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Alaska Getting Their Own ‘Snowpocalypse?’

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November 9, 2011

It wasn’t very long ago that we got a serious snowstorm in the Washington, DC, area that was called “Snowmageddon” and “Snowpocalypse.”

Well, it’s Alaska’s turn, apparently. Here’s a news story about it from the Reuters agency:

>>An “epic” storm was bearing down on western Alaska on Tuesday, the National Weather Service said, warning that it could be one of the worst on record for the state.

The storm, moving inland from the Aleutian Islands, was expected to bring hurricane-force winds with gusts up to 100 miles per hour, heavy snowfall, widespread coastal flooding and severe erosion to most of Alaska’s west coast, the National Weather Service warned.

“This will be an extremely dangerous and life threatening storm of an epic magnitude rarely experienced,” the service said in a special warning message on Tuesday.

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Are Soy Meals ‘Cruel And Unusual’ Punishment?

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November 8, 2011

I don’t think the person in the news story below has ever eaten at a Seventh-day Adventist hospital or college campus.

Here’s the story from a CBS affiliate in the Tampa, Florida, area:

>>CLERMONT, Fla. (CBS Tampa) – A Florida inmate is suing the state’s prison system for pulling the pork from his meals.

Eric Harris, a 32-year-old convicted pedophile who is serving a life sentence, suggests Lake Correctional Institution’s policy of serving a vegan diet is seriously affecting the quality of his life sentence.

The Weston A. Price Foundation, a special interest group against soy products, will pick up the case’s legal expenses, and announced it has class-action ambitions including other prisoners, prison guards and taxpayers.

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Music For A November Weekend

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November 5, 2011

For many folks, it’s after Halloween but too soon for the December holiday songs. So, what’s a music lover to listen to?

Well, here are some suggestions I might offer:

The Byrds did a song about the change of seasons called “Turn, Turn, Turn:”

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Don’t It Make Your Brown Eyes Blue?

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November 4, 2011

Let’s face it — blue eyes are considered magical while brown eyes, well, not so much.

Believe it or not, medical science might be able to help “make your brown eyes blue.” Check out this story from the Daily Mail:

>>Ever wished you were the blue-eyed boy? You soon could be, after a doctor revealed he can permanently change a person’s eye colour in just 20 seconds.

Dr. Gregg Homer, from Stroma Medical in California, said his Lumineyes technology uses a laser tuned to a specific frequency to turn brown eyes to blue.

The laser energy removes the brown pigment, or melanin, from the top layer of the iris, and the blue eye colour emerges over the following two to three weeks.

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Charging Prison Inmates For Doing Time?

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November 3, 2011

County governments are looking for new ways to add revenue to their coffers. I’ve always joked that if they could charge for breathing or for sex, some government would do it!

Well, a supervisor in southern California has come up with an intriguing idea, according to a CBS TV station in Los Angeles:

>>If you do the time in Riverside County, you better have the dime to pay for it.

KNX 1070′s Mike Landa reports that’s the driving sentiment behind one Riverside County supervisor’s efforts to charge jail inmates for their time in custody.

Supervisor Jeff Stone introduced an ordinance this week seeking reimbursements for the cost of jailing inmates that an estimated $143 dollars per day.

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Lonely People May Have More Trouble Sleeping

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November 2, 2011

A new study indicates that insomnia could be the result of loneliness.

Here’s the story from the Reuters news service:

>>People who are lonely may be more likely to have sleepless nights, researchers said Tuesday in a study that suggests loneliness may not only cause unhappiness, it may be bad for your health.

Reporting in the journal Sleep, Lianne Kurina of the University of Chicago and colleagues studied loneliness and sleep patterns among a group of older residents living in two colonies of Hutterites in South Dakota.

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Man Falls Into Hole, Hangs On To Newspaper

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November 1, 2011

Now here’s a story people who work at a newspaper, like me, enjoy hearing!

An 80 year-old man fell into a hole, but didn’t let go of his morning newspaper. Here’s the story from newsday.com:

>>Michael Ciron‘s walk down his lawn for his morning newspapers Sunday took a little longer than he expected.

Ciron, 80, of Oceanside, said that about 9:30 a.m. he fell 8 to 9 feet into a narrow hole that appeared in his front lawn — landing in his slippers in wet, shifting sand — before being quickly rescued unscathed by local firefighters.

“When I fell down there, it was scary,” he said. “The dirt down there was like sand.”

He started to call for help, but soon realized that his voice wouldn’t carry far beyond the narrow pit.

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‘Scary’ Movie Music Weekend

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October 29, 2011

I love music on the weekend, so this time, I thought I’d play movie themes that sound good even though they are from Halloween/scary movies.

First up is “Tubular Bells,” best known from The Exorcist. Believe it or not, it was a song on its own before being employed on that film.

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‘Lion’ Taking Place In DC!

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October 28, 2011

While it’s not unusual for someone to be lying in DC — politicians are famous for it — it is strange to see a mountain lion here. That is, until recently.

Here’s the story from NBC 4 in DC:

>>Some believe a mountain lion may be lurking in northwest Washington.

One neighbor described the creature as larger and wider than a deer, with the long tail of a cat.

Another woman said she was walking her dog in McLean Gardens at the edge of Glover Park when she spotted the large cat last week.  The cat, which she believes is a mountain lion, ran off into some nearby woods.

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Back To Blogging

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October 27, 2011

“If I only had the time … .”

That’s what I’ve been telling myself the last several months whenever I remembered how much I’ve enjoyed expressing myself on this blog. But life is busy these days, and I simply couldn’t get to it.

What have I been up to?

Well, what really put me behind was the San Diego Comic-Con back in July. Then I attended other comic-cons, including one in Baltimore, then another one in New York City. They all take time, but they are a valuable resource for someone who creates a weekly podcast.

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