Dress Code for Teachers?

District officials say it's a way of having a consistent dress code across all schools. Over the summer, the school district delayed a plan to have all students wear a school uniform such as collared shirts and khakis until January. District officials say as they discussed the idea complaints came in about what teachers are wearing.

Some students and parents say if dress codes are changing then teachers should lead the way.

"If they're going to tell the students what to wear, they also should have a dress code," says parent Emmanuel Turner.

Parent Dianne Damm says, "I think it's necessary, because they're an example."

The school district is proposing strict guidelines for the teacher dress code that include no blue jeans, no shorts, no tank tops or sneakers except for PE teachers and on Spirit days. More...

Hurricane Exhibit Opens

Disney Imagineers worked with the Federal Alliance for Safe Homes, the National Weather Service and other expert groups on the project. Organizers say by doing simple things before a storm hits, lives can be saved and monetary losses minimized.

Teach Your Kids to Wash Their Hands Correctly
(tampabays10.com)- He's a star your kids probably know -- Mitchel Musso -- he plays "Oliver" on "Hannah Montana".

He's now a celebrity endorser, and he came to the Bay area to kick off his new campaign. But here's the big product he's endorsing: washing your hands.

He's the spokes-dude for a new campaign that's trying to stop the spread of MRSA in schools. And MRSA is nasty stuff. It's a staph infection that common antibiotics can't stop.

As kids filed into the Trinity Elementary School cafeteria for an assembly Monday, they could feel something special was about to happen.

Welcomed by a stupendous cheer, Mitchel Musso walked into the back of the room and up the center aisle. Kids from about ages 5 to 15 know him as "Oliver" from "Hannah Montana". For a few minutes, he spoke to the gathered crowd about why he washes his hands and why his starry-eyed fans should do the same. More...

CLICK HERE to visit the "Clean Hands are Cool Hands" website.
CLICK HERE for a guide on how to correctly wash your hands.




Three new recalls have been issued.

#1- About 145,000 Chinese-made Kenmore and Kenmore Elite coffee makers have been recalled, because the wiring can overheat, posing a risk of burns and fires. The coffee makers were sold at Sears, Sears Hardware, The Great Indoors and Kmart stores around the country, as well as on the web. The products of concern were sold between August 2007 and April 2008. Sears has received 20 reports of overheated coffee makers, including 12 reports of fires. No injuries were reported. Details: by phone at 800-978-7615.

CLICK HERE to find out what other products have been recalled.


Well This is Different

Most women choose their bridesmaids from among their dearest childhood friends.

Mary Lee Seffrood made her candidates run for the position - literally.

The 37-year-old West Chicago resident married Daniel A. Milinko on Saturday at St. Luke's Lutheran Church in Glen Ellyn, but not before staging a "Battle of the Bridesmaids" 5K race to determine who would accompany her on this special day.

About 75 local runners showed up at Wheaton's Danada Equestrian Center at 8:30 a.m., with the top three female finishers rewarded with the coveted bridesmaids slots.

"We're both runners and we wanted it to be a part of our wedding day," Seffrood said as the runners got lined up for the start. "It's such an important part of our lives."

The entry fee was waived, but donations were taken for multiple sclerosis research. More...


Nun Pageant Cancelled

(Reuters)- An Italian priest who had planned an online "pageant" for nuns has suspended the project, saying he was misinterpreted and had no intention of putting sisters on a beauty catwalk.

"My superiors were not happy. The local bishop was not happy, but they did not understand me either," Father Antonio Rungi told Reuters by telephone from his convent in southern Italy Tuesday.

"It was not at all my intention to put nuns on the catwalk," said Rungi, a priest of the Passionists religious order, speaking from his convent in the town of Mondragone.

Rungi's idea appeared in newspapers around the world after he wrote of a contest for nuns on his blog, called by some "Sister Italy 2008."

"It was interpreted as more of a physical thing. Now, no-one is saying that nuns can't be beautiful, but I was thinking about something more complete," he said.

He said his concept for the contest, in which nuns would vote for themselves on his blog, would include attributes such as their spirituality, social awareness, charity and other qualities.

Rungi wrote in his blog that his intention was to show "the interior beauty" of a nun and the work she does for the Church and for society, mostly in education and health care. More...

Beauty School Wednesday
Jackie Silver from "Aging Backwards" gives us tips on how to look younger. Get more tips from Jackie HERE  




Why Do We Get Baggy Eyes?
(livescience.com)- As we age, our eyes inevitably take on a baggy look. Now scientists think they know why.

Fat in the eye socket expands.

The finding could prove useful to the growing number of people not satisfied with the natural look.

Eyelids are not just extraneous flaps of skin. They are crucial for protecting the eye from debris and damage. The eye and eyelid are so connected that the pressure of the eyelid on the eyeball may cause one of the most common vision problems, researchers learned in 2006. Not something you want to muck around with.

Yet eyelid surgery, top or bottom, is more common than you might think. Nearly 241,000 U.S. residents had it performed last year, putting it in the top four among surgical cosmetic procedures performed.

Most of these surgeries don't remove any fat, however. They just move it around or, in a more invasive move, tighten the muscle that surrounds the eye or tighten the ligament that holds the eyeball in place. No data indicated this was the right approach, the researchers point out in the September 2008 issue of the Journal of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. More...

Couple Splits
(AP)- Nicollette Sheridan and Michael Bolton have ended their engagement.

The split was amicable, said Nicole Perna, a publicist for the pair.

The 44-year-old actress and 55-year-old singer have been engaged since March 2006. They first started dating in 1992 and spent five years together, Perna said, then rekindled their romance in 2005.

Idol Judge's First Day
(AP)- It was only her first day as an "American Idol" judge, but already Kara DioGuardi seemed part of the dysfunctional family.

DioGuardi, the freshly-installed fourth "Idol" critic, joined Simon Cowell, Paula Abdul and Randy Jackson in a public show of solidarity Tuesday afternoon as the quartet entered a Chelsea Piers building on Manhattan's west side for a round of season eight auditions.

They walked a red carpet amid a media circus aimed at getting the first photo opportunity of DioGuardi with her new co-workers. Cowell summed up the thinking behind adding the 37-year-old singer-songwriter to the panel.

"It's like, you know, having dinner with three people for seven years, and getting quite bored of each other," Cowell told reporters. "So it's having a fourth person, new opinion, I think it's gonna be interesting."

"I think it's gonna make it sexier," said Jackson, chiming in. More...

Backstage Riders
(sandiegoreader.com)- Before MATCHBOX 20 performs, their hospitality room requires a bag of pretzels (“fat free”), a bag of Hershey candy bars (“bite size”), cookie packages (“Oreo, Chips A’Hoy, Nutter Butter”), two “big packs of gum,” and two boxes of Kleenex (“UNSCENTED!!!!” in caps, with four exclamation points). Drinks: six cans of Red Bull energy drink, a twelve-pack of Orangina Sparkling Citrus Beverage, eight bottles of assorted Snapple or Fruitopia drinks (“no fancy mixed flavors”), a dozen bottles of Heineken, and two bottles of red wine (“do not open”). Also, “Artist may request help in booking tee times at a local golf course.”

CLICK HERE to see the outrageous riders for other musicians.

There are candidates on the primary ballot for all area U.S. Representative seats, State Senate seats, State Representative seats, judge races and several referendums. More...

Little League Team Comes Home

They didn't win the Little League World Series in Williamsport, Pa., but the Citrus Park Little League did their community proud.

The marquee at Tampa International Airport proclaimed its pride in the team. And when the 12- and 13-year-old players strode into the airport Monday night, they were greeted with cheers, applause, whistles and signs welcoming them home.

"To make it to the Little League World Series is unbelievable," said Greg Mills, president of the Citrus Park Little League. "What an accomplishment for these kids and coaches.

"We're all beside ourselves. We are just so proud of them."

The team didn't just make it to the World Series. It made it all the way to the U.S. semifinals. More...

But They Are So Good!

(AP)- Nestle Prepared Foods Company is recalling about 215,660 pounds of frozen stuffed pepperoni pizza sandwich products, known as Hot Pockets Pepperoni Pizza, because the product might contain small pieces of hard red plastic and other foreign material, which pose a risk of serious injury to consumers.

The Mt. Sterling, Ky., company has received four consumer complaints and no reports of injuries. Spokeswoman Roz O’Hearn said the reported foreign substance — hard red plastic as well as clear flexible rubber-like material — might have splintered off from a testing device and some of it could be buried inside with sharp edges.
 

The recall involves 54-ounce, 12-pack cartons of Hot Pockets Pepperoni Pizza brand stuffed sandwiches. Printed on the side of each carton is “8157544614D,” “EST 7721A,” and “BEST BEFORE JAN2010.” They were produced on June 5 and distributed to retail establishments nationwide. For more information, consumers should call 800-350-5016.

Don't Mess with This Dog

(AP)- A 15-pound cocker spaniel-poodle mix named Pawlee scared off a mother bear and her two cubs Sunday morning after they strayed into his owners' back yard.

Whether his bark was worse than his bite, Pawlee's tactic worked just fine. These three bears got the hint and took off.

"We had just let him out for the morning and he ran into the yard and started barking his head off," owner Fran Osiason said.

Osiason said her 9-year-old son, Jacob, went outside to see what the commotion was about and came running back in to report there were bears in the yard.

She was worried that the mother would come after Pawlee to protect her cubs, but the pugnacious pup, just 8 months old, had other plans.

His barking drove the two cubs up a tree, and they eventually climbed down and hopped over a fence with their mother and retreated into the woods. More...

We Want to Know His Secret
(tampabays10.com)- Verlyn Adamson is an accountant in Madison. As you might imagine, he likes to play with numbers and math puzzles.
 
Verlyn has developed a lottery system, that's made him rich. And now, he's exploring patent protection for his new lottery equation.

And he has the proof that it works. Verlyn and his wife, Judith, have won the Wisconsin super cash drawing four different times!

Each one was worth $350,000. That totals $1.4 million.

And the Adamsons used the same group of numbers each time.

WWJD?!
An Italian priest says he's organizing an online beauty pageant for nuns.

It's an effort to give them more visibility in the Catholic church and to fight the stereotype that they're all old and ugly.

The "Miss Sister 2008" contest will start in September on a blog run by the Reverend Antonio Rungi.

Nuns will fill out a profile of their life and vocation as well as a photograph. It will be up to them whether to pose with the traditional veil or with their heads uncovered.

Father Rungi says "being ugly is not a requirement for becoming a nun," and he adds, "external beauty is a gift from God, and we mustn't hide it." Visitors to his site will have a month to vote.

Meet the New Idol Judge
(AP)- Scooching in between Simon Cowell, Paula Abdul and Randy Jackson sounds intimidating, if not a little scary.

But , the newly-installed fourth judge on "American Idol," is confident she'll find her niche within the bickering, ratings-tested judges' panel where the line between love and hate is blurred with every critique.

"I'm just gonna speak to Simon the way I speak to everybody," DioGuardi told reporters during a teleconference Monday. "I'm just gonna have my opinion, be honest and I don't foresee any problems. I'm really excited about this, and up for the challenge."

The Grammy-nominated songwriter will make her debut when the eighth season of "Idol" premieres in January, the Fox network said Monday.

Who IS Kara DioGuardi?

"I'm maybe not a household name, but people know of me in the industry," said DioGuardi, who co-owns the Los-Angeles based company Arthouse Entertainment, which is now producing music by recent "Idol" runner-up David Archuleta.

DioGuardio's songs have been recorded by Kelly Clarkson, Christina Aguilera, Gwen Stefani, Celine Dion, Faith Hill, Carrie Underwood and Pink, among others. Her recent Top 40 hits include Stefani's "Rich Girl," Aguilera's "Ain't No Other Man," Clarkson's "Walk Away" and Dion's "Taking Chances." More...

Another Idol Hits Broadway

(etonline.com)- Another "American Idol" contestant heads to the Great White Way when Ace Young joins the Broadway cast of "Grease."

Who Will Dance with Who?

DWTS Drama
Kim Kardashian says despite slicing her foot open on a glass table, she'll be able to compete on Dancing With the Stars. "You know what, I will be able to dance. I will make it. I did cut my foot pretty badly in the hotel room. There was a mirror on a Venetian little desk and it was all broken and I saw it and I almost cut my finger, so to push away from it I used my foot ... because it just looked really bad... So I did hurt myself but it was fine. I went to the hospital, I'm fine."
 
Drama Queen
TMZ has learned Kim Kardashian was "freaking out" after cutting her foot, calling 911 and later telling the EMT's she had an "emergency" because she was on "Dancing with the Stars."

The doctors decided to glue rather than suture the cut on Kim's foot... so the wound couldn't have been that deep.

Kim wanted the glue because stitches take too long to heal and it would interfere with her mambo.

Another One for Charlie Sheen

(AP)- The actor is expecting a child with wife Brooke Mueller, Sheen announced Monday in a statement.

"Brooke and I are thrilled!" the star of the CBS hit "Two and a Half Men" wrote. "She's the best stepmom Sam, Lola and Cassandra could ever hope for. Seeing her love and affection with those three, I know she'll be an amazing mom. Unless I bat 100 percent, perhaps a boy awaits us."

Sheen has three daughters: 25-year-old Cassandra Jade Estevez, whose mother is Sheen's former girlfriend Paula Profit, and two girls with ex-wife Denise Richards. Sheen and Richards are still embroiled in a bitter custody battle over 3-year-old Sam and 2-year-old Lola.