his word, with proof that the guest speakers were suggesting to the kids that, if they’re overeating, they should turn to God for guidance.

That’s a heads-up move from a young atheist and one other students would do well to imitate.

Gay Chicken

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A game played with straight people to see who has more balls, metaphorically. The game is played in several ways. The most simple, and weakest, is the kiss. One 'player' moves in for a sensual kiss until one of the 'players' backs off. I've seen this lead to tongues but someone will always pull away. Another way gay chicken is played is by groping the other 'players' genitals or breasts or anything you can get your hands on. The most common form of the game is gay pillow talk in which each interaction escalates until someone laughs or just can't respond. Lastly, 'players' can initiate dry humping sessions. Hardcore 'players' will use a combination of three tactics to win the game. Some have been known to even use all four tactics at once. This plan of attack is very tricky.