| Program opens eyes to horrors of meth
A Methamphetamine Awareness Program will take place from 7 to 9 p.m. today at Kenai Central High School. Brittany West didn't know what meth was when she first tried it, but as soon as she did, she was hooked. After four months of using it, methamphetamine got West arrested and landed her in the Kenai Peninsula Youth Facility. "I know the side effects," she said. "And I know how it feels to withdraw." Sober for a year, a month and 13 days, West, a senior at Kenai Alternative High School, is this year's Red Ribbon Week chairman and hopes her experience, not only with using a highly addictive drug, but overcoming that addiction, will encourage her peers to shake their own drug habits. "Maybe it might just get them to quit tobacco," she said. In order to come up with ideas for her own project, West will attend tonight's Methamphetamine Awareness Program, sponsored by Marathon Oil and Gas Corporation, at Kenai Central High School today from 7 p.m.
Herenton to reach for school command
So, while mayoral control may not have led significant academic improvements in schools, it hasn't led to declining performance either. In the wake of former Memphis superintendent Carol Johnson's departure, conditions are likely ripe for change, said Kenneth Wong, professor of education and director of urban education policy at Brown University. In 2003, Wong was commissioned the Memphis advocacy group, Partners in Public Education, to study the effectiveness of converting from an elected school board to mayor-appointed one. His research, which included examining a public opinion poll, concluded that doing so could bring much-needed reforms. "The challenge remains," Wong said. "I think it is an important time to revisit Memphis now. I think the governance change in terms of giving greater governance to the mayor remains a viable strategy for Memphis." For most urban mayors, education reform is a matter of reviving their cities, said Jennings with the Center on Education Policy.
Cisco Unified Communications
Don Weiner, Cisco: Thanks, Bobby, it's great to be here. _______________________ Washington, D.C.: What does it take to enable encryption on a Cisco telephony system? Don Weiner, Cisco: A minimum of two eTokens is required, with a list price of $300 each. Two eTokens are required so you will have a backup if one fails, but you can purchase as many as you wish. You register the eTokens once in the administrator client software and from then on need just a single eToken to make changes to the Certificate Trust List a list of trusted servers in the Cisco Communications Manager. _______________________ Houston, Tex.: How big a threat is SPIT to enterprise VoIP systems? Don Weiner, Cisco: SPIT, spam over Internet telephony, is a theoretical threat where malicious users send huge numbers of voice calls like they would send huge numbers of email messages.
Dermatologist gets jail for selling drugs
Paul Caviness said he traded prescription painkillers to feed his addiction. He apologized for letting down his patients. More Philadelphia Suburbs news A former Middletown dermatologist will serve at least two months behind bars for selling prescription painkillers to feed his drug habit. Paul Caviness, 49, was sentenced Friday in Bucks County Court to nine to 23 months in county prison. Judge John Rufe ruled that Caviness must spend the first two months of that sentence at the jail, then four months on work release and the remaining time on house arrest. .
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