Thursday, February 3, 2011
Conversational Currency
What's happening in the news!? Describe an issue at the local, regional, state, national, or international level and tell us about the who, what, where, when, how, and why of what's really going on. Please refer to the Conversational Currency on the LibGuide for more information.
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This really upset me when I was it in the news.
ReplyDeleteA father in Florida confessed of trying to kill his 10 yr old son and himself. The boy was covered in unknown chemical toxic and the father was doused in gasoline.
The boy's twin sister was found wrapped in plastic bags inside the truck, they don't know what caused her death.
This guy and his wife have been focus of at least three other abuses and nobody did anything to arrest these people or do anything.
They say that the twins feet and hands were taped with duck tape and they were kept in a bathtub and were only released for food.
This is so disturbing and it is so sad of what he has done to these poor children. I just don't understand why would somebody do something like that to a child?What has that child done to them? And it is so sad that that welfare officials didn't do anything to prevent this.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/02/110215102844.htm
ReplyDeleteThe US Secret Service is moving towards virtual environments to help prepare for real life incidents. For the past 40 years, a miniature model environment called "Tiny Town" has been one of the methods used to teach Secret Service agents and officers how to prepare a site security plan. Going forward, they have implemented 3D models and game-based virtual environments to help teach people what to do and what security plans to carry out in pressure situations. Remember Sully, the airline pilot who saved the lives of 155 people on US Airways flight 1549 on January 15, 2009? He acted well under pressure, would another pilot have done the same? Without having gone through the experience of what Sully went through, no one knows how they will react at the given moment. Virtual environments is a brilliant way of communicating and sharing with the audience, real life situations.
SSPT (Site Security Planning Tool) can also provide in-service protective details with advanced training on a range of scenarios, including preparation against chemical, biological or radiological attacks, armed assaults, suicide bombers and other threats.
On Friday four Americans were captured by Somali pirates while sailing in the Indian Ocean they were shot and killed by the pirates on today.
ReplyDeleteThere were two couples, Phyllis Macay, 59, and Robert Riggle, 67, of Seattle, and the yacht's owners, Jean and Scott Adam of Marina del Rey, California. They were on an around-the-world sailing trip when they were captured by pirates on Friday. According to the news about 1 a.m. this morning shots were heard aboard the yacht that was called Quest. At this point the U.S. military personnel boarded the yacht and discovered all four hostages had been shot by their captors. According to the news officials two pirates were killed and 13 others captured after a brief gun battle as U.S. forces took control of the boat. The officials stated that in addition to the 15 dead or captured pirates, U.S. forces had found the remains of two pirates on the vessel who were already dead. They did not say how they had died.
According to sources U.S. forces had been "closely monitoring" the Quest for approximately three days with four Navy warships tasked to recover the yacht: the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise, the guided-missile cruiser USS Leyte Gulf, the guided-missile destroyers USS Sterett and USS Bulkeley. Vice Adm. Mark Fox, Commander of the US Navy 5th fleet, told a news conference that negotiations were taking place between the U.S. forces and the pirates Tuesday morning when they suddenly fired a rocket-propelled grenade at the Sterett, which was about 600 yards away. The RPG missed. Fox said gunfire was heard "almost immediately" afterward and then several pirates appeared on the deck of the yacht with their hands in the air, wanting to surrender. A boarding party of U.S. Special Forces was sent across to the Quest but "despite immediate steps to provide life-saving care, all four American hostages died of their wounds," Fox said.
Today I learned that the oil situation is not as bad as the news is reporting. The price of crude oil fell on Friday, yet we are still paying well over $3.00 per gallon for gas. This really sucks.
ReplyDeleteI'm watching the news right now and I really don't think that the media is truly reporting the 'real' news about the happening in the county of Libya. What is being reported is only slightly disturbing to me. In that I believe it is all a conventient way to raise the cost of crude oil in middle east. Yes, I realize that there are many people being killed because of the unrest in this region of the world, but it seem a little too convenient to me. First it was Tunisha then Egypt. All of a sudden, the U.S. government is opposed to the mis-treatment of these citizens of the wealthy oil country for "humanitarian reasons" or the poor conditions of the Muslins who were being oppressed. Give me a break what about the U.S. citizens who ae being mistreated.
ReplyDeleteFeels like the world is in turmoil. Numerous countries in the middle east are in shambeles due to it's citizens fighting for democracy. In one case the current leader is using his air force to bomb his "rebel" citizens. Natural disasters that were so far and few when I was a child are almost weekly occurrences. In the past few years 3 HUGE ponzi schemes have been discovered. The American rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer. The American middle class is disappearing. Our government is in so much debt we are paying $4 billion dollars a day is interest on our loans; yes, 4 billion dollars a day! What is happening to the world we live in? How can we bring the American dream we all hope for back to being a reality?
ReplyDeleteMarine scientists from several organizations met at Oxford University in England in April concerning the oceans of the world. Their concern is that global warming, pollution, acidification, lack of oxygen and over fishing may cause a "mass extinction" of many species of ocean life. They called the ocean the "circulatory system of the earth" and fear if action is not taken that the oceans will die and make the planet uninhabitable.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/europe/06/21/ocean.extinction.global.warming/index.html?eref=rss_topstories&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rss%2Fcnn_topstories+%28RSS%3A+Top+Stories%29
On June 28, 2011 there was a law suit being filed against Abercombie and Finch Company in Calinfornia for not allowing a young woman wear her traditional Muslim head scarf while working. She was asked to remove it and when she refused she was suspended then terminated. The same incident happened back in 2004 and Abercombie had reached a $40 million settlement. Let's see what will happen now.
ReplyDeletehttp://news.yahoo.com/muslim-accuses-abercrombie-banning-head-scarf-165707510.html