Quiz on Kiara, Shelby, and Tristen's

Which rivers are deemed dead because of the acids in the water?
Which salmon are least sensitive to low p.h. levels?
Do the salmon die immediately when p.h. is below tolerance?

Effects of Pebble Mine

Dissolved copper is the most significant metal contaminate coming from Pebble Mine. Others include antimony, arsenic, cadmium, chromium, lead, mercury, nickel, selenium, and zinc. All of these are bad for salmon!
Metals in water can impair algae
These contaminants are also toxic to aquatic organisms such as macro-invertebrates ------------------>
Juvenile salmon are in danger from the effects of dissolved copper because they're most sensitive to it.
Physiological-functioning of organisms
Sub-lethal- not quite lethal
Incipient-developing

Top 3 Weirdest Inventions

1. Car Exhaust Grill
This odd invention will actually cook a burger with the exhaust from your car! Simply attach to your exhaust pipe, drive to the store to pick up some chips, open up the grill, and voila! Lunchtime.












2. Doggles
Doggles, or goggles for dogs, are just the cutest most absurd things.




















3. Baby Mop invention
This invention is actually pretty practical if you think about it, there are mop tassels added to the legs and arms of a baby onesie.

Thomas Jefferson Monument

Here is Annie and me on the first day, at the Thomas Jefferson Monument!

Sunny Day Near the White House

On the one super-sunny day of our D.C. trip, Annie and I got to see the White House from a distance.

Barack Obama 2013 Inauguration (2termz)

Colton, Annie, and I received gold tickets to the inauguration!

We woke up at 3 a.m. on the twenty first, took the metro, and then walked to get in line for security. (Security opened at 7, but we held our spot in line for about 2 hours!) Once we got through security we were in the gold area.

Then we had to do even more waiting for the inauguration, so we watched the people flood in. Pretty soon the gold area was packed, and everyone was waiting for the inauguration to start.

And finally the inauguration started.

Funniest Restaurant Experience

It was a middle school girl's basketball trip and we were on our way back from Nenana(we got 3rd place in the tourney!). We were all starving after our games, so we dashed into McDonalds (which by the way is my least favorite place) to have dinner.
Our assembly of our sweaty yet hyper team finally ordered and received our meals. I got an order of French Fries and, I was feeling gutsy, a chocolate chip frappè. It turns out the frappè was atrociously gross, and everyone was content with their sodas and cappuccinos. I was just about to throw away the disgusting frappè, when my coach thought up an brilliant plan.
He squeezed a packet of ketchup in the drink, mixed it up, and put another straw in it. Then he went up to Marrin, a crazy hyper girl on the team, and he pretended to drink some of the frappè, and told Marrin it was delicious! Marrin then took a big sip of the drink, and we watched her face turn from bubbly to horrified. She spit out the ketchup infested frappè and screamed. The end.

Blogger How-to

How to make your very first blog post:
Go to www.blogger.com and log in.
Once you are logged in, you can click the orange pencil button. You can then name your post and make your post. If you want to add pictures to your post click the picture button and either upload a picture or put in a link to a picture. If you want to add a link to your post you simply select the whatever you want to be linked, click the link button, and type in your link. When you are completely satisfied with your post, click the publish post button, and you're done.

Teenage Celebrity Obsessions

     We all know that the "best years of your life", AKA junior high, are claimed to be years of fun, growth, self-creation, ya-da-ya-da-ya. The truth really is that the years of middle school are probably the most awkward and troublesome years to come. One irksome thing that usually leads to embarrassment in the future, is teenage celebrity or character obsessions.
    Anywhere from a few months to a few years of a teen's life are primarily committed to researching, saving photos, and even creating fan art, fiction, crafts, or songs of their obsession. Think about it, if a teenager had their same obsession of a celebrity on a normal person, it would be considered stalking. Although these great loves for celebrities may seem like more of a modern craze, they actually go pretty far back.

      From the 1960-1970s one big celebrity group was The Beatles. Middle school girls wailed, screamed, and even fainted at concerts, resulting in the inability to even hear The Beatles performing. The wild fans of The Beatles can be compared to today's fans of One Direction. Great similarities can be shown in fan books, pins, toys, and clothing, but by the age of 17 or older, the fascination of the celebrity usually dies down.

      Thirteen-year-old girls who are "in love" with Justin Bieber now, will look back in the years to come and hang their heads in shame! They will throw out their Justin Bieber blankets, discard their singing toothbrushes, and disown their Justin Bieber dolls all in fits of fury.