HAPPY FRIDAY!!

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Happy Friday!!
Happy 75 years young to the late (?) Elvis Presley

Looks like we've escaped the worse of the winter weather here in GreenVegas, SC. Still though, I cannot remember this many consecutive days where the low temperature was in the teens or twenties. Although this morning, the low only dipped down into the mid 20's, it's only expected to get as high as 33 degrees today. Better than wind chills hitting 35 below in eastern Nebraska, minus 45 in parts of South Dakota and negative 50 in North Dakota. Is it cold where you are?

There's a new movie opening this weekend I'd like to see. "Daybreakers" is not the usual vampire movie that's flooding the public consciousness nowadays. This story depicts a future world dominated by vampires. No longer shadowy outcasts, vampire cops try to control vampire riots when the blood supply falters. Vampire scientists work in vampire-run labs. Homeless vampires live beneath city streets and devolve into something far worse than hungry hobos when they can’t find food. Damn interesting to me. Will you see this movie? Are you sick of the recent vampire TV shows, books, and movies?

What's up with the whole Jay Leno thing at NBC. This really doesn't look good for the network as it seems they want to have their Conan and Jay Leno too. NBC executives on Thursday discussed a scenario that would include a half-hour Leno show at 11:35 p.m. EST, sending "Tonight" with Conan O'Brien to 12:05 a.m. and Jimmy Fallon's "Late Night" to 1:05 a.m., according to the infamous "unnamed source" at NBC. Leno even joked about it last (Thursday) night saying "if it's true it will give us time to do some traveling. I understand that (the) Fox (network) is beautiful this time of year."- hahahahaha! No one's mentioned Conan it seems. Sad...What do YOU think? Do you care?

Some good news out of Cleveland football fans. Eric Mangini will return for a second season as Cleveland Browns coach after capping a losing campaign with their longest winning streak since 1994, the NFL team said on Thursday. I believe the "Man-Genius" (thanks Terry) has got a good thing going now and the fickle fans, not only in Cleveland but elsewhere, need to suck it up for at least another 2 or 3 years. GIve the coach and team management a chance to build something successful and long lasting. Cleveland has a tremendous opportunity to reverse the current climate of "win or go away" that pervades sports. Just my opinion, what say you?

Let's see what else I saw on the ol interweb today....


A study of 10 chain restaurants, including Wendy's and Ruby Tuesday, found that the number of calories in 29 meals or other menu items was an average of 18 percent higher than listed. And frozen supermarket meals from Lean Cuisine, Weight Watchers, Healthy Choice and South Beach Living had 8 percent more calories than the labels said, according to the study, published in this month's Journal of the American Dietetic Association. The researchers and other experts aren't accusing restaurants and food companies of trying to deceive customers. They said most of the discrepancies can be explained by variations in ingredients, portion sizes and testing methods. For example, the teenager behind the counter might have put too much mayonnaise on one sandwich.

Shooter Jennings Recruits Stephen King For Concept Album | Billboard.com click for entire story

Yemen has rejected direct U.S. intervention in its crackdown on al Qaeda. Where's "W" and the evil Cheney boys when you need them.

Baseball commissioner Bud Selig has told his Japanese counterpart that he is open to games between the World Series and Japan Series champions, but no steps have been taken for such a matchup. Now THIS would be cool- an ACTUAL World Series...

Floyd Mayweather Jr spoke to journalists today about the on again off again talks for a possible matchup against all world champ Manny Pacquiao. "First and foremost, not only do I want to fight Manny Pacquiao, I want to whip his punk ass."

A new Harvard medical study says men with restless leg syndrome are more likely to have erectile dysfunction, new research suggests, but it's not clear how the two conditions are related.

A sequel to Nicolas Cage's Ghost Rider movie is in the works. The film is tentatively titled Ghost Rider: The Spirit of Vengeance, and De Luca confirmed that director Mark Steven Johnson (Daredevil) and Eva Mendes won’t be returning. The Producers are looking at the film as a reboot for the franchise (a la Louis Leterrier’s The Incredible Hulk), it’s currently set in Europe, and there’s a possibility it may get the 3D treatment. De Luca also mentioned that he’s open to Goyer directing the film, it’s all dependent on his schedule.

Good news for cell phone carrying mice- a study in mice suggests using cellphones may help prevent some of the brain-wasting effects of Alzheimer's disease, U.S. researchers said on Wednesday. After long-term exposure to electromagnetic waves such as those used in cell phones, mice genetically altered to develop Alzheimer's performed as well on memory and thinking skill tests as healthy mice. The results were a major surprise and open the possibility of developing a noninvasive, drug-free treatment for Alzheimer's, said lead author Gary Arendash of the University of South Florida.

Looks like doctors aren't the only ones who should scrub before surgery. Bathing patients with an antiseptic and squirting medicated ointment up their noses dramatically cut the rate of dangerous staph infections afterward, researchers found. A second study found the antiseptic did a better job of preventing infections than the reddish-brown iodine solution that's been used for decades to swab the skin before an operation. Infections are a vexing problem for hospitals. Some 30 million surgical procedures are done each year, and up to a half million Americans develop surgical-site infections, mostly from staph bacteria.