Editorial

How about all the new, ridiculous rules in the new school? Some of them are absolutely ridiculous and some others I understand the reasons for but here is my point of view. The no food and water in the classrooms is just a little unrealistic especially when they encourage us to drink water, I mean yes there are water fountains out in the hallway but some teachers do not allow students to leave the classroom. I understand the new carpet and such but its just water, it’s not like the water wont dry or will stain the carpet, because it wont, water is clear and dries clear. Now the food on the other hand I understand for the carpet, but not so much in the hallways, or in our lockers I mean we do it anyways though, but food in the carpet is hard to get out of the carpet without the vacuum and it just gets smashed into the carpet as the days go on and people walk on it. Water should at least be allowed into the classrooms. Now for the next rule; wearing our coats. I understand people can hide stuff in them but realize we aren’t a huge school who all hate each other, majority of our school’s students tolerate and are civil to each other. I really don’t think anyone in this school would think about going on a rage to kill everyone they do not like. With the chewing tobacco and drugs well weird how many people have been caught with it anyways even without wearing our coats and, I bet if you walked into the boys bathroom you would find all kinds of spit and chew in the trash cans, on the toilets, and in the sinks. Some of these rules I see the point to but others, come on now.

Review

Don’t have enough room for all of those pictures on your computer, are hey making it slow? Photobucket.com does, also with room for hours and hours of videos. Photobucket has a massive online library, as of two o’clock on May 19, 2009 there was 7,491,190,000 images and growing. There are twenty-five million unique visitors in the United States with forty-six million worldwide. The number one photo site in the United States. Taking the number three spot in entertainment/multimedia website in the United States, and number eight in the world. Located on the top 50 sites in the United States at number thirty-one, and on the global list it is sitting at number 41. Upload, share, link, edit, and find pictures within this site. Upload pictures from your computer. When the site links the photos for you that is one way to share them just paste a link into an email, or click the email tab next to the photo, how convenient. The site is a search engine for pictures, anything you want. When creating an online album first you have to register, but after that many users can contribute to the album, so you can use it as basically, a family or friend photo album. The site also offers an editing service, a scrapbook maker, and a photo gift maker. With the editing service you can basically Photoshop a picture for free, even add stickers, words, or special effects, but you need an add-on. The scrapbook maker has an easy drag and drop action to add photos to the pre-made scrapbook designs; you can share the book online or print it out. The photo-gift maker allows you to make cards, shirts, hoodies, mugs, calendars, stickers, posters, luggage tags, puzzles, and much more. If you have anything you would like to do with a picture go to Photobucket.com they’ll surely have it.

opposing editorial

Alex Orchard’s editorial against abortion shows his strong feelings for pro-life. The opposing editorial would be pro-abortion, but I would choose pro-choice. Therefore I believe in abortion if it is right, killing a human who is just developing is right under certain circumstances. If a woman or young teenage girl is raped and becomes pregnant it is her choice whether to keep the baby, a constant reminder of probably the worst night or day of her life. It would be her choice to either keep the baby or not. Some soon to be moms might have complications with the pregnancy and it could cost them their life to have the baby. If they aren’t too far into the pregnancy they can terminate the pregnancy and save their own life. Think of it this way, many people are getting killed in war everyday that feel the pain and well that’s okay, some places that we don’t even need to be involved in. While abortion is happening the unborn child has no idea what is going on, indeed it is murder, but no suffering is going on. It may cause some suffering and pain, it was her choice; pro-choice. The mother is only adding pain to herself no to the child inside. If a mother decides to save her life over the unborn child’s, or to get rid of a horrible memory; that is her choice. Instead of, “Would you ever murder a human?”, Would you rather kill yourself to save a life conceived by something terrible like rape?

ledes 04-30-09

http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/04/30/swine.flu.outbreak/index.html109 cases of the swine flu have been confirmed in the United States. There have been eleven states so far that have confirmed cases of the swine flu.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/04/30/netherlands.queen.car/index.html?iref=mpstoryview#A man that ran a car into an open-top bus carrying the Dutch royal family, including Queen Beatrix, was charged with trying to attack the royal family. He killed four people and injured 13 others. http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/04/30/missing.teen/index.htmlA missing teen that went to South Carolina may have been spotted on a hotel surveillance video. She was reportedly spotted on a bus yesterday. http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/04/30/saudi.child/index.htmlA girl in Saudi Arabia was finally granted a divorce from the courts. The 8-year-old was married to a 47-year-old as a way to pay back debts to the man, planned by her father. She had three hearings to end the divorce.

Interview Final

This one time Dalcie was interviewing someone else know as “me”. She went to Nakashinana (the alternate dimension), and that’s where her 37 kids are from. Dalcie is only 16 somehow she has 37 kids. No details ere ever revealed about them so I have no idea if some are adopted of not. I asked her if she could choose to be any type of food and she replied “tofu, because nobody like tofu so I wouldn’t get eaten,” then I asked Dalcie to tell me the most interesting story about her and she said “hmmm, it would have to be my English interview.” I asked her why and to elaborate and she stated. “Well it was interesting because I interviewed myself. And here is how it went; where was the most interesting place you have been? Dalcie replied Nakashinana. I had to ask: What and where is it? Dalcie said, “It’s in an alternate realm, and it’s… somewhere, not here. Ha-Ha.” I finally asked, “Could you describe your experience in the, “imaginary”, country is it? She gladly stated, “It’s more of an imaginary realm but yes I would be glad to… “When I first got to Nakashinana I was amazed at the extreme color and all around attraction to the place. I arrived at about 6:30 am our time, which is known as about six nute-nutes in Nakazhinana’s time. So it was fairly early in the morning. To my surprise the sun was a giant orange pulsating with light, rising about the frosting laced mountains. I looked to the left and there were trees as tall as skyscrapers, but I highly doubt that they were really trees because of the fact that they mooed like cows and had springs at the end. Oh yes they were what we call today, jumping cow trees. I almost got crushed by one, it was awful. But just in the nick of time I fell into the hold of a monkey-bunny lama beast. That was an experience itself. As I was falling I observed the walls where there were pictures of glow-in-the-dark-Twinkies. Then BAM! I hit the bottom. It didn’t hurt at all considering I landed on the monkey-bunny-lama beast. He and his entire fluffy rainbow colored hair saved my life. I thought that because of his monstrous size he would be mean, but to my surprise he offered me tea and pineapple upside down cake. I accepted because, well I mean it would be rude for me to fall down and hit him, yet refuse his hospitality. We talked about each other’s worlds and how Nakashinana was run by a good talking shrunken head named frog-dumpling. Then I thanked him for his time and headed out of the hole. I asked for a cab but he said that all they had were unicorniphants. I was a bit distraught about riding one because I have never even heard of one but when I did, it was fun. It talked like a normal human with a slight lisp and gave me a tour around Nakashinana.” After hearing that story, I decided to begin again by asking, what was it like meeting these new creatures? “it was interesting, I thought that they would be mean, but no actually they were very hospitable.” Did you enjoy it? “For the time I was there, it was very… enlightening.” Then I asked, have you ever taken acid, or shrooms? “Well, just to start off, I find this question very rude, but to answer, no I have not, and was not on drugs at the time I visited Nakashinana.” After hearing this story I asked her even more questions. So how did you come up with this alternate dimension? “Shrooms, lots and lots of shrooms, no, not really I am a really random person and I needed a story… fast and that’s what I came up with.” Did you bring back any thing from Nakashinana? “As a matter of fact yes I did, I brought back a fluffy, blind, deaf, limbless, paralyzed, sparkly, hairy, purple spider named Yoshirodogagocakakakia.” I said interesting as I laughed then I asked an obvious question, “I want to visit Nakashinana how do I get there,” Dalcie said “Just believe!” That had to have been the most interesting interview I have ever heard of. When I asked Dalcie if it was easy and she said, “Yes, of course, our scheduling was the same and I had answers to every question.” That was defiantly a good choice for and interviewee. I thanked Dalcie for her time and went on my way that will be an interesting story in my life for sure.

Book Review

Hunter Vineyard
Book Review
March 5, 2009
Burned by Ellen Hopkins

Burned is the story of Pattyn, a teenage girl who lives in a primarily Mormon community in Nevada. Her family adheres to a strict version of Mormonism in which the men are dominant and the women are obedient. Pattyn is one of six female siblings, each named after a male military figure. Her dad is constantly battling demons. With his first wife, he had two sons. One was killed in the military and the other was gay, so he was disowned. These circumstances hurt his first wife so bad that she killed herself, and now, remarried with so many new children, Pattyn’s dad blames himself and drowns his guilt in liquor. This leads to the continued abuse of Pattyn’s mom. Pattyn begins to struggle with her own identity her junior year of high school. She knows what is going on at home is wrong, but when she tries to reach out for help, she finds out that the religious community defends her father. She’s named a liar by her bishop when she speaks about the abuse, and Pattyn begins to search for outlets to get away from her home life. She meets a boy from her school one afternoon when she’s out in the woods to get away from the house, and they begin a relationship that consists mainly of drinking and sexual acts. When her family finds out, she’s considered a problem child and is sent away to live with her aunt for the summer, supposedly as punishment. Pattyn’s aunt Jeanette is her father’s sister. She, too, was raised in a strict, overbearing Mormon household and knows all too well the deadly lengths her brother will go to keep undesirable males away from good Mormon women. Aunt Jeanette has long since abandoned the church and lives on a ranch in Nevada, a wild and liberating environment that Pattyn comes to love and thrive in. While at the ranch, Pattyn meets Ethan, a college student who is home for the summer to help is dad. He lives up the road and immediately captures Pattyn’s attention. All summer long, they kindle their relationship which gives Pattyn strength and happiness she has never experienced. Aware that going back home is the equivalent to being sent back to prison, Aunt Jeanette and Ethan arm Pattyn with some tools to gain some freedom from her father: a cell phone that Aunt Jeanette is paying for, pre-arranged calls with Ethan and a handgun from Ethan. I would recommend this book to teenage girls. I enjoyed this book because it all seems so real, that something like this can actually happen. Adults wouldn’t enjoy this book as much because its basically a teenage love story, and also making some girls that they do not have such a hard life.

Ledes

Hunter Vineyard

Nebraska Man says he put Cat in Bong 3 Times
“A man who stuffed his girlfriend's cat into a makeshift bong and smoked marijuana through it said Tuesday that he had done it on other occasions and that it calmed the cat down.” Acea Schomaker was charged with counts of animal cruelty for putting the 6 month cat in a square like box and smoking marijuana through it. His girlfriend was also charged for not trying to stop him. Schomaker was caught because a neighbor called a domestic disturbance report.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29499926/

Woman has 911 meltdown over mcnuggets
Would you call 911 if McDonalds ran out of mcnuggets? Authorities say a Florida woman; Latreasa L. Goodman, called 911 three times after McDonald's employees told her they were out of Chicken Mcnuggets. She had already paid for her food and became irate when they told her all sales were final. They offered her a lot more food for the same price but Goodman just got angrier. She was charged for a misuse of 911 charges.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29498350/

Man fined for Chuck E. Cheese mascot assault
“Pires, of Fairhaven, ripped off the mascot's head piece, pointed a finger at the man inside and yelled at him.” The man thought that the mouse allegedly pinned his son up against an arcade machine. The boy said “Chuck” picked up him up by the arms and cornered him by the machine. The mouse said that he put his arms out to get out of a crowd of children and never picked up any children.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29493309/

7 face discipline over 14-year-old fake cop
In Illinois a boy allegedly walked into the back of a police station and was issued a radio and took on a shift, no one even noticing. Him and a police partner, also not knowing he wasn’t a real cop, answered 5 calls during the shift. The boy even drove the cop car for about 2 hours and pinned a guys hands behind him and handcuffed him. When returning back to the station, the kid was arrested on spot.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29498364/

ledes feb.19.09

http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/02/03/medical.imaging.device/index.html
Invention turns cell phone into mobile medical lab
“How about in a few seconds? Such a device may be available in the near future, and it could turn a cell phone into a mobile medical lab -- and change the way doctors treat patients in rural areas far from hospitals.” At UCLA using just a few off the shelf parts a professor turned a phone into a camera that he can get to produce an image that shows the thousands of cells in a small fluid sample such as human blood. The device is call LUCAS, it uses a short wavelength blue light to illuminate a sample of liquid, blood, saliva or another fluid, on a laboratory slide.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/02/19/acid.attack.victim/index.html?iref=mpstoryview
Woman blinded by acid wants same fate for attacker
“Bahrami is blind, the victim of an acid attack by a spurned suitor” According to ancient Islamic law “eye-for-an-eye” she wants to blind him, but not for revenge, so that it doesn’t happen to anyone else. The sentencing starts in march to see how this “love struck” man get punished.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/science/02/19/saving.right.whales/index.html
Volunteers, scientists guard endangered whales
“Each new calf the group spots gives her hope that the right whale -- a highly endangered and often-overlooked species -- will recover.” They are the most endangered large whale species, with only 400 left in the world. They’re usually hit by ships because of their jet black color, and whale hunters illegally hunt them because they are so big (7 tons) and when killed float to the top.


http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/02/17/dying.green/
Green burials: A dying wish to be 'home for fish'
“The artificial reefs are cast from a mixture of environmentally safe cement and cremated remains.” Now instead of using the steel and wood to make caskets we can make home for fish and improve the environment.

Phone Review

The LG Chocolate VX8550: purchase it for ninety-nine dollars with a two year contract. The phone comes in Blue Ice, Navy Blue, and Dark Red. It has a 1.3 mega-pixel camera on the back, but only when slid up can the camera be used, and the camera has no flash. The phone is very sleek, a much improved version of the first chocolate. The send and end keys are now on the inside of the slide and the touch pad locks so you don’t accidentally select something by touching it with your cheek in the middle of a phone call. The navigation wheel spins in both directions, with a trace light, that can be turned on or off in the settings, to follow your movements, but you can also click the wheel if you don’t like to spin it to move around. It has a vibrations feed back on the touch pad so you know when you are touching it which can also be turned on and off. The main menu consists of contacts, recent calls, settings & tools, get it now & media center, and lastly messages. Within the contact list you may have groups, as many as you please, speed dials, up to 99, and ICE, incase of emergency, contacts. In the recent calls you can see missed calls, dialed calls, and received calls. In the settings & tools menu there is display, phone, call, network, Bluetooth menu, touch keypad, navigation wheel, USB auto detection, memory, and phone info; under the tools menu there is voice commands, calculator, calendar, alarm clock, stopwatch, world clock, notepad, and Ez tip calculator. Under the get it now & media center are: music & tones, picture & video, games, news & info, tools on the go, and extras. Lastly, under the messages menu there is: new message, where you can send one message to up to ten people, inbox, can hold anywhere from 90 – 110 messages, sent, holds up to 50 messages, drafts, if you shut your phone and don’t save the started message the phone will save it into the drafts, which is nice when someone shuts your phone on you, voicemail, for people that call and you don’t answer, mobile IM, which is where you can get on msn, yahoo, or aim messenger, email, if you have the web service it allows you to check emails, and last but not least, chat, where you can get on myspace or facebook. Overall this phone is very sleek, and nice to have.

January 22 Ledes

New Marine Life Discovered Off Tasmania
Off the coast of Tasmania where one of the deepest, and most remote places on the planet are showing signs of stress and may be killed by climate change, but miraculously new life has formed. Ancient coral, 10,000-years-old will be studied for clues to climates several million years old. After looking 200 feet deep in the ocean, mainly three new life forms where found; a sea squirt (which is like a Venus Fly Trap), Gooseneck Barnacles and round Purple-Spotted Sea Anemones. Some were found newly dead, the scientist will study to see if they died by ocean warming, disease, or ocean acidity. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28711152
Penguins Species Nears Extinction
Nearly 90% of the Rockhopper Penguin’s population has been deceased within 50 years. Factors like the climate changes and over fishing could be a couple of the main causes. Since last year five species have been added to the threatened list and one has been added to the Endangered Species Act. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28696101
Stem Cell Discovery Could Mean Faster Healing
In London, England at the Imperial College, researchers found using mice, that extra mesenchymal stem cells, can locate an injury and then boost tissue recovery time. They can also help heart attack patients recover faster, speed up the repair of broken bones, and possibly treat patients suffering from autoimmune disease, like rheumatoid arthritis. Clinical trials on humans are hoped to be conducted within ten years. http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/science/01/09/imperial.stem.cells/
New Nano Coating Boosts Solar Efficiency
Coming from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in New York have made a discovery to aid solar technology. The new .7-1 micro-millimeter thick, fragile, Nano-technological coating can absorb sun energy from any angle. Instead of having to track the sun, or put panels in intense sunlight, just coat the older panels in this new coating and more energy can be produced. http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/science/11/06/solar.coating/

Website Review

Don’t have enough room for all of those pictures on your computer, are hey making it slow? Photobucket.com does, also with room for hours and hours of videos. Photobucket has a massive online library, as of two o’clock on January 13, 2009 there was 6,735,415,000 images and growing. There are twenty-five million unique visitors in the United States with forty-six million worldwide. The number one photo site in the United States. Taking the number three spot in entertainment/multimedia website in the United States, and number eight in the world. Located on the top 50 sites in the United States at number thirty-one, and on the global list it is sitting at number 41. Upload, share, link, edit, and find pictures within this site. Upload pictures from your computer. When the site links the photos for you that is one way to share them just paste a link into an email, or click the email tab next to the photo, how convenient. The site is a search engine for pictures, anything you want. When creating an online album first you have to register, but after that many users can contribute to the album, so you can use it as basically, a family or friend photo album. The site also offers an editing service, a scrapbook maker, and a photo gift maker. With the editing service you can basically Photoshop a picture for free, even add stickers, words, or special effects, but you need an add-on. The scrapbook maker has an easy drag and drop action to add photos to the pre-made scrapbook designs; you can share the book online or print it out. The photo-gift maker allows you to make cards, shirts, hoodies, mugs, calendars, stickers, posters, luggage tags, puzzles, and much more. If you have anything you would like to do with a picture go to Photobucket.com they’ll surely have it

Question 5

Favorite color: lime green
Favoite Class: English 2
Favorite Ice Cream: Coffee

Websites I Use 2

Mobile 17- This is where you can find many different accesories to send to your phone, pictures, ringtones, and backgrounds.

Yahoo Mail - This is just like hotmail where you can send people private emails where others can't view them except for people who are sending them, to communicate.

AZLyrics - This is used to look up lyrics to songs, if you don't know them and want to sing along with them and not sound stupid when you're with friends.

Websites I Use

Myspace: Myspace is a social networking site where you can stay in touch with your friends, old and new. You can edit your own profile, post bulletins about how you day was or anything you want, and upload photos.

My Yearbook: My Yearbook is also a site to connect to others. My yearbook provides quizzes, games, and profiles that you can personalize. Make new friends and you can even get “lunch money” to play around on the site with.

Facebook: Facebook is the same as Myspace, used to stay in touch with friends and make your own profile all about you to let the world to see, and play games.

Photobucket: Upload pictures and look at all the pictures other people have uploaded, Photobucket give active links and allows you to copy the codes and then you can apply them to your myspace or Facebook profile or any website that will allow you to use html codes.

Youtube: Youtube is the same as Photobucket, except for Youtube uses videos. People upload videos that others can view and provide an embedded code if you would like to post it anywhere that allow these codes.

Addicting Games: When you’re bored this is the game website to go to. It provides thousands of free online games, that anyone can play.

Hotmail: Hotmail is an email service that people use to communicate with other. Send annoying forwards and personal things. It has plenty of space and is very simple to use anyone can do it.