Seekers

Are you a fan of the Warriors series? If so, you’ll love the new Seekers novel by Erin Hunter. The novel Seekers, A quest begins is about three bears and their journey in the wild. The setting takes place in the future. No, not with flying cars but, when we start expanding further into the wild destroying animal habitats and the environment. The story has three main characters. Kallik is a polar bear who needs to make a journey to land before the ice melts. Toklo, a grizzly bear needs to travel with great courage to help bring his sick brother, Tobi, into safety. And lastly Lusa, who has lived in a zoo all her life, escapes to help keep a promise she made to a friend. These three bears meet, changing their lives forever. They travel to a place of adventure to get closer to a future they could only dream about.

I personally couldn’t put the book down. At first I thought a book about bears would be boring but it turned out to be great. The author did an awesome job with introducing the problems from the animal’s perspectives. You really change your views on how you see things by the end of the novel. All in all, I would give this novel thumbs up and anyone who likes to read will enjoy this novel.
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Book Review: Brisingr

It has been a long three years waiting for the third book in the Inheritance Cycle. Well it’s finally here!
In this book, Eragon is entangled in all the promises he has made in the past two books. With Murtagh still at large, Eragon is in a precarious position; he has to attend the dwarves conferences to pick their new king, and continue his vital training with the elves. And he has to get a new blade.

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iPhone, Bust or Must?

The iPhone is every person in the universe’s dream.  The phone’s touch screen was the first in the line up, and now is copied by many. The iPhone’s cost has gone down in the past months, but it has still stayed the same old cool gadget of 2008. The iPhone, as every one knows, can surf the web, check how up your stocks are, add your hardest math problems, text, play songs, movies, guide you to a destination, and most importantly, make calls!

The phone is fairly simple to use, and comes in a handy black case with a charger, earphones, a “finger tips” guide, and a nifty polishing cloth.  The iPhone only needs to bee hooked up to iTunes and activated before use.    The Apple©® Gizmo made it onto 2007 top ten list, as one of the top three!  It holds 8GB of memory, and when using it in iPod mode, you can flick through your cover flow.  The ear buds have an on and off switch allowing you to answer calls while doing anything else.  If there is one thing wrong with the iPhone it’s that if you download a lot, it will be slower that frozen molasses.  It lacks some major features of a cell phone and some of the screens, starting with serial number 50000, has dark or messed up screens.  The iPhone only accepts AT&T and has a 36$ activation fee. The phone only costs 60$ a month for the minimal plan. To put it in short, the iPhone is a giant leap into the future for apple as well as many others.  It is imitated by many, but none can stand up to its awesomeness.  The iPhone was, and is the first to be a computer, a cell phone, and an iPod.

Superhero Movie Review

This movie is a rip off of the movie spider-man except for the fact that they have different characters. In the movie a young boy who is in high school is hiding his feelings for  a a girl who he has known for most of his life. The movie instead of having spiders it has drogonflies. Also instead of having green goblins there is a guy name Sand of time or something. He is a mass villan who drians people of their youth for him to stay alive . He finds out that he has to drain New York for immortality. Then the story goes the events of spider man and has the ending with good triumphs over evil.

The Vantage Point

The movie ” The Vantage Point” was one of the better movies it had spine tingling action and suspense. The actors in the film did an outstanding  job. The actors in the movie were Dennis Quaid, Matthew Fox, Edgar Rameraz, Forest Whitaker, Ayelet Zurer, Sigourney Weaver, William Hurt, Eduardo Noriega, Said Taghimaqui. The movie takes place in Salamanca, Spain. Eight different people (they are all stangers to each other) go to see the top rulers of the world try to end terrorism. Thomas Barnes (Dennis Quaid) and Kent Taylor ( Matthew Fox) are assigned to protect the president of united states ( William Hurt) . In the crowd there is Howard Lewis (Forest Whitaker) who thinks he has the person who shot the president on camera. The movie plays about a 30 minute loop of what happens from each characters point of view. In all of the action of the there is a terrorist attack going on. In the movie there is one who decieves, and there are others who are basicly pupets in “a game of cat and mouse.”

Crazy Fire Mongolian Grill

This week I went to Crazy Fire Mongolian Grill on Capital Boulevard. This is a Japanese themed restaurant with Japanese symbols everywhere. There is a sports bar with a TV that looks to be about 50”in diameter. They also have mini TV’s everywhere so you can watch TV and sit down and eat. And for you people who like Japanese food, Crazy Fire has it’s own separate sushi bar.

The real reason I came here is for the “all you can eat” buffet. It’s real simple, all you do is go to the buffet line and pick out the ingredients you want for your meal. First you pick out your meats (if you want any) I got shaved beef. Then I put some white meat chicken with some noodles on top. Then you can put on vegetables, but I didn’t feel like them tonight. After that you can put on your sauce, so I put on soy sauce, crazy sauce(hot), and garlic chili(very hot). Then you put on the spices that you want, so I put on garlic powder, ginger powder, cayenne powder, and rosemary leaves.

Of course all the food you just put in your bowl is raw so you have to get it cooked. After you’re done getting your food, you take it to the cooks and they will cook it in front of you. It’s fun to watch them because sometimes they do some cool tricks. When they are done they will offer you brown or white rice. Of course I had to use chopsticks to eat my food. My meal my great, it was nice flavorful and had the right spice to it. The good thing is if you mess up your meal like putting to much spice on it, you can just get right up and go redo your dish because it’s all you can eat.

This restaurant is great so I’m giving it a 10 out of 10. The waiters/waitresses are helpful, the food is cheap and healthy, great entertainment, and its all you can eat! I think anyone will like this restaurant even if you don’t like Japanese food because it has a variety of food for everyone.

Sharp Shooters

Some of the best brands in digital Cameras, Nikon, Canon, and Olympus, have completely upgraded their new line of Digital SLR’s with better auto-focusing capabilities.

Digital SLR’s can shoot as fast as machine guns, but those pictures can be useless if all of them come out blurry. Autofocus can sometimes fail in low-light situations with quick moving objects. Finally, 2 cameras have come up to the top to show just how good their auto-focusing capabilities can be.

First, the Nikon D300. It packs 1 autofocus points! That is the most ever for a D-SLR! it is designed to to hold focus on a moving subject, like say, a soccer players blue jersey. Users can lock the cameras central focus point on the player, and if he darts to the edge of the frame, the camera passes the auto focus to another point in less than a second.

Next, the Olympus E-3. Each of the E-3’s 11 focus points has an extra row of pixels. This lets it gather twice as much information, which lets it get a more precise reading. They also claim to have the worlds most fastest autofocusing camera.

Overall, the Nikon D300 matched High end Canon 1Ds Mark III, and slightly outperformed other cameras in low light. Did I mention that the Mark III is an $8,000 camera? The Nikon D300 is only $1,800. It is good for shooting in low light situations. Also, the focus tracking worked very well. Although the Mark III, the 8 thousand dollar camera, completely trounced the others, the Nikon performed better than the Olympus.

Bojangles

Bojangles; founded in 1977 by Jack Fulk to be a high quality, on the go place.  It may have started that way, but something happened in those 31 years to change that.  Truth be told, Bojangles is turning out to be anything but high quality.

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The smallest HD Camcorder

The new Panasonic HD camcorder has 12 lenses in a compartment the size of your thumb for shake-free video.

Light enters the front of the camcorder through the multiple high grade lenses which are made of extremely pure glass.  These bend the light to magnify the image but not to spread out the colors.  Looms lenses inside slide back and forth to adjust zoom.  The camera can capture enough light to see in a candle lit room.

Next, the light passes to image stabilizers that smoothes out shakes and jitter from your hands.  Advanced sensors in the camera send a signal to electromagnets on the position and movement of the camera, and in turn make tiny adjustments to the lenses, as many 4000 a second, that compensate for movement.

Before the image is recorded, the light has to be divided into red, green, and blue.  Panasonic uses prisms, instead of color filters, which doesn’t take away the light.  Each stream of light strikes an image sensor that measures intensity on over 560 thousand pixels to produce vivid video.

SPECS:

Size:  2.6 x 2.6 x 5.3 inches

weight: 14 OZ.

Resolution:  1920 x 1080 pixels

Cost:  1,000$

more information:  panasonic.com

recording:  5 hours of HD video on a 32 GB SD card

The Classier Lava Lamp

After a stressful day, one thing appeals to most people.  It doesn’t matter if they are teenagers or working adults, they couldn’t survive without it.  It’s their bed.  Don’t let stress take over your time for rest.  Sleep is key for alertness and completing everyday tasks.  Without it, the brain would not be able to function at the best of its ability.  So why lose sleep over stress?  RelaxStyle presents the Room Palette effect lamp.  This new lamp projects on walls and ceilings in your bedroom.  It creates a waving effect which simulates being underwater.  This calming lamp is soothing and may help you fall asleep faster after a hard day.

Specs:

• Timer function:  Keep your lamp on for 30 minutes up to 120.
• Uses AA Batteries
• Light Source:  LED

 

Price:  $69

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