Little Polka's Blog

Disgusting Pirouline.

I will be as descriptive as possible since I am not going to even attempt to eat this Pirouline. It looks like a fat tan straw with brown lines going around it like the lines on a candy cane. When I smell the Pirouline it reminds me of when I used to pour my dogs their dog food. That’s all I smell, is dog food. Holding this in my hand just makes my stomach upset because I can’t even think about eating this.

I’m picky as is, but I can’t even think about trying this Pirouline because the smell throws it off already. There are about 4 or 5 different types of pickiness, and unfortunately I have all of them. Anyone else this Pirouline may be delicious but to me it just looks and feels disgusting and rough.

Bill Cosby has a new home for at least the next three years of his life.

Cosby arrived Tuesday night at the maximum-security state prison in Pennsylvania, known as SCI Phoenix, where he is being kept isolated out of concern for his safety. He was sentenced to three to ten years in prison for the sexual assault of Andrea Constand, a former Temple University employee.

Mr. Cosby had asked to be released on bail while he appeals his conviction, but the judge denied his request. Awaiting sentencing, Bill was allowed to stay at his home in Montgomery County, but now is staying in a single cell and there is no timeline yet of when he will join the general population.

John Wetzel, the Pennsylvania secretary of corrections, said that they are taking all of the necessary precautions to ensure Cosby’s safety and general welfare in the institution. Their long-term goal is for him to be placed in the general population to receive the programming required during his incarceration.

Only lawyers and religious advisers will be allowed to visit Cosby for his first 10 days of incarceration. During Bill’s stay, he must attend sex offender counseling sessions since he was designated as a “sexually violent predator” as part of his sentence.

While Mr. Cosby is isolated, he will be allowed outside into a small yard adjacent to his unit, which has a partial roof to protect the area from the elements. Like the rest of the general population, he will be allowed outside for two hours in the morning and two more in the afternoon.

In the future, Cosby will go through psychological and medical examinations. His legal team argued Tuesday for house arrest, telling the judge that Cosby was frail and didn’t need to be incarcerated. Andrew Wyatt, Bill Cosby’s publicist, when asked for comment, he said in an email that no one disclosed to him or the others that they were taking Cosby to that facility.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/what-bill-cosby%E2%80%99s-life-will-be-like-as-inmate-nn7687/ar-AAAH7hw

Demi Lovato’s journey to recovery resumes.

On July 24th, Demi Lovato, a pop singer, was hospitalized following an overdose.

Jeff Nelson, reporter for People magazine, reported to People that the emergency call revealed the pop star was unconscious upon the EMS’s arrival and revived with Narcan — an emergency medication to reverse the effects of a narcotic overdose.

Brandon Johnson, the guy who apparently provided Demi with drugs the night before her disreputable overdose, is distributing some parts about the evening and emphasizing that the star knew the chances she was taking.

Johnson told Celebrity Insider that Demi texted him at 4:00 a.m. the morning she overdosed and tell the he read between the lines and brought over pills, which he said they did together. While they did drugs he claims they watched true crime TV until Lovato fell asleep. He also tries to make it known that he supposedly described to Lovato that the pills were “aftermarket” and not pharmaceuticals, consequently making them much tougher.

He rejects any comprehension that the drugs were laced. Numerous origins consider that Lovato’s overdose was the outcome of Oxycodone laced with fentanyl. Johnson says he left sometime between 7:00 a.m. and 8:00 a.m. after Demi fell asleep. Demi’s assistant allegedly found her in dreadful trouble at 11:00 a.m., and she called 9-1-1 and Lovato was revived by Narcan.

Johnson called the instant “a wake-up call for her” and said that it widened his eyes to the risks of these drugs if the get into the immoral hands. TMZ reports that Johnson was arrested in March with a supply of guns, money, and drugs. Johnson was also supposedly arrested in June and arraigned with DUI and ownership of cocaine.

Many hours following the news of the hospitalization poured out, PEOPLE established that Demi was “stable.” Demi stayed in the hospital for almost two weeks.  On August 3^rd Demi agreed to go back to treatment, to an in-patient facility.

Lovato has battled addiction, eating disorders and mental illness for years.  She entered a rehab facility in Chicago in 2010 where she was treated for bulimia, bipolar disorder, addiction and self-harm. She relapsed when she left and then entered a sober living facility for a year. Jeff Nelson, editor of People, mentioned that this March, the former Disney star revealed she had celebrated six years of sobriety. But in April there were rumors of a relapse and those rumors were confirmed by Demi that she had fallen off of the wagon in “Sober” which was a tear-jerking song about her current relapse.

Famed attorney, Robert Shapiro told People that he thinks Demi is going to have a very positive outcome after rehab.  His son passed away in 2005 from a drug overdose, Brent.  Because of Brent’s passing Shapiro created a foundation that established to help those in need of therapy.  According to Robert, kids at Brent’s Club –  the foundation he formed in the name of his departed son – sent Demi a bunch of get-well-soon cards to support her to get through this difficult time. Demi ended up spending two weeks in the hospital before finally checking out and heading straight to a live-in treatment facility to seek help with her addiction once again.

Demi posted an image on her social media opening about her journey with addiction. She mentioned how grateful she is for God, her fans, family, team, and the staff at Cedars-Sinai who have taken care of her over the difficult time.

“I now need time to heal and focus on my sobriety and road to recovery,” Demi wrote in a statement on Instagram. “The love you have all shown me will never be forgotten and I look forward to the day where I can say I came out on the other side.”

http://celebrityinsider.org/robert-shapiro-thinks-that-demi-lovato-will-recover-just-fine-after-rehab-189497/

https://people.com/music/demi-lovato-doing-great-one-month-after-overdose/

http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2018/08/27/demi-lovatos-alleged-drug-dealer-says-star-knew-risks-before-her-overdose.html

Twenty-six year old woman killed three people in a workplace shooting Thursday morning, the third workplace shooting in the U.S. in 24 hours.

Multiple people were killed and wounded at a Rite Aid distribution center in Aberdeen, Maryland. Reports came in at about 9:06 a.m. that shots were fired and law enforcement mentioned that officials think the shooting may have been tied to a work-related grievance.

Three people were killed and several other people were wounded during the attack. John Hopkins Bayview Medical Center admitted four patients with gunshot wounds, two stable and two seriously injured. One person who was injured and in serious condition was being treated at Christiana Hospital in Newark, Del. The shooter, identified by the sheriff as Snochia Moseley, 26, also died by a self-inflicted gun-shot wound to the head.

More on the story can be found at the link below:

https://www.npr.org/2018/09/20/649944366/multiple-people-killed-and-wounded-in-maryland-shooting

The two items I had to collect were a knock knock joke and a thick runner band.  I approached a student in the library who was working on homework, a senior named Anna Heath.  Anna told me a knock knock joke, “Knock Knock” “Who’s there?” “A little old lady.” “A little old lady who?” “All this time I had no idea you could yodel!”

Anna mentioned, “Honestly, I don’t understand the joke but it’s funny because it’s not good.” She also mentioned, “Personally I think the delivery matters with the joke. If it was a completely random person who has a bad joke I’d think it was dumb, but if it was my sister I’d laugh because it’s so stupid.  If it was my professor (that should not be named) I would think it was really dumb.”

The second individual I approached was Karen who has worked in the HJF Library for 13.5 years.  Karen was able to provide me with a thick rubber band.

Karen said, “Now I’m curious as to what this is now since you are the third person to ask me for an item?”

I then answered her question and she said that it made sense as to why she was getting these random questions for random objects.

“I’m going on my 14th year here, and I haven’t honestly had anyone ask me for something so random for an assignment,” Karen stated.

Imagine you are 6-months old and have a mountain ram charging in your direction…  That is exactly what happened to Levi, Mathew McConaughey’s 6-month old son.

On Tuesday’s episode of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, Mathew revealed that he isn’t only an actor but a hero.

“I got charged by a mountain ram at the edge of the Grand Canyon and had to throw my 6-month-old child 15 feet through the air — to my wife — to save him,” McConaughey told Jimmy Fallon and The Roots’ Tarik Trotter.

When Mathew and his wife Camila were having a picnic with their son, now he is 10 years old, and dog when they noticed a ram.  Mathew shooed his dog away and then threw his son to his wife, and had them run down the cliff. Mathew eventually was able to scare the ram away.

If you want to find out why the ram was going after the McConaughey family, click on the link to find out: https://people.com/parents/matthew-mcconaughey-saved-baby-son-mountain-ram/

The Iowa Highway Patrol ordered a ban of hand-held radar guns, yesterday, to take precaution for their officers.

It comes two months after three municipal officers in Cedar Rapids filed workman’s compensation claims, saying they developed cancer from using the hand-held units.  Concerns that troopers could develop cancer from longterm exposure to the radiation waves emitted by the devices, the ban was ordered as a precaution while studies are conducted.

“The feeling here is to err on the side of caution until more is known about the issue,” Adam Smith, spokesman for Iowa Highway Patrol said. “The whole situation is under review.”

State troopers will continue to use radar units with transmitters mounted on the outside of their cruisers. The move is to be considered to be the first of its kind by a state police agency. The ban effects 70 radar guns that will be withdrawn from service.

On Tuesday, the news was revealed that Amazon’s stock value reached one trillion dollars!!  A poll taken by NPR/Marist, 92% of America’s online shoppers have bought something on Amazon and more than 40% said they buy something on Amazon once a month or more often.  Amazon has said that more than 100 million people around the world pay for its Prime subscription.  I, and my family, are part of that portion. We use Amazon Prime and the whole package that is included, and have renewed our subscription for the third time as we enjoy having it and trust it very much.

I believe the audience impacted by this news, or finds this news relevant is any Amazon user or subscriber or potential users/subscribers.  It gives confirmation to those users and subscribers who read this news that Amazon is doing well and other online shoppers say they have a great deal of trust in Amazon to protect their privacy and personal information as well.

https://www.npr.org/2018/09/04/644545822/amazons-stock-value-has-crossed-1-trillion-joining-apple