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LA PORTE, IN - It’s not every day that students from rural Indiana receive an award signed by the president of the United States but Juniors: Ben Barber, Rachel Cable, Julia Garay, Victor Vargas and Sophomores: Martin Garcia, Vanessa Martinez, Brandi Morrow and Alan Spradlin all received President’s Volunteer Service Awards, signed by President Barack Obama. The awards, issued through The LEAGUE and presented by Vicki Perkins, Indiana State Director of The LEAGUE are the results of service hours the students performed to benefit the people in LaPorte, Indiana. The LEAGUE is a school and web-based system for service learning that builds character and empowers young people to “do good” in their community, the nation and the world, will be
 
This year the LPHS juniors received Gold Awards which account for over 250+ hours of volunteer time. The sophomores garnered Silver awards for 175-249 hours of service. Both groups helped the community through activities such as helping the La Porte Parks Department clean area parks. The students also painted park benches and cleaned the lakes of debris.  These industrious teens also helped organized three blood drives; collected over 400 pairs of sandals/flip flops for children in the Middle East; and during the Holidays raised funds to adopt under privileged families. Those funds enabled them to purchase gifts and food. Those are just a few of the volunteer efforts these amazing students undertook this past year.
 
But this is not the first award signed by a U S president these students have received. At a LEAGUE event hosted by Queen Latifah and presented by Stephen Baldwin in New York City last year, Victor Vargas and Morgan Noble, on behalf of their class received awards signed by President George W. Bush. While the award was fulfilling, having their picture taken with Queen Latifah was thrilling.
 
At another LEAGUE event in New York, Barber, Cable, Garay, and Vargas were honored for being National High School Team Champions. MTV News Correspondent, SuChin Pak, presented the LPHS students their award for being National High School Team Champion.
 
In January of 2009 Hough, Spradlin, Vargas and their classmates: Joe Bierl, Kayla Fardulis, Julie Herbst, Kadie Hooley, Elisha Krauth, Abbey Light, Vanessa Martinez, Breland McMmillan, Kharson Nurnberg, Jessica Roberts and Shayna Shelton participated in Hey U G L Y’S  global initiative to end racism called, the Hue-Man Being Art Project. Their artwork, selected by art experts, won the honor of being exhibited at the Lubeznik Center for the Arts in Michigan City, Indiana and the Krasl Art Center in St. Joseph Michigan. The exhibit, which is featured in the paperback - Hue-Man Kind A Book To End Racism, - will be on display at the Indiana State Capital building next spring. A New York film crew from Nickelodeon came to LPSH and filmed some of these young artists for a segment that aired on Nick News w/Linda Ellerbee during Black History Month earlier this year.
 
During the Hue-Man Being Art Project, Courtney Hough asked Hey U G L Y to add the words RACISM and HATE to their Acronym Contest which is annually judged by journalists from media like People Magazine and ABC TV. Serendipitously, Hough won first place in this year’s contest garnering a $500 U S Savings Bond for her conversion of RACISM to Remove All Color, I’m Simply Me. The Savings Bond was presented to Hough by Hey U G L Y president and co-founder, Betty Hoeffner from Rolling Prairie, Indiana. Hey U G L Y is a nonprofit organization that helps teens and pre-teens counter bullying, eating disorders, violences, substance abuse and suicide.
 
So what’s in the water at LPHS that’s got these students achieving so much? To ask the kids, Hey U G L Y and the LEAGUE it’s Mrs. Ingrid Voelker. Mrs., Voelker is Title 1 Transitional Coach at LPHS and facilitates G.B.O.T. (Get Back On Track), a program to assist seniors earn deficient credits in order to graduate on time.
 
“Mrs. Voelker makes school a fun place to be,” said Alex Allgower, a sophomore at LPHS.
 
“She helps us understand the importance of working hard, giving back and enjoying life,” explained Vargas.
 
The LEAGUE saluted Mrs. Voelker last year in New York as her team had an economic value returned to the La Porte community of over $99,468!  Not bad for rural Indiana.

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A New Mexico female soccer player has become instantly famous all over the web for all the wrong reasons.

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Junior defender Elizabeth Lambert was suspended on friday for her behaviour the day before in the middle of a loss to BYU in a Mountain West Conference semifinal. Lambert’s actions were caught on video, she was throwing elbows, colliding with anyone who came into contact with her and pulling the ponytail of a competitor who fell to the ground.

She has tarnished the name of the Mountain West women’s soccer tournament by bringing huge amounts of unwanted attention with her vulgar displays.

The video of her antics has spread like wildfire through the media and of course the internet. The highlight of which is when Lambert took down Kassidy Shumway by her ponytail.

Lambert has been suspended indefinitely by her club, which was quick to cut any ties to their disgraced player.

“Liz is a quality student-athlete, but in this instance her actions clearly crossed the line of fair play and good sportsmanship,” said Lambert’s coach.

The story resembles Florida’s Brandon Spikes eye gouging an opponent in a recent football game. Although not a huge deal during the game itself, it was the reaction to the YouTube clip making its way around the Web afterwards that ultimately led to a harsher punishment. Once again youtube will hurl justice on an otherwise unknown event!

Put simply: bad behavior on the playing field is going to get a lot harder to get away with when the eyes of YouTube are watching.

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Bollywood is India’s most extraordinary industry. There are other budding Industries as well, But it is bollywood which attracts most of the Indians, due to the fact that all the

Movies are made in Hindi language– which is a national language. Whether it is a rich businessman or a poor employee, bollywood delivers entertainment to all of them; it does not recognize caste or creed. A typical bollywood movie is packed with romance stories, dance and song, daring actions and most of all, family values which can be watched by purchasing a ticket.

Bollywood was not same by this name. Formerly it was known as Bombay film Industry, because it was an Indian version of Hollywood. By uniting Hollywood and Bombay came out bollywood, a new symbol of growing film industry in India. It was later that Bombay became Mumbai, but the name bollywood stayed in the hearts of every Indians and is the same ever since. The establishment of the Indian cinema has given Mumbai a large credibility,

Hindi movies were always a matter of pride, honor and efforts.

How Bollywood  is  going Hollywood:

Now bollywood movies are not same as it was, it seems like Hollywood movies. The concept, theme story etc every thing is changing slowly. Every director wants to direct his movie in Hollywood manner. Hollywood actor and actress are keen to work in hindi movies. The film director and producer are using special visual effects in their movies. The effect of Hollywood can also be seen in bollywood’s celebrity .Most of the bollywood celebrities are following Hollywood celebrities’ style and passion; they want to dress like them.

Most of the characters are introduced from Hollywood to make film visualization better on the screen. Such as hair dresser, costume designer stunt performer etc .But these movies are not getting better response from the public. Low budget movies are giving well performance.

Big budget movies like Kambhakt Ishq, Blue, Kites, New York to name a few, have had to postpone their release dates. Apparently, the distributors of the film industry are not ready to buy the big budget movies like Blue, 3 Idiots. Even Hrithik Roshan starrer Kites with the international touch has suffered immense looses.

This shows that following Hollywood is not showing better response on screen, we want it as it was.

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