OGDEN ? A horse and hitch parade in downtown Ogden on Monday night felt like a beach party, not only to one group that dressed up in Hawaiian gear but to everyone who was in the parade last year.
Following a monsoon rainstorm a year ago, the riders of hundreds of horses in the parade were celebrating the good weather in style.
?This year, we are happy to be having fun in the sun,? said Jennica Stanger, of Hooper, who is the director of District 7 of the Utah State Western Riding Clubs Association, whose members dressed in Hawaiian outfits. ?It feels like a party, because it?s not raining.?
The group included members Jeff Sandberg and Braden Hancock, both of West Haven, who ?skied? along behind horses as they were being pulled on skateboards by ropes.
The annual Ogden Pioneer Days Horse and Hitch Parade is a popular attraction for horse owners as well as spectators.
This year, there were 45 entries in the parade, including riding groups, rodeo queens and various horse-drawn buggies, that went along Washington Boulevard and 24th Street and circled back to the Ogden Pioneer Stadium before packed crowds.
Mark Wayment, of Hooper, is among many who have ridden in the parade every year since in started sometime in the 1990s.
?I like the heritage part of it,? Wayment said.
A former member of the Ogden Pioneer Days Committee, Wayment said he has relatives who also have assisted with the rodeo.
?It?s kind of fun to carry on that tradition,? he said.
Wayment and others said they are always surprised to see how packed the parade route is.
?There is so much support in the Ogden community for this stuff,? said Dan Calder, of Hooper.
?Even last year, it was surprising how many people stuck it out,? Wayment said, recalling how the black from the felt hats of the members of the Weber County Sheriff?s Posse he rides with ran down their faces and through the fabric of their shirts.
?I had to wash that shirt about three times to get it all out,? he said.
A similar monsoon rainstorm hit Monday night. Only this one waited until about an hour after the parade was over.
An animal rescue group, Pack ?N Pounce, which runs a thrift store on 2nd Street to pay for their operation, took the opportunity to advertise animals they had for adoption in the parade.
Brenda Gordon pulled along Caffeine, a 1,500-pound ox that is saddle-broke which she plans to start offering for people to ride.
?We want people to know you can do more than just use them for eating,? she said of the bull. ?But they have to have the right personality or they won?t work.
?They have to be super-friendly,? she said of Caffeine, who nibbled at a straw cowboy hat belonging to a woman who was talking to her.
Gordon described Caffeine as the organization?s ?spoke ox.?
Alongside the ox was Gordon?s sister, riding Molly, a 22-year-old horse that was headed for slaughter until the rescue operation got hold of her.
Instagram designer Tim Van Damme is leaving Facebook to take a new role at Dropbox. Yesterday, we learned that Gowalla co-founder Josh Williams and Van Damme were leaving Facebook in unrelated departures. Van Damme has been the lead mobile designer for Instagram since January of 2012. Today, Van Damme posted on his personal blog, "Hello, Dropbox."
Mike and Maurkice Pouncey, the twin brothers who both play center in the NFL, give us one more chance to examine the overall American cultural shift that is corroding the traditional symbolic values once found in sports.
The Pounceys played collegiately at Florida at the same time as Aaron Hernandez, the former Patriots tight end who stands accused of orchestrating the execution of Odin Lloyd. Mike roomed with Hernandez. It is perfectly appropriate and acceptable for the Pouncey Twins to be concerned and supportive of their yet-to-be-convicted former teammate.
The Pounceys should donate to Hernandez?s defense fund, financially support Hernandez?s child and baby?s mama, visit and/or write Hernandez while he?s incarcerated, and provide emotional support to Hernandez?s family.
Any and all of that would make perfect sense and be a way of not abandoning a dear friend in grave trouble.
Hitting a nightclub while wearing mindlessly rebellious ?Free Hernandez? baseball caps is straight from the in-your-face, shock-value, prison culture/hip hop culture playbook. It screams the Pounceys place no value on Odin Lloyd?s life. He?s just another dead N-word who got his cap peeled by a homie.
Sound familiar? Their mentality sounds consistent with the values preached in commercial rap music. Take a look at the pictures of the Pouncey Twins sporting the hats inside the nightclub. They?re decked out, blinged out and tatted out like oversized rappers.
I?m sure they?re good kids. They?re swept up in a culture they don?t fully understand and don?t fully respect its impact. The rap music industry, the record labels and the commercial artists preach a message to young black people that expressing the most unethical, intimidating, violent, divisive and classless behavior ? characteristics necessary to survive incarceration ? are success tools in America?s free society.
As the father of rap music, Dahveed Nelson, said in my column on Monday, commercial rappers are high-paid collaborators to bait black youth to act like N-words. The Pounceys have only swallowed a tiny bit of the bait. But they?ve swallowed enough to think it?s cool and appropriate to support an alleged murderer with hats that trivialize the death of a 27-year-old black man. Imagine the offense they might take if they?d stopped at a club in December and Tom Brady was wearing a free George Zimmerman hat.
(I should add that one of my Ball State teammates was accused and convicted of murder not long after our playing careers ended. He was a great guy ? smart, liked and respected by everyone on the team. No one thought to blindly publicly support his freedom. We were embarrassed for him and wondered how such a seemingly good guy could be involved in something so tragic.)
Maurkice Pouncey issued an apology on Monday via Twitter.
?I fully recognize the seriousness of the situation involving my former teammate, and I regret that my actions appear to make light of that serious situation. I apologize to anyone who was offended by my actions.?
Great apology. The Pounceys are just kids. They?ll make mistakes, and we shouldn?t overreact.
The people at the top of the rap music food chain should not be afforded such easy forgiveness. They know exactly what they?re doing. They know the dishonesty and the illogic that fuels the popular sentiment within commercial rap music industry that states the embrace of the N-word is harmless because young people have redefined it and erased its dehumanizing power.
This popular mantra is every bit as intellectually dishonest as the mantra that slavery, Jim Crow, segregation, lynching and discrimination are issues that no longer affect modern American society.
Jay-Z and the other denigration rappers and comedians love to say they?ve taken the N-word from bigots and transformed it into a word of affection and respect. It?s a lie.
The N-word was given to/slapped on black people in America 300 years ago to justify our mistreatment. It was given to define us as less than human so that mentally slave owners would have no trouble treating us as animals.
You don?t change something built to destroy you into something that uplifts you. It?s the equivalent of thinking the slop/food fed to slaves can be transformed into raw fruits and vegetables. As bad as our diet is today (and it?s a direct descendant of what we were forced to eat 300 years ago), actually what we?re trying to do with the N-word is much worse.
The N-word is human feces. It?s not meant for consumption. Jay-Z and his defenders can saut? human waste in butter and garlic for a month and it?s still gonna taste like $**t and lead to poor health.
As long as we keep cooking and serving up the N-word to each other, we?re going to remain mentally comfortable hunting and executing each other like animals and throwing on baseball caps supporting the killers.
Regardless of the user, the N-word is still doing the exact job it was intended to do in the 1700s. Hell, it?s doing a better job.
Here's one of those things you'd always think was a joke but turned out to be real?the filmmakers behind Ashton Kutcher Steve Jobs movie have made an Instagram trailer.
Open Roads Studios claims it's the first Instagram trailer, made from 15 seconds' worth of the official preview we saw a few weeks back. It features a lot of slamming phones onto the receiver, Ashton Kutcher wearing Steve Jobs' glasses, and Ashton Kutcher shirtless. But honestly, who cares about any of that. Because an Instagram trailer is just so very fitting for this movie. [Instagram]
One family recovering from May's tornado in Broken Arrow has been battling the excessive heat and what they say is a slow response time from their insurance company.
The Perrier family has been cleaning up ever since the twister touched down.?
Just over a month ago, the family was hunkered down in an interior bathroom as an EF-2 tornado ran over the Broken Arrow community. They're just trying to figure out now: are they going to repair this house or build an entirely new one??
"The adjusters and the structural guys that came out all said it was a very well built house and I'm very grateful for that," said Broken Arrow homeowner Steve Perrier.
Instead of relaxing by the pool or taking the day off, the Perrier family has been cleaning up their tornado damaged home.
"It's been tough. I have to count to 10 because it's tough. I want to go home, but as you can see I can't just come home and there are times that you just want to come home put your feet up and just sit down," said Lorey Perrier.
Lorey Perrier has been working inside the family home with no air conditioning. Temperatures are in the high 90s as the Tulsa area experiences the hottest week of the summer.
"Every body has their spirits up," Steve said. "It's just been non-stop since the storm.
They've been working on their home til 11:30 or later every night, he said.
They're getting settled into a rental home, but are anxious to find out what the next chapter of their life is going to be. They're hoping a decision from their insurance company comes soon.
The family's insurance agency, State Farm, gave us this statement:?
"Each claim is unique and is handled on its own merits, and we work to resolve all factors that may arise in the process. Our commitment is to help our customers recover as quickly as possible."
Debris has been piling up along the Perrier's busy street.
Steve Perrier, Homeowner, "Our hope is that we can demolish the house and rebuild either this house or another house whatever the case may be. But that's what we're hoping for. This house has got so much damage that I don't trust it anymore," said Steve Perrier, Broken Arrow homeowner.
The family says even public clean up efforts have been slow.
"You just have to smile and go on. We'll pick up the pieces and do what we have to do," Lorey said.
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"Popular Journal App Day One Updated With Inter-App Improvements And More"?AppAdvice?9:23 AM
"New Simon-style memory game for iOS is family-friendly and addictive"?prMac?9:24 AM
"Saturn Defense - All-new style 3D defense game for iPad and iPhone"?prMac?7:12 AM
"Bawtry PaintBall Fields App Released - With Wallpaper of One Direction"?prMac?6:52 AM
"Keyboard Case Turns Your iPad Into a Pint-Sized Piano"?Mashable?7/12
"Valve introduces Pipeline, teaches high school students how to get a job in gaming"?The Verge?7/12
"Coming July 13: Gene Steinberg meets Adam Engst, of TidBITS, and Bryan Chaffin, of The Mac Observer, this week on The Tech Night Owl LIVE!"?The Tech Night Owl LIVE?7/12
"Tangent transforms your iPhone snaps into trippy works of art"?The Next Web?7/12
"Two games launch with Tango support: Candy Brick Breaker and Jetpack Jinx"?iMore?7/12
"eBay Exact for iOS launches for 3D-printed goods"?ZDNet?7/12
"eBay Exact launches on iOS, lets you buy customizable 3D-printed merchandise"?iDownload Blog?7/12
"Five Years of the App Store: How the App Store Changed Carter's Life"?148Apps?7/12
"Rovio Teases New 'Angry Birds' Star Wars Game"?Touch Arcade?7/12
"Terra Motors Unveils Electric Scooter With iPhone Dock"?PC Magazine?7/12
"Electric scooter shares info via iPhone dock"?TUAW?7/12
"Manfrotto Pixi iPhone Tripod Has 'Minimal Italian Style'"?Cult of Mac?7/12
"Fray Fix Fixes Frayed MagSafe Cables"?Cult of Mac?7/12
"Heads Up! iOS Game From Ellen DeGeneres And Clear Co-Developer Goes Universal"?AppAdvice?7/12
"MLB.com updates At Bat iOS app with All-Star goodies, new iPhone UI"?Engadget?7/12
"iPhone case with built-in stun gun protects both you and your phone"?TUAW?7/12
"Protect your phone and yourself, with bonkers iPhone case/stun gun combo"?Macworld UK?7/12
"Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic half off for 10th anniversary sale!"?iMore?7/12
"TRENDnet? Ships Adapter to Connect a Computer to a HD TV"?Run Around Tech?7/12
"Binocular Adapter for iPhone 5 adds some serious zoom"?Coolest Gadgets?7/12
"V3 Tablet App with 4G theme and iOS 7 update run-down goes live for iPad"?V3?7/12
"'Deus Ex: The Fall' will jam your guns on jailbroken iOS devices"?The Verge?7/12
"Infinity Blade: Dungeons saga concludes with cancellation by Epic Games"?iMore?7/12
"Get Your Game On: Deus Ex, Rovio Tiny Thief, KOTOR Cheap, Civ V Brave New World"?FairerPlatform?7/12
"Light Blue v4.2 released, including iPhone and iPad apps: Light Blue Software ships a new release of their award-winning business management software for photographers, with iPhone and iPad apps available in the App Store."?Light Blue Software?7/12
"ipash ME 1.0 released for iPhone - Popular Command Line/Shell Utility"?prMac?7/12
"Heliceum Catapults Naughty Boy: Sling And Shoot Onto iOS and Android"?prMac?7/12
"Zeami - Challenging Logic Game for iPad"?prMac?7/12
"Cgmatic Launches Guess Icon for iOS Devices"?prMac?7/12
"Skin Health and Beauty Tips Now Available at Your Fingertips"?prMac?7/12
"Very Popular Trivia game Sketchomania Pro Hits Apple App Store"?prMac?7/12
"Challenge your friends' brand IQ with Logo Quiz VS on iPhone and iPad"?prMac?7/12
Instagram designer Tim Van Damme is leaving Facebook to take a new role at Dropbox. Yesterday, we learned that Gowalla co-founder Josh Williams and Van Damme were leaving Facebook in unrelated departures. Van Damme has been the lead mobile designer for Instagram since January of 2012. Today, Van Damme posted on his personal blog, "Hello, Dropbox."
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