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Fiddling!

Devil's Dream

Yo-Yo Ma Plays the prelude to Bach's Suite One, First Movement

Amber Trees

“Mom! I can’t believe you’re not letting me ride my bike anymore! I’d get home fine!” It was her older brother Kyle. Amber and her family lived in an average sized house set on a hill.
“Kyle Parker! Don’t you dare talk to me like that! We are in a hospital so keep your voice down!” said Amber’s mother.
Amber opened her eyes. She was in a hospital gown, in hospital bed, in a hospital room. Amber’s parents were sitting down looking at Kyle. When her mom saw Amber awake she jumped up and squeezed her.
“Mom! Will you please stop!” said Amber.
“Sorry.” Replied her mom.
Amber looked around her room. There was a window. Her family was sitting on the three chairs in the room. There was a nightstand next to her hospital bed. She tried to reach a plastic cup full of water sitting on her nightstand. Her legs wouldn’t move.
TO BE CONTINUED…

National Treasure 2 - Book of Secrets

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New See-Talk-It Merchandise!

See-Talk-It is going to sell an array of STI theme products. We will start selling See-Talk-It shirts for a set price and plastic STI glitter or non-glitter pins for free. However there will be limited stock for these items and we shall not start selling until we get a set date to start. You may expect customized See-Talk-It shirts with a gallery of text and shirt colors to choose from. The price of the shirts will be expensive however.

The STI pins will also be customizable with color choices ranging longer than the shirt background choices. You can have more than 100 combinations of colors to chose from on your pin.

These products will not guarantee everlasting quality but they are durable, cool, and have simple design and fit to your qualifications.

If we start this plan, we will not ship to other US states.

Amber Trees

By 21st Century Observer

Amber couldn't believe she had gotten a 72% on her math test. It was 8th grade! 

     "Oh, well,"she thought, "I guess I'll have to study more next time."

     She was too busy thinking and riding her bike home down the tree lined Main Street, that she didn't notice the maroon-colored car coming right at her.

     "Aaaahhhhh!!!"

     "Beeeeep!!!"

     Amber went flying into a ditch on the side of the road, and slid into Watermelon Lake. It was a famous landmark. A lake shaped like a watermelon. Blackness creeped into her eyes as she slowly sunk. All she could hope for was that she would be found, and saved.

TO BE CONTINUED...  

Amber Trees

Great News! 21st Century Observer will now be posting "Amber Trees" in human form! That means Amber will now be a human!

Tales of an iPhone User: The Phone, Part 2

Making a call on the revolutionary new iPhone is easy. Simply tap on the phone icon and you can browse through your contacts that are automatically set as the ones from your computer. You can also add more directly to your iPhone if you want.
The ways to browse through your contacts are favorites, recent calls or callers and contacts. Favorites are the people you call the most. Recent calls are the people who you have recently called, and the people who have recently called you. Contacts are all your contacts, the people who have their names loaded onto your iPhone. You can also call people by returning their calls.
You can use the keypad to easily call people not in your contacts list. When you are talking to that person, you can add them to your contacts list.
During a call, you can easily put the person on hold, and make another call. Then, you can easily switch between the two calls, or merge them to a conference call. Making calls on an iPhone is fun, easy, and interesting. Join us again, on Tales of an Iphone User!

Next, on Tales of an iPhone User: The Phone, Part 3.

The British Redcoats

Ever hear the story about Paul Revere riding through town yelling, “The British are coming, the British are coming!” Well, that probably isn’t entirely true.
During the Revolutionary War, when the people of America were fighting for their freedom, the term for a British soldier was “Redcoat”. Now, you are all probably wondering, “Why were they called that!!” The British soldiers were called “Redcoats” simply because they wore heavy, bright red coats. Another term for them is “Lobsterbacks” which was usually used as an insult to them.
Now, I will get to my point. In the 13 colonies, everyone was British. When Paul Revere came riding around*, he probably yelled, “The Redcoats are coming!”

*The British army had found out which town the Colonists stored their ammunition at. Paul Revere came riding on a horse through that town to warn the villagers. The Redcoats were planning to attack in the morning, and when they did, the townsfolk were ready for them.

Newsletter Progress

On Behalf of Wheelz,

I want to say thanks for everyone who took the time responded to last month’s newsletter. Also, most people with a print copy didn’t throw their newsletter in the garbage on the first release. You may actually think I’m kidding; it is actually a good improvement. 30% of the people receiving the newsletters, this half is students in school, kept the newsletter for about 5 days in their backpacks or took them home. The same goes for the 100 people who receive it by e-mail all around the world. I really appreciate the motivation you are giving me for the See-Talk-It Newsletter. If you have the opportunity or time, do a favor and when you are done reading, put your See-Talk-It Newsletter in the recycling bin rather than the regular waste basket. It does very well to our environment, and could earn you a few cents if you go to a machine, take off the staple and insert your garbage in. The same common sense goes for all other newsletters, newspapers, and other recyclable trash.

The iPhone

You walk into a Starbucks and you hear a good song playing. You take out your iPhone and tap the iTunes music store button. You see what the song is, and whom it is by. You decide you like it, so you buy it wirelessly for $.99.
These are some of the things that you can do with the now $399 (for 8 gig.) iPhone. Starbucks has recently teamed up with Apple in the way that I have just explained to you-when you walk into (most) Starbucks with wi-fi internet, you can preview or purchase the song playing, and the songs previously played. In the Starbucks, you can also browse the internet with your iPhone using their wireless network, rather than the slower Edge network.
When you are browsing the internet, listening to music and drinking your coffee, you receive a call. To answer, you simply pinch a small button (about the size of 1/4 of a stick of gum) that stops your music and answers your call.
You can find all this, and more in a sleek, silver, fun-to use product.

Next, in Tales of an iPhone User: The Phone, Part 1

The Space Elevator

By Mr. Science Guy

Not so far into the future, an ambitious project virtually impossible with present technology to make frequent space travel easier by far… the space elevator. A project that used to be only dream within man’s imagination is now seen not only as possible, but with future’s better technology, not too complex and very useful, so it will almost impossible to not think that it will definitely be built.
The elevator will start as a satellite in space in a geostationary orbit over land. A geostationary orbit is acquired by staying directly above one part of the equator and orbiting at the speed of one orbit per day, in other words, the satellite will always above one point of the earth. Then two things would be extended in opposite directions. One is the actual elevator, extended towards the earth. The other is a weight exactly the same weight and length as the elevator to keep the balance. The weight uses up a lot of material and it doesn’t serve any particular use besides keeping the balance, but it’s necessary. Once the bottom of the elevator is firmly attached to the ground, it’s ready to use.
The elevators are airtight. They are sealed on the ground once ready and no air should leak out. The middle part acts like a space station and a forward base. Once inside the middle part, astronauts can do experiments with zero gravity and vacuums just like they’d do in a space station, and spacecrafts and space probes, with or without humans inside, can take off from the middle part. That gets rid of the need to waste all the fuel and money to be launched in a rocket out of the atmosphere. The space elevator will be a very convenient and cheap way to go to space in the future, and it’s definitely a project worth doing.

Palindromes!

A palindrome is a word or sentence that is spelled the same fowards and backwards. I will list some for you. Look for more on See-Talk-It Share and 21st Century!
Nurse, I spy gypsies! Run!
Madam, I'm Adam.
Racecar.
Harass selfless Sarah!
He won a Toyota now, eh?
Never even.
Kayak.

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Web 3.0

By Wheelz,
Now, the web has numbers. The version that we ourselves work on is Web 2.0, a collaboration of huge networks; blogs, RSS Feeds, MySpace, YouTube, and more. Another revolution is yet to come the questions the design of the whole network and challenges us to think. The Web 3.0.

Working on Web 3.0's scale would be amazing. We have to dramatically change the world to make this happen, whether that's good or not.

The PC Magazine tells us 4 ideas that will probably explain the future of the web. Idea one is "The Semantic Web". It's a web where machines can read the web as easily as humans. So, you can tell your machine to search a topic on the web and it'll do it for you. Idea two is the 3D web, where you can interact in a world while at your desk. Idea 3 is the "meda-centric" web. You can choose media and find art that looks similar. Idea 4 is the "persuasive web" which is a web that's available anywhere at anytime. Even on your bathroom mirror or wall of your house.

So, in the future there will be more internet than ever than before, spreading from idea to idea. The answers are revealed if you experience it.

Insight on Architecture

Above, the view of the Burj Dubai over the skyline, recently passing over the height of the tallest man-made structure in the world, the CN Tower, which held the record since 1976. The Burj Dubai continues to stretch higher, making it the tallest man made structure ever attempted to create. You can also look at the other buildings around it, meaning new large structures will soon attempt to create an ancient city into a modern wonder.



Burj Dubai brings a lot of commerce to parts of the city, having been re-illustrated. At first nobody knew about the tropical wonder of Dubai. It makes me wonder why so many commercial industries made it here. Unfortunately, big cities lie on coastal areas. It's not bad, because it's beautifully tempting. But in the future, there will be flooding. Millions of people will live in these areas, cramming the coast. Once Antartica melts, the whole project is done for. It's a thing to think about. There's always a price to pay. For instance, there must be a trapdoor in a land of promises.

Burj Dubai is amazing. It's design, construction, enough said. Also, recently, Dubai surpassed the height of Taipei 101. I don't like the architecture of Taipei 101. I definitely like the damper idea, but the outside looks like... I can't explain. All I can say about it however is that you can't try to fit too much traditional work into a modern piece. The definition of modern is something futuristic. Futuristic means something not like anything else. Something that is conspicous to our world is futuristic. So far, I like the Burj Dubai the best.

I put down my trust in the Freedom Tower because they changed the design. I totally liked the previous one. The new design looks to much like a rectangular prism. All buildings are like rectangular prisms right? As I said earlier, something that is conspicous to our world is futuristic, so we have to take one step forward and think of something new.

In the Future...

By applepie and Wheelz,

In the future, we will have ingenious inventions that will improve our daily life.

Cars in the future will fly. One thing that's certain is that they will be powered differently. Carbon emissions are destroying our earth. One thing we can do is change our fuel to hydrogen, with no carbon emissions. Speculatory technical progress shows that early flying cars will have 4 jet engines placed evenly on each side. GPS systems will control the car which hovers directly above normal ground roads.

Another thing that is destroying our atmosphere is our electrical usage in our homes and apartments. In the future, your home will probably be powered by geothermal, solar, and hydro energy. Planting grass on your rooftop will collect toilet water (A.K.A. dew), and water for other appliances. You can also collect energy from solar panels on your rooftop.

Our food in the future will be more artificial than ever. Ranging from genetically modified fruits and vegetables to cow meat, the cows having beed added more growth hormones and chemicals never imagined. But, no one has actually proven that these foods are 100% normal and nutrient proficient. Isn't that weird?

People wonder, will we ever colonize Mars? And, is it beneficial? We are probably not going to have a vacation to a 4 star hotel on Mars in our lifetime, but it's possible. Also, we can turn Mars into a second Earth. Probably in 1000 years, we can generate enough emissions to thin out Mars' ozone layer and create an Earth-like atmosphere. But why? I can name 3 reasons, overpopulation on Earth, too much global warming on Earth, and for no reason at all.

In the future, if you fall off a 3 story building, a chemical in your blood will freeze your vital organs without killing them. This way, they will shut down without being permanently rendered inactive. Also, there will be a small electrical conveniences in your clothes which will tell medical operators your identity and about your injury. They will send a flying ambulance equipped with a crew and emergency appliances to you. They will mend broken bones and organs in your body; as much as they can to revive you and keep you alive.

How fast will you drive in the future? Probably as fast as you want. Anyway, most cars by then will be controlled withought a steering wheel. So I'd guess the average speed is about 100 miles per hour. Since cars are controlled by the internet in the future, there will be no traffic jams unless if the internet crashes. You can actually trust that the automated school bus will take you or your child safely to school.

Holographs are very different. They are not on a screen or wall. They are floating. However, holographs are not a new idea. They have been around for a couple of years. Today's holographs are only flat sheets. The holograph is basically a 3D of flat sheet of mist that has something projected onto it. 2007's holograph is still majorly low-tech. You will soon see stunning 3D holographs in your sity or town in about 10-20 years.

That's practically the end, whether that's also a speculation or not.

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Go Macs!

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By 21st Century Observer,

I'll get to the point. Mac computers are faster. They are one piece! IBMs (Dell, Windows, and all those other brands that aren't Macs) have the moniter and that other big chunk of computer (I don't know the name of it since I have a mac). A Mac has all that stuff in an IBM and more in one, reasonably sized piece. Macs also have cool extra things, like Dashboard, one click, and you are in a personalized space with all kinds of cool "Widgets" like a dictionary, calculator, and other things. The way you personalize it is by downloading all kinds of widgets from apple.com. You can have games, right on the screen and so many other things that I don't want to go on, and on about. This company created the iPod and iPhone too. To learn much more you can go to www.apple.com or visit various apple stores where you can test the products.(While still in the store.)

Response:

Wheelz

I believe he's right. The more people who buy this great product can make it even more compatible with today's jumbled up computer demand. People who love what they do, people that want the best technology with the least clutter, are obviously compatible with the Apple Mac.

The Future of Human Civilization

Everybody knows that scientists are looking for alien civilization in space, right? Well, when they’re searching, they are looking for either type 1, type 2, or type 3 civilization. Type 1 is when the inhabitants have harnessed they’re planet and control it. They control the weather, they can build cities on oceans, etc., and their power source is solar power. Type 2 is when they have advanced technology , but they don’t have the power to supply it. So, they also use solar power, but, when their supply runs out, they will use the energy from all other stars in their galaxy. Type 3 is when they also use solar power, but their technology is super advanced, kind of like Star Wars. Where are we on this scale? Well, we are so low, we aren’t even on the scale. We are type 0. We get our energy from dead plants and animals and coal. But, right now, we are making the transfer from type 0 to type 1. This transfer is the trickiest and most difficult of all transfers, but is also the most important of all. According to some theories, we should have found hundreds of type 1, 2, and 3 civilizations by now. But why haven’t we found any civilization at all yet? Well, that’s probably because all of those other civilizations didn’t make it in their transfer from type 0 to type 1 civilization. On their planet, their might be to few or too much of something. On our planet , we are having too much heat due to Global Warming. Now you should see why this transfer is the most important of all. It’s because this transfer will decide whether we will succeed and continue to type 2, then type 3 civilization, or we self destruct on the first transfer. Our future depends on this all . . .

Pandas-an Endangered Species

By Gary
Pandas are an endangered species that lives only in Asia. In Asia, they live only in China. They live in only six small parts in China, with only about 700-1000 of them left. They are about
5-6 feet tall and weigh up to about 276 pounds. They live up to about 25 years. Pandas eat bamboo, and one reason they are endangered is because they are starving. People are using bamboo too much. People make BBQ sticks, houses, and sometimes in China, even rugs out of bamboo! These are only some of the things people make out of bamboo. Another reason they are dying is because they only like to live in a certain type of environment. But farmers are raising cattle in this environment and panda’s environment is disappearing. The panda is a great animal and people should start helping it.

Computer Gaming Year

Spore. This new PC game is coming out next year. It's the best in the world! Spore simulates a microscopic organism, evolving, conquering, taking over the planet, and then taking over the universe! It will be a game of complex strategy and thinking.
In Will Wright's The Sims and Sim City, development has ceased. In 2004 Maxis dominated the market with the Sims 2. Sim City's developer, however, abandoned the game. Sim City 5 is yet to be handled by a new company.
In Sid Meier's games, specific detail and captivating gameplay have immersed the regular gamer into a new computer dimension. His games have a distinct tinge that orders you to give respect. Examples of his games are Civilization IV and Sid Meier's Railroads.
Microsoft is slowly bringing itself into computer gaming. Flight Simulator X was released and it symbolises Microsoft's new strategy.
These details I have just given you are from my own computer games. Try them out! You'll have fun.

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