Daily Archives: January 2, 2012

New Year Inspires Romance for NBA Star LeBron James

January 02, 2012   Meagan Cahuasqui   No comments

On December 31, 2011 the Miami Heat’s very own basketball star player LeBron James proposed to long-time girlfriend (and mother of his two children), Savannah Brinson.  It’s not a surprise of course that she accepted the marriage proposal and the two are now happily engaged after many years of dating.

James’s proposal took place at a New Year’s Eve party in South Beach at the Shelborne Hotel, a classy place that’s used to hosting events for big name stars like James and the others on the guest list, like Queen Latifah, and fellow team mates Dwayne Wade and Chris Bosh.  A rep for Remy Martin V, who hosted the dinner, says, ‘Everyone is extremely happy.’

The happy newly engaged couple’s two kids, LeBron Jr. and Bryce were on hand to witness the joyous occasion and share in their parents’ bliss.  The dinner was originally a celebration for James’s 27th birthday, but seeing as he and Brinson had been dating since high school, he found the moment fit to finally pop the question.

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New Year’s Eve Proves Fatal to Arkansas Blackbirds

January 02, 2012   Meagan Cahuasqui   No comments

Last New Year’s eve, when the town of Beebe, Arkansas rang in 2011, the celebration came with the fatality of about 4,000 blackbirds as well.  Celebrating the coming of 2012 has proved once again to be perilous to the blackbirds of Arkansas.

Most of the birds dropped from the sky already dead, but some managed to survive a short while after the fall.  Tests run by the Arkansas Livestock and Poultry Commission Veterinary Diagnostic Lab reveal the birds died of “massive body trauma,” with damage mainly done to the front breast of the birds.

The police of Beebe had rushed to make an emergency ban on fireworks so as to prevent last year’s events from repeating, but the disaster did not manage to be averted.  It is suspected that the shock of fireworks being shot into the air caused the birds to fly into “buildings, trees, and each other” and thus fall to their deaths.

This may have been the main cause of the blackbirds’ deaths last year, but this year meteorologists suspect nature may have taken its course as well.  A heavy thunderstorm was reported over Beebe that night and its updraft may have sucked the birds into the chaos and then flung them back out into the atmosphere.

A question that can’t help but be asked is, why now?  Strange as it is that the event happens in two years it is stranger still that it has not happened before.  Regardless of what the cause may be, it’s safe to say the occurrence of the event two years in a row in the same town is bizarre to say the least.

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Occupy Movement Surges Forward Into New Year

January 02, 2012   Meagan Cahuasqui   No comments

As 2011 came to a close and 2012 loomed ahead of us, those now all too familiar protesters of the movement known as Occupy Wall Street brought the whole thing to a new level on New Year’s Eve with a demonstration at Zuccotti Park in lower Manhattan.

Six weeks prior to New Year’s Eve, the park had been cleared in an overnight raid and that night a small tent no more than two feet tall was erected.  According to police and security set outside the perimeters of the park, the tent violated the rules set by the park’s owner for its use.  Several protestors and even some reporters were blocked from entering the park.

An online magazine, Newyorkist, attended the event and tweeted about the goings on the entire evening.  The representative at hand to report on the events made comments such as ‘Ppl locked arms around it’ (in reference to the small tent police attempted to remove) and ‘Now 25 ppl circling park, chanting…’

At around ten-thirty that evening police brought out a man from the crowd without explaining what he was being arrested for.  Not long after some protestors “grabbed some of the metal barricades that surrounded the park and began piling them inside,” turning what started out as a peaceful demonstration of the freedom of speech into a more chaotic uprising.  One police officer was even seen shaking a can of pepper spray.

So many protesters were arrested at the demonstration that police were still processing them on Sunday.  There were supposedly more arrests at this event than at the New Year’s celebration in Times Square.

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