LISD board incumbents file (The Colony Courier-Leader)

The three incumbents up for re-election to the Lewisville ISD board of trustees have filed for a spot on the May 12 ballot. Kathy Duke, Fred Placke, and Tommy Kim will seek additional terms to Places 4, 5, and 3, respectively.

Mobile Home Fire Kills 2 Lewisville Children (CBS 11 Fort Worth)

Two children died in an early morning apartment fire Friday in Lewisville. According to rescue crews, the children`s parents escaped the mobile home fire and told firefighters their children were still inside. More Local News

Lewisville fire kills two children (Laredo Morning Times)

DALLAS — A 6-year-old girl and her 4-year-old brother were killed in a mobile home fire last Friday morning in the Dallas-area city of Lewisville, police said.

Lewisville flattens Cedar Hill, 84-68 (McKinney Messenger)

GRAND PRAIRIE - Lewisville triumphed over Cedar Hill, 84-68, in a Class 5A Region I area-round game at Grand Prairie and did so on the strength of making 18 free throws in the final quarter.

Lewisville ends Dragons season (McKinney Messenger)

IRVING n Lewisville ended the Carroll boys basketball team’s season Wednesday, but the Dragons didn’t go down quietly.

I`m home feeling, sickly...

I`ve been away for awhile..`nbsp; Gee, it`s been almost a week since my last entry.. Damn! I`ve been pretty busy at work, and I`m working on a story on the side.`nbsp; Dawn, have you been working on yours?`nbsp; I`ve been pretty busy this weekend with my mother over, and we did some shopping, but yesterday morning I woke up feeling ill.`nbsp; I should have listened to my instincts, and just stay home, and not venture out there to do more shopping with mother, but alas, I went against my better judgment, and did more shopping, and took her home late yesterday afternoon.`nbsp; I felt nauseous.`nbsp; Perhaps all that chocolate from my previous sugar high got up to me.`nbsp; My younger son Nicholas was throwing up on Friday night; may be I caught his bug, whatever it was, there I was, driving on a curvy highway, in the woods..on my way home feeling really car sick. Sorry, for being a little graphic in this entry, but you know that taste in your mouth that you get, just before you are just about to lose your cookies?`nbsp; That sour, disgusting lump that comes up to your throat?`nbsp; I can`t describe to you how horrid it is when you are behind the wheel, with no place to stop on the side of the road, and with a sleeping child in the backseat.`nbsp; I`m sure, it would have been worse if he was awake and saw it all, but I felt I was trapped in my car, in front of wheel.`nbsp; Not just once, or twice, but three times-----`nbsp; In the words of my dear hubby that cleaned the van afterwards, "Honey, it looks like you exploded."`nbsp; Oh it was awful.`nbsp; I was drinking a lot of liquids hoping it would relieve the stomach ache, and help me at least burp a little, but oh Lord, it was just awful.`nbsp; I`m not going to describe it anymore because I just am recently able to eat something, and I don`t want to lose my tea and toast right now.`nbsp; Thank God no one paid witness to my episode.`nbsp; This isn`t the first time it`s happened to me.`nbsp; The last time was when I Nick was a baby.`nbsp; I felt like crying--my God I was filthy.`nbsp; I somehow got a hold of my purse and grab my cell phone. `nbsp; "Lizzy, when you hear the garage door open, I want you to grab my pink bathrobe, and bring two plastic trash bags.`nbsp; I just threw up on myself."`nbsp; Thank God, Lizzy was home.`nbsp; Basically I undressed in the garage and my clothes were put in a trash bag.`nbsp; I have no idea where my clothes are.`nbsp; I bet you anything my daughter threw them away.`nbsp; I`m feeling better, but decided to just stay home today.`nbsp; I hope you are all feeling well, and sorry for the disgusting entry.`nbsp; I haven`t been reading my alerts lately, so forgive me..`nbsp; I will try and read them all soon.`nbsp; Take care!`nbsp;

10 Foods I Hate

Leave it to Dawn at Carpe Diem - Seize the Day`nbsp;to give me an idea of what to write about today!`nbsp; I`m still feeling a little LOOPY--not yet 100% Here is my list! 1.`nbsp; Cottage Cheese-the texture makes me gag. 2.`nbsp; Marcella Tea (Cha Marcella)--the taste makes me gag even worse.`nbsp; (It`s an herb tea my mom makes out of dried little daisies.`nbsp; It`s supposed to help stomaches.`nbsp; It only takes 1 sip to make me want to hurl.)`nbsp; 3.`nbsp; Fish.`nbsp; ANY fish with bones in it; especially sardines...yuck..`nbsp; The only way I will even THINK about eating fish is if there are absolutely NO BONES. 4.`nbsp; Shellfish.`nbsp; I refuse to`nbsp;put anything in my mouth that is still alive.`nbsp; (My Portuguese ancestors are now rolling in their graves.) 5.`nbsp; Liver, or any organ, or any left over part of an animal that normally cannot be found on a menu--like Bull testicles for example.`nbsp;`nbsp;No way..`nbsp; Don`t even ask me to try some Menudo!`nbsp; I like Ricky Martin, but that is about it.`nbsp; 6.`nbsp; Grape Nuts Cereal.`nbsp; If I want to get that texture in a cereal, I can always get me a bowl of rocks and cover it with milk.`nbsp; No thanks.`nbsp; 7.`nbsp; I will NEVER eat a rabbit.`nbsp; I don`t care if`nbsp;it tastes like chicken.`nbsp; That goes for squirrel and possum as well.`nbsp; Ewww..`nbsp; 8.`nbsp; Octopus/Squid.`nbsp; YUCKO!!`nbsp; Let`s just say the ONLY thing I will eat from the sea is shrimp and crab.`nbsp; I love crab cakes.`nbsp; 9.`nbsp; Egg Nog.`nbsp; Even with liquor it`s hard to drink.`nbsp; 10.`nbsp; Sweet `amp; Sour Soup.`nbsp; EEewww...`nbsp; The taste stays in my mouth for hours, and it`s too thick and rich.`nbsp; I always get a stomach ache.`nbsp; Notice I have not ONE vegetable on my list?!`nbsp; I`m a good Rabbit (Coelha)...I eat my veggies, and my chocolate.`nbsp; `nbsp;

Secure Backup - The Time Is Right

For many years, backup has been the exclusive purview of IT. As long as costs were contained, backups were made during specified windows, and service-level agreements for application performance were met, no one outside of IT paid much attention to how backup was achieved. But times have changed. Companies are now more vulnerable than ever to data loss and tampering, and the costs resulting from security lapses increase daily. Nowadays, backup security is also an issue for the boardroom, not just the data center. The burdens of data ownership and the risks of not having a secure backup system in place grow steadily. This paper explores the best practices for backup security and makes the case for implementing encryption solutions now.