Celebrities Spontaneously Decide to Raise $1 Million For a Good Cause

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Youtuber Casey Neistat, famous actor Ben Stiller, football star Colin Kaepernick, media star Jerome Jarre and a lot more other people decided to raise at least 1 million dollars to help the immense famine in Somalia. Jerome Jarre was the one who had the idea of having a plane ship about 60 tons of food and water to Somalia. A few days later, Ben Stiller saw the video on Twitter and said a few words of his own. Colin Kaepernick said his thoughts on the crisis as well. They both decided to help the cause. On March 17, 2017, Casey Neistat posted a "behind the scenes" video of what is happening. The four of them and others have created a website to raise the 1 million dollars needed. In less than 24 hours, they raised over 1 million dollars. Now, they have 2,314,502 million dollars in six days.

When Jarre called Turkish Airlines, they said that they agree to fly to Somalia with the food and water because they are the only airline to fly to Somalia. They will bring about 60 tons of supplies to Somalia in their cargo plane. Turkish Airlines have also contributed another 140 tons of space for the next six months. "There was an idea, and then a tweet, and then the tweet turned into a movement, which became something else, that has now become action,” says Casey Neistat who was heard that Turkish Airlines will be shipping the 60 tons of food and supplies. Although Neistat is not apart of the people who really started it, he is part of the fundraising and he has posted a YouTube video for all of his six million subscribers to help the cause and to donate to the fundraiser. The link for the fundraiser at the bottom of this article. Since they have passed their goal and have got more than two million dollars six days ago, They have more than enough to donate to Somalia.  

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Sources:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93dDP-O4VsI

https://www.gofundme.com/LOVEARMYFORSOMALIA

http://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2017/03/22/521097218/social-media-star-has-a-crazy-idea-to-help-somalia

2017 March Madness

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On March 14th the biggest tournament in college sports kicked off, March madness. It is the 78th edition of the basketball tournament as it began in 1939. The tournament began with 64 teams but only one remained as the national champion. Millions of people around the world attempted to make a perfect bracket where the odds

The round of 64 was very entertaining and exciting even though it was more or less predictable as their were only six upsets out of the thirty two games. The biggest upset coming from twelfth seed Middle Tennessee who defeated Minnesota. It is the second year in a row that they have upstaged a team as last year they beat number two Michigan state as the fifteenth seed. Going into the round of 32 all the top four seeds were still in the tournament.

The round of 32 was filled with exciting games and more upsets than day one as it was a crazy two days. Xavier upset Florida State and the biggest upset coming from number eight Wisconsin defeating the defending national champion and number one seeded Villanova. South Carolina also knocked out number two Duke as after this round many fans brackets had been broken.

After a four day break the the sweet 16 continued as Xavier upset a team for the third time beating number two Arizona. South Carolina upset Baylor beating them by 20 points. The last game of the sweet sixteen featuring Florida and Wisconsin was for sure one of the most exciting games of the tournament where Wisconsin tied it at the buzzer to send it to overtime where Florida hit a buzzer beater to win the game. Another great game was between UCLA and Kentucky as Kentucky took the win taking down Lonzo Ball and the bruins.

In the elite eight gonzaga knocked out the cinderella team of the tournament, Xavier. Oregon took down number one Kansas, South Carolina defeated Florida and North Carolina took down Kentucky as they hit the game winning shot with under one second remaining in the game.

Many players really stepped up for their team throughout the tournament like Lonzo Ball for UCLA

Who is projected to be drafted number one overall in the next NBA draft. Two players from Kentucky Fox and Monk who had outstanding tournaments. Many teams had great runs like Wisconsin, West Virginia, Michigan and Xavier.

The final four continues on April first as it features Oregon, South Carolina, Gonzaga and North

Carolina. Who will be sent to this year's national championship game which is on April third?

Sources:

"2017 Division I Men's Basketball Tournament." NCAA.com. N.p., n.d. Web.

Matt Norlander @MattNorlander. "NCAA Tournament 2017: March Madness, Final Four Tip Times, Scores, Schedule, TV Channel, Bracket." CBSSports.com. N.p., 28 Mar. 2017. Web

Top 5 Greatest Warriors of All Time

These are the top 5 greatest warriors of all time. 

5. Miyamoto Musashi is known for his incredible swordsmanship. Historians claim that Miyamoto was the best swordsman in the word. Since the age of 13 he was winning duels with his own unique way of sword fighting. He became well known for all those duels at such a young age. He created a style of sword fighting called Niten-ryü. He spent a lot of time mastering the two sword style of sword fighting and after he perfected that style he ascended to a mountain where he wrote the definitive treatise on the Zen of decapitation, which he titled it A Book of Five Rings.

4. Julius Caesar is known as arguably the greatest statesman and general in history and was the one who led Rome's army to many victorious wars. With his command Rome grew greatly in size and population. He later on wrote a book about his journeys and about his genius and bravery at war.

3. Leonidas of Sparta is one of the most well known warriors of all time. Leonidas was one of the most bravest warriors to ever exist. He led 300 spartans into a war with the Persians. Although he lost his battle and his men, he anded up doing much damage to the Persian army with his small army. The rumour has it that when all his men died he still remained on the battle field fighting versus 1000 Persians to his death.

2. Genghis Khan also known as the mongol destroyer was the second best conquerer in history. He led his army to conquering a quarter of the worlds population during his time. He's country loved him so much that they thought he was a gift from the gods. They called him the Holy warrior.

1. Alexander the Great was born in July 356 BC in Macedon. Alexander the Great is one of the most famous kings and generals of all time. Alexander was king of the ancient kingdom of Macedon after succeeding his father at the age of 20. An interesting fact about Alexander is that when he was young he was tutored by the famous philosopher Aristotle. During his reign Alexander lead his army and created one of the largest empires of ancient times, stretching from Greece to north-west India.

Get Out (2017 movie)

Get Out is a 2017 American comedy horror film written, co-produced and directed by Jordan Peele in his directorial debut. The film premiered at Sundance Film Festival on January 24, 2017, and was released in the United States on February 24 by Universal Pictures. The film received praise for its atmosphere, writing, directing and cast and has grossed $42 million worldwide, against its $4.5 million budget.

The cast includes Daniel Kaluuya as the main character, Allison Williams, Catherine Keener, Bradley Whitford and many more. The movie is about a young African American man visits his European American girlfriend's family estate where he learns that many of its residents, who are black, have gone missing, and he soon learns the horrible truth when another frantic African-American warns him to "get out". He soon learns this is easier said than done.

The movie is rated R for violence, bloody images, and language including sexual references but it isn't as inappropriate as it is said to be. It has made a astonishing amount of money in the opening week and is on pace to make much more. The movie is 1 hour and 43 minutes.

Get Out is a excellent movie which we strongly recommend you to go see if your into horror movies and comedies. This movie has earned a lot of buzz and many people wanting to see this great film. This movie has earned 100 rotten tomatoes on rotten tomatoes which is very difficult to receive.

Oscars Mistake: Warren Beatty Announces Wrong Winner

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The 89th Academy Awards was on Sunday, February 26th, 2017. Every year, they make a disclaimer stating that because it is in fact a live production, despite their best efforts, they never really know what's gonna happen. Needless to say, this year, there was definitely one big mistake that everyone noticed.

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It was time for the most prestigious award of the night. The "Best Picture" award. This award is given to the film that is the greatest out of all of the films in the category, but what is actually the best about it, is up to the Academy. Whether it's directing, acting, cinematography, whatever. Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway were the to chosen to announce this award, and everyone noticed there was something wrong as soon as Beatty opened the envelope. He stood there for a few seconds, confused as he saw Emma Stone's name and "La La Land" written on the envelope, and finally, Dunaway took the envelope for him and announced it for him. The whole cast and crew started to come on stage and say their speeches, but stopped as soon as they noticed their mistake, and as people in the background starting handing envelopes to people.  

“There’s a mistake. ‘Moonlight’ you guys won best picture,” Jordan Horowitz said to the shocked audience. “This is not a joke, come up here” the producer added. “Moonlight has won best picture.”  

After all of that confusion, Beatty came back on stage to clarify, here's what actually happened: Beatty and Dunaway were actually given the wrong envelope. Instead of it being the best picture envelope, they were given the best actress envelope, so that's why it had solely Emma Stone's name on it and the movie she starred in on it. Beatty then returned to the microphone to explain: “I want to tell you what happened. I opened the envelope and it said Emma Stone, ‘La La Land.’ That’s why I took such a long look at Faye and at you. I wasn’t trying to be funny.”

"Moonlight" beat out 8 other amazing movies, they included“  “La La Land,” “Hidden Figures,” “Manchester by the Sea,” “Arrival,” “Hacksaw Ridge,” “Hell or High Water,” “Lion,” and “Fences.”  

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University Decides to Make a Course to Fight Fake News

Students of University of Michigan have influenced this course based on the anti-media tagline created by soon to be president, Donald Trump. Their library has teamed up with the College of Literature, Sciences and Art department to make a class on fake news. The name of this class is "Fake News, Lies and Propaganda: How to Sort Fact from Fiction", according to CBC News. One of the founders is Doreen Bradley, who has discovered that students have a hard time sorting fact from fiction when it comes to articles. According to Bradley, the course was created to teach students to double check before confirming anything.

The course Itself will begin with defining fake news. After the course has finished, the hope for the class is to make sure that students will trust the source. Bradley told CBC News that "There is no right, there is no wrong, everyone just comes out with a different perspective and its important for students to recognize what the perspective is of what they're reading." The library director already knows that the education of a university should always have students learn about critical thinking. That is why the librarians enforce this class, They want the students to have the critical thinking knowledge.

The 2017 NHL trade deadline has passed!

The 2017 National Hockey League trade deadline has come and has gone as it was for the most part one not to remember. The day started off very slowly with barely any trades going through compared to normal. Most of the big fish on the trade bait either didn't get moved or were moved days before the deadline day. We will be going down who got moved and who we think won the trade.

The biggest trade happened two days before the deadline of 3:00pm on Wednesday March 1st as Kevin Shattenkirk got moved to the Washington Capitals who have gone all in mode for the cup. They gave away a first round draft pick, several other picks and a great young forward in Sanford to get Shattenkirk.  They are clearly not focusing on the present but on the future. Washington will win this trade if they win the cup this year as it would pay off but if they don't St. Louis would have to have gotten more for the future,

The second biggest player moved was Martin Hanzel who went from Arizona to Minnisota. A even trade as Minnisota gave away a lot of picks in order to get this great power forward. They also got Ryan white a 4th liner. Both teams got what they wanted out of this trade.

The biggest goalie on the block, Ben Bishop was traded to the Los Angeles Kings as it was very odd seeing they already have a excellent goalie in Quick. Even though they are spending over 10 million dollars on goalies they won this trade as it didn't take much to get him.

The Montreal Canadians tried to be very active during this trade day as they made four smaller player deals as they try to build a good backend to their offence. Thomas Vanek was traded from detroit to Florida as he has had a good season.

Matt Duchene among many players who were thought to be traded but wearn't. More players like that include Landeskog, Grigorenko, Kulikov, Kane, Duclair, Vrabata, Fleury and many more.

Other known players who split from their team were Stafford, Fehr, Burrows, Hansen, Lazar, Streit, Oduya and Stalberg. This years trade deadline wasn't as busy as usual but was still entertaining as we get closer and closer to the playoffs.