WEEKEND POST:"Poor Sanitation in Haiti’s Camps Adds Disease Risk"--Health

As if it isn't enough that the earthquake in Haiti was bad but now the issue of poor sanitation is causing problems. The authorities are struggling to address the worsening problem of human waste. Public health officials warn that waste accumulation is creating conditions for major disease outbreaks, including cholera, which could further stress the ravaged health system. Some say the accumulation of human waste is the most pressing health threat in the city. The problem has become impossible to overlook in many districts of Port-au-Prince, with the stench of decomposing bodies replaced by that of excrement. Children in some camps that are still lacking latrines and portable toilets play in open areas scattered with the waste. The light rains here this week caused some donated latrines in the camps to overflow, illustrating how the problem would grow more acute as the rainy season intensified in the months ahead. People try to help by distributing portable toilets and latrines and use trucks to dispose of the waste but at best it is not working out. For more on this article click here.

Police Taser Student at Basketball Game

Taser Definition and Intelligence Facts

Police Taser Student at Basketball Game <----Fox video here

Monessen Student React To Basketball Fight <---- KDKA video here

A Taser is a type of gun. The Taser gun is one of three types of weapons that are known collectively as stun guns.Stun guns like the Taser operate by disrupting the electrical flow of signals through nerve cells. Inside the body, however, the electricity is powerful enough to temporarily disable the nervous system.Only about one-quarter of a second is is required to incapacitate someone. The electrical signal from a Taser can be generated as a single burst, or in rapid pulses. Because a Taser acts on muscles, and as there are muscles all over the body, a Taser applied almost anywhere over the body can cause total immobilization. Stun guns, including the Taser, consist of a transformer, oscillator, capacitor, and electrodes. In a Taser, the electrodes are not fixed in position. Some models of Taser have the attached electrodes, so that if the flying electrodes miss the target, the shooter can move in and try to touch the subject with the stationary electrodes to deliver the stunning dose of electricity.

Live My Life

From the Mountain tops

where the wind blows

To the Green valleys down bellow.

Where the snow melts

and rivers flow

I just want to live my life.

Where the trees grow

and the air is clean,

Where nature's free to do her thing.

everything is one if you know what i mean

I just want to live my life

I'm proud to be me

I'm proud to be a trini

I'm proud to be a trini

Yes i am for the rest of my life

Living My life

A poem

WHAT A WOMEN!

Some children think they are bossy...
Some children think they don't care...

Some children think they should just get out of here...

But i think they're special,

They're one of a kind.

They are the only people

who understand you from the dawn of time.

I never get them...

they are one mysterious type.

They will do anything to protect you

And keep harm out of your life.Want to know who I'm talking about

don't bother to guess

They are very special women

They are our mother

They are the best

by Me when was younger

Martin Luther King Jr.

He was born Micheal Luther King Jr. but later changed his name to Martin Luther King. He was born January 15 1929 and died April 1968. He attended segregated public schools in Georgia, graduating from high school at the age of fifteen. He received the B. A. degree in 1948 from Morehouse College, a distinguished Negro institution of Atlanta from which both his father and grandfather had graduated. After three years of theological study at Crozer Theological Seminary in Pennsylvania where he was elected president of a predominantly white senior class, he was awarded the B.D. in 1951. With a fellowship won at Crozer, he enrolled in graduate studies at Boston University, completing his residence for the doctorate in 1953 and receiving the degree in 1955. In Boston he met and married Coretta Scott, a young woman and had two sons and two daughters that were born into the family. In 1954, Martin Luther King became pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama. Always a strong worker for civil rights for members of his race, King was a member of the executive committee of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the leading organization of its kind in the nation. In 1957 he was elected president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, an organization formed to provide new leadership for the now starting civil rights movement.

The ideals for this organization he took from Christianity; its operational techniques from Gandhi. In the eleven-year period between 1957 and 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. traveled over six million miles and spoke over twenty-five hundred times, appearing wherever there was injustice, protest, and action!! Meanwhile he wrote five books as well as numerous articles. In these years, he led a massive protest in Birmingham, Alabama, that caught the attention of the entire world, providing what he called "a coalition of conscience". Inspiring his "Letter from a Birmingham Jail", a manifesto of the Negro revolution; he planned the drives in Alabama for the registration of Negroes as voters! He directed the peaceful march on Washington, D.C., of 250,000 people to whom he delivered his address, "l Have a Dream"! He conferred with President John F. Kennedy and campaigned for President Lyndon B. Johnson! He was arrested up to twenty times and assaulted at least four times! He was awarded five honorary degrees; was named Man of the Year by Time magazine in 1963; and became not only the symbolic leader of American blacks but also a world figure!

At the age of thirty-five, Martin Luther King, Jr., was the youngest man to have received the Nobel Peace Prize. On the evening of April 4, 1968, while standing on the balcony of his motel room in Memphis, Tennessee, where he was to lead a protest march in sympathy with striking garbage workers of that city, he was assassinated.

Hyped!

I thought my weekend was going to be so hectic. With a track meet on Friday after school...then guitar lessons and home work.....and finally a track meet again on Sunday and more homework. I actually enjoyed myself. Ok! First was Friday. At the The Track meet i had to run a 800m; that's 4 times around. For the first time ever since i have been running the 800 in Pratt i came in 1ST PLACE BABY!!!!!!! I was mad hyped. On Saturday I had guitar lessons in the afternoon so when i got up i had to clean the house. Now i hate cleaning but i do it and somehow i end up enjoying it...but not all the time. Finally, Sunday. I had church. I went with my mom. I had to bring extra clothes because my friend Crystal was having her birthday party even though it is in Tuesday; her birthday that is. Well after church i changed and my mom and i left. My mom stayed on the train because she was going home but i came off and went by my friend. The party started at 5 but i came.....i was told i could come at 4. It was mad fun. i enjoyed myself. I knew some of her friends so i wasn't too shy. At the end of the party her mom and dad dropped some off us home. What a week i had.....tomorrow I have a track meet again but this time it's at The Armory. Lets hope i do good

My week

Hmm...my weekend was too much. i had track meets that whole week. well i had one on Friday then one on Sunday. but either way it was a lot of running. i did get a medal though for one of the races. on Sunday we only had relays....we had to run two. we got a medal for one of them( by we i mean all the freshmens). plus i had to go guitar lessons, and had a lot of homework. well its all good. school tomorrow too. Not much happened that i usually don't do so...