Current Event 5/30/08

Japanese man finds woman living in his closet
Fri May 30, 4:41 AM ET

A Japanese man puzzled by food mysteriously disappearing from his refrigerator got a shock when he found out a woman had been living in his home for months without permission, police said Friday.
The 57-year-old man living alone -- or so he thought -- in the western city of Fukuoka installed a security camera and called the police when he saw images of someone walking around his home while he was out.
"We searched the house in the man's presence. We found the woman in the closet," said a local police spokesman.
The woman, named as 58-year-old Tatsuko Horikawa, was found in a flat storage space only just big enough for a person to squeeze into lying down.
She had sneaked a mattress and several plastic bottles into the cubby hole, police said, adding that the women had been arrested.
"She told police that she had nowhere to live," the spokesman said. "She seems to have lived there for about a year, but not all the time."
It is unclear how she managed to enter the home undetected. Police suspect she might have been closet-hopping, moving from house to house.


This is sad, it kind of scares me about an idea that a woman I don't know would be living in my house, under my nose. But, the poor woman, she had nowhere to live. It reminds me of the book "The Mouse and The Motorcycle". She was quiet and she just needed somewhere to live. A closet/ scary...in the corner... It shows that you just never know and that something like that can go on.

Reflection on Architect Movie

Ya ya ya...This better be 500 words. Its not like we had other work and deadlines or stuff due for exhibition, or deadlines for the non profit organizations that we were dilligently working on. No, I forget, that we are just stupid kids sitting here that have to write this pointless reflection. We have to write this pointless 500 word reflection on a movie we can barley hear instead of actually getting work done. I have WORK THAT HAS TO GET DONE AND THIS IS TAKING AWAY FROM MY TIME.
Ok so, this architects son is in a quest to find out about his dad and in the process comes to find out about that his dad had three familys all within blocks of each other. weird. He had two sisters all older then him. His father had him when he was 61 years old.
His fathers name was Lou , he was Irish, German and Jewish, evidently so is his son. This movie is all about architecture where his son interviews other architects even though his father died 25 years earlier in Philidelphia. The son went to his father's architecture and some are very bland. Very mathamadcal and straight, semitrical, no pizazz or fun, nothing for it to get noticed, just the plain, brick, wood, or cement buildings occassionally with a waterfall. Yea...
Lou, the architect, this guys dad, was said to be very ambitious, secretive, perfectionalist etc etc. The architects that this guy is interviewing, make everyone in the room feel awkward, they are emabarrassed as well because they barley know him. It was said that his dad would phone his fellow architects in projects and asks them to make them for him at the last minute. Then he is nasty, and calls them up and says the model is nasty. (for lack of cursewords) Um, then we see the son rollerblading on his dad's architecture set to music...ok then...Louis I. Kahn, is the architecture he was found dead found face down in a restroom in manhatten at Grand Central Station. Suprisingly, it looks very familar to Union Station in Los Angeles, CA. Noblody knows exactly how he died, they are trying to identify him, and his son meets someone at the station to try and findout more, he finds out that his dad died from a heart attack...very sad.

Apparently Lou was born on an island, we can't really hear this movie, but it was North Philidelphia, the whole family lived on a top floor of a tenant. They were poor. He won a scholarship from Univirsity of Penselvania, he married Esther, sleek steel arhitecture, in 1947 he started his own office, we only see a few sketcheds, in 1941 he was invited somewhere important, though, I can't really hear because people won't stop talking. But, it involved architectiure and impacted his life. Then he worked in his office around steel.
We can't hear any of this movie and it pisses me off. Please give us a summary when you get back so we can understand this movie, because this is inadequete on its own.

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Current Event 2

ABC7 Traffic Center
5 Freeway crash kills 3, injures 2
Friday, May 16, 2008







COMMERCE (KABC) -- Traffic was back to normal on the southbound 5 Freeway after being shut down for more than three hours Friday morning because of a head-on collision in Commerce at the Slauson exit.
A wrong-way driver slammed into an oncoming car full of teens, killing three people including himself and critically injured two others. The wrong-way crash happened Friday just after 3 a.m.
Click in the Eyewitness News Story Window above to watch Leanne Suter's report from the scene.
"Just scared to think of that. It is not suppose to happen that way. It just seems to young," said Brent Hellesen, a neighbor of one of the victim's.
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The CHP says that 27-year-old Steven Quintero was driving northbound in the southbound I-5 lanes. He slammed head-on into a silver Nissan Sentra carrying four people and died at the scene.
The impact of the collision was so powerful that 20-year-old Arielle Estremo, driver of the Sentra, was crushed to death, and passenger 20-year-old Chauncy Reid was also killed instantly.
Two male passengers, ages 18 and 19, in the Sentra were seriously injured and were rushed to Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center.
Investigators say several friends of the victims witnessed the crash as they were following behind the vehicle. The whole group had just left a club in Hollywood and was apparently returning home to Orange County when the Sentra slammed head-on into the wrong-way driver.
"They saw the headlights and the Nissan Sentra applied their brakes. They saw them veer over to the right and both cars went up in the air. That is what she said as she went past," said CHP Sgt. Brian Gonsalves.
Investigators do not know where Quintero entered the freeway going the wrong way or why. Officials are waiting on toxicology tests to determine if drugs or alcohol may have been a factor.
Friends say that the four in the Sentra were all part of a close group that worked together at Knott's Berry Farm's Halloween Haunt.
"I never thought that would happen to any of my friends. I feel bad for saying this, but I feel lucky that I wasn't in the car. And our friend Jackie could of gone last night to, but she said no," said Chelsa Mullins, one of the victim's friends.
The witnesses rushed to help their friends. CHP officers, who were close by at the time, heard the crash and also rushed up onto the freeway to help the victims.
The southbound 5 Freeway through Commerce was closed for more than three hours as morning traffic continued to pile on to the freeway. The scene was cleared and all lanes re-opened at about 6:40 a.m. on Friday.








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3 Dead In Wrong-Way CrashKTLA= News May 16, 2008, 1:19 PM PDT COMMERCE --


Three people were killed on Interstate 5 south of downtown Los Angeles Friday morning af


ter a motorist driving the wrong way crashed head-on into another vehicle.California Highway Patrol Officer Patrick Kimball says the driver of a Toyota sedan was heading north on southbound lanes of the freeway when he slammed into a packed Nissan sedan. Witnesses say both cars flew into the air.Authorities say 27-year-old Steven Quintero of Gardena was killed as were two women in the other car. CHP and coroner's officials have identified them as 20-year-old Arielle Estremo and 17-year-old Chauncy Reid, both of Anaheim.Two male passengers in the Nissan suffered major to moderate injuries and were rushed to the hospital. They are expected to survive.Investigators say the two men and two women were returning home from a night club in Hollywood when the Toyota appeared in their lane. An attempt to get around the vehicle was not successful and both drivers were crushed instantly.The CHP closed all southbound lanes at Slauson Avenue in the City of Commerce from 3:10 a.m. to 6:40 a.m. backing up traffic at the start of the morning commuter rush.Investigators did not find any obvious signs of drugs or alcohal in either of the vehicles. The crash remains under investigation.



One of my good friends, Arielle Estremo as the one who died on Friday :(
I inserted the pictures on the top. I don't haave alot to say, personally, I think that crash speaks volumes amongst us. I am angry and hurt and mourning her death. I hate the man who did this to her. :(

Current Event

Lost parrot tells veterinarian his address
2 hours, 33 minutes ago
When Yosuke the parrot flew out of his cage and got lost, he did exactly what he had been taught — recite his name and address to a stranger willing to help.
Police rescued the African grey parrot two weeks ago from a neighbor's roof in the city of Nagareyama, near Tokyo. After spending a night at the station, he was transferred to a nearby veterinary hospital while police searched for clues, local policeman Shinjiro Uemura said.
He kept mum with the cops, but began chatting after a few days with the vet.
"I'm Mr. Yosuke Nakamura," the bird told the veterinarian, according to Uemura. The parrot also provided his full home address, down to the street number, and even entertained the hospital staff by singing songs.
"We checked the address, and what do you know, a Nakamura family really lived there. So we told them we've found Yosuke," Uemura said.
The Nakamura family told police they had been teaching the bird its name and address for about two years.
But Yosuke apparently wasn't keen on opening up to police officials.
"I tried to be friendly and talked to him, but he completely ignored me," Uemura said.


Initially, I wanted to do a different current event, but, in addition, this one struck my fancy! It is sooooooooooooooooo cool!!! and it even had a last name...aww.... The world can benifit from this by teaching their pets how not to get lost either :)

Vocabulary Week 17

1.) interminable - having or seeming to have no end
Ex: As she clombed the rope, it seemed to be interminable.

2.) intuit -: to know, sense, or understand by intuition
Ex: My intuit friend had a bad feeling about going to a club last night, as it turned out, something bad had happened there.

3.)laboriously -devoted to labor : industrious 2 : involving or characterized by hard or toilsome effort
Ex: My grandpa works hard on their ranch, labourously woirking on the eight acres everyday.

4.)proximity -the quality or state of being proximate : closeness
Ex: The proximity of europeons to me, was too close for comfort and a little disturbing, compared to the distance between Americans and me at home.

5.)reticence -the quality or state of being reticent : reserve, restraint
Ex: My brother was put in reticence as a result of his violent nature.

6.)senescent -the state of being old : the process of becoming old
Ex: Many mothers are senescent quicker today, then, in the 50's.

7.)shroud -something that covers, screens, or guards: as a: one of two flanges that give peripheral support to turbine or fan bedding b: a usually fiberglass guard that protects a spacecraft from the heat of launching

8.)situation -relative position or combination of circumstances at a certain moment b: a critical, trying, or unusual state of affairs : problem c: a particular or striking complex of affairs at a stage in the action of a narrative or drama
Ex: The death of my young friend, was a horrifying situation, to happen to such a wonderful person.


9.) synchronously - happening, existing, or arising at precisely the same time
Ex: People are eating cookies synchronously at the same time around the world.

10.)tortuous -marked by repeated twists, bends, or turns

11.) tranquility-the quality or state of being tranquil

Current Event Option 2

Wis. man won't buy gas for 31 days, maybe longer

Fri May 16, 3:37 AM ET
Brian LaFave couldn't care less how high gasoline prices climb these days — he's parked his pickup truck and is refusing to buy gas for a month, possibly longer.
"The goal is to not use one drop of gas for 31 days," LaFave said, calling it his personal stand against the oil companies.
Now LaFave, 31, is riding his bicycle or walking everywhere he goes. He won't even let friends pick him up unless they already planned on being in the neighborhood.
"If they're not going out of their way, I can take the ride," he said. "But if they're going out of their way, then ... I'm still consuming gasoline so it kind of defeats the purpose."
LaFave started the effort May 11. He bikes to his third-shift job at Aldrich Chemical in Sheboygan Falls, a 9-mile commute.
"I did like a practice run ... two days in a row to make sure I could do it," he said. "I'm not in the greatest shape. The mornings are the worst. It feels like it takes forever. I get like a mile down the road and I want to die."
It's a big change for someone who put 300 miles on his truck the week before he stopped driving it.
LaFave fills out a chart each day listing how many miles he bikes, the destination and the gas price that day, among other things. He plans to compute his savings and donate that amount to a charity that provides food to children in Africa.
"I think just with the gas prices being so high, everybody complains about it but no one ever really does anything about it," LaFave said. "People continue to drive nonstop and not think about it, but I just wanted to take a stand and say, `I'm not gonna pay this much money for gas.'"

This is inspirational! Its like the bus revolt in the sixties! One man can make a difference!!! Yay!!
I wish I could run nine miles everyday, this is a good revolt I think everyone could benefit from doing something like this. This sounds like something I should do, I'm going to try to get back to running 5 miles per night.

Ok, I look forward to presenting this,

-Colleen

Current Event

Drunk 'Darth Vader' punished for Jedi attack


1 hour, 3 minutes ago
A booze-fuelled Briton pretending to be Star Wars villain Darth Vader was punished Tuesday for a bizarre surprise attack on two Jedi fanatics.
Arwel Wynne Hughes, 27 -- who has a chronic alcohol problem -- donned a black bin bag for a cape and used a metal crutch for a lightsabre when he impersonated the Dark Lord of the Sith on March 25.
He then lept over the wall of a "Jedi Church" where Barney Jones and his cousin Michael were duelling with lightsabres while filming a documentary.
The fans of the Star Wars films established the "church" last year in Holyhead, northwest Wales.
Hughes hollered "Darth Vader" as he swung his crutch about, whacking Barney Jones over the head with it and punching Michael Jones in the thigh.
The Jedi are guardians of peace and justice, and the force was with them at Holyhead Magistrates' Court as district judge Andrew Shaw punished "Darth Vader" with a two-month suspended jail sentence and a 100-pound (195-dollar, 126-euro) fine.
Hughes got off lightly compared to the film version of Vader -- who had a hand chopped off by his son Luke Skywalker and was finished off by bolts of Force lightning from the evil Emperor Palpatine.
Hughes, who has previous convictions for assault, had drunk the best part of a 10-litre box of wine and could not remember the attack, his lawyer Frances Jones told the court.


I like odd current events they are relevant, in my mind as I am a star wars fan and like darth vader. This makes me laugh, maybe I should choose better current events, I learned to curb my drinking if ever I drink and get into a fight....hahhaha..

Vocabulary Week 16

1.)amorous - strongly moved by love and especially sexual love

Example: The two lovers were quite amorous with one another.


2.)aroma -a distinctive pervasive and usually pleasant or savory smell

The aroma of fresh baked cookies is extrodonary.



3.)awkward -lacking social grace and assurance b: causing embarrassment

Example: I walked into a wall in fron tof my crush and it was quite awkward.



4.) consummate -complete in every detail

Example: The lovers consumated their love by getting rings that symbolized their intentions.

5.)inevitability -incapable of being avoided or evaded
Example: Fighters know never to accept the inevitable.


6.)acquiesce -to accept, comply, or submit tacitly or passively
Example: Sometimes I acquiese to others in an argument.


7.)delirium -an acute mental disturbance characterized by confused thinking and disrupted attention usually accompanied by disordered speech and hallucinations



8.)deleterious -harmful often in a subtle or unexpected way



9.) ecstasy -a state of being beyond reason and self-control
I jumped off the cliff into ecstasy as I was free falling.


10.) enamored -1 : to inflame with love —usually used in the passive with of

2 : to cause to feel a strong or excessive interest or fascination



11.) futile -serving no useful purpose : completely ineffective



12.) incantation -a use of spells or verbal charms spoken or sung as a part of a ritual of magic; also : a written or recited formula of words designed to produce a particular effect
Example: The girl was into the religion of Wicca and otften preformed incantations.


13.) inevitability -incapable of being avoided or evaded



14.) infatuation -to inspire with a foolish or extravagant love or admiration