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The show features girls from ages 6 months to 8 years. These girls are put through the extreme to look their best. These glitz pageants can cost anywhere up to $5,000 a pageant.

Not only could this be a documentary featuring young pageant girls but it could also be a full length encounter with some of the most unstable mothers of America.

These mothers not only vicariously live through their children. They teach them great morals! These little girls learn that there is no such thing as “friendly” competition, only winning. Money will get them as far as they need in life. During this show, one can also learn how to lose weight, fast! Starvation never hurt anyone.

TLC, the channel specifically showcasing the best parents any child could ever wish for.

Written by: Mackenzie Korf

It would be a normal scenario, however the body wasn’t discovered until 5 days later due to the body’s rotting smell.

Man found dead in movie theater bathroom

The family reported him missing on January 9^th. Family members are wondering why the employees didn’t check the theater bathroom, especially after the police searched the area asking for the missing man. Fort Collins police found the DeGrazio’s red Nissan Xterra parked in the Cinemark parking lot early Wednesday morning. Police searched the area, but could not find the man.

Due to the horrible smell, the bathroom was broken into by force to find George DeGrazio’s rotting corpse. According to Cinemark employee, who wishes to remain anonymous, the tile was stained so bad from the body that the Cinemark Movie Theater is now replacing it. “It’s sad how no one noticed the body, you would think that our staff would clean the restroom,” commented an anonymous source.

The family is trying to focus on the life of their father, rather than how he was found. It’s not a tragedy of death, it is a tragedy of how one is found dead that makes this such a sad event.

The novel tells the story of two young adults who take a road trip across the United States. But like in House of Leaves, there are multiple story elements running parallel to the main plot line. Along the side of every page is a timeline, outlining important events that are happening as the two main characters make their journey. This timeline must of took a great amount of research and artistic ability; Danielewski carefully chooses each event, making each seem connected to the journey. Yet it is easily forgotten, put aside, and becomes a hassle that the reader has to remember to read and feels obligated to do so.

But the author’s typography doesn’t stop there. Something becomes immediately apparent when one opens the drawn out prose. The book is split into two story lines (one for each character) and each is given half a page. Thus, the book is written so that you have to flip it upside down to read the other part. Again, Danielewski makes a huge leap of invention, but it feels unnecessary and again, tiring. The editor suggests you read 8 pages of each story line as you make progress through the book. With the author’s overly metaphoric prose, I found it difficult and nearly painful each time I had to flip the book over to read the other half of the story.

Only Revolutions shows great promise for the author. Through the book, you can see his willingness to enhance reading, and prove his efforts. But as the reader flips the book over again and again, and the metaphors spill off into nothingness, it can become too much. Good authors can use text and metaphors constantly. Great authors know when to use them. For now, Danielekwski is simply, good.

According the New York Times, Romney accused Gingrich of “potentially unlawful activity” and “desperate” tactics. He called on Gingrich to return $1.7 million he received in consultancy fees and suggested that his rival could have been engaged in “potential wrongful activity of some kind.”

photo courtesy of the New York Times

Meanwhile, Gingrich called on Romney to publish his tax returns. He said “Governor Romney’s core problem was that as the governor of Massachusetts, he was moderate, which by the standards of Republican primary voters is a liberal. And he can’t relax and be candid.”

Gingrich has doubled his support in the last week, and now has 28%. Romney has 29%, 8 points less than last week. The numbers stayed fairly steady for both Santorum (11%) and Ron Paul (13%).

But, as is shown, things can change pretty quickly. Gingrich is leading, but that can be turned around anytime soon with a new smear add or negative speech. The GOP candidacy is still unclear, and the race is still going on.

SOPA and PIPA: the two words or acronyms that have been taking over on newsfeeds and dashboards. Two words which represent two bills that could very well change the nation and impact the world.

This is a screenshot of Google who opposes SOPA and PIPA.

So what are these two words that have the world buzzing within a matter of days? SOPA: stop online piracy act. PIPA: Protect IP Act.

The intensions are great behind the two bills. That is probably the only positive thing that can be said about them. The members of congress are trying to end piracy and counterfeit. However the radical direction of this intension leads to SOPA and PIPA.

What SOPA and PIPA means for the U.S.

Basically these two bills will censor the internet. The government will be blocking certain websites; this might sound a lot like what China does. This time and generation, which is often referred to as the digital age, would basically sink like the Titanic. With everything being censored it would kill the industry’s economic growth and discourage innovators. The whole point of these extremes is to end piracy. The chance of this happening, after these bills are passed, is highly unlikely. These bills won’t shut down websites for piracy. Piracy will always be on the web, they will just become more discrete.

SOPA and PIPA aren’t just bills. They are bills that if passed, could destroy freedom of speech for a whole generation. That would severely diminish the freedom of expression. It’s the job of everyone who has ever accessed the internet, updated a Facebook status, tweeted a thought, reblogged a photo on Tumblr, or sent an email on yahoo to stop this outrage.

Vote NO on PIPA and SOPA. “End piracy, not liberty.”

the bus with the story behind it Photo Courtesy of Brooke Blehm

Some of the ideas that have been heard around the halls were that it was a homeless person living in it that just left it there during the day and slept in it at night. Another story was that one of our students lived in the bus and they just slept in it at night when everyone else was gone. No one had looked in the bus and no one had ever just went and asked what the bus was for and If anyone knew about the mysterious bus that never moved, after much of the rumors going around someone finally asked what the bus was for and Melissa Lelm, Director of the ECU said, ” The bus is ours, We bought  it in 2008 and we used it for that school year and haven’t touched it since.” The mystery was solved and now the story wasn’t as exciting as the mysteries of the stories had thought. It was the preschool bus that the Early Childhood University uses for their field trips for their students.

Women's Bean Project Ten Bean Soup

The Women’s Bean Project is not only an organization but also a business. With the income the organization receives, they are able to pay women a steady wage as they work on their skills to develop abilities needed to obtain and keep a job. Women hired by WBP have histories of unemployment, poverty, and most of them do not have a high school diploma or GED.  The women in the program are recovering from experiences with substance abuse; some are single mothers who have been on public assistance. They need motivation and the confidence to make a better future for themselves and their families.

Margret, one of the women who went through the program was willing to change and help herself, and that is why she was hired. “I came out of a place where I felt people looked upon me as a “poor” person and someone who must struggle. These are the things I was familiar with and I blamed a lot of people for seeing me that way. I was angry about it and quick to physically attack anyone who made me angry…I want to be educated, get my GED and then go on to more education. I want to live in my own house with a mortgage where no one can tell me what to do. I want a job that I am good at and feel comfortable going to every day.”

The Women’s Bean Project is a social enterprise. They offer a job in food manufacturing that helps to provide them an immediate income while working on developing skills to graduate their program. “But the Women’s Bean Project does not hire women to make and sell bean products. We make and sell bean products to hire women.”

For Celena the Women’s Bean Project changed her life, “the training tracks in the program have taught me clerical skills that I will take with me when I leave. I can’t say enough about how good the Bean has been to me and how much it has changed my life. I am grateful to be given this chance.”

To donate or order food from the Women’s Bean Project, check out their website at womensbeanproject.com. If you order food make sure to type in our code “KEYUNIV12″ at checkout.

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University students like Jaylin were very excited about the outcome of the game, as was evident from their enthusiastic Facebook-posting. There are many Tim Tebow fans who are even more excited as a result of this. “Many people didn’t even have faith or believe in Tebow’s passing game, but 316 yards was enough to prove him capable,” said Jayin.

The Broncos will play the Patriots next Saturday for the divisional playoff game. The Patriots already beat them on Dec. 18^th, ending their six game winning streak, so this will be a dramatic turnout either way. But their fans hopes have skyrocketed with the victory on Sunday. Jaylin said, “Like Tebow always says he has a great team to work with and I hope they go all the way”.