Daily Scoop for Week of February 11th

Last Updated on 02.15.13 Written by Sue Wilson

Friday February 15, 2013

It's Singles Awareness Day

National Gum Drop Day.

Happy Birthday2005: YouTube was launched.

On Friday the planet Earth will get a fly-by from an asteroid known as 2012 DA14 that's about half the size of a football field. At 2:25 Eastern Time, the asteroid will come within 17,000 miles of Earth, flying over Indonesia. It's the closest recorded brush with an object of this size.

FOOTNOTE: Scientists say another asteroid, about six-miles in diameter, hit Earth about 66 million years ago and wiped out the dinosaurs.

Carnival shipIs in port at last.....after docking, a 4-5 hour time to disembark!  Complete disaster for everyone involved!

Zillionaire Warren Buffet is buying Heinz.

Chris Christie of NJ is taking a lot of heat for ordering flags at half staff for the one year anniversary of Whitney Houston's Funeral. 

When you go to sleep, you might want to store your cell phone away from your bed. Health experts say that sleep texting is on the rise. The beep of a cell phone lightly awakens a person so he or she will reach over and respond to a message (sometimes with complete nonsense). But the person has no memory of having done so in the morning.

According to a new study, an antioxidant called EGCG, which is found in red wine and green tea, could reduce your chances of getting Alzheimer’s.

According to a new survey, 80 percent of women are attracted to a guy who can speak another language. French was the top language respondents found sexy, followed by Italian and Spanish.


The International Olympic Committee ruled earlier this week to eliminate wrestling as an Olympic sport, starting in 2020.

Rex Reed isn't backing off the controversial comments he made in his review of Melissa McCarthy's comedy Identify Thief. While panning the movie, the veteran critic called the star "tractor-sized" and a "female hippo," among other insults.


More information is out about The Band Perry's long-awaited sophomore album, Pioneer. The three sibs traveled cross country to Malibu, California to work with super-producer Rick Rubin

Taylor Swift's ex Conor Kennedy was arrested Wednesday at the White House. He was among 44 activists cuffed for civil disobedience while protesting the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline,

Thursday February 14th

It's Valentine's Day.

Top five cities with single men
Las Vegas, Nevada
Honolulu, Hawaii
Palm Bay/Melbourne/Titusvile, Florida
Gary, Indiana
San Jose, California

That crippled Carnival ship a should reach port today in Alabama.  Being towed in, the conditions are reported to be brutal, no running water or toilets since Sunday.  4,200 people total on board. The Stench is unbearable they say.  

Pope Benedict the 16th gave his final public Mass at an emotional Ash Wednesday service and received a standing ovation.

Nothing says a nutritious breakfast like a nice cold … Mountain Dew?  The new breakfast drink called Kickstart that has the Mountain Dew flavor, but is made of five percent fruit juice. The drink also features Vitamins B and C, along with, of course, caffeine.

Marriage and relationship psychotherapist Dr. Jane Greer claims the couple that works out together, stays together. She says, “The actual exercise itself can physically and emotionally have a positive impact.

Kanye West and Kim Kardashian were at the center of a security mess at New York's JFK airport yesterday. According to TMZ, the couple flew from Brazil to JFK yesterday, where they planned to catch a connecting flight to Los Angeles. Once they landed at the airport, an airline greeter met them and, in an effort to help them catch their connecting flight, allowed them to skip several security checkpoints.

Steve Martin has just accomplished a major life goal -- he's finally become a dad at age 67. According to the New York Post, he and his 41-year-old wife, Anne Stringfield, welcomed a baby in December.

2008, Cathy Ward started reading the Twilight series, and became so obsessed with the books and movies that the diversion caused her to lose a lot of weight – six dress sizes worth of weight! To honor her favorite movie, the 51-year-old Twi-hard, decided to cover her body in Twilight-related tattoos. She has already spent $11,000 on her back and arms which feature portraits of Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner as well as quotes from the book.  She's going to spend 30,000 to finish the job.

Taylor Swift says she’ll never kiss and tell -- unless she’s in a songwriting session with another co-writer. That’s the only time T will ever dish on the dudes in her life. She says girl-talking helps her art.

““I suffer from girlnextdooritis where the guy is friends with you and that's it.”  ― Taylor Swift

Tim McGraw’s Two Lanes of Freedom is the nation’s top-selling country album this week,

Brad Paisley's Wheelhouse album, due out on April 9th.

 

Wednesday 2/13/2013

Today is Ash Wednesday,

Today is Get a Different Name Day

Washington D.C. has been named America's least faithful city.

A Texas woman gave birth to a baby boy who weighed in at a whopping 16 pounds – more than double the weight of an average newborn. Janet Johnson's fourth child, JaMichael, came in to this world at 16 pounds and an amazing 24 inches long.

In Jackson, Michigan, Linda Ackley went to the hospital Friday morning thinking she had a hernia. By Friday night, she had given birth to a 10-pound baby

Women in the UK are asking their boyfriends and husbands to set aside flowers and chocolates this Valentine’s Day for household chores. An online survey found that out of 1,000 women, a third of them would rather have their partners fix things around the house than present them with the traditional V-Day gifts

Here's a gift he'll love.  The Epiphany One Puck, which is a beer coaster you can use to charge your smartphone. You plug your phone into the coaster, put the cold beer on it – and watch as your phone draws a charge from it.

In Belgium, over 500,000 stamps have been printed on special paper that tastes and smells like chocolate.

With season 16 of Dancing with the Stars right around the corner, it looks like ABC may have found their next brilliant shining star in Here Comes Honey Boo Boo's mama June. Rumors are swirling that the mother hen of the Boo Boos may have snagged herself a spot on the next season. Cast is announced on Good Morning America March 18.

Tuesday 2/12/2013

Today is Mardi Gras....and Abe Lincolns birthday  1806

Tomorrow is Ash Wednesday  then the Lenten season.

It's International Flirting Week.

The President's State of the Union address is tonight

Jason Bateman freely admits that he makes bad movies for the money. Bateman is currently at the top of the U.S. box office with Melissa McCarthy in Identity Thief, a comedy that has gotten scathing reviews.

EyeSight Technologies has announced the technology that would allow users to control TVs, computers and other devices by moving their fingers in the air.

Facebook is currently being sued for its use of the Like button, a feature which was patented by a Dutch programmer (Joannes Jozef Everardus van Der Meer) in 1998, five years before Facebook’s launch

A new study from the University of Michigan shows that most people communicate over social networks or email about as often as they speak face-to-face.

Alicia Keys was caught tweeting from an iPhone.  -- but Alicia is a Creative Director for BlackBerry. Whoops. When she got the gig at BlackBerry's big launch event last month, Alicia spoke at length about how she gave up her iPhone in favor of the new BlackBerry Z10

Researchers from the University of Alabama found that people who regularly ate foods traditionally found in the Southern diet had a whopping 41 percent increased risk of stroke.


Furious One Direction fans hurled death threats at Taylor Swift on Twitter after her performance of We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together" at Sunday's Grammy Awards. The harsh threats continued to roll in well into late Monday. The angry fans think Taylor mocked her ex-boyfriend -- 19-year-old Harry Styles

Miranda Lambert might have met her next duet partner at the Grammy Awards. Pop star Alicia Keys says that even though she doesn't do a lot of collaborations, 'Ran is on her short list

The next Zac Brown Band albums could come out as early as this year!

Monday 2/11/2013

Today is Clean out Your Computer Day and also Make a Friend Day

This Week appropriately is International Flirting Week--appropriate since its Valentines Week

Taylor Swift, Little Big Town, Carrie Underwood and Zac Brown Band were the big country winners at last night's 55th Annual Grammy Awards.

Milford Connecticut got 39 inches of snow, Portland Maine, 33.

At the Movies: Identity Thief  - earned 36 million thsi past weekend

So you've probably heard that now that the IRS has frozen all of her bank accounts, Lindsay Lohan had to move back in with her mother.

Americans are projected to spend $18.6 billion on cards and gifts this year: $10.5 billion on significant others, $3.8 billion on family members, and $815 million on pets.

Six in 10 Americans now think that the economy has been wrecked to the point where it can’t be fixed.
 
Is technology taking over your personal life? Join the club. A new study from the University of Michigan shows that most people communicate over social networks or email about as often as they speak face-to-face.

An animated show based on the addictive Zynga social media game FarmVille is in the works. No other details are available.

Researchers from the University of Alabama found that people who regularly ate foods traditionally found in the Southern diet had a whopping 41 percent increased risk of stroke.

Kate Upton is on Sports Illustrated Swimsuit issue for the second staight year!

Carrie rocked some serious ice on the Grammy red carpet, wearing a $31 million diamond necklace.