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Bottle brush plants are medium-size trees or bush with flowers that resemble a bottle brush. They belong to the genus Callistemon and family Myrtaceae, and there are 34 species of them in Australia, 30 of which are endemic.

Flowering and Habitat
Different species are mainly found in temperate regions, along the east coast of Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria; and south western WA, where the climate is not too hot or too dry. They commonly flower in spring and summer although local conditions may make them flower at other times. They are relatively slow growing plants that can grow up to 15 metres high.

Bottle Brush Flower
Bottle Brush plants have got a very distinctive flower which is most often red, but can also be white, creamy, orange, yellow or green. Unlike most other flowers, where the petals are usually the most visible part, the most obvious parts of the bottle brush flower are stamens. This is thought to be due to co-evolution with their pollinators, which often are birds and small mammals.

http://www.gondwananet.com/bottle-brush-plants.html

Today a man named Iain came to my school to perform a one man play. It was called The boy with the longest Shadow written by Finegan Kruckemeyer. The characters in the play are two identical twins named Adam and Atticus Brown.

But looks is where the identicalness ends.For Adam and Atticus have very different skill,hobbies and qualities.

The play is all about self confidence,being yourself, doing your own thing and being proud of who you are.

It starts off with Atticus being shy, quite and a bit of a loner and Adam being loud, sporty and popular.Atticus comes up with a whole heap of plans to become popular just like his older brother. Even know they are twins Adam was born 2 minutes earlier than Atticus, they were also born in different years.

What really frustrates Atticus is that even though he and his twin are the same height when ever they stand next to each other in the sun Adam’s shadow is always longer.

Over the experiences Atticus has he realises that he is cool in his own way, and that with all the worrying he’s been doing he overlooked the people who actully likes him for him.

Charles Napier Sturt was an English explorer of Australia.

He led several expeditions into the interior of the continent, starting from Sydney and later from Adelaide. His expeditions traced several of the westward-flowing rivers, establishing that they all merged into the Murray River. He was searching to determine if there was an “inland sea”.

Sturt wanted to settle the debate as to whether there was an inland sea and he was driven to be the first European to stand in the centre of the continent.

 In August 1844 Sturt and a party of 15 men, 200 sheep, six drays and a boat set out to explore north-western new south wales and to advance into central Australia. They travelled along the Murray River and Darling River before passing the future site of Broken Hill, but were then stranded for months by the extreme summer conditions near the present site of Milparinka. When the rains eventually came Sturt moved north and established a depot at Fort Grey in today’s Sturt nation Park.

 With a small group of men, including explorer John McDouall Stuart as his draughtsman, Sturt pressed on across Sturts stone desert and into the Simpson Desert, at which point he was unable to go further and turned back to the depot.

Sturt made a second attempt to reach the centre of Australia, but he contracted scurvy in the extreme conditions. His health broke down and he was forced to abandon the attempt. John Harris Browne, surgeon on the expedition, assisted Sturt, took over leadership of the party and after travelling 3,000 miles (4,800 km) brought it back to safety.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Sturt

I participated in world maths day and world spelling day. They are on different days but they work the same way.

 On World maths day there is 5 levels and each level you get one point for every game you complete. Once you get 20 points you move on to the next level, getting 20 points a level. When your done you have 100 points total.

It is the same with World spelling day, but instead of answering math questions you have to spell words.

They have had World maths day for a while, but world spelling day is new.

When your done you get a certificate.

1. The planes that fly to Alaska are modified to be able to land on snow and ice.
2. The native people of Alaska are called Inuit.
3. No trees can grow in Alaska because of the permafrost.
4. For half a year the sun in Alaska is up 24/7, then for the next half a year it is dark 24/7.
5. Alaska’s state sport is dog-mushing.
6. The capital of Alaska is Juneau.
7. The flower of Alaska is the Forget-Me-Not.
8. The state bird is the Willow Ptarmigan.
9. The state tree is the Sitka Spruce.
10. The hunters of Alaska have to be good observers and know the land scape, to be able to catch their prey.

African Expedition is a game where you follow the route Henry Stanley took when he tried to find Dr.Livingstone.

 You have to roll 5 dice and you can choose to either discard what shows on the dice or keep them. The sort of things that can show up and dice are dangerous animals, guns, food and poachers. You have three rolls, but if you end your turn early you get to skip a few days of travelling.

The ways you can lose are; getting attacked by an animal, running out of food or having no poachers left.

There is also a few opportunities to be able to make decisions. For example; two of your poachers have fallen ill, give them medicine and lose two days or continue on and lose the two poachers.

I have yet to win this game.

• All sorts of computers have the same simple hardware.
• Computers store there information in a hard drive.
• The bigger the hard drive the more you can store in it.
• R A M Random Access Memory: use it to get to things quickly, helps get info faster.
• Every time you turn off your computer, the RAM refreshes.
• Processors make things in your computers run smoothly.
• Computers of all sizes work the same way.
• The faster the processor completes things the faster your computer will be.

Those are some dot points of what goes on inside your computers.

I am number four is the name of the novel I just finished.

The novel is about a boy named John and his guardian Henri that are posing as normal people, with normal lives. But they are not. They are aliens from a far away place called Lorien .

But they didn’t come to earth by choice. There planet was attacked by the neighbour planet of the Mogadorians that had killed there own world and needed resources. 

But the people of Lorien wern’t defenceless. There are to kinds of Lorians. There are the Garde. They are the guardians of the planet because they all have lagacies(powers) of there own, and all  the garde have telekinesis.

Then there is the Cepan. The Cepan don’t have powers so they keep the planet in order, and teach the Garde the history of Lorien. They are also given a Garde to tutor.

John and Henri, along with 8 other garde children and their Cepan, get aboard a ship to make the long  journey to earth, while the adult Lorians stayed back and faught the Mogadorians. But they lost, and the Mogadorians took the planet as their own.

But that wasn’t the end of the fight.As long as the children and there Cepans stayed hidden until their legacies developed there was still a chance. A charm was placed over the children so they could only be killed in order. The mogadorians found and killed the first three, now they are comimg after John.

John is number four.

Inception is a movie I got for Christmas. I really liked this movie because it keeps you thinking. It is a bit confusing though. It is about a man named Cobb(Leonardo DiCaprio) who is trying to get back to his family, and he got caught up in a business that you don’t wanna get caught up in. Its got my favourite actress Ellen Page in it.

I would definitely recommend watching this movie.

The other night I watched the 7th saw movie.I have also seen the other 6 saw movies.

Saw is about redemption really. A man called saw captures people who have done bad things and puts them in a trap. If they have enough determination they can escape the traps, if not they die. The traps always have timers so when the timer goes of so does the trap.

Anyway the 7th saw is about a man who said he was a survivor of one of saw traps. But really he hasn’t. So Saw really does capture him and makes him go through a series of horrifying events to save his wife.It also has other events in it,like other peoples survivour stories.

I wont say what happens in the end because that would be mean so yeah.I would recommend this movie to people who are a little older and okay with violence.