Cursed Lottery Winners

On August 13, 2013, a group of workers at the Ocean County Vehicle Maintenance Garage in New Jersey were shocked to find out that they had just won themselves a roughly $86 million powerball. After taxes and the even distribution among the 16 of them, they wound up with $3.8 million each! But is this as good as it seems it is? After about a month and a half, many of these lower-middle class millionaires say that winning the lottery was almost a bad thing. They feel that things are almost too hectic, with "long lost family members" asking them for large sums of money along with paparazzi at their every turn. Willie Seeley, one of the "Ocean 16", says that he's miserable and overwhelmed, and that "winning the lottery was a curse". He also said that "There are days I wish we were back to just getting paid every two weeks. You have to change your whole way of life, but we didn't want to change the way we lived. We liked the way we lived." What these people end up doing with them money is up to them, but just to put this into perspective, they probably have more money than they ever would've wanted and they still don't know what to do with it.

http://www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/living/2013/08/13/bts-lottery-oceans-sixteen-winners.cnn.html

Northampton Clown

Making his first appearance on September 13, 2013 (Friday the 13th), the Northampton Clown has become one of the most talked about things on social media this past week. This unidentified clown has been seen harmlessly standing in random parts of the town smiling and waving with balloons. Many people think that this clown is very disturbing, are frightened by him, and some even see him as a threat. Because of all the confusion, he decided to make a social media page and stated that he just "wants to be spotted" and it's all just "a bit of harmless fun". Whether it's just for attention or not, this clown has sent many mixed messages to his audience, and should be fixed before something bad happens.

Tropical Storms Pound Mexico's Coasts

This last weekend Mexico was hit on its eastern and western coasts. Hurricane Ingrid has been reduced to a tropical storm, according to the Nation Hurricane Center. It has been patrolling the eastern coast of Mexico and Gulf of Mexico and made landfall in La Pesca on Monday morning. Tropical Depression Manuel affected the western coastline of Mexico and calmed over the weekend, but heavy rains continued southward. These storms have resulted in overflowing of rivers and banks, mudslides, and flooding. So far, these storms have combined to kill 21 people and 65 mile per hour winds and 15+ inches of rain are still expected to come. 

http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/16/world/americas/tropical-weather/?hpt=zite_zite4_featured

Largest Volcano On Earth Discovered

Recently, scientist William Sager led a team of scientists from the University of Houston in the discovery of the largest volcano on Earth. The group found the volcano underwater roughly 1,000 miles east of Japan and named it Tamu Massif. At 120,000 square miles, it is one of the largest known volcanoes in the solar system and is about the same size as New Mexico. The largest volcano on land, standing at 2,000 square miles, doesn't even compare to Tamu Massif. Scientists believe that this massive volcano is 145 million years old and think that it became inactive a few million years after it was formed. Scientists hope that Tamu Massif can help give them clues on how massive volcanoes like this can form.

http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/06/world/biggest-volcano/index.html?hpt=wo_c2

64 Year Old Woman Completes Historic Swim

On Monday, September 2^nd, Diana Nyad became the first person to ever successfully swim from Cuba to Florida without the assistance of a shark cage. At the age of 64, this was her fifth and final attempt in 35 years (her fourth attempt while in her 60’s). She swam with a protective suit and mask to prevent jellyfish stings, which had affected her in earlier attempts. The 53 hours of constant swimming took a huge toll on Nyad, resulting in swelling of the tongue and face and also large amounts of salt water consumption. This made her very ill, and even with fatigue setting in, she still found the will to finish her lifelong goal and also make history.

http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/02/world/americas/diana-nyad-cuba-florida-swim/index.html?hpt=wo_t3