30,000 Kids Visit Belle Isle For Metro Detroit Youth Day
Posted: July 10, 2014 at 4:45 am
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DETROIT (WWJ) More than 30,000 kidsand 1,600 volunteers converged on Belle Isle Wednesday to take part inthe32nd annual Metro Detroit Youth Day.
Put on by the business community each July, the popular event offers first-hand experiences and demonstrations for studentsof all ages.More than 300 local organizations, including colleges and professional sports teams participated this year helping kids explore the possibilities and picktheir future path.
32nd annual Metro Detroit Youth Day on Belle Isle (credit: Ron Dewey/WWJ)
Youth Day Coordinator Ed Deeb said more than100 scholarships are awardedat the event, which he said has been the start of many a success story.
One of our kids became a dentist, a woman, he said. Shes very proud; she called and we had pictures taken with her two years ago. Two or three are lawyers.
One of the most popular draws this year was the mobile petting zoo which featured a camel and a kangaroo.
32nd annual Metro Detroit Youth Day on Belle Isle (credit: Ron Dewey/WWJ)
Its pretty cool with all the animals, participantDestiny Frazen said.
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Balancing choices: Losing weight pays off with roles in movies and TV for 26-year-old
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Lebaron Burston holds pictures made in 2009 when he weighed 320 pounds. Burston decided to lose weight so he could follow his dream of acting and modeling. He's had several small roles and will be a guest in two episodes of an upcoming Tyler Perry show.
Lebaron Burston of Cherryville stopped eating cheeseburgers in 2010.
The Burns High School graduate decided a career in acting and modeling was more important to him than the three 520-calorie sandwiches he could eat in one day.
"I basically stopped eating everything that I like - all sweets, all sodas, all starches and minimum bread," he said.
The only meats he ate were grilled chicken, turkey and bacon. He started an exercise program and, in 14 months, he lost 130 pounds.
While Burston, 26, made the difficult decision to change his eating habits, many people in Cleveland County struggle with obesity, smoking and diabetes.
An annual study by the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation showed that Cleveland County continues to lag behind the majority of the states other 99 counties and the nation as a whole in key areas.
The county's health ranked 84 out of 100 in the study. The ranking is based on physical inactivity, limited access to excercise opportunities and social and economic factors like poverty and education. At the same time, the county experienced a modest improvement from 2013 in adult smoking rates, adult obesity rates, an increase in diabetic screenings and a lower unemployment rate.
'A lifestyle change'
Practicing self-control was hard at first, Burston said, but the longer he stayed with his new lifestyle, the easier it became to make the right choices for his health and career.
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Asia Rice: Thai stock check holds prices at high levels despite thin demand
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BANGKOK: Thai rice prices were unchanged at high levels due to tight supply as the military was still in the midst of a nationwide rice stocks inspection, traders said on Wednesday.
The offer price of common grade Thai 5 percent white rice was unchanged at $420 per tonne, the highest since March 7. "Prices stayed at relatively high levels although demand was not very strong," said a Bangkok-based trader. "But it was because domestic supply remained tight as the army still controlled the warehouses for the stocks inspection."
Thailand's military government launched an inspection of rice warehouses around the country last week to work out how much grain was stockpiled by the government it ousted in May and to check on the rice quality.
Panadda Diskul, head of the government's rice inspection committee, said the check-up would finish by the end of July, when traders expected more rice supply could be release from the government stocks and prices should ease. Rice export prices in Vietnam, however, dropped this week as demand from major buyer China subsided, traders said.
Vietnam's 5-percent broken rice dropped to $415-$420 a tonne, free-on-board Saigon Port, from $420-$430 a week ago.
Vietnamese 25-percent broken rice dipped to $365-$370 a tonne, from $370-$375 last Wednesday.
"Sales to China are slowing, with more vessels left idle instead of loading as in the past at My Thoi port," a trader in Ho Chi Minh City said, referring to a port in the Mekong Delta food basket.
Sales to China, Vietnam's top buyer this year, could halve in the second half of the year from the 1.38 million tonnes exported in January-June, according to industry forecasts, the Vietnam Economic Times newspaper reported on Wednesday.
The drop in sales stemmed from concerns over the continuing dispute over the South China Sea, and Chinese customs officials tightening quality control of rice imported via land borders, traders said.
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HP Pavilion x360 offers Yoga-like flexibility for less
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If hybrid laptops in 2014 have a theme so far, it's the rise of the Yoga-like, a term we use to describe a system with a hinge similar to the one found on the popular line of Yoga laptops from Lenovo, as well as me-too models from Dell and others. One of the newest and least expensive of these is the 11-inch HP Pavilion x360.
This version starts at $399, which means it runs Intel Pentium chips, rather than the more mainstream Core i-series CPUs (although that's mostly fine for an 11-inch laptop). (Pricing outside the US is not available as of this writing.) HP says the x360 is aimed at millennials looking for a single device for work and play, and one goal for this system was to produce an affordable convertible that's accessible to anyone. Since we first heard about the x360, we've seen budget versions of similar 11-inch hybrid designs from Dell and Lenovo, which means the fold-back hinge may soon be as commonplace among budget laptop shoppers as netbooks were several years ago.
Sarah Tew/CNET There are, of course, trade-offs with taking designs that started in $1,000-plus laptops and bringing them down below $500. The look, while muted and modern, is bigger, thicker, and heavier than you may be used to from an 11-inch ultraportable. The screen in particular has a budget feel, with poor off-axis viewing -- especially troublesome for a tablet meant to be viewed from many angles.
But it's also less expensive than the otherwise similar 11-inch Yoga 2 from Lenovo. Our configuration of the normally $399 x360 doubled the RAM from 4GB to 8GB, resulting in a final price of $474. The Yoga 2, while slimmer and with a better screen, is $479 in a Best Buy configuration with only 4GB of RAM (other configurations are available on the sometimes-confusing Lenovo website).
That's the trade-off between these two models. For roughly the same price, you can get more RAM in the HP x360, or a smaller, lighter design and better screen in the Yoga 2. I'm inclined to lean toward the Yoga, thinking the easier-to-see display outweighs the small performance boost the extra RAM in the HP x360 gives you. That said, the entry-level x360 is only $399, and that's a price Lenovo can't currently touch.
The idea of the 360-degree fold-back hinge is that you can use the system as a traditional laptop, then bend the lid backward, stopping at a kiosk or table-tent form in the middle or folding it all the way back into a tablet orientation.
It's an appealing concept, and one we've supported since the original Lenovo Yoga model launched alongside Windows 8, paving the way for a burst of creativity in inventive hybrid designs that melded laptop and tablet. In the end, this design seems to have won out, thanks to two reasons: it does the least to interfere with the traditional clamshell laptop design, and it's relatively inexpensive to engineer, compared to pull-apart or slider-style hybrid hinges.
Sarah Tew/CNET The x360 is bigger and heavier than other 11-inch systems, hybrid or otherwise. The rounded corners and playful design gives it an accessible, consumer-gadget feel, but holding it in one hand in tablet mode is awkward. The x360 weighs 3.3 pounds, while the 11-inch Yoga 2 is only 2.8 pounds. By way of comparison, the 11-inch MacBook Air is 2.4 pounds.
But as a budget ultraportable laptop, the x360 works well, with a full-size keyboard and a large, wide, touchpad. Like many HP laptops, the top row of function keys are reversed, which means you can adjust the screen brightness, volume, and other features without holding down the Fn key. The island-style keys have a tiny bit of texture to them, which helps grip the fingers, but the keys are also shallow and wiggle a good bit, even under light typing. Still, it's better than decent for a budget laptop keyboard.
The wide touchpad, another HP staple, also translates well in the budget version presented here. It's a clickpad-style pad, giving you a larger touch surface without separate left and right mouse buttons, but the plastic surface doesn't feel as natural as more-expensive glass versions. Multitouch gestures, such as two-finger scrolling, work surprisingly well, although on a system such as this, you're likely to do a lot of your on-screen nav from the touchscreen.
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Yoga putting souls in jeopardy, Donegal priest warns
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A parish priest in Co Donegal has described yoga and other disciplines such as tai chi and Reiki as contemptible. Photograph: Getty Images.
A parish priest in Co Donegal has described yoga and other disciplines such as tai chi and Reiki as contemptible.
Fr Padraig OBaoill made his comments in the latest issue of the Gaoth Dobhair parish newsletter.
As followers of Jesus Christ we should not partake in deeds that go against our religion, he wrote.
Accordingly, you should do not take part in yoga, thai chai or Reiki...Do not put your soul in jeopardy for the sake of these contemptible things.
A local yoga teacher said Fr OBaoills stance and advice to his parishioners was ignorant.
Sean OTuathalain, who runs the Yoga Centre in Letterkenny, said he would love to meet Fr OBaoill to try to understand why he was urging people not to take part in yoga.
I have to say that this advice appears to me to be coming from a position of ignorance, he said.
However, I think priests in general are skeptical of yoga and Reiki. I can understand where they are coming from but I think they need to find out more about these subjects.
Mr OTuathalain suggested that many people in Ireland turned to yoga after the scandal of clerical sexual abuse emerged.
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A parish priest in Co Donegal has described yoga and other disciplines such as tai chi and Reiki as contemptible. Photograph: Getty Images.
A parish priest in Co Donegal has described yoga and other disciplines such as tai chi and Reiki as contemptible.
Fr Padraig OBaoill made his comments in the latest issue of the Gaoth Dobhair parish newsletter.
As followers of Jesus Christ we should not partake in deeds that go against our religion, he wrote.
Accordingly, you should do not take part in yoga, thai chai or Reiki...Do not put your soul in jeopardy for the sake of these contemptible things.
A local yoga teacher said Fr OBaoills stance and advice to his parishioners was ignorant.
Sean OTuathalain, who runs the Yoga Centre in Letterkenny, said he would love to meet Fr OBaoill to try to understand why he was urging people not to take part in yoga.
I have to say that this advice appears to me to be coming from a position of ignorance, he said.
However, I think priests in general are skeptical of yoga and Reiki. I can understand where they are coming from but I think they need to find out more about these subjects.
Mr OTuathalain suggested that many people in Ireland turned to yoga after the scandal of clerical sexual abuse emerged.
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