£14,500 for a Bag of Sweets

There has been people selling bags of sweets at £14,500 for charity. There was an auction website selling the last pic'n'sweets from an Woolworths shop. Ed Adams, the guy who managed the workshop in Bromley, South London filled up the bag just before he closed his store. Then he put up the 800g bag on the internet for a bid. Finally, after 115 bids he agrees to sell it at a high price of £14,500. The money he made was givin to a charity called Retail Trust. There was fizzy cola bottles, rhubarb and custards, strawberry bon bons, Turkish delight, white mice and pineapple cubes in the bag of candy. Nigel Rothband, Retail Trust chief executive, said: "It's taken us by surprise. It's very exciting and much more than we were expecting."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/newsid_7900000/newsid_7903700/7903747.stm

"Fake Rain" Turns to Snow in China

Beijing in China used a very unusual way of ending their doughts. They sprayed a chemical in the clouds to make it rain. This prosses is called cloud seeding. As rain and snow fell onto the city to end the 110 day drought, One of the longest drought Beijing has experienced in 38 years. But this wasn't the first time China has used this method to end dry seasons. Cloud seeding has been used in China's northern countrys because they suffer from lots of droughts. Even thought this method ended the drought, some people believed that it is wron. For the increase of rainfall might mean less rain in other areas.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/newsid_7890000/newsid_7899600/7899638.stm

Old Man and the Sea (Whaat did he do wrong?)

To me I think that he wasn't thinking about the concenquences when he went out to fish. He also didn't prepare eough materials to go out to the sea for three straight days. Then when he caught the fish, he tied the fish yo the back of his boat instead of cutting it to pieces and put them on th boat. Another thing I thought was weird was that on the first day he only brought one bottle of water and was short on water that very day. But how did he survive three days with the sun shining every day? The book was also kind of boring because about 80% of the book is talking about the old man sitting on the boat.

Humanity Travel Blog

Hsinchu City

The first stop is here at Hsinchu in Taiwan. The climat here is Marine Tropical with common natural disasters such as earthquakes and typhoons. The highest temperature here is 39c while the lowest temperature here is 6c. This place is also known as "The Windy City" because of its strong winds. In Taiwan there are lots of mountains ranging from South to North. Some mountains even reaching over 100 meters.




Australia, Coral Sea Islands

The Coral Sea Islands in Australia is a small and mostly uninhabited group of islands. These island covers 780,000 km2. There are about 30 separate reefs. The climate here is tropical. There are natural disasters here such as cyclones.








Hawaii, Honolulu

Honolulu is the capital of Hawaii. The climate here is tropical with the highest degree of 95F and the lowest of 53F. This place if made of mostly volcanoes, underwater volcanoes ridges, sea mounts, and trenches.


Oregon, Portland

Portland is a city located at Oregon. It's climate is Marine west coast. Winters can be very cold, the lowest degree -19c and the highest of 42c. There are mountain ranges and rugged cliffes in Oregon. Snowstorms and hail may appear in the winter.







South America, Brazil

Brazil is a country located in South America. It is a large country that covers nearly half of South America. Brazil has 5 kinds of climates, equatorial, tropical, semiarid, highland tropical, and temperate. Brazil has different kinds of ecosystems, such as the Amazon rain forest. There are different kinds of landforms depending on where you are in Brazil. There can be large rainforests of high platues. The average temperature in Brazil 25c.







China, Beijing

Beijing is a city located in China. It is built at the tip of North China Plain. Its climate is a humid continental climate. The average temperature in January is 1c and 30c in July. The air quality in Beijing is very bad and there are dust storms. Beijing is the second largest city that is smaller than Shanghai and is the capital of China. This is the city that hosted the 2008 Olympic games.






Tokyo, Japan

Tokyo is one of the most populated places in the world with a population of over 8 million people. This places climate is a humid subtropical climate with hot humid and mild cool winters. Snowfall will happen irregularly but occurs almost every year. Tokyo has been known to be hit by several strong earthquakes. One earthquake was estimated to have a magnitude of 8.3 and killed 142,000 people. The average temperature Tokyo has ranges from 4c in January and 27 in August. Tokyo's main landforms consists of mountains, rivers, lakes, and valleys.







Mitiaro, Cook Islands

Mitiaro is the fourth island located in the Cook Islands. It has volcanic origins and is stands in waters that is 14750 deep and its widest point across is 4 miles. Its center is flat and swampy with two freshwater lakes. The population here is very little that has less than 100 people. Aroung id surrounds a belt of fossilised corals between 20 to 40 feets high.

Wrestling Crocodiles

Animal experts in South East Asia has been wrestling rare crocodiles to gather informations on them. They are trying to save one of earth's rarest reptiles. Crocs are being tested at a wildlife center in Cambodia to see if they are the rare Siamese crocodile. They were so rare that they were thought to be extinct at one point. There are 250 Siamese crocodiles left in the wild and experts are starting a breeding program for them, hoping to save these endangered reptiles.

Little pests.....Big problem....

A plague of caterpillars at Africa in the country of Liberia are eating away farmers crops. With these valuable crops gone, farmers will halve to suffer food shortage and dirtied water. The president of the country has declared a state emergency. 4000000 in 100 villages has been affected by these pests. Caterpillars is a common species in Africa, but experts say that these are Achaean caterpillars. Even though these pests are tiny but they can travel up to 60 miles a day. Fortunately, these bugs are easier to get rid of because they stay above ground. Now the country are using chemicals to get rid of these caterpillars.

Language Arts

Which is you favorite scene in the book "The Old Man and the Sea" then describe it.

I guess my favorite scene is when the sharks are eating the marlin because it has more action and is more exciting than the rest.

Geography

Geography is the study mainly focused on the spatial distributions oh human and physical phenomena. Lots of people explain geography as the shape of the earth even though it is only part of it. There are many different forms of geography. There are two kinds of geography. Physical geography and humen geography.

Physical geography
biogeography
climatology & paleoclimatology
coastal geography
environmental geography & management
geodesy
geomorphology
glaciology
hydrology & hydrography
landscape ecology
oceanography
pedology
paleogeography
quaternary science

Human geography
cultural geography
development geography
economic geography
health geography
historical & time geography
demography
religion geography
social geography
transportation geography
tourism geography
urban geography

Why is Where Important?

Why is where important? Or what is the geography around us like and how does it affect our lives? There are different places with different kinds of geography so the people there would have different lifestyle. The temperature will also effect on the geography. If a place is i the far north the weather would bee colder affecting the people's lifestyle.

The Old Man and the Sea

What do you think the moral to the story The Old Man and the Sea?

I thin that the moral of The Old Man and the Sea is mainly the Old Guy trying to kill a big marlin.

Mirror Image

When you look into a mirror, what do you see? Do you think the other see you as you see yourself?

I seem myself literally. But different people will see me differently ny looking at their point of view. A fried might see me as a friend when a rival wll see me as a rival.

Science SMASH day

For smash day we needed to make a telescope-like thing to look out into a box without our hands or heads above the table. We were given 10 pieces of paper, 4 mirrors, tape, and a cardboard box. My team and I modified the desighn for about 3-5 times. After we modified it we put it to a test to see if it could see what was inside the box, if it didn't work then we jusy redo it again. My team drew a picture of the design before making it. Then we gathered the materials we needed for the design. If I were to give a tip for people who are making this then I would say that don't rush the project and discuss it first.

Language Arts

My luckiest moments of my life is whenever I get to do anything I want on my computer, playing piano,finding anything cool or interesting, and playing nintendo.

Postman Rescues an Otter

A postman found a baby otter on the Scottish roadside and takes her on a 350km tour in his mailbox. Oria, the otter cub was found the side of the road by Kenny Wilson near Stow. The Kenny stopped to scoop the otter up to keep her warm, then got the otter kitten milk and fed her through the tip of a ballpoint pen. He even took Oria on a rally before taking her to the animal rescue center. Mr. Wilson thought that she wasn't going to survive because she was very cold when he found her. "It looked as if she had either been abandoned or her mother had been hit by a car."he said. The reason he bought the kitten milk was because of the squeeking sound she made, which made him think that she is hungry. Oria eats nearly £15 of salmon every day. But the fishermans has stepped in to help. She is being very well cared at the rescue center.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/newsid_7850000/newsid_7856700/7856719.stm

Ads on Kids TV Should be Banned

A group of people called The Good Childhood Inquiry are looking at how kids live their lives. People put advertisements on TVs to offer their prouducts but these experts say that unhealthy ads that includes alcohol should be banned until 9pm. They say that TV channels aiming for kids under 12 should meet these requirements. Penny Nicholls from The Children Society said that "What we do know is that having things doesn't necessarily make you happy, and the thought of not being able to have things often makes people very unhappy," she said. Even though banning advertisements from children TV is only recommended. This rule is very unlikely to happen because they would need to convince the government to make this law. Some people think that this rule is useless because kids will still see the advertisments when watching other shows such as baseball with theirs family. Not everybody agrees with this idea and some say that some of the ads are actually good for their kids.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/newsid_7860000/newsid_7864400/7864418.stm?ls