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Recall: Half a million baby bassinets made by Burlington Basket Co. are being recalled. The problem: the bassinets could collapse, if not assembled properly. The recall involves all bassinets made by the company before June of last year. For more info call 1- 800-553-2300.
Book seller ‘Borders’ is filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy re-organization. The 40-year-old company plans to close about 200 stores nationwide over the next few weeks. Locally, Borders in Winston-Salem will be the only remaining location in the Triad. http://www.digtriad.com/news/national_world/article.aspx?storyid=161516&catid=175&source=nletter-%%__AdditionalEmailAttribute1%%
Several ‘human charities’ are reaping the rewards of the latest Jeopardy ‘man vs machine’ challenge. Watson, the IBM supercomputer, ended up beating his two human challengers (Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter, two of Jeopardy's biggest former winners). The grand prize: one million dollars goes to Watson and IBM. Actually, IBM is giving ALL of the money away to two charities. One of those is the Christian relief ministry World Vision. Ken and Brad will donate half of their winnings to charities of their choice. RnR
Want to help balance the state’s budget? Well, you can at least get a feel for juggling the state’s budget by taking the Governor’s online "Balance the Budget" challenge. Choose between 100 spending and saving options to close a $2.4 billion dollar budget gap for the next fiscal year. Then, decide how many state jobs and services which have to be cut…to balance the budget.
Take the ‘challenge’. There’s a link: www.governor.state.nc.us/budgetapp/
The nominees for the 42 annual GMA Dove Awards have been announced. MercyMe received three Dove nominations (including Song of the Year for ‘All of Creation’). Nominations for Artist of the Year include: Natalie Grant, TobyMac, Chris Tomlin and Francesca Battistelli. Something new: one special pastor will receive a ‘Dove Hero award’. www.doveawards.com/
The Dove Awards will be held at the Fox Theatre in Atlanta on Wednesday, April 20th and re-aired on the Gospel Music Channel on Sunday, April 24th. Check out All the Dove nominees… www.watchgmctv.com/news/42nd-annual-gma-dove-award-nominees
The Home Builders Association of Winston-Salem presenting the 23rd Annual Triad Home & Garden Show this weekend (Fri-Sun, Feb 18 - 20)) at the Benton Convention Center in downtown Winston-Salem. There will be lots of instructional seminars and more than 120 exhibitors …including a wide variety of green-friendly products and services. TV host Wanda Urbanska, author of "The Heart of Simple Living" will be at the Triad Home & Garden Show on Saturday. (Feb. 19 at 1pm). A portion of the proceeds will go to ‘Habitat for Humanity of Forsyth County’. Details: www.hbaws.org/show.html Call 768-5942.
Read the entire Billy Ray Cyrus interview with GQ magazine. Cyrus confessing that “Hannah Montana”, the show that launched his daughter to pop stardom, has destroyed his family, caused his divorce and sent daughter Miley Cyrus spinning out of control.
The GQ Magazine article: www.gq.com/entertainment/celebrities/201103/billy-ray-cyrus-mr-hannah-montana-miley?printable=true
CYCLIST LANCE ARMSTRONG HAS ANNOUNCED HIS RETIREMENT, AGAIN. The seven-time Tour De France winner wants to devote his time to family and LIVESTRONG, his global cancer awareness campaign.
ACC Basketball: Duke over Virginia last night…56 – 41
