Rod Blagojevich: Aressted on Corruption Chareges

On December 9, 2008, at 6:15 am, Rod Blagojevich was aressted for Corruption charges. According to a criminal complaint filed in US District Court, Blagojevich is accused of conspiracy to commit mail fraud and wire fraud, as well as soliciting bribes. It is alleged that he attempted to benefit financially from his sole authority to fill the US Senate seat vacated by President-elect Barack Obama. Blagojevich was released on $4,500 bail and surrendered his passport.


On December 10, all 50 remaining Senate Democrats signed a letter calling for Blagojevich to resign and demanding that he not appoint a replacement for Obama. The letter also said that if Blagojevich did appoint a successor, "we would be forced to exercise our Constitutional authority under Article I, Section 5, to determine whether such a person should be seated". This indicates that such a person appointed would probably not serve. Earlier, Illinois' remaining Senator, Dick Durbin, urged the state legislature to quickly set a special election to fill Obama's vacant Senate seat, saying that any appointment by Blagojevich would not be legitimate.

Whitney's Spinoff From the Hills

Will Lauren lose another best friend? On MTV's The Hills, Lauren Conrad has already lost her best friend Heidi, but now she may also lose Whitney. Lauren and Whitney both worked in LA together at Teen Vogue, and then later at People's Revolution. Now Whitney is off to New York City to pursue bigger opportunities. With this, she is creating a Spin-off from The Hills called The City, which will appear on MTV in 2009. Whitney plans to work for fashion designer Diane von Furstenberg, who she describes as the "a dream to work for". The show will also feature, new friends, romances, and drama.

Michael Phelps

This summer, millions of Americans were rooting for Michael Phelps, a gold medalist swimmer and world record breaker, in the 2008 Beijing Olympics. He holds 7 world records, and has 14 olympic gold medals, the most by any olympian. He earned 8 of them in this past summer's olympics alone. Many believe that much of his success is due to his physical attributes. These include an armspan of 6 feet 7 inches, which is diproportionate to his height of 6 feet 4 inches. The length of his armspan allows his arms to act like paddles in the water.

In addition to looking like an athelete, Phelps also eats like one. He consumes and average of 12,000 calories each day which is about 6 times the amount of an average male would consume. This amount of food intake is necessary because he swims an average of 50 miles every day!

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Hour of Power

This saturday at 9:00 am, the hour of power began nation wide. This is a swimming event in memory of Ted Mullin who passed away in the fall of 2006 from sarcoma, a rare soft-tissue cancer. Ted attended Carlton College, which was one of the first schools to start this event in 2006. They began with 15 teams and have grown to now having 69 swim teams participate around the country, 5 of them high schools, including Glenbrook North.

This event keeps the spirit of Ted alive along with the passion he had for swimming. GBN's girl's swim team came together this saturday and formed relay teams sprinting in 50 yard increments for an hour. They also raised money, totaling to about $1,000 which will go to research for Sarcoma Cancer at the University of Chicago. The University of Chicago agreed to times our amount raised by ten, so together, $10,000 was raised to aid in research. Over an estimated 4,000 swimmers will participate in this year's event, so together swimmers can make a difference in raising awareness for Sarcoma Cancer in memory of Ted Mullin.

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New Digital Lighting Proves to "Go Green"

For the past few years, the earth as been making the effort to go green in order to save our environment. There are hybrid cars, which are fuel efficient and organic everything from clothes to bedding, and even household cleaners. One thing that we overlook is lighting. The incandescent light bulb that you probably have in your bedside lamp and in almost every light in your home is based on the same technology invented by Thomas Edison more than a century ago. Electricity flows into a metal filament, and the filament heats up and emits light as a byproduct. What we overlook is that these lights use up about 10% of all the electricity used in our homes.

According to an article from Sciencenews.org, new digitial lighting using the lights that are in computers, LED's, proves to be much more efficient which is estimated to cut the energy used by lighing in half during the next decade! We have already put them to use through cell phone light, alarm clock lights, and traffic lights but they are still too expensive to replace all lights thoughout your home. Another reason to switch would be that they encased in plasic instead of glass, making them less breakable.

Together we can save our enviroment by using the new technology available to us, whether it be lighting, driving, or furniture in your home. Go green!

http://www.sciencenews.org/view/feature/id/36394/title/FOR_KIDS_Lighting_goes_digital

Chicago Cubs

The Chicago Cubs have not won the World Series since 1908. This year may mark the 100 seasons the Cubs did not win, but for many fans like myself, we believe this may bet the year. In this weekend's game, the Cub's clinched the National League central series which guarantees the team a spot in the playoffs which start in October. In this 2008 season, under the coaching of Lou Piniella, the cubs have won 94 games and lost 68. This record not only puts them in first place for the central division, but also first in the national league.

This season has been an exciting one from the start, but more and more as the playoffs have come closer and closer. On September 14, no hurricane would prevent Carlos Zambrano from throwing a no hitter, the first in his career and the first for the Cubs since 1972. The Cubs w

ere playing the Astros in Milwaukee since the hurricane in Texas prevented these teams from playing there. Signs are showing that this could be the year!

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