Creator:  Jan Garrard In recent decades, changes in Australian lifestyles, urban environments and transportation systems have led to changed physical activity patterns among children. This report looks at trends and potential interventions.

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Active transport: children and young people (an overview of recent evidence) (Australian Policy Online)

Within days of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives announcing a ban on hand-held cell phone usage while driving, AAA Mid-Atlantic released a statement saying a new study shows that hands-free phones may not be safer than hand-held models while driving. The organization encourages state governments to consider a more comprehensive distracted driving legislation to include all phone models.

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AAA calls for comprehensive cell phone ban for drivers (Montgomery Life)

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Within days of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives announcing a ban on hand-held cell phone usage while driving, AAA Mid-Atlantic released a statement saying a new study shows that hands-free phones may not be safer than hand-held models while driving.

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AAA supports full cellphone ban while driving (The Mercury)

Chicago police now will be able to alert the public instantly about everything from child abductions to crime-related traffic jams via a cell phone text or an e-mail. The Police Department has signed up for Nixle, a free alert notification system that sends messages to registered users.

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Chicago police to text, e-mail public safety alerts (Chicago Tribune)

You’ve got them laying around the house.

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Greeley Man Makes A Splash With Trash (KMGH 7 Denver)

Whether climbing a hill or navigating tricky terrain, a new six-legged robot has got it covered using a digital circuit that mimics specialized brain cells used by insects for walking. In cockroaches, for example, repetitive movements like breathing or walking are controlled by small clusters of brain cells called central pattern generators, or CPGs.

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New 6-Legged Robot Walks By Taming Chaos (LiveScience.com via Yahoo! News)

By the time she got to the slides showing neurological patterns in various brains, Ines Segert had the 30-plus students in her behavioral science class hooked.

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Grading the Graders (Columbia Daily Tribune)

We read the poem “The Shape I’m In”, identified adjectives and similes, then used this writing frame to plan and write our own poems in Year 2. Sign up – it’s free!

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"The "Shape I’m In" poetry writing frame (Times Education Supplement)

TODAY Tuscaloosa Group Alcoholics Anonymous: 9:30 a.m., open discussion nonsmoking; noon, closed discussion; 4:15 p.m., closed discussion, nonsmoking; and 8 p.m., closed discussion, 2025 Jack Warner Parkway. Call 205-759-2497.

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CALENDAR: Community Events (The Tuscaloosa News)