Rose - Navo

• The rose is the official National Floral emblem of the United States. President Ronald Reagan signed this legislation into law on October 7, 1986. The rose is also the state flower selected by Georgia, Iowa, New York, North Dakota and the District of Columbia.
• Three separate nationally conducted public opinion polls, dating from 1975-1986, found the rose to be the number-one choice of over 85% of those individuals surveyed. George Washington, our first President, was also our first U.S. rose breeder! 
• In 1994, U.S. flower buyers purchased over 1,200,000,000 roses. This works out to a per capita consumption of 4.67 roses per person.  
• The rose is native to the United States. The oldest fossilized imprint of the rose was left on a slate deposit found in Florissant, Colorado. It is estimated to be 35 million years old. 
• There are nearly 900 acres of greenhouse dedicated to the production of fresh-cut roses in the U.S. One acre of greenhouse rose production in the U.S. is valued at about one million dollars, which includes the value of the plants, greenhouse structure and land.  About 60% of the roses grown in the U.S. are produced in California. 
• The most popular rose holidays in the U.S. are Valentine's Day, Mother's Day and Christmas.

 

Oymyakon - Navo

• Winter temperatures in Oymyakon, Russia, average minus 50 C ( minus 58 F). The remote village is generally considered the coldest inhabited area on Earth. Oymyakon is a two-day drive from Yakutsk, the regional capital which has the lowest winter temperatures of any city in the world.
• If that kind of climate is hard to wrap your brain around, such a temperature is so cold that people here regularly consume frozen meat, keep their cars running 24/7.
• The highest in summer is 52 degrees. Crops don’t grow in the frozen ground, so people have a largely carnivorous diet—reindeer meat, raw flesh shaved from frozen fish, and ice cubes of horse blood with macaroni are a few local delicacies.
• Most people use outhouses, because indoor plumbing tends to freeze. Cars are kept in heated garages or, if left outside, left running all the time.
• Every Morning a small digger digs up fresh coal to provide heat for the village

Car in the beginning of summer 

Venice slowly sinks - Navo

• Sea-level rise isn't the only thing that has Venice's famous canals rising ever-so-slightly every year: The city is also sinking, a new study shows, in contrast to previous studies that suggested the city's subsidence had stabilized.The study's findings also showed that the Italian city is slowly tilting slightly to the east, something scientists had never noticed before.Venice's subsidence was recognized as a major issue decades ago, when scientists realized that pumping groundwater from beneath the city, combined from centuries of building, was causing the city to settle. But officials put a stop to the groundwater pumping, and subsequent studies in the 2000s indicated that the subsidence had stopped.
• The team use data from 2000 to 2010 to track changes in the elevation of Venice and its surrounding lagoons and found that the city of Venice was subsiding on average about 1 to 2 millimeters a year (0.04 to 0.08 inches per year). The patches of land in Venice's lagoon (117 islands in all) are also sinking, with northern sections of the lagoon dropping at a rate of 2 to 3 mm (0.08 to 0.12 inches) per year, and the southern lagoon subsiding at 3 to 4 mm (0.12 to 0.16 inches) per year.
• The team also found that the area was tilting a bit, about a millimeter or two eastward per year, something never noticed before. That means the western part — where the city of Venice is — is higher than the eastern sections.
• The forces causing the subsidence now are likely natural ones that have been impacting the area for a long time, particularly plate tectonics. The Adriatic plate, on which Venice sits, is subducting beneath the Apennines Mountains and causing the city and its environs to drop slightly in elevation. The compaction of the sediments beneath Venice also remains a factor.
• In the next 20 years Venice will be a underwater city. Soon every continent will be underwater. 

Venice during Winter

Mercedes Benz - Navo

• Mercedes is a German car company that produces trucks, cars, vans, and buses. Mercedes is a luxury car company.
• In 1926 its first name was Daimler - Benz. Mercedes-Benz is part of the "German Big 3" luxury automakers, along with Audi and BMW, which are the best-selling luxury automakers in the world.
• Mercedes Benz has a slogan that says "The best or NOTHING". In 2013 it was announced that after the last year with Mercedes contract with McLaren, Mercedes would be dropped and be replaced by Honda, with whom McLaren had world championship wins in the past together.
• Mercedes Benz has stopped production of the SLS and started a new class called GT, GT-S, priced at 129,000.

 

West Point - Navo

• The United States Military Academy at West Point, also known as West Point, Army, The Academy or simply, The Point, is a four-year coeducational federal service academy located in West Point, New York.
• In southeast New York State, is the site of the U.S. Military Academy (founded 1802). It is also the site of remains of two military posts, Forts Clinton and Putnam, built by the Continental army during the Revolution.
• West Point is the oldest military academy and has over 16,000 acres. West Points nickname is Black Knights and it's Mascot is the Black Knight.
• Each Fall, Winter and Spring every cadet (Student) has to compete in a sport. West Point is also the best military academy.
• Dwight D. Eisenhower the 34th President of the US and was a West Point graduate and was rated as a 5 star general and fought in WW II. West Point's fight song is "On Brave old Army Team".

What is the Future of Trash?

• Humans today create a lot of garbage. In times past, there was less. People owned fewer things and used things longer. In the United States trash goes to the junkyard or a landfill, while in the past trash was decomposed. Currently in the United States there are more recyclable products.
•  Some areas of the planet face some extreme waste disposal, like Antarctica surprising right? Antarctica has about 70 waste sites that contain chemicals and heavy metals.
• Today, trash has staying power that will be intact when we no longer are. Charged chemical compounds that trap pollutants have shown some success and may have some applications in similar habitats, such as northern Russia and Alaska.  
• Landfills receive about 55 percent of all garbage in the United States. Researchers are investigating ways to turn trash to fuel, such as extracting cellulosic ethanol from paper refuse. Trash increases every minute because an area of a tropical forest as large as 50 football fields is destroyed every minute.

Yeast - AJ

• Yeast is a microorganism that carries little pieces of fungi. It is mostly sold while shaved in places. 
• In the world there are about 1,500 different types of yeast. Some yeast is even used for bread for a long time.
• Yeast can also be very bad and could kill brain cells. Some types of yeast poop and people use the poop to make bear or wine.
• Scientists have created  a new use for yeast but only a special type they have made electricity with it. You could actually get gas or fuel out of this yeast.
• Yeast is a living cal organism that grows on plants or animals that makes a fungi chemical. A long time ago it took mastery of finding and making yeast long ago.

Brain Tumors - AJ

• A Tumor is a tissue that is growing in a place that it should not be in. A Tumor might be safe but it is mostly harmful to you.
• In Australia the animal called the Tasmanian Devil is almost extinct. They are dying from Tumors growing on their faces.
•  Today nearly 700,000 people have problems with brain Tumors. Tumors can  be very deadly and could change how a person acts.
• Bran Tumors are being predicted at bout 69,000 people per year. now in the United States there are about 612,000 people getting brain Tumors.
• Today doctors are working and working to find a cure for brain Tumors and a way to find out how they are created. The most common Tumor that doctors know are made from cancer in your body.

                                                          

Paul Walker - Navo

Paul on the right

Skyline GTR in F & F

• Paul William Walker IV was born on September 12, 1973 - November 30, 2013 (aged 40). Paul's death, due to a single car crash, was in the passenger seat of a 2005 Porsche Carrera GT. Paul was a Actor and director.
• Paul joined F & F in 2001 which as if now has continued to F & F7. Paul died after the shooting of F & F6. The song "See you again" by Wiz Khalifa along with Charile Puth was dedicated to Paul. F & F7 was being filmed during Paul's death.
• His friend died along with him, Roger Rodas which was the driver. Paul drove a Skyline GTR in the   F & F movies.. After his death his GTR was for sale. He had about 4 sibilings and only had 1 child.
• Tyreez one of the actors in F & F tried killing himself after Paul's death.
• See You Again <- CLICK

Paul Willam Walker IV

The Crash...

Arnold Schwarzenegger - AJ

• Arnold was born on July 30, 1947 , in Thal, Australia. He was a famous body builder and actor in Australia.
• He had became the governor of  California from 2003 to 2011. He was also the strongest man in the world for 7 years in a row.
• He stopped acting in 2003 and ran for governor. Gray Davis was removed as governor and Arnold was chosen as governor.
• Arnold married a women called Maria shriver. One day Arnold separated with his wife in 2011 but had to daughters.
• In 1971 Arnold's younger maternal half brother died in a car accident while drunk. On March 28, 2015  Arnold was inducted in the WWE wrestling hall of Fame by the triple H company.

Pollen Allergy - Navo

• Each spring, summer, and fall, tiny pollen grains are released from trees, weeds, and grasses. Instead, pollen enters human noses and throats, triggering a type of seasonal allergic rhinitis called pollen allergy. Many people know this as hay fever. Of all the things that can cause an allergy, pollen is one of the most common.
• Plants produce tiny too tiny to see with the naked eye round or oval pollen grains to reproduce. In some species, the plant uses the pollen from its own flowers to fertilize itself. The types of pollen that most commonly cause allergic reactions are produced by the plain-looking plants (trees, grasses, and weeds) that do not have showy flowers. 
• The color of pollen is green-ish yellow. Bees help us by taking pollen to their bee hive and when sucking nectar from flowers they remove the pollen.
• Pollen comes from honey and mostly trees. When a ball hits a tree you see green-ish yellow stuff coming out, which is pollen. Your eyes get swollen, nose congestion and coughing rapidly.

 

Radio and Radio parts - AJ

• A radio is a tool that helps communicate. The radio was used for electronic communication that is used for news and entertainment and other things.
• A machine that can send out radio calls is called a transmitter. While a machine that receives radio calls is called a receiver.
• When a transmitter and a receiver get lots of radio calls at the same time it is called a broadcast. The things go back and forth from sending to receiving.
• Television also uses radios to send out the pictures and sound. A radio call could be used to open a car door.
• Radios were first used to send out telegraph messages without wires. Later on two way radios brought talking communication like walkie talkies.