Friday, January 22, 2010

Haiti Earthquakes











On January 12, an earthquake struck in Haiti destroying all the infrastructure making their economy worse. The earthquake7.0 magnitude. There was a 2nd earth quake that stroke in Tuesday that measured 6.5 magnitude. Haiti is one of the poorest country in the western hemisphere so it will be hard for them the recover. Many people died but many search and rescue times from around the world came to help Haiti. 10,000 people died and people are drying to make graves for them.
It is very made that people died in this disaster. For country that is poorest in the world it will be very difficult to revive on their own but many people are helping. Everyone is donating money to help the people and build infrastructures that were ruined. The countries in Africa are poor but they have lots of natural resources like oil, diamonds, Uranium and more resources. Haiti doesn’t have these resources. Many are living in conditions that are unsafe, and unsanitary.

Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Suttlecock

A Badminton Suttlecork has been known to go 180 mph. The best Suttlecork is made from the feathers left wings of goose. The Suttlecork is not ball. It is ussally made made of 16 goose feathers.The shuttlecock's shape allows for it to be steady while "flowing" in the air, or aerodynamically stable.

http://www.clearleadinc.com/site/badminton.html

http://hypertextbook.com/facts/2006/ShuMeiDeng.shtml

Friday, January 15, 2010

2 interesting facts about Badmindon

Badminton is the Fastest Racket Sport with shuttle clocking speed in excess of 200 mph.


The best shuttlecocks are made from the feathers from the left wing of a goose.


Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Badminton in America

Badminton is a official sport. In the 1992, 1996, 2000 Olympics badminton was played in Barcelona, Spain, Atlanta, USA, Sydney, Australia. This sport is the fastest racket sport across the globe. In 1993 1.2m Americans surved that they played at least 20 times a year and 11.2m Americans at least play badminton ones a year. About 760,000 call badminton their favorite sport.





Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Intro

Badmanton is a great sport played locally and internationally. In this blog we are going to see the satistics of Badmanton and compare the satistics with other sports around the world.