HAPPY FRIDAY! You made it!!! This is my weekend to work, however, I'm getting a reprieve of sorts, so for me personally, this is shaping up to be an easy weekend for me despite the head scratching psycho incident I experienced at work yesterday- PRAISE GOD!
It's already October. Reflecting on the year, it's been a bad year; a bad 2 years for people I know and me having pets pass away. Then again, as I get older, it seems I am becoming increasingly aware of death in general; including thoughts of my own mortality. But that's too morbid for any Friday (unless it's Good Friday). Much less today. The weather has finely begun feeling like 'fall'. Looking very very much to the temperatures cooling, the pumpkins and apple festivals, the fall festivals, riding up to the mountains for the color change, etc. Can you tell this is my favorite time of year?
The mighty Tarheels take on the East Carolina Pirates this weekend. The surprisingly undefeated Pittsburgh Steelers take on hated division rival (cliche cliche cliche!) Baltimore Ravens and exhonerated murderer Ray Lewis. Odd that Ray and Ben Roethlisberger have been staying in touch with each other...
Anywho, here's what I saw on the ol interweb early this morning...
A new study suggests Coffee and tea lovers may have a decreased likelihood of developing the most common form of malignant brain tumor in adults
39 years ago today, Walt Disney World opens in Orlando Florida!!
Rahm Emanuel is leaving his job at the White House to concentrate on becoming Chicago's next mayor. Is it me, or like the current Pope, this dude looks like a movie villain?
BBC America is bringing 26 episodes of "Law & Order: UK" to BBC America beginning THIS Sunday at 10:30 p.m. EDT, with subsequent episodes airing Fridays at 9 p.m. EDT, "Law & Order: UK" is unmistakably kin to the "L&O" family and is a successful British spin off of the American version.
I need to see how I can get a job at Paramount. Viacom Inc.'s movie studio, Paramount Pictures, is laying off 53 people worldwide, most of whom are based in Los Angeles, in a move that will save about $10 million a year.
Well, this is good news to ME anyway. Tony DiSanto, the president of programming responsible for everything from "The Hills" to "Jersey Shore" to "Teen Mom," is leaving the network after two decades to join ex-NBC entertainment boss Ben Silverman's new venture. Maybe MTV will begin playing videos again...
In a more LIFE affecting good news, the AP is reporting that Red Cross officials from the two Koreas agreed Friday to hold reunions for families separated by the Korean War amid mixed signals from North Korea on easing tensions over the sinking of a South Korean warship. One hundred families from each country will attend the meetings from Oct. 30 to Nov. 5 at a hotel and reunion center at the North's scenic Diamond Mountain resort, Unification Ministry spokeswoman Lee Jong-joo said.
Comic-Con staying in San Diego for 5 more years. Anaheim and Los Angeles tired to woo the 40-year-old fan convention, but Comic-Con is staying put with some new perks.
U.S. senators from Wyoming, Idaho and Utah proposed legislation Thursday that would strip federal endangered species protections from wolves in the northern Rockies.
Actress Emma Thompson has joined the cast of “Men in Black 3” as "O", the head of the MIB program.
On this day in history:
1795 – Belgium is conquered by France.
1903 - The Boston Americans play the Pittsburgh Pirates in the first game of the modern World Series.
1958 – NASA created to replace NACA (National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics).
1992- The USS Saratoga fires 27 missiles at Turkish destroyer TCG Muavenet (DM-357) crippling it causing 27 deaths and injuries. On 29 September 1994, some of the Turkish Navy sailors serving aboard the Muavenet instituted legal action against the United States government. The action encompassed 2 wrongful death claims and 299 personal injury claims. On 20 February 1997, the U.S. Court of Appeals affirmed a lower court ruling against them.
And FINALLY, from the "Alex Jones" conspiracy files, The US is buying custom-made vans packed with something called backscatter X-ray capacity has riled privacy advocates and sparked internet worries about "feds radiating Americans." "This really trips up the creep factor because it's one of those things that you sort of intrinsically think the government shouldn't be doing," says Vermont-based privacy expert Frederick Lane, author of "American Privacy." "But, legally, the issue is the boundary between the government's legitimate security interest and privacy expectations we enjoy in our cars." American Science & Engineering, a Billerica, Mass.-company, tells Forbes it's sold more than 500 ZBVs, or Z Backscatter Vans, to US and foreign governments. The Department of Defense has bought the most for war zone use, but US law enforcement has also deployed the vans to search for bombs inside the US, according to Joe Reiss, a company spokesman, as quoted by Forbes. On Tuesday, a counter terror operation snarled truck traffic on I-20 near Atlanta, where Department of Homeland Security teams used mobile X-ray technology to check the contents.
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