Confetti Cakes on The Today Show

Watch my sister Elisa Strauss talk about her new book "Confetti Cakes for Kids"

Watch the video here.

Here is the recipe from The Today website.

ConfettiCakes has a newly designed website and Elisa has been blogging a lot recently HERE.

Elisa on the Rachael Ray Show

My sister was on the Rachael Ray Show today 10/3/08. She is super cool and awesome.

See The Video Here:
http://www.rachaelrayshow.com/show/segments/view/rach-rescue-hits-kansas-city/

Enter to win a copy of Elisa's upcoming book.
http://www.rachaelrayshow.com/club/giveaways/confetti-cakes-kids/

ABC News: Mac or PC, Incentives Abound for Students

By Eric M. Strauss

With just two weekends left before school starts Heintzman has modest plans of hanging out with friends, eating sushi and taking a drive with her father, Mark, to an Apple store to make that one last purchase.

She usually makes her electronics purchases at Best Buy, but this time a perfect storm of educational savings and promotions is too strong for her to ignore, including a rebate to cover an iPod Nano ($199) or a widescreen iPod Touch ($299) with the purchase of a Mac through Sept. 15, an educational discount and a tax-free weekend. (More...)

My Friends Are Heros

My friend from work Joan Lefosse donated her kidney to our friend Ani Mozian-Whitney. Read about it below.

Please Watch: "Kidnapped Cousins"

ABC News PrimeTime Crime - "Kidnapped Cousins" - July 16th, 2008 - 10PM

A story I have worked on for a while will air this Wednesday night on ABC @ 10pm. Please watch it, blog about it, tell your family and friends. It's an important and compelling story about domestic trafficking of minors.

PrimeTime gained exclusive access to the story of two young victims; Middle-American teen cousins Carol (14) and Kimberly (15) on their way to buy milkshakes, who end up kidnapped off of Toledo, Ohio's, Main Street and into a world of forced sex with men for money.


Viewers will hear first-hand of the terrifying abduction, the militaristic training and seasoning period, and eventually the dramatic rescue of one cousin and the terrifying journey to save the other.


Federal and Local authorities explain how these predatory pimps operate loosely held networks from typical residential communities to our nation's highways. PrimeTime brings you unprecedented access to interviews, 911 calls, interrogation videos, and a truck-stop sting operation in order to bring you inside the unimaginable world of domestic sex trafficking.

I was able to do a lot of the auxiliary shooting myself. Look for time-lapse shots and additional B-roll shot by me.

Special Thanks: FBI SA Mike Beaver, University of Toledo sociologist Dr. Celia Williamson, Cumberland County DA's Office and Washtenaw County's (Michigan) Sheriff Daniel Minzey and Commander Dave Egeler.

READ A TEASE HERE

READ A DETAILED ARTICLE HERE
WATCH VIDEO HERE
WATCH VIDEO ABOUT TRUCK STOPS HERE
READ A REVIEW IN THE NY POST HERE
WATCH A TEASE BELOW:

EJ and EMS Breaking Glass

No Drinking and Voting

As I was passing through Cincinnati's Airport (which is actually located in Kentucky) I saw this funny sign. Seems in Kentucky they don't serve alcohol on the day of elections. Jake Tapper posted my photo on his blog at ABC News.com

Political Punch

How to make a sculpted dog cake in 4 minutes

You have to see my sister's time-lapse video creating a dog out of cake for my dad's birthday party.

See it here on YouTube.

"Elisa Strauss of Confetti Cakes sculpted her dad's labradoodle for his birthday. For more information, please visit http://confetticakes.blogspot.com/"

Happy Mother's Day

I've posted a few tech gift ideas for Mother's Day. Check them out:
Save Parents' Digital Heirlooms With a Time Capsule

Kodak EasyShare 5300: Print Pictures at 50 Percent Less Than Competition

TomTom 920 GPS Finds Cheapest Gas

Happy Birthday: Elton Strauss is 60

The votes are in and it has been confirmed that I have the best Mom and Dad in North America. My Dad turned 60 last week and we had a couple fun parties for him. My sister made him two amazing cakes in the shape of his favorite child (his dog). I made him a slide show with the new iMovie application that you can watch here, or below.

Here are some photos from his surprise party.

Health Goes High Tech

by Eric M. Strauss
ABC News
...Most people don't leave the house without their cell phones, which gave tech startup Confidant an idea: Use mobile phones as powerful databases and liaison to health care professionals for patients with chronic diseases.

"After you start dealing with it you realize it really stinks. You need to incorporate it into your routine. Diet and exercise now become life and death," Leinart said. "You have to develop a positive attitude or it will take you over. You realize quickly it's not going to go away." ... (Read the article at ABCNews.com)

Tim Stevens at Switched read my article. Thanks.

See more article I've written on ABCNews.com here.

20/20 Tonight: Weather Myths

ABC News 20/20 - Friday, April 18 at 10 p.m.
Tonight we have an interesting show about the myths and truths about wild weather. I was able to travel to Gainesville, Florida with Sam Champion to meet the nation's expert on lightning, Dr. Martin Uman.
Watch as he tells us how he can create lightning and spells out what you need to know about it.

Confetti Costs

For those that ask me if my sister will make them a cake for their Birthday... I hope you have wealthy parents.
See this article for the reason why.

"Elisa Strauss' Confetti Cakes created this $1,500 Coach bag-themed cake for a 10-year-old girl's birthday party."

While you are at it check out Elisa's new blog and let her know what you think about it. http://confetticakes.blogspot.com/

ABC 20/20 Tonight: Intervention

Please tune in to 20/20 tonight for a story I've been working on about drug interventions with Daniel Baldwin. It's an idea that came out of our very successful hour last summer about Daniel's struggles.

ABC News 20/20 Friday, March 28th, 2008 10-11pm

Read my article here: http://abcnews.go.com/Health/story?id=4543817&page=1
Video preview here: Lessons Learned from Daniel Baldwin
Eamon's Journal Entry: http://abcnews.go.com/Health/story?id=4537761&page=1

Addiction has touched Hollywood's Baldwin Family as well. Last year, actor Daniel Baldwin allowed Cynthia McFadden to follow his progress through drug rehabilitation. In a new interview, Baldwin talks about how he is doing today. Is he winning the battle?

And because of Baldwin's experience with rehab and sobriety, he says he wants to "give back to others." He helps facilitate an actual intervention to try to get a young man to turn his life around. Will Baldwin be successful in saving this young man's life? "20/20" is there to document.

20/20 Show on Prostitution

We've been working on a series of programs about the real world of prostitution for two years. Tonight (March 21, 2008) we will have a 2 hour program on some of the exploitation involved. Please watch. ABC 9-11pm

I specifically worked on the parts about the undercover stings and the pimp culture. (Parts 2 and 4)

Prostitution Stings
Online video
Online resources to end the exploitation
John's School

MacBook Air Review

MacBook Air: Sexy, Skinny as a Supermodel
by Eric M. Strauss
"Carrying around Apple's MacBook Air is like dating a supermodel: She's going to turn heads with her beauty, she'll improve your self-confidence, and you can go everywhere together — from crowded nightclubs to cramped airplane flights. You'll be happy in the end, but there's sure to be a friend who just doesn't approve."
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/GadgetGuide/story?id=4421038&page=1

Take a look inside a New Yorker's $500,000 Home Theater

ABCNews.com's Eric M. Strauss, speaks with a high powered exec who turned to Goldmund, the same people who announced the $17,000 Blu-ray player this week, to create a half-million dollar home theater in his NYC home. By Eric M. Strauss

read more | digg story

Kathy Griffin is Funny

Kathy Griffin is hysterical live. If you have the chance you should go.

ABCNews.com Article

Porn Industry Still Struggles With Condom Issue
At Annual Conference, Optional Condom Policies Called Into Question
By Eric M. Strauss

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/AIDS/story?id=4130615&page=1

See some video here:
http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=4132676

CES 2008: Day 2 by Eric M. Strauss

CES 2008: A Driverless SUV Gives a Tour of the Future

VIDEO CES 2008: The SUV That Drives Itself