Soccer and Eagle Update

Soccer is one of the most popular sports in Europe and the Americas. It has a vivid and interesting history in the world of sports. Early evidence of soccer being played as a sport finds occurrence in China during the 2nd and 3rd centuries BC. In China, it was during the Han dynasty that people dribbled leather balls by kicking it into a small net. Recorded facts also support the fact that Romans and Greeks used to play ball for fun and frolic. Some facts point to Kyoto in Japan where kicking of ball was a popular sport. It is said that early growth of the modern soccer started in England. Some amusing facts even mention that the first ball used was the head of some Danish brigand. It is said that during medieval times, the old form of soccer used to allow many ill practices like kicking, punching, biting and gouging. The main aim was to carry the ball to a target spot. People grew so fond of the game that they would throng the field all day long. Sometimes the competition grew fierce and masses got so wild that there were frequent incidents of violence during the game. It is also said that soldiers admired the game so much that they missed archery practice to watch it. King Edward III banned soccer in 1365 owing to the growing incidents of violence and military indulgence in the sport. In 1424 King James I of Scotland also proclaimed in the Parliament— "Na man play at the Fute-ball" (No man shall play football)

Today the mother or father eagle is laying on their little babies.You cant see any of the baby eagles but you can see the mother or father keeping them warm and cozy. Remember you can see these eagles at Alcoa.com?/eagle cam.

Synthsizer and The eagles

It may surprise you to learn that the earliest seeds of modern electronic synthesizers began in the twilight years of the 19th century. In 1896/1897, an American inventor named Thaddeus Cahill applied for a patent to protect the principle behind an instrument known as the Telharmonium, or Dynamophone. Weighing in at a staggering 200 tons, this mammoth electronic instrument was driven by 12 steam-powered electromagnetic generators. This behemoth was played in real time using velocity-sensitive keys and, amazingly, was able to generate several different sounds simultaneously. The Telharmonium was presented to the public in a series of “concerts” held in 1906. Christened “Telharmony,” this music was piped into the public telephone network, because no public address systems were available at the time. In 1919, Russian inventor Leon Theremin took a markedly different approach. Named after the man who masterminded it, the monophonic Theremin was played without actually touching the instrument. It gauged the proximity of the player’s hands, as they were waved about in an electrostatic field between two antennae, and used this information to generate sound. This unorthodox technique made the Theremin enormously difficult to play. Its eerie, spine-tingling (but almost unvarying) timbre made it a favorite on countless horror movie soundtracks. Incidentally, R. A. Moog, whose synthesizers would later garner worldwide fame, began to build Theremins at the tender age of 19.In Europe, the Frenchman Maurice Martenot devised the monophonic Ondes Martenot in 1928. The sound generation method of this instrument was akin to that of the Theremin, but in its earliest incarnation it was played by pulling a wire back and forth.

The baby eagles are growing up so fast! The dad is now watching them while the mother gets food one of them is up and turning its head around to see what is happening. Remember you can see these baby eagles at Alcoa.com/eagle cam.

Northern Lights,And Alcoa Eagles

The relatively-chaotic history of Northern Lights began in late 1975, when the three remaining members of a good-time bar band called How Banks Fail--Dan Marcus, Marty Sachs, and Bob Emery--plus new recruit Taylor Armerding, decided they were going to get a bit more serious about progressive bluegrass.The name-game requirements were simple. Not too traditional, not at all Southern, and not too rural. Nobody recalls exactly who came up with Northern Lights. Probably it was banjoman Marcus, the organizer and educator. But it had most of what they were after...not exactly urban, but not a reminder of "Rocky Top" or "Pig in a Pen," either.Two months later, in December, the metamorphosis was complete, when the band had its "coming out" gig, opening for Lester Flatt and the Nashville Grass at a show for the Boston Area Friends of Bluegrass and Old-Time Country Music.The next summer, while playing at the Berkshire Mountain Bluegrass Festival (precursor of Winterhawk) in NY, the group was approached by Paul Gerry, who was looking for groups to record on his home-based Revonah label. That led to the first album, NORTHERN LIGHTS, recorded in November, 1976. It was a clear example of the mix the group would display throughout the next 15 years. It went from the tradition of "Salt Creek" and "Wicked Path of Sin" to the pop sound of "Ramblin' Man" and "Athens County" to Bob Emery originals like "Boards Across Your Windows" and "Delta Tide."

The Alcoa eagles are up to a nap while the mother and father are hanging out in the nest.The mother is keeping the baby eagles warn by sitting on them,the dad is watching his surroundings. If you would like to see the Alcoa eagles go to Alcoa.com and there should be a eagle cam somewhere. The alcoa eagles are growing up so fast!

Pandas, And The Alcoa Baby Eagles Live At Whether.com

The panda first appeared 2 to 3 million years ago. Originally, panda territory included South and East China and parts of Myanmar and Northern Vietnam. Fossil evidence shows that pandas lived almost as far north as Beijing. Today, pandas are found in six isolated forest areas in Sichuan, Gansu, and Shaanxi provinces in China. Pandas live in high mountainous areas, usually from 2,700 to 3,700 meters (8,500 to 11,500 feet) above sea level, that have natural forested areas with fir, spruce, and bamboo. Today, only 29 small, fragmented areas have the appropriate habitat to support the world's existing panda populations.For years, scientists have argued about whether the panda is more closely related to the bear or the raccoon. Bears, raccoons, and dogs all descended from the same common ancestor that lived over 24 million years ago. The panda has some characteristics common to bears, but other characteristics are not like bears. For example, their head is larger than a bear's, their skull and dental structure do not resemble a bear's, their hind feet lack a heel pad, they do not hibernate, and they do not walk on their hind legs like bears. Some physical characteristics of the panda closely resemble the raccoon: the male genitalia of both the raccoon and the panda are small and pointed to the rear.Recent DNA / serological studies have determined that the panda is more closely related to bears than to raccoons. The panda's closest relative is the spectacled bear of South America. Pandas are about the size of the American black bear. An adult panda is typically 1.5 meters long (4 - 5 feet) and weighs about 75 to 135 kilograms (165 to 353 pounds). Males are 10% to 20% heavier than females. Pandas live between 18 to 25 years in the wild.

Did you know that you can watch baby eagles grow up live? Cause now at whether.com you can. Search Alcoa eagles and watch them be fed.  And there are also more other interesting stories right now i bet they are getting fed. So see for yourself at whether.com!

3 songs I Like

The song 1985 was made by the band named Bowling For Soup. This song is about a woman who is still living in the past, reliving her glory years when she was a teenager in 1985. She had big dreams, but now spends her time immersing herself in '80s pop culture. Music Icons from the '80s mentioned in the song are: Whitesnake, Madonna, U2, Blondie, MTV, Bruce Springsteen, Ozzy Osbourne, Wham! and Van Halen. Movies from the '80s mentioned: The Breakfast Club, St. Elmo's Fire and Pretty In Pink. This song was written and originally released by the band SR-71 on their 2004 album Here We Go Again. I like this song cause i think its good and funny. 

The song I' blue was made by Eiffel 65. Many people thought the chorus was "I'm blue and I'm in need of a guy," and that the song was about homosexuality. The correct translation is "I'm blue da ba dee di," and in no way relates to homosexuality. The group is Italian and their name came from a computer called "Eiffel." The 65 came after a note was sent with 65 accidentally written in and the members believed it was fate and should stay. I like this song cause its really cool.

English songwriter Cathy Dennis wrote the song toxic in 2003 with Britney Spears in mind. Dennis was the female voice of the group D-Mob, who had a hit in 1990 with "C'mon And Get My Love." She had some other hits as a solo artist, including "Too Many Walls" and "Just Another Dream," before writing songs for other artists. She wrote Kylie Minogue's 2002 hit "Can't Get You Out Of My Head." The video was released around the same time Janet Jackson flashed her boob at the Super Bowl. The uproar over indecent material caused MTV to banish this, and a few other highly sexual videos to late night rotation. In the video, Spears is shown in a provocative pose wearing a flesh-colored body suit. I like this song cause the video is funny and i like the music in the backround.

If I Had A Million Dollars

If I really had a million dollars I would buy a horse, the biggest flat screen TV there is, my very own house just the way I want, a maid and a butler, id put 2,500 dollars in the bank for college, i would buy a island called Paradise La Andrea, batteries for my sisters MobiGo, a full sized mattress, sound proof ear phones for my mom could sleep, a mini fridge, sound proof walls, ice cream for my mini fridge, a trampoline, a snowmobile, a limousine, a horse carriage,  the nicest room ever and the nicest bathroom ever made, soft pillows, every piece ,  of barbie clothes known to man, cable, coolest clothes ever, a red velvet dress, the red ruby slippers, a four wheeler, a car, bling, anger management classless for my sister and Lazarus our cat, licking lessons for my cat, non meowing classes for Nemo, the best birthday party ever, a roller skating rink, a cheetah, a zoo, a panda, a restaurant, a gold tree, a money tree, a pizza tree, a flower garden that is 500 feet wide and 300 feet tall, a light that when you clap goes off also a shower like the light to, kit the car from the original movies, the delorian from the movie back to the future, a flat screen TV for my barbies that actually works and is real, magic powers, a deep freezer, a soccer field, a soccer net, my very own private jet, a hot tub with my name on it, a pool, a private blimp, 15 cars, a monster truck, the biggest bath tub ever, 15 extra pairs of glasses for my my mom and Alyson when she gets older, a juice bar for my bedroom that makes my favorite juices, slushiness, milk shakes, and smoothies, and finally id buy a big closet.

Pi Day

The ancient Babylonians calculated the area of a circle by taking 3 times the square of its radius, which gave a value of pi = 3. One Babylonian tablet (ca. 1900–1680 BC) indicates a value of 3.125 for pi, which is a closer approximation. Rhind Papyrus (ca.1650 BC), there is evidence that the Egyptians calculated the area of a circle by a formula that gave the approximate value of 3.1605 for pi.The ancient cultures mentioned above found their approximations by measurement. The first calculation of pi was done by Archimedes of Syracuse (287–212 BC), one of the greatest mathematicians of the ancient world. Archimedes approximated the area of a circle by using the Pythagorean Theorem to find the areas of two regular polygons: the polygon inscribed within the circle and the polygon within which the circle was circumscribed. Since the actual area of the circle lies between the areas of the inscribed and circumscribed polygons, the areas of the polygons gave upper and lower bounds for the area of the circle. Archimedes knew that he had not found the value of pi but only an approximation within those limits. In this way, Archimedes showed that pi is between 3 1/7 and 3 10/71. A similar approach was used by Zu Chongzhi (429–501), a brilliant Chinese mathematician and astronomer. Zu Chongzhi would not have been familiar with Archimedes’ method—but because his book has been lost, little is known of his work. He calculated the value of the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter to be 355/113. To compute this accuracy for pi, he must have started with an inscribed regular 24,576-gon and performed lengthy calculations involving hundreds of square roots carried out to 9 decimal places. Mathematicians began using the Greek letter π in the 1700s. Introduced by William Jones in 1706, use of the symbol was popularized by Euler, who adopted it in 1737. An 18^th century French mathematician named Georges Buffon devised a way to calculate pi based on probability. You can try it yourself at the Exploratorium's Pi Toss exhibit.

The Wizard of Oz

The film Wizard of Oz was first published  on May, 17,1900.But the film was originally made on October, 13,1938. Even though the movie was made a long time ago the original film is still popular today. The wizard of oz is about a young girl and her dog while in a tornado they go to a magical world and while trying to get out of it she has to see the wizard on her journey she makes new friends and new experiences. All the characters in this movie are Dorthy, Toto, Munchkins, Scarecrow, Tin Can Man, Lion, Wicked Witch of The West, The Wizard of Oz, and the queen Fairy. The film was directed by Victor Fleming, It was produced by Mervyn LeRoy, and scored by Herbert stothart, and music and lyrics by Harold Arlen and E.Y. Harburg. At the time they were filming the cast didn't know that they would be making there marks as Cinematic Legends. Ray Bolger appeared as the Scarecrow; Bert Lahr as the Cowardly Lion and Jack Haley as the Tin Man. The versatile Frank Morgan was seen in six different roles, including that of the "wonderful Wizard" himself. The Wizard of Oz received six Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture, and captured two Oscars®—Best Song (“Over the Rainbow”) and Best Original Score—plus a special award for Outstanding Juvenile Performance by Judy Garland. The film was an overwhelming popular and critical success upon its initial release and repeated its ability to captivate audiences when MGM reissued the film in 1949 and 1955. The wizard of oz is one of my favorite moves and a cool fact is it i more than 70 years old. Many people still enjoy the classic film and i bet that it will still be popular when I'm in college. And some of the cast is alive the one who played Dorthy is.

the Leviathan

S.S. Vaterland, a 54,282 gross ton passenger liner, was built at Hamburg, Germany, as the second of a trio of very large ships for the Hamburg-America Line's trans-Atlantic route. When completed in the spring of 1914 she surpassed her slightly older near-sister, S.S. Imperator, as the World's largest ship. Vaterland held this honor until 1922, when the last of the three big German liners, the 56,551 gross ton Bismarck, was delivered after a long delay and almost immediately became the British liner Majestic. The three ships' design emphasized luxury and comfort over speed, though their 23-knot service speed was fast enough for the North Atlantic trade. Vaterland had made only a few trips when, in late July 1914, she arrived at New York just as World War I broke out. With a safe return to Germany rendered virtually impossible by British dominance of the seas, she was laid up at her Hoboken, New Jersey, terminal, and remained immobile for nearly three years. In April 1917, when the United States entered the war, Vaterland was seized and turned over to the U.S. Navy, which placed her in service later in the year as USS Leviathan. In October 1919, she was transferred to the U.S. Shipping Board and again laid up at Hoboken until plans for her future employment could be determined. These finally materialized and, in April 1922 the ship steamed to Newport News, Virginia, where she was completely renovated to suit American tastes and post-World War I standards. As S.S. Leviathan, she was the "queen" of the United States' merchant fleet, and operated in the trans-Atlantic trade into the early 1930s. She was not profitable, however, and, with the execption of several months of additional service in 1934, Leviathan was inactive until early 1938, when she made a final Atlantic crossing to Scotland, where she was broken up. No U.S. flag commercial ship approached her size until 1952, when the S.S. United States was completed.

My Trip To The National Archives, And The National Museum Of American History!

Today, I went to the National Archives and the National Museum of American History in Washington DC. We got there by taking the Metro after a drive to the metro. After that, we headed to the Archives. I got to see lots of documents, some are the Declaration of Independence, the Bill of Rights, and The Constitution! We even saw the Manga Carta! After we left the Archives, we went to lunch. We had McDonald's. It was small and it was also behind the Air and Space Museum. Then we headed to the American History Museum. When we went into the building we saw lots of hallways and floors. We started with the history of presidents we saw the dresses that their wife's wore to the party to become president.And they even had  Michele Obama's dress! Then we went to the American flag and learned what it looked like and who thought of it. After that we learned more about history, we learned about this house the was taken apart carefully then shipped to the museum and rebuilt there. There was a dining room, a kitchen, a parlor, a upstairs and even an attic. There were even cars and half of an old bus and even a train you can go in and pretend you are going somewhere. They even had sound effects! there In the back seat of a car was a dinosaur figure just sitting there. They had all kinds of things from nails to figures dressed like real people and like 3 gift shops. I got a mug with my name on it and a magnet with the red ruby slippers on it. I did not see the red ruby slippers because they were redoing a section, but they will be back on April 5th. After we saw almost everything, they started to close the museum so we hurried into the gift shop bought our things. We went to the metro and then drove home. I really had fun with my family today. I hope we will we able to go to see it again!

Day Light Savings Time, and Facebook

At 2 a.m. on March 11, 2012, groggy Americans will turn their clocks forward one hour, marking the beginning of Daylight Saving Time (DST). The federal law that established "daylight time" in the United States does not require any area to observe daylight saving time. But if a state chooses to observe DST, it must follow the starting and ending dates set by the law. From 1986 to 2006 this was the first Sunday in April to the last Sunday in October, but starting in 2007, it is observed from the second Sunday in March to the first Sunday in November, adding about a month to daylight saving time. (See: New Federal Law.) Arizona and Hawaii and the territories of Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, Guam, and American Samoa are the only places in the US that do not observe DST but instead stay on standard time all year long. And if you’ve spent in the sweltering summer sun in those regions you can understand why residents don’t need another hour of sunlight.

Mark Zuckerberg, 23, founded Facebook while studying psychology at Harvard University. A keen computer programmer, Mr Zuckerberg had already developed a number of social-networking websites for fellow students, including Course match, which allowed users to view people taking their degree, and Facemash, where you could rate people's attractiveness. In 2004 Mr. Zuckerberg launched “the Facebook” as it was originally known the name taken from the sheets of paper distributed to freshman, profiling student and staff. Within 24 hours 1,200 Harvard students, had signed up, and after one month over half of the undergraduate population had a profile. The network was promptly extended to other Boston universities, the Ivy League and eventually all US universities. It became Facebook.com in August 2005 after the address was purchased for $200,000. US high schools could sign up from September 2005, then it began to spread worldwide, reaching UK universities the following month.

Iimerick and chital

An early record of the name of Limerick is contained in the Annals of the four masters, where in the year AD221 a battle, we are told, was fought here. Over a century later, in the year AD334, the Great Crunthaun, one of the most remarkable of the ancient kings of Ireland, died here. In the 9th century Luimenach was the name given to the lower Shannon, but in 861 it ceased to be the name of the river and was thereafter usually applied to the settlement on the island known as Inis Sibhton (King's Island). In AD900 Norse warriors called Vikings, led by one named Tomar, came and settled here. They chose this location because it was the first place on the Shannon that was fordable (at Curragour Falls) and was also on an island (Inis Sibhton), formed by the Abbey River - a branch of the Shannon.

Marry Lu loved stew. This fact came to be true cause of Larry magoo. She ate it out of the pot. Until she hit the jackpot.

Chital are large deer and they have a body length between 1 and 1.5 m (3.25 - 5 ft), a tail length between 10 and 25 cms (4 - 10 inches) and they weigh between 70 and 79 kgs (155 - 175 lbs).
They are reddish/fawn in colour with white spots and a white coloured underside. Stags have three-pronged, lyre shaped antlers that they shed annually and they can reach lengths up to 76 cms (30 inches). They have several different vocalizations which include barking when alarmed, bellowing during the breeding season and fawns squeal when they are separated from their mother.
They are mainly active during the morning, evening and night, and they rest during the hottest parts of the day. They can reach speeds up to 65 km/hr (40 mph) if required.

Dr Seuss's Birthday

Theodor Seuss Geisel is better known to the world as the beloved Dr Seuss. Dr. Seuss has captivated over four generations of children and parents alike, all in the while helping millions of children learn to read. Dr. Seuss wrote and illustrated 44 books, which have been translated into 20 different languages making him the best –selling children’s author of all times. Today, his books and characters remain to be very influential in young children’s lives. Theodore Seuss Geisel was born on Howard Street in Springfield, Massachusetts on March 2, 1904.  As a teenager, Theodore left Springfield to attend Dartmouth College. While at Dartmouth, he became the editor-in-chief of the Jack-O-Lantern, which was Dartmouth’s humor magazine. After Geisel was caught throwing a drinking party which violated Prohibition laws, the school made him resign from all extracurricular  activities. He continued to work on the Jack-O-Lantern without the schools knowledge by signing his work with the pseudonym “Seuss”.  After graduating from Dartmouth in 1925, he went onto Oxford University with the intention of acquiring a doctorate in literature. While attending Oxford he met his first wife, Helen Palmer, whom he wed in 1927. After returning back to the United States, Geisel began publishing cartoons and humorous articles in major magazines such as Judge, Vanity, Fair and Liberty; however most of his work during his early career was to create advertising campaigns for Standard Oil.  After a while, Geisel began to grow frustrated in the advertising world and in his spare time he began writing and illustrating an alphabet book for children. It was an exciting project for Geisel but after several publishers turned him down he was discouraged from writing for years. While on a vacation cruise in 1936, he conceived the idea for his first children’s book. Written and illustrated by Dr. Seuss, And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street was finally published in 1937, but not after being rejected by more than 20 different publishers.