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Saturday September 2nd, 2017 night edition

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DANVERS (CBS) – Chuck E. Cheese tokens are for arcade games, not paying your overdue book fines, one local library is reminding its patrons.

The Peabody Institute Library, which is the public library for the town of Danvers, took to Facebook this week to spread the word.

“This summer we’ve had a surge of folks attempting to pay fines and printing fees with tokens from Chuck E Cheese and Bonkers,” the library wrote.

Bookkeeper Sue Kontos told The Salem News she counted three tokens from Chuck E. Cheese’s and one from Bonkers, another kids entertainment center in Peabody, before realizing they weren’t actual money.

Chuck E. Cheese’s have been phasing out the game tokens in favor of cards.

Related: Chuck E. Cheese Animatronic Bands May Be On The Way Out.

The library also took this opportunity to note they don’t take Canadian coins, either. »

Mouth-clicks used by blind expert human echolocators – signal description and model based signal synthesis

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It has long been established that certain species of bats or marine mammals use echolocation, e.g. to navigate and locate prey [ 1 ].

Human echolocation is a biosonar system, and thus relies on both signal transmission (mouth-click) and signal reception (the ears). »

Wallyball: Every year the border between America and Mexico hosts the world's most subversive game of volleyball

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Home to numerous migrant deaths every year, snarling police officers – and the most subversive game of volleyball in the world.

Known affectionately as "wallyball", the border sport is thought to have been first played as part of a Mexican fiesta in 1979, before being re-staged by a magazine editor in 2006.

Since then, wallyball has gained fame and is now an annual April tradition in Naco, Arizona and Naco, Sonora Mexico. »

Female deputy DA found bloody, beaten after gang attack in California: source

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A deputy district attorney was the victim of a gruesome gang attack in Orange County, Calif., in an apparent attempt to prevent her from giving closing arguments in a gang murder trial.

The woman, whose name has been withheld, stumbled -- bloody and bruised -- into the Newport Workout gym in Newport Beach early Thursday morning, Fox 11 Los Angeles reported.

"I overheard her saying she either works for the DA or is the DA of San Bernardino and she's either in a trial or acting for the murder trial.”. »