Juneteenth celebration started today across the United States. It is celebrated being a day that brought freedom when last slave of United States was being set free in year 1865. It was the day in year 1865 when community got together to celebrate the freedom of U.S. slaves for the very first time. Celebration of the day today has been started in St. Joseph Park.

Juneteenth celebration will include special activities to children, a health fair, The Juneteenth Peace Walk and whole day performances of several bands and singers. If we go through the activities of the children in this celebration, it will include balloon animals, face painting, clown, crafts and competition of chess. Juneteenth car show will also be the part of this year’s celebration.

It has been said by the announcer of several activities, Michael McFadden that the day is considered one of the important days to bring together the people of community to recall their past and to look ahead. He further added that remembering the happenings of Emancipation Proclamation is not the only aim of Juneteenth celebration but it is to remember the result of that incident.

McFadden further added that progress of that day is being celebrated by us every year and we still need to progress more and more and celebration are also being done for the future days.

if we go through Juneteenth history, though an Emancipation Proclamation was being issued by Abraham Lincoln, former president of United States to free slaves on 1st of January 1863 but it took a long to act upon this and slaves were free on 19th of June 1865.

Juneteenth

Tropical Smoothie is a well-known café across the United States and is famous in the people being a provider of fruit smoothies. It not only provides fruit smoothies to its customers but also sells flatbreads, sandwiches, salads and wraps. There is no need to tell that all the available items in the café are known as delicious and mouth-watering.

Tropical Smoothie café was started around thirteen years back and it has been selling its traditional items to its fans since then. It has its outlets not only across the United States but also in India. Currently this café is in the news because of their summer offer which starts every year in the month of June since 2007. They offer exclusive smoothies to its lovers and customers during summer which is known as National Flip Flop Day.

Tropical Smoothie café offer absolutely free smoothies to first five hundred residents of the area in the start of every summer. It is offered to those five hundred customers who enter into the café before than others. All you need to do is to go out and visit your nearest Tropical Smoothie café to get your exclusively free smoothie being among first five hundred visitors.

This offer was started by them in year 2007 and now it is the 4th year of Flip Flop Day that they are offering the same free exclusive offer to their visitors. If you are a smoothie lover and love to eat this yummy item, then you should not wait for next minutes and should go to grab your smoothie.

Jose Saramago, Nobel Prize winner writer who won this prize in 1998 in the field of Literature, has died. According to latest updates, he has died today at his home, located in Canary Islands of Spain in Lanzarote at the age of 87. He became very first Portuguese who won Nobel Prize in his native language in Literature field. The initial cause of his death has been told as failure of multi-organs.

Jose Saramago had been ill for a long time and died today at the age of 87, said by Jose Saramago Foundation. They further said that he was in his family at the time of his death and died in peaceful and placid way. According to reports, he had been suffering from Leukemia for a long time. He wrote “Blindness” in year 1995 which took him a lot of internationally.

Jose Saramago was feeling well today morning and he had taken breakfast as his routine with his wife along with some chat with her but later on in the day, his health getting worst and worst and finally he died, reported by his family to media. He was born near Lisbon in Azinhaga town on 16 th of November 1922 and spent his early childhood and young age in capital.

Jose Saramago actually belonged to a lower middle class family and could not get admission in university to complete higher education due to financial problems but he did not give hope and worked part-time to support his studies.

Jose Saramago

Blue Duck Tavern is a high class restaurant at Washington’s Park Hyatt hotel. It is a contemporary American Restaurant. It features an extraordinary design concept by Tony Chi. The restaurant usually welcomes its clients with an open staff pantry and kitchen, complete with a wood-burning oven, as well as the showpiece custom-designed commercial Molteni range, crafted in France and the first of its kind in Washington, D.C. Its furnishings keep the restaurant warm and contemporary, offering a welcoming dining experience. When the restaurant opened in 2006, it was among the first in the capital to hop on the local sourcing trend, and its menu still cites the origin of the ingredients, most of which come from nearby Pennsylvania.

President Obama and his wife, Michelle, arrived via motorcade at the Blue Duck Tavern at 7:40 p.m., according to a pool report to celebrate their wedding anniversary. The president wore a suit, while Mrs. Obama had on a knee-length, halter-style black dress. The first couple celebrated 17 years together with a subdued dinner in Washington’s West End neighborhood on Saturday night. A wedding anniversary is always a special day for any couple in the year, but when you’re President of the United States it usually becomes more important.

The couple was married in Chicago on Oct. 3, 1992. Obama, the U.S. president, 48, has been proved an attentive partner to his wife, Michelle, 45. After seventeen years, they are spending a happy married life enjoying to its fullest as reported a lot of sources. The couple is often seen on dates together – making time for each other every weekend, when they can. Michelle told U.S. magazine People: “Our romantic [time] is almost every Saturday night or Friday night, if he’s home”.

The couple enjoyed various dishes at the restaurant. It was pictures while leaving the Blue Duck Tavern. It was a tough week for the president, having failed to win the Olympic bid for his hometown Chicago, so a nice romantic night out with his beautiful wife was probably good for him as lot of doctors suggested.

Blue Duck Tavern

Daniel Ruettiger was born on August 23, 1948 in Illinois, USA. He is famous with his nick name “Rudy”. He is a well know collegiate footballer. He played football as his ideal game and succeeded in attaining his goals despite a lot of hindrances which made him even more popular. His achievements and determination has made him a good motivational speaker. He has delivered a lot of speeches where he has motivated his young audience in true sense.

A movie ‘Rudy’ was made after his story. Rudy has been founded a ‘Rudy Ruettiger Foundation’ and the ‘Rudy Ruettiger Award’ which are aimed at helping young people overcome obstacles and attain their goals. He has stated that a determined person cannot fail even in the presence of obstacles.

There may be physical as well as environmental obstacles in your way of success. You have to ignore these factors and keep struggling for your ultimate goal. Do not attend to other people’s negative attitude toward yourself because a lot of people around you will discourage you without any reason. If you ignore these people and are determined then success is for you.

The success and determination of Rudy has been widely acknowledged by all the people worldwide. The former American President Bill Clinton invited him to the White House for acknowledging his achievements. The movie ‘Rudy’ is also an acknowledgement of his determination. He has become an inspirational figure for the youth particularly the sportsmen.

Rudy Ruettiger

Defying Gravity show has been cancelled and it is a very sad news for all the fans of this show which was not popular as well and I believe the number of fans of this show will also not be so many. ABC has finally decided to cancel this show before airing all of the thirteen episodes that were planned and filmed already without any explanation.

Defying gravity has been cancelled by the ABC Network without making any official announcement but the cancellation decision was made clear during the broadcast of September 13 when it was announced by them that this episode will be the final one of the season and also the preview of the next episode was not shown at the end of the show.

Well this move of the ABC to cancel the show is not a surprise at all as Defying Gravity show was moved to Friday night from Sunday night by the CTV of Canada and also it was pretty clear that some adjustments are needed to increase the rating of this show but I think it became clear to them the resolution would not be that easy and resulted in the cancellation of the show.

Series listing of the Defying Gravity was removed the schedule listing by the ABC last week which was the clear indication that the show has been planned to cancel but as still there is no official announcement has been made by the ABC, so there is still some hope for the continuity of Defying Gravity show among its fans.

Defying Gravity Cancelled

Defying Gravity Cancelled

Suzanne Jovin was born in Gottingen, Germany on January 26, 1977 and died in New Haven, Connecticut on December 4, 1998. She was studying at the Yale University in New Haven, CT and was a senior student when one day someone stabbed her brutally to death in the campus. The killed of Suzanne Jovin could not be recognized yet although a combined prize of USD $150,000 has also been offered to give any information about the killer that could lead the authorities to arrest and conviction.

The murder crime of Suzanne Jovin is still unsolved. She spent her childhood in Gottingen, Germany and she had three sisters. Suzanne Jovin was born to scientists Thomas Jovin and Donna. She had the ability to speak and understand several languages and was fluent in French, English, Spanish and German and also she loved travelling as she had visited four continents.

Suzanne Jovin had selected international studies and political science as the major subject because she wanted to expand her passion of public services and international diplomacy. Her joining to the New Haven chapter of Best Buddies was the result of the motivation of her love towards doing good for others and public service.

Volunteer tutor service was also given by the Suzanne Jovin in the Elementary Schools program through the Yale Tutoring, sang in both the Bach Society Orchestra and the Freshman Chorus. The name of James Van de Velde, the thesis advisor of the Suzanne Jovin was leaked as the suspect to the New Haven Register just after four days of her murder.

Suzanne Jovin and Suspect James Van de Velde

Solano Stroll is the largest street festival of the Easy Bay and Professionals, Restaurants and Merchants as well as Berkeley CA and the twin cities of Albany have hosted this festival since 1974. An open invitation has always been offered by The Solano Avenue Merchants Association to every one to come and see that why the Solano Avenue has become such a magnificent place.

More than five hundred non-profit organization, vendors, entertainers and food booths, the guest of the event and participants visit the Solano Stroll street festival from across the California as well as from some neighboring states. The festival will start at 8 am at Veterans Memorial Park in Albany and the starting will be with the traditional pancake breakfast.

This traditional breakfast will be offered by the Berkeley Lions Club and then later on the Stroll booths and Solano Avenue businesses will be opened at 10 am. One of the 75 entertainers, 120 juried arts and crafters, 50 food booths, wacky art cars, games and 150 community organizations can be visited by everyone after the initial parade.

Best in dance, performances and local music can also be heard by all the visitors in addition to the absolutely stunning costumes from across the globe. A special area for the kids is set that included carnival games, giant slides, jugglers, clowns, face painters, stilt walkers and magicians as Solano Stroll 2009 Street festival is a family entertainment event.

Solano Stroll

Solano Stroll

Serena Williams’s outburst video can be seen below this post and on google videos or YouTube as well and after launching this profane outburst video, an in-depth investigation has been started against the Serena Williams that encouraged her exit from the currently running U.S. Open tournament. She will be asked to give explanation of her actions and comments that are passed towards a female line judge.

Kim Clijsters was the opponent in this semifinal when at the end of the game Serena Williams passed comments to the female line judge on Saturday night. According to the sources that the representative from the International Tennis Federation, tennis governing body and Grand Slam Committee members that are responsible to supervise the four major tournaments will summon together on Sunday along with the referee of U.S Open Brian Earley.

Serena Williams outburst video footage is expected to be seen by this group and line judge will also be asked to give clarification of the situation and probably a heavy fine will be imposed to Serena Williams as a result. Actually she lost her cool when a foot fault was called by line judge against her on a second serve when she was already trailing with 15-30.

Then immediately umpire Louise Engzell was reported about the comments by the line judge and also the match referee of the U.S Open tournament Brian Earley also rushed to the court exactly after the incident. Serena Williams’s outburst commented video can be seen below this post.

Serena Williams Outburst Video

Serena Williams

Merlin Santana was born in Washington Heights, Manhattan, New York on March 14, 1976 and died on 9th November, 2002. He was a model and actor of the film and television. A role of Romeo Santana was played by Merlin Santana on “The Steve Harvey Show” which was a WB series and this role became his identity among his fans.

His full name was Merlin Thomas Santana and he was born to Dominican and African American parents. Ascension Catholic School was attended by him for the early education in New York. The mother of Merlin Santana recognized his acting talent and pushed him to enter into the showbiz world and also she wanted to keep him away from the dangerous streets of New York.

The modeling career of Merlin Santana was started by modeling for a fast food chain at the age of three only and his first appearance on the screen was a role of extra in the film “The Purple Rose of Cairo” made by Woody Allen. The role of Romeo Santana was played by him on “The Steve Harvey Show” in 1996.

Two men approached Merlin Santana when he was sitting in his parked car and shot him. It was November 9, 2002 when the incident happened and he died at the spot before any help could arrive but for some reasons, the death news of Merlin Santana was not released until the following Monday. His age was 26 at the time of his death and he was buried on 18th November, 2002.

Merlin Santana