What's So Bad About It?! by Jorge Olvera

     It seems like were getting closer to legalizing marijuana in the U.S. There aren't many reasons for us to keep this substance illegal. If anything we are getting ridding reasons that make it sound bad. We are giving more reasons to it being more acceptable here.
     LZ Granderson wrote about this subject. It's humorous but hits certain areas of it are good points about including it in our country.Small quantities would seem at a good level from people getting in trouble. Fighting for this is unnecessary, cause eventually it will be legalized!
resources:  http://www.cnn.com/2012/10/30/opinion/granderson-legalize-pot/index.html?hpt=ju_t2

New York nanny charged with murder in stabbing deaths of two children

Saturday November 3rd, a New York nanny is charged with murdering two small children. Yoselyn Ortega was arrested for second degree murder on October 25. After walking in her dark apartment, the mother found her two children Lucia and Leo dead and found Yoselyn stabbing herself with a kitchen knife.Marina Krim, the mother of the late children left the children with Ortega to take her 3-year old to swim lessons and was expecting to meet the nanny around 5:30 p.m. to dance class but Ortega failed to show up.

Source: http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2012/11/03/new-york-nanny-charged-with-murder-in-stabbing-deaths-of-two-children/?hpt=ju_c1

Inspiring Story of Alex Zanardi

On September 15, 2001 Zanardi was in the lead of a racecar race, when he suddenly lost control of his car and the engine blew. He then got hit by an oncoming car that split Zanardi's car in two. He was immediatley rushed to the hospital, where they were forced to amputate both his legs off. Zanardi said that he automatically thought he could never do what he loved anymore.
Well, he figured a way, and since he has won several gold medals in the summer 2012 olympics for handcycling. Zanardi had a dream and he wasn't going to let anything get in the way of that. So he decided to create his own bike, that would suit him best. Alex Zanardi is very inspiring to me, because even though he thought things couldn't get any worse, he choose to make the best of it. This story tells me that all things are possible, and you are put on this earth for a reason.

video: http://www.cnn.com/video/?hpt=hp_c3#/video/international/2012/11/01/human-to-hero-alex-zanardi-paralympic-formula-1.cnn

source: http://espn.go.com/racing/story/_/id/8341623/paralympics-alex-zanardi-story-just-got-better

World's rarest whale seen for the first time - Jonas Portillo

The world's rarest whale has been spotted for the first time, in New Zealand, where two of the whales stranded on a beach by themselves. The two spade-toothed beaked whales, a mother and calf, stranded and died on Opape Beach on the North Island of New Zealand, in December 2010. The mother was 17 feet (5.3 meters) long and the calf was 11 feet (3.5 m) long. A report describing the whales and the analysis of their DNA will appear in Tuesday's issue of the journal Current Biology. "Up until now, all we have known about the spade-toothed beaked whale was from three partial skulls collected from New Zealand and Chile over a 140-year period. It is remarkable that we know almost nothing about such a large mammal," Rochelle Constantine, a marine biologist at the University of Auckland in New Zealand, said in a statement. "This is the first time this species has ever been seen as a complete specimen, and we were lucky enough to find two of them."At first, the animals were thought to be much more common Gray's beaked whales. Their identity came to light following routine DNA analysis, which was done as part of a 20-year program to collect data on beaked whale species in New Zealand waters. New Zealand is a known hotspot for whale stranding, and it has the highest rates and greatest diversities of stranded whale species in the world, the researchers report.The New Zealand Department of Conservation photographed the animals and collected tissue samples. "When these specimens came to our lab, we extracted the DNA as we usually do for samples like these, and we were very surprised to find that they were spade-toothed beaked whales," Constantine said. "We ran the samples a few times to make sure before we told everyone."The researchers said they have no idea why the whales have remained so elusive. There isnt much more about the spade-toothed whale. This is the only time they have seen the whale with tissue and still intact. This is a remarkable discovery for marine biologists. This just proves that there is so much more in the ocean that we have yet to find. We have just caught a glimpse of whats in the ocean and its beauties.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/49696596/ns/technology_and_science-science/

Young and wild kills By Rylie Walker

What has the world came too! A 2 year old boy visiting the Pittsburgh Zoo was killed Sunday when he fell off a railing that his mother had put him on top of to view a pack of African painted dogs, who pounced on the child and mauled him, police said.  The dogs were about as big as medium-sized domestic dogs, 2 to 2 1/2 feet high and 37 to 80 pounds, according to the zoo.  African wild dogs are also known as cape hunting dogs, spotted dogs, and painted wolves. They have large , rounded ears and dark brown circles around their eyes and are considered endangered.  Visitors walk onto a deck that is glassed on the sides, but they open in front where the railing is located. They Should watch the 2 year old boy to make sure he wouldn't fall so he could still see the dogs and still live.  Hopefully next time the zoo will fix the railing so no one else will get hurt.
http://news.yahoo.com/2-old-boy-killed-pa-zoo-exhibit-234149458.html

Hilary best say yes in 2016! Vincent DeLuna

Hilary Clinton best say yes to that bid! Madam Clinton, in my opinion, would be a great first female president! She has been around the white house for twenty years and totally deserves to be the "man" in charge for awhile. I think she will serve us well. She was always there when her husband was in office and she had been right behind Obama all the way as well. I think she has done a very good job running this country as secretary of state and should do it as Madam President!

http://www.cnn.com/2012/11/08/politics/campaign-2016/index.html?hpt=hp_inthenews

Nanny charged with murder by Carter Brown

This is a major news article that I heard about yesterday. Apparently, a nanny in New York has been charged with murdering two of the kids she nannies. "Yoselyn Ortega, 50, was arrested and charged with first- and second-degree murder in each of the October 25 stabbing deaths, New York police spokesman Paul Browne said." According to CNN, the mother of the two children had left to take one of her other kids to a swimming lesson and left the two with the nanny. When the nanny was expected to meet the mother at a dance class and didn't, the mother raced home to find her children dead. I find this really unfortunate and sad, not only because it's a horrible incident, but also because it makes my mother's profession look bad, being that she is a nanny. http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2012/11/03/new-york-nanny-charged-with-murder-in-stabbing-deaths-of-two-children/">