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Morgan Bowman operates a river cruise with a difference; jumping salt water crocodiles.
In the 'top end' of Australia not far from Kakadu National Park (World Heritage listed area) is the Adelaide River, home to the largest of all living reptiles numbering between 100,000 + 200,000 that grow six meters PLUS weighing up to 1300kg.
These prehistoric behemoths are the most feared animal on this continent - Great White Sharks come in a close second in most Aussie's 'shitballs' scale.
You cannot get ANY closer to these beasts in the wild (unless your having a really bad day) Morgan's cruise is like no other - viewing the croc's amongst their wild habitat, up really really close, simply a jaw dropping experience. The bloke in the red cap at 2:36 confirms this.
Large adult saltwater crocodiles eat kangaroos, wild boar, dingos, goannas, birds, domestic livestock, pets, humans, water buffalo and even sharks. Some bear the scars of their encounters - the croc @ 0:55 is missing his front right leg!
No visit to Darwin / Kakadu National Park / The Northern Territory is complete without Morgan's unique MONSTER jumping croc cruise;
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Bondi Beach NYE 2011/12 SHORETHING music festival
'SHORETHING' is a music festival held on the sands of Bondi Beach, Sydney Australia featuring international artists and DJ's every New Year's Eve.
This year Snoop Dog, Calvin Harris and Pendulum played to a sell out crowd of 15,000 people celebrating the new year on Australia's most famous beach: BONDI.
The aim of this short film was capturing the positive intergration of the event into the local Bondi environment showing stage build, event night and expeditious bump out of all equipment post event through time lapse & behind-the-scenes motion video.
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Music: 'Smokebelch' The Sabres of Paradise
'Feel so close' Calvin Harris
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No other festival in the Southern Hemisphere illuminates a city quite like Vivid Sydney.
As the festival of light, music and ideas, Vivid Sydney flicks on the ultimate light switch and ignites the city with spectacular colours.
It features the lighting of the Sydney Opera House, which sees Utzon's iconic sails transformed into a spectacular living canvas with Vivid LIVE co-curator Laurie Anderson putting her own mark on Sydney's most recognised landmark. Now in its second year, it's a harbourside artwork that's grabbed the world's attention!
From the 27th May through till 21st June the people of Sydney were treated to a wonderful journey of projection and imagination with incredible lighting patterns beamed onto iconic buildings around the CBD that when sped up, into a timelapse sequence, gives the festival an entire new dimension.
This visual story was shot over the entire festival period using the latest camera technology from Canon - the 1D Mark IV DSLR and a variety of Canon L-series lenses.
The projections were expertly done by well known Sydney based projection company The Electric Canvas.
There was no shortage of Sydney locals and tourists alike actively capturing the festival from every possible angle in a variety of different ways - still photography & video being the most popular.
No one I could see was shooting time lapse sequences which, combined with the magic imagery being projected onto various buildings and structures around town including the world famous Sydney Opera House, I believed would generate some very interesting imagery.
Vivid Sydney 2010 is a visual story brought to you by local cinematographer Marcus O'Brien from Indigo Zoom Productions. Hope you enjoy it!
If you do like it - press that LIKE icon in the top right hand corner - the more people who share the Vivid Sydney 2010 visual experience the better next year's event will be!!! Please also feel free to leave a comment as feedback is always welcomed.
Forward this link on so friends and family both in Australia and abroad can also share this wonderful Sydney Festival experience.
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Music: Alpha State - Album Mix
Artist: Marcus Schulz
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PARKLIFE 2012 music festival mid-tour hype reel
The very first music festival of the 2011/12 Australian season, PARKLIFE, just wound up their national tour culminating in a fantastic show in Adelaide set amongst the beautiful botanical gardens in pristine sunny conditions.
Tour locations: Melbourne, Perth, Brisbane, Sydney and Adelaide.
This tour highlights reel showcases the festival experience including staging setup, beautiful grounds where the festivals are hosted, up close and personal with the performing artists, Parklife's people and a select few memorable moments of the 2011 national tour.
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"Running a Darn Good Meeting"
The N.C. Chapter of Community Associations Institute will host this meeting 5-7 p.m. Aug. 20 at The Employers Association, 3020 W. Arrowood Road.
Attorney and author Jim Slaughter will discuss how to use parliamentary procedure and "Robert's Rules of Order" to run board or membership meetings efficiently and legally.
Slaughter will also cover which rules to use and when; advice on frequently used motions; voting, breaking ties and absentee votes; proxy votes; budget ratification; setting and sticking to an agenda; effectively recording minutes and tips on handling disruptive members.
Program attendees will also receive a copy of Slaughter's book "The Complete Idiot's Guide to Parliamentary Procedure Fast-Track."
Registration and book signing begins at 5 p.m. and the program at 5:30 p.m.
Cost is $25 for CAI members and $35 for non-members. All are welcome but registration is required by Aug. 18. Details: www.cai-nc.org.
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You described well why humankind has united. For the first time in human history there was an outside gaze and they did not want to look petty in the eyes of the Vulcans. Although neither species wanted this quality of their relationship there was a paternal element to it. The Vulcans have been the father who overlooked the progress of their son and the son had to rebel to get out in space.
But we don't know what happened in the ninety years between first contact and the launch of the first warp 5 vessel so the unification (being the old lefty that I am I was about to write unionization) did not happen overnight and might have very well taken decades. It could have been a very bumpy ride with some wars and as you pointed out once warp-capable ships were mass-produced a faction with a totally different philosophy might have left Earth. But I have my doubts that there are still such major differences once warp ships become affordable. Leaving your homeworld is also a pretty big step.
I think that the cargo crews in ENT were more realistic. They did not want to get out of United Earth but they weren't particularly nice, exploration-hungry guys happy to meet aliens either, they were simply people on the frontier where life is rough.
About the Maquis, you indicated that there is a trade-off between centralization and representation which we also experience at the moment in Europe and which is even a frequent political issue in the US. This would clearly have also been an issue during the unification of Earth.
But isn't the crucial question is in what way fictional history provides dramatic material? Trek has mostly used fictional history as background. Let's take eugenics, besides knowing that one happened earlier we can't clearly tell the difference between the Eugenics War(s) and WWIII but it serves as a fuzzy background for characters like Khan, Green, Bashir and Paxton. And isn't that how events from a century or two ago influence us in the real world? History, just like personal memory, has usually more in common with a spectre than with hard facts.
Talking about spectres, I am no stupid Marxist but wouldn't this be a great propaganda line: "A spectre is haunting humankind — the spectre of a United Earth."
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Like a fine romance, the best rose wines are a balancing act Ś not too sweet, not too heavy and full of flavor.
ThatÆs what Ehlers Estate winemaker Kevin Morrisey is going for when he makes the wineryÆs annual Sylviane rose (rose-ZAY), a dry, European-style wine released each year on Feb. 14.
But the release date isnÆt the only thing that makes this a particularly appropriate ValentineÆs Day wine. The bottle is emblazoned with EhlerÆs signature ōheartö logo, an ōEö with the inside of the letter formed by a sideways heart, and, like all Ehlers Estate wines, 100 percent of the profits go to support heart research. It adds up to a bottle that ōhas a lot of love in it,ö says Morrisey.
ThereÆs also a lot of heart going into Colby Red, a California red wine which so far has raised $300,000 for heart-related charities.
The effort at Colby Red was inspired by winemaker Daryl GroomÆs son ColbyÆs battle with heart disease. Now 15, Colby was born with congenital heart disease and needed two open-heart surgeries before he turned 10. The surgeries were successful, but left Colby lagging academically and socially, suffering from depression, and getting teased by other kids for being different.
ōIt was pretty bad,ö say Groom. The family talked about it. ōWe said we canÆt change whatÆs happened to him, but how can we make that negative be something of a positive?ö The answer turned out to be getting Colby involved in helping other people going through heart disease.
The fundraising part of the project started small, including Colby putting up a tent in the backyard and charging people to listen to his artificial heart valve through a stethoscope. That raised $1,000.
Then Colby came up with another idea Ś Could they make a wine together and donate the profits to heart research?
Groom, a native of Australia who now lives in Sonoma County and is winemaker-consultant at a number of companies as well as owner of his own Groom wines based Down Under, was a little reluctant. Making wine is hard and requires constant attention, he pointed out. Still, Colby was persistent and Colby Red was launched in 2011.
The plan was to make just two barrels of wine, but after Groom told the story to a friend who happened to be a buyer for the Walgreens chain the output suddenly got a lot bigger when that store decided to carry Colby Red.
Since then the wine has launched in Canada, donating to the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada, and is available at some restaurants, including most recently the California Pizza Kitchen chain.
ōItÆs been a roller-coaster emotional journey, but one now with a really happy ending and one where weÆve been blessed by the support of many people,ö says Groom.
At Ehlers Estate, a 43-acre estate in St. Helena in the Napa Valley, the charitable efforts are a French-American collaboration. The estate, originally founded in 1886 by Bernard Ehlers, is held in trust by the Leducq Foundation, a not-for-profit international foundation with offices in Paris and Boston that has given more than $216 million in cardiovascular research grants over the past 13 years to scientists in 16 countries.
The foundation was created by Jean Leducq and his wife Sylviane. Leducq, a French entrepreneur was admitted to a hospital in France in the mid-70s for a suspected heart attack and was later treated at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., where he was the beneficiary of the then-revolutionary technology of coronary artery bypass surgery.
Leducq, who died in 2002, re-established the Ehlers Estate in 1985 believing it was capable of producing wines equal to Bordeaux. The winery only uses grapes grown on its own estate, all of which are certified organic.
Some fans come to the winery knowing about EhlersÆ heart connection, others drink it for a while before realizing the heart logo on the bottle has extra meaning, says Morrisey.
Ehlers rose is made of cabernet franc, a red wine grape, and bears no resemblance to the oceans of cheap pink stuff that have given blush wines reason to, well, blush. The grapes are pressed gently and the juice allowed to stay in contact with the skins just long enough to pick up the color but not long enough to pick up the tannins that would take away from the fruity freshness of the wine.
Morrisey jokes that he spends ōway, way too much time,ö babysitting the wine as itÆs made. Then comes release on ValentineÆs and ōitÆs long sold out by Fourth of July.ö
ItÆs a labor of love, says Morrisey, one that comes complete with a romantic inspiration.
ōMy wife and I just love European-style dry rose,ö he says, ōand sheÆs a very demanding customer.ö


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Glue: I think the name was Gloy. Later there was animal glue in hot pots in the woodwork shop.
Eating at school is a whole other thing, As far as I can recall I loved it all. Expect that has ruled my life more than the pearls of wisdom.
And we got school milk every day. AND "national health Orange Juice".
In college we had to use the computer lab for all of our science and engineering projects. Many families were beginning to get home computers, but nobody was buying them for their kids!
The computer lab had 10-15 machines for the whole campus, and you had to wait your turn. There was no internet access. The computers sat on desks facing the four walls. In the center of the room were the printers and a desk for the technician who showed everyone how to use the programs (this Lotus is driving me nuts!) or fix the printers. For printing graphs, there were plotters with long arms that alternately picked up various colored pens and drew the plot right before your eyes, 4-5 minutes for a basic graph.
My wife went to a liberal arts college, no engineering and light on the sciences, and there were usually only 2-3 people in the "computer room" at any given time. Everyone had typewriters or electric word processors in their rooms that they used for writing papers.
The cool guys at school bought cylindrical slide rules with spiral engraving and a sliding collar for the cursor. The scales were I guess about a metre long and you could calculate to three or even four figures. Obviously engineers scoffed at those because in engineering who needs more than two figures? In fact we were drilled on limiting the result to the accuracy of the data. Calculators started the rot of assuming a nine digit answer was more accurate than the result of a slide rule.
The glue folks remember eating was probably the white stuff made from flour and water. The other common adhesive when I was in elementary school was LePage's mucilage, which is yellowish and came in a bottle with a rubber applicator.
Cum catapultae proscriptae erunt tum soli proscript catapultas habebunt.
First experience with a computer was in high school, I think it was 1966. There was a Teletype machine with an attachment to punch/read paper tape.
I still remember writing a program to solve cubic equations in Fortran II.
In high school (graduated 1976) there was some little desk top machine that I think was programmed in some version of Basic, that because I was an honors math student, I played around with a little (very little), but didn't really do anything with.
I also remember our guidence counselor using some sort of Teletype connection for some sort of computer run career evaluation program that was kind of stupid.
My first serious work with computers was freshman year in college (Fall 1976). It was a PL1 programming course, done on punchcards, loaded in the Computer Lab, into our IBM 360 mainframe. I remember the software for loading your program was called PLAGO, for Poly Load And Go (I went to Brooklyn Polytech). I also played around with some Fortran programming during college.
By grad school (1980 to 84), we had a couple of little desktops (I think one was a Tandy) than ran some Basic programs (one was for x-ray diffraction work). I had some friends that used IBM PCs and the first Macs. There was a campus mainframe system that you could connect to from terminals all over campus. I used that for word processing (there were some nice system laser printers you could use) and there was some sort of networked e-mail, chat, and discussion "applications", but IIRC, they were all within our campus (Brown U.) system. But by my second post-doc (1986-87), the similar system I used at the University of New Orleans allowed me to e-mail friends at other campuses (including friends from Brown) - I think that was on the WWW precursor called BITnet.
"There are powers in this universe beyond anything you know. There is much you have to learn. Go to your homes. Go and give thought to the mysteries of the universe. I will leave you now, in peace." --Galaxy Being
Pong was the only home computer game and we liked it.
When it became a four person game, well that was even cooler.
Junior High (now refered to as middle school) was the paper tape dial up hardcopy terminal.
High School was one of those, and an IMSAI 8080 which only a few of us knew how to run. That thing with a bunch of lights and switches the kid had in War Games
In college, I was warned to buy a box of 5000 punch cards if I was majoring in computers. (I had about 4800 left over)
We finally got a VAX 11/780 as a "real" machine with about 50 terminals. Before that was a smattering of different technologies.
At the PC level, I was only exposed during my assembler class with some HP box with a wooden case.
I found one that was a bookmark in my geology textbook from 1978-79. I wrote out the geologic time scale on one side of it for reference.
I keep a set of sample data formats from astronomy past to show students. Paper tape, punched cards, DECtape, diskettes, TK-50 cartridge, 8mm and 4mm tapes plus 9-track. Not to mention handwritten notebook for photometry, Schmidt films and photographic plates. And back then, the cosmic microwave background was hotter, there were fewer white dwarfs, the Ring nebula was smaller, we would sometimes have to bake the plates in flammable gases for sensitivity, we had to guide exposures with an eyepiece and risk freezing our eyelashes to the glass, sit on a platform at the top of the telescope out in the wind, know only on emerging from the darkroom at dawn if all had gone well - and pretty much loved every minute of it.
MTS, the Michigan Terminal System and I could key in my programs at a terminal instead of using the card punch machine. Your post inspired me to go to the crawl space and find the code. It's the first time I've looked at it since putting it in the box. It looks like gibberish to me now! It's printed on that 11x14 continuous paper for dot matrix printers.
After that, the analysis was straightforward and looking at the printouts I can still make sense of them. I used MIDAS (Michigan Interactive Data Analysis System) to run my ANOVA. Those results were printed double sided on letter paper with a laser printer, which was new to the university the year before, IIRC. I still have the hand-written notes of the models I used.
Yeah, I just can't bring myself to toss that stuff either.
I was working in the crystallography lab as a research assistant for a short itme and had to run a program using data from an experiemnt. I made the punch cards using a terminal in the engineering building, then carried them across campus to the mainframe building, where I placed them in the queue and waited patiently for someone to pick them up and run them so I could get the results. And I remember more about that process than the results.
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When I got an income tax refund check while in college, I noticed it was in the form of a punch card. I took it over to the computer center and ran it through the keypunch machine, which could also print the contents, to see what it said! Just my name, SSN, and the amount of the check as I recall.
Cum catapultae proscriptae erunt tum soli proscript catapultas habebunt.
The cards used to say "Do not mutilate, spindle, or fold." I had to look up spindle.
While in college in the late '60s, I worked a summer job in a laboratory where two physicists were using nuclear irradiation to analyze trace elements in barnacle shells from various parts of Chesapeake Bay. This was an interesting combination of high and low tech. We would expose the samples to neutrons in the core of a reactor, creating radioactive isotopes of the trace elements by neutron capture. Then we would analyze the resulting radiation with a high-energy radiation spectrometer and run the results through a computer. So far, very high tech for the time. The low tech by today's standards was in some of the operational details.
The reactor was immersed in about 30 feet of ultrapure water, which served both as coolant and radiation shield. A technician lowered the sample into the reactor core through an S-shaped tube with an ordinary fishing tackle. When the irradiation was complete he hauled it back up and lowered it into a lead bottle with its lid secured with gaffer tape. He was wearing a heavy lead apron such as we use when getting dental x-rays. When his radiation meter gave him the all clear sign, he handed the bottle to me and I took it two blocks to our lab on an old bicycle. I had to move fast because some of the radioisotopes had very short half lives. When I got to the lab we put the sample into the spectrometer and recorded the data on punched paper tape. Then I carried the roll of tape along with a Fortran program on an inch-thick stack of punch cards over to the computer facility in yet another building, again using the bike to save time.
I prepared the shell samples by roasting them in platinum crucibles, using a torch that looked like a Bunsen burner on steroids. This was to burn off the organic gunk and reduce the calcium carbonate to calcium oxide. To concentrate the heat, I built a miniature furnace by lining a piece of 2-inch pipe with asbestos cloth. That was before anyone knew about the health hazard of inhaled asbestos fibers. That has been over 40 years, and so far no sign of mesothelioma.
Back in Elementary school, I remember the projectors with the cassette for audio and the DONG for changing slides.
In Junior High, I took Woodworking, Metalworking, Cooking and Sewing. (And I've since used the last 2 a lot more than I've used the first 2); but I appreciate all I learned from all 4 classes. I think they were mandatory for everyone too, so we had boys and girls in all of the classes. The woodworking class we did use a band saw and drill press too; and a spot welder for the metal class.
I had a swiss army knife on me almost all the time through Junior High and High School and no one batted an eye.
I remember playing marbles occasionally in Elementary school. IIRC we dug a small hole, or just scuffed a dip in the ground, and the goal was to knock out the other marbles or something like that.
In High school, I remember they just put in a new IT centre the summer before I started, complete with a CAD/CAM machine and a pneumatic system with a PLC and a programmable robot arm. The Teacher in charge of all that let me play with the programmable robot arm, and the pneumatic system (I never had any real interest in CAD/CAM). The school had just had its computer network put in that summer as well; 1 networked computer per classroom at best. And no Internet access only; the network computers were for Teachers only. I do remember someone snuck in copies of Doom and Wolfenstein 3D and we'd play it after classes on those CAD/CAM computers (And any other computers that had a hard drive we could hide the executables on)
In the other computer lab, a friend of mine started a BBS and we hung out a lot together. He moved to Saint John so I took it over, being the second BBS in my town. Mainly it was for light messaging and some old BBS games but it was fun figuring out how to keep it up (esp over a single 14.4k modem). Since my mom was a teacher that transferred to my high school the year after I started there, when the BBS crashed, I could get her to take me in to the school to restart it.
In Highschool, my crews usual noon hour activity would be playing cards. We (rarely) played for cash, but we were playing 31's, 21's, and other games. I recall "Spoons" was a popular past time at times too.
When I started University, Waterloo had just taken out its last Big Mainframe out of the MC building. The Big Red room was still there, but it was down to a couple of racks they were trying to find new homes for, while the new IT server room was a floor above and basically 3-4 offices worth of space along the back of the building. (as opposed to being the majority of the bottom 2 floors of the MC building). I used my old 28.8 baud modem for the first couple of years; when I was on Co-op work terms in Ottawa, I would keep my aunt and uncle's phone line tied up for most of the evening while I was online. It wasn't until 3rd year I started using Cable modems (and learning how to Network computers together; between me and my roommates).
Youngster! Mine had phonograph records.Back in Elementary school, I remember the projectors with the cassette for audio and the DONG for changing slides.
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I remember some Counselor Education professor approaching our Educational Research department head. It seems that he wanted to make up some banners, and he asked if we had any of those huge fanfold-paper printouts that we didn't need any more.
"How many miles of it do you need?" was the reply. Indeed, all of us had stacks of old output going up to the ceiling.
Paper tape punches make tiny circles of paper. That seems like safer confetti.


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Become a Minister
Once upon a time it required years of study to become a minister. Then it got a bit easier when all you had to do was respond to an ad in the back of a magazine. But now, thanks to the internet, becoming a minister is dead easy. Just go to the website of the Universal Life Church and in five minutes you'll have the right to be referred to as Reverend. I think I actually became a ULC minister years ago (back when you had to send away for the form) because a friend signed me up as a joke. According to the Contra Costa Times, the ULC has ordained 18 million ministers since 1959. But the article warns that becoming a minister doesn't make your income nontaxable, though it does give you the right to marry people or exorcise demons. Interestingly, 90-95% of the people who sign up as ULC ministers identify themselves as Christians.
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Hit the Beach
The Newport Beach 1st Battalion, 1st Marines Foundation will hold its 2nd annual Beach Challenge at 8 a.m. at the Balboa Pier. For more information, go to http://www.oneonemarines.com.
'Ten Ways to Boost Sales & Profits'
The city of Newport Beach, Corona del Mar Chamber of Commerce and OPIS Network invite business owners and managers to a free workshop, "10 Ways to Boost Sales & Profits," from 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the OASIS Senior Center, 801 Narcissus Ave., Corona del Mar. Admission is free through advance registration. For more information, visit http://www.newport100days.
Plant Sale
The UC Irvine Arboretum will have a plant sale from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. The UCI Arboretum is south of the corner of Campus Drive and Jamboree Road on UCI's North Campus. For more information, call (959) 824-5833.
Farmers Market
The SoCo Farmers Market is from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the SoCo Collection, 315 Hyland Ave., Costa Mesa. For more information, go to http://www.socofm.com.
'Aging with Autism'
The sixth annual Autism Research Conference is from 9 a.m. to noon at Mariners Church, 5001 Newport Coast Drive, Irvine. To register and get more information, go to http://www.ganinfo.org.
One-Day WWI Exhibition
Waddell & Reed's "Honoring Our History," a traveling World War I exhibition, will make a one-day stop at the Lyon Air Museum, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Admission to the WWI exhibition is free. Lyon Air Museum is at 19300 Ike Jones Road, Santa Ana. For more information, go to http://www.lyonairmuseum.org.
'Landscape of Movement'
Motion/TRIBE presents a dance workshop and performance from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Orange County Great Park. Because of rain in the forecast, the event has been moved into Hangar 244. For more information, go to http://www.ocgp.org.
Grand Opening Party
The OC Mart Mix Phase II celebrates its grand opening with a party from 3 to 6 p.m. at the OC Mart Mix, 3313 Hyland Ave., Costa Mesa. The shopping center's website is http://www.theocmartmix.com.
Irvine in Pictures
A free public reception for the city of Irvine's 40th anniversary photo contest exhibition is from 5 to 8 p.m. at the Irvine Fine Arts Center, 14321 Yale Ave., Irvine. The exhibition runs through Feb. 4.


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15Beyonce and Co. "Shaping" Baby Blue Ivy's Nose?
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Blue Ivy may be looking too much like Jay-Z for Tina Knowles' taste.
The chitchatter out of Jay-Z and Beyoncé's inner circle is that Grandma Tina has been obsessive about "shaping" Blue Ivy's nose — a practice of pinching and smoothing a baby's features in attempt to form them into "more attractive" shapes. An insider tells Bossip that friends have spotted Tina "shaping" the baby's nose as she falls asleep on several occasions. "Blue Ivy really does look just like Jay-Z," the insider tells BOSSIP. "Tina is hoping she doesn't get his nose, but it's already looking that way."
The source says the couples friends have tried to laugh off Mama Tina's efforts to keep Hov from having hurt feelings. "He's being a good sport, but she isn't even trying to hide it," the source adds.
Well jeez. If all that business is true, that's got to make Jay-Z feel really, really good about himself. Damn, Tina.
All I know is that It'd be a cold day in hell if I allowed my mother do something this silly in order to make my already-pretty baby even "prettier." Unless, of course, Beyonce's completely on board with it, and if that's the case, well hell. I suppose there's always the option of Botox and plastic surgery for the kid when she hits the ripe old age of five. I mean, kids' features are, like, fully-formed by then, right?
May 2, 2012 at 2:30 pm by Sarah
15 Responses to "Beyonce and Co. "Shaping" Baby Blue Ivy's Nose?"
She could do like the old Jewish stereotype and pay for her rhynoplasty when she turns 16!
If this is true, Beyonce has to be the stupidest woman in the world. Her mom didn't shape her nose, the plastic surgeon did. Also, they all will say, of course this child does not look like Jay Z, we reshaped the nose. Surrogate theory is getting truer by the day!!!
Is it culture shock of going from ghetto to bourgeois and making more money than they intelligently even know what to do with, ashamed of their blackness, trying to emulate white, upper class' celebrity status? It makes no sense, and this comment isn't one of a hater or racist; it's one of shaking my head in disbelief and TRYING to figure out "WHY"?
Unfortunately, that poor little kid does look just like Jay-Z who is one of the uglier men around these days. I think that whole "shaping" thing is a very old wive's tale, like, if you pee in a container of Draino while you're pregnant you can tell the sex of the baby…Green for girls and blue for boys.
you are one sick puppy!
From my observation girls who look like their fathers are usually very beautiful and boys who look like their mothers are usually very handsome!
You've apparently never seen Bobbi Kristina Brown.
LOL WOOOOOOOW but true
anyone who actually believes this is a total idiot! People will believe anything, which is why this magazines are making millions of us by printing crap like this. Use your brain people half of what they print in these magazines has not an ounce of truth to it, yet you're giving them your money and keeping them in business…
poor kid I wished Beyonce nad Jay-Z just admitted to that surrogate thing there's nothing wrong with it, even Sara Jessica Parker and other Hollywood celebs did it. Their lies will be burden by their child until she grows up!
In anothr pic id toooooo evident the belly is a fake. TThe blue. dress. one …. i think. J-zee. nose. is better then Tina one ..
I'm late as hell on this but, still WHY in hell is the author of this insisting that doing surgery on a child is ok? The problem doesn't only lie with Beyonce and her sick inner circle of fam and friends but, in the media personell who seem to support her satanic views of things. Some people seriously should not be allowed to have kids. IE. PEOPLE WHO CONCIEVE & ROLL THE DICE as to who the child will look like. Then, if the kid comes out looking like the unfavorable parent…all hell breaks loose. Tina, your lips are fake by the way. Collagen Queen.
See if she would have gotten preggo for real instead of the fake baby bump and blocking off the hospital so no one would notice the real mother coming in trough the back door then the baby would have some features and DNA of her satanic pop mother. GOD is watching.
She is absolutely gorgeous…'Cant believe everything you read"…and shame on Evil Beet Gossip for allowing whoever is responsible for publishing statements on this website or over the internet. Plus..for those who posted a comment about this cruel statement..You are truly heartless and Evil…(shame on u all)…people can be so thoughtless and mean…
Jay Z, Beyonce, and Nanny Tina enjoy your blessing from above..Blu Ivy Carter <3 :-);-);-)
Blessing from above


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Per portion (112.5g) 406kJ 96kcal 5%*, Fat 0.2g <1%*, Saturates 0.0g 0%*, Sugars 18.2g 20%*, Salt 0.48g 8%*
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Whether it's working in the oil fields or serving our nation overseas parenting from a distance can put a strain on both the parent and the child.
"Parenting is tough on a lot of levels and when you add distance and time zones, it can make it more difficult," says Holly Arnold, Region 2 Parent Resource Center.
But, there are ways to cope even with miles between. Scheduling a time and date where you and your child can video chat can go along way. Even with Skype or FaceTime, Arnold says there are still other ways to stay connected.
"Cause every time you make that connection, whatever it is through the mail or through text, through something that you've sent home, you're saying I'm thinking of you," says Arnold.
Being a proactive parent from a distance may help ease the time apart.
"Parenting is an action. It's one thing to be a parent but it's another thing to be in that parenting role," says Arnold.
Also, how you connect with your child depends on their age and stage of development.
"For a young child of two they really need to constantly see that absent parents face and to be talked about. And, having those videotapes where they can constantly see and hear that person," says Arnold.
Whether your child is miles away from mom or a lengthy distance from dad, Arnold says you're parent to child interaction matters. And, the more effort you make will help ease the time apart.
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Bill Burt
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---- — Take a bow, Baltimore Ravens. You have earned it.
Amid a lot of controversy, you withstood it all. The sideshows never got in the way of the Big Show, which transpired last night in the Ravens 34-31 win in Super Bowl XLVII.
I've been on the Ravens case for a few years now, but they now get it. They proved their mettle by beating the best in both conferences and a few Hall of Fame quarterbacks en route.
We usually react and overreact to every Super Bowl winner and claim the "blueprint" has been made.
Well, I'm not sure if that's exactly the case, but we learned a few things from watching last night's thriller.
1. Flacco deserves credit.
Joe Flacco looks and acts a lot like Drew Bledsoe, which means he has a nice arm, he's very big and he moves around like a fork lift. But he is more than that. Flacco is a Super Bowl MVP, which is saying something. He truly was a major asset in the Ravens' playoff drive and not a game manager. Flacco does something Tom Brady does not: He trusts his receivers to make plays, oftentimes taking a shot or two. His penchant for looking down field is exemplary. It just seems to open up a lot in the middle of the field throughout the game. The fact that Flacco didn't throw an interception in four playoff games is extraordinary. While he isn't the game manager Brady is, Flacco has a lot of Eli Manning in him. He isn't afraid. And he has $100 million coming his way very soon.
2. 49ers are team of the future.
My only issue with the 49ers was that winning Super Bowls is a process. And they and their coach, in particular, needed a little humility and smash mouth football to remind them of that fact. The 49ers are the best team in football next season. I can say that with certitude. Colin Kaepernick is a star in the making if he is willing to put in the Brady-Peyton Manning work and maybe refrain from running so often. The 49ers had at least 15 of the best 22 starters on both sides of the ball yesterday. They just lacked the experience. The Ravens have been working their way past the Patriots to get to a Super Bowl victory and they did it. But the 49ers, if Kaepernick is dedicated enough, are built for the long haul.
3. Defense is about playmakers.
You don't need a stout, "Top 5" defense to win the Super Bowl. You need a handful of talented players who aren't afraid to finish the job. The Ravens defense wasn't anything special, giving up a whopping 494 yards to the 49ers. But they were buttoned up in the final drive inside the 10-yard line. With Tom Brady around, the Patriots are not going to be paying $100 million to anybody on the defensive side of the ball. But it's guys like Ravens safety Ed Reed (who we expect will be a Patriot next year), who need to only be called upon once in a game to be worth their contract. The Patriots, after Aqib Talib was gone from the game in the first quarter we saw gruesomely two weeks that they lacked anybody special. Some decent players, but nobody with the ability to turn the game around.
4. Running the football is key.
The teams combined for 275 yards rushing last night. It was an under-the-radar stat, considering most of the big plays were through the air. A team establishes itself on the ground. I realize it can be difficult to watch — consecutive runs of 4 yards, 4 yards, 3 yards, 2 yards, 6 yards, 4 yards, etc. — but that's what sets the tone for a championship football team. Both the Ravens and 49ers committed to running the ball all year, especially on the final day of this season. It makes their quarterbacks better. The Patriots appeared to get it in 2012, but a bigger commitment in 2013 might be in store.
5. Why Las Vegas, why?
The New England Patriots Dynasty is supposed to be over. At least that was the consensus among several million football fans after the second half debacle in AFC Championship two weeks ago. As difficult and as disappointing as the loss was, the good news was the Patriots (and Bill Belichick) would be sent a message that the "flag football-average defense" style doesn't work. But less than 12 hours before from the finish of Super Bowl XLVII, the odds for the NFL's 2014 Super Bowl champion were out. Guess who the pick was? Your Patriots were 6-to-1. The up-and-coming 49ers were 7-1. I guess the Patriots are not quite ready to hide under the radar just yet.


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The Arizona Diamondbacks are a team without an identity. Their history is limited; their fan support is mediocre. Although they have won a World Series, it was a Series that will always be defined, not by the Diamondbacks victory, but by the events in New York City and the Series' role in the city's healing process. Most of the key players from that team are better known for playing elsewhere - Schilling, Johnson, Mark Grace, Reggie Sanders.
pictured: Curt Schilling
The greatest player in team history spent only 8 of his 19 seasons with the club, and was, aside from being a tremendous hitter for five years, a fairly unremarkable player: average in size, average in appearance, soft spoken, and with a thoroughly generic name: Luis Gonzalez, a name shared by two big leaguers and 13 professional baseball players (by comparison, there have been 3 "John Smiths" in Major League history, and 41 pros). Sure, they tried to nickname him "Gonzo", but that word is forever linked to these guys:
pictured: the risks of mescaline
In a way, the team fits the city: Phoenix has a large population, but it is spread out over a massive area (larger than Los Angeles and almost 2/3rds larger than NYC). It lacks the strong identity of cities like Chicago or New York, or even Dallas, and it is far too large to have the charm of a city like Pittsburgh or Milwaukee. It is a sprawling mass of humanity in the middle of a state renowned for its awesome natural beauty. Once you've seen the Grand Canyon, Phoenix just can't compete. And so in the search for inspiration, we have to look elsewhere.
Specifically, we look to the owner of the largest chain of unpainted furniture and bathroom fixture outlets throughout the Midwest: Nathan Arizona, Sr. (born Nathan Huffheins).
The team would do well to follow Nathan's example. Manager Kirk Gibson already has a similar philosophy: "Do it my way or watch your butt." Coming off a 65-97 season, some butt watching might be in order.
any excuse to show a picture of Kerri Walsh is a good excuse
Also, much in the same way that a person might be reluctant to buy furniture from a store called "Unpainted Huffheins", I can see why fans might be reluctant to follow the "Diamondbacks". It is a clunky name with a minor-league feel. I've never been very good at coming up with names (as my children, Pastrami and Bologna, will be quick to point out), so I will avoid making any suggestions, but I'm sure a clever person could improve on "Diamondbacks". So, without further ado, on to the preview.
"Eight hundred leaf-tables and no chairs? You can't sell leaf-tables and no chairs. Chairs, you got a dinette set. No chairs, you got dick!" - Diamondbacks' Pitching
The Diamondbacks pitching staff had a rough time of it in 2010, allowing 836 runs, second worst in the Senior Circuit. That said, they boast a surprisingly competent starting rotation, with six good candidates for the rotation. Unfortunately, those six solid leaf -tables are supported by very few chairs out in the bullpen.
Joe Saunders (age 30; 2010: 9-17, 4.47 with LAA/ARI) Saunders broke out in 2008 with the Angels, winning 17 games and making the All-Star team. He slipped a bit in 2009, and was struggling last year when the Angels sent him away for Dan Haren. Saunders is no Haren (although they had similar performances in Arizona), but he is an experienced starter with a reasonable price tag ($5.5 million). I don't consider him the #1 starter, but for simplicity I am going with the assignments listed on the Diamondbacks official website.
Daniel Hudson (age 24; 2010: 8-2, 2.45 ERA with CHW/ARI). Hudson was acquired in a mid-season trade for Edwin Jackson. While Jackson threw a no-hitter on June 25, and had some success down the stretch for the Sox, the Snakes appear to be winners so far in this trade. Hudson is a young kid with great stuff who was dominant after the trade (7-1, 1.69 ERA in 11 starts). The Reds handed him his only NL defeat on August 17, in his worst start for Arizona, where he went 7 innings, allowing 3 runs on nine hits, walking zero and striking out 10. As I said, it was his worst start. In his other outing against the Good Guys, he tossed 8 innings of shutout ball in a 7-2 win.
Ian Kennedy (age 26; 2010: 9-10, 3.80 ERA). Kennedy emerged as a solid middle-of -the-rotation guy in 2010 after coming over from the Yankees in a three-team trade that also featured Edwin Jackson (who would later become Daniel Hudson), along with Curtis Granderson, Phil Coke, and a cast of thousands. Kennedy has some control issues, and may have been a bit lucky last year, but he is a quality pitcher who is not arbitration eligible until 2013.
Barry Enright (age 25; 2010: 6-7, 3.91 ERA). Enright is the only home-grown prospect in the rotation. A second-round draft pick in 2007, Enright is a soft-tosser who relies on variety and location, much like a certain Nasty Hook we all know and (in some cases) love. Like Bron-Bron, Enright will serve up the occasional gopher ball, allowing 20 HR in just 99 IP last season. Still, none of that matters because the lucky SOB got to go to college in this paradise:
Zach Duke (age 28; 2010: 8-15, 5.72 ERA in PIT). Duke is out until at least May with a broken bone in his hand, so it remains to be seen if he will ever make it into the rotation at all. Duke broke into baseball in 2005 with a line that looks superficially like Daniel Hudson's 2010 (8-2, 1.81 ERA). However, Duke never had great stuff, and the league had him figured out by 2006. After a solid 2009, Duke was terrible last year, and it remains to be seen whether he can bounce back. The injury puts him in a tough spot, as it allows Armando Galarraga to claim the #5 sport to open the season.
Armando Galarraga (age 29; 2010: 4-9, 4.48 ERA in DET). Another guy at the bottom of the rotation that relies on control and location, Galarraga will forever be known as "The Guy Who Got Screwed Out Of A Perfect Game By Jim Joyce".
"Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age."
Bullpen: In 2010, Arizona had one of the worst bullpens in the major leagues. JJ Putz was signed to address this problem. Putz, 34, was solid last year on Chicago's South Side, posting a 2.83 ERA and a 1.037 WHIP, but he hasn't been a full-time closer since 2007 with Seattle. Still, he is a huge upgrade to an otherwise dismal squad. Juan Gutierrez (0-6, 5.08 ERA, 15 SV) will return to a setup role, while David Hernandez (8-8, 4.31 ERA in BAL) will try to add depth, although he could move into the rotation if there are further injuries. There is not a single experienced left-handed reliever on the 40-man roster, opening the door for Mike Hampton (yes, that Mike Hampton) to compete for a spot. Overall, they should be better than last year thanks to Putz, but a weak minor-league system combined with a limited budget usually spells disaster in the pen.
Overview: Hudson and Kennedy will give fans something to cheer about, and the rest of the staff should be OK. However, the bullpen and the offense will likely combine to create a ton of "Harang Games" for these guys.
Tomo Ohka All-Star: Daniel Hudson is working on his application.
"And if a frog had wings he wouldn't bump his ass a-hoppin'." - Diamondbacks' Offense
The Kings of Infinite K's should be slightly less strike-outy this year, as Mark Reynolds has moved on to the Charm City and taken his 211 whiffs with him, while Adam LaRoche and his 172 punch-outs are now doing business in our nation's capital. Still, the bulk of the lineup will provide plenty of breeze on those hot Phoenix nights.
Catcher: Miguel Montero (.266/.332/.438) is the clear-cut #1 catcher for the first time in his career. At 27, he figures to be a solid presence in the lineup, providing above average power and decent on-base skills for a catcher.
First Base: Juan Miranda VS Brandon Allen VS Russell Branyan. The big Spring Training battle is at first base. Allen, 25, was acquired a couple of years ago from the White Sox. He has decent minor league numbers (.264/.347/.477), but hasn't hit much in his brief time in the big leagues (.221/.320/.389). Disenchanted with his progress, the team acquired Miranda from the Yankees. Miranda, 27, is a similar player with somewhat better success (.281/.367/.478; .253/.330/.458). Miranda appears to be the clear front runner at this point. Russell Branyan has been brought in to compete for the job as well. All three bat left-handed, so a platoon arrangement of any kind seems unlikely.
Second Base: Kelly Johnson (age 29; 2010: .284/.370/.496) Johnson rebounded from a poor 2009 in Atlanta to post the best numbers of his career with his new team. He's a talented hitter in the prime of his career, so it will not be shocking if he is able to equal his 2010 numbers this year. If the team struggles, however, Johnson could be dealt , as he is eligible for free agency in 2012.
Third Base: Melvin Mora (age 39; 2010: .285/.358/.421 in COL) The ancient Mora has posted an OPS+ of over 100 only once in the past 5 years (116 in 2008) and hasn't played in more than 135 games since 2006. None of this is a good sign. Geoff Blum, who is 37 and has a career OPS of .696, could see some time at 3B.
Shortstop: Stephen Drew (age 28; 2010: .278/.352/.458) Future Red Stephen Drew put together another fine season in 2010. A very good hitter for a SS, and a decent fielder, Drew combines with Johnson to form one of the more potent middle infields in baseball.
LF: Xavier Nady (age 32; 2010: .256/.306/.353 in CHC) No, seriously. This is the plan in LF. Jonny Gomes doesn't look so bad now, does he?
CF: Chris Young (age 27; 2010: .257/.341/.452) A classic "five-tool" player who has struggled with his consistency, Young enjoyed his finest season to date in 2010. Perhaps even more amazingly, he did it while also pitching for the San Diego Padres, and apparently, pursuing a career as a metrosexual country music star.
A true Renaissance Man
RF: Justin Upton (age 23; 2010: .273/.356/.442) The current "Face of the Franchise", Upton saw his power numbers drop a bit after an excellent 2009 season. Still only 23, Upton has enormous upside - he is to Arizona what Jay Bruce is to Cincinnati. The most surprising thing about Upton is that despite having hit .300 with 26 HR as a 21-year old, he might be only the 3rd best young right fielder in the NL.
Brandon Allen
Geoff Blum
Russell Branyan
There is very little in the way of dangerous bats off the bench. Blanco, Parra, and Abreu are probably locks for the bench, with two spots up for grabs among the others.
Overview: They were 8th out of 16 in the league in runs scored last year, and it seems unlikely there will be much improvement in 2011. Upton still has room to grow (and to a lesser extent so does Young), but Johnson is a good candidate to regress a bit, and it remains to be seen if they can reproduce LaRoche's production at 1B. I expect they will be somewhere between 6th-10th in the league in runs scored this year.
Bill Hall All-Star: Kelly Johnson has hit the Reds pretty hard in his career (.306/.387/.529).
"Hell they're all disgruntled. I ain't running no daisy farm." - Former Reds
The 40-man roster includes long-time Reds' stalwart Willie Bloomquist, as well as future Red Stephen Drew. Micah Owings, Branyan, and Wily Mo Pena are also in camp as non-roster invitees. If all three make the team, they could change their name to "Washigton Nationals:West".
"You know what I think? I think you're an evil man." - Jim Edmonds Memorial Award
Not a ton to hate here, but manager Kirk Gibson has certainly annoyed a lot of people throughout his career. I'm of two minds about Gibson: On the one hand, he helped the hated Dodgers win a World Series; on the other, he defeated the hated Tony LaRussa. I'm originally from Detroit, so I'm grateful to him for the 1984 World Series, but I still resent him for his childish meltdown in the playoffs in 1987 (and because he went to Michigan State).
"And you, my fine friend, are the one who's gonna get his butt kicked." - Prediction
At least some improvement on their 65-97 record seems likely, if for no other reason than there is a lot more room to move up than down. The starting rotation is entirely revamped from the beginning of last season, and much improved. That, plus the addition of Putz, should be enough to add some wins, but not enough to compete in a tough division. I'll go with 73-89.


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ALBANY, N.Y. – State Police have arrested an 18-year-old for allegedly sexually assaulting a 15-year-old.
According to authorities, State Police received a complaint from Albany Medical Center on a report of a a possible sexual assault of a 15-year-old female.
Troopers responded to Albany Medical Center
and interviewed the victim who stated she was on a bus trip from Utica to
Albany when an 18-year-old male sat next to her. She said that during the trip,
the suspect identified himself as Deronn
Pool of Wynantskill. Pool allegedly began forcibly touching intimate
parts of her body which left visible bruises.
The victim got off the bus and immediately went to the hospital. Police say she was treated by medical staff who then contacted the State Police.
An investigator from the State Police Bureau of Criminal Investigation identified and located Pool. He was arrested and processed at SP Albany where he was charged with endangering the welfare of a child and forcible touching, both misdemeanors.
Pool was issued an Appearance Ticket directing him to return to the City of Albany Court later this month.
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Alain Vigneault Named Finalist For Jack Adams Trophy
Not only are there 2 Vezina finalists in the Canucks-Preds series, but there are now 2 Jack Adams finalists as well. AV, Barry Trotz and Penguins coach Dan Bylsma are the 3 coaches up for the award. Who's your pick? Here is a look at past finalists and there you can see that a coach that wins the President's Trophy doesn't always win the Jack Adams. If that's the case my pick is Trotz for turning horsesh*t into honey in Nashville. And by that I mean he has less talent to play with given the Preds' low cap spending. Neither Bylsma nor Trotz have ever won the award. AV won it in 2007 for doing what I said Trotz did above.


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National Pie Day: 5 Places (And Pie) To Try in Central Arkansas
January 23, 2014
It's National Pie Day and to celebrate, we've outlined a few prime spots to get a scrumptious slice of pie with the help of Kat Robinson's book "Arkansas Pie: A Delicious Slice of the Natural State."
We love pie! Who doesn't?
In honor of National Pie Day today (Jan. 23), we're highlighting a few places to get a delicious slice of pie in and around central Arkansas with the help of Kat Robinson's book "Arkansas Pie: A Delicious Slice of the Natural State."
Here are five places (and pies) to check out:
- Three Sam's Barbeque Joint, 10508 Mann Road, Mabelvale-- Recommended Pie: Peanut butter pie. After feasting on one of the mouth-watering barbeque sandwiches, don't forget about this super peanut-buttery pie that is topped with peanuts and chunks of peanut butter cups. Robinson said the mousse-style filling was dense and a little salty, in addition to being sweet.
- Bobby's Country Cookin', 301 N. Shackleford Road, Little Rock-- There are so many made-from-scratch pies to choose from, where do you start? Coconut and chocolate pie, as well as pecan pie and cherry cream cheese pie are restaurant staples that are always on the menu. And don't forget about the others in rotation-- key lime, vanilla chocolate chip, lemon ice box, mint chocolate chip, peanut butter or strawberry.
- Charlotte's Eats & Sweets, 290 Main Street, U.S. 165, Keo-- Recommended Pie: Coconut meringue. You might have to travel a little far for this one, but it's worth it! This renowned sit-down restaurant is nationally known for its pie, especially its coconut meringue.
- Lindsay's Hospitality House, 207 Curtis Sykes Drive, North Little Rock-- Recommended Pie: Sweet potato pie. As Robinson says, the best barbeque places serve up delicious pie, and Lindsay's Hospitality House is no exception. The sweet potato pie-- a strong-flavored pie with cinnamon, nutmeg and allspice-- is a must at the eatery.
- Ed and Kay's Restaurant, 15228 I-30, Benton: Known as the "Mile-High Pie Shop," this spot serves up a delicious coconut and chocolate meringue pie, along with Robinson's favorite, the PCP-- made up of pineapple, coconut and pecan.
Here are a few other options to get a yummy slice of pie in the area:
Sim's Bar-B-Que (Little Rock)
The Wagon Wheel Restaurant (Greenbrier)
Ashley's and Capital Bar and Grill at the Capital Hotel (Little Rock)
Hunka Pie (Little Rock)
E's Bistro (North Little Rock)
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The Blues, despite excellent play for the first two-thirds of the season, are finishing second in the Central Division.
This is more than a bad patch, this is more than a funk. This is a pattern.
The writers at the Post-Dispatch are taking a time out from spring training to give the bandwagon Blues fans some help.
No one can argue that Steve Ott is a gritty kind of guy - but is that what the team's missing?
eBay is a wonderful thing, especially when it comes to old charity cookbooks. Here I share the best from the Blues'.
On yesterday's STLToday.com, the Hockey Guy Jeff Gordon points out the shortcomings of the 'Canes, and mentions that the Blues haven't won the Stanley Cup. Should we even care?
The Blues have completed 41 out of their 82 regular season games. How are they, and the individual players, performing?
The St. Louis Blues are having issues drawing at the gate. Is it something that fans as well as the front office should worry about?
This seems to happen at least once a season. Maybe it's a good thing that it's happening after a small rough patch early on.
A tidbit of a factoid in the game notes for tonight's Ducks at Blues game got me wondering what the Game Time community would think about the evolution of two of the the Blues' top defensive...
The Blues have the third highest average goal total per game in the NHL; are they still lacking that special something to get them over the playoff hump?
We've been reading about The Cardinal Way for the past month. Now the Blues are getting in on the "class" act.
The Blues offer some bang for their buck while keeping the increase in average ticket prices modest.
The Blues' starting goaltender is playing better than he has in years, and the team has four wins to thank him for. Does this mean that Brian Elliott's time is numbered?
Folks get too caught up in the monetary side of things sometimes.
The Blues may be looking to add some veteran leadership, but with an already clogged bottom six and their own leaders in house, why are they looking outside of the organization?
The Blues have followed the lead of the Nashville Predators in trying to limit the number of Blackhawks fans in attendance at the games this year.
The Blues' goaltending tandem has been a source of controversy the past two seasons despite the coaching staff stating that Halak was the starter. Will his summer workout routine finally silence...
Should Blues fans worry if Petro holds out much longer? There's not a danger of him leaving, but there're other possibilities to consider.
The Blues' general manager and the GM of the Winnipeg Jets will be paying (or have paid, as the case may be) for two very different things, and that's what should matter in these contract talks.
The situation between he and Ken Hitchcock was much ado about nothing according to the two involved parties. Why does it keep getting brought up?
Blues fans have long opined that the team often seems to be spending to the floor. Now that the team's spending closer to the cap, will fans be happy and will the team succeed?
In the spirit of "the king is dead; long live the king," Bovada already has released their odds for next year's Stanley Cup Playoffs.
The CBA buyout season is in full swing, with the Philadelphia Flyers buying out a playoff hero. Could he fit in here in St. Louis?
The eulogy at Puck Daddy isn't the only one that exists.
There's no way that the Penguins trade their star center, but just for laughs, let's speculate what the Blues would have to send Pittsburgh's way.
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In the third bout of the UFC 150 main card, Jake Shields outgrappled Ed Herman and took a comfortable unanimous decision victory. Instead of trying to strike with Shields where he had the biggest advantage, Herman constantly tried to initiate a clinch game. It was some truly odd gameplanning, and unsurprisingly Herman never got anything going and lost.
The first round was all clinching, which was pretty boring. Shields finally got a takedown in the second and dominated on top while never really threatening with a submission. He got to mount in the third round after another takedown but didn't really threaten much there either. It wasn't the most exciting fight, let's put it that way.
What was the high point of the fight?
Shields hit a nice outside trip in the second. That's about it.
Where do they go from here?
Shields might not have been exciting, but he was impressive. It's clear that his grappling chops can help him hold his own with bigger fighters at 185. I think he should fight Yushin Okami next in a rematch of their 2006 bout that Shields won.
Herman needs to go back to the drawing board and work on fight strategy. It was always something that Team Quest took heat for, but he left to open his own gym a while ago. He's still a solid fighter though and his comeback has been fun. A bout with Nick Ring could make some sense.
Watch now, later, or never?
Never. If you're a fan of solid grappling and/or Jake Shields, you'd probably like it. For everyone else, you can definitely give it a pass.
Catch more UFC 150 content from Bloody Elbow after the jump.
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UFC 150 Results: What's Next For The Main Card Fighters - Tim Burke
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Tunnel of Oppression
March 3 - 6, 2014
What is the Tunnel of Oppression?
Working in collaboration with various campus departments and campus student groups, the University Center is hosting the 5th annual Tunnel of Oppression – an interactive event that highlights contemporary issues of oppression. It is designed to introduce participants to the concepts of oppression, privilege, and power. Participants are guided through a series of scenes that aim to educate and challenge them to think more deeply about issues of oppression. At the end of the tour, participants are provided with the opportunity to discuss their experiences with each other. Facilitators help participants reflect on their experiences and put their newfound knowledge to use in their everyday lives.
Tunnel of Oppression is a campus grassroots diversity program that originated in 1993 at Western Illinois University. Using the Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles, California as a model, Tunnel strives to give people a way to experience oppression in a hands-on way. By engaging emotions of the participants, it allows for the accounts expressed in the program to be truly effective. People may have never been placed in these types of situations, and they obtain a sense of what it actually feels like to be oppressed or discriminated through the sights and sounds they experience. While Tunnel may be disturbing, it is an effective tool used to teach people about how it really feels to be in the various situations.
The success of the Tunnel is dependent on our campus commitment to diversity issues and community building. We are looking for student groups and individual volunteers to help make this year's Tunnel a success. Together we can work together to promote a positive attitude about differences and encourage each other to learn, respect, and appreciate diversity.
Volunteer for the Tunnel of Oppression
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Keynote Speaker: Laverne Cox
Thursday, March 6th | 7:00 p.m. | UC Ballroom
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Monday, March 3rd | 7:00 p.m. | UC Theater
"Boom" is the story of a college graduate who moves to North Dakota to work as a trucker in the oil fields. He quickly becomes acutely aware that there is more being exploited in the high northern plains than just natural resources. Go undercover with iEmpathize and explore the darker side of our oil communities through club scenes and prostitution rings. The Montana premiere of this film will empower us to recognize and respond to human trafficking in and around our communities.
Mattress Vigil
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15-minute segment: $5/person (max. 8-person group)
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August 29th, 2014
Oh my Miley! Miley Cyrus appears on the cover of the September issue of V Magazine called the Rebel issue. Now Miley being the huge superstar she is is not new to gracing magazine covers, but I don't think she has ever been seen quite like this. Miley is featured naked in the magazine, but […]
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Los Angeles is about to get invaded by 5 Seconds of Summer fans: the Aussie pop-punk band is hosting their first ever fan convention in the City of Angels from November 15 to 16, 2014. So, like, pack your bags now. The band announced this epic event on YouTube yesterday in which members Luke, Ashton, […]
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Britney Spears is a free b–ch baby! Pop Queen Britney Spears has split from her boyfriend of over a year David Lucado. The mother of two ended her long term relationship after rumours of a video of David cheating on Britney spread. GASP! How could someone cheat on someone who is perfection personified? For shame […]
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Raise your hand if you have a crippling fear of public speaking. Okay, now keep your hand up if you would ever consider conquering that fear by doing stand-up comedy. [Insert cricket noises] Well, four guys are about to do just that in the upcoming film, Delivery. Mark, Shane, Bert and Sean are all going […]
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August 29th, 2014
What happens when you combine artists with two of the most distinct voices in pop music? A painfully pretty song. At least that's the case for Maroon 5′s new track My Heart Is Open off their upcoming album V. The five-piece pop rock band recruited Gwen Stefani, front man Adam Levine's co-star from The Voice, […]
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August 28th, 2014
Whoever smelt it, dealt it. Okay forgive me for that lame joke. Just when you thought you'd grown up and matured from third grade humour someone goes and adds farts to Nicki Minaj's Anaconda video. The heavily twerking video made the perfect victim for the fart remix. You can probably imagine how much fun this […]
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August 28th, 2014
Are you just dying waiting for the new Hunger Games movie? Well have no fear, because the rebels are here to save you. Lionsgate released new promotional pictures from The Hunger Games: Mockinjay Part 1 of the rebel warriors. The photos feature Evan Ross (Messalla), Mahershala Ali (Boggs), Wes Chatham (Castor), Elden Henson (Pollox), and […]
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August 28th, 2014
1. Back to school shopping Ah, back to school shopping. The thrilling trip to Staples where you embrace the smell of new binders and the sharpness of new pencils. The ultimate shopping spree! Also, remember these magical commercials? 2. Owning binders and pencil cases Those things are completely useless after you leave school. 3. Planning […]
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August 28th, 2014
The One Where The Friends Kind of Got Back Together. Have our prayers finally been answered? It's been a a long and laugh-free 10 years since we last saw our favorite friends conversing over coffee on the couch at Central Perk. But finally the cast of Friends reunited last night, well sort of. Jimmy Kimmel […]
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YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio - Valley Democrats are urging voters to cast their ballots for the President's re-election.
Local union leaders joined Valley Congressman Tim Ryan on Monday afternoon touting President Obama's achievements which they claim have saved thousands of local jobs.
They say vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan's trip to the Valley on Monday night is an attempt at trying to convince people otherwise.
"I think everyone is making the final push and he is going to try and come here and fool people and make people in our community think he is somehow for manufacturing," Ryan said.
The local Democrats have plans to go door-to-door and make phone calls up through Election Day.


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This year's Sit. Stay. Art! event will take place on Saturday, July 12 from 7 to 11 p.m.
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How can you be optimistic about the 2007 Athletics?
Let's face the facts, the team lost Barry Zito, our former Cy Young Award winner and our most streaky pitcher - I'm told by stat guys, that hot & cold type pitchers actually help win more games, so be worried, be very worried about this and more.
The team also lost Frank Thomas, our "big stick". And, Jay Payton and Kirk Saarloos, too. How can this team compete any longer, everything has to "break the right way" and then some just to stay in the race that the team won't win anyway?
We know the sky is falling because the odds of Bradley, Kotsay, Ellis, and Crosby missing significant playing time in the same season again is virtually certain...it has to be this way because the most recent history projects the scenario to be true, and, well, we just have to temper our enthusiasm around here because there's too much of it exuding itself from the Kool-aid drinkers as it is...there has to be balance; an offset, of sorts. And back to injuries, hell, we also have to assume that Loiaza's fastball doesn't crack 87 mph for half the season, that Calero and Duchscherer spend time on the DL and that Chavez will battle forearm tendonitis and other injuries again. And, we also have to assume that Street struggles and so does Blanton, because, well...again, that's what history predicts and that just what Athletics' fan does.
So, in closing, get ready for the days of 77 win seasons once again and a depleted farm system, too. Because, folks, the sky really is falling (this time) and you are a dumbass if you don't already know this and have not already boarded the pessimism train for Gloomsville.


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1-to-many not working - not saving parent id
4 December 2009 at 8:34am
I'm tearing my hair out trying to figure what I've done wrong here (if indeed I have). I just can't get a one-to-many relationship to 'stick'. I have a class, SymposiaPage which extends Page, which should have a 1-to-many relationship with a Symposium class which extends DataObject. In SymposiaPage I have this:
static $has_many = array (
'Symposia' => 'Symposium'
In Symposium I have this:
static $has_one = array (
'SymposiaPage' => 'SymposiaPage'
In SymposiaPage I also have this:
public function getCMSFields()
$fields = parent::getCMSFields();
$tablefield = new HasManyComplexTableField(
'Year' => 'Year',
'Dates' => 'Dates',
'EventName' => 'Name',
'Location'=> 'Location'
$fields->addFieldToTab('Root.Content.Symposia', $tablefield );
return $fields;
This is so that I can add multiple Symposium records within a tab in the SymposiaPage record. It duly creates the Symposium records, but it doesn't establish any relationship with the SymposiaPage record, and I can't determine why. When I look in the database, it shows SymposiaPageID of 0 within the Symposium record - i.e., the real ID of the parent SymposiaPage record has not been saved in the child Symposium records, thus meaning no link has been established between parent and children (in effect they're orphans).
This is so fundamental a problem I can't believe I'm doing something stupid but I've spent hours now trying to figure out what. Any help would be most appreciated! SS 2.3.4.
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Re: 1-to-many not working - not saving parent id
9 December 2009 at 12:22pm
Did you find a solution? I am having the same problem. I can make the front end work if I update the ID in the database, but I cannot get the One-Many relationship to automatically establish in the CMS.
Re: 1-to-many not working - not saving parent id
27 January 2010 at 10:54am Last edited: 27 January 2010 10:55am
I have the same problem, no parent relationship (ID not set). I have SS 2.3
DownloadPage has many DownloadFiles
public static $has_many = array(
'Downloads' => 'DownloadFile'
function getCMSFields() {
$fields = parent::getCMSFields();
$tablefield = new HasManyComplexTableField(
'Name' => 'Name'
$tablefield->setAddTitle('file for download');
$fields->addFieldToTab("Root.Content.Files", $tablefield);
return $fields;
Each DownloadFile has one (belongs to a) DownloadPage
public static $has_one = array(
'ParentPage' => 'DownloadPage',
'File' => 'File'
I tried but didn't work out how to manually get the Parent->ID passed to the child's getCMSFields_forPopup() to force save the ParentID ... but I don't think I should have to.
Is this a bug with HasManyComplexTableField?
Any help will be appreciated.
Re: 1-to-many not working - not saving parent id
27 January 2010 at 11:02am
Oh and this caused me grief with the getter getDownloads() as I guess that functions by checking the child's parentID matches it's own ID
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Re: 1-to-many not working - not saving parent id
19 February 2010 at 7:44pm Last edited: 19 February 2010 7:45pm
I had a quick look at your code, did not spot anything out of ordinary. However I do remember that I had this particular incident, where I have this one to many relationship set up between ClientPage and Testimonial page. After I tick the appropriate box to link clientpage with Testimonial page, the link is established on the staging table, not the live table, and you can't tell this until you refresh the page(changed page will have green color). so my guess would be to make sure you publish your 'Testimonial' page after you link them. In your case, would be Symposium page. Please give that a try.
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Re: 1-to-many not working - not saving parent id
19 February 2010 at 8:42pm Last edited: 19 February 2010 8:42pm
I just tested this, and it seems to work as expected (using SS 2.3.5)
What you have to do is:
- Check the checkbox of the items you want to link to the page
- Save and publish (to see the changes on the published site)
The DataObject Manager module has a replacement for the HasManyComplexTableField too. It doesn't require you to klick the checkboxes and only lists the items that have a relation to the current page... much nicer, you should check it out.
Re: 1-to-many not working - not saving parent id
22 February 2010 at 1:52pm
Ah thank you! All is working now. I don't know how I missed that
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First off, that Quickfire Challenge. This is one of the things that, from a former contestant standpoint, I found pretty challenging. They're cooking in the dead heat of summer, which is never easy. But they all seem back in the game. Making a market entree with no cooking. It's what I've been saying all along. They're still not listening. It's a Quickfire Challenge. These are very clear rules. And Marcel was the only person who made an entree. Based on appearance -- on everything -- it was the clear winner. And everyone keeps coming down on the guy.


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Judge talks about why he thinks Petraeus is being silenced
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The Vice-Chair of the Senate Intelligence committee talks about yesterday's hearings
On December 2, 2008, Saxby Chambliss was elected to serve a second term in the United States Senate. Georgia Trend magazine, which has consistently named him one of its Most Influential Georgians, calls him "a highly visible and well-respected presence in Washington," and says he "has a reputation as an affable but straight-talking lawmaker." In January 2009, Georgia Trend named Chambliss its Georgian of the Year. Chambliss is a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee; the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry; the Senate Rules Committee; the Senate Special Committee on Aging; and presently serves as the vice chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.
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Summary: Quickly add organizational charts to your Word 2003 documents, and learn how to spice them up.
If your Word 2003 document needs an organization chart to illustrate a key point, you can easily add one to your document. Choose "Insert" - "Picture" - "Organization Chart". From here you can expand and label your chart:
* Label a square: Double-click on a box and start typing text.
* Add a subordinate, coworker, or assistant square: Click on a square, then click the "Insert Shape" pull-down in the "Organization Chart" toolbar.
* Change the layout. Click the "Layout" pull-down in the "Organization Chart" toolbar.
* Change the look of the boxes. Click the lightning bolt icon in the "Organization Chart" toolbar and choose a style from the "Organization Chart Style Gallery" dialog that appears.
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