Nick Cannon Affair - Last night’s BET Honors in Washington DC was a family affair for Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon. Mariah was recognized with the entertainer award and her husband, Nick, and son, Moroccan, presented her with the statue on stage. Moroccan’s twin Monroe stayed backstage though, since Mariah joked, “We were both sewn into our dresses, so she couldn’t make it out.” Yesterday was Nick’s first public appearance since being hospitalized for a kidney problem earlier this month.
Also on hand for the big event was Michelle Williams, who chatted with USA Today about her friends Beyoncé Knowles and Jay-Z’s new addition. Michelle said of Blue Ivy Carter, “She is absolutely gorgeous. We were all in love.” She added that Beyoncé and Jay-Z “have already settled into their role of being parents, and it’s just awesome to see.”
June Shannon Defends Pageant Crack Alana - A pageant mother accused of 'doping' her child after giving her high-sugar snacks and caffeinated drinks before a show has defended her actions.
June Shannon, from McIntyre, Georgia, sparked widespread criticism following an appearance on Toddlers and Tiaras last month with six-year-old daughter Alana Thompson. +study shows sugary drinks linked childhood obesity,
The self-proclaimed 'Coupon Queen' had described how she boosted the youngster's energy ahead of performances with Pixy Stix - tubes of powdered sugar often known as 'pageant crack' - and 'Go-Go- Juice', a mixture of Red Bull and Mountain Dew, according to Good Morning America. Toddlers and Tiaras,
Today, she responded to the backlash in an interview with the show. mountain dew,
She said: 'There are far worse things. I could be giving her alcohol.'
Explaining that a typical event can be exhausting for the children involved, she continued: 'A pageant day can last from 7 in the morning to 6,7,8,9, 10 at night, so performing and getting a kid up that early and lasting all day without a rest, you have to energize their body.'
Ms Shannon also added that she was not alone in the practice. June Shannon defends pageant crack alana,
'Everybody does it,' she said. 'There are normal people who give their kids this, so why is it such a big issue with us pageant moms that do it all weekend to keep our kids energized and awake?'
Indeed, producers filming a Nightline special on the subject were witness to one such pageant in New York where they saw children drinking caffeinated soda and candy from as early as 7am, while a similar event in Austin, Texas, saw many contestants eating Pixy Stix. Toddlers Tiaras totally fake,
But child health experts have voiced their concern about the so-called 'Go-Go Juice', given that a single can of Mountain Dew or Red Bull contains as much caffeine as a cup of coffee.
A report last year from the American Academy of Pediatrics stated that children who have too much caffeine are at raised risk of neurological and cardiovascular problems.
Its authors warned: 'Energy drinks are never appropriate for children or adolescents. In general, caffeine-containing beverages, including soda, should be avoided.'
The Toddlers and Tiaras episode featuring Alana saw Ms Shannon tell how she created her 'Go-Go Juice' mixture after 15 bags of Pixy Stix failed to boost the youngster's energy.
Viewers were outraged as she explained the concept of 'special juice', telling producers: 'A lot of pageant moms and people know what the "special juice" is - everybody has their different concoctions...
'A lot of moms say, "Oh, well you’re doping up your child." Well hey, no I'm not. I’m not hurting her.'
Though no specific 'special juice' recipes are detailed in the episode, insiders speculate that some mothers' blends may even contain alcohol.
Ms Shannon was filmed instructing Alana to take 'two big gulps' from an unlabelled bottle. Within seconds the change was apparent and the pageant hopeful was seen rapidly swinging her arms over her head and spinning around on the floor, exclaiming: 'My go-go juice is kicking in right now!'
Describing how the drink made her feel, she said: 'Go-go juice makes me laughy, and play-ey, and makes me feel like I want to pull my mommy's hair.' Toddlers Tiaras totally fake,
It seems Alana is already a spirited child though. She has a bizarre speaking manner that is at once precocious and incoherent.
She tells cameras that she wants to win pageants to make money because 'a dollar makes me holler, honey boo boo!'
But she is not entirely enthusiastic about the experience. She continues: 'Beauty is so boring, I don't want to do it.'
Ms Shannon's enthusiasm is more than evident though. As her daughter takes to the stage, she is filmed yelling encouragement, and instructing dance moves. +study shows sugary drinks linked childhood obesity,
When she is not accompanying her daughter on the pageant circuit, Ms Shannon says she spends her time collecting money-saving coupons and stockpiling hundreds of household products - a pursuit her daughter claims she wants to follow.
Footage taken inside the family home reveals rooms stocked with hundreds of items ranging from toilet paper to rolls of aluminium foil.
7 Year Old Walmart Abduction - stranger danger- Girl escapes alleged kidnapping Police say a 7-year-old girl's kicking and screaming helped her get away from a man who allegedly tried to abduct her . Police say the man tried to grab the girl from the toy aisle. They say security video shows a man carrying the girl away, then letting her go after she fought back. Brittney Baxter said she was looking at toys in a Walmart Wednesday when a man tried to kidnap her.
"I was kicking and screaming, and then he put his hand over my mouth, but I kept kicking," Brittney said.
Surveillance footage shows the man walking through the store. He walks out of the camera's view, but then rushes back through with the girl in his arms. When she starts kicking, he puts her down and runs away.
Bremen police arrested 25-year-old Thomas Andrew Woods. He is charged with attempted kidnapping. Other charges are pending.
Brittney Baxter said she's thankful her parents and teachers taught her how to fight off a stranger.
Brittney's mother, Georgeann, said she was shocked that this could happen in her town.
"I just never would think something like that would happen in a town like this," Georgeann Baxter said.
CBS Atlanta News has learned that Woods served time in prison for a DeKalb County manslaughter conviction. He was let out of jail after serving seven years of his 20-year sentence, and was put on probation.
As police escorted a handcuffed Woods after his arrest, he told reporters he's innocent. Police say a 25-year-old man tried to abduct a seven-year-old girl from a west Georgia Walmart store.
Bremen police Chief Keith Pesnell says Thomas A. Woods of Austell grabbed the girl and tried to leave the store Wednesday, but he let her go when she fought back.
Police put out an alert with a description of Woods' car and he was caught by police about 10 miles west in Tallapoosa. He faces a charge of attempted kidnapping, and more charges are likely.
Pesnell says Woods was out on probation after being convicted of voluntary manslaughter in DeKalb County.
Woods is being held in the Haralson County Jail and will likely appear before a judge Thursday.
Situation Sorrentino Gay Rumor Implications - The Situation : Stop saying I'm gay, Situation Sorrentino gay rumor implications, Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino is a meticulously groomed, highly fashionable, in-shape male who has a huge following in the gay community. But despite the assertions of other "Jersey Shore" cast members, Sorrentino insists that he's not gay. In fact, The Situation is reportedly furious at his cast mates for spreading the gay rumors, as he thinks it could hurt his brand-endorsement deals
Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino wants everyone to know that GTL stands for "gym, tan, laundry" -- and nothing else. Situation Sorrentino gay rumor implications, The Situation Endorses Protein-Infused Vodka,
The "Jersey Shore" star has reportedly hit back at housemates Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi and Jenni "JWoww" Farley after they speculated about his sexuality and hinted he might be gay in an interview with HuffPost Gay Voices. Snooki & JWoww The Situation's Sexuality,
"Mike really ripped both Snooki and JWoww a new one," a show insider told the Chicago Sun-Times. Noting that Sorrentino is concerned such comments could hurt his brand endorsements, which are focused on straight male customers, the source added, "He's extremely upset."
In the interview, both JWoww and Snooki implied that despite his playboy reputation, Mike has questioned his own sexuality. "He brings it up," JWoww said. "He'll say, 'People think I'm gay and I don't know what they're talking about.'" Added Snooki: "He told me one time, '[All the talk is] making me wonder.'"
JWoww even compared Sorrentino to her gay best friend's husband, who was closeted for 27 years of his life. "So because of that I know...the signs," she said. The Situation Endorses Protein-Infused Vodka,
The Situation's publicist called Snooki and JWoww’s speculation “the most ridiculous statement I’ve ever heard" in response, the Sun-Times notes. Situation Sorrentino Gay Rumor Implications,
It's not the first time Sorrentino's sexuality has been questioned. Last year, former "Jersey Shore" star Angelina Pivarnick -- previously Sorrentino's love interest -- told Popeater, "I think Mike is gay. I think he's gay because of the way he talks and the way he abuses girls. He talks down to women...I honestly feel like he's in the closet right now; he doesn't want to come out.
The Situation had himself a situation -- someone was using his trademarked GTL phrase without permission -- so he had his lawyers make the copycat web site disappear.
The site in question was called MyGTLFuel.com -- which claims to "manufacture products to energize and enhance your lifestyle."
The Sitch and his brother/business partner, Marc Sorrentino, felt it came too close to their GTL trademarks -- so they had their lawyers draw up a cease and desist letter.
The letter worked and the site is down -- though a Facebook page still remains. The Sorrentino boys still want the bogus site to fork over any profits they made off the GTL trademark and are currently working towards a resolution.
June Shannon Defends Pageant Crack Alana, +study shows sugary drinks linked childhood obesity- Toddlers' mom defends feeding daughter 'pageant crack'June Shannon says a little “pageant crack” can be the difference between her 6-year-old daughter Alana winning a beauty pageant or losing it . The mom, whose daughter is on the TLC show “Toddlers & Tiaras”, is defending her use of the “crack”, in an interview with Good Morning America.
A pageant mother accused of 'doping' her child after giving her high-sugar snacks and caffeinated drinks before a show has defended her actions. June Shannon, from McIntyre, Georgia, sparked widespread criticism following an appearance on Toddlers and Tiaras last month with six-year-old daughter Alana Thompson. The self-proclaimed 'Coupon Queen' had described how she boosted the youngster's energy ahead of performances with Pixy Stix - tubes of powdered sugar often known as 'pageant crack' - and 'Go-Go- Juice', a mixture of Red Bull and Mountain Dew, according to Good Morning America.
Today, she responded to the backlash in an interview with the show.Explaining that a typical event can be exhausting for the children involved, she continued: 'A pageant day can last from 7 in the morning to 6,7,8,9, 10 at night, so performing and getting a kid up that early and lasting all day without a rest, you have to energize their body.'
Ms Shannon also added that she was not alone in the practice.
'Everybody does it,' she said. 'There are normal people who give their kids this, so why is it such a big issue with us pageant moms that do it all weekend to keep our kids energized and awake?'
Indeed, producers filming a Nightline special on the subject were witness to one such pageant in New York where they saw children drinking caffeinated soda and candy from as early as 7am, while a similar event in Austin, Texas, saw many contestants eating Pixy Stix.But child health experts have voiced their concern about the so-called 'Go-Go Juice', given that a single can of Mountain Dew or Red Bull contains as much caffeine as a cup of coffee.
A report last year from the American Academy of Pediatrics stated that children who have too much caffeine are at raised risk of neurological and cardiovascular problems. Its authors warned: 'Energy drinks are never appropriate for children or adolescents. In general, caffeine-containing beverages, including soda, should be avoided.'
The Toddlers and Tiaras episode featuring Alana saw Ms Shannon tell how she created her 'Go-Go Juice' mixture after 15 bags of Pixy Stix failed to boost the youngster's energy. Viewers were outraged as she explained the concept of 'special juice', telling producers: 'A lot of pageant moms and people know what the "special juice" is - everybody has their different concoctions...A lot of moms say, "Oh, well you’re doping up your child." Well hey, no I'm not. I’m not hurting her.' Though no specific 'special juice' recipes are detailed in the episode, insiders speculate that some mothers' blends may even contain alcohol.
Ms Shannon was filmed instructing Alana to take 'two big gulps' from an unlabelled bottle. Within seconds the change was apparent and the pageant hopeful was seen rapidly swinging her arms over her head and spinning around on the floor, exclaiming: 'My go-go juice is kicking in right now!'
Describing how the drink made her feel, she said: 'Go-go juice makes me laughy, and play-ey, and makes me feel like I want to pull my mommy's hair.'
It seems Alana is already a spirited child though. She has a bizarre speaking manner that is at once precocious and incoherent.She tells cameras that she wants to win pageants to make money because 'a dollar makes me holler, honey boo boo!' But she is not entirely enthusiastic about the experience. She continues: 'Beauty is so boring, I don't want to do it.'
Ms Shannon's enthusiasm is more than evident though. As her daughter takes to the stage, she is filmed yelling encouragement, and instructing dance moves. When she is not accompanying her daughter on the pageant circuit, Ms Shannon says she spends her time collecting money-saving coupons and stockpiling hundreds of household products - a pursuit her daughter claims she wants to follow. Footage taken inside the family home reveals rooms stocked with hundreds of items ranging from toilet paper to rolls of aluminium foil.
"A dolla make me holla--Honey Boo-Boo Child," anyone? Now, pageant mommy June Shannon is under public scrutiny for allowing her daughter to partake in some activities that rubbed viewers the wrong way.
Specifically, allowing Alana to drink a concoction of caffeine-overload after another sugar-rush trick began to fail. Shannon makes Alana a self-described "Go-Go Juice" that is one part Mountain Dew and one part Red Bull. One can of each of the two drinks combined contains about the same amount of caffeine as two cups of coffee.
Alana, loves it however: "My special juice is going to help me win," Alana says in one of the show's episodes. "My Go-Go Juice is kicking in right now." As reported by ABC News, "Shannon turned to Go-Go Juice after finding that the two bags of Pixy Stixs, the powdered candy in a wrapper that resembles a drinking straw, and is known in the pageant world as 'pageant crack,' she was feeding Alana were not enough to keep her alert all day during pageant competitions.
The man who forgives is far stronger than the man who fights
The man who forgives is far stronger than the man who fights, I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one. ~Henry Ward Beecher.
Forgiving is rediscovering the shining path of peace that at first you thought others took away when they betrayed you. ~Dodinsky, www.dodinsky.com
Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it. ~Mark Twain
Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast. ~Marlene Dietrich
It's easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission. ~Grace Hopper
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. ~Mahatma Gandhi
To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you. ~Lewis B. Smedes, "Forgiveness - The Power to Change the Past," Christianity Today, 7 January 1983 (Thanks, Donna)
Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the sting. ~William Arthur Ward
Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future. ~Paul Boese
If you can't forgive and forget, pick one. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
You can make up a quarrel, but it will always show where it was patched. ~Edgar Watson Howe, Country Town Sayings, 1911
It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend. ~William Blake, Jerusalem
Forgiveness is the sweetest revenge. ~Isaac Friedmann
[A]ll forgiveness is a gift to yourself. ~A Course in Miracles
Forgive all who have offended you, not for them, but for yourself. ~Harriet Nelson
He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass. ~George Herbert
There's no point in burying a hatchet if you're going to put up a marker on the site. ~Sydney Harris
Nobody forgets where he buried the hatchet. ~Frank McKinney "Kin" Hubbard, Abe Martin's Broadcast, 1930
Yes, this is what good is: to forgive evil. There is no other good. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
The man who forgives is far stronger than the man who fights. ~Nathan Croall
Life is an adventure in forgiveness. ~Norman Cousins
What we forgive too freely doesn't stay forgiven. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
It's far easier to forgive an enemy after you've got even with him. ~Olin Miller
Forgiving is love's toughest work, and love's biggest risk. If you twist it into something it was never meant to be, it can make you a doormat or an insufferable manipulator. Forgiving seems almost unnatural. Our sense of fairness tells us people should pay for the wrong they do. But forgiving is love's power to break nature's rule. ~Lewis B. Smedes
There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness. ~Josh Billings
Without forgiveness life is governed by... an endless cycle of resentment and retaliation. ~Roberto Assagioli
One thing you will probably remember well is any time you forgive and forget. ~Franklin P. Jones
Forgive. It doesn't erase their crime but why should you do the time. Let go of resentment. ~Dodinsky, www.dodinsky.com
Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it forgoes revenge, and dares forgive an injury. ~E.H. Chapin
Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much. ~Oscar Wilde
Florida Man Ordered Wife on Date - Let the punishment fit the crime? A Florida man who appeared in court yesterday on a domestic violence charge was ordered by the judge to ... take his wife on a date. The charge apparently grew out of an argument Joseph Bray had with his wife—whose birthday he failed to acknowledge on Monday. According to the arrest report, Bray shoved his wife onto the couch, held her neck, and readied himself for a punch, but didn't actually hit her. At yesterday's hearing, she told Judge Jay Hurley she was neither hurt nor in fear. Because of that, and because Bray had no priors, the judge ordered what the Sun-Sentinel calls "whimsical conditions."
Hurley asked the woman what she liked to do and where she liked to eat, florida man ordered wife on date, and her answer became her hubby's punishment. "He’s going to stop by somewhere and he’s going to get some flowers, and then he’s going to go home, pick up his wife, get dressed, take her to Red Lobster," said Hurley. "And then after they have Red Lobster, they’re going to go bowling." They were also ordered to begin marriage counseling. Explained Hurley of his decision, "The court would not normally do that if the court felt there was some violence but this is very, very minor and the court felt that that was a better resolution than other alternatives."
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