A submarine commander:

Submarine:

A submarine is a watercraft capable of independent operation below the surface of the water. It differs from a submersible, which has only limited underwater capability. The term submarine most commonly refers to large crewed autonomous vessels; however, historically or more casually, submarine can also refer to medium sized or smaller vessels (midget submarines, wet subs), Remotely Operated Vehicles or robots. The word submarine was originally an adjective meaning "under the sea", and so consequently other uses such as "submarine engineering" or "submarine cable" may not actually refer to submarines at all. Submarine was shortened from the term "submarine boat", and is often further shortened to "sub"

The problem with human compassion:

In DIANE's class we read a magazine article. SHANKAR VEDANTAM is the author, and he examined a really important dilemma: why does dog tug our hearts more than a distressed nation of millions?

After his study he found that this matter had a relation with a psychological side of a person; He compared the brain of the person to a telescope, so our telescope is more focused on a single person and not on the masses. There are a lot of people who suffer but few dogs which are in the same situation as Hokget. Also, one hundred dogs don't have a single face, a single name, a single life, story around which we can wrap our imagination and our compassion.

When i read this article I was frankly sad for that because a vast majority of people gave a lot of money to rescue this dog, and on the other hand we see everyday in the television millions of people who need just a fraction of this money to live, a billion children need to eat, to wear, to learn, but there is no help no interest. But why? I think that instead of getting a dog, why not adopt a child and give him some tenderness and warmth? why not trying to help the homeless?

For me, I think that if each person did that, and helped at least one person, the world will be balanced and life will be white, pure and happy for everyone.:):)

BREAD AND YOGURT:

One day the Hodja had 10 para to buy himself lunch with. He first went into the bakery, handed 5 para over to the baker and asked for a bread. As the baker gave Hodja the bread he asked for his money.

`I just paid you' Hodja said.

`No, you didn't pay me.' the baker insisted, `I didn't see any money.' After a few minutes of debate, not being able to convince the bully baker, Hodja had to give in. He took out his other 5 para and gave it to him.

Left with no money at all, Hodja next entered the grocery store. He asked for a jar of yogurt. When the grocer asked for his money, Hodja claimed that he had just given him a 5 para. The good natured grocer had been a little preoccupied all morning, so he easily believed that he must have indeed taken the money and forgotten it.

Hodja took his provisions and sat under a tree. Before starting to eat his lunch, he raised his head towards the sky and said `Sublime Allah, You know what really happened, You take the 5 para from one and give it to the other.'

Hodja's story:

Today, in writing and reading class I read a Hodja story. It talks about a group of religious people who are in conflict between each other. Half of them said that it was proper to walk at the right side of the coffin and the other half had another opinion. They saw that the left side is more proper. They couldn't reach an agreement, so then they consulted Hodja who is their leader. This wise man said to them,'' right or left it doesn't really matter, what matters is who is inside and who is outside.''

My country :Morocco

My imaginary love:)

February, 11 th, 2010

Dear X:

I am writing this letter to you to express my big love, I have never forgotten the first

day of our meeting on a blind date at Sarah's birthday party, on that day I was blinded

by you. I felt that there was no one at this party, just you! I was frankly attracted by

your blue eyes, your blonde hair, your way of dancing, your look and your handsome

clothes.

On the occasion of Valentine's day, I want to say that you can't imagine how much I

love you. I love you from the bottom of my heart, and I can't bear my life without

seeing you or talking with you. You are the light of my life and I wish to continue all

my life with you until my death: you and me forever; I love you, I love you.......baby.

With all my lOve

Farah.

LOVE

The wise woman:

The wisest person that I have met in all my life is a women, from my family and I think that this woman always knows what is doing. She is very close to me and she understands very well my personality, she can discover if I am angry or if I am happy......

This madam is married and she has 2 daughters. She always tries to make her family happy and she has never been in conflicts with her husband or with her children. Even when they were in the age of adolescence, which I consider hard because girls in this period want to have freedom and to do what they want to do: drinking, have a boy friend, things that are not allowed in Morocco's culture, this woman was very clever in her children education's. She was very open minded and she has always tried to give the right message to her daughters. She advises them when they do something wrong but she never hit them. So, she has made them feel like her friends. She has shared her secrets with them and they have shared their secrets with her.

Really I want to thank this woman for all her efforts and for her precious education, because after a great effort she helps her daughters to have a very good future.

So, thank you my mother.........I love you:)

Precious Stones

The white stone is called: diamond.

The green one is: emerald.

The red one is: ruby.

My weekend!!!!

In this weekend, I was wondering about what I'll do, what I'll read as a book, so I went to the library to see some books there. Then I found a book called: who was first?-- discovering the Americas--. Really, I was attracted by this story, why? because I am a new student in America and i don't have enough informations about America's history,so I said to my mind this is the occasion to enrich and improve my cultural level.

This book is writing by RUSSELL FREEDMAN and it came to light our understanding. Because, many generations taught that Columbus was the first discovered America, but historical investigation in recent years has shown otherwise. There is evidence that adventurers, explorers, traders and nomads from various parts of the globe set foot on American soil long before 1492. and expeditions that landed in the Americas reported: people already living there indicating that America had been discovered before.

I advice you to read this book because it is really important.....

Cheating

Cheating and infidelity

I will present you a short story about Michael M. who talk about his story with a girl :

Let me start off by saying im not married, but I was with my girlfriend for a year, and I had suspicions that she was cheating or at least talking to other guys in ways that I would not like. She may have not physical cheated but cheating is still cheating in my book. I mean how many guys could honestly say that they would still be with a girl, when they see their cell phone one day out of the blue you see it lit up, so you pick it up and read it and it says something like I love you I can't live without you blah blah blah. Only to see that message say I love you, and something about well your not here babe. Then she freaking lies about it and says oh I do but as a friend. Bull. So I had a friend of mine made a fake myspace account and started talking to her and she was like yeah I can't wait to get rid of my asshole boyfriend and I wish he would leave. Then she goes on to say I think it would be funny as hell to see my b/f catch us making out or walk in on us having doggy style sex. Next when I ask her about this she's like what are you talking about. Then says I was only kidding. I guess it shows you think you know someone, and this stuff happens. I agree with a lot of you. If you can't communicate and tell that person somethings not right in the relationship, then it's already over. I asked myself countless times, why did this happen to me. Was it something I did. I told her several times, how beautiful she was, did things with her. Let her live in my house, and use my car for work. This is how she repays me. So sad.

Can Can(ARTURO VIVANTE)

Origins

Toulouse-Lautrec, "Jane Avril dancing"

The cancan first appeared in the working-class ballrooms of Montparnasse in Paris in around 1830. It was a more lively version of the galop, a dance in quick 2/4 time, which often featured as the final figure in the quadrille. The cancan was, therefore, originally a dance for couples, who indulged in high kicks and other gestures with arms and legs. It is thought that they were influenced by the antics of a popular entertainer of the 1820s, Charles Mazurier, who was well known for his acrobatic performances, which included the grand écart or jump splits—later a popular feature of the cancan. At this time, and throughout most of the 19th century in France, the dance was also known as the chahut. Both words are French, cancan meaning "tittle-tattle" or "scandal", hence a scandalous dance, while chahut meant "noise" or "uproar". The dance did cause something of a scandal, and for a while, there were attempts to repress it. Occasionally people dancing the cancan were arrested but it was never officially banned, as is sometimes claimed. Throughout the 1830s, it was often groups of men, particularly students, who caused the most outrage by dancing the cancan at public dance-halls.

As performers of the cancan became more skilled and adventurous, it gradually developed a parallel existence as entertainment, alongside the participatory form, although it was still very much a dance for individuals and not yet performed on stage by a chorus line. A few men became cancan stars in the 1840s to 1860s, and an all-male group known as the Quadrille des Clodoches performed the dance in London in 1870. But women performers were much more widely known in this period. They were mostly middle-ranking courtesans, and only semiprofessional entertainers—unlike the dancers of the 1890s, such as La Goulue and Jane Avril, who were highly paid for their appearances at the Moulin Rouge and elsewhere. The female dancers of the Second Empire and the fin-de-siècle developed the various cancan moves that were later incorporated by the choreographer Pierre Sandrini in the spectacular "French Cancan", which he devised at the Moulin Rouge in the 1920s and presented at his own Bal Tabarin from 1928. This was a combination of the individual style of the Parisian dance-halls and the chorus-line style of British and American music halls (see below).

[edit]Performance

The cancan is danced in 2/4 time, and is now usually performed on stage in chorus-line style. In France in the 19th century the cancan remained a dance for individual entertainers, who performed on a dance floor. In the United Kingdom, the United States and elsewhere, the cancan achieved popularity in music halls, where it was danced by groups of women in choreographed routines. This style was imported into France in the 1920s for the benefit of tourists, and the French Cancan was born—a highly choreographed routine lasting ten minutes or more, with the opportunity for individuals to display their "specialities". The main moves are the high kick or battement, the rond de jambe (quick rotary movement of lower leg with knee raised and skirt held up), the port d'armes (turning on one leg, while grasping the other leg by the ankle and holding it almost vertical), the cartwheel and the grand écart (the flying or jump splits). It has become common practice for dancers to scream and yelp while performing the cancan, but this is by no means essential.

[edit]Perception

The cancan is now considered an acceptable part of world culture, and often the main feature observed today is how physically demanding and tiring the dance is to perform, but it still retains something of an erotic buzz for many. When the dance first appeared in the early 19th century, it was considered little more than a scandalous activity that young people indulged in, similar to how rock and roll would be perceived later on. In the mid-19th century, when the dance was emerging from the working-class dance-halls into the mainstream, it was thought to be extremely inappropriate by "respectable" society.^[1] In the late 19th and early 20th centuries the cancan was viewed as much more erotic because the dancers often wore no undergarments or made use of the extravagant underwear of the period, and the contrasting black stockings. They lifted and manipulated their skirts much more, and incorporated a move sometimes considered the most cheeky and provocative—bending over and throwing their skirts over their backs, revealing their nude buttocks.^[2]

Early editions of the Oxford Companion to Music defined the cancan as "A boisterous and latterly indecorous dance of the quadrille order, exploited in Paris for the benefit of such British and American tourists as will pay well to be well shocked. Its exact nature is unknown to anyone connected with this Companion."

[edit]In art

The Moulin Rouge featured in a Toulouse-Lautrec painting

Many composers have written music for the cancan. The most famous music is French composer Jacques Offenbach's galop infernal in Orpheus in the Underworld (1858). Other examples occur in Franz Lehár's The Merry Widow (1905) and Cole Porter's musical play Can-Can (1954) which in turn formed the basis for the 1960 musical film Can-Can starring Frank Sinatra and Shirley MacLaine. Some other songs that have become associated with the cancan include Khachaturian's Sabre Dance and the music hall standard Ta-ra-ra Boom-de-ay.

The cancan has often appeared in ballet, most notably Léonide Massine's La Boutique fantasque (1919) and Gaîté Parisienne, as well as The Merry Widow. A particularly fine example can be seen at the climax of Jean Renoir's 1954 film French Cancan.

French painter Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec produced several paintings and a large number of posters of cancan dancers. Other painters to have treated the cancan as a subject include Georges Seurat, Georges Rouault, and Pablo Picasso.

Alaska

Capital: Juneau

State abbreviation/Postal code: Alaska/AK

Governor: Sean Parnell, R (to Dec. 2010)

Lieut. Governor: Craig E. Campbell, R (to Dec. 2010)

Senators: Mark Begich, D (to Jan. 2015); Lisa Murkowski, R (to Jan. 2011)

U.S. Representatives: 1

Historical biographies of Congressional members

Atty. General: Talis J. Colberg (apptd. by gov.)

Organized as territory: 1912

Entered Union (rank): Jan. 3, 1959 (49)

Constitution ratified: April 24, 1956

Motto: North to the Future

State symbols:

flower	forget-me-not (1949)
tree	sitka spruce (1962)
bird	willow ptarmigan (1955)
fish	king salmon (1962)
song	“Alaska's Flag” (1955)
gem	jade (1968)
marine mammal	bowhead whale (1983)
fossil	woolly mammoth (1986)
mineral	gold (1968)
sport	dog mushing (1972)

Nickname: The state is commonly called “The Last Frontier” or “Land of the Midnight Sun”

Origin of name: Corruption of Aleut word meaning “great land” or “that which the sea breaks against”

10 largest cities (2005 est.): Anchorage, 275,043; Fairbanks, 31,324; Juneau, 30,987;Sitka, 8,986; Wasilla, 8,471; Kenai, 7,464;Ketchikan, 7,410; Palmer, 6,920; Kodiak, 6,273; Bethel, 6,262;

Land area: 571,951 sq mi. (1,4 81,353 sq km)

Geographic center: 60 mi. NW of Mt. McKinley

Number of boroughs (counties): 27

Largest borough by population and area:Anchorage, 275,043 (2005); Yukon-Koyukuk, 145,900 sq mi.

State parks: more than 100 (3.5 million acres)

Residents: Alaskan

2005 resident population est.: 663,661

2000 resident census population (rank):626,932 (48). Male: 324,112 (51.7%);Female: 302,820 (48.3%). White: 434,534 (69.3%); Black: 21,787 (3.5%); American Indian and Alaska Native: 98,043 (15.6%);Asian: 25,116 (4.0%); Other race: 9,997 (1.6%); Two or more races: 34,146 (5.4%);Hispanic/Latino: 25,852 (4.1%). 2000 percent population 18 and over: 69.6; 65 and over: 5.7; median age: 32.4.

Alaskan huskies

Description

Alaskan Huskies (at least those used for speed racing) are moderate in size, averaging perhaps 46 to 50 pounds (21 to 25 kg) for males and 38 to 42 pounds (17 to 19 kg) for females. Some of them superficially resemble racing strains of the Siberian Husky breed (which is likely part of the Alaskan Husky genetic mix), but are usually taller and larger with more pronounced tuck-up.

Two Alaskan Huskies in the harness.

Color and markings are a matter of total indifference to racing drivers; Alaskans may be of any possible canine color and any pattern of markings. Eyes may be of any color and are often light blue. Coats are almost always short to medium in length, never long, and usually less dense than those of northern purebreds; the shorter coat length is governed by the need for effective heat dissipation while racing.

In very cold conditions, Alaskans often race in “dog coats” or belly protectors. Particularly in long distance races, these dogs often require “dog booties” to protect their feet from abrasion and cracking so the considerations of hardiness and climate resistance prevalent in breeds such as the Siberian Husky and Canadian Inuit Dog are subordinated in the Alaskan Husky to the overriding consideration of speed. On long distance races they require considerable care and attention on the trail at rest stops.

In Alaska and other extreme northern regions they are occasionally killed by moose in the winter. Infrequently, moose in search of non-existent winter browse of willows and mountain ash during desperate times of long cold snaps and deep snow will enter human areas attracted by the scent of fresh straw used as bedding for the dogs. True to their wolf ancestors, huskies tend not to back down from such encounters and an angry moose can easily stomp and kick several dogs causing severe injuries. Most moose/husky encounters occur during runs when a musher accidentally startles a moose on a trail. Most of the time moose avoid fights, but in cases of deep snow when escape is difficult a moose may confuse a sled team for a wolf pack and cause some serious trouble.

Normally, moose are aware that huskies are domesticated, tethered and not a threat and will frequently bed down adjacent to sled dog kennels in order to use the huskies as sentries who will alert the sleeping moose of approaching wolves. Sled dogs tethered in far northern forests may be attacked and killed on their stakeouts by wolves when other prey is unavailable. However, this is rare. Professional dog sled racers often surround their lots with high fences to prevent wildlife attacks. More important is a low fence to keep out diseased rodents which can infect dogs by carrying parasites.

Health

The Alaskan Husky is generally a healthy dog. Some strains are prone to genetic health problems similar to those found in purebred dog breeds. These may include PRA, hypothyroidism, etc. Dogs with an esophagus disorder, termed "wheezers" sometimes occur. This disorder makes the dog unable to bark, but have the ability to produce a low-pitched howling noise. The defect is genetically linked and appears rarely. Theories of common exterior traits among "wheezers" abound, but are conflicting and undocumented. The life span of the Alaskan Husky is usually between 10 to 15 years.]

History

The base of The Alaskan Husky sled dog in Alaska and Canada is the Native Village dog. The Interior Village dog is a leggier, rangier and taller dog that the coastal Eskimo Village types. Many mushers prefer the true husky dogs that they call: "Villagey", and although there are no pure native dogs left, some dogs still throw back to those looks. These fully domesticated dogs arrived with paleo Indians and Eskimos thousands of years ago. Today, Alaskan Sled dogs may be hound crosses, husky types, or a combination of both. They also range in size and build depending on the use of the dog, such as for racing or for working. A working sled dog may be 50 to 80 lbs or a racing sled dog may be 35 to 60 lbs for a male or female. The old time village dogs were indeed bred to imported Siberian dogs and also more recently to European dogs. Most mushers in Alaska contrary to popular thought are not racers. They have either working dogs or dogs that are used for giving tours to tourists or for recreation. There are many recreational clubs which may hold races, get together for fun runs, or go camping with dogs in the spring. Racing sled dogs may be anything from a pure bred pointer or hound to the modern Eurohound, a sprint dog that is unmatched for winning sprint races and is a combination of both husky and German Short Hair Pointer, with the Euro-hound being black in color predominately. There are also distance dogs which can race from 50 to 1,000 miles, and mid-distance dogs which race from 20 to 200 miles. Sled dogs are a combination of bloodlines developed by and best suited to the mushers who run them. Many of them are very beautiful, retaining much sought after thick coat, long long legs, balanced bodies, and tough feet. Many have too much hound or pointer for the northern climate and must wear booties, coats, and sleep in heated barns. Many dogs are both racing and working dogs and are small and tough. Some are larger, depending on the type of work.

]\ecent history

The Alaskan Husky is a tremendous athlete, and is a dog of great variety and many specialties, depending on the series of bloodlines that is used and what they are used for. Mushers developed these bloodlines in the beginning primarily from native dogs over long periods of time. Eskimo dog, Siberian Husky, Grey Hound and German Shorthair Pointer have been added since the 1940s. The dogs may be of working bloodlines or racing bloodlines. Working dogs may be hauling logs, or cord wood, working a trap-line, or giving tourists rides on one of our glaciers. Racing dogs may be sprint, mid distance or distance dogs. Recreational teams may be made up of working and or racing dogs. Some dogs race in winter and work in summer. Recent sprint racing dogs are the Euro hound or Scandinavian Hound. Most Alaskan Huskies are tough smart dogs with level temperaments and a hardiness that is unparalleled in the dog world. These dogs love to run and love to pull. They are enthusiastic and happy go lucky. Dog mushing with many Alaskans is a way of life. And in many places in the United States dog mushing is a popular sport, either in the snow or with dry land carts.