Monthly Archives: September 2013

Camp Community Shows Love to the Developmentally Disabled

This past summer I was employed as a camp counselor at Cedarkirk Camp and Conference Center.  It is a small Presbyterian camp located in Lithia, Florida, just south of Lakeland.  The camp, whose prime objective is simply showing love to …

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NFL: NY Giants Suffer Humiliating Loss Against Carolina Panthers

The New York Giants got blown out by the Carolina Panthers 38-0 on Sunday afternoon. This was the worst loss of head coach Tom Coughlin’s ten year career with the Giants.  The entire team looked off in this game, especially …

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Kenya police respond towards Westgate Mall terrorists

On Saturday September 21st at about noon, masked gunmen from the Al-Shabaab militant group invaded the Westgate Mall in Nairobi, Kenya. Moving store to store shooting people and taking hostages, the assault became the biggest single attack in Kenya since …

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Grand Theft Auto 5 Makes $800 Million in 24 Hours

Grand Theft Auto is one of the most popular video games in the world, and on September 17th, it proved that it may be one of the best games of all time. The first Grand Theft Auto game …

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Sesationalism vs. Reporting: Are We Losing Out?

Its pretty self-evident when browsing news channels that straight, black and white reporting, no longer has a place in our Attention Deficit society. Most news formulas follow the old adage, “if it bleeds, it leads”, but does this mean that …

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Miami Dolphins a Legitimate Contender?

The Dolphins headed into yesterday’s match-up 2-0, coming off of a road win against a Colts team who last year won eleven games and qualified for a wild card berth into the playoffs. Yet many pundits still questioned Miami, saying …

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Recap of Breaking Bad episode “Ozymandias”

This week’s episode of Breaking Bad will in all likelihood go down as one of the most epic episodes of television in the history of the medium. We start off with a cold open of Walt’s first cook with Jesse, …

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“American Idol” being sued by former contestants in discrimination lawsuit

Trial proceedings are going underway against the “American Idol” television show initiated by ten former black contestants who argue the show’s producers discriminated against them while they were participants.  The producers, apparently, used the ten contestants past criminal records/arrests to …

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New Gold iPhone Sold Out Until October

Apple released the new iPhone 5S earlier this week and took the world by storm just like past models. The physical difference of this model is the color schemes of the actual phone. Apple release a third color along with …

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The United States Men’s National Soccer Team Qualifies for the 2014 World Cup and Can Make a Deep Run

On September 10th, the United States men’s national soccer team beat their arch rival Mexico 2-0 in Columbus, Ohio. This win helped the national team qualify for the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, with a little help from Honduras tying …

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