My Resources:)

I chose a shape poem and a crossword puzzle.
The shape poem could be helpful when you have to do poetry in school. A downfall is you cant put that many words into it. I did a short one but you can still tell how many lines.
The crossword puzzle could be good for study vocab. because you can put a deffinition with the words.

Current Event:)

Ashton Kutcher joins "2 and a half men", replacing Charlie Sheen.

Link: http://www.popeater.com/2011/05/16/charlie-sheen-destroyed-ashton-kutcher/

Charlie Sheen wasted no time on Friday to mock the decision to replace him on 'Two and a Half Men' with Ashton Kutcher, calling the 'That '70s Show' alum a "sweetheart" but a choice that would bring the show down. Despite his public show of gravitas, a source close to Charlie tells me that privately he's "destroyed" by the casting news.

Current event On Tigers:)

  My current event is on tigers that attacked. I had to do a current event on the same thing as my knol so its on tigers too. 


  On December 25, 2007 a female tiger named Tatiana escaped from her pen and attacked three zoo visitors. Carlos Sousa, 17, of San Jose was killed at the scene. The tiger was shot and killed by police as she was attacking another victim, who survived. Tatiana shared her grotto with three other tigers that did not escape. 
Check out this link for more information! : http://www.wheredidithappen.com/current_events.php?pageNum_get_currentevent=14&totalRows_get_currentevent=24

My knol on TIGERS:)

Here is my link to my knol on tigers. Please read and enjoy! http://knol.google.com/k/anonymous/tigers/1eq7kovrq2qnt/1

Current Event With Unemployment:)

The main measure of employment in the United States is the Current Population Survey conducted monthly by the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics. In a March 5, 2008 column in The New York Times, excerpted below, David Leonhardt described the birth of the survey, and its major shortcoming:

In 1878, Carroll D. Wright set out to do something that nobody in the United States had apparently ever done before. He tried to count the number of unemployed.

As is the case today, the 1870s were a time of economic anxiety, with a financial crisis -- the panic of 1873 -- having spread into the broader economy. But Wright, then the chief of the Massachusetts Bureau of the Statistics of Labor, thought there weren't nearly as many people out of work as commonly believed. He lamented the "industrial hypochondria" then making the rounds, and to combat it, he created the first survey of unemployment.

The survey asked town assessors to estimate the number of local people out of work. Wright, however, added a crucial qualification. He wanted the assessors to count only adult men who "really want employment," according to the historian Alexander Keyssar. By doing this, Wright said he understood that he was excluding a large number of men who would have liked to work if they could have found a job that paid as much as they had been earning before.

I think this could be useful.... check the link out for more info...

http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/u/unemployment/index.html

current Event:)

So what do you think about trump for president? I think he could make a good president. And i also think he could get us out of debt. And he is a billionare... Hes not a jerk billionare though. The only problem i see about him is that if he was president he would treat the stuff as a buisness and would make a lot of enemies!

My controversial topic using animoto:))

Trump For President

Current Event:)

Squirt Gun fight record!:)

Revelers in Thailand celebrated the Thai New Year on Wednesday by dousing each with water, in one case in record numbers.

Bangkok's Central World Shopping Plaza and the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration claimed the Guinness World Record for a water-pistol fight, with 3,471 participants spraying each other for 10 minutes, according to a report in The Nation. The old record was 2,671 squirters for five minutes in Spain in 2007, the report said.

The Thai New Year, known as Songkran, begins on April 13 and last three days, although local celebrations can begin sooner and end later. Thais offer Buddhist prayers and city dwellers visit their hometowns during the holiday, but the joy of drenching each other is the holiday highlight. Take a look at water fights around the country from the Bangkok Post.

My toondoo.com book:)

So just goto toondoo.com and type in My wonderful books of bad jokes! into the search box and tell me what you think:)

Toondo Book Thingy

Ok so i read this toonbook thingy on toondo,com and it was called english project. And it was okay, but kinda lame! This kid is small and goes to work out and theres big guys. He wants to be a big guy and then he sees him take steroids and knows why they are all big now. Then he does them because peer pressure(duhh). And then after he does theirs a drug testing and then he gets in trouble. He blames friends, gets in trouble.....THE END! You kinda new what was coming. And since titled ENGLISH PROJECT i think he only had to do this for school.... Like us!
Heres link: http://www.toondoo.com/LatestBooks.toon?pager.offset=36600 go to english project!

Current event:)

The future of Higher Education funding

Today’s meetin fees regime. Bahram Bekhradnia, Director of the Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) provided an overview of the likely consequences of proposals to cut university funding, in anticipation of the release of the Browne Report. The Higher Education Policy Institute is the UK’s only independent think tank devoted exclusively to higher education. HEPI provides robust and objective policy analysis and advice across a whole range of higher education issues. Its mission is to improve higher education in the UK by creating a better informed policy environment – informed by research and analysis, as well as drawing on experiences from other countries.g of the BES Education Policy Lunchbox focused on issues arising from expected changes to the current university. I think that a higher education should be  expected and I think that regular education shouldnt take that long so that you have the rest of your life to do what you want to do! I think this will effect the teachers/ students because they could be longer days or more pay for teachers would let alot more people become teachers because they would make a little more. 
Link: http://britishecologicalsociety.org/blog/blog/2010/10/11/the-future-of-higher-education-funding/

check it out its kinda boring though

Pictures my video:)

Pictures

LOOK AT IT ITS KIND OF BORING IF I NEED I WILL MAKE A LONGER ONE!!

current event:)

My current event was on a trooper whos beating the record for most drug bust. Heres the link :

http://www.10tv.com/live/content/local/stories/2011/03/23/story-granville-trooper-sets-arrest-record-michael-wilson.html?sid=102



GRANVILLE, Ohio — Consider Trooper Michael Wilson the Ohio State Highway Patrol's heavyweight champion of felony arrests.

In 2010, none of the other 1,400 troopers in the state made more arrests than Wilson.  His total of 86 was not only the best in Ohio, but it was also a state record, 10TV's Kevin Landers reported on Tuesday.

Wilson, who works out of the patrol's Granville post, has an eye for catching suspected drug dealers.  Part of the challenge, he says, is being aware that people will hide drugs almost anywhere.

"It's very common to stop a vehicle with kids in it," Wilson said.  "One of my stops last year for a drug seizure was underneath a kid's car seat."

Wilson often patrols along Interstate 70 in Licking County, an area he referred to as part of the drug "pipeline."

"Heroin is very big right now," Wilson said, "Heroin out of Columbus going to smaller cities."

Last year, Wilson was responsible for seizing six pounds of marijuana, guns, knives, more than 1,000 prescription pills, and 1 pound of cocaine, Landers reported.

The drugs, he said, were being transported by people of all ages.

"It's everybody, there's not an age group," he said.  "There's not one age group I've arrested; 65-year-old men trafficking in cocaine."

Not every person arrested by Wilson goes to prison.  Some judges allow them to work off their time by providing information about suspected drug dealers to law enforcement, Landers reported.

"One of the alternatives if they have, say good information, can possibly be working off their charge by say, giving up a bigger drug dealer," Wilson said.

Of Wilson's 86 arrests in 2010, 79 were drug cases.  He hopes that he can break the record in 2011 and take more drugs off the roads.

"I definitely want bigger drugs taken off the street," he said.

Watch 10TV News and refresh 10TV.com for additional information.

The blog i found:)

http://roddytheblacklabrador.blogspot.com/?expref=next-blog
I found this blog very intrresting... its about a dog and every place him and his owner goes. Its really cool because thats a lot of places. The dogs cute and the pictures are pretty cool.

Two websites or tools that could benefit students

2 WEBSITES THAT COULD BENEFIT KIDS AT SCHOOL IS
dictionary.com : it helps to look up defintions and to do homework.
Another is  thesarus.com : this helps you just as much as the other one and in the same type of ways.

Current event!:)

Dayton Takes Top Spot As Sickest City

According to a new county-wide health report, two Ohio cities rank in the top 10 list of sickest cities to have the flu, ONN's Stephanie Mennecke reported on Monday.

Cleveland came in at number seven and Dayton took the number one spot. 

"Quite frankly we are curious as how they interpreted some of the data," Gross said.

Gross is talking about news website The Daily Beast. They put out a list of the country's sickest cities when it comes to the flu around the same time as the Montgomery County Health Commission.

The report has been in the making for two years now, and it's merely a coincidence to have been completed the same time these numbers surfaced from the Daily Beast news site. 

"When we look at the numbers from their report, versus the numbers in our report, we see some inconsistencies," Gross said.

One thing that is consistent however is the startling truths that stick out from the research.

"Basically our citizens are making themselves sick because what is killing our citizens are chronic diseases that could be prevented if people lived a healthier lifestyle," Gross said.

Gross condensed the county's report to an eight page summary, and handed it to about 2,000 business leaders in the community. He encouraged them to review it and encourage their employees to live a healthier lifestyle. 

Columbus just missed the top 10 list of sickest cities. It came in at number 12.

Link to Page!: http://www.onntv.com/live/content/onnnews/stories/2011/03/14/story-sickest-city.html?sid=102

Scavenger Hunt **

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jH7eD-mpt5eBHj0pgdzZoPCDg8oT8JYl_GVoTzNCvpc/edit?hl=en&authkey=CPKw5rkN


Hint Scroll to bottom of the scavenger hunt page....  :)
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Online Scavenger Hunt

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1B99lCM3-At_Epmqd5xKlpkB3i2h9y4yZ7bvk_5DhMEQ/edit?hl=en#

Presentation for survey:)

Check it out    :)
https://docs.google.com/present/edit?id=0AUI2S4xOsX6TZGd3amhkNTJfMDg4em12OGpm&hl=en&authkey=CLjdhZgL

Current Event!:)

My Current Event is about charlie sheen and how he is being replaced on Two and a half men.
With names like Rob Lowe and John Stamos already being thrown around, sources close to CBS and Warner Bros. confirmed to ABCNews.com that it's "reasonable to expect" executives are looking at actors who could revive TV's No. 1 comedy, currently canceled for the remainder of the show's eighth season. 
This is relevent because people watch this show... ME BEING ONE OF THEM!! :)
 Im gunna miss this show! 
RIP ... TWo and a half men show!
 LINK: http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/charlie-sheen-replacements-10-potential-candidates-half-men/story?id=13085300&cid=yahoo_pitchlist


BECCA <3

New Poll :)

 https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dGhPMzFxN0d6U1YyNkFVSDN1NGVsUFE6MQ

Check out my poll! Awnser if you want or please!

A Cool New Car/ Boat!

A Guy that lived near a river made this boat/ car. He didnt own a boat because he didnt want to have to face the deal with dragging a boat trailer. So he created this Car /Boat that thesporty-looking three-wheeler concept is designed to be run on twin electric motors, with the rear wheels taking care of propulsion on water as well as on the road.The design is amongst the entries chosen by this year's Michelin Challenge Design judges for display at a recent auto show.First launched in 2001, the Michelin Challenge Design was created by Michelin North America to spotlight creative thinking and innovative vehicle design. The first Challenge managed to attract just 125 entries, but this year there have been a record 970, and 34 of those were recently chosen by judges to be shown at theNorth American International Auto Show last month.

The Manta, by Belgium's David Cardoso Loureiro, was amongst those chosen and has been designed for those who live near water but don't want to bother swapping vehicles for travel on water and land. Many amphibious vehicle examples already exist of course, but this three-wheeler concept is a little different. The single-occupancy vehicle is electrically-powered – although exact motor details are not mentioned – and the two rear wheels are designed to power the craft on land or on water.

Many modern cars sport wheels with covers/hubs that look like propeller blades, but the Manta wheels are actual blades. The wheels turn 90 degrees to provide propulsion for the craft when in water. It isn't clear whether this process would also be used to control direction on the water, as there is no rudder visible on the renderings, but each rear wheel would be independently-powered.It's unlikely to achieve the kind of speeds or distance offered by the likes of theWaterCar Python, but could be just the thing for a short jaunt over to the other side of the lake, and beyond.

I think this Water Car Python would be a cool thing to drive.

Check out the link its :   http://www.gizmag.com/manta-amphibious-three-wheeler-concept/18018/

Becca <3

Timeline for Technology

heres the link to my timeline on Technology Through The Ages. Enjoy!               https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chrome=true&srcid=0B0I2S4xOsX6TMzZhYTU2YjEtMWMzZC00NTY0LWJkN2QtMmRlZTA5YmYxYTIw&hl=en

Becca <3

News Relating To Today!

http://www.10tv.com/live/content/local/stories/2011/02/21/story-columbus-coleman-state-of-city-gun-violence.html?sid=102
My current event was Mayor Coleman complaining about gun violence. He thinks that the source is the gun shows and how they dont do back ground checks. But they have to it is State Law! Unlike individual sellers they dont have to. Why doesnt he just stop the individual sellers. This is relevent to where we are because many people around us have guns! Gun violence is getting worse!

Becca<3

Technology Article

Ok I read a Article on Watson (a IBM computer). Last night, he was sweeping the human race. OHH MY! They asked Dr. David  Ferrucci the head of it and they said it a brain machine of the future! I think this could turn out like I Robot or something if their were a lot of these WATSONS around!

Cameron/Jeff aka Cool Kid

http://coolkid242011.blogspot.com/ 
This is the blog that i checked out and I thought that it was hilarious. He said in his first blog that his best friend was Sydney Zierden and her sister was Hannah Zierdan. But then in his next post he said Hannah Last-Name-Not-To-Be-Known. (Well something like that). Though he already said the name! Her last name is Zierdan!:)

YO!

Hey this is not my first blog but i dont know what to put on this so just comment some ideas of what to put on here!