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December 31, 2019 9:35 am Published by

Actress Anna Kendrick finally responded after a hockey player took his shot on Christmas, and basically all of hockey Twitter got behind him in support.

But New York Islanders player Anthony Beauvillier sent a simple tweet out into the void.

His tweet — “Hi @AnnaKendrick47” — began a storm of tweets at Kendrick, vouching for the 22-year-old Beauvillier’s character in hopes of catching the actress’s attention.

“He dogsat for the ENTIRE ANIMAL SHELTER last week. A real one, for sure,” wrote one Twitter user.

“Thanks for performing open heart surgery on me man,” wrote another “I appreciate it.”

“Hey man thanks for letting me use your gear during that fundraiser you held for the animal shelter to save the puppies,” wrote someone else.

After days of radio silence, Kendrick, 34, finally chimed in, tweeting that the replies have “been my entertainment for the last two days.” Neither have publicly commented further.

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A very malnourished dog found his way into a home in Philadelphia that a man accidentally left open while walking his own dog.  After talking to Animal Control and checking for a chip, the family decided to keep the dog.

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ENTERTAINMENT

Zac Efron reportedly nearly died just before Christmas after contracting a “form of typhoid or similar bacterial infection.” He was in Papua, New Guinea filming his new documentary “Killing Zac Efron” when he became sick and was flown to Brisbane, Australia on a “life or death flight” accompanied by medical professionals. He was then admitted “in a stable condition”. The documentary started filming on Dec. 4 and follows Efron into the jungle where he was supposed to stay off-grid for 21 days with only basic gear and a guide. On Christmas Eve, Efron flew back to the United States after being cleared by doctors.

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Adam Sandler was on “Jimmy Kimmel Live” and told the story of the time he got his ear pierced for the movie “Airheads”.  Then he had to break the news to his mother.

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TODAY IS……………….

  • “New Year’s Eve”, a day (or night) of celebrating the last day of the year, and the coming of the New Year. It’s a day to say “goodbye” to the old and “hello” to the new. It’s also a chance to make New Year’s resolutions, in which a person resolves to change an undesired trait or behavior, to accomplish a personal goal or otherwise improve their life

 

  • “National Champagne Day”, it’s fitting that champagne would be celebrated today, as it’s a staple in New Year’s Eve celebrations. Champagne is a sparkling wine, and true champagne only comes from the Champagne region of France.

 

2010 [09] The post-apocalyptic zombie TV series “The Walking Dead” premieres on AMC

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COUNTRY MUSIC NOTE

 

2006 SUGARLAND was at #1 with “WANT TO”

 

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TRY 12 ‘MICRO-RESOLUTIONS’ FOR THE NEW YEAR

It happens to most of us: you make a New Year’s resolution with the best intentions, but chances are you don’t make it past a few weeks or even days. CNN is proposing a new idea this year, with feature’s editorial director David Allen suggesting that people try 12 “micro-resolutions” instead, one for each month, which you commit to for just four weeks.

 

They can either be habits you want to to break, like eating too much fast food or spending too much time on your phone, or positive things that you want to start doing.

 

Allen did micro-resolutions for the past two years, the first year choosing ones to break bad habits, and the second year choosing ones to add positive habits, things like meditating, spending time in nature, reading poetry, eating whole foods, and making gestures of gratitude to people.

 

He found committing for just one month easier to do, and even after the four weeks were over, there were some lasting effects, such as choosing healthier snacks, meditating most weekdays, and being a better listener.

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RANDOM REPORT

✓ A New Year’s Eve Ball” was first dropped in New York’s Times Square in 1907 due to a ban on fireworks. The original ball weighed 700 pounds and featured 100 25-watt bulbs.

✓ To ensure a year of good luck, firecrackers and noisemakers became tradition in order to scare away any remaining evil spirits and to ensure a brand new start.

✓ Black eyed peas, ham, and cabbage are considered good luck if you eat them on New Year’s Eve or Day because it is believed they will bring you money.

✓  Lobster and chicken are considered bad luck because lobsters can move backward and chickens can scratch in reverse, so it is thought these foods could bring a reversal of fortune.

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GOOD NEWS

SantaCon was held in New York a few weeks ago which is a pretty infamous event every year where people dress like Santa, go on a bar crawl, get hammered, and cause all sorts of chaos in the city.

 

Some Santas were riding the Long Island Rail Road home from Manhattan when they saw two guys get in a fight:  A 45-year-old and a 22-year-old.  Those two guys fighting weren’t dressed as Santa or coming from SantaCon. The 45-year-old STABBED the 22-year-old in the leg during the fight.

So some of the SANTAS jumped in . . . took down the 45-year-old . . . and turned him over to the cops when the train got to the next stop.

 

Then they helped rush the 22-year-old to the hospital, where he was treated for minor injuries.

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BIRTHDAYS

[82] Anthony Hopkins, actor

[76] Ben Kingsley, actor (“Schindler’s List”, Oscar for “Ghandi)

[60] Val Kilmer, actor

[51] Gerry Dee, Scarborough ON, comedian (season 5 of “Last Comic Standing”)/TV actor (“Mr. D” 2012-18, host of “Family Feud Canada”, 2019)

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THINGS THAT MAKE YA GO HMMM:
• 82% of us say we bought cellophane (Scotch) tape this holiday season.

  • 69% of us say that the worst part of the holiday season is wrapping presents.
  • 87% of us have employers who allow Christmas decorations in the workplace.
  • 5% of us say we are still paying off Christmas bills from last year.
  • 25% of us say we have tried to get into the wrong car after holiday shopping.
  • 45% of us have re-gifted a present to a friend or co-worker.

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This Might Just Be the Grossest Spot in the Average Hotel Room

Here’s something you should probably know if you’re going to be staying at a hotel sometime in the next few weeks.

 

There are a lot of surfaces in a hotel room that are just SWAMPED with germs and bacteria . . . like the TV remote, the coffee maker, the hairdryer, even the light switches and door handles.

But a doctor at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health says one spot might be worse than ALL of those:  The CHAIR in the corner of the room.

 

Quote, “Chairs can often be made of hard-to-clean fabric and upholstery, and are definitely not cleaned [like] sheets and towels . . . often, stains on chairs are dabbed and rubbed, but other germs that are not noticeable to the eye remain.”

Also, people throw all sorts of things onto the chairs like their dirty clothes, shoes, and bags, which means the fabric is picking up all sorts of bacteria and germs that don’t usually get cleaned off between guests.

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WHY THE HOLIDAYS WARP OUR PERCEPTION OF TIME

Many can tell you that the days between Christmas and New Year’s Day feel, well, off.

 

The true issue is that time is a social construct, and it gets weird over the holidays. Mashable reports, “Concepts like ‘Monday’ and ‘Friday,’ which dictate out experiences every other week of the year, lose all meaning. Days of the month become generalized into either being closer to post-Christmas or pre-New Years Eve.

 

The ritual of annual holidays forces us into mind-bending states of reflection and nostalgia, too, as we simultaneously feel closer to youth and more estranged from it than ever.

 

” Psychologists and neuroscientists agree on this, and say a similar thing happens when we go on vacation– when we lose sight of markers like the start of the workday, weekends, and bedtime, and couple that with new experiences, sights, and sounds– we get a warped perception of time.

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We Wake Up in a Bad Mood 300 Days a Year?

According to a new study, we wake up in a bad mood 300 DAYS a year.  That’s basically five or six days out of every week and 82% of the year.  And here’s why . . .

 

  1. We wake up too cold an average of 1.24 times a week.

 

  1. We wake up too hot an average of 1.74 times a week.

 

  1. Some loud noise wakes us up 1.38 times a week.

 

  1. And a bad or strange dream wakes us up 1.4 times a week.

 

That adds up to 5.76 nights a week . . . or 300 bad wake ups a year.

 

The study also found we only get 91 nights of full, uninterrupted sleep per year . . . but even some of THOSE nights end with us waking up in a bad mood.

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TUESDAY DECEMBER 31ST                                             

TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS

[82] Anthony Hopkins, actor

[76] Ben Kingsley, actor (“Schindler’s List”, Oscar for “Ghandi)

[60] Val Kilmer, actor

[51] Gerry Dee, Scarborough ON, comedian (season 5 of “Last Comic Standing”)/TV actor (“Mr. D” 2012-18, host of “Family Feud Canada”, 2019)

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  1. NHL

PIT 5 – OTT 2

 

  1. Sports in 2019 had some repeat championships, and for some, it was the first championship their team had ever had.  Here are SOME of the biggest moments in sports this past year.

 

  1. • “Dick Clark’s Primetime New Year’s Rockin’ Eve With Ryan Seacrest 2020” (ABC): Seacrest and Lucy Hale host from New York’s Times Square. Performers include Sam Hunt

 

  • “Fox’s New Year’s Eve With Steve Harvey: Live From Times Square” (FOX): Harvey and co-hosts Maria Menounos and Rob Gronkowski ring in 2020 from Times Square; Florida Georgia Line and more.
  • “A Toast to 2019!” (NBC): Kristen Bell, Martin Short, Maya Rudolph, Tony Hale, Terry Crews, Nikki Glaser and more as they break down the biggest pop culture moments and trends of the year.

 

  • Instead of a ball, Miami, Florida rings in the new year with an orange. The raising of Mr. Neon, the 35-foot, sunglasses-clad metal fruit, has been a tradition for over 30 years. Hershey, Pennsylvania drops a giant Kiss to ring in the new year. Other Pennsylvania towns have traditions that play off their names. In Mechanicsburg, they drop a wrench. In Dillsburg, they drop a pickle.
  1. Kevin Nealon jokes about unique Christmas gifts, like the time his wife named a star for him one year, and then he realized the star had probably already burned out a long time ago in the past.

 

 

THIS WEEK’S NETFLIX (Canada) RELEASES:
➢ December 31:
• Happy Death Day (Horror/Thriller): A college student must relive the day of her murder over and over again, in a loop that will end only when she discovers her killer’s identity. (Jessica Rothe, Israel Broussard)
• Made of Honour (Comedy/Romance): A guy in love with an engaged woman tries to win her over after she asks him to be her maid of honor. (Patrick Dempsey, Michelle Monaghan)
➢ January 1:
• The 15:17 to Paris (Biography/Thriller): A group of Americans discover a terrorist plot on a Paris-bound train. (Directed by Clint Eastwood)
• Mamma Mia (Musical comedy/Romance): The story of a bride-to-be trying to find her real father told using hit songs by the popular 1970s group ABBA. (Meryl Streep, Pierce Brosnan)

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SAM HUNT TO RING IN NEW YEAR ON ‘DICK CLARK’S ROCKIN’ EVE’

Sam Hunt will ring in the new year with a performance on Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve With Ryan Seacrest in New York City’s Times Square on Dec. 31st.

Kelsea Ballerini, Dan + Shay and Blanco Brown are part of the lineup announced for the Los Angeles broadcast of Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve, hosted by Ciara.

Sam is expected to release a new album sometime in 2020.

 

 

OLD DOMINION TO RING IN NEW YEAR IN HAWAII

Old Dominion bandmembers are looking forward to the new year, for more than one reason. They’ll kick it off with 2 shows in Hawaii. January 3 in Kahului and January 5 in Honolulu. Other than that, their schedule shows open dates that week, so we asked them… Where will you be on New Year’s Eve? Brad, Geoff, and Matthew told us this: [Brad: We’re going to be in Hawaii. Geoff: This is our first New Year’s on the road together I feel like maybe ever? Matthew: Ever. We have somehow managed to never play a show on New Year’s Eve. Brad: Which we’re still not doing. Matthew: Which we’re still not doing, but we are playing a show on the third or fourth in Hawaii. So, we will all be in the tropics.]

FAST FACTS

On January 18, Old Dominion will be in Pembroke Pines, Florida.

They have 2 shows in Cancun, Mexico during Crash My Playa.

 

 

Thomas Rhett has gone with the same New Year’s Resolution the past few years.  He tries to declutter his life, both physically and mentally.  He says it helps him focus on “living for that day only,” because you never know what tomorrow will bring.

 

 

CARRIE UNDERWOOD WILL NOT HOST ‘CMA AWARDS’ NEXT YEAR – (12/31/2019)

After 12 consecutive years of hosting the CMA Awards, Carrie Underwood is stepping aside. She made the surprising  announcement on Instagram Monday (Dec. 30)

Carrie co-hosted the first 11 years with Brad Paisley and most recently worked alongside Dolly Parton and Reba McEntire.

In her post she stated how lucky she was to have worked with Brad and called him her “partner in crime.” She went on to say this: “One of the highlights of 2019, and of my entire career so far, was being on stage with the legends that are Reba and Dolly Parton.”

As for a reason for leaving, she wrote: “It’s hard to imagine topping what we have accomplished together, so I’ve decided that it’s time to pass the hosting torch (at least for now!) to others that will cherish it and honor it as much as I do.”

FAST FACTS

Carrie won CMA Female Vocalist of the Year in 2006, 2007, 2008, 2016 and 2018.

She also won the New Artist of the Year award in 2006.

 

 

 

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This post was written by Dave Palmer