Thursday, July 30, 2009

Thanks to Eric Gabriel (ABC 45) for stopping by and sharing about this unique opportunity to bless someone right here in the Triad.

Extreme Makeover: Home Edition (with Ty Pennington) is returning to North Carolina. The hit ABC fix-it show is soliciting nominations for a family to feature on a coming episode. Nominations can be made either by family members themselves or by someone in their community.

Candidates must own the property they live in and demonstrate why they are "deserving, heroic and/or a great role model for their community." You need to include the names of all the family members, why they are worthy of a new house, recent pictures of the family, and if possible, a video. The deadline is August 7^th. Nomination information: http://www.abc45.com/

Let’s sit down and talk: Today is the day that the Harvard professor, the arresting Cambridge officer and the President will sit down ‘face-to-face over a beer’ and talk about the ‘situation’ that happened on July 17^th. Professor Henry Louis Gates was arrested after a 911 call to his own house of a possible break-in. Gates refused to cooperate with Cambridge officer James Crowley. Gates accused Crowley of racial profiling. Crowley steadfastly denies that race was a factor in the arrest. The session is set for Thursday evening, weather permitting, at a picnic table just outside Obama's Oval office. http://apnews.myway.com/article/20090730/D99OKDC80.html

Copy of the arrest report: http://www.foxnews.com/projects/pdf/Gates_Arrest.pdf

Gates and Crowley…related? So, is this now a family squabble?

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=8195564&page=1

Don’t expect HEALTH CARE REFORM LEGISLATION TO GO UP FOR A HOUSE OR SENATE VOTE BEFORE SEPTEMBER. Blue Dog Democrats (or fiscally conservative Democrats) wanting to put off the vote until after Congress returns from its August recess. President Obama had originally wanted Congress to vote on health care reform legislation before they left Washington for the August break. http://www.pointofview.net/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=10403&news_iv_ctrl=1201

Tanning beds pose a similar cancer risk as cigarettes and asbestos, according to an international cancer research agency. The International Agency for Research on Cancer reviewing research that concluded that the risk of melanoma -- the most deadly form of skin cancer -- was increased by 75% in people who started using tanning beds regularly before the age of 30.

Melanoma is the second most common cancer in women aged 20 - 29.5
http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/07/29/sunbeds.cancer.study/index.html?iref=hpmostpop

The Internal Revenue Service says it has closed an investigation into a Minnesota pastor's sermons just before the 2008 election that addressed the moral qualifications of the political candidates. The ADF says the decision by the IRS continues to, quote, "leaves churches in limbo when it comes to speaking freely from their pulpits." http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=105375

Microsoft and Yahoo to take on Google

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_microsoft_yahoo

Ooh Ooh that smell? At first, fire officials in Fort Worth suspected that carbon monoxide or some other toxic fumes had sickened almost 150 people at a Bank of America Call Center. Just blame it on the ‘perfume’.

The incident started with two people complained of dizziness after a co-worker sprayed perfume. Others reported being sick when an announcement was made that anyone with similar symptoms should exit the building. Out of 150 employees that became ill (complaining of dizziness and shortness of breath) 34 people were taken to area hospitals, 12 by ambulance…An additional 110 were treated at the scene. Investigators do not know what type of perfume was sprayed. http://apnews.myway.com/article/20090730/D99OEPGG0.html

SPORTS: Olympic Gold medalist Michael Phelps lost the 200 meter freestyle event to a German swimmer on Tuesday, but set a world record in the 200 meter butterfly yesterday at the World Championships in Rome.