Don’t miss: Remembering fire chief Rodney Miller to ‘The Office’ paper dolls to family photos

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1.Build a Paper Buddy of your favorite characters from ‘The Office.’ Also, check out our Pinterest board.

2. Top video of the week: Remembering Fire chief Rodney Miller.

3. We’re looking for photos of the modern family. Family could be the 10 cats that live with you. It might be five adopted children. You might be a single mom or dad. Or, you might have same-sex parents. Whatever your situation, we’d like to see your modern family.

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4. Check out this awesome post on Universal York by historian June Lloyd on the need for antsy schoolchildren to be provided with slates from the 1855 book by Thomas H. Burroughs.

“All children love to draw figures and make marks with the chalk or pencil. If the propensity which affords them so much amusement be properly directed, it will save them many a weary hour at School.”

5. I love when I have an Aha Moment. Recently, while staring at an empty tissue box and wondering what I could do with it besides throwing it out, I had such a moment. This is what I made.

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Top video: Remembering fire chief Rodney Miller

1. In Memory of Chief

2. A mile in her shoes

3. Strip club prayer

4. Two injured in aircraft crash

5. Firefighters fill the boot for Chief Rodney Miller

6. Remembering Rodney Miller

7. Chief Rodney Miller remembered

8. Toyota Arena to be renamed

9. Northeastern’s start sets tone vs. Susquehannock

10. York’s own locomotive

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Photos from May Day Fairie Festival via Geofeedia


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Instagram adds photo tagging

 

Beginning May 16, “Photos of You” section will appear on Instagram profiles. What this means is that you can now tag people, just like Facebook, on Instagram. When you tag someone (or if you are tagged), they will receive notification and their photo will be added to the new “Photos of You” section.

If you don’t want other people to see the photo before you approve it, you can adjust your settings accordingly.

What do you think of this? Will you tag others on Instagram?

 

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Don’t miss: From interview with author Jim McClure to memories of Delco Plaza to chance to win free groceries

1. Take Five with Jim McClure. Find out his answers to five questions, including what historical figure he’d most like to have dinner with and what he would ask him.

Also, check out Jim’s post on York Town Square about the  Good News Jail & Prison Ministry’s Gettysburg Sesquicentennial Remembrance Day on Saturday. Jim will speak at this event.

2. From Buffy’s Write Zone: In everything that happens is the seed for something better. 

3. Reader shares memories of Delco Plaza on Only in York County. 

4. Remembering fire chief Rodney Miller top video at York Daily Record. Watch this and check out the other top 10.

5. Check out the May Poem of the Month Contest on Versify.

6. Want to win a year of free groceries? Read how you can get in the running on York Common Cents. 

 

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Remembering fire chief Rodney Miller top video at York Daily Record

 

1. Remembering Rodney Miller

2. Chief Rodney Miller remembered

3. In sickness and in health 

4. “Bugman” on 17-year cicada

5.  Officer friendly

6. Officer for a Day at Springettsbury Township Police 

7. York’s own locomotive 

8. Workout Tips: Synchro Skulls 

9. Kennard-Dale survives against York Catholic 

10. Black Knights rally to stun Elizabethtown 

 

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Don’t miss: Lafayette Club auction to phone memories to York County Libraries app

1, If you haven’t signed up for our weekly No Sweat newsletter, you don’t know what you’re missing. Sign up today!

2. Multiplatform journalist Ashley May is looking for photos of the modern family.  A family could be the 10 cats that live with you. It might be five adopted children. You might be a single mom or dad. Or, you might have same-sex parents. The deadline for entries is midnight May 1.

3. Jump over to Jim McClure’s blog and see if you can solve his photo mystery He also features a video of the  Lafayette Club auction.

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Press release on using mobile technology to reduce spread of STDs

Here’s a press release that I found in my inbox today. 

Incidents continue to be reported in the U.S. concerning youth, sex and mobile technology. There is demand for technologies that help and not negatively impact our youth. Qpid.me (www.QpidMe.com) has a new mobile technology that is doing its part to reduce the spread of STDs.

“Technology is repeatedly blamed for young people having sex.  We are turning that around and using technology to empower youth to make better sexual health decisions both on and offline,” said Ramin Bastani, founder and CEO of Qpid.me – a free, simple way to access and share verified STD results in a completely private, secure and unique way.

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Interactive PJ’s make storytime fun

Just when I think I’ve heard of everything, something new pops up. Take these interactive pajamas from Smart PJ’s. Scan a code on your child’s PJ’s and then start a storybook on your mobile device. Pretty dang cool!

From the website:
“Using a smartphone, parents can scan the dot patterns on their child’s pajamas, unlocking a story with pictures and words on the screen. What’s more, a free companion app can even recite the tales aloud.”

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Churnalism compares news articles with press releases

This is interesting tool. You can use Churnalism to determine if an article takes quotes out of context, etc. Also, works with content behind paywalls. Learn more from Sunlight Foundation.

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