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House Bill 453
The Ohio House of Representatives has passed H.B. 453, which seeks to significantly increase the authority of the Board, and which also creates 2 very short courses on Hair Braiding and Threading. The Bill has now gone to the Senate and, if it also passes that body, will go to Governor Kasich for his signature to make it law.
If you are an Ohio Board of Cosmetology license holder, you should obtain a copy and give it a good read. Much of it is good, some of it, like establishing a 150 hour course for braiding and threading, we feel is questionable. For example:
Good- H.B. 453 would allow the Board to "violate" people who are working without training or a license and, hopefully, put a stop to illegal salons and illegal operators.
The Bravest March
The day broke clear- the temperature would reach a sweltering 87 degrees.
The attack started like a vision of armageddon- 150 cannons continuously firing until ears rang and the air was like heavy fog from the acrid smoke.
Slowly, 6000 men lined up in a mile and a half queue and turned to face the enemy.
Their task was to march shoulder to shoulder across ¾ mile of open field and take a hill infested with thousands of waiting guns.
And so they marched, their chances so bleak that sharpshooters were stationed to shoot any who tried to turn back. They had a long time to think during that march, a very long time to be brave. Half would be killed or wounded.
Pickett's Charge would fail as it must, and General Lee would retreat, having gone as far into the North as the South ever would in that horrible war.
Today, they would try to get back home. The Union troops would not pursue. Finally, rain. Finally, and end to lethal battle and massive death. One must wonder what thoughts they had, marching home, defeated, on the day we celebrate our independence.
Something to think about, 149 years later.
