| Teachers brace for possibility of layoff notices
Arnold Schwarzenegger's proposed budget in January, which featured cuts of $4.4 billion from K-12 public education for 2008-09 and $360 million this current fiscal year. Statewide, about 5,000 teachers so far are expected to receive layoff notices, according to Mike Myslinski, spokesman for the California Teachers Association in Burlingame. "It's likely to go much higher" as March 15 approaches. Districts have until May 15 to rescind some of those notices, he said. In 2003, during the last major period of state fiscal turmoil, 20,000 teachers got pink slips, he said. However, fewer than 3,000 were actually laid off. "But the damage had been done," Myslinski said. "People who get pink slips start looking for other jobs." Also, laying off instructors and rehiring them at a later time can disrupt "the bond between teachers and students," he said.
Another Look At The 'Does File Sharing Equal Stealing?' Question
The music has value, but I just got it for free, without the permission of the record label. I go see "Shakespeare in the Park." I get to see something of great value for free, without permission of William Shakespeare. Verizon sees that Sprint is going to announce an "all you can eat plan" and decides to introduce its own similar plan. Verizon got that idea for a bundle from Sprint for "free" and certainly without Sprint's permission. Yet, we call that competition, not stealing. You can come up with your own examples. Now I'm sure people will start picking apart each of these examples. They'll say things like in the pizza/soda example, the pizza shop has implicit permission to resell the soda at any price they deem reasonable, since they paid for it in the first place. But, if that's the case, then we have another problem for those who claim that copyright is real property -- because the same thing isn't true with copyrighted material.
'SNL' features 'Juno' star
Vince Vaughn and Luke Wilson also star. "Secondhand Lions" (2003), 7-9 p.m., CBS. A boy (Haley Joel Osment) is dumped off at the dusty ranch of his great-uncles. Gradually, they describe an adventurous past. The story starts sleepily, but it is salvaged by Robert Duvall and Michael Caine as the uncles. "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit," 8 p.m., NBC. In a rerun, fertilized embryos have been stolen. "Torchwood," 8 p.m., BBC America. In the 45-year history of "Doctor Who," the Martha Jones character is one of the smartest colleagues. She's a real doctor (played by Freema Agyeman), working with The Doctor; now she crosses into this companion series. There's a sinister medical-testing center with Alan Dale ("Ugly Betty," "24") in charge; Martha goes undercover, in the first of her three "Torchwood" episodes.
Military in a dilemma
During the last two days the troops killed at least 16 Tiger cadres in six confrontations along the Muhamalai FDL. On Friday troops at the Kilali defence lines, retaliated a small arm and mortar fire by the LTTE around 11.45 a.m. killing at least 2-3 LTTE cadres. One soldier was critically injured in the incident and was taken to Palali Base Hospital. Later, the soldier succumbed to his injuries. Separately in the same area, army snipers shot two LTTE cadres who had been stalking towards the Security Forces' FDL on the same morning. At Muhamalai FDL, four LTTE cadres were killed in two separate clashes broke out on Friday morning between 9.45 a.m. to 10.45 a.m. when troops detected and attacked at a group of terrorists ahead of the FDL. Two LTTE cadres were killed in this incident.
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