Marvel to a super Marriage

In this weeks “Astonishing X-Men #50” Northstar takes center stage and prepares to go from one of the first openly gay superheros is comics to the first married gay hero at Marvel. Northstar has had a confusing history. He stared is “Alfa Flight,” for marvel in the 80’s and 90’s but his star fell not long after he came out as being a gay man. At the time his coming out was a development, but since then has been ignored, he was at one point declared a fairy. The character has become a start for Marvel and they will see how it goes. Dean says “I think the character is pretty neat.” 

Cruise Lines at it again

An 18-year-old Panamanian fisherman who survived 28 days adrift at sea is suing Princess Cruise Lines, arguing that one of its Cruise ship should have stopped and saved him.A lawsuit filed in Florida last week says the behavior of officers or crew members of the Star Princess was "outrageous and, under the circumstances, so beyond all bounds of decency as to be regarded as shocking, atrocious and utterly intolerable in a civilized community."Three passengers who were bird watching on the ship alerted a crew member when they spotted Adrian Vasquez and his companions were signaling for help from their fishing boat, the suit says.Even though crew members "had clear knowledge that people were stranded in an open boat hundreds of miles from shore in the Pacific Ocean and desperately calling for their help," the suit says, "they consciously ignored the emergency situation and did not deviate from their cruise."The fishing boat, Fifty Cents, had been adrift for 15 days when it crossed paths with the Star Princess on March 10, according to the lawsuit. They said t the time the ship passed all three fishermen aboard were alive. Do you think this was a wrongful doing of the ship’s captain. 

http://www.cnn.com/2012/05/14/world/americas/cruise-lawsuit/index.html?hpt=hp_c3

The American Queen Sails Again

The largest passenger steam boat ever built American Queen gets to sail the Mississippi again. It offers passengers a regular overnight cruses down the river for the first time in four years. The American Queen was taken out of service in 2008 and stayed tied up on a dock serving as a hotel. Her sister ship was sold for scrap in 2009 but after the reincarnation on the Delta Queen fleet the American river tours are back.    

http://www.foxnews.com/travel/2012/05/07/hail-new-american-queen/?intcmp=features

Plane Crashes on purpose

A Boeing 727 crashes in the desert as a part of a test to preform safety purposes. The airline had test dummies on board and was remote controlled so there were no passengers on board.The test was part of the discovery channel films crash for documentary. The testing was to strengthen the fuselage and the overall support of the aircraft its self.  
http://www.cnn.com/video/?hpt=hp_c3#/video/bestoftv/2012/05/01/nr-discovery-plane-crash.cnn

Shuttle Landing

On April 17, 2012 the space shuttle discovery landed at Washington DC's Dulles airport. NASA's oldest and most traveled shuttle it coming home to be start a new life at the Smithsonian museum. The 747 carrying the shuttle landed at the airport in DC carrying it on its back. The shuttle will be put in the museum in the future.

http://video.foxnews.com/v/1567159144001/future-of-conservative-blue-dog-democrats-in-congress/?playlist_id=87937
http://www.dfrc.nasa.gov/Gallery/photo/STS-Ferry/Small/EC95-43279-3.jpg

Texter Meets Bear

A man texting and walking suddenly looks up and sees a 500 pound black bear walking towards him. The cops were called to the scene to try and resolve the problem. The man frantically runs the opposite direction will the camera crews hide behind shrubs to film the bear. The animal runs around trying to find a way out of the crowded city area. The animal control tranquilized the bear and moved it back out of the city center.  

http://www.cnn.com/video/?hpt=hp_c3#/video/us/2012/04/10/dnt-black-bear-upclose-in-california-homes.ktla

Crazy Death........

Local kid died today in a car crash in Gills Rock. The kid (Austin K) was taking his monthly trip to Washington Island when he drove off the ferry boat while it was underway. Investigators are still searching for clues why he would do something so crazy. They found the car at the bottom of lake Michigan but Austin was nowhere to be found. Some people say they saw a scuba diver come up from the surface behind the ferry dragging a tarp towards shore. Who it was and where they went no one knows.  

Too Far?

This is  a video that has gone viral on the web with over 980,000 hits on YouTube: A 3-year-old in a wheelchair, patted down by the TSA. It happened in 2010, but his dad  who is the Chicago radio personality Matt Dubiel and he posted it over the weekend after looking through old family videos. He tells Soledad his son had a broken leg and could barely stand. And though the TSA agent was cautious with the child, he says his son was still scared by the experience. The TSA has since changed the way it screens passengers under 12 years of age. Do you think this is a little too much?


http://startingpoint.blogs.cnn.com/2012/03/20/dad-says-son-was-scared-by-tsa-patdown/?hpt=hp_mid 

New car company

Coda once a Chinese automotive company has moved to California and is becoming an all american car company. The car company started its production of an all electric car on Monday in their Benicia factory which is just outside San Francisco. The coda car is retailing for just $37,250 and it car travel further than its competition with 133 miles in the city. The car has a efficiency rate of 73 miles per gallon, compare to the competition of 105 and 99 miles per gallon. It was founded in 2009 and it applied for the Advanced Technology  Vehicle Manufacturing loan in 2010. Their focusing on sales in California before they move anywhere else.

http://www.foxnews.com/leisure/2012/03/13/coda-automotive-begins-car-production-in-california/?intcmp=features

Apples New ipad

Apple states they are releasing the new iPad 3. In this new iPad they are incorporating a sensual technology touch screen. The touch screen will allow you to feel the texture of a rough rock, or smooth silk just by touching the screen. The creator Senseg's says he turned a touch screen into a a feel screen. No one is for sure that this technology will come out on Wednesday when the new iPad is released. Apple will reveal its next generation on Wednesday 1:00 pm Eastern 10:00 am Pacific.



 http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/03/07/apples-ipad-hd-may-feature-unbelievable-new-touchscreen-tech/    

Massive Storm

Wednesday a massive storm rolled through many of the Midwest states causing 12 deaths and many more injured. Harrisburg Illinois was the hardest hit with the tornado reaching wind speeds of 170mph killing six. The destruction path was three or four football fields wide and miles long. The storm left damage in Missouri and Kentucky with 100mph winds leaving homes and tractor trailers shredded and over turned. The twister that touched down in Tennessee left three dead and many more injured. The storm is predicted to calm down by the time it reaches the east coast with only a 5% chance of tornado's touching town. 



 http://www.cnn.com/2012/03/01/us/severe-weather/index.html?hpt=us_c1

Overreaction?

An eighth grader was suspended from his school for 55 days because he played a prank on one of his classmates. The class had just got done with a lecture about marijuana when the kid brought a bag of oregano and posed it as marijuana. The schools policy states that a student can get a 10 day suspension for "possessing illegal or counterfeit drugs and "misuse of chemical/material that causes or is claimed to cause a mind altering effect."A longer suspension can be imposed if officials determine a student's conduct "demonstrates a willful violation" of school policies. The mother states that it was a joke and the school needs to lighten up on the kids penalty. The incident happened February 1st and the school gave him a 10 day suspension and once his time was up the school called his family and said he had another 45 day suspension and is due to return March 29th. Do you think the school went too far?

 

 http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/02/21/north-carolina-student-13-suspended-55-days-for-giving-oregano-to-classmate/#ixzz1n2QkKaWF

The Worlds Tallest Building

The Burj Khalifa has become the worlds tallest building standing at 2,716 feet tall and 160 stories. It holds many world records like the elevator with the longest travel distance, the Highest observation deck, and the highest occupied floor in the world. It is now the tallest free standing building standing over the KVLY-TV building. The unique design of this building is what sets it apart form all others; with its unique center core and tipple- lobed footprint. The building went through over 40 wind test to make sure it could withstand the force, they also tested the change in pressure over the height.



http://www.burjkhalifa.ae/language/en-us/the-tower/design.aspx

Super Bowl Commercials

For some people the super bowl is as popular as the ads it brings in. Which is why companies were willing to pay a whopping 3.5 million dollars for just 30 seconds of fame. This years commercials were filled with celebrities like Clint Eastwood staring in the crysler commercial and Elton John in the pepsi ad along with the winner of X Factor Melanie Amaro. Companies even went as far as selling sex, like in the Go Daddy commercial where she was seemingly posing nude. 

So which is your favorite super bowl 46 commercial? 

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-31749_162-57371832-10391698/super-bowl-ads-which-were-your-favorites/

2012 Snowmobile Winter X Games

Sunday night in the 2012 Winter X Games Heath Frisby says hes bringing the first ever front flip to the X games. He was inspired by the Australian Motocross rider Jackson Strong who front-flipped his way to gold in the 2011 Moto X Best trick. Frisby had secured a total of six Winter X games medals. On Friday he played it safe to save up for his final trick on Sunday. He tried to keep the flip under the radar as not to spoil the surprise, but as Sunday neared the news got out and people were talking about. On Sunday he completed the flip and it secured him the gold medal he wanted.

  http://espn.go.com/action/xgames/winter/2012/story/_/id/7515215/heath-frisby-planning-do-first-ever-snowmobile-frontflip-wx-best-trick

Video- http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=dQLCO9JkVeE

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Latest Cruise

The work efforts on the cruise ship that ran aground on the 13th is back in full swing after there was suspicion of the ship sinking to the lower sea bed. The ship has 500 gallons of fuel on board and the coast guard was afraid of it leaking out into the sea. A firefighter spokesman said that the search and rescue dive teams can continue despite the the health concerns from decomposing food from the ship. The search and rescue efforts and pumping of fuel are working in tandem to get things moving faster. Out of the 4,200 on board 13 have been confirmed dead and there are 19 know missing. Still passengers said they will still go on other cruises despite the mishap they encountered.  





http://www.suntimes.com/news/world/10181857-418/italian-official-grounded-cruise-ship-stable.html

Cruise Ship Wreckage

On January 13, 2012; just off the coast of Italy a cruise ship named the Costa Concordia hit the rocky coast and started to sink. The passengers said that once the lights went out it created chaos and wide spread panic. The impact created a large hole in the side of the ship letting it take on water and creating it to lean to one side. The life boats were deployed and had people packed full trying to escape. During the havoc there was a total 28 people missing and they have confirmed that 11 of them have died from the wreckage. Italy's Coast Guard has been searching for the missing passengers and crew members in the wreckage. The captain ordered to abandon ship and was later forced back on his cruise liner to coordinate rescue efforts. After all of this the captain is being blamed for commanding the ship off course.  





http://www.cnn.com/2012/01/17/world/europe/italy-cruise-main/index.html?hpt=hp_t1