Archive for November, 2009

Dubai and Abu Dhabi’s Leaders have Huddled over Debt Crisis

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!As world markets absorbed the shock of Dubai’s debt crisis, the ruler of the once-booming city-state left town for an important meeting in a desert palace.
Abu Dhabi has the cash and cache to be Dubai’s white knight — in a [...]

Goodbye Mininova.Org

Bummer! Mininova only limits its activities to content distribution service and now, all users around the world who rely on MININOVA.ORG are all sad, very sad and that including me because I am a FAN, USER and VISITOR of that beloved website.
Unfortunately the court ruling leaves Mininova.org to no other option than to take their [...]

Man dies after day trapped upside-down in cave

The brother of a man who died early Thursday trapped 700 feet inside a Utah cave said his family is remarkably strong but struggles to make sense of what happened.
John Jones, 26, of Stansbury Park, died nearly 28 hours after he became stuck upside-down in Nutty Putty Cave, a popular spelunking site about 80 miles [...]

Shaquille O’Neal pays for slain girl’s funeral

Shaniya Davis, 5, was found beside rural road in N.C.; victim’s mom charged.
Basketball star Shaquille O’Neal has paid for the funeral of a 5-year-old North Carolina girl whose kidnapping and slaying received national news coverage.
The Fayetteville Observer in North Carolina reported Thursday that the Cleveland Cavaliers player was touched by the case of Shaniya Davis.
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Caught on Tape: A Pit Bull Attacks Another Dog as Owner Tries to Stop It

In this incident caught on surveillance video, a pit bull owner sets down his dog’s leash for a moment. The another dog comes along and the pit bull attacks. The owner is seen punching and kicking his dog until the pit bull relents.
Dog owners in the United States can be held legally liable for injuries [...]

Maguindanao Massacre – More or less 35 were Killed Mostly Civilians and Media Men

May 2010 Election is merely 6 months away, but as early as today November 23, 2009, the first reported violence related to the coming election already happened. The Maguindanao massacre is the worst election related killings as I can remember here in the country. More or less 35 were killed mostly civilians and media men.
What [...]

Manny Pacquiao vs. Miguel Cotto Free Live Stream Video

Once again the boxing sports enthusiasts and the Filipino people are excited to watch the boxing fight of the year, the bout between Manny Pacquiao and Miguel Cotto at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada will take place on November 14, 2009 in the US and November 15, 2009 in the Philippines.
Many boxing [...]

Amanda Coolley Van Cooll is The Sole Survivor

After 3 months (more or less) of outwit, outplay and outlast in Peleliu, Palau, finally the 25 yrs old Construction Worker from Mindoro is the sole survivor for the Survivor Philippines Season 2 Palau.
It was a battle between the “Girl-Next-Door”, the “Probinsyanang Tisay,” and the “Transsexual Beauty Queen” on the finals but the strongest of [...]

Are You a Photographer? Getty Images wants you!

Here’s a Blogpost Posted by Fiona Miller on Flickr:

The Flickr Collection on Getty Images has been growing and growing since it launched back in March – with a princely figure of nearly 60,000 images in the collection so far. It’s no secret that there are billions of amazing photographs on Flickr, so it made perfect [...]

Manny Pacquiao on Time Magazine Cover

Joe Louis, Max Schmeling, Sugar Ray Robinson, Joe Frazier, Cassius Clay aka Muhammad Ali are the great professional boxers to be featured in the cover of Time magazine. To be featured on the cover of Time is just an indication of fame, achievements, success, attainment, in other words a WINNER.