Tyler Perry

Tyler Perry sends kids who were snubbed by swim club to Disney World They’re going to Disney World – and it’s all thanks to Tyler Perry. After learning that 65 kids from a minority Pennsylvania day care center were turned away by a mostly white swim club, Perry is sending the snubbed youngsters to the happiest place on Earth.

The beloved playwright is footing the entire bill for the kids from the Creative Steps day care center in suburban Philadelphia, including their airfare, food, accommodations and admissions for a three-day visit in sunny Orlando, after the children were kicked out of the Valley Swim Club in Huntingdon Valley, Penn., on June 29.

Perry, 39, in such stage and screen hits as "Medea Goes to Jail" and "Meet the Browns," recalls seeing one of the Creative Steps kids crying on the news about being shunned and humiliated at the club. CNN reported some of the children complained that white club members made racist comments to them.

Hot Air

A person's silhouette is casted on the hot air balloon owned by Mark Enszer, of Saginaw called "Celebration" early Saturday morning during the Hot Air Jubilee at the Jackson County Airport. Pilots were not able to fly the balloons because winds aloft were too strong making it dangerous to fly. Instead a handful of pilots tethered their balloons to the ground.

This photograph is all about the color and shapes. I captured it with my D700 and 17-35mm wide angle zoom positioned just at the opening of the balloon. A little cliche, but I've never had the chance to make the image myself. It was a beautiful, sunny morning to make photographs, but unfortunately I had to do it from the ground because the winds a few hundred feet up were too strong for the balloons to fly.

Of course, it's 3:30 a.m., so they may just be doing downtime for service or something. The site seemed to go down while I was working on an "IG-Gate Update" report in the Green Room. Figured it was just a glitch, so I finished writing the post in Word format, but when I went back -- two hours later -- I still couldn't get the site to come up.

Robin Katz

Robin Katz formerly of Chase is the hot topic today in New York press which is debating how allegedly hot this alleged thief is not. The New York Post says she’s ubber hot. The New York Magazine says not. Katz is the former Chase employee charged with progressively stole $110,000 from her client. The Post writers are drooling of her looks, calling her the “banker beauty” and calling her “sexy”.

The New York Magazine disagrees with The Post’s standards in journalism women.
“[W]e find her to be more like average, but let’s not get into it.” Of course, LALATE likes her line on Myspace:”rocket scientist by day, party fool by night”. But even with that, the question remains for readers - guys, does Robin make you weak in the knees, or just weak in the wallet?

Robin Katz, a 25-year-old Chase employee who gradually siphoned $110,000 from a client and then skipped town, is actually kind of flattering. Not only does the Post call her a "banker beauty" and "sexy" (we find her to be more like average, but let's not get into it, commenters), they make her sound kind of awesome.