Vanderhye, a McLean attorney, clarifies: "The problem with is the archiving of the documents. The students are suing because their own essays and papers are added to that same database in the process, violating copyright law. They seek damages from the Californian based compay that exposes those who copy and cheat on their papers by comparing their work "against a database of more than 22 million student papers as well as online sources and electronic archives of journals." Turnitin, a widely used online tool across the nation by public school teachers, is in the defendant's chair as two local Fairfax high school students filed a lawsuit against them this past week in U.S.
#On the rooftop shout it out full#
And then tomorrow, let us appreciate that there still is one by chasing it full stride. Watching those who become animated due to unwanted endings, teaches and reminds that Good steps out from the ashes, bearing the name "Beginnings."įind the good, and let us continue living forward for if we fail to pick our heads up, the one who took the lives of those 32 people, has taken our lives as well. Grief, though wanted to be unique by every individual wallowing in it, is still grief. There is nothing new in death and endings in this world. Or perhaps, I watch instead of speak because their words ring so similar from the past. Such days when everyone is eager to react and react with flare, I find myself sitting back and allowing the many, many suddenly vocal participants to crowd the airwaves, the web, and every vacant corner with their 'many' words.įor what do I have to contribute anything of merit or significance that would actually shift the tide of the great conversation? "Time moves forward" - 0r perhaps, "Tempus Fugit." The world still turns in time around the Sun, and thus the days keep coming with no regard for respite. You can catch the latest here: CollegeMedia Monday, April 16th 2007, a man and his guns killed 32 students and teachers at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia. Hopefully and luckily two things will happen: I think about the seasonal swim of wild ponies across the Assateague Channel to Chincoteague Island.Īnd maybe I'm going all Rachel Carson here, but despite the current conditions of the Potomac these years, I don't like the ideas of a drill station off the coastline of Virginia, just waiting for an accident to happen. Suddenly, I take notice and suddenly I care a great deal.Īll I have to do is picture in my head the spill of Main Alaska's Prince William Sound involving oil tanker Exxon Valdez, and photoshop that imagery against the backdrop of the Chesapeake Bay and Assateague Island. Outer Continental Shelf." This includes Alaska's Bristol Bay, the Gulf of Mexico, and Virginia - my Virginia. Though no drilling would potentially happen until 2011, the Interior Department is about to release a five year plan that involves a " major proposal for expanded oil and natural gas development on the U.S. SOMETIMES YOU ONLY BEGIN TO TAKE NOTICE AND CARE WHEN IT'S CLOSER TO HOME without diving too deep in the metaphysical philosophy that preaches that reality is merely formed by our thoughts and desires, I will spend a few minutes geeking out over the idea that where there is a rock, there is a hero not too far behind. That, and it's not green.īut it does turn pink-orange in fluorescent light. I say "near" because its make-up of 'sodium lithium boron silicate hydroxide lacks fluorine, which would've make it a perfect match to its description in the recent "Superman Returns" film. When analyzing the new mineral's chemical make-up, a near match was found to already exist - in pop culture fiction. And we're not talking the element you find on the periodic table either.Ī mineral has been discovered in a Serbian mine that matches the description of the alien rock that emits radioactive poison affecting certain other-worldly fictional superheroes. Turns out Kryptonite has been discovered. CAN AN ICONIC HERO IN BLUE AND A RED CAPE BE FAR BEHIND?
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