One last say
June 11, 2009
I am going to miss everyone even the people I didn’t get along with. And don’t worry Mr. Skonecki I will miss you too.
Tilt Shift Rollercoaster Pic
June 8, 2009
Hawaii fish coughs up gold watch
June 8, 2009
Hawaii resident Curt Carish caught a a 10-inch reef fish by hand in shallow water that coughed up a ticking gold watch. Carish says he was enjoying a picnic Wednesday on Port Allen beach when he saw the nenue fish awkwardly swimming close to shore. He says a friend gave him a bamboo stick and told him to get the fish. So he jumped into the waist-high water and hit the nenue until it went limp.
13 years of school without missing a minute
June 4, 2009
It’s been a long 13 years for Brittani McCalister — 2,340 days, to be exact. The teenager graduated from high school Sunday having never missed a day of school since kindergarten. She stood and was recognized for her outstanding attendance record by classmates and their families during commencement at West Vigo High School. “Every day, she has made it to school and stayed the entire day,” Principal Tom Balitewicz said. McCalister said it began when she and her brother started a competition to see who could maintain perfect attendance. He made it part of the way through elementary school, but she just kept on going, and going.
‘Extremely bored’ runaway juror faces jail time
June 1, 2009
A man who left jury duty after lunch because he was “extremely bored” was sent back to the courthouse to be accused on a charge of contempt of court. A police report said officers found the 25-year-old man near his home earlier this month and asked why he skipped out. He said he was bored, and “just couldn’t take it” anymore. Washington County Judge Gayle Nachtigal issued a warrant for his arrest.
Toddler buys earthmover in online auction
May 29, 2009
A New Zealand mom made some online bids on toys before napping. Then her 3-year-old daughter took over and bought a bigger plaything than expected — a huge earth-moving digger for $12,300. Pipi Quinlan made the $12,300 bid on the Kobelco digger with a few mouse clicks at the auction site TradeMe while her parents slept.
Exercise not likely to rev up your metabolism
May 26, 2009
Start exercising and you’ll become a round-the-clock, fat-burning machine, right? That’s long been a commonly held belief among exercisers and fitness experts alike. But a new report finds that, sadly, it’s not very likely. The notion that exercise somehow boosts the body’s ability to burn fat for as long as 24 hours after a workout has led to a misperception among the general public that diet doesn’t matter so much as long as one exercises, says Edward Melanson, an exercise physiologist and associate professor of medicine at the University of Colorado in Denver. “If you exercise and replace the calories you burn, you’re no better — with regard to how much fat you burn off — than if you didn’t exercise,” says Melanson.
By: Jacqueline Stenson
How life may have outlasted early blast
May 21, 2009
An asteroid bombardment of Earth nearly 4 billion years ago may have actually been a boon to early life on the planet, instead of wiping it out or preventing it from originating, a new study suggests. Asteroids, comets and other impactors from space have been suggested as the causes behind some of the world’s great mass extinctions, including the disappearance of the dinosaurs. No such record exists for Earth because tectonic processes have folded ancient craters back into the interior, but scientists assume our planet took the same beating
Utah school forces student to change out of kilt
May 20, 2009
At a Utah middle school a principal has been asked to apologize for making a student wearing a kilt change his clothes. The 14-year-old student Gavin McFarland says he wore the kilt twice in the past two weeks to Rocky Mountain Junior High as a prop for an art project. Craig Jessop the principal told the boy that the outfit could be misconstrued as cross-dressing.
