CHEVY VOLT: ELECTRIFYING VERSION

General Motors Corp. stated Tuesday that the Extended Range Electric Vehicle is no longer a rumor but soon to realize and will be launched to the automotive world industry in its remarkable vision to drive your own car into a zero-gas driving.

Chevy Volt is an electrifying car with a zero gas and zero emission production in a drive of less than 40 miles a day or 230 miles per gallon (98 kilometers per liter) of gasoline within city driving.

The Chevy Volt car is designed to answer the needs of daily commuters including 75 percent America's daily commuters to drop zero-gas drive during commutation. It has a revolutionary propulsion system that takes you beyond the power of the battery.

Chevy Volt will be launched next year and this innovation is a good news to commuters.

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TWITTER ATTACKS CAUSED BLOGGER CYXYMU

The attacks that outage Twitter and left millions collateral damage around the globe was traced several hours ago that it was an attacked intended to a lone blogger in the former Soviet Republic of Georgia.

The attacks which started Thursday in Facebook, LiveJournal and several Web sites including Twitter that caused the site to crash out because of its denial of a service-attack commanded by hackers toward a single site to prevent legitimate traffic from getting through on a targeted blogger "Cyxymu", who bears a twitter id of twitter.com/cyxymu. Cyxymu is a Cyrillic spelling of Sukhumi, a city in the breakaway area of Abkhazia, Georgia.

Ray Dickenson, Chief Techonology Officer at Authentium, a computer security firm said, "A denial of service attack like this one is a very blunt instrument. It's as if a viewer who didn;t like one show on a television channel decided to "knock out the whole station." Or just like fishing with dynamite catching and killing all the other organisms including dolphins and sharks.

The source of the attacks was not known yet and who was behind it, but seems the dispute was related to the ongoing conflict between Russia and Georgia.

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HORRIBLE MORAKOT DEVASTED CHINA: 1M CHINESE FLEED

Beijing (Aug 5) - Sunday, typhoon Morakot (emerald) in Thai, devastated the entire east coast of China carrying heavy rain and winds of 74 miles or 119 kilometers per hour, China Meteorological Administration said.

Nearly 1 million residents evacuated from their place and several were missing. So far, 31 were missing, 4 confirmed dead and some were buried.

Rescuers were still on their rescue operation while government officials including volunteers were providing shelter, food and relief goods to the evacuees.

Affected areas Zhejiang province with 490,000 evacuees while 505,000 in the neighboring are of Fujian.

Domestic flights were canceled and suspended.

Typhoon Morakot was the first powerful typhoon that lambasted China in 50 years. Hundreds of houses and buildings collapsed, some residents were buried while a large acre of farmland was destroyed by the flood.

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SOTOMAYOR TAKES OATH AS SUPREME COURT JUSTICE

Washington(Aug 8) - Sonia Maria Sotomayor takes her judicial oath Saturday morning before Chief Justice John Roberts at the East Conference Room of the Supreme Court.

Chief Justice John Roberts presided two ceremonies in officially installing Sotomayor to the High Court with a lifetime appointment. The administered private ceremony was an oath before the Constitution requiring all federal officials to support and defend the Constitution.

The second oath which was administered through public ceremony was a pledged to administer justice fairly and impartially in accordance and in consonance of the 220-year old Federal Law.

Sotomayor, 55, who rose from humble roots in a Bronx, New York having a high-calibered legal career was the first Hispanic and third woman, to sit on the United States Supreme Court. She was the first High Court appointee of President Barack Obama and becomes the 111th Supreme Court Justice. She succeeds to liberal Justice David Souter, who has retired.

Sotomayor has been a federal judge for 17 years. She was nominated by Barack Obama and the Senate confirms her nomination Thursday by a 68-31 vote.

Sotomayor was a daughter of a Puerto Rican parents who came to New York during the second world war. Her father worked in a factory who did not speak English well and died when she was 9. Her mother, whom she described as her biggest inspiration, worked 6 days in a week as a nurse to supprort her and her younger brother. She graduated summa cum laude from Princeton University and attended in Yale Law School.

Her mother Celina held a Bible during the oath taking ceremony.

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WATCH LIVE ONLINE: UFC 101 WEIGH-IN RESULTS WORLDWIDE

Since Mix Marital Arts is now considered as one of the hottest sports worldwide, the Ultimate Fighting Championship in its debut is now open and live pay-per-view directly from Wachovia Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The two best 155-pound fighters UFC lightweight champion BJ Penn finally met his number one contender Kenny Florian to defend his crown.

Floyd Mayweather who seems remained unbeaten in the ring, would be on his comeback and play the biggest challenge in his life on September for UFC 103 against Juan Manuel Marquez while Dana White, the UFC President is going to push through said event.

The Ultimate Fighting Championship® makes its Philadelphia debut on Saturday, August 8th for UFC® 101: Declaration. In the main event, the two best 155-pound fighters in the world finally meet when UFC® lightweight champion BJ Penn looks to defend his crown against number one contender Kenny Florian. Penn has never lost at 155-pounds, and Florian is looking to change that stat this summer.

While Middleweight Champion Anderson "The Spider" Silva battrles Former Light Heavyweight Champion and Ultimate Fighter Forrest Griffin.

For everyone of you who are interested in Mix Martial Arts, watch the game live directly from UFC.com. Just click the widget embedded below just after this line.

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WATCH LIVE: 2009 WORLD GOLF CHAMPIONSHIP RESULTS

The World Golf Championship Bridgestone Invitational is now on the go. Top players around the globe were among the players playing this championship event including Woods, of course. The 7-day championships event which is held in Reno, Nevada, Firestone Country Club Akron, Ohio is the most popular and 34th series event in golf history.

The WGC Bridgestone Invitational is one of the four yearly World Golf Championships which was organized and well sanctioned by the International Federation for PGA Tours. The money prize of this event will be awarded in Euro and is offered both the PGA European Tour as well as the normal PGA Tour.

So don't fail to watch the biggest event of the World Golf Championships R1, R2, R3, and R4 at 2:00 PM ER till 6:00 PM ET from August 3-9, 2009 live online.

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POST OFFICE CLOSING HUNDREDS OF OFFICES

This is no longer a joke. The nearly 700 possible closures of Postal Service across the US including 53 in the five boroughs is an indication that the Postal Service incurred losses. This would immediately followed by downsizing workers and employees.

The Government Accountability Office which is the investigative arm of Congress, added Postal Service among the list of federal agencies for an urgent reconstruction. The estimated net loss for this fiscal year is $7 billion and believed to increase much in 2010.

Said losses accelerated rapidly in effect of e-mail and other alternatives whereby people nowadays rely on it.

The two hardest hit boroughs are Manhattan with 25 closures and Queens with 11.

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BARACK OBAMA JOKER POSTER POPS UP

Have you seen the joker posters of President Barack Obama spreading throughout Los Angeles?

Early Saturday morning joker posters of Barack Obama was circulating throughout Los Angeles bearing the caption "Socialism." What is worse is that, the posters were now circulating throughout the Internet. What is the logic behind?

Speculations may summarized that the author of this craft might be an adversary of the Obama Administration if not he was just trying to have funny things around to enjoy his mood.

Well, whatever may the logic behind, the designer should be investigated to hold him responsible of his acts. Whom do you think is the author?

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