The sound of infants crying seemed to overwhelm a group of teenagers as they tried to quell the cries by attempting to find the reason. The crying infants were baby simulation dolls presented by the Rotary Club of Tortola to Fourth Form students of the St Georges Secondary School, on 11 February as part of the Baby Think It Over Experience.

The Experience which was launched at the School in conjunction with the Rotary Club is organized as a means of encouraging teens to make responsible choices and provide an understanding of parenting.

President of the Rotary Club of Tortola, Henry Creque explained that the primary focus of the Experience is teenage pregnancy prevention. He said that the program did not require a new curriculum, as it was seamlessly included as a practical component in the present curriculum.

PTA President and program initiator, Mrs. Karia Christopher said that the Baby Think it Over Experience is in line with the Schools 10th year anniversaryactivities and serves as a teenage pregnancy deterrent. Mrs. Christopher said that even though the school is Christian based they are not with their heads in the clouds. She announced that the program will roll out in other schools. Acting Principal Ms. Faith-Anne Adams said that the assimilation activity will give the students real life experiences in a controlled environment. She said that most of the students are excited about the program. The Principal also disclosed that some of the students are frightened out of their mind.

I know that from this they will make positive decisionsI like this kind of task, because hands on and learning last a lifetime, the Principal added. It was indicated that many of the male students were afraid to participate. In fact only one male student participated.

The entire program spans three weeks.After that period the babies will generate a response as to how attentive the parents were. Parents were required to give approval for their child to participate. Each student will have the baby for two days and two nights.

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Cleverly, it can also be used to set up safe zones and set off an alarm if your dog wanders outside them. Trace the outline of your garden, for instance, and your smartphone will alert you if your dog manages to burrow under the fence and go exploring and tell you exactly where he is on a map.

John Wisbey, co-founder of the firm behind the product, RDTP, told the Telegraph: We see so many unfit and troubled dogs every day and wanted to do something about it.

The company hopes to have the devices on sale by the summer. The Seedrs campaign has already raised 38,000 of the 100,000 needed.

But other similar devices are already on the market.

The FitBark is a small bone-shaped device which clips onto your dogs existing collar, and comes in five colours for $99. At just eight grams its unlikely to hold your dog back and is waterproof so wont go haywire if you take your dog to the beach.

The device syncs with a smartphone but you can also buy an optional $79 Wi-Fi base station that will send data directly to FitBarks servers even if you and your phone are not at home.

Unlike the Dog Tracker Nano the FitBark works on motion sensing only, and not GPS, but is likely to be much cheaper.

And the industry is much bigger than those two products alone. Another firm, Whistle, raised $15m in funding earlier this month on top of a previous round of $10m for its health tracker for dogs.

At the same time it said that it had bought out Snaptracs, a spin-off from computer chip maker Qualcomm, which sells a tracker called Tagg with built-in GPS so you can see exactly where your dog ran.

For those with a higher budget there is also Voyce, which costs $300 but also offers heart rate and respiratory tracking for your dog.

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LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) Oscar-winning actress and bestselling author Shirley MacLaine has long believed in all things New Age, but her suggestion in a newly updated memoir that Holocaust victims might have been paying for sins from a former life is opening old wounds.

Her comments in What If , first published in 2013, are being assailed as hateful, hurtful and offensive.

KCAL9s Peter Daut says the actress has a history of saying controversial things about spirituality, reincarnation, the supernatural and UFOs.

MacLaine, who once said she lived in the lost continent of Atlantis, also suggested her friend Stephen Hawking brought about his crippling ALS on himself to free his mind so that he could focus better on his scientific works.

It is her comments about the Holocaust, however, that are raising the most eyebrows.

The updated memoir suggested Holocaust victims might have been the Roman soldiers who put Christians to death or the Crusaders who murdered in Christs name. The energy of killing is endless and will be experienced by the killer and the killee,' she wrote.

The book, subtitled A Lifetime Of Questions, Speculations, Reasonable Guesses And A Few Things I Know For Sure, was originally intended for the actress to riff on a variety of topics, from the serious like world affairs, to show business (What if the entire cast of Downton Abbey was American?) to the ridiculous (What if a frog had wings?)

I think she made a terrible error. I think shes wrong, said Rabbi Abraham Cooper, associate dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center.

He says MacLaines understanding of karma is flawed and nothing justifies the Holocaust.

Whenever anyone comes forward with a sort of one-size-fits-all explanation about it, I think the alarm bells go off, Cooper said.

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