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Who thinks they’re good at math? Okay, you’ve decided YOU are.
Yes, when we follow the directions as stated below we will all arrive at 111 as our answer.
However, the challenge for you is this:
Work out how exactly everyone can end up with 111, when all of us will have different birth dates??
Your Challenge:
This year we will experience 4 unusual dates…. 1/1/11, 1/11/11, 11/1/11, 11/11/11 ….
NOW go figure this out…. take the last 2 digits of the year you were born plus the age you will be this year and it WILL BE EQUAL TO 111….. go ahead…do the math.
Are you still up for the challenge??
This suicide will set a precedent in Internet and/or technology use law for some time to come. The young man that killed himself, allegedly jumped from the George Washington bridge because a night he had with another young man was streamed on the Internet thanks to a webcam his roommate set up.
According to the NY Times, the Rutgers freshman, Tyler Clementi, 18, left a note on his Facebook page the day he committed suicide saying, “Jumping off the gw bridge sorry.” His page has been kept up as a memorial. The incident even occurred just as Rutgers was launching their “Project Civility” campaign, replete with workshops and other events.
The roommate, Dharun Ravi, 18, of Plainsboro, N.J., and his accomplice who is also a student at Rutgers, Molly Wei, 18, of Princeton Junction, N.J., have been charged with two counts of invasion of privacy for using “the camera to view and transmit a live image. ” The maximum sentence for this crime is five years. Ravi was charged with two additional counts of invasion of privacy because this was the second live feed he tried. The other was the day before Clementi jumped, Sept. 21.
What do you think? Should the law be amended to increase the time for those who have been internet bullying, and using their camera pics and other devices for bad? This man’s family was embarrassed along with the memory of him. If he was gay, he wasn’t out of the closet and this is how he will be remembered. Can you think of something more awful? The memory of him has been tarnished forever…long after his death.
The entire senior class at Chicago’s only public all-male, all-African-American high school has been accepted to four-year colleges. At last count, the 107 seniors had earned spots at 72 schools across the nation. Mayor Richard Daley and Chicago Public Schools chief Ron Huberman surprised students at an all-school assembly at Urban Prep Academy for Young Men in Englewood this morning to congratulate them. It’s the first graduating class at Urban Prep since it opened its doors in 2006. Huberman applauded the seniors for making CPS shine. “All of you in the senior class have shown that what matters is perseverance, what matters is focus, what matters is having a dream and following that dream,” Huberman said. The school enforces a strict uniform of black blazers, khaki pants and red ties — with one exception. After a student receives the news he was accepted into college, he swaps his red tie for a red and gold one at an assembly.
See article in full here:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/happynews/ct-met-urban-prep-college-20100305,0,3299917.story
A student who saw the attack up close said it appeared that the gunman targeted a group of students sitting at a cafeteria table and that the one who was killed was trying to duck under the table.
Panicked students ran screaming through the halls after gunfire broke out at the start of the school day at 1,100-student Chardon High in this town of 5,100 people 30 miles from Cleveland. Teachers locked down their classrooms as they had been trained to do during drills, and students took cover as they waited for the all-clear.
One teacher was said to have dragged a wounded student into his classroom for protection. Another chased the gunman out of the building, police said.
The suspect, whose name was not released because he is a juvenile, was arrested near his car a half-mile away, the FBI said. He was not immediately charged.
FBI officials would not comment on a motive for the attack. And Police Chief Tim McKenna said authorities “have a lot of homework to do yet” in their investigation. But 15-year-old Danny Komertz, who witnessed the shooting, said the gunman was known as an outcast who had apparently been bullied.
“I looked up and this kid was pointing a gun about 10 feet away from me to a group of four kids sitting at a table,” Komertz said. He said the gunman fired two shots quickly, and students scrambled for safety. One of them was “trying to get underneath the table, trying to hide, protecting his face.”
Other students disagreed that the student was a victim of bullying or an outcast, saying he was just quiet.
“Even though he was quiet, he still had friends,” said Tyler Lillash, 16. “He was not bullied.”
Long before official word came of the attack, parents learned of the bloodshed from students via text message and cellphone and thronged the streets around the school, anxiously awaiting word on their children.
Two of the wounded were listed in critical condition, and another was in serious condition.
The slain student, Daniel Parmertor, was an aspiring computer repairman who was shot while waiting for the bus for his daily 15-minute ride to a vocational center. His teacher at the Auburn Career School had no idea why Parmertor, “a very good young man, very quiet,” had been targeted, said Auburn superintendent Maggie Lynch.
“We are shocked by this senseless tragedy,” his family said in a statement. “Danny was a bright young boy who had a bright future ahead of him.”
Officers investigating the shooting blocked off a road in a heavily wooded area several miles from the school. Federal agents patrolled the muddy driveway leading to several spacious homes and ponds, while other officers walked a snowy hillside. A police dog was brought in. It wasn’t clear what they were looking for.