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On March 3, 1931 the bill designating “The Star-Spangled Banner” as our national anthem was adopted by the United States Senate and went to President Herbert Hoover for signature. The president signed it the same day and singers have been butchering it ever since. The most heinous example of “Star-Spangled Banner” abuse happened when comedienne Roseanne Barr sang it before a San Diego Padres game on July 25, 1990. Not only did she sing it off-key, she also spit and grabbed her crotch as she sang it. Then there was the version that Steven Tyler of Aerosmith sang before the Indianapolis 500 on May 27, 2001 where he changed “home of the brave” to “home of the Indianapolis 500.” But, some of the worst “Star-Spangled Banner” abuse is inflicted by non-celebrities, regular Janes and Joes just like you and me. The lyrics to our national anthem get mangled much more often they are gotten right. To measure just how rampant “Star-Spangled Banner” abuse is, consider going out on the street and challenging people to correctly recite the lyrics to our national anthem. Record their inevitably crackpot lyrics and then edit them for play on your show the next day. No doubt you will get some highly individualized and entertaining versions of “The Star-Spangled Banner.” Want to cut calories? Chew sugarless gum. A new study from the University of Rhode Island says that chewing sugarless gum may help people eat less. Chewing sugarless gum in the morning led study participants to eat 68 fewer calories at lunch. Chewing gum before and after eating resulted in burning up to 8% more calories during the day. And, there was an added bonus: Gum chewers said that they felt less tired and said doing tasks seemed easier. Maybe this will cause the “gum police” to rethink their position and make it okay to chew in public again. If your back is sore more during the winter months, it could be you’re not getting enough vitamin D, according to a new clinical review in Pain Treatment Topics. One study looked at 360 patients with chronic back pain and found that all of them had low levels of the vitamin. After taking supplements for three months, 95% of the patients had improved symptoms. Most adults need at least 1,000 IU of vitamin D per day, but researchers believe people with chronic back pain may need twice that. More married people than you would think, given the 50% divorce rate, are happy in their marriage. 88% of married people say they are happy or reasonably happy in their marriages. What’s more, 71% of couples said they’ve stayed married because of deep love while 74% cited companionship. Of the two groups, men were more satisfied in their relationship, with 70% saying that they would never think of leaving their wives. Women, while satisfied in their marriages weren’t so optimistic. Over 50% thought about leaving their husbands, despite the fact that they were still happy. It would be interesting to have a discussion about why this might be true. I suspect it might be because women do so much more in the marriage than men do and resent them for it. Or could it be the guys were just lying to the surveyor because they didn’t want their wives to find out how they really feel? Consider opening up this question to your audience and see if you can come to some sort of reason why there is such a big difference between how men and women feel about the whole “to death do us part” thing. If your office has a pool to see who can predict the most Academy Award winners this year or you’re going to an Oscar party on Sunday where a similar activity is planned, here is how to better your chances of being the big winner this year according to Wired Magazine. Halve the odds – Of the 10 nominees for Best Picture, eliminate the five (or more) not also up for Best Director. The same movie has won both awards in 25 of the past 30 years. Follow the pros – For the more obscure awards like Best Animated Short, defer to industry insider site like variety.com, which tend to be savvy about low-profile categories. Spot the upset – The Supporting Actor and Actress categories are the place for upsets. Put your money on a promising long shot in these two categories. You can save a lot on gas if you drive at the speed limit. If you drive at 60 miles an hour you use 9% less gas than if you cruise along at 70 miles an hour. And if you go 50 miles an hour you can save up to 15%. So, driving 50 miles an hour would save you about $8.25 per 20-gallon tank filled with gas at the current U.S. average price of $2.75 per gallon. Driving 50 miles an hour, if you fill up on average once a week, could yield you a yearly gas savings of $429! However, if you’re going to drive well under the speed limit, please do the rest of us a favor and stay out of the left lane!  Print This Post March 1st, 2010 | Tags: Saving on gas | Category: Daily Blog, Economy | Leave a comment First there was the Snickers commercial that aired on Super Bowl Sunday featuring Betty White and now there’s a good chance that we’ll soon see her hosting NBC’s Saturday Night Live. At 88 Betty White must be thrilled with all of the media exposure she’s getting these days. Could this be the beginning of the year of the sexy senior? If so, I wonder who the next senior hottie will be? This brings to mind the topic, “Who Will Be The Next Senior Star To Get Hot Again In Hollywood?” You could even call is Senior Idol. Will it be 75-year old Sophia Loren? She’s still great looking and she’s got that multicultural appeal that advertisers look for. How about Shirley Maclaine? Jane Fonda? They’re both 70 and still going strong. To resolve this idea on the air, have each person on the show pick who they think the next big senior star will be to emerge and take her place on the list of who’s hot again in Hollywood. Then, if and when one of your seniors gets in the spotlight again, the person who picked them will get the satisfaction of knowing he or she was able to spot the next big thing. Print This Post February 26th, 2010 | Tags: Betty White, Jane Fonda, Shirley Maclaine, Sophia Loren | Category: Daily Blog | Leave a comment Sometimes I think foodies are just a little too snotty about what wine goes with which food, but when it comes to the one about white wine and fish, there is now some hard scientific proof. Chefs and savvy diners have long instinctively paired fish with white wine, and now scientists know why. Apparently iron present in red wine (but less so in white) brings out seafood’s fishy aftertaste. Now if they can only come up with proof as to why I have to drink a wine I don’t like the taste of just because somebody said it goes with what I’m eating I’ll be at complete gastronomical peace. Apparently women pig out more when the aren’t eating with men. According to a study from Canada’s McMaster University, women consume up to 60% fewer calories when they eat with men than when they dine alone or with other women. You could have some fun with this by getting some sample menus from local restaurants via the Internet. Then read some of the dishes on the air and ask women to call in and tell you which they would order if they were eating with a man and which they’d order on a girls’ night out. Listing the top choices for each dining experience at the end would provide your audience with a satisfying resolution to this idea. Our brains are cross-wired: The right half controls the left side of the body and the left hemisphere controls the right. But there are some tasks that one side of the brain performs better. For example, if you’ve got a secret, tell it to your confidant’s left ear. Words with emotional import are heard more clearly when sent directly to the touchy-feely right hemisphere. All signals travel to both hemispheres eventually – just not with the same sensitivity. Don’t worry about that zit on your left cheek; the right side of your face is the one others notice most. In fact, if you take a picture of your right half and pair it with a mirror image, it will look more like you than two left halves put together. Non-emotional information is processed more efficiently when heard by the right ear, since it speeds first to the organizational, fact-handling left hemisphere. So if you’re asking for driving directions, get out of the car or at least turn your head so that your right ear is facing the person giving you directions. Research subjects who tapped the fingers on their right hands for 30 to 45 seconds became less willing to engage in risky behavior like drinking and driving. Right-side movement – a foot works as well as a finger – activates the risk-averse left hemisphere. This could also help us fight off our unhealthy eating behaviors. Human beings also have a “left-side cradling bias”: Most of us hold infants so their heads nestle in our left elbows. Positioned this way, babies’ facial expressions are processed first by the care-giver’s emotional right brain, allow for faster communication of the babies’ needs and stronger bonding. |
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