Avenged Sevenfold released the album Nightmare on July 27,2010. Most would say that Avenged Sevenfold’s last few albums, before Nightmare, were disappointing to their fans. However Nightmare is a homerun. With songs like Victim and Dangerline based their recently past bandmate and friend, James ‘The Rev’ Sullivan, they have pleased their audience.
The lead singer, M Shadows, distinctive voice along with the band’s two guitarist, Synyster Gates and Zacky Vengeance, are accompanied by recordings of their deceased drummer. The Rev’s voice, also recorded pre-death, is also featured in Fiction. In another song, Natural Born Killer, Mike Portnoy replaces The Rev on the drums for the parts he was unable to play.
At the loss of a good friend, Avenged Sevenfold may have just hit the high note they needed to appease the fans. Overall, most loyal and new A7X fans would say this is an album worth listening to.
Thursday, July 26, 2012
Wednesday, July 25, 2012
The Detassel Heat Hassle
The Detassel Heat Hassle
By Timothy Rempel, Fairbury, NE (The Blazer)
Samuel Netherton is an incoming junior at Fairbury Jr.-Sr. High School. Since he is not involved in many summer activities, he has plenty of free time. This past summer Netherto decided to do something with his time. He chose to work in the corn fields detasseling the stalks.
Detasseling is when one takes the top part of the corn stalk off. The top part of the stalk is called the tassel, it produces the pollen used for reproducing. The reason why farmers detassel is because early in the 20th century farmers found out that planting two different types corn, generally, more corn is produced. The tassels are taken off because farmers only want to cross breed certain rows of stalks, according to TeamCorn.com, a detasseling recruitment website.
In Netherton’s detasseling group there was only about 20 people. And the heat did not help the participation of other teens. “The heat slowed down my work pace so it did slightly affect my pay,” Netherton said.
On a normal day, Netherton said “We would work anywhere from seven to nine hours out in the hot sun.” On average the detasselers made a $96 a day; some days a little less, others a little more, it all depended on how many fields were done. In total Netherton said he earned around $1,000 working in the fields this summer.
On those shifts Netherton said he took breaks in between the completed fields, which were anywhere from five to thirty minutes long. There was one benefit to the excess heat however, he said, everyone got more water.
While Netherton may joke around about the heat wave, it is very serious business. CNN has reported many heat related deaths of farmers and other outdoors workers in and around the Midwest region. In many major cities like Chicago, Raleigh, and others the temperatures were expected to rise above 100 degrees fahrenheit for most of the summer.
Tera Ward, a nurse at Beatrice Dialysis Center in Beatrice, said, “Exposure to excessive heat might cause heat stress, (an general term for heat related problems) heat exhaustion, heat stroke, heat rash, or heat cramps. Some of these can result in serious injury, and even death.”
Of course, like most other medical problems, heat stress has symptoms. Heat exhaustion’s symptoms are: dizziness, headaches, weakness, cramps, nausea, and increased heart rate. Heat stroke causes convulsions and fainting. A person suffering of heat rash may see little red bumps or blisters on their person. And one with heat cramps can expect muscle spasms.
According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, the ones more at risk are infants, and the elderly (65 or older). Also workers that work in hot environments like firefighters, construction workers, miners, etc. are at risk for heat stress.
Since Netherton and his coworkers are all teenagers, they are all prime candidates for the job. And fortunately nobody got hurt Netherton said. However, being young does not make a person immune to heat stress, even younger people should be wary.
“The feeling I get after finishing my final field for the day was great,” Netherton said. “It meant no more hard work out in the hot weather.” Which would indeed be a great reward, considering that most of the times he was working when the temperature was mid- to high-90s and sometimes even in the hundreds.
“A couple times it got to be so hot the boss let us leave early,” Netherton said.
By Timothy Rempel, Fairbury, NE (The Blazer)
Samuel Netherton is an incoming junior at Fairbury Jr.-Sr. High School. Since he is not involved in many summer activities, he has plenty of free time. This past summer Netherto decided to do something with his time. He chose to work in the corn fields detasseling the stalks.
Detasseling is when one takes the top part of the corn stalk off. The top part of the stalk is called the tassel, it produces the pollen used for reproducing. The reason why farmers detassel is because early in the 20th century farmers found out that planting two different types corn, generally, more corn is produced. The tassels are taken off because farmers only want to cross breed certain rows of stalks, according to TeamCorn.com, a detasseling recruitment website.
In Netherton’s detasseling group there was only about 20 people. And the heat did not help the participation of other teens. “The heat slowed down my work pace so it did slightly affect my pay,” Netherton said.
On a normal day, Netherton said “We would work anywhere from seven to nine hours out in the hot sun.” On average the detasselers made a $96 a day; some days a little less, others a little more, it all depended on how many fields were done. In total Netherton said he earned around $1,000 working in the fields this summer.
On those shifts Netherton said he took breaks in between the completed fields, which were anywhere from five to thirty minutes long. There was one benefit to the excess heat however, he said, everyone got more water.
While Netherton may joke around about the heat wave, it is very serious business. CNN has reported many heat related deaths of farmers and other outdoors workers in and around the Midwest region. In many major cities like Chicago, Raleigh, and others the temperatures were expected to rise above 100 degrees fahrenheit for most of the summer.
Tera Ward, a nurse at Beatrice Dialysis Center in Beatrice, said, “Exposure to excessive heat might cause heat stress, (an general term for heat related problems) heat exhaustion, heat stroke, heat rash, or heat cramps. Some of these can result in serious injury, and even death.”
Of course, like most other medical problems, heat stress has symptoms. Heat exhaustion’s symptoms are: dizziness, headaches, weakness, cramps, nausea, and increased heart rate. Heat stroke causes convulsions and fainting. A person suffering of heat rash may see little red bumps or blisters on their person. And one with heat cramps can expect muscle spasms.
According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, the ones more at risk are infants, and the elderly (65 or older). Also workers that work in hot environments like firefighters, construction workers, miners, etc. are at risk for heat stress.
Since Netherton and his coworkers are all teenagers, they are all prime candidates for the job. And fortunately nobody got hurt Netherton said. However, being young does not make a person immune to heat stress, even younger people should be wary.
“The feeling I get after finishing my final field for the day was great,” Netherton said. “It meant no more hard work out in the hot weather.” Which would indeed be a great reward, considering that most of the times he was working when the temperature was mid- to high-90s and sometimes even in the hundreds.
“A couple times it got to be so hot the boss let us leave early,” Netherton said.
Day 3
Today seemed longer. However I did get all caught up. Story done! What it Feels Like done! What a boss!
Tuesday, July 24, 2012
Day 2
I thought that today was a very productive day. It was also a very informative day. I will enjoy bring some of the things me learned back to Fairbury!
Story of Sarah
This is Sarah Mercer-Smith. Sarah defies the typical path her peers take, and sets an example for future generations.
The first thing that strikes you about Sarah is that a timid girl. Being shy may make an individual less adventurous, however, Sarah is not afraid to become involved. By being active, she does not have as much free time which allows her resist doing drugs and alcohol. Which seems to be a popular option among some of her friends and other peers.
This is a story about how peer pressure can break some, and make the courageous stronger. And how being shy is not an impossible roadblock to overcome in the journey to become social.
Sarah is a young, musically-gifted girl, who likes to challenge herself by becoming involved. She learned to play many instruments since she was a little girl. Also is constantly involved in school organizations.
Throughout her high school curriculum Sarah has been involved in a lot of different activities. She describes herself as a “big package of everything” to explain her diverse school involvement. On top of journalism she also participates in band, choir, and mock trial.
Of course what makes Sarah unique is that unlike many of her peers Sarah is involved in multiple school sponsored activities, and stays above the influence of both drugs and alcohol. Which not only shows a will to do better for herself and set a example for the generation to follow, but it also shows how courageous even the most timid of people can be.
The first thing that strikes you about Sarah is that a timid girl. Being shy may make an individual less adventurous, however, Sarah is not afraid to become involved. By being active, she does not have as much free time which allows her resist doing drugs and alcohol. Which seems to be a popular option among some of her friends and other peers.
This is a story about how peer pressure can break some, and make the courageous stronger. And how being shy is not an impossible roadblock to overcome in the journey to become social.
Sarah is a young, musically-gifted girl, who likes to challenge herself by becoming involved. She learned to play many instruments since she was a little girl. Also is constantly involved in school organizations.
Throughout her high school curriculum Sarah has been involved in a lot of different activities. She describes herself as a “big package of everything” to explain her diverse school involvement. On top of journalism she also participates in band, choir, and mock trial.
Of course what makes Sarah unique is that unlike many of her peers Sarah is involved in multiple school sponsored activities, and stays above the influence of both drugs and alcohol. Which not only shows a will to do better for herself and set a example for the generation to follow, but it also shows how courageous even the most timid of people can be.
Day 1
Yesterday I learned a few good things to take back to Fairbury. By employing these tactics I hope that I may get more regular readers of the journalism website. I think if we started a journalism department Twitter account it would help increase veiws. Another thing I hope to do is make maybe a weekly posting of what stories will be featured on the website that week on both Facebook and Twitter, and maybe even e-mail, if we could get a list going.
Monday, July 23, 2012
Telling of my Journalism Experience
I am interested in learning how to write an overall better news story. A lot of times, in our Journalism department at Fairbury, we struggle to come up with original news story ideas, especially for our new website we started. I am not sure what I would like to specialize in. Most of the time I end up writing world news stories.
I like to be in Journalism because it presents a challenge, and is a great way to be involved in your school. The main reason I joined Journalism was to become a better writer, because I am bad at spelling and grammar but Journalism has helped me improve.
I like to help people out and am interested in learning new things. Journalism helps me learn about both new people and events going on all around the world.
I like to be in Journalism because it presents a challenge, and is a great way to be involved in your school. The main reason I joined Journalism was to become a better writer, because I am bad at spelling and grammar but Journalism has helped me improve.
I like to help people out and am interested in learning new things. Journalism helps me learn about both new people and events going on all around the world.
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