From March 24th
What a horrific story this was. I usually don't use the headline for the title of my blog posts but I think the headline really speaks for itself. The main concern I have with this story is what happened to the murderer's here after they confessed. I mean they confessed almost 2 years ago and just are being put on trial? This is one of the most important cases for the city of Newark to solve but they wait 18 months to put these guys on trial? Just thinking about how these kids died makes me squeamish, theirs no way I could imagine ever even imagine doing something like this. These guys had demons before the murder, I can't imagine what the last thirty years were like for them.
Monday, May 17, 2010
A Peaceful Approach to Diplomacy
From April 7th
I usually try to ignore all news coming from the Israeli/Palestinian conflict, it's usually depressing and includes a death count. That's not my cup of tea. The Palestinians though are trying to change that, and I respect their efforts. A peaceful movement is obviously nothing new in the modern world and the Palestinians are doing a very good job of capitilizng on past peace movements to help themselves. Calling on the sons of inspirational peace movement leaders: Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. This is really positive news out of the West Bank and I hope they can keep up the peaceful movement.
I usually try to ignore all news coming from the Israeli/Palestinian conflict, it's usually depressing and includes a death count. That's not my cup of tea. The Palestinians though are trying to change that, and I respect their efforts. A peaceful movement is obviously nothing new in the modern world and the Palestinians are doing a very good job of capitilizng on past peace movements to help themselves. Calling on the sons of inspirational peace movement leaders: Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. This is really positive news out of the West Bank and I hope they can keep up the peaceful movement.
From February 24th
This was one of the strongest and most powerful articles I read all semester. Titled Cycle of a Drug Trial: Recovery and Relapse, Then Rebuilding it features Dr. Keith Flaherty, a leading investigator against melanoma. He is trying to help a patient Chris Nelson. After successfully keeping Nelson alive for an extra year he has to keep fighting the melanoma as it comes back. Unfortunately Dr. Flaherty isn't able to obtain the medicine needed because of how difficult it is to get a drug on the market.
This article was powerful because of how he author treated the subject matter. It's a hotly debate right now, should we rush medicine to try to save peoples live before we know all the side effects? Theirs really no right answer but the author gives plenty and plenty of facts and does a good job of capturing the opinions of the doctor, the Nelson family, and the drug companies themselves. It's a powerful article to read and leaves the reader with a bad feeling in their stomach.
This was one of the strongest and most powerful articles I read all semester. Titled Cycle of a Drug Trial: Recovery and Relapse, Then Rebuilding it features Dr. Keith Flaherty, a leading investigator against melanoma. He is trying to help a patient Chris Nelson. After successfully keeping Nelson alive for an extra year he has to keep fighting the melanoma as it comes back. Unfortunately Dr. Flaherty isn't able to obtain the medicine needed because of how difficult it is to get a drug on the market.
This article was powerful because of how he author treated the subject matter. It's a hotly debate right now, should we rush medicine to try to save peoples live before we know all the side effects? Theirs really no right answer but the author gives plenty and plenty of facts and does a good job of capturing the opinions of the doctor, the Nelson family, and the drug companies themselves. It's a powerful article to read and leaves the reader with a bad feeling in their stomach.
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
Apocalypse Now
From May 4th
UPDATE POST, this is my first follow up post. It's so exciting, but seriously this story has me really interested because it's the first major "oil spill" I can really remember. Now, I really couldn't resist with the heading. Such absurdity coming from any educated person's mouth? Calling this a possible apocalypse? Okay first of all using the world apocalypse in a situation involving a generally small area of the world is not proper. An apocalypse is when everything dies, not a couple of fish and some marshlands. (a little follow up joke!)
Now that I'm done criticizing one word in the article it's time to branch out. I'm so happy someone has finally come up with a solution to this problem. How long did it take for them to think of that solution though? More importantly who is them, who are the one's responsible for coming up with this solution? Because about a week ago I had thought of the exact same solution. Block the leak?! We have the technology to send robots to Mars and crawl around while digging up soil samples. We can obviously plug up a hole in the sea. And look at the suggestion from people who say that blocking the hole will hurt undersea pipes. Do you really think we can't fix pipes? We invented pipes, we can fix them. This is an entire eco-system as danger here but because we can't fix some undersea pipes we are being cautious? This is making me so hot right now, we should have fixed this problem days ago already, I won't say anymore.
UPDATE POST, this is my first follow up post. It's so exciting, but seriously this story has me really interested because it's the first major "oil spill" I can really remember. Now, I really couldn't resist with the heading. Such absurdity coming from any educated person's mouth? Calling this a possible apocalypse? Okay first of all using the world apocalypse in a situation involving a generally small area of the world is not proper. An apocalypse is when everything dies, not a couple of fish and some marshlands. (a little follow up joke!)
Now that I'm done criticizing one word in the article it's time to branch out. I'm so happy someone has finally come up with a solution to this problem. How long did it take for them to think of that solution though? More importantly who is them, who are the one's responsible for coming up with this solution? Because about a week ago I had thought of the exact same solution. Block the leak?! We have the technology to send robots to Mars and crawl around while digging up soil samples. We can obviously plug up a hole in the sea. And look at the suggestion from people who say that blocking the hole will hurt undersea pipes. Do you really think we can't fix pipes? We invented pipes, we can fix them. This is an entire eco-system as danger here but because we can't fix some undersea pipes we are being cautious? This is making me so hot right now, we should have fixed this problem days ago already, I won't say anymore.
Car Bomb Fail
From May 3rd
Back to back New York City posts? Whaaat? I mean I know these posts come from the New Times Time but as a New Englander I try to keep my posts broader than just New York City. This article was just to good to pass up though.
In case terrorists haven't noticed, their is a ton of security in New York City. Like you guys haven't blown anything up in the Big Apple since 9/11. You've tried, and tried, and nothing works and if the Christmas Bomber didn't succeed than why would a smoking Nissan SUV with a bomb in it? I mean the car was smoking. Police in Iraq would've caught this guy!
This just goes to show that terrorists have a long way to go before they outsmart the NYC Police Department. These are probably the best police officers in the world. Their going to notice the sketchy Nissan SUV that's smoking. Their going to find the bomb, the fireworks, the weird clocks; they've seen it all.
This article wasn't about that though. This article was about how New Yorkers live on the edge of their seats waiting for another successful terrorist attack. I understand their fears, I remember 9/11, I was scared my house was going to get bombed and I live in the middle of nowhere. If a terrorist bombed my house they wouldn't even harm my neighbors. I can understand why they're scared and that people in New York are fearful in general right now but the NYC PD is not going to let some terrorist bomb New York unless they come up with a much better plan.
Back to back New York City posts? Whaaat? I mean I know these posts come from the New Times Time but as a New Englander I try to keep my posts broader than just New York City. This article was just to good to pass up though.
In case terrorists haven't noticed, their is a ton of security in New York City. Like you guys haven't blown anything up in the Big Apple since 9/11. You've tried, and tried, and nothing works and if the Christmas Bomber didn't succeed than why would a smoking Nissan SUV with a bomb in it? I mean the car was smoking. Police in Iraq would've caught this guy!
This just goes to show that terrorists have a long way to go before they outsmart the NYC Police Department. These are probably the best police officers in the world. Their going to notice the sketchy Nissan SUV that's smoking. Their going to find the bomb, the fireworks, the weird clocks; they've seen it all.
This article wasn't about that though. This article was about how New Yorkers live on the edge of their seats waiting for another successful terrorist attack. I understand their fears, I remember 9/11, I was scared my house was going to get bombed and I live in the middle of nowhere. If a terrorist bombed my house they wouldn't even harm my neighbors. I can understand why they're scared and that people in New York are fearful in general right now but the NYC PD is not going to let some terrorist bomb New York unless they come up with a much better plan.
Just Sit Back and Watch the Environment Die
From May 2nd
I don't want to come off as some tree-hugger in this blog but Louisiana is basically saying, we don't care about our eco-system and we're not going to do anything to stop it's impending doom. Theirs a giant oil-spill coming that's about to destroy the last of it's salt marshes. They need to do something about this, perhaps plug the hole? I don't know I'm just a crazy college student. So what are they doing about it? Well the obvious answer of course, sending all their fisherman out to catch the last of the fish that have been able to somehow survive destruction of this area. The fish are obviously going to die, so we might as well kill them ourselves right?
You know what, the fishing part isn't actually in this article, but I know that they are really fishing out the Gulf of Mexico right now. My real point is their are no solutions in this article, so apparently no one is giving solutions, just "bracing" for this destruction. You know I've been on a roll with my blog post length lately but if the entire state of Louisiana is going to just mail it in when it comes to this major issue I don't see why I shouldn't do the same writing about it. Okay, I'm not really mailing it in, I was just going for an extended metaphor.
I don't want to come off as some tree-hugger in this blog but Louisiana is basically saying, we don't care about our eco-system and we're not going to do anything to stop it's impending doom. Theirs a giant oil-spill coming that's about to destroy the last of it's salt marshes. They need to do something about this, perhaps plug the hole? I don't know I'm just a crazy college student. So what are they doing about it? Well the obvious answer of course, sending all their fisherman out to catch the last of the fish that have been able to somehow survive destruction of this area. The fish are obviously going to die, so we might as well kill them ourselves right?
You know what, the fishing part isn't actually in this article, but I know that they are really fishing out the Gulf of Mexico right now. My real point is their are no solutions in this article, so apparently no one is giving solutions, just "bracing" for this destruction. You know I've been on a roll with my blog post length lately but if the entire state of Louisiana is going to just mail it in when it comes to this major issue I don't see why I shouldn't do the same writing about it. Okay, I'm not really mailing it in, I was just going for an extended metaphor.
A Small Room For A Tiny Price
From May 1st
I have stayed in New York City a lot during my life. I use to vacation to the Big Apple a couple of times a year with my family. I've lived, worked, and went to school there for a couple summers as well. So all know what it's like to live there. I haven't stayed in a hotel room more than a couple times though. That's completely irrelevant to what I'm about to write, even though this article was about hotel rooms. If your on vacation in NYC you are not staying in a hotel room. Now you might say but what about when you sleep, you have to go back to your room than?! Well guess what New York is the city that never sleeps and neither should you if your vacationing in NYC. You can easily find something to do all times of the day. You know what that hotel room is for? Storage and using the bathroom, to put your luggage in and take a shower after a long night doing whatever you found.
That's why these small hotel rooms are so awesome. You aren't going to actually be in them so why pay a lot for a room you're using to put a couple suitcases in? If I didn't have a place to stay in NYC already I would definitely stay in a place like Jane. I definitely expect quality thread-counts on my cotton sheets when I'm in a hotel and this place delivers. Great informative article, wish it was relevant to me.
I have stayed in New York City a lot during my life. I use to vacation to the Big Apple a couple of times a year with my family. I've lived, worked, and went to school there for a couple summers as well. So all know what it's like to live there. I haven't stayed in a hotel room more than a couple times though. That's completely irrelevant to what I'm about to write, even though this article was about hotel rooms. If your on vacation in NYC you are not staying in a hotel room. Now you might say but what about when you sleep, you have to go back to your room than?! Well guess what New York is the city that never sleeps and neither should you if your vacationing in NYC. You can easily find something to do all times of the day. You know what that hotel room is for? Storage and using the bathroom, to put your luggage in and take a shower after a long night doing whatever you found.
That's why these small hotel rooms are so awesome. You aren't going to actually be in them so why pay a lot for a room you're using to put a couple suitcases in? If I didn't have a place to stay in NYC already I would definitely stay in a place like Jane. I definitely expect quality thread-counts on my cotton sheets when I'm in a hotel and this place delivers. Great informative article, wish it was relevant to me.
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