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That any errors they have reported in the past have been corrected.
The organization says its guide also has advice about what to do if you discover that you are the victim of identity theft.
Centennial Elementary first-graders climb around during a recess break on Wednesday afternoon at the school in Evans. The school has started a "Vitamin D Time" break to allow kids some exercise time in the afternoons.
Regardless of what Greeley-Evans School District 6 officials call it, we’re glad to see recess come back to elementary school playgrounds.
The fact that officials have chosen to call it “Vitamin D Time,” and not recess, says a lot about how things have changed in our schools.
The district took away recess in 2006 to give students more classroom time. The idea was just one of many to improve sagging test scores. Recess, it seemed, didn’t have a point.
“Recess is unique from, and a complement to, physical education — not a substitute for it,” the policy statement read.
Breaks, however, don’t just help students. They help teachers. The 10-to-15-minute period in the afternoon gives teachers a break. That extra class time meant teachers were in front of their kids more than ever, leaving them little time for planning or grading. This will give them a little more time.
We especially like the fact that this time is discretionary. Good teachers know how their students work, and so they’re the best ones to determine whether their kids need a break that day.
In fact, some schools have already started with the additional recess, er, “D” time, despite the fact that this was supposed to start in the spring semester. We like what Principal Anthony Asmus said about his students at Centennial Elementary.
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A neighbor said Larry Walton punched a dog repeatedly as it screamed and yelped in pain.
A Pensacola man was charged with aggravated animal cruelty after a neighbor called police saying he was beating his pit bull.
Larry Walton, 38, faces the third-degree felony for the Sept. 14 incident at his West Jackson Street home.
The responding Pensacola Police Department officer wrote in the arrest report that Walton admitted he "popped" his dogs because they were digging holes in the yard.
A 6-month-old dog named Super allegedly cowered when Walton brought it out to show police for a welfare check, and the female dog Dream appeared "frightened."
The officer noted there was blood on the front porch. A neighbor told police she saw Walton beating Dream with a tree branch after she and the puppy had dug a hole and escaped from the yard.
The neighbor said Walton punched the dog repeatedly as it screamed and yelped in pain. When police went back to speak with Walton again, he allegedly said the blood on the porch was from cutting his hand days prior, then changed his story to say the dog was in heat.
The officer then observed Dream in full view — saying in the report that she couldn't see the dog's whole body the first time — and noticed a wound on its chest. The dog was limping, which Walton allegedly said was from a prior injury.
Animal control arrived and said the dog had a severe injury to the chest, and noted urine along the fence line where the dogs appeared to have escaped the yard. Walton allegedly then told authorities that Dream was on the other side of the fence and he called her back, then he dragged her from the front yard to the hou...
PPD and animal control both agreed there were grounds for an aggravated animal cruelty arrest and took Walton into custody. He was booked into the Escambia County Jail on Friday and remains in custody on a $30,000 bond.
E3 2017 - Sony today confirmed that its PlayStation 4 console has sold through more than 60 million units worldwide.
Sony Interactive Entertainment has accumulated a total of 60.4 million PlayStation 4 console sales worldwide since the system debuted in 2013. This sales milestone includes the full family of PlayStation 4 consoles: the 2013 launch PS4, the new PS4 "slim", and the higher-end PlayStation 4 Pro, all of which were sold ac...
Along with strong hardware sales, the PlayStation 4 has enjoyed a phenomenal software attach rate throughout its lifetime. Sony confirms that 487.8 million copies of PS4 software have been sold digitally and in retail stores across the globe, meaning the average PS4 owner owns at least 8 games.
"We are very grateful for our fans and partners around the globe who have continued to support PS4," said Andrew House, President and Global CEO of Sony Interactive Entertainment.
"The PS4 platform is in its prime, with the industry's best lineup of exclusive and partner titles slated to release this year, taking full advantage of the power of the PS4 system. We are committed to further expanding our overall PS4 ecosystem, by broadening the PlayStation VR content portfolio, as well as enriching ...
Sony Corp President Kazuo Hirai says the company expects to sell 18 million units in the current fiscal year ending March 2018.
Here are some metrics from Sony's recent press release.
PS4 has cumulatively sold through more than 60.4 million units to consumers worldwide as of June 11, 2017.
PS4 software sales, led by critically acclaimed titles such as Horizon: Zero Dawn, also remain strong with more than 487.8 million copies sold at retail stores globally and through digital downloads on PlayStationStore as of June 11, 2017.
Building off of robust PS4 momentum, user engagement across the PlayStation® ecosystem has also experienced vibrant growth.
PlayStation ecosystem has more than 70 million monthly active users worldwide as of end of March 2017.
PlayStation Plus has 26.4 million paid subscribers worldwide as of end of March 2017.
Active PS4 users worldwide spend more than 600 million hours in total, per week on the platform as of end of March 2017.
Cyndi Burtch and her family had enjoyed what seemed a perfect northern Michigan vacation: a visit to Pictured Rocks, swimming around Tahquamenon Falls — all while camping together.
It was on their last day in the Upper Peninsula that a great week of memories suddenly turned tragic. That Aug. 13, 2010, day is one Burtch and her husband, Jason, will never forget, as she ended it on a stretcher following a rescue flight to the University of Michigan Hospital in Ann Arbor.
Cyndi Burtch relaxed on the couch in her Zeeland home as she recounted that day and a mountain biking accident that left nearly every bone in her face broken. Lying on a nearby table were medals from half marathons she has run in the past few months as well as the prized one she took home after running a full 26.2-mile...
It is hard to believe just more than a year ago, she was sitting in the same place with a feeding tube and a tracheotomy, in full recovery mode.
This woman doesn’t sit still for long.
“After I did the River Bank Run, it felt like I had triumphed over the accident, like I wasn’t going to let it get the best of me,” she said, motioning to a medal she earned at the Grand Rapids race in May.
She’ll run a second marathon Nov. 5 in Indianapolis with her friend and training partner Janet Yskes.
Burtch’s face lit up as she talked about the accomplishments. It was immediately clear how strong of a role running has played in her recovery. She has come a long way since the accident and credited God for giving her the strength and motivation to move forward.
Jason Burtch recalled the accident and how he first crossed a bridge in the woods near Michigan Technological University on his mountain bike.
He turned to watch his wife, and in a fleeting moment, her front tire slid off, sending her and the bike tumbling several feet to the ground.
Cyndi Burtch landed face-first on a tree stump, shattering her nose and breaking several teeth, along with most of her facial bones, doctors later told her.
She stood and was able to walk to a parking lot, where medical crews arrived to assess her injuries. Burtch underwent more than 12 hours of surgery days later in Ann Arbor to reconstruct her face. Another surgery soon followed.
Two weeks later, she was home in Zeeland recovering, but a feeding tube and tracheotomy would remain with her for weeks.
Ask Burtch about that time, and a smile crosses her face. It seems remarkable given the amount of discomfort the experience must have brought. But the memories she has are of sharing days at home with extended family.
She cherished that time. The group watched movies and laughed as Burtch’s daughters held dance parties in the living room.
Still, those first few weeks were hard for everyone.
“You should have seen the routine to take care of me. It was crazy,” Burtch recalled.
But she wouldn’t let it keep her down for long.
By November, just days after the feeding tube came out, Burtch was lacing up her shoes and gingerly taking off on her first run in months.
Yskes, her running partner, couldn’t believe it.
She continued training with Burtch and watched online, amazed, as she later saw her friend crossing the finish line of her first marathon in June — still with a broken nose and in need of further surgery.
As the two take off on long weekend runs, they sometimes talk about the surgeries Burtch still has to come. One will be soon after the November race in Indianapolis.
Burtch pulled out a scrapbook as she talked of the Indianapolis race, soon to be another memory to add.
She flipped through the pages, glancing at the smiling facing of nurses and doctors whose expertise has carried her through to recovery. Each page — put together by family — has photos and notes to ensure she will never forget the journey.
“When life throws you a lemon, throw it back — harder,” reads one message.
It seems a fitting descriptor of Burtch’s outlook.
“I think people underestimate themselves,” she says. “We can do more than we think we can and handle more than we think we can.
Think back to the 2012 election campaign. There were already signs of the conspiracy-theory, bigotry-driven politics of this year’s election; Donald Trump was loudly proclaiming that Obama’s birth certificate was fake, and Mitt Romney eagerly accepted Trump’s endorsement.
But there was also something of a policy debate. Republicans accused Obama of being a “redistributionist,” taking money away from “job creators” to give free stuff to the 47 percent. And they claimed that these socialistic policies were destroying incentives and blocking economic recovery.
There was, in fact, a grain of truth in the first part of this accusation. Obama is no socialist, but since his re-election he has presided over a significant rise in taxes on high incomes. In fact, the top one percent is now paying about the same share of its income in federal taxes as it did in 1979, before Ronald Re...
Conservatives predicted disaster from these initiatives. Tax hikes on the rich, they insisted, would stall the economy. Obamacare’s combination of regulation and subsidies, they declared, would kill millions of jobs without increasing the number of Americans with insurance.
What happened instead after Obama was re-elected was the best job growth since the 1990s. But family incomes, at least as estimated by the Census, continued to lag. So there was still some statistical basis for the right’s Obama-bashing. Now that statistical basis is gone.
You might ask whether these numbers reflect reality. It’s often claimed that Americans aren’t feeling any economic recovery – and if anyone were to ask Trump, he would no doubt claim that the Census numbers, like every number he doesn’t like, are cooked.
But be wary of polling on this issue. When Americans are asked how the economy is doing, many of them just repeat what they think they heard on Fox News: By large margins, Republicans say that unemployment is up and the stock market is down under Obama, the opposite of the truth. On the other hand, when you ask people ...
So the good news is real. And it should (but won’t) finally break the grip of trickle-down ideology on much of our political class.
You know how the argument goes: Any attempt to help working families directly, we’re told, will backfire by hurting the economy as a whole. So we must cut taxes on those “job creators” instead, counting on a rising tide to raise all boats.
It would be an exaggeration to say that the Obama administration has done the reverse, but there definitely was an element of trickle-up economics in its response to the Great Recession: Much of the stimulus involved expanding the social safety net, not just to protect the vulnerable, but to increase purchasing power a...
Now the results of this policy experiment are in, and they’re not bad. They could have been better: The stimulus should have been bigger and more sustained, and Republican opposition hamstrung the administration’s economic policy after the first two years. Still, progressive policies have worked, and the critics of tho...
A pensioner whose heart-warming story inspired a special anniversary flypast to pay tribute to a fallen American air crew has visited two Suffolk airbases to thank those involved.
Tony Foulds, 82, from Sheffield, visited RAF Lakenheath and RAF Mildenhall last week following their involvement in the ‘Mi Amigo’ flypast last month.
Mr Foulds was just a boy when he witnessed the B-17 Flying Fortress, nicknamed Mi Amigo, crash in Endcliffe Park in the city 75 years ago, which claimed the lives of all on board.
The pensioner believes the pilot was forced to steer away from him and his friends, who were playing in the park, and has dedicated decades of his life to looking after a memorial to them.
After a chance meeting with BBC Breakfast presenter Dan Walker in Endcliffe park, a social media campaign quickly gathered pace and more than 10,000 attended the moving flypast in the park on February 22.
The aircraft also flew over the Cambridge American Cemetery, in Coton, just outside Cambridge, where three of the Mi Amigo crew are interred.
A spokesman for RAF Lakenheath said Tony’s family got in touch after the flypast to see if he could make a visit to thank the people who made the event possible.
Captain Elias Small, from RAF Lakenheath’s public affairs office, said: “After visiting our wingmen from the 100th Air Refueling Wing at RAF Mildenhall, Tony joined us here at RAF Lakenheath.
“It was clear from the moment he arrived just how excited he was, and it was incredible to see the excitement from our team as well.
After getting an up close look at one of the F-15E Strike Eagle aircraft, Mr Foulds took a tour of the 494th Fighter Squadron, which was the unit from Lakenheath responsible for planning and executing the base’s part of the memorial flypast.
Cpt Small added: “His visit culminated in the Panthers’ heritage room where he met the 494th Fighter Squadron’s commander, Lt Col Jaina Donberg, the 48th Operations Group commander, Col Jason Camilletti, and the eight aircrew members who actually conducted the flypast.
“As a small token of gratitude for his dedication to our nation’s fallen heroes, the squadron presented Tony with a commemorative lithograph signed by these eight aircrew members.
Captain Zach Overbey, 351st Air Refueling Squadron aircraft commander at RAF Mildenhall, said: “It was a very special moment meeting Mr Foulds and showing him our aircraft, we were extremely proud to show him the tanker.
“Right from the start, I knew it was going to be a pretty special event and was very excited to do the flyover, it turned out awesome.
NEW YORK – OPEC will hold an extraordinary meeting Nov. 18 to discuss how the widening global financial crisis is affecting oil prices.
In a statement Thursday, the Organization of The Petroleum Exporting Countries said it’s concerned about how the crisis is hampering global economies and world oil markets.
Oil prices have fallen about 40 percent since soaring to a record $147.27 on July 11 as a global financial downturn forces people and businesses everywhere to cut back on energy use.
Analysts have predicted OPEC might use the meeting to announce a production cut in a bid to keep prices from falling further.
Light, sweet crude for November Delivery fell another $1.85 to $87.10 a barrel in midday trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange.
Elisha, thanks so much for including the poetry of Rumi in your blog post on mindfulness. His poetry is so beautiful and insightful. I sometimes integrate sharing poetry & literature in psychotherapy sessions with my clients, and invite them to respond in their journal writing, utilizing the quotation. This has proven ...
Thank you for sharing such a good idea. I will definitely try using it with my clients!
I just wanted to say thank you for a great post.
I think most of us are walking around asleep and life “just happens” to many.
Mindfulness is just so important to living a fulfilling life.
“The door is round and open.
Don’t go back to sleep”.

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