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Yes, summer technically ends on September 21st, but we all know it really is officially over when the sun sets on Labor Day each year. Instead of "Wilkommen, Bienvenue, Welcome," it's all "So long, farewell, auf Wiedersehen, did you remember to pack the towels from the outdoor shower?"
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All good things, like summer and vacations, must come to an end. For the past few months I've been busy helping Shelf Awareness—our wonderful industry information source—to launch a version of its bookseller email newsletter for readers. It's been a lot of fun, and in particular, I've loved getting the chance to work alongside my colleagues Robin Lenz and John Mutter.
I'm moving on, now, although not so very far. I'll still be contributing the feature I developed, "Further Reading," to each issue, and I'll also continue to write author interviews and book reviews in Shelf Awareness for Readers. If you have any questions about this new publication, you can direct them to editor in chief John Mutter: firstname.lastname@example.com.
My own dance card is happily filling up with new projects. Next week I'll be at the 2011 Southern Independent Booksellers Association (SIBA) Conference, talking with some of the country's best booksellers about social media with my partner in business and crime, Rebecca Joines Schinsky of The Book Lady's Blog. We'll also be talking up October's Club Read retreat (can't wait to be there with Book Club Girl Jennifer Hart!).
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Eero Saarinen and others at a party, ca. 1950
Physical Details: Photographic print : 1 item : b&w ; 9 x 13 cm.
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Description: Saarinen is seated on the right of the photo, holding a pipe.
Forms part of: Aline and Eero Saarinen papers, 1906-1977
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Citation: Eero Saarinen and others at a party, ca. 1950
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July 31, 2015
COLLEGE STATION - Police are looking for a man who they say was involved in an armed robbery.
Investigators say an arrest warrant has been issued for Gerrick Travon Oliver, a 20 year-old resident of College Station. Police say he could be armed and dangerous.
Police believe Oliver pulled a gun and threatened an 18 year old, stole from him, including a wallet in the 2700 block of Longmire in College Station back on October 15th after a deal to arrange a sale fell through.
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July 29, 2015
The official dedication of Rudder High School was a family affair Friday.
General James Earl Rudder's children and other family members travelled from far and near to mark the opening of Bryan's second high school.
The $51 million facility bears the name of the former Texas A&M president who led his rangers during D-Day in World War II.
"I'm not sure what he'd think, really," said James Earl "Bud" Rudder Jr., the son of the general. "He would be proud because he worked hard, and he meant to do good things, and he would be pleased with being recognized."
Principal Hugh Piatt emphasized Gen. Rudder's ideals on Day 1 for his students, who will be known as the Rangers.
"Having the courage to take risks that no one else has done, and for them, translating that into setting goals and being successful," Piatt said. "It's really powerful, and the kids have bought into it."
Among the speakers at Friday's event was Congressman Chet Edwards, who was an Earl Rudder Award winner during his time at Texas A&M.
Edwards hoped the students would "remember the life story and values of Earl Rudder, his courage, his integrity, his lifetime commitment, not just on D-Day, but a lifetime of commitment to making the world a better place."
Only freshman and sophomores are attending Rudder this year, but in two years, there will be a full campus for four grades. The maximum capacity of the school is 1,600 students.
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DISCUSSION LEADING: There are several ways to approach this project, depending on what your topic is. You may want to do some secondary reading about the primary text and present the results of your reading to the class as a starting point. In this case, the written outline/summary you hand in to me should include bibliographical references, of course. You may also, of course, simply present your reading of the text (or a part of it) or a series of provocative questions aroused by it. If you are presenting a secondary article, you will want to read it attentively and critique it, or even quarrel with it if you violently disagree. A few topics will involve a degree of outside research. I am here to help with this. All the topics are listed on the syllabus.
WWW ASSIGNMENT: Websurf for credit! One of the most challenging aspects of the WWW is determining what is useful information and what is bunk. Investigate one or several of the sites linked to the course homepage and evaluate them. What is useful? What isn't? Who do you imagine the intended audience of the site to be? Who would you recommend it to and under what circumstances? Follow links; where do they take you? What have you learned? You may choose any sort of website (from Digital Dante to Brian's Apocalypse Page) as a starting point. Keep track of where you go, and write up a report of your travels. Remember, the point is not to regurgitate what the various sites say, but to assess their usefulness to various sorts of projects.
CLOSE READINGS (approx. 3 pages):
Of a text: choose a brief but more or less self-contained passage of text (a single encounter or speech in the Divine Comedy, a passage from one of the authors in McGinn, a poem by Hildegard, a short chunk of Blake) and develop an exhaustive reading of it. What is the language doing? Why? How are images working? Narrative voice? Are there allusions to other texts? Other parts of the same text? Interpret your passage as fully as possible, and assess its value to the work as a whole if applicable.
Of an image: choose an image from the Image Gallery or from one of the books on Reserve and give it the same kind of treatment. What does it represent? Are there symbols you can interpret? How is the image composed? Where are the various elements in relation to eachother? What does the image mean? What emotional effect does it produce? Does it seem to refer to other works of art, either textual or visual?
Your first reading must be of an artifact (text or image) from before 1500 AD. Your second can be from any period.
FINAL RESEARCH PAPER: Your final, 15+ page paper will involve research into some aspect of the apocalyptic tradition. You may want to treat a single theme as it develops over an extensive period, or relate a single text to the tradition as a whole. You may take any kind of critical approach; deconstructionists, historians, and feminists, to name only a few, are all interested in the subject. Your essay must include but need not be limited to texts/images studied during the course; in other words, you could if you wanted to pursue the impact of Dante on the modern horror or science fiction film or argue that Piers Plowman is the immediate precursor to Ulysses and therefore the cause of the apocalypse of modern literature (no one believes this but me, right?) . Here are a few topics of the sort you might want to start revolving in your mind, with suggestions for authors who might be particularly relevant to them, but remember: anything is possible.
You will find a selection of secondary materials relating to Apocalypticism on reserve in the library. Please make full use of these and of the materials provided in course packets, and remember that I am always ready to suggest further reading. You must provide me with a declaration of interest in some topic by November 19.
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Eighteen-year old Janiece Mobley's baby attends the Global Connection Learning Center at the Jackson Mall. / Greg Jenson/The Clarion-Ledger
Nancy Sylvester is director of Global Connection Learning Center at the Jackson Medical Mall. / Greg Jenson/The Clarion-Ledger
Gov. Phil Bryants goals for addressing the states high teen pregnancy rate:
Reduce the number of teen pregnancies in girls ages 8-19 by 15 percent by 2017.
Reduce the percentage of repeat teenage births to 15 percent by 2017.
Increase communication between parents and teens about teen pregnancy.
Increase peer-to-peer education to empower youth to make wise choices as related to good health.
Murrah High School senior Rosie Dunlap (left),17, visits her daughter, Amelia, 1, and mother, Lula Dunlap, after school at the Jackson Medical Mall. Amelia attends Global Connection Learning Center in the mall. The center helps young mothers with child care so they can remain in school. / Greg Jenson/The Clarion-Ledger
Murrah High School senior Rosie Dunlap, 17, carries her daughter, Amelia, 1, after picking her up from the Global Connection Learning Center at Jackson Medical Mall. / Greg Jenson/The Clarion-Ledger
Teenage mothers Janiece Mobley (far left), 18, Gwenmetrica Jackson, 16, Marschun Good, 20, and Brittney Hicks, 18, walk before picking up their babies from the Global Connection Learning Center in the Jackson Medical Mall. The center opened three years ago and serves moms as young as age 12. / Greg Jenson/The Clarion-Ledger
Teenage mothers Janiece Mobley (far left), 18, Gwenmetrica Jackson, 16, Marschun Good, 20, and Brittney Hicks, 18, take their daily walk to relax before picking up their babies from the Global Connection Learning Center in the Jackson Medical Mall. / Greg Jenson/The Clarion-Ledger
When girls drop out of school in Mississippi because theyre pregnant or just had a baby, the domino effect is felt for years, sometimes generations, to come.
Too often, they cant find a job because they dont have a high school diploma, or someone to watch their child. College dreams and earning potential disappear faster than an 18-pack of diapers. The state ends up paying for teen moms and their babies when family members dont have the resources.
And, its not seen as unusual when their babies end up repeating the cycle of teen pregnancy and themselves dropping out of school.
The statistics are sobering: Preliminary data from the state Department of Health for 2010, the latest figures available, show Mississippis 2010 teen birth rate is 55 births per 1,000 females ages 15-19. Also, 23 percent of babies born to teens are repeat births, according to Gov. Phil Bryants Teen Pregnancy Prevention Task Force Plan to Prevent and Reduce Teen Pregnancy.
Teen pregnancy, and its relation to the states dismal dropout rate of 17 percent 39 percent in one district alone is a cornerstone of Bryants legislative agenda for the 2013 session. Hes traveling the state to speak about two initiatives developed since January to in part address the crisis, the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Task Force and the Healthy Teens for a Better Mississippi program.
What we do know is the effect it has on these childrens lives, Bryant said. Teen moms are struggling to finish high school. Young men struggle with being an unexpected father, and how they will deal with that.
And, what about the baby? asks Janet Spears, director of development at The Salvation Army in Jackson and a member of Bryants blue-ribbon task force to address teen pregnancy.
Its just scary, Spears said. This is the ultimate problem to everything we face in Mississippi, even obesity. Its an eye-opening thing. Its almost a cultural thing. The girls are expected to have babies. They are expected not to tell who the daddy is. Were finding more incest, more rape of girls by older men.
Teen moms arent the only ones who sometimes struggle to stay in school. Their schools can struggle to keep them at a time when other programs cry out for limited funding and attention.
One of the issues is, once theyre pregnant, theres not a lot of resources out there for them to attend school, said Charlotte Young, the Rankin County districts director of student support services and dropout prevention. She also is a member of Bryants task force on teen pregnancy.
I think a lot of these girls realize, if they have a baby, (they) need to do more, Young said. School is very important now because I have a person to take care of.
But a big obstacle for them is child care. Who keeps the baby while you go to school?
In the weeks that theyre out of school because of pregnancy, the girls sometimes disconnect, Young said. And if nobodys calling them and making contact with them, then they disconnect from school and dont want to return.
Getting resources to the students and making them know about their options makes a difference, Young said. Shes tried to help students get child-care vouchers, but theres a long waiting list for that money. The district has interventions to try to limit the amount of classwork missed by teenage moms, who typically are out more than eight weeks.
Some girls might also be self conscious about returning to school. I think a lot of times these kids think, Everybodys looking at me. Everyone knows I had a baby, Young said.
Most agree that when it comes to dropping out because of pregnancy, teen dads are more likely to stay in school.
Its the girls, Wingfield High sophomore Zachery Hudson, 15, says of who quits because of a baby. Its sad, because theyre wasting their education. They can wait until after college, get their act together, then get married.
Against all odds, some manage to stay in class because theyre lucky enough to have a support system that can include family, understanding teachers and school administrators, the availability of daycare and financial and emotional involvement by the babys father.
Alisha Sifuentes, a 17-year-old senior at Neshoba Central High, is determined not to become a dropout statistic. She gave birth to son Tanner at age 15.
I get up. I get dressed for school. I get Tanner ready for daycare, she said of her daily routine. I go to school. I come home, clean house, and get my brother and sister off the bus. I cook dinner. I give Tanner his bath.
I want you to imagine your children doing this at age 15, she said. I am a single mother. Im not just a teenage mother.
Sifuentes said some teens get kicked out of their houses and have a difficult time taking care of babies born underweight or unhealthy. I have a very supportive family, so Ill get through this, she said. But what about the teenagers who dont?
Recognizing the role teen pregnancy plays in the states staggering dropout rate, a number of community organizations and state and local leaders are stepping forward to provide avenues of support to help teen parents realize a high school diploma.
In Holmes County, a new coalition of lawmakers and community leaders is taking the lead in addressing the teen pregnancy problem in youth ages 10-19 through a multi-pronged approach that takes on education, morals and abstinence. The goals of Holmes County Taking a Stand Against Teen Pregnancy include not just keeping teens in school, but increasing their chances of later enrolling in college or post-high school technical programs.
If that pilot program is successful, its leaders say, they may seek legislation in 2014 to take it statewide.
My hope as a school nurse, and as a minister, is to help students make wiser choices on the moral side, said Sandra Ross, a 28-year health care veteran who works as school nurse for the Holmes County district. Shes also a member of the task force that developed the pilot program.
When you look at the generations, teen pregnancy is becoming more and more acceptable, Ross said. Until students are educated on whats right, its hard to hold them accountable.
Although 2010 saw 10 pregnant girls in the districts grades 6-8, Ross said, no middle schoolers are pregnant now. In middle school, there is sexual activity. We had an eighth-grader recently who thought she was, and she took a pregnancy test and it was negative, Ross said.
I do see at the high schools anywhere from 5-12 pregnancies a year, Ross said. And those are just the ones I know about. That doesnt include the ones who had an abortion, or who dropped out.
Even so, she said, between 80 and 85 percent of pregnant girls in the district end up graduating.
The district tries to keep teen moms on task with their studies, and counselors and Ross are available to talk to them about their obstacles to staying in school. We try to network and use all the different facets of the system to meet the needs of the kids we serve, Ross said.
Some of them have medical issues complicating their pregnancy. That can result in them missing so many days they fall behind in their classes, Ross said. The real issue comes in when their child gets sick, or their mom is working to bring money into the house and cant take care of them, or when daycare wont take a sick baby.
In Jackson, a child-care facility for teen moms opened three years ago in the Jackson Medical Mall after health care and education professionals recognized the need to provide a safe haven for babies so their moms wont have to drop out.
The Global Resources Learning Center, which serves moms as young as 12 and continues to keep their babies if they enroll in college, also provides after-school tutoring, counseling, and financial literacy and parenting classes.
They sign a waiver for us to have access to their records, their test scores, and to talk to their teachers, center director Nancy Sylvester said of the 25 girls who have come through the program so far. If they are saying something is not going well, sometimes they will blame the teachers.
Sylvester and program staff provide not just child care, but the emotional support to keep the young moms in school. A lot are in abusive situations, Sylvester said. Their parents dont allow them to remain at home, or they may be at home, but theres a lot of tension. Finances are a big obstacle.
Most of the time, theres no one but the mom to take care of the baby. Most of the dads are not involved.
While some of the teen moms in the program are close to being adults, its the ones who give birth in middle school who can be hardest to reach, Sylvester said. She recalls a 13-year-old who was in the program, but recently stopped coming after moving from the area.
She walked by the 2-year-old room in the daycare, where they were playing with dolls, and she wanted to play with the dolls, Sylvester said. I told her, You have your own baby to take care of.
So far, she said, none of her teen moms has dropped out of high school. Id like to think its because of the program here, said Sylvester, who formerly worked in dropout prevention with the Jackson school district.
And when a 13-year-old teen mom enrolled, she said, the girls mom was freed of daytime child-care responsibilities. She was able to go back and get a part-time job, she said of the babys grandmother. That made a difference in that household.
Girls in the program have to want to be there, and to follow the rules on coming after school for tutoring and other services, Sylvester said. They want to be in the band, or the choir. Theyd rather do other things after school.
Teens like Lanier High senior Janiece Mobley, 18, are glad to be there. Janiece is mom to 6-month-old Lyriq Adams. I got into the final part of my pregnancy before I found out about this program, she said. I was worried about finances, and whether I would graduate.
I feel exhausted every day, said Rosie Dunlap, 17, a Murrah High senior whose 1-year-old daughter Naomi was born with just one arm. But if I drop out of school, youre going to kick my butt, she said with a smile to Sylvester.
So will her mom and dad, Lula and Gregory Dunlap. Im pushing hard for her not to just graduate from high school, but from college, Lula Dunlap said.
Shapaula Barnes, 18, had 2-year-old Jamie Lynn Smith as a sophomore at Jim Hill High, yet still graduated on time despite missing four months during her pregnancy. Its a daily struggle for her to get through classes at Holmes Community College in Ridgeland.
Im so tired, she said, wiping away tears. I need a car. I get there in everybody elses car. I want to get away from Mississippi. Im just so tired.
Bryant recalled going to deer camp recently with friends in a small Delta town and stopping at a convenience store to get snacks. A girl of 13 or 14 walked in, a tiny baby slung over her shoulder, he said.
What chance does that child have? Bryant remembered thinking. They think its just like a puppy.
Janiece knows her plans to own her own business are doomed without a high school diploma.
My mama dropped out in the 11th grade when she had me, Janiece said. When my baby gets older, I want to tell her I graduated. I want to make my mama proud, and my daughter.
Staff writer Marquita Brown contributed to this report.


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995 Wildwood, Northbrook
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Property Type:
Single Family Home
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Room Count:
12 rooms, 6 beds, 6.1 baths
$33,292 for 2010
Built in 2001
Designed by Tom Donahue
Built by Fieldcrest Builders
Three finished levels
Approximately 7,400 square feet
Three car garage, heated
Four fireplaces
.74 acre with room for a pool
Home theater
Exercise Room
First floor guest suite
Two built-in safes
Indoor/ outdoor intercom
Central Vac
Four zone heating and cooling
400 amp electrical service
Two 50 gallon water heaters
Brick and stucco
Cedar roof with copper accents
Copper gutters
Sprinkler system
Swanson + Donahue Architects. Since 1987, Rick Swanson and Tom Donahue have brought traditional and elegant designs with historical elements to high-end homes along the North Shore. Aiming for a timeless functionality, they create inviting spaces with an Old World feel. Interior and exterior projects have ranged in size from about 2,500 square feet to more than 15,000. Their ofices are located at 920 S. Waukegan Road in Lake Forest,847-234-6655.
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12 rooms, 6 beds, 6.1 baths
$33,292 for 2010
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