School lunches should change

         My name is Sahil Sharma, and I have been to Taylor for the past 2 years and I dislike the food that is served to students at Taylor. This letter is on behalf of me and why I think the school menu should be changed.

 My first reason is that the school food is really unhealthy and it is not nutrious. Around 12.5 million kids in America that are from the ages of 2-19 are obese, and according to figures from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Another 16 percent or so are overweight and at risk of becoming obese. Obama said,” That for some students school food is the only thing they get” so if it’s the only food they are going to get then why can’t you improve it so it is healthier?                                                          

My second reason is that the food does not have enough nutrients. High school students must receive a minimum of 700 and a maximum of 850 calories in their lunches. For students in middle school, the range is 600 to 700 calories. That means that, for grades 9-12, the standard lunch includes a cup of fruit, a cup of vegetables, two ounces of a grain, two ounces of meat, and a cup of milk.

And at last third reason is that in the past three years, the government has provided the nation’s schools with millions of pounds of beef and chicken that wouldn’t meet the quality or safety standards of many fast-food restaurants, from Jack in the Box and other burger places to chicken chains such as KFC.

In conclusion I would like to state that each year 53 million American student eat the food served at school. School cafeterias violate a lot of school health issues. Because of this, this is one of the main reasons why students in America get sick easily. And health issues like diabetes, blood pressure and cardiac problems are rising in younger kids. At last but not least I also want to mention that food poisonings is common among school children. Proper food handling like temperature setting would help to lower this incident.

Thank You

From, Sahil Sharma

URUS

Lamborghini URUS

    With Porsche introducing there first SUV in 2003, it was only a matter of time before the other high end premium sport cars came in and started competing. Now it's 2013 and Lamborghini had made a super sport SUV. The name of this Lamborghini is odd, it's called the, "URUS". The name is really odd, but it fits the image Lamborghini was trying to achieve. The URUS, is also called the Aurochs, which is an ancient ancestor of the modern day cow, which went extinct in 1627. Even if it's a SUV, you except comfort and space, but Lamborghini did a complete different approach. They put all of that in but, in what makes a Lamborghini a Lamborghini. It is a 4 wheel drive SUV that is just over 600 horsepower, over eight inches longer than an Aventador and about four inches longer than a BMW X6 M series, and costing somewhere around $200,000. The current press information says that this car might be released on 2015 but, this can all change.

                                                      

Cyber attacks on social media

Apple computer (some) damaged

      Unknown hackers infected the computers of some Apple workers. Apple macs work on their own software then and compared to windows they don't crash often. The hackers made a special malware that has been designed to attack Mac computers and crash them. Malware is a special program built by hackers to destroy and infect a certain computer or software. The Apple computers first got infected when a software update was released. The same hackers who hacked apple have also hacked, Play Station Network. The hackers tweeted Sunday with a link to 27 apple worker's usernames and passwords that are as usernames and passwords supposedly lifted from an Apple server.

Facebook No Damage

Facebook is the world's largest social network and has over 1 billion users that was just recently got hacked. Although the surprised hack didn't steal any information from any user, it did exposed digital cracks in a society. Facebook wasn't the only one that was affected by the hack, many other companies associative with Facebook was also affected. Late last month, many newspapers states that the hackers were from the Chinese government. This theory has not been proven yet. By Danny L.

Twitter 250,000

Twitter has also been hacked and around 250,000 users personal information has been given away to these hackers. This includes all tweets, E-mail address, photos and other data The attack on Twitter came when other other companies where affected Wall Street Journal and the New York Times. Most of all of these companies are accusing the Chinese government without any proof. By Sahil S.

I interviewed some student and this is what they had to say,

Emmanuel, a student said,"I don,t feel safe because I use all of them except for twitter"

Danny, a student said "That they should improve their security."

Unbelievable facts about humans

        As our race advanced so much and, we never took the time to explore our basic functions until thirty years ago. Not many people know of all this information or wont believe it's true until now. Thirty years ago several doctors and professor started looking into this. Left handed people live shorter than left handed people by about 9 years, if you don't believe this here's my proof. In July 1988 Porac and Coren two fellow doctors reported that thirteen percent of twenty year olds are left handed but, only five percent of those twenty year olds are in their fifties and no one is eighty or above. They believe that left handers from the oldest age groups show higher biological and environmental risk.

       In the New York Times article they said," The odds of a left hander getting into a car accident is more than 5 times then compared to a right hander and that the world is mostly built for right handers." This evidence also sites back to the evidence by the two professors Porac and Coren.

       These to professors went to The Baseball Encyclopedia, and found out that about 2%  more right handers survive each age longer than left handers. These professors also found out that left handers have weaker immune systems due to the Genetic effects and intra-uterine hormones. All these studies have one thing in common they all state,"The world is more designed for right handers than for left handers."

      Some other facts you won't believe about us are the when you cough your heart stops for a second and the cough travels at 60 mph. When you sneeze it travels at 100 mph. when you hurt your toe the nerves travel at 170 mph. An average person will burn 7% more calories walking on dirt compared to pavement. All these are things we do in life and yet have a huge impact that we never knew about.

Danny-I think the economy is more designed for right handers.

Good Journalism

             I learned that journalism was harder and took longer to spread the news. I wonder how long it took to spread the news so everyone knew. I still want to know how would they spread the news everywhere and how long it would take.

Nintendo-3DS

                                                                                                            Nintendo has invented a portable gaming console called Nintendo 3DS, and it's main highlight is that the top screen is in 3D without the use of 3D glasses or addition accessories. Nintendo announced the device will be released on March 2010. It will be shown first at E3 2010 on June 15, 2010.The Nintendo 3DS was first released on February 26, 2011 to the public. The starting price is from $169-$249. When the device first came out Nintendo was unhappy with the stocks so Nintendo deiced to give 10 free games on DS and Game Boy. There is also a bigger version of this called the Nintendo 3DS XL.

    Nintendo 3DS XL

PROS                                        

• Bigger screen improves the 3D effect significantly
• improved battery life under some conditions
• more comfortable to hold and use

90% larger screen
CONS

• Digital content still lacking
• No secondary analog stick
• Not the most powerful of handheld hardware 

So overall if you play alot of games the Nintendo 3DS Xl is for you.
          

Titanoboa - monster snake?

        

               The worlds largest snake is from 40-50 feet long and it weighs about 2,500 lbs. A Python snake in lucky to even get up to 30 feet. This snake was so big that a python or anacondas is not even big enough to compare with this creature. Cerrejonesis is the largest mining operation in Cloumbia and in the year 2009 28 of these fossils were found in this area most of them in a 15 mile pit, the largest pit the facility has to offer. These snakes lived from 58-60 million years ago this is the known as the Palaeocene era. However there have been some sitings of these snakes alive. These snakes are called,"Titanoboa". These creatures live in temperatures around 90 degrees F.

              These snakes were so powerful that they could swallow a crocodile in just seconds and they would fight with dinosaurs, but after the dinosaurs became extinct they still lived 10million years longer than the dinosaurs did. On top of that us humans weren't even strong enough to fight with these snakes. This means that something else was strong enough to kill the snakes. There are some sayings about a giant crocodile that killed all these snakes. There have been some bones recovered that are big for a crocodile but it has not been proven.

 

                                                       
                                                                                                          This photo was taken in  Malaysia.

 Emmanuel-"It's fat and Dangerous".                                                                       .

Mayank-"It's big and scary"

Johnny-"Snake is big"

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/How-Titanoboa-the-40-Foot-Long-Snake-Was-Found.html