| Board approves service plan for HVAC system
The Forrest City School Board on Monday agreed to enter into a contract with a local company to try and ensure that the new HVAC system at the high school works properly. Following some discussion on the matter, the districts board agreed unanimously to a one-year maintenance contract with Store Services Inc., of Forrest City for a base price of $6,480. The contract requires SSI to perform quarterly maintenance on the system. Board member Ernestine Weaver was absent. The other bidder was Mohr Heating and Air Conditioning of Wynne. Architect Dave Hodges, who works with the school district on the HVAC system, explained to the board that a separate maintenance contract, in his opinion, would benefit the district. Basically, you would hire someone to get really familiar with the system and to check quarterly to make sure everything is working properly, said Hodges.
Actress Patty Hearst And Her French Bulldog Win Award At Westminster ...
In town from Florida to root for her friend's Australian shepherd, she was startled to learn who was standing a few feet away. "You're kidding. Is she the Patty Hearst?" McGavic asked. "Showing dogs at Westminster, who knew?" Shaw has been working with dogs for three years, and her first trip to Westminster was well worth it. Her prize, with a champion's name of Shann's Legally Blonde, earned a red ribbon as Best of Opposite Sex — a male dog won the breed, and hers was judged the top female. "It's overwhelming," she said. Shaw said the ribbon would probably decorate one of the swords that her husband collects. The gold medallion, that one is hers to keep. "It's like winning a gold medal at the Olympics. Or would this be a silver?" she said.
Boy--Casualties of the Gender War
The current theories (now coming into question) of the inferior treatment of girls in the schools were, in the main, authored and promoted by Harvard's Carol Gilligan, whose papers, written between 1982 and 1990, were followed by a cascade of articles written by popular writers embracing Gilligan's assertions. At the same time as the Gilligan studies were being published and re-published, a study at the University of Michigan was showing that between 86 and 88% of the students (male and female) were happy, and unaware of the "accelerating downward spiral" cited by Gilligan and her colleagues.v,vi,vii Newer studies (1995-98) are beginning to cast more doubt on Gilligan's research. Even Gilligan has expressed some new ideas which seem to modify her previous position, and she more recently (1996) stated the "boys show a high incidence of depression, out-of-control behavior, learning disorders, even allergies and stuttering".
How a 5-foot waterboy at Texas became a football icon
The powder blue '95 Oldsmobile heads down Guadalupe Street, slightly above the speed limit, air conditioner full blast. The driver, 78-year-old William E. " Rooster " Andrews , has been animatedly telling stories for nearly four hours, first in his Rooster Andrews Sporting Goods office, then during lunch at Trudy's Café. But now, during a late-afternoon errand, his distinct and, yes, rooster -like, scratchy voice takes on a reflective tone. .
Finger pointing over bond insurer crisis
Leading the witness list was New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer, who told lawmakers that the cascading financial woes facing troubled bond insurers "threaten serious problems well beyond" Wall Street. "The problems in this market will affect many average Americans," Spitzer said. "It will affect the cost of college loans. It will affect museum budgets. It will affect state and local taxes." Executives from bond insurance firms Ambac (ABK) and MBIA (MBI) also testified before the House Financial Services Committee panel. The hearing was marked by finger-pointing - with the bond insurers themselves, insurance regulators and short-selling investors who bet on the insurers' fates among those targeted for blame. Meanwhile, Moody's Investors Services announced Thursday that it had downgraded bond insurer FGIC to 'A3' from 'AAA.' Moody's cited the company's weakened capital position and its exposure to the mortgage market.
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