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EETimes.com - The blind shall see, the deaf shall hear
I'm doing a Science Report for school about Miracles, and the last section of the report is going to be Medicine Expanding into Miracles. This article was introduced to me by my librarian Mrs. Tower! Thank you sooo much Mrs. Tower! Nueral Implants are helping the blind see and the deaf hear, which have been miracles in the Bible multiple times.
Enjoy! Back to my report
By: C
Saturday, October 31, 2009
Random Dozen
Another Random Dozen from 2nd Cup of Coffee
1. Tell me something about your favorite teacher. She has two kids, she lives down the hall from me, and she loves me very much. . . If you haven’t figured it out she’s my mother
2. Tell me about one pivotal moment in your life. Ummm I don’t know!
3. About favorite colors--a lot of people will ask you what it is, but I want to know why it is. What feeling or memory does it evoke? Ummm I think mine is Blue or Pink, but I don’t know the feeling.
4. What's a sure sign that you're getting older? I’m tired!!!
5. Please don't sermonize, but Halloween--is it a yes or no for you? Yes
6. What's your favorite musical? Rent (Currently)
7. Are you more of a city mouse or country mouse? Both. . . Part of me wants to be in the city the other part loves the country
8. Did you know that it is possible, for a small fee, to name a real star after someone? (It's true! Google it!) If someone were to name a star for you, would you appreciate it for its whimsy and romance, or would you say, "Are you kidding me? For $19.95 we could have gone to the movie and actually bought popcorn." It would be nice to have a star named after me, but I would say he took it from the Magical School Bus
This question comes from Paula at His Ways Are Not Our Ways.
9. What's the craziest thing you've ever been doing and texted during it? I only thought of this b/c I was about to try to text during my walking video but I didn't. Nothing considering I don’t own a cell phone yet.
10. "It's not a party unless _______." There is good music
11. When you're stuck in traffic or a waiting room, what do you do to pass the time? PS: There are no magazines available. Listen to my music, or make a friendship bracelet
12. If you weren't yourself, would you be friends with you? Yes
1. Tell me something about your favorite teacher. She has two kids, she lives down the hall from me, and she loves me very much. . . If you haven’t figured it out she’s my mother
2. Tell me about one pivotal moment in your life. Ummm I don’t know!
3. About favorite colors--a lot of people will ask you what it is, but I want to know why it is. What feeling or memory does it evoke? Ummm I think mine is Blue or Pink, but I don’t know the feeling.
4. What's a sure sign that you're getting older? I’m tired!!!
5. Please don't sermonize, but Halloween--is it a yes or no for you? Yes
6. What's your favorite musical? Rent (Currently)
7. Are you more of a city mouse or country mouse? Both. . . Part of me wants to be in the city the other part loves the country
8. Did you know that it is possible, for a small fee, to name a real star after someone? (It's true! Google it!) If someone were to name a star for you, would you appreciate it for its whimsy and romance, or would you say, "Are you kidding me? For $19.95 we could have gone to the movie and actually bought popcorn." It would be nice to have a star named after me, but I would say he took it from the Magical School Bus
This question comes from Paula at His Ways Are Not Our Ways.
9. What's the craziest thing you've ever been doing and texted during it? I only thought of this b/c I was about to try to text during my walking video but I didn't. Nothing considering I don’t own a cell phone yet.
10. "It's not a party unless _______." There is good music
11. When you're stuck in traffic or a waiting room, what do you do to pass the time? PS: There are no magazines available. Listen to my music, or make a friendship bracelet
12. If you weren't yourself, would you be friends with you? Yes
Happy Halloween!!!
Happy Halloween!!!
As you all know today is Halloween and since I am a teenager, most of us all dress up, but of course with moving and everything I’ve forgotten about Halloween. So today I’ll go dig through my closet, to see what I can throw together in about 10 hours. So far I’ve can pull together a Girl Scout
a Waitress, or an American Idol Contestant with a Golden Ticket.
What are you going to be for Halloween?
By: C
Friday, October 23, 2009
Funraising Ideas!
As you guys know, my library has been going under some budget cuts, and to fill in the gap from the budget cuts, we have been doing a lot of fundraising. So to help them out, I had to use my resources wisely and use my contacts. My Uncle works at Uno’s and sells Pampered Chef, two things that can fundraise. Pampered Chef would be a wonderful Catalog party since we don’t have the room for a demonstration, and Uno’s has a dough raiser, which you choose a night for your organization, hand out vouchers, and everyone who shows up on that night, part of the proceeds will go towards your organization.
Check into some of local fundraisers that can help out an organization that you are a part of.
Sincerely,
C
Check into some of local fundraisers that can help out an organization that you are a part of.
Sincerely,
C
Thursday, October 22, 2009
Young Adult Books
The Library that I volunteer for is having budget cuts; we just recently met the gap that the town left us with. I’m the only young adult who volunteers . . . Let me fix that sentence I am the only volunteer at this library, and the director is convinced that she cannot pick out good Young Adult (YA) books for the YA section, so she has told me that if I get her a list of books that appeal to me, she will go through it and buy them, so yesterday when I was volunteering she handed me two magazines Library Journal and Publisher’s Weekly, I was instructed to read the reviews and to circle the books that I liked. Once I got home from the library, I immediately went to Barnes and Noble online to see what bestsellers they had, so far I have a couple titles, and this is where you come in. If you have/know of any good books for Young Adults let me know, I will gladly pass it on to the director, and you never know your book might be the newest “new” book in the library.
Sincerely,
C
Sincerely,
C
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
What's Your Opinion?
I have to ask; recently President Obama won the Noble Peace Prize for thinking about peace (thinking no doing). How do you feel on this issue? Let me know your opinion.
How to Write a Novel (or Not to)
Six months ago, I started writing, I didn’t expect what I was writing would actually turn into something that is something like a novel. One of the reasons that I started writing was because of the move that I was going through. My family and I moved from my small little hometown in Connecticut, into a smaller town in Massachusetts. During the move and selling the house, I didn’t want to move, I didn’t even want to think about moving. To express my feelings, and not blowing up at my mother I started writing, within the past six months I have writing over 136 pages in this book. It mainly just started from my thinking ‘hey wouldn’t it be a cool idea to write a novel?’ Don’t get me wrong it is a cool idea, but there is a lot of work that goes into it. I’ve broken my novel up into three parts, and it’s more of a fictitious memoir, then a novel.
Within the three sections (50 pages at minimum) the main character Caelyn goes from hating moving, hating the new town, into loving the new town, and she becomes glad that she moved. I’ve only finished two parts of the story, and I’m working on the last section, but my mom decided that we should go through some sentence structure and paragraphs, Yay! (Not really). I have to admit that Istink no suck at spelling and language arts as a whole; it’s always been my downfall even in 1st and 2nd grade. If it wasn’t for spell check right now, you might be looking at some words and thinking ‘what is this girl on?!’ Needless to say, the editing of my novel is harder than I thought, mom and I are going through about 112 pages for only the two finished sections, and then we have about another 50 pages to complete after I finish the last section. I highly recommend when writing a story know sentence structure, and how to spell . . . It helps . . . A lot!
Now I’m not a famous writer who’s blogging just for the heck of it, but I will give some of those aspiring writers out there some tips, that I have learned throughout the past six months.
1. Know Sentence Structure (It helps!)
2. Write when you have muse, I’ve had days that I’ve written for hours on end, and other where I just can’t think of one paragraph to write.
3. Write in paragraphs, not sentences, you want the story to flow, so instead of writing ‘The Cat ate. The Cat went outside’, write ‘The fat black cat, sat at his window and ate his food. Once he was done he hopped down with a loud ‘thud’ and went outside.’ Which one do you like better?
4. There will be a lot of edits, editing isn’t a onetime deal, you may need to go over it 6 or 7 times, before you even send it into an editor
5. Set yourself a Goal (I only know this from Girl Scouts), for example I have to make a SMART Goal for my Gold Award in Girl Scouts, and I incorporated my story into one of the SMART Goals, SMART Goal: By January 1st 2010 I will have finished the half of the last part in my novel, by writing at least 3 pages a day to get half way through the last part of my novel so that I can get one step closer to revising it and hopefully publishing it. The SMART Goal is Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic, and Timey
6. Have a rough draft of your story, before you go into writing it, unlike me who didn’t really think about it until my mom asked me. For example my Novel is called Moving as a Teenager;;My Life;;Told By Me, it is broken into three 50 page sections Section One: Connecticut-CT is about Caelyn learning she is moving, and absolutely hates it! Section Two: Connecticut to . . . To. . To. . . –CT to. . .to . . To . . . is about Caelyn living in MA, but wanting her life in CT to be there more, she becomes a bitch to her family, and says that she hates it here. Section Three: Massachusetts- MA is when Caelyn learns that MA isn’t that bad, she finds things in her life that make her realize that she has two lives, one in CT, and one in MA, but she likes the MA one better.
7. When you are given critiques, don’t get upset, they’re there to help you! I only know this from personal knowledge, I have a way of getting worked up when people critique me or something that I have accomplished
8. Ignore that Word Count! If you are writing and just can’t stop, ignore the word count, don’t look at the word count until you are done for the day, or done with the piece that you have written, for me all my sections are roughly over 50 pages, I didn’t look at the section CT until around 60/70 pages in.
9. You can do it! No matter what people say you can do it! Don’t let them stop you, just keep on doing it, eventually your writing will be finished, and you can show the doubters that look you finished it despite what they said! Quote to help: “There’s always going to be another mountain I’m always going to want to make it move Always going to be an uphill battle, Sometimes I'm going to have to lose,”
10. Focus, for me focus comes with music, when I sit down and plan to write me story for at least an hour, I turn on the local radio station, or open up I-tunes.
11. To make your story more interesting add in little things from your hometown. For example my hometown has a coffee shop called Perk on Main, I featured Perk On Main (with permission from the owner) in my story, Perk became the place where Caelyn goes to hang out.
12. Go for the Gold! You might finish editing and everything, and think ‘oh well, it’s not that good.’, don’t let it take space up in your computer, bring it to an editor, send it to a publisher, you never know your book just might be what that one publisher is looking for!
I hope that if you’re writing a story that you continue, if you’re not writing one you might want to, or if you’re publishing one that these hints might have helped, but just remember “There’s always going to be another mountain”, so don’t give up.
By: C
P.S. there are 1,141 words in this post P:
Within the three sections (50 pages at minimum) the main character Caelyn goes from hating moving, hating the new town, into loving the new town, and she becomes glad that she moved. I’ve only finished two parts of the story, and I’m working on the last section, but my mom decided that we should go through some sentence structure and paragraphs, Yay! (Not really). I have to admit that I
Now I’m not a famous writer who’s blogging just for the heck of it, but I will give some of those aspiring writers out there some tips, that I have learned throughout the past six months.
1. Know Sentence Structure (It helps!)
2. Write when you have muse, I’ve had days that I’ve written for hours on end, and other where I just can’t think of one paragraph to write.
3. Write in paragraphs, not sentences, you want the story to flow, so instead of writing ‘The Cat ate. The Cat went outside’, write ‘The fat black cat, sat at his window and ate his food. Once he was done he hopped down with a loud ‘thud’ and went outside.’ Which one do you like better?
4. There will be a lot of edits, editing isn’t a onetime deal, you may need to go over it 6 or 7 times, before you even send it into an editor
5. Set yourself a Goal (I only know this from Girl Scouts), for example I have to make a SMART Goal for my Gold Award in Girl Scouts, and I incorporated my story into one of the SMART Goals, SMART Goal: By January 1st 2010 I will have finished the half of the last part in my novel, by writing at least 3 pages a day to get half way through the last part of my novel so that I can get one step closer to revising it and hopefully publishing it. The SMART Goal is Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic, and Timey
6. Have a rough draft of your story, before you go into writing it, unlike me who didn’t really think about it until my mom asked me. For example my Novel is called Moving as a Teenager;;My Life;;Told By Me, it is broken into three 50 page sections Section One: Connecticut-CT is about Caelyn learning she is moving, and absolutely hates it! Section Two: Connecticut to . . . To. . To. . . –CT to. . .to . . To . . . is about Caelyn living in MA, but wanting her life in CT to be there more, she becomes a bitch to her family, and says that she hates it here. Section Three: Massachusetts- MA is when Caelyn learns that MA isn’t that bad, she finds things in her life that make her realize that she has two lives, one in CT, and one in MA, but she likes the MA one better.
7. When you are given critiques, don’t get upset, they’re there to help you! I only know this from personal knowledge, I have a way of getting worked up when people critique me or something that I have accomplished
8. Ignore that Word Count! If you are writing and just can’t stop, ignore the word count, don’t look at the word count until you are done for the day, or done with the piece that you have written, for me all my sections are roughly over 50 pages, I didn’t look at the section CT until around 60/70 pages in.
9. You can do it! No matter what people say you can do it! Don’t let them stop you, just keep on doing it, eventually your writing will be finished, and you can show the doubters that look you finished it despite what they said! Quote to help: “There’s always going to be another mountain I’m always going to want to make it move Always going to be an uphill battle, Sometimes I'm going to have to lose,”
10. Focus, for me focus comes with music, when I sit down and plan to write me story for at least an hour, I turn on the local radio station, or open up I-tunes.
11. To make your story more interesting add in little things from your hometown. For example my hometown has a coffee shop called Perk on Main, I featured Perk On Main (with permission from the owner) in my story, Perk became the place where Caelyn goes to hang out.
12. Go for the Gold! You might finish editing and everything, and think ‘oh well, it’s not that good.’, don’t let it take space up in your computer, bring it to an editor, send it to a publisher, you never know your book just might be what that one publisher is looking for!
I hope that if you’re writing a story that you continue, if you’re not writing one you might want to, or if you’re publishing one that these hints might have helped, but just remember “There’s always going to be another mountain”, so don’t give up.
By: C
P.S. there are 1,141 words in this post P:
Random Dozen!
Today, my mom found a Random Dozen on 2nd Cup of Coffee. My mom posted it on her blog, Just Call Me Woman, and I found it intresting, so I'll post it on here.
1.Candy corn: Your thoughts? It’s amazing!
2. Briefly, what was the first conversation you ever had with your spouse? (or best friend, if you're not married.) (Or someone significant, like your librarian.) ummm. . .Best Friend I don’t remember (sorry Em), but my new librarian, would be when we moved into the town, and I begged my mother to drive me to the library, I asked the librarian if I could Volunteer, and let’s just say teenage volunteers in our town aren’t what they used to be in CT.
3. Could you ever become a vegetarian? I don’t think so, I like meat a little too much.
4. Have you ever dressed up your pet in a costume? No, but I have thought about it.
5. Name something about childhood that you miss (like Clark Bars, Teaberry Gum, Malibu Barbie, cracking fake eggs on people's heads with your fist and "It's the Great Pumpkin" airing only once a year).
I’m still in my childhood! But I would put down . . . Being a cute little Girl Scout :-p
6. Have you ever won a trophy? If not, what do you deserve a trophy for? The most recent trophy would be my Marksmanship 4th class, in Rifle.
7. When do you think is the appropriate time to begin playing Christmas music each year? On December 25th ONLY!
8. What's your favorite board game? Monopoly
9. How do you feel about surprises (receiving, not giving)? I love them!
10. Is it easy for you to say, "I'm sorry?" Yes a little too easy.
11. What is your favorite candle scent? Pumpkin Pie
12. October is traditionally "open house" time in public schools. If you had a literal open house in your home (like a reception) what light snacks would you serve visitors and what would you show them (as in art projects, graded papers) that would uniquely represent you? I would serve. . .Hot Apple Cider and what would I show? Hmmmm Books, Horses, Books, and Music.
1.Candy corn: Your thoughts? It’s amazing!
2. Briefly, what was the first conversation you ever had with your spouse? (or best friend, if you're not married.) (Or someone significant, like your librarian.) ummm. . .Best Friend I don’t remember (sorry Em), but my new librarian, would be when we moved into the town, and I begged my mother to drive me to the library, I asked the librarian if I could Volunteer, and let’s just say teenage volunteers in our town aren’t what they used to be in CT.
3. Could you ever become a vegetarian? I don’t think so, I like meat a little too much.
4. Have you ever dressed up your pet in a costume? No, but I have thought about it.
5. Name something about childhood that you miss (like Clark Bars, Teaberry Gum, Malibu Barbie, cracking fake eggs on people's heads with your fist and "It's the Great Pumpkin" airing only once a year).
I’m still in my childhood! But I would put down . . . Being a cute little Girl Scout :-p
6. Have you ever won a trophy? If not, what do you deserve a trophy for? The most recent trophy would be my Marksmanship 4th class, in Rifle.
7. When do you think is the appropriate time to begin playing Christmas music each year? On December 25th ONLY!
8. What's your favorite board game? Monopoly
9. How do you feel about surprises (receiving, not giving)? I love them!
10. Is it easy for you to say, "I'm sorry?" Yes a little too easy.
11. What is your favorite candle scent? Pumpkin Pie
12. October is traditionally "open house" time in public schools. If you had a literal open house in your home (like a reception) what light snacks would you serve visitors and what would you show them (as in art projects, graded papers) that would uniquely represent you? I would serve. . .Hot Apple Cider and what would I show? Hmmmm Books, Horses, Books, and Music.
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