Child Prostitutes Rescued in U.S.
U.S. police have rescued 50 child prostitutes from a nation wide operation to stop the traffic of children for sex. Many adult prostitutes that were arrested and question told authorities about a 16-year-old girl who is recruiting other minors to become prostitutes. This girl is the top of the list to look for next. The ages of the prostitutes start at age 13 and go up from there.
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Unlucky Memphis Man Loses 3 Homes in 4 Months to Elements
Bad luck strikes everyone, this time it struck a man multiple times. A Vietnam veteran lost three homes in a four month period. His first home was lost to fire caused by a gas leak. The owner of the apartment moved him to a different apartment, soon after the whole building was burned down from electrical problems. Being a veteran the Red Cross moved him and his neighbors to a Super 8 Motel where a severe storm blew off the roof.
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First Photos: Weird Fish With Transparent Head
The first photos of an alive fish with a transparent head were released today. These photos were taken in 2004 off the coast of California by Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute. These types of fish have been known about since 1939 but the first alive and intact specimen was this fish photographed in 2004. This fish was discovered in the deep depths of the ocean where the water is almost inky.
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Hudson Pilot Urges Safety Funding
The infamous pilot of the plane that landed in the Hudson River earlier this January is speaking out about some issues. He told the press that the pilots have been getting their pay cut the past couple of years and it worries him. He believes that the single most important part of a flight is a well trained smart pilot, and because of the low income the new pilots being selected aren't as educated as they used to be.
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Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Thursday, February 19, 2009
Review 1-29-09
Out of all the stores that I shop at Hollister Co. is the store I visit most. Their clothes are original and comfortable. They have a variety of selections that you can pick from. This store is my top pick.
This is a clothing store for preteens, teenagers, and early twenties. They have a variety of shirts, jeans, skirts, shorts, swimwear, shoes, and perfumes and colognes. Their clothes are comparable to Abercrombie and American Eagle Outfitters. They have very colorful clothing choices to pick from and styles. The store employees are very helpful when help is needed for finding the clothes and sizes best for you.
The atmosphere of the store is like you’re on a beach. The theme of the store and brand is surfers, so there are palm trees, surfboards, and pictures of oceans and beaches around every corner turned in the store. The aroma of the store is very sweat and recognizable. The front of the store has been built to look like a hut on a beach. It has a deck on the front with two entrances one for “Bettys” and one for “Dudes”. The lighting makes the mood of the store calm, because the lighting is dim. With a blend of calming and upbeat music the mood is always happy and calm.
When entering the store you feel overwhelmed at first because there are clothes everywhere. The shelves are stacked they have tables full and racks and racks of hanging clothes. Not to worry though because they have all sizes in store so when you find something you like you can have it in the right size and not have to squeeze into it or be swimming in it. Sometimes I feel like it might take a long time to find what I am looking for but the store employees are very helpful.
The prices of this store are sometimes comparable to other stores like this. Abercrombie and American Eagle are related brands. Abercrombie is the most expensive while Hollister and American Eagle’s prices are very closely ranged. The pants there range anywhere from 20 dollars on clearance to 70 dollars when they first come out. This price may be somewhat expensive but compared to other brands like this that is very inexpensive or similar.
Low prices, good employees, beachy feel what’s not to love about shopping at Hollister? All of the well priced clothing is there for the buying.
This is a clothing store for preteens, teenagers, and early twenties. They have a variety of shirts, jeans, skirts, shorts, swimwear, shoes, and perfumes and colognes. Their clothes are comparable to Abercrombie and American Eagle Outfitters. They have very colorful clothing choices to pick from and styles. The store employees are very helpful when help is needed for finding the clothes and sizes best for you.
The atmosphere of the store is like you’re on a beach. The theme of the store and brand is surfers, so there are palm trees, surfboards, and pictures of oceans and beaches around every corner turned in the store. The aroma of the store is very sweat and recognizable. The front of the store has been built to look like a hut on a beach. It has a deck on the front with two entrances one for “Bettys” and one for “Dudes”. The lighting makes the mood of the store calm, because the lighting is dim. With a blend of calming and upbeat music the mood is always happy and calm.
When entering the store you feel overwhelmed at first because there are clothes everywhere. The shelves are stacked they have tables full and racks and racks of hanging clothes. Not to worry though because they have all sizes in store so when you find something you like you can have it in the right size and not have to squeeze into it or be swimming in it. Sometimes I feel like it might take a long time to find what I am looking for but the store employees are very helpful.
The prices of this store are sometimes comparable to other stores like this. Abercrombie and American Eagle are related brands. Abercrombie is the most expensive while Hollister and American Eagle’s prices are very closely ranged. The pants there range anywhere from 20 dollars on clearance to 70 dollars when they first come out. This price may be somewhat expensive but compared to other brands like this that is very inexpensive or similar.
Low prices, good employees, beachy feel what’s not to love about shopping at Hollister? All of the well priced clothing is there for the buying.
News 1-29-09
Victim of Chimp Attack in ‘Critical but Stable’ Condition
A well-known chimp named Travis attacked a woman of 55 years of age. The lady was put into critical condition after the mauling, where she received massive damage to her hands and face, taking doctors and plastic surgeons seven hours in the operating room to correct the damage. The chimp went after a policeman when he was in his cruiser, the police shot and killed the animal and now its body has been sent to get an animal autopsy while his head is being searched for rabies.
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“Extinct” Bird Seen, Eaten
Extinct animals are supposed to be nonexistent, right? Wrong a television crew spotted a rare quail in the market. It was later sold and slaughtered. This was the first sighting of the bird for decades.
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Monkeys Can Subtract, Study Finds
Man is not the only mammal that can subtract and use numbers after all; monkeys are now joining us in using number sense. Researchers used shapes such as a square and dots to find out if the monkeys could really know numbers. These newly discovered skills are said to help the monkeys out in the wild.
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Record-length Fingernails Broken in Crash
Ever tried to be in the Guinness Book of World Records? Well a Salt Lake City woman lost the reason why she was in there when she got into an accident. She lost up to 28 feet of nails when she was ejected from the car in the crash. She received serious but nothing life threatening in the crash.
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A well-known chimp named Travis attacked a woman of 55 years of age. The lady was put into critical condition after the mauling, where she received massive damage to her hands and face, taking doctors and plastic surgeons seven hours in the operating room to correct the damage. The chimp went after a policeman when he was in his cruiser, the police shot and killed the animal and now its body has been sent to get an animal autopsy while his head is being searched for rabies.
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“Extinct” Bird Seen, Eaten
Extinct animals are supposed to be nonexistent, right? Wrong a television crew spotted a rare quail in the market. It was later sold and slaughtered. This was the first sighting of the bird for decades.
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Monkeys Can Subtract, Study Finds
Man is not the only mammal that can subtract and use numbers after all; monkeys are now joining us in using number sense. Researchers used shapes such as a square and dots to find out if the monkeys could really know numbers. These newly discovered skills are said to help the monkeys out in the wild.
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Record-length Fingernails Broken in Crash
Ever tried to be in the Guinness Book of World Records? Well a Salt Lake City woman lost the reason why she was in there when she got into an accident. She lost up to 28 feet of nails when she was ejected from the car in the crash. She received serious but nothing life threatening in the crash.
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Thursday, February 12, 2009
News 2-12-09
German Jetpack Runs for Hours on Water
Jetpacks were invented a while back but none were successful in staying up for a long period of time. Now a German company has broke into the future using a new fuel alternative, water. This Jetpack is designed similar to other versions but it uses a large yellow hose to feed the water into the Jetpack. This lets the jetpack stay up for hours; it can also travel at a speed of 45 miles per hour.
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Australia Police Target Arsonists
The history breaking brush fires in Australia are sending a police investigation squad into action. The fire has already caused 181 deaths and there are still unidentified bodies and even more unrecovered. The police have called in forensic investigators that targeted the Bali bombings in 2002. To help with the situation the Australian Red Cross got donations of up to 21 million dollars from authorities, individuals, and corporations.
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Ancient Mummy Warehouse Found Deep Beneath Egypt
In Egypt this week more than 30 mummies were found in a tomb dated back to 640 B.C. They were found in shaft around 36-feet-deep. These mummies were thought to be part of the 26th dynasty. Only eight mummies were found in coffins while the rest were found in crevices in the walls. Archaeologists are confused about why such a late dynasty would use crevices for more than half of the mummies rather than coffins.
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Man Dragged Under Van 17 Miles, Dies, Police Say
Ever been hit by a car? Well for one man that all changed one day in New York. Being struck twice the man was then drug 17 miles before he was found. The first van call 911 saying he thought he hit some one but could not see them. The police say there are no charges being filed, but they are going to search the route of the van for body parts.
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Jetpacks were invented a while back but none were successful in staying up for a long period of time. Now a German company has broke into the future using a new fuel alternative, water. This Jetpack is designed similar to other versions but it uses a large yellow hose to feed the water into the Jetpack. This lets the jetpack stay up for hours; it can also travel at a speed of 45 miles per hour.
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Australia Police Target Arsonists
The history breaking brush fires in Australia are sending a police investigation squad into action. The fire has already caused 181 deaths and there are still unidentified bodies and even more unrecovered. The police have called in forensic investigators that targeted the Bali bombings in 2002. To help with the situation the Australian Red Cross got donations of up to 21 million dollars from authorities, individuals, and corporations.
impact lede
Ancient Mummy Warehouse Found Deep Beneath Egypt
In Egypt this week more than 30 mummies were found in a tomb dated back to 640 B.C. They were found in shaft around 36-feet-deep. These mummies were thought to be part of the 26th dynasty. Only eight mummies were found in coffins while the rest were found in crevices in the walls. Archaeologists are confused about why such a late dynasty would use crevices for more than half of the mummies rather than coffins.
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Man Dragged Under Van 17 Miles, Dies, Police Say
Ever been hit by a car? Well for one man that all changed one day in New York. Being struck twice the man was then drug 17 miles before he was found. The first van call 911 saying he thought he hit some one but could not see them. The police say there are no charges being filed, but they are going to search the route of the van for body parts.
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Thursday, February 5, 2009
News 2-5-09
Station: Doctor injured in apparent Lexus blast
As Dr. Trent Pierce entered his car Wednesday an explosion occurred out of the blue. Police do not feel that this was a planned event, but they think that it could be an error in the doctor’s car. FBI are looking into the doctor’s past to see if he had any apparent enemies and is interviewing his boss who went to medical school with him and is a close friend. The FBI is unsure if it was just a fire or an actual explosion occurred. Pierce was said to be rushed to the hospital in critical condition.
Fossilized Remains of Mammoth Snake Discovered
Scientists found the largest snake ever recorded, with a length of 42 feet and weighs approximately one ton. This fossil is the largest non-marine vertebrate following dinosaurs and has the largest body length measurement. Scientists are thinking the snake is a relative of an Anaconda. This was found in a coal mine in Columbia, where the oldest known rainforests in the Americas was located.
Surgeons Remove Healthy Kidney through Donor’s Vagina
This is not the first ever time this procedure has been used but it is the first time it has been used to extract a living healthy kidney. This woman was chosen for this operation because of a previous hysterectomy. Using a natural passageway limits the recovery time from staying in the hospital for three to five days to going home in just 24 hours. Now doctors are afraid that this may cause problems in the future for people who undergo this procedure.
Bitter cold settles over southeast U.S.
Freezing cold temperatures are predicted for south eastern United States Wednesday night to sometime Thursday. The predicted temperatures are below freezing and are predicted to ruin sensitive vegetation and kill crops. Even though there is low temperatures hitting the fire dangers are high for these regions. Also there are about 200,000 people without power in Kentucky from the previous week’s ice storm.
As Dr. Trent Pierce entered his car Wednesday an explosion occurred out of the blue. Police do not feel that this was a planned event, but they think that it could be an error in the doctor’s car. FBI are looking into the doctor’s past to see if he had any apparent enemies and is interviewing his boss who went to medical school with him and is a close friend. The FBI is unsure if it was just a fire or an actual explosion occurred. Pierce was said to be rushed to the hospital in critical condition.
Fossilized Remains of Mammoth Snake Discovered
Scientists found the largest snake ever recorded, with a length of 42 feet and weighs approximately one ton. This fossil is the largest non-marine vertebrate following dinosaurs and has the largest body length measurement. Scientists are thinking the snake is a relative of an Anaconda. This was found in a coal mine in Columbia, where the oldest known rainforests in the Americas was located.
Surgeons Remove Healthy Kidney through Donor’s Vagina
This is not the first ever time this procedure has been used but it is the first time it has been used to extract a living healthy kidney. This woman was chosen for this operation because of a previous hysterectomy. Using a natural passageway limits the recovery time from staying in the hospital for three to five days to going home in just 24 hours. Now doctors are afraid that this may cause problems in the future for people who undergo this procedure.
Bitter cold settles over southeast U.S.
Freezing cold temperatures are predicted for south eastern United States Wednesday night to sometime Thursday. The predicted temperatures are below freezing and are predicted to ruin sensitive vegetation and kill crops. Even though there is low temperatures hitting the fire dangers are high for these regions. Also there are about 200,000 people without power in Kentucky from the previous week’s ice storm.
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
iPod Review
New colors, new layout, new shake feature. Apple is the future of MP3 players with all of the technology it has out there. The new iPod Nano-Chromatic by Apple is a colorful burst to the future, but may have some wrinkles in how it works.
Like all the other Apple products this iPod is useful in listening to music and watching videos. It comes equip with playlists and all the other features, but Apple has add a new variety of colors to the mix. Now instead of a few different colors there is a wide variety of bright and vibrant colors to fit your personality. Also similar to the iPod touch this has the cover flow option, this is where you can tilt the iPod the other way and the screen will automatically know to go to this. The style of the outside is similar to other Nano styles but it is modified a little, having a bigger viewing screen and smoother edges.
Even though Apple worked to get their MP3 products the ones of the future they may have went wrong in some places. One not to useful technology that they included in this was the shake feature. This is where you can shake your iPod to shuffle the song. The shake sensors are not sensitive enough so you spend more time trying to change the song by shaking it than it would take to click the next button on the shuffle songs mode. Also this can be annoying when you are trying to listen to a song all the way through and the iPod gets accidentally dropped or bumped and it changes to the next song. The new genius mode may come in handy to people with a large amount of songs, like more than 1,000. This is where it will take the song your listening to and make a new playlist of songs that are comparable to the song. Most music listeners know their music so why would they need the computer to group them together; wouldn’t they know where they would like their music to be?
The Apple iPod Nano-Chromatic has vibrant colors to choose from, and easy to read and maneuver around, but some new settings, trying to become more advanced into the future of technology, makes using this iPod a hassle at times.
Like all the other Apple products this iPod is useful in listening to music and watching videos. It comes equip with playlists and all the other features, but Apple has add a new variety of colors to the mix. Now instead of a few different colors there is a wide variety of bright and vibrant colors to fit your personality. Also similar to the iPod touch this has the cover flow option, this is where you can tilt the iPod the other way and the screen will automatically know to go to this. The style of the outside is similar to other Nano styles but it is modified a little, having a bigger viewing screen and smoother edges.
Even though Apple worked to get their MP3 products the ones of the future they may have went wrong in some places. One not to useful technology that they included in this was the shake feature. This is where you can shake your iPod to shuffle the song. The shake sensors are not sensitive enough so you spend more time trying to change the song by shaking it than it would take to click the next button on the shuffle songs mode. Also this can be annoying when you are trying to listen to a song all the way through and the iPod gets accidentally dropped or bumped and it changes to the next song. The new genius mode may come in handy to people with a large amount of songs, like more than 1,000. This is where it will take the song your listening to and make a new playlist of songs that are comparable to the song. Most music listeners know their music so why would they need the computer to group them together; wouldn’t they know where they would like their music to be?
The Apple iPod Nano-Chromatic has vibrant colors to choose from, and easy to read and maneuver around, but some new settings, trying to become more advanced into the future of technology, makes using this iPod a hassle at times.
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