Heidi_Hatch's Blog

Actually the problem is my vacuum doesn't suck.  It died last week!!!

It did however have a good long life.  It gave me 12 good years and only cost $128 dollars.  R.I.P.  My Kenmore was good to me.  Now I need a new one and need your advice. 

A lot has changed in the last 12 years.  So many options, so many attatchments.  SOOOO much more money.  What do you vacuum with?  How long has it lasted, and was it worth the money????

HELP

SICK SURVEILLANCE: GOOGLE REPORTS FLU SEARCHES, LOCATIONS TO FEDS
Tue Nov 11 2008 15:34:50 ET

GOOGLE will launch a new tool that will help federal officials "track sickness".

"Flu Trends" uses search terms that people put into the web giant to figure out where influenza is heating up, and will notify the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in real time!

GOOGLE, continuing to work closely with government, claims it would keep individual user data confidential: "GOOGLE FLU TRENDS can never be used to identify individual users because we rely on anonymized, aggregated counts of how often certain search queries occur each week."

Engineers will capture keywords and phrases related to the flu, including thermometer, flu symptoms, muscle aches, chest congestion and others.

Good for us or bad for us?

Looks like the entire country was cooler than usual this year.  Does that mean we're having global cooling?  If so what do we do about it?

 

I ask one thing of my friends in the news business.  Don't call the election until we know who's won each and every state.

I've spent most of my life out West.  And I can't tell you how frustrating and disheartening it is to cast your vote after the elction has already been called.  Many in Western States don't even think about heading to the polls until people out East have called it a day and packed up the ballots.

Each and every year I've voted anyway ... but I ask if for only a year... can we PLEASE PLEASE wait and let every voter have their say... before we say what they have to say?

Just a thought.

Don't get me wrong.  We should report the facts and keep them coming... we just should assume.  Because we all know what happens when we assume.

 

 

 

ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. (WOFL FOX 35, Orlando) -- Jail officials said Casey Anthony and her defense attorney, Jose Baez, were seen hugging on two separate occasions and were told both times that it was a violation of jail policy.

Though there is no surveillance video that would show the two hugging, jail officials confirm seeing the two touch on two different times.

The jail released the following statement:

Mr. Baez was observed hugging his client on two occasions. He was advised that this is a violation of jail policy. After the second incident, he was again advised of the policy and said he would remember in future visits not to engage in this behavior. Orange County Corrections considers this a closed matter."