Jon Prell

Don't get me started on Beauty Pageants. I truly believe they serve no useful purpose whatsoever and actually send the wrong message to young girls. Beauty pageants are the essence of superficial and mean nothing in the grand scheme of things. Granted, these women are beautiful, but it pretty much stops there and over the weekend, Miss Utah, Marissa Powell gave an answer at the Miss USA Pageant to a question that really brought the credibility of these pageants into question.

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The much anticipated Man of Steel movie is in theaters now. This is the most recent adaptation of the iconic Superman franchise. The movie is getting great reviews and will be a summer blockbuster, no doubt. Imagine if you will, the 1980 Superman movie starring Christopher Reeve and Margot Kidder being made into a musical.

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As parents, we have all been in a restaurant where our kids are acting like zoo animals and we have to endure the stares and dirty looks from the other couples not dining with children...you know what I mean. Well, one Sushi restaurant in Virginia has banned kids under 18 and business is BOOMING!

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We have seen it before on any number of reality shows, but in particular on singing competition shows. Someone steps up to the microphone to sing and you're thinking this will be the worst performance ever...then, what happens next is nothing short of jaw-dropping amazing. That was the case when Travis Pratt of Tifton, Georgia took the stage recently on 'America's Got Talent'.

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This is so weird, just yesterday I witnessed a little fender bender in downtown Evansville involving a driver who lightly rear-ended another vehicle. When they got out of their cars, the driver at fault admitted to the other driver she was looking at a text, to which the other driver responded in a way I can't print here.

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One of Lynyrd Skynyrd's most popular songs is 'Free Bird'. Hearing someone scream 'Free Bird' at concert, a ball game or a movie theater has become almost a cult phenomenon. It has also been done many times in movies and my all-time favorite example of this is from the movie 'Cars'.

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Summer is here and that means vacation, but how is vacation time handled at your company. A couple of weeks ago, I wrote an article about how employers are not required to provide vacation time even though most do. What if you could buy a couple of extra vacation days, or better yet, what if you could sell vacation days to make a few extra bucks, would you do it?

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Tipping...one of the most stressful aspects of going out to dinner. Some people don't tip at all, but most do and want to leave a fair tip, which can be challenging depending on the diner's experience at the restaurant. Well, one sushi restaurant in New York City has eliminated that stress by eliminating tipping altogether.

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Lately, it seems a lot of people have been trying to break world records for just about anything. Clapping your hands is something we all do quite frequently, but have you ever wondered how fast you can do it? How about jumping rope? We know how fast boxers and professional athletes can jump rope, but how fast is fast?

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On the surface, this video seems to be a bathroom mirror prank, but in reality is a very serious message about drinking and driving. It was done in Great Britain and is part of a Campaign called "Think" for the Department of Transport...and yes, transport is correct.

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YouTube prank artists TrueStoryASA have made some very funny prank videos. This time, they decided to do something a little different than going for laughs; instead they tried to get smiles from homeless people by giving them food, cash, clothes and water in exchange for one simple smile.

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I first read this story this morning and became extremely alarmed because I am a Verizon customer. On April 25, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISA) authorized the FBI and the Federal Government to obtain the phone records of millions, if not all Verizon customers for a three-month period ending on July 19. Am I just being paranoid or does that sound really, really scary?

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