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#Social101: The miracle of the modified tweet

#Social101: The miracle of the modified tweet

I've been on Twitter now for about three years, and even now I come across little tidbits, tips and tricks about the microblogging site that surprise me or astonish me when I learn they've been around forever.

One such item is the 'modified tweet,' or MT. Many of us, myself included, have glossed over an MT notice in a tweet and just assumed it was a mistype. Actually, this is a very useful tool when you want to retweet someone but have to make a major edit to an original tweet and wish to retain credit.

Here are the basics: Nowadays if you want to retweet someone you have a very helpful button underneath the tweet in question, and in other people's timelines you will see a green tab in the corner of the tweet with your screen name beside it, then the original tweet verbatim below it.

7-Day Forecast

7-Day Forecast

By Sunday afternoon the greater threat for rain will begin to shift to our east. A few isolated storms are possible, but most will stay dry. Temperatures will be on the climb with highs in the upper 80s.

The new work week will be bordering on hot. It's going to be humid as well. Highs Monday and Tuesday will climb to near 90. Heat indices could be in the low 90s.

A cold front nearing the area by Tuesday night will bring our next chance of showers and thunderstorms for the midweek.  Slightly cooler and drier weather is expected next weekend.

WEATHER BLOG: May 17th, 2013: Limestone County Severe Weather Recap

WEATHER BLOG: May 17th, 2013: Limestone County Severe Weather Recap

 

By Lauren Jones

As anticipated by the SPC’s “Slight” severe weather risk today, we had a few isolated accounts of strong to severe weather. The most notable was in Limestone County.  Here are the storm reports as of 7:00pm Friday evening.

 

The first Tornado Warning came around 2pm when a small supercell storm quickly starting rotating.  

YouTubery: The Commercials of Stan Freberg

There are very few modern-day commercials I enjoy watching, especially the ones you see on nearly -every- commercial break. I understand that's the nature of the business today. I don't have to like it, but I accept it.

Luckily there's nothing preventing me from putting the TV on mute every once in awhile and looking up commercials from the better era of ads (read that as 'before I was born.') I remembered a great ad I saw on a TV special about, of all things, the greatest commercials of all time. It starred dancer Ann Miller, and was a spectacle for the now defunct Great American Soup company. What grabbed my attention was the final line, after Miller's big, expensive song and dance. Her TV husband embraces her and asks, "Emily, why do you always have to make such a big production out of everything?"

Narcotics officers win top honors

JACKSON COUNTY, AL (WAFF)-

Five narcotics officers
statewide win top honors for combating narcotics. Two of those are from Jackson County.

Jimmy Jones and Craig Holcombe received an award of excellence for their efforts in fighting drugs in Jackson County.

The pair received their
award last week from the Alabama Narcotics Officer's Association at their
spring convention.

Last year the pair arrested
someone for drugs nearly everyday.

In 2012, 345 people were
arrested resulting in more than 700 charges.

"These guys are just hard
workers. They put in a lot of hours and a lot of it is for free because we
don't pay them much overtime so if they get working on a case they stay at it until
they put somebody in jail," said Chief Deputy Rocky Harnen.

The three other narcotics officers receiving
the award were from Tuscaloosa County.

WEATHER BLOG: Rain returns... but don't expect too much

WEATHER BLOG: Rain returns... but don't expect too much

 

By Jeff Castle

The weather stays dry again today with sunshine and highs in the mid 80s.  We're tracking an upper level storm system that is bringing clouds and rain to parts of Texas and Oklahoma this morning.  Here's the satellite and radar view at 9am.

 

Military warns workers: Furloughs are coming

Tuesday afternoon, Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel sent out a memo to the Defense Department's civilian employees.

HUNTSVILLE, AL (WAFF)- The U.S. military is warning its workers furloughs are coming as the Pentagon deals with budget cuts.

Tuesday afternoon, Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel sent out a memo to the Defense Department's civilian employees.

It will be considerably less painful than they have warned, but it will still be a tough blow, essentially a pay cut for hundreds of thousands of workers.

Hagel said the Defense Department will furlough most of its civilian workers by up to 11 days between now and the end of the current fiscal year this fall.

This is part of the automatic budget cuts known as sequestration, which are coming into effect because congressional negotiators could not make a deal to trim the federal budget deficit.

Huntsville defense contractors who have been struggling to deal with, and plan for, sequester cuts say they are a dangerous and irresponsible way to work the country's books.