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Hi my name is Owen welcome to my wiki. I like lacrosse, basketball and football. My Favorite You Tube Video is Achmed the Dead Terrorist. When I grow up I want to play for Duke university. I have three sisters a brother a mom and dad and a dog. My favorite hobby is Lacrosse I like to play lacrosse day and night. __** Earthquake in Haiti **__ On Tuesday, January 12, 2010 at 04:53:10 PM the people in Haiti were hit with a big surprise. It was 13 km deep that's (8.1 miles). The earthquake reached a 7.0 on the rictor scale. It has been one of the biggest earthquakes. It cut through there capital city Port Au Prince. According to the records about 222,570 people killed, 300,000 injured, 1.3 million displaced, 97,294 houses destroyed and 188,383 damaged in the Port-Au-Prince area and in Southern Haiti. Haiti's government is backed by a U.N. peacekeeping mission established after the ouster of former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide in 2004.The headquarters of the U.N. peacekeeping mission in Port-Au-Prince collapsed.There was no report of any dead or wounded people from the building. Outside the capital, several people were hurt when they rushed to get out of a school in the southwestern city of Les Cayes. Two homes in the area collapsed and the top of a church collapsed in a nearby town. Les Cayes, a city of about 400,000 people, is about 140 miles (225 kilometers) southwest of Port-Au-Prince. media type="custom" key="6223237"

__ **THE LIGHTNING THIEF** __

The __Lightning Thief__ consisted if many ancient Greek characters. The main characters were Percy Jackson, Annabeth, Grover the satyr, and the half bloods at half blood camp. The book was all about the three characters Percy, Annabeth, and Grover going on a mission to save Percy Jackson's mom, while trying to search for the lightning bolt Zeus claims that he stole. Percy's mom was captured by the minotaur and taken by Hades in the underworld. Percy had to find three white pearls that transported back to the world when they were in the underworld.

First, Percy went to Medusa's lair to find the first pearl. Once he beat Medusa he chopped off her head to bring it with him. Then he went to the museum to fight the hydra and get the next pearl. They froze it with Medusa's head. Their last destination was in Vegas were they were kept there under the lodes flours that they craved. Percy finally broke the lodes spell and they got the third pearl.

Then they went to the underworld. It turns out that Luke his camp mate had stolen the lightning bolt and framed Percy by giving him a shield that held the bolt. Percy found out so he went back to the world with the lightning bolt, his mom and Annabeth. They had to leave Grover but they would eventually get him. When Percy went to Mount Olympus he gave Zeus the bolt and had Zeus bring Grover from the underworld. Percy finally got to talk with his dad and they felt great. media type="youtube" key="xko1Mx5w4tg" height="263" width="430" __ THE MYSTERY TRAIN __

On October 9, 1995, 60 miles southwest of Phoenix, Arizona, “Sunset Limited” the passenger train jumped the track going 50 mph. Four cars flew more than 30 feet off a track into a dry riverbed. One person was killed and a lot were injured.Accroding to an F.B.I. agent there were 29 spikes removed from the track and the track was disconnected. The train crew had no warning of the break in the track. Someone was in charge of this horrible accident. They were keeping it a secret.

There was a similar crash in 1939. Investigators soon discovered many similarities to another act of sabotage, more than a half century before. According to historian Kevin Bunker, in 1939, 24 people were killed and 117 injured in another suspicious train wreck in the Nevada desert://“The most mysterious connection between the accidents is the fact that the sabotage was done ahead of a bridge in a desert country of remote location. There was definitely care in advance, you know, that the wires were intact at all times. Merely moving one piece of metal, in this case, one rail, a matter of less than four inches, allowed both trains to careen off on the curve as they crossed the river and the damage occurred.”// __ N.A.S.A. __

The Near Infrared Camera will be the primary image on the Webb telescope and will measure light in the spectrum in the wavelength range of 0.6 to 5 microns. The unit that arrived at Goddard is actually an engineering test unit, and not the actual Near Infrared Camera that will fly aboard the Webb telescope.At NASA Goddard, the N.I.R.Cam will undergo one year's worth of testing to verify instrument interfaces and integration and test processes.This camera will let scientists, astronauts, and meteorologists get a better look at what is in space.

"The N.I.R.Cam E.T.U. includes one fully functional optical channel and was used to demonstrate the hardware to be used in aligning the Webb telescope's mirror segments," said Marcia Rieke, Professor of Astronomy at the University of Arizona. This unique telescope will also let us study infrared light. This may be hard to believe, but infrared light will help us measure the distance of galaxies.The actual flight unit is currently already being built, and the outcome of the tests may lead to a change in handling procedures of the flight N.I.R.Cam, but not a change in the flight construction.The actual N.I.R.Cam will study infrared light. media type="custom" key="6234633" __New Jersey Makes Cuts to Sparta__ The state of New Jersey Cut a lot of money from all the counties, towns, an cities. All town schools are letting go of so many teachers. Sparta is letting go of about 50 teachers at the minimum. This is putting many families in danger. Many people are very worried. Some members of families must work two jobs, and some three. Many people are getting very stressed. When this cut was made there were two people in Sparta who had severe heart attacks that I know. There have probably been many more. President Obama says he would give money to the poor if he was elected. Now he has made it worse. He has made so many cuts from so many towns and no putting the poor people in bankrupt and the wealthy people are struggling with keeping jobs, and their money. It is a National disaster. Now many high schools are cutting programs and school is getting much more expensive. We the people have made a mistake. media type="youtube" key="2xEEdaiwsTI" height="209" width="307"media type="custom" key="6245995" __Homeless People__ Many People in New York have lost all their money. They are homeless or also referred to as hobos. This is all because of our government. We all make mistakes, but this time the government made a big mistake that can not be fixed right now. Our fellow Americans are living on the streets and dieing slowly by lack of thirst and food. We can all work hard to have food drives for the homeless people in our country. I know we have to help people outside our country but we are forgetting about the homeless in our country. Some estimate that there are about 100 million homeless people world wide. In 1997, 13.3% of the U.S. population, or 35.6 million people, lived in poverty (U.S. Bureau of the Census, 1998a). While the number of poor people remains has not changed much in recent years, the number of people living in poverty has increased. In 1997, 14.6 million people -- 41% of all poor persons -- had incomes of less than half the poverty level. This represents an increase of over 500,000 from 1995. Forty percent of people living in poverty are children,in fact the 1997 poverty rate of 19.9% for children is almost twice as high as the poverty rate for any other age group. It is horrible to be homeless and it is ruining our country.

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__** How You Work a Lacrosse Stick **__ Number one, break in a lacrosse stick before trying to use it. This consists of "pounding" a pocket for the ball at the base of its net. Otherwise, cradling a ball, or catching one is like trying to catch a baseball with a brand new glove.Place your dominant hand toward the top of the stick with your hand underneath the stick. This is your control hand. Loosely grip the bottom of the stick, fingers and thumb in a circle it is only for stabilization. Drop a lacrosse ball into the stick's net. Raise the stick until it is face high. Turn your upper hand at the wrist. Go back and forth. As you can see you are moving the stick but the ball is still in the net. Move the stick to a waist-high position with the basket facing upward the ball will be resting in its pocket. Curl your upper hand inward and back. The ball will move within the pocket but will not leave it.Think of cradling as dribble in basketball. It is a motion that should be practiced so often that it becomes second nature. After mastering this basic hold in lacrosse, you will be ready to take on more advanced moves. media type="youtube" key="6OGP7ljNKOU" height="263" width="324"

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