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Celebrity Spotlight
The 2011 CMA Music Festival has officially kicked off in Nashville with performances from country music stars on several stages around Nashville. One artist who’s been performing at the festival since it was known as Fan Fair is Billy Ray Cyrus, who says getting face-to-face with the fans never grows old. “The loyalty in country music and the country music fans are by far, the greatest in all the world! To see those fans to this day still coming down here to Music City. And yeah, it’s still just as exciting for me as an old man as it was when I was a young pup.” Billy Ray takes the Riverfront stage at CMA Fest this Saturday in Nashville. The country star is getting ready for the release of his next album, I’m American, on June 28th.
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What dress does everyone have but no one wears?
An address!
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 Kaitlyn Conner
My hero is not someone famous or someone who has made a huge impact on the world. My hero is just a regular person. She won my admiration with hard work and determination. Everyday after Kaitlyn came home from school she would do her homework and study until she couldn't possibly stuff anymore information into her brain. She did this because she was determined to get into an amazing university. To this day Kaitlyn holds top marks at the U of C. She has accomplished so much and is an amazing role model.
Submitted by Taylor Baily
Kaitlyn Conner is/are our Hometown Hero Today and we salute you.
HEALTH MOMENT
Spontaneous and rare gene mutations are likely the cause of autism in families with no previous history of the disorder, a trio of U.S. studies suggest.
Two studies published in the journal Neuron describe a series of genetic variants that boost the risk of autism, a developmental disorder that appears by age three and affects about one percent of children in the United States.
A third study sheds light on how these disrupted genes tend to take aim at a particular target, the formation of the brain's synapses, or junctions that allow signals to be passed between neurons.
Researchers honed in on a region of the human genome that, when altered, tends to either produce autism in an individual or causes a completely opposite, extra-friendly disorder called Williams syndrome.
Autism can result when genes mutate and form extra copies of the region. But when parts of the region, called 7q11.23, are missing, people may develop Williams syndrome, which is often characterized in part by a highly sociable personality.
"This region of the genome could be a Rosetta Stone for studying the development of the social brain," said lead author on one of the studies, Matthew State at Yale University.
People with Williams syndrome may be extremely trusting of strangers and have a particular affection for music but may also exhibit developmental disabilities, learning disorders and disfigurement of the face and hands.
Autism includes a wide spectrum of developmental differences and may range from mild social awkwardness to complete inability to communicate, repetitive movements, sensitivity to certain lights and sounds, and behavioral problems.
The team also found that significantly larger genetic mutations were needed to cause autism in girls, which could explain why the disorder affects boys four times as often.
BREAK TIME CHATTER
#1.) A new survey had men and women rank their top five moments of their lives. Here's how the averages broke down. For men, the order goes: Getting married, having a child, moving away from their parents, getting a job, and buying a home. For women, it's having a child, THEN getting married, moving away from their parents, buying a home, and getting a job.
#2.) People really DO have their priorities straight. In a new poll of pet owners, 90% said that in a divorce, they'd fight harder to keep their pets than their MONEY. 73% also say they'd choose their pet over a human if they could only have one friend. And 25% have tasted their pet's food.
#3.) This is pretty messed up right here. In Indiana, a man was depressed and drunk and decided to play Russian roulette . . . WITH HIS DOG. He put one bullet in the gun and shot at the dog a few times. Thankfully, no bullet fired. Then the man put the gun to his head . . . and wasn't so lucky. He died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
And I leave you with this thought…
"Every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit."
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