Day: October 13, 2010

Trapped miners in Chile are finally reaching ground level again!

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The 33 miners in Chile were stuck underground for over 2 months have finally been rescued. The men were in a gold and copper mine on August 5th when they became trapped.

The rescue effort to bring up the miners from 622 meters underground has been in effect for the past couple days. Each miner is placed in the rescue shaft and pulled up to the surface one at a time. The ride up the shaft takes about 15 minutes.

Families await their loved ones at the surface, in anticipation of hugging them once again after such a long and stressful separation. The rescue is scheduled to be completed by tomorrow.

As a precaution, when the miners get back to ground level, they must go through a series of medical tests to ensure that their health is sound. Millions of people around the world have been following the news and watching the rescue live on television. Both the miners and their loved ones are very lucky to have made it back safe and sound.

Good ol England

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Today a great thing happened in the world of football. First a little background for any of you non-soccer fans (tisk tisk). England is the most cocky and absolutely unbearable country when it comes to soccer.

It has won the World Cup only once and that was when it was played at home in 1968. And yet every year the English speak of how great their team will be, and yet, almost every year they suck.

I will not deny it, they have the best club league in the world. But their international team is really not that good. In fact, the US national team finished ahead of them in the last World Cup in south Africa. The thing about the English team is that none of their players, not one, plays outside of England. This is terrible for their team and for their country.

So here is the great news: The self-titled “Greatest team ever” tied the country of Montenegro today.

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Birthdays

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Today is my birthday.

Birthdays are something we, as kids, cherish. It’s all about “growing up” and “being a big kid,” but when do we really stop and realize what we have? I’m finding that the older I get, the less excited I am for each birthday. Most kids my age are claiming that they’re excited to be 18, for freedom, and 21, for alcohol, but why? Does anyone stop and think that turning 18 is practically being thrown into a lion’s den from the comfy and less hostile world we’re used to? You have to pay for yourself, manage school work, and keep a social life. It’s already hard enough in high school to manage school work along with a social life. Even adults past age 27 or so wish they were younger. Here, in high school, and partially college, everything is set up for us, but when we hit the real world we’re on our own. I don’t want to grow up anymore.

Kill The Umpire!

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Hello everybody, me again. As you all know from my previous blog, it is currently the MLB playoffs. It is a time of never ending drama and great theatrics and better performances. However, there has been quite the annoying trend of outcomes being marred by subpar umpiring.

Not saying this is a new trend because this has been going on since umpires have been employed. “The call” in the 1985 world series, Chuck Knoblauch‘s phantom tag in 1999. In the 98 fall classic’s game one, Mark Langston pitched a 2-2 fastball right down the pipe to Tino Martinez. Strike three, Padres get out of the bases loaded jam in a tied game, all’s well. One problem, that was ball 3. The next pitch was launched into the upper deck for a grand slam.  Yankees win, Padres lose, as was the outcome of the series.

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The Blackberry problem

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In many countries today, such as India, governments are considering banning the Blackberry Messenger service primarily because it is a very easy way for terrorists to communicate. The service is a national security matter as the company is not able to trace messages sent across the network. Talk of the ban of BBM has been on for a while now, however the company seems intent on pressuring the government to give it more time to find a solution before the ban.

India, which had been under attack recently in Mumbia in the “Taj” Hotel, thinks BBM is a great way for terrorists to plan another such attack. India lost important Businessmen and Politicians under that attack. It is therefore taking extra care of its security and banning BBM is a step. The government has however decided that the ban should be put on hold till January 2011, after which the ban will be in progress unless the company comes up with a solution.

From Guns to Cyberspace

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It started with Edward Smith in 1831 and now it has come to the internet. Hundreds of New York residents are victimized by a cyber robbery virus known as Zeus Trojan.

The headline reads: Dozens Charged In Schemes to Steal from Bank Accounts Using Computer Viruses. Who would have thought that the futuristic phenomenon known as “the World Wide Web” would eventually become our biggest threat to our safety? What do we do now that any stranger can have access to our most valuable personal information? Internet withholds information about us that we think is kept secret, but in reality the whole world can see it….and use it.

The scariest part is that all of these criminals are overseas. This “hackers community” started across the water in Eastern Europe and worked its way over to the Eastern shores of America and hopefully won’t get the chance to spread around the world. Let’s hope that it hasn’t happened yet. I’m positive that I’m gonna make darn sure my info is safe on the internet because if it’s not safe there then it’s not safe anywhere.

water

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I haven’t showered in a week, because I now realize how important the water is.

In order to understand the water resource in California, our AP Environmental Science class took a camping trip to Owens Lake and Mono Lake. People in Los Angeles mostly get their water from these two lakes. In order to use the water, the government created diversions in Owens River and other rivers that flow into the lakes. The diversions control how much water will flow into the lakes and how much water will flow to LA region. As the population in LA grow rapidly, the need of the water increase. As the result of this situation, less and less water will flow into the lakes.

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Crazy Scary Idea for Oil Spills

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Strolling through internet for oil spill clean up ideas, I found something old, but still very crazy scary. Darryl Carpenter who works at Florida-based CW Roberts Contracting, and Otis Goodson have invented a brilliant, but so simple way to clean up oil spills.

He told Goodson, “Can you fill a large pan with water and oil, then grab a handful of hay and stir it in? Strain out the hay, then call me back and tell me what’s left in the pan.” Strangely enough, this strategy worked. I mean the results were stunningly successful.

So why not hay for about 300 oil spills occurring a year? Doesn’t sound that bad AT ALL.

Here is the video.

http://green.autoblog.com/2010/05/11/video-hay-heres-a-great-idea-how-to-clean-up-the-bp-oil-spill/#continued

All You Need

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Bright lights blind my eyes and the makeup feels like it is about to melt off of my face. My smile is large and over exaggerated, making my cheeks hurt. I am frozen, my right arm is extended horizontally, my elbow slightly bent with my fingers pointed up to the ceiling and my palm facing the wall. My left arm is lifted, draping over my head with my wrist and hand both limp. My silky hot pink shirt is tailored tight, restricting my breath, but I am still able to open my mouth and belt out my songs.

The band waits for the audience to stop applauding before they start playing; it is my cue to move again. I twirl through rows of people, all dressed in black with red sashes around their waists and paper boy hats on top of their heads. Their characters do not see me, though my character, the fictional Ringa Starr, attempts to get their attention. They suddenly swirl around me, picking me up high above their heads, and spin me in a circle. Their eyes are forward, away from me. They pretend not to see me; they only feel my presence. They set me down, and with a deep breath I open my mouth to sing with as much feeling as I have inside of me:

All you need is love!
All you need is love!
All you need is love, love;
love is all you need!

Ringa Starr

Ringa Starr

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starwars apocalypse 2012

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My god, George Lucas just won’t stop messing with Star Wars will he. Apparently it has come to my attention that a 3-d re-release of the Star Wars saga beginning with episode 1 is set to debut in 2012, date TBA. They are starting with The Phantom Menace which came out in 1999 for those of us who remember. It was the one where Darth Maul has that cool double saber, and a more awesome look than Darth Vader, and is frankly, a more badass villain. It also included Jar Jar Binks, the annoying alien thing that looks like a rejected Pokemon character who many despise and some even consider racist. Now I usually enjoy stupid characters in movies, when they’re funny.

Now this may be a welcome change when it comes to logic seeing as how they are opening with part one rather than part four, even though A New Hope was an awesome movie. They are going to start with part 1 and base the re-makes on ticket sales. Speaking of said sales, I for one am not too thrilled about the jacked up ticket prices when a movie just happens to be in 3-d. Tickets at my local theater go for  $10 for an adult ticket. When I saw Pirhanna,  My Bloody Valentine, Beowulf, ticket sales were all $15. Plus with that being said, I wasn’t a fan of episode 1 in the first place. Not to mention 2 or 3 before the good ones start.

So I’m a little apprehensive about this, especially since Lucas can’t seem to stop upgrading his movies in re-releases. Him and Spielberg‘s parody episode in SouthPark was 100% fact, and not to mention hilarious. So $15 to see an inferior Star Wars? No thank you.

And if the reason for this was to once and for all settle the debate about Han or Greedo shooting first, then that’s just sad.