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“some city traffic signals’ green lights are on the blink”
►I read in the news that lured by the promise of hundreds of thousands of dollars in annual energy savings, San Diego in 2001 began retrofitting 17,000 incandescent traffic signals with the lights that glow from tiny light-emitting diodes. But six later, some green lights are looking more like abstract art, with dark splotches marring the once full, bright signal. A few been repair since Kallet began complaining to the city in the city in the spring, but many others still partly blacked out. The green LEDs were expected to last 10 years, but “they’re failing at a rate of over 25 percent citywide,” said Dan Roberts, traffic signal supervisor. San Diego was among the first cities to LED traffic signals, which use only about one-fifth of the energy of an incandescent signal. Manufacturing by Taiwan company called Leotek, the lights had five-years warranties that have expired. It costs San Diego about $70, not including labor, for each light that must be fixed.
►I don’t agree because for trying to do something cheap now they have to play more.
►I also don’t agree because everybody knows that the stuff made in in china or Taiwan are cheap but they brake real fast.
►I also don’t agree because now the people in San Diego haves to pay for it with taxes.
►I think the most interesting fact its that a lot of signal light are braking.
Go! Go! Go! SOONERS
Oklahoma Sooners pull a upset in the fourth quarter against the Missouri Tigers. The whole team was involved there were no particular faces sticking out on the Sooners team. Them team itself made statement to fight and win the team had some fourth quarter turnovers which lead the offense of the Sooners to win. The Tigers were favor to win with there big lead over the Sooners during the half. As football has shown before it not over till the end it can still be anybody's game. The Sooners are heading to the bowl championship and they have a big chance of winning it because of there will to win. This years bowl should be very interesting.
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Latino’s adopt English over generations.
When I read the union tribune it talked about; how Mexican’s are by far the longest culture to adapt or learn how to speak any English, they say that it is amazing since 64% of Mexican immigrants make up the united states. The reason for many Mexican's not learning English or sometimes not even wanting to speak Spanish is because they believe that if speaking Spanish people in the united states will disvalue them. For young Latino immigrants they say that only Spanish is spoken at home and 71% say they speak little or no English what so ever. For example Cuban's its 57%, D.R is 64% leaving Mexican's as the slowest English learner’s. In the United states its not a must to speak English but in order to find a job English is a language that most people should consider adapting to; Unlike Kansas they adopted a law this year declaring that English Is an official language. English as the 2nd generation it is very difficult for a lot of Mexican's to get a job because most of the time they are very shy if what they do know of English to them they are sometimes very ashamed because they don’t want people talking about them, unlike some Spanish cultures that do take in English, like Puerto Rico they take on the English and adapt it, if you go to P.R it is a language that they seem to speak a lot of minus the Spanish. Among the many Latino's only 23% of the Latino immigrants say they speak fluent English.
I strongly agree that Mexican's or any other Spanish speaking culture does take awhile to adapt to English; after all they do come from a Latin culture. Most of the time even if they do speak English they tend to only use it at home because that’s the most safe place with nobody to judge them. As well when filling out an application they never put they know English when most of the time they do, as well they tend to use there children to have them translate everything that is being said. And for Kansas to make speaking English an official thing I think that’s insane because sometimes it does take people awhile to take in a new language.
Today in the union tribune I read that by now it is known that on the first day of the massive fires on oct 22- 24 about 365 houses burned down. As bad as it was it could have been much worse. the cities undermanned fire rescue department according to national standards, needs at least 250 more fire fighters beyond its current roster of 920 stopped the fire in ranch bernardo at two strategic points, fire officials said last week. If not for those efforts, hundreds more homes probably would have been lost.
I think that the fire department does need more fire fighters because if it were less the two fire would have joined together and maybe not be able to stop it.
Trial ordered in 1988 park slaying.
A man by the name of Dwayne Johnson is to report to court once again for a trial about a slaying in Balboa Park. Dwayne faces a possible sentence of 26 years to life in prison if convicted in the slaying of Gail Shea. Her body was found August 26, 1988 in a canyon behind the San Diego Air & Space Museum. She suffered from being strangled, and stabbed in the neck and chest. Dwayne does not admit to murdering the woman but admits to talking and having more than a conversation with her. The two stories do not match which makes Dwayne look guilty. There are no witnesses and the weapons were not found.
- The San Diego Union Tribune
- Shelter in place kept flames at bay
- The article that I read today was about the recent fires that occurred in Rancho Santa Fe. It was about a strategy called shelter in place, it pays off but has its critics. In the article it says that when the order came to evacuate his home near rancho Santa Fe, Emil Costa had already made up his mind to stay. Even though his wife frantically pleaded him not to. Why should he flee, the retired physician reasoned, when he lives in one of the nations few shelter in place communities an enclave where residents can feel protected in a wildfire. Costa who Stayed alone; calmly watched from behind closed doors and windows as dense smoke darkened the sky and wind whipped flames leapt across the hillside less than 20 feet beyond his backyard. Outside embers rained down, a few igniting wood chips in his garden and melting irrigation tubing.
- I think that this article is pretty interesting. I don’t know how someone could have the courage to stay in his house when there is a wildfire in his backyard.
- One interesting that I learned is that the man stayed in his house for the entire evacuation period never panicking.
♫This morning I read an article about some prisoners that are in a U.S. base in Cuba. Its going to be six years that authorities in Bosnian ordered for six men to be released. They were arrested for suspicion of wanting to attack the U.S. Embassy in Sarajevo. Instead of freedom, the six men got sent to the U.S. naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. They were branded enemy combatants by the Bush administration. They have been held in the U.S. naval base ever since they were branded enemies. Until this day the six men have not been charged with any crime. The administration is mounting a vigorous defense of its detention policies.
♫Reflection =]
♫My opinion in this article is that this is a crazy justice. I had no idea about these men being held for whatever it is they are being held for. I feel bad for these men but its good in a way because you never know if they were terrorist too.
♫Fact =]
♫An important fact that I read about in this article was that the case turns on the reach of the writ of habeas corpus.
I was reading a very interesting article that is an update on the British teacher’s case. She was arrested 15 days ago because she had a class project in which her students would take a teddy bear home and name it. The result was that one of her students named the teddy bear Muhammad. After one of the children’s mom found out about the name of the toy she was deeply offended and reported the teacher to officials. She was taken and she was put in jail for offending the country’s prophet. She is currently under Sudanese authority awaiting pardon from the government. A supposed statement she made was released to the public yet her lawyer says that he was not informed when she had made this statement. Her lawyers and other are very convinced that it will not very long for the government to give her pardon. Yet many others are very concerned with the teachers safety because mobs have been demanding her execution at the country’s capital. Overall I hope that she is released to safety and that she has learned a lesson by this incident. Probably this will teach her to not take things like this so lightly.
Humiliation is almost worse than her disease
Danielle Rose is a women who always gets judged by the way she looks. She has pretty features, but she has a disease that causes here to look drunk. Her disease is known as Friedreich’s Ataxia, its categorized among the rarest disease. What is does is it slowly destroys the nervous system meanwhile not affecting her mental capacities. The symptoms of the disease are found to appear at childhood, and by their 20’s year of age most of the victims of this disease are found using wheelchairs. Another thing that is also caused by this terrible illness is that it also is life shortening. For Rose everyday is different, many criticize her by the way she walks and accuse her of being drunk, calling the police on her. Rose said that her neurologists told her that she wouldn’t be needing a wheelchairs for another 2 – 4 years and that at this moment she is found eligible to drive. She is capable of doing anything except for running and walking down stairs without using handrails. She is a very independent woman who raises her 10 yr old boy on her own. Rose states that her situation makes her life difficult to handle. She describes that issues that she has to overcome everyday of people accusing her of being drunk, and being humiliated, Rose says that she does not feel comfortable to be outside her home. When her and her boy go out people constantly go up to her saying that she doing a bad thing driving with her kid meanwhile she’s drunk. To Rose it is easy for people to say not to listen to what others say. But more difficult it is to actually trying not to let comments get to you.
Portraits Emerge of Omaha gunman, victims
After the tragic shooting in the Omaha, Nebraska mall authorities released the names of the people who were killed. Authorities also studied mall surveillance cameras and studied text messages, voice mails and letters that Robert A. Hawkins sent before he killed the 8 innocent people. With and AK- 47 style assault rifle Hawkins kills 5 women and 3 men. Police chief Thomas Warren released the names of the people killed in a new conference, they ranged from age 66 to a women who was going to turn 25 years old in two weeks. The families of the victims and co-workers described them and how they would be remembered for the rest of their lives. The authorities piecing together his movements said Hawkins drove 20 miles to the Von Maur mall. Police believe that Hawkins chose this mall because his friend lived near the mall and after studying the text messages it revealed he went to visit him before the shootings.
This was an unexpected event that no one saw coming that day. They were all at the mall doing their shopping and going about with their day but then they are taken by surprise when they hear gunshots , 8 people drop and not come back up. I remember the day my boy was killed as he was walking home, he didn’t expect it he was 1 block away from home when a car pulls over and shoots him, that was the end. He lived 20 years and in a split second those 20 years he had lived and struggled through were ended with 5 bullet wounds, he didn’t even stand a chance. In my mind people like this are punks, they find it right to hurt others so that they can feel better about themselves or to prove something to someone else.
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