Donald Driver to show moves on DWTS('Dancing With the Stars”)

The Green Bay Packers' all-time leading receiver Donald Driver

Green Bay Packer Donald Driver.

Donald Driver to show moves on 'Dancing With the Stars”

Green Bay Packers all-time leading receiver Donald Driver joins the cast of the ABC show “Dancing With the Stars.” The four-time Pro Bowl receiver will be part of a celebrity lineup that includes actor Jack Wagner, actress Melissa Gilbert

Donald Driver looks to follow in Hines Wards' footsteps on 'DWTS'

By Chuck Schilken Donald Driver has a lot in common with Hines Ward. Both are Super Bowl-winning wide receivers who have caught for more than 10000 yards during their long NFL careers, which have been spent with one team (Driver with the Green Bay

"Dancing with the Stars" 2012: Donald Driver, Martina Navratilova represent 

Driver, the Green Bay Packers' affable wide receiver, joins a long line of football-playing dancer-wannabes, like Hines Ward, Chad Ochocinco, Jerry Rice, Michael Irvin, Warren Sapp, Kurt Warner, Jason Taylor and Emmitt Smith. Driver is listed 

Martina Navratilova The Coniving Ex?

Out of Sight, Out of Mind

The massive tsunami

 Tohoku-oki Tsunami to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch

After extensive research, the Great Pacific Garbage Patch (or Pacific Trash Vortex) was discovered. Since its discovery, scientists estimate the Pacific Garbage Patch is twice as big as Texas and composed of a soup of chemicals, bits of plastic

Tohoku-Oki earthquake

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch: "Out of Sight, Out of Mind

Image courtesy of Greenpeace Deep Sea News' Kevin Zilnio points us to a great piece in The Independent describing what has become known as the "Great Pacific Garbage Patch," or "trash vortex" - essentially a floating expanse of waste

Pacific Trash Vortex Could Signify Future of Our Oceans

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch , Radio Times 

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Monday, January 23rd, 2012. A patch of garbage in the Pacific Ocean about 1000 miles west of California. The patch is a vortex formed by ocean currents and collects human-produced trash.

Tsunami debris spreads over Hawaii and California

Drowning in plastic: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch

Great Pacific Garbage Patch

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a crisis that, for the most part, people tend to overlook. Last year, a tsunami hit Japan, causing massive amounts of debris and drawing attention back to the oceanic landfill. So what is the Great Pacific Garbage

Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Where does all the plastic go?

Tsunami debris spreads halfway across Pacific

Ultimately, Maximenko said, most of the remaining tsunami debris will join garbage floating in a gyre between Hawaii and California produced by swirling Pacific currents. Much of that trash in a wide area known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch

Great Pacific Garbage Patch

Tsunami debris spreads halfway across Pacific

Ultimately, Maximenko said, tsunami debris will join garbage floating in a gyre between Hawaii and California produced by swirling Pacific currents. Much of that trash in a wide area known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is bits of plastic

Celebrate Leap Year 2012 on 29th February

Leap Year

Leap year flight of fancy: how to remake the calendar with no leap day

Two professors, an astrophysicist and an economist, propose junking the leap day dependent Gregorian Calendar for a 364-day (52-week) year and a leap week every once in a while.

A leap year is a year containing one additional day 

Celebrate Leap Year on Feb. 29

Make Leap Year something to look forward to every four years with some "froggy" snacks and leaping activities. By Becky Samford Make Leap Year something to look forward to every four years with some "froggy" snacks and leaping activities. On Feb.

A Leap Year happens once every four years. To make the calendar year

Leap year: What are you doing with your extra day?

By Rene Lynch Leap year is serving up its bonus day today, Feb. 29, 2012. Known as leap day, Feb. 29 is an added day that seems to magically show up on the calendar every four years. You might be wondering, what is leap year and leap day

Titanic Museum Attractions of Branson Missouri Attacked By Tornado

A tornado killed one person near Branson, Mo., overnight.

Titanic Museum Attractions hosts “A Night to Remember: An Original 

The musical tribute will begin at noon (Central) on April 14 at the Titanic Museum Attraction in Branson, Missouri, and at 8:30 p.m. (Eastern) the same day at the Titanic Museum Attraction in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee.

Titanic museum attraction in Branson, Missouri

Hamner Barber Welcomes New Vietnam Vets Event ,Hamner

This First Annual Branson Salutes Vietnam Veterans Event and Vietnam Veterans Reunion was created as Missouri prepares to honor these deserving American Heroes. The activities, shows and attractions that are planned for this important

World's largest museum attraction - Titanic Museum in Branson, Missouri

Tornado in Branson Missouri

I see by the early morning news that Branson, Missouri, had a tornado last night. One person was killed and several others were injured. The tornado hit the downtown area where the theatres are located and several were badly damaged.

32 people hurt at Branson Missouri

Strong Tornado Hits Branson Missouri

Fatal storm system damages Branson, Mo., entertainment district

By AP BRANSON, Mo. — A powerful storm system that produced multiple reports of tornadoes lashed the Midwest early today, roughing up the country music resort city of Branson and laying waste to small towns in Illinois and Kansas.

Branson Missouri tornado hits country music attractions

Storms raged through Kentucky and neighboring Missouri early Wednesday morning causing damage and injuries in its impact. In Branson, Missouri, a tornado hit Tuesday night. Over 30 people were injured in the town. John Moore spoke

Tornado hits Branson; 32 people hurt

 A hospital in Branson treated 32 people in the hours after a tornado hit the tourist destination Tuesday. A spokeswoman for Skaggs Regional Medical Center says most of those treated early Tuesday suffered only cuts and bruises.

Strong Tornado Hits Branson Missouri

School Closings and Starts Late due to Weather

SCHOOL CLOSINGS ALERT: Branson, Dallas County RI schools closed today

by Chris Brewer; follow me on Twitter @iamchrisbrewer Classes are canceled in two Ozarks school districts today after severe storms tore through the area overnight. Branson and Dallas County RI schools will not hold class today due to the damage

Suspicions fester over Catholic school closings

Or is the rightsizing of religious education being handled as clumsily as the clergy scandal was cynically? Put another way, did archdiocesan leaders know the threat of widespread school closures would generate millions in emotional donations

 Winter Weather School Closings and Late Starts

Snow and ice woes cause cancellations and late starts for Westonka, Orono, Wayzata, and Minnetonka publicschools. By Andrea Parrott Orono Public Schools: Allschools are closed today. High school sports and all community education programs