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What Are The Hottest Places And Jobs In Our Area?
Ask and you shall receive! We asked our CBS 2 Newshounds to tell us which places and what jobs are the absolute hottest during this heat wave, and they sent us what they thought, including some places that we haven't considered. For instance, can you imagine working in a dry cleaners in this heat?But we also want photos! Put those shutterbug skills to the test, and send us images that will make us see and feel the heat. Don't forget to include your name, so we can give credit where credit is due. E-mail us your suggestions and photos at wcbstvwebteam@cbs.com.Now here's what a few CBS 2 Newshounds had to say:"Today all day I have a indoor outdoor thermometer and it has been at 112 most of the day even on line at Aol it has said it was 110 at 3:00pm. Right now it is 106 in front of my home in Staten Island."-Randi from Willowbrook "Near Grand Ave.
Check It Out
This whole issue of waiters/resses removing diners' plates the moment they approach empty, regardless of whether anyone else at the table is finished, continues to cause a good deal of intestinal distress among you folks."I've come to the conclusion," writes Sue in Youngsville, "that there is indeed a serious plate shortage in the vast majority of restaurants. Taking the plate from one diner, while others at the table are still eating, is incredibly rude, and I have been known to ask the server to wait until everyone has finished. That seems to solve the problem, but it shouldn't be necessary to say anything."What annoys us is when they ask if you're done and there's still a morsel or two remaining on the plate. The implication, of course, being, "Hey, tub boat, haven't you had enough? Time to pull away from the trough." And then you have to endure "the look" as you take one last lick before relinquishing the plate over.
by Joshua Land
The men of LOL are constantly on their computers or cell phones, absorbed in technology to the exclusion of the world right in front of them. Musician/video artist Alex (Kevin Bewersdorf) obsesses over an online porn star, but seems ambivalent about the possibility of a flesh-and-blood relationship; constantly online, Tim (director Joe Swanberg) hardly even looks at girlfriend Ada (Brigid Reagan); while Chris (C. Mason Wells) uses his camera phone to help keep his long-distance relationship alive. Shot on video, LOL makes the most of limited resources: Photo montages accompanied by replayed voice mail messages feel like self-contained video-art pieces, and e-mails fill the screen like silent-movie intertitles. The characters are a bit too OCD for LOL to work as the definitive commentary on technology and human relationships that it strives to beit's particularly hard to imagine how the attractive Ada wound up with Tim.
Elections background check sunk
YOUNGSTOWN Paul Pancoe stormed out only seconds after the city council meeting adjourned, furious that most of his colleagues voted against his proposal to require criminal history checks for those seeking city elected positions. "You've got five gutless council members here," Pancoe, D-5th, said of the five who voted against his legislation, as he headed for the elevator Wednesday. "People say they want change, but it's just talk." For a year, Pancoe has sought legislation making the background checks mandatory for those running for city elected posts before they file as candidates. City law department officials have repeatedly stated Pancoe's proposal can't be enforced. Also, law department officials wrote in a May 1 letter to Pancoe that the proposal would discourage some from running for office because the background checks would include arrests, and not just convictions, of potential candidates.
Reality check:
STARSTRUCK, the GMA 7 talent search that started the current television trend of reality-based star hunts, has expanded the age range of its contestants from 15-17 to 16-21. We already have a lot of teens in our talent pool and we now want to tap into an older age group to look for individuals with star potential, said Wilma Galvante, GMA 7 senior vice president for entertainment TV, in a phone interview with Inquirer Entertainment on Monday. Starstruck, which is also the first homegrown reality artista quest, has brought the competition to a higher level by including talent agents and managers in the process of discovering fresh faces for television. The only limitation imposed on the contestants is that they have to be new faces on television, Galvante qualified.
'Wasted Spaces'
Theresa Voyles stood at the entrance of her dining room, in awe of its transformation in just a day and a half. "All of my life was partitioned in this room," said the Farmington Hills woman, as she pointed to empty spaces where her scrapbooking supplies, her Mary Kay products, business-related papers and more, were once piled up. .
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