This post dedicated to my favorite Llano Estacado pastor.
Christ Statue Competition
SAO PAULO (Reuters) – A little-known Brazilian farming town with sugar cane wealth is set to upstage Rio de Janeiro by erecting a statue of Christ that will eclipse its famous equivalent atop Rio’s Corcovado mountain.
The Christ statue in Sertaozinho, northwest of Sao Paulo city, will be 187 feet (57 meters) tall when perched on its 128 foot (39-metre) pedestal, Brazilian daily newspaper Folha de Sao Paulo said on Tuesday.
Rio’s iconic statue overlooking the beach-side city measures up at 98.4 feet (30 meters) high, but its much shorter pedestal gives it a total height of just 125 feet (38 meters).
“Far from a pretense of grandeur, we’re thinking about visibility,” said Nerio Costa, mayor of the town 206 miles (330 kilometres) from Sao Paulo which hopes to inaugurate the 1.5 million reais ($681,000) structure at Easter.
9-Year-Old Uses Jiujitsu on a Pit Bull
During jiujitsu lessons Tuesday evening, instructor Matt Baker asked 9-year-old Drew Heredia what he would do if put in a certain position he was teaching.
“I’d get on my back and do a choke hold,” he said.
It’s the same thing Drew did last week when he saved a 12-year-old girl from being mauled by a pit bull. Using a tactic he learned in class, he put the attacking dog in a chokehold and held it for at least 20 minutes until help arrived.
“I wanted my son to be in this sport in case there was ever an emergency, in case he ever had to protect himself,” mother Amy Heredia said. “I thought he’d maybe use it as a man, but I had no idea as a child.”
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Texas Loses The Lead
Mississippi now has the nation’s highest teen birth rate, displacing Texas and New Mexico for that lamentable title, a new federal report says. Mississippi’s rate was more than 60 percent higher than the national average in 2006, according to new state statistics released Wednesday by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The teen birth rate for that year in Texas and New Mexico was more than 50 percent higher.