The Quadrantid meteor shower will hit on January 3rd, 2009

The Quadrantid meteor shower is a very rare and unpredictable appearance, so if you, or someone in your family, are a space enthusiast, remember to be outside in the early hours of the 3rd of January, 2009, just before sunrise. The western part of the United States and Canada will have the vantage point during the shower, seeing how the Moon will no longer be visible before the Sun comes up, as it will be two days away from its second quarter.

Introduction: Chinese New Year

There the 15-day New Year festivities are celebrated with a week of vacation in metropolitan areas of China. Much like the Western New Year (January 1st), the biggest celebration is on the eve of the holiday. At the turn of the new year, fireworks cover the city. Aside from New Year's Eve, there are other important days of the 15-day New Year Festival.

Another special is red envelopes, which called "hong bao" in Mandarin, the red envelopes filled with money are typically only given to children or unmarried adults with no job. If you're single and working and making money, you still have to give the younger ones the hong bao money. The color red denotes good luck/fortune and happiness/abundance in the Chinese Culture and is often worn or used for decoration in other celebrations.

Final exam

Fastly,it comes to the end of the semester. But I just been familiar with my classmates.
I found there are many funny people in my class,like George Lee,Hanghang,Simon,and Roger.
Next week and two more weeks the final exam will hold separately. It`s will be a hard time.
Now I want to go to sleep and get up at 3.00P.M. to study Calculus.

LG's magical GD910 wrist phone

It was deliciously inevitable that a watch phone would eventually show up that could actually "pack it all in," and it looks like LG has actually accomplished that feat in its LG-GD910 model. Of note, the phone packs a touchscreen LCD, 3G data, and a built-in camera for videoconferencing and being a general badass. Sure, browsing to your favorite gadget blog might be a tad bit difficult on that 1.43-inch screen, and there's always the question of fashion, but those are minor quibbles -- the real question is where can we get one, and for how much. LG should be showing this off at CES next month (it showed off a predecessor this January), and plans to release it in Japan and Europe, but we've got a couple of cereal box-delivered 2-way wrist radios crossed behind our backs in hopes for a US berth.

Styles of popular music

Basic Composition

Mark ZhengB9729038

Compuster Science and Information Engineering

2008-11-25

Styles of popular music

Outline: Music is truly the one universla language.



Introduction: Each culture develops its own musical forms and styles. In particular , popular music varies from culture to culture and from generation to generation. In the past 100 years or so, there has been an explosion of popular music styles in hte West. Three of the more successful styles are reggae,punk,and rap.


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One successful style of popular music is reggae.

1.Reggae was born on the Caribbean island of Jamaica in the 1960s adn spread throughout the world in the 1970s.

2.Reggae developed from a kinf of Afro-Carbbean music called mento,which was sung and played on guitas and drums.


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