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WWE EN CHILE !!!

Detalles del evento
WWE SmackDown y ECW Presentan el Road To WrestleMania Tour

Fecha: Febrero 14, 2008
Horario: Por confirmar
Lugar: Arena Santiago
Ciudad: Santiago, Chile

Entradas a la venta desde el Sábado, 15 de diciembre.

Precios de la entradas: $130.000; $100.000; $75.000; $30.000; $20.000

Compra a través del Teléfono: 690 2000

Compra por internet: www.ticketmaster.cl, Tiendas Falabella y Cine Hoyts

WWE Debuta in Chile!

Información Original:
http://www.wwe.com/schedules/events/?country=chile


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The Benoit’s Family Tragedy

I am a huge wrestling fan and I run a website about Wrestling (mainly focused on WWE). Everyday, several pieces of news about the most relevant things in wrestling, performers, promotions, shows, etc, are posted in this site. We can have days when there just one important thing to tell the world. On the other hand, we very busy and deeply sad days.

The morning of June the 25th the WWE (World Wrestling Entertainment) and its fans learned a shocking piece of news. Chris Benoit, one of the most talented athletes that have had the wrestling business and his family (his wife and son) were founded dead in their home in Atlanta, Georgia.

We, as fans of wrestling and especially fans of Benoit, could not believe the Breaking news of the day.

At the age of 40, the Canadian wrestler, his wife Nancy and his son Daniel were founded dead in his home, in different rooms. Nancy was in the living room, Daniel in his bedroom and Chris in the training room. All this was really strange. The first theories that came out, talked about a possible food poisoning or a case of burglary and murder.

The same day, in the evening, WWE aired a tribute show of 3 hours to the career of Chris Benoit, hosted by the WWE Chairman Vince McMahon. Up to that moment nobody would have think that the worst part of this story was about to come.

On Tuesday 26 the police investigation continued and it was state that the body of “The Crippler” (that was his nickname) was founded hanging from rope tied on his neck. That is to say, he had committed suicide. But that, my friends, was not the end of the story.

The investigation established that there was not a third part intervention. Everything that happened at that home involved just the three individuals founded inside it.

Nancy Benoit was tied by hands and feet. Her death was by strangulation and she had blood under her head. Maybe this was a proof of struggle. The son, Daniel, was strangled too. He was not tied and was lying on his bed.

The Police stated that this was a “Double murder and suicide”.

Every one of us was absolutely shocked. We could not (and the most of us can not yet) believe what was said. One of the icons of wrestling business, a man who performed in Canada, Mexico, Japan and USA, and recognized as a gifted wrestler had killed his wife, then his son and finally himself. WWE had to apologize for airing the tribute show and from that moment they take separated ways with the image of Chris Benoit. He never existed to the company.

There were, and there still are, a lot of hypothesis to establish the causes. Many people, especially media in TV aimed to the use of steroids and “Roid Rage”. Also it was said that Chris suffered a Delusional Disorder and could not put himself apart from the character played on TV.

Finally the most logical and almost obvious reason came up… depression. In 2002, at the age of 39, the WWE wrestler Eduardo Guerrero (Eddie Guerrero) passed away. Eddie was Benoit’s Best friend. Since that moment Chris was not the same. He started to write letters on his diary to his friend Eddie. The last one said “I will be with you soon”.

In addition, the marriage of Nancy and Chris was about to end and she was going to get Daniel’s custody. The week of the tragedy, the legal procedure was ready and Benoit was going to lose his son.



The pitiful part of it is that the fans fell in the dilemma of “what I have to think now”. With what he did, he lost most of the respect that he earned for more than 15 years of career on the ring. For many of his fans he lost all this respect. What bothers me is the fact that he is not going to be remebered in the way could have been and deserved it before all this trahedy happened.

Chris, Nancy, and Daniel Benoit
R.I.P.

Floods

A flood, basically, is what happens when the water level rises in a place or area where there was a little or none of it before. It also, can be described as an overflow of an expanse of water that submerges land, a deluge. Floods are natural phenomena common in many places around the world where there is either a river nearby or the local weather can dump large amounts of rain.

* As an extra note about this subject, it is interesting to know that the word “Flood” comes from Old English, Flod, or Pleu, of an Indo-European language root.

Ok, let us continue with the topic.

Causes for it are usually that the volume of water within a body of water, such as a river or lake, exceed the total capacity of the body, and as a result some of the water flows or sits outside of the normal perimeter of the body. It can also occur in rivers, when the strength of the river is so high it flows right out of the river channel. (This explanation is not applicable in such instances as sea flooding).

Excessive rainfalls of course can cause disastrous flooding. Here in Chile we are witnesses every year or floods caused by rains, in the south of the country and especially in Santiago, where with just some hours of nonstop rain the city becomes a real mess, with its street totally covered of water.

Hurricanes have features such as “storm surge” (sea flooding) and obviously, the large amounts of precipitation associated with hurricanes.

The damage caused by floods is classified into two main types:
- plain water damage, this is when the water basically soaks everything, sometimes it can dissolve foundations and make the ground unstable and muddy.
- rushing water damage, the case when the water crashes into buildings, cars and other things. This is flood water that often kills people and animals commonly due to drowning.

To prevent this to happen, some countries, especially where it occurs often due to geographic location, are trying to manage some procedures like, for rivers for example, they have built some defenses like levees, bunds, reservoirs, and weirs.

Coming back to our example here in Chile, the idea for every year is to have more sewers to keep the water from rains, which is a constant and so repetitive problem in our country, and as I mentioned before, in our capital city.

Russia Hails Test of a New Missile...

From New York Times:

MOSCOW, May 29 — Russia held a test launching of a new intercontinental ballistic missile on Tuesday and said it had successfully fired the weapon almost entirely across its northern airspace to the Russian Far East.

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>> I would like to comment this piece of news, because it talks about a test made by the Russian army for a new missile, very powerful and devastating of course. They did this after the President of Russia, Vladimir V. Putin, chided the West for American-led plans to install an antimissile shield in Europe.

With that being said, I can see that this some sort of showing off the military power that the eastern country have for USA take it in account. In the article it said that Putin was very upset because of what American plans are. “We think it would be harmful and dangerous to turn Europe into a tinderbox and fill it with new types of armaments,” Putin said. The missile is said to be strong enough to pierce any current or even future defense shield. Also the missile traveled for more than 5,000 miles.

In addition to this, an anonymous American diplomat made some comments on the Missile Test. “This is well within the Start II treaty limitations, and they met the treaty requirements by giving us advance notice,” the diplomat said. “It’s not a matter of concern.” Alter these comments, The Kremlin went upset again and they are speaking in quite strong terms about the West.

>> Well, I chose this article because I think that these arguments about military resources and armament tests are deeply worrying. I do not want to put everybody in alarm nor is some sort of peace lover hippie speech, but I think that when very well known enemies like USA and Russia begins to show off each other their military power (in spite that USA has just answered with comments by now)and plans, to speak in strong terms about the other part criticism and bring to discussion agreed military treaties, it can lead us to something pretty pitiful.

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