In this day and age everyone is so scared of a terrorist attack killing a few hundred people. In reality we should be scared of a polio outbreak that could potentially take out thousands of un immunized people. If everyone was forced by law to give a vaccination for polio then the illness could be killed off completely within a few years. If the disease has no where to spread and grow then it would have no choice but to die off completely. After a few years we could stop having to give the vaccination and the illness would be extinct.
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e06- safer saws claims- wvuhockey
1c.Bosch’s release of its own flesh detecting device is now reflected in the agency’s new strategic plan—one of the CPSC’s primary goals is a commitment to prevention. In other words, we believe in being proactive rather than reactive.
1a. The life altering injuries from table saws are very preventable. It should be a law to protect the consumers that every table saw should have this technology.
2c. “Consumer product safety,” says Gas says, “Well, we’ve looked at it, but we’re not interested because safety doesn’t sell,”.
2a. The Investors are not entirely worried about safety as much as they are worried about their return on investment.
3c. As of “delighted consumer” Gass, engineers at the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission recommended that the government begin a “rulemaking process” that could result in mandatory safety standards for table saws. The agency’s commissioners then turned the power tool industry on its ear by agreeing with Gass’ recommendation.
3a. Gass bing persistent got his claim across successfully. But only for a period of time. It is a great idea but this would wipe out a big part of the industry.
4c.”determined regulators” states that able saws cause tens of thousands of serious injuries every year, costing billions of dollars.
4a. More than 10 of these injuries each day are amputations. Being an ex contractor I do see the danger in table saws and this technology could save a lot of fingers.
5c. Current table saw safety standards have proven ineffective in protecting consumers.
5a. Gas doesn’t just want his product to be successful, he wants to change all of the safety standards for table saws. This will eventually pan out to change the regulations on all of saws.
6c. Mother jones directly states, “Gass says a power tool executive warned him, “If you guys don’t cooperate with us, the industry is going to get together and squish you.”
6a. Gass was not trying to be harsh but just being honest. He sees the change in the industry and is just offering a chance to get on board before the industry comes after them.
7c. If Table Saws Can Be Safer, Why Aren’t They? says NPR
7a. We now finally have the technology to make the powerful saws safer. some contractors are usually old school style guys who don’t care about the safety because they just like what they have been using their entire lives. Some may not want to make the switch.
8c. An outraged planiff posts that “Injured Man Says Bosch Tool Lobbied Feds to Keep Safer Power Saws off the Market”
8a. This is where things might get hairy for the companies that are not on board with the technology. Every company should at least offer one style of saw with the safe saw technology to protect them from being sued.
missing dollar- wvuhockey
There were 3 ladies, so if the waiter gave each of them one dollar that would equal three dollars. If he has two dollars in his pocket then three plus two equals 5. And if the bill is 25 dollars then there is no extra money. all of the money is accounted for. there is no extra dollar.
a06 visual rewrite- wvuhockey
(0-3) An older style, dark wagon vehicle is driving slowly through a parking lot at night time in the fall.
(4-6) A group of friends are hanging in the dark parking lot surrounding their old style, middle class vehicles.
(6-9) A man with dark hair and glasses is grabbing a blonde woman’s face as she is looking away from him. The mans eyes appear to be closed as if he is going in for a kiss, But the woman is looking away from him.
(10-13) The picture pans out and there is another young man with a beer bottle in his hand. In the background, the 2 individuals from the previous scene are kissing. Everything is starting to come together with what is going on.
(13-15) Everyone appears to begin departing the parking lot. The man with the beer ducks down and slides into the drivers seat of his car.
(15-17) Two males are laughing, looking at one another from over the top of the car. They are standing on opposite sides. wearing leather jackets. looks like an older generation.
(17-19) The driver hands his open beer bottle to the teenage lady in the passenger seat. The people in the back are all drinking while in the car with no seat belt on.
(19-21) Man in the back seat leans up and grabs the drivers shoulder with a concerned look on his face. Appears to be talking to him. possibly asking him if he is okay to drive.
(21-23) Man leans back feeling comfortable and puts his arm around the girl next to him. She appears to be his girlfriend.Once his friend said that he was okay to drive he got very comfortable.
(23-25) The driver missed the ignition hole with the key fumbling around with his keys next to the skinny brown steering wheel. This is an early sign that he might be a little bit tipsy.
(25-27)Driver turns the silver, older looking key.
(27-28) Flash of light and every individual in the car turns into a skeleton.
( 28-30) A skeleton hand and a human hand are shaking whith the words, “drinking and driving can kill a friendship”.
open strong- wvu hockey
The force of a professional boxer’s fist is equivalent to being hit with a 13 pound bowling ball traveling 20 miles per hour, about 52 g’s. Plopping down into an easy chair can generate up to 10 g’s. So, it seems that somewhere between 10 and 50 g’s is the threshold to permanent brain injury. This does not mean that accelerations over 50 g’s have to cause permanent brain damage. Football players are subjected to 200 g’s, and Indy race car drivers have been subjected to 80 g’s without permanent injury, but they were wearing helmets. This information is well known and we still have kids being injured every single day. Something needs to be done about the blatant head trauma young athletes are experiencing from sports.
With head trauma being the most common sports injury, Something needs to be put into affect immediately to change this. Head impacts and concussions caused by contact sports are a quickly growing epidemic among young athletes. 3,800,000 concussions have been reported in 2012, double what was reported in 2002. What athletes don’t know is that this could easily affect them for the rest of their lives if not treated properly.
proposal +5- wvu hockey
Injuries to young athletes is a rapidly growing issue in the united states. Athletes are taught to be tough and to play with courage. Sometimes this means knowing they are injured and still going out to the field. These kids are young, all they want to do is impress their coach and teammates so they play through their injuries. They think it will not affect them in the long run but in reality it does, they just don’t know it yet. They wont know until later in life when they are getting constant headaches from a concussion that they did not give the proper resting period. There needs to be more regulation to letting injured players continue in the same game. Usually they don’t even realize that they are injured because of all of the adrenaline going through them. It is the coaches job to notice when something is wrong and take the player out of the game. These coaches need to held accountable.
Kids’ Sports Injuries – the Numbers are Impressive: http://www.nationwidechildrens.org/kids-sports-injuries-numbers-are-impressive:
The essential content of the article- With youth sports getting more and more popular as the years go on, the number of sport related injuries to young kids climbs with it
what it proves- as the numbers of athletes rises, so does the injury rate. Here we learn some precautions on how to handle and prevent injuries.
1.35 million youths a year have serious sports injuries: 1.35 million youths a year have serious sports injuries:
The essential content of this article- We are shown how common certain injuries are in certain sports and which ones are the most serious.
What it proves- Head and ankle injuries are the most common areas to get injured. Which is scary because the head is the most dangerous area to be injured.
Preventing Sports-Related Injuries: http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/articles-and-answers/prevention/10-tips-for-preventing-sports-injuries-in-kids-and-teens:
The essential content of this article- We are explained how to try and lower the injury rate in sports to protect our youth.More than 46.5 million children participate in sports each year in the United States.
What it proves- One in three children who plays a team sport is injured seriously enough to miss practice or games.
Girls are up to eight times more likely to have an ACL injury than boys.
High School Sports Injuries: http://orthoinfo.aaos.org/topic.cfm?topic=A00056:
The essential content of this article-
High school athletic departments need to start being held accountable for the increase of injuries to players. The coaches need to be teaching the players how to play their role in a safer way. Along with that, they need to know when the player should sit out of a practice or game.
What it proves- The players are usually too unaware when they are injured to make the proper decision to sit out. the coaches are more responsible than they player who are injured.
Working For Change:
The essential content of this article- Informing the public about the seriousness of injuries is essential. Some people may just be uneducated about whether they are injured or not.
What it proves- The clinics that are offered should be mandatory for a certain age group to attend. Players need to know how to tell if themselves or a teammate may be injured.
critical thinking 03 PTSD- wvuhockey
Brannan Vines has never been to war. But she’s got a warrior’s skills:
– There are many ways that you can aquire warrior skills. Any given civillian in the wrong neighborhood can aquire these kind of symptoms.
– A woman who gets done a late shift of work in the city is going to be on edge and very tempted to act out against a stranger. Hypervigilance sounds innocuous, but it is in fact exhaustingly distressing, a conditioned response to life-threatening situations.
– It is a very common thing to get married young when the male is heading for deployment. They make more money are are allowed to live with their spouse if they are married. A lot of times the wife is young and sees an option for a stable relationship so they agree, even with only being with each other for a short period of time. A few years down the line when the husband gets back from his term, is when the problems start popping up. His ptsd kicks in and eventually she starts to get used to him acting out. Every time she hears a loud noise, she gets nervous feeling in her gut because shes expecting her husband to get worked up. So in a way ptsd is contagous because it does affect everyone close to the, so called, “infected” individual.
– By this point, you might be wondering, and possibly feeling guilty about wondering, why Brannan doesn’t just get divorced? The way you feel about and care about someone doesnt change just because they act differently. If you love someone you cant just let them suffer. You do everything you can to make the relation work and fight through anything. The person didnt do anything wrong do deserve a divorce. Going into this relationship they should know the possible outcomes that are associated with it. You signed up for this, you cant just jump ship. Yeah she might be scared but she will always hold on to the thought of one day him getting better and they can live a normal life
Stone Money Rewrite- wvuhockey
P1. What is wealth? To some, wealth may mean money or possessions but to others it may mean power. Prior to reading about Stone Money I viewed wealth as money. Now I am having mixed feelings toward the idea of money. I always used to think of money as a physical object. I also believed that the more money you had, the wealthier you are. In reality money is not even a factor in being wealthy. Money is just what we use to trade for goods. You dont even need a physical dollar bill to buy most things. You can just swipe a card that has money tied to it and the item is yours. If somebody really liked cheerios, you could trade them a box of cheerios for something in return and it would have the same effect as a dollar bill.
P2. When the NPR stated that there is a giant ball of limestone sitting in the middle of the ocean somewhere still being claimed by someone who is deceased is unsettling to me. Donald Trump has created a value for his own name. Unlike banks that pay huge naming fees to have NFL stadiums named for them, Trump can get developers to pay him millions to attach his name to a project. His name is not an object like the sunken fei. Its insubstantialable doesn’t matter at all. And neither could anybody steal it and be richer. If he’s a billionaire, it’s because he can sell his name for a billion dollars whenever he wants to. Like in the island of Yap, we use this object that we do not have possesion of to make trades for other goods. Where they had a big ball of limestone to trade for food and supplies. We trade money Physically or electronically for our goods in today’s world.
P3. Brazil’s idea of money was that it literally grew on trees. They figured if you just print more money, there will be more wealth in the country. If it weren’t for the four brothers, they would still be using that form of economics and their country would eventually fold. Money needs to have some sort of value. If you just print out more, it would not be worth anything. It would be the same thing as picking leaves off of a tree and buying a car with them. Money needs to have value. You then would have to convince the people that the money is now worth much more than it did before and they need to value it more.
P4. Once a country is in debt they will do anything to try and get back on track. For Japan, this means an increase on inflation says the New York Times. As if the people are not paying enough already, they are about to get hit with an increase on everything they buy just to pay off the country’s debt. The Japanese government will announce around 12 trillion yen ($136 billion) in fiscal stimulus measures to boost the nation’s shrinking economy (Bloomberg). I could see the United Stated implement a similar strategy to try and fix our nations debt problem as well. It is a shame that the people who did not create the issue are paying to fix it. The civilian’s hard earned paychecks are being hit hard by taxes for the government’s debt.
P5. Every country has their own various methods to regulate their economy. One thing that is common between them all is the use of a made up object of value called money. Every economy is based on money and every person believes that the more money they have, the wealthier they are. If the money has no value to it, then there is no wealth associated with the green paper. Look at it like this; lets say for example you sell your car in exchange for 10,000 dollars. That 10,000 dollars has value. Where if you just printed out 10,000 dollars with nothing in exchange, it would have no value. Luckily here in America we have a pretty good sense of value when it comes to money. We just have too big of a problem with spending more than what we have.
Works Cited
“Abe Seen Spending 12 Trillion Yen to Boost Japan’s Economy.” Bloomberg.com. Bloomberg, n.d. Web. 13 Sept. 2016.
“How Fake Money Saved Brazil.” NPR. NPR, n.d. Web. 13 Sept. 2016.
“Japan Tries to Ease Fears That Its Policies Will Lead to Currency Wars.” The New York Times. The New York Times, 25 Jan. 2013. Web. 13 Sept. 2016.
moving image-wvuhockey
An older style, dark vehicle is driving through a parking lot.
A group of friends are hanging in a dark parking lot surrounding their vehicles.
A man with dark hair and glasses is grabbing a blonde woman’s face as she is looking away from him. The mans eyes appear to be closed as if he is going in for a kiss, But the woman is looking away from him.
The picture pans out and there is another young man with a beer bottle in his hand. In the background, the 2 individuals from the previous scene are kissing.
The man with the beer ducks down and slides into the drivers seat of his car.
Two males are laughing, looking at one another from over the top of the car. They are standing on opposite sides. wearing leather jackets. looks like an older generation.
The driver hands his open beer bottle to the lady in the passenger seat. The people in the back are all drinking while in the car with no seat belt on.
Man in the back seat leans up and grabs the drivers shoulder with a concerned look on his face. Appears to be talking to him.
Man leans back and puts his are around the girl next to him. Appears to be his girlfriend.
The driver missed the ignition hole with the key next to the skinny brown steering wheel.
Driver turns the silver, older looking key.
Flash of light and every individual in the car turns into a skeleton.
A skeleton hand and a human hand are shaking whith the words, “drinking and driving can kill a friendship”.
Stone Money-wvuhockey
P1. What is wealth? To some, wealth may mean money or possessions but to others it may mean power. Prior to reading about Stone Money I viewed wealth as money. Now I am having mixed feelings toward the idea of money. I always used to think of money as a physical object. I also believed that the more money you had, the wealthier you are. In reality money is not even a factor in being wealthy. Money is just what we use to trade for goods. If you think about it, money doesn’t even have to be an object. If somebody really liked cheerios, you could trade them a box of cheerios for something in return and it would have the same effect as a dollar bill.
P2. The fact that there is a giant ball of limestone sitting in the middle of the ocean somewhere still being claimed by someone who is deceased is unsettling to me (NPR). that is like me having 500 dollars and throwing it in the ocean. When the money washes up onto shore and someone picks it up, it would now be theirs. Nobody can just go pick up the giant ball of limestone and claim it.
P3. Brazil’s idea of money was that it literally grew on trees. They figured if you just print more money, there will be more wealth in the country. If it weren’t for the four brothers, they would still be using that form of economics and their country would eventually fold. Money needs to have some sort of value. If you just print out more, it would not be worth anything. It would be the same thing as picking leaves off of a tree and buying a car with them. Money needs to have value. You then would have to convince the people that the money is now worth much more than it did before and they need to value it more.
P4. Once a country is in debt they will do anything to try and get back on track. For Japan, this means an increase on inflation (NYTIMES). As if the people are not paying enough already, they are about to get hit with an increase on everything they buy just to pay off the country’s debt. The Japanese government will announce around 12 trillion yen ($136 billion) in fiscal stimulus measures to boost the nation’s shrinking economy (Bloomberg)
P5. Every country has their own various methods to regulate their economy. One thing that is common between them all is the use of a made up object of value called money. Every economy is based on money and every person believes that the more money they have, the wealthier they are. If the money has no value to it, then there is no wealth associated with the green paper. Look at it like this; lets say for example you sell your car in exchange for 10,000 dollars. That 10,000 dollars has value. Where if you just printed out 10,000 dollars with nothing in exchange, it would have no value. Luckily here in America we have a pretty good sense of value when it comes to money. We just have too big of a problem with spending more than what we have.
Works Cited
“Abe Seen Spending 12 Trillion Yen to Boost Japan’s Economy.” Bloomberg.com. Bloomberg, n.d. Web. 13 Sept. 2016.
“How Fake Money Saved Brazil.” NPR. NPR, n.d. Web. 13 Sept. 2016.
“Japan Tries to Ease Fears That Its Policies Will Lead to Currency Wars.” The New York Times. The New York Times, 25 Jan. 2013. Web. 13 Sept. 2016.
Rowan Counterintuitive 