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3A NEWSAT^e | Thursday, April 26, 2007 The Arecivo mag netic scrapbooking system highlighted ^ on “Everyday Edisons’’on PBS. Arccivo is a portfo lio-shaped case that opens like a book and creates a two- sided work surface for designing lay outs. May is new report target BOUNCING BRAIN PRODUCTIONS Mothers of invention Continued from page 1A Biogen Idee. “We talked about wouldn't it be cool to have something that would leave the scrapping in place until you come back to it. The solution; a portfolio shaped case opens like a book and creates a two- sided work surface for designing layouts. Magnetic sheets cover the work - pho tos, newspaper clippings and aD - and lock them into place. The case also has a zipper that further protects the scraps from failing out during transport. "Everyone either has had an idea for a new product or knows someone who has invented something,” said Michael Cable, executive producer and host of “Everyday Edisons." "We hope to show the world that you don’t have to be a rock et scientist to have a great idea.” Mance met LaValley and Hester five years ago through their children's school. What brought them together is scrapbooking, a $1.3 billion dollar industry that, should Arccivo prove successful, could prove rev olutionary - and profitable. "Everyday Edisons” invests in each product from design and development to the patent process and market ing. The inventors are paid an annuity over 20 years - the lifespan of a patent, which Mance, LaValley and Hester share. “Having a great idea and making money from a great idea are two distinct events," said Louis Foreman, executive produc er and lead judge on “Everyday Edisons." “If you can dream it, we can help make it come true." What makes "Everyday Edisons" different from other reality programs is the there’s no direct competi tion. The goal shows that are ing," Mance said. "This show actually chronicles the invention. It walks you through the process of how the product makes it to the (store) shelf.” Mance isn’t sure if she has an inventive streak. After "Everyday Edisons,” howev er, she understands the pos sibility of turning an idea into a product. "That's where the ideas come from - ordinary peo ple thinking about new things," she said. “If another Continued from page 1A The Post, which first reported the allegations last August, also obtained a copy of the CMS student attendance procedures training booklet, revised in August 2006, which is used for ■ training registrars for enrollment and attendance procedures at the beginning of every school year. While there is a detailed section on students who withdraw before or within the first days of the school year, there is little information on dropouts. The procedure for withdrawals states; "Students should be with drawn from your school on a timely basis under the fol lowing circumstances: • parent request • request from another CMS school • written request from schools outside of CMS • Reassignment or approved Transfer Request; the school will have received written notification from the Student Placement Office. If you wish to check to see if a request is legiti mate, contact the Student Placement Office” The only section that focuses on dropouts is what should be in their folder when it is sent to Student Records for permanent stor age. In addition, absence rules for North Carolina and CMS are outlined in detail, including a copy of the letter that should be delivered to parents warning them of excessive unexcused absences and the possibility of prosecution through the courts. The number of absences have been in ques tion for some Myers Park dropouts; however, only one parent who interview with the media acknowl edged receiving information that their student had missed excessive days. Though most responsibili ty has been placed on the the registrar, situations where behavior is involved, withdrawal or discipline codes can only be entered by discipline school staff. That procedure is the same for a student returning from being withdrawn to an alter native school. Should a student be cor rectly coded as just a dropout, not a student that has transferred to another school or out of state, which is what has been alleged, then Gibson must change the code for re-admittance to school. t I I i .!!' fSidiCii ' ** iflff***** ma£.a * * * Cs!i!Wflfl.a»V5F5*i*tel«K mitm HBCUs affected by Va. massacre By Sakita Holley, Phillip Lucas, Cara Anthony and Lerone Graham BLACK COLLEGE WIRE Christina Burton, a sophomore at Howard University, had yet to contact her cousin, a student at Virginia Tech. Burton attempted to call Trisha Ford, a 20- year-old sophomore, three times* after the mass murder Monday on VT’s campus. "That afternoon, 50 faculty, students and staff members assembled on the Howard Yard under a gray and rainy sky to reflect and pray for the slain members of the Virginia Tech community. Burton was one of mainy at the vigil. Her cousin’s situation made it personal and emotionally taxing. At Tennessee State, Thea Boatswain said she had retison to believe that two of the 33 dead had been her high school classmates. "I am still freaking out,” said Boatswain, an agriculture science major from Fairfax, Va. "1 am trying to call people, but they are not answering their phones.” The shootings prompted Howard to strict ly enforce its requirement that students show identification as they enter residence halls, President Patrick Swygert said. “I want people to understand that safety is very important,” Swygert said. He added that there would be more campus police, and they will be more visible on campus. There will also be an increase in the presence of District of Columbia police on campus. Please see HBCUS/8A 1443 E. Seventh Street Suite 212 Charlotte, NC 28204 Use tear entry of T R Thawing Realty www.ca.s,sandrasaiteration!>.com Phone: 7(M-644-7132 Cellular Voice Mail: 704-201-7288 Afforiiable Pricesi sUouict/your modkef he^choien/ Ciiaclotte #os(t 2007 Mother of the Year? 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