New Dinosaur Family

A fossilised bone dug up near Hastings 113 years ago has been recognised as a completely new family of dinosaur. The animal belongs to a general type of dinosaur called a sauropod - which was characterised by a large body, a long neck and a small head. A PhD student from the University of Portsmouth stumbled upon the specimen while browsing through the shelves of London's Natural History Museum. The fossil represents the dorsal vertebra (back bone) of a new family, genus and species of dinosaur now named Xenoposeidon proneneukus. It lived about 140 million years ago, was about the size of an elephant and weighed 7.5 tonnes. This is very cool because we never know what our scientists will figure out next. Its also cool because a student figured this out. We should care about this because anything is predictible. They thought it was a Brotasaraus, because of it's bone structure but it tured out to be a totally different thing.

An obscure comet discovered more than a century ago suddenly became about a million times brighter late last month, wowing amateur astronomers in Colorado and around the world. Scientists are so intrigued with the changeable Comet Holmes, they asked for, and got, emergency viewing time on the over-scheduled Hubble Space Telescope last week. The comet was discovered in the 1890s by amateur astronomer Edwin Holmes. At the time it was also strangely luminous for a few months, said Chris Peterson, owner of a robotic telescope in Guffey that's used to track big meteors for the Denver Museum of Nature & Science. Holmes completes its orbit every seven years, but it never gets close enough to the sun to go through the regular, bright outgassings of more well-known comets, such as Halley or Hale-Bopp, he said. This is very cool because it was forund in the 1980's and has been getting brighter ever since. Some of these things that scientists find are really cool and should be apperciated. It got about one million times brighter since it was discovered. The core is about 6 miles across and can be seen at night sometimes.

Avs win in OT

From the article by Jose Theodore. Ryan Smyth scored 23 seconds into overtime and Theodore made 39 saves to give Colorado a 3-2 victory over the Calgary Flames on Friday night. Marek Svatos tied it at 2 with 4:15 left in regulation. Joe Sakic set up the winner and also scored for Colorado to reach the 1,600-point mark. Alex Tanguay and Matthew Lombardi scored for Calgary, and Miikka Kiprusoff made 19 saves. The Avalanche opened the scoring when Sakic converted a feed from Wojtek Wolski at 7:27 of the first period. A short time later, Tanguay got behind the Avalanche defense, but was thwarted by Theodore on a breakaway attempt. I think people in Colorado should defiently care about this because it is our home hockey team and even if you dont like hockey, you can support our team.

St. Louis vs. Columbus

From the article about St. Louis vs. Colombus on October 25. Nash scored in his fifth straight game, this one an almost indescribable goal on a shot between his legs, and the Blue Jackets beat the St. Louis Blues 3-0 on Thursday night. Jared Boll had a goal, Jiri Novotny was awarded one, and Pascal Leclaire racked up another shutout on 36 saves as the Blue Jackets extended the best start in the franchise's seven years. Ahead 1-0 and on the power play late in the second period, the Blue Jackets worked the puck around the perimeter and had several good scoring chances. Ron Hainsey then tried a slap shot from the blue line that was just wide to the right of the goal. Nash played the ricochet off the boards like Manny Ramirez fielding a ball off the Green Monster, stretching to reach the puck to pull it in and then lifting the shot between his legs and high into the top of the net. I love hockey and my favorite team is the Washington Capitals. I don't think people should care about this article unless they like hockey. But even if you do not like hockey, you can still appreciate good game play.

Higher Education

From the U.S. department of education. U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings today announced the award of $30 million to 22 institutions of higher education that were directly impacted by Hurricanes Katrina or Rita. Many of the schools will use their awards to construct or renovate damaged buildings and classrooms, some of which have been housed in temporary trailers. Others will use the funds to offset income lost as a result of enrollment declines, to fund grants for students that would have been covered by lost revenue, or to fund faculty and staff needed to teach and advise students. I think people should care about this because schools are being held in trailers and people who are getting scholarships cannot get them because the money is being used to rebuild the schools. Many people kinda forgot about Katrina and what happened to the schools. Well here it is people the classes are being held in trailers and kids aren't going to school. If you got a scholarship, and a hurricane happened, that scholarship would go away and pay for the damages that it caused.

Rockies Scalper

News Blog:

The article from the Denver Post is about a man who had purchased 60 tickets, totaling $3,090, for the upcoming series against the Arizona Diamondbacks through a Coors Field ticket window before they sold out so he could sell them for $14,000 profit. The man sold two $100 seats to two undercover officers Wednesday for $300 a piece. I don't think this is fair because you see people always trying to sell a Rockie's ticket for $20 over price and the police never stop them. i think he only got arrested because the Rockies are in the playoffs. Like i said people never get arrested for this because it isn't worth their time. People should care about this because it isn't fair to this guy at all.

http://www.denverpost.com/ci_7140440

Google Facts

Edcuation Blog:

The article by Mr. Warlick is about google facts being close to completly false. This is a crucial problem for us in education because Google is telling kids that look up this information, that whatever they write is true. I think the inernet is a wonderful resource and it should be used when nessary but some things you do not need the internet. You could use text books or something else. I dont want to get the wrong information becuase thats not what happened and i don't want to learn flase information. Mr. Warlick talks about how his son found 9/11 information but this information told him that someone had BOMBED the bulding not flew into it. This is very important becuase he would of thought that his whole life because of what Google told him.

http://www.google.com/reader/view/?tab=wy#stream/feed%2Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fdavidwarlick.com%2F2cents%2Ffeed%2F

Denver Snow Storms

In the Denver post article by George Merritt many home owners are worried about the Colorado snow season because $19 million contingency fund this year for the first time in memory, and city officials are crossing their fingers that this season will not bring another major snowstorm. Each year, the city puts at least 2 percent of its budget into a reserve fund for unexpected events. So far this year, the city has spent nearly $11.6 million of the $18.9 million it has in reserves. Digging out from a series of winter storms ate up about $8.5 million of the contingency. This is the year we expect to spend every dollar of our contingencies," acting budget director Ed Scholz told the City Council on Wednesday. "It is the first time that anyone I've talked to can remember that that is the case." I think this concerns everyone who owns a home, or business because the government has to pay for the broken down buildings and houses if you have homeowners insurance. To pay for a new roof is very expensive and some people don't have that kind of money to spend, I can relate to this because our home needs a new roof and if the rain or snow breaks through, then our house insurance will pay for the damages to our house.

School Technonogly

In the story from 2 cents worth by Mr. Dave the governer of Pennsylvaniais trying to make many of the core subjects such as English, Math, Social Studies, & Science will receive new top-of-the-line equipment. This equipment includes one laptop per student desk, a teacher laptop, a printer/scanner, imaging software, imaging software, productivity software, a web cam, an electronic whiteboard, a projector, up to, three digital still cameras, up to five digital video cameras, wireless network servers and technical support. I it is important to have some of these things but not all of them because the money the school makes doesn’t always have to go towards all of this stuff. The money can go towards expanding on the school or a new weight training facility. It is nice to have a laptop and those things but a Math room doesn't need a video camera or imaging software because what are they going to use it for? All of this equipment is going to cost over $ 200 million dollars and I don't think most of this stuff will be used depending on what class you are in.

PNL 2-

In many cities and towns smoking marijuana is a little or no crime at all but growing or distributing the drug still gets you in big trouble. Growing or using pot for medicinal purposes is widely accepted but it can only be grown up to a certain amount. Most voters want police to stop arresting the casual pot smoker, but they also want the drug to still be illegial. As of now the state of Colorado has taken all laws of possesion are taken out of our law books. Thirteen states allow medical use of marijuana with a prescription from the doctor and the governer of the state.

PNL: 1

In this story 11 pilgrims were run over by a train. The incident happened on a railway bridge over Saryu River in the Uttar Pradesh state. Some of the pilgrims did not die by the train; some of them jumped into the river and couldn't swim so they drowned. The death tool of this incident is likely to rise because more than 300 pilgrims were on the tracks. It started by a group of pilgrims pulling the emergency stop lever to go grab buckets of water from the river. They were hit while coming back from getting the water. India has carries over 13 million passengers a day, but has the worst safety record.