The year after high school

I want to go to Shasta college after high school because it has some of the classes I want to take. such as I want to work outside like for the fish and game or in waterworks like my uncle, he drives around and checks the water level and whats in it and stuff. One of my dads friends is an master water technician and he earns a lot of money and he enjoys his work, he works outside hes not stuck to a computer in an air conditioned office. Another reason I want to go to Shasta college is because I don't have a definite idea on what i want to be so like you said I wont have to fork over my life savings to change majors. Another thing I like is welding so I may go in to that field and Shasta has the opportunity to do so. I'm close to home and to family and friends too. Though I may transfer over to Humboldt for like the fish and game thing, but over there I'll also be close to family my dad's side of the family is over there and also in Virgina but I'm not going go to Virgina....way to far away. I worked at Whiskeytown over the summer and I would love to get hired back, the reason I don't work there any more is it was a program and it was a seasonal job. So that would help me pay for the college tuition. As far as I know am the only one that Wayne (my boss) said that he would hire me back if he could. So I'll try to get a regular job there. "If you love your job then it isn't a job." and I loved my job. so that fact that I make a career out of something I love then I'll stick with it for the rest of my life.

To spend is to tax, wall streets $700 billion bail out

To spend is to tax, as capitalist deity Milton Friedman is said to have put it.
To see how good the government thinks the credit risks are, the Federal Reserve is charging AIG (until last week a Dow component) an interest rate of three-month LIBOR plus 8.5 percent—about 11.4 percent. That's a lower rate than many credit-card customers pay, but a higher rate than most junk-rated companies pay. But it's almost certain that all these bailouts will cost taxpayers tens of billions, possibly hundreds of billions, of dollars. so how do the federals think we are going to pay this major bail out for some failing companies. "I'd love to hear what former Lehman Brothers CEO Richard Fuld, or President Bush (who continues to cower behind Paulson's large frame) or Goldman SachsCEO Lloyd Blankfein and Morgan Stanley CEO John Mack, whose butts were just saved, has to propose." says Daniel Gross of Newsweek. Possibility would be to make the bailed out companies self-insure against their own incompetence, the way banks have done in the past with the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. and of course Congress should abolish the exemption that lets private equity and hedge-fund managers to pay low capital-gains tax rates for the money they earn managing other people's money. The fact that they had to be helped because of their own incompetence is their fault. So i think that we should help get them back on their feet but not give them all the money they need, because who is going to pay for this...we will. The last i checked the United States was nine trillion dollars in dept to the chinese.

fighting binge drinking

The current drinking age in the U.S. is 21 but in Germany is 18 and they are having problems with binge drinking. Some colleges in the U.S. are trying to crack down on drinking, some are having the janitors stop cleaning up the mess the students make and have the students clean up after them selves. and hopefully the students will find out that a kid with projectile vomit is not a nice thing to see. it has been proven that the "forbidden fruit" tastes better to a 19 year old but 15 year old are drinking more and more. but in colleges the drinking is not just limited to the elite colleges most state colleges have a problem. in Germany the drinking age thing is being hassled by mothers against drunk driving, they are trying to get the age back up to 21. John McCardle, the former president of Middlebury College, stated "Choose Responsibility" movement a couple of years ago, argues that other factors in the high way deaths that the mothers against drunk driving are trying to solve that some are from the reckless driving and from the not using of seat belts. in the past it seemed like it was pride to be able to hold your liquor but now it seems like they try and expel it. women with lower tolerances are even quicker to get sick. i think that if they do lower the drinking age to 18 more students will result in drinking. and things could go bad very quickly. i think more teen pregnancies will happen along with rise in STDs.

The price of our addiction

In this article that was written in '06, it states that we need to find an alternate energy, are we close to having a solid alternative energy source, what should we do about it, have you and your family changed about about driving habits what, about heating, and what i see as an alternative fuel source.
we are paying three to four dollars for a gallon of fuel for our vehicles, which is a long cry from the 25cents that my grandad complained about when he was a kid. i think that we are somewhat close to having a alternative energy source but not close to mass production, such as fuel cells in cars the fuel cell of today are large and bulky to place effectively in a car. we should try and conserve oil for other things...and focus on finding and using a new fuel like hydrogen, fuel cells, ethanol. i have driven less and driven to less places since my truck could no longer be filled for 20 bucks. my parents drive trucks that run on diesel so the price is really hurting them. and it the middle of summer who uses heat?? but i geuss in the winter we use it but we use a wood fireplace. i think that we should use ethonol as a fuel source.

The most expensive sience experiment

The £5bn machine is for one thing, to find out if there is such a thing as dark matter. Some say when they start it up and collide the protons that they will create a new black hole and it will destroy the earth and all that is on it. The engineers have not yet said when they will initiate the "big bang" that they have spent 13 years building up to. The LHC is the most complicated and ambitious experiment ever built, they have been plagued by equipment failure, cost over runs, and construction failure. The start up date is two years late. The LHC should answer one very simple question: What is mass? i learned in sience class that mass is how things take up space. I think that it is kind of worth it, enough to find out more information about space and its "ways". but not enough to build something that can destroy us. well we did build the atom bomb and that could of destroyed us, but that was between countries this atom smasher is known world wide. i think it would have been better if they could have tested in on a smaller scale, or build a machine that has more than one purpose like this one does. to find out what atoms are made of and if there is really dark matter. during the winter the LHC will be shut down and fine tuned for the collisions at full energy. Eventually, two proton beams will be shot in opposite directions around the LHC at close to the speed of light, completing about 11,000 laps each second. At selected points the beams will cross paths, smashing together near four massive "detectors" that monitor the collisions for interesting events. Scientists are hoping that new sub-atomic particles will emerge, revealing fundamental insights into the nature of the cosmos.

Sir Galahad

Sir Galahad is one of the nights in King Arthur's knights of the round table and is Lancelot's son. Galahad is knighted by his father then he is brought to Camelot, when he gets to Camelot he walks over to the Round Table and takes his seat at the Siege Perilous. This place had been kept empty for the one person who would complete the quest of the Holy Grail. If anyone else sat there, it would have proved to be immediately fatal. Sir Galahad survives the event, witnessed by King Arthur and his knights. King Arthur asks the young Galahad to take a test which is pulling a sword from a stone. This he finishes with ease, and King Arthur swiftly proclaims Sir Galahad to be the greatest knight in the world. He is immediately invited to join the Order of the Round Table. according to Merlin that says that Galahad would be greater than his father in valor and be successful in his search for the Holy Grail. Sir Galahad seems as if he is inhuman. He defeats rival knights without effort, talks little to his fellow knights, and leads his companions to the Grail with a relentless determination. Of the three knights(Bors, Perceval, and Galahad) Galahad is the only one to complete the quest for the holy grail When he does, he is taken up into heaven like the biblical patriarch Enoch or the prophet Elijah, leaving his companions and friends behind.

Galahad is associated with a white shield with a vermilion cross, the very same emblem given to the Templars by Pope Eugene III.

Heros

One of my heroes in my life is my dad, he has guided my in my hard times and in some not so hard times. he has always been there for me when when i call. Another thing he has taught me in life is to step quietly in the woods and not to break sticks when you step on them. To me that has more meaning than some, one way i look at it is to be careful when things are not looking so good or when things are tough in things such as a relationship. The 'not break sticks' is to me is like don't step on someones toes, or push someones buttons when their in a bad mood or the twos of yours relationship is rocky.



Another of my heroes in my life is my grandad on my mothers side. Ive always called him Papa. He also has guided me in hard times like my dad, and I've done the same for him. Even though him and I are not blood related I am so much like him. Its creepy sometimes, both of us have the same sense of humor and enjoy making jokes.(you can ask my friends if you don't bevlive me.) Him and i love going places and reading, he gave me a book that is three hundred somthing pages long and i would have finished it in a day but my mom made me go to bed. Iv done that a few times with books he's given me.


The last of my heroes in my life is my grandad on my dads side. I've always called him either Lincon or Dad. Lincon has had nine kids and little money so when they went out for food and brought it home it didnt last long. My Father was the third to the last born and he can tell great storys about living with 8 other brothers and sisters. My Father told me one where lincon went and got a quart of ice cream and all the kids wanted some so he left the ice cream in the package and got a long knife and cut the ice cream and the container in to nine pices for the kids to have. Lincon use to be a logger out in the woods, hes been hurt many times out in the woods but hes always gotten up and "walked away". My dad and a few of the other brothers used to help lincon out in the woods, they used to run and get a new chain for a chain saw or gas or they would help him move logs and all they would earn for a days labor is the change lincon had in his pocket. But they enjoyed the work and they kept coming back to help their dad. Lincon is one tough guy to.

Grendel

Beowolf

The things Beowolf learns in his fights with Grendel and Grendels mother are things that will earn him fame for the rest of his life and in the story of his conquests. He learns that weapons help but are some times not useable. Like in his fight with grendels mother, the sword of old he brings with him to do battle is useless and breaks but he finds a sword on a wall made by people from the past that had made is special by adding spells on it to make it stronger than a normal blad would have been. I think that him finding and using the sword he finds is symbolic some how but i do not know how.