'Speed dating: Six minutes or less to try to find a match'
Courtesy of Tim Rickard/News & Record
News & Record | Feb. 14, 2012 | A1
GREENSBORO - Call me "Dioni #6." Just a 20-something woman looking for love.
Ahead of Valentine's Day, I tried to find a love connection, sans Chuck Woolery, in six minutes or less.
I took the challenge of speed dating Feb. 1. Eleven blind dates in about an hour.
I put on a silky top, form-fitting jeans and makeup, which I use only about 10 times a year.
This was a special occasion.
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GREENSBORO - Call me "Dioni #6." Just a 20-something woman looking for love.
Ahead of Valentine's Day, I tried to find a love connection, sans Chuck Woolery, in six minutes or less.
I took the challenge of speed dating Feb. 1. Eleven blind dates in about an hour.
I put on a silky top, form-fitting jeans and makeup, which I use only about 10 times a year.
This was a special occasion.
Read more of this article and others on the Features page.
'Officers tackle man in house'
News & Record | Feb. 1, 2012 | A1
GREENSBORO - Lindley Park should be back to normal today.
As normal as a neighborhood can be after a 15-hour police standoff Tuesday that startled residents with random gunfire about 5 a.m.
"Pow. Pow. Pow. Pow," said Debbie Whitman, imitating the sound.
All day, she stayed inside her home a short walk away from the Westdale Place home where the suspected shooter barricaded himself. At one point, Whitman snapped photos of a sniper setting up on her porch.
About 7:30 p.m., a Greensboro police officer told her to go inside, turn off the lights and close the blinds, Whitman said. Officers were close to arresting the man.
"Get down on your knees! Get down on your knees!" Whitman heard them yell. "We didn't hear shots at all."
And so a day that began with gunfire and uncertainty ended peacefully.
Read more of this article and others on the News page.
GREENSBORO - Lindley Park should be back to normal today.
As normal as a neighborhood can be after a 15-hour police standoff Tuesday that startled residents with random gunfire about 5 a.m.
"Pow. Pow. Pow. Pow," said Debbie Whitman, imitating the sound.
All day, she stayed inside her home a short walk away from the Westdale Place home where the suspected shooter barricaded himself. At one point, Whitman snapped photos of a sniper setting up on her porch.
About 7:30 p.m., a Greensboro police officer told her to go inside, turn off the lights and close the blinds, Whitman said. Officers were close to arresting the man.
"Get down on your knees! Get down on your knees!" Whitman heard them yell. "We didn't hear shots at all."
And so a day that began with gunfire and uncertainty ended peacefully.
Read more of this article and others on the News page.
Living Galapagos
During a multimedia storytelling course in summer 2009, I researched, designed and programmed interactive, Flash graphics for a student-produced, multimedia website about the human impact on the Galapagos Islands at www.livinggalapagos.org. I created profiles, like the one shown below, of each island in the Galapagos archipelago in both English.and Spanish.
See more interactive graphics, videos and photos on the Multimedia page.