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A Choice of Profession
Cronin, after discovering that his wife, Marge, had been two-timing him with a friend, suffered months of crisis. He had loved Marge and jealousy lingered unbearably. He lived through an anguish of degrading emotions, and a few months after his divorce, left a well-paying job in Chicago to take up teaching. He had always wanted to teach. Cronin taught composition and survey of literature in a small college town in Northern California, and after an initially exhilarating period, began to find it a bore. This caused him to worry because he hoped to be at peace in the profession. He wasn't sure whether it was true boredom or simply not knowing whether he wanted to teach the rest of his life. He was bored mostly outside the classroom—the endless grading of papers and bookkeeping chores; and for a man of his type, Cronin felt, he had too much to read. He also felt he had been asking from teaching more than he was entitled to. He had always thought of teaching as something religious and perhaps still did. It had to do with giving oneself to others, a way of being he hadn't achieved in his marriage. Cronin, a tall, bulky-shouldered man with sensitive eyes, and a full brown mustache, smoked too much. His trousers were usually smeared with cigarette ashes he brushed off his thighs; and lately, after a period of forbearance, he had begun to drink. Apart from students there were few women around who weren't married, and he was alone too often. Though at the beginning he was invited to faculty parties, he wanted nothing to do with the wives of his colleagues.
The fall wore away. Cronin remained aimlessly in town during the winter vacation. In the spring term a new student, an older girl, appeared in his literature class. Unlike most of the other girls, she wore bright attractive dresses and high heels. She wore her light hair in a bun from which strands slipped but she was otherwise feminine and neat, a mature woman, he realized. Although she wasn't really pretty, her face was open and attractive. Cronin wondered at her experienced eyes and deep-breasted figure. She had slender shoulders and fairly heavy but shapely legs. He thought at first she might be a faculty wife but she was without their combination of articulateness and timidity; he didn't think she was married. He also liked the way she listened to him in class. Many of the students, when he lectured or read poetry, looked sleepy, stupefied, or exalted, but she listened down to bedrock, as if she were expecting a message or had got it. Cronin noticed that the others in the class might listen to the poetry but she also listened to Cronin. Her name, not very charming, was Mary Lou Miller. He could tell she regarded him as a man, and after so long a dry, almost perilous season, he responded to her as a woman. Though Cronin wasn't planning to become involved with a student, he had at times considered taking up with one but resisted it on principle. He wanted to be protected in love by certain rules, but loving a student meant no rules to begin with.
He continued to be interested in her and she occasionally would wait at his desk after class and walk with him in the direction of his office. He often thought she had something personal to say to him but when she spoke it was usually to say that one or another poem had moved her; her taste, he thought, was a little too inclusive. Mary Lou rarely recited in class. He found her a bit boring when they talked for more than five minutes, but that secretly pleased him because the attraction to her was quite strong and this was a form of insurance. One morning, during a free hour, he went to the registrar's office on some pretext or other, and looked up her records. Cronin was surprised to discover she was twenty-four and only a first-year student. He, though he sometimes felt forty, was twenty-nine. Because they were so close in age, as well as for other reasons, he decided to ask her out. That same afternoon Mary Lou knocked on his office door and came in to see him about a quiz he had just returned. She had got a low C and it worried her. Cronin lit her cigarette and noticed that she watched him intently, his eyes, mustache, hands, as he explained what she might have written on her paper. They were sitting within a foot of one another, and when she raised both arms to fix her bun, the imprint of her large nipples on her dress caught his attention. It was during this talk in the office that he suggested they go for a drive one evening at the end of the week. Mary Lou agreed, saying maybe they could stop off somewhere for a drink, and Cronin, momentarily hesitating, said he thought they might. All the while they had been talking she was looking at him from some inner place in herself and he had the feeling he had been appraising her superficially.
On the ride that night Mary Lou sat close to Cronin. She had at first sat at the door but soon her warm side was pressed to his though he had not seen her move. They had started at sunset and for an hour the sky was light. The Northern California winter, though colder than he had anticipated, was mild compared to a winter in Chicago, but Cronin was glad to be in touch with spring. He liked the lengthening days, and tonight it was a relief to be with a woman once more. The car passed through a number of neon-lit mountain towns neither of them had been in before and Cronin noticed that every motel flashed vacancy signs. Part of his good mood was an awareness of the approach of a new season, and part, that he had thought it over and decided there was nothing to worry about. She was a woman, no eighteen-year-old kid he would be taking advantage of. Nor was he married and about to commit adultery. He felt a sincere interest in her.
It was a pleasant evening drive in early March and on their way back they stopped off at a bar in Red Bluff, about forty miles from the college, where it was unlikely anyone they knew would see them. The waiter brought drinks and when Mary Lou had finished hers she excused herself, went to the ladies' room, and upon returning, asked for another on the rocks. She had on a bright blue dress, rather short, and wore no stockings. During the week she used no lip rouge or nail polish; tonight she had both on and Cronin thought he liked her better without them. She smiled at him, her face, after she had had two, flushed. In repose her smile settled into the tail-end of bitterness, an expression touched with cynicism, and he wondered about her. They had talked about themselves on the ride, she less than he, Cronin reticently. She had been brought up on a farm in Idaho. He had spent most of his life in Evanston, Illinois, where his grandfather, an evangelical minister, had lived and preached. Cronin's father had died when Cronin was fourteen. Mary Lou told him she had once been married and was now divorced. He had guessed something of the sort and at that point admitted he had been divorced himself. He could feel his leg touching hers under the table and realized it was her doing. Cronin, pretty much contented, had had one drink to her two, and he was nursing his first when she asked for a third. She had become quiet but when their eyes met she smiled again.
"Do you mind if I call you Mary Louise?" Cronin asked her.
"You can if you want to," she said, "but my real name is Mary Lou. That's on my birth certificate."
He asked her how long she had been married before her divorce.
"Oh, just about three years. One that I didn't live with him. How about yourself?"
"Two," said Cronin.
She drank from her glass. He liked the fact that she was satisfied with a few simple biographical details. A fuller exchange of information could come later.
He lit a cigarette, only his second since they had come in, whereas she squashed one butt to light another. He wondered why she was nervous.
"Happy?" Cronin asked.
"I'm okay, thanks." She crushed a newly lit cigarette, thought about it and lit another.
She seemed about to say something, paused, and said, "How long have you been teaching, if you don't mind me asking you?"
Cronin wondered what was on her mind. '"Not so long," he answered. "This is only my first year."
"You sure put a lot in it."
He could feel the calf of her leg pressed warmly against his; yet she was momentarily inattentive, vaguely looking around at the people in the bar.
"How about you?" he asked.
"In what ways?"
"How is it you started college so comparatively late?"
She finished her drink. "I never wanted to go when I graduated high school. Instead I worked a couple of years, then I joined the Wacs." She fell silent.
He asked if she wanted him to order another drink.
"Not right away." Mary Lou's eyes focused on his face. "First I want to tell you something about myself. Do you want to hear it?"
"Yes, if you want to tell me."
"It's about my life," Mary Lou said. "When I was in the Wacs I met this guy, Ray A. Miller, a T-5 from Providence, Rhode Island, and we got hitched in secret in Las Vegas. He was a first-class p—."
Cronin gazed at her, wondering if she had had one too many. He considered suggesting they leave now but Mary Lou, sitting there solidly, smoking the last cigarette in her pack, told Cronin what she had started out to.
"I call him that word because that's what he was. He married me just to live easy off me. He talked me into doing what he wanted, and I was too goddamn stupid to say no, because at that time I loved him. After we left the service he set me up in this flea-bitten three-room apartment in San Francisco, where I was a call girl. He took the dough and I got the s—."
"Call girl?" Cronin almost groaned.
"A whore, if you want me to say it."
Cronin was overwhelmed. He felt a momentary constricting fright and a strange uneasy jealousy, followed by a sense of disappointment and unexpected loss.
"I'm sorry," he said. Her leg was tense against his but he let his stay though it seemed to him it trembled. His cigarette ash broke, and while brushing it off his thigh, Cronin managed to withdraw his leg from hers. Her face was impassive.
Mary Lou slowly fixed her bun, removing a large number of hairpins and placing them thickly back again.
"I suppose you have a bad opinion of me now?" she said to Cronin, after she had fixed her hair.
He said he had no opinion at all, though he knew he had. "I'm just sorry it happened."
She looked at him intently. "One thing I want you to know is I don't have that kind of a life any more. I'm not interested in it. I'm interested in taking it as it comes or goes but not for money any more. That won't happen to me again."
Cronin said he was surprised it ever had.
"It was just a job I had to do," Mary Lou explained. "That's how I thought about it. I kept on it because I was afraid Ray would walk out on me. He always knew what he wanted but I didn't. He was a strong type and I wasn't."
"Did he walk out?"
She nodded. "We were having fights about what to do with the dough. He said he was going to start some kind of a business but he never did."
"That's when you quit?"
She lowered her eyes. "Not all at once. I stayed for a while to get some money to go to college with. I didn't stay long and I haven't got enough, so I have to work in the cafeteria."
"When did you finally quit?"
"In three months, when I got arrested."
He asked about that.
"My apartment was raided by two San Francisco bulls. But it was my first offense so the judge paroled me. I'm paroled now and for one more year."
"I guess you've been through the mill," Cronin said, toying with his glass.
"I sure have," said Mary Lou, "but I'm not the same person I once was. I learned a lot."
"Would you care for a last drink before we leave?" he asked. "It's getting late. We've got an hour's drive."
"No, but thanks anyway."
"I'll just have a last drink."
The waiter brought Cronin a scotch.
"Tell me why you told me this," he asked Mary Lou after he had drunk from his glass.
"I don't know for sure," she said. "Some of it is because I like you. I like the way you teach in your class. That's why I got the idea of telling you."
"But why, specifically?"
"Because everything is different now."
"The past doesn't bother you?"
"Not much. I wanted to tell you before this but I couldn't do it in your office without a drink to start me off."
"Do you want me to do anything for you?" Cronin asked her.
"For instance, what?" said Mary Lou.
"If you want to talk to anybody about yourself I could get you the name of a psychiatrist."
"Thanks," she said. "I don't need one. The guy I talk to about myself will have to do it for nothing, for kicks."
She asked Cronin for one of his cigarettes and smoked while he finished his drink.
As they were getting ready to leave, Mary Lou said, "The way I figure, it wasn't all my fault but it's dead and gone now. I got the right to think of the future."
"You have," said Cronin.
On the ride home he felt more objective and not unsympathetic to the girl, yet he was still disappointed, and from time to time, irritated with himself.
"Anyway," Cronin told her, "You can work for a better way of life now."
"That's why I want an education for," Mary Lou said.
It took cronin a surprisingly long time to get over having been let down by Mary Lou. He had built her up in his mind as a woman he might want to spend some time with, and the surprise of her revelation, and his disillusionment, lingered so long he felt unsettled. "What's this, Marge all over again?" He didn't want any more of that, and not from this girl. He saw her in class, as usual, three times a week. She seemed to listen with the same interest, maybe less interested, but she didn't approach him and no longer waited at his desk to walk with him to his office. Cronin understood that to mean he was to make the next move now that he knew, but he didn't make it. What could he say to her—that he wished he didn't know? Or now that he knew, that he sometimes glanced at her in class and pictured her being paid off by the last guy she had slept with? She was in his thoughts much of the time. He wondered what would have happened that night they were out if she hadn't made that confession. Could he have guessed from the way she performed in bed that she had been a professional? He continued to think of having her and sometimes the thought was so wearing he avoided looking at her in class. He found his desire hard to bear but after a month it wore down. She seemed not very interesting to him, then, and he was often aware how hard her expression was. He felt sorry for her and occasionally smiled, and once in a while she seemed cynically to smile back.
Cronin had made friends with a painter, George Getz, an assistant professor in the art department, an active, prematurely bald man, with whom he went on sketching trips, usually on Saturday or Sunday afternoon. George sketched or did water colors as Cronin looked on or sat against a tree, smoking. Sometimes he wandered along streams and in the woods. When the painter, married from youth and the father of three girls, was tied down during the weekend, Cronin drove off by himself or tried walking alone, though generally he cared little for walking in town, and wasn't sure which direction to go next. One fine Sunday in April, when George was busy with his family, Cronin started on a walk but it soon began to seem like work so he returned to his apartment and sat on the bed. Wanting company he searched in his mind for who, and after some doubts looked up Mary Lou Miller's number and dialed it. He wasn't sure why he had, though he knew it bothered him a little. "Hello there," she said. She had hesitated on hearing his voice but seemed cordial enough. Cronin wondered about a drive and she said she wouldn't mind. He called for her in his car. She looked a little distant when she came out and he was surprised at how attractive. He noticed she seemed to be prettier on warm days.
"How are things with you?" Cronin asked as he held the door open for her.
"All right, I guess. How are they with you?"
"Fine," Cronin said.
"How's the teaching?"
"Fine. I'm enjoying it more than I was."
Not much more, but it was too much trouble to explain why.
She seemed at ease. They drove toward the mountains along some of the side roads he had explored with George, until they came to a long blue lake shaped like a bird in flight. Cronin parked the car and they went through a scattering of pine trees, down to the water. At his suggestion they walked part of the way around the lake, and back. It took more than an hour and Mary Lou said she hadn't walked that much in years.
"Life's pleasures are cheap," Cronin said.
"No, they're not," said Mary Lou.
He let it pass. They had said nothing about last time, there was nothing to say really. The beauty of the day had lightened Cronin's mood—he remembered having dreamed of Marge last night and had awakened uneasy. But Mary Lou's company, he admitted to himself, had made the walk around the lake enjoyable. She was wearing a yellow cotton dress that showed her figure off, and her hair, to the large thick knot on her neck, was for once neatly arranged. She was rather quiet, as though a word too much might defeat her, but once she loosened up they talked amiably. She seemed to Cronin, as he sat by her side gazing at the lake, no more nor less than any woman he had known. The way he presently saw it was that she was entitled to her mistakes. He was to his. Yet though he tried to forget what she had told him, the fact that she had been a whore kept nagging him. She had known many men, how large a crowd they would make following her, he was afraid to guess. He had never known anyone like her, and that he was with her now struck him as somewhat strange. But Cronin thought what an unusual thing present time was. In the present a person is what she is or is becoming and not what she was. She was this heavy-but-shapely-legged girl in a yellow dress, sitting by his side as though she belonged there. Cronin thought this was an interesting lesson for him. The past interfered if you let it. People feared it because they thought it predicted the future. It didn't if you realized how much life changed, and concentrated on what it had changed to, and lived that. He began to think of the possibility of friendship with Mary Lou.
She got up, brushing pine needles off her dress. "It's hot," she said. "Would you mind if I peeled and went in for a dip?"
"Go ahead," said Cronin.
"Why don't you come in yourself?" she asked. "You could keep your shorts on and later get dry in the sun."
"No, I don't think so," he said, "I'm not much of a swimmer."
"Neither am I," Mary Lou said, "but I like the water."
She unzipped her dress and pulled it over her head. Then she kicked off her shoes, stepped out of a half slip and removed her white underwear. He enjoyed the fullness of her form, the beauty of her breasts. Mary Lou walked into the water, shivered, and began to swim. Cronin sat watching her, one arm around his knees as he smoked. After swimming a while, Mary Lou, her flesh lit in the sunlight, came out of the water, drew on her underpants, then let the sun dry her as she redid her damp hair. He was moved by her wet body after bathing.
When she had dressed, Cronin suggested they have dinner together and Mary Lou agreed. "But first you come up to my joint for a drink. I want to show you how I fixed it up."
He said he would like to.
On their ride back she was talkative. She told Cronin about her life as a child. Her father had been a small wheat farmer in Idaho. She had one married sister and two married brothers. She said the oldest brother was a big bastard.
"He's pretty rich by now," she said, "and he talks a lot about God's grace but in his heart he is a bastard. When I was thirteen one day he grabbed me in the barn and laid me though I didn't want to."
"Oh Christ," said Cronin. "You committed incest?"
"It all happened when I was a kid."
"Why don't you keep these things to yourself?" Cronin said. "What makes you think I want to hear them?"
"I guess I felt I trusted you."
"Well, don't trust me," he shouted.
He drove to her house and let her off at the curb. Then he drove away.
The next morning Mary Lou did not appear in Cronin's class, and a few days later her dropslip came through.
A week had gone by when Cronin one day saw her walking with George Getz, and his heart was flooded with jealous misery. He thought he was rid of his desire for the girl; but seeing her walking at the painter's side, talking animatedly, George interested, Mary Lou good to look at in a white summer dress and doing very well, thanks, without Cronin, awoke in him a sense of loss and jealousy. He thought he might be in love with her. Cronin watched them go up the stairs of the art building, and though he had no good reason to, pictured them in each other's arms, naked on George's studio couch. The effect was frightening.
My God, thought Cronin, here I am thinking of her with the same miserable feelings I had about Marge. I can't go through that again.
He fought to put her out of his mind—the insistent suspicion of an affair between her and the painter—but his memory of her body at the lake, and imagining the experiences she had had with men, what she would do with George, for instance, and might have done with Cronin if they had become lovers, made things worse. Thinking of her experiences was like trying to stop the pain of a particular wound by stabbing yourself elsewhere. It seemed to Cronin as though his thoughts were like a box of snakes that had fallen and broken apart and the snakes were slithering everywhere. His only relief was to get drunk but when that wore off the anguish was worse.
One morning he was so desperately jealous—the most useless of emotions, and especially useless in a situation where the girl really meant little to him, almost nothing, and the past, despite all his theorizing and good intentions, much too much—that he waited for them for hours, in the foyer of the school of architecture across the street from the art building. Cronin did not at first know why he was waiting but that he had to, perhaps to satisfy himself they were or weren't having an affair. He saw neither of them then, but on the next afternoon he followed the painter at a distance to Mary Lou's apartment. Cronin saw him go in shortly before 5 P.M., and was still unhappily waiting under a tree across the street several houses down, when George came out at half-past ten. Cronin was wakeful all night.
Terrified that this should mean so much to him, he tried to work out some means of relief. Should he telephone the girl and ask her back into his class so that they could once more be on good terms? Or if that meant trouble with the registrar's office, couldn't he just call and apologize for acting as he had, then offer to resume their friendship? Or could he scare George away by telling him about her past? The painter was a family man, a careful sort, and Cronin felt sure he would end it with Mary Lou if he thought anyone suspected he was involved with her; he wanted to go on feeding his three girls. But telling him about her seemed such a stinking thing to do that Cronin couldn't face it. Still, things were so bad he finally decided to speak to George. He felt that if he could be sure the painter wasn't being intimate with her, his jealousy would die out and the girl fade in his thoughts.
He waited till George invited him on another sketching afternoon, and was glad to have the chance to bring it up then, rather than to have to seek the painter out in his office or studio. They were at the edge of the woods, George at work on a water color, when Cronin spoke of the girl and asked whether George knew that Mary Lou had once been a prostitute in San Francisco for a couple of years.
George wiped his brush with a rag, then asked Cronin where he had got his information.
Cronin said he had got it from her. "She was married to someone who set her up professionally and cut in on the take. After he left her she quit."
"What a son of a bitch," said George. He worked for a while, then turned to Cronin and asked, "Why do you tell me about it?"
"I thought you ought to know."
"Why ought I?"
'"Isn't she a student of yours?"
"No, she isn't. She came to my office and offered to model for me. It's hard to get girls to pose in the nude around here so I said yes. That's all there is between us."
He seemed embarrassed.
Cronin looked away. "I didn't think there was anything between you. I just thought you would want to know, if she was your student. I didn't know she wasn't."
"Well," said George, "I know now, but I still intend to use her as a model."
"I don't see why not."
"Thanks for telling me, though," George said. "I've sometimes felt there's a bit of the slut in her. It wouldn't pay to get involved."
Cronin, feeling some repulsion for himself, then said, "To tell the truth, George, I'm not entirely innocent in this. I've wanted to take the girl to bed."
"Have you?"
"I almost did," George said.
Though Cronin wasn't sure the painter had or hadn't, he was certain he wouldn't dare be intimate with her now. When he got home he felt relief, mingled with shame that had him talking to himself, but he slept better that night.
A few nights later Mary Lou rang Cronin's door bell, walked up the stairs, and when she was admitted into his apartment, said she wanted to talk to him. Cronin, reading in pajamas and robe, offered her a scotch but she refused. Her face was pale, her expression embittered. She was wearing levis and a baggy sweater; the hair spilled out of her bun.
"Look," Mary Lou said to Cronin, "I didn't come here for any favors, but did you say anything to Professor Getz about me? I mean what I told you about San Francisco?"
"Did he say I had?" Cronin asked.
"No, but we were being friendly and then he changed to me. I figure somebody must have told him something, and I thought nobody knew anything but you, so you must've told him."
Cronin admitted it. "I thought he ought to know, considering the circumstances."
"Such as what?" she asked sullenly.
He hesitated. "He's a married man with three kids. There could be serious trouble."
"That's his goddamn business."
He admitted that too. "I'm sorry, Mary Lou. All I can say is that my life has been confused and complicated lately."
"What about mine?" She was sitting in a chair, then turned her head and wept.
Cronin poured her a drink but Mary Lou wouldn't take it.
"The reason I told you those things is because I thought you were a guy I could trust and be friends with. Instead it was the opposite. I'm sorry what I told you got you so bothered, but there's a lot worse than that, and one thing I want you to know is it doesn't bother me any more. I made my peace with my life."
"I haven't," said Cronin.
"I don't want to hear about it," said Mary Lou, and though he asked her to stay she left.
Afterward he thought, she has learned something from her experience that I haven't learned from mine.
And he felt sorry for Mary Lou for the way he had treated her. It's not easy to be moral, Cronin thought. He decided, before he went to bed, not to come back to this college in the fall, to quit teaching.
On Commencement Day, Cronin met Mary Lou on the street, in her yellow dress, and they stopped to talk. She had put on weight but wasn't looking well and as they talked her stomach rumbled. In embarrassment she covered her abdomen.
"It's from studying," she said. "I got awfully worried about my finals. The doctor in the infirmary said to watch out or I might wind up with an ulcer."
Cronin also advised her to take care. "Your health comes first."
They said goodby. He never saw her again but a year later, in Chicago, he had a card from her. She wrote she was still at college, majoring in education, and hoped someday to teach.


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The Community Education Foundation of the Charleston Dance Institute (CDI) announces the availability of scholarship funds to offer formal dance education classes at the CDI studio in Mount Pleasant to children in Charleston County schools, who show innate dance ability and who would enjoy dance instruction but who lack the funds to pay for dance classes. Proof of financial need is required (school free-lunch certification will be considered adequate qualification) and an audition to gauge level of talent is required before an applicant can be considered.
CDI teachers have been performing artists in dance companies across the United States for many years so the level of teaching is of the highest professional level. Classes are offered weekly throughout the school year, from September to May. Class offerings include pre-ballet, ballet, pointe, jazz, modern/contemporary, variations and choreography composition. Class times are after school Monday through Friday, with some Saturday classes. As the student progresses, there are opportunities to join student performance companies.
An application form can be submitted online at www.charlestondanceinstitute.com or by simply calling 843-284-8151. Auditions will be held Sunday July 21 at the CDI located at 494 Wando Park Blvd. The students will participate in a dance class to assess their potential and natural abilities. Dancers will be asked to come dressed in dance attire or, in comfortable clothing in which they will be able to move.
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As one of America's finest universities, UCLA has a tradition of advancing higher education and the common good through excellence in scholarship, research and public service. UCLA is California's largest university and a model for public institutions of higher education. Academic excellence, faculty distinction and a comprehensive curriculum are hallmarks of the UCLA experience. The university is an educational and architectural landmark in Los Angeles, attracting thousands of visitors and scholars each year.
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Under the general supervision of the Chief Administrative Officer, act as Office Manager and be responsible for various projects, and provide analytical and technical support to the department. Initiate and prioritize major projects such as the Departmental Quarterly Metrics Review, database creation, technical and/or grant writing and document editing. Design, create and maintain departmental forms, documentation and executive level presentation to assure consistency in format. Gather and analyze data that will be used in response to requests for information from all levels of customers including attorneys, government agencies and campus departments. Personnel: Update and edit job descriptions; submit requisitions; process new hires; create advertising for recruitment; oversee equipment inventory; oversee A/P; establish and maintain maintenance agreements; and directly supervise Administrative Assistant III, limited and work-study support staff.
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The suburbs and the assumptions that enabled them to grow are collapsing, according to Benfield.
"[I]n between, say, 1960 and 2000, many central cities were in severe decline, due to "white flight" and all sorts of perceived urban problems. But for some tragic exceptions like Detroit, that decline now has either slowed dramatically or reversed. In D.C., for example, the central city is growing again after 50 years of decline and ironically, a new concern of some is that "white flight" is now to the city, not away from it. New York, Philadelphia, Indianapolis, Houston, Austin, and San Antonio also grew. This is where the change is.
In addition, the distinction between "central city" and "suburb" is simply not what it once was. Inner-ring suburbs now are part of the central city in every way other than the arbitrary jurisdictional lines that mean little economically or environmentally. In his blog West North, my friend Payton Chung points out that the supposed "suburban" district of Friendship Heights Village, in Maryland but adjacent to the D.C. city limits, is 'the single most densely populated place in the entire country, with 79,556 residents per square mile. Even Manhattan only clocks in at 69,468 per square mile.'"
Professor Kotkin sees to be the 'defender of the suburbs' from the onslaught of urbanism. If I got that wrong, I look to be corrected.
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Holiday charities
The Herald-Dispatch is making a list of organizations planning holiday-related charity fundraisers. Send your holiday charity information to email@example.com or fax to 304-526-2857. Here are some of the charities from the Tri-State that people can assist:
Express Employment Professionals: The service is hosting its inaugural "Express Your Kindness: Holiday Food Drive" through the end of December. Nonperishable food donations can be dropped off to the Express Employment Professionals Office, 3677 U.S. 60 East, Barboursville. Donations are accepted from 7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday or call 304-733-5627 for pick-up.
HUNTINGTON AARP CHAPTER: The group is collecting Christmas gifts for local seniors who receive in-home care and Meals on Wheels. Gift items include: throws, T-shirts, socks, pajamas, gowns, soap, lotion, toothpaste/brushes, toiletry items, puzzle books, flashlights, etc. Monetary gifts are also accepted to help purchase gifts. Call Dolly Rozzi at 304 733-3656.
UNITED WAY OF THE RIVER CITIES: Contributions made to this charity stay in this community to help address our most pressing issues. One donation helps fund 27 local programs focused on improving education, income, health and providing basic needs. This year, United Way of the River Cities is trying to help 30,000 individuals in Cabell, Lincoln, Mason, Wayne, and Lawrence (Ohio) counties. To contribute, mail a check to 820 Madison Avenue, Huntington, WV 25704 or visit www.unitedwayrivercities.org/give.
PRESSLEY RIDGE GRANT GARDENS: The nonprofit is accepting donations for both boys and girls between the ages of 13- and 17-years-old. Donations can be taken to 2580 Grant Gardens Road., Ona, and can include stocking stuffers, hygiene items, games, etc. For more informaiton, call 304-743-4439.
BOY SCOUT TROOP 63 TREE SALE: Boy Scout Troop 63 will conduct its 32nd annual Christmas tree sale from Friday, Nov. 29, through Monday, Dec. 23, at the River Place Plaza, 6002 US 60 E., Barboursville. The hours are 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday through Saturday and noon to 8 p.m. on Sundays. The troop will sell fraser firs and blue spruces organically grown in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina. Prices start at $30. For more information, call 304-736-0638.
CHRISTMAS WISHES: This nonprofit organization assists families and senior citizens during the Christmas season and is seeking sponsors. The list of persons needing assistance is available at https://www.facebook.com/groups/269225823125026/permalink/611205375593734/. Call Tonia White, founder, at 304-272-5392.
CRICKET'S KIDS: Volunteers needed Dec. 10-12, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. to wrap gifts for the annual Cricket's Kids Christmas Party, which is set for 2 to 5 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 15. Lunch provided for volunteer wrappers. Donations also accepted for the party at Downstreet or United National Bank. Toys also appreciated. Call 304-429-4618 or 304-412-2032.
GOLDEN GIRL GROUP HOME: The facility, which is a foster home for 24 adolescent girls who are wards of the state of West Virginia, is seeking sponsors for its Christmas Angel program. Contact Becky Davis at 304-453-1401 or 304-544-7400 for more information.
HOSPICE OF HUNTINGTON LIGHT-A-LIFE TREE: Hospice of Huntington's annual Light-a-Life Tree Campaign runs through the month of December. With each donation made in memory or honor of a loved one, a candle-of-life is hung on a holiday tree on display throughout the agency's five-county service area. There is no required level of giving. To make a donation, visit www.hospiceofhuntington.org or call 304-529-4217 to request a donation card via mail. Proceeds benefit Hospice of Huntington.
JOY TREE AT JEFFREY GEORGE COMFORT HOUSE: Lights can be purchased in memory of, or in honor of, a loved one. Names of those to be honored by the lights will be on display in the House foyer. A holiday card can also be sent to the loved one being honored. The $10 light donation supports the continuation of the House's mission of providing lodging for adult family members of those in local hospitals who live 50 miles from Huntington. Call 304-522-1832.
MOUNTAIN STATE CENTERS FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING AND CLEAR CHANNEL RADIO: The group has paired with Clear Channel to collect clean, used coats through Dec. 16. Coats may be dropped off between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. at the center, located at 821 4th Ave., Huntington, or at the radio station studios at 134 4th Ave., Huntington. The coats will be delivered to a local organization. For more information, call Suzy Spears at 304-525-3324 or Clear Channel Communications at 304-525-7788.
TABERNACLE OF PRAISE CHURCH OF GOD CHRISTMAS BEARS: The church is partnering with Comfort in Christ Bears LLC for the memory bears, which are made from recycled holiday material. Customers may also provide their own material or clothing for keepsake memory bears. A 12-inch bear is $20, plus tax. A 15-inch bear is $30, plus tax. The deadline for ordering Christmas bears is Dec. 16. Proceeds will be used for local humanitarian efforts and global outreach programs. For more information, contact Cathy Schrader at email@example.com or call 304-940-5285.
TRI-STATE LITERACY COUNCIL POINSETTIA SALE: The Tri-State Literacy Council is selling poinsettias this holiday season. Poinsettias are available in 6-inch, 8-inch or 10-inch plants in red, white, pink, marble or ice punch. The poinsettias are locally grown and range in cost from $10 to $25. Deadlines for ordering are as follows: Nov. 29 for Dec. 2 pickup; Dec. 6 for Dec 9 pickup; and Dec. 13 for Dec. 16 pickup. To purchase poinsettias, email email@example.com.
PRESTERA FOUNDATION: The Prestera Foundation is accepting monetary donations for Prestera Center's Women and Children's programs in Huntington and Charleston. Contributions will be used to make sure each child of a mother working toward recovery has a memorable Christmas. Donations may be sent to Prestera Foundation, PO Box 2672, Huntington, WV 25726 or for more information, contact Traci Fricke at 304-525-7851 x 1510. Prestera is a 501(c)3 organization.
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Did one of you promise this blowhard ANOTHER service award?
I can hardly wait to see what my fearless (not), preacher, leader has on paper for District E.
Who are the Mandeville idiots that keep voting this crook into office? You get what you deserve.
'How come we don't see James Carter or the Cynthias asking a single question about this debacle? I haven't heard a word from them or seen their faces at all.'
While I Can't speak for Carter or Cynthia (speed car racer), my Cynthia representative, (preacher lady), is sticking to script, and doing her normal imitation of a statue, just staring straight ahead, and not thinking about anything, except maybe her next sermon.
Dear Derrick,
I hoped you enjoyed your commitee assignments.
By next session,(April 2009) you will be incarcerated for cleaning dirty money.....
Say goodbye, State Senator....
'ex-girlfriend's house just outside Gretna, punched her in the stomach and took her cellphone and $100.
'A lap dancer was at the house when deputies showed up to arrest him, Normand said.'
Wow, stole $100 from his ex-girlfriend to pay for a CHEAP lap dance.
This guy is a real animal....
How long will it take for him to step aside?
That's right, he is a Dollar Bill protege, which means he will NEVER step aside...
This is fantastic news for East New Orleans. Lakefront Airport serves as an entrance to East New Orleans, once you cross the Seabrook bridge (Intercostal waterway), you enter our area.
I really think that this can jump start the development of condos up and down Hayne Blvd, as was previously planned.
What a view. The Lake and and Art Deco airport...
Cheeze itshay1111,
Won't you tell us how you really feel about the crook....
One of the best things to EVER happen in Louisiana was Edwin Edwards being sentenced to 10 years in prison. It sends a message to the U.S. that Louisiana has FINALLY gotten serious about corruption, when we lock you our highest official.
The ONLY thing better would be for him to serve the ENTIRE 8.5 years (you do 85% of federal time), and to stop whineing about it..... so what if he'll be 84 when he gets out!
After all, wasn't he always the one practically saying "catch me if you can?"
I see no way Bush let's him out. He's then forced to serve the remaining 3 years, even if Obama gets in, as no president pardons or commutes during their first several years....
See you in 2011 Eddie........
When I purchased my Vespa 2 years ago, and began rideing it to work, I was teased and laughed at. I live in New Orleans East, and commute to work in Michoud daily.
Now people tell me I'm the smartest man in New Orleans, now that the price of gas is $4/gal. It was only $2.85 two years ago.
I bought it because I've lived elsewhere and seen how much fun and enjoyment people got from them. I travel the entire city from Magazine St. - CBD- Quarter - East, without EVER getting on 10. Anyone who knows the city can do it.
There's NO BETTER way to enjoy the cityscape then on a scotter...
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"Registered voters in the New Orleans-based district of Sen. Ann Duplessis, who sponsored the pay raise, number more than 56,000, meaning well over 18,000 verifiable signatures would be needed for a recall election."
"House Speaker Jim Tucker, who backed the raise in the House, has more than 23,200 registered voters in his district, so more than 7,700 signatures would be needed."
from Baton Rouge Business Report June 19, 2008
I'll tell you what's wrong. Ms. Duplessis represents a district (Lower 9th & New Orleans East) that was completely devestated by Katrina. No way in hell do we have 56k registered voters now. Unfortunately, the state is STILL using pre-Katrina numbers. Maybe if we travel to most of the 48 uninterrupted states we'd have a chance to get 18k signatures. There aren't 18k varifiable voters in her district, and that's IF you got them all to sign. Using these rules, Duplessis knows she can't be taken down, hence the fist pump after the bill was passed. Rules are rules, but why can't they be modified, using the percent of voters in every election since Katrina as a guide.
Most bloggers are insinuating that this area won't get up off it and do a recall. We know the facts and should be trying to lobby the state (good luck with that) to alter the rules. Not saying we won't, but as much as I would like to see her part time position be given a full time vacation, it is what it is. Other districts may find similar number problems, but NONE as dreadful as our district.
Tucker represents an area that was hardly touched and he only needs 7,700. I wish that's ALL we needed........
We're not there yet, but by the time the automatic raises take affect for a few new years, Louisiana will indeed have:
Hey Dollar Bill, just a suggestion, but right about NOW would be a good time for that honorable explanation you promised to give us constituents when you were BUSTED.... hahahahahahahahha
For a BIG hint, look at my moniker......
'Once again, they have neglected to let the citizens of Orleans Parish know the race of this corrupt police officer ( Thank GOD I live on the Northshore )'
If he was a wanted suspect, mentioning his race would be helpful. He is NOT a suspect. They know who he is, he worked with them daily.
Get out once in awhile, will ya. If not, read other cities newspapers online. NONE of them list race in a similar situation, unless the person is a wanted suspect...
(Willard-Lewis will be in beauty-pageant mode wearing a huge corsage). A "minister," will give a long-winded "prayer."
They can cut down one person on the dais by letting Rev. Willard-Lewis speak, corsage and all.
No, wait a minute. Doing that would triple the time it would take for she and the minister to do his job.
CWL = Do nothing loser = killing New Orleans East
Dear noeastlb,
While every word you say may be true, what are we honest citizens to do/feel? He's a bad seed, let's face it.
We can't let him walk because mama did a bad job, or daddy wasn't around.
If his life is truly over at 19 as you say, Lord, let's damn well keep him off the streets until he finally expires.........
WHERE FOR ART THO??? LMAO can you imagin the
endless run together speech this clown will give?
Of course I can. The idiots in my neighborhood kept voting her in....
She only speaks when a mic is in her face.
She's like a cigar store Indian when the council's in session. Don't believe me? Attend or watch the next meeting.
Again, look at my userid....
'Why didn`t Willard-Lewis simply vote "present?" It worked for Obama when he didn`t want to make a decision.'
Look at my userid. Says it all.....
We hate her in N.O. East, she's a big windbag.


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But balance of payments deficit in second quarter surges due to slowing capital inflows
Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor Raghuram Rajan seems to have made springing pleasant surprises a habit. In yet another break from tradition, RBI on Monday released the current account deficit (CAD) figures for the July-September quarter a month ahead of the usual December-end schedule.
The data showed a huge drop in the CAD numbers, which would provide further relief to the rupee, as markets prepare to face tapering of the US Federal Reserve's asset purchase plan. CAD for the quarter ended September narrowed sharply to $ 5.2 billion, or 1.2 per cent of gross domestic product (GDP), from $21 billion (5 per cent of GDP) in the year-ago period, mainly due to curbs on imports of non-essential items like gold and a pick-up in exports. This, according to Bloomberg data, is also the lowest deficit figure since 2010.
RBI said CAD had come down in the quarter primarily on account of a decline in trade deficit — merchandise exports picked up and imports, particularly of gold, moderated. Trade deficit contracted to $33.3 billion in the quarter from $47.8 billion a year ago.
On a sequential basis, too, the deficit was much lower than the 4.9 per cent of GDP in the first quarter of the financial year. The central bank expects CAD for full 2013-14 to be about $56 billion (less than 3 per cent of GDP), compared with $88 billion (4.8 per cent of GDP) in the previous financial year.
The quarter saw a significant fall in trade deficit, as imports fell sharply, while exports picked up. Compared with the second quarter of 2012-13, merchandise exports were up 12 per cent to $81.2 billion, while imports declined 4.8 per cent to $114.5 billion. Gold imports in the quarter dropped to $3.9 billion from $16.4 billion in the first quarter and $11.1 billion in the corresponding year-ago period, showed balance of payments data, released by RBI on Monday.
Improvement in service exports helped increase net invisibles, further aiding a fall in current account deficit.
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In Dreamweaver CS3 Essential Training, instructor Garrick Chow delves into the many powerful features of the latest version of this powerful web design application. He covers everything from the simplest basics of using Dreamweaver CS3 to applying it to develop a fully interactive, accessible site. Garrick explains the new interface features, and demonstrates how to create, edit, manage, design, and publish a professional website with Dreamweaver CS3 and complementary applications. Exercise files accompany the training.
I'm going to switch it over to the Code view here, in this document we've been working on. I'd just like to take some time in this movie to introduce you to the Code toolbar, which is this toolbar of icons that you see running down the left-hand side here. This is a feature that was introduced in the previous version of {italic}Dreamweaver,{plain} {italic}Dreamweaver 8,{plain} and it's been carried over into {italic}Dreamweaver CS3{plain} because it contains such useful tools. Once you become familiar with XHTML and Web development in general, you're most likely start spending more and more time in Code view. The Code toolbar makes your life much easier by giving you quick access to the most common tasks you might need perform while working in Code view. I'm just going to run down through these buttons and give you a brief description of what each one of these items does. We don't be able to use them all right now in this particular document because some of them are for very specific purposes, but I at least want to familiarize you with them. First one is our Open Documents button, and clicking on that opens up a pop-up menu, and that will list the full path file of all open documents. So, if I wanted to switch to any of my other open documents, they'd all be listed here, and I can just select them from here. It's really useful if you're working with a large number of open documents. You can just use that to quickly find the document you need. Next, we have the Collapse Full tag Button. This collapses the entire tag that currently contains the cursor. For instance, if I'm inside somewhere in the table header area, I can choose to collapse that tag, which you can see it just collapsed of that entire tag there, or I can come down here and choose to Expand All. We also have the option of collapsing a selection, and we're going to talk about these Collapse tools, so I'm not going to go into too much detail with these right now.
The next button here is the Select Parent Tag button, and as its name implies, t allows you to select the parent tag of wherever the cursor happens to be in. For instance, when I'm inside the table in this table header area, if I click to select that parent tag, notice that it selects the entire row containing that table header. If I click it again, notice that it selects the entire table, which contains that table row. Clicking it again just keeps going out until I eventually select my entire HTML document. It's useful when you need to select an entire containing tag at once, instead of having to come up here, click and drag down. Next we have Balance Braces, and that selects all the code between the enclosing parenthesis, braces, or square brackets that you might have in a particular line of code.
So, for instance, if I came up here and clicked a break in there, and added a comment, and I'm going to apply an HTML comment here. Often times you'll see something like, "begin table code here", which is useful to do if you're working with other designers, or if you just want to leave notes for yourself in the code. I'm going to come down here to the end of the table, add another note, "end table code here". Like so. And, you'll see that that text does not show up anywhere in the Design view. Comments only show up in the Code view. This allows us to remove a comment, so I can select that, choose to remove that comment, but notice what that does is it removes the comment tags.
What it's done is it actually has just put the text there. If I click over to Design view, you can see that the text actually now appears the page, which is not what I want. So, if I select that again, apply HTML comment, you can see it turned back into a comment. Next we have the Wrap Tag button, which opens up the Quick Tag Editor in Wrap Tag won't and will talk about more about the Quick Tag Editor in Wrap Tag mode. We'll talk more about the Quick Tag Editor later. We have Recent Snippets, which will display a list of recently used snippets, which we'll again, talk about later in this chapter. This is a new button to {italic}Dreamweaver CS3,{plain} which is Moves or Convert CSS, and we saw in the chapter on working with Cascading Style Sheets that we can take an internal style sheet and move into an external style sheet. This is how you would do that, if I had any styles on this page, this how you do that from Code view. And, we have Indent Code, which if I had my cursor in here for instance, and chose to indent, I can just keep indenting the code if I wanted to separate it, And, that reformats the source code of the entire current document, and resets all the tabs to make it easier They'll start to make more sense as you start understanding the Code view a little bit more, and start working in Code a little bit more. Just so you can get more comfortable in Code view, in the next movie we'll take a look at how these Collapse buttons work.
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Whether you're a true Countryside resident or just visiting these Apps are bound to give you a helping hand when you're out and about in all that fresh air. So get your Welly Boots at the ready!
National Trust
This lovely little App gives you all you need to know on National Trust sites around Britain. The App use your location to find the nearest heritage sites to you and even plans your day for you, with a list of nearby cafés and pubs. Perfect for those days out in the glorious British countryside!
Platform: iPhone
Price: Free
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Google Maps Navigation
Out on those long country walks, among the wildlife, it's easy to loose track of where you've come from and get lost. Google maps navigation allows you to save locations and has a built in compass to show you which direction you're going. So for all you countryside amblers out there, never get lose your way again with this rather helpful App!
Platform: Android
Price: Free
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AA Bed and Breakfast Guide
There's nothing better after a day in the Countryside than a hearty British meal and a comfy bed. This AA App helps you locate your nearest bed and breakfasts as well as providing you with a description of the place and nightly room rates. So all you have to do is settle down with a pint and a nice steak pie before heading off to a nice cosy bed.
Platform: iPhone
Price: Free
Magic Torch
If you've ever been to the countryside at night you'll know that it's pretty much pitch black! If you don't want to be stumbling around or fiddling for your keys in the dark then use this handy App from Samsung Bada to turn your phone into a torch! Hoorah!
Platform: Samsung Bada
Price: Free
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Google Sky Map
One of the best things about the Countryside is its beautiful night skies. Google Sky Map shows you how to look out for various stars and constellations, perfect for those romantic moonlit walks!
Platform: Android
Price: Free
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Have you ever been in the middle of nowhere with no means of finding what's around you? Well suffer no more! This fantastic App uses your location to find nearby cafes, pubs, restaurants, ATMs, petrol station and even Wi-Fi hotspots. You'll never feel stranded again!
Platform: Windows Phone 7
Price: Free
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Green Flag Rescue Me
Driving through the countryside on a bright summers day can be great, until you break down that is! With Green Flag Rescue Me users can ring for help knowing exactly where they are with the built in GPS. The App also gives you traffic updates and reminds you when your car needs taxing! If only it could organise everything else in your life.
Platform: iPhone
Price: Free
Collins British Wildlife
This neat little App contains over 1500 species of British wildlife, complete with descriptions, interesting snippets of information and pictures. So next time you encounter a strange bird or insect in the British Countryside, just consult this App to find out exactly what it is.
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Drivers who ignore road closure signs left stranded in flood water
Posted: December 13, 2012|
Drivers wanting to use one of the most popular routes into central Somerset are ignoring road closure signs and getting stuck in flood water.
For the past three weeks huge swathes of the Somerset Levels have remained under water as the deluges from the November storms continue to cause misery.
One of the worst-hit areas has been south west of Ashcott.
Large lakes have formed, stretching across farmland and roads.
The A361 Taunton to Ashcott road is one of the main thoroughfares for commuters and visitors to the Street and Glastonbury area from the South West.
But for weeks it has been impassable to traffic.
Many cars were initially caught in the floods, prompting highway chiefs to install road closure signs at the Pipers Inn junction at Ashcott and outside Taunton.
However many more motorists ignored the warnings, even moving the signs in some cases before becoming stuck and having to call in emergency services.
One central Somerset resident who has seen for himself the bad conditions on the A361 is kayak and canoe hire specialist Chris Hill who runs his kayaks2hire.co.uk business from his Street home.
Last week Chris took kayaks down to Burrowbridge for his first ever paddle down the A361.
His photographs show cars and 4x4s abandoned in the middle of the newly-formed lake, many with the water flooded to just a few inches from the roof, open windows testament to how the occupants deserted their vehicles.
Plastic-wrapped bales, often as heavy as a ton in weight when dry, have floated feet above the surface of the road, drifting across into business premises.
Low hedges, rhynes, fences and gateways have disappeared beneath the waves making locations such as the roof of the Somerset Levels Basket and Craft Centre the only visible landmark along the usual picturesque route. It is not the first bit of cross-country canoeing that Chris has indulged in since the storms hit three weeks ago. In the first week he was able to take a canoe and paddle across the fields from Pomparles Bridge, seeing the Redlands Estate and Glastonbury Tor from a very different perspective.
"At times it was very eerie and very quiet, just how we like it," he said.
"Around Glastonbury the water was no more than 3ft deep."
Although the water levels around Glastonbury have fallen away, Chris thinks it will be some time before the water disappears from around the Burrowbridge area.
However people are still ignoring the warning signs and attempting to drive through and several hours after Chris made his canoe trip, emergency services were called to the same scene.
Shortly before 7pm a fire appliance, a special rescue team from Bridgwater and a rescue tender with non powered boat from Taunton, was alerted to a report of two people stuck in a lorry caught in the Burrowbridge floods.
A spokesman said: "Upon arrival crews donned dry suits and, utilising a boat, rescued two casualties suffering from the cold.
"The public are urged not to enter flood water or roads where there are "Road closed" signs."


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KINGWOOD, Texas – Fifth-grader Edgar Erazo was more excited than usual about going to school Wednesday because he was dressed as a zombie for Halloween.
His mom had called Elm Grove Elementary in Kingwood to make sure it was OK if he wore the costume.
But when Edgar showed up for class covered in fake blood and ghoulish sores, he was told to go home and change.
"I was, like, why should I wash it off?" Edgar said. "It took a really long time for my mom to make."
It is still unclear who his mother, Cecilia Erazo, spoke to on the phone. But a district spokesperson told 11 News that costumes are against the rules at the school for everyone except kindergartners.
"Nothing was misunderstood," Erazo said. "I sent him the way I was told I could send him."
She said she does not really care either way. She just wishes her son could have been spared the embarrassment.
Some parents say they support the school's policy and agree costumes can be distracting in class.
"Bloody things should probably just be left 'til night," parent Richard White said.
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Because Of Your Love
Bring The Rain
God Of This City
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Hope Is Here (Joy To The World)
How Can I Keep From Singing
I Am Free
I Will Boast
In the Sanctuary
Joy To The World
Lead Me Through The Night
Let God Arise
Let The Worshippers Arise
Lift Him Up
Reason I'm Alive
Thank You Lord
We Will Sing
I am a record producer, mixer, songwriter currently living in Nashville, TN. I love God, my wife, my family and music. I've had the opportunity to work with many great artists including, The Jonas Brothers, The Bolts, Campaign, Yellow Cavalier, Tommy Walker, David Pack, Point of Grace, Denver and the Mile High Orchestra and Wayne Bergeron to name a few.
Recent work and accomplishments
* Upcoming record with California rock band, Campaign. (May 2010)
* In Blue Roof Studios, San Diego, CA recording an EP for OC po/rock band "The Bolts" (March 2010)
* Horn arrangement and trumpet in a horn section for the Jonas Brothers' Disney TV show "Jonas." (March 2010)
* Meredith Andrews, Jason Ingram and myself were nominated for a 2009 Dove Award for "Worship Song of the Year."
* 2 Songs producedand 2 songs mixed for BEC artist Jadon Lavik as a part of Jadon's upcoming release. (January 2010)
* Mixed Justin Kintzel's debut EP, produced by Kyle Cummings (December 2009)
* Mixed the Liberty University Campus Praise Band's Live album "One" (November 2009)
* Engineered Tony Guerrero's upcoming jazz combo/big band record. (September 2009)
* Produced Yellow Cavalier's self-titled debut EP. Reasing (May 2009)
* Mixed, arranged and performed on Charles Billingsley's Live album "God of the Ages." (March 2009)
* Co-produced Charles Billingsley's "God of the Ages" radio single (March 2009)
Top 50 Orchestrations Released In 2015 (So Far)
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Here's a list of the top 50 orchestrations released since January 1, 2015. All of these songs have fully arranged parts for rhythm, brass, wind and strings. Let everything that has breath praise the Lord! Lamb Of God (Vertical Church Band) Soul On Fire (Third Day) Come Lord Jesus (Even So Come) (Passion Band/Chris Tomlin) Risen (Covenant Worship/Nicole Binion/Israel Houghton) Shout Hosanna (Passion Band/Kristian Stanfill) Spirit Of The Living God More
Passion Song Story And Tutorial Video
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Passion Song LIVE Video Sean Carter
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Passion Song Sean Carter (Studio Version) Video
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New Charts from Harvest Bible Chapel, Sovereign Grace and Passion
Harvest Worship - Oakville April 30, 2012 | Categories: News | Tags: Album Release
Harvest Worship releases Victorious, a new album featuring songs written by Joshua Seller. To celebrate this newest release, we are giving away the chord chart and mp3 of the title track for the FREE. Also new this week is Age To Age by Sovereign Grace; chord charts for the entire album are being offered for FREE. Also released this week, the Orchestration for Yahweh from the very popular White Flag album by Passion. Make sure to check out More
New Orchestrations from Passion And Paul Baloche
Passion April 16, 2012 | Categories: Blogs, News | Tags: orchestrations
Download, print and play these new orchestrations that have been added to the catalog: No Turning Back from Passion's newest album White Flag and My Hope by Paul Baloche. More
Worship Band Fike: New Album, The Moment We've Been Waiting For, To Release In April
April 7, 2012 | Categories: News, Press Releases | Tags: Album Release
Colorado Springs, Colo. (February 22, 2012) - - Integrity Music recently signed Colorado-based worship band Fike with their major label debut, The Moment We've Been Waiting For, slated to release April 10, 2012. Fronted by husband and wife Richie and Dana Fike, the band was previously featured in Worship Leader magazine for their independently released album Make A Sound. The magazine also featured four of Fike's songs ("Ascend to Heaven," More
Faithful Through It All Official Video
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Faithful Through It All Song Story
| May 19, 2014 | Categories: Videos | Tags: blog, song story
In an almost shameful way, as the church often doesn't address these very common afflictions. In Christ Jesus we are not victims but Victors over these and there is hope in Him. "Faithful Through it All (Maddie's Song)" was born out of two of a Song receivers worst trials of his life in which Anxiety and Depression nearly stripped him of his mind, his family, his job, and almost his life. At literally the darkest night of his life, God reminded him of the promise in Joshua 1:9 and the hope of Matthew 6:25-30. In those verses, the lyrics literally poured out. No matter what happens in life, God will cause the sun to rise over the mountains, birds will fly and fill the air, flowers will bloom displaying their colors, and God is Faithful through it all. How much more Faithful He is to us. His promise is that he will never leave us nor forsake us and that He is there with us through it all. This is the promise of Hope in our Darkness!
Just a week before Justin Mosteller was set to track vocals for the song, God spoke that there needed to be another verse to the song and the very next day the story of Maddie Yate's youtube goodbye message before her suicide flooded social media. That day a third verse was written and the song has now been dedicated to Maddie's Memory. Half of the profits from the song are being donated to The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, www.afsp.org in Maddie's honor. Our prayer for this song is that it shine the light of hope that Christ provides and that those suffering from the debilitating afflictions of Anxiety and Depression come to know that our God is truly "Faithful Through it All!"
Passion Song Story And Tutorial Video
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Passion Song LIVE Video Sean Carter
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The Sound That Saved Us All Anthony Skinner Official Video
| February 19, 2014 | Categories: Videos | Tags: video
CentricWorship unveils The Sound That Saved Us All live worship video today, April 29th, as seen on YouTube and GodTube. The Sound That Saved Us All was penned by veteran songwriter/producer Anthony Skinner (writer of the Billboard #1 hits 'Your Love Never Fails' and 'Million Miles') and calls the listener to rejoice in the majesty, dynamism, and splendor of God. The video features an inspiring performance of this pure worship song by Anthony Skinner, with rich backing vocals and acoustic instrumentation provided by the other CentricWorship retreat participants.
"I've been an Anthony Skinner fan and friend for many years," says CentricWorship founder, Steve Rice. "It's the uniqueness in his songwriting and musicality that brings freshness and realness to what he does. And then underneath all that, he draws from a deep spiritual well. As Anthony leads worship you realize he has been with God. This is a man who is in tune with the Spirit of the Lord and that truly is what makes his music so special."
The inspiration behind The Sound That Saved Us All is equally as unique and engaging as the songs Anthony Skinner writes. The idea for the song came to him one afternoon: "I was watching The Andy Griffith Show and there was a church scene where Andy and Barney were singing the classic hymn, 'All Hail The Power of Jesus Name,'" explains Anthony. "It had been awhile since I had heard this particular hymn and the words completely arrested my imagination." Sitting down to his piano, Anthony drew on this profound and unexpected inspiration to create a modern masterpiece, infusing it with a fresh, impassioned spirit. "It was as if the song had been sitting there at the piano waiting for me to sing it. In a matter of minutes I was past the writing and lost in worship."
It was during a time of worship at the CentricWorship retreat that Anthony Skinner presented The Sound That Saved Us All to his fellow songwriters. "The themes of God's majesty, power and grandeur are all present in the text of 'The Sound That Saved Us All,'" says Anthony. "These same themes are echoed in the beautiful landscape of Winthrop, WA, where the All The Saints project was recorded. It seemed fitting to share the song in this setting, and I was honored when Steve Rice approached me to add the song to the EP."