Trooper Addresses Gravel Driving

Iowa state trooper Vince Kurtz gives some tips about driving on gravel roads. The speed limit on gravel roads is 55 between sunrise and sunset, and 50 after sunset and sunrise. Motorists are required to maintain control of their vehicle at all times no mater what the surface conditions are. Drivers should watch for washboards and rumblestrips, especially near intersections and during dry times of the year. Watch out for road graders because they will leave a windrow of gravel along the edges and center of the road. Stay on your side of the road. Becareful when going up hills and at intersections because there could be someone coming over the hill or pulling up to the intersection and might not stop. This is especially important when meeting farm equipment and during spring and fall. Tractors and combines can't get over as far as you think they can.

Dylan Moses Offered Scholarship by Alabama

    Dylan Moses, an 8th grader from Baton Rouge, LA, was offered a second scholarship from a top SEC Division I college. He is a 2017 prospect that was previously offered a scholarship from LSU over the summer. He stands out above everybody because he measured in at 6' - 1" and 215 pounds.
    He is the first 8th grader to ever receive a full ride scholarship from Alabama. He went to what they call Junior Day and high school athletes get a tour of the campus and the football complexes. He was the only kid there that was not a Junior. After the tour Alabama coach Nick Saban called Dylan into his office and said to him "We hear that you're impressive, keep your grades up, we want you to come here, and we're offering you a scholarship now, I can't even put that into words."

    I think that this is very interesting that they are offering to a kid that hasn't even played a down in high school football. People know that eventually the rest of kids will catch up to you. Players have speed and size for quite awhile but as you age other kids grow up and get faster, yeah he could still be better than everybody in high school but might not be! He could also break a bone or something and never play another down in his life. Then you get a kids hope and dreams up for nothing. I hope it works out for both Dylan and the school that he ends up committing to over the next three to four years. What do you think about it? Do you think the pressure of having a D1 offer hanging over him will make him choke? 

You can read more at: http://espn.go.com/college-sports/recruiting/football/story/_/id/8989200/alabama-crimson-tide-offer-scholarship-eighth-grader-dylan-moses  

I recently read this book called TALLGRASS it's about the government sent the Japanese Americans sent to these camps. Almost all the people in Ellis dislike the Japanese Americans just because they were different from them. Who cares were all different from everyone else in the world. Don't disrespect anyone because of the color of the skin or cultures that's just wrong in so many ways that is in't right in any way. My question is would you like to read this book and put yourself in the Japanese American's shoes? Say what it would be like when almost a whole town hates your guts what would  you say on your own account just say what you think out loud.

Teenager, Born with No Eyes and Nose, Shares Secret of a Joyful Life

http://www.wbtv.com/story/21416975/teenager-born-with-no-eyes-and-nose-shares-secret-of-a-joyful-life?hpt=us_bn8

   I recently read this article about a a girl with no nose or eyes, and it really touched me. Cassidy Hooper is a 16-year old girl from Charlotte, North Carolina. She is one of the few kids in America born with no eyes and no nose. Cassidy attends The Governor Morehead School, which works with students who are blond or deaf. She keeps her day packed from go from Spanish II to singing at a homeless shelter.  Cassidy always as a smile on her face. Cassidy has been in the process of getting a nose. it has been a multi-year and multi-surgery process. She says that the end of this process is near. She calms that by the end of the school year she will have a nose like every one else. She says that when people say things to her, she just tries to ignore them and not let it bother her. She just tries to live her own independent life, and not let others get to her.

   I think this would be a very hard life to live, and not let what other people say get to me. I would not be able to live with being able to seeing the things around me and not being able to smell things. I think I would just want to stay inside, so that people wouldn't make fun of me when I went outside. I think she is a very touch girl for being able to smile all the time, and live a happy life even with the conditions  that she has to live with. I think it would be cool to be able to this young girl in person.

   Do you think you would be able to be happy and smile all the time if you were in this situation? Do you think she is tough for live with this condition?

     

     

Day Care: Grandma of Boys Found Dead Seemed Fine

  It was a ideal day full of grinning and cupcakes for her two-year- old grandson, Alton, who was celebrating his birthday. As Debra Denison talked with day care workers as they were helping her two grandsons get into her van. But instead of taking the children home like planned, Debra vanished Tuesday and left a suicide note. 

  After a search, she and her grandsons, Alton, and 6-month-old, Ashton were found shot to death in an palpable murder-suicide. Family members have said that Debra had struggled with mental health problems, but they are struggling to understand what could have provoked the violence. 

  The bodies of Debra and the boys were found in a vehicle parked near Lake of Isles of Preston, in southeastern Connecticut.

  I think that this is very sad and that the grandmother would do that especially since they were so young. I feel bad for the parents of the children that were murdered. I don't really think that knowing that the grandmother had mental health issues and letting her get the kids from day care was the smartest thing they could do. I think that they could of done something from letting the grandmother pick them up. 

How do you feel about this story and what are your thoughts?

 

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/day-care-grandma-boys-found-dead-fine-18616473

Harry Potter and The Order of the Phoenix

I recently read Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling. It is the 5th book in the very popular Harry Potter series. This book starts out with Harry and his cousin getting attacked by dementors, which are hooded creatures that have no face, only a mouth, and they feed off of people's happiness, leaving them with nothing but sadness. They also have the power to suck out one's soul through their mouth. After using magic to get rid of the dementors, Harry gets expelled from Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Thank goodness the Order of the Phoenix comes and gets him out of being expelled. The Order of the Phoenix is a secret organization of witches and wizards that was created to fight Voldemort, the most evil dark wizard in history. It is made up of many people that Harry knows, and many that he doesn't know. When Harry finally goes back to school, he finds that he is almost friendless. Nobody believes him that Lord Voldemort has returned, and the newspapers are always talking about how he is insane. It doesn't help that there is a new teacher there, who came straight from the Ministry of Magic, and she despises Harry. She doesn't allow them to use magic in class, doesn't let groups form, and is so crazy about the rules that everybody is having an awful year. She even replaces Albus Dumbledore as the Headmaster temporarily. So his 5th year at Hogwarts finds him almost completely alone, until there is a mass breakout at Azkaban, the wizard prison, that includes 10 of Voldemort's biggest followers. After this, people start believing Harry that Lord Voldemort is back, because Azkaban is supposed to be impossible to break out of. Throughout this book, Harry meets new people, such as the crazy Luna Lovegood and Grawp, Hagrid's brother who is a giant.  He goes to new places, such as the Department of Mysteries. He also experiences the death of someone who is very close to him. To find out more, READ THE BOOKS.

I would recommend the book to anyone and everyone. Harry Potter is one of the most popular series' of both books and movies. If somebody wants a good read, this would be the series to go to. Yes, I know they are long, but once you start reading them, they actually seem really short. It goes by so fast and every page just drags you in even more with the anticipation and intensity of what will happen next. Enjoy your read!

Murder in the Bronx

This is an article from Metro. In the article it explains how the case is still developing but the police have narrowed down a main suspect...the son! The woman was forty-five Tonya Bryd and her son, the lead suspect, twenty-three years old. The article described that the son called his mother in as missing but when the police came by to get a picture of her they smelled bleach and saw latex gloves in plain view. The police were in the process of obtaining a search warrant when one night a man walking his dog stumbled upon a bag that his dog would not stop sniffing and opened the suitcase to find human hands and shoulder. The man called the cops and they saw that the garbage sacks full of the body parts and the torso was wrapped in a shower curtain.  The son's alibi was that he left his mother either Sunday or Monday with her ex-boyfriend and his girlfriend and went to work. This whole story sounds like the son did it. He has the bleach, gloves, and not a solid alibi. He can't even remember the day he left them. His alibi smells fishy. I know that it probably is the son but it would be interesting if the killer was the ex-boyfriend. The part that I can't put together is the why. I see that the ex-boyfriend has the obvious motive of jealous ex-lover but maybe the son had a dispute with her prior or the mother got angry because she didn't like her son's girlfriend. I think the case might give surprising results since there are many possibilities. The case is still ongoing and will be updated when more facts arise. Who do you think did it? Why them?