"My Star Trek wedding in Vegas...Too bad it wasn't that easy to get divorced." ---an unfortunate Ship's Ensign spied on a popular Internet video site (Other quirky-wedding links to be found at the end of this article) Weddings have become amazingly creative and unique in modern times. More and more ceremonies are bearing the very personal touch of the bride and groom involved, and the individual and cultural markers that have meaning in their lives.
The 6 & 7 year old team sponsored by semo.net in the Christian Athletic League has had a great season this year, finishing the regular season 8-2 in 2nd place and winning 2nd place in the end of season tournament. The semo.net Padres lost 15 - 12 in the Championship game against the Braves on Tuesday night at the First Baptist ball field in Poplar Bluff. The teams played a great game and all their coaches and parents were so proud.
In a pageant held in Lee’s Summit, MO last month, Doniphan’s NaJaun Monique Catlow, 13, was crowned Miss Junior Teen Missouri United States. NaJaun (pronounced "nuh-ZHAWN") attends Lone Star Elementary School in Doniphan, where she received the Most Improved Student of the Year Award for her 7th grade class last spring. The daughter of Bill Catlow and Vicki Bulington, NaJaun, with her new pageant title, is now poised to go national; she is to contend for the Miss Junior Teen United States crown at the lavish Orleans Hotel in Las Vegas from July 12-18. The pageant will be held in the same Orleans Hotel venue that features such luminaries as Clint Black, Trisha Yearwood, and Gladys Knight on its roster for
Maybe you’re already part of the tribe. Maybe you already know what it’s like to thrill to the sound of engines screaming at full-throttle all around you. To escape the civilized world of paved pathways and “put the pedal to the metal”, tearing forth, slamming on brakes, spinning out of control then peeling out again with what’s left of your bearings---both literally and otherwise. Or, hey---maybe you like mud. Maybe it likes you. Big-time.
The US Government just unveiled the fastest computer ever created (the human brain excluded). This computer is twice the speed of the previous IBM Blue Genie and cost over $100 Million dollars. To put the processing power in perspective, Thomas P. D’Agostino of the National Nuclear Security Administration said that if all 6 billion people on Earth entered calculations on a calculator for 24 hours a day, seven days per week it would take 46 years to do what Roadrunner can do in one day. Article On CNN
