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   --- As Barack Obama broadens his outreach to evangelical voters, one of the movement's biggest names, James Dobson, accuses the likely Democratic presidential nominee of distorting the Bible and pushing a "fruitcake interpretation" of the Constitution. The statement was aired on today's broadcast. Go here for more.
   --- As towns upriver watched the Mississippi River slowly begin to recede, a few farther south focused on holding on for a few more days — furiously filling sandbags and keeping watch over saturated levees struggling to hold back the flooded river.
   --- More than 840 wildfires sparked by an "unprecedented" lightning storm are burning a swath of Northern California, alarming the governor and requiring the help of firefighters from Nevada and Oregon.
   --- Divers wriggled into an upside-down ferry Tuesday and found bodies but no survivors three days after the vessel capsized during a powerful typhoon with more than 800 people aboard.
   --- A U.S. Supreme Court decision paving the way for a 670-mile federal fence along the U.S. - Mexico border drew swift criticism from environmentalists, who promised to make another legal stand in Texas.
   --- The D&M Water Supply Corporation notified several customers Monday morning to boil water prior to consumption, as a result of complications to a well pump. The areas affected include County Roads 717, 723, 724, 725, 735 and 761 and Valley View and Ridgeview Drives.

Summer of Serving - The smallest act of kindness can change lives in an instant.
   If your church, school or non-profit organization has a need, we would like to connect you with people who can help during the KSWP Summer of Serving project. Let us know of potential needs in your organization.
   For example you might need someone to volunteer 2 days a week, take pictures at an upcoming event or donate bicycles for needy children. Whatever your need let us know by calling or sending us an e-mail.
   Let’s connect during a Summer of Serving go to KSWP.org to tell us about your organization.

GONE TOMORROW Want to know how much hair you're losing? Start counting the hairs on your comb, not on your head. In the June issue of Archives of Dermatology , scientists demonstrate that a so-called "60-second hair count" is a simple and reliable away to get a grip on whether you're balding and, if so, how fast.The reality is that hair loss is incredibly common among men and women. Fifty percent of both genders will have hair loss by the age of 50.
   **FYI: How to perform the count: Comb your hair for 60 seconds over a pillow or sheet of contrasting color before shampooing. Pull the comb from the back top of the scalp forward to the front of the scalp for 60 seconds.
   Repeat the procedure before three consecutive shampooing sessions, always using the same comb. Count and record the number of hairs in the comb and on the pillow or sheet. You find out if your hairloss is growing. Repeat the procedure every month and discuss results with your dermatologist.
   *** Do I really want to know this?

Salmonella can ride water into tomatoes - Pick a tomato in the blazing sun and plunge it straight into cold water. If that happened on the way to market, it might be contaminated.
   Too big of a temperature difference can make a tomato literally suck water inside the fruit through the scar where its stem used to be. If salmonella happens to be lurking on the skin, that's one way it can penetrate and, if the tomato isn't eaten right away, have time to multiply.
   FYI, That doesn't mean you shouldn't wash their tomatoes — they should, just probably not in cold water.
   AND... Raw fruits and vegetables are crucial to a healthy diet. But they're also the culprits in a growing list of nasty outbreaks: E. coli in spinach and lettuce. Hepatitis A in green onions. Cyclospora in raspberries. Salmonella in cantaloupe. Shigella in parsley.

Girl Sues Dad For 'Grounding' Her...And She Wins! The Father's Lawyer plans to appeal the ruling. The lawyer for a Quebec man whose daughter took him to court to challenge her father's grounding punishment says that he will appeal a ruling that he had no right to ban his child from a school trip.
    Kim Beaudoin, lawyer for the man, told CTV's Canada AM that the father wants to reclaim the parental authority he lost when his daughter took him to court. Beaudoin said, "If she comes back home, the reaction will be every time he gives a punishment, well, you know, I can always bring you to court. That's not the situation you want in your family." Beaudoin said that the father also wants to spare other parents from having to go through a similar situation.
   The judge said that banning the girl from the trip was excessive punishment. The father had told the girl at the beginning of the school year that she could go on the trip if her behaviour was good throughout the year.
   She's now living with her mom. Good luck mom on discipline!

Eight Things To Never Say In An Interview Interviews are nothing if not opportunities to drive yourself crazy. Just remind yourself to look good, appear confident, say all the right things and don't say any of the wrong ones.
   It shouldn't be so hard to follow these guidelines except you'll be on the receiving end of an endless line of questions. Factor in your nerves and you'll be lucky to remember your own name. Don't fret. Everyone has the same feeling as you do. Here are Eight things never to say: (Go to the link for more detail...
   1. "I hated my last boss."
   2. "I don't know anything about the company."
   3. "No, I don't have any questions for you."
   4. "I'm going to need to take these days off."
   5. "How long until I get a promotion?"
   6. "Are you an active member in your church?"
   7. "As Lady Macbeth so eloquently put it..."
   8. "And another thing I hate..."
   ***FYI: Relax and be yourself... unless this is yourself...

Meet Gus The World's Ugliest Dog A Florida dog named Gus captured the hearts and votes of judges tonight at the 20th Annual World’s Ugliest Dog Contest held at the Sonoma-Marin Fair in Petaluma. Rescued from a bad home and now suffering from skin cancer.
   'Gus’ story was compelling, but he won based on his looks. A Chinese-Crested, he has no hair, only three legs (one amputated because of the skin tumor) and is missing an eye lost to a tomcat in a cat fight.
   Twelve dogs vied for the title of the World’s Ugliest Dog. Entrants came from all over the United States. The contest has four levels of competition. Winners are chosen from both the Pedigree class and the Mutt class.
    Please enjoy the videos of the now famous contestants and from past World's Ugliest Dog Contests!

THE AROMA IN THE AIR What if merely waking up and smelling coffee powers up your brain, without ever taking a sip? Most people drink coffee for its taste and its caffeine jolt, but the smell may bring its own benefits. New research is shedding light on how drinking and smelling coffee might affect genes and proteins in the brain.
   FYI: Does this mean you could keep a bag of roasted coffee beans near your desk for that four o'clock slump, taking a whiff to perk you up? That remains to be answered.

CYBER-SLACKING It's no secret that people sneak in some personal e-mail and Web surfing when they're supposed to be working. A new study attempts to shatter perceptions that these Web surfers are just slackers trying to avoid work.
   In fact, it turns out everyone does it and researchers figure that means management attempts to clamp down on Internet use may be missing the mark. For instance, people may use the Web at work to help balance job and life responsibilities; with the personal matters taken care of from work, they can focus on the task at hand.
   **Finally, a study that benefits the common man!
Phoner: Does surfing the net at work help you keep your life in order?

IMPOSSIBLE QUESTION
   Q: There are more than 2,500 varieties of these. What are they?
   A: Mosquitoes

In Hard Times, the Truck Stop Offers a Place to Pray More than six million souls pass through this quarter-mile strip of all-night waffle houses and gas stations each year. The Rev. Shannon Rust hopes to save at least a few of them. “They all have auto insurance,” he said. “I’m trying to tell them about soul insurance.”
   According to the Trucker’s Friend National Truck Stop Directory, last year, more than 230 truck stops and rest areas reported having on-site chapels, on wheels or otherwise, up from about 120 in 2000.
   According to the research many truckers feel uprooted by the foreclosure crisis, pained by prices at the pumps and uncertain about the war, the economy and the coming election, they are anxious and searching for a sense of security.
   Mr. Rust described a thank-you letter one man sent him recently after they had prayed together for the man’s teenage daughter, who had run away but who then reappeared the next day. “It’s been coming for a while,” Mr. Rust said, abruptly shifting the topic back to the troubled times. He looked at the sign he had placed next to the chapel entrance soon after the Sept. 11 attacks. “In the end, perilous times will come. Are you ready?”

Many Normal-Weight Teens Feel Fat At a time when much of the Western world is focusing on obesity problems, even teens who are at a healthy weight may develop a distorted body image. That’s what German researchers found after surveying nearly 7,000 11- to 17-year-olds, asking them to describe their bodies.
   Options included far too thin, a bit too thin, just the right weight, a bit too fat and far too fat. Almost 8 out of ten kids fell into the normal-weight category. However, half the normal-weight girls and a quarter of the normal-weight boys still described themselves as being too fat. When those teens were given quality-of-life and self-esteem tests, normal-weight children who believed they were fat scored as poorly as children who really were obese. And normal-weight children who felt fat actually scored worse on family relationship questions than obese children.
   Similar studies in the United States also suggest body image concerns are prevalent among American teens and adolescents. The data suggest that efforts to address unhealthy weight gain and obesity among young people have the potential for “collateral” damage in normal-weight kids.

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8 Ways To Cut Your Power Bill This Summer: Don’t lose your cool over rising costs. These easy-to-follow tips will help you save money without making major sacrifices in your lifestyle.
   The good news: Here are eight easy ways to save this summer.

Ten Bad Habits That Lead To Debt In A Hurry Sometimes the only way to stop a snowballing problem is to go back to the top of the hill and find out what started it.
   If you're up to your eyeballs in credit card debt, take a step back and recount your money missteps. Knowing your weaknesses could help prevent you from falling back into the bad credit pit and show you a way out. Go here for the Ten Bad Habits.

Four Money Mistakes Single-Income Families Make Four things to avoid doing, or to at least think twice about.

Steven Curtis Chapman Returns To Stage: The beloved Christian artist has decided to re-start his tour put on hold after the loss of his young daughter. Though the family is continuing to walk through this very difficult time, and some unforeseen additional issue might cause a change at a later time, as of today we fully expect and plan to play Chapman's previously scheduled US dates. All international dates are canceled at this time.
  For Dates and Information go here.

 
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Well this summer it's important to keep kids safe and now there is a new web site that offers safety tips. It's called the Safety Mom dot com. There is advice from installing child safety seats to the kind of swimming pool fences that are best... Plus, how you can take precautions to protect your unborn child from illness and accidents and a whole lot more.

Get Your Exact Tax Rebate Date: This online tool will give you the exact date your federal tax rebate should be coming.

Calculator: How Much Will You Get From Uncle Sam?: The rebate checks began going out in April... Go to this link to calculate approxiamately how much you may get. Have your tax return ready. You will need information.

Calculator: How To Pay Off My Balance on Credit - A great calculator designed to show how much and how long you need to pay to kick that debt balance.

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