On Tuesday, an eleven year old girl named Nadia Bloom was rescued from a swamp in Flordia after being missing for the past four days. Other than a bunch of insect bites, Nadia Bloom was in perfect condition. It's a miracle that she was found, and without serious injury. I'm sure her parents are happier than they've ever been before in their live. It must have been terrifying to lose a child!
This story is about a man who was arrested for the slaying of a couple in their beachfront home. Joshua Graham Packer invaded the home and proceeded to stab the Husteds and their unborn daughter to death. It's extremely disturbing because Packer walked right past the Husteds youngest son, who was watching TV, to find the adults and kill them. The community where the crime occurred hadn't recorded a murder in over 15 years until this case. This goes to show that no matter how safe an area seems, crime can still occur. I'm glad that Packer was found because he's a threat to society that needs to be locked up. I feel bad for the Husteds two children that survived because they have to grow up with no parents now.
Ella McBryde Four people found dead in Chicago during a shooting in Marquette Park. Suspects are currently in custody due to the help with witnesses. They help identify the suspect. They haven't determine the relationship of the victims. I think this is really sad that crimes like this exist. The crime rate is increasing everyday and people can not stop it.
Jamie Chen http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/04/14/china.earthquake.survivors/ There's also a video there that shows a CNN report about it. This article is about an 6.9 magnitude earthquake centered in the Qinghai province in China. It killed over 580 people and injured over 10,000 people. To make things worse, because this region of China has a relatively high altitude, the temperature is near, if not below, freezing. The earthquake happened around Wednesday morning, which is Tuesday night in America. Because most of the houses were mostly made of wood and mud, they just completely collapsed. In the pictures, the houses were reduced to piles of rubble. Since it's such a remote region, the Chinese government has had a hard time getting the help to the survivors of the earthquake. To make matters worse, all the survivors are living in constant fear, especially because of a nearby reservoir, which could break and flood the entire area.
This article says that a school district in Mississippi will be changing its busing routs in order to move some white students to a "identifiably white" school. Not only is there something inherently wrong with moving students based on race, but it wholeheartedly opposes the brown v. board supreme court decision. I was surprised to read this story since the brown v. board decision was made almost 40 years ago. While i don't necessarily agree with busing children to farther schools just so the school can be racially diverse, it's not right to bus children so they can be in a "white" school. If I were a student or even a parent at one of these schools, I would bring an argument to the school board.
I am extremely interested to find out the outcome of this situation. This is the first current event that I have done that has been on a subject that hits this close to home. If it happened on the other side of the country, I would not be as interested (whether that is morally right or not is another matter), be because this happened here, I am much more concerned. We are very lucky that no one was hurt,and hopefully nothing like this will ever happen again. Hopefully, but not likely.
Russia Suspends Adoptions by Americans http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/16/world/europe/16adopt.html?src=me As indicated by the title, Russia has suspened all US adoptions of Russian children following an incident in which an American adoptive mother sent her seven-year-old child back to Moscow saying that she could no longer handle him. The article further states that fourteen such children have died as a result of abuse or neglect at the hands of their American parents since 1996. I am unsure as to why ALL adoptions have been suspended due to this incident. To me, it seems like a bit of an overreaction. However, the article was fairly sparsely detailed in regard to why precisely the Russian government reacted this way. It is unlike governments to react so strongly to any issue without quite a bit of provocation and reason.
While Europe is managing to find clean energy from trash we have yet to even consider the idea, which I think is just horrible. I mean, who doesn’t want to get rid of unsightly trash, and if that would give us extra energy, well, that’s even better. Who doesn’t want clean energy, especially from something that is found all over this country? I don’t understand why anyone would oppose this. In fact, some people are refusing to build these plants because it won’t “encourage recycling,” but we’ll always have garbage, why not try to get rid of it. This world is full of garbage, and if there is a clean way to get rid of it with added benefits, we should pursue it with open arms.
This article is about the recent volcanic eruption near Iceland recently. This single eruption, far from the main pathways of international flights, have cancelled over 6000 flights. that makes lots of problems all for transportation everywhere. But the volcanic ash has spread east to southeast causing lots of other problems for european countries. this is a bad event for the transportation system throughout our world right now. with all these flights being cancelled major problems can come from the ability to not transport civilians.
There was recently an earthquake with a magnitude of 7.2 in Mexico. It impacted the United States as well. Two people are dead and over 100 injured. This is one of a series of harmful recent earthquakes. I wonder if there's some underlying geologic trend causing all of these earthquakes (including the one in Haiti) that we should be aware of. A recent earthquake in China hurt millions, as well. I think that we should be researching these earthquakes to see if we can find a pattern. The next earthquake could be in another major urban center, and then there would be many casualties.
Last friday an 11 year old girl got lost in a swampy forest while on a bike ride. She stopped to take some pictures and then got lost and couldn't find her way back home. Luckily her family had asked for help and someone from their church found her. She was mildly autistic but was in very good condition besides having a ton of bug bites. Its a miracle that she was found and I'm sure that her family is very thankful. It's amazing that she stayed calm and wasn't complaining about anything other than the bug bites because it must have been difficult to be stuck out there for four days.
Earlier today, as many people had noticed, our school was put under lock down conditions. These precautions aren't normally taken unless there is a serious issue going on, so naturally people were slightly nervous. As everyone waited, locked up in their classrooms, police began to roll up to the school. Students began to become more curious about the issue present. After about an hour and a half, students were allowed out of there classrooms and school life returned to normal. It wasn't until later that everyone found out that a gun had been fired off this morning on a school bus. Luckily no one was hurt. This just shows how easily dangerous things can happen. It's scary to think about that if the gun hadn't have gone off, it may have gone unnoticed and someone could have gotten hurt.
The story I read this week was about a man that lives in Arkansas that planed to kill dozens of African americans including Obama. He was sentenced to 10 years in Prison. Paul was planning to kill Obama on October 23 right before the election. I don't really know what this guy was thinking or if he thought that he had any chance to get away with it. Sometimes I wonder why people think that would be an okay thing to do. I am glad that nobody got hurt and that they caught him before he did anything dangerous.
Jamie Chen http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/apr/16/volcanic-ash-air-travel-europe Basically what happened was that a volcano erupted somewhere in iceland, and now all the volcanic ash is drifting over toward Europe. Because of this, all flights to England or any other part of Europed (it mentions Germany)covered in ash were grounded. Now, thousands of travelers are stuck, waiting at airports. Though airports are trying to get through any hole in the cloud, the holes only last for a few minutes, not even long enough for the passengers to board the plane. Even worse, the cloud of ash is being blown west, to cover more of Europe.
http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/04/16/cia.tapes/index.html This article is about when the CIA destroyed tapes that showed the interogation of two al Qaeda detainees in 2005. Because of the Freedom of Information Act, the CIA was forced to release the tapes, but huge sections were blacked out. Porter Goss, the CIA chief, was supposed to have allowed it to happen, but others say that normally he wouldn't have. He sympathized with Jose Rodriguez's point of view, who didn't want the tapes to become public. If the tapes did go public, it could look really bad for the CIA.
Some elementary and middle school teachers are accused of changing answers from standardized test to meet A.R.P for the No Child Left Behind act that was passed by former President Bush. Honestly, I think that the No Child Left Behind act was never a very good idea, and this just proves it. Teachers are way too pressured to have their students meet standardized test scores, and "teaching" has become less emphasis on "learning" and more emphasis is placed on "passing standardized tests." While I do believe that we should have a way to monitor how well students do in school, standardized tests are not an accurate reflection of students abilities because it records their test taking abilities, not how much they've learned. This story just goes to show the extremes teachers have been going to to deal with this act, and something needs to be done about it.
A four year-old boy, Dominick Calhoun, was essentially beat and tortured to death by his mother's boyfriend, Brandon Hayes. The toddler had wet his pants earlier that day, and somehow that's a good enough reason for him to be abused. For this case Hayes has been charged with first-degree premeditated murder, first-degree child abuse, and one count of torture - due to these charges Hayes may have a life sentence. The county prosecutor says that the child had been abused before (so I for one am glad Hayes has been stopped even though it's too late). Supposedly Dominick's mother tried to protect him by laying over him, but in doing so she was beat also and most likely seperated from Dominick. Dominick was taken to a hospital of the 11th, and was confirmed as "brain dead" and was taken off life support the morning of the 12th. This is just disgraceful. I think no one should be punished like that under ANY circumstances - Hayes seems like sort of a Pavlovian Nazi. Assuming that Hayes is a sane man this story just really upsets me. Not that I'd mercy anyone with a mental condition who did the same thing, but honestly? Kids are going to be kids and will train their bladders when they want. In the article Hayes is referred to as "Dominick's boogeyman". I can't even imagine Dominick's fear especially if this was routine.
http://www.cnn.com/2010/TRAVEL/04/17/iceland.flights.volcano/index.html This is pretty insane. I think that it's incredible that one volcano shut down almost all of Europe's air travel. The airports have been shut down for days all ready and it appears that they will be shut down for many more. On Friday 10,400 flights happened in place of the normal 28,000 and on Saturday, around 5,000 flights happened instead of the usual 22,000. The volcano, which is in Iceland, began erupting on March 20th, which is almost a month ago and is still erupting now. Hopefully the eruption will stop soon so people can get back home to carry on with their lives.
I never thought a country like Greece would ever be going bankrupt. It seems weird that they need 160 billion dollars when they should have a huge tourism industry and probably a bunch of other things that make them a lot of money. I'm glad that Germany has agreed to help Greece with most of the money required to bail them out, because it would be very bad if a major European country became bankrupt.
I think that its crazy that a natural event in Iceland could shut down the entire continent. No planes can fly in or out of any european countries right now, restricting trade and travel. The airline industry is losing millions of dollars of possible revenue, and all because of a single eruption. What made this eruption so devastating is that it was situated underneath a glacier, spewing rock, ash and ice into the air forming a giant column that spread all throughout europe. I hope that this will be resolved soon and europe can get back on its feet again
http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/04/13/florida.girl.found/index.html?hpt=T2
ReplyDeleteOn Tuesday, an eleven year old girl named Nadia Bloom was rescued from a swamp in Flordia after being missing for the past four days. Other than a bunch of insect bites, Nadia Bloom was in perfect condition. It's a miracle that she was found, and without serious injury. I'm sure her parents are happier than they've ever been before in their live. It must have been terrifying to lose a child!
-Bailey Ethridge
http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/04/12/california.slayings/index.html?hpt=Sbin
ReplyDeleteThis story is about a man who was arrested for the slaying of a couple in their beachfront home. Joshua Graham Packer invaded the home and proceeded to stab the Husteds and their unborn daughter to death. It's extremely disturbing because Packer walked right past the Husteds youngest son, who was watching TV, to find the adults and kill them. The community where the crime occurred hadn't recorded a murder in over 15 years until this case. This goes to show that no matter how safe an area seems, crime can still occur. I'm glad that Packer was found because he's a threat to society that needs to be locked up. I feel bad for the Husteds two children that survived because they have to grow up with no parents now.
http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/04/14/chicago.killings/index.html?hpt=T2
ReplyDeleteElla McBryde
Four people found dead in Chicago during a shooting in Marquette Park. Suspects are currently in custody due to the help with witnesses. They help identify the suspect. They haven't determine the relationship of the victims. I think this is really sad that crimes like this exist. The crime rate is increasing everyday and people can not stop it.
Jamie Chen
ReplyDeletehttp://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/04/14/china.earthquake.survivors/
There's also a video there that shows a CNN report about it.
This article is about an 6.9 magnitude earthquake centered in the Qinghai province in China. It killed over 580 people and injured over 10,000 people. To make things worse, because this region of China has a relatively high altitude, the temperature is near, if not below, freezing. The earthquake happened around Wednesday morning, which is Tuesday night in America. Because most of the houses were mostly made of wood and mud, they just completely collapsed. In the pictures, the houses were reduced to piles of rubble.
Since it's such a remote region, the Chinese government has had a hard time getting the help to the survivors of the earthquake. To make matters worse, all the survivors are living in constant fear, especially because of a nearby reservoir, which could break and flood the entire area.
Michael Brews
ReplyDeletehttp://abcnews.go.com/Politics/segregation-mississippi-public-schools-2010/story?id=10366223&page=2
This article says that a school district in Mississippi will be changing its busing routs in order to move some white students to a "identifiably white" school. Not only is there something inherently wrong with moving students based on race, but it wholeheartedly opposes the brown v. board supreme court decision. I was surprised to read this story since the brown v. board decision was made almost 40 years ago. While i don't necessarily agree with busing children to farther schools just so the school can be racially diverse, it's not right to bus children so they can be in a "white" school. If I were a student or even a parent at one of these schools, I would bring an argument to the school board.
http://www.wral.com/news/news_briefs/story/7424068/
ReplyDeleteI am extremely interested to find out the outcome of this situation. This is the first current event that I have done that has been on a subject that hits this close to home. If it happened on the other side of the country, I would not be as interested (whether that is morally right or not is another matter), be because this happened here, I am much more concerned. We are very lucky that no one was hurt,and hopefully nothing like this will ever happen again. Hopefully, but not likely.
Russia Suspends Adoptions by Americans
ReplyDeletehttp://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/16/world/europe/16adopt.html?src=me
As indicated by the title, Russia has suspened all US adoptions of Russian children following an incident in which an American adoptive mother sent her seven-year-old child back to Moscow saying that she could no longer handle him. The article further states that fourteen such children have died as a result of abuse or neglect at the hands of their American parents since 1996. I am unsure as to why ALL adoptions have been suspended due to this incident. To me, it seems like a bit of an overreaction. However, the article was fairly sparsely detailed in regard to why precisely the Russian government reacted this way. It is unlike governments to react so strongly to any issue without quite a bit of provocation and reason.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/13/science/earth/13trash.html?src=un&feedurl=http://json8.nytimes.com/pages/world/index.jsonp
ReplyDeleteWhile Europe is managing to find clean energy from trash we have yet to even consider the idea, which I think is just horrible. I mean, who doesn’t want to get rid of unsightly trash, and if that would give us extra energy, well, that’s even better. Who doesn’t want clean energy, especially from something that is found all over this country? I don’t understand why anyone would oppose this. In fact, some people are refusing to build these plants because it won’t “encourage recycling,” but we’ll always have garbage, why not try to get rid of it. This world is full of garbage, and if there is a clean way to get rid of it with added benefits, we should pursue it with open arms.
http://www.cnn.com/2010/TRAVEL/04/15/iceland.flights/index.html?hpt=T1
ReplyDeleteThis article is about the recent volcanic eruption near Iceland recently. This single eruption, far from the main pathways of international flights, have cancelled over 6000 flights. that makes lots of problems all for transportation everywhere. But the volcanic ash has spread east to southeast causing lots of other problems for european countries. this is a bad event for the transportation system throughout our world right now. with all these flights being cancelled major problems can come from the ability to not transport civilians.
http://www.sjcctimes.com/index.php?action=fullnews&id=335
ReplyDeleteThere was recently an earthquake with a magnitude of 7.2 in Mexico. It impacted the United States as well. Two people are dead and over 100 injured. This is one of a series of harmful recent earthquakes. I wonder if there's some underlying geologic trend causing all of these earthquakes (including the one in Haiti) that we should be aware of. A recent earthquake in China hurt millions, as well. I think that we should be researching these earthquakes to see if we can find a pattern. The next earthquake could be in another major urban center, and then there would be many casualties.
http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/04/13/florida.girl.found/index.html?hpt=T2
ReplyDeleteLast friday an 11 year old girl got lost in a swampy forest while on a bike ride. She stopped to take some pictures and then got lost and couldn't find her way back home. Luckily her family had asked for help and someone from their church found her. She was mildly autistic but was in very good condition besides having a ton of bug bites. Its a miracle that she was found and I'm sure that her family is very thankful. It's amazing that she stayed calm and wasn't complaining about anything other than the bug bites because it must have been difficult to be stuck out there for four days.
Katelyn
http://www.heraldsun.com/view/full_story/7083982/article-Suspect-arrested-in-Chapel-Hill-High-weapons-incident?instance=breaking_news
ReplyDeleteEarlier today, as many people had noticed, our school was put under lock down conditions. These precautions aren't normally taken unless there is a serious issue going on, so naturally people were slightly nervous. As everyone waited, locked up in their classrooms, police began to roll up to the school. Students began to become more curious about the issue present. After about an hour and a half, students were allowed out of there classrooms and school life returned to normal. It wasn't until later that everyone found out that a gun had been fired off this morning on a school bus. Luckily no one was hurt. This just shows how easily dangerous things can happen. It's scary to think about that if the gun hadn't have gone off, it may have gone unnoticed and someone could have gotten hurt.
-Sophie Szentes
http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/04/16/obama.threat/index.html?hpt=T2
ReplyDeleteThe story I read this week was about a man that lives in Arkansas that planed to kill dozens of African americans including Obama. He was sentenced to 10 years in Prison. Paul was planning to kill Obama on October 23 right before the election. I don't really know what this guy was thinking or if he thought that he had any chance to get away with it. Sometimes I wonder why people think that would be an okay thing to do. I am glad that nobody got hurt and that they caught him before he did anything dangerous.
Jamie Chen
ReplyDeletehttp://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/apr/16/volcanic-ash-air-travel-europe
Basically what happened was that a volcano erupted somewhere in iceland, and now all the volcanic ash is drifting over toward Europe. Because of this, all flights to England or any other part of Europed (it mentions Germany)covered in ash were grounded. Now, thousands of travelers are stuck, waiting at airports. Though airports are trying to get through any hole in the cloud, the holes only last for a few minutes, not even long enough for the passengers to board the plane. Even worse, the cloud of ash is being blown west, to cover more of Europe.
http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/04/16/cia.tapes/index.html
This article is about when the CIA destroyed tapes that showed the interogation of two al Qaeda detainees in 2005. Because of the Freedom of Information Act, the CIA was forced to release the tapes, but huge sections were blacked out. Porter Goss, the CIA chief, was supposed to have allowed it to happen, but others say that normally he wouldn't have. He sympathized with Jose Rodriguez's point of view, who didn't want the tapes to become public. If the tapes did go public, it could look really bad for the CIA.
http://www.cnn.com/video/?/video/us/2010/04/16/lemon.ga.test.tampering.cnn
ReplyDeleteSome elementary and middle school teachers are accused of changing answers from standardized test to meet A.R.P for the No Child Left Behind act that was passed by former President Bush. Honestly, I think that the No Child Left Behind act was never a very good idea, and this just proves it. Teachers are way too pressured to have their students meet standardized test scores, and "teaching" has become less emphasis on "learning" and more emphasis is placed on "passing standardized tests." While I do believe that we should have a way to monitor how well students do in school, standardized tests are not an accurate reflection of students abilities because it records their test taking abilities, not how much they've learned. This story just goes to show the extremes teachers have been going to to deal with this act, and something needs to be done about it.
http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/04/15/michigan.child.torture/index.html?npt=NP1
ReplyDeleteA four year-old boy, Dominick Calhoun, was essentially beat and tortured to death by his mother's boyfriend, Brandon Hayes. The toddler had wet his pants earlier that day, and somehow that's a good enough reason for him to be abused. For this case Hayes has been charged with first-degree premeditated murder, first-degree child abuse, and one count of torture - due to these charges Hayes may have a life sentence. The county prosecutor says that the child had been abused before (so I for one am glad Hayes has been stopped even though it's too late). Supposedly Dominick's mother tried to protect him by laying over him, but in doing so she was beat also and most likely seperated from Dominick. Dominick was taken to a hospital of the 11th, and was confirmed as "brain dead" and was taken off life support the morning of the 12th. This is just disgraceful. I think no one should be punished like that under ANY circumstances - Hayes seems like sort of a Pavlovian Nazi. Assuming that Hayes is a sane man this story just really upsets me. Not that I'd mercy anyone with a mental condition who did the same thing, but honestly? Kids are going to be kids and will train their bladders when they want. In the article Hayes is referred to as "Dominick's boogeyman". I can't even imagine Dominick's fear especially if this was routine.
http://www.cnn.com/2010/TRAVEL/04/17/iceland.flights.volcano/index.html
ReplyDeleteThis is pretty insane. I think that it's incredible that one volcano shut down almost all of Europe's air travel. The airports have been shut down for days all ready and it appears that they will be shut down for many more. On Friday 10,400 flights happened in place of the normal 28,000 and on Saturday, around 5,000 flights happened instead of the usual 22,000. The volcano, which is in Iceland, began erupting on March 20th, which is almost a month ago and is still erupting now. Hopefully the eruption will stop soon so people can get back home to carry on with their lives.
http://www.cnn.com/2010/BUSINESS/04/29/greece.aid.deal/index.html?eref=igoogle_cnn
ReplyDeleteI never thought a country like Greece would ever be going bankrupt. It seems weird that they need 160 billion dollars when they should have a huge tourism industry and probably a bunch of other things that make them a lot of money. I'm glad that Germany has agreed to help Greece with most of the money required to bail them out, because it would be very bad if a major European country became bankrupt.
http://www.cnn.com/2010/TRAVEL/04/17/iceland.flights.volcano/index.html
ReplyDeleteI think that its crazy that a natural event in Iceland could shut down the entire continent. No planes can fly in or out of any european countries right now, restricting trade and travel. The airline industry is losing millions of dollars of possible revenue, and all because of a single eruption. What made this eruption so devastating is that it was situated underneath a glacier, spewing rock, ash and ice into the air forming a giant column that spread all throughout europe. I hope that this will be resolved soon and europe can get back on its feet again