After we ring in the New Year's at the Hilton a few of us were thinking of continuing the festivities at Pete's Place. What better way to start 2010 than with friends, cheap libations and bad karaoke?!
Who's with me?
Thursday, December 31, 2009
We're goin' to PETE'S PLACE...
...Sorry, sorry, we're goin' streaking through the HILTON and then to PETE'S PLACE. Come on everybody! Come on! CHAN! CHAN-DLER-BING! CHAN...uh, no, it's cool! It's cool! I'm cool, bring your LIGER VISOR. Let's go! Come on everybody we're goin!
After we ring in the New Year's at the Hilton a few of us were thinking of continuing the festivities at Pete's Place. What better way to start 2010 than with friends, cheap libations and bad karaoke?!
Who's with me?
After we ring in the New Year's at the Hilton a few of us were thinking of continuing the festivities at Pete's Place. What better way to start 2010 than with friends, cheap libations and bad karaoke?!
Who's with me?
My New Year's Resolution is...
...to beat this ladies record! .708!! I wanna party with this old hag!!
RAPID CITY, S.D. - South Dakota authorities say a woman found passed out in a stolen delivery van earlier this month registered a blood alcohol content of .708 — nearly nine times the legal limit and a possible record for the state.
Meade County State's Attorney Jesse Sondreal said Wednesday that 45-year-old Marguerite Engle was found slumped over the van's steering wheel along a highway on Dec. 1.
He says the highest blood alcohol content state chemists he spoke with could recall was a .56. The state's legal limit is .08.
Authorities say Engle missed an initial court hearing Dec. 15, but that they found her Monday in another stolen vehicle, and that she had been drinking.
She was being held on two counts of driving under the influence. It wasn't immediately clear if she was facing other charges.
Her attorney declined comment.
Rare New Year's Eve "Blue Moon" to ring in 2010
Just an article I found that I thought was interesting.... Tonight is definitly going to be fun! The kind of fun you can have only once in a Blue Moon!! :)
ALICIA CHANG, AP Science Writer
LOS ANGELES – Once in a blue moon there is one on New Year's Eve. Revelers ringing in 2010 will be treated to a so-called blue moon. According to popular definition, a blue moon is the second full moon in a month. But don't expect it to be blue — the name has nothing to do with the color of our closest celestial neighbor.
A full moon occurred on Dec. 2. It will appear again on Thursday in time for the New Year's countdown.
"If you're in Times Square, you'll see the full moon right above you. It's going to be that brilliant," said Jack Horkheimer, director emeritus of the Miami Space Transit Planetarium and host of a weekly astronomy TV show.
The New Year's Eve blue moon will be visible in the United States, Canada, Europe, South America and Africa. For partygoers in Australia and Asia, the full moon does not show up until New Year's Day, making January a blue moon month for them.
However, the Eastern Hemisphere can celebrate with a partial lunar eclipse on New Year's Eve when part of the moon enters the Earth's shadow. The eclipse will not be visible in the Americas.
A full moon occurs every 29.5 days, and most years have 12. On average, an extra full moon in a month — a blue moon — occurs every 2.5 years. The last time there was a lunar double take was in May 2007. New Year's Eve blue moons are rarer, occurring every 19 years. The last time was in 1990; the next one won't come again until 2028.
Blue moons have no astronomical significance, said Greg Laughlin, an astronomer at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
"`Blue moon' is just a name in the same sense as a `hunter's moon' or a `harvest moon,'" Laughlin said in an e-mail.
The popular definition of blue moon came about after a writer for Sky & Telescope magazine in 1946 misinterpreted the Maine Farmer's Almanac and labeled a blue moon as the second full moon in a month. In fact, the almanac defined a blue moon as the third full moon in a season with four full moons, not the usual three.
Though Sky & Telescope corrected the error decades later, the definition caught on. For purists, however, this New Year's Eve full moon doesn't even qualify as a blue moon. It's just the first full moon of the winter season.
In a tongue-in-cheek essay posted on the magazine's Web site this week, senior contributing editor Kelly Beatty wrote: "If skies are clear when I'm out celebrating, I'll take a peek at that brilliant orb as it rises over the Boston skyline to see if it's an icy shade of blue. Or maybe I'll just howl."
ALICIA CHANG, AP Science Writer
LOS ANGELES – Once in a blue moon there is one on New Year's Eve. Revelers ringing in 2010 will be treated to a so-called blue moon. According to popular definition, a blue moon is the second full moon in a month. But don't expect it to be blue — the name has nothing to do with the color of our closest celestial neighbor.
A full moon occurred on Dec. 2. It will appear again on Thursday in time for the New Year's countdown.
"If you're in Times Square, you'll see the full moon right above you. It's going to be that brilliant," said Jack Horkheimer, director emeritus of the Miami Space Transit Planetarium and host of a weekly astronomy TV show.
The New Year's Eve blue moon will be visible in the United States, Canada, Europe, South America and Africa. For partygoers in Australia and Asia, the full moon does not show up until New Year's Day, making January a blue moon month for them.
However, the Eastern Hemisphere can celebrate with a partial lunar eclipse on New Year's Eve when part of the moon enters the Earth's shadow. The eclipse will not be visible in the Americas.
A full moon occurs every 29.5 days, and most years have 12. On average, an extra full moon in a month — a blue moon — occurs every 2.5 years. The last time there was a lunar double take was in May 2007. New Year's Eve blue moons are rarer, occurring every 19 years. The last time was in 1990; the next one won't come again until 2028.
Blue moons have no astronomical significance, said Greg Laughlin, an astronomer at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
"`Blue moon' is just a name in the same sense as a `hunter's moon' or a `harvest moon,'" Laughlin said in an e-mail.
The popular definition of blue moon came about after a writer for Sky & Telescope magazine in 1946 misinterpreted the Maine Farmer's Almanac and labeled a blue moon as the second full moon in a month. In fact, the almanac defined a blue moon as the third full moon in a season with four full moons, not the usual three.
Though Sky & Telescope corrected the error decades later, the definition caught on. For purists, however, this New Year's Eve full moon doesn't even qualify as a blue moon. It's just the first full moon of the winter season.
In a tongue-in-cheek essay posted on the magazine's Web site this week, senior contributing editor Kelly Beatty wrote: "If skies are clear when I'm out celebrating, I'll take a peek at that brilliant orb as it rises over the Boston skyline to see if it's an icy shade of blue. Or maybe I'll just howl."
Wednesday, December 30, 2009
Anyone have Direct TV or Dish?? :(
Bright House, Fox dispute jeopardizes football, more
By Charles Gonzalez
News Chief staff
Published: Friday, December 25, 2009 at 4:01 a.m.
Last Modified: Friday, December 25, 2009 at 1:56 a.m.
AUBURNDALE - A dispute between Bright House Networks and the owner of Fox Broadcasting Company and the Fox News Channel is putting millions of television viewers' programming in jeopardy.
That programming includes the upcoming college football Bowl Championship Series, the National Football League's NFC playoffs and the popular "American Idol" show.
The contract between Fox - which owns the Fox 13 affliate in Tampa, Fox Sports Florida, SunSports and FX - and Bright House will expire on Dec. 31, one day before the University of Florida Gators play the Cincinnati Bearcats in the AllState Sugar Bowl in New Orleans.
The Sugar Bowl will be the last college game for Gators senior quarterback Tim Tebow, and without a new Bright House-Fox agreement, it's possible fans will not be able to see that game locally.
Fox is threatening to pull its signal from Bright House if a contract extension is not met by the expiration date, according to Joe Durkin, the Bright House senior director of corporate communications.
"It's Fox's decision whether they want to pull the plug on the signal or keep it going," Durkin said. "This is a normal tactic during a negotiation."
Durkin said Bright House has previously dealt with these kind of tactics during contract negotiations, so he said this is nothing new for the company. He said television network and channel owners routinely make their negotiations public knowledge and that many contract negotiations reach the final moments before a deal is reached.
According to Durkin, Fox had this same issue with Cablevision, a cable television company in New York, during the 2009 World Series, which featured the New York Yankees and the Philadelphia Phillies. The contract was to expire on the day of Series Game 5, and even though a contract had not been reached, the game still was broadcast in the New York markets.
"We are optimistic that a deal will get done because these negotiations are routine business for us," Durkin said. "We have been here before and have seen these types of situations worked out."
Bright House dealt with a similar situation last year when discussing an extension with Viacom, which carries cable channels MTV, Nickelodeon, VH1 and Comedy Central. A deal was made on the first day of 2009 after Viacom denied Bright House a 15-day extension.
Durkin said Bright House is working on alternative or backup programming in case Fox decides to pull its programming. Bright House is asking Fox to allow the transmission of its signal until an agreement is reached, even if it's after the deadline, according to Durkin.
"We are hoping that it doesn't come to that," Durkin said. "We are optimistic that a deal will get done, but it's up to Fox."
By Charles Gonzalez
News Chief staff
Published: Friday, December 25, 2009 at 4:01 a.m.
Last Modified: Friday, December 25, 2009 at 1:56 a.m.
AUBURNDALE - A dispute between Bright House Networks and the owner of Fox Broadcasting Company and the Fox News Channel is putting millions of television viewers' programming in jeopardy.
That programming includes the upcoming college football Bowl Championship Series, the National Football League's NFC playoffs and the popular "American Idol" show.
The contract between Fox - which owns the Fox 13 affliate in Tampa, Fox Sports Florida, SunSports and FX - and Bright House will expire on Dec. 31, one day before the University of Florida Gators play the Cincinnati Bearcats in the AllState Sugar Bowl in New Orleans.
The Sugar Bowl will be the last college game for Gators senior quarterback Tim Tebow, and without a new Bright House-Fox agreement, it's possible fans will not be able to see that game locally.
Fox is threatening to pull its signal from Bright House if a contract extension is not met by the expiration date, according to Joe Durkin, the Bright House senior director of corporate communications.
"It's Fox's decision whether they want to pull the plug on the signal or keep it going," Durkin said. "This is a normal tactic during a negotiation."
Durkin said Bright House has previously dealt with these kind of tactics during contract negotiations, so he said this is nothing new for the company. He said television network and channel owners routinely make their negotiations public knowledge and that many contract negotiations reach the final moments before a deal is reached.
According to Durkin, Fox had this same issue with Cablevision, a cable television company in New York, during the 2009 World Series, which featured the New York Yankees and the Philadelphia Phillies. The contract was to expire on the day of Series Game 5, and even though a contract had not been reached, the game still was broadcast in the New York markets.
"We are optimistic that a deal will get done because these negotiations are routine business for us," Durkin said. "We have been here before and have seen these types of situations worked out."
Bright House dealt with a similar situation last year when discussing an extension with Viacom, which carries cable channels MTV, Nickelodeon, VH1 and Comedy Central. A deal was made on the first day of 2009 after Viacom denied Bright House a 15-day extension.
Durkin said Bright House is working on alternative or backup programming in case Fox decides to pull its programming. Bright House is asking Fox to allow the transmission of its signal until an agreement is reached, even if it's after the deadline, according to Durkin.
"We are hoping that it doesn't come to that," Durkin said. "We are optimistic that a deal will get done, but it's up to Fox."
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