By: Kris Allen

A young aspiring filmmaker decided he wanted to begin a very rewarding project at a rather young age. 

Taping a VHS video labeled” Don’t watch until Future” the 12 year old self records questions to ask him self twenty years down the road.

The hardest part is simply developing this kind of  idea at such a young age. This is a very great video, scoring over  1.6 million views in 24 hours!

How well do you know North Platte? Take a look at the photo below…where was it taken?

The first correct answer posted in the comments wins two tickets to Carmike Cinema 6 in North Platte!

*** Identified by  “@WTFDringle” Taken at Fort Cody Trading Post-The Buffalo***

Check out these everyday farmers from Kansas who decided to have some fun with it!

Then watch this video of San Diego’s firework display. Every child dreams of what would happen if all the fireworks go off at once.

If at least one child wished upon a star they just got their wish! Watch this malfunction of the firework display in San Diego.

By Kris Allen

A great way to determine if you’re a “Workaholic” is if you showed up to work early today with a bright smile and not hungover from the excitement of a nearly epileptic night. Seriously lightning storms make for an awesome background to firework displays, and no better place to throw it into the mix than in North Platte. There wasn’t one single second of silence from 8pm to about 1am. Nebraska knows how to celebrate Independence.

Anyways today is National Workaholics day.

Defined by Dictionary.com
“A person who works  compulsively at the expense of other pursuits.”

Defined by Urban Dictionary (Voted best deffinition)

“A person who is addicted to working, to the point where their life consists only of work and sleep. They have very few friends, if any, and some rarely see their own families.  Workaholics often suffer from fatigue, sleeping disorders, stress and stress-related ailments, and some eventually work themselves to death. Workaholics are a common sight in some East Asian countries, but are less prevalent in North America and even less in Europe.

Though the severity of being a Workaholic is always a unique situation there is nothing wrong with being a Workaholic other than having nearly thousands of pet peeves in the work place because you spend so much time there, it’s your element.

A workaholic will have troubles flipping off that magical switch that rolls around the 5:00 hour. They feel like there is always more work to be done but something in their head is blocking the message that the flow is never ending. This sign can be seen in a few different ways from constantly checking the Blackberry (in this case the Crackberry) to sitting down at dinner with your hubby for the first time in a few months and you attempt to excuse yourself so you can double check that spreadsheet you made this afternoon about the supply and demand of tootsie-rolls at the local blood donation clinic.
Pretty much if you’re working as if you had taken some ADHD medication,  and you’re just plain having fun with it, or if the song “Don’t Stop Me Now” by Queen applies you may be a Workaholic..

_____________________________________________________________________________________________Some workaholics live by the rule “If you want something done right, you have to do it your self”. Putting work onto that intern who’s is itching to be your slave can be a rough process for a workaholic, delegating work means you’re no longer in control of that project, meaning you get to go home and enjoy a beer while watching the new episode of American Idol. If you have a problem with that signs point to yes, you are a workaholic.

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#3:Neglect other aspects of life.
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Coming home for dinner may make you the number one father but returning to work afterwords screws it up more than Kanye West raining on Taylor Swifts parade at the Grammy Awards. A workaholic makes their work everything over outside life. missing birthdays, dinner dates, baseball games, outings with friends means you’re a workaholic. Sometimes a workaholic is too busy to worry about fun and friends. There’s a meeting tomorrow morning that they plan to blow out of the water, and nothing is going to stand between them and a happy boss.

Maybe you should ask your kids if you work too much, after all kids are innocent.
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#4: Merge other parts of their lives into work.
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In that rare occasional hang-out session with friends or family you may be watching a game on the TV or playing kick-ball at the cabin with family and anything that happens you want to turn it into a business endeavor.  Say if you’re a writer you may think the time you just spent with friends makes for a great short story to sell to schools teaching young scholars how to read, or if you’re a salesman that extra sale can always be squeezed in. This kind of thing gets noticed quickly and typically people around you will want to stop hanging out with you, because they don’t hang out with you to thinktank, they hang out with you to talk about how much they actually hate work, so you’re not helping.

Remember: No one likes a person that always talks about work…unless your talking to someone you work with..then you could get away with it.

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#5: Sneaking’ work.
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Being a workaholic falls under the category of an addiction and like all people who have addictions, they try to hide it. Hiding an addiction consists of lying to friends and family about where you’re going (Yeah i’m going out on a night with the guys!) like alcoholics who say something along the lines of “Going to the movies!” you get the idea.
The scene of a husband coming home at about 2AM greeted by an angry wife sitting in the dark just waiting to tear him a new air-hole comes to mind. Instead of smelling alcohol on your breath, she sees your work bag, a few pen marks on your hand, and the smell of copy paper.

Being an workaholic and working behind the scenes to be at the work place can affect many around you. Leading to an intervention.

 

Making a life change can cause stress so to avoid width-drawl from work, consider bringing Sudoku and have your boss assign it to you, if that helps.
But hey today (July 5th) is National Workaholics day so if you now believe you’re a workaholic today is your day and be proud! Stay as late as you want, take the two years worth of vacation days you accrued and throw em’ out the window because there’s no better way to take a vacation than looking at the screen saver on your desktop of some island some where other than your office! Just make sure you say hi to your kids! Buy em a Happy Meal for goodness sake!

MANTEO, N.C. (AP) — Andy Griffith, whose homespun mix of humor and wisdom made “The Andy Griffith Show” an enduring TV favorite, has died. He was 86.

Dare County Sheriff Doug Doughtie says in statement Griffith died Tuesday at about 7 a.m. He says the family will release further information.

His starring role as a small-town sheriff drew upon his own upbringing in Mount Airy, N.C. The show also starred Don Knotts and was one of the top hits of the 1960s and a perennial in reruns.

Griffith later played a shrewd Southern lawyer in another successful series, “Matlock.”

Before taking on television, he won wide praise in the 1950s in the Broadway comedy “No Time for Sergeants” and the dramatic film, “A Face in the Crowd.”

If you are feeling reflective feel free to watch an episode!

By Tammy Barnes
We need to be more careful this year than in the past this year already we have had several fires started due to people not being safe with their fireworks due the hot weather we have been having here are some safety tips to have a safe 4th of the July

1) have like a garden hose or a bucket of water ready at all times when your fire work is done put it in the bucket or spray it with water so that way it can’t smolder and start a fire

2) don’t use them anywhere near dry grass if you must hose the grass down less chance of a fire starting that way

3) you can always have the city block of your street contact Jim at city hall

I have been doing this stuff since I was a kid my mom made me
I hope we can all have a safe 4th of July weekend

THANK YOU TO ALL OF OUR SOLDERS PAST AND PRESENT!!!!

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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Scientists say they have found the strongest evidence yet that Saturn’s largest moon harbors an ocean miles underground.

If it’s confirmed, it would make Titan one of the few moons in the solar system with liquid water, an essential ingredient for life.

Previous discoveries pointed to methane-filled seas at Titan’s poles and a possible lake near the equator. Scientists have long suspected Titan had a hidden ocean based on models and measurements by a spacecraft that landed on the surface.

The latest study was published online Thursday in the journal Science.

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