Man Held Daughter Captive In Cellar

Inside the cellar where father locked daughter for 24 years

Detainees’ Mental Health Is Latest Legal Battle

Next month, Salim Ahmed Hamdan, a Yemeni who was once a driver for Osama bin Laden, could become the first detainee to be tried for war crimes in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. By now, he should be busily working on his defense.

But his lawyers say he cannot. They say Mr. Hamdan has essentially been driven crazy by solitary confinement in an 8-foot-by-12-foot cell where he spends at least 22 hours a day, goes to the bathroom and eats all his meals. His defense team says he is suicidal, hears voices, has flashbacks, talks to himself and says the restrictions of Guantánamo “boil his mind.”

Project Deadlines

The following are deadlines for the current events project:
Notes are DUE: May 12
Rough Draft DUE: May 23
FINAL DUE: June 2
Please contact me with questions!

Nearly 1 in 5 troops has mental problems after war service

WASHINGTON - Roughly one in every five U.S. troops who have survived the bombs and other dangers of Iraq and Afghanistan now suffers from major depression or post-traumatic stress, an independent study said Thursday. It estimated the toll at 300,000 or more.

Conn. Students To Get Cash For Passing AP Tests

WATERBURY, Conn. (AP) ― Students who pass Advanced Placement tests at Wilby High School in Waterbury will be getting hard cold cash rewards.

1914: The Birth of the Modern Era

To earn participation points, watch posted videos, read posted articles, analyze posted images, etc. and leave a comment on your reaction, prediction, thoughts, etc.!

ALL FINAL GRADES ARE POSTED....

Third Period's Grades have been posted!

World History Midterm Exam Grades

First Period's FINAL grades have been posted to eSIS...more to come.

IB Psychology Review UPDATE

Topics per date have been shifted. STUDY for next week! Outline old questions.

April 11: 9AM Biological Psychology

April 17 and 18: 3PM to 4:30+ / Biological Psychology

April 24 and 25: 3PM to 4:30+ / Learning Psychology

May 1 and 2: 3PM to 4:30+ / Cognitive Psychology

May 4: time TBA / MASTER REVIEW at THS - bring food!

May 5: 3PM--- Dysfunctional Psychology

Exam Update!

Changes:

1. Pick 1 ID from some of the ID options
2. Only two short answer questions (15 points each)
   
3. Write one essay from a choice of 2!

Exam Update

News about tomorrow's exam coming soon. Check back tonight!

Metropolis Coming to Japan by 2025

Robots could fill the jobs of 3.5 million people in graying Japan by 2025, a thinktank says, helping to avert worker shortages as the country's population shrinks.

So Big Foot is real! I knew it all along...

Fembot! Metropolis is here!

What are your thoughts on the Olympic games being protested?

Olympic Torch Relay in Chaos in Paris
Tibet protesters scale Golden Gate Bridge before torch run

Warning: Google Is In Your Driveway!

Elephant Art!

This elephant has appeared to have learned the steps (via shaping and chaining learning theory) to painting!

Science of Baby Love

We are drawn to a baby face, whether or not we claim to like children. Our brain can't help itself. Our neurons reflexively respond to an infant's big eyes, broad forehead, button nose and tiny chin, University of Oxford researchers recently reported in the online journal PLoS One. - Read more

IB Psychology and World History News!

IB Psychology
The review sessions began today! Tomorrow is the last of the introduction sessions. I have a packet to handout to ALL testers so please come by to pick it up.

World History
Exam next Thursday, review sheets handed out tomorrow, and extra credit will be announced Friday. Rock Steady...

Video for us Lab Rats!

IB Psychology Review UPDATE

Tomorrow you will receive a small review packet! I have put together and posted a summary of some of the studies we have looked at: mrcaro.com/psychology/resources/. This summary should be very helpful in streamlining your studying! Please see how I set it up and add to it! I have not combed through all of the articles that we have and tabled the studies...but you have them in your notes! Now all of those notes pay off again!

NEW Blog!

THS Key Club now has its own blog! Check it out at :
TigardKeyClub.blogspot.com

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