Club Penguin

Club Penguin Is Shutting Down

... on March 29, 2017. The closure is a bittersweet milestone for a certain generation – those who grew up with computers and the internet, and learned to socialize online through Club Penguin’s virtual world. Started in 2005, the site featured avatars of animated penguins (hence the name), that lived in its online world. Users could play games, chat, and build their home with virtual accessories. The company sold to Disney in 2007, in a deal that then valued the business at $700 million. At the time, it had over 12 million users. By 2013, that number had grown to 200 million, though there’s some indication that visitors have been on the decline. According to one traffic measurement source, Similar Web, the site saw 5.6 million visitors as of December, 2016 – and that figure was down from 7.4 million in July, 2016. The U. S., however, was still the primarily source of that traffic, driving over a quarter of the ...

Jury Convicts Man In Florida Keys Bomb Plot

... and containing extremist rhetoric, according to an FBI affidavit. "By intending to place an explosive device on a public beach, Harlem Suarez posed a grave threat to the residents and visitors of Key West," said Miami U. S. Attorney Wifredo Ferrer in a news release. "Let this case serve as an example to others that the U. S. attorney's office and our law enforcement partners stand as a united front against all domestic threats.". According to a criminal complaint, Suarez told an FBI informant he wanted to make a bomb, bury it on a Key West beach and detonate it. He was arrested in 2015 after taking possession of an inert explosive device provided by an FBI informant, it added. Suarez had given the informant some bomb supplies, including two boxes of galvanized nails, the backpack and a cellphone to be used as a detonator, the complaint said. "I can go to the beach at the night time, put the thing in the sand, cover it up, so the next day I just call and the thing is gonna, is ...

Orlando Shooter's Widow Seeks Jail Release Pending Trial

... her husband when he purchased ammunition at a Walmart near their Fort Pierce, Florida, home 120 miles southeast of Orlando. Swift wrote "the evidence will show that the purported scouting trip occurred while the family was on their way home from babysitting the children of a relative, that Mateen chose to drive into Orlando and to pass by the Pulse Night Club, and that Noor, who did not possess a driver's license at the time, was at most a reluctant passenger who wanted to go home.". Federal authorities arrested Salman in November at her mother's suburban San Francisco home and charged her with aiding Mateen's support of the Islamic State and then lying to FBI agents and police investigating the Orlando nightclub attack. Salman and Mateen lived with their 3-year-old son in nearby Fort Pierce before the attack. Salman and her son moved in with an aunt in Mississippi immediately after the attacks before settling with her mother in her hometown of Rodeo, California, about 25 miles east of San Francisco. Details of the charges remained under seal Tuesday and the U. S. Attorney's office in San Francisco did not return phone calls from The ...

Pit Bull Places 11 Puppies In Foster Woman's Lap

... under President Ronald Reagan. • He worked for two years in George W. Bush's Justice Department prior to taking his seat on the 10 th Circuit Court. • Gorsuch is considered a textualist – one who follows the letter of the text, in this case, the Constitution. • He is also considered a originalist – as Scalia was. Originalism holds that the Constitution's meaning is stable from the time it was ratified. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia defined "originalism" this way : "The Constitution that I interpret and apply is not living but dead, or as I prefer to call it, enduring. It means today not what current society, much less the court, thinks it ought to mean, but what it meant when it was adopted.". • According to Eric Citron of Scotus Blog , Gorsuch is “celebrated as a keen legal thinker and a particularly incisive legal writer, with a flair that matches — or at least evokes — that of the justice whose seat he would be ...

Trump Epa Order Sets Off National Parks Tweets About Climate

... 11:07 PM. By: FOX __link__. Tobias Leeger Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0). Police arrested a substitute teacher Tuesday in Pawhuska, OPafter she reportedly exposed herself to an entire high school class. What started as a toothache led to father's death. Published: Tuesday, January 31, 2017 @ 10:43 PM. Updated: Tuesday, January 31, 2017 @ 10:43 PM. By: Hot __link__. (Photo by Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images). A mother is grieving the unexpected loss of her husband after a tooth infection spread to his lungs and eventually stopped his heart. Vadim Kondratyuk Anatoliyevich, 26, was the father of two little girls in Antelope, California. Two weeks ago, he started suffering a toothache. > > Read more trending stories. KTXL reported that his wife, Nataliya, said that he had gone to a dentist who cleaned the tooth and prescribed him antibiotics. He was a truck driver and was on a cross-country trip when he became too weak to drive. His brother make the trek to bring him home and checked ...

Most Children Should Be Fed

... developing an allergy to the nut. Around 5 percent of Americans have some sort of food allergy , and 1 to 2 percent have peanut allergies. According to one study, the prevalence of peanut allergy has doubled over the past 10 years in the United States and other countries that advocate avoidance of peanuts during pregnancy, lactation, and infancy. Children allergic to peanuts can have a life-threatening anaphylactic reaction to even a tiny bit of peanut dust or food containing peanuts. The technique suggested in the study has been validated by a Learning Early About Peanut allergy, or LEAP, study. The LEAP study included more than 600 children between 4 and 11 months of age at high risk for peanut allergy. One group was fed peanuts, while the other was not. According to the study, “Of the children who avoided peanut, 17 percent developed peanut allergy by the ...

Terre Haute Torpedoes Win Scsc Penguin Plunge

... is ranked 11 th on __link__ and Rose Hulman is 23 rd. “We are looking forward to a great meet with lots of racing versus De Pauw on Friday,” coach Keith Crawford said. “They are a very strong team and are going to challenge us. Anytime you race quality people, it’s going to make you better.”. Both the men’s and women’s teams face Illinois Wesleyan on Saturday. “Swimming back-to-back days is a good opportunity,” Crawford said. “It allows us to switch things up for some people and swim some different events. For our women, it will be the first time swimming full slate since the winter taper meet, and it will be good to go full speed with a full meet schedule.”. • ISU gets ready for it’s first meet since November — After spending the last month in heavy training, Indiana State is getting ready for in-state foe Butler. “We are exited to come off of winter training and get back ...

Kids Take Political Activism To Virtual World

... voice, one that is typically overlooked, I think it's great," Bell says. Club Penguin/Screenshot by NPR. Regardless of who did log on, it is interesting to note such political activity in a space designed for kids to have fun, in a safe and protected space online. This isn't the first instance of kids or teenagers not of voting age to react publicly to the election results. Earlier this week middle school and high school students in Montgomery County, Maryland and the District of Columbia walked out in protest of Trump. While the focus may be on these large-scale walkouts of almost voting age or voting-age millennials, elementary and middle school children are also expressing their opinions. In Austin, Texas, Laura Donnelly Gonzalez, the co-founder and chief operating officer of Latinitas , a digital magazine aimed at empowering young Latina students through media and technology, tells NPR that the students she meets with are "sharing their devastation together.". "What drove the vote doesn't represent their reality," Gonzalez says. While some girls in the group feel "unconscious" to what the election result means, ...