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DON DIEGO
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Living here, playing here, and working here, it’s Don Diego in Southern New Mexico!!!
TODAY’S FUN LINKS:
http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/sports/GW_Prof_Honored_at__Then_Booted_From__Basketball_Game_Washington_DC-117556503.html
http://www.trainofthought.info/video_point_counterpoint.html
http://www.iheartchaos.com/post/3745552633/the-year-2000-as-envisioned-in-the-year-1910
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vd7IhWKrGjs&feature=player_embedded
Celebrity Spotlight
Trace Adkins is set to appear on the Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson tonight. He’s bringing along the puppets that costar with him in his “Brown Chicken Brown Cow” video. He doesn’t want to embarrass the puppet that resembles him, but he does want people to notice he has better skin than the puppet. (Audio) “Especially if you get up close to him. And I’m sure in H.D. now you can see his skin kind of looks like – it looks kind of like felt or Velcro or something. Boys got a complexion problem.” There’s a video on Trace’s website that has Trace and his puppet counterpart reminding people to tune in. Trace promises to be funny while on the show and the puppet – well he admitted to sleep during their appearance.
RIDDLE ME THIS
What can run but never walks, Has a mouth but never talks, Has a bed but never sleeps?
A River.
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 Staff Sgt. Travis Atkins
Staff Sgt. Travis Atkins was killed in Iraq in June 2007 when he tackled a suicide bomber and saved the lives of three other soldiers. The Army posthumously honored the 10th Mountain Division soldier with the Distinguished Service Cross, the nation's second-highest medal for heroism, outranked only by the Medal of Honor.
Atkins' unit was patrolling on June 1 while helping search for two other 10th Mountain Division soldiers who were captured in an attack south of Baghdad in May.
The unit encountered a group of suspected insurgents and was searching them when one resisted and began fighting hand to hand with Atkins. During the fight, Atkins realized that the man was trying to trigger a suicide vest he was wearing under his clothing,
Atkins tackled his attacker and pinned him to the ground, shielding three of his soldiers from the blast as the insurgent set off the bomb.
“I can think of nothing more selfless than giving your life to protect the lives of your fellow soldiers,” said his Commanding Officer Brig. Gen. Michael Harrison Sr.
Staff Sgt. Travis Atkins is/are our Hometown Hero Today and we salute you.
This Is Nuts
Wisconsin Republican Senators finally gave up trying to get the Democrats to come back to work from out of state. They stripped the spending provisions out of the bill that cuts public worker union collective bargaining rights, which meant it no longer required a quorum, and passed it. Democrats howled that they had rushed back at 80 mph but didn't arrive in time. They accused the Republicans of using procedural trickery to pass a bill in the middle of the night over public objections.
* And Democrats would NEVER do that!
HEALTH MOMENT
Steve Jobs called it a magical device. For the parents of autistic children, it actually might be.
Experts say the Apple iPad lessens the symptoms of the disorder, helping kids deal with life's sensory overload -- in a sense "curing" the disorder, one parent says.
That's what Laura Holmquist believes, at least. Her son Hudson was having 8 or 9 violent meltdowns per day. One morning he started screaming in his bedroom -- and didn't stop until late that evening. The family of eight could not go to public events or out to dinner and had a hard time communicating with him.
"The iPad has given us our family back," Laura told FoxNews.com. "It's unlocked a new part of our son that we hadn't seen before, and given us insight into the way he connects with his world."
Autism experts like Dr. Martha Herbert, an assistant professor of neurology at Harvard Medical, and Stephen Shore, who wrote the book "Understanding Autism for Dummies," agree about the iPad’s usefulness.
The disorder, which affects as many as one out of 110 children in the U.S. according to a CDC study, means kids have “no control over the pace of information coming at them,” Herbert told FoxNews.com. “They are not distracted by context.” With the iPad, she said, the child has more control.
As with any gadget, over-exposure is not a good thing. As Martin points out, any child will retreat into another world using a Nintendo DS or an Xbox 360. She said parents of any child, autistic or not, need to monitor how much a gadget is being used, similar to how they use candy as an occasional reward.
BREAK TIME CHATTER
A Swedish man was sentenced to 21 months in prison in Denmark for bank robbery. He hid in a Copenhagen bank and spent the weekend there, cleaning out 140 safe deposit boxes while three unknown accomplices radioed him the locations of guards. What brought him down was urine. While in the bank vault, he relieved himself into a plastic bag. When he was spotted, he threw the pee bag at the guard and fled. The loot was never recovered, but his DNA from the urine bag convicted him.
It ruined his lawyer's defense: "If that's not his pee, he must go free!"
And I leave you with this thought.
"We can teach from our experience, but we cannot teach experience."
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