Katie's GeoCon Blog: February 2012

Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Girl Dies After a Fight Over a Boy

Joanna Ramos, 11, got in a fist fight after school with a fellow classmate in Long Beach over a boy. After the fight, she was crying and complaining that she had a headache. She told her friends and aunt Celina that her head hurt. Her mother rushed Joanna to the hospital. She had no visible injuries, but she underwent surgery and was put in intensive care. Just two hours later, at 5:50pm, she stopped breathing. She was pronounced dead just after 9 pm after failed attempts at reviving her. Officers say that the cause of her death is ‘undetermined’. The cause of her death is still being determined and no arrests have been made.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2012/02/girl-who-died-after-school-fight-complained-of-headache.html

Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Britain Is The Bomb Diggity. Also, Adele likes her middle finger.

Last night, Tuesday February 22, 2011, were the Brit Awards and Adele won two BRIT awards, after returning to Britain with her six Grammys. She received her first award, Best Female artist without problem, but it was as she was accepting her second award: British Album of the Year, for 21, that she was cut off but the emcee. He said he couldn't believe he had to cut her acceptance speech short, and apologized as he began guiding her off the stage so he could introduce the Blur’s performance. Adele had a few last words before she was pushed of the stage, and she followed those words with raising her middle finger in the air. The audience cheered for her as she made her way off the stage.

Monday, February 13, 2012

Eating More, Remembering Less

Studies prove that in the elderly, consuming over 2,100 calories a day can lead to memory loss or 'mild cognitive impairment'. Eating more calories makes the risk of suffering from memory loss much greater. After conducting an experiment on how calorie intake affects the elderly, researchers found that keeping a diet low in calories could even prevent Alzheimer’s disease. In the study, scientists found that of the 1,200 people, age 70 to 89, whom they tested, 163 have memory problems and the risk was twice as great for those with high calorie diets. So, keeping calorie intake in the elderly below 2,100 calories a day, can help keep their minds sharp.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2100191/Over-eating-old-age-double-chance-memory-loss.html

Sunday, February 5, 2012

A Whole Town Wins... Almost

In the small town of Sodeto, Spain, everyone's celebrating, except for one man. The whole town has only 70 households, and 69 of them (so chill) chipped in to buy a lottery ticket for Spain’s Christmas lottery, El Gordo. The little village made up mostly of farmers and unemployed carpenters won $950 million. Costis Mitsotakis was the only person who didn’t chip in and isn’t getting any of the winnings. The smallest amount of money a household received from the lottery was $130,000 (excluding Mitsotakis, of course). However, one of the winning townspeople has offered to buy a piece of Mitsotakis’s land that he has been unable to sell, so all’s well that ends well.