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Our cautionary tale begins:
Ya hear it your whole life. The teachers at school preached it like a Sunday revival sermon on a hot summer day. Your parents (especially dear old Ma) joined that particular choir on almost a daily basis. It's pretty much engraved on your brain stem by the time you hit your teens. Ya know 'em all by heart, whether you heeded the warnings or played it reckless. Golden nuggets passed on from generation to generation, especially in a twenty-first century most noted for abducted kids and missing persons never to be seen nor heard from again. Not just in the big cites do these pertain, but also in the out of the way places; quiet, peaceful little townships tucked away in rural valleys once considered safe-havens for all ages. Take my hometown for instance. It's easy to be lulled into complacency. Case in point, such 'old sayings' should always be heeded, despite the cornball factor involved. Prime examples being:
No peein' on an electric fence.
Don't hock a loogie into the wind.
Refrain from jawin' with strangers.
Avoid tooling about in strange places after dark.
The World overall just ain't a safe place.
If something or somebody appears too good to be true , they normally are.
And finally, for god's sake…never pick up hitchhikers (number one with a bullet in this boy's personal poll, that one).
Well, ya live and ya learn, I reckon. Sometimes the hard way. In my and Doobie Jack's case, seems it's always the hard way.
It was a cool, fall Friday night 'bout ten thirty-PM when we spotted 'er out on Route nine. In truth, it'd been Doobie Jack that locked eyeballs on her first. He'd laid a heavy work boot on that brake pad about the same time I'd been digging around the cooler in the backseat floorboard for a fresh brew. I recall being slung into the dash and jamming my shoulder up pretty good, not to mention wearing at least half a can of ice-cold Coors on my jacket and shirt.
"Check her out, Snake. Lawdy, it must be a dream'," Jack had said, practically drooling at the sight of her.
Doobie Jack had just broke up with his gal Mindy the night before, a monthly occurrence that was almost always followed by a 'ride-around in the sticks' drunk with yours truly playing the part of jovial sidekick and third-string Doctor Phil. Personally, I had no gal troubles to speak of. I'd lost my right eye at age eleven, courtesy a pellet gun and my near-sighted big brother (hence the nickname Snake, named after Snake Plisken from that Escape from New York flick). I'd found through the years that the female of the species don't particularly cotton to one-eyed high-school dropouts making just over minimum wage. No sweat, really. Mama had always said there was somebody out there for me. Just might take a while to search out and find that special lady. The way I figure it, that special lady would've most likely been a one-eyed, wart-faced nag with a butt like a Macy's day parade float, but hey…beggars can't be choosers.
I'd started hanging with Doobie Jack (man just loved seventies rock n' roll, especially the Doobie Brothers) the summer after my tenth grade year. We both dropped out a year later and went to work at the processing plant a few months later. Things hadn't changed a hell of a lot in the twelve years since. That is, til that night on route nine.
Anyhow, working production wasn't an easy life, and you sure wasn't gonna retire on a Caribbean beachhead from the pay, but it kept clothes on our back, edibles (mostly of the fast-food variety) in our gut, and cold suds in the fridge. More important, from Doobie Jack's point of view, he could afford to cultivate a small but lucrative weed crop from beneath our rented trailer. Then again, the man definitely toked more than he ever sold. Didn't make no never mind to this boy. I could've taken the wacky weed or left it. Cold brew was my vice, along with the occasional sip of rum to numb the tongue and singe the soul.
"Big boned blonde goddess she is, Snake," I'd heard Doobie Jack mumble as I massaged my left shoulder and the proceeded to wipe the beer suds from my neck and chin.
"Lust at first sight, partner."
He pulled onto a wide stretch of gravel shoulder maybe a hundred feet past the girl and parked, but didn't bother to cut the engine. Some months earlier, he'd managed to knock a hole in the ol' Monte Carlo's muffler, then decided he liked the 'sporty' sound of 'er, and didn't ever bother getting it fixed. Always reminded me of a damned foghorn, but what's a nuisance to one is style to another, I reckon.
Well, that girl practically jumped into the back seat without so much as a grunt, tossing a big brown satchel in ahead of her and huffing like she'd just ran five miles uphill. Leggy blonde she was all right, wearing the tightest Calvin K. blue jeans I'd ever laid eye on. Decent rack, to boot, not to mention a backside so shapely it almost looked artificial, like a computer special effect come to life.
"So where ya headed, sweet-thang?" Doobie Jack had asked while lighting a fresh Winston and revving that big Chevy's engine as if attempting to drown out her answer. Doobie was forever trying to grab a slice of strange whenever he and Mindy were on the fritz, though I never recall him having much success in that regard. Ladies men we weren't. Probably didn't help matters having a one-eyed troll like me for a running partner.
"Can you just… go, please? My boyfriend's liable to be here any…minute…and he isn't apt to be very happy to find me with you," she'd said between swallows, gasping like a full blown heart attack wasn't far off. I recall thinking that for a such a young girl, twenty or twenty-one at the outset, she had the voice of a sixty-year old grandmother with a life-long two pack a day Winston fix-almost like she was talking through one of those 'voice boxes' that folks with throat cancer get hooked up with.
"Your…boyfriend? He on foot too?" I'd asked after a quick sip of foam and the belch that followed.
"I…jumped out of…his pick-up and…ran through the woods. Must've covered at least…a mile or two before I found the road."
Turning to address our guest, Doobie shot me a quick wink and plastered on his best 'player' grin, complete with shiny gold tooth and pencil-thin mustache curled at the ends.
"Lucky old man Fowler didn't fill ya full of buck shot for trespassing. Plus which, that forest is just chock-full of rattlers, rabid badgers and the like. Have no fear, babe, yore shining knight is here."
It was around that time in the conversation that I became aware of the smell. Girl reeked like uncooked pork on the edge of turning. That's the only thing I can compare it to. Not bacon…not beef….but raw hog on the verge of sprouting worms.
"Well then, cutie, by all means, let us motivate before trouble arrives," Doobie had announced in the slickest tone he could muster, no doubt having allowed his libido black out all other senses, most notably that of smell.
We spun outta there and around blind-man's curve doing at least fifty, and were less than four miles from the city limits when the inside of the Monte Carlo lit up like somebody had aimed a spotlight directly into her.
"Oh god, it's him! Go faster! Lose him!" the girl had said, though I seem to recall the level of panic in her voice was kinda on the disappointing side, like her heart wasn't really in it. In retrospect, it was lousy soap opera acting at best.
I turned and saw the grill of that Ford F-150 was less than a foot from our bumper, and the horn was blaring like a five-alarm siren.
"Shit! Crazy loop is gonna run us into a ditch…" Doobie said, struggling to hold her in the road as we passed the Redding Farm and neared the old railroad underpass.
Though I don't recall the act of retrieving it, I was sipping a fresh brew by then and spilling the majority of it onto my jeans and Reeboks. By that time, spilling a few precious drops of hops and barley's was the least of my problems.
"What the hell you do to piss 'im off this bad?" I'd asked, sounding a bit more girlish than I 'd intended.
"Probably drunk as an owl to boot, partner," Doobie had blurted, laughing like a hyena as we swerved around a sharp curve towards the underpass, "I'm gonna lead 'im straight into town and hope one of them Barney Fife deputies is on the job."
The trunk horn kept blaring in three to five second intervals, and I remember thinking my bladder was gonna give way long before we made it to the city limits.
"You sure that's a good idea, Doob? I mean, considerin' I'm covered in bootleg suds and you're holding a bag of Columbia's finest?"
Before Doobie Jack could even begin to reply, I heard a loud crunching sound as the Monte Carlos bumper gave way and we proceeded to spin sideways.
I heard Doobie Jack howl at the top of his pot-infested lungs as the car went into a three-sixty.
I heard the woman curse as the left side of the Carlo went airborne, though the gist of what she said sounded like Spanish or Japanese or some similar foreign gibberish.
I heard myself cry out like a whipped pup as we made like a bad carnival ride and commenced to flip.
I heard the back glass shatter and felt the shrapnel pelt my balding scalp and neck before rolling inside my shirt like tossed sand.
I heard nothing else as something solid thumped the left side of my skull and the lights went out.
Believe the smoke woke me up, or maybe the cool asphalt I was dragged across. Either way, if given the option now, I'd just as soon never woke at all. Hindsight is twenty-twenty, they say. Guess that pertains to us one-eyed jockeys as well. . Still another 'oldie but goodie' from dear old Ma that never held much meaning before that night.
It seemed Doobie Jack had pulled me from the overturned Chevy, which had been smoking like a chimney from her upturned engine, and had proceeded to head back in to retrieve the girl when I saw someone sprint in from my left and knock 'im for a loop. Someone yowling and howling like a coyote with its hind leg caught in a bear trap. I had to wipe and rub my one working eye several times just to recognize the individual, and even then I wasn't clearly convinced it wasn't some beer and crash induced mirage, simply for the fact that it didn't make a lick of sense.
"Stay clear, DAMN IT! Move away from that….that thing!" the man yelled, holding a revolver in one hand and a walkie-talkie in the other, all the while keeping Doobie Jack pinned to the ground with a knee to the back.
I'd never had the displeasure of meeting Sheriff Bill Henriksen close up, but had heard plenty about 'im from others, including Doobie himself…none of it even marginally positive. Words such as prick, asshole, and Nazi came to mind, as those were the normal lead-in's whenever Henriksen's name got brought up in everyday conversation.
"There's….a girl….woman in there, y-you…jack ass…" Doobie had pleaded, trying to squirm out from under the big man's hold. Henriksen had to be in his early fifties, but was a big, stout looking SOB with (I'd heard anyhow) a pit bull's disposition and raging temper to boot.
"It ain't no girl, son," the Sheriff had said, allowing Doobie Jack to roll away onto the nearby shoulder,"….believe you me, that's the last thing it is. Damn thing totaled my patrol unit. You don't even wanna know what it did to the previous owner of that pick-up."
As Doobie stood and I managed to at least lean up onto my knees, Henriksen turned towards the smoking wreck and pointed his revolver that way while yapping a mile a minute into that walkie-talkie.
"Jimbo, get your carcass down here. The state police are a good thirty minutes out. Can't wait on 'em. Just…HAUL ASS!"
The next couple of minutes are kinda fuzzy from a reality stand-point, being that I'm still not positive everything I saw really happened…or even could have. Guess now I got no choice but accept it, no matter how far out it seemed at the time.
First off, the girl came crawling outta the Carlo's front seat on her hands and feet, only with her chest and head facing upward to the sky. Looked like a giant roach scuttling out of a dark corner, she did. The satchel was hanging from her left shoulder, and I saw something resembling a honey dew melon roll free, then two or three more of 'em as she wobbled forward like a drunk spider.
Once I got better focused, those melons bore a striking resemblance to human heads. Not proudly, I got to confess to coming damn near making a chocolate malted in my boxer shorts at that point.
The Sheriff then proceeded to unload that thirty-eight in her direction, while Doobie Jack jogged over my way with a freshly lit joint bouncing about his bottom lip like a feeler. Man obviously didn't give a rat's behind about the sheriff's presence.
"Jump in that truck and haul ass, boys. NOW!" Henriksen screamed while reloading his pistol. Meantime, the girl had twisted forward and stood up. I could see at least four bullet wounds near her tits and stomach, but she wasn't showing the least bit discomfort while making a b-line towards the sheriff.
About that time, Doobie snatched me by the elbow and we made for the truck. I recall hearing a loud ripping sound, like somebody tearing a cotton sheet, followed by a two or three more rounds from Henriksen's thirty-eight.
Doobie Jack was already twisting the ignition key on that big hummer when the windshield blew up like somebody had nailed it with a fifty-pound sledge.
I can honestly state I only clearly recall four specific happenings following that glass shower.
The first was Doobie looking over at me with his hair, face, and goatee smeared in chunks of windshield and saying "Damn, Snake…I think….I swallowed the joint…"
The second was staring out through where the windshield had been and seeing Sheriff Bill Henriksen getting his head peeled like a ripe banana by something that didn't remotely resemble a female of the human species.
The third was a discarded pile of skin lying near the last spot I'd seen the girl occupying. Looked like one of them full-body Halloween costumes that zips up in the back. Weird thing was, it had a thick clump of blonde hair topping it like a bad hairpiece, and I could just make out the color of blue jeans and a pair of white jogging shoes.
The last thing was sniffing a snoot-full of that same rotted sow meat smell from earlier just before something slick and scaly leapt into the cab of that pick-up and tore Doobie Jack in half at chest level. With that, a geyser of blood spewed forth like a damn tidal wave, coating my eye and pretty much sticking me to the seat. Seems there was a truckload of pressure on my chest a second later, but by then I was blinded and choking on my own barf. Things got real tranquil then. Calm as a fall breeze, my mama used to say.
She also used to say 'the good things never last.' A real prophet, that mother of mine. Prophet of doom, to be specific.
As things presently stand, I can only speak for myself in thinking that stone-cold dead would be highly preferable to what passes as the current existence.
The sheriff had hit the nail square on the head in saying the hitchhiker had been anything but a girl. I ain't real sure, since science nor science fiction were hardly my best subjects in school, but I do believe my fate falls under the heading of 'alien abduction'. Yeah, you heard right. Second rate X-Files episode with a first rate twist.
I can turn, squint my eye and see Doobie Jack mounted to my left, and I'm pretty certain that's Sheriff Henriksen's noggin parked in the row ahead of me.
Wasn't sure what they had in mind 'til a few minutes ago, when a few of 'em scampered up to row number one and starting gnawing and chewing on the scalps like they was in a pie-eating contest at a county fair.
How they keep us functioning is beyond me. Can't speak without vocal cords, even though my tongue is still curled inside my kisser like a dead slug.
I mean, how can a chopped off (chewed off? Ripped off?) head have active thoughts? Man with a tenth grade education might as well quit trying to decipher such things, I reckon.
Whatever planet we're on, I can't say much for the overall looks of the population. Damn things remind me of those big bloated beetles we used to find underneath rotted oak leaves. That is, except for their heads-or their teeth. They got teeth like a centipede has legs. Thousand of the damn things, and all like little pointed razor blades. They do one mean imitation of what they later label food. Easy to figure where a lot of the homeless end up, not to mention all the missing kids and such. Skull buffet on Planet Roach. What a pisser.
Uh-oh. Looks like the noontime feeding is about to commence. I swear I hear Doobie Jack sobbing. My kingdom for a final sip of an ice-cold Bud. Hell, at this point, even a Pabst Blue Ribbon would be akin to liquid gold.
Ugh. One of 'em just bore into Henriksen's scalp like a trucker into a steaming plate of scrambled eggs. Row number two is almost history, looks like.
I see one of 'em eyeballing me, licking its chops like a starved wolf.
Least the curtain can fall on this cursed nightmare once and for all.
Concerning the hitchhiker, I guess it is indeed just like dear old mama always said, '….you surely cannot judge a book by its cover."
Have to admit, but I kinda wish Ma was right here with me now. I'd surely have a sayin' for her, just as I feel my cranium pulled apart like overripe watermelon rind and warm gray matter runs down my face and into my eye like runny oatmeal and the lights dim mercifully to black:
I'd say...'ya know Ma…it is surely a dog eat…dog world….'
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Synonym(s): thrashing, walloping, debacle, drubbing, slaughter, whipping
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· the act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows
Synonym(s): beating, thrashing, licking, drubbing, lacing, whacking
Hypernym(s): corporal_punishment
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Synonym(s): flog, welt, whip, lather, lash, slash, strap
Hypernym(s): beat, beat_up, work_over
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Synonym(s): beat, beat_out, crush, shell, vanquish
Hypernym(s): get_the_better_of, overcome, defeat
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Hypernym(s): knock, criticize, criticise, pick_apart
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On the last day of school kids can sometimes get really batty, that was certainly true at one Freeport grade school today.
Students at Taylor Park Elementary spent the final day making bat houses which will be used to help get rid of mosquitoes and other bugs at the CMC Heartland site in Freeport which is a brown field site that has received federal money from the environmental protection agency to make a property more safe and less of an eyesore.
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Two academic year program options are available at the University of Belgrano: the Courses with Locals in Multiple Disciplines program (Academic Year 3) and the Latin American Studies program (Academic Year 2). The Courses with Locals in Multiple Disciplines program offers courses at an advanced Spanish language level and the opportunity to take classes with local students. The courses are taught by Argentine faculty. The Latin American Studies program offers courses taught in English as well as in Spanish at the intermediate and advanced language levels, and the courses are held with other international students.
The UADE (Universidad Argentina de la Empresa) Business, Hospitality, Design & additional Courses with Locals Academic Year 4 progarm offers select Business courses instructed in English, as well as courses with locals instructed in Spanish in a variety of disciplines, such as Design, Hospitality, Engineering, Business, and Social Sciences. Culinary arts and gastronomy courses with locals instructed in Spanish are also available through the Argentine Institute of Gastronomy for an additional fee.
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The Spanish Language & Latin American Studies summer 4 program at the University of Belgrano allows students at the high intermediate and advanced Spanish language levels to select from Spanish language at the high intermediate or advanced level as well as four upper division survey courses in Latin American Studies. All students enroll in two courses during the five-week program.
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The Intensive Spanish Language Intensive Month program at the Universidad de Belgrano is designed with courses at the beginning, intermediate and advanced language levels, and offers a combination of Spanish grammar, conversation and Argentine culture courses. Classes are taught by Argentine professors and are taken with international students at the Universidad de Belgrano. This intensive course focuses on language acquisition for students with limited time abroad.
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I spent the past weekend in Florida, attending training for ACS career volunteers. One of the talks I attended was on writing resumes. Much of the discussion was things I've told people over and over:
Tailor each resume to the position for which you are applying
Create an objective even if you choose not to include it on the final version
Focus on skills and specific accomplishments
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However, when you're trying to transition into a new field, you have to write a resume that highlights your skills in the new area, and they may not have been the major focus of your current position. The best way to do this is to include accomplishments that prove that you have already done things that are exactly what they are looking for, or at least very close. Sometimes, this means you have to include things from various points in your career, maybe some from previous jobs, or from volunteer work.
If you are making a significant change, you probably want to use a functional resume, instead of a chronological format. In this format, you list your accomplishments in categories, instead under the job at which you did them. Here's an example of a chronological format:
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Company B, 2002-2005
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prepared 5 patents
Company C, 1997-2002
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– presented 4 talks at international conferences
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prepared 5 patents
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Synthetic Organic Chemistry
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ran 300 NMRs
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Just by organizing the information in a different way, you make it abundantly clear that you have significant experience as a technical communicator and synthetic organic chemist, even if some of your accomplishments come from jobs you had a long time ago. This is a great way to bring out all the experience you've had that's related to a particular field, no matter where you got it. If you do choose to list your accomplishments in a functional format, you will need to include an employment history – a list of company names, job titles, and the dates you worked there – but this can go on the second page.


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Displaying the Rubáiyát in Miniature
The Ransom Center's exhibition The Persian Sensation: The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám in the West explores how a translation of a Persian poem went from obscurity to celebrity in British and American culture.
One manifestation of the Rubáiyát's popularity was the publication of dozens of miniature editions, 29 of which have been included in the exhibition. Exhibition Services staff member Sonja Reid and Curator of British and American Literature and exhibition co-curator Molly Schwartzburg discuss their collaborative project to create an effective display for these compelling artifacts.
MOLLY SCHWARTZBURG: I'm Molly Schwartzburg. I'm Curator of British and American Literature at the Ransom Center and am one of the co-curators of The Persian Sensation: The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám in the West
SONJA REID: I'm Sonja Reid, and I work in the exhibition preparation services division.
MOLLY SCHWARTZBURG: The Rubáiyát exhibition was really fun to put together, partly because the Rubáiyát was such a huge collecting phenomenon in the early twentieth century.
As I was in the initial stages of looking through the collection, I noticed that there were a lot of miniature books in the stacks. We actually have a miniature book collection where many of these items come from, and I saw that there were 40 or 50 miniature books, including two books that were, at one point, the smallest book in the world.
There were so many miniature books that I thought, "Well, could we put them all in the exhibition?" And so I went to the exhibits prep staff and started asking questions about what we could do to put as many of these in the exhibition as possible. And working in conjunction with Sonja, we were able to put together what is definitely one of the most popular parts of the show. You turn a corner, and all of the sudden, you're faced with 29 little tiny books all in a cabinet, which give you a feel for how huge this phenomenon was and how many people wanted to have a special little Rubáiyát.
SONJA REID: When Molly came and talked to me about the display that she wanted to do for this, the image that came up in both of our minds was a Victorian butterfly collection, how they're all on pins and how it shows a variety of them—just showing them all together as a unit of items. And the first thing I thought of when she was showing me all of them was, "Gosh, we've got to make these supports look as invisible as possible. And the way that we usually mount books when we're putting them into a wall case like this is to use Plexiglass, and we shape and polish and bend it to each specific book. But it's about 3/16 of an inch thick, which sounds really, really small, but next to many of these books, that would be as thick as some of the books were.
So, I started to think about the polyester film, which we call Mylar that I could use to form supports that would be much less obtrusive. But as I was folding them, I found that the Mylar becomes almost a little bit puffy.
It folds over, but it doesn't hold a crease perfectly. So, in order to get it to lie down more, the conservation department recently got an ultrasonic welder.
And so I used that welder to basically weld the two sheets of Mylar together so then the Mylar would be more solid and we wouldn't be using adhesive, which could potentially get onto the books and damage them.
MOLLY SCHWARTZBURG: Selecting items is followed by what's called an assessment, and that's a meeting the curators, the conservators, and the exhibits prep staff where we decide what items are going to go into the show. That's a meeting where we decide, as a group, what items can go into the show in the first place—some items are too delicate to display—and how they can be displayed.
I had gone through with my co-curator, Michelle Kaiserlian, and chosen the selection of the books that we wanted to have open. Now, if we had had all of the miniature books closed, it would be very easy, but having them open required creating special mounts for them, which Sonja ended up doing for us. So, at the assessment, the conservators ended up looking at each of the books we wanted to have open, determined how far open we could have the book based on the strength of its spine and health of its spine and how it was bound, and then after that, everything gets whisked off to the exhibits prep room where it sits and waits for it to be mounted.
We realized quickly that many of the books needed to be lifted up off the surface of the case. Otherwise, they would look too flat, too shallow. But if they were lifted off, placed on top of something, they would look as though they were floating in the air, and there would be a depth and energy to the cabinet.
SONJA REID: So, I had mounted all of the books onto an insert that fits into the wall cases that are installed in the gallery. And so I could do the installation under good lighting conditions and then bring it down on a cart and then lift up the entire insert and fit it in. And it's pretty easy, but of course, you want to make sure when it's 29 items and you're slipping it in there, that it's on well. But it worked on the first try.
MOLLY SCHWARTZBURG: Did it look the way you thought it would?
SONJA REID: It did! Actually it looked great, but at the same time, I'd spent so much time working on the supports—and even though I know that I want them to be invisible—it was actually disappoint that I couldn't see any of them.
MOLLY SCHWARTZBURG: And it really has had the effect we wanted it to. People walk into that section of the gallery, and it's like a magnet. They can't help it. They have to go look at the miniature books.


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Distressed dolphin rescued near Copano fishing pier
CORPUS CHRISTI - A bottlenose dolphin, entangled in fishing gear since late August, is swimming free.
The dolphin, known as Pilgrim, had been seen at night near the Copano fishing pier near Rockport with a mangled mess of fishing line and lures attached to its tail.
Officials with the Texas Marine Mammal Stranding Network had been trying to find Pilgrim during the day to cut the lines, but had no luck finding the dolphin, said Heidi Whitehead, state operations coordinator.
So they let the dolphin come to them.
"It was more than an effort from the stranding network," Whitehead said.
The public who fished on the pier called in reports, she said.
Because of those reports the stranding network officials knew the mammal showed up at the pier almost every night.
Usually, a rescue effort in a case like Pilgrim's would have required a large net, but at night that isn't a safe option, Whitehead said. But officials knew they couldn't wait to find Pilgrim during the day because the dolphin started appearing thin, likely because of the weighted gear limited the use of its tail.
So on Tuesday night, they waited at the pier. When Pilgrim swam up, they got in the water. Pilgrim soon approached a rescuer, who held the mammal. Rescuers assessed its health. Then Whitehead cut off the fishing gear, a large entangled mass of lead weights, fishing lures, hooks, beads and steel wire, seaweed and a decomposing fish.
"It definitely feels good to be able to help him out," she said.
Witnesses reported Thursday that the dolphin was swimming with renewed vigor.
"I hope he stays out of trouble," she said. "We will have to monitor him."
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By Sgt. 1st Class Doug Sample, USAAmerican Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, Sept. 8, 2004 Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz said today that the target of terrorism is not so much America, but freedom itself.
At a daylong conference sponsored by the Rand Corp. that addressed steps to deal with the war on terrorism, Wolfowitz told Rand terrorism experts that the Sept. 11 attacks were a "wake-up call" for the United States. He called the deaths of more than 3,000 Americans and foreign citizens "cold-blooded murder."
"We learned in one shattering and horrific attack that evil remains on the loose," he said, adding that "the target is freedom itself."
Wolfowitz said that winning the war on terrorism will mean "sowing the seeds of hope and expanding the appeal of freedom in the Muslim world."
During his speech, the deputy secretary referred to four basic principles that must guide the U.S. strategy in combating terrorism.
First, the U.S. must realize that the struggle against terrorism will be a long struggle. Terrorism is "not something we will win in three years, or eight years, or perhaps even decades," he said. "But we will win, even though victory will probably not be marked by anything so dramatic as a signing ceremony on the USS Missouri or the collapse of the Berlin Wall."
Second, the U.S. must use all the instruments of its national power, including military force, against terrorists.
Next, the war on terrorism must be waged in multiple theaters, including in the United States. "We need to sequence our efforts so that we focus our energies in the right places at the right time," Wolfowitz pointed out.
Finally, the struggle against terrorism is ideological as well as physical. "We must do more than simply kill and capture terrorists," he said.
Quoting President Bush, the deputy secretary said the United States must work to build "a just and peaceful world beyond the war on terror and particularly in the Muslim world, so that we can offer a vision of life and hope and freedom to counter the terrorist vision of tyranny and death and despair."
Wolfowitz noted that the war on terrorism will be a "long and determined" campaign, "one that will use all the resources of the United States to win." He added that the United States will not stop until the terrorist networks are destroyed.
The deputy secretary also thanked U.S. service members for their roles in helping win the war on terrorism. He said because of their actions, 50 million people in Afghanistan and Iraq have been freed from brutal tyranny.
"Afghanistan and Iraq are one their way to becoming America's U.S. allies in the fight for freedom," he noted.
During the conference Rand researchers presented findings of their research on several terrorism-related topics, from how terrorists think to how to defend against a suicidal terrorist.
Other topics included curbing al-Qaeda recruitment, preventing terrorist use of nuclear weapons, and applying lessons learned in fighting terrorism in Iraq.


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Does Jen Graves, Stranger reporter, have a point that Vancouver art is connected to the larger world, and, therefore, to universes of issues, peculiarities, styles, and ideas that serve the artists as well as the audiences, and that Vancouver art is connected to its own art history? [Read More]
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The Children's Aid Society Chorus
The Children's Aid Chorus Program is in its thirteenth year of bringing together children from all over New York City in song. Any child aged 5-18 who enjoys the challenge and fulfillment of singing with others is invited to join. Chorus participants practice and perform a mixture of classical, popular and world music with artistry. Through the process, they experience personal, musical and social growth. The Chorus encourages intercultural awareness as members come from many ethnic, cultural and socio-economic backgrounds.
Performance is an essential part of Children's Aid's elite Chorus, the CAS Chorus, and the young singers in these groups have performed with legendary mezzo-soprano Marilyn Horne, and Broadway star Donna Murphy and have performed on NBC's Today Show, the CBS Early Morning Show, and Good Day New York, as well as many other exciting events. Previous cities visited by the Children's Aid Chorus include Chicago, Atlanta, San Juan, Hershey, PA, and Toronto, Canada. High praise has been received for their performances at such historic locations as Gracie Mansion, The Morgan Library and Museum and the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel.
Most recently, members of the Chamber Chorus appeared with John Bolton (star of "Curtains" on Broadway) at the Rainbow Room in Rockefeller Center and sang along with Patti Labelle at ADA's Step Out to Fight Diabetes Walk Concert at the South Street Seaport. The Chorus also took part in a memorial concert on the steps of the New York Public Library honoring those who lost their lives on September 11, 2001.
The Children's Aid Chorus has sung for many dignitaries including Secretary of State Colin Powell, New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani and basketball legend Shaquille O'Neal. Choristers have collaborated with composers including Neal Kirkwood and Jacob Groff and are in their tenth year of an ambitious commissioning program entitled "Future Songs of the City." Ensembles meet in Greenwich Village, the Upper East Side, and East and West Harlem.
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Wild food market planned for Carrboro
Ever thought of eating a stinging nettle? How about a dandelion? Maybe some lamb's quarters?
They're not exactly in abundant supply at the local grocer, and heaven only knows, eating stinging nettles sounds like one crazy idea.
But Jenny Schnaack and Josh Lev are organizing a wild food market to be on the first Sunday of each month at the Carrboro Town Commons beginning in March and running through November. Their plan calls for participants to educate people about wild foods and offer edible wild plants, mushrooms and herbs for sale.
Schnaak, development director for The Abundance Foundation in Pittsboro, gave a presentation to the Carrboro Board of Aldermen Tuesday asking for permission to hold the market at the Town Commons at 301 West Main Street.
"They've decided to support us in holding the market," Schnaak said Friday. "The first one will be on March 10 from 1 to 4 p.m."
Schnaak and Lev, founder of the Carrboro Herb Guild, got together to talk about a wild food market and learned about Alan Muskat and the wild food market he is starting in Asheville this spring.
"Josh and I were like, 'Wow. This is going to be the first market in the United States,'" Schnaak said. "Why not get one going in the Piedmont?"
Carrboro seems like an ideal place because so many people are interested in wild foods and mushrooms, but not everyone has time to wander through woods and fields learning the identities of edible wild plants, medicinal herbs or mushrooms, Schnaak said.
They'll be able to buy what they need at the market, and if they do want to learn the art of identifying and cooking wild plants and mushrooms, they can connect at the market with people willing to teach them.
Schnaak told the aldermen that only people experienced at identifying and cooking wild foods and mushrooms will be able to sell at the market.
"We're not going to take people who took a weekend workshop and think they know what they're doing," she said.
"We hope to have 20 to 25 tables at the market," she said.
"We hope that others will see this as a really exciting place to visit and not only buy the products but learn more about the ingredients and buy it from the person who found it and picked it," Schnaak said.
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As Matthew Stubbing waves his arms and punches the air in front of the green screen, the muscular character across from him copies his movements.
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Lake County high schoolers have the opportunity to become "not just users of technology, but creators of technology," said Joe Judge, who teaches the video game programming course at Lake County High Schools Technology Campus.


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By Army Master Sgt. Bob HaskellSpecial to American Forces Press Service
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y., April 30, 2008 The Army Physical Fitness Test would be a lot more demanding if "Sgt. Ken" was in charge. It would, in his world, gauge soldiers' ability to do a lot more than perform a mandatory number of push-ups and sit-ups in two minutes and run two miles within a required time. The test would determine soldiers' fitness for combat, if Sgt. Ken had his way.
"We need to be focused on physical conditioning for combat, not just the APFT. The battlefield is no place for those who fatigue quickly," Sgt. Ken told the Army and Air National Guard's state enlisted leaders here in mid-April.
"Sgt. Ken" is Staff Sgt. Kenneth Weichert of the Tennessee Army National Guard. He has gone to war in Southwest Asia twice: during Operation Desert Storm as an active Army soldier in the early 1990s and again during Operation Iraqi Freedom as a California Army Guard soldier in 2003-04.
He is 41, and he may best be known in Guard circles as the fitness guru for GX (Guard Experience) magazine. That magazine, which focuses on Army Guard soldiers, has included his feature, "Start Fitness," for the past three years. He is now the monthly publication's co-editor for health and fitness. He also has created workouts in video, audio and print products as the fitness director for AmericanSoldier.com. He has, in short, become the 21st century's Jack LaLanne for the Army Guard.
Weichert enlisted in the Army in 1988 and then joined the Louisiana Army Guard in 1992 after serving during Desert Storm. He was a traditional soldier and full-time recruiting and retention NCO with the California Guard from 1997-2007 before transferring to Tennessee to join the IOSTUDIO team that publishes GX in Nashville. He has been a master fitness trainer since 1993 and has trained servicemembers and civilians for nearly 20 years.
The man who was partially paralyzed for four weeks from a football injury during his senior year in high school has made physical fitness his lifestyle and career.
Weichert is as much showman as he is a soldier. He has a Schwarzenegger-like body. He is polished and outgoing in word and manner. He has studied theater at Drake University and the University of Southwestern Louisiana. He was clearly the celebrity at the National Guard Bureau's first Senior Enlisted Leaders Conference here April 18-21. He barked encouraging commands, sang inspirational songs and counted cadence like a seasoned drill sergeant during nonstop, half-hour morning workouts that were not for the faint of heart.
He attended the conference, however, not to promote himself but to promote physical fitness among Guardmembers who could find themselves in combat during the global war on terrorism or engaged with wildfires or floods in this country.
Command Sgt. Maj. David Ray Hudson, the National Guard Bureau's senior enlisted leader and the driving force behind the first-of-its-kind conference, acknowledged that his emphasis on fitness was Weichert's most important contribution.
Soldiers should train as if they are athletes year-round to be physically fit for those challenges, Weichert told the state command sergeants major and the command chief master sergeants. Combat, he observed, requires a lot of upper body strength. An infantryman should be able carry a 160-pound person in full combat gear on his back for 30 meters, as if he were carrying his injured buddy to a landing zone, Weichert said.
Guard soldiers should be able to sidestroke the length of an Olympic pool in full uniform, holding a rifle above the water, to be fit enough to swim across a flooded river. They also should be prepared to hit a hill in full gear to help fight the wildfires that scorch sections of this country from March through October.
Push-ups, tummy crunches, pull-ups, marches with full rucksacks, and swimming in uniform are the drills that Sgt. Ken advocates for those who must be prepared to support their state or defend their country during crises. And the traditional troops who are not inclined to exercise have to be encouraged to work out during the 28 days of most months when they are not in uniform. "We have to 'think smart, not hard' about ways to stay in shape," Weichert said.
"They don't call out the Guard when things are going good. They call us out when things have gone bad," he observed. "We have to be ready -- mentally and physically. Fatigue makes cowards of us all."
(Army Master Sgt. Bob Haskell is assigned to the National Guard Bureau.)


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Money center banking giant JPMorgan Chase (NYSE:JPM) reported full-year earnings on Friday that finally exceeded the profits it reported in 2006. It is on pace to exceeding 2007 earnings levels in the coming year and completing what has been a difficult five-year period for all major banks in the country. At current share price levels, further upside potential is somewhat limited, but so is downside risk.
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Total bank revenues climbed 6% to $26.7 billion. Business units with notable strength include investment banking, which competes with pure-play rivals including Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS) and Morgan Stanley (NYSE:MS) and reported a top-line increase of 26% to $6.2 billion as debt underwriting and general advisory work jumped in the double digits. Commercial banking saw a 15% revenue improvement to $1.6 billion while retail financial services and asset management grew in the double digits as well. The credit card group continued to struggle and saw sales fall 18% to $4.2 billion, though the net charge off rate continued to fall and decreased to 7.08%. Rival American Express (NYSE:AXP) has also reported a big drop off in the charge off rate, and reported a rate of 5.1% during its most recent third quarter.
Provisions for credit losses fell sharply from last year's quarter, dropping 66% to $3 billion as bad loans in the financial services, card services and commercial banking continued to fall. Mortgage delinquencies also declined. Overall, net income jumped 47% to $4.8 billion, or $1.12 per diluted share.
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Total annual revenues fell 4% to $104.8 billion, but credit loss provisions fell 57% to $16.6 billion and helped push net income up by 48% to $17.4 billion, or $3.96 per diluted share.
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Fourth-quarter book value came in at just over $43 per share. The share price rise after the favorable financial release has pushed the stock to a slight premium to book value. For the year, return on equity (ROE) reached 10% and returned to double-digit levels last seen in 2007.
It's reasonable to assume that ROE stays around the 10% range for the foreseeable future. This implies earnings of $4.30 per share and places the earnings multiple at about 10. Over the past decade, JPMorgan has been able to grow book value in the high single digits annually, so it's also reasonable to assume that the stock price will grow in this range going forward. Shareholders will also see a return of a dividend payment and could see double-digit total returns over the next few years. Overall, the bank represents a relatively safe way to gain exposure to the financial services industry as it recovers from the credit crisis. Rival Bank of America (NYSE:BAC) has more potential upside potential, but comes with a great deal more of uncertainty. (For related information, take a look at Analyzing A Bank's Financial Statements.)
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New UAF program draws young artists into science
Artists and scientists often share a common goal: making the invisible visible. Yet artistically talented students, especially girls, often shy away from scientific careers.
A new four-year program led by the University of Alaska Fairbanks blends the art, biology and physics of color into a series of summer academies, science cafes and activity kits designed to inspire art-interested students to enter careers in science.
"Research suggests that girls who gravitate toward art often have strong visual-spatial abilities that would serve them well in science careers," said Laura Conner, project leader and director of outreach for the UAF College of Natural Science and Mathematics. "If you can connect them to science at an age when their own larger identity is developing, it's more likely that their interest in science will continue through life."
The program, "Project STEAM: Integrating art with science to build science identities among girls," is a collaboration among Conner, a biologist, an astronomer and optics education expert at the National Optical Astronomy Observatory in Tucson, an education researcher at the University of Washington, Bothell and a curator-artist at the UA Museum of the North. It is funded by a $1.2 million grant from the National Science Foundation.
"Art and science both require passion, judgment, creativity and a willingness to understand previous ways of doing something as a basis for innovation," said Stephen Pompea from NOAO.
Conner and her collaborators will offer two-week, nonresidential summer academies and a series of science cafes in both Fairbanks and Tucson, Ariz., each year from 2013 to 2016.
"During the Colors of Nature academies we will explore color from the macro to the nano scale," said Conner. "The girls might start with a butterfly – something at the macro scale – and investigate why it has the colors it does. At the micro scale, we would look at the scales on butterfly wings to see how the colors are formed and experiment with mixing pigments and painting. At the nanoscale, we would investigate technological applications and create nanostructures that interact with light and create varied colors."
The STEAM science cafes will be informal and highly interactive events featuring female scientists whose research blends art and science. The program's target audience is sixth to eighth graders, however, parents, teachers, youth leaders and members of the public are encouraged to come to the free presentations. "Parents who meet women in creative, rewarding scientific careers are more likely to encourage their daughters to enter science," Conner said.
Project leaders estimate they will reach 220 girls through the summer academies, 120 teachers through professional development workshops, 10,000 K-12 students through kits the project is developing and more than 6,000 parents, girls and other community members through the science cafes.
The application process for students interested in the Colors of Nature academy begins in early 2013. Contact Laura Conner at email@example.com to be placed on the mailing list for information about applying to the academies and for the science cafe schedule.
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ON THE WEB: www.uaf.edu/cnsm-outreach
NOTE TO EDITORS: Reporters only: Laura Conner can be reached via mobile at 907-460-7714.
Project STEAM: Integrating art with science to build science identities in girls is funded by the National Science Foundation, Division of Research on Learning in Formal and Informal Settings. NOAO is operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc. under cooperative agreement with the National Science Foundation.
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I am very interested in your planned program on integrating art with science. Please add me to your list of contacts for potential participants in your program. My career has included both science and art. I was a geologist in Alaska and Scotland for 17 years, and now I am a teacher in New Hampshire. I have taught physics, math and geography, but my current primary role is as an art teacher for a school of 140 students. I am always looking for ways to combine math, science, history, etc. with art. In addition, I am the parent of and artistic 8th grade girl who shows a lot of promise in mathematics and science.
I look forward to hearing more about your program.
Ra Eldredge
259 Windy Row
Peterborough, NH 03458


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MADISON - Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen today announced a $90.8 million settlement with multinational Swiss bank, UBS AG, as part of an ongoing nationwide investigation conducted by state Attorneys General and federal agencies of alleged anticompetitive and fraudulent conduct in the municipal bond derivatives industry. Pursuant to the Settlement Agreement, UBS has agreed to pay $63.3 million in restitution to state agencies, municipalities, school districts and not-for-profit entities nationwide that entered into municipal derivative contracts with UBS, or used UBS as its broker for such transactions between 2001 and 2004. In addition, UBS agreed to pay a $2.5 million civil penalty and $5 million in fees and costs of the investigation to the settling states. The State settlement also provides that UBS will pay $20 million in restitution directly to certain other government and not-for-profit entities as part of a separate settlement it entered into today with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
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Municipal bond derivatives are contracts that tax-exempt issuers use to reinvest the proceeds of bond offerings until the funds are needed, or to hedge interest rate risk. In 2008, a group of states began an investigation of allegations that certain large financial institutions, including national banks and insurance companies, and certain brokers and swap advisors, engaged in various schemes to rig bids and commit other deceptive, unfair and fraudulent conduct in the municipal bond derivatives market.
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SALEM, ORE. -- Willamette University hosted National Girls & Women In Sport Day on Saturday, Feb. 20, in conjunction with the women's basketball game versus Pacific University. The Salem Swish, a youth girls basketball team from Salem, joined fifteen Willamette female student-athletes for a night of fun.
During the game, members of the Salem Swish team sat with current female Bearcat athletes to watch the action. At halftime, Willamette female student-athletes from all sports joined the Salem Swish on the court for a shoot around. The youth team enjoyed the opportunity to show off their skills during several games of bump.
"It was great for the young girls to interact with our student-athletes and learn about sports they may not have been introduced to previously. It was also good to see them show their stuff out on the court," commented Leslie Shevlin, head swimming coach and organizer of the event. "For our student-athletes, it was a good reminder of one of the reasons they do what they do, to set a good example."
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He was born January 14, 1927, in Weeksbury, Ky.
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He retired from the former Norfolk and Western Railroad Company in Norfolk, Va., and was an engineer for 40 years. He was a Navy Veteran, Seaman First Class, and served in World War II. He was a former member of the Teamsters Union and a member of the former Adams County Garden Club.
Memorial Contributions may be made to American Lung Association, 4050 Executive Park Drive, Suite 402, Cincinnati, OH 45241.
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The trade deadline is now less than 48 hours away and the Dodgers are still looking for another bat and an upgrade to their rotation. An additional bat should be the priority, but the Dodgers seem intent on securing an arm instead. Either way, what are the rumors today? —– Remember that Ryan Dempster thing? Well, it's still going on. ... Read More »
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Jon Heyman of CBS Sports reports that the Dodgers rejected a deal of Ryan Dempster for Allen Webster. The Cubs offered to send Ryan Dempster to his preferred Dodgers straight up for solid right-handed pitching prospect Allen Webster, but the Dodgers have rejected the offer. The issue seems to be this: The Dodgers don't appear to love Dempster quite as ... Read More »
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Dodgers Correct To Show Interest In Chase Headley
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As with most clubs, the Winter Meetings have been busy for the Dodgers, but while other teams are pursuing impact players, the Dodgers are busy trying to identify the clean garbage at the massive dump. Ned Colletti revealed that he is looking to upgrade through trade with a position player and would be willing to listen on a reliever. Dodgers ... Read More »
Ned Colletti Is Looking For A Veteran Reliever, We're All Gonna Die…
Ken Gurnick of MLB.com reports that Ned Colletti is still looking for a starter, reliever, and utility infielder. All that's left on his frugal shopping list is an affordable replacement in the starting rotation for Hiroki Kuroda, a utility infielder like Jerry Hairston Jr. and a veteran, versatile, durable reliever. I already took a look at the potential starters and ... Read More »


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agree with the postives..
i thought the game management was fine.
Fins tried to run on the last 2 drives and were getting about 3 yds...... the biggest plays on the last 2 drives were on passing plays... (pass interference 16 yards, and defensive holding.)
overall i thought it was well balanced-- run and pass.... both daniel and reggie averaged less than 3 yds per carry...so i think they needed to pass the ball to get the first downs to try and close the game.
i wont blame philbin for clays mistake of going out of bounds..... if anything put that on his positions coach...but that really just falls on the player....
no problem for me on the 53 fg....... the drive before Carpenter hit from 46... and 3 more points puts the game into 2 TD range for the bengals...you want to punt from their 35 yd yard line and try to pin them inside the 10.... ok...i get it.. touchback nets 15 yards... on the road... try to get your points..
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i like that fact that Tannehill didnt turn the ball over.......
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"I have some concerns about this legislation," said Rep. Bryan Holloway (Rockingham, Stokes), who moved to put the bill, titled 'Open Enrollment/Home School Pilot,' on hold so that members of the Joint Legislative Program Evaluation Oversight Committee could spend more time discussing its provisions and talking with local superintendents about the plan's logistics. The bill was first put forth by a subcommittee chaired by Sen. Fletcher Hartsell (R-Cabarrus, Union).
The open enrollment legislation would require local school districts to establish an open enrollment policy so that parents of students could apply to send their children to any school within a local school district, or even to a school in another district, if that local board approves. The law, which is largely based on Colorado's Public Schools of Choice Act, would take effect for the 2015-16 school year.


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[private]This week we have an interview with cartoonist Dave Kellett, creator of Sheldon, co-host of the Webcomics Weekly podcast, and co-author of the new book How To Make Webcomics. We talk for a bit about his creative process, some of the thoughts behind his work, and the new book.
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