Monday's are always back to work and fun if you tune in to Carolina Country Cruizin' with Matt and Dee. Start your Tuesday off right with fun and winning! Keep it rolling with Wheelz 100.5! And just in case you missed this mornings show here is the run down of what we talked about.
Oscar is our pet of the week! He is looking for his new home! You can find out more about Oscar at http://www.whlz1005.com/
All animals deserve a happy home and below you'll find my babies!
Dee's Babies!!
Jenny has been with me for a long long time! Since 1999 and she was 4 when I adopted her. She is my baby! She is my mini me! My Jennymini you might say!
This is my new addition! Her name is Blue-eyes. Named for her eyes which where just so big and blue when I found her on my doorstep. Since then those eyes have turned green but I can't change her name so she will always be known as Blue-eyes! Right now I'm sure she thinks her name is NO!
Here are both of them taking there nap!
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A British boy is being kept under tight watch after sneaking out of his house recently. According to the "Daily Mirror," three-year-old Max McGrath managed to get out at three in the morning and walked over a mile to get to a store. He was spotted by a local van driver, who picked him up and took him home. Cops had to wake up the boy's parents, who were shocked at what had happened. Max's mother said, quote, "When we asked why he went out, he said he wanted sweets." The boy's parents now plan to keep the house keys out of Max's reach.
A goldfish in a British pub has spent the past four years swimming upside down. The fish, named Aussie floats, with its belly pointing up and its eyes staring down because of a problem with its swim bladder. Regulars at the Globe Inn, in Lympstone, near Exeter, joke that the fish must be drunk. Pubkeeper Liam Matthews, 53, bought the goldfish from a pet shop in 2004 but it began swimming upside down six months later. He says, "She seems happy enough -- as far as you can tell with a fish."
The only thing riskier than asking a woman her age or weight is guessing it. Out loud. In front of everyone. Scott Purcell does it for a living. He's one of the guessers at the Wisconsin State Fair. You pay him three bucks and he tries to guess your age within two years or your weight within three pounds. If he can't, you get a prize. He says, "It's a dangerous business. The rule is no biting, hitting, slapping or scratching the guesser if I go higher. I have bruises. I got hit with a pocketbook yesterday. A little old lady, she was 82 but I guessed her at 86. I said, 'Sorry, honey, it's the miles, it's not the years.' Then she hit me."
Many American women think they're being shortchanged when compared to their male colleagues. That's according to a survey by job Web site CareerBuilder.com, which found that more than one-third of female workers think they're paid less than their counterparts of the opposite sex with the same skills and qualifications. Eleven-percent of men also said they feel they were being paid less than their female counterparts. The poll also found that 26-percent of female workers say they have fewer career advancement opportunities than their counterparts of the opposite sex with the same skills and qualifications, 18-percent said they do not get the same amount of training and learning opportunities and 17-percent say they do not have the same amount of workplace flexibility.
How long can a cow stand under a cold shower? That's the question researchers at at the University of California - Davis are trying to answer in an effort to find more efficient ways for dairy farmers to use water. They currently use misters that help keep hot bovines cooler, as hot cows don't produce as much milk. The experiment allows the cows to turn the water on by standing on sensors underneath the showers. They seem to like it, considering some are spending up to seven hours in the water.
Police in Charleston, West Virginia, say a man tried to rob a movie rental store with an empty cheesecake box. The suspect placed the box on the counter of the Movie Gallery last week with a note saying it contained a bomb. He told the clerk the bomb would be detonated remotely if he wasn’t given cash. The clerk refused and the suspect fled. Police arrested 43-year-old Paul Parrish II on Wednesday. Parrish allegedly confessed after he was shown a store video of the attempted robbery. He told police he needed money for gas and cigarettes.
Prince Chuck, the 44-pound cat that recently made headlines, is getting a new home. A family in southern New Jersey has been selected to care for the tubby tabby. He wound up in the Camden County Animal Shelter a couple of weeks ago when his owner lost her home in a foreclosure. His new home will include a castle over the litter box. Despite being overweight, a shelter employee says the cat is in pretty good health. Prince Chuck is now on a weight loss and exercise program.
Elvis fans from across the country and around the work are in Memphis this week. Saturday marks the 31st anniversary of the death of the King of Rock 'n Roll. He died at his Graceland Mansion. For many fans, the highlight of the week is Friday night's candlelight vigil. That's when fans walk single-file up the sweeping driveway carrying a candle to pay their respects at Elvis' grave. The vigil begins at 8:30 CDT and continues until each fan has the opportunity to pass through the Meditation Garden.
Other Elvis Week events include the annual "Music and Movies at Graceland" tonight and tomorrow on the mansion lawn. Tonight's show starts with a sunset concert by Andy Childs and his band, followed by a screening of "Jailhouse Rock." Tomorrow's lineup includes a show by Terry Mike Jeffrey and Band, who were members of both the TCB Band and The Imperials, followed by "Elvis' That's the Way It Is."
Several fan club exclusive events are also planned for the week. Another highlight is the annual "Elvis Expo." The Wednesday and Thursday event takes place at the Memphis Cook Convention Center. It's billed as the "ultimate Elvis Trade Show." It includes more than 75 booths and 35-thousand square feet of all things Elvis, including autograph sessions, authors, artists, photographers and every type of Elvis souvenir you can imagine.
The week's worth of activities will wrap up Sunday morning with the Elvis Gospel Breakfast. It will be held in the Elvis Car Museum, which is across the street from the mansion. Attendees will enjoy breakfast while listening to Elvis gospel recordings and watching Elvis videos on the drive-in movie screen. Advance tickets are required and may be purchased until Friday morning at 11.
The first few modern Olympics, which started in Athens in 1896, were loosely organized. There were no national teams – athletes could just sign up, pay an entry fee and compete – and the host countries were allowed to pick what events were to be held. That changed after World War I, when the International Olympic Committee took over selection of the Olympic program because Sweden wouldn’t allow boxing at the 1912 Stockholm Games. Not every Olympic event has been a success. Some, like live pigeon shooting, lasted just one year. Here’s a look at some sports no longer in the
Olympic program:
Rope climb (1896, 1904, 1924, 1932)
One-hand weightlifting (1896)
Tug-of-War (1900-1920)
Underwater swimming (1900)
Swimming obstacle race (1900)
Live pigeon shooting (1900)
Equestrian high jump (1900)
Rugby union (1900, 1908-24)
Club swinging (1904)
Plunge diving (1904)
Dueling pistol (1906)
Solo synchronized swimming (1984-92)
Olympic Medal Count
Gold Silver Bronze Total
1. China 6 2 0 8
2. United States 3 4 4 11
3. Korea 3 2 0 5
4. Australia 2 0 3 5
5. Japan 2 0 2 4
The nominees for Best New Artist for the 2008 MTV Video Music Awards were announced Friday. Snagging nods were Miley Cyrus and Taylor Swift, among others. You can cast your vote at www.mtv.com/ontv/vma/2008.The awards will be given out on September 7th.
Kenny Chesney has put a lot of heart and sweat into reaching his fans. It’s a challenge for an artist to really connect and engage the audience, but one Chesney takes very seriously. He’s done everything from extending his stage way out into the audience to walking to the furthest seat before a concert just to see the stage the way his fans will see it. Kenny says he’s the kinda country star you’d see out in the parking lot after a show throwin’ down a six-pack with his fans.
Lee Ann Womack’s new album, “Call Me Crazy,” has been scheduled for an October 21st release. The album’s first single is “Last Call.” Womack will open concerts for Alan Jackson on Thursday in San Jose, California; Friday in Lake Tahoe, Nevada; and Saturday in Las Vegas.
Phil Vassar tries his hand at comedy with the short clip, Random B-B-Q Tips, which is running on the website FunnyOrDie-dot-com. In the comical piece, Phil instructs viewers on how to deal with obnoxious guests, vegetarians and unwelcome food gifts that might otherwise ruin a cookout. Phil is the first country artist to have a clip on the comedy website.
Josh Gracin is readying the release of his next single, “Unbelievable.” Gracin penned “Unbelievable (Ann Marie)” for his wife of seven years. Josh says, “Ann is an amazing woman and mother to our kids. I just had to write this song to tell her how incredible she is. This is my favorite song on the record because it’s 100 percent me.”
Kristen Hall, a founding member of Sugarland who left after the first album, is suing the other two members for $1.5 million. Hall filed suit last month in Atlanta, claiming she created the band’s name and that Nettles and Bush entered into an agreement to equally share profits and losses even after she left in 2005.
Willie Nelson, Vince Gill and Kris Kristofferson will help Merle Haggard promote living a “green” lifestyle next spring. “The Green Train,” a term coined by Haggard and musician Bob Wolfe, will travel to 28 states displaying different ways to help the environment. The tour will cross the country for six weeks, starting in Portland, Oregon, and ending in Washington, D.C. For more information go to http://www.greentrainglobal.org/.
Tim McGraw, who plays a redneck amateur cage wrestler in the upcoming movie Four Christmases, packed on 25 pounds (which he's since lost) for the role. He tells People magazine's Country Special Issue that he was surprised when he got to the set and saw that his co-star, the normally pudgy Jon Favreau, had gotten buff. Tim says, "Now I'm the fat guy in this thing." The movie has a huge cast of stars including Reese Witherspoon, Vince Vaughn, Robert Duvall and Sissy Spacek. According to Tim, "It should be pretty funny. We'll see how funny I am. Everybody else is pretty funny." The Country Special Issue is on newsstands now. -- Rosemary Young
Martina McBride will host the first official Academy of Country Music Honors, an evening dedicated to recognizing the special honorees and off-camera category winners from the 43rd Annual Academy of Country Music Awards. Those being honored at the September 17th event in Nashville include Bill Anderson, Dick Clark, Brenda Lee, the Oak Ridge Boys, Fred Rose, Conway Twitty and Porter Wagoner, as well as winners of the musician, bandleader and instrumentalist categories, which are not televised during the Academy of Country Music Awards.
Toby Keith, who wrote the screen play for his movie Beer for My Horses, showed a talent for writing as early as grade school. Toby tells the Tennessean that he did really well in his creative writing classes in sixth grade. Toby says, "The teacher called my mom and dad and said, 'You need to really pay attention to his creative writing, because he's really good.' My dad was like, 'My boy ain't gonna be no writer.' My mom never talked about it, and we never pursued it." Toby hopes to some day write his memoir. He told us, "Someday it would be nice to sit and look back at it all." Toby says he already has the title picked out -- How Do You Like Me Now.
Starting this December, Dick Clark’s New Year’s Eve special will be renamed “Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve With Ryan Seacrest.” Seacrest will serve as co-host with Clark and as an executive producer on the broadcast for another three years, through the 2010 show ringing in 2011. This year’s show on ABC will mark its 37th year. It was the top-rate New Year’s Eve show last year, with 29 million viewers.
Over the weekend at the box office
1. “The Dark Knight” $26 million
2. “Pineapple Express” $22.4 million
3. “The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor” $16.1 million
4. “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2” $10.8 million
5. “Step Brothers” $8.9 million
The Olympics opening ceremony on NBC average 34.2 million viewers, making it the biggest TV event since the Super Bowl. It was also the biggest audience ever for an Olympic opening ceremony not held in the United States, and even passed this year’s Academy Awards and finale of “American Idol,” according to Nielsen. What made it even more impressive is that it was a Friday night in August, when many people have better things to do than watch TV. The opening ceremony of the 2004 Olympics in Athens average 25.4 million viewers. The 2000 Games in Sydney had 27.3 million
viewers.
That woman who had five pups cloned from her beloved pit bull Booger has found herself in the middle of a scandal, and it has nothing to do with the dogs. The Associated Press reported Saturday that Bernann McKinney is Joyce McKinney, who in 1977 allegedly abducted a Mormon missionary in England, handcuffing him to a bed and making him her sex slave. McKinney jumped bail and was never brought to justice. British tabloids recognized McKinney when she appeared in news photographs with the five pit bulls she had cloned for $53,000.
Paul Newman reportedly has weeks to live and has told his family that he wants to die at home. Newman has finished chemotherapy treatment for cancer and was photographed leaving a New York hospital in a wheelchair, looking frail. “Paul didn’t want to die in the hospital,” a source said. Newman has made only one public statement about his condition, saying he is doing “nicely.”
Bernie Mac's sarcoidosis, the inflammatory lung disease that was said to be in remission, was indirectly responsible for his death from pneumonia on Saturday, according to his sister-in-law. Mary Ann Grossett, the older sister of Mac's widow Rhonda, tells People magazine, "Because he had it, his immune system was compromised. He had an infection...He was on a new medication that suppresses the immune system, and that's where the pneumonia came from." She also reveals that the comic entered a Chicago hospital on July 24th, eight days before the date his publicist gave for his admittance, and was "in intensive care the whole time."
Among the reactions to Mac's death:
Cedric the Entertainer: "The level of his talent always inspired me and other comedians to 'bring their A-game.' I promise you that you never wanted to be the guy who had to follow Bernie's set!"
Chris Rock: "Bernie Mac was one of the best and funniest comedians to ever live but that was the second best thing he did. Bernie was one of the greatest friends a person could have. Losing him is like losing 12 people because he absolutely filled up any room he was in."
Ice Cube: "Today and tomorrow will never be as funny as yesterday without Bernie Mac. A true original."
George Clooney: "The world just got a little less funny."
Bernie Mac, the fast-talking comic who rocketed to fame in the concert documentary The Original Kings of Comedy, has died of complications from pneumonia at the age of 50.
Mac, born Bernard Jeffery McCullough in Chicago in 1957, became a comic at age 19. He developed a cult following for his stand-up work in the '80s. In the '90s, his screen career began to take off with memorable appearances in such comedies as Mo' Money, Who's the Man, House Party Three, Get on the Bus, Don't Be a Menace to South Central and Life.
After appearing in Spike Lee's comedy documentary, Mac achieved a new level of stardom -- landing him the critically acclaimed Bernie Mac Show and increasingly high-profile appearances in films, including Oceans 11 and its sequels, Bad Santa, Guess Who and Transformers.
Mac, who despite his Hollywood career continued to live around Chicago, is survived by his wife of more than 30 years, Rhonda, and their daughter, Je'Niece.
Isaac Hayes died yesterday at his Memphis, Tennessee-area home. He was 65, and his cause of death has not yet been determined.
The Rock and Roll Hall of Famer was found unconscious by relatives next to a still-running treadmill. A spokesman for the Shelby County Sheriff's Department says paramedics attempted to revive him and took him to a nearby hospital, where was pronounced dead shortly after 3:00 p-m [ET].
The deep-voiced, bald performer and songwriter won both Grammys and an Oscar for his theme from the 1971 movie Shaft -- becoming the first African-American to win an Oscar for music. He was also known as one of the architects of the Memphis soul sound, co-writing such classics as Sam and Dave's "Soul Man" and "Hold on I'm Coming." Later, he became a well-known radio personality and a T-V voice of "South Park's" singing cafeteria worker "Chef."
Born in Covington, Tennessee, Hayes was raised by his sharecropper grandparents and began singing in church by the age of five. He learned to play piano and saxophone, and after moving to Memphis as a teenager, started his own band and cut his first records. He joined Stax recording group The Mar-Keys as a saxophonist for a short time, then went to work as a house pianist for the label. There, he hooked up with David Porter as a songwriting and production team, turning out hits for Sam and Dave, Carla Thomas, Johnnie Taylor and others. In 1967, he began making his own records for Stax subsidiary Enterprise, and found success two years later with the album Hot Buttered Soul, which established a signature sound that featured intricately arranged songs -- often covers of popular hits -- and Hayes' distinctive vocals. Two years later, his "Theme From Shaft" brought him to the pinnacle of his musical achievements.
In the mid-1970s, Hayes began an acting career with a starring role in the blaxploitation movie Truck Turner, and over the years made more than 50 film and T-V appearances. Around the same time, he left Stax and moved to A-B-C Records, and while he continued to score R-and-B hits, he was more prominent as an actor and performer during this time. Hayes's career got a boost in the late 1990s when he voiced the character of "Chef" in the animated T-V comedy South Park. It led to appearances on a pair of hit albums and a single, "Chocolate Salty Balls (P-S I Love You)," that topped the U-K charts. In his later years, Hayes became active as a radio personality, and was involved in a number of good works, including the World Literacy Crusade and his own Isaac Hayes Foundation.
A high-profile Scientologist, he was also an African king in Ghana and an honorary chief in Nigeria. He reportedly had 12 children -- the youngest is two -- and 14 grandchildren. In 2006, he suffered a stroke, and his health was never quite the same.
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