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Photo: With a decade under its belt, a new generation of kids are playing, watching, collecting and trading their Pokemon. |GlobalGiants.com|
Edited & Posted by the Editor | 7:10 AM | View the original post
Sam's Club Car to Be Featured During 'Fast Cars and Superstars -- The Gillette Young Guns Celebrity Race'.
Sam's Club Speeds into the Celebrity Track with Gabrielle Reece and John Cena Behind the Wheel.
Warehouse retail giant Sam's Club is getting into the fast lane of reality TV, sponsoring a racecar in "Fast Cars and Superstars -- The Gillette Young Guns Celebrity Race." The new ABC show is Gillette's first venture into reality television, pitting celebrities against each other in NASCAR-style racing, with a bit of tutoring from real racecar drivers. The Sam's Club Superstar drivers will be volleyball great and model Gabrielle Reece and World Wrestling Entertainment Champion John Cena.
Sam's Club is a division of Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.
|GlobalGiants.com|
Edited & Posted by the Editor | 12:40 PM | View the original post
Photo: Presidential candidate John Edwards is working aggressively on his populist strategy for winning the South-a message that has been undermined by news of his $400 haircuts, his recently finished mansion outside of Chapel Hill, and the money he earned on speeches and as a hedge fund consultant prior to announcing his run. Even Edwards admits he has "probably not 100%" overcome the perception of himself as a Ken doll. For the July/August cover story, Men's Vogue writer Joe Hagan observes Edwards's own race to prove to America that the heartfelt message and the perfect messenger- articulate, telegenic and passionate-are one in the same. |GlobalGiants.com|
Edited & Posted by the Editor | 12:33 PM | View the original post
Photo: Ford claimed its 60th event win in the FIA World Rally Championship in Athens June 15 to extend its lead in both the drivers' and manufacturers' standings in the 2007 series. Marcus Grönholm and Timo Rautiainen won the four-day Acropolis Rally of Greece in a Ford Focus RS World Rally Car, their second straight win and third of the season. Team-mates Mikko Hirvonen and Jarmo Lehtinen finished fourth in another Focus RS. |GlobalGiants.com|
Edited & Posted by the Editor | 3:14 PM | View the original post
Photo: Frenchman Tony Parker of the San Antonio Spurs holds the MVP trophy with teammate Tim Duncan (L) holding the NBA Championship Larry O'Brien trophy after leading the San Antonio Spurs to their fourth NBA title beating the Cleveland Cavaliers 14 June 2007 after Game Four of the NBA Finals at Quicken Loan Arena in Cleveland, Ohio. The Spurs won the game 83-82 to win the best-of-seven game series 4-0. (AFP)
Edited & Posted by the Editor | 10:34 PM | View the original post
Photo: Astronauts Jim Reilly (bottom) and John "Danny" Olivas (top right), both STS-117 mission specialists, participate in the mission's first planned session of extravehicular activity (EVA), as construction resumes on the International Space Station. Among other tasks, Reilly and Olivas connected power, data and cooling cables between S1 and S3; released the launch restraints from and deployed the four solar array blanket boxes on S4 and released the cinches and winches holding the photovoltaic radiator on S4. June 11, 2007. (Photo courtesy: SIPA)|GlobalGiants.com|
Edited & Posted by the Editor | 2:33 PM | View the original post
Celebrate the Sights, Sounds, Tastes and Experiences of All Things Irish.
Photo: Dublin, Ohio - Irish dancers entertain the spectators at the Dublin Irish Festival.
DUBLIN, Ohio -- The 20th annual Dublin Irish Festival, bringing together the best in Irish culture, entertainment, art and music, is expected to attract more than 100,000 visitors to the "emerald" city north of Columbus. Touted as the second largest Irish festival in the world, the Dublin Irish Festival presents the best Irish entertainers from Europe and North America. |GlobalGiants.com|
Edited & Posted by the Editor | 9:00 AM | View the original post
Photo: Host of "Honey We're Killing the Kids" and Nutritionist and Fitness expert Felicia Stoler.
Summer is here, which means kids are out-of-school and have more free time. In a world where children spend 45-50 hours a week consuming media, it's no surprise that they want to spend their extra summer hours online, watching TV or playing video games. Recent studies show that children in the United States gain up to three times more weight during the summer holidays, and parents need to realize the negative health effects of a sedentary life.
HONEY WE'RE KILLING THE KIDS resident nutrition and fitness expert and mother of two Felicia Stoler helps parents set some ground rules to keep their kids fit and trim this summer:
1. Keep moving...turn off the computer, turn up the music, get outside &
play.
2. Eat lots of summer fruits & vegetables...nature's candy...most
summer fruits are loaded with water to help keep us cool from the
inside out.
3. Grow an edible garden with your kids...tending to a garden burns
calories & children are more likely to try new foods if they've grown
them.
4. Take walks with your family after dinner...it is a great opportunity
to enhance the lines of communication & doing something physically
active -- together.
5. Take advantage of the parks and playgrounds in your communities...
they provide an environment for safe play and many offer reasonably-
priced sports programs for kids.
HONEY WE'RE KILLING THE KIDS! is back on Wednesday, June 20 at 8 PM (ET/PT) with an increased appetite to transform the lives of unhealthy families across America. The popular series explores the dangers of a high- fat, high-sugar, high-calorie diet and a routine lacking in exercise and sleep. Each episode follows a family whose bad habits have spiraled out of control, leaving the kids overweight, unruly and at high risk of developing serious medical conditions. Resident fitness and nutrition expert Felicia Stoler uses a hands-on approach to offer the motivation and know-how to help the family turn their lives around. |GlobalGiants.com|
Edited & Posted by the Editor | 7:58 AM | View the original post
Photo: A crowd gathers in front of a two-story high mosaic of a tiger that is made up of photos of thousands of tiger supporters from around the world. The mosaic sits out side of the 14th gathering of the CITES convention in The Hague, The Netherlands. (International Tiger Coalition) |GlobalGiants.com|
Edited & Posted by the Editor | 7:52 AM | View the original post
Photo: The Sound of Freedom: Epic recording artists Cartel broke out of the Dr. Pepper Band in a Bubble to give fans a preview of the new songs they recorded over the past 20 days inside the Bubble.
Photo: Burst My Bubble: Epic recording artists Cartel performed songs from their second album which they recorded over the past 20 days as part of Dr. Pepper Band in a Bubble - a multi-media event and MTV music special.
|GlobalGiants.com|
Edited & Posted by the Editor | 4:21 AM | View the original post
Auction proceeds to support United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
NEW YORK -- As a way of thanking Angelina Jolie for the tremendous exposure they received after she wore Bochic jewelry to this years Golden Globe Awards, Bochic will be donating the jewelry she wore to USA for UNHCR in support of World Refugee Day, recognized each year on June 20th. In addition to her work in film, Angelina has become well known as a humanitarian, particularly in her role as a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees - UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency. |GlobalGiants.com|
Edited & Posted by the Editor | 4:08 AM | View the original post
Photo: A seagull flies past Detroit Tigers starting pitcher Justin Verlander as he throws to the Milwaukee Brewers during the ninth inning of their Interleague MLB baseball game in Detroit, Michigan June 12, 2007. (REUTERS/Rebecca Cook)
Verlander struck out 12 and threw the Tigers' first no-hitter since 1984. The Tigers beat the Brewers 4-0. |GlobalGiants.com|
Edited & Posted by the Editor | 1:59 PM | View the original post
Photo: A Visitor has a close look at "The Shapes Project" a work by Allan McCollum. This is part of the exhibition Liste 07, The Young Art Fair. The Art 38 Basel fair and exhibition takes place from 13 to 17 June 2007 in Basel. The international art show features 290 leading art galleries from all continents. Art Basel is the world's premier modern and contemporary art fair. 20th- and 21st-century art works by over 2'000 artists are on display. More than 50,000 art collectors, art dealers, artists, curators and art lovers are expected to attend the annual meeting place of the art community. (AFP) |GlobalGiants.com|
Edited & Posted by the Editor | 1:51 PM | View the original post
Photo: The 1904 6d 'IR Official', Great Britain's rarest stamp, which sold for a record $360,000 yesterday. Illustration courtesy of Shreves Philatelic Galleries, Inc. (Stanley Gibbons) |GlobalGiants.com|
Edited & Posted by the Editor | 1:45 PM | View the original post
Fabrica: les yeux ouverts, the exhibition which the Pompidou Centre mounted in Paris in October 2006, starts its journey as a travelling exhibition to debut in Italy at the Milan Triennale from 5 June to 5 July 2007.
Fabrica is Benetton's research centre on communication.
Fabrica presents its documentary (COLORS magazine and photo reports) and experimental (media art, interactive, video, visual communication) projects integrated with new stories and the premières of many new videos. There will also be two new interactive installations to encourage the public’s direct involvement. A new feature in Milan is the presentation of Fabrica Features, Fabrica’s satellites in Bologna, Lisbon, Hong Kong, Rotterdam and London. Points of sale of the design products bearing the same name, but also the nuclei of a network of cultural encounters and presentations integrated with the local artistic scene. |GlobalGiants.com|
Edited & Posted by the Editor | 1:26 PM | View the original post
Photo: A woman and her child wait for rescue on a raft in the flash flood in Meizhou of south China's Guangdong Province Sunday, June 10, 2007. (Color China)
Heavy rains have killed 18 people and left four missing, 5,843 houses collapsed by 3:00 p.m. on Sunday in Guangdong, according to local authorities. At least 66 people have been killed in flooding and landslides triggered by heavy rains in China and nearly 600,000 have been left homeless, a state news agency reported Monday. |GlobalGiants.com|
Edited & Posted by the Editor | 12:23 PM | View the original post
Photo: HRH the Prince of Wales driving Ford Focus Fuel Cell vehicle June 8, 2007. |GlobalGiants.com|
Edited & Posted by the Editor | 8:42 AM | View the original post
Photo: Marco Andretti waits in his car during practice for the Bombardier Learjet 550k in Fort Worth, Texas, Thursday, June 7, 2007. (MCT) |GlobalGiants.com|
Edited & Posted by the Editor | 1:29 PM | View the original post
Photo: Pumping Water Is Only Part of the Work: Though the land around Kebkabiya has grown dry, the 60,000 displaced people who have fled here for safety since the crisis erupted in Darfur, Sudan, have access to clean water thanks in part to Oxfam's work: The town now has a water system -- its first ever. (Oxfam America) |GlobalGiants.com|
Edited & Posted by the Editor | 1:50 AM | View the original post
'Pittsburgh Festival of Lights' Transforms Downtown Buildings into Large Scale Works of Art.
Photo: Agnes Katz Plaza Pittsburgh Before. (Pittsburgh Celebrates Glass)
Photo: Agnes Katz Plaza Pittsburgh After. (Pittsburgh Celebrates Glass)
On Tuesday, June 5, 2007, downtown Pittsburgh buildings became giant canvasses illuminated with rich colors, shapes and textures inspired by glass during the first Pittsburgh Festival of Lights. It is all a part of Pittsburgh Celebrates Glass! - a year-long collaboration of more than 70 cultural, civic and community partners designed to get local residents and tourists to experience the region's tremendous array of arts, events and activities.
In addition to the Festival of Lights, there are hundreds of world class events in Pittsburgh throughout 2007 including Chihuly at Phipps: Gardens & Glass, Viva Vetro! Glass Alive! Venice and America at the Carnegie Museum of Art, and the Allure of Japanese Glass at the Glass Center. |GlobalGiants.com|
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