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Hello, my name is Brett. As you can see, I enjoy playing **//JAZZZZZZZZZ!//** I play the saxophone. I am pretty good at it too! I absolutley, without a doubt, love music. I also like animals, dogs are my favorite! I am also enrolled in baseball, basketball, and soccer. As you can see, I am always busy and with my hands full. Homework just adds onto the to do list as well. What is your day to day life like and what sort of things are you enrolled in?


 * __The Unsolved Mystery of Champ, Lake Champlains Monster__**

There is said to be a monster in the depths of Lake Champlain, a body of water in New York, Vermont, and Quebec, Canada. It is sometimes referred to as America's Nessie as the Loch Ness monster is thought to be related to Champ, Lake Champlains. There have been more than 300 sightings that are simply unexplainable.Champ is thought to be a plesiosaur that happened to escape extiction. A man by the name of Samuel de Champlain discovered the lake and was the first European to encounter Champ in 1609. In 1883, Sherrif Nathan mooney saw the beast predating Nessie( the monster of Loch Ness) by 50 years! Many people are still unaware of Champ, which astonishes me because many of them live in America but have still heard of Nessie! Did you know that P.T. Barnum put a $50,000 reward for the body of the beast. Champ is now on the endangered species list in New York and Vermont.

Lake Champlain is 125 miles long and up to 400 feet deep. It is fresh water full of fish. The lake is perfectly capable of supporting such a monster. The thing is, there would have to be a reproducing population of atleast fifty creatures. With such few sightings in all this time it is nearly impossible for Champ or Nessie to exist. This dosn;t mean that there is no Champ or Nessie though. In the depths of the lake it could be possible for such creatures to exist. Many scientists believe that the sightings may have been debree swept up from the bottom in a special wave called a "seiche" wave. I believe these creatures and many others could exist. Do believe in such creatures?


 * __The American Robot Army__**

The United States Pentagon has started a $130 BILLION DOLLAR program for the construction, purchase, and use of robots for war!The goal is for the robots to lock onto a target, move around, and eventually, decide to lethal force for themselves. There is one robot called a SWORD that has already been deployed in Iraq! The SWORD weighs 200 pounds, goes four mph, and is armed with an M249 light machine gun. It was the first armed robot to ever have been deployed in Iraq but it didn't need to fire a shot.In Iraq and Afghanistan, there are over 6,000 robots in use used to spy, peek around corners, and investigate bombs!One more robot is the MULE standing for Multifunction Utility/ Logistics and Equiptment.The army has ordered 1700 of these robots for 15 brigades. They will be ready for combat in 2014. The possible human-to-robot ratio is 29:1 Half of the robots will be used to carry equiptment while the others will be armed. This robot has already climed to the top of a Sedan, crushing it in the process with its 2.5 ton bulk. This robot is about the size of a Humvee with six legs with wheels attached. This allows it to climb over obstacles with ease.

There are two more robots I would like to talk about.One is called the MAARS. It weighs 235 pounds and can travel at 7mph. It is armed with aM240B medium machine gun. The other, the WARRIOR X700, weighs 250 pounds, can travel 10 mph, and is armed with a 30 caliber machine gun. It has an arm that can lift up to as many as 150 pounds. As you can see, this robotic world is upon us. Technology is getting smarter and there is no stopping it. Maybe one day robots will inhabit the Earth in extremely large numbers. Who knows, maybe robots will do our jobs in the future?

hmike6: Great job! I do think robots will one day do our jobs for big corporations, and we'll all be hobos because we won't have jobs. Then there will be nobody to buy from the corporations, because robots have no use for most products. The entire economy will be messed up. Luckily, that's far into the future.

Stare at the optical illusion for about ten seconds and a girraffe will pop up!

If a man went to the Krusty Crab and ordered a lunch that cost $15.58, what is SpongeBob's 17% tip?

What is 3/4 divided by 1/8?

Solve the following equation- 3+8(34-12)+33x3(13-3)4=?

HMike6: Nice math problems! micdem: fun math problems. here is a link to the answers i found so others don't cheat :) Stephanie81-Nice unsolved mystery. It's really good. you might want to use some colors though. But good Job. LeotsakosS: I don't think it is boring =P, i like the topic you chose because people do know more about nessie then Champ. GJ =) ! Arpegher: Interesting but I also think it needs help. Have a little fun with it! Also put a picture and what you think about the legend and the army. It's part of the "need" list. DanPit3= Great job on your American Robot topic. BUT WHAT HAPPENED TO ALL OF THE COLOR!!!!! There isn't even a graphic representation(In Mrs. McMahon's words) for each topic! Your page name is JAZZ ZEE so jazz your page up! Good summary though.

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