We want to make the field aware that over the next several days,
the COABE 2006 Conference website (http://www.coabe06.org/)
may periodically go down for varying periods of time due to the
effects of Hurricane Rita. The site will likely be down entirely
over the weekend.

Texas A&M University, where the COABE website is housed on
a TCALL Web server, is directly in the projected path of the storm.
Even though we're 150 miles inland from Galveston, this is one
big storm.


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Harriet Vardiman Smith
Clearinghouse Director
Texas Center for the Advancement of Literacy & Learning
State Partner in the National LINCS System
Texas A&M University
800-441-READ
website:  www-tcall.tamu.edu
main office email:  tcall at coe.tamu.edu


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