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Chiles High team wins Astronaut Challenge
Chiles High School edged out five other teams en route to the school's first victory in the second annual Florida Student Astronaut Challenge over the weekend at the Tallahassee Automobile Museum.
Almost 200 students from 30 schools tried to qualify for the state level of the competition, which tests the students' knowledge of science, technology, engineering and math. The challenges focused on space-shuttle operations, including landing a space shuttle "Enterprise" flight simulator.
Chiles received medals, tickets to Universal Studios-Orlando and an invitation to tour the Kennedy Space Center for winning the competition.
Lincoln High School takes second at Mock Trial Championship
Lincoln High School's trial team placed second in the Mock Trial Championship in Orlando. The competition is a chance for students to simulate roles of attorneys and witnesses in a mock trial scenario after five months of preparation. Lincoln was the only school from Tallahassee to place in the top five. American Heritage School (Plantation) won the competition.
College reps to visit Leon High
Representatives from the University of Alabama, the University of North Florida and Mississippi State University will visit Leon High School on Wednesday. Mississippi State University is one of two schools in Mississippi that are offering full ride scholarships to students who will commit to teach in a Mississippi public school after graduation.
Bill would expand supply assistance for teachers
Today a Florida House panel will take up a bill to expand state assistance for teachers buying classroom supplies for their students. The bill would replace the existing Florida Teachers Lead Program with the Classroom Supply Assistance Program. It would allow school boards and charter schools to issue special debit cards for teachers to purchase school supplies.
HB 1033 by Rep. Erik Fresen, R-Miami, would also encourage local boards and the state Department of Education to enter agreements with private companies to stretch the donations further. The effort is a priority of Gov. Rick Scott, who proposed giving every Florida teacher a $250 debit card to purchase supplies. The bill would not decide the level of state funding for the program, which would be set in the state budget. The Choice & Innovation Subcommittee is scheduled to vote on the bill during its 1 p.m. meeting in Room 306 of the House Office Building.
House aims to ease class-size limits
A Florida House bill would ease class-size requirements placed on Florida public schools. Voters in 2002 approved a constitutional amendment that placed caps on the number of students allowed in each core class. The limits range from 18 students per class in kindergarten through third grade to 25 students per class in high school.
Right now, the state calculates compliance with class-size limits on a classroom by classroom basis. Under HB 189, the limits would be calculated using school-wide averages - the same standard that applies to charter schools. The House Education Appropriations Subcommittee has scheduled a vote on the bill, as well as an update on the class-size requirements, at 9 a.m. today in Room 17 of the House Office Building.
The bill is sponsored by Reps. George Moraitis, R-Fort Lauderdale and Shevrin Jones, D-West Park. Sen. Bill Montford, D-Tallahassee, is sponsoring a companion bill in the Senate.


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Brittany Dalton holds a Bachelor of Science in Psychology and a Master's of Arts degree in professional counseling at Liberty University.
Brittany has a passion for helping people experience healing and positive change in their lives through redemptive relationship. As she serves, Brittany recognizes that any and all work is ultimately for the glory of the Lord, and she strives to consistently rely on His strength. Therefore, she strives to remember Psalm 73:26 which states, "My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever."


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Ruidoso Patrol Officer Joseph Bailey observed a vehicle traveling 10 miles an hour over the posted speed limit at 11:32 p.m. April 20 on Grindstone Drive.
When Bailey stopped the vehicle, the driver identified herself as Elisha Bearshield, 33, of Mescalero. She said she did not have her driver's license with her. Bailey told her to wait while he checked with dispatch. Dispatch advised Bearshield's driver's license was suspended with an arrest clause and there was a warrant for her arrest for residential burglary.
As Bailey approached the car, Bearshield put it in drive and sped off, turning on Drooping Juniper Drive. Bailey checked the area but was unable to locate the vehicle.
Deputy District Attorney John Sugg approved charging Bearshield with resisting, evading or obstructing an officer, driving while license revoked for DWI, careless driving and speeding. Magistrate Judge Lorena LaMay signed a warrant for Bearshield's arrest.
Off the air
Ruidoso Patrol Officer Curtis Rodgers responded to the 400 block of High Loop at 9:50 p.m. April 28 for a report of a larceny.
The victim said she was watching television at about 9:45 p.m. when it went off the air. She went outside to check on the satellite dish, which she said the deer sometimes brush and knock off the air. When she approached the location of the satellite dish she found it was gone and the wires cut. It was mounted on a pole outside the residence.
On deck
Hatcher received found property from a woman who said she found something that did not belong to her while cleaning her deck April 29.
The woman said she had no idea how long the three-wheeled scooter had been on the deck. It was placed in found property at the police department.
Good call
Ruidoso Patrol Cpl. Steve Corbin met with a resident about found property April 29.
The man said he had had been at Dollar General on Mechem Drive and when he returned to his vehicle there was a cell phone on the seat of his car. He turned it in to Corbin at the police department.
Corbin contacted the owner and she came to the police department and claimed the phone. She said she suffers from seizures and had one the previous day. She remembered getting in to a car that was not hers but did not know what she did with the cell phone.
Scratch and claw
Ruidoso Patrol Officer Roger Hatcher responded to the 100 block of Tonto April 29 for a domestic standby. A husband and wife had gotten into an argument the previous evening and she had kicked him out of the house.
The husband reported the wife had slashed the tires and scratched the word "jerk" onto the hood of his truck, according to Hatcher's report.
The husband declined to press charges.
Motherly love
Ruidoso Downs Patrol Cpl. Christopher Rupp responded to the 100 block of Highlands at 5:22 p.m. April 30 for a report of a domestic dispute.
The victim said she had gotten into an argument with her daughter about the daughter dating the mother's ex-boyfriend. The daughter, Benisha A. Shanta, 21, allegedly pulled the mother's hair, scratched her and tried to bite her during the argument. The mother said she held the daughter down and called 911.
Shanta had left the residence.
Ruidoso Downs dispatch notified Rupp at 7:56 p.m. that Shanta wanted to turn herself in and was walking down Pine Springs toward U.S. Highway 70. Rupp located her and arrested her on seven warrants and charged Shanta with battery against a household member, assault against a household member, interference with communication and criminal damage to property.
The warrants were all for traffic violations and driving without a driver's license.
Take the money
Hatcher responded to the 200 block of Camelot for a report of a domestic situation April 30.
After interviewing the victim and a witness, Hatcher arrested James M. Wood, 57, for battery against a household member.
Hatcher reported Wood appeared to be intoxicated and the victim said he had been drinking and was drunk for over a week. The couple argued over her taking money from his wallet so he could not buy any more alcoholic beverages. Wood allegedly grabbed the woman by the arms and pushed her out of the apartment and into a wall.
Mutiny on la bounty
Ruidoso officers Neal Cox and Steve Minner responded to a Midtown restaurant at 1:36 a.m. May 2 for a report of a male taking a female's keys and refusing to return them.
Cox spoke to the female, who was sitting in the car, while Minner followed the male as he walked away from the car, staggering, according to Minner.
The male, identified when he was arrested as Brad Labounty, 35,was uncooperative with the officers and refused to give the officers the keys to the vehicle. The vehicle was registered to the female.
While talking to Minner, Labounty allegedly stepped forward in an aggressive manner and got in Minner's face. Minner reported he thought Labounty was going to hit him so he grabbed his left hand and pushed him backwards to take Labounty to the ground.
Once Minner had Labounty handcuffed, he noticed blood on Labounty's forehead and had an ambulance respond. Labounty refused any medical assistance.
Minner booked Labounty on a charge of assault on a peace officer.
Fleeing, not far
Ruidoso Downs Patrol Officer Tim Winrow responded to a report of a domestic incident in the 100 block of West View at 8:33 p.m. May 2.
On the way to the call, Winrow was advised that the male had left in a red Buick. Winrow spotted a red Buick going west on Park Lane and watched as it went off the roadway onto the gravel and came back on the roadway. Winrow stopped the vehicle and arrested David Sanchez, 56, after testing him for sobriety.
At the Ruidoso Downs Police Department Winrow told Sanchez that he had to perform a breathalyzer test, under New Mexico law. Sanchez reportedly stated "hell no," and told Winrow to do what he had to do. Winrow charged Sanchez with aggravated DWI and failure to maintain lane.


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Cardinals offense feast ends with trip to Prairie View
After gorging at the plate in its last four games, the Eudora Cardinal softball team hit a run shortage in two losses Tuesday.
Eudora played Louisburg and Prairie View and struggled to get the offensive output displayed last week.
Game one saw the Cardinals lose to the Buffalos 8-1 in a game that was marred by five Cardinal errors in a seven-run fifth inning.
"We committed those errors late, and it cost us," coach Cara Kimberlin said. "When the wheels fell off, they really fell off."
The game was close until that doomed fifth inning. But the Cardinals had their chances throughout the match.
In the early innings, freshman Mackenzie Salzman tripled for the Cardinals, which gave them a runner at first and no one out. Unfortunately a bunt attempt by sophomore Caitlyn Riser failed to score Salzman and instead led to a double play, which wiped out the scoring opportunity.
"That was how our night went," Kimberlin said. "We go from a runner on third and no one out, to nobody on and two outs."
But for all of the opportunities that didn't pan out, it was the effort that was most troubling to the head coach.
"We played like we didn't want to be there," Kimberlin said. "We weren't focused and just played like we didn't care."
Kelsey Epperson went two-for-two in the game.
The second game saw the Cardinals fall to the Louisburg Wildcats 5-2.
In previous games, Eudora set the tone early. This time the Wildcats obliged by scoring their leadoff hitter in the first and letting the Cardinals know what the tempo would be.
"I knew that if they scored their leadoff runner we would be in trouble," Kimberlin said.
The Cardinals got down 3-0 but managed to claw their way back to a 3-2 deficit before allowing two more Louisburg runs in the sixth.
The Cardinals displayed an uncharacteristic lack of discipline at the plate, which played into the Wildcats' plans.
"We're frozen at the plate," Kimberlin said. "We weren't aggressive, and that forced us to swing at the pitches that they wanted us to."
Eudora fell to 6-8 on the year.
The squad climbed all the way back to the .500 mark on Thursday with a pair of wins over the Central Heights Vikings (10-0, 13-2).
The Cardinals came up with 23 runs in the doubleheader sweep behind an all-around team effort on offense.
"It's either feast or famine with us," Kimberlin said. "We just swung the bats well."
In game one, the Cardinals jumped on the Vikings with four runs in the first inning, which allowed junior left-hander Karen Spence to settle in and go the distance for Eudora and gain a 10-0 victory.
Senior catcher Alissa Hamilton went two-for-three, including two RBI's. Sophomore Beth Folks also went two-for-three with a double and a triple.
In game two, the Cardinals saved the big innings for last as they cruised to a 13-2 victory and their fifth in six games.
Eudora grabbed a 1-0 lead in the first inning and held it until the third when the offense came to life once again.
The Cards extended their slim margin with three runs in the fourth for a 4-0 lead.
The offense wasn't done yet, however as the next three innings saw Eudora put nine runs across the plate to put a close game far out of reach.
Riser got the win for the Cardinals.
Shortstop Michelle Deluna went three-for-five, while third baseman Epperson was two-for-three.
The Cardinals face Anderson County and Baldwin Thursday at Eudora High School. Th first game begins at 4:30 p.m.
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It might come from a pair of free throws.
Perhaps it will be a layup from the low blocks.
With either of those, Meg Dahlman will etch her name in Marist College lore on Friday. Just two points at Loyola will make Dahlman the school's 13th player ever to score 1,000 points in her collegiate career since the Red Foxes began Division I play. ...


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Recertification and continuing education requirements encourage arborists to stay abreast of new industry developments and techniques. Doing so helps to maintain high standards for the certification program. Certification is granted for three years. At the end of the three-year period, all credential holders must recertify. Recertification is a two-part process: Continuing Education Units (CEUs) must be obtained, and the recertification fee must be paid. If you do not recertify through the CEU process you must retest in order to maintain the certification.
CEUs required for each ISA certification:
- Certified Arborist: 30 CEUs
- Utility Specialist: 6 Utility CEUs + 30 Arborist CEUs = 36 Total
- Municipal Specialist: 12 Municipal CEUs + 30 Arborist CEUs = 42 Total
- Tree Worker/Climber Specialist & Aerial Lift Specialist: 15 CEUs
- Board Certified Master Arborist: 60 CEUs (20 in each area of science, practice, & management)
- CEUs must be obtained over the three-year certification period.
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Solid Wood: All About Chopping, Drying and Stacking Wood and the Soul of Wood-Burning This best selling book by Lars Mytting highlights a passion for firewood and inspired a TV program in Norway about cutting, stacking and burning firewood. The TV program, on the topic of firewood, consisted mostly of people in parkas chatting and chopping in the woods and then eight hours of a fire burning in a fireplace. Yet no sooner had it begun, on prime time on Friday night, than the angry responses cam... read more »


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Milwaukee, March 30 2010 – Symmetry is pleased to announce their participation in the SAPHIRE NOW and the ASUG Annual Conference 2011 in Orlando, Florida from May 15-18. Symmetry has a long association with ASUG and strongly supports peer based knowledge sharing initiatives in the SAP community.
The following line up of educational sessions will be presented by Symmetry staff and customers at the 2011 ASUG Annual Conference.The sessions include tips and tricks for better managing your SAP environment and upcoming projects as well as insight into successful customer projects.
The Symmetry team will aslo be available in Booth #2322c before and after sessions to answer questions.
Creative Strategies for Doing More with Less: How to Get the Most from Internal Upgrade Project Teams and External Consultants
Dan Wilhelms – Symmetry Corporation
May 16 2011 3:00PM - May 16 2011 4:00PM
Session Code: 1604
How to be a Security and SOD Expert when it's not your full-time job
Mike Ayers – Powell Electronics, Scott Goolik – Symmetry Corporation
May 18 2011 2:00PM - May 18 2011 2:45PM
Session Code: 2512
Heterogeneous Migrations: Louisville Slugger Case Study
Jared Powell – Hillerich & Bradsby Co., Spencer Matthews – Symmetry Corporation
May 17 2011, 2:15PM - 3:15PM
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Great Results for a Small Team with a Big Project
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The Outreach Center offers a variety of educational programs throughout the year intended to help people draw connections between environmental quality and their own quality of life. We recognize that individual behaviors, while 'small', can have big impacts on community well-being, environmental quality and human health. By providing rich learning experiences for adults, we empower individuals with knowledge necessary to make decisions that have a positive impact on society. The Outreach Center engages URI faculty, staff and volunteers and community educators to share their knowledge on the latest gardening, environmental and wellness trends through our seasonal Garden Schools. Our Wellness Retreats build off the Garden School educational model and include hands-on learning experiences and wellness activities, including but not limited to yoga, hiking, birding, meditation and music. Our Garden Schools and Wellness Retreats are offered on the URI campus in Kingston and at the Roger Williams Park Botanical Center in Providence. Both programs are designed for a range of experience levels and interests (i.e. gardening, nature, wellness) and taught by URI faculty, staff and volunteers and community educators. These day-long sessions include topics ranging from native plants to growing food to garden design.
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More than a third of Coachella Valley council members significantly cut their travel spending to state and national conferences in the past two fiscal years, The Desert Sun found in a review of city expenses. Only 11 increased their spending. Most stayed about the same.
The decreases coincided with Gov. Jerry Brown and the Legislature eliminating redevelopment districts, which sent cities into a financial tailspin. No longer able to use the millions of dollars to pay for new roads and buildings, they had to tap into general funds, and in many cases, cut staff and services to make up the difference.
Ever since the state of California told us what it was going to do with RDA funds and what we were going to have to do with our employees travel for the city of Indian Wells has radically, radically diminished, said Councilman Patrick Mullany, who used to frequent League of California Cities conferences in San Francisco or other pricey hotel markets. Were not buying computers. Were not buying toys.
(RELATED: Cathedral City Councilman Greg Pettis spent $92,000 using a city-backed credit card)
Mullanys expenses dropped from $2,607 in fiscal year 2010-11 to $1,587 in 2011-12, the time when the city laid off five staffers and reduced salaries and benefits for the rest.
He has not claimed any travel expenses in fiscal 2013, which began last July 1. According to city records, Indian Wells spent $3,807 on City Council travel this fiscal year between July 1 and April 15, compared to $5,517 during fiscal 2011-12.
Cathedral City City Councilman Sam Toles has served on two committees since 2011 for the Washington D.C.-based National League of Cities (NLC), which requires a considerable amount of travel to the nations capitol.
But it was a year ago, when the city was putting together a budget that included cutting police and firefighter positions, when he said he stopped expensing hotel stays and meals. The city continues to pay for any airfare and registration costs.
Before then, I didnt know the severity of the situation, Toles said. And its different when you have people standing in front of you, and youre having to do layoffs.
Other council members, however, say that while travel is expensive, the trips cost far less than the money saved or gained by brushing elbows with higher officials.
Coachella Mayor Eduardo Garcia, whose travel expenses jumped from zero in fiscal year 2009-10 to nearly $4,000 in 2011-12, called the loss of redevelopment dollars a double-edged sword.
You must deal with the loss of the revenue, but you need to find other methods of funding infrastructure, he said.
From conferences and lobbying visits, Coachella has secured $60 million to $80 million in grants to fund bridges and other road and utility projects over the next two years, Garcia said, though he couldnt put a percentage on how much of this materialized as a direct result of face-to-face contact.
It all helps, he said.
City-issued cards
Only three cities Cathedral City, Indio and Coachella offer city-issued credit cards to council members. The rest require members to use their own cards and submit receipts for reimbursement.
Behind Cathedral City Councilman Greg Pettis, who spent more than $63,000 on a city-issued credit card in the past three years for travel, is La Quinta City Councilwoman Terry Henderson, who spent about $14,700, and former Desert Hot Springs Councilman Karl Baker, who spent about $14,500.
Most of their expenses stemmed from National League of Cities events in Washington, D.C. Hendersons expenses have dropped off since 2011, when her two-year stint on the NLC board ended.
She remains active and mobile as Riverside Countys representative on the League of California Cities board, which she said is valuable to the entire state.
It isnt about what has it done for La Quinta, or in any region like that, she said. You dont ever get a chance to champion a cause that benefits one city or region.
Though the League of California Cities lost its fight to keep redevelopment districts alive, Henderson said, it has won others, including lobbying against statewide Proposition 31, which would have allowed cities to form regional agencies to take over some state agency programs. Sixty percent of voters defeated the measure.
I dont want to be responsible for administering state programs, in tandem with others, Henderson said. Thats the states job.
She said shes found other ways to cut back on costs since the council voted to lay off 22 employees in January.
She took a 15 percent cut on her monthly pay, along with top city managers, and also is declining the stipends she gets for serving on two Coachella Valley Association of Governments committees and the Riverside County Transportation Commission. The small stipends, from $50 to $75 per meeting, came out of the money the city paid in dues to be on the organizations.
Baker said his trips to the National League of Cities paved the way for him to help secure much-needed grant money for Desert Hot Springs from the federal government.
The largest chunk of that was $16 million to build a bridge to alleviate chronic flooding problems along Indian Canyon Drive, he said. But the bridge project is on hold while the city pursues additional funding. Other grant money went into the citys new health and wellness center, which opened in January.
I was able to lobby Congressman Jerry Lewis, and he appropriated about $21 million for the city of Desert Hot Springs, Baker said. I didnt do that all by myself, but I had an influence.
Baker was called out once by a blogger for ordering a grilled cheese sandwich, chips and bottled water from room service at a San Diego conference, which cost $15.
I do walk with a cane, so for me to go downstairs and eat at a restaurant, or take a taxi and go somewhere else, it would have cost just as much, he said.
The taxpayer-funded travels of another former city councilman, Jim Ferguson of Palm Desert, added up to $20,245.95 between August 2008 and July 2009, according to a Desert Sun investigation published in September 2009.
All of the trips were approved by his council colleagues, and most were related to his study of alternative energy. These included a trip to Spain where business-class airfares for Ferguson and his then-wife added up to more than $11,000.
In November 2009, the City Council voted unanimously to follow federal per diem rates for travel reimbursement, replacing language in its travel policy stating that costs should be reasonable and prudent.
Ferguson called the spending during that period a mistake, but lost his November 2010 bid for re-election to political newcomer Jan Harnik, after a heated campaign where the travel expenses were brought up in a mailer sent out shortly before the vote.
Benefits of travel
Palm Desert Mayor Harniks travel expenses also went down considerably during 2011-12, but she said it was mostly due to the location of meetings she would have gone to, anyway.
For example, the Joint Powers Insurance Authority conference, which advises cities on how to reduce liability, happened to be in Indian Wells that year instead of San Francisco or Sacramento.
But she intends to keep traveling to conferences, regardless of the citys loss of redevelopment dollars, which led to the layoff of three employees last year.
You learn so much more sitting next to people that you wouldnt otherwise, she said. A webinar or a conference call just doesnt cut it.
While Harnik was being interviewed, she was talking on her phone hands-free while making a 60-mile drive to Redlands, where she would represent the city as three Girl Scouts from Palm Desert received awards, including one of the highest honors.
And Im going to claim the mileage for that, she said.
Often we focus on our shortcomings, and I think we should celebrate our accomplishments, too.
Leaders from other cities spent money to celebrate, as well.
Indio City Councilwoman Lupe Ramos Watson had about $4,600 in travel expenses in the 2009-10 fiscal year, which fell to $38 for 2011-12.
Watson said that when she was mayor, she traveled to pick up national awards for the citys efforts to combat homelessness.
One of those included a trip to Connecticut as chair of the Coachella Valley Association of Governments homelessness committee, which she said was being studied as a model for regional pushes to provide services and housing to more people.
Having the city of Indio be recognized at a national setting for its work helped raise the citys profile nationwide and gave greater publicity to everyones efforts to fight homelessness, Watson said.
The event also gave a boost to the CVAG committees push to have Roys Desert Resource Center, a Palm Springs homeless shelter, become self-sustaining with the help of a newly established private foundation, after support from cities and the county began to dwindle rapidly, she said.
Some Coachella City Council members attended high-profile events like last years National American Latino Elected and Appointed Officials convention in Orlando, Fla., where presidential candidate Mitt Romney delivered a closely-watched speech on immigration.
Mayor Garcia also was invited to attend a May 2012 World Cultural Economic Forum, which looked at ways for cities to create business through cultural events. He did, at a cost of $1,700.
Garcias audience was disappointed to learn the world-famous Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival is actually held in Indio, but he came armed with statistics on the economic impact of the festival, the White Party and other entertainment-fueled events.
I was able to represent the whole region, Garcia said, adding he met a few people who could provide grants for local cultural groups, too.
Laden with abuse?
Government watchers are split on the idea of local officials leaving town for conferences with counterparts from around the region or country.
JoAnne Spears, executive director of the Sacramento-based Institute for Local Government, said she feels city officials, and by extension the public, can benefit from the exchange of ideas at conferences. She takes part in them herself. Shes also the lead counsel for the League of California Cities.
But you still have to be mindful of spending, especially with city-issued credit cards, she said.
Ive seen that credit cards in particular can lead to abuses. You need to be very careful about who you give credit cards to, she said.
Robert Williams with North Carolina-based Citizens For Good Government, called all such trips boondoggles.
They take away the initiative of newly elected officials to make the changes they were elected to make, he said. I am not aware of anything of positive value to our hometown citizens that arose from one of these events.
His negativity about the trips particularly ones for the League of California Cities is shared by La Quinta resident Linda Gunnett, but for a different reason.
The conferences foster an us against them mentality among city officials, she said.
We think this league is where all the council members go to find support from each other for what they do to us, she said.


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Five reasons I know working in broadcast news has driven me insane
By Travis Mayfield
1. Every single disease I report on, no matter how rare, I believe I have contracted it.
Simple cold symptoms means I have Asbestosis, a fever has me Googling Swine Flu and a momentary lapse in memory has me convinced its early onset Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.
2. I now sleep with my iPhone.
Yes folks it is true. My iPhone is the last thing I touch before I go to sleep and the first thing I grab upon my waking. I have actually forgotten the last day I went without checking Twitter and any app that wants to send me push alerts is an automatic yes.
3. I see a lonely child's tricycle or toy in a yard and instantly assume some horrible crime has befallen that child.
Shooting video for a TV story about a crime against a child you always go to the home and look for evidence a child lived there. So while my narration is talking about the horrible crime, the on screen video shows a single pink bike laying by itself on a brown lawn or a toy truck left precariously on the sidewalk. Watch closely the next time you see a story about a crime against a child, you'll know what I mean. Note to our neighbors, leave toys in your yard and we'll probably never talk to you again as I'll assume you are child killers.
4. I tease things in real life.
It's new, it's fresh, it'll make your taste buds thank you for living. I'm Travis Mayfield and I'll tell you what we're having for dinner after you take out the trash!
5. No matter where in the world I am, I cannot sit down and watch just ONE TV news broadcast at 5:00 p.m., I need to watch three or four simultaneously.
Here at my desk in the newsroom I have a TV that has a four-way split screen so I can watch all the local newscasts at the same time. When I am traveling I plant myself in front of a TV to check out what other locals look, sound and feel like. I get a little nuts, sitting on the hotel bed flipping back and forth to see what everyone's graphic opens look like, what they are teasing, what stories are leading where, what the sets look like and then how they are stacking their shows. To anyone watching me watch all of this, the flipping is so fast it might look like I am staring directly into a strobe light.
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"It was one of things that we thought it probably won't work, but if it did work, it'd be really freaking cool," said Rensink.
Their initial experiments involved a Ouija-playing robot: Participants were told that they were playing with a person in another room via teleconferencing; the robot, they were told, mimicked the movements of the other person. In actuality, the robot's movements simply amplified the participants' motions and the person in the other room was just a ruse, a way to get the participant to think they weren't in control. Participants were asked a series of yes or no, fact-based questions ("Is Buenos Aires the capital of Brazil? Were the 2000 Olympic Games held in Sydney?") and expected to use the Ouija board to answer.
What the team found surprised them: When participants were asked, verbally, to guess the answers to the best of their ability, they were right only around 50 percent of the time, a typical result for guessing. But when they answered using the board, believing that the answers were coming from someplace else, they answered correctly upwards of 65 percent of the time. "It was so dramatic how much better they did on these questions than if they answered to the best of their ability that we were like, 'This is just weird, how could they be that much better?'" recalled Fels. "It was so dramatic we couldn't believe it." The implication was, Fels explained, that one's non-conscious was a lot smarter than anyone knew.
The robot, unfortunately, proved too delicate for further experiments, but the researchers were sufficiently intrigued to pursue further Ouija research. They divined another experiment: This time, rather than a robot, the participant actually played with a real human. At some point, the participant was blindfolded—and the other player, really a confederate, quietly took their hands off the planchette. This meant that the participant believed he or she wasn't alone, enabling the kind of automatic pilot state the researchers were looking for, but still ensuring that the answers could only come from the participant.
It worked. Rensink says, "Some people were complaining about how the other person was moving the planchette around. That was a good sign that we really got this kind of condition that people were convinced that somebody else was there." Their results replicated the findings of the experiment with the robot, that people knew more when they didn't think they were controlling the answers (50 percent accuracy for vocal responses to 65 percent for Ouija responses). They reported their findings in February 2012 issue of Consciousness and Cognition.
"You do much better with the Ouija on questions that you really don't think you know, but actually something inside you does know and the Ouija can help you answer above chance," says Fels.
UBC's experiments show that the Ouija could be a very useful tool in rigorously investigating non-conscious thought processes. "Now that we have some hypotheses in terms of what's going on here, accessing knowledge and cognitive abilities that you don't have conscious awareness of, [the Ouija board] would be an instrument to actually get at that," Fels explains. "Now we can start using it to ask other types of questions."
Those types of questions include how much and what the non-conscious mind knows, how fast it can learn, how it remembers, even how it amuses itself, if it does. This opens up even more avenues of exploration—for example, if there are two or more systems of information processes, which system is more impacted by neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer's? If it impacted the non-conscious earlier, Rensink hypothesizes, indications of the illness could show up in Ouija manipulation, possibly even before being detected in conscious thought.
For the moment, the researchers are working on locking down their findings in a second study and firming up protocol around using the Ouija as a tool. However, they're running up against a problem—funding. "The classic funding agencies don't want to be associated with this, it seems a bit too out there," said Rensink. All the work they've done to date has been volunteer, with Rensink himself paying for some of the experiment's costs. To get around this issue, they're looking to crowd-funding to make up the gap.
Even if they don't succeed, the UBC team has managed to make good on one of the claims of the early Ouija advertisements: The board does offer a link between the known and the unknown. Just not the unknown that everyone wanted to believe it was.


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One of my boys nested two smooth, tall glasses together last night while clearing the dinner table. The top glass became good and stuck inside the bottom glass. These were two of the glasses that I bought from Goodwill recently to make the Roasted Cherry & Sage Cocktail, and I really like them.
I spent some time researching methods of unsticking glassware this morning. The method I came across most frequently was fairly simple.
- Fill a bowl full of hot (but not boiling) water.
- Fill the top glass that is stuck with ice and water.
- Put the two glasses into the bowl of hot water.
- After a few minutes, twist the two glasses and they should come apart.
It worked for America's Test Kitchen, so I hoped it would work for me. It didn't. My glasses stayed stuck. I put the glasses back in for longer – 10 minutes. They were still stuck.
Maybe it was just my particular glasses. They had nested together fairly tightly and there wasn't too much of a difference between the circumference of the bottom of the glass and the top. It looks like in most of the successful videos, the glasses were smooth, but the tops of the glasses were significantly wider than the bottoms of the glasses.
I'm not ready to call this method fiction because I saw it work for people in videos, and I particularly trust that America's Test Kitchens wouldn't fake a video. But I am ready to say that this method doesn't work for all glasses.
The glasses that I had stuck were rather thin, and I became concerned that if I kept attempting to separate them, one or both might break in my hand. I didn't want to leave them around for my boys to try to attempt to pull them apart for the same reason. So I decided to take the loss and throw them in the recycling bin.
When the glasses hit the bottom of the bin, the bottom glass broke, but the top glass stayed intact. In the end, I was able to salvage one of the stuck glasses, but I can't guarantee anyone else would get the same results.
Have you ever successfully separated two nested glasses that were stuck? How did you do it?
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CLIFF >> The Cliff High girls' basketball team won its tourney this past weekend by going 3-0 and improving to 16-1 overall. Academia Juarez placed third, while Cobre was fourth, and Hot Springs was fifth. Animas took sixth.
"I thought we really played well," head coach Clay Means said. "Our bench is getting stronger, and we got a lot of good minutes from them. All of the girls are improving on their roles, and the tourney reflected that."
Cliff beat Academia Juarez in the first round, 56-39.
The Cowgirls got 21 points from Taylor McCauley, while seeing Megan Gregory post 10, and Katie Turner follow, with eight.
Cliff then beat Hot Springs, 65-21.
The Cowgirls led, 12-5, after the first period, and then put up 26 points in the second period, while holding the Lady Tigers to just eight for a 38-13 lead at halftime.
Cliff scored 16 and 11 points respectively in the second half, while holding Hot Springs to four points in each of the third and fourth periods.
Izzy Reed led, with 18 points, while McCauley and Brogan Calloway followed, with eight points apiece. Valerie Overstreet scored seven.
In the championship game, the Cowgirls defeated Lordsburg, 66-45.
Cliff led, 22-11, after the first period. The Cowgirls then added 13 points in the second, while the Lady Mavericks kept pace, with 12. The second half saw the Cowgirls tally 18 and 13 points in each of the third and fourth periods. The Lady Mavericks added seven and 15.
McCauley led, with 22 points, while Gregory followed, with 13, and Reed had 12. Other scoring came from McKenzie Kindle and Lacy Garner, six points apiece; Krista Mayberry, four; Cathy Gutierrez, four; and Katie Turner, one.
Academia Juarez beat Cobre, 69-34, for third place. The Lobos led, 14-2, after the first period, and then outscored the Lady Indians, 19-9, in the second period for a 33-11 halftime lead. Academia added 16 and 20 points in the third and fourth periods, while Cobre couldn't keep pace, with 10 and 13 points, respectively.
Hot Springs beat Animas, 41-26, for fifth place. The Lady Tigers led, 11-2, after the opening stanza, and then outscored the Lady Panthers, 10-8, in the second period for a 21-10 lead at the break. The second half belonged to Hot Springs, putting up 12 and eight points respectively, while Animas tallied nine and seven.
The All-Tournament Team included Jade Massey, Animas; Christa Robinson, Academia; Caroline Robinson, Academia; Limor Johnson, Hot Springs; Marisa Macon, Cobre; Monika Torrez, Cobre; Lala Martinez, Lordsburg; Richae Allen, Lordsburg; Jennifer Gonzales, Lordsburg; Gregory, Cliff; Reed, Cliff; and McCauley, Cliff.
McCauley was also awarded the Heart and Hustle award in memory of Dale and Alice Shock.
Cliff will see action again Friday with a road trip to Bayard for a 5 p.m. meeting with Cobre.
"We've been shooting the ball well, and our defense has been very good," Means said. "We will be getting Aspen Bruton back in about two to three weeks so we need to continue to have other girls fill that role."


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Gloriana has been nominated for 2 CMC Australia Music awards (Australia's version of CMT)! Voting closes at the end of the month and with each vote you are entered to win a trip to the show. I have no idea if it includes USA residents, but try and vote at least once if you can. You can always type in a fake telephone number! Click here or above to vote. They are nominated in the categories below!
CMC International Artist of the Year
CMC International Video of the Year
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Please remember that The Christmas Ranch is in fact a "ranch" and you will encounter areas which are less than ideal as you walk thru the display. We would like to remind you to dress accordingly and that your footwear should reflect the conditions which you may experience.
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My hand is 'driftin' down the front of my pants after seeing those two. God bless the almighty Ho through whom all good things come!
So, I've been watching a lot of Tranny porn lately (the 'why' is my own business) and I swear those girls are straight out of it.
I'd like to be joking, but seriously, sometimes women look like Trannies. OVERDONE!
I'm going to wear the outfit on the left to church on Sunday.
The decimation of that vegetable garden is really messed up.
Here is this little spot of joy in the middle of hell and they take it away.
Life is beautiful.
And Fruit-salad head is funny.
Kimmora Lee got a new modeling gig?
The superficial guy's got a "wirter"? Ew. You can get those frozen off, you know.
now if only they pissed beer, the world would be complete…
It's good to see Daryl Hannah getting some work again.
Actually, IMDB says she's gotten a lot of work in the past few years, but since she hasn't been on my radar screen I'm sticking with my comments.
Those girls are hot – i think i might have to go see the movie just to see them – my bf would be so proud!
i'm so sick of those movies but those girls …….. :)
"Damn! Did you see that car do a Tokyo Drift? That was too furious!" – Lil' Bow Wow as Twinkie in The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift
Actually its only Bowwow now. No more 'Lil' because he grew up into a man. And what a man!
Daryl Hannah is actually not a salad head but a good person doing something about a great cause. South Central Farm is a piece of heaven in the middle of hell and has supplied families with fresh food for years. For more information please go to http://www.southcentralfarmers.com and help save this beautiful garden from becoming a warehouse!
Sir Paul loves the Stump!!
and….in case you forgot–TCLTC!!!
ella did you get my movie invitation???
was heather naked with two legs???
she was a two legger–buck nekked–and lovin' every minute of it….no deer in the headlights look!
no–what invite?
18… i did it on sunday on the jolie tat thread…it was 417…
get back to me…
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The Winchester Division of Olin Corporation issued a product recall last week that targets two lots of .22 Caliber rimfire ammunition. The recall notice states that the cartridges may be loaded with a double powder charge.
The ammunition being recalled are M*22? 22 Long Rifle 40 Grain Black Copper Plated Round Nose rimfire cartridges in boxes bearing Symbol Number: S22LRT. The ammunition lot numbers - GD42L and GD52L - will be imprinted (stamped without ink) on the left tuck flap of the 500-round carton. The 1,000-round intermediate carton does not have a lot number.
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Ryan Reynolds Celebrates Birthday With Blake, Sandra and Burlesque
By Kat Giantis
Ryan Reynolds turned 35 on Sunday, but it was the paparazzi who received a gift: photos, albeit grainy ones, of the actor in the company of rumored squeeze Blake Lively (see below).
The Leonardo DiCaprio-ditching starlet, 24, spent her fourth consecutive weekend in Boston with her "Green Lantern" leading man, who is filming the cop drama "R.I.P.D." in town.
On Saturday morning, the twosome were photographed exiting his apartment and making a beeline for a waiting SUV. Along for the ride: their pooches, Baxter (his) and Penny (hers), who reportedly bonded during one of Blake's previous trips to Beantown.
Later that day, Lively was seen attempting to hoist a heavy, brown-paper-wrapped package during a visit to the "R.I.P.D." set, leading to speculation that she personally delivered Ryan's birthday present.
Snappers also caught the PDA-disposed pair (and their pooches) leaving Reynolds' pad on Sunday morning.
Both stars attempted to dodge the lenses, with Blake styling a floppy hat pulled low over her eyes and Ryan, who perfected his shutterbug-avoidance technique while married to Scarlett Johansson, trying to hide his face behind his leather jacket.
"They are very much a couple," an insider tells People. "They're really happy together."
But an Us Weekly source is not quite as enthusiastic, downplaying, "They're seeing each other casually. Now they're both single and trying it out."
Still, Ryan is apparently serious enough about Blake to introduce her to his longtime friend (and sometime co-star), Sandra Bullock. The trio met up for a group dinner last Thursday in Manhattan, says the New York Post.
"He and Blake were being really cute and affectionate together," relays a spy, who says Lively and Bullock both offered an early birthday toast to Reynolds.
After dinner, the birthday action moved to hot spot The Box, where the passel of pals enjoyed a tongue-in-cheek burlesque act that included an homage to "Deliverance."
"Sandra arrived with the couple and a group, and they watched some of the burlesque performers," says a snitch. "The group had a great time and stayed late. Sandra left with many of the others, leaving Blake and Ryan alone."
Chimes in another onlooker, "Blake and Ryan were sitting downstairs holding hands and had bodyguards with them. They left together at around 2:15 a.m."
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Harrisburg>> Trout stocking is on ice for two weeks.
The stocking of four local streams originally set for Monday, March 3, has been rescheduled due to a buildup of ice and snow, according to Eric Levis, spokesman for the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission.
"The PFBC appreciates volunteers helping with the stocking process, and we rely on that assistance during the busy stocking season," he said.
Up to eight inches of snow is forecast for the region on Sunday into Monday.
The preseason stocking began Feb 25 with stops on East Antietam Creek at Pa. 16 and Falling Spring at Walker Road.
Trout season opens at 8 a.m. March 29 for the region - including Franklin, Adams, Cumberland, Lebanon and York counties. Opening day for most of Pennsylvania, including Fulton County, is April 12.
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We work, socialize and learn on the internet. As the devices and the mediums to do these converge to a single set (your phone, your tablet and work PC are almost the same) it is becoming increasingly clear that we need to manage our time better to get things done.
There are more articles and books than one can count on how to "get things done" or "X habits of successful people". It all comes down to self-discipline. Prioritize and execute, in that order, until the last task standing is down. Reading all this great advice, we beat ourselves up that we lack the disciple to focus. But how can you resist the temptation of curiosity? If you are like me, your hands probably go to the link and you click "open in new tab" just to come to that page little later. By the time you are done reading the article or blog post, you have a burning desire to read the original piece that tempted the author to write the reply you just read.
Yes, the content is there waiting for you in a tab for you to read. "No big deal", you tell yourself. "I will focus on the task at hand and come back to it later in the day". When later in the day comes you already have gone through this a few times and by 3:37pm your browser probably looks like this.
Meanwhile, subconsciously, the buildup of emotional weight of those tabs sitting to be read is actually preventing you from focusing 100% on what you were supposed to do. Eventually you convince yourself that you have "ADD". If you are suffering from "ADD" in this form, try this:
Next time you have an urge to open a link in a "new tab", ask yourself whether or not that link is worth $5. If you start treating your time as a quantifiable, tangible asset, you may end up focusing better on the task at hand. If you need some assistance to tame your tabs, check out this Chrome Plugin called xTab. It limits the number of open tabs to keep you in check.
While you are at it, you can read about Adam Stiles, the guy who invented the tabs!


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The inaugural Winter Youth Olympic Games took place in 2012 in Innsbruck, Austria. The 2016 event will take place Feb. 12-21 in Lillehammer, Norway. The playdown to determine Team USA will take place Nov. 2-8 at curling's National Training Center in Blaine, Minn.
Two curling competitions – a mixed competition with teams of four athletes and international mixed doubles event, which brought together athletes to form international teams of two.
The Youth Olympic Games aims to bring the Olympic ideals closer to young people around the world, and, following the success of the first Summer Youth Olympic Games in Singapore in 2010, the stage was set for the first-ever winter version.
While sports participation is at the heart of the Youth Olympic Games, uniquely, they also aim to allow athletes to step away from their own fields of play and learn something about the culture of competitors from other parts of the world, as well as becoming involved in Olympic-themed education programs.
Altogether 16 mixed curling teams (two junior men and two junior women aged between 16 years and 2 weeks old to 18 years and 2 weeks old at the time of the event) competed at the 2012 event. Countries qualified via a formal qualifying procedure based on performances at the 2011 WCF European Challenge, Pacific and World junior championship events.
USA's Korey Dropkin (far right) won bronze in mixed doubles in 2012.


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A Schuylkill County woman was killed in a one-vehicle crash in Tremont Township, Schuylkill County, Sunday afternoon.
Amanda Minnich, 25, of Donaldson, Frailey Township, was pronounced dead at the scene by Schuylkill County Deputy Coroner Joseph Pothering, state police at Schuylkill Haven said.
A passenger, Amber Smith, 24, of Old Forge Road, Pine Grove, was transported by Tremont ambulance to Hershey Medical Center, where she was in critical condition Monday, a center spokeswoman said.
Minnich's car was traveling south on Route 209 when it slid off the ice-covered roadway about one mile north of Tremont borough and its driver's side struck a tree at 2:50 p.m., police said.
Tremont and Ravine fire companies, Tremont paramedics and Life Flight 5's crew assisted. Pennsylvania Game Commission personnel transported the Life Flight crew from its hangar in Cass Township because the crew could not fly or drive to the scene due to weather conditions.
The Pontiac Sunfire was towed.
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Object Oriented Programming (oop) Tutorial Explains the basics of OOP. [Part-I]
Posted 21 December 2004 - 03:02 AM
Replies To: Object Oriented Programming (oop) Tutorial
Posted 13 January 2005 - 09:54 AM
PART 2 will contain Inheritance and a few advanced concepts of OOP.
Here's the PART-1 Version of the Tutorial.
Attached File(s)
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Number of downloads: 12559
Posted 13 November 2005 - 03:32 AM
Posted 17 January 2006 - 07:04 AM
Sorry for late reply...looks like I should keep an eye on the Tutorials Section too.
Thanks for your appreciation...I makes me write more and more.
Currently I'm writing a tutorial on Recursion...It's going to be real exhaustive and informative.
I hope I'll be able to finish that soon because as I'm writing it, I feel its the best one so far.
Posted 17 January 2006 - 03:10 PM
Though I could be wrong...
Other than that, great tutorial.
Posted 16 March 2006 - 12:48 AM
Jessehk, on 18 Jan, 2006 - 02:32 AM, said:
Though I could be wrong...
Other than that, great tutorial.
no...just a matter of convention and choice...some people stick to that convention...
Posted 25 May 2006 - 02:56 AM
wat does ut signify?????
Posted 25 May 2006 - 10:08 PM
Any number that's suffixed with an 'f' just shows that its expected type is a floating point.
Here are the other Conversion-type characters.
d Integer signed decimal integer
i Integer signed decimal integer
o Integer unsigned octal integer
u Integer unsigned decimal integer
x Integer unsigned hexadecimal int (with a, b, c, d, e, f)
X Integer unsigned hexadecimal int (with A, B, C, D, E, F)
f Floating point signed value of the form [-]dddd.dddd.
e Floating point signed value of the form [-]d.dddd or e
g Floating point signed value in either e or f form, based on given value and precision. Trailing zeros and the decimal point are printed if necessary.
E Floating point Same as e; with E for exponent.
G Floating point Same as g; with E for exponent if e format used
c Character Single character
s String pointer Prints characters until a null-terminator is pressed or precision is reached
% None Prints the % character
n Pointer to int Stores (in the location pointed to by the input argument) a count of the chars written so far.
p Pointer Prints the input argument as a pointer; format depends on which memory model was used. It will be either XXXX:YYYY or YYYY (offset only).
Source : Borland Help
Posted 25 May 2006 - 11:14 PM
Posted 09 September 2006 - 11:32 PM
born2c0de, on 21 Dec, 2004 - 03:02 AM, said:
this is nice tutorial
Posted 12 September 2006 - 02:51 PM
born2c0de, on 21 Dec, 2004 - 03:02 AM, said:
where can i get the PART 2 of this .....????can u send as soon as possible
Posted 12 September 2006 - 09:16 PM
Posted 13 September 2006 - 09:49 AM
And more than that, thanks for reminding me that I have to write the second part of this tutorial. I'm really sorry I totally forgot that I had this pending.
I'll start working on it.
And just in case if somone is already familiar with Inheritance in C++, be sure to check out my Polymorphism Tutorial in the C++ Tutorials Section.
I've even included how the compiler implements polymorphism internally.
Will be back soon with Part-2.
Sorry to keep you guys waiting.
And once again, thanks for reminding me about the second part.
Posted 28 September 2006 - 07:10 AM
I am a little confused by the "void main()".
Shouldn't it be "int main()" for C++?
Not a big issue but good to get people off on the right foot. But not to take away from your great work in putting this together. Thank you again.
The C++ Standard requires that main() returns type int. A program which uses any other return type for main() is technically not Standard C++, although many compilers do not enforce this strictly.
Posted 28 September 2006 - 09:16 AM
Unfortunately at the time of writing this tutorial, I did not realize this. And by the time I did, I was too lazy to change all voids to ints.
Glad to hear that you enjoyed the tutorial.


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The Coastal redwood favors moderate temperature with lots of moisture. They fare especially well in areas of heavy fog, where the soil rarely dries completely. The coastal redwood is the tallest tree on earth, measuring up to 378 feet in height. The Coast Redwood grows best on river flats and stream junctions, where they receive a rich supply of alluvial soil, or silt, deposited there by flood waters.
The Reserve is located about 15 miles east of the town of Comptche. It can also be reached by traveling 13 miles west from Ukiah past Orr's Mineral Hot Springs resort.


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Rainy Spring Day Scrapbooking Ideas
Rain, rain go away. Come again another day… when you're prepped for scrapbooking! Rainy days can be full of bright possibilities so long as you're prepared with scrapbooking supplies. Rather than go out for supplies to occupy your rainy day be ready with some all natural spring time scrapbooking supplies.
Using nature's supplies you can make beautiful mixed media pages with depth and color. Before the sky opens up, get outside and collect materials to make springy scrapbooking pages. Here are a few items to pick up on your nature shopping list:
- Fresh flowers
- Tree blossoms
- Leaves
- Feathers
- Ferns
Once you have everything gathered, press your found items in a heavy book to become scrapbooking accents. Add a dictionary or two for additional weight! There'll be no need to drive to the store in hazardous conditions! All your scrapbooking supplies will be ready for your next scrapbooking project, drying in the home!
Get a matching nature themed scrapbook album for your nature inspired scrapbooking project. What other things can you make into all natural scrapbooking accents?


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Foldit is a revolutionary new computer game enabling you to contribute to important scientific research. This is another awesome combination of technology, distributed problem solving, science education…
Essentially the game works by allowing the person to make some decisions then the computer runs through some processes to determine the result of those decisions. It seems the human insight of what might work provides an advantage to computers trying to calculate solutions on their own. Then the results are compared to the other individuals working on the same protein folding problem and the efforts are ranked.
This level of interaction is very cool. SETI@home, Rosetta@home and the like are useful tools to tap the computing resources of millions on the internet. But the use of human expertise really makes fold.it special. And you can't help but learn by playing. In addition, if you are successful you can gain some scientific credit for your participation in new discoveries.
Related: Expert Foldit Protein Folder, JSnyder – Researchers Launch Online Protein Folding Game – New Approach Builds Better Proteins Inside a Computer – Phun Physics – Protein Knots
The site includes some excellent educational material on proteins and related material. What is a protein:
structure specifies the function of the protein. For example, a protein that breaks down glucose so the cell can use the energy stored in the sugar will have a shape that recognizes the glucose and binds to it (like a lock and key) and chemically reactive amino acids that will react with the glucose and break it down to release the energy.
Proteins are involved in almost all of the processes going on inside your body: they break down food to power your muscles, send signals through your brain that control the body, and transport nutrients through your blood. Many proteins act as enzymes, meaning they catalyze (speed up) chemical reactions that wouldn't take place otherwise. But other proteins power muscle contractions, or act as chemical messages inside the body, or hundreds of other things.


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Fly away,
A Broken Dream.
Away from Earth,
to find it's team.
To redo it's threads,
that are falling apart.
Hoping to repair,
it's Broken Heart.
Watching it fly away,
into the sky.
Letting it find a place,
in the night.
Wishing it would win,
this painful fight.
Feeling is presents,
disappear from Earth.
As sad as we are,
to feel it hurt.
Doing nothing but watch it fly away,
into the blue,
there it stays.
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No. 3-seeded LCHS further illustrated that fact in a 55-48 road win at No. 2-seed Gadsden in the district semifinals on Thursday night.
Earlier in the year, LCHS lost to Gadsden 59-51 on the Panthers home floor, and both teams finished with 5-3 District 3-5A regular-season records. But the outcome was much different on Thursday.
"We just had a great game," said Las Cruces High wing J.T. Romney following the victory. "We can definitely get better."
When asked if the team was playing its best to date in 2014, Romeny responded, "Definitely. For sure."
The Bulldawgs used a strong press defense throughout the contest to force Gadsden into untimely turnovers, which may have been the No. 1 key factor in the contest.
"We knew what their press breaker was going to be, and that's exactly what they did," Romney said. "We were able to execute our press really well, get a bunch of turnovers, possess the ball."
Las Cruces High used that defensive attack and a well-ran offense to jump out to a 16-2 lead after the first quarter.
Typical of the Panthers, they showed tremendous heart and no quit. The score was 26-16 at halftime, and Gadsden would cut the lead to five in the third quarter, only to see the Bulldawgs go ahead 38-27 entering the fourth period.
Twice in the final quarter the Panthers sliced the deficit to seven, although it was the Bulldawgs who found a way to respond.
"The kids played hard, executed the defensive plan, relaxed offensively," said Las Cruces High head coach William Benjamin. "Hit some big free throws. They did a good job finishing."
Las Cruces High did in fact hold a sizeable advantage at the free-throw line: while the Bulldawgs knocked down 18 points from the charity stripe, Gadsden scored just two on the evening, and missed a number of front-end one-and-ones.
"That's a huge difference, when you go the free-throw line and you don't connect. And they did," said Gadsden assistant coach Ken Bailey. "Championship teams, when you get to the line, those are gimmes."
Bailey added of the Bulldawgs, "They played well. They deserved the win tonight."
Malik Woods led the Bulldawgs with 22 points while Michael Uribe added 12. Point guard Anthony Collins scored nine for LCHS.
The Panthers got 19 points from William Contreras and 18 points from Rafael Martinez.
The Bulldawgs won't have to look far for further motivation: Saturday's district championship game will be on the road, against cross-town rival Mayfield.
"Sounds good to me," Benjamin said. "Mayfield-Cruces. That's what it's all about."
Sports Editor Teddy Feinberg can be reached at 575-541-5455


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Michael Galluppi, 5, works on a counting project at Garden Montessori School in Anderson Township.
It's a big year for the Garden Montessori School in Anderson Township.
This is the school's 40th anniversary, and Director Jackie Wofford said she wants to celebrate with all the families who attended Garden Montessori throughout its years.
They're hosting an end-of-year picnic at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, May 29, on the school grounds, which it shares with the Comboni Missionaries, 1318 Nagel Road, behind the post office. ...


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Had a bit of a go on ghosts today and cant help but wonder did s n d used to have the 15-20second countdown invetween rounds? I've always thought it was straight back in but I may be wrong
No. I believe it was Black Ops 2 that first had a pre round timer, but it was 5 seconds, which I didn't mind because I found a lot of peoples shitty internet made the first few seconds really laggy anyways. 15 seconds is outright ridiculous. I'd gladly take a 5 second round timer and a round ending killcam over this
always had a little timer not this 10 15 seconds sheet.
It's 5 seconds on BO2, but 15 seconds pre timer is utterly ridiculous. I even almost feel asleep because of it. Please change the timer back to 5 seconds. PLEASE!


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"Bad people cool movies"is the title of a new serie of cinema based logores I would like to collect.
The choise of the stunning shinig "here's johnny!" as the first episode has many different reasons.
First of all Jack Nicholson's acting!The strength of his expression makes him be already perceived as a cartoon.The credits for half of the job go to him. And of course the other half is for Stanley! Enjoy!
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Salem police are looking for the man in this picture in connection with the robbery of a Maps Credit Union about 10 a.m. July 5.
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Salem police are searching for a man who was caught on video robbing the Maps Credit Union at 1900 Hines Street SE just before 10 a.m. today.
The man reportedly walked into the location and handed the teller a note that demanded money. Police said no one reported seeing a weapon, and the man walked out with an undisclosed amount of cash.
He's described as a white male with short messy hair that's dyed a dull green or purple. He wore a dark colored baseball cap, a brightly colored T-shirt, baggie pants and a backpack that might have a peace sign design.
Anyone who recognizes the man or has other information is asked to call Salem Police Detective Corporal Mike Baskett at (503) 540-2463.
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Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
From the director of Chocolat and the Oscar-winning(R) screenwriter of Slumdog Millionaire comes the inspirational comedy Salmon Fishing in the Yemen. When Britain's leading fisheries expert (Ewan McGregor) is approached by a consultant (Emily Blunt) to help realize a sheikh's (Amr Waked) vision of bringing the sport of fly-fishing to the desert, he immediately thinks the project is both absurd and unachievable. But when the Prime Minister's overzealous press secretary (Kristin Scott Thomas) latches on to it as a "good will" story, this unlikely team will put it all on the line and embark on an upstream journey of faith and fish to prove the impossible, possible.
Reviews from Rotten Tomatoes
While both Emily Blunt and Ewan McGregor are enormously appealing actors, Hallstrom has made a movie that pretends it is something it's not -- namely, an intelligent romantic comedy.John Anderson, Newsday, 03.15.2012
A charming little movie.Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic, 03.22.2012
While "Salmon Fishing" fritters away the comic momentum of its madcap opening chapters, it's like angling -- a pleasant diversion if you can look below the surface and muster the patience to appreciate it.Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune, 03.22.2012
As awkward as McGregor's geeky hero and almost as confused as the titular plan, Salmon Fishing is still very likable if you're prepared to take the bait.Anna Smith, Empire Magazine, 04.15.2012


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Cover girl Wanda Curtis might be the most obvious attraction in
this edition of Pierre Woodman's interview and audition series,
but dig deeper for some fascinating features and perhaps the most
heart-breaking of Woodman's always controversial initiations�
First for shaving is an attractive Russian blonde, who gives her
name as Elena, interviewed in the astonishingly far-flung location
of Vladivostok! This 25-year-old is disenchanted with her modelling
school, as it promises much but delivers little, so she is keen
to try out porn but is worried that she isn't up to the task. I
think the highly expressive young lady is telling a few porky pies
here amid some quite extraordinary comments. She's got so much to
say for herself, it's quite an effort for Pierre to actually get
her to strip off and pose as required, which she does with some
assistance from Tania. Her slim form is shown off in a photo shoot
with three guys - it's standard coverage of the posing for the usual
oral, anal, DPs and come shots, but the lively lass seems to have
a fun time, judging by all the laughs.
Interview: Vladivostok, March 1997. Photo shoot: Sex 11
AKA Aniko, this lovely brunette student is fondly remembered in
these parts (no pun intended) for some scenes for Christoph and
Rocco where she performed with a real twinkle in her eye, the kind
of saucy sparkle that's seen here when she reveals her fantasy is
to be with five guys, because the number brings her good luck! That's
one way of thinking about it, I guess. She looks great even with
little make up, and readily strips off to show her super figure.
Unfortunately the two scenes chosen to illustrate her performances
for Private do her little justice, being little more than brief,
edited highlights of a typically vacuous Adamo scenario, and a better
horny nun number from Tanya Hyde. Anal, DP and facials feature but
blink and you'll miss 'em.
Interview: Budapest, April 1998. Sex scenes: Sex Shot, Tanya
Hyde's Twisted Dreams.
& Christelle
Back in time to an interview with two French girls, surely chosen
for novelty value than their looks. Sandrine and Christelle are
identical twins with slim, dare I say, skinny bodies. Their sexual
confessions are unremarkable, apart from the fact that they've only
ever tried a foursome in each other's company. Such salaciousness
propels Pierre's thoughts and instructions during a photo shoot
at an under-construction cliff top villa, but the "did they, didn't
they" vagueness of the coverage makes it hard to say if anything
really outrageous went on. The stills from this shoot are included
among the extra features: does touching tongues count? The usual
moves, however, are all present and correct, with oral, straight
sex and anal for both girls, and a DP for Sandrine�or is it Christelle?
Interview: Budapest, April 1993. Photo shoot: Private 124
Wanda Curtis
Billed as Vanda, Wanda makes her Woodman debut with a mixture of
catty comments about Nikki Anderson, cheeky comments about Viv Thomas,
snooty remarks about other people who perform in porn movies, and
some candid confessions about her aversion to anal after a certain
Jocelyn (who I presume to be the gentleman better known by the initials
J.Y.L.C.) tried to stick it up her ass and caused her to have to
see a doctor for some time after - sounds rather unpleasant, to
be frank. Woodman says Jocelyn isn't always cool. But then again,
some of Wanda's other pronouncements cause Woodman to call her,
however jovially said, a "menteuse", so who knows? Pierre certainly
sneers at her when she feigns shyness.
What's not in doubt is her sheer confidence, lounging on the bed
as if absolutely at home in the spotlight, her short hair, wickedly
flashing dark eyes and pronounced pout giving her the air of a French
film starlet. As Pierre duly notes her figure is superb, and it's
good to see her here in young and natural mode, before she acquired
something of a harsh look, in a clothes shop scene from Woodman's
two part feature That's Life. It's one of those that's completely
superfluous even in its original context, but nonetheless fun to
her slim, wiry body moving on Richard Lengin's cock in some style
as she conquers that anal aversion.
Interview: Budapest, March 1996. Sex scene: That's Life.
By comparison with the outspoken Wanda, this slim and girlish 20-year-old
student teacher appears to have virtually no personality. Her lack
of articulacy means it takes so long to relate her fantasy, Pierre
actually begins to wonder just how perverse it must be if it's so
difficult to discuss. He is to be disappointed, as she merely wishes
to make love by the sea, which, our survey says, is the most popular
fantasy for girls in this series. Justine does have a rather pleasing,
slim figure and a perky little backside, but Pierre and Tania (I
presume) discussing her bad teeth put me off.
In a way, it's actually more interesting to see timid little misses
like Justine being inveigled in Pierre's world of smut because,
to put it bluntly, we never really know how they're going to react
to a good hard shag from a pro stud (in this case, Bob Terminator).
Without wishing to cast aspersions, Wanda Curtis gives you a good
idea of what to expect long before she ever gets her kit off. So
here's Justine sucking cock along with Melanie (Melonia), eating
pussy and taking it in her rear, all under heavy instructions from
Pierre, and doing rather well.
Interview: Budapest, August 1998. Sex scene: Sex Therapy.
Mariann & Timea
AKA Viviann and Soffianne, more twins: it's only after I watch the
following sex scene, from Private Stories 4, that I realise I've
seen them in action. Even allowing for more years than I care to
remember, it is undeniably an incredibly dull scene (directed by
Jane Waters). The sole, fleeting frisson for connoisseurs of such
forbidden treats is in seeing Mariann sucking off the guys (Alberto
Rey and Mike Foster) directly from her sister's nether regions after
a brief DP.
Back to the interview, from which I am surprised Pierre didn't take
a hint given the sullen attitude of Timea, the tan one. Her sister
Mariann is more talkative and lively, though both have crude, unappealing
accents. She seems to agree to everything for work, but usually
Woodman wouldn't be interested in such a businesslike attitude.
No doubt it was the "sisters in sin" kind of deal that sold him.
Interview: Budapest, September 1995. Sex scene: Private Stories
And now to the main event, truly a "rabbit in the headlights" moment,
starring a girl so young and sweet looking they have to check her
passport to make sure she is 18. This has to be one of the most
provocative and highly contentious of Woodman's infamous initiations
that I have seen to date. How young Lyudmilla came to be sitting
in the glare of Pierre's lens is unclear, and the early form is
familiar - she only wants to do fashion type shots, threatens to
storm off and it takes an immense amount of frequently circular
discussion with a girl who makes Khrushchev seem reasonable, judging
by her most frequent response: "Niet, niet, niet".
Unusually, for these interviews, Woodman actually offers payment
while the tape is running, but confusingly his offer of $500 to
allow his assistant to shave her (she is worried that being unshaven
is a problem) is turned down one moment, the next Woodman is naughtily
sneaking a peek into the bathroom where this very activity is taking.
Even more dubiously, Woodman has the camera surreptitiously running
on a tripod even though she refusing permission for as much as a
Polaroid of her nude poses. This, and subsequent discussion leading
to the inevitable seduction, is every bit as queasy as it sounds.
Looking at her big brown eyes and impossibly youthful looks, maybe
I am a sucker but I can only feel this really is a sin.
The translator/assistant departs and Lyudmilla is left in Woodman's
clutches. Amazingly, little Lyudmilla warms to Woodman's advances
- the way her tiny hands stroke him is frankly sickening. I can
assure you it's only through a sense of duty to you, dear reader,
that I continue watching. It's unclear how he explains them away,
but she readily goes on as he pushes her lovely little body into
numerous positions during the usual good, hard shag. She's briefly
talked into a blowjob, before he heartily quips "Take it in your
ass, bitch."
The thing that really takes the biscuit is the aftermath: right
after she's run to the bathroom to wash the come out of her mouth,
she returns to lovingly wipe Pierre's sweaty brow with a towel.
It would make you spew, honestly; don't watch it. The ironic thing
is that she doesn't have any other Private credits so the whole
sorry spectacle would appear to have been in vain (though I am pretty
sure I've seen her in some magazines).
Sabina also failed to go beyond the initial interview in the Private
world, which is in a way more of a shame because she's grown up
and more importantly really, really gorgeous. Her sparking eyes
and sensational smile are just fabulous. Perhaps this incredibly
attractive, vivacious and downright elegant (dyed) red head is just
too good for your filth, Pierre. She works as a hostess at the opera
house, and comments while perusing the Private mags proffered to
her as always that she likes the typography, which is surely a first!
Her strip and poses is, sadly, the end of the line.
I still can't get the thought of Lyudmilla's big brown eyes out
of my head, so my judgement might be a little cloudy. Let's face
it - you want to see these beauties in your adult movies, don't
you? While I am after the sheer escapism as much as anyone, perhaps
it might not be a bad thing if learning a little more about how
girls make it to the screen were to make one feel just a little
uneasy - or like things aren't 100% as they appear to be - and to
encourage viewers to think a little longer about what they're watching.
On the other hand, if you want non-stop, guilt free whacking, look
elsewhere! Still, for a typically frank examination, while not pretending
that this is the whole story for one moment, Castings 34 is compelling
viewing. Besides, where else could you find out Wanda Curtis could
be so bitchy? Meeow!
The old caveat applies - the picture quality for the interviews
is pretty basic, being shot in the most Spartan fashion for what
would initially be reference purposes. The sex scenes are of significantly
better quality, though the on-set stuff from photo shoots is a touch
ropey, as is usually the way in this series. The sound is good enough
for the purpose, and Private stack up the usual bundle of languages,
subtitles, photos and trailers to make a decent package.


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Criteria Comments Rating
- Media support Media support is very low. I know it's going to get better but until then, it's not much of a life changer.
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- Ease of use Ease of use is easy for the user who knows what they're doing but foreign / unintuitive to the ones who don't.
- Design and form factor Compact and hidden! Keeps your TV looking fresh with less cords to hide!
Detailed review
This product is great at what it does but what it doesn't do is kind of huge. It's nice for sending over content from YouTube and Netflix from my phone or PC but it pretty much stops there. In comparison to Apple TV, the media I can send to/from my devices is very limited. Netflix is nice but is on EVERY device already and YouTube is borderline the same category. What I do like, is that I can search the web from my computer or phone and send videos (from YouTube's page or app) to my Chromecast without having to interact with my TV's interface (Chromecast automatically switches my TV input to it) then ignore the app or tab and have my video stream at high quality from the web.
good review!
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2014 Chevrolet Silverado
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Chevrolet is upping the ante in the tug-of-war with Ford over America's favorite vehicles: pickup trucks.
General Motors said Monday that its new Chevy Silverado will get 23 miles per gallon on the highway with a 5.3-liter V-8 engine. That's a little better than similarly-equipped competitors from Ford, Chrysler and Toyota. The new trucks also promise more towing power.
That could help the Silverado get closer to unseating Ford's F-Series trucks, which have been the top-selling vehicles in the U.S. for 30 years. GM sold 575,497 Silverados and GMC Sierras the Silverado's upscale twin last ...


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Apple hires ex-LG OLED display expert
updated 09:35 am EST, Fri February 8, 2013
Suggests Apple interest in OLED panels
Apple has hired a former senior researcher at LG Display, Dr. Jueng-jil Lee, reports say. Lee was reportedly involved in LG's efforts at working on a printed AMOLED TV. Before joining that employer, he is said to have been responsible for development at Cambridge Display Technology (now part of Sumitomo), a company specializing in polymer-based OLED material.
Lee's hire may suggest that Apple is working towards using OLED in one or more of its products. The problem with OLED adoption so far has been cost; the technology has been growing in popularity though, and could be less expensive in the sort of bulk quantities Apple demands. That would be especially important if OLED comes to a rumored Apple TV set, since most OLED TVs are out of the price range of the average shopper.


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Bloomberg Businessweek, By Andrew Clapham
around the world may be compelled to wall off their Internet systems as nations
and companies move to protect sensitive data amid increasing cybercrime and
espionage, Kaspersky Lab Chief Executive Officer Eugene Kaspersky said.
Such a move may slow the development of information-technology projects and
reduce the resources of global Internet companies such as Google Inc., Cisco
Systems Inc. and Juniper Networks Inc., according to Kaspersky, head of
Russia's largest maker of antivirus software.
Cybercrime is increasing and secret documents released by former U.S. National
Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden have heightened technology company
concern about espionage. Some governments and corporations may even scrap
information-technology systems in some cases, moving critical data back to
paper, Kaspersky said. Read more.
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August 10, 2011
A vehicle drives past the "road closed" sign where the west end of Reser Road intersects Cottonwood Road and Howard Street. Prospect Point Elementary School is in background at left. A road construction project which began Tuesday will close the roadway and Fern Avenue to all but local traffic. (Aug. 9, 2011)
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Roads near Wa-Hi close for major overhaul
Fern Avenue will be closed through the end of the month, and Reser Road will shut down for a longer period.
WALLA WALLA -- The start of a major road project Tuesday has closed two roads bordering Walla Walla High School and Prospect Point Elementary School.
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November 29, 2015
A local community received some rather large gifts this morning.
Abbeville received four live oak trees in part of their revitalization plan.
Three of the trees were planted on the east end of the courthouse and the fourth went on the west end, replacing the pecan tree that was damaged from the 2002 tornado.
Henry Co. Probate Judge JoAnn Smith says, "Anything we can do to just make the town look better and I certainly want the courthouse, as custodian of the courthouse you know, I don't want it to be left behind I want it to be cleaned up and look as good as it can."
Town officials say the trees were another step in the right direction to beautifying the city.
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What factors affect the carriage of epinephrine auto-injectors by teenagers?
1 Academic Unit of Clinical and Experimental Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK
2 Department of Information Systems and Computing, Brunel University, Uxbridge, UK
3 University Hospital Southampton Foundation NHS Trust, Southampton, UK
Clinical and Translational Allergy 2012, 2:3 doi:10.1186/2045-7022-2-3Published: 2 February 2012
Teenagers with allergies are at particular risk of severe and fatal reactions, but epinephrine auto-injectors are not always carried as prescribed. We investigated barriers to carriage.
Patients aged 12-18 years old under a specialist allergy clinic, who had previously been prescribed an auto-injector were invited to participate. Semi-structured interviews explored the factors that positively or negatively impacted on carriage.
Twenty teenagers with food or venom allergies were interviewed. Only two patients had used their auto-injector in the community, although several had been treated for severe reactions in hospital. Most teenagers made complex risk assessments to determine whether to carry the auto-injector. Most but not all decisions were rational and were at least partially informed by knowledge. Factors affecting carriage included location, who else would be present, the attitudes of others and physical features of the auto-injector. Teenagers made frequent risk assessments when deciding whether to carry their auto-injectors, and generally wanted to remain safe. Their decisions were complex, multi-faceted and highly individualised.
Rather than aiming for 100% carriage of auto-injectors, which remains an ambitious ideal, personalised education packages should aim to empower teenagers to make and act upon informed risk assessments.


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From Crime Stoppers: On January 27th at about 10:30 a.m., the Taco Bell at 9021 E. 350 Highway in Raytown was held up by two men. No one was injured.
The suspects (photos attached) entered the store about ten minutes before the robbery and asked for water. They then left. They returned and one of the suspects jumped the counter and grabbed a bag of money the manager was preparing for a bank deposit. The suspects then ran out and left the scene in a white car, possibly a Honda.
Anyone recognizing either of these suspects is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 816-474-TIPS. A cash reward is available for information leading to an arrest.