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Egypt: The Hidden Truth
To arrive at the "new" Cairo International Airport is to arrive, in reality, at terminal three—an optimistically shiny marble edifice commissioned at a cost of $347 million by Ahmed Shafik, the former minister of civil aviation, who became the former prime minister and a losing presidential candidate. Built by a Turkish contractor for a higher price than Istanbul's own airport expansion, the CIA is both deceptively functional and selectively used (it's reserved mainly for the domestic airline; most international airlines are banished to the old terminal one, referred to as "the hall" or "the old airport").
Although it has a state-of-the-art computerized system to deal with arrivals, the new airport stubbornly deploys several uniformed officers to triple-check what the computer has confirmed. Armed men glance speculatively at the traveler's coin-sized arrival stamp bearing the day's date and a small outline of an airplane, along with six mentions of "Egypt." Such is the logic of the country—an administration that has achieved supremacy in the creation of idle jobs. Duplicity is its mainstay.
Beyond the sliding glass doors of the terminal, and along the main road leading into the city, the establishments of a titanic and looming administration are everywhere: the Presidential Election Committee, the Technical College of the Armed Forces, the Presidential Palace, the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Investment, the National Accounting Bureau, the Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics, the National Information Center, the Legal Department of the Authority, the General Authority for Capital Market, the Military Judiciary Office, the Ministry of Planning, the Public Notary, and various ranks of intelligence offices. These buildings, with their gray façades, their rows of square windows, their sometimes palatial interiors concealed behind miles of wall, and the many and heavily armed and sometimes deceptively plainclothed guards that surround them, form the anatomy of Egyptian life. At the heart of the city, one of them—the Mugamma, the government's central office building—forms the conspicuous backdrop to Tahrir Square.
It is from within these highly placed institutions that information has leaked and swirled in recent weeks and since the revolution broke out in January 2011. We hear most about the military council—the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, or SCAF—which has been governing the country since Hosni Mubarak resigned. We also hear about the Americans, who had allegedly reached a deal that the council would cede power to the Islamists. Mohamed Morsi, the candidate of the Muslim Brotherhood, was rightly predicted to win the presidential election. Mubarak was said to be sick, in a coma, clinically dead; or the Mubaraks were in London; Morsi sold the Brotherhood out; the SCAF sold out Morsi's opponent, Ahmed Shafik, the prime minister appointed by the departing Mubarak; the country was on the brink of civil war.
Two days before the presidential election results were announced on June 24, Al-Dustor newspaper ran across its front page, in big, bold, black and red print, the headline "The Massacre of the Century," referring to the Muslim Brotherhood's alleged plan for Egypt, which supposedly called for assassinations and disorder. The paper cited intelligence sources and a secret meeting of the Brotherhood.
By the pool at the Gezira Sporting Club that morning, a group of retired army generals and high-ranking intelligence officers spoke with assurance of Shafik's coming win. The officer really in charge of the country, Field Marshal Mohamed Hussein Tantawi, commander in chief of the armed forces, "won't have it any other way," so it was said. Later that day, when I chatted with a former Egyptian ambassador to Pakistan, he vehemently contradicted them. "It will be Morsi, it's what the Americans want."
These speculations, stories spun by insider sources and cast as fact, the many armed—often young—men in the streets, the deceptive titles of commander of this or that, have been central to the daily life of this country of 82 million (official figure), or 91 million (speculated figure). It was, in the end, these official buildings, the efficient tedium of the line of command in one bureaucracy after another, that kept Egyptians—a sizable portion of them—going through the past eighteen months of upheaval.
It also kept them attentive, wondering what next, debating the different outcomes, shifting their alliances as predictions were circulated and spun. At the Foreign Ministry, a mid-career diplomat tells me that even with the removal of senior ministers, the "chain of production" continues: "You know what to do every day, down to the office boy who runs errands. You keep going." In the months without a president, El-Tahrir newspaper reported one day in June, the Presidential Diwan, or office, spent $48.5 million—$5 million more than its average annual expenditure. It kept going. The factories of the businessmen who were closely associated with the Mubaraks and were charged and convicted of crimes also keep going. I see one of those tycoons frequently at that same club where the generals sit by the poolside.
In a recent session of the short-lived Parliament's Planning and Budget Committee—short-lived because the Parliament that was elected by January 11, 2012, was dismissed by the military council on June 14—the matter of government employees was brought up for discussion. The committee had found that the total number of government employees had risen from 2.5 million in 1982–1983 to 5.4 million today, despite a hiring freeze imposed in 1999, when the number of employees was between 3 and 4.2 million, depending on whose count you choose to consider.
Of those, 300,000 were found to have been appointed under the current Cabinet, i.e., in the past few months. "We demand an explanation," one MP cried out, to no effect. The Parliament and its committees were dissolved before the matter could be investigated further, but if one were to dig a little deeper, one could discover the various studies showing that there were 5.7 million government employees in 2009, and closer to 7 million today.
Meeting with Ashraf Abdelwahab, the minister of state for administrative development, I asked about these numbers. He swiftly mentioned the figure seven, "or maybe twelve." Million? "Yes, but I don't know for sure. You know, nothing is sure. It's hard to come by accurate figures." I asked him about the agency called CAPMAS (the official source of statistical data and reports on Egypt for all state agencies and international organizations) and the National Intelligence Council (NIC), both a few doors down from the ministry on that same thoroughfare to and from the airport—"don't they have figures?"
As if to be polite about a naive question, he laughed, and the conversation moved on, to the grand task of his ministry, which is to decentralize government, reform the bureaucracy, weed out corruption, and install automation of public services. "That is, if the ministry survives." On January 30 of last year, when Ahmed Shafik was appointed prime minister by Mubarak, he decided that the ministry should be scratched off the government map. The following day, its dissolution was announced. "We were a liability," the minister said. "We had conducted studies on corruption and other sensitive topics, so it was decided that it would be better if we simply didn't exist; if we were wiped out." (Mubarak had ordered that these studies stay locked in a drawer.)
But where would they go, the employees of a system that guarantees permanent employment? For a period of fifty-three days last year during Shafik's time as prime minister and for some weeks after, the ministry was simply hidden from view—wedged in a low-ranking spot in the hierarchy of the Central Agency for Organization and Administration (CAOA). It was renamed an "administrative development department." "We were still there, working, doing what we do, operating on the full ministry budget, but nobody knew."
I asked the minister, as well, about the "chain of production." He laughed. "There is a chain, but it doesn't produce." He explained away the 300,000 new government employees ("maybe closer to 450,000, or even a million") as the result of pressure to hire. People were protesting at the gates of every ministry, so "we had to hire anyone who wanted a job last year. We were repeating the same mistake we've been making for decades, which is to use the administration to make angry people feel a bit more comfortable. It was a political decision." I asked him if he raised the problem of such hiring to the Cabinet. "I didn't exist then, it was when I was wiped out."
Some nights later, at dinner with an American friend who has served as a consultant to the government of Egypt since the 1980s, she threw up her hands when I mentioned new employees. "There isn't a single job description for anyone in government! And as for figures—it's not that there aren't figures, but that each ministry, each government body, has a different set of figures! They even have different maps! If you're lucky, like I was, you have access to the prime minister and you can get hold of either accurate figures, or an agreed-upon compromise of the various sets of figures."
I ventured from ministry to ministry and into the Nile Delta over the weeks leading up to and past the presidential elections. I met with ministers, desk clerks, town mayors, government office managers, and chatted in hallways with office boys and the women in government buildings who sell toilet paper on a case-by-case basis for a tip.
In some ministries, I was struck by the rectangular dust marks on walls that I took to indicate where Hosni Mubarak's picture once hung. "The pictures came down spontaneously, there was definitely no written order," a Foreign Ministry manager told me. "We never had Mubarak pictures here," a senior executive at the state media empire, Al-Ahram, told me. And when I pressed him: "Or maybe just pictures of the president with important journalists. The picture in the presidential palace came down by mistake, you know." When I had dinner with the veteran publisher and regime critic Hisham Kassem, I asked him about this. "In some cases they most certainly came down by court decree," he said.
On June 26, the day after my dinner with Hisham, and two days after the declaration that the Muslim Brotherhood candidate, Mohamed Morsi, had been elected president (he won with 51.7 percent of the vote, to Ahmed Shafik's 48.3 percent), Morsi's spokesperson announced that his picture should not be hung up in public offices or schools. And no congratulatory advertisements should be placed in newspapers either, please. "A written order will soon be issued." On my way to Al-Ahram's offices one afternoon later that week, I saw a portrait of Morsi go up anyway—at Abu Al Farag elementary school.
At the supermarket sponsored by the Armed Forces Club on 26th of July Street—commemorating the day in 1956 when Egypt seized the Suez Canal—people were anxiously buying goods on the morning of June 21, the day the election results were to be announced. I picked up a packet of sugar (which sells at four cents less than the price in regular supermarkets), a bottle of oil, and some flour (we were warned to stock up on "staple foods" and I wasn't sure what I should buy). Banks were closing early, some businesses had given employees the day off, government offices had emptied, and around noon, a memo began to circulate at Al-Ahram asking all staff members to be out of the building by 1 PM.
On Sunday, June 17—the second of the second two days of the election—the members of the ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces issued an annex to the constitutional declaration that was drafted and voted on last March, and later amended. The annex limits the president's powers, giving the SCAF the right of veto over the drafting of a new constitution, as well as legislative powers until a new Parliament is elected. The annex stated, moreover, that the SCAF remains responsible for the public budget, and it gave the right to appoint the head of the armed forces not to the elected president but to the SCAF itself. Both the Islamists and many in the opposition were outraged, calling it a "soft coup" and once again taking to the square.
Just days before, on June 14, in a double verdict issued minutes apart, the Supreme Constitutional Court had dissolved the recently elected, Islamist-dominated Parliament, calling it unconstitutional. The court had simultaneously announced that Ahmed Shafik was eligible to continue his run for president, despite a law banning high-ranking members of the former regime from public office. There was, on this Thursday morning, June 21, four days after the polls had closed, a fear that the Islamists, who had in the past demonstrated in Tahrir Square, would storm government buildings. There was fear of bloodshed. Everyone I know was on edge.


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When Jay Grossman and his business partners were approached by an investment group about starting a new style of restaurant, he knew that he wanted to have a place with a "Cheers" feel to it, a neighborhood location that was a far cry from the more elegant, upscale establishments that he lent his name to in the past.
"It's not a place to come on a Tuesday for a quick bite," he said recently of his other restaurants. " is; in this demographic, in this time, in this economy, in this world, that's what the formula is."
Loosely translating to "What fun" in the Costa Rican Spanish slang dialect that it imbues, the self-billed "cocina and tequila bar" held its grand opening February 21 with the .
"It's a place that's really meant to address the needs of the people that work in the area and live in the area," Grossman, also the restaurant's managing partner, said of the location on Union Turnpike in New Hyde Park.
The location was previously vacant after being left emptied by restaurants "The Royal Answer" and "Harper's" several years ago. Grossman and his group bought the property as it was unoccupied for several years and converted it to "Two," after his group's other locale, "Four," which is on Route 110 in Melville, which he also still owns.
"We got approached by an investment group that wanted to roll out a casual, fun concept across the East Coast – they wanted to do multi-unit – and they were coming to me to look for a concept and a location and I said to them 'I have a perfect spot – the one you're sitting in'," he said at the opening. "I really feel this area was craving a place that really could be an extension of the neighborhood and the home."
Grossman and his other partners, Ray Sidhom, John Guirguis and executive chef James McDevitt, whose resume includes Le Cirque in Manhattan, the title of "Best New Chef" by Food & Wine and a stint as a judge on "Top Chef" in addition to his work at "Four" for the past 5 years, have put a spin on the modern Mexican genre.
"It just was the next step for us," Grossman said. "This still has an exciting, fun experience as does 'Four.' We've kind of really tried to put a lot of thought into what's going to get a reaction out of people and really kind of have fun with dining."
While a private dining area for business people, Grossman says that they can appeal to all residents and families with value and accessible food in an atmosphere of "interesting" music "as opposed to the usual no-vocal classical background music that's just there."
The menu includes Queso Fundido, a fajita-style entree as well as chicken, steak and "Mexi-shrimp" with grits, a "Mexi-q" or Mexican barbecue served for two or more that is a combination of barbecue chicken, skirt steak and shrimp with sides that the entire table can share.
"There's always a common thread," he said, "and that's to have a really fun, worthwhile dining experience and value."


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Hey fellas, new member here.
Here's my problem:
Girlfriends truck (98 C1500 5.7 Vortec) has been an excellent truck. It now has 220,000 miles, mostly highway. The truck developed a small coolant leak about a year ago, it is from the intake manifold gasket (pretty sure it's original). Found it was leaking externally, to the front of the engine. No leakage to the oil, the oil stays very clean, no sign of contamination. I have been putting off the intake gasket replacement but now I think I need too...
The truck until recently used about a quart of oil in a thousand miles. Totally acceptable by my standards for something with this many miles. The last few months, the oil consumption has gone way up, probably a quart in 300 miles. It has also developed a misfire and I get a PO300 code (Cylinder 3 misfire). When I checked the spark plug in cylinder 3, it showed ashy deposits consistent with oil burning. I put in a hotter plug (one step up) and it didn't help much. Recently tried a spark plug non-fouler, it also didn't help much, still throws the code.
It does not smoke on startup. If it did it would make me think a valve seal on cylinder 3. My question is...could the intake manifold gasket have gotten so bad that it is the cause of the oil consumption? I have read where the original gaskets are so awful that they basically fall to pieces. I know I am going to have to replace the gasket but am hoping that I won't have to pull the heads also. Money is tight right now. Any thoughts or experiences with the intake causing oil consumption?
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Smalltown Poets
|Smalltown Poets
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|Georgia, US
|Christian rock
|Years active
|1996–2004, 2010–present
|Michael Johnston
Danny Stephens
Byron Goggin
Kevin Breuner
Miguel DeJesús
Smalltown Poets is a Christian rock band formed in 1996. It was formed in Tifton, Georgia by high school friends Michael Johnston (guitars/vocals), Danny Stephens (keyboards), and Byron Goggin (drums), along with (then) Nashville musicians Kevin Breuner (guitar), and Miguel DeJesus (bass).
The band started under the name Villanelle.
Smalltown Poets achieved recognition with their eponymous first album, released on Ardent Records in 1997. This release earned the band the first of its two Grammy nominations (Best Gospel Rock Album) and numerous Dove Award nominations. Despite line-up changes, the band stayed active for more than ten years, releasing three albums on Ardent Records and one on BEC Recordings.
Smalltown Poets went on hiatus several months after their fourth studio album called It's Later Than It's Ever Been, but regrouped in the fall of 2010 to begin production on a Christmas album due out in 2011 (co-produced and mixed by former Smalltown Poets drummer Matt Goldman). In anticipation of that full-length release, the band released a Christmas single in December 2010 titled "In the Bleak Midwinter."
The full-length project, Smalltown Poets Christmas, was released on Nov. 1st, 2011, on the band's own Friendly City Records label and is available on iTunes, Amazon.com, CDBaby.com, and other online media outlets.
In 2012, the Smalltown Poets' original band line-up released a digital EP, "Under the New Sun". The new release can be downloaded via a link on their Facebook page, or at CDBaby, Amazon.com, and iTunes.
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Smalltown Poets members[edit]
- Michael Johnston - vocals, guitars
- Danny Stephens - keyboards
- Byron Goggin - drums
- Kevin Breuner - guitars
- Miguel DeJesús - bass guitar
- Smalltown Poets (1997)
- Listen Closely (1998)
- Third Verse (2000)
- It's Later Than It's Ever Been (2004)
- In the Bleak Midwinter (single) (2010)
- Smalltown Poets Christmas (2011)
- Under the New Sun (EP) (2012)
Other projects[edit]
- Surfonic Water Revival (1998)


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What's 15-year-old rap hopeful (and Rev Run progeny) Diggy Simmons been up to since he gave Boothgoers What They Been Waiting For back in mid-May? Well, on the positive tip, he was chosen as a finalist for the Sucker Free Summit's Breakthrough Emcee of 2010; unfortunately, he's also in the midst of a nasty breakup, which he describes on this newly-leaked mixtape cut. Backed by the smooth keyboard, shuffling percussion and light synths of producer T Minus, Simmons confesses that he still finds himself Thinkin Bout his former girl constantly, and ponders whether he still has place in her heart and mind. The emcee may be young, but his heartbroken words ring sincere, and the smooth hook vocals of increasingly Booth-acclaimed rapper/singer/producer Bei Maejor only make the track's emotional appeal more persuasive. Whether or not Diggy Simmons manages to win back that special girl (here's hoping!), though, those who like what they're hearing can expect more high-quality music later this month, when the artist's AirBorne mixtape hits the 'net.
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->''"Oh please, Mandy. That didn't even look like us."''
-->--'''The Grim Reaper''', ''TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'', after a flashback to the pilot short
Long running series often have to experiment a little before they find their niche: sometimes there are concepts abandoned early on that were fascinating, because they were ''potentially'' good ideas back then, or just clash so much with the [[ToneShift later tone of the series]]. In short, the first installment is a 'prototype', like a pilot of a first episode.
If the series is improved for ''abandoning'' these elements, it often leads to a GrowingTheBeard moment. For something similar applied to individual characters, see CharacterizationMarchesOn. A specific sub-trope of this dealing with early installments resembling the real world is EarthDrift. When early characters disappear entirely with no explanations, that's ChuckCunninghamSyndrome (or even DroppedAfterThePilot, if it happens in the very first episode). Might be the result of {{Plot Tumor}}s, ArtEvolution and ContinuityDrift.
There will always be some fans who view the ''current'' incarnation of a series as TheyChangedItNowItSucks.
When this happens to ''themes'' that become popular after the fact because of a work, and are only actually codified elsewhere, it is a subtrope of UnbuiltTrope.
Compare NewFirstComics, LostInImitation, and AdaptationDisplacement. Contrast FirstInstallmentWins. When a character displays this, it's CharacterizationMarchesOn (or {{Flanderization}}, when it essentially happens in reverse). May be the OddballInTheSeries. See also MeetYourEarlyInstallmentWeirdness.
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* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness/LiveActionTV
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* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness/{{Machinima}}
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness/{{Magazines}}
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness/{{Music}}
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* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness/{{Radio}}
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness/{{Roleplay}}
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness/TabletopGames
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* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness/WesternAnimation
!!Other examples
* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0dyH8ZqYVU The first Chia Pet commercial]] lacks the famous "Ch-ch-ch-chia!"
* Creator/BillyMays had a comparatively more normal voice in his early commercials, as opposed to his trademark [[NoIndoorVoice exuberant delivery]].
* The first Advertising/HeadOn commercial didn't have "[=HeadOn=], apply directly to the forehead." three times. It was actually people discussing the product, ending with "Should I know about [=HeadOn=]?"
* Founder George Zimmer didn't even appear in the earliest Men's Wearhouse commercials, and even then his delivery was much more enthusiastic compared to the deep, gravelly voice he's better known by. [[CatchPhrase I guarantee it.]]
* The original Geico gecko commercials with the Gecko were all about the Gecko (voiced by Kelsey Grammer with an upper-crust accent) complaining about mistaken identity, with hundreds of people calling him when they were looking for an insurance company. Now, the Gecko is a Geico employee and speaks with a more working-class accent.
* You know Capital One's long-running ad campaign with the pillaging Vikings? When that campaign first started they were the ''bad'' guys - instead of Capital One, they represented the "other" guys with their unreasonable rates.
* [[Advertising/{{Vat19}} Vat19's]] earlier ads were more formal and less comedic in tone.
* In what is likely the first "[=McGruff=] the Crime Dog" PSA[[note]]The one that reminds viewers to lock their doors.[[/note]], he sounds more like Jack Keil's[[note]]He provides [=McGruff=]'s voice[[/note]] normal voice, though at some points he sounds more like would in later [=PSAs=]. Additionally, he didn't introduce himself at first, which is justified since he originally didn't have a name until about two years later (according to TheOtherWiki).
[[folder:Fan Fic]]
* Dr. Brainstorm's first few appearances in ''Fanfic/CalvinAndHobbesTheSeries'' had him with [[FishEyes unfocused]] gold eyes. He later gets GreenEyes (making him a SignificantGreeneyedRedhead).
** Speaking of ''The Series'', it starts out with rather mundane plots, and Calvin acted a lot more like he was in [[ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes the original strip]] - a hyperactive little kid. Eventually, he became a much calmer GadgeteerGenius (and even later on, TheChessmaster). He ''does'' get a brief CharacterCheck in "Invasion" thanks to LaserGuidedAmnesia, though.
** In Fanfic/TheCalvinverse as a whole, the earlier stories tend to be rather poorly written. It eventually starts improving by the point of ''Fanfic/RetroChill''. Creator/{{Swing123}} considers his [[Fanfic/CalvinAndHobbesTheMovie first]] [[Fanfic/CalvinAndHobbesIILostAtSea two]] stories in the verse to be {{Old Shame}}s, and has rewritten both of them (though he's more or less fine with [[Fanfic/CalvinAndHobbesIIIDoubleTrouble the third installment]]).
* A major example in [[http://kleinerkiller.deviantart.com/gallery/41037509 Yognapped]]: the original installment switched through plot conceits with no concern for the holes it caused, featured laughably one-dimensional villains, and had chapters less than half a page long. The major focus of the series -- [[spoiler: the conflict between the three gods and Lewis's slow descent into moral questionability]] -- didn't come up until halfway through the second installment. Cue [[{{Retcon}} retroactive rewriting]].
* ''[[FanFic/FriendshipIsMagicTheAdventuresOfSpike Friendship Is Magic: The Adventures of Spike]]'': The PreviouslyOn segments at the beginning of each chapter, and the stylized scene breaks, were both dropped at reader command after the first few chapters.
* ''Fanfic/SakiAfterStory'' has this in its first chapter, even though there are only two as of this writing. In the first chapter, mahjong is seemingly treated as a two-player game (Saki and Teru face each other[[note]]This is disregarding how, in canon, as Teru is her team's vanguard while Saki is her team's captain, they would never face each other in the team tournament[[/note]], with Saki winning 112,000 points to Teru's 110,000), and Saki and Nodoka are on a LastNameBasis, as opposed to the FirstNameBasis they adopted in the training camp between the prefecturals and the nationals, at the end of the first anime series.
* Fanfics in general fall into this - as is the case with professional authors. Many fanfic writers' earlier fanfics might not resemble their later fanfics in terms of plot or format. This is understandable as fanfic writers often get tips from reviewers on how to improve, and will often use them.
* Fairly noticeable in FanFic/TheVinylAndOctaviaSeries. The first story in the series is more or less a straight adventure story. Although there is comedy, the story itself is not one, unlike the rest of the series. There's no sexual tension between Vinyl and Octavia, and aside from a few mentionings of shipping, there is no hint that the two have feelings for one another. Finally, this story is around forty-thousand words long and spread out over multiple chapters, unlike the rest of the series, which are all one-shots (with the exception of ''Vinyl and Octavia Have Multiple Dates'', but that's still only two chapters and is in fact shorter than some of the other stories).
* ''FanFic/TheInfiniteLoops'' were codified by Saphroneth but made by Innortal. Thus, Innortal's loops will occasionally do things deemed impossible in later loops, which is usually HandWaved by the fact that they ''were'' the first loops and the restrictions didn't exist yet.
* ''Pinball/{{Corvette}}'' was Creator/GeorgeGomez's first pinball machine he designed and also the only one to have an upper flipper. Subsequently, he made sure all of his designs had only the two flippers on the bottom and no more.
* The earliest machines from Creator/{{Stern}} had more pronounced PinballScoring, with experienced players scoring into the hundreds of millions of points or even billions, a holdover from Creator/{{SEGA}}'s way of doing things (as Stern began with SEGA Pinball's staff). Over time, scoring on Stern's tables scaled down; with most games in the tens of millions of points for Stern's most recent games. In addition, Stern's earliest machines had loose rules, with modes running all at once and no obvious objective other than to keep playing. It wasn't until ''Pinball/TheSimpsonsPinballParty'' that Stern's games had clearly defined modes and goals.
[[folder:Stand-up Comedy]]
* Comedian Creator/JeffFoxworthy had several albums' worth of material from the 1980s, none of which were released until after his breakthrough in 1994 with ''You Might Be a Redneck If '' The 1980s albums show him to be far more vulgar, and somewhat less reliant on his now-trademark Southern humor. Very early on, he didn't even have his famous "If you ''X'', you might be a redneck" one-liners; instead, his original trademark joke was a story that worked in every letter of the alphabet ("A there, dudes! I'm gonna tell you a story you might not B-lieve. 'Cause you C, it's about this friend of mine, he's from D-troit ").
* Creator/LarryTheCableGuy's affected Southern drawl (he's actually from Nebraska) [[VocalEvolution sounded radically different]] on his first major-label album, ''Lord, I Apologize'': it was higher and less raspy than it is now. It was also his only major-label album to feature a "Toddler Mail" segment (a carryover from his independent days), and the only one besides his Christmas album to feature a musical track (the title track, which features Larry singing while Mark Tremonti backs him on guitar).
* Billy Connolly's now-famous swearing rarely extends past the word "jobby" in his early albums. One usage of the F-Word even gets bleeped out! [[/folder]]
[[folder:Real Life Businesses]]
* Early J. C. Penney stores were far smaller than they are now. They sold only clothes, and were about the size that a dollar store would be today. No salons, bedding, or jewelry, not even the now-defunct auto parts and service, appliances, or sporting goods.
** Going the other way, Sears and many other department store chains used to have all of the aforementioned lines, along with many other now-defunct features such as candy counters and even full restaurants. Nowadays, most department stores focus only on "softlines" such as clothing, bedding, jewelry, and footwear. Outside the "discount" department stores (e.g., UsefulNotes/{{Walmart}}), Sears is the only department store left that still sells "hardlines" like electronics, appliances, and tools (though depending on region and store, some can still sell "small-hardline" goods like countertop kitchen appliances).
* Originally, f.y.e. stores were much larger, like Tower Records or Media Play (both now defunct). Some of them even sold books. Also, they had a [[http://paris1972.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/f1010007.jpg bright yellow logo]]. In 2001, the parent company began phasing out the superstores in favor of rebranding all of its smaller, often mall-based stores (including Record Town, Camelot Music, Strawberries, The Wall, Disc Jockey, and Coconuts) under the f.y.e. banner, at which point the logo was changed to a blue "blob" with "f.y.e." in white letters.
* The first McDonalds stores didn't have seating or drive-thru windows. The most familiar design with the red Mansard roofs didn't come along until the early 1970s, generally staying that way until it was replaced in the late 2000s by the [[FanNickname Giant Eyebrow of]] [[DoomyDoomsOfDoom Doom]]. Very early on, they served hot dogs instead of hamburgers (and, even after the burgers came along, roast-beef sandwiches and fried chicken for a while, too).
* Abercrombie & Fitch was originally a mail-order sporting goods and sportswear store dating back to the late 19th century. After languishing in the 1970s and 1980s under the ownership of sporting goods retailer Oshman's, it was reinvented in the 1990s as a teen clothing store by The Limited, who later spun it off.
* The Gap family of brands went through this entirely. Gap originally sold jeans, brand-name clothing, and albums before becoming a more upscale private-label brand in 1986. Banana Republic originally sold safari clothing before Gap bought it and {{Re Tool}}ed it into a luxury clothing retailer. Sister chain Old Navy was originally far larger and called Gap Warehouse.
* [=Walmart=]:
** Early stores were about one-fourth the size they are now, with no auto repair, pharmacy, jewelry, restaurant, or groceries in sight. For many years, their logo used an old West-style font. There was no Sam's Club, either. And going a step further, early supercenters were called "hypermarts" that were practically entire shopping malls compressed into one store they even had entire food courts. Only a few hypermarkets were built before the FlawedPrototype was tweaked into the "supercenter" format of today.
** For many years, those that had restaurants almost exclusively had [=McDonald's=] or Radio Grill; they didn't start partnering with Subway until 2007. You might still find the odd one with a [=McDonald's=] still in it, or a one-off with some other fast food chain instead.
** In the 90s Walmart traded on American Patriotism by proudly proclaiming that everything they sold was Made in the USA. When the fact that this was patently untrue became plain and led to lawsuits, they dropped that angle and focused even more on cheaply made overseas products, deciding to focus on how much cheaper their products cost than other stores.
* Originally, most UsefulNotes/{{Kmart}} stores were paired with Kmart Foods supermarkets. This was phased out in the 1970s.
* Early Cracker Barrel stores had gas station/convenience stores, thus making them more akin to Stuckey's. They ditched the gas pumps during the 1970s oil crisis and focused on the restaurant/gift shop hybrid.
* Originally, Kentucky Fried Chicken was not sold at its own restaurants; instead, other restaurants could pay for the franchise rights to sell chicken made with Colonel Sanders's recipe. The first de-facto KFC opened in Utah in the sixties.
* Denny's was originally a doughnut shop called Danny's.
* Many early shopping malls were open-air concourses. They often featured a high number of service tenants (shoe repair, barber shop, etc.), a dime store, a supermarket (sometimes two), a drugstore, and maybe ''one'' department store. Overall, it probably would've had only 30 or 40 stores. One of the first malls to resemble what they look like now was Southdale in Minnesota, although even ''it'' had the aforementioned lineup. Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, the "dumbbell" mall (a huge concourse with a major department store at either end) became the default layout, and particularly in colder northern climates, more malls became enclosed. As malls grew larger, supermarkets and drugstores became less practical tenants (why would you buy groceries at a place with 100 other stores?), while dime stores lost footing to discount stores such as UsefulNotes/{{Kmart}} (which rarely anchored malls except in smaller towns).
* Samsung, best known for electronics like cell phones and televisions, got started selling noodles. It would not move to electronics until 30 years later.
[[folder:Real Life Sport]]
* In their earliest form, the modern OlympicGames were a fairly low-key affair. They weren't heavily promoted (since most people couldn't follow them, with even ''radio'' barely existing in 1896) and competitions were open to any amateur athletes who wanted to try their luck at the games--professional athletes were actually discouraged from competing, since they would have had an unfair advantage over the common citizenry (or, more cynically, to restrict the games to "amateurs" rich enough to pay for their own training without endorsements).
** The 1900 and 1904 Olympics, in Paris and St. Louis respectively, were held as appendages to World's Fairs being held in those cities at the same time. They both took place over a series of months and were very low-key affairs. The St. Louis Games attracted very few international athletes, allowing Americans to win most of the medals.
** The Ancient Olympics. They had no female competitors, staff, or audience, they were explicitly pagan in nature, only a few Greek city-states participated in them, and they were performed in the nude. Instead of medals, people got wreaths.
* The first {{FIFA World Cup}} in 1930 was entered by just 13 teams. The first winners, Uruguay, subsequently skipped the next two Tournaments and didn't play again until 1950 (when they won again!)
** As recently as the 1950 tournament, it was common for teams to drop out more or less at the last minute with no possibility of FIFA being able to find a replacement.
** In 1954, the 16 teams were split into four groups of four, as would be the case for the first round at the finals until 1982. But instead of playing all the teams in their group once, there were two seeded teams who played against two unseeded teams.
** In qualifying for the 1950 and 1954 tournaments, the 'Home Nations' of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland (all of Ireland until 1950) were given two finals places between them, whereas Africa and Asia, two entire ''continents'' got just one between them.
* The {{European Championship}} was first held in 1960. Until 1980 when it began to expand, the tournament finals were a relatively brief affair, featuring just four teams and four matches and lasting no more than 5 or 6 days. The small scale nature of this also meant that rather than choosing the hosts years in advance and granting them automatic qualification to the finals, the qualification process was held first, and the host country was picked from the four that had qualified.
** The competition was not called the European Championship until 1968. In 1960 and 1964 it was called the European Nations Cup
** The competition nickname of "Euro (Year)" was not used until 1996.
* Until 1946, the England football[[note]]What the U.S. calls "soccer"[[/note]] team had no manager. The team was instead picked by a 'Selection Committee' chosen by the FA, who would also often send a prestigious English club manager (usually different every time) with the team to offer tactical advice. In 1946, this was made into a permanent position and Walter Winterbottom was appointed the first England manager. However, he still couldn't pick the team; that was left to the committee. In 1962 Winterbottom resigned and the FA offered Ipswich Town manager Alf Ramsey the job. He accepted on the condition that he could pick the team. The FA agreed, originally seeing this as an experiment that could be deemed a failure if Ramsey didn't get results. Ramsey went on to win the World Cup with England in 1966, and the practice stuck.
** Ironically, to this day Ramsey is the only England manager with a better win:game ratio than the Selection Commitee.
* The first playoff defeat for MichaelJordan wasn't to Larry Bird's Celtics or the "Bad Boys" Pistons, but to... the Milwaukee Bucks led by Sidney "Sid the Squid" Moncrief, whom subsequently Jordan [[http://www.nba.com/history/players/moncrief_bio.html praised heavily]].
* Even after the Ultimate Fighting Championship began, becoming the codifier for MixedMartialArts, the sport developed a great deal during the early years. The very first UFC event was a one-man, single elimination tournament, without any gloves or rounds, and almost no rules. As the years went by, many new rules were adopted until the Unified Rules of Mixed Martial Arts were adopted, which became the industry standard.
[[folder:Real Life Other]]
* Your life is this, you can now dress, feed, and care for yourself, but back then you depended on your parents for everything. You also think way differently now then you did when you were a child, or even a few years ago.
* Due to the strange path evolution often ends up taking, the evolutionary history of a number of groups can appear like this.
** Vertebrates, which include most of the larger creatures to have existed on the planet, started as small creatures with no jaws. (Jawless fish exist today, but only a few species out of the tens of thousands of modern day vertebrates.)
** The earliest dinosaurs weren't particularly large, starting as medium sized or small two legged creatures.
** Earlier cephalopods had shells, although the transition to modern non-shelled types took place over some time.
** The [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambrian_explosion Cambrian Explosion]] had a number of unusual creatures and forms that aren't found much today.
** After several mass extinctions, the first few creatures to diversify didn't resemble later types of animals that would later become more common.
* As far as ''humanity'' is concerned, the initial peoples did not build their own houses, instead residing in natural caves. They often painted in them. These paintings feature animals no longer around today. Law did not exist either.
* When Mexico declared independence from Spain in 1821, it was intended to be a monarchy with an Emperor. This arrangement lasted less than a year.
* The United States government under the Articles of Confederation, the first national government structure following independence from Great Britain. The US originally had no president or Supreme Court, and national decisions were made by a single-housed Congress. The former colonies, now States, often behaved more like autonomous states, and no national currency existed. The national capital moved around ''a lot''(sometimes multiple times in the course of a year), but was usually in New Jersey, Philadelphia, or New York City, because Washington D.C. was not yet built. It wasn't until the ratification of the Constitution that the US government would be remotely recognizable to a modern American.
* It's common to put up faces and guard bits of yourself when meeting new people, causing any early memories of spending time with your friends or acquaintances before you understand them to be this.
* The 1787 American cents, the first official coins of the United States of America, are a numismatic example of this trope. They lack any of the familiar American icons or mottoes and could easily be mistaken for foreign coins (at least if the faintly-embossed "United States" on the reverse was too worn to make out). They feature a sun and sundial on the obverse and a chain of thirteen rings on the reverse. Laurels and Lady Liberty weren't seen on nationally-circulated coins until 1793. Eagles, stars, and "E pluribus unum" first appeared two years after that.
* Originally, the Statue of Liberty was brown-gold, likely with green splotches. Now it's all green, due to the copper accumulating a thick layer of verdigris.
* This trope also applies to the original World Trade Center (Twin Towers; 04/04/1973 - 09/11/2001) which once stood in Lower Manhattan of New York City. Upon being completed in 1973, the North Tower was equipped with an [[http://www.wired.com/images/article/full/world_trade_center_1970_630px.jpg off-center temporary antenna]] for around 5 years before the [[http://img1.photographersdirect.com/img/26318/wm/pd2357281.jpg more familiar looking 360 ft. antenna]] was erected in 1978.
* Every December (specifically the Monday following the second Wednesday in December) after a U.S. Presidential election, the members of the Electoral College assemble in their respective state capitals to decide who won the election. Or, rather, they met to ''decide'' it once or twice. When the constitution was written, people didn't actually vote for a President; they voted for an Elector, who was expected to exercise his own judgement in actually choosing who to place his vote for. Ever since, however, Electors have all been sworn to support a single candidate each, making the Electoral College a simple layer of abstraction in voting for the President mostly-directly. (Only in a few US states do the ballots even show the name of the elector along with the name of the candidate they're pledged for.) The EC vote is such a formality that many US voters don't even realize it exists, and it's generally forgotten entirely except when a) a candidate gets more popular votes but loses because he didn't get enough electoral votes (most recently in 2000), or b) "faithless electors" vote for someone other than who his/her state's voters picked.
* Similarly, U.S. political party conventions were initially serious affairs where elected delegates chose a candidate according to their own judgement. Now the candidate is determined before the convention with a series of statewide primaries, and the convention is simply a pompous "coronation" ceremony for the winner.
* Picasso's early paintings, [[https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/9c/Gar%C3%A7on_%C3%A0_la_pipe.jpg while quite weird]] [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Old_guitarist_chicago.jpg in their own right]], look little like the cubist work he is remembered for.
* The first three Creator/CirqueDuSoleil shows, including their breakthrough hit ''Theatre/LeCirqueReinvente'', had traditional one-ring circus staging, going through one self-contained segment at a time with little thought to thematic bridges beyond a loose "whimsical-circus-star-for-a-day" conceit expressed mostly in the opening and closing sequences. Starting with their fourth show ''Theatre/NouvelleExperience'', the ring and curtain at the back were eliminated from the staging and the thematic throughlines of each show became much more detailed. Performers were encouraged to create distinctive characters for themselves, and the resultant interactions between the characters helped informed how one act flowed into another, resulting in a far more theatrical approach to the circus format that came to define the company. Aestethically, the early shows also have simpler, less surreal costuming and music than later shows do (musically the Cirque shows evolve significantly with #5, ''Saltimbanco'').
* The SovietUnion's [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Economic_Policy New Economic Policy]], in which small-scale private enterprise was allowed for 7 years in the 1920s.
** Russia had a non-communist, democratic government for eight months in 1917, between the February Revolution (which overthrew the Czar) and the October Revolution (when Lenin and the communists took over). The two revolutions are usually conflated together in the popular imagination.
* The universe directly after the big bang was a super-hot, super-dense miasma of particles, compared to the almost entirely empty cold vacuum it is now. Even the four fundamental forces were all just one "superforce".
* During the first two Space Shuttle missions the external fuel tank was painted white, to match the color scheme of the shuttle and booster rockets. From the third mission on, NASA realized that nobody cared that the fuel tank was a different color, and wanting to save money on fuel (paint is surprisingly ''heavy'', and in spaceflight every kilogram counts) and paint, left the reddish-brown color everyone recognizes.
* The earliest versions of MicrosoftWindows were simply built as a GUI alternative to MS-DOS, with little intention on being as popular as it would turn out. Versions before 95 lacked the iconic taskbar and start menu that would define it many years later. Instead it included the MS-DOS executive (later retooled into the Program Manager), which was a window that included the main programs, and when it was closed the computer would shut down. Finally, the minimize-maximize-close buttons in the top right are entirely missing, replaced with a minus button on the top left that triggers a drop down menu with these types of controls (this button has managed to survive into modern versions, but the menu is now triggered when you click the top right of the menu with no button, probably to prevent DamnYouMuscleMemory).
* The Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade has adopted a great many televised formats since the era of television began. During the 1980s and early '90s, for example, it was known as "The All-American Thanksgiving Day Parade" and was actually ''four'' parades shown more or less simultaneously: the traditional New York City parade; a Hawaiian-themed parade in Honolulu; a Disneyland parade in Anaheim, California; and a parade in Toronto, Ontario (Canada). Starting in the early 1990s, the parade broadcast took on the format it has today: a New York-only affair, and more of a media extravaganza than a parade, with Broadway musical numbers performed in the street in front of the department store and many guest appearances by celebrities (some of which are completely gratuitous). The festivities also once included an ice show performed at the Wollman Rink in Central Park, but that seems to have ended long ago.
* The [[http://www.biblebee.org/ National Bible Bee]], a Scripture memory and knowledge competition, has a big case of this. The way it is now, its defining traits include the Sword Study (an extremely in-depth study on a single, very short book of the Bible), the "Bible Bee box" of materials (including cards with all the passages on them), and a Nationals competition with lots of family-friendly fun. The very first year, 2009, you had to study no less than ''six'' books of the Bible, all of them quite long, on a very non-in-depth level. There was no "Bible Bee box" - it was up to you to print out the cards yourself. And the Nationals competition took place in a hotel better suited for guys on business trips than vacationing families, featuring such wonders as weighted tables with snacks in jars on them that charges you the cost of the product if you pick up anything (and the prices aren't exactly competitive - i.e. eight dollars for gummy bears). There's a lot more than that, though, such as all sorts of format changes and the number of verses (it's been changed around over the years, but the first year the highest age division had to memorize ''1,500'' verses).
* In its first year, the IgNobelPrizes gave out three of its awards to fictitious people they made up JustForPun. Since then, that concept has been dropped; all awards are given out for real events.


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"The American" is a painfully slow adult movie masquerading as a thriller, but playing more like a finely-tuned character study.
George Clooney never smiles and rarely speaks as a melancholy assassin hiding out in Italy with hopes of retiring. One problem: Everyone he meets eventually dies, and so the reluctant killer falls for a local prostitute, played well by Violante Placido.
"The American" is well-acted, even well-made, but that doesn't matter if you are easily bored or have a short attention span. This is a very odd film, because the ad campaign says the opposite.
Not much happens in this R-rated brood-fest other than long stretches with almost no dialogue or music, and an occasional chase scene.
Every frame of "The American" speaks of European cinema; slightly existential, stark in nature, and filled with foreshadowing. It will test your patience, and just might make you think.
You'll either run from the theater in revolt or embrace its minimalist approach.
Both responses are correct.
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Imagine this next week on Raw HHH and Stephanie come out and say Daniel Bryan will be out for two months and they have to vacate the title. They announce there will be a number one contenders battle royal to face Kane at Payback. Out comes Vince to a huge pop and he says we're not gonna do that. He says he has brought someone back who has a score to settle with the authority. He says this is what's best for business out comes C.M. Punk to a huge pop.
Huge match made in C.M. Punk's home town of Chicago. One last moment for C.M. Punk one last title reign for a month. Then if Punk doesn't resign you can have HHH screw him and take the title. If he resigns you can have Punk vs. Bryan at Summerslam if Bryan's back then.


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Overcoming Weak Entrepreneurial Infrastructures for Academic Spin-Off Ventures
AbstractWe discuss the characteristics of academic "spin-off policies" in environments outside of high tech clusters and where technology transfer and entrepreneurship infrastructures have been weak. We explore whether the policies could explain the lack of growth potential of spin-off ventures that have repeatedly observed. We studied the case of Belgium, gathering data from nine of spin-off policies in the eight largest academic institutions and in 47 firms. We propose that spin-off policies in academic institutions significantly affect the growth potential of ventures.
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- Rasmussen, Einar & Borch, Odd Jarl, 2010. "University capabilities in facilitating entrepreneurship: A longitudinal study of spin-off ventures at mid-range universities," Research Policy, Elsevier, vol. 39(5), pages 602-612, June.
- Mike Wright & Evila Piva & Simon Mosey & Andy Lockett, 2009. "Academic entrepreneurship and business schools," The Journal of Technology Transfer, Springer, vol. 34(6), pages 560-587, December.
- Yusuf, Shahid, 2008. "Intermediating knowledge exchange between universities and businesses," Research Policy, Elsevier, vol. 37(8), pages 1167-1174, September.
- Landry, Rejean & Amara, Nabil & Rherrad, Imad, 2006. "Why are some university researchers more likely to create spin-offs than others? Evidence from Canadian universities," Research Policy, Elsevier, vol. 35(10), pages 1599-1615, December.
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- Elisa Salvador, 2011. "Are science parks and incubators good "brand names" for spin-offs? The case study of Turin," The Journal of Technology Transfer, Springer, vol. 36(2), pages 203-232, April.
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- Hsu, David H. & Roberts, Edward B. & Eesley, Charles E., 2007. "Entrepreneurs from technology-based universities: Evidence from MIT," Research Policy, Elsevier, vol. 36(5), pages 768-788, June.
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The American League West race is close enough in mid-July that it's easy to envision a photo finish between the Oakland A's and Los Angeles Angels. Entering play on Saturday, Oakland holds a 2 1/2 game lead over LA, with the Seattle Mariners lurking in the distance at eight games back. It's a race that, as the old baseball cliches suggests, could come down to one game, one play, and even one pitch, to decide a winner.
With that in mind, there was an awfully big pitch during Friday night's battle between the A's and Mariners at Safeco Field. With the tying run at third, two outs and a 3-2 count on Oakland's Nick Punto, Seattle closer Fernando Rodney pumped in a fastball that at first glance appeared to be up and off the plate. Punto agreed with that assessment and laid off the pitch thinking he'd drawn a game-extending walk. However, home plate umpire James Hoye rang him up to end the game and give Seattle a 3-2 win.Sat, Jul 127:10 PM PDTOakland at SeattlePreview Game
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For those who may not be familiar with the Futures Game, the concept is exactly what the name implies. 50 of the game's brightest prospects will be present and divided into teams representing the U.S. and the World (view full rosters here), and for nine innings they'll have an opportunity to showcase their skills on a national stage.
For many diehard fans, it's actually the most anticipated event of the week. With an impressive list of alumni that includes greats such as Justin Verlander, Felix Hernandez, Miguel Cabrera and Mike Trout, it's clear the Futures Game isn't just about hype. It always delivers on its promise to provide a sneak peak at tomorrow's stars.
If you're not sold on the Futures Game concept or were already planning on watching the World Cup Finals instead, here are five good reasons to change the channel to MLB Network on Sunday afternoon. We promise, you won't regret it.
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The Milwaukee Brewers are going through their toughest stretch of the season, having lost 10 of their last 11 games. But none of that matters on Saturday. Not following the news that shortstop Jean Segura's 9-month-old son, Janniel, died on Friday in the Dominican Republic.
Brewers manager Ron Roenicke made the heart-wrenching announcement prior to Milwaukee's game against the St. Louis Cardinals on Saturday, but was unable to offer many specific details.
"He was sick," Roenicke said of Segura's son. "(Segura) was on the phone yesterday before the game, and they thought he was OK and getting better. I don't really know much more than that.
"I don't know if it's been (going on) a while. Saying that, it may have been a couple days. I don't really know."
Roenicke says Segura has been placed on the bereavement list and is already traveling back home to be with his family. The team will give him as much time as he needs to grieve and come to grips with an unspeakable and unexpected tragedy.
Billy Hamilton avoids tag with acrobatic leap and incredible diveMark Townsend at Big League Stew7 hrs ago
The "Human Highlight Film" nickname that once belonged to NBA Hall of Famer Dominique Wilkins may need to come out of retirement. Cincinnati Reds rookie Billy Hamilton is staking his claim to assume that title on an almost nightly basis, and if so given threatens to take it to all new heights.
That's not hype. That's not overstating his speed, quickness or athleticism. That's just truth. And if you don't believe it, perhaps you should check out his slick baserunning move on Friday night that turned an easy out into a scintillating bunt single.
It happened on the first pitch Hamilton saw leading off the first inning. Hamilton's gameplan was to push the bunt past Pittsburgh's left-handed pitcher Jeff Locke on the first base side, which he was able to do. However, he bunted the ball way too hard, which allowed first baseman Gaby Sanchez to scoop it up and run to the line for an easy tag.
Twins' fan who once shaved Joe Mauer's jersey into back hair now supports Brian DozierMark Townsend at Big League Stew16 hrs ago
He's back!
The traveling Minnesota Twins fan who once made headlines for shaving Joe Mauer's name and No. 7 into his back hair, jersey style, has returned to the national spotlight. This time around, he's showing his support for shortstop Brian Dozier, who on Monday night will represent the Twins during the Home Run Derby.
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When we first saw the fan in 2011 he was in Milwaukee taking in an interleague game against the Brewers. He also made an appearance at Kauffman Stadium in Kansas City in 2012 reppin' Mauer. On Friday, he ventured to Coors Field to watch as the Twins fell to the Rockies 6-2. Probably not the result he was looking for, but, hey, at least his guy Dozier had a nice game with a single, double and walk.
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The walls have been slowly closing in around the Milwaukee Brewers this month, and they certainly won't feel any more comfortable in their surroundings following Friday's painful 7-6 loss to the St. Louis Cardinals.
The Brewers seized control of the game early, jumping out to a 6-0 lead in the second inning against returning Cardinals starter Joe Kelly, but the resilient Redbirds started pecking away with two runs in the fourth on Matt Adams' two-run homer. In the sixth, they plated four more runs. Kolten Wong led off the inning with a solo blast, while Jhonny Peralta added another two-run shot to even things up. Then in the ninth, Matt Holliday delivered the knockout punch with a solo home run off All-Star closer Francisco Rodriguez.
It's the type of win the Cardinals have become known for. At a time when they could be reeling – following the loss of Yadier Molina – they come off the deck fighting again until the final out.
Masahiro Tanaka issues apology to Yankees, fans following elbow diagnosisMark Townsend at Big League Stew23 hrs ago
The New York Yankees will be without Masahiro Tanaka for at least six weeks after he was diagnosed with a partially torn ligament in his elbow on Thursday, and no one feels worse about that fact than Tanaka himself.
On Friday, the 25-year-old right-hander, who signed a seven-year, $155 million deal in the offseason, did something we rarely see in professional sports. He actually issued an apology to the Yankees organization, his teammates and the fans for getting injured. More specifically, he apologized for not being there to fight with them during what will undoubtedly be a difficult stretch.
"As recently announced from the team, I will be going through some treatment and rehab on my injured elbow over the next several weeks. I give everything I have every time I take the ball. With that, I also know that there will always be a risk of injury when playing this game that I love. Right now I feel that the most important thing for me is to keep my head up, remain focused on the task at hand and devote all my energy into healing the injury in order to come back strong.
St. Lucie Mets will trade season ticket for LeBron James' Heat jerseyBig League Stew1 day ago
Before the shock and anger of LeBron James returning to the Cleveland Cavaliers could even settle in down in South Florida, the St. Lucie Mets — Single-A affiliate of the New York Mets — were announcing a promotion that could help sooth the souls of angry Heat fans, at least through the end of baseball season.
According to a team press release, Heat fans who come to Tradition Field over the next week will have an opportunity to trade in their LeBron James jerseys or T-shirt jerseys for a St. Lucie Mets season ticket. That means access to all 25 of their remaining games this season, as well as a Mets T-shirt to help replace the LeBron item in your wardrobe.
Not a bad deal at all.
Heck, even if you're not a Heat fan, it might not be a bad business decision to find a marked down LeBron item at a local business — you know it's only a matter of time — just to trade in for the promotion. St. Lucie premium box seats run for $8.50, so if you attend just ten games and maybe flip another half dozen at face value, you'd come out well ahead.
Rangers catcher Geovany Soto arrested on misdemeanor marijuana chargesMike Oz at Big League Stew1 day ago
The Texas Rangers' disappointing season took another hit this week when injured catcher Geovany Soto was arrested on misdemeanor marijuana charges.
Soto, was stopped for speeding at 10 p.m. Wednesday in Grapevine, Tx., and that's when officers discovered marijuana in his car. Soto had less than two ounces, according to the Dallas Morning News, and was accordingly charged with a misdemeanor. Authorities said Soto was cooperative. He was later released on $500 bail.
Soto and the Rangers both released statements Friday. We'll start with Soto:
"I was stopped by Grapevine Police on Wednesday night. I am embarrassed and would like to apologize to my family, the Rangers organization, and our fans that I was taken in on this charge," Soto said in a written statement. "Because this is an ongoing case, I cannot discuss this matter any further at this time."
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LeBron James is returning to Cleveland and the Indians are pretty stokedMike Oz at Big League Stew1 day ago
The Cleveland Indians were playing the New York Yankees on Thursday night, and no matter what American city you live in, it's always a big deal when the Yankees come to town.
But at least a couple Indians fans were more interested in a guy who wasn't even there — NBA star LeBron James. LeBron-mania was bubbling in Cleveland earlier that day amid rumors that a big announcement was coming. That didn't happen. As we know, it came Friday morning. LeBron was going home. So imagine how excited these guys in the Cavs jerseys are right now.


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Here we go again folks. The city has come up with another plan to burden the tax payers, this one being a new parks plan. They will discuss it, give it a name, then present it to the people of Enid to vote on.
Don't worry or bother yourselves to go out and vote to say no against it, though. They will only rename it, magically come up with the money from somewhere else and proceed anyway.
Sound familiar? First the Gateway to Enid, then it changed to the Enid Renaissance Project. The only difference this time is we don't have a mayor that wants a key to a bulldozer so he can tear down Convention Hall himself.
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Broccoli soup is not only a great tasting dish, but also one of my favorite ways to get move vegetable into my diet. While I more than happy to have a couple broccoli florrets on the plate, I find them a bit boring. But cooked in this soup, along with a few other ingredients, the broccoli takes on more complexity and flavor.
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