| Looking good for the big game | | Posted Tuesday, February 06, 2007 1:15:09 PM by Blog57 Team | | With the Super Bowl rapidly approaching, area residents young and old are jumping on the bandwagon and declaring their allegiance to the Chicago Bears. Noah Kelleher, the 13-month-old son of Andy and Tracy Kelleher of Dwight, certainly falls into the young category. But though he has trouble stringing together sentences at his age, Noah has little trouble showing the love for the Bears he inherited from his parents - his father, in particular. Recently Noah had some personal grooming done in preparation for the big game. Wearing a slightly smaller replica of Bears quarterback Rex Grossman's home jersey, he went to the Barber's Chair 2 in Morris to have Kristy Rompala give him his first haircut. "He took it real well," Andy Kelleher said. "He was a little apprehensive when he heard the buzzer sound from the clippers and there was a little look of concern on his face when he felt it on the back of his neck, but we got through it OK." Noah will accompany his new hairdo with a full outfit of Bears clothing when he watches the Super Bowl with members of his family on Sunday.... | |
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| | | Tourists, townspeople still betting on Biloxi | | Posted Wednesday, December 27, 2006 3:13:55 PM by Blog57 Team | | BILOXI, Miss. -- Olivia Boglin stood in her yard, staring down at a pile of Sheetrock. Just staring in the Mississippi heat, dabbing the sweat off her forehead with a wadded-up tissue. A block away, a guy was riding a bicycle slow, so the front wheel swerved with each crank of the pedals. The heat, the humidity and the noon hour had everything almost at a standstill. Olivia looked surprised and a little worried at a stranger approaching when I walked up. I introduced myself and asked how she was doing. She thought for a minute. "We're doing better," she said. And so it is in Biloxi. They're doing better, more than a year after deadly Hurricane Katrina came through. But they have a long way to go. Just a few blocks from Olivia's once-gutted red-brick home, the Beau Rivage Resort & Casino was rocking.... | |
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| | | ShopingNow.com Web Site Delivers High Quality Replica Watches At ... | | Posted Sunday, November 12, 2006 1:56:05 PM by Blog57 Team | | MAPLE SHADE, /EWORLDWIRE/Oct. 23, 2006 --- With or without today's uncertain economy, the average consumer cannot afford to spend a few thousand dollars on a single wristwatch. Therefore, most average consumers will never own a genuine Rolex or anything close to a prestigious brand name wristwatch. Shopingnow.com, a website carrying various brand name replica items but specializing in high-quality, brand name replica watches (i.e. Rolex, A. Lange & Sohne, Cartier, Omega, etc.) now makes it possible for the average consumer who cares about owning a prestigious wristwatch, to own one. In addition, Shopingnow actually guarantees replica items with a 30-day full-refund policy, and a Warranty covering any initially hidden manufacturer defects for the first 360 days, something unheard of by most brand name replica sites.... | |
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| | | Exhibits: Rose Garden | | Posted Friday, October 27, 2006 11:27:07 AM by Blog57 Team | | Art Windows of El Paso Airport Gallery -- El Paso International Airport, 6701 Convair. 541-4481; www.elpasotexas.gov/mcad. Cielo Vista Branch Library -- 8929 Viscount. 591-6812; www.ci.el-paso.tx.us/library. El Paso Community College Administrative Center -- 9050 Viscount. 346-6564. El Paso/Juárez Historical Museum -- 6400 Airport, Suite L. Visits to the El Paso/Juárez Historical Museum are free. Open by appointment. 771-6727. El Paso Saddleblanket -- 6926 Gateway East. Former Tigua Gov. Albert Alvidrez will demonstrate Native American pottery-making from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday. Handwoven rugs from around the world are available for sale. Hours: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday-Saturday. 544-1000; www.ElPasoSaddleblanket.com. Escamilla Art Studio and Gallery -- 1457 Amstater Circle.... | |
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| | | Notes On The Google-YouTube Deal | | Posted Monday, October 23, 2006 1:13:50 PM by Blog57 Team | | Most of the discussion about Google's acquisition of Youtube.com has focused on two issues: first, whether Google overspent or underspent on the popular video-sharing site, and whether the acquisition was a wise one, given possible copyright liabilities Google may now be exposing itself to, given the free-wheeling and seldom policed nature of Youtube's user-generated videos. I want to open up a different line of discussion, which has to do with unanticipated difficulties that Google may have in terms of monetizing the assets of Youtube, which up until now have been very poorly utilized. Frankly, the advertising you see today on Youtube is junk, and has only the most tenuous connection with the content of any video content displayed on the site. For example, take the recent clip from Bill Clinton's angry interview on the Fox News Network (which was most likely uploaded without the permission of Fox), which generates an ad for the Aberdeen Business School, a UK-based management school.... | |
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| | | Logger loads up on titles | | Posted Friday, October 13, 2006 3:19:17 PM by Blog57 Team | | GREEN BAY, Wis. -- Wakefield logger Chad Miskovich finished second in the Prentice Loader Grand National Championship held Sept. 9 at the Lake States Logging Congress in Green Bay. Miskovich, who earlier won the Lake States competition for a seventh consecutive year, finished the grand national in 2 minutes, 30.78 seconds. His time included a 5-second penalty for a block placed over the line. Roland Mohn of Pennsylvania won the grand national championship with a flawless run of 2 minutes,15.72 seconds. Third place went to Brent Hill with a penalty-free time of 2 minutes,36.19 seconds. Unlike Mohn, Miskovich and several other contestants, Hill had entered the contest a number of times but made it into the top 10 only this year when he placed second in Richmond and then won the Mid-South competition.... | |
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| | | Little Britain: The biggest British live comedy show of all time (25m and counting) | | Posted Monday, October 09, 2006 11:22:36 PM by Blog57 Team | | Their year-long nationwide tour is ending with a six-week finale in London. Anthony Barnes watches David Walliams and Matt Lucas, and marvels. 09 October 2006 A bearded man dressed in a purple gown cheers wildly and mouths catchphrases. In front of 2,000 people, an overweight woman happily volunteers for humiliation, stepping up on stage to be informed she weighs 48 stone and "stinks". Welcome to Little Britain Live, now at the Apollo, Hammersmith in west London, and officially confirmed as the longest-running UK comedy tour ever staged, playing to more than a million people in theatres and arenas and generating upwards of £25m. Along with its TV series, a planned US series and spin-offs such as character dolls and Top Trumps games, this carnival of comedy has turned its stars, David Walliams and Matt Lucas, into very wealthy men.... | |
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| | | Marking territory in a 'manspace' | | Posted Friday, October 06, 2006 11:16:33 AM by Blog57 Team | | Barrie Maguire is crazy about his garage. But not as a place to park his car. He uses the tiny structure, which he has transformed with a skylight, as a painting studio - minimally decorated with some of his portraits, his art equipment, and some garage-sale finds. In an earlier incarnation, the garage was a home office/escape pad from the family hubbub, with decor that included a faux brick wall, a gas fireplace and a lamp made from a tree trunk gnawed by a beaver. "I was trying to make it feel like a cabin in Wyoming," he says. But what Maguire's beloved sanctuary really is is a "manspace." That's the tongue-in-cheek term coined by author Sam Martin in his new book, Manspace: A Primal Guide to Marking Your Territory (Taunton, $24.95), which celebrates the places guys stake out for themselves for hobbies, creative pursuits, displaying collections or simply hanging out.... | |
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| | | Fake products, who cares? | | Posted Tuesday, October 03, 2006 3:22:03 AM by Blog57 Team | | JAKARTA: A few weeks ago, a private television station ran a segment about the making and sale of fake perfumes in Jakarta. A man proudly demonstrated for the cameras how he suspended the essence of a leading perfume brand in a solution, making a replica of the original, before injecting it into spray bottles. The bottles were then wrapped in cellophane printed with the name of the leading brand and sealed. Consumers who are not fragrance experts might have trouble identifying the replica from the original. A 75ml bottle of counterfeit designer perfume costs between Rp 50,000 and Rp 100,000 (RM20 and RM40). The man said he had been running the illicit business for years. The viewers at home might have been surprised by the fact his business had survived for so long.... | |
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| | | First Images of Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo Cabin | | Posted Monday, October 02, 2006 1:15:43 PM by Blog57 Team | | Joel Johnson and I were at a preview of Wired's Next Fest, and saw a little nose cone hiding behind a veil. We climbed back, and discovered an abandoned space ship. A Virgin Galactic SpaceShipOne replica sitting on a trailer, actually. It was so cute, Joel decided to climb up and give it a hug. This morning, Sir Richard Branson will unveil the first mock ups ever seen of SpaceShipTwo's interior cabin. The layout: two pilots and 6 very rich space tourists/astronauts. Mockups? We've got em here. The cabin was designed by Seymour Powell, known for Baby-G Shock watches by Casio. The design of the six passenger seats is meant to recline completely to minimize G forces on the body, appropriately enough. And eject them into the room during weightlessness in orbit.... | |
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