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Victoria Caroline Beckham is an English singer-songwriter, dancer, model, actress, fashion designer and businesswoman. She was born on April 17, 1974, in Essex, England. She became famous in the 1990's with the pop group "The Spice Girls" and was known as Posh Spice. In 1999, she married the Manchester United and England footballer, David Beckham. They have four children, three sons and a daughter.

After the Spice Girls split up, she pursued a solo singing career, but also started her own fashion range called dVb Style. Since this initial foray into fashion Victoria Beckham has brought out her own range of sunglasses and fragrance, entitled "intimately Beckham" and a range of handbags and jewelry.

In addition, she had written two best-selling books: one her autobiography and the other, a fashion guide.

 

Based on the text, what do we know about Victoria?

KOMODO DRAGON

INDONESIA

 

The Komodo dragon truly lives up to its name, being the largest species of lizard ever known and capable of growing up to 3m in length and weighing up to 70kg. This sheer size, when combined with the dragon’s predatory nature, demands that caution be exercised when in its immediate vicinity.

Moreover, the dragon is also famous for its ferocious bite, which combines serrated teeth with mysteriously toxic saliva. Scientists still debate whether this saliva contains venom or bacteria but either way, the dragon’s fearsome reputation is well known.

This killing machine is only found in few islands in the Komodo National Park, a conversation area listed in two international groups: UNESCO World Heritage and the New 7 Wonders of Nature.

The bite of Komodo is ferocious because …

I am sure most of you have downloaded music a number of times. Downloading music is one of our favorite activities on the Internet. Most of s love surfing websites that facilities music downloads. Downloading music may make it conveniently available. But does it have a negative effect on the music industry?

Downloading music makes it readily available to the masses. Music reaches the masses in a minute. When music becomes available within sometime after its release, it is a real musical treat for those waiting for the release.

When you download music, you save on the costs that would be incurred if you would have decided to buy it. The original copies of music need you to shell out big bucks. If music is downloadable, you are sure to save money and thanks to the facilities of free downloading.

Supporters of music downloading claim that making music readily available contributes to the increased popularity artist. Being available for download, music reaches the crowd in a relatively lesser amount of time thus boosting its popularity.

On the other hand, though downloading music makes it readily available to the masses, it also makes it spreadable and wide overly. Something that is scarce is precious while something that is plentiful and easy to get tends to have lesser value.

The practice of downloading music leads to diminishing sales of music cassettes, CDs, and DVDs. It reduces the sale figures of music companies. It has an adverse effect on the music industry.

Downloading music gives rise to copyright and privacy issue. By downloading music you lose its originality. When you use the copied versions of music; you indirectly encourage piracy. As you download music, you do not go for the purchase of the original copies of music, which may result in an indirect violation of copyright.

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I am sure most of you have downloaded music a number of times. Downloading music is one of our favorite activities on the Internet. Most of s love surfing websites that facilities music downloads. Downloading music may make it conveniently available. But does it have a negative effect on the music industry?

Downloading music makes it readily available to the masses. Music reaches the masses in a minute. When music becomes available within sometime after its release, it is a real musical treat for those waiting for the release.

When you download music, you save on the costs that would be incurred if you would have decided to buy it. The original copies of music need you to shell out big bucks. If music is downloadable, you are sure to save money and thanks to the facilities of free downloading.

Supporters of music downloading claim that making music readily available contributes to the increased popularity artist. Being available for download, music reaches the crowd in a relatively lesser amount of time thus boosting its popularity.

On the other hand, though downloading music makes it readily available to the masses, it also makes it spreadable and wide overly. Something that is scarce is precious while something that is plentiful and easy to get tends to have lesser value.

The practice of downloading music leads to diminishing sales of music cassettes, CDs, and DVDs. It reduces the sale figures of music companies. It has an adverse effect on the music industry.

Downloading music gives rise to copyright and privacy issue. By downloading music you lose its originality. When you use the copied versions of music; you indirectly encourage piracy. As you download music, you do not go for the purchase of the original copies of music, which may result in an indirect violation of copyright.

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I am sure most of you have downloaded music a number of times. Downloading music is one of our favorite activities on the Internet. Most of s love surfing websites that facilities music downloads. Downloading music may make it conveniently available. But does it have a negative effect on the music industry?

Downloading music makes it readily available to the masses. Music reaches the masses in a minute. When music becomes available within sometime after its release, it is a real musical treat for those waiting for the release.

When you download music, you save on the costs that would be incurred if you would have decided to buy it. The original copies of music need you to shell out big bucks. If music is downloadable, you are sure to save money and thanks to the facilities of free downloading.

Supporters of music downloading claim that making music readily available contributes to the increased popularity artist. Being available for download, music reaches the crowd in a relatively lesser amount of time thus boosting its popularity.

On the other hand, though downloading music makes it readily available to the masses, it also makes it spreadable and wide overly. Something that is scarce is precious while something that is plentiful and easy to get tends to have lesser value.

The practice of downloading music leads to diminishing sales of music cassettes, CDs, and DVDs. It reduces the sale figures of music companies. It has an adverse effect on the music industry.

Downloading music gives rise to copyright and privacy issue. By downloading music you lose its originality. When you use the copied versions of music; you indirectly encourage piracy. As you download music, you do not go for the purchase of the original copies of music, which may result in an indirect violation of copyright.

 

What is the argument against downloading music?

                Internet has been the most outstanding innovation in the history of mankind. As with every single innovation, the internet has its own advantages and disadvantages.

                The target of the internet has always been the communication. By the beginning of computer’s internet, our earth has reduced and has attained the form of a global village. Now we can communicate in a fraction of second with a person who is sitting in the others parts of the world. Today, for better communication, we can avail facilities of services in offering. With the help of such services, it has become very easy to establish a kind of global friendship.

                However, the internet also has advantages. One of them is widespread of unsuitable contents for kids. It is a very serious issue and related to children’s healthy mental life. There are thousands of such inappropriate contents on the internet which can be easily found. Though the internet can also create havoc, destruction and its misuse can be very fatal, the advantages of it out-weigh its advantage.

 

What is one of the advantages of the internet?

The Halloween Kid

Burgeoning filmmaker Axelle Carolyn showed a lyrical, controlled sense of cinema in her 2011 short film debut THE LAST POST. Now, the sometime actress, model, and author have created another work of gentle, frightening craft in THE HALLOWEEN KID.

                The short film features a rhyming, Edward Gorey-esque poem (penned by Carolyn) as its script and story: a tale of a poor, put-upon little boy named Henry who feels more akin to the supernatural creatures of his imagination than the cruel, narrow-minded adults and children who permeates his world. But of course, Henry might not be as delusional as we think and, come Halloween, he found his only moments of respite amongst other kids, who are in fact, dead!

                That’s pretty much it as far as THE HALLOWEEN KID’s narrative goes, but like THE LAST POST, the film is not about the story, rather creating a tiny, perfectly realized universe that aims for more sensitivity than shock, more melancholy than morbid. The music is lovely and whimsical, as in the almost Boris Karloff-like narration by legendary Shakespearean dramatic Derek Jacobi.

                THE HALLOWEEN KID shows even more promise from Carolyn, who with this beautifully sculpted piece of work is one to watch, not just as a ‘horror filmmaker’, but as a quality director of movies, full stop.

According to the reviewer, the movie was ....

CAPTAIN PHILLIPS

Captain Phillips is an upcoming 2013 American biographical action thriller film directed by Paul Greengrass based upon the book, A Captain's Duty: Somali Pirates, Navy SEALS, and Dangerous Days Sea, by Richard Phillips with Stephan Talty, and starring Tom hanks. It is produced by Scott Rudin, Dana Brunetti, and Michael De luca. The film tells a biopic of merchant mariner Captain Richard Phillips who was taken hostage for several days by Somali Pirates when the container ship Maersk Alabama which sailed from southern Oman down along the coast of Somalia and then to Kenya was hijacked in 2009.

Captain Richard Phillips (Tom Hanks), veteran merchant mariner, still lives in his native New England, and he's a plainspoken family man fall of anxiety about the economically bleak new world his kids are facing. When his wife (Catherine Keener) drops him off at the airport, we can see reverse her. The film then cuts to Somalia, a land of dust and poverty, where the pirates are recruited for their mission as if they were
migrant farm workers lining up to be chosen for that day's labor. Greengrass doesn't have to fill in much about the violent, chaotic breakdown of Somalia to let us know that these men have little choice.

The film does not generate quite the same level of excruciating suspense as some of Greengrass previous triumphs, but it nonetheless holds us hostage as it proceeds. As for the four Somali immigrants, they we remarkably effective in their first professional acting gigs.

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2012-13 Basketball and Cheerleading Season and State Championship is rescheduled a week later due to a conflict with the Sullivan Arena and UAA Hockey schedule.
Why was the basketball championship rescheduled?

How Chocolate is made:

Have we wondered how we get chocolate from? Well, this time we will enter the amazing world of chocolate so we can understand exactly how chocolate is made.

Chocolate is taken from a tree called cacao tree. This tree grows in equatorial regions, especially in places such as South America, Africa, and Indonesia. The cacao tree produces a fruit about the size of a small pineapple. Inside the fruits are the tree’s seeds. They are also known as coco beans.

Next, the beans are fermented for about a week, dried in the sun. After that, they are shipped to the chocolate maker. The chocolate makers work by roasting the beans to bring out the flavor. The beans from different places have different qualities and flavor. So they are often sorted and blended to produce a distinctive mix.

The next process is winnowing. The roasted beans are winnowed to remove the meat nib of the cacao bean from its shell. Then the nibs are blended. The blended nibs are grinds to make liquid. The liquid is called chocolate liquor. It tastes bitter.

All seeds contain some amount of fat and cacao beans are not different. However, cacao beans are half fat. It is pure bitter chocolate.

 

Why are the coco beans roasted?