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Every Friday morning at 8:45a Greg & Hollie talk to our heroes at joint base in Balad, Iraq during the "Hooah! of the week".  We love hearing about their missions and connecting them to their families and friends here at home! 

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Sears Tower unveils glass balconies on Skydeck

(AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato)

Anna Kane, 5, of Alton, Ill. looks down from 'The Ledge,' the new glass balconies suspended 1,353 feet (412 meters) in the air and jut out 4 feet (1.22 meters) from the Sears Tower's 103rd floor Skydeck

 

 

Hollie's New Baby Monitor

The Why Cry Baby Analyzer is the baby monitor of your dreams! Its advanced frequency analysis technology only needs 20 seconds to let you know why your child is screaming to the heavens. Whether your baby is Stressed, Sleepy, Annoyed, Bored or Hungry, this device will identify it on its LCD screen. In addition to being very portable (adjustable velcro strap for easy attachment), it comes equipped with a symptoms chart and guide with tips on how to properly stimulate your child's development. Not to mention being your ticket to some peace and quiet!  Now get a good night's sleep. 3:00 a.m. comes early.

 

 

YOUR LUGGAGE HELPS KIDS!

Foster and displaced children in Central Kentucky need your help.  Donate your gently used or new luggage to Choices and Changes Youth Services during the month of July.  Every piece will go to a child in foster care or shelters in Central Kentucky.  Most of these children carry all of their belongings in a trash bag.  Let them know you care by dropping off luggage at 519 North Miles Street in Elizabethtown, E'town Fire Dept HQ or the Navy Recruiting Office in E'town (143 Towne Drive).  Call 270-735-1540 or visit www.choicesandchanges.org

 

 

 

 

 

'Star Wars' fans to use The Force

      Mind-control games may be the coming thing: Mattel plans to demonstrate a Mind Flex game (also due this fall), which uses brain-wave activity to move a ball through a tabletop obstacle course, at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas on Thursday.

      In the Force Trainer, a wireless headset reads your brain activity, in a simplified version of  EEG medical tests, and the circuitry translates it to physical action. If you focus well enough, the training sphere, which looks like a ping-pong ball, will rise in the tower.

 

 

 

TV pitchman Billy Mays found dead at Florida home

By MITCH STACY, Associated Press Writer –

Mon Jun 29, 2009

TAMPA, Fla. – Billy Mays, the burly, bearded television pitchman whose boisterous hawking of products such as Orange Glo and OxiClean made him a pop-culture icon, has died. He was 50.

Tampa police said Mays' wife found him unresponsive Sunday morning. A fire rescue crew pronounced him dead at 7:45 a.m. It was not immediately clear how he died. He said he was hit on the head when an airplane he was on made a rough landing Saturday, and his wife, Deborah Mays, told investigators he didn't feel well before he went to bed about 10 p.m. that night.

 

 

MICHAEL JACKSON, KING OF POP, DEAD AT 50

Jackson, the sensationally gifted child star who rose to become the 'King of Pop'

and the biggest celebrity in the world only to fall from his throne in a freakish series of scandals, died Thursday. (6/25/09)

 

 

CHARLIE LOSES AN ANGEL

By LYNN ELBER, AP Television Writer Lynn Elber, Ap Television Writer –

      Farrah Fawcett, a 1970s sex symbol and TV star of "Charlie's Angels," spent almost three years in private fighting for her life against cancer. Fawcett, 62, died Thursday morning at St. John's Health Center in Santa Monica, after being diagnosed with anal cancer in 2006. (6/26/09)

 

HOOAH!  Our 3rd ESC soldiers will be returning from Iraq this summer.  Let's welcome them back!  There are a few soldiers who won't have family to greet them.  So we're helping USA Cares put together "back packs" to make them feel at home.  If you would like to contribute, bring NEW t-shirts, magazines, books, candy, toiletries or anything else to make them feel special to our Quicksie studios.  We're located at 233 West Dixie Avenue in Elizabethtown.  We will taking donations for our soldiers through August of 2009. 

 

 

 

 

Click on picture to find out about Barrel Man

 

 

WQXE radio in Elizabethtown morning host Greg Milby and afternoon drive time DJ Paul Leidy squared off in a firefighter challenge. Central Hardin and Valley Fire Departments hosted the “Mayor of Mantown” event to benefit the WHAS Crusade for Children. It's all in fun and preparation for the upcoming 56th annual WHAS Crusade for Children on June 6 - 7, 2009 to benefit children with special needs.  See the challenge here!

 

 

Susan Boyle suprised everyone on Britain's Got Talent!  She has the voice of an angel and she proved it once again when she performed "Memory" on the show. 

Click here to see the video.  This lady is amazing!

 

 

 

CHRYSLER TARGETS 800 DEALERS FOR CLOSURE

   Thursday, May 14, 2009 Chrysler Corporation announced the closing of a quarter of its dealers over the next few weeks.  The information was disclosed during a bankruptcy filing.  Chrysler hopes this strategy might save the company, but thousands will be left without jobs.  General Motors Corporation is expected to announce over a thousand dealership closures of its own.  Click on the Chrysler closing list below to find out if it affects your neighborhood dealership.

Closing List

 

 

"THE BIRDMAN"

This genius was stopped going through airport security. He was caught smuggling song birds from Vietnam in his pants!!! 

The birds sell for around $30 in Vietnam but he could get up to $400

for the songbirds in the U.S.

 

 

 

"ADAM LAMBERT-ISM'S"

Fans crazy for "American Idol" contestant Adam Lambert have created a dictionary for the aspiring singer.  "MTV News" reports a group of fans, who dub themselves "Teenage Glamberts," have put together a list of made up words that revolve around Lambert.  At the top of the list is the word "Adafect" which is what the singer's fans call the "ultimate level of perfection."  "Adamafied" is to be under Lambert's spell while "Fanadamsizing" is to fantasize about the contestant.  People not familiar with the new Lambert dictionary are dubbed "Glambaciles" while the coffee fans drink while thinking about Lambert is being called "Lambucks." 

 

The Adam Dictionary

Adam and the Also-Rans -- "American Idol" season eight and the "American Idol" tour.

Adamafied -- To be under Adam's spell.

Adamaholics -- Those who are addicted to Adam.

Adamaniacs -- Millions of crazed Adam fans who just can't get enough of his amazing voice and overall sexy style.

Adamatoepoeia -- Any onomatopoeia used when watching/ listening to/ reading about Adam ? i.e. groaning because you can never be that sexy (argh), squealing when you see him (squee), etc.

Adamdose -- An overdose on Adam.  Often brought on by too many viewings of the photo thread.

Adamflies / Adamaches -- The feeling of nervousness and excitement we get on Tuesdays and Wednesdays knowing that a new Adam performance/outfit/viewing is only hours away!!

Adamlaphic Shock -- What happens when one goes too long without seeing Adam pictures and hearing Adam's music.

Adamnator -- Kind of like the Terminator, but used in the context of Adam on "American Idol," when he's leaving the other contestants quaking in their boots from his awesome talent.

Adam's Eve -- Official new name for Monday.  (Meaning the day before Tuesday when we can see Adam perform again!)

Adomized -- What happens to a song when Adam injects his magic and changes the atoms of the song.

Baby Glambert -- A Glambert age 14 or younger.

Dark Lord Screamanova -- The name Danny Gokey fans gave to Adam.  The Glamberts are called the Loyal Minions of the Dark Lord Screamanova.

Fanadamsizing -- Fantasizing about Adam.

Fanbert -- Male fan of Adam Lambert.  Also see: Manbert.

Glambacile -- Those who aren't familiar with the Glambert dictionary.

Glambertize -- As in fixing oneself up so that you look a fraction as good as Adam. Example: Girl please go glambertize yourself, 'cause you're looking a hot mess right now.

Glambilly -- Redneck Adam fan and proud of it.

Glamdiggers -- A style of pants with lace up sides usually worn in warm weather. They are designed to end mid-calf or just below the calf. More recently, the length of the pants has been shortened to just below the knee in some designs usually made with leather or Egyptian cotton.

Lambercrastination - Procrastinating on doing things non-Adam-related.

Lamberlove -- That unexplainable feeling of intoxication and addiction we have for Adam.

Lamberman -- A man who loves Adam, like Randy Jackson. Also see: LamberMancrush.

Lambertize -- Adam makes every song his own; the song has been Lambertized.

Lambots -- What we become when we are mesmerized by his awesomeness.

Lambucks -- The coffee you drink in the morning thinking about Adam.

SHDDG -- Smokin' Hot Drop Dead Gorgeous, a.k.a. Adam's inner and outer beauty.

WWAD -- What Would Adam Do? Use this when you are about to post/ say something not so nice. Rethink it and ask yourself, "What would Adam do?"

 

 

 

 

 

BREAKING NEWS...

Chocolate Without Calories

Le Whif is a new way of eating chocolate - by breathing it! Imagine, chocolate without the calories. Be the first to try inhaled chocolate when Le Whif goes on sale later this month in four luscious flavors: mint chocolate, raspberry chocolate, mango chocolate, plain chocolate.

Quick!  Order yours here

 

 

YOU ASKED.....AND HERE IT IS!

Coach Calipari's Contract

 

 

(click on book to connect to Dana Canedy)

 

 

STUDY REVEALS P.M.S. MAY LEAD TO SHOPPING SPREES!

HATFIELD, England, March 30 (UPI) -- A British psychologist says shopping "therapy" could be a way for premenstrual women to deal with the negative emotions created by hormonal changes. Study leader Karen Pine of the University of Hertford Shire asked 443 women ages 18-50 about their spending habits. Pine found that almost two-thirds of the 153 women studied who were in the later stages of their menstrual cycle admitted they had bought something on an impulse, while more than half said they had overspent by more than $35 and a handful of the women said they had overspent by more than $350, the BBC reported.  Pine speculated that the spending could be explained by hormonal changes during the menstrual cycle, or the women might be buying items to make themselves feel more attractive, coinciding with the time of ovulation when they are most fertile, typically around 14 days before the start of a period. "We are getting surges and fluctuations in hormones which affect the part of the brain linked to emotions and inhibitory control," Pine says in a statement. "They are feeling stressed or depressed and are more likely to go shopping to cheer themselves up and using it to regulate their emotions." Pine, author of the book "Sheconomics," suggests that if women were worried about their spending habits they might avoid shopping in the week before their period was due.

 

 

Greg & Hollie usually differ in their opinions, except when it comes to this Yahoo movie list.  Movie lovers and critics put this list together and forgot "Forrest Gump"!!!  What?  Click here to check out the list and let us know what you think.  You may think this popcorn bucket list is right on target!

 

 

The U.S. Army's 3rd ESC "sustaining the line"

from Fort Knox to Iraq

Greg & Hollie joined the 3rd ESC at their family day in May of 2008 at Fort Knox and so began their "radio" deployment to Iraq!  Every Friday since then, Greg & Hollie have talked with the 3rd ESC soldiers about their mission, lifestyle and their families during the "Hooah of the Week" at 8:45a.  Over 16,000 Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Civilians of the 3rd Expeditionary Sustain Command work around the clock in any environment - against any enemy - to ensure the Warfighter has everything they need to complete their mission.  To learn more about these brave men and women click on the 3rd ESC logo.

 

 

 

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Greg....tell me the joke again about the Bananas!!