<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><atom:link href="http://wcbstv.com/watercooler/resources_rss.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><title>New York News, Weather, Sports &amp; Traffic - WCBSTV.com</title><link>http://wcbstv.com/watercooler</link><description><![CDATA[New York News, Weather, Sports & Traffic - WCBSTV.com]]></description><language>en-US</language><copyright><![CDATA[(c)  MMIX, CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved.]]></copyright><pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:22:20 GMT</pubDate><ttl>5</ttl><item><title><![CDATA[BlogWatch: What The Blogs Are Saying]]></title><guid>http://wcbstv.com/watercooler/blogwatch.blog.politics.2.1025596.html</guid><link>http://wcbstv.com/watercooler/blogwatch.blog.politics.2.1025596.html</link><description><![CDATA[The Blogosphere is a virtual community of millions of web logs - websites run by everyday people from around the world, posting their opinions on a litany of topics online. And it is a vibrant one, with bloggers of a great variety of backgrounds, educations, and specializations. It is within this community that college professors and soldiers, musicians and engineers, teachers and journalists, and others meet and discuss political news every day. Here's what the bloggers are talking about.<br />
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 18:46:32 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[NJ District Proposes Charging For Kids' Detention]]></title><guid>http://wcbstv.com/watercooler/paying.for.detention.2.1323136.html</guid><link>http://wcbstv.com/watercooler/paying.for.detention.2.1323136.html</link><description><![CDATA[It's the first of its kind in a New Jersey school district &#150; a plan that would cost parents money for their children's punishment. It's a proposal that has some parents in the Nutley School District up-in-arms, a plan that would make them pay the price for their kids' detention.&nbsp;Two board members are sponsoring the plan that would target students who are habitually sent to detention. Steven Rogers, who is also a police lieutenant, said the proposal would save the district $10,000 a year and force parents to be responsible for their kids. Some parents are furious with the idea.
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:20:47 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wild Turkeys Run Amok In Suffolk; Hunt Approved]]></title><guid>http://wcbstv.com/watercooler/wild.turkey.hunt.2.1325062.html</guid><link>http://wcbstv.com/watercooler/wild.turkey.hunt.2.1325062.html</link><description><![CDATA[After more than a century without them, an estimated 3,000 turkeys from Muttontown Preserve to Long Island's East End now roam, strut, gobble, and preen in woods, farms and backyards. Much like deer , say biologists, they are ravaging farms, chewing homeowners, plants, and leaving behind huge droppings as a result. The Department of Environmental Conservation has just approved the first ever wild turkey hunt here to coincide with Thanksgiving.
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:46:47 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Woman Charged For Pa. Woman's Nude Facebook Photo]]></title><guid>http://wcbstv.com/watercooler/nude.facebook.photo.2.1324564.html</guid><link>http://wcbstv.com/watercooler/nude.facebook.photo.2.1324564.html</link><description><![CDATA[A New York woman who works as a bartender in northwestern Pennsylvania has been charged with using a male customer's cell phone to post a nude photo of another woman on Facebook. Police in Warren didn't immediately say why 22-year-old Lindsay Head, of Falconer, N.Y. targeted the other woman, or if she even knew her. Police filed a charge of illegally transmitting obscene material against Head on Friday.
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:44:13 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Galileo's Fingers, Tooth Reportedly Found ]]></title><guid>http://wcbstv.com/watercooler/galileo.fingers.tooth.2.1324705.html</guid><link>http://wcbstv.com/watercooler/galileo.fingers.tooth.2.1324705.html</link><description><![CDATA[A Florence museum says two fingers and a tooth believed to belong to
Galileo Galilei have been found and will go on display next spring. Three fingers and a tooth were taken from the astronomer's body in 1737 and placed in a container.
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:05:44 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[And The Happiest Place In America Is... ]]></title><guid>http://wcbstv.com/watercooler/sunnyvale.happiest.place.2.1324146.html</guid><link>http://wcbstv.com/watercooler/sunnyvale.happiest.place.2.1324146.html</link><description><![CDATA[If you're looking for happiness, Sunnyvale is a good place to start. And now it has become official according to the Gallup-Healthways Well Being Index, which surveyed and ranked the happiness of people in 435 congressional districts across the country. 
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:35:31 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Philly Mayor Keeps WS Wager, To Paint Bronx School]]></title><guid>http://wcbstv.com/watercooler/yankees.phillies.world.2.1324078.html</guid><link>http://wcbstv.com/watercooler/yankees.phillies.world.2.1324078.html</link><description><![CDATA[His team didn't win, but Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter is keeping his World Series promise. Nutter and Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced a first-of-its kind wager on the World Series between the New York Yankees and the Philadelphia Phillies. The losing city's mayor would travel to the winning city and participate ni a volunteer service project, while wearing of course a jersey from the winning team. 
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:52:53 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Movie Popcorn, Soda Pack Surprising Calorie Wallop]]></title><guid>http://wcbstv.com/watercooler/movie.popcorn.calorie.2.1321798.html</guid><link>http://wcbstv.com/watercooler/movie.popcorn.calorie.2.1321798.html</link><description><![CDATA[Ordering a medium popcorn and soda combo from a major national movie theater chain is the equivalent of eating three McDonald's Quarter Pounders with 12 pats of butter, according to a new study by the Center for Science in the Public Interest. <br />
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:12:31 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hung? Gotti Jury Heads Home For The Weekend]]></title><guid>http://wcbstv.com/watercooler/gotti.jury.deadlocked.2.1322681.html</guid><link>http://wcbstv.com/watercooler/gotti.jury.deadlocked.2.1322681.html</link><description><![CDATA[Deadlocked again. John "Junior" Gotti's fourth racketeering trial could be heading toward another mistrial after being sent home for the weekend. If this jury deadlocks like the other three did in his last three trials, then Gotti will have once again dodged the federal government's bullet. But just when it seemed that would happen &#150; because the jury sent out a note saying "we are deadlocked" &#150; the judge sent them back to the jury room. 
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:08:39 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Today In History November 20, 2009]]></title><guid>http://wcbstv.com/watercooler/today.in.history.2.1323951.html</guid><link>http://wcbstv.com/watercooler/today.in.history.2.1323951.html</link><description><![CDATA[Today is Friday, Nov. 20, the 324th day of 2009. There are 41 days left in the year. 
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