Entries from July 2008
Cristiano Ronaldo has bought himself a $6,80,000 Rolls Royce Phantom convertible to celebrate his decision
to stay on at Manchester United for another seaon. “The car will be the flashiest at United’s training ground.
Ronaldo will be going one better than Rio Ferdinand’s Bentley. He loves his cars and wanted something new
for the the start of the seaon,” The sun quoted a source, as saying. Ronaldo already owns an Aston Martin,
a BMW 6 series and a Ferrari. The Phantom will replace his $2,80,000 Bentley Continental. He ordered it
through an elitecar firm called Liquid 45 and gave instructionsfor it to be “fully loaded,” a trade term for all
the added extras. Flash cars are nothing new to soccer stars but Ronaldo has a reaon to celebrate after
deciding to stay put at Old Trafford for another year at least.
Categories: sports
The irony of Guitar Hero; Aerosmith review? If you’re interested enough in the game to read it probably is of little value to you. That’s because Aerosmith isn’t so much a new game as an old cake with different icing,its value as a purchase entierly dependent on how are.Obiviously, the chief selling point of Aerosmith (sold separately or bundled with a band branded guitar peipheral) is Aerosmith. The band appears as charaters in the game, and the career mode though structured the same as before now takes you through venues and time periods crucial to their carrer. Perhaps most importantly, Aerosmith includes 25 master tracks of selected songs from the Aerosmith catalogue, along with 16 tracks from Joe Perry and artists chosen by the band for one reason or aniother (New York Dolls, The Cult, Joan Jett and Stone Temple pilot,among others).
That ratio along with the relatively small size of the set list Guitar Hero III, by contrast, included 73 songs for the same price), is what likely will rattle gamers the most. The inclusion of other artists makes sense, because Activision would prefer to sell Aerosmith” to more than just Aerosmith fans, but it also runs counter to the game’s chidf selling point. Casual Aerosmith fans may feel the track list suits them just fine, but a full priced game that owes its entire reason for being to an Aerosmith themed fasceliftshouldn’t be for casual fans. Inevitably, the hardcore will wonder why an Aerosmith branded game made room for a bunch of peripheral songs instead of, say, Janie’s Got a Gun, Eat the Rich or any number of the band’s hit ballads.
Aerosmith’s inability to stay true to tis mission trickles down to the career mode. Playing as the band and working up to the stadium and Super Bowl half time show (sans ‘N Sync, thankfully) will be a trat for a fans, but some of the authenticity is lost when songs from different erasare mixed with no respect to chronology.
Categories: music
The base thast covered Saturn also made it impossible to see if the oceans or lakes of liquid methane, ethane or other hydrocarbons, which scientists believed existed on Titan (Saturn’s moon) were really there. But the Cassini fly by of July 22 was a shot in the arm as it returned radar images that conclusively showed the presence of liquid bodies. Apart from Earth, this makes Saturn the only known body in the solar system to have liquids on its surface. From the Cassini images, scientists are positive about the presence of liquid ethane, which is a component of crude oil. The images show hundreds of lake like images. Cassini reached saturn in 2004 and launched a probem, Huygens, that was parachuted to the surface of Titan on early 2005. The mission is a project of NASA, the European Space Agency, and the Italian Space Agency.
Categories: place
Until recently, it was decorating an ornamental pond in southern England but its actually an ancient
fish head fossil. Peter Parvin, a resident of Maidstone, found a stone that looked a bit like a fish 15 years
ago during a holiday and figured it would look good in his garden. But the local museum, which woke up to the rock just recently, says the fishy expression actually came from a fish that swam the waters abouts
80 million years ago. However, the fish hasn’t yet been identified. Dating the fossil was easier than expected since it was covered in flint, a hard silica rock found about 145-65 million years ago. Ed Jazembowski, from the Maidstone Museum, who was the first to examine the fossil also said that such fossils were rare. Experts are looking forward to scanning the stone to learn more about the ancient fish.
Categories: place
Australian pacer Brett Lee said he is upbeat to launch his own music album. “I am a cricketer but now I enjoy other things as well and the fact that I am into music and fashion. I am currently working on a project now with my music and that will be coming out shortly and I am looking forward to that out shorty and I am looking forward to that but putting that aside we have lot of coming of cricket in October,” said Lee. The pacer is also keen musician and has his own rock band named “Six and Out”.
Brett Lee had a brush with Indian music when he sand a duet with legendary singer Asha Bhonsle in Hindi. Lee will display his acting skills in a Bollywood cricketing flick “Victory” where the pacer is playing himself.
Categories: sports
Amy Winehouse’s husband wants her to leave London. Blake Fielder-Civil, who was sentenced to 27 months in jail last week for griveous bodily harm (GBH) and perverting the course of justice, believes the only way he and the trobled singer can quit drugs for good is to move away from the temptations that currently surround them. Amy’s father Mitch told Britian’s Sunday Times newspaper, “Blake totally gets it. He said to me, ‘We can’t carry on living in Camden. We need to move out to the country.’ If they do, they could have the most fantastic life together, with the full blessings of my family. Whatever happens, we won’t be where we are now in two years.” Mitch, who has previously disappeared proved of Blake’s influence on his daughter, says he doesn’t blame him for his daughter’s drug use.
Categories: celebrity details
Former England football great Gary Lineker’s girlfriend, Danielle Bux, has been signed by underwear Chain La Senza to model its “One Price Fits All” bra campaign. The 28-years-old model, according to The Sun , is being in the sexy scanties.” Former air stewardess turned lingerie model Bux and Lineker have been together for a year, have moved in together for a year, have moved in together and are currently hunting for a bigger house. Miss Bux, who has a daughter Ella, 6, from a previous relationship told Hello! magazine: “it’s too early to say whether we will have kids or get married. We’re just really happy together at the moment. We’re best friends. I don’t want to rush anything but you never know.”
Categories: celebrity details
