Lent - Day 7

The Upstate New York "5-Day Local Weather Forecast"


TODAY
Sunny with a high today in the mid to upper 40’s.

TONIGHT
Clouds will develop with rain this evening and overnight. Tonight’s overnight low will be in the upper 30’s.

TOMORROW
Occasional rain with a high once again in the mid to upper 40’s.

THURSDAY
We can expect partly to mostly sunny skies and a daytime high on Thursday in the mid to upper 50’s.

FRIDAY
Will bring a return to some cloudy skies with showers likely and a daytime high on Friday in the mid 50’s.

SATURDAY
The advance forecast is calling for a return to partly sunny skies and a daytime high on Saturday in the upper 40’s to low 50’s.



Two Amerks Get the Call Up to the Big League
Florida Panthers General Manager Dale Tallon announced today that LW Mike Duco and LW Patrick Rissmiller have been recalled from the Rochester Americans.

Duco, 23, who earns his first call-up of the season has played in 10 National Hockey League games with Florida (2009-10).

Rissmiller, 32, also earns his first call-up of the season. The veteran forward is riding a five-game point streak (2+5) and has a point in every game since he arrived from Lake Erie.
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Buffalo Sabre Great Died From Heart Disease
An autopsy has determined that former Buffalo Sabres forward and "French Connection" line member Richard "Rick" Lionel Martin died of hypertensive arteriosclerotic cardiovascular disease, a serious form of heart disease.

Martin's car crossed a lane of traffic and hit a pole on Main Street and Salt Road in Clarence around noon Sunday.

"Eyewitnesses stated that when Mr. Martin's vehicle began to drift out of the westbound lane, crossing eastbound into the shoulder he was seen with his head slumped, and possibly his eyes closed previous to impact," said New York State Police Capt. Steven A. Nigrelli.

Two passers-by and eventually a state trooper performed CPR on Martin, who remained unresponsive when removed from the vehicle.

Martin was pronounced dead at Millard Fillmore Suburban Hospital at 12:48 p.m. He was 59.
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Pre Season Baseball Action
Yankees lose 2-1 to Boston and will try and get back on th winning track Wednesday against Baltimore.



Lady GaGa May Sue Over That Breast Milk Ice Cream!
Remember the story about the ice cream shop in London that started serving ice cream made with real breast milk? They called the stuff "Baby Gaga." Originally health officials came in and confiscated the product, but then later gave it the all clear after determining it was safe to eat.

Singer Lady GaGa has threatened to sue saying the ice cream shop is capitalizing on her name!

Matt O'Connor, owner of The Icecreamists said, "She's threatening to bankrupt us and she's also threatening me personally, saying she'll seize my personal assets and property."

GaGa's lawyers have refused to comment. O'Connor denies that Lady GaGa had inspired the name he chose for the unusual flavor saying, "It's just the first noise a baby makes -- it's nothing to do with anyone else." (Reuters)
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When It Comes To Sex, What's Race Got To Do With It?
Former Wall St. analyst J.C. Davies has written a new book that's created a wave of politically incorrect controversy. The book is called: I Got The Fever: Love, What's Race Gotta Do With It? and in it, Davies, who is white, reveals the politically incorrect answers to a number of bedroom questions regarding men of different races.

She based the book on hundreds of interviews and her own dating experiences. Some of her revelations: Latino men are macho and possessive, Asians are terrible in bed and black men don't like talking about Al Sharpton. She says she has an Iranian-Jewish boyfriend and describes his expression in bed as a "terrorist face."

Davies said, "No one has the balls to write about sex and culture in a real way. You have to make it super PC and be the professor of blah-de-blah and have charts and graphs." She began writing the book after she was laid off by Goldman Sachs last October and faced losing her apartment in Midtown, Manhattan.

To maximize publicity, the cover of the book shows her posing with a group of male models from different races, all stripped to the waist. (Daily Mail)
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Cosmo Magazine: The Jihad Version!
Taking a cue from Cosmopolitan magazine of all places, Al-Qaeda has launched a women's magazine that mixes beauty and fashion tips with advice on suicide bombings. No kidding! Dubbed "Jihad Cosmo," the magazine's front cover features the barrel of a sub-machine gun next to a picture a woman in a veil.

There are exclusive interviews with martyrs' wives, who praise their husbands' decisions to die in suicide attacks. Readers are also told it is their duty to raise children to be mujahideen ready for jihad.

The "beauty" section instructs women to stay indoors with their faces covered to keep a clear complexion. Another article urges readers to give their lives for the Islamist cause. A trailer for the next issue promises tips on skin care-- and how to wage electronic jihad.

James Brandon at the anti-extremism think tank Quilliam, said, "Al-Qaeda sees how effective magazines are at pushing the ideals of western culture and want to try the same thing." (Daily Mail)
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And Now Some Good News From Japan!
It's rare these days to hear any happy stories coming out of Japan but here's one. 60-year-old Hiromitsu Shinkawa was successfully rescued from the roof of his house -- that had floated ten miles out to sea -- FOR TWO DAYS!

Mr. Shinkawa's house in Fukushima had been ripped from its foundation and swept away by the retreating tsunami. He was finally spotted waving a piece of red cloth, while clinging to the wreckage. Sadly, his wife was swept away by the storm and is still reported missing. Shinkawa said, "Several helicopters and ships passed by, but none of them noticed me. I thought that day was going to be the last day of my life." He was reported to be in "good condition" after being taken to hospital by helicopter.

Rescue officials said mild weather and relatively calm seas had helped him stay adrift for 48 hour. (Kyodo News)
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So Much For Walking Barefoot In the Snow To School!
Surely your parents told you about having to walk several miles to school, barefoot in the snow back in the "old days." Well the times they have a changed!

In Gary, Indiana, police arrested a 14-year-old boy who allegedly stole a church van and drove it to school because he didn't want to walk from his nearby home. A police officer was driving behind the van but didn't notice that a boy was driving until a school employee pointed it out to him.

The boy's mother said her son most likely got the keys to the van while attending choir practice at Evening Star Missionary Baptist Church earlier in the week. (WISH News)
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Religious Freedom or Terrorist Threat?
Pilots on an Alaska Airlines flight from Mexico City to Los Angeles locked down the cockpit and alerted authorities after the flight crew became concerned about the behavior of three men on board.

It turned out the guys were only conducting an elaborate orthodox Jewish prayer ritual -- however, in the airline's defense-- part of the ritual did include tying small wooden boxes to their bodies with leather straps.

Spokeswoman Bobbie Egan said, "The three passengers were praying aloud in Hebrew and were wearing what appeared to be leather straps on their foreheads and arms." After questioning from the FBI, the men -- all Mexican nationals-- were released. (Sky News)
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Just Plain Gross!
A group of chefs in China have come up with a very bizarre local specialty that they hope will catch on worldwide. Hope they're not holding their breath. The dish is eggs that have been hardboiled -- IN SCHOOLBOYS' URINE!

The dish has been a local delicacy in Dongyang, eastern China, for thousands of years. Now culture officials want to spread the good news about the recipe which they hope to export to other countries.

Hold on to your stomach-- the urine is gathered from local schools and the very best comes from boys under 10 years old -- or so say the chefs. Chef Lu Ming said, "They pee in buckets and we collect it fresh every day." Eggs are then boiled in the urine, first with their shells on and then with them off for a day and a night before they're ready to be eaten. Ming claims, "The eggs are delicious and healthy. They stop fevers and can help you concentrate if you're feeling sluggish or sleepy." (Ananova)



THINGS THAT YOU NOW KNOW

• A sex tape featuring Usher and his ex-wife is reportedly being shopped around.

• A Chicago court awarded Miami Heat star Dwayne Wade sole custody of his two children last Friday.

• Jewel is pregnant and was driving in Texas when a volunteer fire department truck plowed into the side of her car. Both Jewel and baby are said to be fine. She says her Cadillac saved her life.

• They've stopped showing the new Clint Eastwood movie, "Hereafter" in Japan... since it includes a tsunami scene.

• Lady Gaga is selling a wristband on her website for $5 that helps with earthquake relief in Japan. It says "We pray for Japan" on it and money raised goes to the Red Cross.

• If you want to see the final episode of "The Cape," you'll find it online.

• Jon Stamos and Rob Lowe both say they have no interest in replacing Charlie Sheen in "Two and a Half Men."

• Madonna's grandmother passed away last week, at the age of 99.

• Ellen hired Jon Cryer to help her out: he's her new receptionist! OK, only for a bit, but it was cute.

• Lou Dobbs returned to the airwaves, the Fox Business Network, on Monday with a one-hour show.

• Yes, Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel have split. Mila Kunis says she had nothing to do with it, although that's the rumor.
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Times and Things Have Certainly Changed
(Netscape) When baby boomers were newlyweds, 80% knew how to make a roast for Sunday dinner and hem a pair of pants. Today, less than half of newlyweds know how to do this. Life skills that we once took for granted are rapidly becoming specialized abilities.

No one is teaching the kids how to sew on a button or sharpen a knife. Instead, we now hire people to check the oil in our car, clean our house, cut our children's hair and make the family birthday cakes. While many 20-somethings can stream a movie on their computer and play Scrabble on their phone, they have no idea how to write in cursive or drive a car with a stick shift.

Writing on matadornetwork.com, author Anne Merritt has identified eight life skills where Mom and Dad have 'em beat.

1. Driving a stick shift -- Since more than 90% of all cars sold in the United States today have an automatic transmission -- compared to just half in 1950 -- most young adults have no clue how to shift gears manually. What's a clutch?

2. Cooking from scratch -- While moms in the '70s made homemade brownies, today's moms are more likely to grab a box of brownie mix or buy them at the bakery. Young adults may enjoy cooking shows on TV and even sign up for cooking classes, but they actually cook far less than their parents did. And when they do cook, they use ready-made ingredients, such as chicken stock, tomato paste and pie crusts.

3. Making soap -- All it takes is lye, water, animal fat and oil, but making soap at home is almost obsolete today--except as a middle school science project.

4. Simple carpentry -- When did schools stop offering shop classes? We no longer make a bookcase, end table or kitchen table in the basement utility room. Mass produced furniture is cheap and easy to replace if you're moving or redecorating. And assembling your own Ikea furniture doesn't count as making it yourself.

5. Sharpening knives -- When a knife becomes dull, do you sharpen it yourself or pay a professional to do it--or just buy a new one? It's a simple skill to be able to sharpen a knife, but one that is definitely declining, thanks in part to no-dull guarantees on some knives and free knife-sharpening events at many big box stores.

6. Home maintenance -- Can you replace a broken bathroom exhaust fan? Ever changed the refrigerator light bulb? What do you do when a door hinge becomes so loose the door is in danger of falling off? Young adults are more likely to call a handyman to the rescue. In the 1970s, more than 70% of men learned basic home repair skills from their dads; today, that number is just 40%.

7. Mending -- Whether it's a missing button, a hem or a split seam, most baby boomer women could fix it in a minute--either by hand with a needle and thread or using their sewing machine. When schools stopped teaching home economics, buttons stopped being sewn on and split seams just got bigger--unless you knew a tailor. Clothing is so cheap now, it's actually less expensive to buy it than sew it at home so kids have little incentive to learn how to sew.

8. Cursive writing -- While boomers learned penmanship in the third grade, practicing each letter over and over, young adults never had those lessons. They learned to print and type instead, and if they did learn cursive, many have forgotten it from lack of use.
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Sad State Of Marriage

• 50% of first marriages will end in divorce.

• As of 1995, about 50% of first marriages for men under age 45 may end in divorce; between 44% and 52% of women's first marriages may end in divorce for that age group.

• The likelihood of a divorce is lowest for men and women over age 60. 36% of men and 32% of women in that age group may get divorced from their first spouse by the end of their lives.

• As many as 50% of people in their early forties may be divorced from their first spouse.

• Within five years of marriage, about 10% of first-time married couples will likely divorce.

• In 1970, the median age for a first marriage was 21 for women and 23 for men. By 2000, that number had risen to 25 for women and 27 for men.

• The proportion of never-married women ages 20 to 24 doubled between 1970 and 2000, increasing from 36% to 73%. Among men this age, the share rose from 55% to 84%. Women ages 30-34 who were never married tripled during that time, from 6% to 22%. Men this age who never married grew from 9% to 30%.

• Marriage is the model type of living arrangement for people aged 25-34. In 2000, 50% of men and 57% of women this age were married and living with their spouse.
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TOP FIVE SIGNS THAT GAS PRICES ARE OUT OF CONTROL

1. This year's big Memorial Day weekend race: "The Indy 5"
2. John Deere mowers are now actual deer
3. Guy at gas station who changes prices has developed "number-changing wrist"
4. Exxon now offering special 3.9% financing
5. It takes longer to fill up your tank these days because the escrow department is overwhelmed

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TOP FIVE SIGNS YOUR HOME MAY BE PRONE TO FLOODING


1. All those pesky spawning salmon
2. Family room has a lifeguard station
3. You can hear someone coming when they squish in the rug
4. TV remote control just floated by
5. Your child learned how to swim in the living room






In 1935 Actor, Judd Hirsch (Taxi, Ordinary People, Dear John) (76)

In 1935 Television evangelist, Jimmy Swaggert (76)

In 1941 Singer/saxophonist, Mike Love (Beach Boys) (70)

In 1944 Singer/keyboardist, Sly Stone (Sly & the Family Stone) (67)

In 1946 Former baseball player, Bobby Bond (Giants, Yankees) [d: 8-23-03]

In 1961 Italian model/actor, Fabio (Acapulco Heat) (50)

In 1975 Actress, Eva Longoria (Gabrielle-Desperate Housewives) (36)



IT WAS ON THIS DAY

In 44-BC On the Ides of March, Julius Ceasar is assassinated by a group of nobles, including Brutus and Cassius, in the Roman Senate.

In 1892 The first escalator is patented by inventor Jesse W. Reno.
*Dick Reeves Note – Of course, being new, the first time it broke down and stopped, people were stuck for hours. But just the dumb ones.

In 1906 Britten Rolls and Royce Johnson found Rolls Royce Ltd.

In 1937 The first blood bank is established in Chicago, Illinois.

In 1964 Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton are married (her 5th, his 2nd).

In 1972 "The Godfather" opens in movie theaters.