Maureen Whitehouse on NBC 4 News

Maureen Whitehouse on NBC 4 News

Watch the interview: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFZuuAqR26Q

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News of the Day

All human life has been eradicated: Say hello to Zeno, the robot boy.





Looking for love in all the wrong places: The abandoned monkey who has found love with a pigeon





If you build it...they won't come: Marlins played the Nationals at Dolphin Stadium and only 400 people showed







How is the air up there?: Dubai tower now world's tallest free-standing structure

In The News

No need for diapers - start potty training at birth
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Hack an IPhone - get a new car
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Idaho Republican Senator caught attempting to canoodle with a bathroom stall neighbor.
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Drunk? No Legs? No Problem! Bring a friend along and go drunk driving.
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Gay unions sanctioned - 600 years ago in Medieval Europe.

Slow News Day for Sun Sentinal?

The South Florida Sun Sentinal has on their home page the headline "Are Hollywood starlets getting too thin?" with pictures of Lindsay Lohan and Nicole Richie above it.

First of all this story is sooooooo old. I know the date of the story says August 22, 2007, but this was "news" almost 2 years ago. Where has the Sun Sentinal been all this time?

Second, earth to Sun Sentinal!!!! Nicole is pregnant and hopefully getting "fat" and Lindsay is in rehab and is said to have never looked better. That's what everyone is talking about now. Get it right! DUUUUHHHHH

I Thought I Have Heard Of It All

But this woman faked her own "slip and fall" accident at a supermarket in Sunrise, Florida.

Click here to read the article and see the video.

The best part is seeing the woman literally dive into the olive oil on the floor.

"When she's falling, she's not falling backward, she's falling forward," said Diaz, "usually when it's a slip and fall, you tend to fall backward."

Diaz decided to do a little investigating on his own and rewound the surveillance tape back even more, and what he found surprised him. On the tape, the same woman, in the same aisle, minutes before her 'slip and fall' accident. On the tape, the woman appears to be trying to open a bottle of olive oil unsuccessfully. The woman puts it back on the shelf, leaves the aisle only to return a few moments later and pick up a new bottle. The tape shows her opening this bottle and pouring some of the oil onto the floor, then she puts the bottle back on the shelf and leaves the aisle.

Minutes later, she returns to aisle and 'slips' on the oil.

More Critical Miami Love.

Linksworthy: Alesh geeks out over the new Sun Sentinel website and then he starts talking seriously about newspapers and the future of online news in a wonderful new post at Critical Miami.

News of the Day

Stinky Orchids bring flower lovers to Yosemite

"I was out surveying clovers one afternoon, and I started smelling something. I was like, 'Eew, what's that?'" said Colwell, who works for the U.S. Geological Survey in El Portal. "It smelled like a horse corral on a hot afternoon."

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Elvis impersonators are not only in Vegas - They are also on Ebay

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Keep your eyes open for a mid-August meteor shower!

Look Northeast during the evening of August 12th into the early morning hours of August 13th.

Oh, I love Giant Squid stories...

And, luckily, there was one today on Yahoo, a story about the widest yet Giant Squid washed up on the shore in Tasmania, Australia. These "once believed to be mythical creatures" are showing up more and more these days, washed up on shores or in the first live video of the creature ever taken in 2006 (a still from the video above).

I'm not entirely sure why I'm so fascinated by these guys, but it might have something to do with this, from the Museum of Natural History in Manhattan:

Positive News

So it seems lately that most news sites aren't so positive. Here is a great site I just came across

POSITIVE NEWS area of News for the Soul

here are few news articles (even some positive celebrity news)
Rare condors hatch first egg in wild for 18 years
Internet cafe helps homeless renew friendships
Firm sends staff on all-expenses Mediterranean cruise to say thanks
Boy defies doctors by walking
Tomb Raider costume is raising thousands for Unicef
Angelina Jolie orders 2,000 pizzas for African extras
Positive People Website

The House that Cannabis built

Ok so maybe just the walls...
The Rokeby-Thomas house on Saltspring Island, Canada was built with hemp-bale walls on the main floor.

If this house ever caught on fire I'm sure they would have some party.

Ok so hemp itself is not a drug, but it's a funny thought.

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Wanna Walk On Water?

Go to Beijing.

Right now China is celebrating a week-long Labour Day holiday, which started on Tuesday, a time when millions of Chinese people travel to major cities to enjoy cultural attractions or return home to visit relatives and friends.

No fair! Why don't we get any week long holidays in the US?

Drunken Pirates Beware!

If you saw the picture to the left on someone's Myspace page you wouldn't think twice about it. First of all, she has all her clothes on. Second, she a pirate - what's wrong with that?

Well, surprise surprise this picture cost Stacy Snyder, a teaching student at Millersville, her teaching certificate and downgraded her degree. All because of a little caption - "Drunken Pirate"

She was of legal drinking age the time the photo was taken but the school found the picture to be "unprofessional" and refused to award her a degree in education and the teaching certificate. Instead she was given a degree in English.

You have to be kidding me, right? This girl is freaking Mother Theresa compared to the skanks all over myspace. All because she said she was drunk? She is legally allowed to be drunk. Maybe they have something against Pirates?

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Stephen King on Cho Seung Hui

Stephen King was asked by Entertainment Weekly about his thoughts on the Virginia Tech murders. Being that Stephen King writes horror stories, I felt it was really interesting to hear his take on it. A lot of people said that Cho should have thrown up warning signals because of his violent stories, but wouldn't Stephen King have thrown up the same flags? When is it just imagination or crossing the line to disturbing insanity?

Here is what Stephen King had to say:

I've thought about it, of course. Certainly in this sensitized day and age, my own college writing — including a short story called ''Cain Rose Up'' and the novel RAGE — would have raised red flags, and I'm certain someone would have tabbed me as mentally ill because of them, even though I interacted in class, never took pictures of girls' legs with my cell phone (in 1970, WHAT cell phones?), and never signed my work with a ?.

As a teacher, I had one student — I will call him George — who raised red flags galore in my own mind: stories about flaying women alive, dismemberment, and, the capper, ''getting back at THEM.'' George was very quiet, and verbally inarticulate. It was only in his written work that he spewed these relentless scenes of gore and torture. His job was in the University Bookstore, and when I inquired about him once, I was told he was a good worker, but ''quiet.'' I thought, ''Whoa, if some kid is ever gonna blow, it'll be this one.'' He never did. But that was in the days before a gun-totin' serial killer could get top billing on the Nightly News and possibly the covers of national magazines.

For most creative people, the imagination serves as an excretory channel for violence: We visualize what we will never actually do (James Patterson, for instance, a nice man who has all too often worked the street that my old friend George used to work). Cho doesn't strike me as in the least creative, however. Dude was crazy. Dude was, in the memorable phrasing of Nikki Giovanni, ''just mean.'' Essentially there's no story here, except for a paranoid a--hole who went DEFCON-1. He may have been inspired by Columbine, but only because he was too dim to think up such a scenario on his own.

On the whole, I don't think you can pick these guys out based on their work, unless you look for violence unenlivened by any real talent.

Ismail Ax

You all know there was a really scary and sad event that happened on Monday. A young man took the lives of 32 of his co-eds and his own life at the campus of Virginia Tech.

Cho Seung-Hu was his name and before he committed this horrific act he wrote something on his arm in red ink- Ismail Ax

Two days later, a package arrives at NBC's NY headquarters. A postal employee notices the Blacksburg return address and the words "Ismail Ax" written in red ink and she brought it to NBC's attention.

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Honestly, I didn't know what to say after this terrible event happened. It weighed heavily on my mind and I just didn't even know where to begin. This type of violence is senseless and possibly only done for celebrity-like results. Why else send in a video? Did he think there was an audition to win the honor of being the hand that caused the worst bloodbath on American soil?

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So what is up with "Ismail Ax"? What does it mean? Check out Boing Boing's analysis - it is pretty interesting.

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He got the world's attention. What are we supposed to learn from all of this? Is he just a freak that had a mental imbalance - or is something causing people to be like this? He isn't the first to do something like this - although his was pretty extreme - so where does it come from?

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My heart goes out to all those in pain during this time.

Smartest Move In a Long Time

Who ever came up with the idea that cell phone use should be allowed on planes (in-flight) should seriously be trapped in a plane for three hours with 200 teenage girls talking on their cell phones about American Idol.

Luckily for all us sane and intelligent people, the FCC has decided to keep a ban on cell phone use while in-flight.

The FCC cited technical reasons for keeping the rule in place that bans cell phone use. The agency said that there is "insufficient technical information" available on whether airborne cell phone calls would jam networks below.

But I bet the many many many complaints received from travelers swayed their decision a bit. Many people got in contact with the FCC to tell them what a stupid idea it was. People shared stories about inane cell phone conversations and the need for quiet for the many hours we are on flights.

All I can say is THANK GOD!!!! Seriously this would have been so horrible. Imagine not only sitting next to a smelly guy who farts on one side but a teenage girl who talks non-stop on the other. There is no way that people wouldn't lose their minds.

Idiot of the Week

Ever heard of Dine and Dash? You go into a restaurant, order food, run out before the bill.

Learn from our idiot of the week: The Gin and Tonic Bandit. Don't do that. Every week. For 5 weeks. At the same restaurant. On Wednesdays. And order the same thing each time. You will eventually get caught.

Or at least order something worth more than $25.96!

Seriously Yahoo, WTF?

The other day I was saying that Yahoo has become a bit obsessed with cute animals.

Today I went on their news page and it hasn't stopped. See. Again. And Again. And AGAIN!

UPDATE: MORE!!!

ANOTHER UPDATE: ANOTHER CUTE ANIMAL!!

No wonder Cute Overload has been so successful...

And for all of you who love those cute animals but Cute Overload gives you a toothache...check out I Can Has Cheezburger

Do You Want To Save The World?

It seems that saving the world is on everyone's lips lately. San Francisco just passed a law which would ban plastic bags to be used at supermarkets and other stores. A major solar power plant just opened in Portugal. Restaurants are refocusing their menus on local sustainable ingredients. Countless companies are going green. Biodiesel fuel is available for everyday use. And people are switching to energy saver lightbulbs.

Sounds like people are actually starting to realize the need for change.

Lori just posted a great piece on her blog about saving the planet one plate at a time. She talks about a book called Soul-Full Eating, written by Maureen Whitehouse. Maureen says:

“I’d like to offer people hope,” said Whitehouse. “To deliver the news that there are simple things you can do to affect global change for the better. Yes, responding to Al Gore’s call to action can start as simply as choosing different foods to put on your plate. And you can learn to make better choices more easily when you know how to eat in a way that resonates with your Soul.”

So what can you do today to save the world? Well, first you can go out and get Maureen's book and learn about buying organic local foods. Next, buy some reusable cloth bags to take to the grocery store which will cut down on plastic bag use. Try opening the windows instead of pumping the A/C. Shut off the lights when you leave a room. Find out if your local energy company has any reusable energy sources which you can help contribute towards. FPL recently started a new program called Sunshine Energy where you contribute $9.75 a month towards building reusable alternative energy sources in Florida.

So what else can you do right now? Please share some tips and help save the world!

Some Random Thoughts For Today

Elad just started a new job at a place called Genius Jones (a design store with all things for children - toys, books, clothes, furniture, strollers, etc). He is almost insanely excited about this new atmosphere. He loves the people, the work, the toys.

I continue to sit at my boring desk with piles of documents to read and fight over. No toys. No fun. No fair.

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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice just went to the mid-East to spark peace talks. She was hoping to get a final status on some issues such as Jerusalem, the borders of an eventual Palestinian state and the question of whether Palestinian refugees who fled, or were forced to leave, their homes would have a right to return to Israel. All she got was an agreement that Palestinians and Israeli's would talk twice a month in an attempt to resolve these issues.

Ms. Rice, greater people have tried to bring peace and they have failed. I think even God himself called them on a few occasions and negotiated some deal that failed. Nice try. I hope you didn't bill me for that trip.

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The word babies and engagement seem to be everywhere lately. Is it just me?

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It seems that everytime I click on Yahoo news I get at least three stories about abnormal animals in the "most popular" section. Is that what the world is really interested in? Maybe I need to refocus this blog...

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Have you heard of the Pat Tillman story? Pat was a football player for the Arizona Cardinals who enlisted in the army 8 months after the September 11 attacks. He died in battle. First he was made out to be a hero, given a Silver Star and Purple Heart for dying at the hand (or barrel) of enemy fire. At some point down the line his family was informed that Pat actually died from "friendly fire" (that word cracks me up) when he was accidentally shot by another US soldier who thought he was an enemy. After he was shot both American and Afghan soldiers attended to him. His clothes was burned and the entire incident was covered up by the US Army. Until a few months later, when the truth came to light and now there are some serious questions about investigations, cover-ups and how deaths in this war are being handled.

No surprise. Lies! Lies!

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Subprime Mortgages are causing people (especially in Florida) to lose their homes. Many adjustable loans fall into this category, where a lender offers a loan with a low introduction rate which jumps up after two years to a rate that the borrower could not afford and causes a default. Also, there are mortgages where you pay a low amount each month which actually takes away from the equity in your home. In some cases a person with a 90k mortgage could end up owing almost 300k after a few years. And the entire time, the borrower thinks they are paying their home and owning it when in fact they are losing their home to a shady business.

Really sad. I think I was offered one of these when I went shopping for a mortgage a few months ago. Luckily I passed it over and insisted on a fixed mortgage.

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I checked out one of my favorite blogs, Cityrag, and saw a post entitled "Getting to the Maybe". The post had nothing to do with this blog so understandably there was no link to this blog. But still, I am a bit confused and yet flattered at the same time.

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Two people (a non-married couple traveling together) both fell off a Princess cruise into the Gulf of Mexico a few days ago. They refuse to disclose the reason for their fall. The man who fell decided to stick around on the cruise after the fall and the woman decided to go back to land. The crew was informed by friends of the couple that they fell off the boat (how did the friends know??). The Captain immediately turned the boat around and spent 4 hours searching the waters. They were both found in the water with minor injuries.

So why won't they tell us what happened? Why did they fall off the boat? They are demanding privacy but it doesn't look like they are blaming the ship. Ohhhh I am so interested in hearing about this lover's quarrel!!!

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Update on my New Year's Resolutions. I got Bubba's teeth removed. He now only has 2 teeth left. He is doing GREAT. He is very active and happy. I think he is a puppy again (or maybe just acting 12 instead of almost 15 years old). Anyway, I am so happy I went through with it even with all the risks that were involved.

Oh and that eating healthy diet thing....I am still at it. I think I have lost a few pounds but the clothes are still the same size. But, I haven't given up yet!! Now I just need to get to that exercise....

News of the Day

France First in Opening up UFO Files - now we get to find out about the more than 1,600 UFO sightings over the past 5 decades.

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Study finds Alcohol and Tobacco is worse than drugs (yes, including marijuana and ecstasy). Take that D.E.A.!!!!!

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NOT THE PUPPIES!!! Rat poison found in various brands of cat and dog food.

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Mansion for the homeless? Japanese billionaire Genshiro Kawamoto is handing over eight of his mansions to 22 low income families in Hawaii for ten years and giving them 10 $100 dollar bills each to start off their new lives. Was that a 2nd grade word equation?

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Aww, How Cute!?!?! A Tiny Owl....