Deborah Bishop, Mississippi Teacher, Uses Thousands In Game Show Winnings To Treat Students, Create Scholarships

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Huffington Post Posted: Updated: 11/17/2012 1:47 pm EST

Deborah Bishop

A Mississippi teacher is the star of the show at West Harrison High School in Harrison County.

Spanish teacher Deborah Bishop treated her 20 Spanish Honor Society students to a night on the town Wednesday -- dinner at a fancy New Orleans restaurant, limousine pick-up and tickets to the opera, all while dropping off toy donations at the Children's Hospital on the way.

The night was a pricey excursion, costing Bishop $3,000 out of pocket, but was all made possible by a $23,500 prize she won in September on TV game show "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?"

 

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Visionkeeper: Ode to the Wayseers

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Ode to the Wayseers

Posted on November 18, 2012 

 

 

 

 

IF  by Rudyard Kipling

If you can keep your head when all about you                                                                           Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;

If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:

The Scandal We Should Be Talking About

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Huffington Post, Posted: 11/14/2012 5:45 pm

 

Nothing grips Washington more than a good scandal, particularly when it involves sex, power and money. Last week's surprise resignation of C.I.A. Director David Petraeus has filled countless column inches and primetime minutes of television. The news of Gen. John Allen's involvement in the scandal is surely going to keep the story at the top of the news cycle for days to come.

While our news media pores over every titillating detail of the Petraeus affair, there's another scandal that's gone largely unnoticed by the defense community. Last Friday, Lockheed Martin quietly announced that after having been groomed to take over for departing C.E.O. Robert Stevens this January, that would-be C.E.O. Christopher Kubasik would be resigning over a long-term extramarital affair with a "subordinate employee

 

Sunday swim and lunch with friends ends with a twist

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Video of waterspout and storm damage: Weather.com.

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The Australian -Harry Edwards and Rosanne Barrett, 11/19/12

191112 wild weather NSW

Erin Townsend watches a water spout twist up from the ocean at Long Beach on the NSW south coast yesterday. Picture: Michael Syne Source: The Australian

A GIGANTIC waterspout 200m across capped off a weekend of wild weather across the east coast in which storms smashed roofs, uprooted trees and left 8000 homes without power.

Worst-hit was the town of Woodburn, in northern NSW, where a dozen homes were damaged -- five destroyed -- after a storm lasting less than two hours hit the hamlet on Saturday.

Heavy Rain, High Winds Pound Northwest

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Weather.com - Chris Dolce, 11/18/12

Rain, Snow Forecast

A powerful storm system will pound the Northwest with heavy rain, high winds and mountain snow as we kick off the week Sunday into Monday. Below is a look at the impacts from the early week storm followed by a glance at the wet pattern that may persist through much of Thanksgiving week.

Week Starts with Strong Storm System

Heavy Rain - The period of stormy weather impacting the Northwest through Tuesday will have a very impressive moisture tap capable of producing some heavy rainfall amounts. Our rainfall forecast map shows that areas along the coast from northwest California to western Washington could see 3 to 5 inches in the next 48 hours. Heavier amounts are possible in the coastal range and the mountains. Some minor flooding problems may develop.

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Sandy Uprooted Trees by the Thousands in NY, NJ

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Weather.com - Jim Fitzgerald, 11/17/12

In this Oct. 31, 2012 photo, a tree in Jersey City, N.J., lies tangled in power lines after being brought down by high winds from Superstorm Sandy. AP Photo/Charles Sykes

NEW YORK -- They fell by the thousands, like soldiers in some vast battle of giants, dropping to the earth in submission to a greater force.

The winds of Superstorm Sandy took out more trees in the neighborhoods, parks and forests of New York and New Jersey than any previous storm on record, experts say.

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In Greece, anti-austerity protesters attack German consul

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PressTV Fri Nov 16, 2012 4:45AM GMT

A Greek police officer intervenes to rescue Germany’s Consul to Thessaloniki Wolfgang Hoelscher-Obermaier (blue shirt on far right) from angry protesters opposing civil service layoffs, November 15, 2012.

A Greek police officer intervenes to rescue Germany’s Consul to Thessaloniki Wolfgang Hoelscher-Obermaier (blue shirt on far right) from angry protesters opposing civil service layoffs, November 15, 2012.

Police in northern Greece have clashed with anti-austerity demonstrators protesting against German Deputy Labor Minister Hans Joachim Fuchtel.

On Wednesday, Fuchtel made comments on the quality of the Greek labor force.

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‘No meteoritic or alien connection with Red rain’ falling in Sri Lanka

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Source: The Extinction Protocol - 11/17/12

November 17, 2012 – SRI LANKA – Rare showers of red rain fell for over 15 minutes in Sewanagala, Monaragala and Manampitiya, Polonnaruwa yesterday morning hours of yesterday and day before yesterday. According to Meteorology Department sources red rain fell heavily in these areas and the reason has not been found yet. Red rain in Sewanagala and Manampitiya left red frost on the ground.

 

This is the first time red rain was witnessed in Sri Lanka. The Health Ministry Secretary informed Medical Research Institute (MRI) Director Dr Anil Samaranayake to conduct a study to ascertain the reasons for red rain by taking water samples from Monaragala and Polonnaruwa.

 

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