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media type="custom" key="6194529" Wild Weather Events Many country stars in Nashville, Tennessee feared that their instruments would get water-logged. Why, because a tragic flooding in Nashville, Tennessee broke many instruments stored in the Grand Ole Opry. Water was two feet above the famous Grand Ole Opry stage. The damage in the Grand Ole Opry ruined the symphony hall and forced electricity to be cut in downtown homes. Mostly guitars were ruined in the flooding. All 160,000 square feet in a room for rehearsal in the Grand Ole Opry is now a 160,000 square foot pool.

Maybe the most valuable guitar, the one that Mr. Paisley used ever since he first started performing at the Grand Ole Opry was not damaged. The guitar that was not damaged was called a 1968 Paisley Telecaster. Steve Azar, a country singer, said he lost over 100,000 dollars in repair. Steve Azar was supposed to perform a music video with all of his instruments that got damaged but instead he had to cancel the music video. Two very successful country artists Taylor Swift and Loretta Lynn are helping the tragic disaster of the Nashville, Tennessee flooding.

URL: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/08/arts/music/08country.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

media type="youtube" key="pFjaQoOdJvI" height="385" width="640" Book Review This book review will be on Holes by Louis Sachar. The first sentence in this book got my attention right away. Before this book was made Walt Disney Productions produced this movie into an interesting, funny, and suspenseful movie. I have seen the movie and I have read the book, it is hard to decide which one is better but I would have to say that the book is better. I would recommend this book to anyone who likes to read a good book.

This book is about how a boy named Stanley Yelnats who is overweight gets blackmailed by a poor boy. This poor boy takes a pair of Clyde Livingston sneakers. The cops catch the poor bot so when he is running on the sidewalk he drops them on a person's head who just happens to be Stanley walking. The cops think that Stanley stole the sneakers but puts that poor kid under the bus. Both of them go to a camp that looks fun but is the total opposite, dark and scary. The both of them go through a lot to find the mystery of Stanley's no-good-rotten-dirty-old-great-great-grandfather.

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Unsolved Mysteries - Sasquatch (Bigfoot) The Sasquatch or Bigfoot has been one of America's most interesting but most fearful mysteries for the past 200 years. The first sighting of Bigfoot was in 1811 when a Canadian lumberjack by the name of Albert Ostman got captured by a family of Sasquatches. The mother and the son would cook while the father and daughter would keep an eye on the Canadian lumberjack. After a week Albert escaped and finally told the newspapers. The smart thing was that when Ostman escaped he did not tell anybody right away because everybody would think that he is crazy. Well, when he finally told the newspapers nobody thought he was crazy because there were two other sightings of Bigfoot in 1924.

For nearly 200 years there has been many descriptions of the Sasquatch. Many people have said that the mysterious animal has only four toes. The dimensions of the Bigfoot's foot: seven inches wide, sixteen to eighteen inches long, no foot arch, and a distinct double ball heel. I do not think Bigfoot is real because nobody has found a body for over 150 years. There has also been many myths and hoaxes about the Sasquatch.

URL: http://library.thinkquest.org/05aug/00110/bigfootframeset.htm

Science/Technology Current Event The American Heart Association funded the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) in the amount of 50,000 dollars. The University of Alabama at Birmingham is in the process of making maybe the best educational Wii game ever! Students James McKee, Jack Wimbish, Haisam Islam, and Zach Clark (all seniors at UAB) along with faculty advisers Greg Welcott, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine, and Jack Rogers, PhD, started working on this Wii game seven months ago. So what is this Wii game all about? Well... this Wii game teaches you the correct procedure of demonstrating CPR with the help of the wireless technology of a Wii remote. After seeing the prototype, the American Heart Association decided to fund The University of Alabama at Birmingham 50,00 dollars.

This is a one-of-a-kind-game that is supported by a major company. This was very suprising to me when I found this out.The American Heart Association will also support Wii Fit and Wii resorts.This proves that the American Heart Association lets the Wii lovers know that this is a legitimate educational game. This sounds like fun; I am very eager to play.

http://www.digitaltrends.com/gaming/nintendo-wii-and-american-heart-association-teaming-up/

Political Current Event Barack Obama has officially delayed or at least temporarily the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The reason of this is because of the expansion of offshore drilling. He is also stopping oil exploration in Alaska. Obama is extending moratorium on permits to drill new deepwater wells for six months. The president has released a presidential commission's safety review for offshore drilling. This decision will cause more conflict and many more delays on how to solve the problem on the oil spill.

This decision will let the experts safely explore the oil spill in the Summer. Obama is due to take questions in front of the press on this decision on Thursday. Many senators feel very strongly about this decision and the are all frustrated. This decision is mainly to make this oil spill to never happen again. The oil spill is covering some very big oceanic land and is damaging quite a bit of marine life.

URL: http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/05/27/obama.drilling.moratorium/index.html Social Awareness Haiti has progressed a lot since the January earthquake. The main reason for this is that there has been a lot of global assistance. Haiti will have to prepare for the upcoming hurricane season in 2010. Now workers are agreeing to a long-term assistance plan. A worker says that Haiti is doing "B" work but not bad at all.

Remember, all this recovery has come in only six months. Now some people have overcome the fear of sleeping alone, in their house, in the dark. The government has not been very efficient lately some Haitians have said. Many Haitians are not determined to build a strong house. That is just a waste of money a reporter says. Everybody including me is hoping for Haiti to eventually come strong, hopeful, and determined in the next couple of years.

URL: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/chris-herlinger/haiti-six-months-later-ai_b_597132.html

How Stuff Works A neon light is basically a glass tube. These tubes are bent in all different shapes and sizes. All neon lights are made up fluorescent lights. There are many gases behind the narrow glass tube. There are also a lot atoms in the fluorescent lights.

The light that conducts the fluorescent light is the light that gives off from the phosphor. The phosphor coats the tube. A phosphor can only accept energy from one form. The phosphor fluoresces when energized. This sounds very interesting!

URL: http://home.howstuffworks.com/question293.htm