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Celebrity Spotlight

Keith Urban will debut his new song “Without You” this morning on Good Morning America. Although it’s one of only three songs Keith didn’t write for his current Get Closer album, it matches his life perfectly. (Audio) “It’s a great song ‘cause I love cars and obviously love guitars. Um, I love… But as the song says, you know, all of these things would be nothing without you. So, it was really… uh, and then the second verse even talks about a baby girl coming along. It’s crazy. It’s just like the most biographical song I never wrote.” Keith took home his fourth Grammy award Sunday night. He won in the Best Male Country Vocal Performance for his song, “’Til Summer Comes Around.”

RIDDLE ME THIS

What do you call a fish without an eye?

A Fish

HOMETOWN HERO’S

HOMETOWN HERO’S are people who serve other people, their community, and take pride in honoring, restoring, preserving, or celebrating an aspect of American hometown life, be it their work, passion, or pastime. Thus, the truest meaning of “HOMETOWN HERO ” is people protecting, defending, caring for or serving others. With that as the background, WHO is a “HOMETOWN HERO ” in your life or the life of others ? E-mail me, dondiego@kgrt.com and let me know who they are. Or call me at 523-KGRT and we can discuss the detials of your HOMETOWN HERO. Some of the greatest “HOMETOWN HERO’S ” in our lives are unknown to the outside world and garner very little, if any, attention. Call today 523-KGRT.

Our Hometown Hero(’s) Today is/are Hector Hernandez
Hector Hernandez is a New Mexico and world history teacher at Las Cruces High School. He has taught there for four years, but has more than 20 years of teaching experience. Hector has a bachelor's degree in criminal justice and a master's degree in education. He also has 12 years of experience in law enforcement and eight years of experience with the U.S. Marine Corps.
What does he do in his spare time?
He is an inspirational faith speaker, giving presentation in the U.S. and abroad. He also participates in the Marine Corps League by assisting and supporting veterans from all services.
He philosophy as a teacher?
I believe that all students are endowed with special and unique talents, abilities and skills. Each student is well able to learn and succeed in school and in life in general.

Hector Hernandez is/are our Hometown Hero Today and we salute you.

This Is Nuts

In a coordinated nationwide raid, federal agents have arrested 111 doctors, nurses and physical therapists on charges of bilking Medicare out of over $225 million in bogus charges. The arrestees include a podiatrist who charged taxpayers for $700,000 worth of "partial toenail removals," which the feds say basically means clipping nails; and a Brooklyn proctologist who billed $6.5 million for 10 hemorrhoid removal operations - all on the same patient. The feds say that is not possible. *
* Except for the IRS.


HEALTH MOMENT

Scientists are trying to determine whether a group of dwarfs in Ecuador -- all of them living in a remote village on the slopes of the Andes Mountains -- could hold the clues to cure cancer. The members of the group, about 100 of them closely studied by researchers from the University of Southern California, almost never get cancer or diabetes. And they all suffer from mutated genes that lower their growth hormone activity, stunting their growth.
In an article published in the journal Science Translational Medicine, researchers suggest that blocking growth hormone in full-grown adults, through prescription drugs or a special diet, could unlock the mysteries of cancer. If it works, and blocking growth hormones in adults has only minor side effects, societies in the future could live without major illnesses, said, cell biologist Valter Longo of the University of Southern California who led the team studying the dwarfs.
But even if blocking hormones comes with a minor side effect, Longo predicted that societies and governments would make the trade in exchange for less chronic disease. "It's the dream of every administration, anywhere in the world," Longo said in a statement release by USC. "You live a long healthy life, and then you drop dead."


BREAK TIME CHATTER

Brazil's most popular clown, Francisco Everardo Oliveira Silva, ran for Parliament on the slogan, "It can't get any worse." Voters actually elected him, with more votes than any other candidate. Wednesday night, he finally got the chance to cast his first vote, to keep his promise to support a new austerity proposal. Instead, he voted for an opposition proposal for a big increase in the minimum wage. The pay raise lost anyway. Silva explained that he meant to vote against the pay increase, but accidentally pressed the wrong button.
* Man, what a Bozo.


And I leave you with this thought.

"Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow them."