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Local Ad of the Day: The Bang Bang Lady of Phenix City’s Fireworks Outlet is not only the Fireworks Outlet mascot, but she’s also the manager . [ sisfti / missc .] Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : The Daily What Discovery Date : 03/07/2011 22:03 Number of articles : 2
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Riverfest will run from noon until 9 p.m. Sunday. The Cincinnati Bell / WEBN Fireworks, commencing at 9:05 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 5th, is one of the largest and most prestigious public fireworks displays in the United States. This marks the 4th year of Cincinnati Bell’s title sponsorship and the 34th year for the annual end-of-summer Labor Day fireworks display on the Ohio Riverfront in Cincinnati, Ohio and Newport, Kentucky. The Cincinnati Bell WEBN Fireworks kicks off with live entertainment
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A room is located on the 55th floor of the Swissotel The Stamford costs about $640, but it offers a spectacular view of the Padang and the fireworks that will light up the skies. Singaporeans are gearing up to celebrate the nation#39;s 45th birthday. Many have splurged on hotel rooms and restaurants to get that special view of the parade and fireworks, as celebrations centre on the Padang this year. A special one night stay to witness the nation#39;s big party does not come cheap. All rooms
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‘It’s gonna be a lot of fun. A lot of people are going to be coming out,’ Bieber says of his Macy’s Fireworks Spectacular performance. By Jocelyn Vena Justin Bieber gets ready for Macy’s 4th of July Fireworks Spectacular Photo: NBC After performing at the White House in April, Justin Bieber will continue his domination over all things uniquely American by performing at the Macy’s 4th of July Fireworks Spectacular on NBC this Sunday. In footage posted online , as a preview of his performance, Bieber is seen singing his hit song “Baby” to a crowd of excited fans. Bieber also chatted about having the chance to play the show even though he is Canadian. “I don’t really celebrate 4th of July because I’m from Canada, but it’s still fun to be here,” he said in the online footage. “And, you know, I enjoy it. I live here now so, you know … it’s going to be fun.” The show will take place in New York City, of which Bieber said, “I think New York City kind of represents all of the United States. It’s kind of the center of America. It’s the center of the world they say, so it’s pretty cool.” On the day he filmed, Bieber noted there might be some inclement weather, but he had high hopes nonetheless. “It’s amazing. It’s a pretty nice night. Hopefully it doesn’t rain — looks like there’s clouds over there,” he said. “There’s this beautiful bridge, we got the water in the back. It’s gonna be a lot of fun. A lot of people are going to be coming out. There’s a lot of cool magic tricks. You’re gonna see some stuff you haven’t seen before.” Are you planning to watch Bieber at the Macy’s Fireworks Spectacular this Sunday? Tell us in the comments!
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NBC’s Matt Lauer, on Tuesday’s Today show, blamed America’s “appetite for oil” as the reason for the spill in the Gulf and asked former NBC Nightly News anchor Tom Brokaw if the country will finally “take away the proper message” from the mess? For his part Brokaw responded that he hoped “young people who are coming of age” and entering public service and the corporate world will view the spill as a “defining moment” and warned if they didn’t make the needed changes “we’re gonna have these kinds of ecological disasters in waves coming year after year.” The following exchange was aired on the June 29 Today show: MATT LAUER: Yeah I want to touch back on this oil spill as, before I let you go. You know we’re, we’re seeing the blame game. A lot of blame going around. We’re seeing the villainization of a major corporation. We’re seeing the limits of our technology- TOM BROKAW: Right. LAUER: -played out in front of our eyes. But on that live camera, right there, we’re seeing something else. We’re seeing our seeing our appetite for oil. And do you think at the end of all this Americans are gonna take away the proper message? BROKAW: I hope so. I really believe that younger people are gonna be much more affected by all of this than people of a certain age, that includes you and me. Because we’ve grown up used to the idea of having oil and relying on it. I think young people who are coming of age who may want to go into public service at some point or go into the corporate world, this is a defining moment in their lives and they’re going to be thinking about this in a much different fashion than the rest of us might. And I think if anything good comes out of that, that might be the case. A new generational wave of determination to find an alternative to fossil fuel. I think that the oil blow-out is a metaphor for our times. It’s complex. It’s everything that we’ve been told has turned out not to be true and it really is a signal to the rest of us that we’ve got to do something about energy and the future or we’re gonna have these kinds of ecological disasters in waves coming year after year, decade after decade.
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All three network evening newscasts on Monday downplayed the start of Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan’s confirmation hearings, with NBC Nightly News squeezing in just 24 seconds for Kagan at the tail end of a story about the Supreme Court’s ruling in favor the 2nd Amendment. For their part, CBS and ABC offered full stories outlining Kagan’s first day before the Judiciary committee after packages devoted to the gun rights’ ruling. Only CBS’s Jan Crawford suggested the hearings were more than a ritual leading to Kagan’s inevitable confirmation: “When President Obama nominated her in May, her confirmation was considered a sure bet. But Republicans are emboldened by what they see as a weakened president and sense that support for Kagan in the country has dropped.” Both Crawford and ABC correspondent Jonathan Karl included Republican criticisms of Kagan’s lack of experience and the hostility to the military she displayed at the Harvard Law School. As for NBC, they mentioned none of those issues, and only included a brief soundbite of Kagan promising to be “impartial.” Here’s the entirety of NBC’s brief discussion of Monday’s hearing: PETE WILLIAMS: This was the last day on the bench for John Paul Stevens after 34 1/2 years. He told the court, “If I’ve overstayed my welcome it’s because this is such a unique and wonderful job.” In tribute, many in the courtroom wore bowties, his neck wear of choice. And across the street the Senate began confirmation hearings for Elena Kagan, nominated to replace him. ELENA KAGAN: I will do my best to consider every case impartially, modestly, with commitment to principle and in accordance with law. PETE WILLIAMS: And the senators begin asking their questions tomorrow. Brian: BRIAN WILLIAMS: Pete Williams with all the news from the Supreme Court in Washington tonight. Pete, thanks. Compare and contrast that with ABC’s World News (transcribed by MRC intern Rachel Burnett) and the CBS Evening News (anchored by Harry Smith from the Gulf Coast): # ABC World News: DIANE SAWYER, after discussion of Steven’s last day on the bench: And, speaking of Justice Stevens, that other drama playing out nearby was the new nominee for the court, Elena Kagan. Walking into the arena to be questioned about her qualifications to replace him, qualifications of the job, and John Karl is on Capitol Hill tonight. Jon? JON KARL: Diane, right from the start, it was crystal clear that Kagan faces a Senate deeply divided over her nomination, with Democrats overwhelmingly supporting her and Republicans, for the most part, on the attack. After weeks of the silence imposed on all Supreme Court nominees, Elena Kagan at last had a chance to speak, promising that if confirmed – ELENA KAGAN: I will work hard, and I will do my best to consider every case impartially. KARL: Kagan once criticized past nominees for turning hearings into ‘a vapid and hollow charade’ by refusing to say anything specific. But now, as the nominee, she stuck to generalities. KAGAN: The court must also recognize the limits on itself and respect the choices made by the American people. KARL: Kagan had to sit through more than three hours of opening statements, trying to keep a poker face. But it didn’t work. Just watch her expression as Republicans call her a political partisan, or when Democrats praise her real-world experience. SENATOR CHARLES SCHUMER: She is the right person at the right time. KARL: The top Republican on the committee suggested she is unqualified. SENATOR SESSIONS: Miss Kagan has less real legal experience of any nominee in at least 50 years. KARL: And condemned her decision as Dean of Harvard Law school to ban the military from the campus career office. SESSIONS: Her actions punished the military and demeaned our soldiers as they were courageously fighting for our country in two wars overseas. KARL: But Republican Lindsey Graham said he believes Kagan is qualified and offered her some advice: SENATOR GRAHAM: Good luck. Be as candid as possible. And it’s okay to disagree with us up here. KARL: There will be some fireworks tomorrow as the Senators get a chance to question Kagan. But Democrats are even more confident she will be confirmed than they were with the Sotomayor nomination last year, and that she may actually get fewer votes, Diane, because all but a handful of Republicans are already poised to oppose her nomination. # CBS Evening News: HARRY SMITH: It didn’t take long for today’s gun decision to come up at Elena Kagan’s confirmation hearing in the Senate. She’s been nominated to succeed Justice John Paul Stevens on the Supreme Court. Let’s go back now to Jan Crawford. Jan? JAN CRAWFORD: Harry, Elena Kagan has spent the past two months getting ready for these hearings, but it was just a matter of minutes before the ranking Republican brought up today’s gun ruling. SEN. JEFF SESSIONS (R-AL): The personal right of every American to own a gun hangs by a single vote. CRAWFORD: Elena Kagan sat stoically while Sessions and other Republicans began describing her as a liberal activist. But after hours of opening statements, she was sworn in – ELENA KAGAN: I do. CRAWFORD: – and finally answered back. KAGAN: I will do by best to consider every case impartially, modestly, with commitment to principle and in accordance with law. CRAWFORD: When President Obama nominated her in May, her confirmation was considered a sure bet. But Republicans are emboldened by what they see as a weakened president and sense that support for Kagan in the country has dropped. Today, they outlined their attack. They seized on her lack of judicial and courtroom experience. SESSIONS: Miss Kagan has less real legal experience of any nominee in at least 50 years. CRAWFORD: And her decision while Dean at Harvard Law School to limit military recruiting because of the Pentagon’s “Don’t Ask/Don’t Tell” policy. SENATOR JON KYL (R-AZ): A surprising number of things in her relatively thin body of work do raise substantive concerns. CRAWFORD: The battle lines drawn, Democrats painted a starkly different picture. They praised Kagan’s intellect and took shots at the conservative Roberts’ court. SENATOR SHELDON WHITEHOUSE (D-RI): Things are looking good for your confirmation. CRAWFORD: The Republican worry is that Kagan could serve a generation on a court that often divides 5-4 on key social issues. Harry? SMITH: Jan Crawford, thanks for all your help tonight.
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While ABC’s Good Morning America and NBC’s Today spent little time on the confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan on Tuesday, the CBS Early Show featured a report from legal correspondent Jan Crawford, who cheered Kagan finally being able respond to Republican “attacks” in a “very agile” way. Good Morning America devoted only a single news brief early in the 7AM ET hour to the hearings as news reader JuJu Chang noted how Kagan “will be questioned by Republicans who say she is too liberal and too political.” Chang added: “Kagan promised to take a modest approach to judging.” On Today, correspondent Kelly O’Donnell offered only a brief 7:09AM report on the hearings: “Weeks after her nomination, seated in silence for hours, finally Elena Kagan gets to make her case….[she] describes herself as a daughter of the American dream.” O’Donnell described the arguments from both sides of the aisle: “No surprise, Democrats praised her intellect and the chance to broaden the Supreme Court….Saying they would be respectful, Republicans did not hesitate to get tough. From abortion rights to immigration, they found various ways to call her liberal.” In an 8:04AM news brief, news reader Natalie Morales declared: “Republicans portrayed Kagan as a liberal activist with no judicial experience. Kagan promised an even-handed approach to the law.” In contrast, the Early Show devoted a full 7:10AM segment to Kagan, as fill-in co-host Chris Wragge proclaimed: “Day two of Elena Kagan’s Senate confirmation hearings get underway this morning and the gloves are expected to come off.” Crawford began the report that followed by observing: “After nearly two months of public silence while Republicans attacked her, Elena Kagan was sworn in and answered back. She vowed to uphold the law fairly.” Crawford previewed Tuesday’s hearings: “…today the questions and the fireworks begin. Republicans say the questions won’t be easy, as they try to paint her as a liberal activist.” Wragge asked about the tone of the hearings: “…every word yesterday from Elena was just so measured and so deliberate. Can we expect more of that today with every response from the questions she’ll be fielding?” Crawford replied: “No, it’s going to have a very different tone today….they’re really going to start pressing her on all these issues….what we’ll see today is how agile and how effective she is at answering those and responding to those, engaging these senators without saying anything that can be held against her.” Wragge concluded the segment by asking Crawford to predict Kagan’s performance. Crawford responded by gushing: “I think she’s going to do, actually, very, very well. I’ve seen her argue before the Supreme Court. She’s very agile , she spars with those conservative justices very well, so I don’t think these Republicans are going to have too much of an easy time, you know, pressing her on some of these issues.” Here is a full transcript of Crawford’s June 29 report: 7:10AM CHRIS WRAGGE: Day two of Elena Kagan’s Senate confirmation hearings get underway this morning and the gloves are expected to come off. CBS News chief legal correspondent Jan Crawford is on Capitol Hill with a look at today’s session. Jan, good morning. JAN CRAWFORD: Good morning, Chris. Well, you know Elena Kagan really stayed out of the public eye for two months and Americans finally got a glimpse of her, but today, she’s going to face a lot of questions from the Republicans on this side of the aisle and they’re going to see if she can handle the heat. After nearly two months of public silence while Republicans attacked her, Elena Kagan was sworn in and answered back. She vowed to uphold the law fairly. ELENA KAGAN: I will listen hard to every party before the court and to each of my colleagues. CRAWFORD: And she told a bit of her life story. KAGAN: My parents lived the American dream. They grew up in immigrant communities. My mother didn’t speak a word of English until she went to school. But she became a legendary teacher and my father a valued lawyer. CRAWFORD: Kagan sat stoically for hours while senators gave their opening statements, but today the questions and the fireworks begin. Republicans say the questions won’t be easy, as they try to paint her as a liberal activist. JEFF SESSIONS: It’s not a coronation, as I’ve said, but a confirmation process. Serious and substantive questions will be asked. CRAWFORD: But Democrats will be ready to come to her defense. CHARLES SCHUMER: She is brilliant, she is thoughtful, and I think she is straight out of central casting for this job. SESSIONS: But proving that to the senators is what Elena Kagan is going to have to do and it all starts, Chris, in just a couple of hours. WRAGGE: Jan, the last thing I would ever do is sit here and say this has got to be pretty easy on someone, but every word yesterday from Elena was just so measured and so deliberate. Can we expect more of that today with every response from the questions she’ll be fielding? CRAWFORD: No, it’s going to have a very different tone today, Chris. You know, yesterday, her face – I mean, she really showed no expression all day, she just sat there and listened to these senators deliver these long opening statements. So today they’re really going to start pressing her on all these issues that they’ve got ready. So what we’ll see today is how agile and how effective she is at answering those and responding to those, engaging these senators without saying anything that can be held against her. WRAGGE: And quickly, on a separate note here, I want to talk about this Supreme Court ruling. They ruled that had state and local governments cannot ban guns. Now what’s the importance, if you can just tell us quickly, of this 5-4 decision? CRAWFORD: Chris, this was a huge ruling that basically extended gun rights nationwide. It said cities and states across the country cannot flatly outright ban handguns, that you have a fundamental right to own a gun in your own home to protect yourself. WRAGGE: Can I ask you real quickly, you know Elena Kagan very well. How do you think she’ll perform today? CRAWFORD: I think she’s going to do, actually, very, very well. I’ve seen her argue before the Supreme Court. She’s very agile, she spars with those conservative justices very well, so I don’t think these Republicans are going to have too much of an easy time, you know, pressing her on some of these issues. WRAGGE: Alright, Jan Crawford, thank you very much. We look forward to your report later on today. CRAWFORD: Thanks, Chris.
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