Month: February 2014

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Speaking

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I have several friends who are very wise in the way they speak. When they do speak up, everyone listens attentively because their words are always wise, well-timed, and worthwhile. Their righteous lives and careful use of words blesses and nourishes all who listen. There are others, however, that are constantly talking about everything and spending little or no time practicing what they preach. Their words are discounted as nothing more than their own desire to hear their own opinions about matters on which they know nothing—-Phil Ware

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33% Of Fish Mislabeled

Seafood fraud is being blamed in a study that revealed 33 percent of fish is mislabeled. The study, conducted between 2010 and 2012, revealed that one-third of seafood sold in the US was labeled incorrectly.

The research was conducted by international advocacy group Oceana. The non-profit organization is dedicated to ocean conservation. Oceana conducted the study in an effort to expose seafood fraud and discourage overfishing.
As stated in the study, Oceana collected 1,215 seafood samples from 674 retailers across the nation. Retail locations included grocery stores, restaurants, and sushi vendors. The samples were submitted for DNA testing to determine if the seafood matched labels on the packaging.

The study revealed widespread seafood fraud as 33 percent of the samples were mislabeled. Packages labeled as “red snapper” or “tuna” were found to be mislabeled most often. DNA testing revealed that only seven of 120 “red snapper” packages actually contained red snapper.

As reported by heraldonline.com, of the areas included in the study, Southern California had the most instances of mislabeled fish. More than 50 percent of fish from Southern California was labeled incorrectly. Seafood fraud is not only misleading; it can lead to much bigger problems including health concerns.

Samples collected in New York, New York labeled as “halibut” and “red snapper” were found to include tilefish. The FDA has listed tilefish as containing high levels of mercury, which can be dangerous. In South Florida, king mackerel was sold as “grouper.” Like tilefish, king mackerel is included in the FDA “Do Not Eat” list due to high levels of mercury. Numerous packages of “white tuna” from all areas were found to be escolar. The FDA advises against consuming escolar as it can cause serious gastrointestinal illness.

The FDA has released documentation in an effort to educate consumers about seafood fraud. As 33 percent of fish is mislabeled, the documentation includes guides to assist with visual identification.
Read more at http://www.inquisitr.com/535855/seafood-fraud-33-percent-of-fish-mislabeled-video/#AQ7WuPgI5Fm7odZQ.99

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Headache

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Players move their men around the board while trying to capture the other player’s men. Pieces are cones that are stacked when captured. The winner captures all of his opponent’s men. This was one of my favorite games growing up. Ok I will never grow up 😉

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911 Calls

BELIEVE it or not, These are REAL 911 Calls!

Dispatcher: 9-1-1 What is your emergency?
Caller: I heard what sounded like gunshots coming from the brown house on the corner.
Dispatcher: Do you have an address?
Caller: No, I have on a blouse and slacks, why?

Dispatcher: 9-1-1 What is your emergency?
Caller: Someone broke into my house and took a bite out of my ham and cheese sandwich.
Dispatcher: Excuse me?
Caller: I made a ham and cheese sandwich and left it on the kitchen table and when I came back from the bathroom, someone had taken a bite out of it.
Dispatcher: Was anything else taken?
Caller: No, but this has happened to me before and I’m sick and tired of it!

Dispatcher: 9-1-1 What is the nature of your emergency?
Caller: I’m trying to reach nine eleven but my phone doesn’t have an eleven on it.
Dispatcher: This is nine eleven .
Caller: I thought you just said it was nine-one-one
Dispatcher: Yes, ma’am nine-one-one and nine-eleven are the same thing.
Caller: Honey, I may be old, but I’m not stupid.

Dispatcher: 9-1-1 What’s the nature of your emergency?
Caller: My wife is pregnant and her contractions are only two minutes apart
Dispatcher: Is this her first child?
Caller: No, you idiot! This is her husband!

And the winner is……….

Dispatcher: 9-1-1
Caller: Yeah, I’m having trouble breathing. I’m all out of breath. Darn….I think I’m going to pass out.
Dispatcher: Sir, where are you calling from?
Caller: I’m at a pay phone. North and Foster.
Dispatcher: Sir, an ambulance is on the way. Are you an asthmatic?
Caller: No
Dispatcher: What were you doing before you started having trouble breathing?
Caller: Running from the Police

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Would You Return It?

By Michael Gryboski , Christian Post Reporter
April 24, 2013|4:36 pm

A Christian employee at a Florida golf venue found $36,000 cash at the facility, but rather than keep it for herself she turned it in to the police.

Rachel Castillo, a drinks server at the Miami Beach Golf Club, found the large sum of money on the golf course back in January when customers alerted her to a bag that had been left unattended.

Castillo proceeded to turn the money over to the police and recently the authorities were able to track down the 76-year-old man who had lost the bag with cash in the first place.

Castillo, whose monetary find was reportedly nearly equal to her annual salary, told local media that keeping the money would have been against their religious convictions.

“I’m a Christian, and the Bible says, ‘Do not steal, do not lie,’ you know, all these things, and if you do what’s right, if you live the right way, you’ll be taken care of. I believe I’ll be taken care of,” said Castillo to WSVN 7 News.

Jim Nourse, director of food beverage at the Miami Beach Golf Club, told The Christian Post in an interview that his coworker’s actions were “absolutely marvelous.”

Nourse also said that Castillo “always” works as an employee who lives her Christian faith and acts upon it.

According to Nourse, since the cash was turned in he believes “that they found the person … in a nursing home,” the address in his bag having been outdated information.

Authorities believe that the elderly individual might have a medical condition, which may explain his move to an assisted living home.

As reported by WSVN, Sgt. Bobby Hernandez of the Miami Beach Police Department commended Castillo for her actions.

“He might have a medical condition. That’s undetermined. We are in touch with the family members getting more information, but we have identified that money as his through different transactions that he made,” said Hernandez.

“But it’s nice that there’s people out there … $36,000 is what a lot of people make a year.”

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America the beautiful: Mother calls 911 because her kid was playing GTA past bedtime.

America the beautiful: Mother calls 911 because her kid was playing GTA past bedtime. Yeah.
NICHOLAS DELEON
Gotta love cops. A woman in Boston got mad at her 14-year-old son for being up at 2:30am playing Grand Theft Auto. (At least the kid wasn’t smoking dust in the street at that hour.) In fact, she got so mad that she called 911 for help. You know, “You have to help me. My son is up in the middle of the night playing video games! I don’t know what to do!” The cops responded, no doubt aggravated that they had to deal with this garbage, by saying, “Calm down, ma’am. Just put your dumb kid to bed.” That’s not an exact quote, but you know that’s what they were thinking.

The woman, Angela Mejia, feared that her son was addicted to video games. Rather than throwing the kid’s PlayStation into the Charles like a normal parent would do, she waffles, baffled that her son is acting out by having the audacity to stay up late and play games.

And who knows: maybe this kid is absolutely miserable, and the time he spends playing video games represents his only outlet. That certainly sounds familiar.

It’s like, I could see the mother being upset if her son ran with gang-bangers, but staying up past his bedtime to get in a little GTA? Doesn’t sound like too big a problem to me, and certainly not worthy of harassing the 911 operators. As if they don’t have actual emergencies to respond to!

Would you have pressed charges against the mother?

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What Was I Thinking

I’m going to give it my final attempt at writing a blog. I have currently 4 different blogs going. It is too much to keep up with so I decided to just have one blog. I will be combining all 4 of my blogs into this one blog. I will probably post old stuff to get the blog going and to allow me to come up with some new stuff. Im leaning towards posting something different each day from my, which will be no longer blogs. Mondays will be Mixed Nuts, Tuesday will be Toys, Wed will be Crazy News, Thursday will be Get Real and Fridays will be a Free For All on my thoughts for the week. Hopefully you will get some enjoyment out of this blog as I do enjoy working on it.

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