Good
morning to you, today is Wednesday, February 01, 2012, and I am your humble
host, the sultan of satire, the purveyor of non-pertinent information and as
always the troublemaker extraordinaire and I am coming to you recorded from the
Eagle’s nest here at wake up central with news you can’t use here on the Wednesday
edition of The Morning Wake Up Call.
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Politics
Romney
picks up the 50 delegates from Florida, taking an easy win away from the rest
of the pack.
Super Snack
There will be some super
snacking going on during the Super Bowl, and many will forego those diets
and start eating like linebackers.
According to the Calorie
Control Council, the average armchair quarterback will consume 1,200 calories
and 50 grams of fat, just from snacking – that’s not even counting actual
meals.
So what exactly are people
eating? We break it down by the numbers:
The National Chicken
Council reports that more than 1.25 billion chicken wings will be consumed
during Super Bowl weekend. That’s more than 100 million pounds of wings. If
they were laid end-to-end, they would circle the circumference of the Earth
more than twice over.
Wingstop, a Texas-based
restaurant with 500 locations, expects to sauce and toss 5.6 million wings on
Super Bowl Sunday alone, an increase of 12 percent over last year. The company
says Super Bowl sales are usually 290 percent more than on any given
Sunday.
Pizza also scores points
as one of the most popular Super Bowl food choices. Papa John’s Pizza says it
hopes to sell more than one million pizzas on Sunday. That adds up to about 8
million slices on game day.
But the king of Super Bowl
snacks, according to The Nielsen Company, is potato chips. Nearly 46 million
pounds of chips are sold in the run up to the game. Add in other snack
foods, like tortilla chips, pretzels and popcorn, and we’re talking about nearly
177 million pounds of snacks sold on Super Sunday.
The Royal Puppy
It’s official: Prince William and
Kate Middleton have a new puppy, palace officials confirmed to NBC Tuesday.
The young royals bucked Windsor family tradition by opting for cocker spaniel
rather than a corgi. However, despite a recent overhaul in
monarchical succession rules (in the future, elder daughters will precede their
brothers), scholars say the dog is not currently in line for the throne.
Eat Your Veggies Jay
First
lady Michelle Obama wants TV host Jay Leno to give vegetables another try as
part of her Let's Move campaign to fight obesity and promote healthy eating.
"@JayLeno
says he never eats vegetables…we'll see about that! #LetsMove to get Jay to eat
some veggies on #TheTonightShow on 1/31!" the first lady wrote on the
Let's Move twitter account Sunday.
The late
night host has been vocal about his dislike for healthy eating and his love of
junk food.
"I
don't think I've had a vegetable since 1969," Leno said in a 2006 interview. "I'm
a meat, chicken, potatoes, pasta kind of guy. I eat a lot of junk food like
pizza hamburgers and hot dogs. When I have a soda, I have a soda — not a diet
soda. I don't think I've ever had a salad, actually."
The
first lady is set to be a guest on the Tonight Show on Tuesday, her first
appearance as first lady — though she did appear on the show during the
2008 campaign.
Amazing Recovery – goodnews.com
A British baby was
miraculously saved after being born with no blood in his body.
A rare condition drained
Oliver Morgan’s small frame of almost every drop while he was in the womb.
When he was delivered he
looked pale and stillborn — and doctors were unable to find a heartbeat for an
astonishing 25 minutes.
But battling Oliver
survived against all odds after being given oxygen, gentle heart massage and a
lifesaving blood transfusion. Medics fought back tears when his heart monitor
let out the first telltale beep.
Oliver is now a happy, healthy 15-month-old toddler.
Oliver is now a happy, healthy 15-month-old toddler.
His mom, 36-year-old
Katy Morgan from Maidstone, southern England, said Thursday, “Oliver’s birth
was so traumatic that I haven’t been able to bring myself to tell his story
till now. He was born dead with no blood in his body — but now he’s sitting
here smiling at me.”
“The doctors literally
brought him back to life and I will never be able to thank them enough for this
wonderful gift,” she added.
Oliver almost bled to
death after a rare condition called vasa previa formed an extra vein in his
mom’s womb. It burst — and she woke up covered in blood 37.5 weeks into her
pregnancy.
She was rushed to the
Maidstone General Hospital and was shocked to discover it had all come from her
baby.
Oliver was born by
emergency C-section weighing six pounds and one ounce (2.8 kilograms) at 5.12am
local time. After attempts to resuscitate him, he was given a blood transfusion
pumped into the still-attached umbilical cord.
At 5.37am local time the
first heartbeat was detected and grew stronger as he was given more blood.
Katy Morgan — who was
anesthetized and unaware of the drama — said, “Doctors said it was one of the
most amazing recoveries they’d ever seen. Oliver had no blood, no heartbeat and
looked stillborn — but somehow they got him back.”
Oliver was taken to a
special care baby unit where doctors decided to lower his body temperature to
save his brain from damage. He was placed inside a tiny coat which chilled him
to 91 degrees Fahrenheit (33 degrees Celsius) to make blood flow away from his
skin and to his brain and heart so they would heal more efficiently.
After three nail-biting
days, consultants slowly began raising his temperature to the normal 99 degrees
Fahrenheit (37 degrees Celsius). And after just 11 days Oliver was well enough
to be taken home to start family life.
“It’s hard to believe,
looking back at what he’s been through — but Ollie’s now a bright, happy boy
with his whole life ahead of him,” his mom said.
Quote of the Day
"I don't think I've had a vegetable since 1969” – Jay Leno
Useless Facts
Jay
Leno has not had a vegetable since 1969
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