The Sandy Hook Tragedy

The Sandy Hook Tragedy

To whom it may concern,

On December 14, 2012 the city of New Town, Connecticut was shock. Students and staff from Sandy Hook Elementary were attacked. Students were killed as well as staff members in the course of the shooter taking the school under attack. A heroic teacher tried her best to protect her student but was not strong enough to stop the shooter. The past event stunned the world. But may the deceased not be forgotten and may they rest in peace.

I am scared to even believe that anything is good after the December 14, 2012 tragedy. My train of thought has been altered by the occurrence at Sandy Hook. No longer do I believe that school security is a joke, but a job that requires a lot of work and commitment. You may even have to risk your life. I hope that the school board is working hard to reinforce security in all of our schools.

Since that morning, I have gained much more admiration for my teachers and school staff. I know that if something similar where to happen in my school, they would have to be the ones to act first. Victoria Soto is a hero, she risked her life to protect the life’s of here students. For that I believe she should always be considered a hero. What guts it must take to get in the way of gun fire knowing that there is a large possibility that you may get shot and or killed.

To the parents of the beautiful children that passed away, may they rest in peace. Thank you for sharing with the world their lives and remember to always fall back on the good times you had together. Your young ones will always be their next to u to take care of you, I truly believe that!

Sincerely,

Christian Menendez

The Sandy Hook Tragedy

The Sandy Hook Tragedy

Dear families of Newtown, Connecticut,

I am a sophomore at Westland Hialeah Senior high school who has been truly touched on the event that occurred on December 14, 2012. On behalf of my friends, family and I, we wish you the best and the best of luck in someday getting justice.

It’s a disappointment that such a tragic event had to occur for the president to realize we need better gun control. We fight very hard every day to pass that law and hope that another event like this never happens. Now, our schools are what you can call “safer”. At least in my high school we are more aware of who comes through our doors, we secure our classrooms and some teachers have even managed to come up with a hiding plan if our school is ever hit.

Hearing your stories truly touched me, noting that I have and eleven year old brother in elementary school. Barrack Obama’s speech touched all of us and that day I did as he said and hugged my brother a bit tighter that day. I am now more aware of who the cop at my school is if I ever have to report a problem of such sort. I am also aware of the dangers that could happen at a school in broad day light. And at lunch time when those school gates are wide open for anyone to make their way in and out I make sure to stay away and always spot a school official if I see anything that does not look right.

Fantasy Baseball Participants Get Ready To Sweat

Fantasy Baseball Participants Get Ready To Sweat

Well, Major League Baseball players could care less about your fantasy baseball league, it is official! Get ready to pick up and scramble to fill big names in your league, with non-performance enhancing drug using players. Other than maybe Alex Rodriguez, who has not been available to anybody this year, the other names are enough to shriek just about any rotisserie league manager. Big name baseball stars are facing massive suspensions, anywhere from 50 to 100 games, in a move that will most certainly alter the playoff hopes of many teams. Anthony Bosch the owner and operator of a Coral Gables Florida center that issued PED (Performance enhancing drugs) has much to say now, and much of that will bury the hopes and dreams of many teams, players and me…a Fantasy baseball owner. Bummer right? Yes!

Why Does MLB Care So Much?

Socking home runs, pitching shutouts, running like a cheetah in the Savannah, we all love to see this don’t we?  Who can forget the Sammy Sosa vs. Mark McGwire days? That was actually before Barry Bonds, and Roger Clemens, and before MLB cared about any of this performance enhancing drugs stuff. In the NFL no one cares is a safety shoots up, and the main reason is that his stats are worthless. So he tackled someone 43 times this year. So he recovered two fumbles??? The NBA for the most part is the same. I am not stating that any one super human player that with shoulders the size of buildings is using P.E.D’s or that he is not. All I am saying is no one cares about steals, triple doubles, double doubles or anything else that ends with doubles.

However MLB, has been a stat driven sport since back when CY Young was notching complete games on back to back nights. It is important to MLB and the books are as sacred as well the good book, maybe even more so. The Major League stats in baseball are where historians are born, bar none. So to baseball it matters, and so it matters and Henry Aaron’s home run mark busted by Barry Bonds will not count, and the asterisks will remain, and the players will be suspended and my baseball league team will come in last place…again. OK so I have to blame this on something, I may as well blame the P.E.D’s! Here is a short list of some of the players that will more than likely not be on your team very soon…Enjoy!

  • Ryan Braun     Brewers
  • Everth Cabrera     Padres
  • Melky Cabrera     Blue Jays
  • Francisco Cervelli     Yankees
  • Bartolo Colon     Athletics
  • Nelson Cruz     Rangers
  • Fautino de los Santos     Free agent
  • Gio Gonzalez*     Nationals
  • Yasmani Grandal     Padres
  • Fernando Martinez     Astros
  • Jesus Montero     Mariners
  • Jordan Norberto     Free agent
  • Jhonny Peralta     Tigers
  • Cesar Puello**     Mets
  • Alex Rodriguez     Yankees
Prayer Answered For Woman And Dog

Prayer Answered For Woman And Dog

Woman Reunited With Terrier Dog

During the wrath of the Tornado’s in the great state of Oklahoma, there has been great destruction, followed by unbelievable and even greater resolve by American’s everywhere. The nature of these disasters always leaves behind destruction, but it also leaves behind great stories of rescue efforts, and touching caring moments that define people’s lives everywhere.

This video is no different as a woman rejoices that she prayed to God and asked for two things, and she believed that only one of those prayers were answered. She was wrong, they both were. Dogs have always been a part of my life, and I cannot relate with the damages and horror that she endured, but the moment when the dog and it’s owner are reunited, is something I will never forget. Thank you God for always being there in our most times of need. Amen.

Remembering Sandy Hook

Remembering Sandy Hook

Dear parents of Newtown, CT

Words cannot begin to express the pain people all over the U.S feel for the loss of those amazing kids. I am writing this letter to let you know you are not alone. I know what it feels like to lose a loved one and I know that no matter what people say you still feel pain. I know what it’s like to wake up in the morning and wonder if it was all a nightmare. Everyone’s hearts ached as we saw what happened on the news. I myself could not stop from shedding tears.

What happened did not just impact me but many others as well. It has shown me to appreciate all the little things. It has shown me to be thankful every day for those who are in my life. I am still in high school so I do not have children yet but I have a little brother and an older sister and I learned that all those fights that we have are useless. I learned that “I love you” can never be said too much .It taught me that I need to let those who love me and do so much for me know that I love them as well and that I appreciate ever thing they do for me.

The day that it all happened I came home and found my mother crying as well as my aunt and uncle. I asked what happen and that’s when I saw the news. I thought that there was no more good people in this world but I was wrong. They talked about teachers that risked their lives for their students. They also talked about a little kid who went and got his friends and helped them out. Those are people who will always be heroes no matter what. We children go to school every day to learn yet you never expect something this tragic to happen. In my school we are working together to make sure that the school is safer. Also some of us realized that we need to start getting along because sometime you don’t even know why it is that you dislike each other, so we put our differences aside and work together to make our school a better place. I also wanted you to know that my condolences are with you.

Sincerely, Carina Martin

Sandy Hook Remembrance

Sandy Hook Remembrance

Dear families of Newtown, CT

On December 14, one of the most shocking things that I have ever heard of happened. One of my worst nightmares took place on this day. When I first heard of this tragedy, I was sitting down watching TV with my little brother. Then I stopped for a second, and started thinking, “what if that was my little brother, or even me!?”

I would never be the same, my family would never be the same. So I can only imagine the pain that you have been through. The teachers who gave up their lives to try and save others, have inspired me to be there more for my little brother, because he’s the only brother I’ve got, and I don’t know how long I’m going to be here with him.

It breaks my heart to know, and to hear about this tragedy, but it has taught me a lesson that I will never forget, and that is to never take things for granted.

Sincerely: Calvin C, Wilcox

In Memory Of Sandy Hook Newtown

In Memory Of Sandy Hook Newtown

The pain of losing a loved one is something that is unparalleled in our world. Sometimes it might have been the person who meant the most to you, a person who was always the first one to make you laugh or happy, a person who loved you and cared for you. This person may have been a father, or a son, a daughter, or a brother.

Whomever it may have been, the people of Newtown, CT all felt a loss the day of the Sandy Hook tragedy. The poor innocent lives that were lost that day struck us all, not as a nation, but as one big family. It is my earnest hope that you can take a bit of comfort and warmth in the words written in this letter.

Although I do not understand how it feels to lose a brother, a sister, a mother, a son, or a daughter, I do know how it feels to lose a father, a father so close and dear to me who I thought I could never live without.

Ever since the loss of my father I have never been the same.

Kindle Fire Tablet Review

Kindle Fire Tablet Review

Which Is Better For Your Money? Kindle Fire Or The IPAD?

The most recent televised and advertised item I can think of is the kindle Fire tablet by Amazon. This is being portrayed by the media to be better than the Apple IPAD tablet. If you have not seen the commercials yet then don’t worry you’re not missing anything. I understand that there is a crisis in the electronic device industry due to apple’s great ideas but wow really? The kindle looks like a piece of plastic that has no great benefits.

The media is blowing this device out of the water when it does not even have half the feature that the IPAD has. Did you know that the kindle fire has no camera? I am sure you did not but that’s not a big deal but no app store? What’s the purpose of this expensive piece of plastic? Well it offers a dual core processor that the IPAD has and a high resolution screen that the IPAD has as well. Hmmm, I’ve yet to see any feature that encourages me to purchase this tablet. Why would the media market this product? Is this what they call marketing? Is this is done just to make a paycheck to live off?

Amazon Sales Surpass All Time High

Well Amazon has paid celebrities money to use their product to show off to the public. Jane Linch is the celebrity hired by Amazon to use this public on television to capture consumers to buy the new tablet. The commercial is intended to attract young and older adults. The tablet features games and web surfing for the young teens and books and email for the adults. Doesn’t apple offer the same features with their IPAD line? I believe so but there is one difference in both products and that is the price. Apple IPAD is pricey but you get great technical support and a product that takes a beating.

I am sure that the celebrities hired to do commercials like this half the time don’t even own the product they sponsor. This is a large marketing scam if you ask me for my opinion. The holidays are a great time to spend millions on large commercials to attract buyers. Christmas shopping here in the United States is huge and everyone wants their products to be on everyone’s wish list. This causes large corporations to create large marketing campaigns behind their products to bring in a high demand for their product. Apple products are a monopoly in their own class but at least they do not offer low class quality products that do not offer the features that they market.

The Amazon commercial created to market the kindle fire had to be banned from TV due to people wrong image of the product. In the commercial people receive their new kindle fire poorly shipped and left outside for other’s to steal. Now you must be thinking what does this have to do with the product? Well if you purchase something I am sure you don’t want it to get stolen so that marketing ideal was trashed because people did not want to buy the product if they had to take a risk of having it stolen. Commercials like that one can drive your product to the ground and this is why it is very important to showcase your product the correct way if you want to sell it. Shortly after pulling the commercial over the air waves a new commercial was released that encouraged buyers to purchase the same product, now that was a proper propaganda platform.

The Angry Egg Pool Helper Review

The Angry Egg Pool Helper Review

The Angry Egg

Cleaning your pool has to be as pain-staking an event me cleaning mine. I am always looking for new products to keep my pool crystal clean and clear. I used to pay for service, but things got a little tight, and I made pool keeping and lawn keeping, part of my weekly chores again. I figured that I could also get in a little exercise as well. One of the things that makes it tough to keep my pool the way I like it is, the Florida sunshine, and rain. Anyone that lives in Florida can agree.

I have also been reluctant to shed out some $1200.00 to make my pool a salt pool instead of the good old chlorine. I end up jumping into the pool more and more myself, especially as my kids get older. So I figure, I can hold off on the salt-chlorinating systems for a few more years.

Pinch-A-Penny

I used to use many of the pool companies, like pinch-a-penny around my neck of the woods, but Lowe’s help improvement centers are so much closer to my home, that for the price I just can’t really say that what I spend in fuel getting to pinch-a-penny, just isn’t pinching enough of those pennies for me. So I go to Lowe’s.

Always looking for something easy, safe, and cheap I came across the Angry Egg. Now I am not selling these eggs, and I do not make a penny off of this product. Although I would like too. I don’t. But walking through the pool supply area of my local Lowe’s, I came across this product. This review of the “Angry Egg” is based on my own pool and I cannot vouch for any other pools or results.

Here is how the Angry Egg, which I assume came before Angry Birds? Right? I don’t know just guessing…For about $21.00 dollars at my local Lowe’s help center, I purchased a huge Yellow egg. This egg comes loaded with pool supplies that are supposed to take the cloudiest pool and make it clear, so long as the chemicals are balanced within the pool. So do not expect miracles if your pool is not balanced. At least this is what the box states. You take this Angry Egg, and toss it into your pool. What happens is that the chemicals are released into the pool and you should run your motor for 8 hours to let the chemicals go to work and clear up your cloudy pool.

I toss the Angry Egg, in at night. I just figure that during the night, there is less heat and no sun, so the product would be as intense as it possibly could be. I was not disappointed. In fact I was very pleased to see that the product does just what it is intended to do. Clear up your cloudy pool. Now, the verdict is up to you as to whether you can get better results from  the $21.00 egg, or the shock that you currently use. Those results remain to be seen for yourself. I recommend the product, because I watched it work. I watched the egg surface just like the package said it would, and I removed it from the water just that easy. Check your local Lowe’s home improvement centers, and check local pricing for the Angry Egg.

The Zepherhills Powerball Winner

The Zepherhills Powerball Winner

The largest jackpot Power-Ball winner from Zephyr-hills Florida has yet to come forward. This is now two weeks since the winner of the largest jackpot in Power-Ball history matched all 5 numbers plus the Power-ball. It is typical for winners of large jackpots like this to take the time and figure out what the best course of action is, and the least amount of penalty for the surge of increased wages in regards to claiming this ticket as an individual or LLC. entity.

There is also the possibility that this can be a group winning. Although with this delay this scenario is highly unlikely. There is more likely hood that the winner not a local but is from out of town, all of this of course is just pure speculation on my part as a writer of lucky winnings and a follower of the largest jackpots in the U.S.

The Power-Ball has boasted some of the largest lottery winners of all time, and there is no chance that this information will not be brought to the media the minute the winner steps forward. We will bring you the update once this happens. Until then, keep dreaming, keep playing!