| Seneca fourth-grader already a LEGO champ
SENECA Sixty-eight teams of students ages 9 to 14 from around the Upstate squared off Saturday at Clemson's Littlejohn Auditorium as competitors in the Clemson/Upstate South Carolina FIRST LEGO League regional competition. Just up the road in Seneca, though, one 9-year-old could make a fair claim even before the competition to being a LEGO king. After all, his skill with LEGOs has already won him $5,000, a king's ransom for the J.N. Kellett Elementary fourth-grader. Logan Roth, son of Kelly and Lora Roth of Seneca, was one of 10 children ages 6 to 13 across the nation who were each awarded $5,000 prizes in the first of what LEGO intends as an annual award series for the most creative use of the LEGO blocks and related gadgetry. Winning for Logan was simple: he wrote an essay to the company explaining how he used LEGOs to make stop-action movies, combining the structures and figures he builds with his family's video camera and their home computer.
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Councilor to push for video cams
John Eagleton's suggestion for police car cameras is linked to saving money.
Councilor John Eagleton said this week he will push for video cameras in Tulsa police cars when he can make a compelling case that they would end up saving the city money.
"Many other jurisdictions use this technology," he said following Tuesday's council committee meetings.
"I think cameras would cut down on lawsuits and serve as compelling evidence in a high-speed chase or when an officer observes an accident."
Fifteen years ago, more than 120 Tulsa police cars had cameras installed following the death of Officer Gus Spanos, who was shot while making a traffic stop.
It was part of a $500,000 private "Camcorders for Cops" fundraising effort.
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Now our planners want to spend billions more, mostly on projects for which tolls will only pay a small fraction of the cost. The draft long-range road plan which will be up for public comment in February and March calls for spending more than $1.5 billion (with a "b") on road projects in the Barton Springs watershed alone. The Envision Central Texas survey shows overwhelming consensus from rural, suburban, and urban residents for the kind of "careful planning" you seem to want. Whether, when, and how tolls are involved are important questions, but disagreements on tolling should not confuse the question of which projects support and which harm the future we want for our region. Sincerely, Bill Bunch Save Our Springs Alliance A Tough Decision Dear Editor, I have not heard the toll road issue so well put ["Page Two," Jan.
Hardware Wal-Mart to Give HD DVD the Boot, Sides With Blu-ray
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IJ Solutions Develops Slamdance Film Festival Website Using OpenEdit ...
Slamdance Inc., was in need of an interactive Content Management web application to support their online filmmaker community. Slamdance chose open source software OpenEdit CMS to achieve their goal for a successful social networking website. Said Joel Halse Director of IJ Solutions, "Christopher Burkey, President of OpenEdit, approached me to take part in the Slamdance project." .
Big Sky Pull Out Sparks Scramble
The airport at Lake Clear serves Saranac Lake, Lake Placid and Tupper Lake. Big Sky claims bad weather and too few passengers are causing it to pull out of the airport by January 7. Local airports across northern New York are all served by the Montana airline. Officials of those airports say the airline had too few planes and was not well organized to deliver good service. At Lake Clear, they were late or canceled flights 80 percent of the time. Big Sky also ran up a gas bill of $51,000. The airport has now cut off gas and other services. "Since then we've worked out a deal with Big Sky if they show good faith and pay a majority of their bill we would release some of that credit again. But as of right now they pay cash or have a valid credit card," said Larry Miller, R-Harrietstown Supervisor.
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