A new study finding that soda, candy and other foods made with high-fructose corn syrup contain small doses of mercury. The corn syrup industry and other food makers have attacked the findings as flawed and outdated. www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,484088,00.html
PASTOR RICK WARREN (of Saddleback Church) has teamed up with READER'S DIGEST on a new project called ‘Purpose Driven Connection’. It's a multi-media platform that includes a quarterly magazine, DVDs, and an online community.
Details at www.purposedriven.com/
Keeping her options open? You betcha! In a move that could only mean preparations for her political future, Sarah Palin has launched a Web site called
SarahPAC to solicit funds. Palin has remained in the limelight since the November election, recently appearing in an online interview on the site www.HowObamaGotElected.com in which she blasted the media for "exploiting her." www.sarahpac.com/ http://www.myfoxwghp.com/myfox/pages/News/Detail?contentId=8318397&version=1&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=TSTY&pageId=3.3.1
THE U.S. HOUSE IS EXPECTED TO VOTE ON AN $825 BILLION DOLLAR ECONOMIC STIMULUS PACKAGE TODAY. Many House Republicans have criticized the plan for including too much spending and not enough tax cuts. HOUSE DEMOCRATS HAVE AGREED TO DROP A CONTROVERSIAL PLAN TO INCLUDE FUNDING FOR BIRTH CONTROL IN THE MASSIVE ECONOMIC STIMULUS PACKAGE MAKING ITS WAY THROUGH CONGRESS.
Starbuck’s saying “Hold the Decaf”? The Seattle coffee giant has instructed its US baristas to stop regularly brewing batches of decaffeinated coffee after noon. Not to worry ‘decaffers’, instead, baristas will brew decaffeinated drip coffee only when a customer orders it, a process the company says takes about four minutes.
So you think you have talent? Auditions this Saturday for national anthem and halftime performers for the 2009 Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (or MEAC) Basketball Tournament coming in March. Auditions will be held this Saturday (January 31) from 9 to 3 p.m. at the Benton Convention Center in Winston-Salem. The MEAC Basketball Tournament happens March 10-14 at the LJVM in Winston-Salem. Auditions are free and open to the general public.
Pre-registration applications can be found on www.MEACsports.com.
This Drum Major is calling it quits…after being suspended from his band…all for nodding at President Obama on Inauguration Day. Drum Major John Coleman resigned from the Cleveland Firefighters Memorial Pipes & Drums yesterday, a week after the parade in Washington, DC. Mr. Coleman said that the publicity about his suspension had gotten to be too much. Here is the deal: Mike Engle, one of the band members, stated that Mr. Coleman was suspended because he ignored military protocol. Read more:
http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/01/27/inauguration.drum.major/index.html?iref=mpstoryview
ACC Basketball: NC State rallies to beat Miami…84 – 81 in OT
Tonight: Wake Forest taking on #1 Duke at the Joel.
