Day: November 9, 2010

Cruise Gone Wrong: Almost 4,500 Stranded

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Cruise Ship

This Wednesday night, a Carnival cruise ship will be expected to pull into a Mexican port in Ensenada, allowing its thousands of passengers access to electricity. An engine fire had broken out on Monday.

Fortunately, none of its 3,299 passengers and 1,167 crew members were injured in putting the fire out. However, electricity, air conditioning, heated water, and phone service were down due to the fire.

The U.S. Coast Guard is in the process of bringing the immobile ship to the port in Mexico and has deployed aircrafts, ships, and alerted the U.S. and Mexican Navy.

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ROCKY 4

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Here’s a special review of one of my favorite films of all time, Rocky 4. Now, the movie opens with Rocky defeating Clubber Lang, and Rocky and Apollo’s famous scene in the ring. Rocky is a famous, wealthy boxing legend who has a new friendship with his former rival Apollo Creed. This film starts out with a charming scene with Paulie’s birthday celebration. He get’s a robot who is apparently fully functional and even brings him a cake. It can talk as well. Now that was 1985, it’s 2010. Do you know anyone today who owns a robot?

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Diwali

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The most celebrated festival in India, Deepavali (diwali), was celebrated this Friday with great pride and enjoyment. The festival which is most commonly known for its colors, firecrackers and sweets, was far greatly celebrated this year because of the arrival of President Obama the next day. The festival, which can be considered a Christmas for Indians, includes plenty of lighting in the houses and prayers (poojas) to welcome Goddess Laxmi and Ganesh to bring wealth to the houses. Diwali is a religious as well as fun festival, which tells the story of Lord Ram returning from exile after several years.

Every Indian spends time and  money on celebrating the festival. While some can only afford a small prayer in their houses, other go out of their ways to spend on a large hall which includes plenty of people to pray and burst crackers together. Some even fast on the day to honor and offer tribute to the Lord. While others eat plenty to celebrate. Some  buy new clothing for themselves. While some do not believe in that. By the end of the day it is a festival which brings together people to enjoy, and during the evening the sky is full of firecrackers. Diwali is celebrated by most religions, cultures and states in India.

Ever man in India awaits Diwali the entire year. Some men go to the extent of spending one million dollars on firecrackers. The day of Diwali is hectic for the elders. Most of them, spent the day creating footsteps from the main door to the cupboard to help the Lord find place to sit. They also have to make gujhiya, special Diwali homemade sweet. In the evening, there is as story that the elders of the family tell, and finally the firecrackers are bought out.   Diwali is the funnest festival and loved by most Indians.

LCD. Easy as 123

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The latest musical phenom i’ve stumbled upon is none other than James Murphy, the renaissance man known in the business as LCD Soundsystem. The man could play all of the instrumentals in his band if only he had enough hands. But what’s really spectacular about him is that he can rock them all harder than most everybody.

Most of his songs start out with a grungy, Pavement style couple of verses that bring “lo-fi” back in to your vocab. But just when you think that he’s another ambiguous modern indie artist, his true skills as a producer take over. This guy can hold his own with some of the greatest electronic music producers out there if he had the drive. Clearly what is important to him, however, is creating original music in one of the most distinctly vague genres there is.