Blog Assignment #34/National Geographic/

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/ NEWS

1) New Amazon Species
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/10/photogalleries/101027-amazon-species-wwf-bluetooth-tarantula-science-rainforest-pictures/

• Who? The national conversation group (WWF)
• What? They found a species of Amazon wild life.
• When? October 26, 2010
• Where? In the Amazon
• Why? I guess they found it and wanted to tell the world.
• How? They were just strolling the Amazon and found a new species.

2) Indonesian Volcanoe Erupted
 http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/10/photogalleries/101026-indonesia-mount-merapi-volcano-eruption-world-science-pictures-photos/

• Who? No one person started this eruptian.
• What? A volcanoe in Indonesia erupted.
• When? October 26, 2010
• Where? In Indonesia
• Why? The earth's conditions cause a volcanoe to erupt.
• How? The earth's conditions are how it happened.

3) Robots in the Gulf
 http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/10/101026-bp-gulf-oil-spill-robots-science-nsf/

• Who? Joel K. Bourne wrote this article.
• What? He wrote about the robots in the Gulf.
• When? Today, October 28, 2010
• Where? In the Gulf of Mexico
• Why? The robots are trying to get rid of all the oil.
• How? I don't know exactly how they are doing it, but they are.

Blog Assignment #33/Foreign News

http://english.aljazeera.net/   NEWS

1) Clashes Erupt at Israel March
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2010/10/2010102783751347869.html

• Who? The Isreal police seperated the marches from the population.
• What? Israel had some people protest about certain bad events.
• When? This happened on October 27, 2010
• Where? This happened on the middle east and Israel.
• Why? to be made illegal.
• How? The Jewish protesters were calling for the Islamic Movement of Israel, led by Sheika Raed Salah

2) Argentine's Ex-leader Dies
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2010/10/2010102713264244362.html

• Who? Nester Kirchner
• What? The former president of Argentina died
• When? This happened on October 27, 2010
• Where? He died at a Clinic in Argentina
• Why? He had chest pains and suffered from a heart attack.
• How? When people have heart attacks they usually die.

3) China's Rise Worries Neighbours
http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/features/2010/10/20101026153543247305.html

• Who? China's military
• What? China has increased in its military and it worries other countries.
• When? This happened on October 27, 2010
• Where? This happened in China
• Why? Other countries are worried that they might be attacked by China's huge military.
• How? China fiqured out a way to increase its military to worry other countries.

http://www.athensnews.gr/ NEWS

1)Deputy Foreign Minister in Istanbul

 http://www.athensnews.gr/portal/10/32601

• Who? Spyros Kouvelis
• What? He visited in Istanbul
• When? October 26, 2010
• Where? in Istanbul
• Why? He wanted to refer to the historical ties
• How? He took a plane there

2) "Ohi" Day
http://www.athensnews.gr/portal/9/32745

• Who? The Greeks
• What? "Ohi" day was celebrated
• When? October 28, 2010
• Where? in Greece
• Why? The people celebrate it because it refers to the answer from the government.
• How? They have this huge march.

3)  Greek Cup Results
http://www.athensnews.gr/portal/4/32737

• Who? All the players playing on Greek teams
• What? Their Greek cup was miserable
• When? October 27, 2010
• Where? in Greece
• Why? The game got postponed and other very miserable things happened.
• How? Bad conditions in Greece caused this.

Blog 32/What's In the News

BBC News

Paul, the World Cup Octopus, Dead
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-11626050

• Who? No one person killed Paul, he just died of old age.
• What? Paul, the octopus who predicted eighty football (soccer) matches.
• When? October 26, 2010
• Where? Paul died in his tank at an Aquarium in Germany.
• Why? I guess he was very old and his death was not unexpected.
• How? Paul lived beyond two years, which is old for an octopus.

Indonesia Tsunami Deaths Increase After Sumatra Quake
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-11626242

• Who? Over 100 people in Indonesia
• What? A tsunami was triggered by an earthquake
• When? October 26, 2010
• Where? This earthquake happened in Sumatra, Indonesia.
• Why? An eaathquake happened wich triggered a tsunami to happen.
• How? This natural disaster caused over 100 deaths because of the conditions.

Go Beyond the PC
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11626624

• Who? Ray Ozzie
• What? Ray told Micosoft to go beyond the PC.
• When? October 26, 2010
• Where? It was not at an official site/place.
• Why? He wanted Microsoft to be breathtaking that last year he would be running it.
• How? He just told all the workers to make it better I guess.

ABC News

China Panda Baby Boom Aids Against Extinction
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=11969847

• Who? China's Panda population
• What? Panda babies are fighting exticion
• When? October 26, 2010 and happening now
• Where? This is happening in China.
• Why? A lot of the Panda population is disapearing and there are not a lot left.
• How? Pandas are threatned by the loss of habitat.

Male Drivers Get Lost Longer Then Women Do
http://abcnews.go.com/Travel/male-drivers-lost-longer-women-refuse-directions/story?id=11949176

• Who? Male drivers
• What? Male drivers get lost longer that female drivers do.
• When? realized October 26, 2010
• Where? It happens to men around the world.
• Why? Men decide not to ask for directions like women do.
• How? Certain people studied this subject and found the answer.

3)  Student Dies of Football Tower Tumble
http://abcnews.go.com/Sports/wireStory?id=11987259

• Who? Notre Dame
• What? Notre Dame died.
• When? October 28, 2010
• Where? On a football field.
• Why? The football tower crushed him.
• How? THe football tower fell and crushed Notre.

blog assignment #31/My Choice Feature

My Topic Choice: The History of Nail Polish

           My topic that I chose to this assignment with is the history of nail polish.  I love to wear nail polish to events, boring times, and family gatherings. I always have to have my toes polished in order to wear flip flops anywhere. I love wearing exotic colors and designs on my nails. Nail polish has a very interesting history that I wanted to share.
           
           Nail Polish was originated at the time of China. The early mixture of nail polish was bees' wax, gelatin, gum Arabic, and egg whites. Gum Arabic is a natural is a product found in African trees with genus Acacia. The Chinese also added the flower petals of roses, orchids, and alum to their polish. I am surprised that China gets all the credit for inventing nail polish.

                Around the same time period of China's invention, upper class Egyptian members wore nail polish. When they wore it,  they wore it of the same texture to lacquer paint. The paint they wore signified money and prosperity. They wore nail polish for all kinds of different reasons than people wear it today. I wonder what color of paint Cleopatra preferred? 

                 Around the time of the Chou dynasty, about 600 B.C., the colors that the royals preferred metallic, gold, and silver. Back then only the upper class were allowed to wear nail polish. If any of the lower class even attempted to wear nail polish, they would be sentenced to death for their punishment. The nail polish at the time was colored with natural pigments. Whatever color the ruling dynasty wore, the Chinese would wear the same.

                 Michelle Minard invented the modern nail polish used today in the 1920s. Hollywood starlets and Flapper girls all wore the nail polish color of bright red. Lana Turner, a Pin-up girl, wore the bright red lipstick with bright red nail polish for the red carpet and photo sessions. Nail polish is similar to car paint because it requires a remover made with acetone. In Britain, they call nail polish 'nail varnish'.

                 Nail Polish today are produced with nitrocellulose, a polymer dirived from cellulose with pulfuric and nitric acids and mixed in a sulvet. Nail polish runs rampant in Florida where the sandal is the shoe of choice by the population. By putting your nail polish in the refridgerator keeps it from not turning clumby. If you can't put it in the fridge, just keep it away from direct heat; sunlight. Now you don't have to be royalty, so go ahead and paint your nails.

Blog Assign #26 / NYTimes Travel

(redemption day)

                                           NYTimes Travel

San Diego
              
              This city is filled with personality and great tourists attractions. This city is located in California and this website recommends many restaurants, hotels, and things to do. The hotels that they recommend are Hotel De Coronado and Ivy Hotel. This city is located in California and this website recommends many restaurants, hotels, and things to do. They want you to eat at Cafe Chloe.

San Francisco


                This city is also located in California and is recommended many hotels, restaurants, and things to do as well. They want you to eat at Michael Mina and Greens. They want you to stay at The Fairmont and Hotel De Arts. They want you to go to their Ferry Building marketplace. They also have the Brooklyn bridge located in this city.

Santa Monica


                    Santa Monica offers many places to eat, stay, and things to do in California. They want you to eat at JiRaffe. This restaurant is very famous and elegant. I hope to vacation in Santa Monica someday. I hope that I can enjoy this as much as you can.

My Favorite of the Three

              My favorite city of the three cities is San Francisco. I would love visit the Brooklyn bridge in San Francisco. I would love to attend these restaurants as well. I would love to stay at one of their hotels,too.

blog Assignment #30/10 Fav. Web-sites

My 10 Favorite Websites

1. http://www.biblegateway.com

               I like this websites because it gives information about the Bible. I am able to read the Bible for my homework on this website. I can use a concordance for my troubles in life on this website. This website allows me to look things in the Bible like Bible stories or people in the Bible. This is one of my favorite websites that I visit everyday for those reasons.

2. http://www.yahoo.com/

                 I use this website to email my family and friends for up coming events, homework, trouble and many other uses as well. I also keep in touch with the friends that I have moved away from and friends that have moved away from me. My family loves it when I send them an email just to say hello once and a while. I love having a yahoo account because all of my friends have them and we can chat real easily.

3. http://www.classchatter.com

                  I go on this website everyday for many reasons. I use it for Bible homework, fellowship with classmates about God, and many more reasons. I have assignments on this website that I have to do everyday for a grade. I am always on this website to look and comment on the topic blogs that other students have posted for the whole class to see. My classmates post really important stuff on there that I really need to read. That is how important this website means to me.

4. http://www.blogger.com/

                  I have to go on this website every school day to do a blog assignment from Mrs. Alexander, my teacher. I love going on here to blog interesting topics for a grade. I use this website to comment on other students' work and to do my own work. If this website did not exist I could not be doing this right now. I am very thankful that this website was made.

5. http://www.google.com/

                   This website offers a bunch of information about almost every topic imaginable. It also offers a lot of images for almost every topic as well. This website is useful to everyone who has a question about the world or just because of a project. Almost everyone in the world should use this website for references about a topic that is a little hard to understand. Teachers across the world reference this site for searching topics to learn.

6. mail.mybcsmail.com/

                    This website is used by all the teachers, almost all the students, and staff of Bethany Christian School. They use this website to email other teachers or email students about an assignment. I have one that I use to email teachers and students about homework troubles. All of the Jr. High and High School has accounts on this that all students and teachers are available to. 

7. http://www.riverministriesintl.com/

                     I use this website for many reasons involving my church and church family. This website is useful to me because I can see what up coming my church that I attend is having for the church. My church puts its phone numbers and other contact information on this website to make it easy for me contact the church at all times. When I need prayer I can go on this website for prayer and remembrance of Jesus Christ. I also can find out which preacher is going to preach and when.

8. http://www.cogwriter.com/guizzes

                      This website has tons of games on it that are all Bible-related for me to play. I love playing the game where I am trying to get a million dollars by answering question about the Bible. It also has other fun games about the Bible and Jesus. I love that there is a website where there is just Christian games to play, and not any bad games that I would not want to play. I do not like when websites have bad games on them that no saved person would want to play.

9. http://www.gmail.com

                        On this website I can chat with my friends that do not have yahoo account, but they have gmail accounts. My friends have been having gmails, but I remembered that they barely email me anymore. Because they do not email me anymore, I got a gmail account to chat and email them with. I also used it to create my blog that I am sharing with the world. I love my gmail and I do not want to lose it.


10. http://animal.discovery.com/


                        I go on this website a lot because I can learn a lot about animals, pet care, and much more. This website also has games that I can play to learn how to groom cats and dogs. I also can read blogs and newsletters about the site. The site also teaches me about exotic and wild animals across the globe. Although not everyone loves animal, but I do and I love reading about them.

Blog Assignment #29 Facebook

                                                   FACEBOOK

           Facebook is an online social networking directory that connects people with friends, family, and other people. People use Facebook to connect with friends and share photos and videos. It also is good for meeting new people and staying in touch with an old friend that moved. Facebook was founded in 2004, and anyone can sign up to Facebook and interact with new people in a safe Internet environment. On Facebook anyone can share their photos and videos all for free.
  
                 Facebook is all for giving people their privacy in areas where they only want some people to see their personal photos. The people who have a Facebook can share photos with only their friends, family, or coworkers. Facebook has always had a safe background to all the photos and videos that the people share. Facebook has established a Safety Advisory Board that it consults with on safety issues. Facebook has also required that people use their real names on their accounts.

                  Facebook has over 1,700 employees working for them in their many locations across the country. Their headquarters is in Palo Alto, California, but they have many U.S. offices. Such as Atlanta; Birmingham, Michigan; Chicago; Dallas; Detroit; New York City; Venice Beach, California; and Washington, D.C. Over 500 million people are active in facebook around the world today. The members of the board are Mark Zuckerberg, Marc Andreessen, Jim Breyer, Don Graham, and the observers, David Sze and Paul Madera.

                    By 2007, Facebook had more than 20 million registered users. There were a couple of hundred employees and revenues were said to be in the neighborhood of $100 million for the year. Though the privately owned company was tight-lipped about finances, hints in the media strongly suggested it was turning a profit. Facebook ranked as the sixth or seventh largest social networking site. It was on top in some key metrics, according to com Score Media Metrix statistics quoted in Fast Company. It led the country in photo sharing, a capability at the heart of the Web 2.0 challenge. 


                     In 2007 the company signed up with Comcast to produce a web cast called the "Facebook Diaries," based on video contributed by users. Opening membership to the general public swelled the membership rolls and shifted the demographics away from the college age crowd. Interestingly, more than one-quarter of users were outside the United States. Facebook is very popular today and is used by many people across the world. I cannot get a Facebook until I am fifteen years old.
                  

blog assignment #28/Current News Photos

20 Pictures of Daily News
        
       
  
  

blog assignment #27 part 2

1 Peter 5:7

    

     

 

blog assignment #27 part 1

Romans 8:28 

   

 

blog assignment #25/Sarah Palin

                                   Sarah Palin

                 Sarah Palin was born on February 11, 1964 in Sandpoint, Idaho. Her parents were Mr. and Mrs. Charles and Sally Heath. She lives now in Wasilla, Alaska with her husband, her three daughters and two sons. Their names are Todd, Bristol, Willow, Piper, Track, and Trig. Sarah Palin is a Christian that follows Christ.

                 Sarah Palin grew up in the small town of Wasilla and attended Wasilla High when she grew up. She won the Miss Wasilla contest  and was in the running for the Miss Alaska contest. Sarah then was a television sports reporter in Anchorage. Sarah loved the outdoors and was in a lot of races. Sarah was a member of the National Rifle Assoiation because she loved to hunt.

                 Sarah Palin married her High School sweetheart and had five children. Her first child, Bristol, is expecting a baby at age seventeen. Her oldest son is in the U.S. army and got diployed to Iraq on September 11, 2008. Her two-year old, Trig, was born with down syndrome. As for Willow and Piper they are doing just fine at their schools and lives.

                  Sarah Palin entered politics in 1992 when she earned a seat on the Wasilla City Council. Four years afterword she was elected mayor of Wasilla by knocking off a three-term incumbent.  Sarah Palin made history when she was the first woman and youngest govenor of Alaska. She was elected govenor on December 4, 2006.

                  John Mcain chose Sarah Palin as his running mate on August 29, 2008. Sarah Palin was the second woman to vote for vice president on the major party's ticket. As John Mcain's presidential running mate, Alaska govenor Sarah Palin said that she did not hesitate to run the country if necessary. After his campagn lost in the 2008 presidential election, Sarah returned to her possition of Alaska's govenor. Sarah Palin then resigned as govenor and said that she was going to run for president in 2012.