SELFLESS ACT

On a rainy day in Madison Georgia, Anaiah Rucker who was 9 years old, and her five year old sister Camry were walking to the school bus stop.  As they crossed a street, Anaiah quickly pushed her little sister out of the way of an oncoming vehicle.  She took the hit instead of her little sister.  She lost a leg and a kidney because of this.  Their mom saw the whole accident from her porch.  Luckily the bus driver quickly acted and gave Anaiah CPR.  http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_thelookout/20110323/ts_yblog_thelookout/nine-year-old-loses-leg-while-saving-little-sisters-life

HELP FOR JAPAN

On March 22, 2011, the emergency shelter at Saitama Super Arena stopped accepting volunteers after it reached its maximum limit of five hundred volunteers.  More than one thousand five hundred volunteers that wanted to help those in need, were turned away by volunteers holding hand-printed cardboard signs that said "We are sorry, but we cannot take any more volunteers. Please try again tomorrow."http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20110322/wl_time/08599206077300

SEARCH DOGS

Believe it or not dogs are playing a huge role in the search for survivors in all the rubble in Japan.  The dogs run full speed trained to seek out alive survivors and block out the dead smell.  The dogs being used were also used in Haiti and helped find dozens of survivors. Just because these dogs are fully trained doesn’t mean they don’t get hurt on the job.  But when they do get hurt they are stitched up right then and there so they can get right back to finding survivors.  http://www.cnn.com/video/

REFLECTION

 I believe that there was a lot of good insight from a lot of new people today. I also think that many people just took the things that someone else said and reworded it. To be honest I kind of got tired of hearing the same thing from different people. I was also getting irritated when I wanted to say something and someone would just talk over me. By the time the person that would talk over me was finished talking i had forgot what I wanted to say anyway.   I'm not a very rude person so I am not just going to talk over someone to get my point across. I'm glad you called on me to give me a chance to talk. I appreciate that. But it was a good discussion and I got to listen to some different opinions from some different people.

WHIP

Since Obama has approved of the idea of the building of mosque at ground zero, people are starting to perceive him as a Muslim.  The Pew Research Centre has recently done a poll where they asked Americans what religion  Obama is.  They found that every 1 in 5 Americans believes that Obama is a Muslim.  Only about 34% of people answered correctly when they said that he was Christian.  About 43% of people answered that they did not know what religion he was.  It is sad to know how little Americans know about the person who runs their country.http://www.prlog.org/11271303-why-do-1-in-5-americans-perceive-obama-as-muslim.html

RADIATION LEAKS

This article talks about how much of Japan is an isolated wasteland.  Many Japanese residents are scared to leave there homes due to the radiation leaks.  First the earthquake then the tsunami and now radiation leaks.  There have been long lines at the airports for people trying to get away from the radiation leaks.  Many people stocked up on food and stay indoors trying to escape the radiation.  Others are just leaving.   http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110316/wl_nm/us_japan_quake_tokyo

HAVOC IN JAPAN

Workers had to leave the nuclear power plant because of radiation levels getting to high.  More than 4000 people have been found dead and around 7000 people have been reported missing.  About hundreds of thousands of people have lost there home due to this gigantic earthquake and horrific tsunami. http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/wl_nm/us_japan_quake

FAILING SCHOOLS

About 80,000 of the nations 100,000 schools are going to fall below the no child left behind law.  The Secretary of Education Arne Duncan told Congress that," this law is fundamentally broken and we need to fix it this year ." Almost 82% of schools could miss their testing targets

http://www.detnews.com/article/20110310/NATION/103100389/1020/Wisconsin-lawmakers-cut-public-worker-bargaining-rights/Many-schools-will-miss-testing-targets--official-says

ZOMBIE ANTS!!!!!!!

There was a new discover called zombie ants.  This happens when a fungus takes over the ants brain and tells in what to do.  After the fungus takes over it usually makes the ant take it to a more suitable place for it to live and spread its spores to different ants.  This is very bizarre.   http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_upshot/20110310/od_yblog_upshot/zombie-ants-fall-victim-to-mind-control-fungus

WARNING LABELS

Here are some funny warnings that are pretty out there if you ask me. But if you think about it these warning signs were made for a reason witch means someone had to do it in order for the creators to put them on the product.  CLICK LINK TO SEE WARNING SIGNS.  http://shopping.yahoo.com/articles/yshoppingarticles/553/25-stunningly-dumb-warning-labels/

TECHNOLOGY IN CLASSROOMS

Many teachers have access to computers in one way or another. And with those computers comes internet usually.  This article explains how we can integrate technology into classrooms and some of the many different things we can use the technology for.http://712educators.about.com/cs/technology/a/integratetech.htm

AIRSTRIKES IN LIBYA

There were more airstrikes today in Libya on the rebel forces that marched towards the  capital.  Britain and France are trying to make a no fly zone in Libya after pleads from the uprising rebels in Libya.  Obama says that NATO is considering military options due ton the violence of Gadhafi.  They will now be flying surveillance plains for 24 hours a day.  People are worried that other oil rich nations may increase there prices for oil. 

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/af_libya

OUR PROJECT... MR. PALO DONT WATCH IT YET

Double Rainbow HaHaHa

Click the link to watch one of my favorite videoes ever on You Tube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQSNhk5ICTI

WISCONSIN SCHOOL BUDGET CUTS

Wisconsin's governor Scott Walker has a new budget proposal that cuts 834 million dollars from public schooling k-12 for the next two years.  He says this would allow families in Milwauke to join any private school that wished to participate in the program.  He also wants to get rid of state test to see if private schools have an impact or not.  "Schools still can get money from other sources, such as the federal government and targeted state funding programs. But Walker also introduced plans to eliminate grant programs for Advanced Placement courses, alcohol and drug abuse prevention, nurses, alternative and at-risk education, and science, technology, engineering and mathematics education." this whole plan just seems really messed up to me.I suggest you read the whole article
http://www.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/117192683.html

SCHOOL REFORM PROTESTS

More than 500 students and teachers gathered to protest on their lack of voice that they have with the schools new reforms.  A teacher said things like "enough is enough" and "its time to stand up for our communities and what we know is right"http://articles.philly.com/2011-02-26/news/28632504_1_audenried-english-teacher-charter-school