Local author writes major film

A local author, Angela Hunt, has written a major film, called the note, which will likely have great success. This film will star Genie Francis, which is a former actor of the soap opera, "General Hospital."

The film was inspired by an Alaskan Airlines flight where over eighty passengers died, so that has a large portion to do with the plot of Hunt's film. It is about a woman no the search for a note from someone that had written one before an airplane crash. It will be interesting to see how much popularity this film gets.

Global Warning fix?

This isn't specifically for Tampa or Florida actually, but, as it is quite hot here, I figured I'd throw it in. I thought it was pretty interesting. Have any of you guys heard about the news about the idea of how possibly baking soda can perhaps help save the world from global warming? Probably not, I would guess, and I hadn't either until today. Baking soda is made by using carbon dioxide as one of the needed sources, so I can it can possibly make a little bit of sense for it to be a solution.

As most of you most likely know, smoke from the industrial smoke stacks is a large contributor to carbon dioxide in the earth's atmosphere, and, therefore, global warming. If you use this carbon dioxide to produce baking soda, then it solves the problem to a certain extent. I don't know how they are planning to make this idea work, and it is still pretty far away from becoming a reality I believe, but I guess it could be worth a try.

Swat team talks man into surrendering

A nineteen year old man was just arrested after barricading himself inside his house to hide from the police. This generally isn't the most effective way to evade the cops I would have to say. After a while, the swat team had to come in and persuade him to surrender, which he finally did.

I was reading this news, and all the man was guilty of was having marijuana and paraphernalia, and having the intent to sell it, but that really isn't that big of a crime. I don't see why you would barricade yourself in your house and go through all that effort when that is all you did. Now he will be facing a lot worse charges most likely from his actions than he would have originally. I don't get it. I just don't get it.

Hogan divorce

I just heard this news, and it's not Tampa, but it's close enough. Supposedly, Hulk Hogan's wife just filed for divorce, and he didn't even find out until the reporters told him. I'm sure he was rather shocked when he heard the news.

I was surprised too. Celebrities getting divorced is commonplace in our society, but these two have been together quite a while. I heard they have been having arguments about raising children and other stuff, but this is still surprising for me. I hear about their son, Nick, in the news all the time for traffic violations but not any other of the family usually.

Kids looking for riches find something unexpected

In the Tampa-Riverview area, some teens were looking for some riches that they heard in a tale that a boy claimed to have buried under a bridge, so they went looking for them. While digging, they didn't find the riches, but they found something else instead. It was far from what they were looking for though. They struck and broke an ammonia pipeline, and one got serious burns on his body. Also the area was shut down for quite some time.

The boys are now either facing criminal charges or have a good chance of facing them it appears. That is a very costly mistake that they in no way meant to do. After looking for treasure, the situation turned ugly real fast. The originator of the story is no longer alive to question, but there is most like no treasure buried there anyways. I feel sorry for the boys involved in this exploration.

New Devil Ray's staduim

There are plans to build a new stadium for the Tampa Bay Devil Rays, which is planned to be created on St. Petersburg's downtown waterfront. There have been plans for this for quite a while, but many details have been becoming more clear over time. Some details still have yet to be revealed, but they will come out over time.

This new stadium should prove to be a good stimulator of the economy for the Tampa and St. Petersburg area from all the job opportunities it will provide. There should be many thousands of jobs in the area for construction of the stadium, and then over two thousand permanent jobs upon completion. Tropicana field is not very old, and it is a pretty nice stadium, so I don't see why they feel the need to build a new one. However, it should end up being good for the local economy in the long run.

Fake leg found on the beach

It's not often that you find an artificial leg washed up on the beach with a sock and shoe, but one was just found in Pinella's county. A college student was the finder of this rare oddity. I'm sure he got quite a surprise when he found such an object.

I don't know how someone would lose there leg and leave it on the beach or have it fall off in the ocean. I guess they might find out the story and who it belongs to since they are advertising it in the local newspaper hoping to find the rightful owner. I have never seen such a story as this, but hopefully the owner sees the ad for his leg and gets it back.