And more plans.

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My son Nat is autistic, which makes him quiet and passive. He depends on routines and can be anxious when they vary. We try to prepare him for changes and explain what will happen. He usually watches the world around him seriously.

Because of all that, when he does show us a genuine smile, it is like sunshine bursting through an overcast sky.

I took this picture nine years ago, but it’s still one of my favorites:

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It’s becoming an organized crime tactic:

Card draining is when criminals remove gift cards from a store display, open them in a separate location, and either record the card numbers and PINs or replace them with a new barcode. The crooks then repair the packaging, return to a store and place the cards back on a rack. When a customer unwittingly selects and loads money onto a tampered card, the criminal is able to access the card online and steal the balance.

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In card draining, the runners assist with removing, tampering and restocking of gift cards, according to court documents and investigators.

A single runner driving from store to store can swipe or return thousands of tampered cards to racks in a short time. “What they do is they just fly into the city and they get a rental car and they just hit every big-box location that they can find along a corridor off an interstate,” said Parks.