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TV's 5 Most Enterprising Reality Stars
The talent quotient among this lot isn't particularly high, but in reality-TV land, talent isn't necessary to attain business success.
With a collective skill set that maxes out at binge drinking, cat fighting, and producing enough offspring to make a baseball team (minus one), the talent quotient among this lot isn't particularly high. That is, until they're invited on another reality show to learn how to tango.
But in reality TV land, there's an inverse correlation between aptitude and success -- and that success translates far beyond the small screen. Somehow it's been parlayed into the unlikeliest of arenas: the business sector. Corporations are falling all over themselves to sign these celebutantes to endorsement deals, and some of the most seemingly incompetent among them are writing books and hawking their own branded product lines.
Check out Minyanville's list of stars who, for better or worse, have gone from show business to business, business.
Never mind that, when speaking, Teresa Giudice can't string more than two sentences together, the Jersey "housewife" is a New York Times bestselling author three times over. Using the first year on the Bravo series to achieve her table-flipping infamy, Giudice wasted no time cashing in and churned out an average of one Italian cookbook per subsequent season -- even if she wasn't the one at the keyboard.
When appearing on Celebrity Apprentice, Giudice was criticized for glaring weaknesses, especially concerning creative tasks. "I could be a writer," she defended. "I just finished my third book. I have a ghostwriter. So I could get my writing done, no problem."
And maybe that's true. After all, she's proven herself a wordsmith with a "fabulous" flair for the portmanteau. She titled her latest book "Fabulicious!", launched a branded online boutique called TG Fabulicious, and released a bottled mixed bellini product called -- yep, you guessed it -- Fabellini. While making decisions about fashion and libations may be more in her wheelhouse, let's just hope someone else is crunching the numbers.
Here's another laughing stock who laughed herself all the way to the New York Times bestseller list. A cable-bred celeb who first achieved fame for getting socked in the face on MTV's (VIA) Jersey Shore, Snooki's shockingly stupid thoughts have filled the pages of two novels and a style guide, courtesy of Simon & Schuster, Inc. (CBS).
Apparently the leopard-printed-bouffant-topped-human-bottle-of-Orangina look is a real hit with the kids because Polizzi has fashioned a mini empire -- including signature sunglasses, handbags, shoes, perfume, and self-tanner -- out of her personal style. Happy Feet owner Pat Yates told CNN that all it took was one tweet from Polizzi to her three million followers, about the debut of her new Snooki slippers, to crash his company's website server.
You don't have to be Mark Zuckerberg to make a killing in the tech sector; Polizzi is living proof that you scarcely need the IQ of a gnat. A partnership with Apps Genius (APGS) landed her Snooki's Match Game for Facebook (FB) and the Snookify Me! photo-editing mobile app -- with a contract for up to eight more branded apps and games.
It used to be that you had to be able to do a 360-dunk in basketball in order to get your own video game. Now you just need to be a 24-7 drunk.
Poor Bruce Jenner. For all his accomplishments, he's now known the world over -- not as a gold medal Olympic champion, a race car driver, or even Officer Steve McLeish on CHiPs -- but as the clueless and castrated stepfather of the living embodiment of a Sir Mix-a-Lot video.
In 2007, Kim Kardashian was just a socialite with a leaked sex tape. Within three years, she was a household name and the highest paid reality star in Hollywood. In fact, her home network E! Entertainment, loved her so much, it threw her an $18 million publicity stunt, er, wedding.
Today, under the 31-year-old's belt, are more business ventures than you can shake an obscenely large pair of buttocks at. She's shilled for, among many others, Skechers (SKX), Kotex (KMB), Muscle Flex VATA athletic wear, Carl's Jr., and QuickTrim. She has also co-founded an online shoe company, and slapped her name on clothing collections for Sears (SHLD), bebe (BEBE), and QVC (LMCA) -- as well as skincare and tanning products, a perfume line, and fitness DVDs.
Within another "like, five years," America may be keeping up with her political career. Maybe it was the Botox injections talking but Kim Kardashian has threatened Glendale, California, with a run for its mayorship in 2017. The minor detail that Glendale's citizens don't actually elect their mayor needn't be an issue.
In 2005, Bethenny Frankel, neither homebound nor married, still somehow managed to land a spot on the Real Housewives of New York City. Maybe her snarky quick and rapid-fire one-liners had Bravo overlooking the fact that her singlehood and career as a natural food chef would preclude her from being cast in the series. That is, if the show was to be at all true to its title. At least she lived in Manhattan.
Two Bravo spin-offs, a Fox (NWS) daytime TV show, a low-calorie cocktail line, and an acquisition for said cocktail line by Fortune Brands' Beam Global (BEAM) later, the former "housewife" is now worth an estimated $25 million.
Of course, Frankel has the obligatory hallmarks of reality-show fame like making the New York Times Bestseller List and releasing an exercise DVD, but her spirits are her real bread and butter. According to a report from beverage industry consulting group Technomic, Frankel's SkinnyGirl was the "fastest growing brand of spirits in the US last year, posting a 388% sales increase."
Unlike his reality-star ilk on this list, The Donald wasn't a product of his TV show. By the time The Apprentice premiered on NBC in 2004, he'd already been well-versed in the art of getting cameras trained on him for some 30 years.
Throughout the ups and downs of his real estate career -- including four separate bankruptcies and his own personal bank bailout -- Trump was always proficient in one thing: shameless self-hype. "He was intelligent and gifted in some respects but perhaps none more so than his extraordinary use of the media and promoting himself," casino magnate Steve Wynn said of Trump. "Nobody seemed to have been able to understand or put his finger on how to manipulate that better than him."
That comment came from Wynn way back in 1990. In addition to 12 seasons of his own reality show, Trump has since published books, bought beauty pageants, put his puckered mug on everything from bottled water to cologne, and sort of ran for President of the United States.
Trump's $2.9 billion net worth wasn't earned from real estate he actually owns. The overwhelming majority of Trump properties are merely license deals. A case study in reality TV if we've ever seen one, Trump made his wealth not by building things but by creating the image that he had.
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When you think of a workers compensation claim, you may initially imagine cases like broken bones, burns or lead poisoning. But while these splashy scenarios may all be eligible for workers compensation, you may also be entitled to compensation for more insidious problems such as consistent sleep deprivation. Proving a claim of sleep deprivation may be more difficult than something like a broken leg, but if you have suffered real damages as a consequence of being overworked, you should be able to seek the benefits you need with the assistance of an experienced attorney.
26 July 2016
A car accident can be stressful at any time, but when your vehicle is involved in an accident with a semi truck there is a good chance that the damage and injuries will be more serious due to how large a semi truck is. If negligence or recklessness on the part of the truck driver caused the accident, you are entitled to a financial settlement. Take the following steps after you're injured in an auto collision with a semi truck:
9 July 2016
If you are involved in a motor vehicle accident for which an underage drinker is at fault, you may be entitled to collect additional damages often awarded in accidents involving negligence. The laws in the state where you live may look at accidents where alcohol is involved as an instance of gross negligence in which case you can sue for punitive damages against the drunk driver. In underage drunk driving cases, you also may be able to collect a personal injury settlement from other parties who may share in the responsibility.
25 June 2016
Most people seek the help of a doctor believing that they will be properly treated for their ailments. Unfortunately, mistakes occur within the medical system that can result in the death of a patient that might have recovered had the mistake not occurred. If you suspect that your loved one's death was the result of medical malpractice, you may be entitled to financial compensation for your pain and suffering. Here are three things you need to do to ensure that you receive the compensation you deserve in the event a loved one dies as a result of medical malpractice.
27 May 2016
When you place your loved one under the care of a nursing facility, you should have complete confidence they will be well taken care of. But for some people, the opposite is true. Nursing home abuse is an all-too-common and serious concern many people face. If you suspect your loved one is being abused, there are important steps you need to take. Gather Information When you have evidence to support your claim, you have a major advantage.
16 May 2016
Being involved in an automobile accident is an experience that many people will have over the course of their lives. Unfortunately, new drivers may not be prepared for how to legally protect themselves following an auto accident. While these events can result in serious damages and injuries, it is possible for victims of auto accidents to pursue compensation for these losses, but this can be complicated if you make some critical mistakes in the moments after your accident.
2 May 2016
Being involved in a car accident is bad enough, but being stuck with medical bills or lost wages that the insurance company won't cover you for can make things exponentially more difficult. As you're going through the process of trying to reach a settlement regarding your car accident case, there are some all-too-common mistakes you'll want to avoid that could actually hurt your case and reduce your chances of reaching a fair settlement.
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I will have works in a new art fair, The Miami Project, with Rena Bransten Gallery from December 4-9. The Miami Project has sponsorship from Miami MOCA and I will show five cut paper works. If you are in or visiting Miami next week, please stop by and check it out.
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Golf - Global game missing 'Tiger' factor, says top executive
By Rick Horrow
(Reuters) - While exciting young guns Jordan Spieth, Rory McIlroy and Jason Day have been pivotal in drawing a wide audience to the game, the sport is missing the 'Tiger' factor when it comes to 'fringe fans', says a leading golf executive.
Tiger Woods, the greatest player of his generation and arguably of all time, has not competed since August after enduring setbacks in his recovery from back surgeries and has not set a timetable for his return to the PGA Tour.
"You can never replace Tiger Woods, just like you can't replace Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus, and Gary Player," Ken Kennerly, executive director of the PGA Tour's Honda Classic which is being played this week, told Reuters.
"Tiger, it's difficult to replace him. In my opinion, without him in the game, we're missing something.
"Tiger Woods is still Tiger Woods, and when he showed up at the Wyndham Championship last year in August and played well, and was (in) one of the last couple (of) final groups ... the (television) ratings were off the charts."
Woods had his best tournament in nearly two years at the Wyndham Championship in North Carolina where he flirted with the lead but missed several birdie opportunities in the final round before finishing four strokes behind winner Davis Love III.
"Does it minimize the negative impact that Tiger has by not participating? Probably a little," said Kennerly, who is also a golf executive with sports management company IMG.
"He still delivers that fringe fan that golf needs. We saw it directly when Tiger hurt himself and couldn't play last year's Honda Classic ... the spike in ticket sales we normally get leading up to the tournament had softened a little bit.
"What does that mean in dollars and cents? Probably a couple of hundred thousand dollars that we did not see, that would have come through the gates because people still wanted to see Tiger. He is still an enormous asset for this game."
While the timing of 14-times major champion Woods' return to the game is still unknown, Kennerly is excited by the impact already made by American world number one Spieth, second-ranked Australian Day and third-ranked McIlroy of Northern Ireland.
"Luckily with Rory and Rickie (Fowler) and Jordan and Jason Day, and Bubba (Watson) and Adam Scott, and all these guys ... we have great young players that are certainly carrying their own weight," Kennerly said.
"Look at Rickie Fowler, what he's done this year. They (Spieth, Day and McIlroy) came out very boldly with talk of the next 'Big Three', and then Rickie rebounded.
"He made a statement at HSBC and then at Phoenix a couple of weeks ago where he almost won."
American Fowler fought off a late charge from McIlroy and Belgian Thomas Pieters to win the European Tour's Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship last month before losing out in a playoff with Japan's Hideki Matsuyama for the Phoenix Open two weeks later.
Those performances lifted the 27-year-old Fowler to fourth in the world rankings, prompting speculation about the development of a 'Big Four' of young guns along with Spieth, aged 22, Day (28) and McIlroy (26).
(Writing by Mark Lamport-Stokes; Editing by Frank Pingue)


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OCZ Agility 4 256GB Review
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Crystal Disk Mark 3.0: Crystal Disk Mark is a hard drive benchmark designed to measure the read and write speeds of drives by using 4k blocks, 512k blocks, and sequential data. For the test, we chose the 1000MB option.
As you can see so far, read speeds are not the the strongest suit for this drive. The write testing shows where the performance curve takes off delivering performance similar to the Vertex 4 in all four tests. This test is meant to test both compressible and incompressible data streams and shows the Agility 4 handles this load better than all but the Vertex 4.


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Our pledge is to pioneer an innovative program in Orlando that has worked extremely well for us in Miami Beach, called the 'Community Partnership Program'.
(PRWEB) December 03, 2013
Having built an impeccable reputation in Miami Beach as entrepreneurs, business owners and philanthropists, the Wallack family is making an in impact in Central Florida by opening Mango's Tropical Café on International Drive and by partnering with Give Kids The World in Kissimmee to bring happiness and hope to children battling life-threatening illnesses. Among Miami Beach's most respected families, the Wallack's business ventures have transformed South Beach's landscape. It is anticipated that the same success will follow as they open new businesses in the tourism capital of the world.
"We will soon break ground on a new 55,000 sq. ft. Mango's Tropical Café and expect to open our doors in Fall 2014," said Josh Wallack, Mango's chief operating officer. "We believe strongly in the mission of Give Kids The World and the great work they do providing free, weeklong vacations to kids with life-threatening illnesses and their families. Our pledge is to pioneer an innovative program in Orlando that has worked extremely well for us in Miami Beach, called the 'Community Partnership Program'. Essentially, we will add .25 cents to every customer check we open for GKTW and, based on past experience, that could yield hundreds of thousands of dollars each year."
"We are overwhelmed by the generosity of the Wallack family and their commitment to Give Kids The World," said Pamela Landwirth, president of Give Kids The World. "The opportunity to partner with the Wallack family and Mango's Tropical Café is a dream come true and we are truly honored that they have embraced our mission. Together we will create the happiness that inspires hope for the precious children we serve."
For information about progress on Mango's Tropical Café in Orlando, visit http://MangosOrlando.com/. Additional details about Give Kids The World can be found at http://www.gktw.org.
About Give Kids The World
Give Kids The World Village (GKTW) is a 70-acre, non-profit resort in Central Florida that creates magical memories for children with life-threatening illnesses and their families. GKTW provides accommodations at its whimsical resort, donated attractions tickets, meals and more for a weeklong, cost-free fantasy vacation. With the help of many generous individuals, corporations and partnering wish-granting organizations, Give Kids The World has welcomed more than 122,000 families from all 50 states and over 74 countries. Visit http://www.gktw.org for more information on GKTW and its mission. For our latest news, visit Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and follow our blog at http://www.givekidstheworld.org/blog.
About Mango's Tropical Café
Mango's Tropical Cafe is a world-class Restaurant & Nightlife Entertainment Destination
located in the heart of International Drive and one mile from the Orange County Convention Center. At Mango's, groups can enjoy an amazing atmosphere with nonstop entertainment accommodating up to 2,500 guests.


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Phelan welcomes boost for local radio
Local radio station, KCLR has received a major boost with funding for a number of drama projects.
The BAI (Broadcasting Authority of Ireland) has awarded €35,000 to three drama projects that will be broadcast on the station.
"This is great news for Local Radio and Local Broadcasting – the funds made available to Independent Radio Stations, and Producers, by the BAI, ensures a fresh and invigorating approach to radio and television programme making in Ireland will be maintained," Deputy Ann Phelan said.
Previously such projects would not necessarily get the 'green light' as there might be issues over funding, but in recent years the BAI has funded many projects in the Independent sector. The successful candidates are Orla Murphy, Sue Healy and The Devious Theatre Company.


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Hello lovelies!
I don't know about you, but I am looking forward to the warmth of spring! Or maybe just not all this snow and ice 🙂 At least it has been impacted and frozen over enough in our backyard that I can take Yoshi out in my slippers without actually getting them snowy/wet, haha! Win.
I recently partnered up with InstaNatural to try out a few of their essential oils! I was really excited when it was decided that the scents would be peppermint and lemon, because those are some of my favorite scents in beauty products that I use.
"At present, InstaNatural is a leading online distributor of a collection of nature-inspired beauty and cosmetic products. All of InstaNatural's products are produced in small batches and packaged in FDA-certified facilities in the USA to ensure freshness and safety for customers. With results-driven products backed by a lifetime satisfaction guarantee, InstaNatural is focused on providing the best collection of beauty products to address a wide variety of skincare needs" (InstaNatural website).
InstaNatural sells its products exclusively online, using their website and Amazon as their sales platforms. In addition, their products are cruelty-free, which is a big yes-yes for me! All of their products are either vegetarian or vegan as well, with the exception of their 100% emu oil. They sell a huge variety of products including retinols, oils, moisturizers, masks, hair treatments, serums, the list goes on.
For the review, we were supposed to get a lavender "sample" (and I use the word sample lightly, as we were sent the full-size products to review which has really helped me to try it in a variety of settings) as well, but there has been a temporary shortage. However, I will say that I loved the lemon and peppermint so much, that I ordered the lavender oil on my own dime when it was back in stock!
My Experience + DIY
I was really excited to try out these essential oils, as ever since I have made the pledge to go cruelty-free, I have been researching DIY beauty products like crazy! I love the idea of researching, obtaining the raw materials, and developing something on your own that you wholeheartedly love and know how it was made 🙂 Essential oils are one of those ingredients that can be used in almost anything you make: soaps, bath bombs, scrubs, candles, etc.
These oils from InstaNatural are cold-pressed which helps increase the longevity of the scent and its elements. There are no added ingredients or fillers, and the bottle comes with a dropper which is perfect for when recipes call for just a small amount of the oil. Although essential oils are safe to apply directly to the skin and for use in room diffusers, I have used mine exclusively for DIY:
Bath bombs using the lavender essential oil & some blue food coloring (I didn't have red to make purpe). Recipe here.
Peppermint-cocoa lip balm using a recipe from this book.
Terrific tinted lip gloss (w/ added lemon essential oil) using a recipe from this book.
The scent came through quite nicely into the finished product, and I can't wait to experiment with these oils in the production of hand scrubs, face scrubs, lotions, soaps, masks, conditioners, the list goes on and on and on!
The only somewhat "problem" I can think of is that the bottle has a difficult time containing the smell. Even with Amazon's excellent packaging of the sealed bottles taped in bubble wrap, separated by air packs, the smell was pervasive in opening the box. I had them stored in a cabinet in the kitchen, but I could smell them every time I was in the kitchen. Nothing had leaked, it's just 100% pure extracted oil, and with a little going a long way, it's easy to see how strong the scent is in the entire bottle. I will trying putting them in ziploc bags to see if that helps, as I don't know if the objects/ingredients around them will absorb the smell.
Overall, I am confident putting my reputation on the line to support these oils. The bottles go a long way, and at a little under $20/piece, the value is extraordinary! If you consider trying some essential oils, give this brand a try, you won't be disappointed!
Although this is a sponsored post, powered by Brandbacker, I am excited to try more of their products and share what I learn about them with you!
XO Ali


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Costa Rica's night life buzzes with live music that ranges from the traditional Latin rhythms to classical symphonies at the spectacular National Theater to pop music at the local discotecas. Like many Latin American countries, the Africa-derived, xylophone-style instrument, the marimba, is the foundation of native music in Costa Rica. On the Atlantic coast, the air is filled with the sounds of steel drums, reggae beats, and other instruments of the Caribbean.
Places to go for live music:
Classical Music
National Symphony Orchestra
When: Concerts on Thursday and Friday evenings at 8pm and Sunday mornings
at 10:30am during the season, April through November.
Location: National Theater
Seating: the "galeria" is the least expensive seating section, with prices usually under a dollar.
Una Hora de Musica
For chamber-music lovers.
When: Once or twice a month
Location: National Theater, as well as in theaters in Cartago, Alajuela, and Heredia
Phone: 21-53-41 (call to check performance times)
The Costa Rican-North American Cultural Center
Offers classical music through its University Musicians Series, which brings oustanding groups and soloists from U.S. universities.
Alliance Francaise
Offers a monthly concert or recital.
Goethe Institute
Offers occasional classical music evenings.
Goethe Institute
Occasionally offers traditional and avant-garde jazz.
Liverpool Music Hall
Offers jazz, blues and rock bands.
Location: in Barrio Mexico
The Shakespeare Gallery
Features live jazz
When: Monday evenings after 9pm (Jazz Expresso).
Location: in the Sala Garbo
Latin Music
Chavetas Tavern
Live music
When: Monday through Saturday after 8:30pm
Location: in El Pueblo shopping center in Guadalupe.
Sometimes offers Andean music.
Location: in El Pueblo
Features salsa and merengue.
When: Tuesday through Thursday
Location: in El Pueblo
Los Andes
Occasionally features Latin music groups.
Where: near the University of Costa Rica.
Las Esmeralda
Hotspot for mariachi groups - open all night.
Location: downtown San José
"Peña" is an intellectual style of performance art that blends music with spoken word and poetry. Local musicians of outstanding ability in this style include Adrain Goizueta y el Grupo Experimental, Luis Angel Castro, Ruben Pagura and Juan Carlos Ureña, and Canto America. Concerts featuring any of these names are not to be missed!
La Rayula
Where: 100 north and 100 east of the San Pedro church
Live music on Tuesday nights
Where: 25 east of La Nueva China in San Pedro
Spanish guitar, rock, coffee house
When: Monday nights
Location: in San Pedro
The Shakespeare Bar
Luis Castro plays on Saturday nights
Location: in the Sala Garbo movie theater
Rock, Caribbean, Reggae, and Others
El Cuartel de la Boca del Monte ("The Cuartel")
Live music every Wednesday; experimental-Caribe group Marfil often plays.
Location: near the university
Offers a variety of rock, jazz and blues.
Location: Barrio Mexico
Go anywhere on the Atlantic coast to hear Bob Marley and other Reggae music.


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PCVT Training and Education Institute
The Training and Education Institute seeks to move beyond traditional trainings that simply provide information. Through the Training Contract System, we collaborate with participants to create agency shifts designed to produce safe and effective options for LGBTQ survivors of violence.
We also work within LGBTQ communities to help groups better understand the range of options available to those whose lives have been touched by violence.


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Rock Band 2 Introduces Real World Instruments
Announced today from Harmonix and MTV Games, Rock Band 2 will be getting an array of musical instruments straight from the music industry's top of the line manufacturers. From guitars and basses, to the drums and mics, players (or should I say rock stars) will be able to jam to their favorite songs with a wide variety of options. Greg LoPiccolo, Vice President of Product Development at Harmonix Music Systems had this to say on the subject:
"We believe that working closely with our musical instrument partners is crucial to our mission to deliver the most authemtic music experience possible. Whether it's picking out your P Bass, finding the right finish & hardware for your drums, or choosing the best microphone for your singer's style, having real world instruments included within the world of Rock Band 2 is essential."
Here is the list of what's to come...
Guitars, Basses and Amplifiers:
- Fender™ (Including Charvel™, Gretsch™, Jackson™, Squier™, SWR™)
- Gretsch Drums™
- Ludwig/Conn-Selmer
- Pearl
- SJC Custom Drum
- Zildjian Cymbals
- Selnnheiser
- Shure
- Ernie Ball
- Electro-Harmonix
- EMG Pickups
- Fender™
- Ludwig Drumsticks
- Pro-Mark
- Roland/BOSS
- Vater Drumsticks
- Vic Firth
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The Senate seat that's now up for grabs in Massachusetts, with a special election set for Jan. 19, is called "the Kennedy seat," and with good reason: Since 1952, or for 57 years, the seat has been occupied by only three people: John F. Kennedy; the brief appointment of JFK's college roommate (seriously); and then Ted Kennedy, and in fact a possible frontrunner for the job is Ted Kennedy's nephew, ex-U.S. Rep. Joe Kennedy.
That's interesting, but what about "the slightly loony, right-wing former-pitcher-for-the-Philadelphia-Phillies seat"? That's been a D.C. tradition ever since 1998 when Kentucky voters, in their infinite wisdom, promoted then-Rep. Jim Bunning to the senior circuit in Congress. Bunning pitched a legendary perfect game on Father's Day for the Phillies as the ace of their staff in 1964, but his Senate career has been, um, less than perfect. In some Mark Sanford foreshadowing, he once disappeared from the job for a week, he seemed a tad enthusisatic in prematurely predicting the death of liberal Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg, and Time magazine, in calling Bunning one of our five worst senators (no small achievement!), said the Hall of Famer "shows little interest in policy unless it involves baseball." Recently, Bunning announced he won't run for a third term in 2010 -- which was a blow to Attytood, since it would have deprived me of the ability to blog about right-wing looniness and the Phillies in the same post, saving considerable time.
But now warming up in the bullpen, No. 38, Curt Schilling!
BOSTON - Curt Schilling, the former major league pitcher who won the allegiance of Bostonians by leading the Red Sox to the 2004 World Series, said Wednesday that he has "some interest" in running for the seat held for nearly 50 years by Democratic Sen. Edward M. Kennedy.
Schilling, a registered independent and longtime Republican supporter, wrote on his blog that while his family and video game company, 38 Studios, are high priorities, "I do have some interest in the possibility."
"That being said, to get to there, from where I am today, many, many things would have to align themselves for that to truly happen," he added.
Schilling seems too perfect of a fit for the U.S. Senate, although he'd actually have to shrink his ego a tad for the job, and while 19th-Century Republicans held onto their power on Capitol Hill by "waving the bloody shirt," Schilling could continue to wave the bloody sock. Maybe if he were in the Senate, he could cover his face with a towel every time that his "teammate" Mitch -- this time McConnell, not Williams -- stepped forward. There's only one flaw with this plan, and that is that Schilling would have to win as a Republican in the ultimate lefty state of Massachusetts. But the start of an election season, just like spring training, is always a time for impossible dreams.


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Carrot Muffins Recipe
This moist carrot muffins use orange juice in the batter and a little bit of cinnamon. Very tasty!
Carrot Muffins
(Makes 12)
1 egg
3⁄4 cup orange juice
1⁄2 cup melted butter
1⁄2 cup granulated sugar
2 cups all purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1⁄2 teaspoon baking soda
1⁄2 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon cinnamon (more or less to taste)
2 cups shredded carrots
*Optional 1/2 cup chopped walnuts
Cream Cheese Frosting
(Makes about 1 1/2 cup)
1 (8oz) packaged cream cheese, at room temperature
1/4 cup butter, at room temperature
1 cup confectioners' sugar
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
1/2 cup chopped walnuts
Preheat the oven to 400F.
Line a 12 hole muffin tin with paper liners.
Melt the butter in a small saucepan over low heat. Shut off and set aside.
Place the egg into a mixing bowl and beat with an electric mixer on medium speed.
Ad the orange juice, melted butter and sugar and mix in.
In another bowl, stir together the flour,baking powder, baking soda, salt and cinnamon.
Add the dry to the wet and mix in with low speed. Mix only until moist.
Fold in the shredded carrots and nuts if you are using.
Fill the muffin holes to 2/3 full.
Place into the preheated oven and bake for 15-20 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.
Remove and place onto a cooling rack. Let sit in the pan for five minutes then remove the muffins directly onto the cooling rack.
Cream Cheese Frosting
Place all the cream cheese and butter into a mixing bowl. Using an electric mixer on medium speed, beat until creamy and combined.
Add the confectioners' sugar slowly and mix in.
Add the vanilla and mix in.
When the carrot muffins have cooled, frost and garnish with chopped walnuts.


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Huawei Mate 8 VS Huawei Mate S 4G Smartphones
Huawei has introduced very interesting smartphone: the Mate S and Mate 8 in recent months. The Chinese producer Huawei went up to the third-largest smartphone seller in the German market in 2015 and the Mate 8 and Mate S would like to improve on this position. While the Mate S was presented at IFA in Berlin and a short time later went on sale; the Mate 8 has been presented only to CES in early 2016. The two mobile phones are technically and optically very similar at first glance, but take a closer look at the technical and visual details, there are much difference.
The Huawei Mate S distinguishes very little visually from Huawei Mate 8: The front is dominated by a huge screen and each very narrow margins, hardware keys do not exist. The display of Mate S measures 5.5 inches, which is slightly smaller than that of Mate 8, which measures 6 inches. Even if the difference in the data sheet appears small: at the latest when you have the mate S and 8 in the hand and compares, you will notice the difference in size significantly. The Mate 8 is bulky, but one hand can hand it, so you should not be regarded it as negative point.
The processing of both the Mate 8 as well as the Mate S is almost perfectly. The Mate S here nonetheless wins the comparison, because the back has two thin antenna strip of metal, while in Mate 8 has only a piece of plastic cover for the antennas used. The Mate 8 falls on the circular fingerprint scanner and the circular camera mount, while the Mate S has both built in classic rectangular design. Both Huawei Mate S and the Huawei Mate 8 have two colors: gray and white.
Basically, both the Huawei Mate S and the Huawei Mate 8 are a very good technical equipment, which is classified in the upper class. Let's start with the display: the resolution of 1920 × 1080 pixels in common, but the display technology is different: the Mate S uses an AMOLED panel while the Mate 8 uses an IPS panel. Colors, brightness and sharpness are excellent for both devices. The internal memory is 32 gigabytes in size in each case and can be expanded via MicroSD memory card up to 128 GB. In addition, for Huawei Mate 8, there is still the possibility to take a second nano-SIM card instead of a mocro-SD card, so is it the ideal dual SIM smartphone. The simultaneous use of MicroSD card and dual SIM is not possible. Regarding the processor, the two devices differ only slightly, at least no difference in the speed. Nevertheless, the Huawei Mate 8 with the HiSilicon Kirin 950 is the significantly latest octa-core processor (Mate S: Kirin 935). Both devices come with 3 gigabytes of RAM and a very good fingerprint sensor.
Other differences are there between the radio links, here the Huawei Mate is 8 is clearly more superior than the Huawei Mate S: the Mate 8 has not only the aforementioned dual-SIM function, but also the LTE modem is significantly faster (LTE Cat6 instead LTE Cat4, ie up to 300 MBit/s instead of just up to 150 Mbit/s downstream). In addition, the Mate 8 the near-field wireless NFC, the Mate S has not. Even when the wireless topic Mate 8 has one step ahead: it supports Dual Band WLAN 802.11a/b/g/n/ac on 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz, while the Mate S only WLAN 802.11b/g/n supports 2.4 GHz. The back camera of Mate S and Mate 8 has an optical image stabilizer (OIS) and a dual-LED flash. The Mate 8 can create photos with up to 16 megapixel resolution (4: 3 format) that Mate S can accommodate up to 13 megapixels. For videos, both devices are limited to Full HD.
The Huawei Mate 8 is already with the latest Android 6.0 operating system and making it more up to date than the Mate S, which currently runs on Android 5.1.1. Serious differences do not exist, both units are very fast and the functions differ only in details. Both devices have pre-installed the user interface EMUI that Mate 8 a slightly newer version. EMUI reminiscent of the appearance and operation of the forth something to Apple iOS and is very easy to use.
An important point must not be missed when comparing two smartphones: the battery. While the Huawei Mate S comes with a 2,700 mAh strong battery, only slightly thicker and heavier, Huawei Mate 8 has a 4,000 mAh strong battery on board. not be missed: The batteries are not changeable for the two devices, when Mate 8 has a fast-charging adapter included, which fully charges the device within approximately 2.5 hours. During daily use, the higher capacity of the battery makes the Huawei Mate 8 clearly noticeable: while the Mate S just allow one day at normal use, two days at normal use are possible on Mate 8 easily. The Huawei Mate 8 is, like its predecessor Huawei Mate 7, a real endurance runner and currently certainly one of the smartphone with the best battery performance.
We can see Huawei Mate 8 dominates in many aspects, however, it must be noted that the Mate 8 is just appeared, while the S Mate is on the market for several months. After all Huawei Mate 8 is the latest new flagship for Huawei. The Huawei Mate S is currently cheaper than Mate 8 without a contract. If you need a budget good smartphone, Huawie Mate S may be a good option.
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The defender of Gotham City may soon be the governor of New Mexico.
One-time Batman Val Kilmer is considering running for governor of the southwestern state in 2010, to succeed Gov. Bill Richardson. "I'm just looking for ways to be contributive," Kilmer tells the Associated Press. "And if that ends up being where I can make a substantial contribution, then I'll run."
The actor, who's lived in the state for more than 20 years, says he has not yet decided if he will run, but has been out and about listening to people. Should he decide to make a move for the governor's mansion, Kilmer will vie with Lt. Gov. Diane Denish for the Democratic nomination — and he's confident about his chances.
"If I run, I'm going to be the next governor," he says.
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Both the ATLAS and CMS experiments have observed a new fundamental particle consistent with the long-sought Higgs boson. Now the exciting work of understanding its significance begins.
The results presented by ATLAS and CMS are labelled "very preliminary", having been prepared for presentation at the major particle physics conference of the year, ICHEP2012, which began in Melbourne on 4 July. The analyses are still being consolidated, and are expected to reach maturity by the end of the month. Once that has been achieved, work on determining the precise nature of the particle and its significance for our understanding of the universe can begin in earnest. In particle physics parlance, strong evidence means that the probability of an observation being attributable to a statistical fluctuation is less than one per cent. Today, both the ATLAS and CMS experiments are beyond the level of around one per million that's required to claim a discovery, and the experiments should confirm that level of confidence once these analyses are complete.
The hunt for the Higgs particle has long been one of the top priorities for particle physics. The Higgs is associated with a mechanism proposed in the mid-1960s to explain why one of nature's fundamental forces has a very short range while a similar force has infinite range. The forces in question are the electromagnetic force, which brings light to us from the stars, carries electricity around our homes, and gives structure to the atoms and molecules from which we are all made, and the weak force, which drives the energy generating processes of the stars. The electromagnetic force is carried by particles called photons, which have no mass, whereas the weak force is carried by particles called W and Z that do have mass. Rather like people passing a ball, interacting particles exchange these force carriers. The heavier the ball, the shorter the distance it can be thrown; the heavier the force carrier, the shorter its range. W and Z particles were discovered at CERN in the 1980s, but the mechanism that gives rise to their mass remains to be unlocked, and the Higgs boson is the key.
A simple observation is not enough, however, because the Higgs boson can take many forms. In its basic incarnation, the mechanism is the simplest theoretical model that accounts for the mass difference between photons and W and Z particles, and for the masses of other fundamental particles. But there are other formulations of the mechanism linked to theories such as supersymmetry, which could account for the universe's mysterious dark matter, or to theories predicting extra dimensions of space, which, if verified, would truly revolutionise our understanding of the universe we live in.
So once the discovery is confirmed, the next question is: "What kind of Higgs boson do we have"? Positive identification of the new particle's characteristics will take considerable time and data. It's rather like spotting a familiar face from afar; closer observation might be needed to tell whether it's an old friend who loves coffee, or her identical twin sister who favours tea. But whatever form the Higgs particle takes, our understanding of the universe is about to change.
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"BEING JOHN Malkovich" is for anyone who ever wondered what it was like to get into someone else's head -- literally.
Penned by Charlie Kaufman and directed by Spike Jonze, this brilliantly inventive fantasy fuses weird to wonderful, as John Cusack, Catherine Keener and others enter actor John Malkovich's brain by means of a "portal."
I'm talking about a small door, about waist high, that leads them into the winding pinkish tunnel of his cranium, and, eventually, Malkovich's mental control tower.
There they are, looking through his eyes as he wanders through his Manhattan apartment, takes a shower, checks his teeth in the mirror and leafs through catalogues of bathroom towels. There they are, being John Malkovich.
How do they get to this point? It starts with Craig Schwartz (Cusack), a bearded, world-weary puppeteer whose obsession with artistic integrity has him living in near-poverty in New York City.
His idea of a really good puppet show? "Abelard & Heloise: A Love Story," in which the lovelorn marionettes scratch frantically at the cloistered wall that separates them, their hips undulating in suggestive rhythms. No wonder a passing father slugs Craig in the mouth when he performs his show on the sidewalk.
"Honey, not again," says his wife Lotte (Cameron Diaz, practically unrecognizable in her unkempt scuzziness), when he returns with a bloody mouth.
Craig's marriage isn't going too well, either. Lotte, who has a menagerie of odd pets, is preoccupied with her pet chimp Elijah, an emotional wreck who wears a diaper and suffers traumatic memories of his capture by humans.
Driven to find income, Craig gets a job as a filing clerk at LesterCorp, which is located on the 7 1/2th floor of an office building.
The workers stoop constantly under the low ceiling. Their boss Dr. Lester (Orson Beane) is obsessed with juicing and sex. And Lester's "executive liaison" Floris (Mary Kay Place), who mishears every word spoken to her, assumes everyone but her has a speech impediment.
"My name is Schwartz," insists Craig, after Floris has called him Mr. Juarez.
" `My name is Warts?' " says Place.
Craig falls madly in love with fellow worker Maxine (Keener), a dour, attractive woman who has no interest in him. But that changes when he tells her of his recent discovery: a door behind some cabinets, which leads to Malkovich's gray matter.
Craig and Maxine join forces, offering tours of Malkovich for $200. Things get really complicated when Lotte visits John's inner recesses and enjoys the experience a little too much. Suddenly there's talk of "sexual reassignment surgery" and it seems that Maxine -- who works her charms on the unwitting Malkovich himself -- really likes the idea of Lotte entering John's head and indirectly participating.
Obviously, Craig isn't thrilled with this odd triangulation, which excludes him from both women. And we haven't even begun to describe Malkovich's reaction to the beeline of people entering his brain.
This movie would not have been possible without Malkovich's sporting consent. As the central object of everyone's affections, he plays himself with wonderful ironic restraint. His state of bewilderment -- especially when those unseen invaders learn to control his words, actions and even lovemaking -- is hilarious.
Cusack and Keener create an amusingly twisted synergy; she's a boho/Uptown snoot constantly looking for a better social prospect. He's a sleazy narcissist, fixated on artistic success. They're terrible for each other, which is to say perfect for "Being John Malkovich." And Mary Kay Place's few moments as Floris, alone, are worth the price of admission.
Debuting screenwriter Kaufman and Jonze, who played Pvt. Conrad in David O. Russell's "Three Kings," and who's a veteran of music videos and television commercials, have infiltrated the stagnating brain of Hollywood filmmaking and filled it with something provocative and engaging. This movie, so full of creativity, so subversive, so alive, makes the prospect of their future collaborations -- including a movie called "Human Nature" -- delicious.
BEING JOHN MALKOVICH (R, 112 minutes) -- Contains obscenity, nudity and sexual scenes. At the Cineplex Odeon Shirlington 7, Dupont Circle 5 and Avalon.


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I'm determined to get a decent crop of tomatoes and peppers this year! I live in an apartment complex, so my options only include planting in pots. I have some things planted in the lawn outside of my terrace but I don't think those are supposed to be there...
Anyway, last year I harvested all of 7 grape tomatoes. I've switched things around this year in hopes of getting a better return. I have larger pots, better soil, and more plants. Probability alone says I should get at least 21 grape tomatoes! Everything is already flowering. I'm hoping to get a pepper this year.
I'm pretty proud of my 2 foot tall plants! Unfortunately, my parents aren't having as much luck. Chipmunks apparently love tomato plants. They have planted at least 2 separate tomato crops due to the insatiable appetite of the chipmunk family!
All of my houseplants are outside and loving the humidity. My hibiscus should bloom in a month or so. I can't wait to photograph that!
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My first order from Silver Tips Tea:
1/2 lb Makaibari 1st Flush 2013 Darjeeling
I'm on vacation in a cabin, huddling in the only corner that has a wifi signal, so I can order some spring laoshan green from verdant, as well as an adorable tiny fish and lotus tea cup! Squee! :)
Tea buying hiatus has officially been busted.
From Amazon
Sun's Tea Glass Tea Tumbler
From Mandala Tea
4 oz of Special Dark pu'er—not on the site yet but Garret took pity on me.
oooh, curious about that pu'er!
Me too! I have been obsessing about it since Garret mentioned it on Facebook.
I am on a tea buying hiatus, BUT…I needed this to brew up all the iced tea I'm drinking.
So, I wasn't planning on buying anything, but teapot1 got me interested in that flash chill iced tea steeper and someone else on here ordered a nice bonavita variable temperature kettle, and I didn't have either, so I went for it! I also finally ordered a tin of Nina's Paris grand amour tea while I was at it! Woohoo!!
I saw great comments on this pitcher in a discussion thread HERE, and the Amazon comments are solid…I can't wait to make my first pitcher of iced tea in it!!! Woohoo:)
What color did you choose?
Ya, the comments did look good, and I wanted something super easy. I got the raspberry one. So cute!
Hope you love the kettle, I'm digging mine! Make sure you do at least three pots full of boiling water first to get some of the factory smell out of it (they recommend it in the instructions) After three I didn't taste anything weird in the water.
I was in the mood for citrus and berries, so I ordered a Try Me pack from Della Terra. Blueberry Crumble, you shall be mine!!
I ordered lemon meringue chai and blueberry cream cheese streusel from 52Teas.
I also ordered the Tardis blend from Adagio for my niece who likes tea and LOVEs Dr. Who. The tin is really cool!
Took advantage of Della Terra's 30% coupon yesterday! I decided to get some samples since I'm fairly new to tea and it's my first order from DT. Here's what I chose:
Oolong Crème de la Crème
Rainforest Nectar
Double Berry Burst
The Perfect Pear
Mellow Mango Peach
Blueberry Crumble
Strawberries & Cream
Oolong Peach
Apricot Carousel
Pineapple Upside Down Cake
I also got 2oz. of Walnut Brittle, because I love David Tea's Toasted Walnut and am almost running out. I felt like I'd really like Walnut Brittle so I decided to just go for it. :)
OK I'm officially addicted. I now awaiting the arrival of FOUR orders. I need to stop. I think I said that after the last one. The only thing I was really missing from my cupboard (or will be once I get my other orders) was a roasted yerba mate. Was looking around for one and stumbled across Fusion Teas. They had lots of interesting blends and offered sample sizes. They also had a 10% off coupon if you liked them on facebook, so I did that. I ordered:
Roasted Yerba Mate Size: 3oz $6.00
Gingersnap Cookie Rooibos Sample $3.00
Pumpkin Rooibos Sample $3.00
Hazelnut Honeybush Sample $2.50
Tulsi Chai Black Tea Sample $3.00
Caramel Chai Pu-erh – Aged Black Tea Sample $3.50
Roasted Pumpkin Yerba Mate $3.00
Wild Cherry Hibiscus Fruit Tisane 3oz $7.20
Carrot Cake Rooibos Sample $3.00
Subtotal: $34.20
Discount(s): $3.42
Shipping: $12.55
Couldn't resist another Butiki order.
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Premium Taiwanese Assam
Caramel vanilla Assam
Peppermint Patty
I might do my first Butiki order after the wedding, hopefully I will feel free to buy myself a treat after all the wedding spending! :)


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A photograph "taken in the Mourne Mountains by a Dublin doctor provides strong evidence that a third wild cat is prowling the Ulster countryside."
"The picture, which appears to show a large, black, puma-like creature prowling in a field, was taken by a Dublin-based doctor who described the animal as bigger than a collie (dog)."
"He snapped the amazing photo close to Slieve Bearnagh," County Down, Northern Ireland, "in the Mourne Mountains in July (2003)."
"Dr. Brendan O'Donnell, who spotted the feline with his wife, said, 'It was unbelievable. It was completely different to a domestic cat in the way it moved, which to me was like a hunter.'"
"'The long tail, which can be seen in the photo, was incredibly distinctive. It was one of the most distinctive features and proved to me it couldn't be a domestic cat.'"
"This new evidence that a large black cat is roaming close to the Mourne Mountains comes as the two wild animals still at large in the north (County) Antrim countryside continue to evade capture."
"Phone calls continue to be made to police on a daily basis detailing sightings of the sandy-coloured puma (cougar or mountain lion in the USA--J.T.) and what is thought to be a black panther."
"Over the weekend, the puma is believed to have been spotted close to a hen house at a farm near Dervock while other reports indicate that the wild cats have been spotted roaming in housing estates in Bushmills."
"Collectors could well be prevented from keeping lions and tigers following a decision" by the government "to extend the Dangerous Wild Animal Act to Northern Ireland." (See the Belfast Telegraph for September 29, 2003. Many thanks to UFO Roundup's phantom panther expert, Robert Fischer, for this newspaper article.)
(Editor's Comment: Welcome to Here, Kitty, Kitty Week at UFO Roundup. The number of phantom panther (alien big cats in UK--J.T.) sightings has skyrocketed since last week.)
"Maui's 'mystery cat' has been seen in the Orinda area, near Wailuku, state officials reported Saturday," September 27, 2003.
"The recent cluster of sightings rule out a biologist's earlier concern that the animal had moved to a more remote territory" on Maui, one of the islands that form the USA's state of Hawaii, "after it had not been seen for several days."
"Two women got a good look at the cat in the most recent of the sightings, reporting that they passed within about seven feet (2.2 meters) of the animal when it crossed the road ahead of their car around 8:50 p.m. Thursday night (September 25, 2003), according to a Department of Land and Natural Resources (DLNR) statement."
"The women described it as about seven feet long, with a long tail, black coat, yellow-green eyes and a flat face with indented ears."
"Early Thursday morning, another group of people reported they had seen the cat cross the road at the same spot" in Olinda.
"Division of Forestry and Wildlife personnel were to scout the area for signs of the cat, using infrared night vision equipment Friday night (September 26, 2003) but there was no information on the success of the effort."
"In a sighting Wednesday afternoon (September 24, 2003), three people who'd seen the cat before watched it for about three minutes as it walked down a pasture fence. DLNR officials said it was a good sighting because they were able to give a clear description of the cat."
"On (Friday) September 19 and (Monday) September 22 (2003), Olinda residents heard the cat calling, and on (Saturday) September 20 (2003), an Olinda family reported indications that it had visited their yard, eaten food left outside and sprayed their lanai."
"State wildlife biologist Fern Duvall said the multiple sightings were a good sign that the cat was not responsible for some reported goat maulings in Kula."
"Two women who live in the Waiakoa area of Kula said their goats had been mauled and some killed. They don't claim the cat had done it, but were skeptical a dog could have jumped over their high fence."
"'What the hell could have gotten in and out so fast?' said Ernette Prones, whose eight goats were mauled, one fatally."
(Editor's Comment: UFO Roundup readers can answer that question in one word: Chupacabra!)
"But Duvall said the recent sighting placed the cat in Olinda, and said a loose dog might have been responsible for attacking the goats."
"'The cat can't be in both places,' he said." (See the Maui Weekly News for September 28, 2003, "Goat maulings in Waiakoa might have been dogs." Many thanks to Bob Fischer for this newspaper article.)
"A Black Isle man has told the North Star of seeing what he believes to be a large, black, cat-like creature near Avoch last week."
"Civil servant Gerry McGarry's sighting came only days after two young girls," Josie Gaitens, 12, and her sister, Hannah, 8, "fled in terror from a big cat only a few hundred yards (metres) from where he had said he spotted a similar creature."
"Gerry, who works in Inverness, was returning home to Fortrose on Monday," September 22, 2003 "at around 5:25 p.m., in a car driven by his wife Lorraine, when he looked out to his left and glimpsed a large black animal."
"'It was on a field quite high up,' he recalled, 'At first I thought it was a cow, because it was about the length of a cow, but only about half the height.'"
"'I didn't tell my wife at the time because I didn't think it could be a panther, and she might have thought I was daft. But when I read the story about the two girls from Avoch who thought they saw a panther, it freaked the hell out of me.'"
"'I wish I had gone back for a good look, because I've heard a lot of stories about a black cat being in our (Ross-shire) area.'"
"Mr. McGarry said the issue concerned him, as his daughter Erin will have to go in two years' time to Avoch Primary School, close to the scene of his own and the girls' sightings."
"Sales rep Mark Slater thought Evening Express reports of big cat sightings were 'a load of rubbish.'"
"That was before he came face-to-face with a 'panther.'"
"It happened last Saturday night (September 20, 2003) while Mark, 33, and his wife were driving home to Bridge of Don after visiting his mother-in-law in Stuartfield."
"The sighting was on the (motorway) B9030 Old Deer to Auchnagatt Road."
"It was 8:30 p.m. and dark when, about a mile and a half (2.4 kilometers) north of Auchnagatt, Mark's wife spotted something on the other side of the road, flashing eyes picked out in the car's headlights."
"Mark, of Woodcroft, Bridge of Don, said, 'It was running towards us on the right-hand side. At first my wife thought it was a big black dog, but I could see it wasn't. The way in which it moved was cat-like and, as we got closer, I hit the brakes to take a better look.'"
"The 'cat' ran past the driver's side of the car about three yards (2.7 metres) from Mark and darted into a nearby field."
"'It was going at some speed,' he said, 'I could say that it was close in height to an Alsatian (dog) but longer. It had short, sleek, jet-black hair, and its tail came up in a crook. I firmly believe that it was a panther.'"
"He was surprised and curious rather than frightened by his experience."
"But, he added, 'There was no way that I'm getting out of the car and following it on foot.'"
"There has been a spate of sightings of a 'panther' in the Carnie Woods, near Westhill. The beast, called the Carnie Cat, has been seen at least five times in the last month and a half." (See the Scottish newspapers North Star for September 26, 2003, "New big cat about on Black Isle;" and the Aberdeen Evening Express for September 26, 2003, "Thought big cat sightings were rubbish...then I saw one." Many thanks to Bob Fischer for these newspaper articles.)
"The plight of the borough's ducks and swans has provoked much discussion over the past year, but one outlandish idea has emerged--a large wild puma is to blame."
"An Enfield woman was walking her dog on Sunday (September 21, 2003) when she spotted the enormous feline prowling the banks of the New River."
"She said the dark-brown beast was larger than her Labrador (retriever dog) with a four-foot (1.3-metre) long tail and pointed ears. She quickly made her way to her home on Tenniswood Road and called police. But when officers arrived, the creature had vanished."
"Mark Fraser, of the British Big Cat Society, believes the animal's description fits that of a puma. He said: 'Big cats in the wild are increasingly coming to the cities attracted by the food. I would not be surprised if wild cats made it to Enfield.'"
"Mr. Fraser advised steering away from the large feline and added that there have been only two attacks on the public from big cats in his 15 years as an expert."
"At present, there have been numerous sightings of mysterious 'big cats' in Britain, including photographs and film but no firm evidence."
"A spokesman for Lincoln Zoo ruled out the possibility of the Enfield puma being an escapee. She said: 'We don't have any pumas here at the moment, so it certainly ddn't come from here.'"
"But, she added, 'The most frequent sighting we get is the puma. So they must be thriving out there somewhere.'" (See the Enfield and Haringey Independent for September 25, 2003, "Warning--Big cats on the loose." Again, many thanks to Bob Fischer for this newspaper article.)
(Editor's Comment: Bob, if these reports keep pouring in, you'll be able to launch your own newspaper--Phantom Panther Press. Meanwhile, in the USA, there's still the Great American Monster...)
"A Winooski man believes he saw a Bigfoot-type creature at dusk while driving north on Route 7 in Glastenbury," Vermont on Wednesday, September 24, 2003.
"At about 7:10 p.m., Ray Dufresne, 45, was heading back up north after visiting his daughter at Southern Vermont College, when he spotted a six-foot-plus (2 meter) tall, 270 pound, 'big black thing' walking upright near the highest point of elevation on Route 7."
"'It was hairy from the top of his head down to the bottom of his feet,' said Dufresne, 'It was not walking like a normal person.'"
"Although Dufresne couldn't see the animal's face, he said from his vantage point of about 140 feet (42 meters) away, he could see that the creature had very long arms and was covered in long black hair. He said it walked east into the woods toward Glastenbury Mountain."
(Editor's Note: Glastenbury Mountain is the paranormal capital of Vermont. For decades the mountain has had sightings of UFOs, Bigfoot, phantom panthers, mysterious robed figures, strange disappearances, you name it! Indeed, H.P. Lovecraft set his one-and-only alien story, The Whisperer in Darkness, in the Glastenbury area.)
"'The first thing I thought was, this is a gorilla costume! I thought it was a joke,' he said, 'Then I put two and two together.'"
"There were no homes or abandoned car nearby, so Dufresne surmised that the dark figure could not have been a person. Although he had heard of the Bigfoot phenomenon before, Dufresne said he had never heard of it happening in Vermont."
"Dufresne also attested that he had not been drinking or doing drugs on Wednesday, and that he had no history of mental illness."
"'Why would someone be walking down the road like that?' Dufresne said he asked himself at the time. 'I kicked myself for not turning back.'"
"Dufresne continued driving north to his house. He said that at his job at a car dealership in Burlington on Thursday," September 25, 2003, "people were having a laugh at his expense while he retold his story."
"Lt. District Chief Dane Hathaway of the (Vermont) Field and Wildlife Dept. said this was the first time he had heard of anything like this during his 32 years of working for the state."
Mount Glastenbury is nine miles (14 kilometers) east of Bennington, Vermont in the Green Mountain National Forest.
Elsewhere in the USA, a Bigfoot was sighted in the woods near Decatur, Arkansas (population 1,314), a town on Highway 59, located about 25 miles (40 kilometers) northwest of Fayetteville.
"A large ape-like animal has been sighted in the Decatur area. Police say they're received three calls from people reporting the animal. Police Chief Coy Hendrix said he doesn't know whether to caution residents."
"'I don't know what it is,' he said." (See the Bennington, Vt. Banner for September 26, 2003, "Man spots 'Bigfoot'" and USA Today for October 2, 2003, "Across the USA: Arkansas," page 17A. Many thanks to Loren Coleman for the Vermont article.)
On Saturday, September 27, 2003, at 10:30 p.m., "while driving home from the Solid Rock Church" in Franklin, Ohio (population 11,396), eyewitness Sandy "was approaching her residence in the Heartland subdivision when she spotted a very strange pattern of green flashing lights low in the sky."
Sandy "said that these lights were first visible to the northeast as she entered the subdivision. Upon observing the lights, she drove in pursuit of them at the urging of her son. She drove about the area for one mile (1.6 kilometers) and did observe the situation" for up to two to three minutes.
"I don't feel that they were any kind of spotlights," she reported, "The lights were brilliant green, not fuzzy, and there were no beams."
"'The big green lights,' she said, 'numbered from two or more and would conjure patterns ranging from a big circle to a rectangle. The left and right lights would 'move to the center' and then back again, and were comparable in size to a full moon," from her perspective.
"There was a pattern to the way the lights would flash," she added, "They would move in uniform formation at the same time and stay at equal distances to one another."
The UFOs "appeared over an area near Springboro (population 12,380) on Route 471," located four miles (6 kilometers) east of Franklin, "moved from south to north and eventually vanished over the treetops."
Following the sighting, Sandy's son prevailed upon her to contact Wright-Patterson U.S. Air Force Base in nearby Dayton, Ohio.
Franklin and Springboro are about 15 miles (25 kilometers) south of Dayton. (Many thanks to Kenny Young of Cincinnati UFO Research for this report.)
LUMINOUS UFOs SEEN IN THE NETHERLANDS
On Monday, September 29, 2003, at 8:30 p.m., eyewitness A.W. noticed a strange object in the night sky over Amsterdam, capital of the Netherlands, which she described as "bigger than Mars and bright white."
"It did not flash and was a continuous light. An aircraft approached from the southeast, and the object departed to the northeast. The light moved faster and disappeared when the aircraft was nearing it."
"After the aircraft was out of sight, two small lights suddenly appeared where the large light had disappeared. They flew in a northwesterly direction, parallel. The top one was a little in front of the one below. They flashed white simultaneously, then nothing and then red."
"An hour later, I was casually looking out the window and saw another pair of flashing red and white lights flying from the northwest to the southeast. These faded as an aircraft entered the vicinity and became brighter once the aircraft had flown by."
"Ten seconds later, they just vanished. Not 40 seconds later, two more of the same lights appeared, following the same direction as the previous two. I called to Tom to have a look. All of them made no noise at all."
On Sunday, September 21, 2003, "a large cigar-shaped object was seen over Zwartewaterland, in Overijssel," in the Netherlands. "An amateur astronomer watched the object through hs professional Oberwerk 11 X 70 binoculars on a tripod for about 20 minutes. The object, flying at a height of 7 kilometers (23,100 feet), looked like a small letter L without the loop. The object was yellow. At the end of the sighting, the witness noticed two small star- like lights beneath the object, which went on in turns, with an interval of two seconds." (Amsterdam was an Email Form Report. For the Overijssel sighting, see Filer's Files #40 for October 1, 2003. Many thanks to editor George A. Filer for allowing UFO Roundup to reproduce this news item.)
GLISTENING WHITE UFOs SEEN IN VENEZUELA
On Sunday, September 28, 2003, "two witnesses observed the maneuvers of an enormous luminous sphere that flew over the Punto Fijo region of the coastal state of Falcon" in Venezuela, "to the northwest of the Golfo de Venezuela."
"The event took place at 7:45 p.m. while Jose Jimenez and his father-in-law were fishing in the vicinity of Playa de Villamarina and Playa del Pico beaches."
"According to Jimenez, the object produced an extensive and 'glistening' white light that came from above. This caused him to look up to the heavens and notice the strange and luminous presence among 'hundreds of stars in the sky.'"
"The witnesses added that, after a while, after having remained stationary for a few seconds, the object became lost from view after performing zigzagging and vertical 'appearances and disappearances' in the air space over Falcon."
"It is worth noting that this is not the first time that such events have been reported in this area. Dozens of people have repeatedly reported the presence of these odd luminous objects. Likewise, 'confidential' unofficial communications made by the crews of Venezuelan vessels have also reported strange objects during crossings" of the Golfo de Venezuela. (Muchas gracias a Scott Corrales y Arturo Escalante y Roger Lopez del grupo OVNI Venezuela para esta historia.)
"A house in Huia has now been hit by the mystery brown muck appearing on rooftops around the country" of New Zealand.
"Plumber Murray Norris returned home from work on Friday night (September 26, 2003) to find what appeared to be feces splattered on the west wall and roof of his home."
"'If there's anyone who knows what shit looks like, it's me--and that's what it looked like,' Mr. Norris said."
"Some patches of the muck were about 3 metres (10 feet) wide but did not smell."
"The suspicious substance has appeared on houses in Takapu Valley, near Wellington, Te Awamutu in the Waikato, and Blenheim."
"The (New Zealand) Civil Aviation Authority ruled out aircraft toilets as the cause."
"Tests of the muck found in Takapu recalled no chemicals used in such toilets."
"The Dept. of Conservation is expected to investigate the incident at the home of Mr. Norris."
"There are plenty of weird and wonderful theories about the source of the muck; some people believe the spatters are from a large bird."
"'If it's a bird, then it's either a really big one, or it has a serious problem,' Mr. Norris said."
"Meanwhile, he is grateful that the weekend rain gave his house a good clean." (See the New Zealand Herald for September 29, 2003, "Aerial muck splatters Huia house." Many thanks to Kirsty MacLaren for this newspaper article.)
"Primo D'Agata was startled by what he thought was hail smashing on his porch" in Berlin, Connecticut (population 1,230) on Friday, September 19, 2003, "as the remnants of Hurricane Isabel roared through the state. But when he went outside to investigate, D'Agata discovered tiny gelatinous eggs with dark spots in the middle."
"It had apparently been raining frogs."
"Since no frogs in Connecticut lay eggs this late in the year, scientists and naturalists speculate that they may have come up from North Carolina or another warm location on the winds of Isabel."
"D'Agata brought a bowl of his mysterious find to a nearby nature center, after the town's animal control officer couldn't identify what had arrived in his yard."
"Nicolas Diaz, a naturalist and teacher at the New Britain Youth Museum in Hungerford Park, took a look at D'Agata's bowl and told him it looked like amphibian eggs."
"D'Agata is keeping two small water-filled jars for the eggs to see if any of them will hatch. He said a few seem to have sprouted what looks like a tail."
"'I'm just going to let them sit and see what happens,' D'Agata said."
Berlin, Conn. is on Route 5 approximately 12 miles (19 kilometers) south of Hartford, the state capital. (See the New London, Conn. Day for October 2, 2003. Many thanks to Ashley Reynolds and Steve Wilson Sr. for sending this newspaper story.)
(Editor's Comment: Next we should be hearing about a small earthquake in Albany, N.Y., as Charles Fort rises from the grave to investigate his favorite topic.)
A new mysterious electrical blackout, the fourth worldwide in the past six weeks, turned out the lights in Italy on Sunday, September 28, 2003.
It was Italy's worst blackout since World War II and "stranded about 30,000 passengers aboard 110 trains for hours. The outage caused traffic jams in major cities and forced fire departments to shuttle fuel for emergency generators to hospitals."
"The only part of Italy not hit by the blackout was the island of Sardinia, where energy is produced locally."
"By Sunday evening, only a handful of the 103 provinces were still without partial power, mostly in the south. But train service remained disrupted and many traffic lights were out in Rome."
"Italy imports 16 percent of its power from France via Switzerland. ATEL, the main Swiss electricity provider, said that at 3 a.m. Sunday a tree knocked out a transmission line that carries electricity from France over the Alps. Also, two French high-voltage lines failed--a problem caused by lightning during heavy storms there," Italian energy officials said.
"But why the entire Italian network collapsed within 20 minutes, leaving most of Italy's 57 million people without power, remained a mystery."
The Carabineri (Italian national police--J.T.) "reported some stores were looted. Fire departments, ambulances and police reacted quickly, ferrying to hospitals thousands of patients whose at-home medical equipment, run by electricity, had ceased working."
"In Rome, 400,000 people out celebrating 'White Night,'" in which theaters, museums and art galleries are open all night free of charge, "suddenly found themselves in a black night."
"'I was sitting in a bar waiting for my cappucino when the lights went out. No cappucino. Then I stumbled through the dark, bumping into other people who were also trying to find a way home without lights,' said Paolo Palma, an overnight reveler in Rome."
"Tens of thousands of Romans ended up camping at railway stations, in tunnels or under bridges, stranded because all-night subway trains and trams were out of action. To make their plight worse, steady rain poured on the capital city throughout the night."
"'Thousands of people lived through the dark without any problem to public order. This was a demonstration of exemplary public behavior,' said Rome's mayor, Walter Veltroni."
"A diesel locomotive eventually towed a passenger train out of the tunnel in the alpine Brenner Pass where it had been stuck for five hours. Red Cross workers distributed food and drinks to train passengers, some of them shivering on a cold northern night."
"Highway motorists ran out of fuel and gas stations were closed. Frozen food melted in supermarkets, and ice cream vendors complained that they had lost millions of dollars."
"Residents in Italy's south queued up for water at municipal fountains after electric pumps went out of action."
"Three deaths were attributed to the outage: a man killed in a traffic accident at an intersection where the lights had failed; and two elderly women who fell down stairs in the dark, in separate cases."
"Italians were largely not worried, and most shrugged the outage off. They were thankful power was back on by noon, in time to watch the soccer matches."
"'Futbol in Italy is like morphine,' said Pier-Paolo Pagnini, 32, 'There would have been riots.'"
"State-controlled airline Alitalia said airports continued working, with only four domestic flights cancelled."
The Italian outage "was the fourth major Western blackout in two months, after (power) cuts in North America," London and Kent in UK, and eastern Denmark and southern Sweden. (See the Chicago Tribune for September 29, 2003, "Italy's blackout traced to tree," page 3; and USA Today for September 29, 2003, "Italian blackout snuffs lights over much of country," page 7A.)
From the UFO Files...
"The American ship Eltanin, owned by the Military Sea Transportation Service, was designed for use in the National Science Foundation Antarctic research program."
"On August 29, 1964, the Eltanin was a thousand miles west of Cape Horn," and just north of Antarctica, "and its crew was busily engaged in photographing the ocean floor, which reaches a depth of 13,500 feet (3,105 meters) in that area. A specially designed camera, housed in a metal cylinder, was being pulled along by a cable."
"Later that day, when darkroom technicians developed the exposed film, they found that the camera had captured an image of a strange device jutting out of the mud of the ocean. A central mast supported four series of cross rods, which made the object appear to be something like a cross between a television antenna and a telemetry antenna. The cross rods were spaced at ninety-degree angles and showed white knobs on their extremities. The mysterious object appeared to be man-made and seemed definitely out of place in the anticipated natural environment of the ocean floor."
"The specially constructed underwater camera had been designed to bounce along the seabed and to take pictures at regular intervals. It was only a fortunate, albeit engimatic, accident that the unidentifiable object had been photographed."
"When the Eltanin docked at Auckland, New Zealand on December 4, 1964, a reporter questioned Dr. Thomas Hopkins, senior marine biologist on board, about the 8 X 10 prints of the underwater anomaly. Dr. Hopkins was quoted as saying that the device could hardly be a plant, for at that depth, there is no light. Without light there is no process of photosynthesis and plants cannot live. Dr. Hopkins was reluctant about declaring the object to be man-made. He estimated the device to be about two feet (0.6 meters) high and specified its point of discovery as being on the 45,000-mile (72,000-kilometer) fault-line rift that encircles the earth."
"'If it is some strange coral formation,' Dr. Hopkins said, 'then no one on board has ever heard of it before. I wouldn't like to say that the thing is man-made, because this brings up the problem of how one would get it there.'"
The possibility that the Eltanin's mystery undersea antenna might be an alien probe from outer space occurred to only a few people. One of them was Hollywood producer Irwin Allen, who worked the Eltanin mystery into an episode of his TV series Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea about a year later. (See the book Atlantis Rising by Brad Steiger, Dell Publishing Co., Inc., 1973, pages 97 and 98.)
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What a weekend! Busy yet so much fun!
Kenzie is in love with Christmas lights. She ohhh's and ahhh's as we pass houses with lights. She points out her window and giggles. As more and more people are putting their lights up,there's even more to look at. Friday night after dinner, we decided to drive to the Herr's Factory to look at the light display that they put up. It was a great night, filled with Christmas music on the radio, and pretty lights to see. Kenzie loved it! It was raining, so we didn't get a chance to get out and walk around, but still so worth it. Here are some pictures that we captured!
Saturday, we spent the morning doing laundry and cleaning up the house. We were hoping to get the outside decorated, but ran out of time! We're hoping to get it done some time this week so that McKenzie has time to enjoy them before the holidays are over. As an aside, I have never been a fan of lawn decorations at Christmas and I refuse to get a blow-up one, but a simple light up snow man or reindeer may be in our future. Kenzie would love it, since she's obsessed with Frosty!
A-Ra, Jessica's Aunt, spoiled her by buying her every Christmas movie possible. We've watched a few of them, but Frosty is her favorite! She marches around the house they way Frosty and his crew marches around town. Her stomping is hilarious…she only marches with one foot. It's adorable!
Saturday evening, we went to dinner to celebrate my Mom's birthday. It was a great evening had by all and we are lucky to have her in our life. After dinner, we stopped at a local creamery that makes homemade ice cream. Kenzie's patience was starting to wear thin, so I downloaded the JibJab Elf Dance App. I quickly snapped pictures of everyone and created an elf dance sketch. She loved it! It kept her laughing for the rest of the evening! Oh technology! I highly recommend this distraction technique!
On Sunday, we took McKenzie to have breakfast with Santa and Mrs. Claus. From a distance, Kenzie thought Santa was the coolest. She would point to him, smile and wave. Up close, she didn't care for him too much! She didn't scream, but was really unsure. Look at her clenched little fists. I think Mrs. Claus was our saving grace! Very cute little breakfast put on by our local volunteer fire house.
It started snowing around 11 yesterday and didn't stop until the evening. Then we had bouts of freezing rain and sleet overnight.
We spent the day making cookies with my Mother-in-law, Mom and sister. It was such a nice way to spend a cold, winter day. There is more baking in store, but we had to call it quits so that we could get home before the roads got too bad.
Kenzie is currently spending the day at home with Brian and loving life! I can't even stand how cute these pictures are!
Hope everyone had a great week!


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The NBA's Top 5 Plays of the Day: June 9th
Can somebody say vengeance? Because the Miami Heat came back with it, destroying the San Antonio Spurs after a 33 to 5 scoring run in the fourth quarter. The series is now tied up and here are your highlights from last nights action.
#5: D. Wade a.k.a. The Flash getting it done with the sweet move around 2 defenders.
#4: Mario Chalmers beautifully executed pocket pass to LeBron James for the nice lay-in.
#3: The veteran, Tim Duncan earns his spot on the countdown with this slam dunk.
#2: King James again on the countdown with this power slam after the steal.
#1: Maybe one of the nastiest blocks of the season, LeBron again with the #1 spot with his at-the-rim rejection on Spurs' big man, Tiago Splitter. Well played, sir!!!