Great weather for 'Black Friday': Sun and clouds…High near 60 Showers for the weekend.
Open: Banks and Post Office
Garbage Collection (WS): Thursday pick up today…Friday pick up will be Monday
Today is ‘Black Friday’…one of the busiest shopping days of the year. According to the National Retail Federation, as many as 128 million people will be out shopping this weekend.
A STANDOFF BETWEEN MILITARY FORCES AND ISLAMIC TERRORISTS CONTINUES IN INDIA. The terrorists launched an attack at various locations in the city of Mumbai (India’s financial hub) on Wednesday. At least 120 people have lost their lives.
IRAQ'S PARLIAMENT HAS APPROVED A PLAN TO KEEP U.S. TROOPS IN THE COUNTRY FOR THREE MORE YEARS. The new deal replaces a U.N. mandate that expires at the end of this year.
JC PENNEY IS RECALLING THOUSANDS OF PAIRS OF ARIZONA BRAND NEWBORN AND INFANT DENIM PANTS. The reason: the metal snap on the waist of the pants poses a choking hazard to infants. The pants were sold in stores and online between July and October.Recall details: www.cpsc.gov/cpscpub/prerel/prhtml09/09056.html
FORMER FIRST LADY BARBARA BUSH IS SAID TO BE IN "GREAT SPIRITS" FOLLOWING SURGERY FOR AN ULCER ON WEDNESDAY. The Houston Chronicle reports that the 83-year old Mrs. Bush is expected to remain at Methodist Hospital in Houston for several days.
The Space Shuttle Endeavour will separate from the International Space Station later this morning…with a scheduled touch down at Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Sunday.
Sports:
ACC Basketball: Last night…
Free Throws lift Wake over Cal State Fullerton
The Tarheels winning the Maui Invitational
High School Football play-offs: Area teams still playing…
East Forsyth, Greensboro Page, Starmount, Thomasville, Mt Airy,
Carver vs East Rowan…Elkin game starts at 3pm this afternoon
ACC football (Saturday):
Carolina vs Duke
Miami at NC State (noon)
Wake Forest taking on Vanderbilt at BB+T Field (7pm)
First round of the sub-division play-offs…
ASU will host South Carolina State in Boone on Saturday (noon).
11.28.2008
11.26.2008
Happy Thanksgiving...
Picture Perfect weather for Turkey Day: Lots of sunshine through the weekend
Additional Thanksgiving Day ‘forecasts’…
Turkey City, Pennsylvania: Clouds…High 41
Cranberry Lake, New York: Snow showers…High 31
Pumpkin Ridge Golf Club in North Plains, Oregon: Cloudy…High 50
Blessing, Texas: Thunderstorms…High 80
Sweet, Idaho: Sun and clouds…High 41
Turkey, NC (east of Raleigh): Sunny skies…High 63
Additional Thanksgiving Day ‘forecasts’…
Turkey City, Pennsylvania: Clouds…High 41
Cranberry Lake, New York: Snow showers…High 31
Pumpkin Ridge Golf Club in North Plains, Oregon: Cloudy…High 50
Blessing, Texas: Thunderstorms…High 80
Sweet, Idaho: Sun and clouds…High 41
Turkey, NC (east of Raleigh): Sunny skies…High 63
Wednesday, November 26, 2008
JC PENNEY IS RECALLING THOUSANDS OF PAIRS OF ARIZONA BRAND NEWBORN AND INFANT DENIM PANTS. The reason: the metal snap on the waist of the pants poses a choking hazard to infants. The pants were sold in stores and online between July and October. Recall details: www.cpsc.gov/cpscpub/prerel/prhtml09/09056.html
Triple A is expecting a slight decline in travel this Thanksgiving. An estimated 41 million people are expected to travel 50 miles or more from their homes this Thanksgiving holiday weekend.
Are you traveling by car? Great news…gas prices are at a three year low.
The North Carolina DOT has suspended most road construction projects across the state until Monday morning, December 1st.
Just a traffic reminder…
*The ‘Move-Over Law’ literally means to ‘move over’ when passing stopped emergency vehicles (including wreckers) or if you become involved in a minor accident.
*The “Fender Bender” law requires motorists to move over to the shoulder of the highway to help keep traffic moving and reduce the likelihood of secondary crashes. https://apps.dot.state.nc.us/pio/releases/details.aspx?r=1996
The Winston-Salem / Forsyth County Board of Education is urging teachers to avoid web contact with students. A ‘professional conduct’ guidelines policy has been adopted to discourage employees from communicating with students on social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace. Employees who violate the new policy could be fired or have their professional licenses revoked.
Former First Lady Barbara Bush spending the night in the hospital after complaining of quote a "little bit of pain." Barbara Bush is 83-years old.
The parents of Amar Mushar Wilson Jr. took their two month old to Forsyth Medical Center yesterday evening just after 7p.m. He was pronounced dead at the hospital. An autopsy is pending. Police have charged the boy’s father with felony child abuse.
www.journalnow.com/content/2008/nov/26/winston-salem-man-charged-deathof-2-month-old-boy/
The Lexington City Council will drop one of the four areas that it had planned to annex. Attorneys for the city determined that the legal description of the Winston Road area was incorrect. www.the-dispatch.com/
EVANGELICAL CHRISTIANS ARE FACING INCREASED HARASSMENT AND PERSECUTION IN SOUTHERN MEXICO. The mistreatment is coming from ‘traditionalist Catholics’ in the region…‘Traditionalist Catholics’ blend native rituals with Roman Catholicism. Four Evangelicals were jailed for not participating in a traditional festival or helping to pay for it. www.compassdirect.org/en/display.php?page=news&lang=en&length=long&idelement=5703
AN ALREADY POPULAR SERIES OF CHILDRENS BOOKS IS ENJOYING SUCCESS WITH A NEW LINE OF FAITH-BASED TITLES. The books are written by Michael Berenstain, whose parents, Stan and Jan, began the series. Stan Berenstain died in 2005. Michael has been working with his mom on the books since then. The four titles currently available include "The Berenstain Bears and the Golden Rule", "The Berenstain Bears go to Sunday School", "The Berenstain Bears say Their Prayers", and "The Berenstain Bears -- God Loves You".
www.berenstainbearstreehouse.com/news.php
Triple A is expecting a slight decline in travel this Thanksgiving. An estimated 41 million people are expected to travel 50 miles or more from their homes this Thanksgiving holiday weekend.
Are you traveling by car? Great news…gas prices are at a three year low.
The North Carolina DOT has suspended most road construction projects across the state until Monday morning, December 1st.
Just a traffic reminder…
*The ‘Move-Over Law’ literally means to ‘move over’ when passing stopped emergency vehicles (including wreckers) or if you become involved in a minor accident.
*The “Fender Bender” law requires motorists to move over to the shoulder of the highway to help keep traffic moving and reduce the likelihood of secondary crashes. https://apps.dot.state.nc.us/pio/releases/details.aspx?r=1996
The Winston-Salem / Forsyth County Board of Education is urging teachers to avoid web contact with students. A ‘professional conduct’ guidelines policy has been adopted to discourage employees from communicating with students on social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace. Employees who violate the new policy could be fired or have their professional licenses revoked.
Former First Lady Barbara Bush spending the night in the hospital after complaining of quote a "little bit of pain." Barbara Bush is 83-years old.
The parents of Amar Mushar Wilson Jr. took their two month old to Forsyth Medical Center yesterday evening just after 7p.m. He was pronounced dead at the hospital. An autopsy is pending. Police have charged the boy’s father with felony child abuse.
www.journalnow.com/content/2008/nov/26/winston-salem-man-charged-deathof-2-month-old-boy/
The Lexington City Council will drop one of the four areas that it had planned to annex. Attorneys for the city determined that the legal description of the Winston Road area was incorrect. www.the-dispatch.com/
EVANGELICAL CHRISTIANS ARE FACING INCREASED HARASSMENT AND PERSECUTION IN SOUTHERN MEXICO. The mistreatment is coming from ‘traditionalist Catholics’ in the region…‘Traditionalist Catholics’ blend native rituals with Roman Catholicism. Four Evangelicals were jailed for not participating in a traditional festival or helping to pay for it. www.compassdirect.org/en/display.php?page=news&lang=en&length=long&idelement=5703
AN ALREADY POPULAR SERIES OF CHILDRENS BOOKS IS ENJOYING SUCCESS WITH A NEW LINE OF FAITH-BASED TITLES. The books are written by Michael Berenstain, whose parents, Stan and Jan, began the series. Stan Berenstain died in 2005. Michael has been working with his mom on the books since then. The four titles currently available include "The Berenstain Bears and the Golden Rule", "The Berenstain Bears go to Sunday School", "The Berenstain Bears say Their Prayers", and "The Berenstain Bears -- God Loves You".
www.berenstainbearstreehouse.com/news.php
11.25.2008
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
“Each one should use whatever gift he has received to serve others, faithfully administering God's grace in its various forms.” 1 Peter 4:10
Winter Storm Warning is in effect for the western mountains of NC including Avery, Yancey and Mitchell counties until tomorrow morning. Up to 4 inches of snow is expected. Boone area under a Winter Weather Advisory through noon Wednesday
A school staffer with the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools has been fired over his posting on Facebook. Another employee could be next. The Charlotte Observer reporting that seven employees in the system have been disciplined because of Facebook entries.
www.news-record.com/content/2008/11/25/article/school_employee_fired_over_facebook_post
No news is good news, right? Well, not necessarily. Researchers from the University of Toronto finding that in fact, it's better to get bad news than no news at all…because not knowing something may increase anxiety and stress. www.healthday.com/Article.asp?AID=621642
GAS PRICES HAVE FALLEN ABOUT EIGHT CENTS SINCE LAST FRIDAY. Triple A says the national average price for regular unleaded…$1.91
Three Guilford County schools (Ragsdale High School, Jamestown Middle School and Millis Road Elementary) were briefly locked down yesterday as police searched for an armed man who was seen near Guilford Technical Community College around noon. Anyone with information…call Crimestoppers at 373-1000 www.wxii12.com/news/18052030/detail.html
One day, every knee will bow: The Alliance Defense Fund, has filed a friend-of-the-court brief with the Supreme Court in support of a New Jersey High School football coach. The school district is prohibiting the coach from silently bowing his head or kneeling while his team prays. The East Brunswick School District has a policy of prohibiting faculty from participating in student-led prayers. A federal district court ruled that the school policy is unconstitutional.
www.alliancedefensefund.org/news/pressrelease.aspx?cid=4758
PIRATES HAVE REPORTEDLY HIJACKED ANOTHER CARGO SHIP OFF THE HORN OF AFRICA. A ship from Yemeni has been commandeered. Pirates from Somalia have captured numerous ships over the last several months and held them for ransom. www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE4AO0VR20081125?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews&rpc=22&sp=true
Tiger Woods and GM have mutually agreed to part ways. GM is looking to save a few dollars and Tiger is looking forward to spending more time with his family. www.autoweek.com/article/20081124/FREE/811249983
Just in time for one of the busiest travel day of the year. There is a new traffic pattern at PTI. New pattern (maps): www.flyfrompti.com/gee/doc/PTI-New-Entrance-Information.pdf
Sports: 19th-ranked Wake Forest over Winston-Salem State… 62-31
So what’s the name? The new team name, logo and uniforms for the new baseball team in Winston-Salem (formerly the Warthogs) will be revealed next Thursday.
Winter Storm Warning is in effect for the western mountains of NC including Avery, Yancey and Mitchell counties until tomorrow morning. Up to 4 inches of snow is expected. Boone area under a Winter Weather Advisory through noon Wednesday
A school staffer with the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools has been fired over his posting on Facebook. Another employee could be next. The Charlotte Observer reporting that seven employees in the system have been disciplined because of Facebook entries.
www.news-record.com/content/2008/11/25/article/school_employee_fired_over_facebook_post
No news is good news, right? Well, not necessarily. Researchers from the University of Toronto finding that in fact, it's better to get bad news than no news at all…because not knowing something may increase anxiety and stress. www.healthday.com/Article.asp?AID=621642
GAS PRICES HAVE FALLEN ABOUT EIGHT CENTS SINCE LAST FRIDAY. Triple A says the national average price for regular unleaded…$1.91
Three Guilford County schools (Ragsdale High School, Jamestown Middle School and Millis Road Elementary) were briefly locked down yesterday as police searched for an armed man who was seen near Guilford Technical Community College around noon. Anyone with information…call Crimestoppers at 373-1000 www.wxii12.com/news/18052030/detail.html
One day, every knee will bow: The Alliance Defense Fund, has filed a friend-of-the-court brief with the Supreme Court in support of a New Jersey High School football coach. The school district is prohibiting the coach from silently bowing his head or kneeling while his team prays. The East Brunswick School District has a policy of prohibiting faculty from participating in student-led prayers. A federal district court ruled that the school policy is unconstitutional.
www.alliancedefensefund.org/news/pressrelease.aspx?cid=4758
PIRATES HAVE REPORTEDLY HIJACKED ANOTHER CARGO SHIP OFF THE HORN OF AFRICA. A ship from Yemeni has been commandeered. Pirates from Somalia have captured numerous ships over the last several months and held them for ransom. www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE4AO0VR20081125?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews&rpc=22&sp=true
Tiger Woods and GM have mutually agreed to part ways. GM is looking to save a few dollars and Tiger is looking forward to spending more time with his family. www.autoweek.com/article/20081124/FREE/811249983
Just in time for one of the busiest travel day of the year. There is a new traffic pattern at PTI. New pattern (maps): www.flyfrompti.com/gee/doc/PTI-New-Entrance-Information.pdf
Sports: 19th-ranked Wake Forest over Winston-Salem State… 62-31
So what’s the name? The new team name, logo and uniforms for the new baseball team in Winston-Salem (formerly the Warthogs) will be revealed next Thursday.
11.24.2008
Monday, November 24, 2008
Survivor: Guatemala And the winner is…'Gary Gotee' .
Actually, its Dean from Mt Airy. Our other 9 finalists are not leaving the virtual island empty handed. They get a great prize pack from WBFJ including: the book from Rob Mitchell “Castaway Kid”, a T-Shirt from Caroline’s Promise, and music from WBFJ. Survivor: Guatemala underwritten by “Castaway Kid” a must read by local author Rob Mitchell. www.wbfj.org/event3.htm November is National Adoption Awareness Month
Troopers with the Highway Patrol are continuing their investigation into illegal street racing in Guildford and Forsyth Counties. Troopers served 45 warrants and seized 12 vehicles over the weekend. www.digtriad.com/news/most_popular/article.aspx?storyid=114588&provider=top
www.journalnow.com/content/2008/nov/24/the-region-troopers-continue-their-investigation-i/
Officials with the state DOT saying to watch out for deer. In the past two years, deer-related accidents have resulted in more than 3,000 people being injured and 17 people being killed. Car / deer collisions most often happen between October and December. The majority of collisions happen between 5pm and 7am. www.myfoxwghp.com/myfox/pages/Traffic/Detail?contentId=7752636&version=1&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=TSTY&pageId=10.3.1
THE GOVERNMENT SAYS IT'S INJECTING ANOTHER 20 BILLION DOLLARS INTO CITIGROUP. The latest investment is on top of a 25 billion dollar investment the Treasury Department has already promised CitiGroup.
http://money.cnn.com/2008/11/23/news/companies/citigroup/index.htm?postversion=2008112400
A Florida kindergarten teacher was suspended for polling her students on whether an autistic boy should remain in her class. Five year old Alex Barton lost the vote 14 to 2. Barton, a former student at Morningside Elementary School in Port St. Lucie, Fla., had received two discipline referrals to the principal's office in May 21. The school was aware that Alex was in the process of being tested for Asperger's Syndrome. The St. Lucie County School Board voted unanimously to suspend the teacher, Wendy Portillo, for one year without pay. Portillo, the teacher, took Alex to the front of the class and asked students to tell the boy what they didn't like about his behavior and how it impacted them. Alex said the teacher allowed his classmates to call him "disgusting" and "annoying." Melissa Barton, the boy's mother, is planning a civil lawsuit. Alex is now being homeschooled. Read more: www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=81441
PRESIDENT-ELECT BARACK OBAMA HAS TAPPED A LEADING ADVOCATE OF ABORTION RIGHTS TO SERVE AS THE WHITE HOUSE DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATIONS. Ellen Moran currently serves as the executive director of Emily's List. The group describes itself as, quote, "dedicated to building a progressive America by electing pro-choice Democratic women to office."
POLICE IN LAKELAND, FLORIDA SAY THEY WERE ABLE TO TRACK DOWN THE MAN SUSPECTED OF ROBBING A LOCAL SOUTHERN BAPTIST CHURCH OF ITS OFFERING….BY THE VISITOR CARD HE HAD FILLED OUT THE PREVIOUS SUNDAY. That's right, the suspected thief filled out his name and his mother's home address on the visitor card he dropped in the offering plate. The Associated Baptist Press reports a thief grabbed the Sunday offering from the treasurer at Crystal Lake Baptist Church in Lakeland.The treasurer, by the way, happened to be the stepmother of the county sheriff.The 28-year old suspect was arrested one day after allegedly stealing the money.
The Hottest annual event in Cincinnati happens on Tuesday…Turkey Bowling? The annual outdoor event uses frozen turkeys in place of bowling balls. Contestants will try to knock down 10 pins by sliding frozen turkeys down a lane using the city’s ice skating rink. The person with the highest score after three rounds wins $100 cash and "WKRP in Cincinnati" DVD box set including the series' famous "Turkeys Away" episode. BTW: The frozen birds used in Turkey Bowl are discarded store turkeys not intended for anyone's table.
www.azcentral.com/offbeat/articles/2008/11/23/20081123turkeybowling-offbeat.html
Pre-Thanksgiving Blessings: Agape Faith Church hosted over 350 families during their annual Pre Thanksgiving worship service yesterday. After the service, members of the congregation distributed Thanksgiving dinners for the families to enjoy this Thursday.
Sports: NFL: Panthers falling to the Falcons…45-28
College Football (So Conn): ASU has the #2 seed going into the FCS play-offs. ASU will host South Carolina State at noon on Saturday in Boone.
www.journalnow.com/content/2008/nov/24/the-region-troopers-continue-their-investigation-i/
Officials with the state DOT saying to watch out for deer. In the past two years, deer-related accidents have resulted in more than 3,000 people being injured and 17 people being killed. Car / deer collisions most often happen between October and December. The majority of collisions happen between 5pm and 7am. www.myfoxwghp.com/myfox/pages/Traffic/Detail?contentId=7752636&version=1&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=TSTY&pageId=10.3.1
THE GOVERNMENT SAYS IT'S INJECTING ANOTHER 20 BILLION DOLLARS INTO CITIGROUP. The latest investment is on top of a 25 billion dollar investment the Treasury Department has already promised CitiGroup.
http://money.cnn.com/2008/11/23/news/companies/citigroup/index.htm?postversion=2008112400
A Florida kindergarten teacher was suspended for polling her students on whether an autistic boy should remain in her class. Five year old Alex Barton lost the vote 14 to 2. Barton, a former student at Morningside Elementary School in Port St. Lucie, Fla., had received two discipline referrals to the principal's office in May 21. The school was aware that Alex was in the process of being tested for Asperger's Syndrome. The St. Lucie County School Board voted unanimously to suspend the teacher, Wendy Portillo, for one year without pay. Portillo, the teacher, took Alex to the front of the class and asked students to tell the boy what they didn't like about his behavior and how it impacted them. Alex said the teacher allowed his classmates to call him "disgusting" and "annoying." Melissa Barton, the boy's mother, is planning a civil lawsuit. Alex is now being homeschooled. Read more: www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=81441
PRESIDENT-ELECT BARACK OBAMA HAS TAPPED A LEADING ADVOCATE OF ABORTION RIGHTS TO SERVE AS THE WHITE HOUSE DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATIONS. Ellen Moran currently serves as the executive director of Emily's List. The group describes itself as, quote, "dedicated to building a progressive America by electing pro-choice Democratic women to office."
POLICE IN LAKELAND, FLORIDA SAY THEY WERE ABLE TO TRACK DOWN THE MAN SUSPECTED OF ROBBING A LOCAL SOUTHERN BAPTIST CHURCH OF ITS OFFERING….BY THE VISITOR CARD HE HAD FILLED OUT THE PREVIOUS SUNDAY. That's right, the suspected thief filled out his name and his mother's home address on the visitor card he dropped in the offering plate. The Associated Baptist Press reports a thief grabbed the Sunday offering from the treasurer at Crystal Lake Baptist Church in Lakeland.The treasurer, by the way, happened to be the stepmother of the county sheriff.The 28-year old suspect was arrested one day after allegedly stealing the money.
The Hottest annual event in Cincinnati happens on Tuesday…Turkey Bowling? The annual outdoor event uses frozen turkeys in place of bowling balls. Contestants will try to knock down 10 pins by sliding frozen turkeys down a lane using the city’s ice skating rink. The person with the highest score after three rounds wins $100 cash and "WKRP in Cincinnati" DVD box set including the series' famous "Turkeys Away" episode. BTW: The frozen birds used in Turkey Bowl are discarded store turkeys not intended for anyone's table.
www.azcentral.com/offbeat/articles/2008/11/23/20081123turkeybowling-offbeat.html
Pre-Thanksgiving Blessings: Agape Faith Church hosted over 350 families during their annual Pre Thanksgiving worship service yesterday. After the service, members of the congregation distributed Thanksgiving dinners for the families to enjoy this Thursday.
Sports: NFL: Panthers falling to the Falcons…45-28
College Football (So Conn): ASU has the #2 seed going into the FCS play-offs. ASU will host South Carolina State at noon on Saturday in Boone.
11.21.2008
Just a reminder...
Get your ‘shoe boxes’ ready! National Collection Week for Operation Christmas Child (Samaritan’s Purse) wraps up this weekend.
Details: http://www.operationchristmaschild.org/
The Great Stocking Stuff going on NOW thru Wednesday, December 17.
Pick up (and drop off stockings) at Chick-Fil-A stores, Wachovia banks and select Christian Bookstores. Details about the Great Stocking Stuff with WBFJ and the Salvation Army online @ http://www.wbfj.fm/
Details: http://www.operationchristmaschild.org/
The Great Stocking Stuff going on NOW thru Wednesday, December 17.
Pick up (and drop off stockings) at Chick-Fil-A stores, Wachovia banks and select Christian Bookstores. Details about the Great Stocking Stuff with WBFJ and the Salvation Army online @ http://www.wbfj.fm/
Friday, November 21, 2008
Wind Chill factor today: It will feel like temperatures in the 20s…
Sun and clouds for Friday. Breezy…High near 40 (gusts up to 30 mph possible)
Samaritan’s Purse is providing emergency aid to camps housing thousands of refugees from the Democratic Republic of Congo. Dr Warren Cooper helped save the life of a five-year-old boy who was shot during a gun battle between rival militias in Congo.
Listen to the report: www.samaritanspurse.org/index.php/articles/crisis_in_the_congo/
Get those ‘shoe boxes’ ready! National Collection Week wraps up this weekend for Operation Christmas Child (through Samaritan’s Purse) http://www.operationchristmaschild.org/
Trustees at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have unanimously approved a series of tuition and fee increases. Tuition for in-state, undergraduate students would increase 6.5 percent. And tuition for out-of-state undergraduates would increase 5.6 percent under the plan, which must still be approved by the UNC Board of Governors. http://www.wxii12.com/news/18028977/detail.html?rss=gws&psp=news
The 12-year-old boy who was hit by a van while playing in a creek near his home last week has been upgraded to fair condition…Read more: http://www.myfoxwghp.com/myfox/pages/News/Detail?contentId=7910712&version=2&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=TSTY&pageId=3.2.1
Traffic patterns at PTI will change this weekend: DOT will open a new interchange entrance to the airport. www.journalnow.com/content/2008/nov/21/new-roadways-into-pti-to-open-this-weekend/business/
New pattern (maps): www.flyfrompti.com/gee/doc/PTI-New-Entrance-Information.pdf
THE NATIONAL AVERAGE PRICE FOR A GALLON of REGULAR, UNLEADED GAS IS UNDER TWO DOLLARS A GALLON. Triple A says the price is down to a $1.99. Back in mid-July gas hit a record high of $4.11 a gallon.
US ATTORNEY GENERAL MICHAEL MUKASEY is resting at a DC Hospital after being rushed to the hospital last night after collapsing during a speech in Washington, DC.
We all have taken items to Goodwill, right? It took some fancy footwork, but a Goodwill store in Illinois has found the owner of $7,500 dollars in cash mistakenly donated with some old shoes.
Teodora Petrova, a native of Bulgaria, found the money on her first day at the Goodwill store in Glen Carbon, Illinois. Read more: http://apnews.myway.com/article/20081118/D94H0PGO0.html
November is National Adoption Awareness Month
Survivor: Guatemala And then there were two. It’s down to Gary Gotee and Elise Electric. Voting continues through 6am Monday morning at www.wbfj.org/event3.htm
Survivor: Guatemala underwritten by “Castaway Kid” a 'must read' book by local author Rob Mitchell. BTW: All of our Top 10 finalists are not leaving the virtual island empty handed:
They get a great prize pack from WBFJ including: the book from Rob Mitchell “Castaway Kid”, a T-Shirt from Caroline’s Promise, and music from WBFJ.
Sharing is Caring…Need Knows No Season The Great Stocking Stuff going on NOW thru December 17 (Wed). Details online @ http://www.wbfj.fm/
Second Round of the State High School Play-offs:
The list: http://www.journalnow.com/content/2008/nov/20/192305/area-football-playoff-pairings/sports-highschool-football/
ACC Football on Saturday:
State vs Carolina…Boston College vs Wake Forest…Duke vs Virginia Tech
Southern Conference Football: ASU will travel to Western Carolina
Sun and clouds for Friday. Breezy…High near 40 (gusts up to 30 mph possible)
Samaritan’s Purse is providing emergency aid to camps housing thousands of refugees from the Democratic Republic of Congo. Dr Warren Cooper helped save the life of a five-year-old boy who was shot during a gun battle between rival militias in Congo.
Listen to the report: www.samaritanspurse.org/index.php/articles/crisis_in_the_congo/
Get those ‘shoe boxes’ ready! National Collection Week wraps up this weekend for Operation Christmas Child (through Samaritan’s Purse) http://www.operationchristmaschild.org/
Trustees at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have unanimously approved a series of tuition and fee increases. Tuition for in-state, undergraduate students would increase 6.5 percent. And tuition for out-of-state undergraduates would increase 5.6 percent under the plan, which must still be approved by the UNC Board of Governors. http://www.wxii12.com/news/18028977/detail.html?rss=gws&psp=news
The 12-year-old boy who was hit by a van while playing in a creek near his home last week has been upgraded to fair condition…Read more: http://www.myfoxwghp.com/myfox/pages/News/Detail?contentId=7910712&version=2&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=TSTY&pageId=3.2.1
Traffic patterns at PTI will change this weekend: DOT will open a new interchange entrance to the airport. www.journalnow.com/content/2008/nov/21/new-roadways-into-pti-to-open-this-weekend/business/
New pattern (maps): www.flyfrompti.com/gee/doc/PTI-New-Entrance-Information.pdf
THE NATIONAL AVERAGE PRICE FOR A GALLON of REGULAR, UNLEADED GAS IS UNDER TWO DOLLARS A GALLON. Triple A says the price is down to a $1.99. Back in mid-July gas hit a record high of $4.11 a gallon.
US ATTORNEY GENERAL MICHAEL MUKASEY is resting at a DC Hospital after being rushed to the hospital last night after collapsing during a speech in Washington, DC.
We all have taken items to Goodwill, right? It took some fancy footwork, but a Goodwill store in Illinois has found the owner of $7,500 dollars in cash mistakenly donated with some old shoes.
Teodora Petrova, a native of Bulgaria, found the money on her first day at the Goodwill store in Glen Carbon, Illinois. Read more: http://apnews.myway.com/article/20081118/D94H0PGO0.html
November is National Adoption Awareness Month
Survivor: Guatemala And then there were two. It’s down to Gary Gotee and Elise Electric. Voting continues through 6am Monday morning at www.wbfj.org/event3.htm
Survivor: Guatemala underwritten by “Castaway Kid” a 'must read' book by local author Rob Mitchell. BTW: All of our Top 10 finalists are not leaving the virtual island empty handed:
They get a great prize pack from WBFJ including: the book from Rob Mitchell “Castaway Kid”, a T-Shirt from Caroline’s Promise, and music from WBFJ.
Sharing is Caring…Need Knows No Season The Great Stocking Stuff going on NOW thru December 17 (Wed). Details online @ http://www.wbfj.fm/
Second Round of the State High School Play-offs:
The list: http://www.journalnow.com/content/2008/nov/20/192305/area-football-playoff-pairings/sports-highschool-football/
ACC Football on Saturday:
State vs Carolina…Boston College vs Wake Forest…Duke vs Virginia Tech
Southern Conference Football: ASU will travel to Western Carolina
11.20.2008
Thursday, November 20, 2008
One of the largest employers in Davie County is planning job cuts.
Ingersoll-Rand will be lying off 110 employees at its Mocksville plant by the first on next year. On Tuesday, Hanesbrands announced that close to 400 jobs will be eliminated. www.journalnow.com/content/2008/nov/20/ingersoll-rand-cuts-jobs/news/
Ministries and non-profits feeling the effects of the bad economy: ‘Focus on the Family’ has eliminated more than 200 positions…the largest staff cuts in the group's 31-year history. www.onenewsnow.com/Business/Default.aspx?id=326008
www.citizenlink.org/CLNews/A000008708.cfm
Slumping TV ratings and lower-than-projected race attendance has prompted some NASCAR teams to eliminate jobs. Petty Enterprises in Mooresville will lay off 26 employees. Last week, Dale Earnhardt Inc. announced it was cutting as many as 110 jobs by the end of the year. A merger of DEI and Chip Ganassi Racing is in the works.
www.wxii12.com/sports/18018057/detail.html
Wall Street dropping to a 5 year low on Wednesday. Crude oil prices holding steady at about $53 dollars a barrel.
Lawmakers lashed out at the CEOs of the Big Three US auto makers for flying private jets to Washington, DC to request taxpayer bailout money. Rep. Gary Ackerman, D-New York saying: "It's almost like seeing a guy show up at the soup kitchen in high hat and tuxedo."
www.cnn.com/2008/US/11/19/autos.ceo.jets/index.html
THE CALIFORNIA STATE SUPREME COURT SAYS IT WILL HEAR A CHALLENGE TO PROPOSITION EIGHT. That's the ballot measure defining marriage as the union of one man and one woman which was passed by California voters on November 4th. A major point of the legal challenge is over whether Proposition Eight was a constitutional revision or an amendment.
http://srnnews.townhall.com/news/religion/2008/11/19/calif_supreme_court_takes_up_prop_8_case,_but_lets_it_remain_in_effect_during_interim
President Elect Obama has decided to nominate Tom Daschle, the former Senate Democratic leader, as secretary of health and human services.
Former President Bill Clinton has agreed to all of the conditions sought by President-elect Obama's transition team to eliminate potential conflicts of interest if Sen. Hillary Clinton (his wife) becomes secretary of state.
www.journalnow.com/content/2008/nov/20/bill-clinton-reported-to-have-okd-terms-for-wife-t/
TEMPERS HAVE FLARED FOR A SECOND DAY IN THE IRAQI PARLIAMENT, AS LAWMAKERS DEBATE A PLAN FOR U.S. TROOPS TO STAY IN IRAQ THROUGH THE
END OF 20-11. The plan calls for U.S. troops to stay in Iraq until the end of 20-11…replacing
the current U.N. mandate that expires on December 31st of this year.
Bless You? An untimely sneeze nearly cost Andrew Hanson his life. The 42-year-old man from Boston told authorities that a sneeze caused him to lose control of his pickup on Soldiers Field Road and plunge into Boston's Charles River on Tuesday. Andrew said later…after I sneezed, "the next thing I knew I was in the river." http://apnews.myway.com/article/20081119/D94HN8R80.html
A North Carolina sheriff's official has apologized for disrupting a funeral when undercover agents tried to arrest the dead man's son - and used a Taser on him in the process. It happened as the coffin was being loaded into a hearse. The officers planned to quietly arrest pallbearer Gladwyn Taft Russ III.
Read more: http://apnews.myway.com/article/20081120/D94ICEGG0.html
Survivor: Guatemala Voting continues. Read the final four stories: www.wbfj.org/event3.htm Survivor: Guatemala underwritten by “Castaway Kid” a must read by Rob Mitchell. November is National Adoption Awareness Month
Sharing is Caring…Need Knows No Season
Details about the Great Stocking Stuff with WBFJ and the Salvation Army online @ http://www.wbfj.fm/
High scoring Deacons: Wake Forest running away from UNC-Wilmington 120-88
So Conn: ASU over UNC-Charlotte (double OT) 87 – 84
Ingersoll-Rand will be lying off 110 employees at its Mocksville plant by the first on next year. On Tuesday, Hanesbrands announced that close to 400 jobs will be eliminated. www.journalnow.com/content/2008/nov/20/ingersoll-rand-cuts-jobs/news/
Ministries and non-profits feeling the effects of the bad economy: ‘Focus on the Family’ has eliminated more than 200 positions…the largest staff cuts in the group's 31-year history. www.onenewsnow.com/Business/Default.aspx?id=326008
www.citizenlink.org/CLNews/A000008708.cfm
Slumping TV ratings and lower-than-projected race attendance has prompted some NASCAR teams to eliminate jobs. Petty Enterprises in Mooresville will lay off 26 employees. Last week, Dale Earnhardt Inc. announced it was cutting as many as 110 jobs by the end of the year. A merger of DEI and Chip Ganassi Racing is in the works.
www.wxii12.com/sports/18018057/detail.html
Wall Street dropping to a 5 year low on Wednesday. Crude oil prices holding steady at about $53 dollars a barrel.
Lawmakers lashed out at the CEOs of the Big Three US auto makers for flying private jets to Washington, DC to request taxpayer bailout money. Rep. Gary Ackerman, D-New York saying: "It's almost like seeing a guy show up at the soup kitchen in high hat and tuxedo."
www.cnn.com/2008/US/11/19/autos.ceo.jets/index.html
THE CALIFORNIA STATE SUPREME COURT SAYS IT WILL HEAR A CHALLENGE TO PROPOSITION EIGHT. That's the ballot measure defining marriage as the union of one man and one woman which was passed by California voters on November 4th. A major point of the legal challenge is over whether Proposition Eight was a constitutional revision or an amendment.
http://srnnews.townhall.com/news/religion/2008/11/19/calif_supreme_court_takes_up_prop_8_case,_but_lets_it_remain_in_effect_during_interim
President Elect Obama has decided to nominate Tom Daschle, the former Senate Democratic leader, as secretary of health and human services.
Former President Bill Clinton has agreed to all of the conditions sought by President-elect Obama's transition team to eliminate potential conflicts of interest if Sen. Hillary Clinton (his wife) becomes secretary of state.
www.journalnow.com/content/2008/nov/20/bill-clinton-reported-to-have-okd-terms-for-wife-t/
TEMPERS HAVE FLARED FOR A SECOND DAY IN THE IRAQI PARLIAMENT, AS LAWMAKERS DEBATE A PLAN FOR U.S. TROOPS TO STAY IN IRAQ THROUGH THE
END OF 20-11. The plan calls for U.S. troops to stay in Iraq until the end of 20-11…replacing
the current U.N. mandate that expires on December 31st of this year.
Bless You? An untimely sneeze nearly cost Andrew Hanson his life. The 42-year-old man from Boston told authorities that a sneeze caused him to lose control of his pickup on Soldiers Field Road and plunge into Boston's Charles River on Tuesday. Andrew said later…after I sneezed, "the next thing I knew I was in the river." http://apnews.myway.com/article/20081119/D94HN8R80.html
A North Carolina sheriff's official has apologized for disrupting a funeral when undercover agents tried to arrest the dead man's son - and used a Taser on him in the process. It happened as the coffin was being loaded into a hearse. The officers planned to quietly arrest pallbearer Gladwyn Taft Russ III.
Read more: http://apnews.myway.com/article/20081120/D94ICEGG0.html
Survivor: Guatemala Voting continues. Read the final four stories: www.wbfj.org/event3.htm Survivor: Guatemala underwritten by “Castaway Kid” a must read by Rob Mitchell. November is National Adoption Awareness Month
Sharing is Caring…Need Knows No Season
Details about the Great Stocking Stuff with WBFJ and the Salvation Army online @ http://www.wbfj.fm/
High scoring Deacons: Wake Forest running away from UNC-Wilmington 120-88
So Conn: ASU over UNC-Charlotte (double OT) 87 – 84
11.19.2008
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Blame it on the bad economy: The state is ordering school districts to return a total of $58 million dollars to help cover a projected budget shortfall. The education cuts are part of a series of across-the-board cuts ordered by the Governor. www.journalnow.com/content/2008/nov/19/schools-told-to-return-money/news-regional/
Researchers at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center finding that Ginkgo Biloba (a top-selling herb marketed for memory enhancement) has no effect at preventing the onset of dementia or Alzheimer's disease. www.journalnow.com/content/2008/nov/19/disappointed-study-shows-ginkgo-doesnt-help-prev1/news/
Hanesbrands will be eliminating close to 400 jobs in North Carolina. 155 of the job cuts will include high paying executive jobs in Winston-Salem. Hanesbrands will also close its yarn production plant in China Grove (in Rowan County) by the end of the year. www.myfoxwghp.com/myfox/pages/Home/Detail?contentId=7892611&version=1&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=TSTY&pageId=1.1.1
The CEO’s of Ford, Chrysler and GM were on Capitol Hill yesterday asking Congress for a multi-billion dollar Federal loan. The Democratic leadership in the Senate is supporting a plan to use $25 billion dollars of the recently passed $700 billion dollar bank bailout to help Detroit.
Doctors have given 30 year old Claudia Castillo a new windpipe with tissue engineered from her own adult stem cells. Claudia, a native of Colombia now living in Barcelona, Spain, had been suffering from long-term tuberculosis. The only conventional option was a major operation to remove her left lung, a risky procedure with a high mortality rate. Experts have hailed this controversial branch of medicine ( that some say could lead to human cloning) as a "milestone."
www.cnn.com/2008/HEALTH/11/19/windpipe.transplant/index.html?iref=hpmostpop
The 100,000th baby was born yesterday morning at The Women's Hospital of Greensboro. It’s a boy…Jaylen Nashawn Woodard was born at 7:29 a.m. and weighed 8 pounds, 15 ounces. Mom and baby are doing fine. The Women's Hospital of Greensboro opened in 1990.
Hospital officials said Jaylen's mom, Tasha, was also delivered at Women's Hospital. www.wxii12.com/health/18008234/detail.html
There is one more thing orbiting earth…a bag full of tools. The tool kit drifted away from astronaut Heide Stefanyshyn-Piper who was performing a space walk outside of the International Space Station yesterday. Astronaut Heide was cleaning up the tool bag after a grease gun leaked inside…the when the tool bag drifted away from her. Heide is not the only astronaut to ‘lose’ something in space: during past space walks items such as bolts, various tools, a thermal cover and yes even a 14-inch spatula have floated away. NASA saying ‘The lost tool bag should not be too much of a problem’.
www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/space/11/18/endeavour.spacewalk/index.html
Survivor: Guatemala http://www.wbfj.org/event3.htm
The two contestants with the lowest amount of votes each day will NOT go home empty handed: They will receive a great prize pack including: the book from Rob Mitchell “Castaway Kid”, a T-Shirt from Caroline’s Promise, and music from WBFJ. Vote for your favorite from the Final 6 NOW @ wbfj.fm.
November is National Adoption Awareness Month
Sharing is Caring…Need Knows No Season The Great Stocking Stuff going on NOW thru December 17 (Wed). The Salvation Army in Winston-Salem serves families in Forsyth, Davie, Yadkin and Stokes. Pick up a stocking at Chick-Fil-A stores, Wachovia banks and select Christian Bookstores. Details at http://www.wbfj.fm/
Sports: ACC Basketball: Tarheels over Kentucky…77-58
Wake Forest hosting UNC-Wilmington at the Joel tonight
Also...Eastern Kentucky over WSSU (too many 3 pointers)
So Conn: ASU will play UNC-Charlotte in Boone tonight
Researchers at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center finding that Ginkgo Biloba (a top-selling herb marketed for memory enhancement) has no effect at preventing the onset of dementia or Alzheimer's disease. www.journalnow.com/content/2008/nov/19/disappointed-study-shows-ginkgo-doesnt-help-prev1/news/
Hanesbrands will be eliminating close to 400 jobs in North Carolina. 155 of the job cuts will include high paying executive jobs in Winston-Salem. Hanesbrands will also close its yarn production plant in China Grove (in Rowan County) by the end of the year. www.myfoxwghp.com/myfox/pages/Home/Detail?contentId=7892611&version=1&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=TSTY&pageId=1.1.1
The CEO’s of Ford, Chrysler and GM were on Capitol Hill yesterday asking Congress for a multi-billion dollar Federal loan. The Democratic leadership in the Senate is supporting a plan to use $25 billion dollars of the recently passed $700 billion dollar bank bailout to help Detroit.
Doctors have given 30 year old Claudia Castillo a new windpipe with tissue engineered from her own adult stem cells. Claudia, a native of Colombia now living in Barcelona, Spain, had been suffering from long-term tuberculosis. The only conventional option was a major operation to remove her left lung, a risky procedure with a high mortality rate. Experts have hailed this controversial branch of medicine ( that some say could lead to human cloning) as a "milestone."
www.cnn.com/2008/HEALTH/11/19/windpipe.transplant/index.html?iref=hpmostpop
The 100,000th baby was born yesterday morning at The Women's Hospital of Greensboro. It’s a boy…Jaylen Nashawn Woodard was born at 7:29 a.m. and weighed 8 pounds, 15 ounces. Mom and baby are doing fine. The Women's Hospital of Greensboro opened in 1990.
Hospital officials said Jaylen's mom, Tasha, was also delivered at Women's Hospital. www.wxii12.com/health/18008234/detail.html
There is one more thing orbiting earth…a bag full of tools. The tool kit drifted away from astronaut Heide Stefanyshyn-Piper who was performing a space walk outside of the International Space Station yesterday. Astronaut Heide was cleaning up the tool bag after a grease gun leaked inside…the when the tool bag drifted away from her. Heide is not the only astronaut to ‘lose’ something in space: during past space walks items such as bolts, various tools, a thermal cover and yes even a 14-inch spatula have floated away. NASA saying ‘The lost tool bag should not be too much of a problem’.
www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/space/11/18/endeavour.spacewalk/index.html
Survivor: Guatemala http://www.wbfj.org/event3.htm
The two contestants with the lowest amount of votes each day will NOT go home empty handed: They will receive a great prize pack including: the book from Rob Mitchell “Castaway Kid”, a T-Shirt from Caroline’s Promise, and music from WBFJ. Vote for your favorite from the Final 6 NOW @ wbfj.fm.
November is National Adoption Awareness Month
Sharing is Caring…Need Knows No Season The Great Stocking Stuff going on NOW thru December 17 (Wed). The Salvation Army in Winston-Salem serves families in Forsyth, Davie, Yadkin and Stokes. Pick up a stocking at Chick-Fil-A stores, Wachovia banks and select Christian Bookstores. Details at http://www.wbfj.fm/
Sports: ACC Basketball: Tarheels over Kentucky…77-58
Wake Forest hosting UNC-Wilmington at the Joel tonight
Also...Eastern Kentucky over WSSU (too many 3 pointers)
So Conn: ASU will play UNC-Charlotte in Boone tonight
11.18.2008
Recall: Lean Cuisine
Three different Lean Cuisine frozen chicken entrees have been recalled after several people found hard plastics materials in the food. The recall includes: Lean Cuisine Chicken Mediterranean, Pesto Chicken with Bow Tie Pasta and Chicken Tuscan. All of the Lean Cuisines were produced from August 18 through October 27 of 2008 year and distributed nationwide.
One person was injured due to plastic found in their food. www.myfoxtwincities.com/myfox/pages/News/Detail?contentId=7888951&version=1&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=TSTY&pageId=3.5.1
One person was injured due to plastic found in their food. www.myfoxtwincities.com/myfox/pages/News/Detail?contentId=7888951&version=1&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=TSTY&pageId=3.5.1
Nestle's Consumer Services Center (Hotline) 1-800-227-6188
USDA website
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
The wind will be a factor today with temps not even making it out of the upper 30s today. Wind Chill making it 'feel like' the upper 20s.
SURRY COUNTY: Highway 52 NB back open between Cook School Road and Holly Springs Church Road. The SBI is investigating a high speed chase in Surry County early this morning that sent one man to the hospital. www.myfoxwghp.com/myfox/pages/Home/Detail?contentId=7888034&version=1&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=TSTY&pageId=1.1.1
Former WXII News anchor Tolly Carr reached an undisclosed settlement yesterday…agreeing to make payments to the family of Casey Bokhoven, the man Carr hit and killed while he was driving while impaired in March of 2007. Carr is scheduled to be released from prison next May.
The agreement keeps details of the settlement, including the amount of the payments, confidential. www.journalnow.com/content/2008/nov/18/carr-settles-civil-case-will-pay-victims-family/
Nearly half the respondents in a survey of primary care physicians in the US saying that they would seriously consider getting out of the medical business within the next three years if they had an alternative. Many said they are overwhelmed with red tape from insurance companies and government agencies. Questionnaires were sent to more than 150,000 doctors nationwide.
www.cnn.com/2008/HEALTH/11/17/primary.care.doctors.study/index.html
Publisher HarperCollins adding the word ‘meh’ to its 30th anniversary edition of the Collins English Dictionary. ‘Meh’ means ‘indifference or boredom.’ The origins of "meh" are murky, but it grew in popularity after being used in a 2001 episode of "The Simpsons".
www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-meh_earnov17,0,5517946.story
Survivor: Guatemala Goodbye to 'Granny Grey and Wanda Wavey'. The two contestants with the lowest amount of votes each day will NOT go home empty handed: They will receive a great prize pack including…the book from Rob Mitchell “Castaway Kid”, a T-Shirt from Caroline’s Promise, and music from WBFJ. Vote for your favorite NOW... http://www.wbfj.org/event3.htm
November is National Adoption Awareness Month
All this week…Shaohannah's Hope is partnering with Family Life and Focus on the Family to bring awareness to orphans around the world through "Cry of the Orphan". www.cryoftheorphan.org/Display.asp?Page=home
www.cryoftheorphan.org/display.asp?page=Radio
Sharing is Caring…Need Knows No Season
The Great Stocking Stuff going on NOW thru December 17 (Wed)
The Salvation Army in Winston-Salem serves families in Forsyth, Davie, Yadkin and Stokes
Pick up a stocking at Chick-Fil-A stores, Wachovia banks and select Christian Bookstores
Details online @ http://www.wbfj.fm/
Monday Night Football: A 56 yard field goal with less than 2 minutes left in the game lifting the Browns over the Bills…29 – 27.
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. The New Jersey Institute of Technology (the NJIT) suffered its 35th straight loss falling to Penn State 74-47 last night. They were playing in the Philly Hoop Group Classic. (Unofficially, NJIT now has the most losses of any Division I team).
http://sports.myway.com/news/11172008/v1919.html
SURRY COUNTY: Highway 52 NB back open between Cook School Road and Holly Springs Church Road. The SBI is investigating a high speed chase in Surry County early this morning that sent one man to the hospital. www.myfoxwghp.com/myfox/pages/Home/Detail?contentId=7888034&version=1&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=TSTY&pageId=1.1.1
Former WXII News anchor Tolly Carr reached an undisclosed settlement yesterday…agreeing to make payments to the family of Casey Bokhoven, the man Carr hit and killed while he was driving while impaired in March of 2007. Carr is scheduled to be released from prison next May.
The agreement keeps details of the settlement, including the amount of the payments, confidential. www.journalnow.com/content/2008/nov/18/carr-settles-civil-case-will-pay-victims-family/
Nearly half the respondents in a survey of primary care physicians in the US saying that they would seriously consider getting out of the medical business within the next three years if they had an alternative. Many said they are overwhelmed with red tape from insurance companies and government agencies. Questionnaires were sent to more than 150,000 doctors nationwide.
www.cnn.com/2008/HEALTH/11/17/primary.care.doctors.study/index.html
Publisher HarperCollins adding the word ‘meh’ to its 30th anniversary edition of the Collins English Dictionary. ‘Meh’ means ‘indifference or boredom.’ The origins of "meh" are murky, but it grew in popularity after being used in a 2001 episode of "The Simpsons".
www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-meh_earnov17,0,5517946.story
Survivor: Guatemala Goodbye to 'Granny Grey and Wanda Wavey'. The two contestants with the lowest amount of votes each day will NOT go home empty handed: They will receive a great prize pack including…the book from Rob Mitchell “Castaway Kid”, a T-Shirt from Caroline’s Promise, and music from WBFJ. Vote for your favorite NOW... http://www.wbfj.org/event3.htm
November is National Adoption Awareness Month
All this week…Shaohannah's Hope is partnering with Family Life and Focus on the Family to bring awareness to orphans around the world through "Cry of the Orphan". www.cryoftheorphan.org/Display.asp?Page=home
www.cryoftheorphan.org/display.asp?page=Radio
Sharing is Caring…Need Knows No Season
The Great Stocking Stuff going on NOW thru December 17 (Wed)
The Salvation Army in Winston-Salem serves families in Forsyth, Davie, Yadkin and Stokes
Pick up a stocking at Chick-Fil-A stores, Wachovia banks and select Christian Bookstores
Details online @ http://www.wbfj.fm/
Monday Night Football: A 56 yard field goal with less than 2 minutes left in the game lifting the Browns over the Bills…29 – 27.
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. The New Jersey Institute of Technology (the NJIT) suffered its 35th straight loss falling to Penn State 74-47 last night. They were playing in the Philly Hoop Group Classic. (Unofficially, NJIT now has the most losses of any Division I team).
http://sports.myway.com/news/11172008/v1919.html
11.17.2008
FREE meal tonight...
Golden Corral Restaurants nationwide (including the Triad) are serving FREE dinners tonight to anyone who has ever served in the US Military. It’s Golden Corral’s annual Military Appreciation Meal from 5pm to 9 pm. If you are a veteran, retired or currently serving in the National Guard or Reserves, you are invited to a FREE dinner this evening.
www.goldencorral.com/military/
www.goldencorral.com/military/
Monday, November 17, 2008
A blast of cold air will blanket the northwest Piedmont (including the Triad) of the next couple of days. More snow likely for the Northern mountains.
Governor Easley will survey the damage done by strong storms over the weekend in Johnston and Wilson counties. Tornadoes hitting that area early Saturday morning killing 2 people.
Firefighters in Southern California are taking advantage of a break in the winds to help control a total of four wildfires that have consumed nearly 36-thousand acres. Nearly 900 homes or buildings have been damaged or destroyed. Over 26,ooo residents were ordered to evacuate the Orange County area.
Once campaign rivals, President-elect Barack Obama and Senator John McCain will meet today for the first time since debating each other in October. The private meeting will be held at Obama's transition office in Chicago. http://apnews.myway.com/article/20081117/D94GKHS80.html
Back to work for lawmakers in DC. Proposals for a second economic stimulus package and a possible bailout for the U.S. auto industry are on the ‘to-do’ list.
Iraq’s cabinet has voted to keep US forces in their country through 2011. The proposal now goes to the Iraqi parliament
SPACE SHUTTLE ENDEAVOUR HAS DOCKED WITH THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION. A major portion of the shuttle crew's mission will be to help install a module that provides extra living space at the space station. It includes a new kitchen, bathroom, sleeping quarters and water recycling system. The extra space will allow the space station to double its permanent crew size from three to six. The Endeavour crew is scheduled to return to Earth in about two weeks.
The latest Bond film "Quantum of Solace” tops at the Box Office raking in a cool $70 million dollars. Fire Proof still hanging in at the Box Office at #13. http://www.fireproofthemovie.com/
Sports:
Jimmie Johnson claiming his third NASCAR championship yesterday at Homestead, Florida.
NFL: Carolina Panthers over the Lions…31-22
Cowboys over the Redskins…14-10
Monday Night Football: Cleveland at Buffalo
(Kick off forecast: Snow showers with temps near 30)
Golden Corral Restaurants nationwide (including the Triad) are serving FREE dinners tonight to anyone who has ever served in the US Military. It’s Golden Corral’s annul Military Appreciation meal from 5pm to 9 pm. Details: www.goldencorral.com/military/
November is National Adoption Awareness Month
All this week…Shaohannah's Hope is partnering with Family Life and Focus on the Family to bring awareness to orphans around the world through "Cry of the Orphan". The national week long media campaign regarding ‘adoption awareness’ starts today!
www.cryoftheorphan.org/Display.asp?Page=home
Tune into Focus on the Family and Family Life’s radio broadcasts the week of
November 17-21 will cover issues related to orphan care and adoption awareness.
www.cryoftheorphan.org/display.asp?page=Radio
Governor Easley will survey the damage done by strong storms over the weekend in Johnston and Wilson counties. Tornadoes hitting that area early Saturday morning killing 2 people.
Firefighters in Southern California are taking advantage of a break in the winds to help control a total of four wildfires that have consumed nearly 36-thousand acres. Nearly 900 homes or buildings have been damaged or destroyed. Over 26,ooo residents were ordered to evacuate the Orange County area.
Once campaign rivals, President-elect Barack Obama and Senator John McCain will meet today for the first time since debating each other in October. The private meeting will be held at Obama's transition office in Chicago. http://apnews.myway.com/article/20081117/D94GKHS80.html
Back to work for lawmakers in DC. Proposals for a second economic stimulus package and a possible bailout for the U.S. auto industry are on the ‘to-do’ list.
Iraq’s cabinet has voted to keep US forces in their country through 2011. The proposal now goes to the Iraqi parliament
SPACE SHUTTLE ENDEAVOUR HAS DOCKED WITH THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION. A major portion of the shuttle crew's mission will be to help install a module that provides extra living space at the space station. It includes a new kitchen, bathroom, sleeping quarters and water recycling system. The extra space will allow the space station to double its permanent crew size from three to six. The Endeavour crew is scheduled to return to Earth in about two weeks.
The latest Bond film "Quantum of Solace” tops at the Box Office raking in a cool $70 million dollars. Fire Proof still hanging in at the Box Office at #13. http://www.fireproofthemovie.com/
Sports:
Jimmie Johnson claiming his third NASCAR championship yesterday at Homestead, Florida.
NFL: Carolina Panthers over the Lions…31-22
Cowboys over the Redskins…14-10
Monday Night Football: Cleveland at Buffalo
(Kick off forecast: Snow showers with temps near 30)
Golden Corral Restaurants nationwide (including the Triad) are serving FREE dinners tonight to anyone who has ever served in the US Military. It’s Golden Corral’s annul Military Appreciation meal from 5pm to 9 pm. Details: www.goldencorral.com/military/
November is National Adoption Awareness Month
All this week…Shaohannah's Hope is partnering with Family Life and Focus on the Family to bring awareness to orphans around the world through "Cry of the Orphan". The national week long media campaign regarding ‘adoption awareness’ starts today!
www.cryoftheorphan.org/Display.asp?Page=home
Tune into Focus on the Family and Family Life’s radio broadcasts the week of
November 17-21 will cover issues related to orphan care and adoption awareness.
www.cryoftheorphan.org/display.asp?page=Radio
11.14.2008
Friday, November 14, 2008
An Amber Alert has been issued for Chesney Anne Gaskin…a missing three year old. The Sampson County Sheriff’s Department is looking for a female driving a Gold Chevy Malibu with a Washington State license plate # 1 1 3-Y A E. If you have any information contact law enforcement by calling 911 or *HP.
Charlotte police have released surveillance images of a man who they said left a baby in a southwest Charlotte McDonald's Wednesday morning. The baby boy was found in a car seat (unharmed) in the women's restroom of the McDonald’s. The infant, who was taken to Carolinas Medical Center for observation, was about two or three hours old when he was found.
(FYI) The North Carolina General Assembly passed a law in 2001 making it legal for a woman to surrender a newborn to a ‘responsible adult’ without fear of criminal prosecution. Newborn Abandoned In McDonald's Restroom
http://www.wxii12.com/news/17973541/detail.html
http://www.charlotteobserver.com/breaking/story/347685.html
The FDA has put a ‘hold’ on Chinese food products made with milk. The federal hold order is a precaution to keep out foods including snacks, drinks and chocolates possibly contaminated with the industrial chemical melamine which can cause serious kidney problems. www.npr.org/newsinbrief/index.html
Fewer than 1 In 5 U.S. adults now smoke. The nation's adult smoking rate has fallen below 20% for the first time since the federal government began tracking it in the 1960s. http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/ http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=96950224
President-elect Barack Obama will officially resign from the US Senate effective Sunday, in order to focus on his transition to the White House. Its now up the Illinois Governor (a Democrat) to name a replacement to serve the remaining two years of Obama's six-year term. www.npr.org/newsinbrief/index.html
Wanted: One missing Russian church. Last seen in July. Orthodox church officials in one central Russian town say that a once abandoned church building has been ‘stolen’ by local villagers…literally one brick at a time. Officials calling that act "Blasphemy". http://apnews.myway.com/article/20081113/D94E8V080.html
High School Football Playoff schedule: www.journalnow.com/content/2008/nov/14/140025/prep-football-tonight/sports/
ACC Basketball:
-Home opener for Wake Forest at the Joel Tip off…7pm
-2008 National Player of the Year Tyler Hansbrough is not expected to play in the UNC season opener against Penn on Saturday.
College Football: ASU hosting Elon in Boone Saturday afternoon (3:30pm). ASU can clinch another So Con title and a berth in the play-offs. http://www.goasu.com/
Charlotte police have released surveillance images of a man who they said left a baby in a southwest Charlotte McDonald's Wednesday morning. The baby boy was found in a car seat (unharmed) in the women's restroom of the McDonald’s. The infant, who was taken to Carolinas Medical Center for observation, was about two or three hours old when he was found.
(FYI) The North Carolina General Assembly passed a law in 2001 making it legal for a woman to surrender a newborn to a ‘responsible adult’ without fear of criminal prosecution. Newborn Abandoned In McDonald's Restroom
http://www.wxii12.com/news/17973541/detail.html
http://www.charlotteobserver.com/breaking/story/347685.html
The FDA has put a ‘hold’ on Chinese food products made with milk. The federal hold order is a precaution to keep out foods including snacks, drinks and chocolates possibly contaminated with the industrial chemical melamine which can cause serious kidney problems. www.npr.org/newsinbrief/index.html
Fewer than 1 In 5 U.S. adults now smoke. The nation's adult smoking rate has fallen below 20% for the first time since the federal government began tracking it in the 1960s. http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/ http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=96950224
President-elect Barack Obama will officially resign from the US Senate effective Sunday, in order to focus on his transition to the White House. Its now up the Illinois Governor (a Democrat) to name a replacement to serve the remaining two years of Obama's six-year term. www.npr.org/newsinbrief/index.html
Wanted: One missing Russian church. Last seen in July. Orthodox church officials in one central Russian town say that a once abandoned church building has been ‘stolen’ by local villagers…literally one brick at a time. Officials calling that act "Blasphemy". http://apnews.myway.com/article/20081113/D94E8V080.html
High School Football Playoff schedule: www.journalnow.com/content/2008/nov/14/140025/prep-football-tonight/sports/
ACC Basketball:
-Home opener for Wake Forest at the Joel Tip off…7pm
-2008 National Player of the Year Tyler Hansbrough is not expected to play in the UNC season opener against Penn on Saturday.
College Football: ASU hosting Elon in Boone Saturday afternoon (3:30pm). ASU can clinch another So Con title and a berth in the play-offs. http://www.goasu.com/
11.13.2008
Thursday, November 13, 2008
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"Why believe in a god? Just be good for goodness' sake" This slogan will appear on Washington, D.C., buses starting next week and running through December. The American Humanist Association (an atheist group) unveiled the controversial holiday ad campaign costing $40,000. www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,450445,00.html
Another human foot has washed up on British Columbia's south coast, the seventh to be found on the province's beaches since August 2007. www.foxnews.com/printer_friendly_story/0,3566,451186,00.html
The latest brutality from the front lines in eastern Congo. Years of sporadic violence in eastern Congo intensified in August. Fighting between the army and rebel fighters has displaced at least 250,000 people, despite the presence of the largest UN peacekeeping force in the world. www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/11/13/congo.fighting.ap/index.html
President-elect Barack Obama may not have won North Carolina without the help of a new law that allowed voters to both sign up and cast a ballot during state's early-voting period. The unofficial margin without the tally of provisional ballots stands at 13,692 votes over Republican candidate John McCain. Obama became the first Democratic Presidential candidate to win North Carolina in more than 30 years.
Kenny Chesney winning his 4th Entertainer of the Year award last night at the CMA Awards. Other winners included Carie Underwood and Rascal Flatts. George Strait winning single of the year honors for "I Saw God Today."
www.cmt.com/news/country-music/1599223/kenny-chesney-named-cmas-entertainer-of-the-year-again.jhtml
Sports: 2008 National Player of the Year UNC forward Tyler Hansbrough is not expected to play in the season opener this Saturday against Penn.
Sharing is Caring…Need Knows No Season
The Great Stocking Stuff going on NOW thru December 17 (Wed)
The Salvation Army in Winston-Salem serves families in Forsyth, Davie, Yadkin and Stokes Counties. Pick up a stocking at Chick-Fil-A stores, Wachovia banks and select Christian Bookstores.
"Why believe in a god? Just be good for goodness' sake" This slogan will appear on Washington, D.C., buses starting next week and running through December. The American Humanist Association (an atheist group) unveiled the controversial holiday ad campaign costing $40,000. www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,450445,00.html
Another human foot has washed up on British Columbia's south coast, the seventh to be found on the province's beaches since August 2007. www.foxnews.com/printer_friendly_story/0,3566,451186,00.html
The latest brutality from the front lines in eastern Congo. Years of sporadic violence in eastern Congo intensified in August. Fighting between the army and rebel fighters has displaced at least 250,000 people, despite the presence of the largest UN peacekeeping force in the world. www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/11/13/congo.fighting.ap/index.html
A new report released by the March of Dimes giving our state a grade of "F" because of the increase of premature babies. According to the report, too many pregnant women have inadequate or no health insurance. Also, many expectant moms smoke and have poor eating habits. http://www.wxii12.com/health/17966673/detail.html
Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf speaking to Wachovia employees in Winston-Salem yesterday. Stumpf didn’t mention if any employees locally will lose their jobs as a result of the $13 billion dollar acquisition. The San Francisco-based bank plans to maintain an East Coast headquarters in Charlotte. www.wxii12.com/money/17963880/detail.html
The NAACP is calling on officials with NC State University to expel four students accused of spray painting inappropriate messages about President-elect Obama. The offensive graffiti was written in the campus' free expression tunnel. Officials have said the unidentified students will not face criminal charges because the writing wasn't a hate crime since it was written on a wall where ‘free speech’ is encouraged. http://townhall.com/news/us/2008/11/12/naacp_expel_nc_students_for_racist_obama_graffiti
Stocks plunge after a tweak in the Wall Street ‘Bailout Bill’
TREASURY SECRETARY HENRY PAUSLON stating that the bulk of the $700 billion dollar bailout package will be used to buy stock in troubled banks.
STOCKS FELL FOR THE THIRD DAY IN A ROW: The Dow Jones Industrial Average falling over 400 points yesterday.
THE LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR OF PENNSYLVANIA HAS PASSED AWAY. Catherine Baker Knoll was the state’s first female Lt Governor. Knoll was recovering from cancer.
Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf speaking to Wachovia employees in Winston-Salem yesterday. Stumpf didn’t mention if any employees locally will lose their jobs as a result of the $13 billion dollar acquisition. The San Francisco-based bank plans to maintain an East Coast headquarters in Charlotte. www.wxii12.com/money/17963880/detail.html
The NAACP is calling on officials with NC State University to expel four students accused of spray painting inappropriate messages about President-elect Obama. The offensive graffiti was written in the campus' free expression tunnel. Officials have said the unidentified students will not face criminal charges because the writing wasn't a hate crime since it was written on a wall where ‘free speech’ is encouraged. http://townhall.com/news/us/2008/11/12/naacp_expel_nc_students_for_racist_obama_graffiti
Stocks plunge after a tweak in the Wall Street ‘Bailout Bill’
TREASURY SECRETARY HENRY PAUSLON stating that the bulk of the $700 billion dollar bailout package will be used to buy stock in troubled banks.
STOCKS FELL FOR THE THIRD DAY IN A ROW: The Dow Jones Industrial Average falling over 400 points yesterday.
THE LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR OF PENNSYLVANIA HAS PASSED AWAY. Catherine Baker Knoll was the state’s first female Lt Governor. Knoll was recovering from cancer.
President-elect Barack Obama may not have won North Carolina without the help of a new law that allowed voters to both sign up and cast a ballot during state's early-voting period. The unofficial margin without the tally of provisional ballots stands at 13,692 votes over Republican candidate John McCain. Obama became the first Democratic Presidential candidate to win North Carolina in more than 30 years.
Kenny Chesney winning his 4th Entertainer of the Year award last night at the CMA Awards. Other winners included Carie Underwood and Rascal Flatts. George Strait winning single of the year honors for "I Saw God Today."
www.cmt.com/news/country-music/1599223/kenny-chesney-named-cmas-entertainer-of-the-year-again.jhtml
Sports: 2008 National Player of the Year UNC forward Tyler Hansbrough is not expected to play in the season opener this Saturday against Penn.
Sharing is Caring…Need Knows No Season
The Great Stocking Stuff going on NOW thru December 17 (Wed)
The Salvation Army in Winston-Salem serves families in Forsyth, Davie, Yadkin and Stokes Counties. Pick up a stocking at Chick-Fil-A stores, Wachovia banks and select Christian Bookstores.
11.12.2008
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Sharing is Caring…Need Knows No Season
The Great Stocking Stuff going on NOW thru December 17 (Wednesday). Pick up a stocking at Chick-Fil-A stores, Wachovia banks and select Christian Bookstores. Details http://www.wbfj.fm/
Email virus alert: The latest virus to hit my inbox is the UPS Delivery Failure email. The message states that ‘they’ were unable to deliver a package sent to you on such and such a date. It then asks you to print out the invoice copy attached. DO NOT TRY TO PRINT THIS INVOICE. IT WILL LAUNCH THE VIRUS! This virus has caused millions of dollars in damage in the past few days. www.snopes.com/computer/virus/ups.asp
Wake Forest University School of Medicine will receive nearly $2 million dollar grant over the next four years in a one-of-a-kind partnership with Meals on Wheels. The grant will help maintain the Medical Center’s position as a leader in geriatric medicine and medical training.
www.myfoxwghp.com/myfox/pages/News/Detail?contentId=7839907&version=1&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=VSTY&pageId=3.2.1
DEMOCRATIC LEADERS IN CONGRESS ARE PUSHING FOR LEGISLATION TO BAIL OUT THE U.S. AUTO INDUSTRY. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi wants a bill that will allow U.S. car makers to benefit from the recently-passed $700-billion dollar Wall Street bailout.
Former GOP Vice-Presidential candidate and Alaska Governor Sarah Palin will be addressing the Republican Governors’ Association meeting that begins in Miami today.
Four Seasons Town Centre in Greensboro is facing potential bankruptcy if it’s unable to refinance its debt. The Chicago-based company, which also owns The Streets at Southpoint in Durham, said it has millions of dollars in debt due December 1st . www.bizjournals.com/triad/stories/2008/11/10/daily30.html?ana=from_rss
Greensboro police saying that one of two boys playing along a creek was critically injured after a van ran a stop sign. 40 year old Michael Charles Parks was traveling north on Lindell Road when he ran through a stop sign at Walker Avenue. Parks was charged with DWI. Anyone with information about the crash should call Crime Stoppers at 373-1000.
www.news-record.com/content/2008/11/11/article/careening_van_hits_critically_injures_boy
A house fire in the Millers Creek community that claimed the life of 32 year old Gary Scott Blevins. A neighbor tried to get the man out, but was too late. The SBI Arson Team is investigating the fire. http://www.wxii12.com/news/17958077/detail.html?rss=gws&psp=news
Police said that 16-year-old Joshua Lee Phillips from Cramerton (west of Charlotte) who was listening to his MP3 player didn’t hear a train approaching before he was struck and killed Monday afternoon. Cramerton is about 18 miles west of Charlotte
www.wxii12.com/news/17957459/detail.html?rss=gws&psp=news
The United Nations is considering sending an additional 3,000 troops to the democratic Republic of Congo. Fighting between rebel forces and government forces has displaced at least 100,000 people.
There’s a new Goodwill Retail Store opening today in King. The new Goodwill Retail Store at Colonial Shopping Center on South Main street in King replaces the older store. The new store will be open after a ribbon cutting ceremony this morning.
Sports: The Blue Devils now 2 and 0…Duke over Georgia Southern 97- 54
Fun Fact: The first drive-in bank opened at the Exchange National Bank in Chicago on this date in 1946. It had 10 teller windows with slide-out drawers. http://halife.com/
The Great Stocking Stuff going on NOW thru December 17 (Wednesday). Pick up a stocking at Chick-Fil-A stores, Wachovia banks and select Christian Bookstores. Details http://www.wbfj.fm/
Email virus alert: The latest virus to hit my inbox is the UPS Delivery Failure email. The message states that ‘they’ were unable to deliver a package sent to you on such and such a date. It then asks you to print out the invoice copy attached. DO NOT TRY TO PRINT THIS INVOICE. IT WILL LAUNCH THE VIRUS! This virus has caused millions of dollars in damage in the past few days. www.snopes.com/computer/virus/ups.asp
Wake Forest University School of Medicine will receive nearly $2 million dollar grant over the next four years in a one-of-a-kind partnership with Meals on Wheels. The grant will help maintain the Medical Center’s position as a leader in geriatric medicine and medical training.
www.myfoxwghp.com/myfox/pages/News/Detail?contentId=7839907&version=1&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=VSTY&pageId=3.2.1
DEMOCRATIC LEADERS IN CONGRESS ARE PUSHING FOR LEGISLATION TO BAIL OUT THE U.S. AUTO INDUSTRY. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi wants a bill that will allow U.S. car makers to benefit from the recently-passed $700-billion dollar Wall Street bailout.
Former GOP Vice-Presidential candidate and Alaska Governor Sarah Palin will be addressing the Republican Governors’ Association meeting that begins in Miami today.
Four Seasons Town Centre in Greensboro is facing potential bankruptcy if it’s unable to refinance its debt. The Chicago-based company, which also owns The Streets at Southpoint in Durham, said it has millions of dollars in debt due December 1st . www.bizjournals.com/triad/stories/2008/11/10/daily30.html?ana=from_rss
Greensboro police saying that one of two boys playing along a creek was critically injured after a van ran a stop sign. 40 year old Michael Charles Parks was traveling north on Lindell Road when he ran through a stop sign at Walker Avenue. Parks was charged with DWI. Anyone with information about the crash should call Crime Stoppers at 373-1000.
www.news-record.com/content/2008/11/11/article/careening_van_hits_critically_injures_boy
A house fire in the Millers Creek community that claimed the life of 32 year old Gary Scott Blevins. A neighbor tried to get the man out, but was too late. The SBI Arson Team is investigating the fire. http://www.wxii12.com/news/17958077/detail.html?rss=gws&psp=news
Police said that 16-year-old Joshua Lee Phillips from Cramerton (west of Charlotte) who was listening to his MP3 player didn’t hear a train approaching before he was struck and killed Monday afternoon. Cramerton is about 18 miles west of Charlotte
www.wxii12.com/news/17957459/detail.html?rss=gws&psp=news
The United Nations is considering sending an additional 3,000 troops to the democratic Republic of Congo. Fighting between rebel forces and government forces has displaced at least 100,000 people.
There’s a new Goodwill Retail Store opening today in King. The new Goodwill Retail Store at Colonial Shopping Center on South Main street in King replaces the older store. The new store will be open after a ribbon cutting ceremony this morning.
Sports: The Blue Devils now 2 and 0…Duke over Georgia Southern 97- 54
Fun Fact: The first drive-in bank opened at the Exchange National Bank in Chicago on this date in 1946. It had 10 teller windows with slide-out drawers. http://halife.com/
11.11.2008
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Just a reminder: No mail…and banks will be closed. State and Federal offices closed today because of Veteran's Day.
Veteran’s Day events happening today…
-Mt Airy: Annual wreath laying ceremony at the corner of South Main and Rockford streets this morning. At 11am. A Veteran’s Day Parade will at Veterans Memorial Park on West Lebanon Street. www.mtairynews.com/articles/2008/11/05/news/local_news/local05.txt
-Up-town Lexington: 63rd Annual Veteran’s Day Parade at 4pm this afternoon. (Sponsored by the Davidson County Veterans Council) www.the-dispatch.com/article/20081108/articles/811080323&tc=yahoo
President Bush will commemorate Veteran’s Day at a ceremony to rededicate the USS Intrepid aircraft carrier as a museum in New York City.The date for Veterans Day, November eleventh, was established at the end of World War I.
Fact: It was on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month in 1918 that an initial truce ended the fighting between the Allied nations and Germany.
A Marine who fell 50 feet from a ledge at Pilot Mountain State Park is still in stable condition at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center. 30 year old Jessie Cox was climbing with six other Marines from Camp Lejeune near the Jomeokee Trail at Pilot Mountain State Park when he fell from the ledge. www.wxii12.com/news/17949089/detail.html?rss=gws&psp=news
Members of the Baptist State Convention of North Carolina will begin offering low-interest loans to member churches for construction and expansion of properties as early as next spring. The plan will be unveiled tomorrow during the convention’s annual meeting at the Greensboro Coliseum. www.news-record.com/content/2008/11/10/article/baptists_plan_cheap_loans_for_churches
THE DELIVERY COMPANY DHL EXPRESS IS ELIMINATING 95-HUNDRED JOBS AS IT CUTS BACK OPERATIONS. DHL will discontinue its domestic-only air and ground services in the US.
NASA saying that the Phoenix Mars Lander has gone silent. The reason: The lack of sunlight to power its solar powered batteries. The probe landed on the Red Planet back in May and actually exceeded its three-month mission by more than two months.
MerleFest 2009 tickets go on sale today at 2pm. The annual bluegrass festival at Wilkes Community College will take place next April 23-26, 2009. http://www.merlefest.org/
Sharing is Caring…Need Knows No Season
The Great Stocking Stuff going on NOW thru (Wednesday) December 17. Pick up a stocking at Chick-Fil-A stores, Wachovia banks and select Christian Bookstores. Details about the Great Stocking Stuff... http://www.wbfj.fm/
Veteran’s Day events happening today…
-Mt Airy: Annual wreath laying ceremony at the corner of South Main and Rockford streets this morning. At 11am. A Veteran’s Day Parade will at Veterans Memorial Park on West Lebanon Street. www.mtairynews.com/articles/2008/11/05/news/local_news/local05.txt
-Up-town Lexington: 63rd Annual Veteran’s Day Parade at 4pm this afternoon. (Sponsored by the Davidson County Veterans Council) www.the-dispatch.com/article/20081108/articles/811080323&tc=yahoo
President Bush will commemorate Veteran’s Day at a ceremony to rededicate the USS Intrepid aircraft carrier as a museum in New York City.The date for Veterans Day, November eleventh, was established at the end of World War I.
Fact: It was on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month in 1918 that an initial truce ended the fighting between the Allied nations and Germany.
A Marine who fell 50 feet from a ledge at Pilot Mountain State Park is still in stable condition at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center. 30 year old Jessie Cox was climbing with six other Marines from Camp Lejeune near the Jomeokee Trail at Pilot Mountain State Park when he fell from the ledge. www.wxii12.com/news/17949089/detail.html?rss=gws&psp=news
Members of the Baptist State Convention of North Carolina will begin offering low-interest loans to member churches for construction and expansion of properties as early as next spring. The plan will be unveiled tomorrow during the convention’s annual meeting at the Greensboro Coliseum. www.news-record.com/content/2008/11/10/article/baptists_plan_cheap_loans_for_churches
THE DELIVERY COMPANY DHL EXPRESS IS ELIMINATING 95-HUNDRED JOBS AS IT CUTS BACK OPERATIONS. DHL will discontinue its domestic-only air and ground services in the US.
NASA saying that the Phoenix Mars Lander has gone silent. The reason: The lack of sunlight to power its solar powered batteries. The probe landed on the Red Planet back in May and actually exceeded its three-month mission by more than two months.
MerleFest 2009 tickets go on sale today at 2pm. The annual bluegrass festival at Wilkes Community College will take place next April 23-26, 2009. http://www.merlefest.org/
Sharing is Caring…Need Knows No Season
The Great Stocking Stuff going on NOW thru (Wednesday) December 17. Pick up a stocking at Chick-Fil-A stores, Wachovia banks and select Christian Bookstores. Details about the Great Stocking Stuff... http://www.wbfj.fm/
11.10.2008
Monday, November 10, 2008
Join us LIVE from 6am-10am Monday morning at the Chick-Fil-A at Stanleyville!
Sharing is Caring…Need Knows No Season: Kicking off the Great Stocking Stuff…with WBFJ and the Salvation Army. Monday (Nov 10) thru Wednesday (Dec 17)
Thanks to Chick-Fil-A of the Triad, Wachovia and select Christian Bookstores
If you would like to Volunteer call (336) 723-6366 http://www.salvationarmyws.org/
President Bush and First Lady Laura Bush will host Senator Barack Obama and his family at the White House today. *Aides close to President-Elect Obama say that on his first day in office, Obama will likely reverse Executive Orders made by President Bush on embryonic stem-cell research and domestic drilling for oil and natural gas.
www.journalnow.com/content/2008/nov/10/obama-ponders-quick-changes/
About 300 Gay Rights Activists protesting outside Rick Warren’s Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, California yesterday to voice their anger of the church's support of Proposition 8, a constitutional amendment approved by voters last Tuesday that overturned a state Supreme Court decision in May legalizing same-sex unions. www.cnn.com/2008/US/11/10/gay.marriage.protests.ap/index.html
Rescuers in Haiti are slowly transitioning from rescue to recovery mode this morning. Over the weekend, searchers were still looking for signs of life after a school collapsed on Friday killing about 90 students and adults…while severely injuring 150 more. http://apnews.myway.com/article/20081110/D94BV3BG0.html
Hundreds of homes were destroyed along Cuba’s southern coastal area over the weekend by Hurricane Poloma. All watches and warnings have been discontinued.
Maria’s Miracle Fund surpasses $700,000 dollars in donations. Following the tragic death of Maria Sue Chapman last May, Steven Curtis Chapman and his wife Mary Beth set up the Fund through their adoption and orphanage ministry, Shaohannah's Hope.
Learn more: http://members.shaohannahshope.org/site/PageServer?pagename=maria_remembering&JServSessionIdr001=3yt8fmjyn2.app8b
November is National Adoption Awareness Month
BTW: And for the third year now, Shaohannah's Hope is again partnering with Focus on the Family and Family Life Today for the "Cry of the Orphan" national media campaign which begins November 17th .
Read more about a group of New Yorkers fighting to save Tin Pan Alley, the The four-story, 19th-century buildings on Manhattan's West 28th Street where iconic American songs such as "God Bless America" and "Take Me Out To The Ballgame" were born.
Story link: www.cnn.com/2008/US/11/10/tin.pan.alley.ap/index.html
Sports: Jimmie Johnson all but wraps up the Sprint Cup title yesterday with his win at Phoenix International Raceway. ABC switched the end of the race to ESPN2?
Sharing is Caring…Need Knows No Season: Kicking off the Great Stocking Stuff…with WBFJ and the Salvation Army. Monday (Nov 10) thru Wednesday (Dec 17)
Thanks to Chick-Fil-A of the Triad, Wachovia and select Christian Bookstores
If you would like to Volunteer call (336) 723-6366 http://www.salvationarmyws.org/
President Bush and First Lady Laura Bush will host Senator Barack Obama and his family at the White House today. *Aides close to President-Elect Obama say that on his first day in office, Obama will likely reverse Executive Orders made by President Bush on embryonic stem-cell research and domestic drilling for oil and natural gas.
www.journalnow.com/content/2008/nov/10/obama-ponders-quick-changes/
About 300 Gay Rights Activists protesting outside Rick Warren’s Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, California yesterday to voice their anger of the church's support of Proposition 8, a constitutional amendment approved by voters last Tuesday that overturned a state Supreme Court decision in May legalizing same-sex unions. www.cnn.com/2008/US/11/10/gay.marriage.protests.ap/index.html
Rescuers in Haiti are slowly transitioning from rescue to recovery mode this morning. Over the weekend, searchers were still looking for signs of life after a school collapsed on Friday killing about 90 students and adults…while severely injuring 150 more. http://apnews.myway.com/article/20081110/D94BV3BG0.html
Hundreds of homes were destroyed along Cuba’s southern coastal area over the weekend by Hurricane Poloma. All watches and warnings have been discontinued.
Maria’s Miracle Fund surpasses $700,000 dollars in donations. Following the tragic death of Maria Sue Chapman last May, Steven Curtis Chapman and his wife Mary Beth set up the Fund through their adoption and orphanage ministry, Shaohannah's Hope.
Learn more: http://members.shaohannahshope.org/site/PageServer?pagename=maria_remembering&JServSessionIdr001=3yt8fmjyn2.app8b
November is National Adoption Awareness Month
BTW: And for the third year now, Shaohannah's Hope is again partnering with Focus on the Family and Family Life Today for the "Cry of the Orphan" national media campaign which begins November 17th .
Read more about a group of New Yorkers fighting to save Tin Pan Alley, the The four-story, 19th-century buildings on Manhattan's West 28th Street where iconic American songs such as "God Bless America" and "Take Me Out To The Ballgame" were born.
Story link: www.cnn.com/2008/US/11/10/tin.pan.alley.ap/index.html
Sports: Jimmie Johnson all but wraps up the Sprint Cup title yesterday with his win at Phoenix International Raceway. ABC switched the end of the race to ESPN2?
11.07.2008
Friday, November 07, 2008
The prayers of one Greensboro woman literally stops an attempted robbery. According to police, Kathy Headen (39) was getting books out of her car at the Vance Chavis Library in Greensboro Wednesday evening when a man approached her and demanded her cell phone and purse. When Headen saw the man, she began to pray aloud. The suspect asked her to stop talking so loudly, but when Headen refused to listen, the suspect left without taking anything. Headen was not injured. www.myfoxwghp.com/myfox/pages/News/Detail?contentId=7803778&version=3&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=TSTY&pageId=3.2.1
A strong storm brewing in the Caribbean. Hurricane Paloma is moving toward the Cayman Islands. Paloma is not a threat to the US mainland.
An early taste of Winter weather in the Northern Plains. Parts of the Dakotas getting close to 4 feet of snow. Thousands without power. www.weather.com/newscenter/nationalforecast/index.html?from=hp_news
PRESIDENT-ELECT BARACK OBAMA will hold his first scheduled news conference this afternoon. Obama will head to Washington, DC next week to discuss the transition of power with President Bush.
PRESIDENT-ELECT BARACK OBAMA HAS NAMED ILLINOIS CONGRESSMAN RAHM EMANUEL (Rom Emanuel) AS HIS NEW CHIEF OF STAFF. Emanuel served as a top policy adviser to President Bill Clinton in the 1990s. http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/11/06/emanuel-accepts-offer-obamas-chief-staff/
Save energy – Save money: The first annual Energy Star Sales Tax Holiday begins today and runs through the weekend. Lawmakers in Raleigh approved the Energy Star Sales Tax Holiday earlier this year. Information flier: www.energync.net/energystar.pdf
Dr Billy Graham turns 90 today. Dr Graham plans to celebrate his birthday today with a private party among family members with some North Carolina barbecue.
Check out all the kind words and birthday wishes: www.billygraham90.com
www.journalnow.com/content/2008/nov/07/billy-graham-turns-90-celebrates-family/
www.news-record.com/content/2008/11/06/article/billy_graham_at_90
Also, special happenings today and Saturday at the Billy Graham Library in Charlotte in honor of Dr Graham’s 90th birthday. www.billygraham.org/BGLibrary_Calendar.asp
New inductees into the National Toy Hall of Fame on Thursday…the baby doll, the skateboard…and the ‘stick’. Previous inductees include the bicycle, Mr Potato Head, Crayola crayons and the cardboard box. The National Toy Hall of Fame is located in Rochester, New York. www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,448455,00.html
Commentary: McCain aides slamming Palin. But, you picked her.
TV anchor Campbell Brown says she is stunned at how McCain advisers have attacked Sarah Palin…post-election.
www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/11/06/campbell.brown.palin/index.html#cnnSTCText
Palin Post-election Interview Requests Pile Up
http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/11/07/palin-postelection-interview-requests-pile/
The First dog ‘Barney’ has his own way of dealing with one White House reporter.
President-elect Barack Obama's daughters have been promised a puppy for the White House — President Bush's dog, Barney, bites one White House reporter...
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/11/07/first-dog-takes-a-bite-at-white-house-reporter-2/
See the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuTZOf5gzZE
A strong storm brewing in the Caribbean. Hurricane Paloma is moving toward the Cayman Islands. Paloma is not a threat to the US mainland.
An early taste of Winter weather in the Northern Plains. Parts of the Dakotas getting close to 4 feet of snow. Thousands without power. www.weather.com/newscenter/nationalforecast/index.html?from=hp_news
PRESIDENT-ELECT BARACK OBAMA will hold his first scheduled news conference this afternoon. Obama will head to Washington, DC next week to discuss the transition of power with President Bush.
PRESIDENT-ELECT BARACK OBAMA HAS NAMED ILLINOIS CONGRESSMAN RAHM EMANUEL (Rom Emanuel) AS HIS NEW CHIEF OF STAFF. Emanuel served as a top policy adviser to President Bill Clinton in the 1990s. http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/11/06/emanuel-accepts-offer-obamas-chief-staff/
Save energy – Save money: The first annual Energy Star Sales Tax Holiday begins today and runs through the weekend. Lawmakers in Raleigh approved the Energy Star Sales Tax Holiday earlier this year. Information flier: www.energync.net/energystar.pdf
Dr Billy Graham turns 90 today. Dr Graham plans to celebrate his birthday today with a private party among family members with some North Carolina barbecue.
Check out all the kind words and birthday wishes: www.billygraham90.com
www.journalnow.com/content/2008/nov/07/billy-graham-turns-90-celebrates-family/
www.news-record.com/content/2008/11/06/article/billy_graham_at_90
Also, special happenings today and Saturday at the Billy Graham Library in Charlotte in honor of Dr Graham’s 90th birthday. www.billygraham.org/BGLibrary_Calendar.asp
New inductees into the National Toy Hall of Fame on Thursday…the baby doll, the skateboard…and the ‘stick’. Previous inductees include the bicycle, Mr Potato Head, Crayola crayons and the cardboard box. The National Toy Hall of Fame is located in Rochester, New York. www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,448455,00.html
Commentary: McCain aides slamming Palin. But, you picked her.
TV anchor Campbell Brown says she is stunned at how McCain advisers have attacked Sarah Palin…post-election.
www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/11/06/campbell.brown.palin/index.html#cnnSTCText
Palin Post-election Interview Requests Pile Up
http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/11/07/palin-postelection-interview-requests-pile/
The First dog ‘Barney’ has his own way of dealing with one White House reporter.
President-elect Barack Obama's daughters have been promised a puppy for the White House — President Bush's dog, Barney, bites one White House reporter...
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/11/07/first-dog-takes-a-bite-at-white-house-reporter-2/
See the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuTZOf5gzZE
11.06.2008
The Lexington Youth Theatre presents 'A Christmas Carol'
Students from the Lexington Youth Theater (Carson, Marissa, Jay, Beth, Cassie and Kayla) stopped by the Family Friendly Morning Show on Thursday.
'A Christmas Carol'
A Family Friendly version of the Dicken's classic performed by students ages K-12th grade.
Show times: Thursday - Saturday (Nov 13 - 15) 7pm and Sunday Nov 16) at 2pm.
Location: Smith Civic Center on Main Street in Lexington
Location: Smith Civic Center on Main Street in Lexington
Tickets are $8.00 (plus a non-perishable food item to help local charities)
More information: (336) 313-6159
Thursday, November 06, 2008
With tens of thousands of provisional ballots still outstanding, the Presidential race in North Carolina still remains too close to call.
The Dudley High School marching band will represent Guilford County during the Presidential Inaugural Festival in January in Washington, D.C. FYI: The Dudley band needs almost $60,000 and is performing various fundraisers but you can also make a donation by contacting band director Ricardo Reid at 336-370-8130.
www.digtriad.com/news/local/article.aspx?storyid=113572&catid=57
The Women's Choir at Glenn High School in Forsyth County is having its annual Veteran’s Day Breakfast honoring our veterans AND Forsyth County rescue workers this Friday morning (November 7th ) starting at 7am. The Breakfast starts at 7am tomorrow morning in the Library at Glenn High School. More info: 771- 4500.
www.journalnow.com/content/2008/nov/06/community-bulletin-board/news-local/
Save energy – Save money: The first annual Energy Star Sales Tax Holiday begins this Friday and goes through the weekend. Appliances eligible under the tax holiday include clothes washers, freezers and refrigerators, central and room air conditioners, air-source heat pumps, ceiling fans and programmable thermostats. Lawmakers in Raleigh, approved the creation of the appliance tax holiday to encourage the use of more energy efficient products.
Information flier: www.energync.net/energystar.pdf
VOTERS IN WASHINGTON STATE APPROVED DOCTOR-ASSISTED SUICIDE ON TUESDAY. The new law will allow doctors to prescribe fatal doses of medicine to people who have been diagnosed as having six months or less to live. http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2008352350_assistedsuicide05m.html
Also, measures to define traditional marriage as the union of one man and one woman passed in Arizona, Florida and California. www.citizenlink.org/CLtopstories/A000008606.cfm
GOOGLE AND YAHOO! HAVE DECIDED TO ABANDON AN ADVERTISING AGREEMENT AFTER THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT THREATENED THEM WITH AN ANTI-TRUST LAW SUIT.
What a praise: A pastor who was kidnapped while traveling in Tijuana, Mexico…has been found alive. The 59-year old Southern Baptist pastor from California was taken hostage back in October. His kidnappers apparently gave up on their one million dollar ransom demand. The pastor was reportedly beaten and deprived of food and water while in captivity. Tijuana is just over the border from San Diego, California.
Maria’s Miracle Fund surpasses $700,000 dollars in donations. Following the tragic death of Maria Sue Chapman last May, Steven Curtis Chapman and his wife Mary Beth set up the Fund through their adoption and orphanage ministry, Shaohannah's Hope.
Learn more: http://members.shaohannahshope.org/site/PageServer?pagename=maria_remembering&JServSessionIdr001=3yt8fmjyn2.app8b
November is National Adoption Awareness Month
BTW: And for the third year now, Shaohannah's Hope is again partnering with Focus on the Family and Family Life for the "Cry of the Orphan" national media campaign.
MUSIC: A best of collection from Switchfoot is now available."The Best Yet" from Switchfoot is an 18-track collection and features one newly-released song, titled, "This is Home" (featured in "The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian"). The Deluxe Edition of "The Best Yet" also includes 14 videos.
The Dudley High School marching band will represent Guilford County during the Presidential Inaugural Festival in January in Washington, D.C. FYI: The Dudley band needs almost $60,000 and is performing various fundraisers but you can also make a donation by contacting band director Ricardo Reid at 336-370-8130.
www.digtriad.com/news/local/article.aspx?storyid=113572&catid=57
The Women's Choir at Glenn High School in Forsyth County is having its annual Veteran’s Day Breakfast honoring our veterans AND Forsyth County rescue workers this Friday morning (November 7th ) starting at 7am. The Breakfast starts at 7am tomorrow morning in the Library at Glenn High School. More info: 771- 4500.
www.journalnow.com/content/2008/nov/06/community-bulletin-board/news-local/
Save energy – Save money: The first annual Energy Star Sales Tax Holiday begins this Friday and goes through the weekend. Appliances eligible under the tax holiday include clothes washers, freezers and refrigerators, central and room air conditioners, air-source heat pumps, ceiling fans and programmable thermostats. Lawmakers in Raleigh, approved the creation of the appliance tax holiday to encourage the use of more energy efficient products.
Information flier: www.energync.net/energystar.pdf
VOTERS IN WASHINGTON STATE APPROVED DOCTOR-ASSISTED SUICIDE ON TUESDAY. The new law will allow doctors to prescribe fatal doses of medicine to people who have been diagnosed as having six months or less to live. http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2008352350_assistedsuicide05m.html
Also, measures to define traditional marriage as the union of one man and one woman passed in Arizona, Florida and California. www.citizenlink.org/CLtopstories/A000008606.cfm
GOOGLE AND YAHOO! HAVE DECIDED TO ABANDON AN ADVERTISING AGREEMENT AFTER THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT THREATENED THEM WITH AN ANTI-TRUST LAW SUIT.
What a praise: A pastor who was kidnapped while traveling in Tijuana, Mexico…has been found alive. The 59-year old Southern Baptist pastor from California was taken hostage back in October. His kidnappers apparently gave up on their one million dollar ransom demand. The pastor was reportedly beaten and deprived of food and water while in captivity. Tijuana is just over the border from San Diego, California.
Maria’s Miracle Fund surpasses $700,000 dollars in donations. Following the tragic death of Maria Sue Chapman last May, Steven Curtis Chapman and his wife Mary Beth set up the Fund through their adoption and orphanage ministry, Shaohannah's Hope.
Learn more: http://members.shaohannahshope.org/site/PageServer?pagename=maria_remembering&JServSessionIdr001=3yt8fmjyn2.app8b
November is National Adoption Awareness Month
BTW: And for the third year now, Shaohannah's Hope is again partnering with Focus on the Family and Family Life for the "Cry of the Orphan" national media campaign.
MUSIC: A best of collection from Switchfoot is now available."The Best Yet" from Switchfoot is an 18-track collection and features one newly-released song, titled, "This is Home" (featured in "The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian"). The Deluxe Edition of "The Best Yet" also includes 14 videos.
11.05.2008
a note from the Presidential Prayer Team...
The Presidential Prayer Team is pleased to commit itself and it’s nearly 500,000 members to pray for the newly elected President of the United States of America, Barack Obama.
With I Timothy 2:1-2 as our biblical mandate, The Presidential Prayer Team is dedicated to praying for our new president’s wisdom, protection and success as he faces these issues, and many more, over the next four years.
Today, we are launching a countdown in prayer from Election to Inauguration for President-Elect Obama! It’s called 77 Days of Prayer for our New President, and I encourage you to please sign up for this prayer initiative now using the link below...
www.presidentialprayerteam.org/site/PageServer?pagename=77days_signup&autologin=true&JServSessionIdr001=uh7ogtmxi2.app27a
Site info: www.presidentialprayerteam.org/site/PageServer?pagename=77days_dayx
With I Timothy 2:1-2 as our biblical mandate, The Presidential Prayer Team is dedicated to praying for our new president’s wisdom, protection and success as he faces these issues, and many more, over the next four years.
Today, we are launching a countdown in prayer from Election to Inauguration for President-Elect Obama! It’s called 77 Days of Prayer for our New President, and I encourage you to please sign up for this prayer initiative now using the link below...
www.presidentialprayerteam.org/site/PageServer?pagename=77days_signup&autologin=true&JServSessionIdr001=uh7ogtmxi2.app27a
Site info: www.presidentialprayerteam.org/site/PageServer?pagename=77days_dayx
Wednesday, November 05, 2008
An historical night of political change: The Democratic Party now controls Congress and the White House. Senator Barack Obama will be our 44th US President. Democrats gaining seats in both the Senate and the House last night. In his acceptance speech last night in Chicago, Obama turned from the jubilation of victory to the sobering challenge of leading a nation worried about economic crisis, two unfinished wars and global uncertainty. President-elect Obama will take the oath of office on January 20th, 2009. www.onenewsnow.com/Election2008/Default.aspx?id=311398
In North Carolina: Bev Perdue will become the state’s first female governor.
Walter Dalton has been elected as Lt Governor. Elizabeth Dole losing her US Senate seat to Greensboro native Kay Hagan. Republican Incumbents Virginia Fox and Howard Coble keep their seats in the House. http://results.enr.clarityelections.com/NC/7937/13221/en/summary.html
Voters in Forsyth County saying YES to a $62 million dollar ‘School Bond package’. Greensboro residents saying YES to Bonds supporting new roads, a competitive swimming pool and housing programs…but NO to renovations at Greensboro’s War Memorial Auditorium.
www.news-record.com/content/2008/11/04/article/greensboro_voters_approve_three_bond_initiatives
Around the nation…measures to define traditional marriage as the union of one man and one woman passed in Arizona and Florida but the votes are still being counted in California. In Colorado, voters rejected a measure that would have defined human life as beginning at conception. Voters in Arkansas have passed a measure that prohibits homosexuals from adopting children. www.onenewsnow.com/Election2008/Default.aspx?id=311426
Alaska Governor Sarah Palin has been cleared of accusations that she violated ethics laws when she fired her public safety commissioner. www.onenewsnow.com/Election2008/Default.aspx?id=309780
PALESTINIAN MILITANTS HAVE FIRED MISSILES FROM THE GAZA STRIP INTO SOUTHERN ISRAEL. The militant group Hamas has claimed responsibility for the attack. There have been no reports of serious injuries.
SHERWIN WILLIAMS IS RECALLING A KRYLON BRAND OUTDOOR UV FABRIC PROTECTOR. The Consumer Product Safety Commission says overexposure to the fumes can pose a serious respiratory hazard. http://www.krylon.com/
More info: www.cpsc.gov/cpscpub/prerel/prhtml09/09036.html
Move over Mall-of-America: The world’s largest-ever mall opening in the United Arab Emirates. The Dubai Mall will have over 1,200 stores, 160 food & beverage outlets, a supermarket and an organic food mart.
www.marketwatch.com/news/story/The-Dubai-Mall-Opens-With/story.aspx?guid=%7B40DFE5FC-4097-4F24-A1E7-5B7574E36BF7%7D
Video animation about the Mall: www.metacafe.com/watch/98125/dubai_mall/
Now He (Jesus Christ) is far above any ruler or authority or power or leader or anything else—not only in this world but also in the world to come. God has put all things under the authority of Christ and has made him head over all things for the benefit of the church.
Ephesians 1:21-22 (NLT)
In North Carolina: Bev Perdue will become the state’s first female governor.
Walter Dalton has been elected as Lt Governor. Elizabeth Dole losing her US Senate seat to Greensboro native Kay Hagan. Republican Incumbents Virginia Fox and Howard Coble keep their seats in the House. http://results.enr.clarityelections.com/NC/7937/13221/en/summary.html
Voters in Forsyth County saying YES to a $62 million dollar ‘School Bond package’. Greensboro residents saying YES to Bonds supporting new roads, a competitive swimming pool and housing programs…but NO to renovations at Greensboro’s War Memorial Auditorium.
www.news-record.com/content/2008/11/04/article/greensboro_voters_approve_three_bond_initiatives
Around the nation…measures to define traditional marriage as the union of one man and one woman passed in Arizona and Florida but the votes are still being counted in California. In Colorado, voters rejected a measure that would have defined human life as beginning at conception. Voters in Arkansas have passed a measure that prohibits homosexuals from adopting children. www.onenewsnow.com/Election2008/Default.aspx?id=311426
Alaska Governor Sarah Palin has been cleared of accusations that she violated ethics laws when she fired her public safety commissioner. www.onenewsnow.com/Election2008/Default.aspx?id=309780
PALESTINIAN MILITANTS HAVE FIRED MISSILES FROM THE GAZA STRIP INTO SOUTHERN ISRAEL. The militant group Hamas has claimed responsibility for the attack. There have been no reports of serious injuries.
SHERWIN WILLIAMS IS RECALLING A KRYLON BRAND OUTDOOR UV FABRIC PROTECTOR. The Consumer Product Safety Commission says overexposure to the fumes can pose a serious respiratory hazard. http://www.krylon.com/
More info: www.cpsc.gov/cpscpub/prerel/prhtml09/09036.html
Move over Mall-of-America: The world’s largest-ever mall opening in the United Arab Emirates. The Dubai Mall will have over 1,200 stores, 160 food & beverage outlets, a supermarket and an organic food mart.
www.marketwatch.com/news/story/The-Dubai-Mall-Opens-With/story.aspx?guid=%7B40DFE5FC-4097-4F24-A1E7-5B7574E36BF7%7D
Video animation about the Mall: www.metacafe.com/watch/98125/dubai_mall/
Now He (Jesus Christ) is far above any ruler or authority or power or leader or anything else—not only in this world but also in the world to come. God has put all things under the authority of Christ and has made him head over all things for the benefit of the church.
Ephesians 1:21-22 (NLT)
Being Your Child’s ‘Personal Trainer’
Our guest this morning: Dr Jennifer Thomas with Associates in Christian Counseling
Need more information: (336) 896 – 0065
www.christiancounseling.org/
Check out the book from Dr Thomas and Gary Chapman
‘The 5 Languages of Apology’ http://www.drjenthomas.org/
Need more information: (336) 896 – 0065
www.christiancounseling.org/
Check out the book from Dr Thomas and Gary Chapman
‘The 5 Languages of Apology’ http://www.drjenthomas.org/
11.04.2008
Election Night
Breaking News:
(US Senate Race) Fox News is projecting Kay Hagan over Elizabeth Dole (8:15PM Eastern)
Presidential Race...
Senator McCain picks up South Carolina, Georgia and Tennessee
Senator Obama picks up Pennsylvania, Illinois and Maine
Fox News Channel www.foxnews.com/index.html
News 14 Carolina http://news14.com/content/election_returns/Default.aspx
(NC) State Board of Elections http://results.enr.clarityelections.com/NC/7937/12184/en/summary.html
(US Senate Race) Fox News is projecting Kay Hagan over Elizabeth Dole (8:15PM Eastern)
Presidential Race...
Senator McCain picks up South Carolina, Georgia and Tennessee
Senator Obama picks up Pennsylvania, Illinois and Maine
Fox News Channel www.foxnews.com/index.html
News 14 Carolina http://news14.com/content/election_returns/Default.aspx
(NC) State Board of Elections http://results.enr.clarityelections.com/NC/7937/12184/en/summary.html
Election Day
Tuesday, November 04, 2008
Your WBFJ Election Day Forecast: Cloudy with a few showers…High near 60
Take an umbrella or a jacket as you go to the polls.
Polls will be open until 7:30pm.
-If you are in line by 7:30 this evening…you will be allowed to vote
-If you are physically unable to stand or walk…Curbside voting is available
Stay with WBFJ this evening…we will update you with Election News every 20 minutes! Voter guides and election details on the News Blog look under Election 2008.
Early Voting helping keep line short this morning. Thanks to all of your calls this morning with Poll updates. The average time in line seems to be in the 15 to 30 minute range this morning. Just a reminder: In Forsyth County: All paper ballots for voters today
Election Day Treats…Just by wearing an ‘I VOTED’ sticker
-FREE star-shaped doughnut at participating Krispy Kreme stores (1 per)
-Free small drip coffee at Starbuck’s
-FREE cup of coffee at Confluence Coffee (Highway 150)
-Free cup o’Joe at Books a Million
-Free ice cream at Ben n Jerry’s (5-8pm)
-Shane’s Rib Shack in Greensboro is offering a complete meal just for wearing your I Voted Sticker
In North Carolina, lots of political races to keep up with beyond the Presidential race. Governor, Lt Governor, the US Senate race, House of Representatives, local races and the non-partisan judicial races. You will need to do your homework when it comes to the judges races. Bonds will also be on the ballot in several counties. In Forsyth County: Forsyth Tech Bond. In Greensboro: Voters will have to say YES or NO to 4 separate bonds. Including a $50 million dollar renovation to War Memorial Auditorium and $20 million dollar Bond for Parks and Recreation.
It’s all for fun but a serious learning experience: Today, Kids from kindergarten to high school in several counties (including Forsyth, Guilford, Davie and Randolph) will get to cast their paper ballot in this year’s election. The goal of the ‘Kids Voting’ program is to increase informed voter participation by teaching students about the elections process and by encouraging them to become lifetime voters who are involved in their community.
A link to Kids Voting North Carolina www.kidsvotingnc.org/
THE LONGEST AND MOST EXPENSIVE PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN IN THE HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES ALL COMES DOWN TO TODAY. The winning Presidential candidate will need to secure 270 (of a possible 538) electoral votes. North Carolina (a key battle ground state) will offer 15 Electoral votes. Regardless of the outcome of this election, it will be historic:
Either the US will have its first African-American president with Barack Obama, or it will have its first female vice president, with Republican Sarah Palin.And if the 72-year old John McCain wins, he would become the nation's oldest first-term president.
Humanitarian Aid slowly making its way into the eastern portion of the DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO. Hundreds of thousands of people have fled their homes in parts of the country because of fighting between rebel and government forces. Nearly ten thousand people have crossed the border into either Rwanda or Uganda.
Electronics retailer CIRCUIT CITY will close 155 stores nationwide. A 17% reduction in Circuit City's domestic workforce.
Monday Night Football: Steelers over the Red Skins…23 - 6
Your WBFJ Election Day Forecast: Cloudy with a few showers…High near 60
Take an umbrella or a jacket as you go to the polls.
Polls will be open until 7:30pm.
-If you are in line by 7:30 this evening…you will be allowed to vote
-If you are physically unable to stand or walk…Curbside voting is available
Stay with WBFJ this evening…we will update you with Election News every 20 minutes! Voter guides and election details on the News Blog look under Election 2008.
Early Voting helping keep line short this morning. Thanks to all of your calls this morning with Poll updates. The average time in line seems to be in the 15 to 30 minute range this morning. Just a reminder: In Forsyth County: All paper ballots for voters today
Election Day Treats…Just by wearing an ‘I VOTED’ sticker
-FREE star-shaped doughnut at participating Krispy Kreme stores (1 per)
-Free small drip coffee at Starbuck’s
-FREE cup of coffee at Confluence Coffee (Highway 150)
-Free cup o’Joe at Books a Million
-Free ice cream at Ben n Jerry’s (5-8pm)
-Shane’s Rib Shack in Greensboro is offering a complete meal just for wearing your I Voted Sticker
In North Carolina, lots of political races to keep up with beyond the Presidential race. Governor, Lt Governor, the US Senate race, House of Representatives, local races and the non-partisan judicial races. You will need to do your homework when it comes to the judges races. Bonds will also be on the ballot in several counties. In Forsyth County: Forsyth Tech Bond. In Greensboro: Voters will have to say YES or NO to 4 separate bonds. Including a $50 million dollar renovation to War Memorial Auditorium and $20 million dollar Bond for Parks and Recreation.
It’s all for fun but a serious learning experience: Today, Kids from kindergarten to high school in several counties (including Forsyth, Guilford, Davie and Randolph) will get to cast their paper ballot in this year’s election. The goal of the ‘Kids Voting’ program is to increase informed voter participation by teaching students about the elections process and by encouraging them to become lifetime voters who are involved in their community.
A link to Kids Voting North Carolina www.kidsvotingnc.org/
THE LONGEST AND MOST EXPENSIVE PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN IN THE HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES ALL COMES DOWN TO TODAY. The winning Presidential candidate will need to secure 270 (of a possible 538) electoral votes. North Carolina (a key battle ground state) will offer 15 Electoral votes. Regardless of the outcome of this election, it will be historic:
Either the US will have its first African-American president with Barack Obama, or it will have its first female vice president, with Republican Sarah Palin.And if the 72-year old John McCain wins, he would become the nation's oldest first-term president.
Humanitarian Aid slowly making its way into the eastern portion of the DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO. Hundreds of thousands of people have fled their homes in parts of the country because of fighting between rebel and government forces. Nearly ten thousand people have crossed the border into either Rwanda or Uganda.
Electronics retailer CIRCUIT CITY will close 155 stores nationwide. A 17% reduction in Circuit City's domestic workforce.
Monday Night Football: Steelers over the Red Skins…23 - 6
11.03.2008
Monday, November 03, 2008
Romans 13:1 God establishes those in authority over us.
ELECTION DAY is this Tuesday (Nov 4th )
Polls open from 6:30 am – 7:30pm on Tuesday
Web tool for Tuesday: Election officials in Guilford County have launched a new service on their Web site to give voters estimated wait times at poll sites in Guildford County. www.guilfordelections.org/
WITH ONE DAY LEFT BEFORE THE ELECTION: John McCain is scheduled to hold rallies in seven states, including Florida, Pennsylvania, and his home state of Arizona. Senator Barack Obama will make stops in Florida and Virginia….as well as North Carolina…at UNC-Charlotte.
A new study suggesting that pregnancy rates are much higher among teens who watch TV shows that contain heavy sexual content. Teens who watched overtly sexual content on television were twice as likely to become pregnant over the next three years as those who watched less provocative TV shows. The study out in the November issue of Pediatrics. www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,446085,00.html
MISSION AVIATION FELLOWSHIP is assisting a number of relief organizations deliver food and medical supplies to refugees in the northern region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
The African nation is the scene of increasing violence between rebel and government forces. The United Nations estimating that hundreds of thousands of people have fled their homes in the Congo. Some have made it across the border to the neighboring countries of Uganda and Rwanda.
Parts of Asia getting hammered by natural disasters. In China, over the weekend, mudslides and landslides claimed at least 20 lives and destroying more than one-thousand homes.
In Vietnam, a week of heavy rains and flooding has claimed at least 49 lives.
Melissa Greene, one of the members of Avalon, is working on a solo project. The songs that will appear on the album titled “Next Step” were greatly influenced by the struggle she and her family faced when her brother was diagnosed with stage four cancer. "Next Step" should be out in March (2009). BTW: Melissa wants to assure her fans that she is not leaving Avalon.
‘Sweet Treat’ just for Voting on Election Day:
Participating Krispy Kreme stores are offering a ‘sweet treat’ on Tuesday.
Just by wearing an ‘I VOTED’ you can stop by a Krispy Kreme store for one (1) free star-shaped doughnut with red, white and blue sprinkles.
FYI: The promotion is good for one doughnut per customer. Select stores may be offering yeast-raised doughnuts in the standard circle shape, but decorated with red, white and blue sprinkles. http://www.krispykreme.com/.
ELECTION DAY is this Tuesday (Nov 4th )
Polls open from 6:30 am – 7:30pm on Tuesday
Web tool for Tuesday: Election officials in Guilford County have launched a new service on their Web site to give voters estimated wait times at poll sites in Guildford County. www.guilfordelections.org/
WITH ONE DAY LEFT BEFORE THE ELECTION: John McCain is scheduled to hold rallies in seven states, including Florida, Pennsylvania, and his home state of Arizona. Senator Barack Obama will make stops in Florida and Virginia….as well as North Carolina…at UNC-Charlotte.
A new study suggesting that pregnancy rates are much higher among teens who watch TV shows that contain heavy sexual content. Teens who watched overtly sexual content on television were twice as likely to become pregnant over the next three years as those who watched less provocative TV shows. The study out in the November issue of Pediatrics. www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,446085,00.html
MISSION AVIATION FELLOWSHIP is assisting a number of relief organizations deliver food and medical supplies to refugees in the northern region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
The African nation is the scene of increasing violence between rebel and government forces. The United Nations estimating that hundreds of thousands of people have fled their homes in the Congo. Some have made it across the border to the neighboring countries of Uganda and Rwanda.
Parts of Asia getting hammered by natural disasters. In China, over the weekend, mudslides and landslides claimed at least 20 lives and destroying more than one-thousand homes.
In Vietnam, a week of heavy rains and flooding has claimed at least 49 lives.
Melissa Greene, one of the members of Avalon, is working on a solo project. The songs that will appear on the album titled “Next Step” were greatly influenced by the struggle she and her family faced when her brother was diagnosed with stage four cancer. "Next Step" should be out in March (2009). BTW: Melissa wants to assure her fans that she is not leaving Avalon.
‘Sweet Treat’ just for Voting on Election Day:
Participating Krispy Kreme stores are offering a ‘sweet treat’ on Tuesday.
Just by wearing an ‘I VOTED’ you can stop by a Krispy Kreme store for one (1) free star-shaped doughnut with red, white and blue sprinkles.
FYI: The promotion is good for one doughnut per customer. Select stores may be offering yeast-raised doughnuts in the standard circle shape, but decorated with red, white and blue sprinkles. http://www.krispykreme.com/.
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