Posted by: charliekennedy on: November 30, 2008
Como en miles de tiendas del país, en ese establecimiento se celebraba el “Black Friday” (viernes negro), que se conmemora todos los años al día siguiente del jueves de Acción de Gracias. Es el primer día de rebajas y miles de americanos van de compras e incluso hacen cola la noche previa para tener acceso a [...]
Posted by: charliekennedy on: November 30, 2008
Los fans en China de Guns N’ Roses se encontraban con dificultades para obtener el ultimo album grabado por el grupo americano, este nuevo CD ha sido el primero en 17 años. Este nuevo disco ha sido censurado en China por su titulo “Democracia China”. El sitio oficial de este album es www.chinesedemocracy.com pero en china estaba bloqueado [...]
Posted by: charliekennedy on: November 30, 2008
Las elecciones en el pais de Venezuela han empezado y de esto depende mucho en el pais venezolano, ya que se decidiran entre 2 formas de gobierno: Socialismo o Democracia. Por ahora el Partido Socialista Unido de Venezuela (PSUV) controla 17 de los 22 estados de Venezuela. Este resultado es muy impresionante ya estas elecciones [...]
Posted by: charliekennedy on: November 30, 2008
Han pasado 25 días desde su eleccion y hoy parece muy lejos de aquel candidato de corte liberal y proteccionista que prometio acabar con la guerra en Irak en 16 meses y hacer las paces con el mundo. Ademas de renegociar acuerdos comerciales con los paises Nafta (México y Canadá). La gente esta pensando que la [...]
Posted by: charliekennedy on: November 30, 2008
La Liga Dominicana de Béisbol aclaró ayer que a principios de este mes incautó más de 20 bates ilegales de seis equipos. Jorge Torres, el encargado de lidom, informó que, más que una búsqueda de bates con corcho. Jorge dice que encontgro bates de “bambú”, cuyo uso sí está prohibido, o de marcas no oficializadas [...]
Posted by: charliekennedy on: November 30, 2008
Kinderpornografie steigt sehr stark an in letzter zeit. Rund 1,8 Millionen Kinder weltweit werden nach Schätzungen von des Kindehilfswerks UNICEF jedes Jahr zur Prostitution und Pornografie gezwungen. Allein schon in Deutschland wurden rund 50.000 Konsumenten von Kinderpornografie vermutet. Köln-Dies erklärte UNICEF Dienstag im Weltkongress gegen sexuelle Ausbeutung von Kindern in Rio de Janeiro. Diese tatsächliche Ausmaße [...]
Posted by: charliekennedy on: November 30, 2008
Who knew computer games could be lethal to your health? On Sunday the 16th of November, a fifteen year old Swedish boy who was playing the immensely popular online game World of Warcraft, collapsed after playing for twenty hours. World of Warcraft is an online multiplayer game that requires the player to create a character and complete missions. His group of friends [...]
Posted by: sallywatson on: November 30, 2008
Despite the great rivalry that developed during the race for the Democratic Nominee, President-elect Barack Obama and New York Senetor Hilary Clinton have joined forces since then and now she will be asked to join part of Obama’s national security team. Hilary Clinton was a huge help in the presidential race, campaigning for Obama around [...]
Posted by: sallywatson on: November 30, 2008
In an attempt to open the doors of a New York Wal-Mart at 5:00am on Black Friday a temporary Wal-Mart worker was trampled to death by frantic customers. The union the represents retail workers has said that the accident could have easily been prevented by the store. Jdimytai Damour was the unfortunate man who lost [...]
Posted by: sallywatson on: November 30, 2008
An Air Canada Co-pilot had a mental breakdown in the cockpit of his plane in Dublin, Ireland the other day. The nervous co-pilot had to be removed from the cockpit at once and seated and helped by a flight attendant with medical service. As this was going on another flight attendant with some flying experience had [...]
Posted by: sallywatson on: November 29, 2008
Albert Pujols won his second NL MVP award this week. His jaw dropping stats this year, a batting average of .357, 116 RBIs and 37 home runs beat Ryan Howard’s numbers of 46 home runs, and 146 RBIs. Now anyone who saw these two players stats for homers and RBIs would have given the award [...]
Posted by: sallywatson on: November 29, 2008
Dustin Pedroia, the second baseman for the Boston Red Sox, won his first AL MVP award year this week. Dustin was the first AL second baseman to win this award in half a century. In his two years he has accumulated several awards. Earlier this month, he won the Gold Glove and the Silver Slugger. [...]
Posted by: charliekennedy on: November 29, 2008
The world’s oldest person, Edna Parker, died at the age of 115 years and 220 days on November 26, 2008. She passed away at a nursing home in Shelbyville, Indiana. She is verified by the Guinness World Records to be the oldest recognized person and one of only twenty-one people authenticated to have reached the age of [...]
Posted by: jjthornhill on: November 27, 2008
The Holidays are here and everyone is excited. With Thanksgiving finally here, it’s time to eat and enjoy the family. The true chefs come out during this holiday. In many traditional dinners, the turkey is served as the main course along with stuffing and sweet potatoes and ham. I can honestly say it’s the [...]
Posted by: xeniya on: November 26, 2008
Life in IMG is busy for all the students, pretty much everyone has an enormously busy schedule, which makes it difficult to find a single minute to relax. I don’t think that since September I had one free day that I had devoted to doing nothing, and I am so used to my schedule now, [...]
Posted by: xeniya on: November 26, 2008
Before coming to United States, I have never heard about such thing as the Thanksgiving Day, since there is no such celebration anywhere in Russia, where I am from, and it was quite a pleasant surprise for me when I discovered that it is very important family holiday in US. I can definitely say that [...]
Posted by: charliekennedy on: November 25, 2008
In the past few months e-book sales have exploded in what otherwise a sleepy market for buyers and sellers alike. Random House Inc. announced Monday that it is making more than 8,000 additional books available in digital form. There will be a wide range of genres for all ages; mysteries, biographies, novels and children series [...]
Posted by: shaaz on: November 25, 2008
Interesting, ground breaking studies are in progress every day. Scientists devote a lot of time to finding relations between seemingly unrelated topics. A study has recently found that deep sleep increases a person’s creativity. In addition, a person who is constantly interrupted in their sleep tends to struggle to remember everyday things. William Fishbein, a cognitive [...]
Posted by: shaaz on: November 25, 2008
The issue of global warming has just shifted out of the world’s focus over the past couple of months due to the U.S. election and the struggling global economy. However, the effect of this impending global calamity is still being monitored by many around the world. The Tibetan glaciers that lie on some of the [...]
Posted by: jjthornhill on: November 25, 2008
Well, there will be no undefeated team this year in the NFL. The last undefeated team, the Tennessee Titans, took on the Jets in Tennessee. The New York Jets took an early lead and never looked back. They Jets ended up winning the game 34-13. They are looking more and more like a contender for [...]
Posted by: charliekennedy on: November 25, 2008
Attention Deficit Hyper Disorder (A.D.H.D) has become a leading disease among children and teens in the past decade. Since the 2008 Beijing Olympics, Michael Phelps has become an inspirational role model to patients and parents whose lives are affected by attention difficulties. He has suffered from the disease since childhood. “There is a tremendous, tremendous amount [...]
Posted by: hannahshulla on: November 25, 2008
Baghdad police said that bomb attack killed 13 women government workers in a bus in eastern Baghdad on Monday. They were on the way to work. Also a female suicide bomber killed five people in Baghdad’s Green Zone compound. Police said that most women killed on the bus were employees at the Trade Ministry. A [...]
Posted by: hannahshulla on: November 25, 2008
Since pirates hijacked a Thai fishing boat with 16 crew members on Tuesday off the coast of Somalia, major Norwegian shipping groups asked ships to sail around the tip of Africa instead of using the Suez Canal route to avoid pirates. They are saying that they will no longer watch their crew being hijacked and held [...]
Posted by: hannahshulla on: November 25, 2008
Authorities said on Monday that WalMart stores will cut $3 off the price of all the item that were overcharged to California customers because of a price scanner problem. Investigators found scanning errors in about 164 stores in 30 counties. On average, customers were overcharged $8 at the check out. The investigation began in December [...]
Posted by: hannahshulla on: November 25, 2008
General Motors has sponsored Tiger Woods over 8 years, but they announced on Monday that they are going to end their relationship with Tiger Woods. GM said that they were trying to save the costs as much as they could because of a finanicial slump. Tiger also expressed that he want to spend time with his [...]
Posted by: trubino on: November 25, 2008
Amy Jade Winehouse is a mix musical genre artist born on September 14, 1983 in London. Her debut was in 2003 with her first album called Frank. She was awarded with the 2008 Grammy Award for Best New Artist. Winehouse is known for being a hard partier and drug user. Her husband Blake Fielder-Civil who [...]
Posted by: pendletonpanther on: November 24, 2008
Titleist golf has been known for years as a player’s club. Offering a magnificent line of woods, irons, Scotty Cameron putters, and the Bob Vokey wedges. Bob Vokey has had great success on tour with his wedges as well as in amatuer play. However for the past few years, tour pros have been using a [...]
Posted by: pendletonpanther on: November 24, 2008
It appears Titleist has done their homework. About two years after releasing the 907d2 and 907d1, Titleist once again has a driver that has everybody talking. The 909 line consists of a 909 dcomp driver as well as 909d2 and d3 drivers. There are also the 909 f2 and f3 fairways along with the 909h [...]
Posted by: pendletonpanther on: November 24, 2008
Recently I was talking to my roommate from Switzerland about my parents bringing down a car for me within the next couple of weeks and he said he wished he was aloud to drive. In Switzerland the legal driving age is 18 and he wishes it was 16 back home for him. Yet their legal [...]
Posted by: trubino on: November 24, 2008
Wong Kwong Yu is known as the richest man in mainland China. He was born in May of 1969 and is from Shantou, Guangdong. He is the chairman, the director, and the controlling shareholder of the largest consumer electronic retailer called Gome Electrical Appliances Holding Limited. It was founded in 1987, now with 587 stores [...]
