The Dangers of the INTERNET!

In our day and age technology is becoming more and more personal and available to you and your children. In ways this can be very cool and exciting but it can also be very dangerous when it comes to tweens and teens. 1-3 teens have experienced online harassment. Many of these could be from an online predator trying to get kids to talk about things that are too personal for the internet. There are many way to both protect yourself and others from online predators. Sure you can try the most restricted method of installing website blocking software, but this can be a big hassle when it comes to doing something useful on the computer like homework or a research paper and you need to access several sites that are all blocked.

 According to www.netsmartz.com and their statistics about 1 in 25 youths have received online sexual solicitation where a solicitor tried to make offline contact. If this teen were to ever accept they could be possibly raped, molested or even killed. On the website www.kids.getnetwise.org they talk about how to protect your child from having something bad happening, either physically or mentally/emotionally, over the internet. A few are “don’t let your child chat in unmoderated chat rooms” and “Don’t let your child give out personal info such as email, phone numbers or addresses.” Many online predators pretend to be sympathetic and “listen” to your child’s problems to get close to them and acquire their trust. Some of these problems could be between parents and the child and the predator will give their all to try and drive a wedge further between them.

Have you ever watched the show on NBC called “To Catch A Predator?” well if you haven’t here’s a run down on what happens in each episode: A fake 12-14 year old boy/girl will get in a chat room and agree to meet with a random person to have sex with them. The person that they lure in is usually ugly, lonely, and aged from their late 20’s to late 50’s. When the predator comes to the fake teen’s house they are met by Chris Hansen. He interrogates them thoroughly to get some background info on why they were there and if they had ever seen the show. Funnily enough some of them have but were too stupid to think that that would happen to them. After Hansen has tortured them he lets them leave only for them to be ambushed by the police. At the end of the show they have caught 2-3 men predators that all had come to have sex with a random teen girl/boy they met online.

The best advice you can get about online safety is “just don’t do it.” [Deborah Olivarez] And this is true because if you just don’t do it and you’re personal info’s not out there then you don’t have to worry. UNT campus officer, Deborah Olivarez, has personally known a woman who went through a hard time dealing with the effects of an online predator. According to her the girl found a person on facebook that pretended to be an acquaintance of hers. She quickly became attracted to him because he showered her in attention and kind words about how beautiful she was. But because she trusted him so much, he asked her to post naked photos of herself. The photos ended up on all of her friend’s facebook walls. The detective working on the case eventually found the guy and he was punished. This all happened because she trusted this guy she didn’t even know that she met online. In Christopher O’Kennon’s book Predators and Princesses: the internet safety guide for parents he says “Everyone is vulnerable to someone who pays attention to them” [O’Kennon Location 61 of 183] Also in his book he did an experiment where he created a myspace account with the information and profile of a 16 year old girl. He then friend requested teenagers in his area and none of them rejected his request. [O’Kennon Location 53 of 183] He said that just by reading their profiles and stuff like that he could learn a lot like where they went to school and even where they lived.

Personally I have gone through a time where I actually did some of these things and trust me I’m not proud of it and I am actually relieved that my parents caught me before I could get myself into any actual danger. I have learned a lot just from writing this paper and I hope others will benefit from it as well.

Resources:

O'Kennon, Christopher. Predators and Princesses: The Internet Safety Guide for Parents. Print.

“Internet Safety Statistics.” Parents and guardians. Web. 09 Nov. 2011 http://www.netsmartz.org/safety/statistics.

Chat, Technology:. “GetNetWise| Risks by Technology: Chat.” Getnetwise| your one click away. Web. 09 Nov. 2011. http://kids.getnetwise.org/safetyguide/techology/chat.

Hansen, Chris. “Potential Predators Got south in Kentucky-date line NBC- to catch a predator –msnbc.com “Msnbc.com-breaking news, science, and tech news, world news, us news, local news-msnbc.com. Dateline Nbc.Web.09 Nov. 2011 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22423433/ns/dateline_NBC-to-catch-a-predator/.

umm... i don't know...

Hey you people! what happening? Umm... im not sure what to write about today... Ok so when my cousin came back from japan she fell in love with this band called Big Time Rush and i'll admit they're pretty cute for a nick band but they have this new song called "If i ruled the world" And i really liked it cause its not really like they're usual stuff. But tell me guys what would you do if you ruled the world?

I think i would find James Maslow for my cousin and let them meet cause hes her fav. Trust me i would know. Anyway besides that i'm not sure what i would do if i did rule the world.

Ya know it's ya boy IYAZ and Big Time Rush

If I ruled the world,
I'd throw all the money in the air like confetti
If I ruled the world
Every house got a DJ and a backyard party
And I'd break all the borders down,
When I shake the ground
If I ruled the world
I'd dream out loud

So everybody get up, up, out of your seats
Kick off your shoes like you're down at the beach
Jump up, up, up on the beat
Singing ayo, ayo, ayo
Up, up, out of your seats,
Be who you are love is all you need
All of us geeks, freaks, and wannabes
Singing ayo
If I ruled the world
I would give it, give it all to you
Give it, give it, give it all to you
If I ruled the world
I would give it, give it all to you
Give it, give it, give it all to you

If you were my girl
You'd never have to worry about another thing no
Cause I'd rule the world
And you'd be right next to me running the show
We'd throw every rule in the book out
And bring down the house
If you were my girl we'd dream out loud

So everybody get up, up, out of your seats
Kick off your shoes like you're down at the beach
Jump up, up, up on the beat
Singing ayo, ayo, ayo
Up, up, out of your seats,
Be who you are love is all you need
All of us geeks, freaks, and wannabes
Singing ayo
If I ruled the world
I would give it, give it all to you
Give it, give it, give it all to you
If I ruled the world
[| From: http://www.elyrics.net/read/b/big-time-rush-lyrics/rule-the-world-lyrics.html |]
I would give it, give it all to you
Give it, give it, give it all to you

I'd be beating on my chest
I'm the king of the hill,
Iyaz and Big Time Rush keeping it real.
Magic carpets girl we go wherever,
I ain't trying to run game
I ain't trying to be clever
Girl Im'ma be the king
And you will be the queen
Going 100 miles an hour
Girl we running the streets
And if the cops ever try and pull us over
We tell them "Hey Mr. Officer"
"We own ya"

Hey oh!
If I ruled the world

So everybody get up, up, out of your seats
Kick off your shoes like you're down at the beach
Jump up, up, up on the beat
Singing ayo, ayo, ayo
Up, up, out of your seats,
Be who you are love is all you need
All of us geeks, freaks, and wannabes
Singing ayo
If I ruled the world
I would give it, give it all to you
Give it, give it, give it all to you
If I ruled the world
I would give it, give it all to you
Give it, give it, give it all to you

If I ruled the world
I would give it, give it all to you
Give it, give it, give it all to you
I would give it, give it all to you
Give it, give it, give it all to you

If I ruled the world
I would give it, give it all to you
Give it, give it, give it all to you
I would give it, give it all to you
Give it, give it, give it all to you

If I ruled the world


Sorry i just had to post the lyrics cause im listening to it right now. :D anyway i guess thats good enough... Idk i've run out of things to talk about. GO JAGS!


Thanks always! PEACE LOVE AND BIG TIME RUSH!

I'm really lazy

Hey people as you can see from the title im very lazy! Me and my friend clumsy are the same when it comes to the laziness. :) Anyway sorry that i didn't post yesterday, my comp has been annoying with how it charges and i didn't get on it until like 2 and then i didn't start writing till 3:20 and by that time jaimee couldn't have posted it on fb cause she was already on her way home. So yeah. haha anyway were on chapter 2 of the second part! Yay! Can you believe that im already writing the 5th chapter of the 3rd part and this whole thing is like 74 pages long. Just think if i got it published and it was one of those short books like length wise then it would probably be pretty thick. Anypickle heres the 2nd chapter of the second part!

Chapter 2

Raytan Kol

Friday, June 10^th, 2011

“Do you want to meet everyone?” I asked Kastle as we walked to the company base.

“Sure.” She replied. A couple minute later we made it to the building that housed my company. As we walked in through the door I rang a little bell that hung close to it. Seconds later all of my personnel came out of their rooms. We started walking and I introduced them all to Kastle.

“This is Leo, he is my 6^th seat.” I said passing the first person in the hall. “This is Grimoire, he is my 5^th seat. This is Seraph, she is my 4^th seat. This is Dirk, he is my 3^rd seat. And this,” I said stopping in front of the last person standing in front of his door. “Is Dartai Irril, he is my sergeant.”

Kastle stood there gazing up at him. He was a little bit shorter than me at 6’ 8” but he was still like a giant to Kastle. He had chin length blonde hair that hung in his face. He wore an outfit that was similar to my own except that he didn’t have shoulder plates. He looked down at Kastle and gave her a flirty smile when he saw just how pretty she was. She blushed and smiled back.

“Come along.” I said as I continued walking down the hall. She followed behind me. “Here’s my room,” I said as we passed my own humble abode. “And here is your room.” I opened the door and motioned her inside. “Your bed is here and bathroom over there. I’ll come get you in 10 minutes for a little family meeting. Make youself at home.” She smiled and said ok as I walked back out into the hallway almost bumping into Dartai on my way out.

“You better stay away from her. She’s only a kid.” I said walking all the way back down the hall to my office. He followed close behind.

“I don’t know what you are talking about Captain.” He said coming into my office behind me.

“Bull, you well exactly know what I’m talking about Dartai. Just stay away from her I don’t need you distracting her.” I said sitting down at the large wooden desk that took up most of the space in the room. “Now make yourself useful and set up the meeting room and call everyone in 10 minutes.” He nodded and then left. I worked on paperwork until I heard Dartai ring the bell and call everyone to the meeting room.

I got up and walked back down to Kastle’s room and knocked on her door. I heard a “Come in!” so I opened the door and poked in my head.

“Ready to go?” I asked her.

“Yep.” She replied hopping off her bed and walking over to me. We then made our way down the hall and passed the front door, walking down to the meeting room. Everyone was already sitting at the large round table when we entered. There were two open seats at the top of the table so led us over to them. I sat down with Kastle on my left and Dartai on my right. There were 4 bottles of Mutt sitting on the table when I called for something a little more suitable as well. One of the servants brought some American soda and set it on the table along with some glasses. I told Kastle to help herself to the soda but none of the mutt because she was underage. I didn’t really feel like getting drunk so I sat and chatted while I watched as everyone else got tipsy then more and more drunk. We all talked about how the mission to the human world had been and most of the men tried hitting on Kastle.

By the time they had finished off the 4 bottles of mutt it was already 7:00. I told everyone that they were too drunk to be presentable at dinner so I ordered the dinner for them to eat here and told Kastle that we were leaving to go to the slop house as many people liked to call it for some reason.

We left and made our way down there. When we arrived we were right on time. Dinner was just about to be served. I led Kastle into the building then to the table that usually sat my whole company but the only ones there were Kastle and I. We sat down and waited as we were served with loads of food. Kastle looked like she was in heaven as the servants set down all the different dishes of really good looking food.

She grabbed a plate and helped herself to a serving of pretty much everything. I also helped myself but to not quite as big a helping. We ate in silence for pretty much the whole time. When I had finished Kastle was still eating so I sat back in my chair and waited patiently. When she finished we gave our thanks to the staff and then left. It was now dark outside but torches lit the pathway back to the base.

“Did you enjoy dinner?” I asked Kastle as we walked.

“Yes, thank you. It was very good.” She replied while patting her stomach. I smiled and nodded. When we got back to the base we walked in and I bid her a goodnight as I opened my bedroom door. She said good night and smiled as she walked down to her room. I went in my room and closed the door behind me. I decided to take a shower then go work on some more paperwork.

OMG PART 2!!!!

Omg.... you guys made it to PART 2!! yay! ok so for these i started over on the chapter numbers so this first one is actually called chapter 1 as well except that its just for part 2. And also i would have gotten back to this sooner but ive been kinda busy with back to school stuff and the whole sleeping till 12 thing throws me off a little. So ya i apologize for the longish wait. But anyway i'll quit babbling and get on with the chapter! btw i named part two "Into the Nivanna". so ya! thanks always! and also sorry its so short but Ieri and micah aren't actually my favorites...Oh yeah i posted a poll for your favorite Aeros down at the very bottom of the page so dont forget to check that out and vote for you favs!

Chapter 1

Ieri Atris

Friday, June 10^th, 2011

“Rise from the earth, Come forth to our vision,” I chanted along with the other guardians in our little circle. “I command, Rise to us from the earth.” I yelled raising my arms above my head in unison with the others. As we lifted, a small wooden shack rose from the ground in front of us. We all pushed our hands against the cool wood of the shack.

“I command thy to transport.” We all again said in unison. I then took my hands off of the wood and walked over to the door at the front and opened it. Inside I could see the Nivanna Commons and the Color Squads Academy. I then backed away and motioned for everyone to enter. After everyone had made it through the door I then followed and closed the door behind me. As I walked over to the others I could hear the shack sink back into the ground behind me.

“Ok for now you guys,” I said motioning to the other guardians. “You should report back to your companies with your Aeros. Find them all something more suitable to this world so they can fit in a little better if they were to leave the company base. We will all train constantly for the next 5 weeks to get ready to confront Ridor and his minions. All of you feel free to explore on your free time but do not go anywhere outside the Nivanna Common’s gates. Understood?” The Aeros nodded their heads. “Good. Now you may all leave. Micah, come with me.” I then started walking towards the Color Squads academy where the company bases were located. Micah followed closely behind me.

*   *   *

“Here,” I said handing Micah some clothes. “These should fit you. It’s an old plain Color squad uniform. There’s a bathroom over there and your bed is there.” I said pointing to the bathroom and bed. “Make yourself at home, if you need anything my office is a couple doors down to the right and my bedroom is two doors down to the left. Dinner is at 7:30, I’ll get Hawk to show you down there. Also feel free to take a look around but try not to get lost.” I said walking over to the door and opening it. I waved and then left closing the door behind me.

I walked next door and knocked on it before opening it. “It’s me.” I said walking in. “I need you to show Micah down to the dinner hall when you leave.”

“Ok.” Said the man sitting at his desk, head hunched over what he was doing. His name was Hawk Tannal and he was a tall muscular man with black spiky hair and sky blue eyes. He was 48 but had the appearance of an 18 year old. I was only 2 years younger and I looked about 18 too. Aging in the Nivanna was slower than it was in the normal world. I had chosen him to be my sergeant because he had stood out to me in his private demonstration. Ever since then we had been very close and people had told us that we acted more like brother and sister than we did as Captain and Sergeant. I walked back out of the room and closed the door. I turned to the right and walked down to my office to catch up on my paperwork.

After about 4 hours of paperwork I looked at the clock and saw it was already 5:47. I got up and walked into the attached bathroom. I washed my face and hands. I then walked out into the hallway and then out the front door of the base. I made my way over to the garden that wasn’t to far from the company. As I got there I saw Captain Smoke of Company 1 sitting on a bench. I walked over and sat down next to him.

“I see you’re back, Ieri. How was the human world?” He asked.

“It was ok, but I still prefer this world.” I said with a smile. “How is Company one treating you?”

“Good but its defiantly much more stressful there than it ever was in four.” He replied with a sigh. “Look,” He pointed to the tree in front of us. “The cherry tree has blossomed.” He got up and walked over to it, reaching up and picking one of the pink flowers. He walked back and stood in front of me, holding it out for me to see.

“It’s beautiful.” I said gazing down at the flower. He reached under my chin and lifted it so he could look at my eyes. He then put the flower in my hair behind my ear. I looked into his light gray eyes as he did. Back when Captain Smoke was the captain of the 4^th company he chose me as his Sergeant. Ever since then he has been like a second father to me.

I stood up and hugged him. He was a little surprised but after a couple seconds he hugged back.

“Thank you Captain, for always being there for me.” I said pulling back from the hug.

He chuckled and said, “You are very welcome Ieri.”

“I’ll see you at dinner?” I said walking a couple feet away towards the exit of the garden.

“Yes.” He replied sitting back down on the bench. I smiled and then walked out of the garden, making my way back to my base.

My Schnauzer looks like a chihuahua on steroids!!

Ok so last week my dogs got their hair cuts. (they were in dire need of them!!) but anyway when they got back i saw that our schnauzer had been turned into a REALLY big chihuahua!! Here she is... along with our poodle!!

this is hope!! the poodle.

this is faith the chihuahua on steriods

this is renji! hehe

Hehe i love the picture i took of hope!! shes soooooo cute!! haha anypickle Are there any bleach fans that are reading my blog??? i hope so cause i just have to say that i have totally turned into a giggling fan girl!! i kills me to say that but i am!! I have so many characters that I like that its hard to say which is my absolute favorite but if i seriously only had to choose one it would be Abarai Renji!!! EEEEEKKK!! haha seeeeee i toooollllldddd you i was a giggling fangirl!!!  

Anyway!! thanks always!!! PEACE LOVE AND RENJI ABARAI!!!!

BTW!! Renji is his first name and Abarai is his last name!! Japanese is kinda backwards when translate it into English. So it would kinda be like us saying our sentences backwards!!

Try Something New Tuesday! And lots of photos!

 Ok so you might have read on jaimee's blog or not but me and her made strawberry jam! It was fun and smelled wonderful! But anyway the way we did it (in short) we washed the strawberries, cut off the tops, cut it in half, blended them to a pulp (Liguify), then boiled them with some stuff that i cant remember the name of, cleaned the all of the jars, then spooned the stuff out of the giant pot into the small jars, then put the lids on the and seal them with a can bath! then we left them to cool and waited for the tops to pop! it was really quite fun though i'm sure jaimee was having a blast. haha but seriously it was fun and didn't even take that long! You should all try it sometime and then you'll be able to say "I've made Jam!" just like me and Jaimee! Fun anyway heres all the pics i took! along with some random ones of me doing my thang. :)

pouring the jam into the jars

still pouring it in

the cans taking a can bath to seal the lids

the first 8 done

all of the cans after the can bath

a little out of order but heres jaimee pouring in the jam

this is my fav by far.

the first four done

me Owling (there was a one of me planking but i accidently  deleted it somehow)

Me with my moustache

me just bein weird

hmmm

MUSTACHE 

Me shoeing (if you watch shane dawson on youtube you will know what im doing here)

me and faith!

What?

Hey people!! happy monday! no not really personally i hate mondays. Ok quick subject change, but for all those bleach fans, do you really think that Gin Ichimaru really needed to die????? i mean seriously!! i found out last night that he was killed by aizen!! Like ligit it made me tear up. I know thats stupid but still Gin was never really evil! if you watch the flash backs he swore to himself that he would kill Captain aizen himself. But when he was killed and Rangiku came he apologized for not being able to get back what was taken from her. Sad :'( so like when a real person dies i dont like to think that that person is really dead... Even though this is just an anime is makes me sad.. Anyway enough of me babbling on and on! Heres the 9th chapter! this is the last chapter of the first part! yay! im actually thinking of changing the title again.... Oh well Btw im actually almost done with the 2nd part! babbling again! Here just take it before i start again!

Chapter 9

Micah Sound

Friday, June 10^th, 2011

I walked into Ms. Tabor’s classroom after school. “What time are we leaving, Ms. Tabor?” I said walking over to her desk.

“In a couple of minutes I have to finish up this thing for the end of the school year.”

“Ah ok.” I said as I set my small bag down on the floor. I had told Makoto and Collin that I was going on a school trip to Spain right after school and that it would most likely take up the whole summer. I walked over to the window and looked up at the gathering storm clouds. The weather man had predicted heavy rain storms for the rest of the weekend.

For about 5 more minutes I stood there watching the clouds turn over and get larger. Then Ms. Tabor stood up.

“Ready?” She asked as she walked over to where I was standing.

“Yep.” I replied as she put her hand on my shoulder. I could hear her whispering the words of the spell under her breath.

“Warp.” She said. And for a split second I saw absolutely nothing and then we were surrounded by trees.

“Where are we?” I asked.

“We are at the secret gate that connects this world with the Nivanna. We guardians came here in it. They will be here shortly; we need all four to open the gate.” She replied, sitting down Indian style and closing her eyes. I looked around for the so called gate but didn’t see anything so I sat down as well.

About 2 minutes later Wysh and Mr. Carter appeared suddenly in front of me and made me almost fall backwards in surprise. They both apologized and then sat down next to me and Ms. Tabor. The next to arrive were the boy I assumed was Silver and his guardian, who Ms. Tabor had said his name was Mr. Jackson or, his Nivanna name, Kimwaw Taibel. They both introduced themselves to me and then to Wysh. The last two to arrive were the only ones left that I didn’t know; Mr. Muboz and Kastle. They then introduced themselves and apologized for being the last to arrive. We then all stood up and looked at each other.

Silver was the typical looking popular kid with his done up, blonde hair and sky blue eyes. He looked to be about 6’ 3” with pretty well muscled body from what I assumed was playing football. His guardian in his human form was very plain and typical looking with his short dirty blonde hair and school teacher clothes.

Wysh had the look of a goth person that could kick your butt. But her face was also very pretty. Her light brown eyes were heavily lined with eyeliner. Her chin length, bleach blonde hair had read highlights in it and her bangs hung slightly in her face. She looked about 5’ 7” with the normal girl body. Her guardian, Mr. Carter, was also average looking with his short amber hair. He was about 6’ 8” and as he stood next to Wysh it made him look like a giant.

Kastle had blonde hair that was about shoulder length and had side swept bangs similar to Wysh’s. She had bright green eyes and was also very pretty. She was about 5’ 3” with a slim waist and long legs. Her guardian, Mr. Muboz, was as well very normal looking but his brown hair was a little crazy looking with pieces sticking out all over the place. He had wide, dark blue almost violet eyes.

“Ok now that everyone is here,” Ms. Tabor said pulling something from her pocket. “We need to get all of you in your spirit forms.” She held up what looked like a human skeleton hand. “This will force you spirit forms out of your human form.” She then turned to me and raised it above her head. I flinched as she brought the hand down on my head making me fall over onto the ground. I looked up angrily at her as she walked over to Wysh next. I didn’t feel any different but as I looked down at myself I spotted something crumpled on the ground next to me. It was me! Or I guess the human shell of me. I stared at it surprised that the thing had actually worked. I stood up and watched as she did the same thing she did to me, to Wysh. She then proceeds to Kastle and Silver, both of them having just about the same reaction as me.

After that all of the guardians pulled their own spirit forms out of their human shells. As I stood there watching, I looked down at all the human shells that were now lying on the ground.

“What are we going to do with these? What if someone comes here and sees them?” I asked.

“Just watch.” Mr. Muboz said to me as he also whispered something I couldn’t hear. He then held his hand a little bit above his head and then slowly lowered it. Just then all the human shells started to sink into the ground. Wysh actually cried out in surprise as she watched her body disappear into the soil.

“What are you doing?!” Kastle asked sounding panicked.

“Hiding them, don’t worry it won’t harm them or anything.” He replied, his hand now back at his side. I looked down at where my body shell had been but it had now completely disappeared.

“Let’s open the gate.” Ms. Tabor said to the other guardians. They gathered around in a little circle and started saying their magical words.