An emergency school board meeting will be held on Feb. 6. This meeting will be taking place because somebody hacked the schools system. Also they will be deciding whether to rent $500 worth of computers to rent in order to finish the yearbooks.

For 22 years, the school has sponsored a “Yearbook Day,” where the seniors have a signing party, the day the yearbook arrives on campus.

Rodney Stephens, yearbook adviser, wants the school board to accept the decision over the computers, because it will costs the school a lot of money if they miss the deadline.

“It’s great that the school board is moving so quickly on this request,” Rodney Stephens said. “I know that it will be somewhat costly for the district.”

Ed Robles, district technology director, is still wondering how the hacker did the process so secretly without very many traces.

“Whoever hacked into our system is bright,” Ed Robles said. “They didn’t leave very many traces. I don’t think it was a student. This is some pretty sophisticated hacking.”

Alexis Zavia, Junior and editor of the yearbook, believes that they can finish the yearbooks before the deadline even with the delay.

“We were confident this would not be a problem,” said Alexis Zavia. “In fact, before this computer hacking problem, we were ahead of schedule.” “We have to get our yearbooks before school is out, Reggie White, senior, said. “Yearbook day is one of the highlights of senior year. Yearbook day is more popular than prom.”

The topic of my article is over the Rangers pulling out a win over the Toronto Blue Jays in Game 1 of the American League Conference Series.  The title of my article is:  “Rangers Surprise Again, Take Game 1 Over Blue Jays”.

I found this article at: http://espn.go.com/blog/sweetspot/post/_/id/63769/rangers-surprise-again-take-game-1

The Rangers win the first game of the ALCS.  The Rangers lost over 90 games last year with the worst record in baseball, and then before the first game of the season the Rangers lost 2 star pitchers, Derek Holland and Yu Darvish, due to injuries.  On August 2. the Texas Rangers were 8 games back from the Houston Astros, then they went on a huge win streak to pull ahead into first place about 2 weeks ago.  Ever since this win streak started, the Rangers were not going to slow down to any challenge, which was proven in this first game against the Toronto Blue Jay’s, even with Cy Young candidate Davis Price on the mound.  The Rangers absolutely creamed Price, by Chorinos and Odor both smothering deep homers.  The Rangers were definitely the underdogs in this series, but they proved that they can compete with one of the most talented teams in all of baseball with their 5-3 win over the Blue Jays.

This makes me feel a lot more confident about the Texas Rangers, especially after they lost their star veteran 3rd baseman, Adrian Beltre, due to back stiffness and still pulled off a win.  I believe that if the Rangers can win this next game, then they are in good shape to win this best of 5 series.  The reason is that there is only one more game in Toronto and then they will play 2 games in Arlington.  Today in Toronto the amount of Blue Jays fans were 10 times as much as there were Rangers fans attending the game.  At home the Rangers have one of the best records in baseball since their fan attendance is also one of the highest in baseball.  This affects me because this means that I will be able to watch at least 4 more games of the Rangers performing to their fullest this baseball season.

I know for a fact that all the Rangers fans are going to be going nuts to night because the Rangers beat the Toronto Blue Jays against their best pitcher.  This is going to be all over the news, just because the Rangers had a win probability under 40% going into game one.  The term that baseball fans have called the Texas Rangers ever since they made it to their first world series appearance when their first game was in the AL wild card, is the “Underdogs”.  The Rangers motto these past 2 years has been #NeverEverQuit.  This means that they may not have the best talent, but they won’t ever stop putting in the hard work.  Since people might just call this first game a lucky win, the Rangers will have to prove to the critics that it wasn’t luck by winning again tomorrow.  The Rangers will pitch Cole Hamels, who has a record of 7-1 and an ERA at 3.66 ever since he joined the Rangers.  The Blue Jays will be pitching their youngster Marcus Stroman, who hasn’t pitched that much this year, but when he did, he made the best of the opportunity.

The topic of my article is over hurricane Joaquin coming closer and closer to the East Coast, and is causing several college football games to be canceled or rescheduled.  The Title of my article is, “East Coast teams prepare for possibility of Hurricane Joaquin”.  I got the article from:  http://espn.go.com/espn/story/_/id/13786212/east-coast-teams-prepare-possibility-hurricane-joaquin .

Many of the college football games are being rescheduled and a few are being cancelled.  This is the first time in a long time, that more than 6 games have been either rescheduled or cancelled.  Hurricane Joaquin, the cause behind this mix-up, has recently been declared a category 4 hurricane.  Some of the games that will be cancelled will be Michigan vs. Maryland, Duke vs. Boston College, Illinois vs. Nebraska, and the NFL game between the Redskins vs. the Eagles will either be played in a different stadium, or it will be rescheduled to week 8.

I believe that this is just a part of the weather cycle.  Hurricanes happen every once and a while and when they do, it is not worth risking players and fans lives just for a college or NFL football game.  So I believe that commissioners of the NCAA, and the NFL are making the right choice just to reschedule the games once the storm is through the area.  This doesn’t affect me directly, but it does mean that I will not be able to watch these teams play on Saturday and possibly even Sunday.  This will upset some people, but it does not upset me that  much because I’m not a fan of any of these teams.

Due to this natural event, there will be many die hard  college football fans extremely upset.  The reason is that all of their favorite college football teams won’t be able to play when they were planned to play.  There are many people who live in England or in Central America, that they will never be able to watch these teams compete.  The reason is that since they are out of country, their television providers probably won’t want to go through the trouble of programming the games on the fans TV’s.  This isn’t a big deal yet, but if fans get upset, and don’t evacuate the areas they were told to because they are trying to protest the decision, they could get severely injured, or possibly even killed due to the hurricane.  So in the end of it all the leagues are making the right decision to reschedule the games.  They are trying to protect the safety of the fans, and the players.

The topic of this article is about the first place Texas Rangers sweeping their division rivals the Oakland Athletic’s. The title of the article is, “Hamels Sharp As Rangers Complete Sweep Of the A’s”. This article can be found at ESPN.com.

Cole Hamels was outstanding on the mound today. Earning his fifth consecutive win for the Rangers. Also during this amazing performance by the Rangers Prince Fielder hit his 22nd home run of the year, as the Rangers go on to beat the A’s 8-1. With this win it puts the Rangers 3 1/2 wins up over Houston, who they play a 3 game series against next.

This tells me and all the other rangers fans out there that the Texas Rangers are on a roll and they don’t plan on slowing down. This makes me believe that the Texas Rangers, in the first time in over 3 years, have a great shot at the playoffs. If the Ranger wind up winning at least 2 of the 3 games against Houston, then they will have clinched their division to go to the playoffs. This surprises me that the Texas Rangers who weren’t even supposed to be good this year beat a team who was supposed to be one of the better teams. It would be great to see the Texas Rangers contesting in the playoffs this year.

This has a great affect on all of the Ranger’s fans throughout the world. The reason is that the Texas Rangers after losing their head coach, Ron Washington, who had lead them to 2 World Series appearances in a row, left the team due to family issues. Then inexperienced coach, Jeff Banister, joined the club this year, and is doing great things so far. This tells the world that the Texas Rangers are a lot stronger and competitive team than people thought they were going to be. After the Rangers had the worst record in baseball last year after owner Nolan Ryan left, lots of people lost trust in the Rangers. Now the Rangers are showing us that they are a different team than they were last year, by having one of the best records in baseball. Wouldn’t it be nice to see the Rangers having another great playoff run like they did 3 years ago. Well, we’ll see how they finish up the season to see if the Texas Rangers will make the playoffs.

1.  Due to phenomenal test scores over the past three years, RHHS lunch periods have been increased by 10 minutes.  This is open to all students except freshmen.  This reward will take place starting May 5.

2.   A new super Walmart is coming to Roch Hill in May of 2006.  Walmart feels like this community is growing enough to fit 2 super Walmarts in the town, but some community members feel that this will hurt the local buissness.  There will be a town meeting over the debate wether they will build a new Walmart or not.

3.  6th grader, Napoleon Dynamite, is said to be a genius by Mr. Fred George.  Mr. George wants principal Mobely to enroll Napoleon into high school early to help him be better prepared for medical school.

4.  A survey released yesterday by the Child Abuse Prevention Center in Baltimore, shows surveys and statistics how child abuse/neglect has risen significantly over the past year. More than half of the number of kids who died half of the were under the age of 1.

5.  Awakened by the smoke and flames, Kathy Mahoney woke up to find her house on fire on Monday early morning. The firefighters came and put out the flames and later stated that the fire started by a lighted cigarette on a sofa.

The topic of this article is about the Texas Rangers defeating the Houston Astros on Tuesday night.  The title of my article is, “Rangers overtake Astros for first in AL West with 9th-inning win.”  The article over this title can be found at: http://www.foxsports.com/mlb/story/texas-rangers-beat-houston-astros-for-1st-place-in-al-west-091615

On Tuesday the 15th, the Texas Rangers were down half a game behind the Houston Astros in their division.  With a win they would be half a game up on Houston and be in first place.  The Rangers developed an early lead in the 1st inning and went up 4-0 and then later in the 4th, they were tied 5-5.  This score stayed the same all the way until the 9th inning when Mitch Moreland hit a sac-fly to score a run to win the game.

In my opinion this really surprises me that the Rangers pulled off a win on the first place Houston Astros, even though it shouldn’t be that surprising.  The reason is that with this win it put Texas in a 5 game winning streak against Houston.

Derek Holland ,starting pitcher, had a good first 3 innings then after that he had 5 runs scored against him.  The important thing is that the Texas Rangers used their stellar defense to hold them to scoring no runs the rest of the game.  This really affects my attitude towards the Texas Rangers.  The reason is that 1 year ago if the Rangers had 5 runs scored off them in 1 inning they would completely stop trying and give up.  But the Rangers showed me and the other fans that they’re a different team now.

This event really affects all of the Rangers fans around the world.  The reason is that the Rangers weren’t supposed to finish the season with over 65 wins due to many injuries.  Now they are showing all of baseball even without their best players they’re still play-off contenders.  Since the middle of August the Rangers have gone 15-8.  The Rangers have definitely started to see more and more fans pour into the ballpark lately.  Now, hopefully the Rangers can hold on to their lead for just 17 more games, then they will be eligible for the play-offs.

The topic of my article is about Greg Hardy announcing that he will not try to reduce suspension even more than it is due to other cases of suspension lifted and that making people mad.  The title of my article is Cowboys DE Greg Hardy will not seek further reduction of suspension.  This isn’t really that big of a deal to Greg Hardy.  He says that he believes this will keep the team calm and not cause any uproars from fans and critics alike.  The article was found at http://www.dallasnews.com/sports/dallas-cowboys/20150910-cowboys-de-greg-hardy-will-not-seek-further-reduction-of-suspension.ece  .

Greg Hardy, a Dallas Cowboy DE, was initially suspended 10 games by Commissioner Roger Goodell.  He later got his suspension lifted to 4 games in mid July.  Then after Tom Brady’s suspension being lifted he thought that he might try to get his lifted too, but in the end he decided not to, and said that he believed that the team is ok with the 4 game punishment.

Honestly, this doesn’t make me that mad.  The reason is that he did something that was wrong.  Then he got lucky enough to bring the suspension down to 4 games instead of 10.  So in the end this really won’t hurt the Cowboy’s as much as if he were suspended 10 games ( practically 2/3’s of season).  This event doesn’t affect me directly, but it will affect me from watching him play for my favorite team for their first 4 games.

This event will not really affect the world  but it will affect the football fans in America, Canada, and the UK.  This will upset some Cowboys fans, but the thing is that he did something very wrong.  So it’s only right for him to be punished for his act of violence.  I believe he understands that and the teams understands that as well.  Hopefully the fans will realize that he should still have some punishment for what he did.

Title: Boston relieved as judge overturns Brady’s ‘Deflategate’ suspension

Source: http://sports.yahoo.com/news/boston-relieved-judge-overturns-bradys-deflategate-suspension-170733724–nfl.html;_ylt=AwrC0CNfzehVIhIAarBNbK5_;_ylu=X3oDMTByMDgyYjJiBGNvbG8DYmYxBHBvcwMyBHZ0aWQDBHNlYwNzYw

The topic of my article is about NFL QB Tom Brady’s suspension being lifted. If you can remember about 2/3 of a year ago in December, in the AFC Championship game, The Patriots were using footballs below the PSI limit. The balls were not legal to play with but they played with them anyways. About 4 days later the NFL found out that they cheated and deflated the footballs. So they went under investigation for about 2-3 months. Finally they found out that Tom Brady played the leading role in deflating the footballs. So they gave Tom Brady a 4 game suspension and they took away some of the Patriots draft picks. So, Tom Brady went and appealed the suspension, but the NFL turned down the request. About 1 week later Tom Brady took his case to court and Judge Berman lifted his suspension. Personally I believe that Tom Brady shouldn’t have been released from suspension. The reason is that he was acting the wrong way about this situation. He was given the chance to tell Roger Goodell what the text messages he texted about deflating the balls said without even turning in his phone to them but he refused to and later destroyed the phone and lied by saying he dropped it on the ground on accident. Then the next day the NFL Commissioner said he wasn’t upset with him but just asked what did the text say and if you tell me that you won’t have any penalties, but Tom wouldn’t tell them so they suspended him for the first 4 games of the season. Also, 4 games isn’t that much for doing what he did. If anyone else would’ve done this, they would’ve been kicked out of the league. This really makes me mad on the inside that somebody would lie straight up to somebody’s face way more than once and then get a super small suspension, then go to federal court to appeal his suspension once again and somehow get released from suspension. This event doesn’t affect the world as much as it does all the millions of football fans in America. This will cause huge social media uproars and fights. This will build to the anger of football fans. This anger has been building for almost 5 years. Starting with when the NFL referees went on strike and most of the NFL players with them. All the way up to just last season whenever Dez Bryant CAUGHT THE BALL and made a football move diving into the endzone and they rule it an incomplete pass after a challenge flag was thrown. But this event I believe just burst the bubble of the NFL fans and we’ll be hearing about this ruling for many years.

It’s the 4th of July and that means that it’s also Michaels birthday.  He receives a Winchester rifle from his grandfather.  He goes off into the woods with a couple of friends.  He doesn’t realize that the gun is loaded and he clicks the trigger.  The next day he hears a report on the news that someone was shot and killed by a random bullet.  He will find out if he made the worst decision in his life or if nothing happened to his life.

          I read the book Swallowing Stones and it was a really good book.  There wasn’t a moment that wasn’t filled with excitement.  Everytime we stopped reading it in class it was like a cliff-hanger.  The part I like the most about the book is whenever Michael wrecks into Amy’s car and Joe gets all mad and breaks Amy’s windshield.  If I were to rate the from 0-10 I would probably give it a 8.  The reason is that there wasn’t any parts that didn’t make any sense.  Also the ending was really good at making want to know what happened but as the reader’s point of view this is one of the worst endings ever.