It’s time to have a little News Year’s fun. Not with depressing news videos, but with some worthwhile thoughts, expressions and feelings.

This collection of fun, unusual, picturesque and unique videos were produced by my good friend John Hopkins, who is Jack of all trades and a true romantic for everyone who wishes to be inspired. Speaking of romance, here's a photo from Paris, the city of love and lights.

Please get ready to celebrate 2014, if you are not already doing it by now!

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There was another loud explosion tonight in Pelham Bay Park. Local resident Nancy Lunnie Jones says she happened to be at the scene by chance picking up her son from a friend's house. She says windows were blown out of houses. The 3 story brick home her son was in shook violently. She goes on to say "We are not strangers to fireworks in these neighborhoods. EVERY person was out in front of their houses. I've never seen that happen."

Just another day near paradise? Over way too many years, bomb blasts and powerful explosions have frightened residents by blowing open locked doors, cracking ceilings and breaking more glass windows than too many people have grown tired of counting.

NYPD blasts, rapid-fire shooting and mushroom clouds have appeared over City Island as millions of bullets are fired and hundreds of thousands of fireworks are disposed of.

For more than 50 years, the city police have been conducting firearms training, detonating bombs and destroying illegal fireworks on Rodman's Neck in Pelham Bay Park, less than a mile from City Island.

2014 will be very first time legal recreational marijuana is sold anywhere in the world, after those Rocky Mountain High Colorado folks approved Amendment 64. Colorado opens the first global recreational pot industry, kicking off an international pot experiment. Marijuana retailers are expecting nearly $600 million in annual revenues.

In the past two days dozens have been killed in Russia. The latest killed 10 when an explosion ripped through a trolleybus in the second deadly blast in the Russian city of Volgograd, according to the Interfax news agency.

These explosions come a day after a suicide bomber killed at least 17 people in the main railway station of the southern Russian city.

The countdown is on with 40 days before Russia holds the Winter Olympics in the Black Sea resort city of Sochi.

A surface low will pass just to the southeast of Long Island by this evening and then this tracks into the Canadian Maritimes by Monday morning. High pressure then returns for the beginning of the week. A weak disturbance passes through on Tuesday. High pressure builds in to our north through the middle of next week. A coastal storm moves into the Mid-Atlantic region on Thursday, then tracks northeast into the Canadian Maritimes through Friday. High pressure then builds in through Saturday.