THE SHOW: 01/25/2010 - Single Car Crash Kills Driver In Belle Meade / Bouncer Shot / BLAME IT ON THE ALCOHOL / MAKING YOUR APPS WORK FOR YOU!!

Local Buzz:
"3-Year-Old In Critical Condition, Five Killed In Duplex Fire"

*Nashville, Tenn. (AP) – A 3-year-old boy remained in critical condition Monday morning, following the fire that killed his parents, his siblings and a family friend.
Tedarrel Brooks, Jr., was critically hurt in the fire that broke out at a duplex on 35th Avenue North Saturday morning. That fire killed five people.
Officials with the Nashville Fire Department said a two-story duplex caught fire early Saturday morning. A young girl escaped by climbing out a window, but firefighters had to pull three children and three adults from the burning home.
The three adults killed have been identified as family friend 24-year-old Billy Vantrice Austin and Tedarrel's parents 50-year-old Tedarrel Brooks and 32-year-old Stephanie Brooks. The children killed were the couples' daughters, 8-year-old T'Derrica Brooks and 4-year-old Alexis Brooks.
The couples's third daughter and Tedarrel's sister, 7-year-old sister Jasmine Brooks, escaped without injuries.

"Single Car Crash Kills Driver In Belle Meade"

*BELLE MEADE, Tenn. - A man died after a crash late Sunday night in Belle Meade.
Police said a Dodge Caravan ran off the road, over a lamppost and into a tree on Post Road and Fransworth Drive around 11:30 p.m. The driver was taken to Vanderbilt University Medical Center where he was pronounced dead.
Monday morning, police were still working to figure out what caused the crash.

"Bouncer Shot at Downtown Bar"

*NASHVILLE, Tenn. - A bouncer was shot outside a busy south Nashville nightclub Monday morning.
The shooting happened around 1:30 a.m. at Silverado on Murfreesboro Pike.
Police said a man got into a scuffle inside the club with the bouncer, and then another man pulled out a gun and shot the bouncer in the leg. The two men fled the scene in the car.
Emergency officials took the bouncer to Vanderbilt University Medical Center with non-life threatening injuries. He was released later Monday morning.
Police found the vehicle on Tyler Drive near Lebanon Pike; however, no arrest have been made.

Top Stories:
"Bin Laden takes responsibility for Christmas Day airline bombing plot"

*Reporting from Washington and Beirut - Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden claimed responsibility for the Christmas Day attempt to blow up an American civilian jet in an audiotape broadcast today on Arab television.
U.S. intelligence officials quickly raised doubts about Bin Laden's role and suggested the statement was an attempt to score propaganda points for a plot already claimed by an increasingly independent faction of his movement in Yemen.
In the clip, Bin Laden said his group was behind the failed attempt allegedly carried out by Nigerian national Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab to blow up a Detroit-bound Northwest Airlines flight.
Speaking directly to President Obama, the Al Qaeda leader vowed to continue launching terrorist attacks against the United States as long as Washington supported what he described as Israel's unjust treatment of Palestinians.
"From Osama to Obama: Peace upon the one who follows guidance," he said on the tape, broadcast on the pan-Arab Al Jazeera satellite news channel, his image appearing on the screen as he spoke. "America will not dream of security until we experience it as a reality in Palestine."
U.S. intelligence officials today did not cast doubt on the authenticity of the tape. But they expressed skepticism that Bin Laden or his lieutenants, believed to be based in Pakistan, played a meaningful role in conceiving or executing the Christmas Day plot.

"Walmart to Cut 11,200 Sam’s Club Jobs, Cornell Says"

*Jan. 24 (Bloomberg) -- Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the world’s largest retailer, will eliminate about 11,200 jobs at its Sam’s Club membership warehouse clubs as it hires an outside company to demonstrate products.
About 10,000 demonstration employees, most part-time, will lose their jobs when Shopper Events takes over sampling, Sam’s Club Chief Executive Officer Brian Cornell told employees today in a memo. The company also is cutting about 1,200 membership recruiting jobs, or about two in each of the club’s U.S. stores.
Sam’s Club is working with Shopper Events to develop in- store demonstrations, such as food sampling, currently performed by Sam’s employees, Cornell said. The effort is aimed at improving demonstrations in the areas of food and beverages, personal wellness and electronics, according to the memo.
These cuts are separate from Walmart’s announcement on Jan. 11 that it will close 10 Sam’s Club locations and eliminate about 1,500 jobs, David Tovar, a spokesman for Bentonville, Arkansas-based Walmart, said today in a telephone interview. The chain, the second-largest membership warehouse club after Costco Wholesale Corp., employs about 110,000 people, Tovar said.
Shopper Events, based in Rogers, Arkansas, plans to hire roughly the same number of workers that Sam’s Club is firing, Cornell said in the memo. Employees can apply for Shopper Events jobs, he said.

"Trapped father survives with help of phone app"

*(CNN) -- Alone in the darkness beneath layers of rubble, Dan Woolley felt blood streaming from his head and leg.
Then he remembered -- he had an app for that. Woolley, an aid worker, husband, and father of two boys, followed instructions on his cell phone to survive the January 12 earthquake in Haiti. "I had an app that had pre-downloaded all this information about treating wounds. So I looked up excessive bleeding and I looked up compound fracture," Woolley told CNN. The application on his iPhone is filled with information about first aid and CPR from the American Heart Association. "So I knew I wasn't making mistakes," Woolley said. "That gave me confidence to treat my wounds properly." Trapped in the ruins of the Hotel Montana in Port-au-Prince, he used his shirt to bandage his leg, and tied his belt around the wound. To stop the bleeding on his head, he firmly pressed a sock to it. Concerned he might have been experiencing shock, Woolley used the app to look up what to do. It warned him not to sleep. So he set his phone alarm to go off every 20 minutes. Once the battery got down to less than 20 percent of its power, Woolley turned it off. By then, he says, he had trained his body not to sleep for long periods, drifting off only to wake up within minutes. Woolley's job keeps him tech savvy. He oversees interactive projects for the Christian child advocacy organization Compassion International in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

Celeb News:
"Barack Obama -- Call of Duty ... As in Jury Duty"

*Whatever your excuse is for getting out of jury duty, it's not "I have to give the State of the Union this week."
President Barack Obama was called to serve by his home state of Illinois. He told the court he won't be able to make it, cause he's got this thing on Wednesday night and he can't reschedule.

"We think they'll understand."Brangelina: Hollywood's Hottest Love Affair "

*People magazine says it isn't so, but others allege it is. According to People, rumors that Hollywood's golden couple, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, have split are untrue. "Everything is fine" with the couple, an unnamed source told People.com. Another source shot down a British tabloid's reports of their breakup, calling them "totally false." Here, Pitt and Jolie attend the UNICEF Ball held at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel on Dec. 10, 2009 in Beverly Hills, Calif. (Kevin Mazur/WireImage for UNICEF/Getty Images)

"'Avatar' closer to toppling 'Titanic'"

*Monday is the day "Avatar" flies past "Titanic" in its historic global journey.
James Cameron's latest big-screen epic exits the weekend with an estimated $1.841 billion in worldwide boxoffice, just a shade behind the record $1.843 billion rung up by the filmmaker's "Titanic" in 1997-98. So there is little doubt that Monday's domestic and overseas boxoffice will combine to write the worldwide tally for "Avatar" into industry annals. "Audiences still are going in record numbers around the world to experience this remarkable film," Fox senior vp domestic distribution Chris Aronson said. As for its theatrical performance in the latest session, "Avatar" became the first film since "Titanic" to top domestic rankings for six straight weekends, ringing up $36 million to push cumulative boxoffice to $552.8 million. "Titanic" took in a total $600.8 million domestically.
Internationally, "Avatar" cume reached $1.29 billion in the latest frame, surpassing the $1.24 billion foreign tally for "Titanic."

Good News:
"Haiti survivor saved by a Scot and a bottle of whisky"

*On Tuesday 12 January, Wismond Exantus was at work in the ground-floor shop of the four-storey Napoli Inn in Port-au-Prince. At 4.53pm, when the magnitude 7.0 quake hit, the 24-year-old cashier had the presence of mind to squirrel himself under a desk as the building tumbled down around him.
By Saturday, 11 days later and hours after the government declared search and rescue operations to be officially over, he was pulled alive from the ­rubble. The story of Exantus – the last known survivor to emerge from Haiti's shattered ruins – is a remarkable tale of crisps, beer, whisky, Twitter, a riot and a diminutive Scottish woman rescuer. As he lay in the wreckage of the hotel, a drama unfolded of chaos, screaming and, eventually, helicopters and help. Wedged into a tiny black cavity, Exantus knew nothing of what was happening outside. "He didn't know if it was night or day," said his brother, Enso.
He held his mobile phone throughout, but it was not charged, a torment which can only be imagined. With his other hand he groped around for supplies that had been scattered around the ruined shop: crisps, sweets, soft drinks and beer. When he wanted to sleep, he took a deep draught of whisky. "By the end he had drunk a whole bottle of White Label," said Enso. The cashier dreamed, among other things, that he was in the middle of the ocean and riding a horse.
By Friday, after Exantus had spent 10 days in his dark tomb, the government declared the end of search and rescue operations. The chance of finding more survivors was negligible. International rescue teams started flying home. By Saturday scavengers were picking over the wrecked hotel when they heard a faint tapping sound, barely audible, but insistent. They alerted a passing Greek TV crew whose local fixer posted the news on Twitter while the journalists phoned the Hellenic Rescue Service, a volunteer team which, much delayed and supposedly too late, had arrived in Port-au-Prince just the night before.
The team jumped into a borrowed car and raced downtown. "Within 10 minutes we were communicating with the man," said Apostolos Dedas, the team leader.
The Greek rescuers lacked the heavy equipment necessary to move the debris so a group of French ­colleagues at the airport preparing to fly out were scrambled to the scene with their machines. Four hours later they had cleared a tight space in the rubble, but the male ­rescuers were too big to fit down it to cut away the final debris. "They needed someone else to go in but none of them was small enough," said Carmen Michalska, a 5ft 5in native of Kirkaldy and Fife attached to the Greek team. "So I said I'll go and I went straight in." At the bottom she found Exantus alive and smiling. "He was just so happy to see us."
When Exantus and his rescuers emerged a waiting crowd of Haitians applauded and cheered. Michalska, 36, on her first mission with the team, wore a layer of grime and a big smile. She embraced colleagues, some teary-eyed. "This is my first day with the Hellenic Rescue Service and at this rate it won't be my last." Did she ever suffer claustrophobia? She laughed. "No. Good job." Exantus was given oxygen, put on a drip and ferried to the French field ­hospital. Staff said he was tired, ­dehydrated and had abrasions on his arm but was otherwise fine. Asked whether chugging beer and whisky was ­advisable when trapped under rubble Gilles Gueney, a paramedic, shrugged. "Well, he's here." Before slipping into a deep sleep, Exantus said he had been saved by divine deliverance. "Every night I thought about the revelation that I would survive. It was God who was tucking me away in his arms. It gave me strength."

Relationship:
"Personality and Relationships"

*Most of us are probably allured by the attractive notion that effortless relationships exist. Whether it be happily-ever-after marriages, or friendships which last forever, or parent/child bonds which supercede the need to understand each other, we'd all like to believe that our most intimate relationships are unconditional, and strong enough to withstand whatever may come. However, at some point in our lives most of us need to face the fact that relationships require effort to keep them strong and positive, and that even wonderful, strong relationships can be destroyed by neglect.
Whether you're looking to improve a love relationship, familial relationships, friendships, or employer/employee relationships, understanding your own personality type and the personality type of the other person involved in the relationship will bring a new dynamic to the situation, which will allow better understanding and communication. Although the different types of relationships have very different characteristics and specific needs, there are two basic areas which seem to be critical in all relationships: Expectations and Communication. What do we expect from ourselves and the other person involved in the relationship? How do we communicate these expectations, and our feelings and opinions to the person in the relationship? How does our personality type affect our expectations and methods of communication? Does our personality type affect who we are romantically attracted to? How does it affect who our friends are, and who we work with best?

A health note:
"Salami recalled in multistate salmonella outbreak"

*Burrillville, R.I. - A Rhode Island meat company recalled 1.24 million pounds of pepper-coated salami Saturday, after officials conducting a months-long, multistate investigation of a salmonella outbreak compared shopping receipts of those who got sick.
The recall by Daniele Inc. comes amid an outbreak that has sickened 184 people in 38 states since July.
Daniele has been identified as the source of the ongoing outbreak by William Keene, a senior epidemiologist at the public health division in Oregon, where eight people have fallen ill. Keene said Saturday that some questions remain, such as whether it was the meat or the pepper that was contaminated.
Investigators in Washington state found that many of the 14 residents there who got sick shopped at Costco, Keene said. Costco did not return calls seeking comment on the recall Saturday, but it has posted notice of it on its website.(http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/daniele-inc-voluntarily-recalls-pepper-coated-salame-products-82469397.html)

Today in Black History:
"Black Entertainment Television - BET"

*January 25, 1980 ~ Black Entertainment Television {BET} - first black owned company to be listed on the NYSE, begins broadcasting from Washington, DC.

Mess of the Day:
"World Of Walmart Part Deux"

*Hey there sorcerer, how ’bout you reach into that fanny pack that you can’t even wear correctly and pull out some invisibility potion so we don’t have to stare in the face of virginity.~Florida

Thought for the day:

"When I woke up this morning lying in bed, I asked myself,
'What are some of the secrets of success in life?'
I found the answer right there, in my very room.
The Fan said… Be Cool.
The Roof said… Aim High.
The Window said… See the World.
The Clock said… Every minute is Precious.
The Mirror said… Reflect before you Act.
The Calendar said… Be up to date.
The Door said… - Push Hard for your Goals."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Mukesh Sharma --- India