Australian Swimmer Stephanie Rice winner of three golds in 2008 Olympics

Australian swimmer Stephanie Rice currently holds the world record in the 200 m and 400 m individual medley, and won three gold medals at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.
Stephanie has won Gold medals in 2006 Commonwealth Games and bronze medals in 2007 Commonwealth Games.
Michael Bohl from the St Peters Western Swimming Club has tranined Stephanie Rice.

Towelhead movie, story of Jasira an Arab-American girl

FASHION , MOVIES AND ENTERTAINMENT :
From the creator of American Beauty and Six feet under, here come another movie "TowelHead". Jasira, a 13-year-old Arab-American girl, navigates the confusing and frightening path of adolescence and her own sexual awakening. When Jasira's mother sends her to Houston to live with her strict Lebanese father, she quickly learns that her new neighbors find her and her father a curiosity. Worse, her budding womanhood makes her traditional and hot-tempered father uncomfortable. Lonely in this new environment, Jasira seeks friendship and acceptance from her neighbors Mr. Vuoso, an Army reservist, and Melina, a meddling but caring expectant mother. The story of Jasira, how will she adapt to all this is the movie - 'Towelhead'

Carrie Underwood...The first country American Idol

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The first country American Idol, Carrie Underwood grew up in the small town of Checotah. Carrie began singing with her church at the tender age of three. Throughout her childhood, she also performed at functions for the Lion's Club and Old Settlers Day, and eventually at festivals in several states. Along with developing her singing, Underwood learned to play guitar and piano. She graduated from high school as her class salutatorian and majored in mass communication at Northeastern State College with an eye on a career in broadcast journalism, but continued her singing career throughout her studies.

End of world? Experiment to recreate Big Bang underway

The Big Bang Theory is the dominant scientific theory about the origin of the universe. According to the big bang, the universe was created sometime between 10 billion and 20 billion years ago from a cosmic explosion that hurled matter and in all directions.

Scientists in Geneva on Wednesday launched preliminary experiments to test the Big Bang theory of the universe's origins and other beliefs about how matter and mass formed.

For the tests, engineers built a giant contraption called the Large Hadron Collider. The unit is designed to smash sub-atomic particles into each other at extremely high speeds. They hope to use the LHC to crash protons into each other and create events that are similar to those that supposedly occurred when the universe formed.

The process aims to test the Big Bang theory and the belief that the Higgs boson particle—the so-called God particle--is the origin of matter and mass. It could also provide evidence of dark matter, or invisible matter in between galaxies.

BRITNEY is Back....

Britney is backkkk. One year after her disastrous performance, Brit looked smoking hot, rosy and healthy as she accepted three moonmen at Sundays show.
She is working on another album, which is set to release on december and she mentioned that 'it's her Best work ever'.
Apart from this album, second thing on Britney's agenda is the Big Birthday party for her son's birthday. Her two sons Jayden and Preston's birthdays are on Sept.12 and Sep. 14 respectively.
A Spears insider also revealed that her "goal is to regain joint custody of her sons as soon as her dad Jamie's status as her conservator ends."

Ike gains strength over Gulf, heading towards Texas

Hurricane Ike is gaining strength as it slowly makes its way into the Gulf of Mexico, on a path toward the southern U.S. state of Texas.

The National Hurricane Center in Miami says Ike's center was in the waters off the coast of western Cuba this Wednesday morning. Forecasters say it was traveling at a speed of 13 kilometers per hour, with maximum sustained winds of 140 kilometers an hour.

On its current path, Ike could reach the coast of Texas early Saturday.

Authorities in Texas have begun making preparations. Governor Rick Perry has declared 88 coastal counties disaster areas, and several towns in the region have been told to prepare for a mandatory evacuation.

Oil companies have begun evacuating workers from their offshore drilling platforms.

Forecasters say Ike still is producing strong tropical storm conditions in western Cuba. It could dump as much as 50 centimeters of rain before leaving the area, and could cause life-threatening floods and mudslides.

The storm first made landfall on Cuba on Sunday, killing at least four people and forcing more than one million people to evacuate. Ike struck Cuba again on Tuesday, sending debris flying through the streets and soaking the capital, Havana, with heavy rain.

Ike also caused flooding in Haiti that killed about 70 people, adding to an estimated toll of 500 people killed by storms in recent weeks.

Microsoft closing it's owned studio : ENSEMBLE

Microsoft would be closing its internal developer Ensemble Studios upon the completion of sci-fi real-time strategy game Halo Wars. In a statement issued today, Microsoft confirmed that Ensemble will be shut down once the Xbox 360-exclusive RTS set in the best-selling Halo franchise ships out early next year.

"The team at Ensemble has made invaluable contributions to the games industry with their Age of Empires and Age of Mythology games and with the highly anticipated release of Halo Wars.This decision does not reflect at all on Ensemble’s talent or the quality of Halo Wars--in fact, many people who have had a chance to test drive Halo Wars agree that it is on track to being a fantastic game."

Though Microsoft will close the studio, Ensemble brass plan to soldier on. As part of today's statement, Microsoft said that Ensemble's "leadership team" will form a new development house, and has already entered into an agreement with the publisher to continue supporting Halo Wars post-launch, "as well as work on other projects with Microsoft Game Studios."

Commenting on the reason for the closure, Microsoft said, "This was a fiscally rooted decision that keeps MGS on its growth path. While the decision to dissolve Ensemble was not an easy one, Microsoft is working to place as many Ensemble employees who do not move to the newly formed studio into open positions within Microsoft as possible."

As noted earlier today, the Age of Empires brand has sold more than 20 million units since the first installment debuted on the PC in 1997. According to the NPD Group, Ages of Empires III for the PC has sold 1.15 million units in the US alone through July 2008, with The Warchiefs expansion tallying nearly 305,000 more.