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Trumix.com listings available of The Blurb Podcasts Build your own playlists with this podcast. Voicethread Training and Tutorials Students here at Cybermiddle have an interesting opportunity that students in many other schools don't have: Every student has their own Ed Voicethread account! Your teachers can provide you with your username and password so you can participate in ongoing... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website SMILE... or else! Have you ever flipped out your cell phone in the mall and began to chat really loudly with your buddy? Have people ever stared at you, slightly annoyed, and you just ignored them? The Japanese are taking a stand against... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Track Out Rap from Da Hot Dogs! Well, The Blurb Nation is on break again----remember, we're on a year-round calendar. That means we go to school for nine weeks and then take a three week vacation, only to return to school to do it all over again... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Johnny K and the Brits. . . So we've got this strange kid on our team. We don't really know what his name is. Some people call him Johnny K. Others call him Billy Burrito. Me...I just call him annoying. But the dude slings an axe like... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Darfur Now Animoto Have you been visiting The Blurb for posts about the current Genocide in Darfur? If not then check out a website which has a game on the Genocide, It shows how the average day of how someone living in Darfur.... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Saving Darfur One Comment at a Time. . . The Papercraft boys are back again...but this isn't about evil snowmen. Instead, it is about evil Arabs. Word on the street is that Omar Hasan Ahmad al-Bashir is leading a genocide against the Black Africains of Darfur. If you poke... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Darfur is Dying. . . All of these current events about Darfur are remarkably sad and I realized that me and the Wicked Awesome Nacho Hotdogs have not done anything about it! So this is something for Darfur that shows the two things the Hot... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website What do you do...Online? Dear Internetopians, I, the Emperor of Colorado and Cowgirl Boots have attempted to poll 40 students from the ages of 11-12 of what they do on the Internet. But we also gave everybody isolated picks so that they could choose... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Are You Ready to Statetris? Hello Young Geographers, Have you ever played the game Tetris? Do you know the locations of all of the nations of Europe? Do you think you could test both of those skills at the same time? Well, I introduce to... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Political Cartoonists Speak Out on Sudan! So, by now you know that we're working with Mr. Mayo's class to raise awareness on the genocide occurring in Darfur, right? We've written an open letter to the President of Sudan and created our own pledge to fight against... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Big Bucks for Big Books? Kids are getting paid to read in a town in Spain. One Euro an hour of reading. One Euro is equal to $1.47 at this moment. The mayor of this town doesn't think kids are doing well in school, so... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website School Loos - Dangerous Health Hazards or Just Fine? Greetings fellow loo users, Students in England are avoiding going to the loo because they are dirty, closed and often full on bullies and naughty people. British campaigners would like to see the loos cleaner and open all day. We... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Paying for Playgrounds? In London, England, the government has issued an idea that would cost millions of Euros. The government wants to build more playgrounds. They are building these playgrounds to entertain children from ages 8-13. So our question is do you think... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Crank This, Soulja Boy! Our teacher dared us to change the words of the well-known song Crank That Soulja Boy to a curriculum related subject. I, Spider Pig , Flying Onion Boy, and Tarheel Boy wish to perform this in a weird and hapless... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Help! I'm Mathematically Challenged.... Alright, I've got a confession to make. I'm probably the single worst mathematician on this planet. I can't remember much of anything from my math classes----not because my teachers were crummy, but because it was a subject that never quite... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website When Should We Remember? So I was rummaging through our Blurbcast recordings today and I stumbled upon one that we hadn't ever gotten posted! It's on a really interesting central question: What kinds of days should we celebrate as National holidays or Days of... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Destruction of the Gun? In this current event, the EU is trying to ban guns, mostly because of a recent gun shooting in Finland. Finland has one of the highest amounts of guns per capita in the world. The EU parliament is trying to... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Nightmare Before Christmas! YO,YO,YO, Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!!! The time when the big man in the red suit comes out means just one thing: The Wicked Awesome Nacho Hotdogs have made a crazy rap! (You know you love our sounds.)... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Fred and Bob's Quest for the Falcon Oh no! Fred and Bob are lost again! Let's just hope they didn't get caught in the undertow while surfing in the Med. Maybe they'll fly back as pilots in training---or discover that famous movie falcon everyone always talks about.... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Troublesome Teddy... In Khartoum, Sudan, Ms. Gillian Gibbons was recently arrested for the horrid crime of naming her class teddy bear Mohammad. She is a teacher of 6 and 7 year olds, and for a class project, each student was to take... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Spanish Cat Fight... This current event takes place in Spain's countryside, also known as Andalucia. The Donana National Park has 20 endangered Iberian Lynxs in their breeding program which is on the edge of the park, and an estimated 150 in the wild.... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Parisian Hassle... Today's current event goes back two years from now. It all started from the police chasing two teenagers in the subway, where the teenagers got electrocuted and died. Now, it appears deja vu is occuring. Just a few days ago,... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Fred and Bob Take the Long Way Around! Guess what? Fred and Bob are gone again! All we hope is that they don`t get lost in the smog. They better learn how to eat with chopsticks unless they want to eat each other. I hope they bring us... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Great Segway Incident The Netherlands is a flat country that uses a lot of bikes. However, right now, they are arguing over whether the Segway is safe to use. Segways are scooters that are battery powered and self balanced. They go by the... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Harry the Hunted... Recently, Prince Henry--the second son of Lady Diana---was questioned by authorities who think that he may have committed the crime of killing two hen harriers. Hen harriers are very rare birds. There are only 20 pairs left in England. The... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Those Crazy Danes... Ever wonder about countries in Europe? We do...especially one country in particular: Denmark! Denmark is very interesting because they care about saving the planet. Did you know that they have two buttons on their toilets---1 to flush it with half... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Those Violent Video Games.... In this current event, we are debating whether or not gaming is making kids violent, lazy and obese. "Some children spend way too much time playing video games that are not age appropriate," says the English government. "Parents should pay... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Finn våre Venner Fred og Bob Igjen... Our regular listeners know that we've got two quite interesting pets named Fred and Bob. They are Krispy Kreme doughnuts that our teacher has had for over 4 years now! Both are quite hard and both have lost their glaze,... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Scrapping Saturdays. . . This Blurbcast is about how the French government is taking away Saturday classes in elementary schools and middle schools may follow. The President is taking the classes away so the time will be better suited for underperforming students to get... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website One Fish, Two Fish, RED Fish, BLUE Fish.... So Blurbers, We've been studying the culture of Southern Europe recently and we found out lots of interesting things. One thing that we learned is that many buildings in Southern Europe are colorful like a rainbow.That gives me a clue... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The... Let's Just Say "Track-In Musical Piece"... We are finally back!!! While you were working on random school projects, we were at our houses eating Twinkies and watching soap operas. Surprisingly, we managed to live through track out, and set a record by only fainting from diaper... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rest in Peace? Today in cyberspace we have learned about finding the remains of a 46 year old man who was frozen in the mountains of Italy over 5,000 years ago. He was found in a glacier that was 10,500 feet above ground.... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Playing Marbles... A few centuries ago when the Ancient Greeks still belived in the gods, the Greeks built a special building that was named the Parthenon. This building was a beautiful temple to Athena that included incredibly decorative marble sculptures all around... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bullfighting = Animal Cruelty? Today in class, we got to talking about the Spanish Tradition of bullfighting. In a bullfight--which are huge sporting events in Spain attended by thousands in stadiums like our football stadiums---matadors attempt to kill a bull. The matador has a... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Little Bo Peep and Her Stinking Sheep! Today, in class, we learned about a sheep protest that occurred in Madrid, Spain. On the BBC website, these pictures explain a lot and help to understand the entire problem better. For fifteen years, this protest has been happening to... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Greek Riot!! A group of Greeks whom have migrated from Nigeria rioted over a 20-year old Nigerian man's death. This occurred in the northern city of Thessaloniki, Greece during the third weekend of August. The man was selling pirated DVD's, who felt... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Track Out Rap #1 Sadly, our Cyberschool is on the year-round calendar this year. For those of you who don't know what that means, our school doesn't get a summer vacation. Instead, every 9 weeks, we get 3 weeks off. From September 30th to... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Beware the Pigeon and WATCH YOUR STEP! Have you ever been to Venice, Italy? If you have watch out for the pigeons! The huge population of pigeons is costing the residents of Venice 275 Euros a year. That translates to 378 American Dollars. The money is used... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Curse of the Black Gold... This may sound absurd, but American companies like Shell are ripping off Nigeria. Yes, that's true. For the past 20 years, we have been taking a lot of oil from the Nigerians because they are using our equipment to get... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website So you think YOU can dance? During the course of the school year last year, my students got hooked on Dancing Matt, a guy who has gained notariety for his random dancing at world landmarks. Videos of Matt have been uploaded to dozens of internet websites,... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FINAL POST...For now! This year has been a great year for us Blurbers. Looking at what we have done over the year really amazes me. We have improved so much. A paragraph I will never forget is Who Are Heroes? It was just... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Nuclear North Korea Countries are mad at North Korea once again. In response to recent events in which North Korea built a working nuclear reactor, the countries of the United States, United Kingdom and China, among others, ordered North Korea to shut down... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tipsy Tots and Teens... We learned about an interesting law today in the United Kingdom that says that children over the age of 5 are allowed to drink alcoholic beverages at their home but not in public. Children over the age of 16 can... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website To Cull or Not To Cull-That is the Question In South Africa, officials have decided to start an elephant cull. This is because over the past few years, the elephant population has almost gone too far for the carrying capacity. So South Africa's great idea was to start an... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Here is My Hero... In some of our previous Blurbcasts, we have been debating about who should be counted as a hero. To continue this, Daffy Duck has interviewed her hero. Her hero is the proud owner of Pathways Treatment Center. She is a... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Here is My Hero... In some of our previous Blurbcasts, we have been debating about who should be counted as a hero. To continue this, Daffy Duck has interviewed her hero. Her hero is the proud owner of Pathways Treatment Center. She is a... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Backpack Tragedy 2 From the diary of The Hamster, Dear Diary, Today, all of the contents of my locker were stolen! All I did was accidently leave my combination lock open. I was missing all of the textbooks, the folders, the pictures of... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Backpack Tragedy 2 From the diary of The Hamster, Dear Diary, Today, all of the contents of my locker were stolen! All I did was accidently leave my combination lock open. I was missing all of the textbooks, the folders, the pictures of... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Seeing Your City #1! For the first time in blurb history, we have launched a new podcast called Seeing Your City. At Blurb Central we have had numerous visits from all around the globe. Ever since, these countries have only been names in our... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Seeing Your City #1! For the first time in blurb history, we have launched a new podcast called Seeing Your City. At Blurb Central we have had numerous visits from all around the globe. Ever since, these countries have only been names in our... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 100 Countries!! Its time to party, we have finally been visited by 100 countries and have been heard by 43% of the world!!! Here are a few of the countries that we’ve gotten hits from: The USA, UK, Ireland, Czech Republic, Phillapeans,... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Shark Tales A few days ago, three Black Tip Reef Sharks died in an aquarium in Norfolk. The staff in the aquarium said they are deeply concerned and upset about what happened. A staff member accidently put the water two degrees colder... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website "Operation Condor-A Huge Sucess" Here today on The Blurb, we are celebrating a very special occasion. Our beloved student teacher, Blanch Whatserface, has her last day today (April 20, 2007). She has been our student teacher for pretty much the whole year, and has... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website No Small Deal... There's a big debate going on in the world over a tiny baby. At a hospital in Miami, Florida, the smallest surviving baby was born. At birth, she was only as long as a pen and weighed just as much... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Honeybee Dissapearance In Wales thousands of bees have gone missing and experts do not know why. Simon Wilks, a beekeeper from London, said: They just dissapeared; there was no sign of disease or any problems with their hives. Some scientists say that... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Strut Your Smarts... Anyone feeling brilliant today? Then move to Sweden where the Miss Sweden Beauty Competition is rethinking the qualifications for their pageant. The contestants must not only be beautiful, but must also be a good leader, friendly and for world peace.... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Tale of the Tragic Backpack... This recording will be memorable to The Blurb Nation. It is an epic tale of love for a young man's prize possession...his backpack. The story starts when our friend DJ Cash Money left his backpack in the deep recesses of... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Unveiled...Part 3! If you remember, earlier this year a Muslim teacher was forced to take her traditional veil off because it was said that it was distracting her students. Schools in England now are banning religious clothing if it gets in the... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Is Walesa the Blockhead? Recently on The Blurb, we have been talking about Lech Walesa, the former president of Poland who called the current president a blockhead. He called the president a blockhead during a meeting. As a result, Walesa has been charged with... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How Much is Too Much? About a month ago, an Egyptian Blogger was thrown into prison for a term of four years. Abdel Kareem Soliman had committed the crime of insulting Islam--Egypt's main religion--and calling President Hosni Mubarak a dictator. He also criticized the top... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website We're On Spring Break! So we've got bad news and really bad news for you today. The bad news: The Blurb may be a bit sparse over the next few days because we're on Spring Break here at cyber-middle school. We've got a few... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website World's Most Dangerous Job: Russian Reporter! In an admittedly desperate attempt to get a Russian visit, Our spotlight falls on Russia's reporters this week. Right now in Russia, reporters are biting the dust left and right in some serious trouble. In fact, Russia has been declared... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Under Mao... Imagine walking the span of two blocks to fetch pails of water for....well, everything! That was the life of a guest who came on the show recently. Mr. Anonymous Fred lived in China under the rule of Communist Dictator Mao... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Zimbabwe's Troubles.... Over the last few weeks, crazy things have been happening in the African nation of Zimbabwe, where the president, Robert Mugabe, has been acting more and more like a dictator. Opponents who have been speaking up have been beaten and... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Chuckles, Wyoming and all 50 States! Yesterday was a big day here at Blurb Headquarters! After a brilliant post from Piglet titled Wide Wonderful Wyoming, we picked up a visit from the only state that we needed in order to say that we're Heard Round the... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Wide, Wonderful Wyoming! The Blurb currently has visits from 62 countries and 49 states. We've had visitors from Kembla, Kiewa and Kitchener. Man, we've even had visitors from Saskatchewan! (Do you even know where Saskatchewan is?) But we've never had a visitor from... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Robots...or Not? This podcast is a cry and a shame. Well, at least that's some of the emotions that robots will feel if Project Feelix Growing goes as planned. Giving robots the intelligence to have emotions is what Feelix roboticists are going... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hugo Chavez Controls Grocery Stores... Like the Bolivian president, Evo Morales, Hugo Chavez, President of Venezuela, claims to be a socialist leader interested in the poor of his country. He has also just threatened to take over food stores that are selling meat at higher... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Rappers' Smackdown... We're not sure exactly what happened here today at Blurb Central, but it certainly was interesting. Typically we spend our lunch period reviewing current events looking for something that is happening in Europe or South America worth podcasting about. Today's... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Should Bullies go to Jail? In the UK, a bully is being tried for beating up two classmates. If there is enough evidence, the highest court might send him to jail. If this young boy is sent to jail, sending kids who bully their classmates... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Fred and Bob are Lost Again! O where, O where have Fred and Bob gone, O where, O where could they be? We've looked down, we've looked around and we've looked for brown (thats what color they are). Unfortunately, we still can't find the whiny wanderers.... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website They Wouldn't Let Poor Rudolph Join in Any Playground Games... Heelys are cool, right? But are they dangerous? Kids have been getting hurt from Heelys, breaking bones after falling. One boy even died after falling in front of a car while on wheels. Many parents and doctors wonder if they... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Learning about Black History... Recently, I had an amazing time interviewing Daisy the Great. Daisy was a kid like you once, only she had a whole other life. Daisy lived in a small developing country in Africa called Malawi. They had to work hard... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Strel the Slovenian Hero? There is a middle aged man named Martin Strel who is trying to swim the Amazon River. He started a few weeks ago because he was searching for a challenge. He has already swam the Danube, Yangtze and Mississippi Rivers.... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Snow Leopard Trust? On the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, a group called the Snow Leopard Trust is snaring Snow Leopards to attach GPS collars to them. The GPS collars attached to them help the Snow Leopard Trust to track the Snow Leopards and research them.... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Finding Fred and Bob.... Oh No! Our pet classroom doughnuts wandered off again. Last we saw them, they were somewhere around the Balkan Peninsula, but when we went there to find and capture them, they had already moved on to somewhere else. All we... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Happy Birthday Mrs. Chicken Hunter! Today is Mrs. Chicken Hunter's birthday, so we students in cyberspace thought that it would be only appropriate to sing to her. Melvin has done so much work on The Blurb that we couldn't let this important event pass without... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Legislative School Technology Day: Deputy State Superintendent J.B. Buxton One more person got interviewed at our Legislative School Technology Day and it was Deputy State Superintendent J.B. Buxton. Buxton has just started his job and is getting a warm welcome from everyone including Chairman Howard Lee. J.B. got a... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website God Bless the USA? A new fashion is spreading all across Europe, American! This is a concept known as Americanization. Americanization basically means that the native products, music and television shows are losing their popularity and are being replaced by American products. Many countries... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Interview with a Hero... Recently, I had the chance to interview G-Money. G-Money is in the 82nd Airborne Division and is getting ready to go to Iraq. This is his second time there, and he has also been to Afghanistan twice. The reason that... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Legislative School Technology Day: Representatives Ty Harrell and Grier Martin Two more people that we got to interview at our recent Legislative School Technology Day were Representative Grier Martin and Representative Ty Harrell. Grier Martin has served 2 terms in the House of Representatives. He has sponsored or co-sponsored 36... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Evo is at it Again... President Evo Morales, of Bolivia, is at it again. If you remember, earlier this year he took land away from the rich and gave it to the poor. He has just seized a smelting complex that was owned by a... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website LTSD Interviews: Senator Malone and Representative Tolson To start off our series of interviews with State Legislators, we figured we'd go to two gentlemen that deserve a lot of credit for helping to make sure that schools in our state have the kind of technology that students... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Fashion Shows Go Up a Size... There has been a debate going on in the world about whether we should ban skinny models from the runway. Models that are under a size six are no longer allowed to walk down the runway in Birmingham, England. People... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Can You Hear Us Now? So, we continue to grow here at The Blurb and Our Opus. To date, we've had almost 10,000 page views, averaging nearly 50 per site per day. We've been spotlighted on Will Richardson's blog and on the blog of a... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Heavy Issue.... In Madrid, Spain, a top modeling show is thinking about banning underweight models from the catwalk. These models are very underweight. They are so underweight that they could die because of it. In fact, two models in South America have... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Heavy Issue.... In Madrid, Spain, a top modeling show is thinking about banning underweight models from the catwalk. These models are very underweight. They are so underweight that they could die because of it. In fact, two models in South America have... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Melvin Learns about School in the 1940s... Melvin is at it again, having interviewed another person about technology in schools. Today's contestant was Jack Daniels, the oldest person that we have interviewed on The Blurb so far. He talks about what sixth grade was like in the... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Melvin Learns about School in the 1940s... Melvin is at it again, having interviewed another person about technology in schools. Today's contestant was Jack Daniels, the oldest person that we have interviewed on The Blurb so far. He talks about what sixth grade was like in the... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website "Terror" in Terrorism? Recently, a terrorist group called Euskadi Ta Azkatasuna (ETA) set off a car bomb in Barakaldo, a city in Northern Spain. This group, along with the majority of the Basque people (a region of Northern Spain), wants to break free... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website "Terror" in Terrorism? Recently, a terrorist group called Euskadi Ta Azkatasuna (ETA) set off a car bomb in Barakaldo, a city in Northern Spain. This group, along with the majority of the Basque people (a region of Northern Spain), wants to break free... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rocka "BYE BYE" Baby... A few week ago,Air Tran--an American airline--kicked off a family when their 3-year old daughter threw a tantrum and refused to sit down. The mother wanted to hold her child, but the flight attendants wouldn't allow it. As a result,... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rocka "BYE BYE" Baby... A few week ago,Air Tran--an American airline--kicked off a family when their 3-year old daughter threw a tantrum and refused to sit down. The mother wanted to hold her child, but the flight attendants wouldn't allow it. As a result,... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Hamster Speaks Again... So the Hamster has been polishing his interview skills again. In this recording, he sits down with Butterball (no relation to everyone's favorite Thanksgiving feast) and talks about what sixth grade was like in 1977. Aren't you curious? I mean... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Hamster Speaks Again... So the Hamster has been polishing his interview skills again. In this recording, he sits down with Butterball (no relation to everyone's favorite Thanksgiving feast) and talks about what sixth grade was like in 1977. Aren't you curious? I mean... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Interviews...Round 1 As many of our listeners know, The Blurb has been invited to represent our county and our school at an upcoming Legislative School Technology Day being held at our state's General Assembly. We'll be bringing along two of our Associate... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Once Bitten.... Recently, a man named Eric Nerhus was attacked by a shark while on a diving trip with his friends. He escaped by hitting the shark on the head with a fishing tool. Although he escaped, he is in serious condition.... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website USA to Blame? Earlier this month, George Bush made a speech saying that he wanted the USA to reduce petrol usage by 20% in the next 10 years and to replace that 20% with biodiesel. He also wanted us to spend more money... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website USA to Blame? Earlier this month, George Bush made a speech saying that he wanted the USA to reduce petrol usage by 20% in the next 10 years and to replace that 20% with biodiesel. He also wanted us to spend more money... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website γιατί χάθηκες, Fred and Bob? So we got the postcard to the left from our classroom pets Fred and Bob today. It wasn't signed (they didn't have a pen, you know...they're donuts), but we knew it was them because a bit of glaze was used... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website γιατί χάθηκες, Fred and Bob? So we got the postcard to the left from our classroom pets Fred and Bob today. It wasn't signed (they didn't have a pen, you know...they're donuts), but we knew it was them because a bit of glaze was used... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website No H2O.... In the past, many Nigerians have suffered from property loss and severe drought. The fine sands of the Sahara literally buried many houses and roads each year. So our critical question is should people in the United States be more... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website KothAe Fred ebong Bob? Those little donuts are going to be in so much trouble once we find them. We do think they might be in the Eastern Hemisphere this time, though. They might have gone to a Far Eastern country where bays are... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Where Have We Been? One of the questions that we get asked a lot here at The Blurb and Our Opus is, Where do your blog's visitors come from? Well, that's a hard question to answer because they literally come from all over the... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Troubled... Lately in Northern Ireland, The Troubles are getting worse. These series of events have gone back to the 1960s. Many groups of Catholic and Protestant terrorists are set out to kill each other. Just a few weeks ago, we wrote... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Is it Hot in Here? All over the world, people are fearing global warming. Two weeks ago, scientists discovered that a huge ice shelf broke off in the Canadian arctic. It may cause problems to other countries, particulary by blocking boat lanes and rising water... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Gdzie są Fred i Bob? Fred and Bob have gone on another popular--and cold--adventure in the great wilderness of our earth. When they get back, we'll be sure to ask them for a souvenir! Can you help us find them? Here are ten clues: Download... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Reason to Celebrate! There's reason to celebrate here at The Blurb today...You see, we've finally Gone Worldwide, having had visitors from every continent except Antarctica. Currently, we've had visitors from 20 different countries and 38 US states. Isn't that cool? If you're interested... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Is Beckham Worth It? In a move that stunned the sports universe, David Beckham has signed to play with the LA Galaxy of Major League Soccer. Leaving Real Madrid--one of soccer's most famous clubs--Beckham talks about his desire to help grow soccer in the... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Thank Goodness No One Brought Tomatoes! A Franco-Italian tenor, playing the lead role in Verdi was booed off of La Scala Opera Houses stage. After his astonishing departue, his under study ran to the stage in jeans. Alagna blamed his hostile audience for his exit. So... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Barbie Backlash Barbie, the ever-so-wonderful doll that almost no girl in the States is found without, has been banned in countries like Saudi Aribia, Russia and Malasia. They say she is not creative because she is not a creative doll because she... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website What Fred and Bob? Our little delights have accidently taken a MAJOR wrong turn at Alberquerkee--we just hope they make it back with their glaze on! Please help us to save these creamy donuts by using these explosively cool clues: Download fred_and_bob_9.mp3 Leave us... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Case of Bad Gas.... On January 1, 2007, Russia decided to raise the price of the natural gas that they sell to their neighbor, Belarus. To counter it, Belarus has taxed Russia for using pipelines in Belarus to send gas to Europe. Russia has... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Quidditch Quarrel In this edition of The Blurb, we are debating whether or not it is OK to change a book a lot to make a movie of the book shorter. We took the example of the new Harry Potter movie that... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Houston, What IS the Problem? NASA has announced a plan to build an office on the moon. This office will be used to carry out special research of the moon and to observe our planet from space. NASA also hopes to use this office as... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website What Holocaust? Recently, in Tehran, Iran, there was a meeting of Holocaust Deniers hosted by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Holocaust Deniers openly question whether or not the Holocaust actually occurred. The meeting was held to express the feelings and the beliefs of the... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Donde Esta Fred and Bob? These little mocos are starting to make us furiosso and once we get our hands on them we will have a warm conversation. Check out the rockin' music and use a set of ten clues to help us find them.... Listen | Listen in your iPhone |