Breast cancer awareness month

http://www.especiallyforyourace.org/

It’s now October and that means fall. It also means Halloween, haunted house and trick or treating. But it is also breast cancer awareness month.

            The world has gone pink for October. The football players of the NFL are wearing pink, stores are selling it and you are hearing about it everywhere.  Today I walked in the especially for you race against breast cancer walk.  The walk is to help fund free mammograms and other breast-care services to this area.

It was a chilly morning and early morning on the day of the walk, but my mom and I got up to go to the walk. When we got there; we found hundreds of people all wearing the same shirt with different logos on the back supporting people who had breast cancer. One of my mom’s friends was so excited to do this. She said “it makes me happy to think that all these people can come together for one cause”. I think this is true. Breast cancer is one of the big cancers in the public’s eye.

It may be because almost everyone knows someone who is affected by it. my mom has had a co-work who has survived breast cancer and I have had two teachers who are going through treatment of cancer.  These people develop a strongest that I think is amazing. They are going through something that is very tough and they are facing the best they can.

Breast cancer awareness month maybe focused on finding a cure but something we need to think about are the people who have gone through the process of kemo and still moved on with their lives. They are the people who I walked for today on this chilly morning. If you want to walk with the especially for you breast cancer walk you can click on the link above. 

Meningitis

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/Wellness/meningitis-outbreak-highlights-hazards-compounding-pharmacies/story?id=17405294#.UHGwJU2HJica

http://www.voicesofmeningitis.com/get-the-facts-the-basics.html?utm_medium=cpc&utm_source=google&utm_content=general&utm_term=meningitis&utm_campaign=2012_unbranded_driver_terms

What is meningitis?  Meningitis is when the meninges around the brain swell putting pressure on the brain. This can kill you quickly, without you even knowing it.

Today we are having a widespread breakout of fungal meningitis. This comes from a bad pain killer that is given threw a shot to the spine.  It has caused 5 deaths and across 7states according to Abc news. It is worry some because it’s hard to catch meningitis until it’s too late. It was tracked back to the New England Compounding center .CDC has issued a statement that it has opened its emergency operations clinic.  Symptoms can look like a stroke.

Ways to stop spreading normal meningitis is not to share drinks or food utensils. Also reframe from kissing people. The thing about meningitis is that it is a quick Bactria infection.   It is a high risk disease not for the young or elderly but for teens and young adults.  This is why it’s so big when meningitis is found in big outbreaks. 

Schools in the home

http://foxnewsinsider.com/2012/09/25/nyc-public-schools-provide-birth-control-to-students-should-the-government-be-involved-in-teens-sexual-activity/

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/york-city-plan-contraception-teens-school/story?id=17310468#.UGSReI1lRSQ

http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/health/best-birth-control-method-teen-girls-iud-implant-american-college-obstetricians-gynecologists-acog-article-1.1167893

This is not an okay that they are offered Plan B, without parents okay or even the parents could not even know. The idea that parents are okay with this is an idea; I can’t wrap my mind around it. Now do I think some kids didn’t show the permission slip to their parents? Yes I do.  This is a bad idea.

To think that some schools may be doing this bothers me. I would say this because it just makes having sex easier.  If you can get the birth control easier and with less people knowing you got it makes you feel better that no one would know. 

It also can lead to a jump in STD rates. The more teens are having sex because they think they can’t get pregnant, the more STD will come.  The implant birth control is also available and it still doesn’t protect against that.

To be on birth control for that long and not have a medical reason like those that some teens have is just wrong. This also means that tax payers are paying for teens to have sex.  

A tiger jump

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/09/23/new-york-city-man-mauled-by-tiger-in-bronx-zoo-charged-with-trespassing/

This article is very interesting. You would think that they wouldn't charge him for trespassing on the grounds of the fact that he got attacked by the tiger. i believe that the tiger had every right to attack that man when he jumped into the enclosed area. This was of his own free will, he wasn't pushed, and I would say that this was a crazy idea.

One reason I think they should press charges against this guy is that it not only put his life in danger but that of the tiger. The tiger is only an animal so when it attacked him in its own home you would say it had a right to. This man was trespassing in the tiger’s home.

A thing that needs to be checked is this man’s mental health before they charge him. I don’t think a person who is thinking clearly, would never jump into a tiger pit.

I don’t think this was not just a non-suicide attempt I think if he had died this man would have been okay with it. This can be backed by the fact that when he was asked what he was doing he replied “I wanted to touch the tiger.”

When you think about it he showed the signs. The article says that he would comment on stuff about animals and how much he liked them.

red panda curse

Thttp://abcnews.go.com/US/newborn-panda-cub-dies-national-zoo/story?id=17302210#.UF9mto1lRSQ
http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/mammals/red-panda/
I watched this clip on good morning America. I found it very interesting how the locals in china say that the red panda has "eyes that look at you" this is why they were sent over sea's and have become very endanger. The red panda is only found in some parts of china close to the foot hills of the Himalayan Mountains.
They are about the size of a "house cat." the red panda has a reddish fur and a long stripped tail that will make you think of the monkey from Madagascar that had a ring tail. They are a herbivore and live on a diet of greens, one of these is bamboo.
The other interesting part of the story was that they found a relative of the red panda in the hills, of Tennessee Blue Ridge Mountains. These ancestors were thought to be about the size of a mountain lion. How they got from North America, to Asia. This is a cool discovery because we can grow to understand where the red panda came from and how is shrunk to the size it is now.
The red panda is endangering due mostly to deforestation. I think this would be a great way to use the foreign language, I'm learning Chinese. I could travel to china and study the red panda and understand how we can help protect these amazing creatures.  To study them would help understand how to protect them in the wild. We can keep helping the ones in captive by giving them safe exhibits and health environments’ in zoos.  
To protect them may be to encourage to donate or to just give your time to a volunteer event.

Lifeguard style

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/video/gangnam-style-video-spoof-california-lifeguards-fired-17269406

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpVmMtUlKQc

I first heard about this video on GMA yesterday morning and it got me thinking.  To that theses 14 lifeguards lost their job is a sad thing. The Supervisors fired these lifeguards on account of “miss use of public property” like their “uniforms”.

Now I’m a lifeguard like those 14 teenagers and I had to buy my own uniform before I started working, this means that it’s my property not my employers. The miss use of “public property” is also debatable. If these guards where guard people in the water while they shoot this video it wouldn’t be okay, but in the who tape you see no patrons of any kind. This leads me to believe they shoot this video after the patrons left.

 If the lifeguards hadn’t been fired I feel this would have gone unnoticed by the press or anyone else. It’s on YouTube and there are a lot better videos out there, but because they fired them and made a big deal of it, this would not be happening at all.

I have thought of making YouTube “Call me maybe” parody’s with the swimmers and friends, but if I were to have that used against me in find a job or I could lose a collage scholarship over it. I don’t think I would do it because it could endanger my future.

A question to be asking you right now is this violating those 14 lifeguards first amendment? I think it is a little bit. Those lifeguards didn’t hurt anyone or break anything. They can put that on their for either their right to freedom of speech or it could be the press how you look at it. It may have a little bit of suggestive themes in the video at some point but it’s not that bad.

The election

The idea that today’s life has been changed by the 2014 elections is a normal; I mean its election year. But the problem is that with all these commercials and ad we find ourselves losing the candidates themselves and only the rumors of who they are.

This year we have to really big candidates running for president.  Are president now and democrat position is held by Barack Obama (https://www.google.com/#hl=en&sclient=psy-ab&q=obama&oq=oba&gs_l=serp.1.0.0l2j0i3j0.2912.13353.0.16155.16.9.7.0.0.0.329.1642.0j7j1j1.9.0.les%3B..0.0...1c.1.-SRMUOvX0uk&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.&fp=bf525e541b623bda&biw=1280&bih=620). While for the republican side you have Mitt Romney (https://www.google.com/#hl=en&sugexp=les%3B&gs_nf=1&tok=WzyPjbwsasAEkrBE-nOTAQ&pq=obama&cp=4&gs_id=2c&xhr=t&q=mitt+romney&pf=p&sclient=psy-ab&oq=mitt&gs_l=&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.&fp=bf525e541b623bda&biw=1280&bih=620). They are two very different guys and they both want to be president.  I want to look at their political idea and not just the bather they give us on TV and the news I want to really understand my president so whoever he may be I will know where he will stand. These next couple weeks I will be looking at some big issues and where they stand for sure. 

Labor day

Labor Day, when you think about it, all I knew was that my family and i got out of school and work. Why is that I asked myself? Now i have found out. Labor Day happens every first Monday of September, it was first celebrated in 1882. It was created to celebrate the workers and to give them a day of rest and to thank them for the contribution to the economy. This is a holiday that is feudal  which is why we have the day off of school. These are all thing we forget about even with other holidays like Halloween which was originality a pagan festival celebrating magic and spirits.     (http://www.timeanddate.com/holidays/us/) holidays have kind of lost there meaning, i say this because what use to be one of the little days you got together with your family has become very commercialized, meaning lost to gifts and candy.  This is why we need to stop and think nabout what we are celebrating on a holiday the true meaning of one thing or what the world is telling us to celebrate.