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The Young Entrepeneur Fair is over… It was fun, I sold out except for two handwarmers that broke open, Charlie and I sold out at the same time! I ended up having 28 handwarmers. Charlie and I sold out in the first 45 minutes of the fair. Some of Robroad and Courtenay Elementary came. The fair started at 9:00. Robroad came at 9:30 and stayed until 10:00. Courtenay came at 10:00 and left at 10:30. I feel kinda bad for Courtenay Elementary, by the time they got here, almost all of the products were sold out.

In case you didn’t know, the Young Entrepreneur Program is a program designed to teach kids how to run a successful business. They will be taught about making change, costs to make their product, price to charge and floats (money to make change with). Determination is a essential trait in running a business, you have to keep working on marketing and improving your product. Creativity is also useful,but not necessarily essential. You might for example be a retail business, where you sell different companies products.

As an adult, I don’t think I will run my own business. One, it is extremely stressful. Two, you have to pay for the salaries of your workers and three, if you don’t pay them, they will get really angry. I would rather be a worker for a company.

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Look above for a sample handwarmer! I am making handwarmers for my school’s Young Entrepeneur fair. In this fair, Grade 6′s make products to sell at the fair. The point of this program is to teach kids about making a business. I am in Grade 7 but I get to make a product because I am in a 6-7 split. I would appreciate if you gave me feedback by filling out the survey below!

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Warning: If your head hurts from talking about alternate dimensions, stop reading.

What do you think black holes are? Do you think they mercilessly destroy everything? Or do you think they are doors to another dimension? No one really knows, that’s because nothing has ever returned from a black hole. Not even light. Personally, I don’t know. There is lots of evidence of them destroying stuff, but is the stuff “destroyed” really destroyed? Or is it transported to an alternate reality? Hmm… How does light get pulled in? How does light, which doesn’t have substance, get sucked in? How does something get destroyed completely and utterly? Does it get turned into energy to “feed” the black hole? If so, we could utilize that power source by throwing garbage into it and using the energy. Also, if the stuff goes to another dimension, where does it come out of? It can’t come out of another black hole because it would just be sucked in again.

What do you think?

Edited by: Jack and Charlie

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Our class is going to have a baby visit! His name is Elliot. He is only two months old. Do you know what the Roots Of Empathy program is? The ROE program (Roots of Empathy) is a program designed to increase empathy in children and reduce aggression towards others. I’ve done it before, it was a quite a few years back in Grade One or Two. In the program, a baby comes in with his/her mother and the class sings a few songs and observes the babies reactions.

Empathy is the understanding of others. One thing about this is that young babies cannot see clearly farther than 20 centimetres in front of them. They are also susceptible to germs so we can’t touch him. Today we had a “pre-visit” where we learned about babies and what they can do early on. To test us, we had for example a question saying “babies need to be touched for healthy development” we had two cards, one saying “True” the other “False” we choose a card to hold up for each question.

Image: Happy by Daniel*1977

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Have you heard of Tribes Ascend? No? *Gasp* How is that possible! Tribes Ascend is still in Beta but it looks really, really cool! It is an FPS based around momentum and “skiing”. There are two tribes, Diamond Sword and Blood Eagle. There are currently 15 classes to play. They can be unlocked by either paying money or playing the game for an unspecified amount of time. You can pre-order for 29.99. The pre-order includes: 3000 Tribes gold, 30 day booster, lifetime VIP status and access to the Beta. I’m thinking of getting it!

I don’t know much else right now but will keep you informed!

Edited By: Charlie and Jack

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Hey guys! I’m playing Terraria again! I’m playing it because a HUGE update is coming out today apparently. There will be 26 new monsters, 222 new items, 21 armor sets, backgrounds, 4 new bosses and more! I think… It looks EPIC! I used to have hellstone armor but then my dad wiped our computers memory because it had 300 mb of data left. So I’m starting over.

I can’t wait!

Edited By: Jack and Charlie

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Do you know about paradox? The brain boggling puzzles?

Like if you were dreaming, and in the dream you are watching yourself dreaming the dream where your watching your self dream the dream where your watching yourself dream the dream where your watching yourself dream?

Here are some fun paradoxes.

What if you put a camera behind you while watching a screen that displays what the camera sees and the camera sees the screen displaying what the camera sees.

Two mirrors are facing eachother, one reflects the other, which is reflecting the other reflecting the other which is reflecting the other…

Do you know any paradoxes?

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My mom, my brother,  and I filmed my cat in a bumblebee suit. Then we uploaded it to YouTube.

I was really, really surprised how many views it got. It got 29 000 views in 11 days! YouTube even offered a partnership with us! They said they would pay us $2.50 every 1000 views if we put advertisements on the video. We agreed but they haven’t gotten back to us yet. It has around 60 000 views now!

The suit is black and yellow with ear holes on the head and a bright yellow pompom on top. It has two Velcro straps to secure the kitteh and two yellow wings on the back. My cat’s name is Lynx, but I always call him Mr. Wynx. :p

When we were putting it on him he struggled a lot but we eventually got it on him, once we got it on though he gave us a suffering look then when he saw there was no pity in our eyes he took it philosophically.

The video  got on MSN news, Catsperella (which is a cat fashion site) and about ten other sites. It was also on MTV! Take a look and tell me what you think!

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Hey guys, I am asking your opinions on whether or not I should continue doing Minecraft posts now that there are not going to be any updates. Should I give up on Minecraft posts? Or should I show you screenshots of my world and what I am doing?

Please comment and tell me what you think, Max

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Hey guys, lately I’ve been playing a game called Team Fortress 2. It is a FPS (First Person Shooter) made by Valve and included in the Orange Box game set.

Team Fortress 2 is about two companies that secretly control every government on the planet and are fighting for dominance. The first team is RED which stands for Reliable Excavation & Demolition. The second team is BLU which stands for Builders League United. Anyways, BLU is always the attacking side and RED always defends.

At first TF (Team Fortress) aimed to be as realistic as possible but in 2008 after a year from the release of Team Fortress 2, Valve decided to make the characters more cartoon like. Then Valve added 9 different classes for you to be.

The Offense Classes

There are three offense classes found in TF2, the Scout, the Soldier and the Pyro.

The Scout is a cocky teenager from Boston and enjoys antagonizing his foes. He has a shotgun for close range, a pistol or a variety of drinks (including milk) as a secondary and numerous bats as a melee. He runs the fastest out of all the classes and can double or triple jump depending on the bat he carries. Although, he is has a very low health of 125.

Next is the Soldier, the Soldier is a stereotypical American General and carries a rocket launcher as a primary. As a secondary he has a shotgun or various kinds of military bugles. As a melee he has a shovel or a pickax but can also carry a sword. He has the third/second highest health in the game with 200 health.

The last offense class is the Pyro. He/she is of unknown gender and carries a flamethrower as a primary, hence the name Pyro. As a secondary the Pyro carries a shotgun or a flare gun. As a melee the Pyro carries a variety of things from fire axes to garden rakes to sledgehammers. He/she has a medium amount of health with 175.

Defense

There are again, three defensive classes found in TF2. The Demoman, the Heavy and the Engineer.

The Demoman is a “black Scottish Cyclops”. He is called this because he is black, he is from Scotland and he has one eye, the other got blown out while the Demoman was fiddling with explosives. He is a master at indirect combat. For a Primary he has a Grenade Launcher, for a Secondary he has a Sticky Bomb Launcher or a shield and he has a bottle or numerous swords for a melee. He has 175 health normally but can have 200 with the help of an item.

The Heavy is a Russian with the muscular build of a bear. He would look very formidable except for the fact he has disproportionately small legs. For a Primary he has a huge minigun, he commonly refers to it as “Sasha”. For a secondary he either has a shotgun or a sandwich. As a melee weapon he uses his massive fists. He has the most health in the game, with 300 health.

The last defensive class is the Engineer. He is from Texas USA. For a Primary he has a shotgun. For a Secondary he has a pistol or a remote control. For a melee he uses a wrench. He is an essential defensive class, as he can build automated sentry guns, teleporters and ammo and health dispensers. He has 125 health.

Support

There are three support classes in TF2. The Medic, the Spy and the Sniper.

The Medic is a medical student from Germany, he likes maiming his enemies more than healing his teammates, but he says “If I heal them, they can kill people!”. He is essential in offense and defense, as he can “Ubercharge” his teammates so they are immune to damage or have a 100% chance of crits. He has a Syringe Gun as a Primary and has his Ubergun as a secondary. He uses an amputating saw as a melee. The Ubergun can also buff teammates to 150% health! This makes it so if a Medic buffs a heavy, the heavy will have 450 health! He has 150 health.

The spy is a suave Frenchman that is an expert at espionage. He can turn invisible, diguise as enemies, sap enemy sentries and instantly kill enemies by stabbing them in the back with his knife. He uses a revolver to pick off weak targets. He has 125 health but his health can get decreased to 60 from a certain type of knife.

The Sniper predictably, has a sniper rifle. He is from Australia and has trouble convincing his parents to let him snipe from the house. If you headshot someone, it multiplies the damage of that shot by 3! You can charge up your shots by remaining zoomed in. If you charge a shot up fully and headshot someone it does 450 damage! He has 125 health.

What are your opinions on TF2?

Edited By: Jared and Jack

Image Credit To: Crypticommonicon

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