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28
Feb
Yes, like Nero, I change my name every now and then. I was formerly known as Jennith, but I just got way too bored of that name. So, now I’m Araena! And I’ve been here since this site wasn’t its own and was still attached to a freewebs URL. Here’s some info about me(I’ll try [...]
Tags: , Araena, ASPCA, horses, Jennith, Marked, twilight
27
Feb
There once was a time (albeit a very LONG time ago) when the U.S.’s schools were great. They were the envy of other countries. Now? They are getting to the point of laughable. Why? Just look around. The public school teachers are decent (there’s no reason for better teachers to teach at public schools with [...]
Tags: , college, dicipline, elementary, extreme, high, incentives, make, middle, over, qualified, right, rika, salary, school, teachers
26
Feb
This article is my follow up article to my other writing piece entitled “Lost Arts of the Future”. I recently found some interesting proof that Piratical Lord of the Guitars and my predictions are coming true, along with some videos that are on the subject in general. (“Lost Arts of the Future” can be read [...]
Tags: , arts, cooking, future, instruments, lost, piratical, predictions, rika
25
Feb
“It may do us best to not know and be happy, but knowing will, inevitably, make us stronger for the future.” Rika’s Thoughts: This is very true. For example, if one country knew that another country was planning war against the other, it would make them stronger for the war ahead. Or, perhaps, in the [...]
Tags: asteroid, Earth, environmentalist, future, happy, immigration, of, Philosophy, rika, socrates, stronger, the, thoughts, week
24
Feb
About two or three years ago on freewebs.com/thenearbyfuture I wrote a particular article about the dangers of using corn as fuel. It was moved to this site earlier in January (view it here) and I thought that it contained some good points. If people had taken the article seriously, then corn and our economy would [...]
Tags: , algae, corn, ethanol, frustrated, fuel, future, good, listen, listened, moral, nearby, points, rika, world
24
Feb
So you’ve filmed a brilliant short video- the actors are emotional, the crew creative, and that all shined through on camera. Now it’s time to make you video even better. The editing stage of any kind of videography (whether it be Hollywood or small videos) is the most important. You need to tie everything together [...]
Tags: , , chroma, creator, dvd, green, key, maker, movie, rika, screen, video, Videography, windows, windvd
23
Feb
Have you ever done basket weaving? Probably not. What about cave painting? I doubt it. Those are two of the ‘lost arts’ today. Sure- if you look hard enough you could probably find a basket weaving class somewhere but it isn’t nearly as common today as it was a long time ago. A great question [...]
Tags: , , arts, cooking, cursive, future, instant, knitting, lost, lost arts, print, rika, sewing, writing
22
Feb
Today I watched “An Inconvenient Truth” by Al Gore, and was a little disappointed, actually. I started with an open mind, but the beginning was incredibly cheesy. It was more like “An Autobiography/Sob Story about Al Gore”. We don’t want to cry over your son going to the hospital- that has no relevance to global [...]
Tags: al, autobiography, Environment, environmentalist, gore, inconvenient, Inconvenient Truth, pity, review, rika, truth
20
Feb
Everybody is talking about the new Macbook Air notebook. It costs $1799+. Is it worth it? How much would you pay for a notebook? I definitely would not pay that much. I mean, it’s cool and the new thing, but something new will come out and it won’t be cool anymore. Just like we thought [...]
Tags: air, cost, hope, itunes, macbook, notebook, rika, superdrive
19
Feb
We want to know your comments about the Gardasil vaccines. If you have heard of it, you know that some people believe it is good and others are against it. Gardasil is the only vaccine out there that may help prevent diseases that are caused by type 6, 11, 16, and 18 of HPV as [...]
16
Feb
Should sixteen year olds be able to vote? I mean, you know there are mature teens as well as others that aren’t. We feel very strongly about the 2008 elections, as displayed on the “2008 Elections Page”. So who’s your favorite candidate? Even though some of our readers can’t vote, they should still listen to [...]
Tags: , compromises, election, fun, hope, mature, presidential, sixteen, vote
15
Feb
If you haven’t already read it, “Ender’s Game” is a book by Orson Scott Card about the future. They haven’t got to time machines, but it’s mostly about space battles and aliens and (obviously) trying to save the world. In the book, a boy named Ender Wiggin is an intelligent 6-year-old that is asked — [...]
Tags: , book, card, ender, ender's game, future, Jennith, orson, scott
14
Feb
My favorite day of the weeks is fridays THURSDAYS! Why? Well, on Sundays your whole day is ruined knowing that you have to go back to work on Monday. On Mondays the only thing you can think about is the looong week ahead of you. Tuesdays you still have the same mindset like Mondays. Wednesdays [...]
Tags: day, favorite, fridays, of, rika, the, thursday, thursdays, updates, week
13
Feb
What is this world coming to!? First, we use corn for fuel. And now we’re using CHOCOLATE for fuel? Mmm… Chocolate… Right! Back to reality! Well, according to a very useful source, scientists have figured out how to turn chocolate into gallons of fuel. A car company — Ecotec — has been collecting waste from [...]
Tags: , aspcagal, chocolate, fuel, http://www.ridelust.com/get-yourself-some-chocolate-die, Jennith
12
Feb
Guitar Hero is a game where the object is for you to press different colored buttons on a plastic ‘guitar’. The satisfaction people get out of jamming a bunch of buttons I just can’t comprehend. I played real guitar before guitar hero, and saw Guitar Hero as a complete waste of time. Plus, I wouldn’t [...]
Tags: , carpal, cell phones, games, guitar, hero, rika, tunnel, video
11
Feb
One of the greatest things that animals can do is adapt. Over billions of years, animals that live in freezing conditions have evolved to survive in those conditions. For example, polar bears have their warm, fur coat. Now, let’s say that the Earth is not just one rock floating in space. What if the planet [...]
Tags: , bear, caps, Earth, epiphany, global, ice, kill, polar, rika, us, warming
10
Feb
An equation we all know is healthy foods + a variety of that good food= a happy you! Now we’re not just talking about happy as in your body is happy to have foods that don’t poison it, I mean happy as in less stress type of happy. But what foods exactly improve your mood [...]
Tags: , energy, food, good, happy, Health, healthy, mood, rika
9
Feb
We are changing the way we think. How? We are listening to America We are investing in ideas that you send us We are surfing Youtube And we are writing MORE LISTS! Lists about lists Lists listing lists Lists listing what we’re going to do for you, planet Earth Listing listed Youtube videos Abolishing the [...]
Tags: Calister, list, revolution, video, youtube
8
Feb
Jala is our most popular staff member- and her new page (yes, she got a whole PAGE to herself…) just makes that even more true. What I want to know is WHY? WHY do you adoring fans vote for her as the staff contest winner? And not… let’s say…. me? My assumption is that you [...]
7
Feb
Chat rooms are quite controversial- with all the dangers lurking on them, it’s not a surprise that parents want to keep their teens away from them. But there ARE pros, too. Pros: You can talk to other people about important political issues like immigration and get more sides of an argument, opening up your perspective [...]
6
Feb
Don’t look now; “Lights, Camera; ACTION!” isn’t just reserved for Hollywood any more. Thousands of people across the U.S. are grabbing their camcorders and making their OWN short films. Predictably, this is the video revolution that has been waited for; when average citizens can do what Hollywood does- but in the comfort of their own [...]
Tags: , action, camera, chroma, hollywood, key, lights, rika, tips, tube, video, Videography, you, youtube
1
Feb
President Roosevelt, the president from the last depression. 17,000 jobs were lost in January 2008. The real estate market seems to be slipping under with people unable to sell their houses. With the beginnings of perhaps the first recession since 2001, people like me figure that a depression may be on it’s way- whether or [...]
Tags: depression, FDR, great depression, herbert hoover, hoover, president, presidents, recession, rika, roosevelt