bail•i•wick (bāˈlə-wĭkˌ) noun
A person's specific area of interest, skill, or authority. See Synonyms at field.
The office or district of a bailiff.
Origin: Middle English bailliwik : baillif, bailiff; see bailiff + wik, town (from Old English wīc, from Latin vīcus; see vicinity ). http://www.yourdictionary.com/bailiwick

State Cyberbullying Law - A Brief Review of State Cyberbullying Laws and Policies,
Sameer Hinduja, Ph.D. and Justin W. Patchin, Ph.D., Cyberbullying Research Center
http://www.cyberbullying.us/Bullying_and_Cyberbullying_Laws.pdf

The term benthos derives from the Greek word bathys, meaning deep. Benthos refers collectively to all aquatic organisms which live on, in, or near the bottom of water bodies. This includes organisms inhabiting both running and standing waters, and also applies to organisms from both saltwater and freshwater habitats. The term phytobenthos is used when referring to the primary producers (i.e., various algae and aquatic plants), whereas zoobenthos is applied in reference to all consumers (i.e., benthic animals and protozoa). Benthic microflora (i.e., bacteria, fungi, and many protozoa) constitute the decomposer community, and are involved in the recycling of energy and essential nutrients. The benthos may be further subdivided on the basis of size. Large benthic animals (those readily visible without the use of a microscope) are collectively referred to as macrozoobenthos or macroinvertebrates. Representatives include clams, snails, worms, amphipods, crayfish, and the larvae of many aquatic insects (e.g., dragonflies, mayflies, stoneflies, caddisflies, chironomid midges, and black flies). Microscopes are essential to discern members of the microbenthos (e.g. nematodes, ostracods). http://www.benthos.org/about-nabs/what-is-the-benthos-.aspx

Inevitable in the characters portrayed in movies and on TV?
Grumpy yet lovable
Grumpy but just pretending to be grumpy
Odd yet lovable
Odd but just pretending to be odd
Tension between people on the "same side"

In October 2009, a golfer at the Ocean Creek Golf Club on Fripp Island, S.C., reached down to pick up his ball on the course's 11th hole. The golfer, James Wiencek, had hit his ball “near, but not in” a large pond near the green. As he reached down, a 10-foot alligator "sprung from the brackish and dark water and attacked" Wiencek, biting and holding his right arm. The alligator then pulled Wiencek into the water, tearing off his right arm at the elbow. In January 2011, Wiencek filed a lawsuit against the golf course's owners and operators alleging that his injury was the result of their negligence. The lawsuit alleges that defendants had "actual or constructive knowledge" of the presence of a large and aggressive alligator because neighbors had spotted the alligator on the course and alerted defendants. Accordingly, plaintiff alleges, the course breached its duty to (a) "secure the premises of the golf course and to warn its business invitees, including the Plaintiff, of the alligator’s aggressive presence, size, or aggressive behavior;" and (b) "make the golf course premises reasonably safe for the Plaintiff and to warn the Plaintiff of the presence of the large, dangerous, and aggressive alligator." Wiencek also argues that the golf course is strictly liable because its construction "created an artificial habitat for alligators that did not exist prior to the construction of the golf course, and specifically, the pond near the 11th hole." http://legalblogwatch.typepad.com/legal_blog_watch/2011/01/south-carolina-lawsuit-to-examine-golf-courses-liability-for-alligator-attack.html

A male Silverback gorilla, called Ambam, has astonished animal observers around the world after he began walking upright in his open enclosure at a wildlife park in Kent, south-east England. Ambam is part of a group of Western Lowland Gorillas at Port Lympne Wild Animal Park. The band of gorillas are from an endangered species, originating from low-lying swamplands in central Africa countries such as Angola, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo and Gabon. His keeper Phil Ridges said: "His father Bitam used to display the same behaviour if he had handfuls of food to carry. Ambam also has a sister, Tamba, and a half-sister who also sometimes stand and walk in the same way."
Read more: http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/302999#ixzz1DJI2RCiq

The Dalí Theatre-Museum, the largest surrealistic object in the world, occupies the building of the former Municipal Theatre, a 19th century construction which was destroyed at the end of the Spanish Civil War. On its ruins, Dalí decided to create his museum. http://www.salvador-dali.org/museus/figueres/en_index.html
Dalí Theatre and Museum (Teatre-Museu Dalí in Catalan language), is a museum of the artist Salvador Dalí in his home town of Figueres, in Catalonia, Spain. The heart of the museum was the building that housed the town's theatre when Dalí was a child, and where one of the first public exhibitions of young Dalí's art was shown. The old theater was bombed in the Spanish Civil War and remained in a state of ruin for decades until Dalí and the mayor of Figueres decided to rebuild it as a museum dedicated to the town's most famous son in 1960. The museum also occupies buildings and courtyards adjacent to the old theater building. The museum opened on September 28, 1974, with continuing expansions through the mid-1980s. It houses the single largest and most diverse collection of works by Salvador Dalí, the heart of which was from the artist's own collection. In addition to Dalí paintings from all decades of his career, there are Dalí sculptures, 3-dimensional collages, mechanical devices, a living-room with custom furniture that looks like the face of Mae West when viewed from a certain spot, and other curiosities from Dalí's imagination. Dalí is buried in a crypt in the Teatre-Museum basement. See pictures at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dal%C3%AD_Theatre_and_Museum

The opening of the Salvador Dali Museum in St. Petersburg in January 2011 is the latest in a string of splashy arts venues on Florida's west coast. The $33 million Tampa Museum of Art — soon to play host to a Degas show — opened last February. And the Chihuly Collection, a permanent gallery devoted to the vibrant glassworks of Washington artist Dale Chihuly, was unveiled across the bay in St. Petersburg in July. Most visitors will be drawn to the area by the new Dali museum, a $36 million building that features a stunning collection of Dali's works. It replaces the old Dali Museum, more than doubling the exhibition space for what is considered the world's most comprehensive collection of the Surrealist master's work — even surpassing the Dali Theatre and Museum in Figueres, Spain.
http://www.courier-journal.com/article/20110206/FEATURES05/302060019/1039/FEATURES/Dali-museum-centerpiece-arts-filled-Tampa-Bay?odyssey=mod%7Cnewswell%7Ctext%7CFeatures%7Cp

The people of Guy, Arkansas, a town of 563 about an hour north of Little Rock, have had to learn to live with earthquakes. Since the early fall, there have been thousands, none of them very large — a fraction have been felt, and the only documented damage is a cracked window in the snack bar at Woolly Hollow State Park. But in their sheer numbers, they have been relentless, creating a phenomenon that has come to be called the Guy earthquake swarm. Several years ago, the gas companies arrived, part of a sort of rush in Arkansas to drill for gas in a geological formation called the Fayetteville shale. Disposal wells are dug, and the wastewater is injected deep into the earth. There are two important facts about the Guy swarm. The first is that such swarms have happened around here twice in the past three decades, long before the gas companies came. The Enola swarm in the early 1980s occurred about 10 miles to the southeast. Over a comparable six month period, 550 locatable earthquake events occurred in the Enola swarm, compared to 640 around Guy. In both cases, thousands of smaller quakes were recorded by seismographs. The largest back then measured a magnitude 4.5; the largest this time has measured 4.0. Though the exact causes are unknown, the Enola swarm and another similar swarm in the area in 2001 are considered natural occurrences. (They also do not appear to be related to the major New Madrid Seismic Zone, which reaches into the state’s northeastern corner.)
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/06/us/06earthquake.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1