Non Traditional Lead

This has an ancedote lead.

The last time Claire Danes appeared in a play, it turned into a train
wreck. The role was way out of her range, she adopted an atrocious accent
and she overacted so badly that she recently hid under a couch while watching
the results on video. Then again, she was 8.

This lead works becasue it is an eye catching intro into the story.

croc feature story

Here is the news feature follow that I found.

Ten-year-old Chloe Johnson of Kansas City was afraid of sharks -- something that she made well known to her parents during a 2005 vacation to Florida.
But it was only on the way back from the vacation, in Atlanta's Hartsfield International Airport, that she received an unexpected bite -- from an escalator. "She was not goofing around at all, but she must have been standing in a way that brought her left Croc shoe into contact with the side of the escalator," recalls Chloe's father, Neil Johnson.
"I started hearing her squeal, and my immediate reaction was, 'Oh goodness, what now?'" he said.
But the pain Chloe experienced was all too real. The shoe had been bitten and twisted by the escalator mechanism, wrenching her foot along with it.
By the time she had limped off of the top of the escalator, helped by her parents, blood from her seriously injured toe began seeping out from the shoe.
"Her left big toe was mutilated like you wouldn't believe," Johnson said. "I sat on the floor and held her foot somewhat elevated, with blood running down my forearms."
Fortunately Chloe recovered fully. "It's a little disfigured, but she played soccer all through last year," Johnson said. But in recent months, a growing number of reports have joined those of Johnson's family as more children worldwide are experiencing foot and toe injuries from wearing the popular shoes on escalators.
According to foreign media reports, there have been dozens of reports in Asia as well of the shoes getting jammed and twisted in escalators, often resulting in serious foot and toe injuries in children.

The original story was that in other foreign media outlets there were reports
of the dangers of crocs and escalators. This is a news follow because it relates the story back to the U.S. with a young girl who was hurt in her crocs on an escalator and it is a follow up to the original story.

To be continued...

In Washington D.C. born not raised in Cali is where I spent most of my days....

Ok I had this whole clever idea to write my bio to the tune on the theme song from "Fresh Prince of Bel-Air" but it was a lot harder than I thought. Ok so I'm Shari easily mistaken for Sheri but Ive gotten used to it over the years. I grew up in the suburbs of Rancho Cucamonga and i'm also know as the white washed black girl. I pretty much love life and I am an advocate for my own reality T.V. show. I'm obsessed with celebrities and I have an unusually unhealthy obsession with Justin Timberlake.

I have superwoman for a mother and two sisters who I adore. I live with my little sister (who attends CSUN too) and to this day look up to my older sister. Yes, I am the middle child and yes I am still battling with my self diagnosed middle child syndrome. I used to wish that UCLA would have accepted me but I am a firm believer that everything happens for a reason. I have come to love CSUN and I am filled with matador pride. ANd thats pretty much Shari in a nutshell...