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Pyro is late. Ryu is unfazed.
"He's on his way," says Ryu. "He'll be here in a minute."
"Pyro" isn't a government name (duh). Neither is "Ryu." Both men are now approaching their mid-twenties, and the further away they get from their teenage days, the further away they get from using anything but their aliases to identify themselves.
Pyro and Ryu form a music-production duo called Sound M.O.B. They've existed as such for nearly the last decade, mostly as local guys accomplishing admirably local things. Currently, though, their song "Drank in My Cup," a saucy, hypersexy, catchy aggregate of mechanized thumps and machismo that rapper Kirko Bangz has dry-humped to national fame, is being played to no end across the country. And they're feeling pretty good about that.
Ryu is sitting inside a homemade studio attached to his parents' home in north Houston. Outside, a man with no shirt pushes a lawn mower down the middle of the road.
Tim Seriki, part of the group's management team, opens the door. He's there to film the recording session for a documentary being shot about Sound M.O.B.
"Where's Pyro?" he asks.
"He's on his way," says Ryu. "He'll be here in a minute."
Pyro and Ryu met in high school through a mutual acquaintance, a local rapper named Krucial who now operates as one of the house rappers under the Sound M.O.B. umbrella. The three other acts are another rapper, Cool i10 Jones, and R&B artists Prince Cannon and Ashley Williams. Sound M.O.B. is trying to grow a brand.
Pyro walks in.
He and Ryu are different in obvious ways. Ryu is Latino, Pyro is black. Ryu's family has a musical legacy that extends back at least three generations, rooted firmly in Tejano (Ryu actually plays the accordion); Pyro is the first of his to pursue music. But the two are alike in the most important way.
"When I met Ryu, I knew that he wanted to be in music as badly as I did," says Pyro. "We'd go in the studio from 5 p.m. until 7 a.m. and just vibe."
"We were working one time and got so into it that my truck got stolen from right outside while we were right there," remembers Ryu. "We never even noticed."
Slowly, after the hours added up to a marketable skill set — Pyro literally started making beats on a PlayStation console as a child — the twosome earned a reputation, creating auspicious, warbly, Southern-friendly rap sounds that eventually attracted the attention of Houston stars Slim Thug, Killa Kyleon, Chamillionaire and more.
Sound M.O.B.'s power grew, and they began stacking accomplishments to run parallel with their catalog of beats.
In 2008, they won the Houston division of Red Bull's Big Tune producer battle, crushing local contemporaries. They were flown out to New York to compete in the national finals.
"We got no love," remembers Ryu. "We were heavy on our Houston shit back then. They weren't feeling it. It sucked. It taught us to learn to incorporate new sounds."
Another time, a song of theirs was supposed to have landed on the 2009 collaborative album We Are Young Money, on Lil Wayne's Young Money label. The project eventually sold more than 500,000 copies, but Sound M.O.B.'s contribution ultimately fell through without any warning.
"We got a call from [musician] Pleasure P, who was touring with Wayne and them," says Pyro, head nodding side to side as he collects his words for the rest of the story. "He was like, 'Ay, we just recorded a song on the [tour] bus to your beat. It's gonna be on the album. Wayne, Drake, Nicki [Minaj] are all on it. Someone'll be calling you.' We were so live."
"I remember checking my phone every day," says Ryu, pantomiming picking up a cell phone and checking its home screen.
"I'd look all day," he adds with a laugh. "They didn't call for three months."
"After they called, we thought we were on there," Pyro recalls. "We sent them the files, filled out the paperwork. We were online every day looking for track listings. We saw it on Wikipedia and it had our song title but different producers. You know, Wikipedia you can go in there and edit, so I was like..."
He continues, pretending to type on a computer, posture exaggerated for effect. Everyone in the room is smiling.
"I went in like, 'You got the wrong producers; we made that,' and changed it," continues Pyro. "When it finally came out, the title was the one that we were told was ours, but it was someone else's beat."
"That ain't the word," says Pyro. "It was hard."
The lesson there: Production can be a real bitch sometimes.
From there, though, things moved upward. Quickly.
Sound M.O.B. secured a bonus track on Bun B's 2010 album, Trill OG, then walked backward into producing Kirko Bangz's first radio hit, the robosexual "What Yo' Name Iz."
After Michael "5000" Watts broke the single on his Sunday-night 97.9 The Box show, it spread swiftly. Labels came looking for Bangz, and after he signed a deal with Warner Bros., they wanted more music. So the rapper went back to The Mob.
"He [Bangz] came in one night and said, 'Man, I need a single,'" says Pyro. "The label had this real pop radio-like song ready for him to release, and he wanted something else. So he just came in and said to give him a hit. We worked all through the night."
Ryu cues up the actual beat from that night.
"It was almost exactly one year ago that we made it," Ryu says.
He clicks it on. The swooping WHOOOOMMPs that announce the beat's presence fill the room as rapidly and unforgivably as they do any club or concert venue. All these months later, "Drank in My Cup" still sounds special.
It is the first song of the budding new generation of local rappers to truly gain any national traction, and will eventually be remembered as a flagship moment, for certain.
"When Kirko heard it," reflects Pyro, "something just clicked. I don't know if he had the lyrics ready or what, but he just started going."
He begins singing the hook.
When The Box debuted it in July 2010, the morning crew was so swayed by its immediate appeal that they played it again as soon as it was over. And when it was over the second time, they played it a third. Each time it drew more and more praise.
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Everyone knew it was going to be big. And now it is. This spring, "Drank in My Cup" reached the No. 1 spots on Billboard's Rhythmic chart and Billboard's Rap Songs chart. It's the first time a song from a Houston rapper has been that high since Chamillionaire's paradigm-shifting "Ridin' Dirty" in 2006. And it stayed at the top for several weeks, higher than perennial world-beaters Flo Rida, Drake, Rihanna, Young Jeezy, Kanye and more.
So now what?
"That's where we are," says Ryu. "We're lucky that we're in a position now where these record labels are trying to sign us now. They've seen that we can make hits. We want to be real careful, though. We don't want to rush into anything. We want to make it, but it has to be right."
In other words, they're on their way. They'll be there in a minute.


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Proud to announce Mr. Rainblood for the MVP for March.
Thanks for the smiles
Proud to announce Mr. Rainblood for the MVP for March.
Thanks for the smiles
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Taylor Swift has taken to the witness stand for the first time in her lawsuit against a radio host who she alleges groped her at a meet-and-greet in 2013.
Yesterday, the 27-year-old gave her testimony on the third day of the court case in Denver Colorado and described the moment DJ David Mueller allegedly grabbed her during a photo opportunity.
'He grabbed my ass underneath my skirt,' she told the court, according to CNN.
'He stayed attached to my bare ass cheek as I lurched away from him,' she explained before admitting she 'got as far away from him as I possibly could'.
'It was a definite grab. A very long grab,' she added.
Speaking with confidence, the singer rejected Mueller's claim their interaction was 'jostling' for a photo and denied the possibility she had misidentified Mueller.
'This is what happened, it happened to me, I know it was him,' said Swift, who was 23-years-old at the time of the incident.
'I'm not going to allow you or your client to make me feel in any way that this is my fault, because it isn't,' she said, referring to Mueller's subsequent firing from radio station KYGO after his employers were informed of the alleged assault by Swift's management team.
'I am being blamed for the unfortunate events of his life that are a product of his decisions and not mine,' Swift added later.
Swift revealed her security guard, Greg Dent, witnessed Mueller lift her skirt at the event, but that no one could see him touch her beneath the skirt because their backs were to the wall.
When shown a photo of the meet and greet between her, Mueller and his then-girlfriend Shannon Melcher by one of David Mueller's attorneys, Swift firmly stated: 'This is a photo of him with his hand up my skirt - with his hand on my ass.
'You can ask me a million questions -- I'm never going to say anything different. I never have said anything different,' she revealed.
Swift's testimony comes a day after her mother Andrea – who gave her version of events to the court earlier this week – said she felt sick after her daughter informed her of what allegedly took place between her and Mueller.
She revealed: 'She couldn't believe that after he grabbed her, that she thanked them for being there. It was just destroying her that she said that…as a parent it made me question why I taught her to be so polite in that moment.'
'I wanted to vomit and cry at the same time,' Andrea Swift said.
In response to Taylor's testimony, her fans have taken to Twitter to show their support for the star:
Even Taylor's BBF Lena Dunham had something to say:
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Cransley Hospice Trust is committed to providing outstanding care including physical and mental health and social and spiritual needs. This type of inclusive care that considers all aspects of a person (holistic care) is sometimes labelled hospice care. This care is offered to patients who have an illness that will lead to death and who need our help.
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Justice Clarence Thomas Speaks, But What Does He Say?
(WASHINGTON) -- Nearly seven years since he last spoke up during oral arguments, Justice Clarence Thomas cracked a joke Monday. Unfortunately, it's unclear exactly what he said.
The comment came during a Sixth Amendment case brought by Jonathan Boyer, who was convicted of murder.
At one point, according to the transcript, the justices began discussing the qualifications of the lawyers who had assisted Boyer.
Justice Antonin Scalia asked Carla S. Sigler, the assistant district attorney of Louisiana, about one of the lawyers.
"She was a graduate of Yale Law School?" Scalia asked.
Sigler responded, "She's a very impressive attorney."
Then Scalia talked about another lawyer, who is a graduate of Harvard Law School.
"Son of a gun!" joked Scalia, a Harvard Law graduate himself (1960).
The court transcript shows Thomas piping in at that point. But all the transcript reveals is:
"JUSTICE THOMAS: Well – he did not – (Laughter.)"
The court reporter was unable to transcribe the words because of the laughter in court.
A lawyer who was present in court told ABC News that Thomas, who graduated from Yale Law School, was making a joke about Harvard Law School.
But SCOTUS BLOG, the popular blog dedicated to the Supreme Court, sent out a tweet suggesting that the justice was poking fun at his alma mater: "@SCOTUSblog Thomas, J. speaks: funny at argument-Yale degree could mean lawyer is incompetent, not competent, capital trial counsel."
Thomas (Yale, '74) has had a strained relationship at times with his former school.
"Yale meant one thing for white graduates and another for blacks," Thomas wrote in his 2007 book, My Grandfather's Son.
Thomas, 64, says in the book that after he graduated, "As a symbol of my disillusionment, I peeled a fifteen cent price sticker off of a package of cigars and stuck it on the frame of my law degree to remind myself of the mistake I'd made by going to Yale."
But, recently, he has had a closer relationship with the school. He was a guest speaker last year and also spoke at the Yale Law School Association's annual dinner in June.
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8 Reasons To Be Glad Summer In Malta Is Finally Over
When the silver lining is thick AF
Winter is coming. Well not really, autumn is - but we all know that doesn't exist in Malta. And before we start complaining about the rain, let's take a look back and remember how much we also complained about the heat.
1. No more coexisting with cockroaches!
We've previously discussed all the emotions that go along with encountering a cockroach, but as winter approaches we deal with them less and less. And there is nobody on the island who thinks that's not amazing news.
It's about time too, little shits don't even pay rent.
2. No more 'FULL UP!' buses!
If you are tired of having to shove people into the street to get a place on the bus only to find yourself directly under someone's armpit once on, you'll be glad for the end of (too many) tourist season.
3. No more mosquitoes!
Rejoice! We're finally approaching a time where you don't spend most of your nights swatting the air, hoping to stop the incessant buzzing ruining every evening out.
4. No more fireworks!
Is that a bomb?! ISIS IS HERE! Survival instincts kick in and you dive under the nearest table, knocking over a few figurini. Your cat Road-Runner-sprints out of the room flies under the bed. While you're still shaking, you hear trumpets and suddenly you remember - it's the festa ta' San Whatshisface.
5. No more shitty hotel-rooftop singing
Anyone who lives in a tourist hot-spot will know the pain of hearing 'I did it my way' 32 times on any given Thursday evening.
6. No more broken internal thermostats
It's too hot for trousers, but the evening breeze makes you feel cold when you wear shorts. You can't cover because the night is too warm, but you can't stay uncovered because then your legs will be out and the monsters can grab you. There's just no winning in this heat.
7. No more Maltese baywatch
We'll still have to endure the endless gym selfies thrown at us over facebook, but at least we can 'unfollow' the perpetrators. There's no 'unfollow' button on people at the beach.
8. No more five-weddings-a-week
You can finally spend time doing what you want, and after that never-ending wedding season what you want is probably a quiet night in. Plus, think of all the money you're not gonna be throwing at happy couples anymore.


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Tuesday, September 16, 2014
Lone Starburst from the past - Building Blocks Tuesday
I have no new blocks to share today, so I thought I would pick a favorite from my past. I made this one in May 2013 for Sarah in the Make it Modern bee. It is called a Lone Starburst block by Anna at Six White Horses. She has the pattern for free on Craftsy HERE.
What blocks have you working on? I would love to see. Link up your fabulous blocks. You put a lot of hard work into them - show them off! This free linky will stay open until the first Monday of next month, but I will repost it every Tuesday until a new month starts.
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Buys honored with MS-AND Magnolia Award
David Buys
The Mississippi Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, or MS-AND, has named David Buys as a recipient of one of its most distinguished awards.
A Mississippi State University Extension Service health specialist, Buys was presented with the MS-AND Magnolia Award earlier this month.
The Magnolia Award recognizes individuals outside of the dietetics profession who make significant contributions to the field. It is one of four awards MS-AND makes each year.
Other criteria for the award include service in furthering the advancement of the dietetics profession and improving nutrition for people of all ages. Buys has overseen a project for the last two years that evaluates nutritional needs of senior citizens who have been recently released from hospitals.
Terezie Mosby, assistant professor and dietetic internship director in the MSU Department of Food Science, Nutrition and Health Promotion, nominated Buys, in part, because of that project.
"Dr. Buys also took leadership in our six-week Extension Service dietetic intern rotation, providing them with experiences in recording a radio program, developing materials for Extension programs and many other activities," Mosby said. "He conducts Extension Service programs and research in health disparities and seeks out dietitians and dietetic interns in his projects because he values their expertise."
MS-AND is a state-affiliate association of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, which has 70,000 members in more than 20 countries.
Visit www.eatrightmississippi.org for more information on MS-AND.
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24 Old Adult Truths
24 Old Adult Truths:
1. Sometimes I'll look down at my watch 3 consecutive times and still not know what time it is.
2. Nothing irks me more than that moment during an argument when you realize you're wrong.
3. I totally take back all those times I didn't want to nap when I was younger.
4. There is great need for a sarcasm font.
5. How the hell are you supposed to fold a fitted sheet?
6. Was learning cursive really necessary?
7. Map Quest or Google Maps really need to start their directions on # 5. I'm pretty sure I know how to get out of my neighborhood.
8. Obituaries would be a lot more interesting if they told you how the person died.
9. I can't remember the last time I wasn't at least kind of tired.
10. Bad decisions make good stories.
11. You never know when it will strike, but there comes a moment when you know that you just aren't going to do anything productive for the rest of the day.
12. Can we all just agree to ignore whatever comes after Blu-Ray? I don't want to have to restart my collection... again.
13. I'm always slightly terrified when I exit out of Word and it asks me if I want to save any changes to my ten-page technical report that I swear I did not make any changes to.
14. I keep some people's phone numbers in my phone just so I know not to answer when they call.
15. I think the freezer deserves a light as well.
16. I disagree with Kay Jewelers. I would bet on any given Friday or Saturday night more kisses begin with Miller Light than Kay.
17. I wish Google Maps had an "Avoid Ghetto" routing option.
18. I have a hard time deciphering the fine line between boredom and hunger.
19. How many times is it appropriate to say "What?" before you just nod and smile because you still didn't hear or understand a word they said?
20. I love the sense of camaraderie when an entire line of cars team up to prevent a jerk from cutting in at the front. Stay strong, brothers and sisters!
21. Shirts get dirty. Underwear gets dirty. Pants? Pants never get dirty, and you can wear them forever.
22. Even under ideal conditions people have trouble locating their car keys in a pocket, finding their cell phone, and Pinning the Tail on the Donkey - but I'd bet everyone can find and push the snooze button from 3 feet away, in about 1.7 seconds, eyes closed, first time, every time.
23. The first testicular guard, the "Cup," was used in Hockey in 1874 and the first helmet was used in 1974. That means it only took 100 years for men to realize that their brain is also important.
(Ladies ... Quit Laughing!)
It just gets better as you get older, doesn't it?
I was in a Starbucks Coffee recently when my stomach started rumbling and I realized that I desperately needed to fart. The place was packed, but the music was really loud so to get relief and reduce embarrassment I timed my farts to the beat of the music. After a couple of songs I started to feel much better. I finished my coffee and noticed that everyone was staring at me. I suddenly remembered that I was listening to my Ipod (with ear piece) - and how was your day?
(This is what happens when old people start using technology!)
Stop laughing and go ahead and share this with everyone you know!
I Would Like To Add One more…
At What Point-In-Life Do We Become "OLD PEOPLE" ??


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Roasted Tomato Soup
I have been craving a good Tomato Soup. Something that would satisfy my craving for Basil as well. This soup did it! I love all off the Roasting going on first, just makes the soup. I have lots of Basil growing in the big pot on the patio, I planted the small baby plant in the spring and now it is a HUGE bunch!
Start by cutting up 3-4 tomato's, I used 4 Roma's. Quarter them and lay on flat sheet covered with foil. Cut 1/2 yellow onion into wedges and add to the pan. Then 3 cloves of garlic, halved, tucked into the tomato pieces. Pour about 1-2 Tablespoons of Olive Oil over the veggies. Salt and Pepper and sprinkle with fresh Parsley (from my little garden). Then place into the oven at 350 for 30-40 minutes.
Now heat 1 can of low sodium Chicken Broth in good size sauce pan. Add 1 Tablespoon tomato paste (I use the kind in the tube). Heat on medium low heat and stir until well blended. Add the Roasted Veggies and simmer for about 10 minutes.
Now use your immersion blender or tall blender to mix the soup together to your desired consistancy. I wanted it to be "Rustic", kind of thick. Then add 1/4 cup Half and Half and stir and simmer for another 5 minutes.
I ran back out to the Garden and picked the Basil and tossed it on top of the soup one it was in the bowl.
This was so GOOD! And super easy. I have been juicing and have not had a lot of solid food for a week and this was just perfect.
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Volume 25, Number 1 - October 1978
The Metric System --
Area, Volume, Liquid Capacity
and Mass
by Dr. George Downing
Published by Emporia State University
Prepared and issued by The Division of Biology
Editor: Robert J. Boles
Editorial Committee: Gilbert A. Leisman, Tom Eddy, Robert F. Clarke, John Ransom
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This issue of the Kansas School Naturalist was written by Dr. George Downing, Associate Professor of Mathematics at Emporia State University. It is the second of a series. The first, entitled The Metric System - An Introduction of Linear Units and Conversion, was published last October (Vol 24, No. 1). Copies of the first issue are still available upon request.
The Metric System -- Area, Volume, Liquid Capcity and Mass
by Dr. George Downing
The October, 1977 issue of the Kansas School Naturalist was devoted to a study of Metric units of length and to techniques of converting measurement units within the Metric System. The Issue was written, primarily, for elementary and high school teachers and provided them with specific content material on the Metric System as well as some methodology for teaching it.
In that Issue, we considered measurement units which could be termed one-dimensional. That is, we were concerned only with lengths of objects. By and large, being proficient at making one-dimensional measurements is all we expect of primary youngsters. However, as they move into the upper grades, we begin to teach them concepts associated with two-dimensional measurements -- area, and three-dimensional measurements -- volume. The first part of this issue of the Naturalist will be devoted to a study of Metric units of area and of volume.
The standard unit of area in the Metric System is the square meter. To visualize this unit, take a meter stick and draw a horizontal line segment on your blackboard 1 meter long. At one end of this segment, draw another 1 meter long segment perpendicular to the original one. Of course, you have now depicted
two segments which are sides of a square. Now complete the square. The enclosed region is said to have an area of 1 square meter. Note that this unit -- 1 square meter -- is a two-dimensional unit. It possesses not only length, but width as well. The word "square" is used to denote this two-dimensional aspect of measurements associated with flat regions; that is, regions in a plane.
The cu.m model easily holds two students. Each face of the cube represents a sq.m.
Your picture of a square meter will probably surprise you. Most teachers indicate that they do not mentally visualize it as large as it actually appears when they draw one on a board. Probably, this is because we tend to think of a meter as slightly longer than a yard and conclude that the square meter should be slightly larger than the square yard. In actuality the square meter is approximately 20% larger than the square yard -- and that's a sizeable increase.
The square meter is about the size of the front face of a large commercial automatic washer in your local laundromat. It is probably larger than the lower half of any of the doors in your home. It is larger than half of the top surface of a standard twin-bed mattress. The square meter is the unit which we will use a good deal in the future. Carpet and other floor coverings will be sold by the square meter. Floor space in homes will be quoted by the square meter as will areas of small plots of land.
The metric unit of area next in size to the square meter, but smaller, is the square decimeter. A square decimeter can be visualized as the area of a plane region shaped as a square, measuring 1 decimeter on a side which is, of course, 10 centimeters on a side. It's about the same size as the standard square ceramic tile which you see on the walls of so many bathrooms. It is also approximately the same area as that covered by the palm of your hand.
A square decimeter is 0.01 the size of the square meter. You can see this easily if you refer to your blackboard drawing of the square meter mentioned earlier in the article. Mark off on the horizontal sides (top and bottom) of the square the ten decimeters which comprise the length of the meter. Use vertical lines to join corresponding marks. Now, repeat the process by marking off decimeters on the vertical sides and joining corresponding marks. When you are through, you will see that your original square has been partitioned into 100 smaller squares. Each of these, of course, represents a square decimeter. In a similar fashion you can show that the next smaller unit of area, the square centimeter, is 0.01 the size of the square decimeter, and so on for each unit.
The table below shows all of the metric units of area and indicates their sizes relative to the square meter.
|Unit of area
|square kilometer
|sq. km
|1,000,000 sq. m
|square hectometer
|sq. hm
|10,000 sq. m
|square dekameter
|sq. dam
|100 sq. m
|square meter
|sq. m
|1 sq. m
|square decimeter
|sq. dm
|0.01 sq. m
|square centimeter
|sq. cm
|0.0001 sq . m
|square millimeter
|sq. mm
|0.000001 sq. m
Notice the abbreviations column in the table. These abbreviations are common in elementary school texts, but will slowly be replaced by a more concise form In which superscript numbers will be used. For example, sq. m will be indicated as m2. Similarly, sq. km will be km2 . The other abbreviations will be treated in a similar manner.
The plastic tablet has an area of 1 sq. dm.
A sq .cm plastic tablet, a little finger nail
and a thumbtack.
Of all of the units mentioned in the table, we will have most occasion with students to make area measurements using the square meter, the square decimeter and the square centimeter. After your students become relatively familiar with these units, ask them to estimate areas of objects and then have them measure to calculate actual areas for comparison. Don't be surprised if students fail to estimate areas as well as they estimate lengths. It's considerably more difficult . Probably, if your
students are old enough to know the familiar formula for the area of a rectangle, A = lw, they will estimate
areas by estimating the two linear measures, the "1" and the "w" and multiplying these. Don't discourage
this. We all do it.
To help them become more familiar with the square meter, ask them to estimate and measure to fmd areas of blackboards, bulletin boards, room floors, hallway floors and walls. To help them become familiar with the square decimeter and the square centimeter, cardboard boxes work nicely. Have
them look at the various faces of a box and estimate areas in square decimeters for large faces and square centimeters for small faces. It helps to have actual cardboard models of the two units -- the
square decimeter and the square centimeter -- so that they can compare them with the box face you are displaying.
The units of area larger than the square meter will not be used extensively by many of us in the future,
and you probably will not expect elementary students to be familiar with them. However, you may be interested in knowing that the square dekameter,
an area close to that of half of a tennis court, is called the "are" (pronounced as we say air). The square hectometer, an area approximately the size of the playing surface of a big league baseball
park, is called the "hectare."
The standard unit of volume in the Metric System is the cubic meter. This unit of measure is a three-dimensional unit since it is defined as a unit of space
having length, width and height equal to 1 meter. Imagine a large box shaped as a cube with dimensions of 1 meter by 1 meter by 1 meter. The space taken up by this box would represent what we call 1 cubic meter, This is a large space indeed. You could put your clothes washer, your clothes dryer and probably your television set in such a space. (They
would probably have to be cut in pieces and rearranged but they would fit). It should really surprise you to realize that this amount of water would weigh well over a ton.
The chart below shows the Metric units of volume, their abbreviations, a nd their meanings relative to the cubic meter.
In the chart below, notice that most of the units are abbreviated with "cu" preceding the symbol for the unit of length. This abbreviation will change in a way similar to that described for square units. For example, a volume of 7 cu. m can be written as 7m3, but it is still read as 7 cubic meters. Notice in the chart that the abbreviation "cc" is used for cubic centimeter. The cc has gained acceptance as an abbreviation through long use in the medical and drug fields.
It is obvious from the chart that each volume unit is 0.001 the size of the next larger unit. For example, the cubic decimeter is 0.001 cubic meter, and the cubic centimeter is 0.001 cubic decimeter, and so on. Let's see why! Imagine again a cube shaped box with dimensions 1 meter by 1 meter by 1 meter. Then since 1 meter equals 10 decimeters, its dimensions could be quoted as 10 decimeters by 10 decimeters by 10 decimeters. Using the formula for box-like solids (Volume equals length times width times height) we see that the number of cubic decimeters in a cubic meter is 10 x 10 x 10 or 1,000. In a similar fashion, 1 cubic decimeter contains 1,000 cubic centimeters.
|Unit of Volume
|cubic kilometer
|cu. km
|1,000,000,000 cu. m
|cubic hectometer
|cu. hm
|1,000,000 cu. m
|cubic dekameter
|cu. dam
|1,000 cu. m
|cubic meter
|cu. m
|1 cu. m
|cubic decimeter
|cu. dm
|0.001 cu. m
|cubic centimeter
|c c
|0.000001 cu. m
|cubic millmeter
|cu . mm
|0.000000001 cu. m
The block of wood represents the
volume of 1 cu .dm.
The plastic cu. dm box is approximately
half the size of a half-gallon milk
A cc of wood, a sugar cube and a caramel candy.
The cubic decimeter is a unit of volume which has about the same size as a small flower pot or a fairly large sugar bowl. It is approximately the same size as half of a half-gallon milk carton. The cubic centimeter is a unit of volume about the size of the tip of your little finger. A small sugar cube has approximately this volume. A piece of caramel candy takes up a little more space than a cubic centimeter -- perhaps 2 or 3. The cubic millimeter is a very small unit of volume. It is approximately the same size as a grain of salt on a pretzel stick. A pin-head has a volume close to that of a cubic millimeter.
The units of volume which students in the upper grades will need to become familiar with are the cubic meter, the cubic decimeter and the cubic centimeter. They can use the cubic meter as they become proficient at estimating and measuring volumes of classrooms and hallways. You can use cardboard boxes, as suggested earlier, and have them estimate and measure their volumes in cubic decimeters. They can use the cubic centimeter for finding volumes of relatively small objects like blackboard erasers, textbooks and thumbtack boxes. Anytime you are having students estimate volumes of box-shaped objects, it helps to hold a model of the appropriate cubic unit up next to the box so that they can compare sizes. Wooden models of cubes with volumes of 1 cubic decimeter and 1 cubic centimeter are available through school supply companies which sell teaching-learning aids. You may be able to make your own models, and save
yourself some money. In any case, an actual model of a cubic decimeter or a cubic centimeter is most useful.
The pin-head and the salt grains on the pretzel have volumes of approximately 1 cu. mm.
It is easy to understand the relationship of Metric units of liquid capacity to Metric units of volume because of the way liquid capacity units are defined. Suppose we have a box with a volume of cubic decimeter. (Remember, this volume is about that of half of a half-gallon milk carton.) This same box would be said to have a liquid capacity of 1 liter. That's right! A liter and a cubic decimeter take up exactly the same amount of space. Thus, you can speak of a liter of milk or of a cubic decimeter of milk. It's the same amount of milk in either case. However, it is common to use liquid capacity units for liquids and volume units for dry substances, as you know.
A cu .dm of water exactly fills the liter graduated cylinder. 1 cu.dm.
A liter of water fills the quart bottle and has a little left over.
A 5 mL spoon and the teaspoon (at the top) are approximately equal.
The table below includes the Metric units of liquid capacity, their abbreviations, and their meanings. Notice that the abbreviation for liter is an upper case "L". This is so that it will not be confused with the symbol for "1" (one) in printed material.
|Liquid capacity Unit
The only two units of liquid capacity which will be widely used are the liter and the milliliter, so your students
should become familiar with them. The liter is a capacity unit just slightly larger than the quarto -- about 6% more. Your students are already familiar with this unit as they have, no doubt, seen 2-liter containers of Coke, 7 -Up and Pepsi in the grocery store. It may be helpful for you to know that an ice-tea pitcher has
capacity of 2 to 3 L; a mop backet has capacity of 8 to 10L and a kitchen sink might hold 20 to 30 L.
Left to right: 700 mL glass; 750 mL liquer bottle; 1L box; 2L Pepsi; a 3L pitcher; and a 10L container.
The milliliter is a small unit of liquid capacity, and it takes up exactly the same space as a cubic centimeter. This is easy to see since we learned in the previous section that the cubic centimeter is 0.001 cubic decimeter, and now we know that the milliliter is 0.001 liter. But, recall that the liter and cubic decimeter are defined so as to comprise exactly the same amount of space. Hence, the milliliter and the cubic centimeter are equal.
Many liquid items on the grocery store shelves are marked in this unit. Here are some actual examples: A small bottle of vanilla, 59mL; standard size evaporated milk, 384 mL; and the large size worcestershire sauce, 296 mL. If it helps, you may want to remember that the common teaspoon measure is about 5 mL; a coffee cup is 150 to 250 mL; and an average size drinking glass is 300 to 400 mL.
Measuring equipment graduated in milliliters can be purchased from school supply companies, and also, from the kitchen supply areas of hardware stores and department stores. With these measuring utensils, you can help your students gain some facility in measuring liquid capacities. Just collect objects like soup cans, glasses, perfume bottles, pitchers and so on. Fill them with water and let your students play the game of "guess and measure." They will enjoy it, and so will you!
One L (1 cu.dm) of water balances the scales with a 1 kg mass in the liter box on the right.
The standard unit of mass in the Metric System is the kilogram. It was defined in a rather ingenious manner so as to relate units of volume and liquid capacity to units of mass . Here is how! It was decided to assign to a fixed volume of water a number which would be called the mass of that amount of water.
Their cubic decimeter was chosen as the volume, and by definition, 1 cubic decimeter of water was said to have a mass of 1 kilogram. Now, since we know that the liter and the cubic decimeter are equal, we can say that 1 cubic decimeter of water is 1 liter of water, and it has a mass of 1 kilogram. A neat way to relate three different units! Remember though, this relationship is true only when the substance involved is water! A cubic decimeter of styrofoam would weigh considerably less than 1 kilogram.
The kg mass is heavier than 2 pounds of coffee-lighter than 3 pounds.
The concept of mass might be somewhat new to you and to your students. We are more conditioned to think in terms of weight, not mass. "How much do you weigh?" is a common question. On the other hand,
"What is your mass?" would probably catch you completely offguard. On the surface of the earth, mass and weight are essentially equal. Hence, the use of the word "weight" has found common acceptance and will, no doubt, continue to be used by the layman in the future. The scientists and science teachers will continue to stress that the weight of an object, being a measure of an attracting force between the object and another body can vary while its mass does not vary. However, if you and your students are comfortable with the notion of "weight", then use it. They can pick up the distinctions between mass and weight as they participate in science classes later on. Below is a chart indicating the Metric units of mass, their abbreviations and their meanings.
|Mass Unit
|1,000 g
|10 g
|1 g
|0.1 g
|0.01 g
|0.001 g
As you see in the chart, the gram is the base unit; that is, it is the unit upon which the other ones are built -- so to speak. But the official standard unit, as already mentioned, is the kilogram. The kilogram is a unit of mass slightly heavier than 2 pounds -- 2.2 pounds to be more precise. A quart of milk would weigh almost a kilogram. Two liters of coke would weigh approximately 2 kilograms. A 10 pound sack of potatoes
would weigh about 4.5 kilograms. A Miss America contestant would weigh between 50 and 60 kilograms. A large lineman on a professional football team would weigh between 110 and 130 kilograms.
A 100 kg guy easily holds a 50 kg gal.
Four thumbtacks (on the right) weigh 2 g.
Many school supply companies now sell scales of the bathroom variety graduated in kilograms. The cost for such scales is under $20. Youngsters (and adults) get a pretty good feel for the kilogram unit if such scales are available in your class. Have your students try to guess the weights of each of their class mates -- one at a time. After each one has guessed, have the "guinea pig" step on the scales and announce his
or her weight. After a dozen or so experiments like this, your students will surprise you and themselves at their abilities to guess weights using the new units -- the kilogram.
The gram is 0.001 as heavy as the kilogram. It is about the same weight as two thumbtacks or a M and M candy or 20 drops of water. Since it is such a tiny unit, youngsters and adults find it very difficult to guess weights using this unit. But, if you want to help students get some feel for this unit, you should try to
obtain an inexpensive pan balance and a set of metric weights. The balance and weights can be purchased from school supply companies for less than $30.
118 mL of vanilla, 305 g of soup and 2L of Pepsi.
More and more food items are measured in Metric units.
With the balance and weights, have your students estimate weights of small objects such as erasers, chalk, quarters, dimes, paper clips and so on. Then, follow each guess with a measurement on the scales. Students really enjoy this kind of exercise. So do teachers.
There is another interesting relationship which you should be aware of in dealing with weights and volumes. Remember, we have said that 1 cubic decimeter of water is 1 liter of water and weighs 1 kilogram. Recall that the cubic decimeter is 1,000 cubic centimeters; the liter is 1,000 milliliters; and the kilogram is 1,000 grams. Thus, the phrase emphasized above in bold print could be expressed equivalently as 1,000 cubic centimeters of water is 1,000 milliliters of water and weighs 1,000 grams. Well then, wouldn't this mean that 1 cubic centimeter of water is 1 milliliter of water and weighs 1 gram? Of course!
You can help your students with this concept by simply having them measure out -- say 50 milliliters of water, pour it into a container and weigh it on your pan balance. It should weigh 50 grams. (Be sure to account for the weight of the container holding the water). Reverse the process, have them weigh out -- say
150 grams of water on the scales. Pour this amount of water into a liquid measuring utensil. It should be very close to 150 milliliters or equivalently 150 cubic centimeters. Such simple experiments will help your students learn that the Metric System is unique in that it has a built in system for relating units of volume to units of liquid capacity, and these, to units of weight.
Remember, in the Metric System we can say:
1 cu dm of water = 1 L of water = 1 kg of water
1 cc of water = 1 mL of water = 1 g of water
These relationships together with the fact the Metric System is a base 10 systems make it a very practical measurement -- one that is easy to learn and easy to use. Once you become familiar with it, you will wonder why we haven't moved more quickly towards its acceptance. You can help in this cause be teaching it and having your students use it as much as possible.
The Metric System. It is a beautiful system! Let's learn to use it.
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Press Association
December 27, 2013.
Forces report a surge in the number of reported incidents after the murder of soldier Lee Rigby by Islamic extremists in May
A petrol bomb explodes outside the Grimsby Islamic Cultural Centre in May.
(Photograph: CPS/PA)
Hate crimes against Muslims have soared in the UK this year, new figures show.Read the rest here.
Hundreds of anti-Muslim offences have been carried out across the country in 2013, with Britain's biggest force, the Metropolitan police, recording 500 Islamophobic crimes.
Many forces reported a surge in the number of anti-Muslim hate crimes following the murder of soldier Lee Rigby by two Islamic extremists in Woolwich, south-east London, in May.
And the figures could be much higher, because nearly half the 43 forces in England and Wales did not reveal how many hate crimes had targeted Muslims. Some forces admitted they did not always record the faith of a religious hate crime victim.
Freedom of Information requests were sent by the Press Association to every police force in England and Wales.
Of the 43 forces, 24 provided figures on the number of anti-Muslim crimes and incidents recorded.
Tell Mama, a group which monitors anti-Muslim incidents, said it had dealt with some 840 cases since April, with the number expected to rise to more than 1,000 by the end of March.
This compared with 582 anti-Muslim cases it dealt with from March 2012 to March 2013.
Fiyaz Mujhal, director of Faith Matters, which runs the Tell Mama project, said the reaction to the murder of Rigby had caused the number of Islamophobic crimes to "significantly jump".
"The far right groups, particularly the EDL [English Defence League] perniciously use the internet and social media to promote vast amounts of online hate," he said.
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Five Minutes at Berlin Music Days with Dark Sky
Last week, XLR8R was invited to Berlin to check out Berlin Music Days, a multi-day festival celebrating the city and its rich electronic-music scene. Our complete festival wrap-up is here, but we also found a few minutes to chat with UK outfit Dark Sky, whom you may remember from the excellent podcast the young trio turned in for us last summer. Fresh off a long DJ set, Carlo Anderson, Tom Edwards, and (the rather quiet) Matt Benyayer sat down with us around 4:30 a.m. in the basement of a club and discussed their music, their influences, and their first impressions of Berlin.
XLR8R: Tonight you ended up playing for four and a half hours. Is that how long you normally play?
Carlo Anderson: No, that's the longest set we've done so far.
Tom Edwards: It was difficult, especially at the beginning. We had to pace ourselves. But it was fun. We got to play tunes that we'd normally never get to play in the club, so it was good to do it.
XLR8R: There are three of you, so do you normally trade off every song, every few songs?
CA: It depends on the vibe of the set. Sometimes we'll do two or three tracks each, sometimes we'll just do one. It just comes down to the vibe of what we're feeling.
XLR8R: So, how long have you guys been working together, and how did you meet initially?
CA: Two, two and a half years now I think.
TE: Maybe three. Matt and I went to school together, and Carlo and I met at a sound engineering college. It was during that time that we decided to start this project, Dark Sky.
XLR8R: But two of you had another project before this.
TE: Yeah, the Boogaloo Crew was Matt and I.
XLR8R: Was that a different sound?
TE: Yeah, the tunes we put out were very dubstep, 140 bpm, but the DJ sets were Baltimore club, with garage and dubstep.
XLR8R: When you started Dark Sky, was there a certain sonic idea?
TE: For myself, I had enjoyed doing the party sets, but after hearing new artists coming up, I wanted to do something different, a bit deeper, more experimental.
CA: [We were] just trying new sounds and seeing what happened. We never really intended it to become the main project, or for it to become as successful as it has. We just wanted to try something different.
TE: It wasn't like, "We want to do something like this person."
XLR8R: Some of the first Dark Sky productions to surface were remixes. Is that where you started?
CA: We got a remix with The xx quite early on, through a friend of ours. I think, off the back of that, we got asked to do quite a lot of remixes. At the time, it was a good way of getting our profile out there to a new audience. Also, they were tunes that we either liked or thought we could do something interesting with. It was never an intentional thing, it's just the way it happened.
XLR8R: Is that Kelis remix a bootleg?
CA: No, that's official. I'm a huge fan of Kelis, I've been listening to her for years.
TE: We were like, "We can't turn this down this is Kelis," even though the original was...
CA: [laughs] It wasn't as good as her other stuff. It was no "Millionaire."
XLR8R: What was the first original Dark Sky track that came out?
TE: "Ghost Notes" b/w "Something to Lose." That came out on Black Acre, a 12". But the original plane was to do something with Picures Music, the Frames EP, but while we were constructing that, Ian from Black Acre got in contact.
CA: It's all thanks to Fantastic Mr Fox. He heard some of our stuff on MySpace. He liked it and put in a mix. Off the back of that, he started playing it to Ian from Black Acre and, next thing we know, we got an email from him. It was really quite surprising because we really hadn't been producing for that long at that point in time. It was very humbling because we were big fans of Black Acre—we still are—especially Fantastic Mr Fox, we were listening to his stuff quite a lot at that time.
XLR8R: How did you guys eventually link up with Blunted Robots and 50Weapons?
TE: With Blunted, we knew Brackles for quite awhile, from playing gigs with him. I'd also been talking to Shortstuff on AIM quite a lot, and just send him stuff now and again.
CA: [It was] the XLR8R mix from Scratcha DVA. He put "High Rise" on that, when it was still unfinished.
TE: "High Rise" was originally going to come out on another label. The guy was managing Brackles, but then Brackles [himself] came to us with a deal. It was going to be a split 12" as well.
CA: It was going to be a split 12" with a remix and b-sides, but...
Matt Benyayer: I didn't let that happen. I was like, "Come on guys, let's dig deep."
CA: Originally, I don't think "Armour" [the b-side] would have come out.
MB: It was that pressure to make another tune that led to "Armour" being made.
XLR8R: And 50Weapons?
CA: That was nuts. It was SBTRKT. He went on tour in America with Modeselektor, and he passed a load of our tunes on to them while they were on tour.
TE: We've seen videos on YouTube of Modeselektor dropping our track "Reflex." Then SBTRKT introduced us to Gernot [from Modeselektor] on email, and he asked us just to keep him updated with our stuff. Then we were going to do a split 12" with SBTRKT for 50Weapons, but this was just before his album was coming out, so he didn't have any time.
CA: It was going to be "Speeding Blue" with SBTRKT doing another track.
TE: Then he said he couldn't do it, so it was going to be one [Dark Sky] 12", and then it became a four-track EP.
CA: It just kept developing. It was quite nice the way that worked.
XLR8R: Moving ahead, do you guys plan to keep jumping around with labels?
TE: We're just about to finish an EP for Black Acre, which will hopefully come out early next year. We've got plans to do another EP for 50Weapons. But we're not set into one label at the moment.
CA: Eventually I think we'll find a home for the majority of our stuff. We'll still do stuff with other labels, but all the labels we've worked with so far have been absolutely fantastic. They've all done a really good job and we've felt very at home with all of them. Each label we've released with has felt like a bit of a family kind of vibe.
XLR8R: How do you guys feel about the scene in London?
TE: I think it's very interesting. It's always been quite interesting, but the way how it's sort of evolved form dubstep into a whole house and techno influence. People like Boddika are a massive influence on us. You can get lineups with dubstep producers billed with house producers.
CA: It's been mad the way it's happened. Every few weeks there's a new subgenre thrown out there and it's hard to keep up. There are so many different influences going on, from techno to house to garage, classic dubstep—it's all very mixed up at the moment.
XLR8R: Growing up, were you guys listening to mostly UK music—grime, dubstep, etc.?
TE: I was never really a fan of grime when I was growing up. I would hear really bad grime. I didn't know about the instrumental stuff until I started getting into dubstep. I was never really listening to pirate radio stations, either, or garage. When I was growing up, garage developed this really bad image about it, being in the club, champagne, and all that.
CA: There were a lot of shootings as well at garage nights, so it got a really dirty name at one point.
TE: I was mainly just into hip-hop.
CA: I did the whole US hip-hop kind of phase, and I kind of grew into drum & bass. I was really stuck on that until about four years ago, when Tom kept on playing me dubstep. I was like, "No, I hate it. It's terrible. I an't stand it." He'd play me a track and I'd be like, "Yeeeeah, not that great." Then I heard "Oskillatah" by Skream and it completely changed my mind. I grew from there and slowly started getting into it. If it wasn't for Tom, I probably wouldn't be listening to dubstep.
XLR8R: You guys are here in Berlin for Berlin Music Days. Is this your first time playing in Berlin?
TE: Yeah.
XLR8R: I realize you've only been here for a handful of hours, but what are your impressions of the city?
CA: I really like it.
TE: I love it.
CA: Everything is kind of stripped back and minimal. Everything is kind of straight to the point, there's no pissing about.
TE: You hear so much about Berlin, so we're quite excited to be here, really happy to be here.


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What is a tablespace
Tablespaces are the most bigger logical storage structure in oracle ( Tablespace -> segment -> extent -> block) . Tablespaces gather segments (you can think of it as objects like tables, indexes, etc), when we create an object like a table , if we dont specify a tablespace in the CREATE TABLE command it is assigned to our user default tablespace ( in most cases the SYSTEM tablespace , which is recommended by oracle just for dictionary objects). A tablespace is composed of datafiles wich are part of the physical structure of the oracle database (datafiles, control files, redo log files) they are stored in the OS containing the data of the database.
Relationship between Database - Tablespace - Datafile - Object:
The graph shows us the relationship between this structures, a database is composed logically of tablespaces , each tablespace is composed physically of datafiles and each datafile stores data from the objects . The size of the database is total size of the tablespaces and the total size of the tablespaces is the total size all of his datafiles. You can add or remove space to a tablespace in two ways , adding datafiles to the tablespace or resizing the actual datafiles.
Why we need tablespaces
Tablespaces ease the management of the database, they are useful to separate objects and apply different actions to each of them, we can take one of the tablespaces offline, make it read only or backup it affecting just part of the database
Types of tablespaces
Permanent tablespaces: where usual objects are stored ( data tablespaces)
Temporary tablespaces: used for temporary segments (in sort operations)
Undo tablespaces: for rollback segments.
Space management
There are basically two states when oracle needs to use some space (extents) in a tablespace: used (allocated) and available, and Oracle manages that space in two ways :
- Dictionary Managed Tablespaces
- Locally Managed Tablespaces
Dictionary Managed Tablespaces
The information about used and available extents are stored in the data dictionary. This type of management is not the most optimal because of the SQL overhead in the database when performing a lot of operations and also it can't be done simultaneously they must be serialized increasing wait times. Since 9i, Oracle is deprecating this method and it will not let you create dictionary managed tablespaces if you have your system tablespace locally managed.
Locally Managed Tablespaces
In this way Oracle uses bitmaps stored in the datafile itself to know when an extent is used ( with 1) and available or free ( with 0) , this approach eases the space management and remove the overhead in the database.
For more information, this is the best oracle architecture book:
Expert Oracle Database Architecture: 9i and 10g Programming Techniques and Solutions


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The Solution of Tourism
There are many places around the globe which suffer from acute economic troubles, massive poverty and a lack of basic services, which make these places a living hell for many of the locals living there. For some of these places, the development of a healthy tourist industry might be a viable solution for turning things around. It is no secret that tourism is a massive global industry, one that provides jobs to a large number of people and can count itself on being one of the least damaging to the environment; however, it is also extremely sensitive to the social and political changes that take place in the area.
When there are signs of trouble in an area, the first industry that suffers immediately is travel. A clear image of that was portrayed by Greece during the financial crisis that produced social instability and tension. As an effect of that, the area was immediately perceived as not being safe which in turn led to the drying up of tourists. Despite that, however, in most places, tourists have started flowing back in once the situation calmed down.
The reason why tourism can be a viable option for economic development is because it relies heavily on natural potential. A number of economically troubled countries have the landscape that would be perfect suited for some sort of touristic activity, one only needs to set up the infrastructure for it to flourish. Such a solution would see people being able to work and earn a living, as the requirements to work in the industry are within the reach of most people. Of course, there are some downsides, destinations that become highly popular see a higher number of people flocking to them, and while financially beneficial, it can become damaging to small communities that exist in those areas.


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For some they bring terror. For others only fascination and wonder. No matter who you are, chances are when you think of the ocean, you also think about sharks. That's why shark crafts are always popular during the summer.
Whether you're looking for kids activities for Shark Week in July, some fun shark party games, or just summer activities for kids, this ultimate collection of shark crafts and shark activities is the place to start.
Toddlers and preschoolers will have fun making their own sharks to play with. Older kids can show off their creativity with projects perfect for them. No matter what age you are looking for, there is a shark craft for everyone.
Shark Crafts
These Coral Reef Ocean Life Shadow Puppets are perfect for sparking the imagination and acting out stories. Adventure in a Box
I love how the silhouettes just pop in this Shark Suncatcher . Buggy and Buddy
This Rocking Paper Plate Shark is a fun shark craft for preschoolers. Artsy Momma
See how a piece of carefully folded paper turns into a fun Shark Hand Puppet. Easy Peasy and Fun
Use those colorful cupcake liners to make this cute Cupcake Liner Shark. I Heart Crafty Things
Turn an ordinary clothespin into a fun Clothespin Shark. Things to Share and Remember
We love cootie catchers! Check out how you can make your own Shark Cootie Catcher. Easy Peasy and Fun
Love fingerprint crafts? Check out these Fingerprint Sharks. Frogs and Snails and Puppy Dog Tails
You'll be amazed by how you can turn a simple pool toy into an awesome Pool Noodle Shark . JDaniel 4's Mom
Recycle the newspaper into a fun craft with this Newspaper Shark. I Hearty Crafty Things
Have a tween that likes to sew? They can create their very own funky Shark Purse. A Beautiful Mess
Footprint crafts are adorable and this Footprint Shark Craft is no exception. It would make a cute keepsake. Glued to My Crafts
Want a craft your child can play with afterwards? This Toilet Paper Roll Shark will provide hours of fun. Glue Sticks and Gumdrops
Do your kids love Legos? Discover how you can Make an Awesome Lego Shark with blocks you already have. Frugal Fun for Boys and Girls
Use black glue to make beautiful Stained Glass Shark Bookmarks. Red Ted Art
Make this Shark Corner Bookmark and you won't lose your place while reading all those great shark books. Easy Peasy and Fun
Kids will love getting creative with this Stained Glass Shark Coloring Printable. School Time Snippets
Turn the kids into sharks with these fun Shark Masks JDaniel 4's Mom
These Shark Coloring Pages are perfect for printing out for the kids to color this summer. Red Ted Art
Why should the kids have all the fun? Make this DIY Momma Shark T-Shirt and be ready for Shark Week. The Quiet Grove
Summertime is the perfect time for mixing fun with learning. These activities are guaranteed to get the kids excited.
Shark Activities
Little ones will love this simple Feed the Shark Fine Motor Game. School Time Snippets
Get the kids up and moving and working on gross motor skills with this fun Shark Run Game . Frogs and Snails and Puppy Dog Tails
Celebrate Shark Week with 4 DIY Shark Party Games that will leave them giggling and begging for more. There's Just One Mommy
The Shark Attack Song is fun to sing and is simple to add hand movements to. No Time for Flashcards
This Shark Sensory Bottle is fun to make and would look great sitting on a dresser. Stir the Wonder
Toddlers will have tons of fun with this Squishy Shark Sensory Bag. The Chaos and the Clutter
Water beads are always fun. They make the perfect ocean for this Shark Water Bead Sensory Bin 3 Dinosaurs
Create your own mini ocean and let your kids explore in this Digging for Shark Teeth Sensory Bin. Stir the Wonder
Find out How Sharks Float with this activity. Preschool Powol Packets
Continue learning How Sharks Float with this fun experiment. Preschool Powol Packets
Ever wonder why some animals can live in salt water and others can't? Learn about which animals can live in salt water and try this Desalinization Experiment . Schooling a Monkey
This simple Buoyancy Experiment will help kids understand why sharks don't sink. Little Bins for Little Hands
Print out this I Can Count to 10 with Sharks activity and have fun counting and working on one to one correspondence with your preschooler. Preschool Powol Packets
Kids love to roll dice. This Shark Roll and Cover the Numbers printable shark activity will have them adding and having fun. Playdough to Plato
Work on early reading skills with this simple Shark Sight Words Game. Growing Book by Book
Feed the Shark Alphabet Game will have the kids learning and and having fun. You can even adapt it to work on colors or numbers. Toddler Approved
Print out these Shark Fact Cards , perfect for taking in the car and quizzing each other. Natural Beach Living
Want to know more about sharks? Read some of these "Jawsome" Shark Books for Kids together. There's Just One Mommy
Planning to watch some awesome shark videos? Make one of these fun treats to munch on while you learn about these creatures from the deep.
Tasty Shark Treats
Creamy pudding, crunchy "sand" and a gummy shark all come together for some Shark-Infested Vanilla Pudding. See Vanessa Craft
What better way to celebrate Shark Week than with cake? Find out How to Make a Shark Cake. There's Just One Mommy
Create your own mini ocean you can eat with this Shark Jello Snack. The Joys of Boys
On a hot summer day, ice cream is always a hit. These Ice Cream Sandwich Sharks are sure to bring a smile to the kids' faces. Reading Confetti
These shark crafts and shark activities are perfect for Shark Week or anytime.
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- 20 Sea Animal Crafts for Kids
- The Best Mermaid Gifts for Girls
- 25+ Paper Plate Crafts for Summer
- Awesome Camp Crafts


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The Flash Season 2 Premiere Episode 01 Details : The most awaited and most demanded news for the lovers of the Flash series is here as the second season of The Flash is just going to entertain us all. This is for all the lovers of speedster running. This update is one if the most sensational and most demanded one.
The Flash Season 2 Premiere Episode 01 Details
From past few days people were hearibg this that the second season will start soon and then the dae was confirmed that the premier or the grand opening of second season of The Flash will be on Tuesday 6th October 2015. The first episode or the premier episode of season 2 of The Flash is titled as "The Man who saved the central city".
In the premier episode or the first episode which is titled as "The man who saved the central city" Barry will be seen struggling and tackling to forgive himself for the death of Eddie and is trying to save the whole central city by his own efforts.
The promo of season 2 of The Flash clearly depicts that the Mayor is handling over the key of the city to Barry. But as Barrey comes in front to accept it an another metahuman comes to ruin the flash.
The villian Atom Samsher will have a limited telecast of himself which will be limited to episodes only. There is nothing to think that what will be the twist and how the second season will be as Amell will be there in first episode to entertain us all and tackle all the things perfectly.


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