There has been a rise in the shark population along the East Coast.
“Study finds more sharks than ever swimming in waters along the East Coast”
www.foxnews.com
Many more sharks have been tagged in the waters of Florida to North Carolina. About 2825 to be exact, A little more than a thousand more three years ago. Of the thirteen species that have been tagged, the sandbar, sharpnose, dusky, and tiger sharks have been the most common. With the rise in shark number, it does come with its negatives. Eight people have been attack, which is the most since the Florida museum of natural history began tracking shark attacks over 80 years ago.
Sharks are beautiful, majestic creatures, however, sharks can be extremely deadly. With that being said, I don’t think anyone needs to take action in trying to shorten the population of sharks. That simply should not be the answer. I’m not necessarily an animal nut, but I do believe they deserve to accompany the waters as mush as we do. The people who live along the East Coast should take these recent studies into consideration before heading out into the waters.
This situation absolutely affects the population of people who live along the east coast that enjoy getting into the ocean. While this article did state that there have been several studies and pieces of evidence that proves the rise of the shark population in the east coast waters, it did not specify that the world population of sharks have ultimately increased. So, this doesn’t affect anyone else per-say. As far as those who live along the east coast, they will probably benefit from making changes to how they visit the beach. Perhaps not going in the water during the dawn and dusk hours, as well as employing more safety nets to keep them semi-safe from sharks and get the overall shark attack numbers down.

Tom Brady and the “deflategate” case.
“It’s past time to wrap Deflategate”
www.charlotteobserver.com
Tom Brady was accused by the NFL about seven months ago of having knowledge of the deflated footballs in the game against the Indianapolis Colts. He, however, believes he is innocent and decided to take the matter to court. Success in court would take away his four game suspension as well as his somewhat now tainted legacy.
Personally, I don’t find this matter to be a big deal. The only reason the NFL is still fighting this case is because they believe that what he did was a form of cheating. That being said, at the time there were no official PSI rules that were enforced. Secondly, it ultimately couldn’t have affected the game to the entirety of the Patriots big win 45-7. Though I would be lying if I said I wouldn’t be happy to Brady’s backup in their fourth game against my Dallas Cowboys.
In the grand scheme of things, this court case doesn’t truly matter. Nobody is in risk of dying. It’s rather a matter of Brady getting a suspension or not. Either way he will be able to compete in the playoffs when the games have major value, so the Patriots fans don’t have too much to mull over. In a way, the NFL has already won. This case has gotten so much media attention that has got many people talking about it and any publicity is good publicity.

There will be a meeting Wednesday between the PTA and principal Olympia Rainer to discuss Rainer’s proposal of putting a cell phone jammer to prevent cell phone use in school.

“I am listening if anyone has any better ideas. I am meeting with members of the PTA next week. Perhaps they will have a better idea, but so far I haven’t heard a solid alternative solution.” Rainer said.

So far this year, 350 out of 850 students have had discipline referrals regarding cell phone use.

“Instead of trying to restrict us more, why doesn’t the administration lighten up? If students could use their cell phones during lunch or passing periods, we wouldn’t have to use them in class. I bet that would solve the problem.”

Students are allowed to use their phones before and after school, but there has been a ban on phones in school hours for two years.

“What happens if there is an emergency? No one could use their phones. My mom feels more secure when I have my phone with me.” Junior Tara Dominguez said.

The president of the Parent Teacher Association, Gale Chen, said most parents understand Rainer’s frustration over cell phone use during school but most do not feel comfortable with a jammer on campus.

“My pastor actually gave me the idea. He was talking with me about how he hates it when cell phones go off during his sermon. He said he wished he could put a force field around the church during the service to disable cell phones. Basically, that is what the jammer will do.” Rainer said.

Rainer said the administration could turn the jammer on at 8:15 a.m. when school starts and turn it off at 3:45 p.m. when school releases.

“We made the request so we could be ready. If the district moves forward with this proposal, we would like to test the jammer out for a month before we request full approval.” District lawyer Ted Gringot said.

FCC spokeswoman Mira Sorno said the district will likely get a one- month approval.

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Voting  on Jim Stack’s request, the school board is going to determine whether to overturn principal Tonya King’s decision on Stack’s hair.King denies Stack’s request because long hair on male students is against the school’s policy.

“Had I approved Jim’s request, then I would have students every day asking if they also could break the dress code,” King said.

According to Stack, he  wishes to grow out his hair in order to donate it to charity, he was motivated to do this after his 5-year-old sister lost all of her hair last year during her chemotherapy treatment.

“When my sister received her wig,” Stack said, “I decided that was something I could do.”

The charity association Stack wishes to donate to, according to him, is “Locks of Love”, an association that uses real human hair for wigs.

“I was moved by Jim’s passion to donate his hair. We desperately need human hair for our wigs. Every month we receive about 200 requests from families who cannot afford a wig for their sick child, and every month we have to turn down about 150 of those requests,” Gisel Roco, the president of “Locks of Love,” said.

In support of Stack, the student council sent a letter to the school board which was signed by 350 students. The letter also had a list of 150 students who also were willing to grow their hair to donate to the Locks of Love, and of those 150 students, seventy-eight were males.

As the overall determiner of the situation, school board president,  Bill Valdez, said, “I can’t comment on this issue right now. We will discuss it at the board meeting next week.”

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