Wednesday, November 26, 2008

Jupiter, Venus, moon getting together for groupe shot


This weekend Venus, Jupiter, and the moon will gather together to make an awesome photo.On Thursday Jupiter and Venus will start to move closer together. By Sunday and Monday, they will look to be two degrees apart. Then on monday night the moon will in crescent form will appear Right next to them creating a perfect shot for a good camera.



I think this is cool. If i remember i will definitely use my dads crazy large camera to try and get a good picture of it. I know Mr.Joiner will be setting up his telescope in his back yard this weekend:)

Monday, November 24, 2008

Victim of 'kick a ginger day' head back to school


This article is about a young boy who on "kick an ginger day" was kicked by dozens of people all through the day. He was so rattled that he skipped the nexed day of school. Aaron Mishki was the boy being kicked says, "There were quite a few people kicking (me)," he said, noting he couldn't believe some of his classmates actually thought the violence was funny.
"I tried to explain to them that this wasn't right thing to do, that it couldn't be a joke because it involved violence. But they didn't listen to me," he said. "My opinion of the people (who participated in the kicking) changed. I didn't think they were capable of that before, but after Thursday I just viewed them in a different light. I didn't want to go back and see them again that day," he said. "Because really, it's like a hate crime directed against a group of people," he said.
"I like my red hair. I never thought it would be a cause for violence."


I agree that it is like a hate crime directed against a group of people, and i think that red hair the like the last thing that should cause violence. If I were him i wouldn't go back to school for like two weeks. Also what does this act of violence accomplish, maybe a few laughs from the bullies at school. People were hurt on this day and they had no reason for it.


Thursday, November 20, 2008

Astronauts vow remaining tool bag won't drift away


During the two-week mission's first spacewalk Tuesday, the tool bad floated out of a larger bag as Stefanyshyn-Piper cleaned a leaking grease gun. Tied to the lost briefcase-sized bag were a pair of grease guns used to lubricate a stuck joint that controls the space station's rotating solar wing. The bag is one of the biggest objects ever lost by a spacewalking astronaut, and NASA guessed it cost about $100,000. "We're definitely not going to do it again. You're not going to see us lose another bag," lead spacewalker Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper said in an interview from the international space station


I find it stupid that someone would pay so little attention to a bag containing $100,000 dollars worth of tools. If I where her i would feel kind of embarassed as the bag slowly floated off into the cold darkness of outerspace.

Friday, November 14, 2008

Tampered Smarties found in Burlington


More tampered boxes of Smarties handed out on Halloween have turned up in the GTA.
A Burlington mother opened a sealed box of Smarties from her daughter's Halloween treat bag Wednesday and discovered a Tylenol DM cold tablet inside.


I don't understand why there would be a Tylenol in a sealed smarties Box i makes no sense. What if it had been a peanut or other food people are commonly alergic to and they die from a reaction to it. I think that it is important that nothing exept smarties are found in a smarties box.

Wednesday, November 12, 2008

Teen wins fight to refuse transplant

Hannah Jones, 13, is not afraid of dying – she is afraid of spending her remaining days in a hospital bed.

Hanna Jones was diagnosed with leukemia at age 4. Doctors later found a heart defect. In eight years, she has had chemotherapy and nearly a dozen operations. She denied a heart transplant that could save her life because she doesn't want to risk spending the rest of her life in the hospital.

If I where her I would accept the heart transplant in hope of living longer. But at the same time I can see where she is coming from in a sense that it would suck if you had to be in the hospital all the time you wouldn't have any freedom.

Tuesday, November 4, 2008

Voter turnout leads to long lines and some snags


U.S. Election officials are hoping for a record high turnout on Tuesday in the historic election. The total amount of people registered to vote is up 7.3% from the last presidential election. There where such line up to vote in some districts that some people had to wait up to Eight hours just to cast a ballot. In New York people started to line up at 4:00am to try and beat the rush of voters. In New Jersey People had to start using paper ballots due to problems with the electronic voting machines. I Virginia a librarian overslept causing a polling station to not open on time.


I am suprized on the amount of mis hapes there were on such a big occasion. The article that I did this on had tones of difficuties that have happend on the day of election that i couldn;t include all of them.